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Monterey — An unusually large number of orcas have been gathering in Monterey Bay over the past eight days to gang up and kill gray whale calves at a frequency a local biologist calls “unprecedented.” Beginning April 20, orcas have been reportedly been seen killing four calves in seven days. Related Articles Video: 16-foot great white eats away at ‘Scarlet,’ a dead whale off California shoreline Dead whale thought to be well-known humpback ‘Scarlet’ California lifeguards work to pull massive dead whale away from shore Gray whale entangled off California coast still needs help after 100-foot net cut from tail “It’s been pretty exciting lately, we’ve seen the killer whales here for eight days in a row,” said Nancy Black, a marine biologist and co-owner of Monterey Bay Whale Watch. “The first attack was pretty spectacular because there were 33 killer whales involved in that, which is an extraordinary number.” Black, who’s been studying orcas and other marine life in the area for nearly 30 years, said typically there are groups of five to 12 killer whales in a gray whale attack. Shawn Johnson, the director of veterinary science at the Marine Mammal Center, said he hadn’t heard about the killings. “It’s not uncommon for orcas to prey on gray whale calves,” he said, adding he didn’t have any other information on how frequently these attacks occur. The first attack took place later than usual, possibly because the gray whale migration went a little farther south than normal off the coast of Mexico, delaying their arrival in Monterey Bay. Ever since the gray whales arrived, the orcas have parked out around the bay. “Usually the killer whales come in and out, they aren’t here every single day,” Black said. “We see them more often in April than May by far, but they just seem to be hanging around and waiting for more gray whales to come through.” Nine killer whales Black calls Emma’s group were involved in all four killings. “It’s her mother, (Emma) her daughter, and her granddaughter, plus another couple of her offspring,” Black said. “So it’s a whole family, because killer whales do live in family groups.” Black says other pods of orcas from different areas wouldn’t know how to hunt a gray whale, explaining Emma learned from her mother. “They learn different methods of hunting from different areas so it’s passed on through the generations,” she said. “And this particular group, Emma’s group, is very good at it.” Like elephants, the orcas live in matriarchal societies. “The females are in charge and even the males will stay with their mothers their entire lives,” Black said. “While with most animals they leave, with killer whales they’re like mama’s boys.” Black believes part of the reason for the killings could be to teach their young how to hunt, because there are several juveniles in the group. She said one of the youngest ones, named Little B, is less than 6 months old but is already learning how to hunt and eating some of the gray whales. “They learn early because it’s pretty dangerous for the killer whales to hunt a gray whale because the mother gray whale can slam them with their fluke,” she said. The orcas share their prey with the rest of the group, even with those that don’t take part in the hunting, like Emma’s mother. Black said orcas do binge feed and they could be killing at such a high frequency because they can eat a lot at once instead of catching a ton of seals and sea lions. “One gray whale provides a lot of food for the whole family for two days,” she said. Another remarkable part of the killings is the speed in which the orcas are capturing their prey. “On Wednesday, they caught a gray whale in record time, in like 20 minutes,” Black said. “Usually it takes on average one to two hours for killer whales to actually separate a gray whale calf from its mother and drown the calf.” Black said it’s unclear how the orcas know how to be at the right place at the right time to hunt the gray whales. “It’s still a mystery, but they are very intelligent,” she said. While it’s unknown if the orca attacks will continue, Black said she thinks it could keep up. “The time for the gray whale mothers and calves is April and May, so it definitely could,” she said. “Usually there will still be killer whales here through that period and this looks like so far a good number of gray whale mothers and calves coming through.” ||||| A group of killer whales in Monterey Bay killed four gray whales in a week, a phenomenon one researcher had not seen in her 30-year career In an “unprecedented” rash of attacks, a pod of killer whales in Monterey Bay, California, has killed four gray whales in a week, including a calf whose killing was captured on video, according to one marine biologist. An extraordinary battle between sperm whales and orcas – in pictures Read more In the most recent attack, the group of nine orcas on Wednesday took only 20 minutes to separate a mother gray whale from her calf and kill the young whale. Attacks usually take hours and often end in failure for the killer whales, said Nancy Black, a marine biologist who recorded the attacks. “I’ve been studying them for 30 years here,” Black told the Guardian. “This has really never happened before.” Black said the rate of kills was “like a record” for the pod, which includes four generations of whales, led by a matriarchy. “It’s kind of exciting to see this group and how they’ve gotten really good at hunting,” Black said. “It’s pretty unprecedented just because the same group of killer whales has been feeding on them each time.” Orcas who are not members of the pod have joined some of the hunts, Black said. During the first hunt, last week, 33 whales joined the attack and subsequent feast. “One whale is a lot of food for one group,” Black said. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A gray whale off the Baja California peninsula. Photograph: Alejandro Zepeda/EPA Gray whales have been late to migrate from the lagoons of Mexico up to the coast of northern California this year, and Black hypothesized that the orca killing spree was related to the late start of their hunting season. The last kill, she said, seemed to be a case in which the mother gray whale was herself not healthy enough to protect her calf. “I think the killer whales were getting anxious, almost waiting for them to come.” Killer whales prey on gray whale and humpback whale calves, seals, sea lions, dolphins, tuna and great white sharks, among other marine life. When they attack other whales, they work like a pack of wolves to separate a mother from her calf, trying to wedge their way between the larger whales while nipping and distracting at the adult. All the while the orcas try to avoid the mother whale’s gigantic tail, powerful enough to seriously injure or kill an orca. Young orcas hover near the hunt, watching and learning from the other females. Once they separate the gray whales, the orcas concentrate on the calf. “There’s not much the mother can do at that point,” Black said, though mother whales often linger at the scene of the hunt until they are certain their calf is killed. Humpback whales sometimes fight back as a group against the orcas, Black noted, calling a peculiar behavior “altruistic”. “In areas where killer whales are trying to catch prey,” she said, “the humpbacks come charging in with trumpets blowing, all excited, and they try to prevent the killer whales from killing their prey, whether it’s a seal or even a gray whale.” Several dozen humpbacks have returned to Monterey early this year, drawing tourists to the Monterey Bay Whale Watch group to which Black belongs. She said it was difficult to say why the humpbacks charged the orcas when humpback calves weren’t threatened. “It could be they’re just trying to get their own predators away from anything they’re hunting at all.”

– A pod of killer whales off the coast of Monterey, California, has intrigued biologists by going on a frenzied hunting spree that’s killed four gray whales in just seven days. Nancy Black, a local marine biologist and co-owner of Monterey Bay Whale Watch, caught the latest attack on camera (which you can watch here, about 30 seconds in). She called this week’s events "unprecedented," and told the Guardian that she hasn’t seen this type of behavior from orcas in her 30-year career. The pod of killer whales, which she calls Emma’s group, is highly skilled and managed to separate a gray whale calf from its mother in just 20 minutes, a maneuver that Black estimates typically averages one to two hours, reports the San Jose Mercury News. "It’s kind of exciting to see this group and how they’ve gotten really good at hunting," she says. Black has several theories on why the hunt has been so aggressive, including a later spring migration of gray whales to the area, due to traveling further south in Mexico than usual this winter. "It's still a mystery," Black says of how the orcas know when and where to hunt gray whales, "but they are very intelligent." She also posited that the killer whales may be binge-feeding (a whale meal can feed an orca pod for two days) and that the orcas could be teaching their young to hunt, with the youngest hunter in Emma's group, called Little B, just under six months old. Along with gray and humpback whales, orcas also prey on large marine life like great white sharks, seals, and sea lions. (Humpbacks appear to save other sea creatures from orcas.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Monterey — An unusually large number of orcas have been gathering in Monterey Bay over the past eight days to gang up and kill gray whale calves at a frequency a local biologist calls “unprecedented.” Beginning April 20, orcas have been reportedly been seen killing four calves in seven days. Related Articles Video: 16-foot great white eats away at ‘Scarlet,’ a dead whale off California shoreline Dead whale thought to be well-known humpback ‘Scarlet’ California lifeguards work to pull massive dead whale away from shore Gray whale entangled off California coast still needs help after 100-foot net cut from tail “It’s been pretty exciting lately, we’ve seen the killer whales here for eight days in a row,” said Nancy Black, a marine biologist and co-owner of Monterey Bay Whale Watch. “The first attack was pretty spectacular because there were 33 killer whales involved in that, which is an extraordinary number.” Black, who’s been studying orcas and other marine life in the area for nearly 30 years, said typically there are groups of five to 12 killer whales in a gray whale attack. Shawn Johnson, the director of veterinary science at the Marine Mammal Center, said he hadn’t heard about the killings. “It’s not uncommon for orcas to prey on gray whale calves,” he said, adding he didn’t have any other information on how frequently these attacks occur. The first attack took place later than usual, possibly because the gray whale migration went a little farther south than normal off the coast of Mexico, delaying their arrival in Monterey Bay. Ever since the gray whales arrived, the orcas have parked out around the bay. “Usually the killer whales come in and out, they aren’t here every single day,” Black said. “We see them more often in April than May by far, but they just seem to be hanging around and waiting for more gray whales to come through.” Nine killer whales Black calls Emma’s group were involved in all four killings. “It’s her mother, (Emma) her daughter, and her granddaughter, plus another couple of her offspring,” Black said. “So it’s a whole family, because killer whales do live in family groups.” Black says other pods of orcas from different areas wouldn’t know how to hunt a gray whale, explaining Emma learned from her mother. “They learn different methods of hunting from different areas so it’s passed on through the generations,” she said. “And this particular group, Emma’s group, is very good at it.” Like elephants, the orcas live in matriarchal societies. “The females are in charge and even the males will stay with their mothers their entire lives,” Black said. “While with most animals they leave, with killer whales they’re like mama’s boys.” Black believes part of the reason for the killings could be to teach their young how to hunt, because there are several juveniles in the group. She said one of the youngest ones, named Little B, is less than 6 months old but is already learning how to hunt and eating some of the gray whales. “They learn early because it’s pretty dangerous for the killer whales to hunt a gray whale because the mother gray whale can slam them with their fluke,” she said. The orcas share their prey with the rest of the group, even with those that don’t take part in the hunting, like Emma’s mother. Black said orcas do binge feed and they could be killing at such a high frequency because they can eat a lot at once instead of catching a ton of seals and sea lions. “One gray whale provides a lot of food for the whole family for two days,” she said. Another remarkable part of the killings is the speed in which the orcas are capturing their prey. “On Wednesday, they caught a gray whale in record time, in like 20 minutes,” Black said. “Usually it takes on average one to two hours for killer whales to actually separate a gray whale calf from its mother and drown the calf.” Black said it’s unclear how the orcas know how to be at the right place at the right time to hunt the gray whales. “It’s still a mystery, but they are very intelligent,” she said. While it’s unknown if the orca attacks will continue, Black said she thinks it could keep up. “The time for the gray whale mothers and calves is April and May, so it definitely could,” she said. “Usually there will still be killer whales here through that period and this looks like so far a good number of gray whale mothers and calves coming through.” ||||| A group of killer whales in Monterey Bay killed four gray whales in a week, a phenomenon one researcher had not seen in her 30-year career In an “unprecedented” rash of attacks, a pod of killer whales in Monterey Bay, California, has killed four gray whales in a week, including a calf whose killing was captured on video, according to one marine biologist. An extraordinary battle between sperm whales and orcas – in pictures Read more In the most recent attack, the group of nine orcas on Wednesday took only 20 minutes to separate a mother gray whale from her calf and kill the young whale. Attacks usually take hours and often end in failure for the killer whales, said Nancy Black, a marine biologist who recorded the attacks. “I’ve been studying them for 30 years here,” Black told the Guardian. “This has really never happened before.” Black said the rate of kills was “like a record” for the pod, which includes four generations of whales, led by a matriarchy. “It’s kind of exciting to see this group and how they’ve gotten really good at hunting,” Black said. “It’s pretty unprecedented just because the same group of killer whales has been feeding on them each time.” Orcas who are not members of the pod have joined some of the hunts, Black said. During the first hunt, last week, 33 whales joined the attack and subsequent feast. “One whale is a lot of food for one group,” Black said. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A gray whale off the Baja California peninsula. Photograph: Alejandro Zepeda/EPA Gray whales have been late to migrate from the lagoons of Mexico up to the coast of northern California this year, and Black hypothesized that the orca killing spree was related to the late start of their hunting season. The last kill, she said, seemed to be a case in which the mother gray whale was herself not healthy enough to protect her calf. “I think the killer whales were getting anxious, almost waiting for them to come.” Killer whales prey on gray whale and humpback whale calves, seals, sea lions, dolphins, tuna and great white sharks, among other marine life. When they attack other whales, they work like a pack of wolves to separate a mother from her calf, trying to wedge their way between the larger whales while nipping and distracting at the adult. All the while the orcas try to avoid the mother whale’s gigantic tail, powerful enough to seriously injure or kill an orca. Young orcas hover near the hunt, watching and learning from the other females. Once they separate the gray whales, the orcas concentrate on the calf. “There’s not much the mother can do at that point,” Black said, though mother whales often linger at the scene of the hunt until they are certain their calf is killed. Humpback whales sometimes fight back as a group against the orcas, Black noted, calling a peculiar behavior “altruistic”. “In areas where killer whales are trying to catch prey,” she said, “the humpbacks come charging in with trumpets blowing, all excited, and they try to prevent the killer whales from killing their prey, whether it’s a seal or even a gray whale.” Several dozen humpbacks have returned to Monterey early this year, drawing tourists to the Monterey Bay Whale Watch group to which Black belongs. She said it was difficult to say why the humpbacks charged the orcas when humpback calves weren’t threatened. “It could be they’re just trying to get their own predators away from anything they’re hunting at all.”

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(CNN) A New York prison tailor who allegedly aided a pair of convicted murderers before their brazen escape was arraigned Friday on a felony charge of promoting prison contraband and a misdemeanor charge of criminal facilitation. Joyce Mitchell, who authorities said has voluntarily provided useful information in the six-day manhunt, attended the arraignment hearing in handcuffs. She pleaded not guilty. State corrections officers monitor traffic June 8 at the Clinton Correctional Facility. See photos of the route the escaped prisoners took An officer checks the trunk of a car at a checkpoint near the Dannemora border on June 10. An officer checks the trunk of a car at a checkpoint near the Dannemora border on June 10. Law enforcement personnel line the roadside on June 13 as they search an area in Cadyville, New York. Law enforcement personnel line the roadside on June 13 as they search an area in Cadyville, New York. A task force of U.S. Marshals and police officers go door to door near Dannemora, New York, searching for the two escaped murderers on Tuesday, June 16. A task force of U.S. Marshals and police officers go door to door near Dannemora, New York, searching for the two escaped murderers on Tuesday, June 16. Corrections officers search railroad tracks near Friendship, New York, on Sunday, June 21, after a possible sighting of the fugitives. Corrections officers search railroad tracks near Friendship, New York, on Sunday, June 21, after a possible sighting of the fugitives. Corrections officers stop a vehicle Monday, June 22, in Owls Head, about 20 to 25 miles west of the prison where Matt and Sweat escaped. The discovery of the escapees' DNA in a cabin re-energized the search for the fugitives. Corrections officers stop a vehicle Monday, June 22, in Owls Head, about 20 to 25 miles west of the prison where Matt and Sweat escaped. The discovery of the escapees' DNA in a cabin re-energized the search for the fugitives. Department of Corrections officers and a forest ranger, back, search a barn in Owls Head, New York, on June 26. Department of Corrections officers and a forest ranger, back, search a barn in Owls Head, New York, on June 26. A New York State Police officer stands guard near the shooting scene in Malone on June 26. A New York State Police officer stands guard near the shooting scene in Malone on June 26. New York State Police officers stand guard near the site where Matt was shot and killed in Malone on June 26. New York State Police officers stand guard near the site where Matt was shot and killed in Malone on June 26. New York State Police officers talk to motorists at a roadblock near Malone on June 27. New York State Police officers talk to motorists at a roadblock near Malone on June 27. Law enforcement officials are seen in the side-view mirror of a car as they stand guard June 28 in Duane, New York. Law enforcement officials are seen in the side-view mirror of a car as they stand guard June 28 in Duane, New York. Police escort ambulances from an area where law enforcement officers were searching for Sweat on June 28. Police escort ambulances from an area where law enforcement officers were searching for Sweat on June 28. Sweat is bloodied, shirtless and cuffed at the ankles, and he appears to be breathing into an oxygen mask after his capture on June 28. Sweat is bloodied, shirtless and cuffed at the ankles, and he appears to be breathing into an oxygen mask after his capture on June 28. Sweat was captured on June 28, multiple law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation told CNN. He was shot twice in a field by a New York state trooper and taken into custody in upstate New York, close to the Canadian border. Sweat was captured on June 28, multiple law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation told CNN. He was shot twice in a field by a New York state trooper and taken into custody in upstate New York, close to the Canadian border. Matt's body lies on the ground after he was killed by police on June 26. Matt's body lies on the ground after he was killed by police on June 26. Richard Matt, left, and David Sweat were on the run after they escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, on Saturday, June 6. Matt was killed by police on Friday, June 26. Sweat was captured two days later and is now in police custody. Richard Matt, left, and David Sweat were on the run after they escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, on Saturday, June 6. Matt was killed by police on Friday, June 26. Sweat was captured two days later and is now in police custody. If convicted, she faces up to eight years behind bars. Mitchell has been suspended from her job without pay, the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said. Since the breakout of felons Richard Matt and David Sweat was discovered Saturday, authorities have mentioned her as a possible getaway driver as well as a supplier of tools used in the escape. And her cell phone was used to make calls to people connected to Matt, according to a source. Photos: New York prison escape Photos: New York prison escape Richard Matt, left, and David Sweat were discovered missing on Saturday, June 6, at the 5:30 a.m. "standing count" of inmates at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. Hide Caption 1 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Gov. Andrew Cuomo, shown during a tour of the prison, said of the escapees: "These are dangerous people. They are nothing to be trifled with." Hide Caption 2 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape The hole the inmates cut into a cell wall to escape. The men had side-by-side cells and apparently had obtained power tools to cut through the steel wall, authorities said. Hide Caption 3 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Looking from the catwalk, this is the hole the inmates cut into the wall. The pair followed the catwalk toward a series of tunnels. Hide Caption 4 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Gov. Cuomo studies the maze of pipes the prisoners navigated during their escape. Hide Caption 5 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Cuomo climbs a ladder as he examines the prisoners' escape route. Hide Caption 6 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Cuomo examines the escape route of the prisoners. "It was elaborate; it was sophisticated," he said. Hide Caption 7 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape The inmates used power tools to drill through steel pipes as they made their escape. Hide Caption 8 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Gov. Cuomo examines a pipe the inmates cut through. Authorities don't know how the prisoners got the power tools. Hide Caption 9 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Officials look at the manhole through which the inmates crawled to freedom. Hide Caption 10 of 10 Mitchell has told investigators that Matt made her feel "special" though she didn't say she was in love with him, a source familiar with the investigation said. Her husband and prison co-worker, Lyle Mitchell, also is under investigation, authorities said. Joyce Mitchell gave hacksaw blades, drill bits and lighted eyeglasses to the fugitive felons Richard Matt and David Sweat before their escape, sources said. Photos: Amazing prison escapes Photos: Amazing prison escapes New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, is shown the manhole where two convicted murderers escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, on Saturday, June 6, 2015. Police say Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, escaped from the maximum-security prison using power tools. Hide Caption 1 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes George Rivas is sworn in at a trial in Dallas in November 2003. On December 13, 2000, Rivas' gang, known as the Texas Seven, overpowered workers at a prison in Kenedy, Texas. They stole the workers' clothes, broke into the prison's armory to get guns and drove away in a prison truck. They committed several robberies and gunned down a police officer. Hide Caption 2 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes French criminal Pascal Payet escaped prison twice using hijacked helicopters. His last escape occurred in 2007. Four men hijacked a helicopter, flew it to the prison Payet was being held in and helped him escape. Three months later, Payet was caught in Spain. Hide Caption 3 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes Michel Vaujour is shown on trial in Paris in 1991. His wife, Nadine Vaujour, flew a helicopter to his Paris prison in 1986, and he forced his way to the roof by wielding nectarines painted as grenades. Nadine was later arrested, and Michel was killed in a failed bank robbery. Hide Caption 4 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes Northern Ireland's Maze Prison, once considered one of the most secure prisons in Europe, was closed in 2000 after a series of escape attempts. The largest of these occurred in 1983, when 38 prisoners escaped by smuggling in weapons and hijacking a food delivery van. Hide Caption 5 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes In 1962, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped a prison that was thought to be inescapable -- Alcatraz in San Francisco. They crafted dummy heads with real human hair to trick guards. They also used homemade drills to enlarge vent holes, and they formed raincoats into a raft to escape the island prison. They still have not been found. It is presumed that they drowned. Hide Caption 6 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes American criminal John Dillinger, center, sits in court in 1934 after being accused of killing a police officer. Later that year, he escaped an Indiana jail wielding a wooden gun he whittled. After imprisoning guards, he drove away in the sheriff's car. A few months later, he was shot dead outside of a theater in Chicago. Hide Caption 7 of 7 Mitchell "provided some form of equipment or tools" to the inmates while her husband "possibly could have been involved or at least had knowledge" of the escape, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie told CNN. The information was developed through interviews. Lyle Mitchell has not been arrested or charged. Joyce Mitchell's relatives have denied she did anything wrong. Her husband worked in the maintenance department at the tailoring block where his spouse was employed, Wylie said. Lyle Mitchell has worked at the prison since 2005, most recently as an $57,697-a-year industrial training supervisor, the same title his wife held, according to state records. The hacksaw blades and other items given to Matt were purchased over the past few months, according to law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation. Matt and Sweat used power tools to cut through cell walls that included a steel plate and sever a 24-inch steam pipe -- once to get in and once more to get out -- and surfaced through a manhole. Despite all the time, effort and noise likely involved, authorities didn't learn anything was awry until a bed check at 5:30 a.m. Saturday. Authorities strongly believe the fugitives are still together after deciding to continue their escape as a pair, two law enforcement sources briefed on the matter said. A search perimeter was established, one of the sources said, after an officer saw someone entering a wooded area at nightfall Wednesday. A tactical search team discovered human tracks and bloodhounds picked up the scent of the felons -- leading investigators to the area where the two men apparently bedded down. Wrappers found at that area were consistent with food wrappers from the prison commissary, according to the source. Investigating relationships, cell phone The inmates knew Mitchell from her work tailoring clothes as an industrial training supervisor at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. She hasn't spoken publicly. State Department of Corrections officials had received a complaint about the relationship between Joyce Mitchell and one of the two escapees, according to a state official. The department didn't find enough evidence to support the complaint, though that does not mean the inmate and prison worker weren't close. "I don't believe that the information was that there was absolutely no relationship," said Wylie, the district attorney. Her cell phone was used to call people connected to Matt, according to another source, though it's not known who made these calls. And New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said authorities believe she planned to pick up the inmates after their escape only to change her mind at the last minute. Wylie speculated that perhaps Mitchell felt "some responsibility and guilt ... and wants to help that situation or help herself." "She does not exercise her right to request an attorney, she voluntarily seeks us out," Wylie said Thursday night. "(She) comes in and each day has been providing ... additional information that's assisted the investigators." Resident: 'I haven't left home in two days' The information may have helped authorities figure out how the killers escaped, but so far it hasn't helped locate them. Between 2002 and 2013, state data shows, almost every prison escapee in New York state was captured within 24 hours and none were out for more than three days. Until Matt and Sweat, who now have been on the lam for six days. Photos: Amazing prison escapes Photos: Amazing prison escapes New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, is shown the manhole where two convicted murderers escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, on Saturday, June 6, 2015. Police say Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, escaped from the maximum-security prison using power tools. Hide Caption 1 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes George Rivas is sworn in at a trial in Dallas in November 2003. On December 13, 2000, Rivas' gang, known as the Texas Seven, overpowered workers at a prison in Kenedy, Texas. They stole the workers' clothes, broke into the prison's armory to get guns and drove away in a prison truck. They committed several robberies and gunned down a police officer. Hide Caption 2 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes French criminal Pascal Payet escaped prison twice using hijacked helicopters. His last escape occurred in 2007. Four men hijacked a helicopter, flew it to the prison Payet was being held in and helped him escape. Three months later, Payet was caught in Spain. Hide Caption 3 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes Michel Vaujour is shown on trial in Paris in 1991. His wife, Nadine Vaujour, flew a helicopter to his Paris prison in 1986, and he forced his way to the roof by wielding nectarines painted as grenades. Nadine was later arrested, and Michel was killed in a failed bank robbery. Hide Caption 4 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes Northern Ireland's Maze Prison, once considered one of the most secure prisons in Europe, was closed in 2000 after a series of escape attempts. The largest of these occurred in 1983, when 38 prisoners escaped by smuggling in weapons and hijacking a food delivery van. Hide Caption 5 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes In 1962, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped a prison that was thought to be inescapable -- Alcatraz in San Francisco. They crafted dummy heads with real human hair to trick guards. They also used homemade drills to enlarge vent holes, and they formed raincoats into a raft to escape the island prison. They still have not been found. It is presumed that they drowned. Hide Caption 6 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes American criminal John Dillinger, center, sits in court in 1934 after being accused of killing a police officer. Later that year, he escaped an Indiana jail wielding a wooden gun he whittled. After imprisoning guards, he drove away in the sheriff's car. A few months later, he was shot dead outside of a theater in Chicago. Hide Caption 7 of 7 Their escape sent jitters across neighboring Vermont, where authorities believe they may have gone, and Canada, whose border is about 20 miles from the maximum-security prison. Authorities in Texas, where Matt reportedly has an aunt, have asked officers to be on the lookout for the fugitive, according to a document obtained by CNN. The document further warns Matt has intentions of crossing into Mexico and says, "Matt is familiar with ranchers on both sides of the border who allow illegal crossings to occur." Still, the most intense law enforcement activity has been in northeast New York, where investigators continue to search for clues by painstakingly checking wooded areas and roads and popping open trunks at checkpoints. Officials said there have been no confirmed sightings of the escapees. The ordeal has turned life upside down for those who call this rural, idyllic, out-of-the-way place home. Many people have restricted their movement, while classes in the Saranac Central School District -- which includes Dannemora -- were called off for a second straight day Friday "to assist law enforcement and to keep our buses off the routes ... where they are searching," Superintendent Jonathan Parks said. "I haven't left home in two days, I had to call in to work today because you wouldn't be able to return back home," resident Brooke Lepage said. "There were constant helicopters. "Last night they had floodlights. There was a recorded (telephone) message telling us to stay in the house and make sure outside lights were on." More than 800 state, local and federal law enforcement officers have descended on the area, New York State Police said. They have been following more than 700 leads developed in the nearly weeklong manhunt. Scent near a sandwich shop Amid the mayhem, the search may be narrowing down -- the latest focus being a sandwich shop not far from where the convicts escaped. Investigators are looking at surveillance video from a gas station about a mile away from the prison. JUST WATCHED Escaped convicts' scent leads to sandwich shop Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Escaped convicts' scent leads to sandwich shop 01:18 Tracking dogs picked up the scent of both prisoners at the station and followed it east toward the town of Cadyville, Wylie said. The gas station has a Subway sandwich shop, and the two might have been rummaging for food in the trash bin, authorities said. Authorities are reviewing the limited security video from the store. A perimeter is up around the site of the scent, and Wylie said "dogs were working it (Thursday night) and we're going to continue to pursue that (Friday)." "It could have been something that occurred earlier in the week," the district attorney said Friday of when the scent was left. "But we're hoping that it was two nights ago, and they're closing in on the two men right now." Investigators found an imprint from a shoe or boot as well as food wrappers in the area, a source said. And possible bedding -- an indent in the grass or leaves -- has also been discovered, according to the district attorney. Will any of these efforts lead to Matt and Sweat, though? Wylie said Thursday night that he hoped they'll be found within 24 hours. "The perimeter is continuing to be closed in," the district attorney said Friday morning. "And we hope ... that this will be effective in bringing these two men back into custody." ||||| DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — A worker at an upstate New York maximum-security prison has been arrested on charges she helped two convicted killers escape, state police said Friday. Law enforcement officers congregate on the edge of a search area near Dannemora, N.Y., Friday, June 12, 2015. Squads of law enforcement officers are heading out for a seventh day of searching for David... (Associated Press) A wanted poster is displayed in the window of a state police officer's car near Dannemora, N.Y., Friday, June 12, 2015. Squads of law enforcement officers are heading out for a seventh day, searching... (Associated Press) Fifty-one-year-old Joyce Mitchell was arrested and will be arraigned on charges of first-degree promoting prison contraband and fourth-degree criminal facilitation, state police said. Mitchell is accused of befriending inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora and giving them contraband. District Attorney Andrew Wylie said earlier the contraband didn't include power tools used by the men as they cut holes in their cell walls and a steam pipe to escape through a manhole last weekend. Meanwhile, law enforcement officers continued to search for the escapees, concentrating Friday in a rural area near the prison. The hunt for the inmates was focused on an area where residents reported seeing two men jumping a stone wall outside the far northern New York town of Dannemora. About 300 searchers were added, bringing the total number of state, federal and local law enforcement officers involved in the manhunt to more than 800. Mitchell's family has said she wouldn't have helped the convicts break out. An instructor in the tailor shop where the men worked, Mitchell is also suspected of agreeing to be a getaway driver but didn't show up, leaving the men on foot early Saturday morning. Mitchell has a $56,000-a-year job overseeing inmates who sew clothes and learn to repair sewing machines at the prison. Within the past year, officials looked into whether Mitchell had improper ties to the 34-year-old Sweat, who was serving a life sentence for killing a sheriff's deputy, Wylie said. He gave no details on the nature of the suspected relationship. The investigation didn't turn up anything solid enough to warrant disciplinary charges against her, the district attorney said. Matt was serving 25 years to life for the 1997 kidnap, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of Matt's 76-year-old former boss, whose body was found in pieces in a river. The state corrections department would not comment on the investigation into how the two inmates escaped or what Mitchell might have provided them. Prison contraband can include such things as cellphones, weapons, drugs, tools and unauthorized clothing. On Thursday, a person close to the investigation said that Mitchell had befriended the two men and agreed to be the getaway driver but never showed up. The person was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke on condition of anonymity. A former slipper-factory employee who won three terms as tax collector in her town near Dannemora, Mitchell has worked at the prison for at least five years, according to a neighbor, Sharon Currier. Mitchell's husband, Lyle, also works in industrial training there. "She's a good, good person," Currier said. "She's not somebody who's off the wall." The garment shop is intended to give prisoners job skills and work habits. In general, an inmate assigned to such a job might work several hours a day there, five days a week, meaning he would have significant contact with supervisors. Mitchell's union, Civil Service Employees Association Local 1000, would not comment Friday on the prior investigation of Mitchell or the current allegations. But her daughter-in-law, Paige Mitchell, said this week that her mother-in-law never mentioned Sweat, Matt or any other inmates she encountered. "She doesn't get too involved," Paige Mitchell told the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh. And Mitchell's son Tobey told NBC that she would not have helped the inmates escape and that she checked herself into a hospital with chest pains on Saturday, the day the breakout was discovered. ___ Klepper reported from Albany. Associated Press writers Jennifer Peltz in New York and Chris Carola and Michael Virtanen in Albany contributed to this report.

– A prison employee accused of helping two inmates escape now might end up being a convicted felon herself. Police today charged Joyce Mitchell, 51, with promoting prison contraband and criminal facilitation, reports CNN. It's still not clear exactly how she might have helped—CNN describes it as "providing material assistance"—but authorities may sort that out at a later news conference. Various reports have suggested she provided power tools or some other kind of equipment, let them use her phone, and even arranged to pick them up before backing out at the last minute. Mitchell worked as an instructor in the prison tailor shop at the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, notes AP, and she allegedly befriended both Richard Matt and David Sweat there. Her husband is an industrial training supervisor at the same prison. Meanwhile, the search goes on in northern New York, with about 800 officers involved in the hunt.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.(CNN) A New York prison tailor who allegedly aided a pair of convicted murderers before their brazen escape was arraigned Friday on a felony charge of promoting prison contraband and a misdemeanor charge of criminal facilitation. Joyce Mitchell, who authorities said has voluntarily provided useful information in the six-day manhunt, attended the arraignment hearing in handcuffs. She pleaded not guilty. State corrections officers monitor traffic June 8 at the Clinton Correctional Facility. See photos of the route the escaped prisoners took An officer checks the trunk of a car at a checkpoint near the Dannemora border on June 10. An officer checks the trunk of a car at a checkpoint near the Dannemora border on June 10. Law enforcement personnel line the roadside on June 13 as they search an area in Cadyville, New York. Law enforcement personnel line the roadside on June 13 as they search an area in Cadyville, New York. A task force of U.S. Marshals and police officers go door to door near Dannemora, New York, searching for the two escaped murderers on Tuesday, June 16. A task force of U.S. Marshals and police officers go door to door near Dannemora, New York, searching for the two escaped murderers on Tuesday, June 16. Corrections officers search railroad tracks near Friendship, New York, on Sunday, June 21, after a possible sighting of the fugitives. Corrections officers search railroad tracks near Friendship, New York, on Sunday, June 21, after a possible sighting of the fugitives. Corrections officers stop a vehicle Monday, June 22, in Owls Head, about 20 to 25 miles west of the prison where Matt and Sweat escaped. The discovery of the escapees' DNA in a cabin re-energized the search for the fugitives. Corrections officers stop a vehicle Monday, June 22, in Owls Head, about 20 to 25 miles west of the prison where Matt and Sweat escaped. The discovery of the escapees' DNA in a cabin re-energized the search for the fugitives. Department of Corrections officers and a forest ranger, back, search a barn in Owls Head, New York, on June 26. Department of Corrections officers and a forest ranger, back, search a barn in Owls Head, New York, on June 26. A New York State Police officer stands guard near the shooting scene in Malone on June 26. A New York State Police officer stands guard near the shooting scene in Malone on June 26. New York State Police officers stand guard near the site where Matt was shot and killed in Malone on June 26. New York State Police officers stand guard near the site where Matt was shot and killed in Malone on June 26. New York State Police officers talk to motorists at a roadblock near Malone on June 27. New York State Police officers talk to motorists at a roadblock near Malone on June 27. Law enforcement officials are seen in the side-view mirror of a car as they stand guard June 28 in Duane, New York. Law enforcement officials are seen in the side-view mirror of a car as they stand guard June 28 in Duane, New York. Police escort ambulances from an area where law enforcement officers were searching for Sweat on June 28. Police escort ambulances from an area where law enforcement officers were searching for Sweat on June 28. Sweat is bloodied, shirtless and cuffed at the ankles, and he appears to be breathing into an oxygen mask after his capture on June 28. Sweat is bloodied, shirtless and cuffed at the ankles, and he appears to be breathing into an oxygen mask after his capture on June 28. Sweat was captured on June 28, multiple law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation told CNN. He was shot twice in a field by a New York state trooper and taken into custody in upstate New York, close to the Canadian border. Sweat was captured on June 28, multiple law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation told CNN. He was shot twice in a field by a New York state trooper and taken into custody in upstate New York, close to the Canadian border. Matt's body lies on the ground after he was killed by police on June 26. Matt's body lies on the ground after he was killed by police on June 26. Richard Matt, left, and David Sweat were on the run after they escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, on Saturday, June 6. Matt was killed by police on Friday, June 26. Sweat was captured two days later and is now in police custody. Richard Matt, left, and David Sweat were on the run after they escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, on Saturday, June 6. Matt was killed by police on Friday, June 26. Sweat was captured two days later and is now in police custody. If convicted, she faces up to eight years behind bars. Mitchell has been suspended from her job without pay, the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said. Since the breakout of felons Richard Matt and David Sweat was discovered Saturday, authorities have mentioned her as a possible getaway driver as well as a supplier of tools used in the escape. And her cell phone was used to make calls to people connected to Matt, according to a source. Photos: New York prison escape Photos: New York prison escape Richard Matt, left, and David Sweat were discovered missing on Saturday, June 6, at the 5:30 a.m. "standing count" of inmates at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. Hide Caption 1 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Gov. Andrew Cuomo, shown during a tour of the prison, said of the escapees: "These are dangerous people. They are nothing to be trifled with." Hide Caption 2 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape The hole the inmates cut into a cell wall to escape. The men had side-by-side cells and apparently had obtained power tools to cut through the steel wall, authorities said. Hide Caption 3 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Looking from the catwalk, this is the hole the inmates cut into the wall. The pair followed the catwalk toward a series of tunnels. Hide Caption 4 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Gov. Cuomo studies the maze of pipes the prisoners navigated during their escape. Hide Caption 5 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Cuomo climbs a ladder as he examines the prisoners' escape route. Hide Caption 6 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Cuomo examines the escape route of the prisoners. "It was elaborate; it was sophisticated," he said. Hide Caption 7 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape The inmates used power tools to drill through steel pipes as they made their escape. Hide Caption 8 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Gov. Cuomo examines a pipe the inmates cut through. Authorities don't know how the prisoners got the power tools. Hide Caption 9 of 10 Photos: New York prison escape Officials look at the manhole through which the inmates crawled to freedom. Hide Caption 10 of 10 Mitchell has told investigators that Matt made her feel "special" though she didn't say she was in love with him, a source familiar with the investigation said. Her husband and prison co-worker, Lyle Mitchell, also is under investigation, authorities said. Joyce Mitchell gave hacksaw blades, drill bits and lighted eyeglasses to the fugitive felons Richard Matt and David Sweat before their escape, sources said. Photos: Amazing prison escapes Photos: Amazing prison escapes New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, is shown the manhole where two convicted murderers escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, on Saturday, June 6, 2015. Police say Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, escaped from the maximum-security prison using power tools. Hide Caption 1 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes George Rivas is sworn in at a trial in Dallas in November 2003. On December 13, 2000, Rivas' gang, known as the Texas Seven, overpowered workers at a prison in Kenedy, Texas. They stole the workers' clothes, broke into the prison's armory to get guns and drove away in a prison truck. They committed several robberies and gunned down a police officer. Hide Caption 2 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes French criminal Pascal Payet escaped prison twice using hijacked helicopters. His last escape occurred in 2007. Four men hijacked a helicopter, flew it to the prison Payet was being held in and helped him escape. Three months later, Payet was caught in Spain. Hide Caption 3 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes Michel Vaujour is shown on trial in Paris in 1991. His wife, Nadine Vaujour, flew a helicopter to his Paris prison in 1986, and he forced his way to the roof by wielding nectarines painted as grenades. Nadine was later arrested, and Michel was killed in a failed bank robbery. Hide Caption 4 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes Northern Ireland's Maze Prison, once considered one of the most secure prisons in Europe, was closed in 2000 after a series of escape attempts. The largest of these occurred in 1983, when 38 prisoners escaped by smuggling in weapons and hijacking a food delivery van. Hide Caption 5 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes In 1962, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped a prison that was thought to be inescapable -- Alcatraz in San Francisco. They crafted dummy heads with real human hair to trick guards. They also used homemade drills to enlarge vent holes, and they formed raincoats into a raft to escape the island prison. They still have not been found. It is presumed that they drowned. Hide Caption 6 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes American criminal John Dillinger, center, sits in court in 1934 after being accused of killing a police officer. Later that year, he escaped an Indiana jail wielding a wooden gun he whittled. After imprisoning guards, he drove away in the sheriff's car. A few months later, he was shot dead outside of a theater in Chicago. Hide Caption 7 of 7 Mitchell "provided some form of equipment or tools" to the inmates while her husband "possibly could have been involved or at least had knowledge" of the escape, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie told CNN. The information was developed through interviews. Lyle Mitchell has not been arrested or charged. Joyce Mitchell's relatives have denied she did anything wrong. Her husband worked in the maintenance department at the tailoring block where his spouse was employed, Wylie said. Lyle Mitchell has worked at the prison since 2005, most recently as an $57,697-a-year industrial training supervisor, the same title his wife held, according to state records. The hacksaw blades and other items given to Matt were purchased over the past few months, according to law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation. Matt and Sweat used power tools to cut through cell walls that included a steel plate and sever a 24-inch steam pipe -- once to get in and once more to get out -- and surfaced through a manhole. Despite all the time, effort and noise likely involved, authorities didn't learn anything was awry until a bed check at 5:30 a.m. Saturday. Authorities strongly believe the fugitives are still together after deciding to continue their escape as a pair, two law enforcement sources briefed on the matter said. A search perimeter was established, one of the sources said, after an officer saw someone entering a wooded area at nightfall Wednesday. A tactical search team discovered human tracks and bloodhounds picked up the scent of the felons -- leading investigators to the area where the two men apparently bedded down. Wrappers found at that area were consistent with food wrappers from the prison commissary, according to the source. Investigating relationships, cell phone The inmates knew Mitchell from her work tailoring clothes as an industrial training supervisor at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. She hasn't spoken publicly. State Department of Corrections officials had received a complaint about the relationship between Joyce Mitchell and one of the two escapees, according to a state official. The department didn't find enough evidence to support the complaint, though that does not mean the inmate and prison worker weren't close. "I don't believe that the information was that there was absolutely no relationship," said Wylie, the district attorney. Her cell phone was used to call people connected to Matt, according to another source, though it's not known who made these calls. And New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said authorities believe she planned to pick up the inmates after their escape only to change her mind at the last minute. Wylie speculated that perhaps Mitchell felt "some responsibility and guilt ... and wants to help that situation or help herself." "She does not exercise her right to request an attorney, she voluntarily seeks us out," Wylie said Thursday night. "(She) comes in and each day has been providing ... additional information that's assisted the investigators." Resident: 'I haven't left home in two days' The information may have helped authorities figure out how the killers escaped, but so far it hasn't helped locate them. Between 2002 and 2013, state data shows, almost every prison escapee in New York state was captured within 24 hours and none were out for more than three days. Until Matt and Sweat, who now have been on the lam for six days. Photos: Amazing prison escapes Photos: Amazing prison escapes New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, is shown the manhole where two convicted murderers escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, on Saturday, June 6, 2015. Police say Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, escaped from the maximum-security prison using power tools. Hide Caption 1 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes George Rivas is sworn in at a trial in Dallas in November 2003. On December 13, 2000, Rivas' gang, known as the Texas Seven, overpowered workers at a prison in Kenedy, Texas. They stole the workers' clothes, broke into the prison's armory to get guns and drove away in a prison truck. They committed several robberies and gunned down a police officer. Hide Caption 2 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes French criminal Pascal Payet escaped prison twice using hijacked helicopters. His last escape occurred in 2007. Four men hijacked a helicopter, flew it to the prison Payet was being held in and helped him escape. Three months later, Payet was caught in Spain. Hide Caption 3 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes Michel Vaujour is shown on trial in Paris in 1991. His wife, Nadine Vaujour, flew a helicopter to his Paris prison in 1986, and he forced his way to the roof by wielding nectarines painted as grenades. Nadine was later arrested, and Michel was killed in a failed bank robbery. Hide Caption 4 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes Northern Ireland's Maze Prison, once considered one of the most secure prisons in Europe, was closed in 2000 after a series of escape attempts. The largest of these occurred in 1983, when 38 prisoners escaped by smuggling in weapons and hijacking a food delivery van. Hide Caption 5 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes In 1962, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped a prison that was thought to be inescapable -- Alcatraz in San Francisco. They crafted dummy heads with real human hair to trick guards. They also used homemade drills to enlarge vent holes, and they formed raincoats into a raft to escape the island prison. They still have not been found. It is presumed that they drowned. Hide Caption 6 of 7 Photos: Amazing prison escapes American criminal John Dillinger, center, sits in court in 1934 after being accused of killing a police officer. Later that year, he escaped an Indiana jail wielding a wooden gun he whittled. After imprisoning guards, he drove away in the sheriff's car. A few months later, he was shot dead outside of a theater in Chicago. Hide Caption 7 of 7 Their escape sent jitters across neighboring Vermont, where authorities believe they may have gone, and Canada, whose border is about 20 miles from the maximum-security prison. Authorities in Texas, where Matt reportedly has an aunt, have asked officers to be on the lookout for the fugitive, according to a document obtained by CNN. The document further warns Matt has intentions of crossing into Mexico and says, "Matt is familiar with ranchers on both sides of the border who allow illegal crossings to occur." Still, the most intense law enforcement activity has been in northeast New York, where investigators continue to search for clues by painstakingly checking wooded areas and roads and popping open trunks at checkpoints. Officials said there have been no confirmed sightings of the escapees. The ordeal has turned life upside down for those who call this rural, idyllic, out-of-the-way place home. Many people have restricted their movement, while classes in the Saranac Central School District -- which includes Dannemora -- were called off for a second straight day Friday "to assist law enforcement and to keep our buses off the routes ... where they are searching," Superintendent Jonathan Parks said. "I haven't left home in two days, I had to call in to work today because you wouldn't be able to return back home," resident Brooke Lepage said. "There were constant helicopters. "Last night they had floodlights. There was a recorded (telephone) message telling us to stay in the house and make sure outside lights were on." More than 800 state, local and federal law enforcement officers have descended on the area, New York State Police said. They have been following more than 700 leads developed in the nearly weeklong manhunt. Scent near a sandwich shop Amid the mayhem, the search may be narrowing down -- the latest focus being a sandwich shop not far from where the convicts escaped. Investigators are looking at surveillance video from a gas station about a mile away from the prison. JUST WATCHED Escaped convicts' scent leads to sandwich shop Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Escaped convicts' scent leads to sandwich shop 01:18 Tracking dogs picked up the scent of both prisoners at the station and followed it east toward the town of Cadyville, Wylie said. The gas station has a Subway sandwich shop, and the two might have been rummaging for food in the trash bin, authorities said. Authorities are reviewing the limited security video from the store. A perimeter is up around the site of the scent, and Wylie said "dogs were working it (Thursday night) and we're going to continue to pursue that (Friday)." "It could have been something that occurred earlier in the week," the district attorney said Friday of when the scent was left. "But we're hoping that it was two nights ago, and they're closing in on the two men right now." Investigators found an imprint from a shoe or boot as well as food wrappers in the area, a source said. And possible bedding -- an indent in the grass or leaves -- has also been discovered, according to the district attorney. Will any of these efforts lead to Matt and Sweat, though? Wylie said Thursday night that he hoped they'll be found within 24 hours. "The perimeter is continuing to be closed in," the district attorney said Friday morning. "And we hope ... that this will be effective in bringing these two men back into custody." ||||| DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — A worker at an upstate New York maximum-security prison has been arrested on charges she helped two convicted killers escape, state police said Friday. Law enforcement officers congregate on the edge of a search area near Dannemora, N.Y., Friday, June 12, 2015. Squads of law enforcement officers are heading out for a seventh day of searching for David... (Associated Press) A wanted poster is displayed in the window of a state police officer's car near Dannemora, N.Y., Friday, June 12, 2015. Squads of law enforcement officers are heading out for a seventh day, searching... (Associated Press) Fifty-one-year-old Joyce Mitchell was arrested and will be arraigned on charges of first-degree promoting prison contraband and fourth-degree criminal facilitation, state police said. Mitchell is accused of befriending inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora and giving them contraband. District Attorney Andrew Wylie said earlier the contraband didn't include power tools used by the men as they cut holes in their cell walls and a steam pipe to escape through a manhole last weekend. Meanwhile, law enforcement officers continued to search for the escapees, concentrating Friday in a rural area near the prison. The hunt for the inmates was focused on an area where residents reported seeing two men jumping a stone wall outside the far northern New York town of Dannemora. About 300 searchers were added, bringing the total number of state, federal and local law enforcement officers involved in the manhunt to more than 800. Mitchell's family has said she wouldn't have helped the convicts break out. An instructor in the tailor shop where the men worked, Mitchell is also suspected of agreeing to be a getaway driver but didn't show up, leaving the men on foot early Saturday morning. Mitchell has a $56,000-a-year job overseeing inmates who sew clothes and learn to repair sewing machines at the prison. Within the past year, officials looked into whether Mitchell had improper ties to the 34-year-old Sweat, who was serving a life sentence for killing a sheriff's deputy, Wylie said. He gave no details on the nature of the suspected relationship. The investigation didn't turn up anything solid enough to warrant disciplinary charges against her, the district attorney said. Matt was serving 25 years to life for the 1997 kidnap, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of Matt's 76-year-old former boss, whose body was found in pieces in a river. The state corrections department would not comment on the investigation into how the two inmates escaped or what Mitchell might have provided them. Prison contraband can include such things as cellphones, weapons, drugs, tools and unauthorized clothing. On Thursday, a person close to the investigation said that Mitchell had befriended the two men and agreed to be the getaway driver but never showed up. The person was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke on condition of anonymity. A former slipper-factory employee who won three terms as tax collector in her town near Dannemora, Mitchell has worked at the prison for at least five years, according to a neighbor, Sharon Currier. Mitchell's husband, Lyle, also works in industrial training there. "She's a good, good person," Currier said. "She's not somebody who's off the wall." The garment shop is intended to give prisoners job skills and work habits. In general, an inmate assigned to such a job might work several hours a day there, five days a week, meaning he would have significant contact with supervisors. Mitchell's union, Civil Service Employees Association Local 1000, would not comment Friday on the prior investigation of Mitchell or the current allegations. But her daughter-in-law, Paige Mitchell, said this week that her mother-in-law never mentioned Sweat, Matt or any other inmates she encountered. "She doesn't get too involved," Paige Mitchell told the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh. And Mitchell's son Tobey told NBC that she would not have helped the inmates escape and that she checked herself into a hospital with chest pains on Saturday, the day the breakout was discovered. ___ Klepper reported from Albany. Associated Press writers Jennifer Peltz in New York and Chris Carola and Michael Virtanen in Albany contributed to this report.

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A body found in a Detroit garage Thursday had likely been there for years, officials said. (Photo: Detroit News) A “mummified” body that was found Thursday afternoon in a garage in Detroit will be examined next week by an anthropologist to try and determine a host of factors including gender and cause of death, Wayne County officials said Friday. The discovery, police say, happened around 1 p.m. when a potential home buyer was inspecting the garage of a home in the 19900 block of Spencer. The body was in the backseat of a 1990 or 1991 Plymouth Acclaim, authorities said. Lloyd Jackson, a spokesman for Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office, said officials estimate that the body had been there for “years” and was beyond the decomposition stage when “the body is brown.” Jackson said medical examiners just “inspected” the body and will await the arrival next week of an anthropologist from the University of Michigan, which partners with the county, who can conduct special tests, such as examining hip bones to determine gender. “At this point, they don’t know if it’s male or female, or cause or manner of death or anything like that,” Jackson said. “That’s when the anthropologist comes in and checks it out. They didn’t do an autopsy, they just did an inspection because that’s usually what they do when they get these bodies that have been really badly decomposed or mummified.” Detroit Police spokesman Dan Donakowski said officers were called to the location after the body was discovered. The home, he said, was being rented to a family and did not use the garage. The potential homeowner “opened up the car door and observed this decomposed body inside,” Donakowski said. “We talked to the current tenants of that location and they were told that the actual homeowners had said basically don’t go in the garage, don’t put anything in the garage.” Donakowski said there is an ongoing investigation and that the homeowner will be contacted. “I know this is an open investigation and I know we’re going to do a thorough investigation on it, but we obviously have to find out what went on,” he said. “A lot of the investigation is going to be geared to the findings of the medical examiner’s office so we can actually see what happened and we’re going to go from there.” Read or Share this story: http://detne.ws/2iN3Kmf ||||| Medical examiners have called for an anthropologist to conduct a special autopsy of the remains, which were found inside a car A body that had decomposed to the point of mummification was found in a car in the garage of a Detroit home, and medical examiners have called for an anthropologist to conduct a special autopsy of the remains. The desiccated corpse was discovered by a man who was house shopping and ventured into the home’s garage on Thursday afternoon, spotting the body inside an early 1990s-model Plymouth sedan, police and coroner’s officials said. Woman puts real-life horrors of policing and carjacking on display for Halloween Read more How long the body had been in the garage and the circumstances of the individual’s death remained unknown, said Lloyd Jackson, a spokesman for the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office. “It was there for a long period of time,” Jackson said. “It’s mummified, so it’s probably been over a year, at least.“ Medical examiners visually inspected the corpse, which was found dressed in a shirt, sweater and pants. But the advanced state of decomposition, in which exposed tissue has turned brown, taking on the appearance of tanned leather, precludes a conventional autopsy, even obscuring whether the person was male or female, Jackson said. Coroners hope to resolve much of the mystery once an anthropologist from the University of Michigan arrives next week to conduct a special examination, including measurements of the hip bones to determine its gender. Jackson said investigators expect the anthropological autopsy will also reveal the approximate age of the individual, as well as something about the manner, cause and time of death. For now, there is too little information to know whether foul play was involved, and the case remains an open investigation, authorities said. The home where the body turned up was being rented by tenants who told police they never used the garage and knew nothing about the body’s presence, Detroit police spokesman Dan Donakowski said. ||||| Buy Photo Police close off a scene of a crime. (Photo: KATHLEEN GALLIGAN, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo A man interested in purchasing a property in Detroit walked into the garage Thursday and made a grisly discovery: a decomposed and mummified body in the backseat of a car. Police were called to the 19900 block of Spencer around 1 p.m. and said the body was inside a 1990 or 1991 Plymouth Acclaim, Detroit police spokesman Officer Dan Donakowski said. Tenants who lived at a home on the property told police that the owner said they couldn’t use the garage, so they never went inside, he said. It’s unclear how and when the person died, but Donakowski said the body had been there “for quite some time.” Related: Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office spokesman Lloyd Jackson told the Free Press they don’t know whether the body is a male or female at this point. “It’s badly decomposed,” he said. “And it’s mummified.” Jackson said the body was found lying down in the backseat and had on a shirt, sweater and pants. The autopsy won’t be performed until next week when an anthropologist comes in, Jackson said. Police said they will conduct their investigation, but they have to to wait and find out how the person died from the Medical Examiner's Office. In Pontiac, Pia Farrenkopf was dead for five years before her body was discovered in 2014. Click here to read her story. Contact Elisha Anderson: eanderson@freepress.com Read or Share this story: http://on.freep.com/2hAmwiX

– A prospective homebuyer was surely shocked Thursday to discover a garage belonging to one Detroit home was more like an Egyptian tomb. The Detroit Free Press reports the man was inspecting the garage of a home he was considering buying when he found a body in the backseat of a 25-year-old Plymouth Acclaim. Police say the body—wearing, pants, shirt, and sweatshirt—was "badly decomposed" and "mummified." The condition of the body had gotten to the point where the skin looked like "tanned leather," according to the Guardian. A spokesperson for the medical examiner's office tells the Detroit News the body appears to have been sitting in the car for "years," the Detroit News reports. Police say the body had been there "for quite some time." The home was being rented by a family who say their landlord told them not to use the garage, so they never went in there. A police spokesperson says they were told "basically don’t go in the garage, don’t put anything in the garage.” Police plan to investigate once they know the cause of death. But at this point they can't even tell the gender of the body. With the body too decomposed for a typical autopsy, an anthropologist will examine it next week.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.A body found in a Detroit garage Thursday had likely been there for years, officials said. (Photo: Detroit News) A “mummified” body that was found Thursday afternoon in a garage in Detroit will be examined next week by an anthropologist to try and determine a host of factors including gender and cause of death, Wayne County officials said Friday. The discovery, police say, happened around 1 p.m. when a potential home buyer was inspecting the garage of a home in the 19900 block of Spencer. The body was in the backseat of a 1990 or 1991 Plymouth Acclaim, authorities said. Lloyd Jackson, a spokesman for Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office, said officials estimate that the body had been there for “years” and was beyond the decomposition stage when “the body is brown.” Jackson said medical examiners just “inspected” the body and will await the arrival next week of an anthropologist from the University of Michigan, which partners with the county, who can conduct special tests, such as examining hip bones to determine gender. “At this point, they don’t know if it’s male or female, or cause or manner of death or anything like that,” Jackson said. “That’s when the anthropologist comes in and checks it out. They didn’t do an autopsy, they just did an inspection because that’s usually what they do when they get these bodies that have been really badly decomposed or mummified.” Detroit Police spokesman Dan Donakowski said officers were called to the location after the body was discovered. The home, he said, was being rented to a family and did not use the garage. The potential homeowner “opened up the car door and observed this decomposed body inside,” Donakowski said. “We talked to the current tenants of that location and they were told that the actual homeowners had said basically don’t go in the garage, don’t put anything in the garage.” Donakowski said there is an ongoing investigation and that the homeowner will be contacted. “I know this is an open investigation and I know we’re going to do a thorough investigation on it, but we obviously have to find out what went on,” he said. “A lot of the investigation is going to be geared to the findings of the medical examiner’s office so we can actually see what happened and we’re going to go from there.” Read or Share this story: http://detne.ws/2iN3Kmf ||||| Medical examiners have called for an anthropologist to conduct a special autopsy of the remains, which were found inside a car A body that had decomposed to the point of mummification was found in a car in the garage of a Detroit home, and medical examiners have called for an anthropologist to conduct a special autopsy of the remains. The desiccated corpse was discovered by a man who was house shopping and ventured into the home’s garage on Thursday afternoon, spotting the body inside an early 1990s-model Plymouth sedan, police and coroner’s officials said. Woman puts real-life horrors of policing and carjacking on display for Halloween Read more How long the body had been in the garage and the circumstances of the individual’s death remained unknown, said Lloyd Jackson, a spokesman for the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office. “It was there for a long period of time,” Jackson said. “It’s mummified, so it’s probably been over a year, at least.“ Medical examiners visually inspected the corpse, which was found dressed in a shirt, sweater and pants. But the advanced state of decomposition, in which exposed tissue has turned brown, taking on the appearance of tanned leather, precludes a conventional autopsy, even obscuring whether the person was male or female, Jackson said. Coroners hope to resolve much of the mystery once an anthropologist from the University of Michigan arrives next week to conduct a special examination, including measurements of the hip bones to determine its gender. Jackson said investigators expect the anthropological autopsy will also reveal the approximate age of the individual, as well as something about the manner, cause and time of death. For now, there is too little information to know whether foul play was involved, and the case remains an open investigation, authorities said. The home where the body turned up was being rented by tenants who told police they never used the garage and knew nothing about the body’s presence, Detroit police spokesman Dan Donakowski said. ||||| Buy Photo Police close off a scene of a crime. (Photo: KATHLEEN GALLIGAN, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo A man interested in purchasing a property in Detroit walked into the garage Thursday and made a grisly discovery: a decomposed and mummified body in the backseat of a car. Police were called to the 19900 block of Spencer around 1 p.m. and said the body was inside a 1990 or 1991 Plymouth Acclaim, Detroit police spokesman Officer Dan Donakowski said. Tenants who lived at a home on the property told police that the owner said they couldn’t use the garage, so they never went inside, he said. It’s unclear how and when the person died, but Donakowski said the body had been there “for quite some time.” Related: Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office spokesman Lloyd Jackson told the Free Press they don’t know whether the body is a male or female at this point. “It’s badly decomposed,” he said. “And it’s mummified.” Jackson said the body was found lying down in the backseat and had on a shirt, sweater and pants. The autopsy won’t be performed until next week when an anthropologist comes in, Jackson said. Police said they will conduct their investigation, but they have to to wait and find out how the person died from the Medical Examiner's Office. In Pontiac, Pia Farrenkopf was dead for five years before her body was discovered in 2014. Click here to read her story. Contact Elisha Anderson: eanderson@freepress.com Read or Share this story: http://on.freep.com/2hAmwiX

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I was puzzled as to why she would be so angry – normally she and The Guardian would be of one mind. She cut me off. What was provoking her fury was the decision to release the US National Security Agency (NSA) material leaked by Edward Snowden. “Since when,” she asked, “have [The Guardian editor] Alan Rusbridger and his colleagues been experts on national security? On what basis do they know whether something is safe to publish or not safe?” She said she preferred to heed the views of the security services on that matter – and she noted the MI5 chief had accused the newspaper of doing “enormous damage” to Britain’s ability to combat al-Qa’ida. What was striking was her anger. It’s easy to assume that years of service in Whitehall had got to her, that she was an insider furious at what she deemed to be an outsider’s irresponsibility. Hours spent in meetings, listening to senior officials issuing dire warnings and studying papers covered in legal notices, had clearly addled her brain. In her former radical, pre-government, pre-establishment life, she would have been up for The Guardian publishing – of course she would. Now, though, she is older and wiser, and able, as she did, to hurl the words “sixth-form” in The Guardian’s direction. There was also a discussion about male “willy-waving” – she accused Rusbridger and co of being fixated on quantity, not quality; that they seemed keen to show-off just how much of the stuff had come into their possession as opposed to what it contained. I admit to having been taken aback. I studied her closely. Her annoyance appeared genuine; if she was acting and hyping, she was convincing. Would I have done the same if I’d been in Rusbridger’s position? Fortunately, just then, she got dragged away – the speeches at the party were about to begin. As a teenager, I was transfixed by All the President’s Men; revelled in the dark psy-ops of Colin Wallace in Northern Ireland; read extensively about the US authorities’ efforts to suppress the Pentagon Papers leaked to the New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan; and found his subsequent brilliant book A Bright Shining Lie about the US peddling untruths in the Vietnam War an affirmation of everything that I imagined. As a journalist, I’ve done investigations and uncovered scandals; and experienced the difficulty of discovering even innocuous details in our supposedly open and liberal country . I can never forget, at this newspaper, covering the Scott inquiry into arms to Iraq, in 1996, and listening to the claim that this would be the first occasion the evidence given to a study of this nature would be released on CD. Excitedly, I put the CD into the slot in my terminal. The pages were there, but blank: great swathes of text had been redacted. As a reporter in the House of Commons, I learned to study every official report closely – and examine why one word had been chosen and not another, and wonder what had been left out. I’m cynical about officialdom, having seen too many cover-ups and appalling injustices carried out in our name. So, based on that and more, I would have been a dead cert to publish. Except that I would not have done. I don’t deny The Guardian’s right to do so – it was their belief, honestly held. My problem with publishing is twofold. First, try as I might, I cannot get that excited about it. With the Snowden leaks I find myself speculating – as I did with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks – as to whether I am getting too old and losing the plot as a journalist. But, as with WikiLeaks, will someone please put the boasts about size and volume on one side and tell me: where is the story? If it’s that the security services monitor emails and phone calls, and use internet searches to track down terrorists and would-be terrorists – including, I now read, something called the “dark net” – I cannot get wound up about it. At Kings Place, home of The Guardian, they will say my judgement is a mess. Never had any, they will probably sneer. Far too cosy to the powers-that-be, they might add. In which case, guys, uncurl your lips and explain what it is, exactly, that the NSA and GCHQ, are doing that is so profoundly terrible? What justifies all the posturing we’ve been subjected to these past months? I watched The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who obtained the Snowden scoop, on Newsnight the other evening and was nonplussed. I wanted him to say what the real scandal was that he had uncovered. But he did not. As he spoke, I was reminded of what he had said after the detention of his partner, David Miranda, at Heathrow, under the Terrorism Act (a move that was cack-handed). It hardly bodes well for his future objective journalism: “I will be far more aggressive in my reporting from now. I am going to publish many more documents. I am going to publish things on England, too. I have many documents on England’s spy system. I think they will be sorry for what they did.” Which leads on to the second issue. If the security services insist something is contrary to the public interest, and might harm their operations, who am I (despite my grounding from Watergate onwards) to disbelieve them? In August, this paper also received information from the Snowden files. We did not publish much of the information we were given because the Government, in the shape of a Defence Advisory Notice or “DA” notice, asked us to desist, in the interests of national security. Several times in my career, I’ve been served with a DA notice. On each occasion, I confess, I’ve not published. Does that make me a coward and an establishment lackey? Or responsible and sensible? I’m all for whistle-blowing – indeed, I wrote a column, arguing for greater protection for whistleblowers in this paper only last Friday. Some of my best stories have come from people brave enough to leak, to break ranks and say something they’re not authorised to say. Good on them. What we’re into here appears to be not so much someone blowing the whistle on one story to highlight specific wrongdoing but the dumping of tons of information – and the recipient acting both as unqualified filter and feeling the need to brag about how much documentation it has received. I don’t want my civil liberties infringed, and as a taxpayer I’d like to know as much as possible about what the Government and its agents are doing with my money. But I also want the security services to do their jobs properly, to make the world safer. I know they will make mistakes; I know that occasionally they will stray. I hope I’m not complacent. Others, doubtless, will disagree. Chris Blackhurst is group content director of The Independent, the Evening Standard and London Live. He was editor of The Independent, 2011-13 ||||| Guardian has handed a gift to terrorists', warns MI5 chief: Left-wing paper's leaks caused 'greatest damage to western security in history' say Whitehall insiders MI5 chief Andrew Parker called paper's expose a 'guide book' for terrorists He said the coverage is a gift to 'thousands' of UK-based extremists Secret techniques of GCHQ laid bare by Guardian The spy chief: MI5 director-general Andrew Parker has blasted the Guardian's publication of Britain's espionage capabilities A massive cache of stolen top-secret documents published in The Guardian has handed a ‘gift’ to terrorists, the head of MI5 warned last night. In a blistering attack, Andrew Parker said the publication of confidential files leaked by US fugitive Edward Snowden had caused huge ‘harm’ to the capability of Britain’s intelligence services. Security officials say the exposé amounts to a ‘guide book’, advising terrorists on the best way to avoid detection when plotting an atrocity. In Whitehall, it is considered to have caused the greatest damage to the Western security apparatus in history. In his first public speech since taking the job earlier this year, Mr Parker said the leaks handed the ‘advantage’ to terrorists and were a ‘gift they need to evade us and strike at will’. He said there were several thousand Islamist extremists living in the UK who ‘see the British people as a legitimate target’. The security services were working round the clock to stop the fanatics, but MI5 was now ‘tackling threats on more fronts than ever before’. Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency, fled the US in May with thousands of classified documents about the NSA and GCHQ, which he gave to The Guardian. The newspaper has since published tens of thousands of words on the secret techniques used by GCHQ to monitor emails, phone records and communications on the internet. The first Guardian revelations came in early June, when it detailed how the NSA – which supplies intelligence to GCHQ, the organisation which gathers intelligence for MI5 and MI6 – had ‘direct access’ to the computer systems of AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Paltalk, Skype, Yahoo and YouTube. The newspaper also revealed how GCHQ has access to a network of cables carrying international phone calls and internet traffic and is processing vast amounts of ‘personal information’. By the time his identity as the source of the leaks emerged, Snowden had fled his home in Hawaii for Hong Kong. After a week in hiding, he travelled to Moscow, where he remains out of the reach of US authorities. The editor and the leaker: The Guardian's Alan Rusbridger and former NSA employee Edward Snowden In August, police detained David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, for nine hours at Heathrow airport. Mr Miranda had been carrying intelligence files leaked by Snowden. At the time it emerged David Cameron had authorised the destruction of computers at The Guardian offices. Security concerns were so acute that Mr Cameron sent Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood to demand that Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger destroy the files after warning they could fall into the hands of terrorists. Members of GCHQ supervised the smashing of laptops and hard drives at the newspaper’s offices. Mr Parker said: ‘What we know about the terrorists, and the detail of the capabilities we use against them, together represent our margin of advantage. That margin gives us the prospect of being able to detect their plots and stop them. GCHQ Headquarters. Thousands of classified documents about the NSA and GCHQ were published by The Guardian MI5 Headquarters in London. The leak was described as the greatest damage to Western security apparatus in history ‘But that margin is under attack. Reporting from GCHQ is vital to the safety of this country and its citizens. ‘GCHQ intelligence has played a vital role in stopping many of the terrorist plots that MI5 and the police have tackled in the past decade. ‘It causes enormous damage to make public the reach and limits of GCHQ techniques. Such information hands the advantage to the terrorists. 'It is the gift they need to evade us and strike at will. Unfashionable as it might seem, that is why we must keep secrets secret, and why not doing so causes such harm.’ In a wide-ranging speech to the Royal United Services Institute think-tank, Mr Parker said the task of MI5 was ‘getting harder’. He pointed to the danger posed by British nationals returning from fighting in Syria. In August, police detained David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, for nine hours at Heathrow airport. Mr Miranda had been carrying intelligence files leaked by Snowden The spy chief said there is a 'growing proportion of groups and individuals taking it upon themselves to commit acts of terrorism'. Pictured is the 7/7 London bombings, which killed 52 civilians Mr Parker said: ‘The ability of Al Qaeda to launch the centrally directed large-scale attacks of the last decade has been degraded, though not removed. ‘We have seen the threat shift more to increasing numbers of smaller-scale attacks and a growing proportion of groups and individuals taking it upon themselves to commit acts of terrorism. 'It remains the case that there are several thousand Islamist extremists here who see the British people as a legitimate target. Overall, I do not believe the terrorist threat is worse now than before. But it is more diffuse. More complicated. More unpredictable.’ Mr Parker also warned that, in some quarters, there could be an ‘alarming degree of complacency’ that MI5 and the police could foil all attacks. He said: ‘Terrorism, because of its nature and consequences, is the one area of crime where the expectation sometimes seems to be that the stats should be zero. Zero. Imagine applying the same target to murder in general, or major drugs trafficking. That is the stuff of “pre-crime” in the Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report.’ MI5 has attracted criticism for failing to stop individuals – including two of the July 7 bombers – who were on its radar. But Mr Parker, who replaced Jonathan Evans as director-general of the Security Service earlier this year, said: ‘With greater resources since 7/7 we have worked very hard to identify as many as possible of the people in the country who are active in some way in support of terrorism. ‘The idea that we either can or would want to operate intensive scrutiny of thousands is fanciful. This is not East Germany, or North Korea. Knowing of an individual does not equate to knowing everything about them.’ He also made the case for more powers to monitor emails and the internet. Mr Parker said: ‘Shifts in technology can erode our capabilities. There are choices to be made, including, for example, about how and whether communications data is retained. It is not, however, an option to disregard such shifts with an unspoken assumption that somehow security will anyway be sustained. It will not. We cannot work without tools.’ A Guardian News & Media spokesman said: ‘A huge number of people – from President Obama to the US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper have now conceded that the Snowden revelations have prompted a debate which was both necessary and overdue. ‘The President has even set up a review panel and there have been vigorous discussions in the US Congress and throughout Europe. Such a debate is only worthwhile if it is informed. That is what journalism should do.’ Laid bare, how spies fight to protect Britain from attack Edward Snowden became one of the world’s most wanted men in early June when he broke cover as the agent who leaked top-secret documents from the US National Security Agency. His initial revelations detailed how the NSA harvested private information from the computer systems of companies including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Skype and YouTube using a secret US surveillance programme called Prism. The Guardian then claimed the NSA supplied intelligence to GCHQ – accusing agents at the UK’s listening post of attempting to bypass UK law. The British spy agency compiled 197 intelligence dossiers from the system in a single year, sidestepping the need to obtain a court order. On June 18, the newspaper claimed UK intelligence agents hacked into the communications of politicians and senior officials from Turkey, South Africa and Russia during the G20 summit in London in 2009 – prompting a furious backlash ahead of the G8 meeting in Moscow. Snowden also revealed how GCHQ was able to hoover up vast amounts of personal information, including websites visited, emails sent and received, text messages, calls and passwords, using a state-of-the-art programme called Tempora. The surveillance operation centres on using probes to access a network of fibre-optic cables coming into and out of the country. Telecoms firms allegedly involved in Tempora include BT, Verizon and Vodafone Cable. The Guardian then revealed that the NSA was providing millions of pounds of funding each year to GCHQ to allow it to trawl for personal data. One document leaked by Snowden and dating from 2010 suggested GCHQ must ‘pull its weight’ to meet the NSA’s ‘minimum expectations’. Snowden also made the highly damaging revelation that the US government had hacked computers in mainland China and Hong Kong for years – threatening to consign relations between the super-powers to the deep freeze. US intelligence chiefs responded to the leaks with fury. NSA director Keith Alexander told the US Senate the top-secret surveillance programmes had disrupted at least 50 terror plots. ||||| The paper that helps Britain's enemies Andrew Parker's first speech as our spy chief was yesterday significantly endorsed by No10 Forget hacking voicemails or slipping payments to officials for stories that may or may not be in the public interest. Set to one side even (dare we say it?) this paper’s provocative headline 12 days ago, questioning how a long-dead Marxist, who wanted to smash all the traditions and institutions which make Britain British, could be said to love his country. By any objective yardstick, don’t such crimes and controversies pale beside the accusation levelled against the Guardian on Tuesday by the new head of MI5? Indeed, it is impossible to imagine a graver charge against a newspaper than that it has given succour to our country’s enemies and endangered all our lives by handing terrorists ‘the gift they need to evade us and strike at will’. Yet so said Andrew Parker, in his first speech as our spy chief, which yesterday was significantly endorsed by No10. So isn’t it staggering that the BBC, after spending all last week trumpeting Ed Miliband’s attack on this paper over our charge that his father’s Marxist views validated one of the most evil regimes in history, could hardly bring itself for much of yesterday to report Mr Parker’s devastating indictment of the Guardian? The problem, and it’s worse under the new director general, is that a wall of prejudice surrounds Broadcasting House – a belief that the Right merits relentless attack, while the BBC’s soulmates on the liberal Left must always be protected. Let us be clear. The Mail has never believed that MI5 and GCHQ deserve unquestioning support. In this column, we were highly critical of their demands for the power to detain suspects without trial for 90 days. We led the charge against MI6’s cosiness with Labour over the dodgy dossier on Iraq. And we have opposed secret courts and the so-called snoopers’ charter. But at the same time, we accept that the security services would be guilty of dereliction of duty if they failed to monitor those who pose a threat to the UK. And we have always argued that a line needs to be drawn between the civil liberties we treasure and the interests of national security. We believe the Guardian, with lethal irresponsibility, has crossed that line by printing tens of thousands of words describing the secret techniques used to monitor terrorists. Such is certainly the view of UK national security adviser Oliver Robbins, who says the paper has ‘already done real damage’, while the information it still holds is likely to ‘lead directly to widespread loss of life’. Indeed, so incendiary are these documents that British agents have had to be moved for their protection. Yet, almost as astonishing as the BBC’s reticence, the editor of the Guardian now says he will continue to release the material, arguing that he will take care to publish nothing that endangers lives. But how, in the name of sanity, can he know? He’s a journalist, not an expert on security. As for his paper’s attack on us over the Labour leader’s father, let us say something in Ralph Miliband’s favour. True, he hated so much about this country that he wanted a workers’ revolution to overturn everything from the monarchy to parliament, property rights and the common law. And, yes, his ideas chimed more with Stalin’s than with Churchill’s during the Cold War. But he fought for Britain in the war. And never once, as far as we are aware, did he give practical help to our enemies. Nor was he ever accused by the head of our security services of putting British lives at risk. ||||| On Thursday the Daily Mail described the Guardian as 'The paper that helps Britain's enemies' . We showed that article to many of the world's leading editors. This is what they said New York Times masthead Photograph: New York Times In a democracy, the press plays a vital role in informing the public and holding those in power accountable. The NSA has vast intelligence-gathering powers and capabilities and its role in society is an important subject for responsible newsgathering organisations such as the New York Times and the Guardian. A public debate about the proper perimeters for eavesdropping by intelligence agencies is healthy for the public and necessary. Jill Abramson. Photograph: Michael Loccisano/FilmMagic The accurate and in-depth news articles published by the New York Times and the Guardian help inform the public in framing its thinking about these issues and deciding how to balance the need to protect against terrorism and to protect individual privacy. Vigorous news coverage and spirited public debate are both in the public interest. The journalists at the New York Times and the Guardian care deeply about the wellbeing and safety of their fellow citizens in carrying out their role in keeping the public informed. Jill Abramson, executive editor, the New York Times Der Spiegel masthead. Photograph: Der Spiegel The utmost duty of a journalist is to expose abuses and the abuse of power. The global surveillance of digital communication by the NSA and GCHQ is no less than an abuse on a massive scale with consequences that at this point seem completely unpredictable. Wolfgang Buechner Photograph: Wolfgang Buechner It is understandable that the governments of the US and Britain aren't pleased that journalists, with the assistance of informants within government ranks, are exposing this abuse of power. It is a classic approach for governments to attack media that have the courage to publish such stories with arguments that they threaten national security or that they are supporting an enemy of the state. And it is a tragedy that media outlets aligned with governments are now accusing the journalists uncovering these abuses of "lethal irresponsibility". In terms of DER SPIEGEL's position on this affair: With each story we have published, we have given both the NSA and GCHQ the opportunity to comment prior to publication and to alert us to aspects that could be highly sensitive. The NSA took advantage of this opportunity, GCHQ did not. The material contains myriad evidence of terrorist investigations. However, for good reason, we have refrained from reporting on these specific operations. It is the indiscriminate mass surveillance of communications that DER SPIEGEL considers to be a scandal -- not the search for terrorists. As we stated, it is the media's duty in a free society to report on these abuses. Exposing the intensity with which intelligence agencies conduct surveillance on the Internet does not provide proof that such reporting in any way assists terrorists. It is common knowledge that security agencies monitor telephones, and yet, terrorists still use them. What is clear is that the surveillance conducted by the NSA and GCHQ goes far beyond anti-terror measures. It is for this reason that SPIEGEL and numerous other media outlets around the world will continue to take their duty seriously and report when a security apparatus spins out of control and acts beyond its remit. Wolfgang Buechner, editor-in-chief, Der Spiegel Haaretz masthead Photograph: Haaretz Journalists have only one responsibility: to keep their readers informed and educated about whatever their government is doing on their behalf – and first and foremost on security and intelligence organisations, which by their nature infringe on civil liberties. The Snowden revelations, and their publication by the Guardian, have been a prime example of fearlessly exercising this journalistic responsibility. Aluf Benn Photograph: Haaretz In Israel, the media are subject to pre-publication review by a military censor of any news related to security and intelligence. Israeli editors are therefore relieved from the dilemmas faced by our British or American counterparts, who should judge what might harm national security. Nevertheless, we struggle endlessly to push back the walls of government secrecy and concealment and expand the scope of public debate. Aluf Benn, editor-in-chief, Haaretz Le Monde masthead. Photograph: Le Monde The decision by Edward Snowden to leak to the media an important amount of top-secret documents showing the unprecedented reach of electronic surveillance was a historic event. It has raised major questions on the control of the internet, on the balance between counter-terrorism and civil liberties, on the oversight of intelligence activities by democratic institutions. Sylvie Kauffmann Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images The debate is open, and all actors of public life are legitimate participants in it. The heads of intelligence services are entitled to voice their concern at the extent of the leaks, as ordinary citizens are entitled to ask what use is made, by whom and to what purpose, of private data collected from their daily life activities. Editors of media organisations are central to this debate. The Guardian, with whom, among others, Le Monde collaborated in the publication of the WikiLeaks cables, made the right decision to publish the documents released by Snowden. It did so responsibly, acting in the public interest, as we had done with the WikiLeaks documents, and more recently with the "OffshoreLeaks" documents. Sylvie Kauffmann, editorial director, Le Monde, France El Pais masthead. Photograph: El Pais When a newspaper prints a story, or a series of stories, such as the Snowden case, the first attacks are always aimed at its editors and publishers. State or homeland security reasons are always claimed. Javier Moreno Photograph: Javier Moreno It happened when The New York Times and The Washington Post printed the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War in 1973, and it happened with WikiLeaks. Now, the object of criticism is the Guardian for having printed Edward Snowden's revelations. What is sad, baffling and dangerous is that the attacks now come not only from governments but from other newspapers too. In doing so, they are ignoring their first and utmost obligation. The press must serve the citizens and comply with their right to have access to truthful and relevant informations when it comes to public affairs. Newspapers have many duties. Having to protect governments and the powerful from embarrasing situations is not among them. The Guardian's work in the Snowden case is an example of great journalism, the kind that changes history and the kind that citizens need more every day, in a world where the powerful are increasingly trying to hide information from their societies. The real danger is not in the so-called "aid to the enemy" denounced by the hypocrites, but in the actions of governments and state agencies that citizens cannot control. To fight it we need newspapers willing to do their job, rather than those ready to cheer on the self-interested deceptions of the powerful. Javier Moreno, director, El País, Spain Slate Photograph: Slate I have just been reading Tim Weiner's history of the CIA, Legacy of Ashes, which is heavily based on leaked and declassified government documents. Over and again, one is struck by how poorly Americans' interests have been served by secrecy – and by the folly, misjudgment, and abuse of power that might have been prevented by public knowledge. One does not have to admire Julian Assange or Edward Snowden to recognise that their revelations, filtered by scrupulous journalists, have served the fundamental democratic interest of knowing what our governments are up to and how they may be abridging our rights. Jacob Weisberg Photograph: Jacob Weisberg The authorities seldom rate the public's right to know very highly. Editors, by contrast, have an excellent record in handling the security concerns related to classified material. The New York Times withheld revelations about the NSA's wireless wiretapping programme for a full year. Both the Guardian and the New York Times redacted or held back WikiLeaks documents that could have placed lives in danger. The Washington Post has been cautious and selective in publishing the Snowden material. Contra the Daily Mail, our best journalists very much are security experts, often with a better ability to make balanced judgments about disclosure than their security-cleared counterparts. Editors must weigh the potential security harm of public revelation again the certain damage to democratic accountability that comes from a public kept in the dark. It bears noting that in historical terms, the downside of disclosure has been very small, while the cost of secrecy has been enormous. Jacob Weisberg, chairman the Slate Group The Hindu. Photograph: The Hindu As an editor I am confronted every day with difficult questions about what to publish and what not to. A newspaper comes across documents from all kinds of sources but authenticity is only a necessary but not sufficient condition for disseminating the information these contain. Sensitive information must pass a twofold test: is publication in the public interest; and will it put lives at risk. Governments and intelligence agencies may have access to more information than the average editor but they do not have a monopoly over the ability to correctly answer these questions. Siddharth Varadarajan Photograph: Siddharth Varadarajan Well before Edward Snowden came along, the editors of the Hindu have handled classified or sensitive information on a range of sensitive issues. Never has our newspaper behaved irresponsibly with that information. Those attacking the media on the NSA issue wilfully ignore the fact that what the Guardian, the New York Times, the Hindu and other newspapers around the world have published so far are details of snooping that is not even remotely related to fighting terrorism. Osama bin Laden did not need Edward Snowden's revelations about Prism to realise the US was listening in to every bit of electronic communication: he had already seceded from the world of telephony and reverted to couriers. But millions of people in the US, the UK, Brazil, India and elsewhere, including national leaders, energy companies and others who are being spied upon for base reasons, were unaware of the fact that their privacy was being compromised. In the hands of an irresponsible newspaper, the kind of care the Guardian and others who are working from this material are taking may not always prevail. But as Glenn Greenwald said on the BBC, the only people who have been reckless with this material are those who acted irresponsibly in collecting it in the first place: the NSA and GCHQ. Siddharth Varadarajan, editor the Hindu Clarin.com Photograph: Clarin It is really striking and bold to accuse journalists of being allies of terrorism simply for performing their professional responsibilities. And it is even more dangerous when, in the name of a "national interest", censorship and concealing information is sponsored on the ground that journalists are not "security experts" to judge what can and should be published. Ricardo Kirschbaum Photograph: Ricardo Kirschbaum Limits are only determined by the editors' responsibility in a political and legal system that might protect the right to freedom of expression on a democratic basis. The Guardian has already been subjected to procedures that claim to infringe its independence and to intimidate its editors and journalists. This pressure must cease immediately. Ricardo Kirschbaum, executive editor, Clarin, Argentina Frankfurter Allgemeine Photograph: Frankfurter Allgemeine The Snowden affair, one day, will be understood as a historic milestone at which democratic societies began to realize that the political cost of new technologies still needed to be negotiated. Hans-Magnus Enzensberger, one of Germany's last great intellectuals and certainly not a leftist, sees it as a transition to a post-democratic society. And had the Snowden files not opened our eyes to this transition already, the way how the current debate about these documents unfolds, certainly did.These revelations are not only about secret services, but just as much about all the new social touchpoints of every citizen who is equipped with a smartphone and online access: Who controls and analyses these touchpoints and why? Is it so difficult to understand that in a world in which – according to Eric Schmidt's concise formulation – the digital self not only mirrors but substitutes our true selves, all these issues become questions of human rights? Frank Schirrmacher Photograph: Frankfurter Allgemeine President Obama's Berlin declaration that he would welcome a debate about the right balance between security and freedom gave room for hope. And different from the distant military threats of the Cold War, are we now exposed to threatening systems which seem to function only as long as they are deeply interwoven and are interfering with a civil society's private communication. Before Snowden, we knew about this interference only theoretically. Since Snowden, we know about empirically as well.There is no indication whatsoever that those media organisations who reported about the NSA and GCHQ files have endangered our national security. None of the newspapers involved did create artificial drama as would have been customary in the 1980s, just to increase copy sales. None of the newspapers involved has questioned the duty and legitimate need of governments to prevent terrorism. No one has defended the ideology of terrorists or has even hinted at the idea that terrorism suspects should not be screened. What the newspapers involved did discuss is the integrity of the very democracies that terrorists are trying to destroy. We all can feel and witness each other's tangible shock and dismay about the complete loss of democratic control over systems and secret services which seemingly feel entitled to decide on their own who is a friend and who is an enemy of our civil societies. We saw Jimmy Carter's deep concern. We saw how even an influential and staunchly conservative security expert such as Germany's Hans-Peter Uhl of the Bavarian CSU party defined the NSA files as a "wake-up call" that was hinting at a dangerous merger of private industries and secret services. If a conservative security expert like Germany's Hans-Peter Uhl ventures into such territory, we should realize that this affair is about much more than only a few powerpoint presentations. Publishing the Snowden files has by no means been an attack on our freedom and security, but a crucial prerequisite for freedom to exist in the future. Frank Schirrmacher, publisher, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany New York Times masthead Photograph: New York Times There is a superficial appeal in the argument that intelligence "professionals" know better than editors what information must be suppressed, even if it has already escaped their control. Particularly in this time of terror, much of the public is impressed by that argument and so are American attorneys and judges, causing David Rudenstine of Cardozo Law School to name this the "age of deference." Such deference was evident also when the Pentagon Papers case reached our Supreme Court. The Chief Justice compared the papers to the "White House silver," which, had it come into our possession we would have surely returned. Other justices felt that even if the Constitution prevented our being censored, we deserved to be prosecuted under Espionage statutes for aiding the enemy. Arrogant though it sounds, the fact is that experienced editors and correspondents who deal daily in the subject matter of "national security" know better than most judges and prosecutors whether a given piece of information could seriously threaten lives or damage national defence. Moreover, if in doubt, we have usually asked officials to demonstrate the danger of publication and in a minority of cases accepted their argument. But we have demanded persuasive argument that distinguishes between a genuine threat and mere bureaucratic embarrassment or inconvenience. Max Frankel Photograph: Max Frankel Why, ultimately, does experience argue almost always in favour of publication? Because a secret once lost by government, even if important, cannot be "returned". It can fly across the globe in an instant and even if momentarily suppressed, it must inform all those who have learned it as they in turn inform others. Even more persuasive is the reality that neither officials nor journalists can ever be sure of the consequences of publication: facts once distributed, like seeds in a garden, acquire a life of their own with consequences that can be salutary, malignant, both, or neither. So while intelligence agents perceive a professional duty to cloak all their deeds and knowledge, it is a newspaper's duty to publish what it learns without presuming to predict a good or ill result. The tension thus created is probably the only tolerable way to proceed. Max Frankel, former executive editor, The New York Times The Washington Post. Photograph: The Washington Post Journalists have not only the right but a responsibility to challenge government – its behaviour, its reasoning and its assertion of fact. There will always be times when an editor has to rely on his own judgment in making decisions about what to publish and weighing the implications. Editors know these can be profoundly important decisions and they should listen with care to arguments from all sides, including government. Experience has taught scepticism. Marcus Brauchli Photograph: Marc Bryan-Brown/WireImage Official secrecy doesn't just cloak the national-security state; it hides everything from bureaucratic bungling and politicians' peccadillos to catastrophically bad policy. Officials can be just as aggressive in discouraging journalists from ferreting out mismanagement and waste as they often are in trying to block sensitive national security stories. That shouldn't keep editors from thoughtfully considering officials' arguments and at times being persuaded to hold something back. But there is inherent, inevitable and – in the US, anyway – by-design tension between government and a free press that reflects the institutions' different functions. A responsible editor's bias must be towards publication and an informed public debate. Without sight of the facts, how can a democracy chart its course? Marcus Brauchli, vice-president, Washington Post Company Suddeustche Photograph: Suddeustche It is journalism's most noble duty to write about and to describe what exists in our world. Our second duty is to add context to and to comment and to evaluate that which exists in our world. If it is a journalist's duty, however, to describe what exists, then this inherently implies the duty to write about those things and events about which certain humans and institutions do not want us to write about. This tends to be case whenever journalists write about the activities of secret services and it was the case during these last weeks when The Guardian, the New York Times or Süddeutsche Zeitung have written about the British secret services, most especially about GCHQ. Wolfgang Krach. Photograph: Sueddeutsche Zeitung No secret service likes it when its methods are being discussed openly, which is understandable as long as a secret service focuses on its core duties, such as the surveillance of terror suspects. Once a secret service starts behaving like an octopus, though, with its tentacles reaching all across everyone's life and putting whole societies under collective suspicion with everyone falling victim to total surveillance, then the societal contract has been broken. There is no justification for such violation. Yet it is fully justifies that journalists reveal such unlawful state action. This is what the Guardian has done. Nothing else. To claim that the Guardian had shown "deadly irresponsibility" or that it was "helping the enemies" of the UK has no foundation and is appalling. To publish such claims means to slander those who consistently and carefully fulfill their journalistic duty to society. Wolfgang Krach, deputy editor in chief, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany La Repubblica Photograph: La Repubblica The accusations of "irresponsibility" that The Daily Mail addressed to the Guardian sound familiar to my ears. La Repubblica repeatedly received this kind of allegations too, after the numerous investigative reportings that we published to reveal Silvio Berlusconi's network of corruption, abuse of power and manipulations during the many years in which he was at the head of the Italian government. We have been accused too of publishing documents, official wiretappings and revelations that – according to Silvio Berlusconi and his supporters – should have been kept secret, confidential, hidden. But the role of a free press in a democratic country is to be the guardians – not the spokesmen – of power. Media is part of the check and balances system of an healthy democracy and they would betray their duty if they only reported what the power considers legitimate to reveal to the public opinion. Ezio Mauro Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images A responsible press knows the difference between to always publish everything, and to choose, select and verify the news before publishing them. This is what we did at La Repubblica and what the Guardian does. From the Washington Post with the Watergate case to the New York Times with the Pentagon Papers, the history of journalism is full of revelations that, according to the people in power, should have been kept secret, but later it has become clear that to publish them was a service to democracy, not a "lethally irresponsible" act. After all our newspaper, as the media of many other countries, reported the Guardian's revelations. The Guardian is certainly not alone in this battle for the freedom of the press. A newspaper answers to public opinion, not to the government. Ezio Mauro, editor-in-chief, La Repubblica, Italy The Washington Post. Photograph: The Washington Post Intelligence agencies in the United States and elsewhere have acquired enormous capacity to monitor the communications of their countries' citizens, residents, and those who live elsewhere. While the purpose is counterterrorism and other foreign intelligence, surveillance of such massive scale has sharply eroded the privacy that many citizens feel they are entitled to enjoy in a democracy that respects individual liberties. Citizens in a democracy are given the right to decide for themselves how to strike the proper balance between privacy and national security. They cannot do so, however, unless they know what their government is doing. A highly intrusive surveillance apparatus has been built without public knowledge and public debate. Martin Baron Photograph: Martin Baron President Obama has said the current debate over the tradeoff between security and civil liberties is "healthy for our democracy". There would have been no public debate had there been no disclosure. Media organisations like ours consult closely with intelligence agencies in an effort to safeguard sources, methods, and lives, even as we seek to fulfill a central journalistic mission: bringing transparency to a government that wields enormous power. Martin Baron, executive editor, the Washington Post, US Aftenposten Photograph: Aftenposten In its reporting on the NSA stories, the Guardian has played a vital role in the global debate on how society in practice weighs freedom of speech and thought versus our common need for security. Hilde Haugsgjerd. Photograph: Aftenposten Truths are at times inconvenient, but inconvenient truths are at times of the highest importance. This is such a case, and we strongly support The Guardians decision to publish these stories. Hilde Haugsgjerd, editor-in-chief, Aftenposten, Norway New York Times masthead Photograph: New York Times Back in 2006, Dean Baquet (who was then the editor of the Los Angeles Times and is now managing editor of The New York Times) and I (who was then executive editor of the New York Times) published a joint statement in our two newspapers addressing what was by then already a very old controversy: when is it acceptable for news organizations to publish secrets? We explained that these are excruciating choices made with great care, that as particular beneficiaries of democratic freedoms we take dangers to national security very seriously indeed, that responsible editors often (though for obvious reasons without fanfare) withhold information when we are convinced it could put lives at risk. The text is here. In that piece, we quoted Robert G. Kaiser of The Washington Post, as follows: "You may have been shocked by these revelations, or not at all disturbed by them, but would you have preferred not to know them at all? If a war is being waged in America's name, shouldn't Americans understand how it is being waged?" Bill Keller. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images And that's the question I would pose to citizens of free societies, and in particular to editors who join governments in denouncing the careful publication of secrets: which of the recent stories would you prefer not to know? Would you prefer not to be told how questionable intelligence led the United States and its allies into a misbegotten war in Iraq? Would you prefer to be ignorant of the existence of secret prisons, and the practice of torture? Would you really rather not know the extent of eavesdropping by governments or private contractors, and the safeguards or lack of safeguards against abuses of these powers? Democracy rests on the informed consent of the governed. Editors' highest responsibility is to assure that it is as informed as possible. Bill Keller, former executive editor, the New York Times Dagens Nyheter Photograph: Dagens Nyheter Peter Wolodarski Photograph: Dagens Nyheter The attacks against the Guardian by both the government and representatives of the British press are unacceptable. What the Guardian is doing is both brave and important for our democracies. We fully support the paper. Peter Wolodarski, editor-in-chief, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden La Stampa Photograph: La Stampa The freedom of the press is so precious that it cannot be restricted or compromised by the accusation of complicity with 'the enemies'. This does not, of course, mean that newspapers can say whatever they want without any kind of control or any kind of responsibility. But from what I understand, the Guardian has carefully scrutinised the documents they received. This is important. In Italy we were very impressed with the time the Guardian took to publish these documents. It meant that you checked and scrutinised them. You cannot be accused of acting simply as a kind of post box. You received a lot of material and then you decided what was fit to print and what wasn't. In short, a judgement was made, and this cannot be underestimated. Mario Calabresi Photograph: La Stampa I believe that this is the role of journalism in our society- to decide what is important- what is valid- for the public interest. Now, I can disagree perhaps with some documents you have published or some opinions that you have expressed but I cannot disagree with your freedom to do journalism. And journalism means taking on the responsibility of deciding what is important for the public interest. This is what newspaper editors have to decide. This role cannot be given to the government or the secret services. Mario Calabresi, editor, La Stampa, Italy Neue Zürcher Zeitung Photograph: Neue Zürcher Zeitung The position of Neue Zürcher Zeitung on publishing sensitive material is always based on journalistic, ethical and legal considerations. We do not accept intervention by third parties – neither private nor by the government. We consider public interest higher than state interest as a principle, however, and respect our responsibility to safeguard professionalism in investigation, analysis and judgment – based on our core values as a quality brand. Markus Spillmann. Photograph: Neue Zurcher Zeitung It is clear that MI5 has by logic another agenda than the Guardian. In a functioning democracy, however, both sides are entitled to do their jobs within the framework of legality and their professional duties. Markus Spillmann, editor-in-chief, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland Tagesspiegel Photograph: Tagesspiegel Stephan-Andreas Casdorff Photograph: Tagesspiegel As journalists, we are responsible towards society, not towards state institutions. This differentiation is essential for the work of an independent press. A diverse media landscape and freedom of speech are constitutive elements of democracy. Edward Snowden's revelations serve to educate society about transgressions by the government and potential abuse of power. To withhold such information would be a betrayal of a free press and would destroy its credibility. Lorenz Maroldt Photograph: Tagesspiegel The protection of privacy is an element of human dignity and has been defined as such in the universal declaration of human rights in 1948. Since only a few decades, the policies of human rights are beginning to bear fruit. To a good extent, this positive development has been made possible also through our work, the work of a free press. Stephan-Andreas Casdorff and Lorenz Maroldt, editors- in-chief, Tagesspiegel, Germany Gazeta Wyborcza Photograph: Gazeta Wyborcza It is with abhorrence that we have read today's editorial in the Daily Mail attacking the Guardian's coverage of Edward Snowden's revelations and accusing its competitor of "aiding Britain's enemies". It effectively amounts to the accusation of treason. Piotr Stasinski Photograph: Gazeta Wyborcza We fully support the Guardian's relentless disclosures of secret services' abuses of power and widespread spying on citizens, domestically as well as abroad. For many months now, the Guardian has been subject to unprecedented pressure by the British government, in order to discourage its reporters and editors from pursuing such stories. We are convinced that, in this case, the national security argument is largely overused; since the revealed massive surveillance of people cannot be justified by the war on terror. Piotr Stasinski, deputy editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza Der Spiegel masthead. Photograph: Der Spiegel In October 1962 German authorities arrested journalists from the newsmagazine Der Spiegel, including its founder and publisher Rudolf Augstein. After having published a cover story on the sorry state of the German armed forces - "Partially ready to defend" - they were accused of treason. Spiegel offices were closed. Augstein remained in custody for 103 days. Georg Mascolo Photograph: Der Spiegel The so called "Spiegel Affair" became a cornerstone in recent German history. It changed the country. The public - and the courts - defended the principle of freedom of information and its importance for a democratic society. And as of today fortunately German authorities have learned their lesson. Nobody would try to force German journalists to destroy computers in the basement. I follow the events in Great Britain with great concern. I was engaged in dealing with intelligence issues, secret documents for more than 20 years. I know how difficult it can be to make decisions about the publication of relevant information - and sometimes, in a very few cases, to take the decision to withhold information from publication. To uncover the (dirty) secrets of governments is an essential part of good journalism. Do journalists have to publish all and every secret? No. Journalists and editors need to weigh arguments. Journalists and editors have responsibility of their own. I am confident that journalists take this responsibility seriously. Should we tell the names of sources, if their life might be endangered by being made public? No. Should we warn suspects, if we know, that authorities are after them? No. Should we report about the threat for our freedom being caused by he worldwide surveillance by intelligence services, the GCHQ or the NSA? We absolutely must. Georg Mascolo, former editor-in-chief, Der Spiegel, Germany Politiken Photograph: Politiken Bo Lidegaard Photograph: Politiken In an era of big data and big surveillance, we need a public and global debate on the borderlines between national security concern and democratic transparency. By publishing stories about the Snowden revelations, the Guardian has made a significant contribution to this important debate. Citizens all over the world must ask themselves if democracies risk being harmed more than defended by a surveillance that is not only secret to the broader public but also seems to be out of democratic control. It is essential that the press engage in this debate and provides documentation to inform it. Bo Lidegaard, executive editor-in-chief, Politiken, Denmark Knight Center for Digital Media Photograph: Knight Center for Digital Media Governments lie and keep secrets for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it is to protect the public. Sometimes it is to protect the politicians and the officials who do their bidding, even when what's being covered up is morally bankrupt or outright criminal. It happens again and again and again. Yes, governments need to keep some secrets. But secrecy takes hold as a value in itself, with corrosive effects. In western democracies, transparency is essential to secure the consent of the governed. Dan Gillmor Photograph: Dan Gillmor The Daily Mail apparently has absolute faith in the integrity and competence of its government on national security matters, despite the ample lessons of history. The Mail has a right to be the government's toady. We'll look elsewhere for actual journalism, which we still need. Dan Gillmor, founding director, Knight Centre for Digital Media Entrepreneurship The Hindu. Photograph: The Hindu Edward Snowden's release of an unprecedented mass of classified material on the NSA's and GCHQ's mass surveillance programmes and technologies, and their publication by the Guardian, have triggered a lively and important debate round the world, including in India – a country that is directly affected by this surveillance. The debate is essentially about the limits of surveillance carried out amid whole populations, domestic and external, by intelligence agencies in the name of the global war against terrorism. It raises urgent questions about accountability, and the absence of adequate lawful oversight over the mass surveillance programmes. N. Ram Photograph: N. Ram As a former editor with some experience in investigating and exposing corruption and misconduct that the Indian state was determined to keep secret in the name of national security, I have the greatest admiration for the way the Guardian has handled the Snowden leaks. The moral courage, professional diligence, social responsibility, and editorial excellence that has gone into making this challenging mass of material, including technical information, accessible to general readers are in the finest traditions of public-spirited and impactful investigative journalism. I am not surprised by the attacks, considering the level of importance, the magnitude, and the ongoing nature of the leaks. But for journalists to suggest that editors of newspapers, not being experts on security matters, are unfit to make decisions on publishing confidential material and must leave the whole field of surveillance and security to the state to handle as it thinks fit, under an impenetrable veil of secrecy, sounds to me like the worst kind of intellectual philistinism. N. Ram, former editor-in-chief, the Hindu Buzzfeed Photograph: Buzzfeed The best way for government officials to avoid answering in public to embarrassing or illegal conduct is not to engage in it. Indeed, the free press has been the most reliable check on government officials lying to their constituents and violating their rights in the modern political era, at least since the Pentagon Papers revealed the deep deceit in American conduct in the war in Vietnam. Ben Smith. Photograph: BuzzFeed The free and responsible American and English press also have an appropriate tradition of taking seriously their governments' concerns over physical safety and national security, which in some cases have themselves turned out to be overstated and deceptive. Editors, government officials and citizens share an interest in ensuring that this important democratic tradition continues into a new media era shaped on one side by new access to undigested information and on the other by encroaching government controls. Readers and sources should expect that when a reporter learns of government misconduct, the default should be to inform the public, not to protect the government. Ben Smith, editor-in-chief, Buzzfeed ORF TV Photograph: ORF TV Everybody is entitled to his or her own opinions, even if they are utterly absurd. A journalist calling the well documented and carefully researched exposure of serious governmental wrong-doing a "lethal irresponsibility", of course, is such an absurdity: a professional forgetting the very purpose of his profession. Armin Wolf Photograph: Armin Wolf The Guardian did what newspapers were invented to do: to make well-reasoned editorial judgements – in this case to reveal an abuse of power by American and British intelligence agencies on a scale which most people would have regarded unthinkable. In my 28 years as a journalist, I cannot think of a single topic that would have been more justified being debated publicly in a democratic society than Edward Snowden's, Glenn Greenwald's and the Guardian's revelations of these last few months. The former editor of the New York Times once said, it's not their primary task to deliver news but to provide judgement. The Guardian provided both and did it brilliantly. Armin Wolf, deputy editor-in-chief, ORF-TV, Austria Der Standard Photograph: Der Standard It is the task of media in a functioning democracy to safeguard press freedom. Media play an important role in the protection of freedom of opinion and expression, the promotion of a free flow of news and information, and the improvement of the practices of journalism. Alexandra Föderl-Schmid Photograph: Matthias Cremer/Der Standard With the publication of the documents made available by Edward Snowden, the Guardian helps to inform the world about the surveillance by intelligence services such as the GCHQ or the NSA. We fully support the Guardian's efforts and are concerned about the threats the media organization is facing. We, as journalists, do not accept intervention by third parties. We have to stick to our professional ethics. The Snowden story is a milestone in professional journalism. Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, editor in chief, Der Standard Fairfax Media Photograph: theguardian.com In a world awash with information, where facts are constantly and easily hijacked and distorted by opinion, scrutiny of governments and their taxpayer-funded instruments becomes more important than ever. To pass off the Guardian's reporting of the NSA as helping "Britain's enemies" is, at first glance, comical and would usually be consigned to the closest dustbin. But at a deeper level it hints at a profound and alarming complacency about the roles of media and government. Hell, let's not ask questions at all. Let's not scrutinise those with the power and ability to carry out widespread surveillance on their own citizens. Let's keep the public in the dark, rather than serving their right to know. And when the state acts unlawfully, let us look the other way. Then we will truly have the society our enemies wish upon us. Garry Linnell, director, Fairfax Media Sydney Morning Herald Photograph: theguardian.com It beggars belief that a major news publisher should so willingly condemn the underlying principles of freedom of speech – and the need to hold those in power accountable through the publication of material that is in the public interest. The Heralds are rivals of the Guardian, but regardless of these competitive realities, we share a common trait in vigorously upholding the need for fair, balanced and fearless independent reporting. Our own newspaper archives are littered with recent examples of how powerful politicians, agencies and individuals have acted against the public interest … almost always claiming at the time they were doing the right thing. No doubt, the test to determine what is in the public interest is a burdensome and serious responsibility for editors – and often has huge ramifications. But the debate should always be viewed with a bias towards exposing the truth, and giving our audience and communities as much information as possible. Darren Goodsir, editor-in-chief, Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald The Age Photograph: theguardian.com The Age, always an advocate of the public's right to know, condemns the attacks on the Guardian on the pretence that it has aided enemies of the state by publishing Edward Snowden's revelations. We have also revealed accounts by Snowden of interceptions of international calls and emails from Australia to Europe and Asia. Such revelations are demonstrably in the public interest. Casting a light into the dark corners of power causes discomfort among governments, bureaucracies and agencies with something to hide. But the knowledge of what our governments do to the public is essential for a democracy. The media must strive to publish responsibly, but never neglect its responsibility to publish. Andrew Holden, editor-in-chief, the Age The Conversation Photograph: theguardian.com The Guardian's reporting of the Edward Snowden/NSA security files serves the public interest in that we are now better informed on the scale of government intelligence gathering. At the very least we now all know what we didn't know (though suspected), and what the US government never wanted us to know. Secrecy dressed up as national security has always been the card played by the powerful to keep the rest of us in the dark. Citizens have a right to know what their government is up to. And what the Guardian did is the proper role of the Fourth Estate. Those who attack that role have an altogether different agenda, and that too should be the subject of legitimate public questioning and exposure. Andrew Jaspan, editor, the Conversation Crikey Photograph: theguardian.com You would call the NSA revelations brave and brilliant journalism if it wasn't so blatantly obvious. Just like you would call the response by the Daily Mail simply sour grapes if it wasn't the antitheses of what journalism is about. Every publication genuinely committed to the principles of a free press – transparency, accountability, giving the public information it absolutely has a right to know – would have published this material. We can only be jealous. The media must always weigh freedom of information with the consequences of publication. There seems little doubt the appropriate consideration was applied in this case. The result is clear: a public that is almost certainly no less safe but almost certainly much more informed about an issue that is likely to be a defining one of our generation. Jason Whittaker, editor, Crikey Harold Evans I'd taken the accusations against the Guardian by other newspapers as part of the ritual dog-eat-dog fun of Fleet Street, but now the prime minister has taken up the charge, I'd like to learn what independent reporting was attempted in this difficult area. More, one would hope, than attempted by the critics of the Guardian during the years it was isolated in challenging the cover up of the hacking crimes. Protecting the lives of its citizens is a first, sacred duty of government. No editor in his right mind wants to give aid and comfort to murderous enemies, but every editor is duty-bound to scrutinise the use of power, responsibly but fearlessly, however personally unappealing a leaker may be. Sir Harold Evans, editor of the Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. Photograph: Felix Clay for the Guardian Conflict between the conceptions of duty is inevitable, indeed healthy. Reporting often exposes an ill that government has not recognised or been willing to acknowledge. The state is not ominiscient. Nor is it unknown for government to conceal its own mistakes. I have not been impressed by the blather about "freedom of the press" surrounding the narcissistic Edward Snowden, but one point he made on 17 October bears examination: he had to do what he did, he argues, because the NSA hierarchy required him to "report wrong doing to those most responsible for it." True or false? "Freedom of the press" loses its moral force when it is played in aid of reckless conduct: the Washington Times telling Osama bin Laden that the US was able to monitor his cell phone was indefensible. But there is danger, too, when the respect due to "national security" is diluted by accusations that prove unsubstantiated. From the Pentagon Papers on, there is a whole history of authority crying wolf. I don't know if this is another. What I do know is that the current attacks on The Guardian echo those levelled at the Sunday Times in a number of investigations. We took national security as seriously as anyone but over 14 years the barriers erected against legitimate inquiry on grounds of national security - reporting, not document dumps - proved spurious or self-serving. Kim Philby betrayed his country and sent countless numbers to their deaths but when we exposed the full measure of his treacheries the outrage in government and sections of the press was directed not at Philby and those who protected him for years but at our reporters. The diaries of the scholarly cabinet minister Richard Crossman have been recognised as shedding a valuable light on the way we are governed, but government made a full scale attempt to censor their publication. Same yet again in the long ordeal of Northern Ireland. Cheerleading was exalted and real reporting excoriated. The cautionary maxim of the Daily Beast writer Clive Irving's "stasis principle" remains valid. "Every state's appetite for surveillance increases in exact proportion to its technical capacity to do so." But at a deeper level it hints at a profound and alarming complacency about the roles of media and government. Hell, let's not ask questions at all. Let's not scrutinise those with the power and ability to carry out widespread surveillance on their own citizens. Let's keep the public in the dark, rather than serving their right to know. And when the state acts unlawfully, let us look the other way. Then we will truly have the society our enemies wish upon us. Harold Evans is writing in a personal capacity. A former editor of the Sunday Times and the Times, Evans was voted the greatest newspaper editor of all time by readers of the Press Gazette and the British Journalism Review in 2002.

– Snaring access to Edward Snowden, and all the documents in his possession, has generally been regarded a huge coup for the Guardian newspaper. But at least two other British newspapers don't agree. Following claims by MI5's new chief that the paper's exposes have been a "guide book" for terrorists (you can read about it at the Daily Mail), the former editor—and current group content director—of the UK's Independent, Chris Blackhurst, has written an op-ed arguing that the Guardian's decision to publish was dangerous and not what he would have done. "If the security services insist something is contrary to the public interest, and might harm their operations, who am I ... to disbelieve them?" he writes. Blackhurst's column comes just days after an even more inflammatory Daily Mail editorial labeling the Guardian as "the paper that helps Britain's enemies." Though the paper acknowledges that "a line needs to be drawn" between civil liberties and the interests of national security, it believes "the Guardian, with lethal irresponsibility, has crossed that line by printing tens of thousands of words describing the secret techniques used to monitor terrorists." The Guardian's response? It published opinions by editors from 33 media organizations around the world, all arguing that the paper did the right thing.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.I was puzzled as to why she would be so angry – normally she and The Guardian would be of one mind. She cut me off. What was provoking her fury was the decision to release the US National Security Agency (NSA) material leaked by Edward Snowden. “Since when,” she asked, “have [The Guardian editor] Alan Rusbridger and his colleagues been experts on national security? On what basis do they know whether something is safe to publish or not safe?” She said she preferred to heed the views of the security services on that matter – and she noted the MI5 chief had accused the newspaper of doing “enormous damage” to Britain’s ability to combat al-Qa’ida. What was striking was her anger. It’s easy to assume that years of service in Whitehall had got to her, that she was an insider furious at what she deemed to be an outsider’s irresponsibility. Hours spent in meetings, listening to senior officials issuing dire warnings and studying papers covered in legal notices, had clearly addled her brain. In her former radical, pre-government, pre-establishment life, she would have been up for The Guardian publishing – of course she would. Now, though, she is older and wiser, and able, as she did, to hurl the words “sixth-form” in The Guardian’s direction. There was also a discussion about male “willy-waving” – she accused Rusbridger and co of being fixated on quantity, not quality; that they seemed keen to show-off just how much of the stuff had come into their possession as opposed to what it contained. I admit to having been taken aback. I studied her closely. Her annoyance appeared genuine; if she was acting and hyping, she was convincing. Would I have done the same if I’d been in Rusbridger’s position? Fortunately, just then, she got dragged away – the speeches at the party were about to begin. As a teenager, I was transfixed by All the President’s Men; revelled in the dark psy-ops of Colin Wallace in Northern Ireland; read extensively about the US authorities’ efforts to suppress the Pentagon Papers leaked to the New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan; and found his subsequent brilliant book A Bright Shining Lie about the US peddling untruths in the Vietnam War an affirmation of everything that I imagined. As a journalist, I’ve done investigations and uncovered scandals; and experienced the difficulty of discovering even innocuous details in our supposedly open and liberal country . I can never forget, at this newspaper, covering the Scott inquiry into arms to Iraq, in 1996, and listening to the claim that this would be the first occasion the evidence given to a study of this nature would be released on CD. Excitedly, I put the CD into the slot in my terminal. The pages were there, but blank: great swathes of text had been redacted. As a reporter in the House of Commons, I learned to study every official report closely – and examine why one word had been chosen and not another, and wonder what had been left out. I’m cynical about officialdom, having seen too many cover-ups and appalling injustices carried out in our name. So, based on that and more, I would have been a dead cert to publish. Except that I would not have done. I don’t deny The Guardian’s right to do so – it was their belief, honestly held. My problem with publishing is twofold. First, try as I might, I cannot get that excited about it. With the Snowden leaks I find myself speculating – as I did with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks – as to whether I am getting too old and losing the plot as a journalist. But, as with WikiLeaks, will someone please put the boasts about size and volume on one side and tell me: where is the story? If it’s that the security services monitor emails and phone calls, and use internet searches to track down terrorists and would-be terrorists – including, I now read, something called the “dark net” – I cannot get wound up about it. At Kings Place, home of The Guardian, they will say my judgement is a mess. Never had any, they will probably sneer. Far too cosy to the powers-that-be, they might add. In which case, guys, uncurl your lips and explain what it is, exactly, that the NSA and GCHQ, are doing that is so profoundly terrible? What justifies all the posturing we’ve been subjected to these past months? I watched The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who obtained the Snowden scoop, on Newsnight the other evening and was nonplussed. I wanted him to say what the real scandal was that he had uncovered. But he did not. As he spoke, I was reminded of what he had said after the detention of his partner, David Miranda, at Heathrow, under the Terrorism Act (a move that was cack-handed). It hardly bodes well for his future objective journalism: “I will be far more aggressive in my reporting from now. I am going to publish many more documents. I am going to publish things on England, too. I have many documents on England’s spy system. I think they will be sorry for what they did.” Which leads on to the second issue. If the security services insist something is contrary to the public interest, and might harm their operations, who am I (despite my grounding from Watergate onwards) to disbelieve them? In August, this paper also received information from the Snowden files. We did not publish much of the information we were given because the Government, in the shape of a Defence Advisory Notice or “DA” notice, asked us to desist, in the interests of national security. Several times in my career, I’ve been served with a DA notice. On each occasion, I confess, I’ve not published. Does that make me a coward and an establishment lackey? Or responsible and sensible? I’m all for whistle-blowing – indeed, I wrote a column, arguing for greater protection for whistleblowers in this paper only last Friday. Some of my best stories have come from people brave enough to leak, to break ranks and say something they’re not authorised to say. Good on them. What we’re into here appears to be not so much someone blowing the whistle on one story to highlight specific wrongdoing but the dumping of tons of information – and the recipient acting both as unqualified filter and feeling the need to brag about how much documentation it has received. I don’t want my civil liberties infringed, and as a taxpayer I’d like to know as much as possible about what the Government and its agents are doing with my money. But I also want the security services to do their jobs properly, to make the world safer. I know they will make mistakes; I know that occasionally they will stray. I hope I’m not complacent. Others, doubtless, will disagree. Chris Blackhurst is group content director of The Independent, the Evening Standard and London Live. He was editor of The Independent, 2011-13 ||||| Guardian has handed a gift to terrorists', warns MI5 chief: Left-wing paper's leaks caused 'greatest damage to western security in history' say Whitehall insiders MI5 chief Andrew Parker called paper's expose a 'guide book' for terrorists He said the coverage is a gift to 'thousands' of UK-based extremists Secret techniques of GCHQ laid bare by Guardian The spy chief: MI5 director-general Andrew Parker has blasted the Guardian's publication of Britain's espionage capabilities A massive cache of stolen top-secret documents published in The Guardian has handed a ‘gift’ to terrorists, the head of MI5 warned last night. In a blistering attack, Andrew Parker said the publication of confidential files leaked by US fugitive Edward Snowden had caused huge ‘harm’ to the capability of Britain’s intelligence services. Security officials say the exposé amounts to a ‘guide book’, advising terrorists on the best way to avoid detection when plotting an atrocity. In Whitehall, it is considered to have caused the greatest damage to the Western security apparatus in history. In his first public speech since taking the job earlier this year, Mr Parker said the leaks handed the ‘advantage’ to terrorists and were a ‘gift they need to evade us and strike at will’. He said there were several thousand Islamist extremists living in the UK who ‘see the British people as a legitimate target’. The security services were working round the clock to stop the fanatics, but MI5 was now ‘tackling threats on more fronts than ever before’. Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency, fled the US in May with thousands of classified documents about the NSA and GCHQ, which he gave to The Guardian. The newspaper has since published tens of thousands of words on the secret techniques used by GCHQ to monitor emails, phone records and communications on the internet. The first Guardian revelations came in early June, when it detailed how the NSA – which supplies intelligence to GCHQ, the organisation which gathers intelligence for MI5 and MI6 – had ‘direct access’ to the computer systems of AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Paltalk, Skype, Yahoo and YouTube. The newspaper also revealed how GCHQ has access to a network of cables carrying international phone calls and internet traffic and is processing vast amounts of ‘personal information’. By the time his identity as the source of the leaks emerged, Snowden had fled his home in Hawaii for Hong Kong. After a week in hiding, he travelled to Moscow, where he remains out of the reach of US authorities. The editor and the leaker: The Guardian's Alan Rusbridger and former NSA employee Edward Snowden In August, police detained David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, for nine hours at Heathrow airport. Mr Miranda had been carrying intelligence files leaked by Snowden. At the time it emerged David Cameron had authorised the destruction of computers at The Guardian offices. Security concerns were so acute that Mr Cameron sent Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood to demand that Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger destroy the files after warning they could fall into the hands of terrorists. Members of GCHQ supervised the smashing of laptops and hard drives at the newspaper’s offices. Mr Parker said: ‘What we know about the terrorists, and the detail of the capabilities we use against them, together represent our margin of advantage. That margin gives us the prospect of being able to detect their plots and stop them. GCHQ Headquarters. Thousands of classified documents about the NSA and GCHQ were published by The Guardian MI5 Headquarters in London. The leak was described as the greatest damage to Western security apparatus in history ‘But that margin is under attack. Reporting from GCHQ is vital to the safety of this country and its citizens. ‘GCHQ intelligence has played a vital role in stopping many of the terrorist plots that MI5 and the police have tackled in the past decade. ‘It causes enormous damage to make public the reach and limits of GCHQ techniques. Such information hands the advantage to the terrorists. 'It is the gift they need to evade us and strike at will. Unfashionable as it might seem, that is why we must keep secrets secret, and why not doing so causes such harm.’ In a wide-ranging speech to the Royal United Services Institute think-tank, Mr Parker said the task of MI5 was ‘getting harder’. He pointed to the danger posed by British nationals returning from fighting in Syria. In August, police detained David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, for nine hours at Heathrow airport. Mr Miranda had been carrying intelligence files leaked by Snowden The spy chief said there is a 'growing proportion of groups and individuals taking it upon themselves to commit acts of terrorism'. Pictured is the 7/7 London bombings, which killed 52 civilians Mr Parker said: ‘The ability of Al Qaeda to launch the centrally directed large-scale attacks of the last decade has been degraded, though not removed. ‘We have seen the threat shift more to increasing numbers of smaller-scale attacks and a growing proportion of groups and individuals taking it upon themselves to commit acts of terrorism. 'It remains the case that there are several thousand Islamist extremists here who see the British people as a legitimate target. Overall, I do not believe the terrorist threat is worse now than before. But it is more diffuse. More complicated. More unpredictable.’ Mr Parker also warned that, in some quarters, there could be an ‘alarming degree of complacency’ that MI5 and the police could foil all attacks. He said: ‘Terrorism, because of its nature and consequences, is the one area of crime where the expectation sometimes seems to be that the stats should be zero. Zero. Imagine applying the same target to murder in general, or major drugs trafficking. That is the stuff of “pre-crime” in the Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report.’ MI5 has attracted criticism for failing to stop individuals – including two of the July 7 bombers – who were on its radar. But Mr Parker, who replaced Jonathan Evans as director-general of the Security Service earlier this year, said: ‘With greater resources since 7/7 we have worked very hard to identify as many as possible of the people in the country who are active in some way in support of terrorism. ‘The idea that we either can or would want to operate intensive scrutiny of thousands is fanciful. This is not East Germany, or North Korea. Knowing of an individual does not equate to knowing everything about them.’ He also made the case for more powers to monitor emails and the internet. Mr Parker said: ‘Shifts in technology can erode our capabilities. There are choices to be made, including, for example, about how and whether communications data is retained. It is not, however, an option to disregard such shifts with an unspoken assumption that somehow security will anyway be sustained. It will not. We cannot work without tools.’ A Guardian News & Media spokesman said: ‘A huge number of people – from President Obama to the US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper have now conceded that the Snowden revelations have prompted a debate which was both necessary and overdue. ‘The President has even set up a review panel and there have been vigorous discussions in the US Congress and throughout Europe. Such a debate is only worthwhile if it is informed. That is what journalism should do.’ Laid bare, how spies fight to protect Britain from attack Edward Snowden became one of the world’s most wanted men in early June when he broke cover as the agent who leaked top-secret documents from the US National Security Agency. His initial revelations detailed how the NSA harvested private information from the computer systems of companies including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Skype and YouTube using a secret US surveillance programme called Prism. The Guardian then claimed the NSA supplied intelligence to GCHQ – accusing agents at the UK’s listening post of attempting to bypass UK law. The British spy agency compiled 197 intelligence dossiers from the system in a single year, sidestepping the need to obtain a court order. On June 18, the newspaper claimed UK intelligence agents hacked into the communications of politicians and senior officials from Turkey, South Africa and Russia during the G20 summit in London in 2009 – prompting a furious backlash ahead of the G8 meeting in Moscow. Snowden also revealed how GCHQ was able to hoover up vast amounts of personal information, including websites visited, emails sent and received, text messages, calls and passwords, using a state-of-the-art programme called Tempora. The surveillance operation centres on using probes to access a network of fibre-optic cables coming into and out of the country. Telecoms firms allegedly involved in Tempora include BT, Verizon and Vodafone Cable. The Guardian then revealed that the NSA was providing millions of pounds of funding each year to GCHQ to allow it to trawl for personal data. One document leaked by Snowden and dating from 2010 suggested GCHQ must ‘pull its weight’ to meet the NSA’s ‘minimum expectations’. Snowden also made the highly damaging revelation that the US government had hacked computers in mainland China and Hong Kong for years – threatening to consign relations between the super-powers to the deep freeze. US intelligence chiefs responded to the leaks with fury. NSA director Keith Alexander told the US Senate the top-secret surveillance programmes had disrupted at least 50 terror plots. ||||| The paper that helps Britain's enemies Andrew Parker's first speech as our spy chief was yesterday significantly endorsed by No10 Forget hacking voicemails or slipping payments to officials for stories that may or may not be in the public interest. Set to one side even (dare we say it?) this paper’s provocative headline 12 days ago, questioning how a long-dead Marxist, who wanted to smash all the traditions and institutions which make Britain British, could be said to love his country. By any objective yardstick, don’t such crimes and controversies pale beside the accusation levelled against the Guardian on Tuesday by the new head of MI5? Indeed, it is impossible to imagine a graver charge against a newspaper than that it has given succour to our country’s enemies and endangered all our lives by handing terrorists ‘the gift they need to evade us and strike at will’. Yet so said Andrew Parker, in his first speech as our spy chief, which yesterday was significantly endorsed by No10. So isn’t it staggering that the BBC, after spending all last week trumpeting Ed Miliband’s attack on this paper over our charge that his father’s Marxist views validated one of the most evil regimes in history, could hardly bring itself for much of yesterday to report Mr Parker’s devastating indictment of the Guardian? The problem, and it’s worse under the new director general, is that a wall of prejudice surrounds Broadcasting House – a belief that the Right merits relentless attack, while the BBC’s soulmates on the liberal Left must always be protected. Let us be clear. The Mail has never believed that MI5 and GCHQ deserve unquestioning support. In this column, we were highly critical of their demands for the power to detain suspects without trial for 90 days. We led the charge against MI6’s cosiness with Labour over the dodgy dossier on Iraq. And we have opposed secret courts and the so-called snoopers’ charter. But at the same time, we accept that the security services would be guilty of dereliction of duty if they failed to monitor those who pose a threat to the UK. And we have always argued that a line needs to be drawn between the civil liberties we treasure and the interests of national security. We believe the Guardian, with lethal irresponsibility, has crossed that line by printing tens of thousands of words describing the secret techniques used to monitor terrorists. Such is certainly the view of UK national security adviser Oliver Robbins, who says the paper has ‘already done real damage’, while the information it still holds is likely to ‘lead directly to widespread loss of life’. Indeed, so incendiary are these documents that British agents have had to be moved for their protection. Yet, almost as astonishing as the BBC’s reticence, the editor of the Guardian now says he will continue to release the material, arguing that he will take care to publish nothing that endangers lives. But how, in the name of sanity, can he know? He’s a journalist, not an expert on security. As for his paper’s attack on us over the Labour leader’s father, let us say something in Ralph Miliband’s favour. True, he hated so much about this country that he wanted a workers’ revolution to overturn everything from the monarchy to parliament, property rights and the common law. And, yes, his ideas chimed more with Stalin’s than with Churchill’s during the Cold War. But he fought for Britain in the war. And never once, as far as we are aware, did he give practical help to our enemies. Nor was he ever accused by the head of our security services of putting British lives at risk. ||||| On Thursday the Daily Mail described the Guardian as 'The paper that helps Britain's enemies' . We showed that article to many of the world's leading editors. This is what they said New York Times masthead Photograph: New York Times In a democracy, the press plays a vital role in informing the public and holding those in power accountable. The NSA has vast intelligence-gathering powers and capabilities and its role in society is an important subject for responsible newsgathering organisations such as the New York Times and the Guardian. A public debate about the proper perimeters for eavesdropping by intelligence agencies is healthy for the public and necessary. Jill Abramson. Photograph: Michael Loccisano/FilmMagic The accurate and in-depth news articles published by the New York Times and the Guardian help inform the public in framing its thinking about these issues and deciding how to balance the need to protect against terrorism and to protect individual privacy. Vigorous news coverage and spirited public debate are both in the public interest. The journalists at the New York Times and the Guardian care deeply about the wellbeing and safety of their fellow citizens in carrying out their role in keeping the public informed. Jill Abramson, executive editor, the New York Times Der Spiegel masthead. Photograph: Der Spiegel The utmost duty of a journalist is to expose abuses and the abuse of power. The global surveillance of digital communication by the NSA and GCHQ is no less than an abuse on a massive scale with consequences that at this point seem completely unpredictable. Wolfgang Buechner Photograph: Wolfgang Buechner It is understandable that the governments of the US and Britain aren't pleased that journalists, with the assistance of informants within government ranks, are exposing this abuse of power. It is a classic approach for governments to attack media that have the courage to publish such stories with arguments that they threaten national security or that they are supporting an enemy of the state. And it is a tragedy that media outlets aligned with governments are now accusing the journalists uncovering these abuses of "lethal irresponsibility". In terms of DER SPIEGEL's position on this affair: With each story we have published, we have given both the NSA and GCHQ the opportunity to comment prior to publication and to alert us to aspects that could be highly sensitive. The NSA took advantage of this opportunity, GCHQ did not. The material contains myriad evidence of terrorist investigations. However, for good reason, we have refrained from reporting on these specific operations. It is the indiscriminate mass surveillance of communications that DER SPIEGEL considers to be a scandal -- not the search for terrorists. As we stated, it is the media's duty in a free society to report on these abuses. Exposing the intensity with which intelligence agencies conduct surveillance on the Internet does not provide proof that such reporting in any way assists terrorists. It is common knowledge that security agencies monitor telephones, and yet, terrorists still use them. What is clear is that the surveillance conducted by the NSA and GCHQ goes far beyond anti-terror measures. It is for this reason that SPIEGEL and numerous other media outlets around the world will continue to take their duty seriously and report when a security apparatus spins out of control and acts beyond its remit. Wolfgang Buechner, editor-in-chief, Der Spiegel Haaretz masthead Photograph: Haaretz Journalists have only one responsibility: to keep their readers informed and educated about whatever their government is doing on their behalf – and first and foremost on security and intelligence organisations, which by their nature infringe on civil liberties. The Snowden revelations, and their publication by the Guardian, have been a prime example of fearlessly exercising this journalistic responsibility. Aluf Benn Photograph: Haaretz In Israel, the media are subject to pre-publication review by a military censor of any news related to security and intelligence. Israeli editors are therefore relieved from the dilemmas faced by our British or American counterparts, who should judge what might harm national security. Nevertheless, we struggle endlessly to push back the walls of government secrecy and concealment and expand the scope of public debate. Aluf Benn, editor-in-chief, Haaretz Le Monde masthead. Photograph: Le Monde The decision by Edward Snowden to leak to the media an important amount of top-secret documents showing the unprecedented reach of electronic surveillance was a historic event. It has raised major questions on the control of the internet, on the balance between counter-terrorism and civil liberties, on the oversight of intelligence activities by democratic institutions. Sylvie Kauffmann Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images The debate is open, and all actors of public life are legitimate participants in it. The heads of intelligence services are entitled to voice their concern at the extent of the leaks, as ordinary citizens are entitled to ask what use is made, by whom and to what purpose, of private data collected from their daily life activities. Editors of media organisations are central to this debate. The Guardian, with whom, among others, Le Monde collaborated in the publication of the WikiLeaks cables, made the right decision to publish the documents released by Snowden. It did so responsibly, acting in the public interest, as we had done with the WikiLeaks documents, and more recently with the "OffshoreLeaks" documents. Sylvie Kauffmann, editorial director, Le Monde, France El Pais masthead. Photograph: El Pais When a newspaper prints a story, or a series of stories, such as the Snowden case, the first attacks are always aimed at its editors and publishers. State or homeland security reasons are always claimed. Javier Moreno Photograph: Javier Moreno It happened when The New York Times and The Washington Post printed the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War in 1973, and it happened with WikiLeaks. Now, the object of criticism is the Guardian for having printed Edward Snowden's revelations. What is sad, baffling and dangerous is that the attacks now come not only from governments but from other newspapers too. In doing so, they are ignoring their first and utmost obligation. The press must serve the citizens and comply with their right to have access to truthful and relevant informations when it comes to public affairs. Newspapers have many duties. Having to protect governments and the powerful from embarrasing situations is not among them. The Guardian's work in the Snowden case is an example of great journalism, the kind that changes history and the kind that citizens need more every day, in a world where the powerful are increasingly trying to hide information from their societies. The real danger is not in the so-called "aid to the enemy" denounced by the hypocrites, but in the actions of governments and state agencies that citizens cannot control. To fight it we need newspapers willing to do their job, rather than those ready to cheer on the self-interested deceptions of the powerful. Javier Moreno, director, El País, Spain Slate Photograph: Slate I have just been reading Tim Weiner's history of the CIA, Legacy of Ashes, which is heavily based on leaked and declassified government documents. Over and again, one is struck by how poorly Americans' interests have been served by secrecy – and by the folly, misjudgment, and abuse of power that might have been prevented by public knowledge. One does not have to admire Julian Assange or Edward Snowden to recognise that their revelations, filtered by scrupulous journalists, have served the fundamental democratic interest of knowing what our governments are up to and how they may be abridging our rights. Jacob Weisberg Photograph: Jacob Weisberg The authorities seldom rate the public's right to know very highly. Editors, by contrast, have an excellent record in handling the security concerns related to classified material. The New York Times withheld revelations about the NSA's wireless wiretapping programme for a full year. Both the Guardian and the New York Times redacted or held back WikiLeaks documents that could have placed lives in danger. The Washington Post has been cautious and selective in publishing the Snowden material. Contra the Daily Mail, our best journalists very much are security experts, often with a better ability to make balanced judgments about disclosure than their security-cleared counterparts. Editors must weigh the potential security harm of public revelation again the certain damage to democratic accountability that comes from a public kept in the dark. It bears noting that in historical terms, the downside of disclosure has been very small, while the cost of secrecy has been enormous. Jacob Weisberg, chairman the Slate Group The Hindu. Photograph: The Hindu As an editor I am confronted every day with difficult questions about what to publish and what not to. A newspaper comes across documents from all kinds of sources but authenticity is only a necessary but not sufficient condition for disseminating the information these contain. Sensitive information must pass a twofold test: is publication in the public interest; and will it put lives at risk. Governments and intelligence agencies may have access to more information than the average editor but they do not have a monopoly over the ability to correctly answer these questions. Siddharth Varadarajan Photograph: Siddharth Varadarajan Well before Edward Snowden came along, the editors of the Hindu have handled classified or sensitive information on a range of sensitive issues. Never has our newspaper behaved irresponsibly with that information. Those attacking the media on the NSA issue wilfully ignore the fact that what the Guardian, the New York Times, the Hindu and other newspapers around the world have published so far are details of snooping that is not even remotely related to fighting terrorism. Osama bin Laden did not need Edward Snowden's revelations about Prism to realise the US was listening in to every bit of electronic communication: he had already seceded from the world of telephony and reverted to couriers. But millions of people in the US, the UK, Brazil, India and elsewhere, including national leaders, energy companies and others who are being spied upon for base reasons, were unaware of the fact that their privacy was being compromised. In the hands of an irresponsible newspaper, the kind of care the Guardian and others who are working from this material are taking may not always prevail. But as Glenn Greenwald said on the BBC, the only people who have been reckless with this material are those who acted irresponsibly in collecting it in the first place: the NSA and GCHQ. Siddharth Varadarajan, editor the Hindu Clarin.com Photograph: Clarin It is really striking and bold to accuse journalists of being allies of terrorism simply for performing their professional responsibilities. And it is even more dangerous when, in the name of a "national interest", censorship and concealing information is sponsored on the ground that journalists are not "security experts" to judge what can and should be published. Ricardo Kirschbaum Photograph: Ricardo Kirschbaum Limits are only determined by the editors' responsibility in a political and legal system that might protect the right to freedom of expression on a democratic basis. The Guardian has already been subjected to procedures that claim to infringe its independence and to intimidate its editors and journalists. This pressure must cease immediately. Ricardo Kirschbaum, executive editor, Clarin, Argentina Frankfurter Allgemeine Photograph: Frankfurter Allgemeine The Snowden affair, one day, will be understood as a historic milestone at which democratic societies began to realize that the political cost of new technologies still needed to be negotiated. Hans-Magnus Enzensberger, one of Germany's last great intellectuals and certainly not a leftist, sees it as a transition to a post-democratic society. And had the Snowden files not opened our eyes to this transition already, the way how the current debate about these documents unfolds, certainly did.These revelations are not only about secret services, but just as much about all the new social touchpoints of every citizen who is equipped with a smartphone and online access: Who controls and analyses these touchpoints and why? Is it so difficult to understand that in a world in which – according to Eric Schmidt's concise formulation – the digital self not only mirrors but substitutes our true selves, all these issues become questions of human rights? Frank Schirrmacher Photograph: Frankfurter Allgemeine President Obama's Berlin declaration that he would welcome a debate about the right balance between security and freedom gave room for hope. And different from the distant military threats of the Cold War, are we now exposed to threatening systems which seem to function only as long as they are deeply interwoven and are interfering with a civil society's private communication. Before Snowden, we knew about this interference only theoretically. Since Snowden, we know about empirically as well.There is no indication whatsoever that those media organisations who reported about the NSA and GCHQ files have endangered our national security. None of the newspapers involved did create artificial drama as would have been customary in the 1980s, just to increase copy sales. None of the newspapers involved has questioned the duty and legitimate need of governments to prevent terrorism. No one has defended the ideology of terrorists or has even hinted at the idea that terrorism suspects should not be screened. What the newspapers involved did discuss is the integrity of the very democracies that terrorists are trying to destroy. We all can feel and witness each other's tangible shock and dismay about the complete loss of democratic control over systems and secret services which seemingly feel entitled to decide on their own who is a friend and who is an enemy of our civil societies. We saw Jimmy Carter's deep concern. We saw how even an influential and staunchly conservative security expert such as Germany's Hans-Peter Uhl of the Bavarian CSU party defined the NSA files as a "wake-up call" that was hinting at a dangerous merger of private industries and secret services. If a conservative security expert like Germany's Hans-Peter Uhl ventures into such territory, we should realize that this affair is about much more than only a few powerpoint presentations. Publishing the Snowden files has by no means been an attack on our freedom and security, but a crucial prerequisite for freedom to exist in the future. Frank Schirrmacher, publisher, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany New York Times masthead Photograph: New York Times There is a superficial appeal in the argument that intelligence "professionals" know better than editors what information must be suppressed, even if it has already escaped their control. Particularly in this time of terror, much of the public is impressed by that argument and so are American attorneys and judges, causing David Rudenstine of Cardozo Law School to name this the "age of deference." Such deference was evident also when the Pentagon Papers case reached our Supreme Court. The Chief Justice compared the papers to the "White House silver," which, had it come into our possession we would have surely returned. Other justices felt that even if the Constitution prevented our being censored, we deserved to be prosecuted under Espionage statutes for aiding the enemy. Arrogant though it sounds, the fact is that experienced editors and correspondents who deal daily in the subject matter of "national security" know better than most judges and prosecutors whether a given piece of information could seriously threaten lives or damage national defence. Moreover, if in doubt, we have usually asked officials to demonstrate the danger of publication and in a minority of cases accepted their argument. But we have demanded persuasive argument that distinguishes between a genuine threat and mere bureaucratic embarrassment or inconvenience. Max Frankel Photograph: Max Frankel Why, ultimately, does experience argue almost always in favour of publication? Because a secret once lost by government, even if important, cannot be "returned". It can fly across the globe in an instant and even if momentarily suppressed, it must inform all those who have learned it as they in turn inform others. Even more persuasive is the reality that neither officials nor journalists can ever be sure of the consequences of publication: facts once distributed, like seeds in a garden, acquire a life of their own with consequences that can be salutary, malignant, both, or neither. So while intelligence agents perceive a professional duty to cloak all their deeds and knowledge, it is a newspaper's duty to publish what it learns without presuming to predict a good or ill result. The tension thus created is probably the only tolerable way to proceed. Max Frankel, former executive editor, The New York Times The Washington Post. Photograph: The Washington Post Journalists have not only the right but a responsibility to challenge government – its behaviour, its reasoning and its assertion of fact. There will always be times when an editor has to rely on his own judgment in making decisions about what to publish and weighing the implications. Editors know these can be profoundly important decisions and they should listen with care to arguments from all sides, including government. Experience has taught scepticism. Marcus Brauchli Photograph: Marc Bryan-Brown/WireImage Official secrecy doesn't just cloak the national-security state; it hides everything from bureaucratic bungling and politicians' peccadillos to catastrophically bad policy. Officials can be just as aggressive in discouraging journalists from ferreting out mismanagement and waste as they often are in trying to block sensitive national security stories. That shouldn't keep editors from thoughtfully considering officials' arguments and at times being persuaded to hold something back. But there is inherent, inevitable and – in the US, anyway – by-design tension between government and a free press that reflects the institutions' different functions. A responsible editor's bias must be towards publication and an informed public debate. Without sight of the facts, how can a democracy chart its course? Marcus Brauchli, vice-president, Washington Post Company Suddeustche Photograph: Suddeustche It is journalism's most noble duty to write about and to describe what exists in our world. Our second duty is to add context to and to comment and to evaluate that which exists in our world. If it is a journalist's duty, however, to describe what exists, then this inherently implies the duty to write about those things and events about which certain humans and institutions do not want us to write about. This tends to be case whenever journalists write about the activities of secret services and it was the case during these last weeks when The Guardian, the New York Times or Süddeutsche Zeitung have written about the British secret services, most especially about GCHQ. Wolfgang Krach. Photograph: Sueddeutsche Zeitung No secret service likes it when its methods are being discussed openly, which is understandable as long as a secret service focuses on its core duties, such as the surveillance of terror suspects. Once a secret service starts behaving like an octopus, though, with its tentacles reaching all across everyone's life and putting whole societies under collective suspicion with everyone falling victim to total surveillance, then the societal contract has been broken. There is no justification for such violation. Yet it is fully justifies that journalists reveal such unlawful state action. This is what the Guardian has done. Nothing else. To claim that the Guardian had shown "deadly irresponsibility" or that it was "helping the enemies" of the UK has no foundation and is appalling. To publish such claims means to slander those who consistently and carefully fulfill their journalistic duty to society. Wolfgang Krach, deputy editor in chief, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany La Repubblica Photograph: La Repubblica The accusations of "irresponsibility" that The Daily Mail addressed to the Guardian sound familiar to my ears. La Repubblica repeatedly received this kind of allegations too, after the numerous investigative reportings that we published to reveal Silvio Berlusconi's network of corruption, abuse of power and manipulations during the many years in which he was at the head of the Italian government. We have been accused too of publishing documents, official wiretappings and revelations that – according to Silvio Berlusconi and his supporters – should have been kept secret, confidential, hidden. But the role of a free press in a democratic country is to be the guardians – not the spokesmen – of power. Media is part of the check and balances system of an healthy democracy and they would betray their duty if they only reported what the power considers legitimate to reveal to the public opinion. Ezio Mauro Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images A responsible press knows the difference between to always publish everything, and to choose, select and verify the news before publishing them. This is what we did at La Repubblica and what the Guardian does. From the Washington Post with the Watergate case to the New York Times with the Pentagon Papers, the history of journalism is full of revelations that, according to the people in power, should have been kept secret, but later it has become clear that to publish them was a service to democracy, not a "lethally irresponsible" act. After all our newspaper, as the media of many other countries, reported the Guardian's revelations. The Guardian is certainly not alone in this battle for the freedom of the press. A newspaper answers to public opinion, not to the government. Ezio Mauro, editor-in-chief, La Repubblica, Italy The Washington Post. Photograph: The Washington Post Intelligence agencies in the United States and elsewhere have acquired enormous capacity to monitor the communications of their countries' citizens, residents, and those who live elsewhere. While the purpose is counterterrorism and other foreign intelligence, surveillance of such massive scale has sharply eroded the privacy that many citizens feel they are entitled to enjoy in a democracy that respects individual liberties. Citizens in a democracy are given the right to decide for themselves how to strike the proper balance between privacy and national security. They cannot do so, however, unless they know what their government is doing. A highly intrusive surveillance apparatus has been built without public knowledge and public debate. Martin Baron Photograph: Martin Baron President Obama has said the current debate over the tradeoff between security and civil liberties is "healthy for our democracy". There would have been no public debate had there been no disclosure. Media organisations like ours consult closely with intelligence agencies in an effort to safeguard sources, methods, and lives, even as we seek to fulfill a central journalistic mission: bringing transparency to a government that wields enormous power. Martin Baron, executive editor, the Washington Post, US Aftenposten Photograph: Aftenposten In its reporting on the NSA stories, the Guardian has played a vital role in the global debate on how society in practice weighs freedom of speech and thought versus our common need for security. Hilde Haugsgjerd. Photograph: Aftenposten Truths are at times inconvenient, but inconvenient truths are at times of the highest importance. This is such a case, and we strongly support The Guardians decision to publish these stories. Hilde Haugsgjerd, editor-in-chief, Aftenposten, Norway New York Times masthead Photograph: New York Times Back in 2006, Dean Baquet (who was then the editor of the Los Angeles Times and is now managing editor of The New York Times) and I (who was then executive editor of the New York Times) published a joint statement in our two newspapers addressing what was by then already a very old controversy: when is it acceptable for news organizations to publish secrets? We explained that these are excruciating choices made with great care, that as particular beneficiaries of democratic freedoms we take dangers to national security very seriously indeed, that responsible editors often (though for obvious reasons without fanfare) withhold information when we are convinced it could put lives at risk. The text is here. In that piece, we quoted Robert G. Kaiser of The Washington Post, as follows: "You may have been shocked by these revelations, or not at all disturbed by them, but would you have preferred not to know them at all? If a war is being waged in America's name, shouldn't Americans understand how it is being waged?" Bill Keller. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images And that's the question I would pose to citizens of free societies, and in particular to editors who join governments in denouncing the careful publication of secrets: which of the recent stories would you prefer not to know? Would you prefer not to be told how questionable intelligence led the United States and its allies into a misbegotten war in Iraq? Would you prefer to be ignorant of the existence of secret prisons, and the practice of torture? Would you really rather not know the extent of eavesdropping by governments or private contractors, and the safeguards or lack of safeguards against abuses of these powers? Democracy rests on the informed consent of the governed. Editors' highest responsibility is to assure that it is as informed as possible. Bill Keller, former executive editor, the New York Times Dagens Nyheter Photograph: Dagens Nyheter Peter Wolodarski Photograph: Dagens Nyheter The attacks against the Guardian by both the government and representatives of the British press are unacceptable. What the Guardian is doing is both brave and important for our democracies. We fully support the paper. Peter Wolodarski, editor-in-chief, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden La Stampa Photograph: La Stampa The freedom of the press is so precious that it cannot be restricted or compromised by the accusation of complicity with 'the enemies'. This does not, of course, mean that newspapers can say whatever they want without any kind of control or any kind of responsibility. But from what I understand, the Guardian has carefully scrutinised the documents they received. This is important. In Italy we were very impressed with the time the Guardian took to publish these documents. It meant that you checked and scrutinised them. You cannot be accused of acting simply as a kind of post box. You received a lot of material and then you decided what was fit to print and what wasn't. In short, a judgement was made, and this cannot be underestimated. Mario Calabresi Photograph: La Stampa I believe that this is the role of journalism in our society- to decide what is important- what is valid- for the public interest. Now, I can disagree perhaps with some documents you have published or some opinions that you have expressed but I cannot disagree with your freedom to do journalism. And journalism means taking on the responsibility of deciding what is important for the public interest. This is what newspaper editors have to decide. This role cannot be given to the government or the secret services. Mario Calabresi, editor, La Stampa, Italy Neue Zürcher Zeitung Photograph: Neue Zürcher Zeitung The position of Neue Zürcher Zeitung on publishing sensitive material is always based on journalistic, ethical and legal considerations. We do not accept intervention by third parties – neither private nor by the government. We consider public interest higher than state interest as a principle, however, and respect our responsibility to safeguard professionalism in investigation, analysis and judgment – based on our core values as a quality brand. Markus Spillmann. Photograph: Neue Zurcher Zeitung It is clear that MI5 has by logic another agenda than the Guardian. In a functioning democracy, however, both sides are entitled to do their jobs within the framework of legality and their professional duties. Markus Spillmann, editor-in-chief, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland Tagesspiegel Photograph: Tagesspiegel Stephan-Andreas Casdorff Photograph: Tagesspiegel As journalists, we are responsible towards society, not towards state institutions. This differentiation is essential for the work of an independent press. A diverse media landscape and freedom of speech are constitutive elements of democracy. Edward Snowden's revelations serve to educate society about transgressions by the government and potential abuse of power. To withhold such information would be a betrayal of a free press and would destroy its credibility. Lorenz Maroldt Photograph: Tagesspiegel The protection of privacy is an element of human dignity and has been defined as such in the universal declaration of human rights in 1948. Since only a few decades, the policies of human rights are beginning to bear fruit. To a good extent, this positive development has been made possible also through our work, the work of a free press. Stephan-Andreas Casdorff and Lorenz Maroldt, editors- in-chief, Tagesspiegel, Germany Gazeta Wyborcza Photograph: Gazeta Wyborcza It is with abhorrence that we have read today's editorial in the Daily Mail attacking the Guardian's coverage of Edward Snowden's revelations and accusing its competitor of "aiding Britain's enemies". It effectively amounts to the accusation of treason. Piotr Stasinski Photograph: Gazeta Wyborcza We fully support the Guardian's relentless disclosures of secret services' abuses of power and widespread spying on citizens, domestically as well as abroad. For many months now, the Guardian has been subject to unprecedented pressure by the British government, in order to discourage its reporters and editors from pursuing such stories. We are convinced that, in this case, the national security argument is largely overused; since the revealed massive surveillance of people cannot be justified by the war on terror. Piotr Stasinski, deputy editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza Der Spiegel masthead. Photograph: Der Spiegel In October 1962 German authorities arrested journalists from the newsmagazine Der Spiegel, including its founder and publisher Rudolf Augstein. After having published a cover story on the sorry state of the German armed forces - "Partially ready to defend" - they were accused of treason. Spiegel offices were closed. Augstein remained in custody for 103 days. Georg Mascolo Photograph: Der Spiegel The so called "Spiegel Affair" became a cornerstone in recent German history. It changed the country. The public - and the courts - defended the principle of freedom of information and its importance for a democratic society. And as of today fortunately German authorities have learned their lesson. Nobody would try to force German journalists to destroy computers in the basement. I follow the events in Great Britain with great concern. I was engaged in dealing with intelligence issues, secret documents for more than 20 years. I know how difficult it can be to make decisions about the publication of relevant information - and sometimes, in a very few cases, to take the decision to withhold information from publication. To uncover the (dirty) secrets of governments is an essential part of good journalism. Do journalists have to publish all and every secret? No. Journalists and editors need to weigh arguments. Journalists and editors have responsibility of their own. I am confident that journalists take this responsibility seriously. Should we tell the names of sources, if their life might be endangered by being made public? No. Should we warn suspects, if we know, that authorities are after them? No. Should we report about the threat for our freedom being caused by he worldwide surveillance by intelligence services, the GCHQ or the NSA? We absolutely must. Georg Mascolo, former editor-in-chief, Der Spiegel, Germany Politiken Photograph: Politiken Bo Lidegaard Photograph: Politiken In an era of big data and big surveillance, we need a public and global debate on the borderlines between national security concern and democratic transparency. By publishing stories about the Snowden revelations, the Guardian has made a significant contribution to this important debate. Citizens all over the world must ask themselves if democracies risk being harmed more than defended by a surveillance that is not only secret to the broader public but also seems to be out of democratic control. It is essential that the press engage in this debate and provides documentation to inform it. Bo Lidegaard, executive editor-in-chief, Politiken, Denmark Knight Center for Digital Media Photograph: Knight Center for Digital Media Governments lie and keep secrets for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it is to protect the public. Sometimes it is to protect the politicians and the officials who do their bidding, even when what's being covered up is morally bankrupt or outright criminal. It happens again and again and again. Yes, governments need to keep some secrets. But secrecy takes hold as a value in itself, with corrosive effects. In western democracies, transparency is essential to secure the consent of the governed. Dan Gillmor Photograph: Dan Gillmor The Daily Mail apparently has absolute faith in the integrity and competence of its government on national security matters, despite the ample lessons of history. The Mail has a right to be the government's toady. We'll look elsewhere for actual journalism, which we still need. Dan Gillmor, founding director, Knight Centre for Digital Media Entrepreneurship The Hindu. Photograph: The Hindu Edward Snowden's release of an unprecedented mass of classified material on the NSA's and GCHQ's mass surveillance programmes and technologies, and their publication by the Guardian, have triggered a lively and important debate round the world, including in India – a country that is directly affected by this surveillance. The debate is essentially about the limits of surveillance carried out amid whole populations, domestic and external, by intelligence agencies in the name of the global war against terrorism. It raises urgent questions about accountability, and the absence of adequate lawful oversight over the mass surveillance programmes. N. Ram Photograph: N. Ram As a former editor with some experience in investigating and exposing corruption and misconduct that the Indian state was determined to keep secret in the name of national security, I have the greatest admiration for the way the Guardian has handled the Snowden leaks. The moral courage, professional diligence, social responsibility, and editorial excellence that has gone into making this challenging mass of material, including technical information, accessible to general readers are in the finest traditions of public-spirited and impactful investigative journalism. I am not surprised by the attacks, considering the level of importance, the magnitude, and the ongoing nature of the leaks. But for journalists to suggest that editors of newspapers, not being experts on security matters, are unfit to make decisions on publishing confidential material and must leave the whole field of surveillance and security to the state to handle as it thinks fit, under an impenetrable veil of secrecy, sounds to me like the worst kind of intellectual philistinism. N. Ram, former editor-in-chief, the Hindu Buzzfeed Photograph: Buzzfeed The best way for government officials to avoid answering in public to embarrassing or illegal conduct is not to engage in it. Indeed, the free press has been the most reliable check on government officials lying to their constituents and violating their rights in the modern political era, at least since the Pentagon Papers revealed the deep deceit in American conduct in the war in Vietnam. Ben Smith. Photograph: BuzzFeed The free and responsible American and English press also have an appropriate tradition of taking seriously their governments' concerns over physical safety and national security, which in some cases have themselves turned out to be overstated and deceptive. Editors, government officials and citizens share an interest in ensuring that this important democratic tradition continues into a new media era shaped on one side by new access to undigested information and on the other by encroaching government controls. Readers and sources should expect that when a reporter learns of government misconduct, the default should be to inform the public, not to protect the government. Ben Smith, editor-in-chief, Buzzfeed ORF TV Photograph: ORF TV Everybody is entitled to his or her own opinions, even if they are utterly absurd. A journalist calling the well documented and carefully researched exposure of serious governmental wrong-doing a "lethal irresponsibility", of course, is such an absurdity: a professional forgetting the very purpose of his profession. Armin Wolf Photograph: Armin Wolf The Guardian did what newspapers were invented to do: to make well-reasoned editorial judgements – in this case to reveal an abuse of power by American and British intelligence agencies on a scale which most people would have regarded unthinkable. In my 28 years as a journalist, I cannot think of a single topic that would have been more justified being debated publicly in a democratic society than Edward Snowden's, Glenn Greenwald's and the Guardian's revelations of these last few months. The former editor of the New York Times once said, it's not their primary task to deliver news but to provide judgement. The Guardian provided both and did it brilliantly. Armin Wolf, deputy editor-in-chief, ORF-TV, Austria Der Standard Photograph: Der Standard It is the task of media in a functioning democracy to safeguard press freedom. Media play an important role in the protection of freedom of opinion and expression, the promotion of a free flow of news and information, and the improvement of the practices of journalism. Alexandra Föderl-Schmid Photograph: Matthias Cremer/Der Standard With the publication of the documents made available by Edward Snowden, the Guardian helps to inform the world about the surveillance by intelligence services such as the GCHQ or the NSA. We fully support the Guardian's efforts and are concerned about the threats the media organization is facing. We, as journalists, do not accept intervention by third parties. We have to stick to our professional ethics. The Snowden story is a milestone in professional journalism. Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, editor in chief, Der Standard Fairfax Media Photograph: theguardian.com In a world awash with information, where facts are constantly and easily hijacked and distorted by opinion, scrutiny of governments and their taxpayer-funded instruments becomes more important than ever. To pass off the Guardian's reporting of the NSA as helping "Britain's enemies" is, at first glance, comical and would usually be consigned to the closest dustbin. But at a deeper level it hints at a profound and alarming complacency about the roles of media and government. Hell, let's not ask questions at all. Let's not scrutinise those with the power and ability to carry out widespread surveillance on their own citizens. Let's keep the public in the dark, rather than serving their right to know. And when the state acts unlawfully, let us look the other way. Then we will truly have the society our enemies wish upon us. Garry Linnell, director, Fairfax Media Sydney Morning Herald Photograph: theguardian.com It beggars belief that a major news publisher should so willingly condemn the underlying principles of freedom of speech – and the need to hold those in power accountable through the publication of material that is in the public interest. The Heralds are rivals of the Guardian, but regardless of these competitive realities, we share a common trait in vigorously upholding the need for fair, balanced and fearless independent reporting. Our own newspaper archives are littered with recent examples of how powerful politicians, agencies and individuals have acted against the public interest … almost always claiming at the time they were doing the right thing. No doubt, the test to determine what is in the public interest is a burdensome and serious responsibility for editors – and often has huge ramifications. But the debate should always be viewed with a bias towards exposing the truth, and giving our audience and communities as much information as possible. Darren Goodsir, editor-in-chief, Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald The Age Photograph: theguardian.com The Age, always an advocate of the public's right to know, condemns the attacks on the Guardian on the pretence that it has aided enemies of the state by publishing Edward Snowden's revelations. We have also revealed accounts by Snowden of interceptions of international calls and emails from Australia to Europe and Asia. Such revelations are demonstrably in the public interest. Casting a light into the dark corners of power causes discomfort among governments, bureaucracies and agencies with something to hide. But the knowledge of what our governments do to the public is essential for a democracy. The media must strive to publish responsibly, but never neglect its responsibility to publish. Andrew Holden, editor-in-chief, the Age The Conversation Photograph: theguardian.com The Guardian's reporting of the Edward Snowden/NSA security files serves the public interest in that we are now better informed on the scale of government intelligence gathering. At the very least we now all know what we didn't know (though suspected), and what the US government never wanted us to know. Secrecy dressed up as national security has always been the card played by the powerful to keep the rest of us in the dark. Citizens have a right to know what their government is up to. And what the Guardian did is the proper role of the Fourth Estate. Those who attack that role have an altogether different agenda, and that too should be the subject of legitimate public questioning and exposure. Andrew Jaspan, editor, the Conversation Crikey Photograph: theguardian.com You would call the NSA revelations brave and brilliant journalism if it wasn't so blatantly obvious. Just like you would call the response by the Daily Mail simply sour grapes if it wasn't the antitheses of what journalism is about. Every publication genuinely committed to the principles of a free press – transparency, accountability, giving the public information it absolutely has a right to know – would have published this material. We can only be jealous. The media must always weigh freedom of information with the consequences of publication. There seems little doubt the appropriate consideration was applied in this case. The result is clear: a public that is almost certainly no less safe but almost certainly much more informed about an issue that is likely to be a defining one of our generation. Jason Whittaker, editor, Crikey Harold Evans I'd taken the accusations against the Guardian by other newspapers as part of the ritual dog-eat-dog fun of Fleet Street, but now the prime minister has taken up the charge, I'd like to learn what independent reporting was attempted in this difficult area. More, one would hope, than attempted by the critics of the Guardian during the years it was isolated in challenging the cover up of the hacking crimes. Protecting the lives of its citizens is a first, sacred duty of government. No editor in his right mind wants to give aid and comfort to murderous enemies, but every editor is duty-bound to scrutinise the use of power, responsibly but fearlessly, however personally unappealing a leaker may be. Sir Harold Evans, editor of the Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. Photograph: Felix Clay for the Guardian Conflict between the conceptions of duty is inevitable, indeed healthy. Reporting often exposes an ill that government has not recognised or been willing to acknowledge. The state is not ominiscient. Nor is it unknown for government to conceal its own mistakes. I have not been impressed by the blather about "freedom of the press" surrounding the narcissistic Edward Snowden, but one point he made on 17 October bears examination: he had to do what he did, he argues, because the NSA hierarchy required him to "report wrong doing to those most responsible for it." True or false? "Freedom of the press" loses its moral force when it is played in aid of reckless conduct: the Washington Times telling Osama bin Laden that the US was able to monitor his cell phone was indefensible. But there is danger, too, when the respect due to "national security" is diluted by accusations that prove unsubstantiated. From the Pentagon Papers on, there is a whole history of authority crying wolf. I don't know if this is another. What I do know is that the current attacks on The Guardian echo those levelled at the Sunday Times in a number of investigations. We took national security as seriously as anyone but over 14 years the barriers erected against legitimate inquiry on grounds of national security - reporting, not document dumps - proved spurious or self-serving. Kim Philby betrayed his country and sent countless numbers to their deaths but when we exposed the full measure of his treacheries the outrage in government and sections of the press was directed not at Philby and those who protected him for years but at our reporters. The diaries of the scholarly cabinet minister Richard Crossman have been recognised as shedding a valuable light on the way we are governed, but government made a full scale attempt to censor their publication. Same yet again in the long ordeal of Northern Ireland. Cheerleading was exalted and real reporting excoriated. The cautionary maxim of the Daily Beast writer Clive Irving's "stasis principle" remains valid. "Every state's appetite for surveillance increases in exact proportion to its technical capacity to do so." But at a deeper level it hints at a profound and alarming complacency about the roles of media and government. Hell, let's not ask questions at all. Let's not scrutinise those with the power and ability to carry out widespread surveillance on their own citizens. Let's keep the public in the dark, rather than serving their right to know. And when the state acts unlawfully, let us look the other way. Then we will truly have the society our enemies wish upon us. Harold Evans is writing in a personal capacity. A former editor of the Sunday Times and the Times, Evans was voted the greatest newspaper editor of all time by readers of the Press Gazette and the British Journalism Review in 2002.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Sunday he will offer details on how he would like to overhaul President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law in a speech to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Governor's Dinner in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 26, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts Since they now control the White House and Congress, Republicans are under pressure to fulfill their pledge to repeal and replace the Obamacare law although they have found no easy way to do it. The law has proven popular in many states, even those controlled by Republicans, and it enabled millions of previously uninsured people to get affordable coverage, although steep premium increases angered some. Trump is to talk about healthcare, among other topics, in a nationally televised address on Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress. Trump reiterated his pledge to repeal and replace the Obamacare law in remarks at a black-tie dinner for the National Governors Association. “We’re going to be speaking very specifically about a very complicated subject,” Trump said. “I think we have something that is really going to be excellent.” Republicans have yet to agree on a single detailed policy proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Some moderates want to revise the law and not abandon it entirely while conservatives want to repeal it completely. Still to be worked out are details including the future of Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor that was expanded in more than 30 states under Obamacare, and how a new healthcare law would be funded. Trump said he would be discuss healthcare on Monday when he meets some of the governors who are in Washington for the National Governors Association’s annual meeting. Trump cast his first weeks in office in a positive light despite stumbles including an executive order aimed at banning people from seven Muslim-majority nations that was immediately embroiled in a court challenge. “We’ve made a lot of promises over the last two years, and many of those promises already are kept so we’ve very honored by that,” he said. Trump turned the microphone over to Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat who chairs the governors association. McAuliffe is a long-time supporter of former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, whom Trump defeated in the Nov. 8 presidential election. McAuliffe told Trump, “We want to work with you” on creating jobs and strong healthcare system. ||||| poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201702/2990/1155968404_5339620683001_5339588189001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true Trump: ‘Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated’ The president appears to nod to the grim political reality around repealing and replacing Obamacare. President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that “nobody knew that health care could be so complicated,” and again flirted with the idea that Republicans should let Obamacare “implode” so that Democrats shoulder the blame. Even as he re-upped his commitment to repealing and replacing Obamacare during separate gatherings with governors and insurance CEOs, Trump appeared to nod to the grim political reality of yanking away the increasingly popular law. Story Continued Below "Let it be a disaster, because we can blame that on the Dems that are in our room -- and we can blame that on the Democrats and President Obama," Trump said in remarks to the National Governors Association. "But we have to do what's right, because Obamacare is a failed disaster." He also used some strained logic to explain why Obamacare’s popularity has continued to generally tick up, with a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released last week finding that 43 percent of voters think the law was a good idea, while 41 percent said it was a bad idea. (It was a slight dip from January, in which 45 percent said the law was a good idea, but overall, the law’s popularity has been steadily rising over the past two years). Trump on Monday theorized that polls show the program’s approval rating climbing not because people like it, but because they know Republicans will soon repeal it. He did not offer more of an explanation for the claim. “People hate it, but now they see that the end is coming, and they're saying, ‘Oh, maybe we love it,’” Trump said. “There's nothing to love. It's a disaster, folks.” He also seemed to express surprise at the complexity of the reform process. “I have to tell you, it’s an unbelievably complex subject,” Trump said. “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” Trump throughout his campaign publicly pledged to quickly kill and replace Obamacare, while never getting specific about what the alternative would look like. After the election, however, he’s appeared at times to waffle about yanking the law, tweeting on Jan. 4 that it would be more politically savvy to let Democrats own the Obamacare “disaster.” Recently he’s promised to release his Obamacare alternative plan by early to mid-March, but there’s been trepidation among some Republicans, especially after many GOP lawmakers were forced to confront angry constituents at recent town halls who are worried about losing their health care. Republicans, who have blamed Obamacare for industry problems like increases in premiums and say the law represents government overreach, are now running into trouble agreeing what to put in its place if they kill it. Some 20 million people depend on the law for their insurance, and Republicans worry about the further backlash they may face if some of those people lose their coverage under a new plan. On Monday, Trump gave more mixed signals, both expressing political reservations and emphasizing his commitment to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s signature achievement, which is formally known as the Affordable Care Act. As he met on Monday with insurance company chief executives, Trump reiterated his description of Obamacare as a "disaster" that is "only getting worse." He also discussed his own upcoming plan, pledging that it will be competitive and "great" for "the patients, for the people and hopefully for the companies." "Costs will come down, and I think the health care will go up very, very substantially," the president said. "I think people are gonna like it a lot. We've taken the best of everything we can take." Trump also told the group that he has instructed his health and human services secretary, Tom Price, to work with industry leaders to "stabilize the insurance markets and to ensure a smooth transition to the new plan." ||||| Donald Trump is learning. If there’s one thing almost everybody across the political spectrum knows about health-care reform, it’s that it’s really hard. People who study the issue closely know it. People who don’t follow the issue know. (That’s why lots of smart people don’t follow the issue closely — it’s really hard!) But there is apparently a category of people who did not realize until very recently that the issue is hard, and that category consists of Donald J. Trump, who told reporters today, “It’s an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” Health-care reform is extremely complicated even under the best of circumstances. But when you combine the inherent complexities of the subject with the ideological rigidities of the conservative movement, the problem goes from hard to prohibitively impossible. Providing access to medical care to the tens of millions of Americans who can’t afford it on their own, because they’re too poor or too sick, is arithmetically futile if you’re bound by a dogma that opposes redistribution from the rich and healthy to the poor and sick. House Republicans have decided to resolve the contradiction between party dogma and the promise not to harm the public in favor of the former. A study prepared by the National Governors Association, and which leaked to the media Saturday evening, finds that the House Republicans leadership’s formative plan to replace Obamacare will deprive millions of people of their insurance. The Wall Street Journal reports that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, lacking the votes for a plan that would create massive humanitarian and economic damage to the health-care sector and millions of voters who would lose their access to care, want to just push the bill ahead anyway. Their purported calculation is that they can force wavering Republicans to go along with the bill for fear of betraying the noble cause of Obamacare repeal that has animated the base for years. “You’re a Republican, you’ve been running to repeal Obamacare, they put a repeal bill in front of you … Are you going to be the Republican senator who prevents Obamacare repeal from being sent to a Republican president who is willing to sign it?” said Doug Badger, a longtime Republican leadership health-policy adviser, tells the Journal. Juliet Eilperin and Amy Goldstein report that many of the most orthodox members of Trump’s administration, including Mike Pence, who is close to Paul Ryan, side with this strategy. On the other hand, they report, numerous Trump advisers are concerned about the political fallout of blowing up the health-care system. These advisers include Jared Kushner, NEC director Gary Cohn, senior policy adviser Stephen Miller and chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon. And the reason they fear that is that Trump did not just run on repeal. He ran for president making irreconcilable promises on health care. To win support from voters, he promised “terrific” insurance that would “take care of everybody.” But to remain acceptable to Republican elites, he avoided embracing any policies that would violate party dogma against tax increases. The actual details of his health-care plan were fuzzy and usually ignored, but to the extent they existed at all, they consisted mainly of warmed-over conservative platitudes that would mostly resemble the old, pre-Obamacare system and do little or nothing to cover the uninsurable. Trump held together the contradiction by simply pretending the solution would reveal itself over time and would be extremely easy. Quite likely Trump believed this himself — as a committed nonreader, and a narcissistic devotee of his own negotiating prowess, he surely believed that he could broker a deal that would satisfy both the moral objective of universal coverage and the specific ideological hang-ups that had prevented his party from ever supporting a plan that would accomplish it in the past. The only thing that held Trump’s position together was a refusal to engage with the substance of the issue, and a magical belief that it could all be waved away. At best, he will keep either his promise to the Republican elite or his promise to the electorate. At worst he will keep neither. His offhand comment that the issue is hard is a window into the mind of a man who realizes the jig is almost up. ||||| Republican leaders who are preparing a bill to repeal Obamacare have a new strategy: betting that fellow GOP lawmakers will think twice about blocking it. WSJ's Louise Radnofsky explains on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: Reuters WASHINGTON—Republican leaders are betting that the only way for Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act is to set a bill in motion and gamble that fellow GOP lawmakers won’t dare to block it. Party leaders are poised to act on the strategy as early as this week, after it has become obvious they can’t craft a proposal that will carry an easy majority in either chamber. Lawmakers return to Washington Monday after a week of raucous town halls in their districts that amplified pressure on Republicans to forge ahead with their...

– President Trump will lay out details of his plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, reports Reuters, but he acknowledged Monday that things are moving more slowly than he'd hoped. "I have to tell you, it's an unbelievably complex subject," he said during a meeting with governors at the White House, per Politico. "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated." (That last line is drawing scorn from critics, as in this post at New York from Jonathan Chait. He faults Trump for "simply pretending the solution would reveal itself over time and would be extremely easy.") Still, Republican leaders remain committed to keeping their promise, and the Wall Street Journal reports that they're moving closer to a risky strategy in the House and Senate: Call a vote and "dare" rank-and-file Republicans to oppose them. The strategy is a gamble because GOP leaders can afford only two defections in the Senate and 22 in the House, and different factions have threatened to defect over a slew of reasons, including tax credits and Medicaid funding. But a GOP health policy adviser puts it this way: “You’re a Republican, you’ve been running to repeal ObamaCare, they put a repeal bill in front of you," says Doug Badger. "Are you going to be the Republican senator who prevents ObamaCare repeal from being sent to a Republican president who is willing to sign it?” Meanwhile, a new survey suggests that ObamaCare is more popular than ever, but Trump belittled that notion. "People hate it, but now they see that the end is coming and they're saying, 'Oh, maybe we love it,'" he said. "There's nothing to love. It's a disaster folks, OK? So you have to remember that."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Sunday he will offer details on how he would like to overhaul President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law in a speech to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Governor's Dinner in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 26, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts Since they now control the White House and Congress, Republicans are under pressure to fulfill their pledge to repeal and replace the Obamacare law although they have found no easy way to do it. The law has proven popular in many states, even those controlled by Republicans, and it enabled millions of previously uninsured people to get affordable coverage, although steep premium increases angered some. Trump is to talk about healthcare, among other topics, in a nationally televised address on Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress. Trump reiterated his pledge to repeal and replace the Obamacare law in remarks at a black-tie dinner for the National Governors Association. “We’re going to be speaking very specifically about a very complicated subject,” Trump said. “I think we have something that is really going to be excellent.” Republicans have yet to agree on a single detailed policy proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Some moderates want to revise the law and not abandon it entirely while conservatives want to repeal it completely. Still to be worked out are details including the future of Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor that was expanded in more than 30 states under Obamacare, and how a new healthcare law would be funded. Trump said he would be discuss healthcare on Monday when he meets some of the governors who are in Washington for the National Governors Association’s annual meeting. Trump cast his first weeks in office in a positive light despite stumbles including an executive order aimed at banning people from seven Muslim-majority nations that was immediately embroiled in a court challenge. “We’ve made a lot of promises over the last two years, and many of those promises already are kept so we’ve very honored by that,” he said. Trump turned the microphone over to Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat who chairs the governors association. McAuliffe is a long-time supporter of former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, whom Trump defeated in the Nov. 8 presidential election. McAuliffe told Trump, “We want to work with you” on creating jobs and strong healthcare system. ||||| poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201702/2990/1155968404_5339620683001_5339588189001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true Trump: ‘Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated’ The president appears to nod to the grim political reality around repealing and replacing Obamacare. President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that “nobody knew that health care could be so complicated,” and again flirted with the idea that Republicans should let Obamacare “implode” so that Democrats shoulder the blame. Even as he re-upped his commitment to repealing and replacing Obamacare during separate gatherings with governors and insurance CEOs, Trump appeared to nod to the grim political reality of yanking away the increasingly popular law. Story Continued Below "Let it be a disaster, because we can blame that on the Dems that are in our room -- and we can blame that on the Democrats and President Obama," Trump said in remarks to the National Governors Association. "But we have to do what's right, because Obamacare is a failed disaster." He also used some strained logic to explain why Obamacare’s popularity has continued to generally tick up, with a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released last week finding that 43 percent of voters think the law was a good idea, while 41 percent said it was a bad idea. (It was a slight dip from January, in which 45 percent said the law was a good idea, but overall, the law’s popularity has been steadily rising over the past two years). Trump on Monday theorized that polls show the program’s approval rating climbing not because people like it, but because they know Republicans will soon repeal it. He did not offer more of an explanation for the claim. “People hate it, but now they see that the end is coming, and they're saying, ‘Oh, maybe we love it,’” Trump said. “There's nothing to love. It's a disaster, folks.” He also seemed to express surprise at the complexity of the reform process. “I have to tell you, it’s an unbelievably complex subject,” Trump said. “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” Trump throughout his campaign publicly pledged to quickly kill and replace Obamacare, while never getting specific about what the alternative would look like. After the election, however, he’s appeared at times to waffle about yanking the law, tweeting on Jan. 4 that it would be more politically savvy to let Democrats own the Obamacare “disaster.” Recently he’s promised to release his Obamacare alternative plan by early to mid-March, but there’s been trepidation among some Republicans, especially after many GOP lawmakers were forced to confront angry constituents at recent town halls who are worried about losing their health care. Republicans, who have blamed Obamacare for industry problems like increases in premiums and say the law represents government overreach, are now running into trouble agreeing what to put in its place if they kill it. Some 20 million people depend on the law for their insurance, and Republicans worry about the further backlash they may face if some of those people lose their coverage under a new plan. On Monday, Trump gave more mixed signals, both expressing political reservations and emphasizing his commitment to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s signature achievement, which is formally known as the Affordable Care Act. As he met on Monday with insurance company chief executives, Trump reiterated his description of Obamacare as a "disaster" that is "only getting worse." He also discussed his own upcoming plan, pledging that it will be competitive and "great" for "the patients, for the people and hopefully for the companies." "Costs will come down, and I think the health care will go up very, very substantially," the president said. "I think people are gonna like it a lot. We've taken the best of everything we can take." Trump also told the group that he has instructed his health and human services secretary, Tom Price, to work with industry leaders to "stabilize the insurance markets and to ensure a smooth transition to the new plan." ||||| Donald Trump is learning. If there’s one thing almost everybody across the political spectrum knows about health-care reform, it’s that it’s really hard. People who study the issue closely know it. People who don’t follow the issue know. (That’s why lots of smart people don’t follow the issue closely — it’s really hard!) But there is apparently a category of people who did not realize until very recently that the issue is hard, and that category consists of Donald J. Trump, who told reporters today, “It’s an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” Health-care reform is extremely complicated even under the best of circumstances. But when you combine the inherent complexities of the subject with the ideological rigidities of the conservative movement, the problem goes from hard to prohibitively impossible. Providing access to medical care to the tens of millions of Americans who can’t afford it on their own, because they’re too poor or too sick, is arithmetically futile if you’re bound by a dogma that opposes redistribution from the rich and healthy to the poor and sick. House Republicans have decided to resolve the contradiction between party dogma and the promise not to harm the public in favor of the former. A study prepared by the National Governors Association, and which leaked to the media Saturday evening, finds that the House Republicans leadership’s formative plan to replace Obamacare will deprive millions of people of their insurance. The Wall Street Journal reports that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, lacking the votes for a plan that would create massive humanitarian and economic damage to the health-care sector and millions of voters who would lose their access to care, want to just push the bill ahead anyway. Their purported calculation is that they can force wavering Republicans to go along with the bill for fear of betraying the noble cause of Obamacare repeal that has animated the base for years. “You’re a Republican, you’ve been running to repeal Obamacare, they put a repeal bill in front of you … Are you going to be the Republican senator who prevents Obamacare repeal from being sent to a Republican president who is willing to sign it?” said Doug Badger, a longtime Republican leadership health-policy adviser, tells the Journal. Juliet Eilperin and Amy Goldstein report that many of the most orthodox members of Trump’s administration, including Mike Pence, who is close to Paul Ryan, side with this strategy. On the other hand, they report, numerous Trump advisers are concerned about the political fallout of blowing up the health-care system. These advisers include Jared Kushner, NEC director Gary Cohn, senior policy adviser Stephen Miller and chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon. And the reason they fear that is that Trump did not just run on repeal. He ran for president making irreconcilable promises on health care. To win support from voters, he promised “terrific” insurance that would “take care of everybody.” But to remain acceptable to Republican elites, he avoided embracing any policies that would violate party dogma against tax increases. The actual details of his health-care plan were fuzzy and usually ignored, but to the extent they existed at all, they consisted mainly of warmed-over conservative platitudes that would mostly resemble the old, pre-Obamacare system and do little or nothing to cover the uninsurable. Trump held together the contradiction by simply pretending the solution would reveal itself over time and would be extremely easy. Quite likely Trump believed this himself — as a committed nonreader, and a narcissistic devotee of his own negotiating prowess, he surely believed that he could broker a deal that would satisfy both the moral objective of universal coverage and the specific ideological hang-ups that had prevented his party from ever supporting a plan that would accomplish it in the past. The only thing that held Trump’s position together was a refusal to engage with the substance of the issue, and a magical belief that it could all be waved away. At best, he will keep either his promise to the Republican elite or his promise to the electorate. At worst he will keep neither. His offhand comment that the issue is hard is a window into the mind of a man who realizes the jig is almost up. ||||| Republican leaders who are preparing a bill to repeal Obamacare have a new strategy: betting that fellow GOP lawmakers will think twice about blocking it. WSJ's Louise Radnofsky explains on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: Reuters WASHINGTON—Republican leaders are betting that the only way for Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act is to set a bill in motion and gamble that fellow GOP lawmakers won’t dare to block it. Party leaders are poised to act on the strategy as early as this week, after it has become obvious they can’t craft a proposal that will carry an easy majority in either chamber. Lawmakers return to Washington Monday after a week of raucous town halls in their districts that amplified pressure on Republicans to forge ahead with their...

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A Twitter photo and phone tip from a resident helped animal keepers track down a red panda in a Washington neighborhood Monday after it went missing from the National Zoo. This undated handout photo provided by the National Zoo shows a red panda that has gone missing from its enclosure at the zoo in Washington. National Zoo spokeswoman Pamela Baker-Masson says animal keepers... (Associated Press) The male named Rusty was captured in a tree near a home in Adams Morgan, a neighborhood known for its restaurants and vibrant nightlife, said National Zoo spokeswoman Pamela Baker-Masson. Senior curator Brandie Smith said animal keepers surrounded the area where he was found and called Rusty's name to calm him before capturing him in a net. "We just had to approach him carefully," she said. "We are surprised by the distance he was able to cover." The animal was taken to the zoo's animal hospital for a checkup and will remain there for several days. How he escaped is still a mystery, though. Zoo officials began reviewing security footage Monday morning to see if there is any evidence of how Rusty escaped or whether he may have been taken by a human and then set loose. Curators have cut back any long tree limbs that may have aided the skilled climber with the escape. "There is no obvious point that Rusty could have gotten out of the enclosure," Smith said, adding that it had held red pandas for years. "We all know that young males like to test boundaries." Unlike giant pandas, red pandas are not members of the bear family. Red pandas are slightly bigger than a domestic cat and look similar to a raccoon. They are listed as vulnerable in the wild and native to China. Scientists believe about 10,000 of the animals remain. Rusty arrived at the zoo in April from a zoo in Lincoln, Nebraska, and was in quarantine for several weeks until he went on exhibit in early June. He will turn 1 year old in July. Red pandas are highly territorial, so zoo officials did not believe he would have traveled far. Rusty, it seems, wanted to explore his new city. Animal keepers discovered he was missing Monday morning and started searching the zoo at 8 a.m. The zoo began sending out messages about his disappearance Monday morning on Twitter in case someone saw him. A spokeswoman said the zoo was "incredibly grateful" that a woman who lived nearby saw him, tweeted a picture and called the zoo. The woman apparently had to leave town on a trip Monday, so they couldn't thank her in person. Zoo Director Dennis Kelly said officials will thoroughly review the incident and said it's rare for any animal to escape. "We will not let this happen again," he said. "Before we put Rusty back, we'll go back over this exhibit with a fine tooth comb." The female red panda remained on view in the leafy exhibit Monday, despite the hoopla over her mate. ||||| Add a location to your Tweets When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location history. Learn more ||||| Add a location to your Tweets When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location history. Learn more

– A red panda from the National Zoo in DC went missing last night, sparking a social media-driven panda-hunt after the zoo tweeted, "We are looking for a missing red panda, a male named Rusty. He was last seen at 6 p.m. last night." @NationalZoo continued to provide regular, highly-retweeted updates on the search, and the strategy paid off: A Washingtonian spotted Rusty in her neighborhood this afternoon, and tweeted a picture to the zoo, leading to his rescue and return, the AP reports. The Washington City Paper has images from the ground. The National Zoo still doesn't know how Rusty, who is about the size of a raccoon and will turn 1 next month, escaped. "There is no obvious point that Rusty could have gotten out of the enclosure," says a spokesperson—but the zoo promises it wouldn't happen again. "Before we put Rusty back, we'll go back over this exhibit with a fine tooth comb," she says.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.A Twitter photo and phone tip from a resident helped animal keepers track down a red panda in a Washington neighborhood Monday after it went missing from the National Zoo. This undated handout photo provided by the National Zoo shows a red panda that has gone missing from its enclosure at the zoo in Washington. National Zoo spokeswoman Pamela Baker-Masson says animal keepers... (Associated Press) The male named Rusty was captured in a tree near a home in Adams Morgan, a neighborhood known for its restaurants and vibrant nightlife, said National Zoo spokeswoman Pamela Baker-Masson. Senior curator Brandie Smith said animal keepers surrounded the area where he was found and called Rusty's name to calm him before capturing him in a net. "We just had to approach him carefully," she said. "We are surprised by the distance he was able to cover." The animal was taken to the zoo's animal hospital for a checkup and will remain there for several days. How he escaped is still a mystery, though. Zoo officials began reviewing security footage Monday morning to see if there is any evidence of how Rusty escaped or whether he may have been taken by a human and then set loose. Curators have cut back any long tree limbs that may have aided the skilled climber with the escape. "There is no obvious point that Rusty could have gotten out of the enclosure," Smith said, adding that it had held red pandas for years. "We all know that young males like to test boundaries." Unlike giant pandas, red pandas are not members of the bear family. Red pandas are slightly bigger than a domestic cat and look similar to a raccoon. They are listed as vulnerable in the wild and native to China. Scientists believe about 10,000 of the animals remain. Rusty arrived at the zoo in April from a zoo in Lincoln, Nebraska, and was in quarantine for several weeks until he went on exhibit in early June. He will turn 1 year old in July. Red pandas are highly territorial, so zoo officials did not believe he would have traveled far. Rusty, it seems, wanted to explore his new city. Animal keepers discovered he was missing Monday morning and started searching the zoo at 8 a.m. The zoo began sending out messages about his disappearance Monday morning on Twitter in case someone saw him. A spokeswoman said the zoo was "incredibly grateful" that a woman who lived nearby saw him, tweeted a picture and called the zoo. The woman apparently had to leave town on a trip Monday, so they couldn't thank her in person. Zoo Director Dennis Kelly said officials will thoroughly review the incident and said it's rare for any animal to escape. "We will not let this happen again," he said. "Before we put Rusty back, we'll go back over this exhibit with a fine tooth comb." The female red panda remained on view in the leafy exhibit Monday, despite the hoopla over her mate. ||||| Add a location to your Tweets When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location history. Learn more ||||| Add a location to your Tweets When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location history. Learn more

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Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Capitol Hill police officers arrest a group protesting the Republican healthcare bill outside the offices of Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 17, 2017. The Senate... (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — The implosion of the Senate Republican health care bill leaves a divided GOP with its flagship legislative priority in tatters and confronts a wounded President Donald Trump and congressional leaders with dicey decisions about addressing their perhaps unattainable seven-year-old promise of repealing President Barack Obama's law. Two GOP senators — Utah's Mike Lee and Jerry Moran of Kansas — sealed the measure's doom late Monday when each announced they would vote "no" in an initial, critical vote that had been expected as soon as next week. Their startling, tandem announcement meant that at least four of the 52 GOP senators were ready to block the measure — two more than Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had to spare in the face of a wall of Democratic opposition. "Regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful," McConnell said in a late evening statement that essentially waved a white flag. It was the second stinging setback on the issue in three weeks for McConnell, whose reputation as a legislative mastermind has been marred as he's failed to unite his chamber's Republicans behind a health overhaul package that's highlighted jagged divides between conservatives and moderates. In late June, he abandoned an initial package after he lacked enough GOP support to pass. The episode has also been jarring for Trump, whose intermittent lobbying and nebulous, often contradictory descriptions of what he's wanted have shown he has limited clout with senators. That despite a determination by Trump, McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to demonstrate that a GOP running the White House and Congress can govern effectively. Now, McConnell said, the Senate would vote on a measure the GOP-run Congress approved in 2015, only to be vetoed by Obama — a bill repealing much of Obama's statute, with a two-year delay designed to give lawmakers time to enact a replacement. Trump embraced that idea last month after an initial version of McConnell's bill collapsed due under Republican divisions, and did so again late Monday. "Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!" Trump tweeted. But the prospects for approving a clean repeal bill followed by work on replacement legislation, even with Trump ready to sign it, seemed shaky. Trump and party leaders had started this year embracing that strategy, only to abandon it when it seemed incapable of passing Congress, with many Republicans worried it would cause insurance market and political chaos because of uncertainty that they would approve substitute legislation. McConnell's failed bill would have left 22 million uninsured by 2026, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, a number that many Republicans found unpalatable. But the vetoed 2015 measure would be even worse, the budget office said last January, producing 32 million additional uninsured people by 2026 — figures that seemed likely to drive a stake into that bill's prospects for passing Congress. That would seem to leave McConnell with an option he described last month — negotiating with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. That would likely be on a narrower package aimed more at keeping insurers in difficult marketplaces they're either abandoning or imposing rapidly growing premiums. "The core of this bill is unworkable," Schumer said in a statement. He said Republicans "should start from scratch and work with Democrats on a bill that lowers premiums, provides long-term stability to the markets and improves our health care system." Similar to legislation the House approved in May after its own setbacks, McConnell's bill would repeal Obama's tax penalties on people who don't buy coverage and cut the Medicaid program for the poor, elderly and nursing home residents. It rolled back many of the statute's requirements for the policies insurers can sell and eliminated many tax increases that raised money for Obama's expansion to 20 million more people, though it retained the law's tax boosts on high earners. Besides Lee and Moran, two other GOP senators had previously declared their opposition to McConnell's bill: moderate Maine Sen. Susan Collins and conservative Rand Paul of Kentucky. And other moderates were wavering and could have been difficult for McConnell and Trump to win over because of the bill's Medicaid cuts: Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Rob Portman of Ohio, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Dean Heller of Nevada, probably the most endangered Senate Republican in next year's elections. The range of objections lodged by the dissident senators underscored the warring viewpoints within his own party that McConnell had to try patching over. Lee complained that the GOP bill didn't go far enough in rolling back Obama's robust coverage requirements, while moderates like Collins berated its Medicaid cuts and the millions it would leave without insurance. McConnell's revised version aimed to satisfy both camps, by incorporating language by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas allowing insurers to sell skimpy plans alongside more robust ones, and by adding tens of billions of dollars to treat opioid addiction and to defray consumer costs. His efforts did not achieve the intended result. ||||| Washington (CNN) The Republicans' signature campaign promise to repeal and replace Obamacare came to a screeching halt Monday night after Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas came together, shocked Capitol Hill and vowed to vote against the latest draft of the GOP's health care bill. "We should not put our stamp of approval on bad policy," Moran said in a bold statement that derailed Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's bid to overhaul the Affordable Care Act. McConnell could only lose two senators and still pass the bill, and Maine's Susan Collins and Kentucky's Rand Paul had already defected. Across town, over rosemary-grilled rib eye and summer vegetable succotash at the White House, President Donald Trump and GOP leaders were attempting to convince a group of reliably conservative rank-and-filers to join with them and vote for the health care bill. But as they dined on lemon ricotta agnolotti with heirloom tomato ragout and the "farm stand peach cobbler," the Senate rebellion against the health care bill was well underway. That's because Lee and Moran were working all day Monday on how they could announce their opposition together. The goal was to avoid being the notorious and definitive third "no" vote, aides told CNN. If they announced together, Moran and Lee could share the heat. But also implicit in their joint opposition was a clear fact: They represented different, significant concerns with the bill. Their joint opposition served to provide cover for other on-the-fence colleagues who may soon join them in publicly opposing the GOP's effort at finally making good on its cornerstone campaign promise of the past seven years. Trump and top White House aides were caught off guard Lee and Moran's move, a senior White House official said Tuesday, adding the President was "annoyed." Monday's dinner was a "strategy conversation," the official said where Trump made the case that now is the time for Republicans to deliver on their promise of repealing Obamacare. "If you have control of the House, Senate and White House, we have to get this done," Trump said, according to the official. "This dinner was with senators who know the ebbs and flows of legislation and it was more of here is what to expect going forward," the official added. "Although we didn't expect the announcement last night." Trump expressed some of that annoyance on Twitter Tuesday morning. "We were let down by all of the Democrats and a few Republicans. Most Republicans were loyal, terrific & worked really hard. We will return!" Trump tweeted We were let down by all of the Democrats and a few Republicans. Most Republicans were loyal, terrific & worked really hard. We will return! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2017 A Senate GOP aide with direct knowledge of the ongoing upheaval told CNN that Lee and Moran are likely just the first of many to announce publicly they oppose the bill. "More senators are ready to jump," the aide said. "This wasn't done without that knowledge." The developments ended any hope that McConnell, with his Republican Senate majority, can pass the current version of the health care bill he's been crafting for months. He announced a plan to set up a vote on a straight repeal of Obamacare, a move that could let some Republican senators save face but likely wouldn't pass given lawmakers are skittish about repealing Obamacare without a replacement. "Regretfully," McConnell said in a statement late Monday, "it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful." A post shared by SJC (@jcornyn) on Jul 17, 2017 at 6:18pm PDT Pressure behind the scenes In recent days, aides said there had been several exchanges among wary senators about how and when to announce opposition to the bill. Going into the weekend, two Republican senators -- Collins and Paul -- were already publicly opposed to it. It only took one more lawmaker to stop the health care bill in its tracks. Of course, the weekend provided an unexpected turn of events. While Republicans were scheduled to vote on health care this week, Sen. John McCain underwent surgery for a blood clot, an unforseen medical episode that required the senior senator from Arizona to stay at home and rest. McConnell announced Saturday night the bill would be delayed. Without McCain in town, McConnell had no chance of passing health care. Behind the scenes, leadership applied pressure. They asked Republican rank-and-filers to keep their powder dry and come quietly to them with any problems they had with the bill rather than battling it out in the press. The goal for leaders was to continue working through the week and lobby members privately, with the idea being to set up the vote once McCain came back to Washington. "At this point, every day without another 'no' is a small victory," a senior GOP aide told CNN Monday morning. A Lee aide told CNN that Lee did not inform McConnell or his office directly about his statement. And, the aide said that the closest that the Utah senator ever got to supporting the bill was "at most undecided." The simplest explanation for his public opposition: In Lee's opinion, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's amendment -- which gave insurers more flexibility to offer skimpier plans in the health care market -- didn't go far enough to reduce premiums. "In addition to not repealing all of the Obamacare taxes, it doesn't go far enough in lowering premiums for middle class families; nor does it create enough free space from the most costly Obamacare regulations," Lee said in a statement. As soon as the news was out Monday night that the bill was sunk, Republicans from Trump to the recovering McCain had advice on the best path forward. "The Congress must now return to regular order, hold hearings, receive input from members of both parties, and heed the recommendations of our nation's governors so that we can produce a bill that finally provides Americans with access to quality and affordable health care," McCain said in a statement. McConnell then said that he'd move forward with a procedural motion and make as the first amendment a 2015 repeal bill -- which was ultimately vetoed by President Barack Obama that had earned support two years ago even from senators who are wavering today. That legislation was meant to be a messaging exercise and when leadership briefly considered bringing it back up again earlier this year, there was widespread distaste for the idea. The plan would repeal Obamacare, but delay the repeal for two years. JUST WATCHED Collins to vote 'no' on GOP health-care bill Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Collins to vote 'no' on GOP health-care bill 01:18 So much has changed in a week Republican leaders unveiled their overhauled health care bill less than a week ago. GOP leadership aides were upbeat following a lengthy meeting last Thursday afternoon in McConnell's office when Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma worked with McConnell and his top aides to convince four Republicans from states that had expanded Medicaid under Obamacare that the bill would work for their constituents. After the meeting, the aides thought the votes were trending in their direction and that Rob Portman of Ohio, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, and Dean Heller of Nevada would come around. They were so relieved that soon after the meeting several of McConnell and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn's top leadership and health care aides joyfully bolted from their offices in the Capitol -- with supermarket-baked cookies and cakes in hand -- to celebrate the birthday of Eric Ueland, the bow-tied and cheerful staff director of the Senate Budget Committee who, like them, was deeply enmeshed in the intense and uncertain negotiations. It was a brief and welcomed sugary relief from the unrelenting pressure they had been under for months. Then came the weekend. In an attempt to win over a handful of skittish Republican governors, Vice President Mike Pence and Verma were dispatched to Rhode Island to the National Governors Association's summer meeting. But things went off the rails there. Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy, a Democrat, described Pence's outreach as "pretty atrocious" as the vice president tried to make the case to governors that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office was wrong about its estimate that 15 million people would lose health care over the next decade. Republicans weren't happy either. After a speech in which Pence claimed 60,000 disabled Ohioans were waiting to get health care, Ohio Gov. John Kasich's office openly dismissed the VP's numbers. It was unclear by the end of the meeting if Pence had done anything to convince Republican Brian Sandoval of Nevada to support the bill. Without Sandoval's blessing there were real questions as to whether Heller could back the plan. On Monday evening, things devolved even more. Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson , who had told reporters he'd vote "yes" to advance the GOP's health care bill last week, suddenly told reporters he was undecided. Johnson told reporters he'd come to question leadership after a report in The Washington Post cited an anonymous lobbyist saying that McConnell had been telling moderates that a change in the growth rate for Medicaid wouldn't actually go into effect. Johnson admitted he no longer was sure if he could support the motion to proceed to the health care bill. "You know I was strongly in favor of doing that last week before I read the comments by Sen. McConnell," Johnson said. "I've confirmed those from senators that those comments were made too so I find those comments very troubling, and I think that really does put in jeopardy the motion to proceed vote." Johnson called the comments "a real breach of trust." Of course, nothing in Washington is ever truly dead. One needs only to look back to March, when House Republicans pulled their health care bill from what would have been a failing vote, only to rebound and pass it two months later. On the triumphant day of passage, Trump hosted GOP congressmen at the White House for a victory celebration on a picture-perfect May afternoon — that now looks premature given the Senate bill was felled by dissension among several factions of the Senate Republican caucus. "We've developed a bond," Trump said at the time. "This has really brought the Republican Party together." ||||| President Donald Trump convened a strategy session over steak and succotash at the White House with senators Monday night, trying to plot an uphill path to repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a GOP alternative. He made an impassioned pitch on why Republicans needed to do it now — and the political peril they could face if they didn’t “repeal and replace” after promising to do it for years. He also vented about Democrats and the legislative process. “He basically said, if we don’t do this, we’re in trouble,” said one person briefed on the meeting. “That we have the Senate, House and White House, and we have to do it or we’re going to look terrible.” Story Continued Below Meanwhile, two senators — neither invited to the dinner — were simultaneously drafting statements saying that they couldn’t support the current Senate health care bill. They released the statements just after Trump’s White House meal concluded. Trump had no idea the statements were coming, according to several White House and congressional officials. His top aides were taken aback, and the White House was soon on the phone with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The abrupt collapse of the current plan blew up what the White House wanted for months and undoubtedly set back Republicans in their goal to overhaul President Barack Obama’s legislation. It certainly frustrated a number of the president’s top aides, who have negotiated to-the-letter certain packages for certain senators for a summer solution. The most reliable politics newsletter. Sign up for POLITICO Playbook and get the latest news, every morning — in your inbox. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. But Trump, who has not fretted over the details of the proposed legislation, seemed ready to try something else — trading rib-eye negotiations for his favorite pastime. Within an hour, Trump was back on Twitter, where he put forward a different idea — one he has posited privately for months — after talking to McConnell and top aides. “Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!” he tweeted. Trump is fine doing it that way, said one White House aide — as “long as something gets done.” To Trump, the Obamacare fight has always been about scoring a win. He doesn’t care nearly as much about the specifics, people close to him say, and hasn’t understood why legislators won’t just make deals and bring something, anything, to his desk. He has said publicly and privately he didn’t understand it would take this long. “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated,” Trump said in February. At a different point, he said only Middle East peace would be harder. Along the way, Trump has weighed various options, from not paying cost-sharing subsidies and letting the law implode to repealing it without a replacement — which he veered back to Monday night on Twitter. “He told us months ago we could just let it blow up and blame the Democrats,” said one activist who met with Trump at the White House. He praised the conservative version of the law passed through the House in a Rose Garden fête before trashing it as “mean” in a meeting with moderate senators. Earlier Monday evening, just after Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) announced their opposition, a White House official said the team would go back to working with individual members on the bill. There was no desire, this person said, to restart negotiations from scratch. White House officials said they purposely picked veteran lawmakers who they saw as allies to attend the dinner with Trump, not legislators they thought were on the fence. But the bill was already on a knife edge, with a vote delayed this week due to the absence of Arizona Sen. John McCain due to a medical procedure. Trump has privately wondered why legislators don’t seem to listen to him, and the blow from Moran and Lee illustrated the limits of the president’s capacity to master the art of the Washington deal. “None of the people at the dinner were the ones they should have been worried about,” said one person involved in the discussions. Trump allies have sometimes attacked Republicans the White House needs to support the bill. He has alienated some senators with his unorthodox tweets and his inattention to policy details, even as they have praised others on his staff. He has sometimes expressed a view that Democrats would like to work with Republicans, as he did Monday night, even though his staff harbors skepticism. “Why would Trump call McCain crusty Monday afternoon?” one White House official asked. “Because that’s the word that came to his brain.” According to several people briefed on the matter, Trump and McConnell were prepared to make similar statements Monday evening. But Trump pre-empted the Senate majority leader — sending a quick tweet that took even some of his staff by surprise. “There it is,” one aide said, two minutes after promising news within “an hour.” “Regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful,” McConnell said, in a missive from Don Stewart, his spokesman. A White House official, per usual policy, said Trump’s tweet would speak for itself. ||||| Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) delayed a vote on a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare until Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) recovers from surgery. (Reuters) Perhaps the two “no” votes from Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) would have been enough to sink the GOP health-care effort. Senate Republicans and virtually all political watchers have been cultivating a sense of suspense — who would be the third “no” vote? — when in fact there are likely, according to Collins, many more “no” votes (eight to 10, she said in TV interviews Sunday). Then a very public and simple barrier to passage emerged — Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) undetermined recuperation time. With two “no” votes already clinched, Senate GOP leaders could not even pretend to have sufficient support without McCain (who actually might be a “no” vote in the end). Now comes perhaps the death knell for Trumpcare: Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) both announced their opposition Monday night. To be clear, the Better Care Reconciliation Act was already at death’s door before McCain took ill and before Lee and Moran’s announcements. A handful of moderates continue to refuse to stomach huge Medicaid cuts. In an act of exceptional duplicity, McConnell reportedly told moderates not to worry about Medicaid cuts (presumably because Congress will never have the nerve to go through with them), which understandably angered conservatives. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson told a Wisconsin paper, “I am concerned about Leader McConnell’s comments to apparently some of my Republican colleagues — ‘Don’t worry about some of the Medicaid reforms, those are scheduled so far in the future they’ll never take effect.’ I’ve got to confirm those comments. … I think those comments are going to really put the motion to proceed in jeopardy, whether it’s on my part or others.” He continued: “Many of us, one of the main reasons we are willing to support a bill that doesn’t even come close to repealing Obamacare … was because at least we were devolving the management back to the states, and putting some level of sustainability into an unsustainable entitlement program. If our leader is basically saying don’t worry about it, we’ve designed it so that those reforms will never take effect, first of all, that’s a pretty significant breach of trust, and why support the bill then?” Additional time has never been an asset for the administration. The more time that passes, the more anger Team Trump seems to induce in wavering members. CNN reported: [Vice President] Pence and top Medicare and Medicaid administrator Seema Verma were deployed to Rhode Island over the weekend to meet with skeptical governors at the National Governors Association’s summer meeting. In private meetings, Pence and Verma tried to convince governors that the GOP’s health care bill would give them greater flexibility to design Medicaid programs that were better tailored to their needs. But the weekend didn’t go especially well for the administration. After a speech in which Pence claimed 60,000 disabled Ohioans were waiting to get care, a spokesman for Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich dismissed the claim as false on Twitter. [Connecticut Democratic Gov. Dan] Malloy described Pence’s private meeting with the governors Saturday as “pretty atrocious” as Pence encouraged governors to dismiss an unfavorable score from the Congressional Budget Office that showed 15 million Americans would lose Medicaid coverage over the next decade. And of course the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring on the newest version of the bill has yet to come out. Each time the CBO has produced a score, decried as fake by the White House, a spasm of concern has gripped the Republican caucus. Republicans get cold(er) feet with each reminder of how many people will lose insurance, be cut off from Medicaid and/or have to pay more for coverage. On the floor of the Senate, Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) needled Republicans, imploring them to use the time to secure a CBO score and to hold hearings on the bill. (He told Republicans they should “use this extra week, or extra weeks, to do what Republicans should have done a long time ago: hold public hearings. Allow the stakeholders to come in and express their concerns.” That idea likely sends shivers down the spines of most Republicans as they contemplate the parade of doctors, patients, insurers, advocates for the elderly and other witnesses who would come forward.) In sum, given the choice between holding up the Senate until McCain returns and changing at least two of the declared “no” votes, or moving on so as to avoid the agony of extended dismal coverage and the humiliation of a losing vote on the floor, wouldn’t Republicans rather proceed to the debt limit, the budget and tax reform? Let’s be candid: McConnell knows that forcing some of his members (especially Dean Heller of Nevada) to vote in support of a grossly unpopular bill would be a political death sentence. He cannot in his heart of hearts be thrilled with the prospect of a vote, especially one he will now almost certainly lose; all he need to do is show he tried everything possible. Initially, McConnell may have figured a ridiculously early deadline for a vote in July could have cleared the decks (win or lose), but now he has a ready-made excuse for ditching the whole exercise. Sure, they can come back to the bill — sometime. Gosh, if only McCain hadn’t gotten ill. Well, now we’ve got four “no” votes. Let a hundred excuses bloom. UPDATE: McCain has now chimed in with what amounts to a fifth “no” vote. In a written statement he declares, “One of the major problems with Obamacare was that it was written on a strict party-line basis and driven through Congress without a single Republican vote. As this law continues to crumble in Arizona and states across the country, we must not repeat the original mistakes that led to Obamacare’s failure.” He urges Congress to “return to regular order, hold hearings, receive input from members of both parties, and heed the recommendations of our nation’s governors so that we can produce a bill that finally provides Americans with access to quality and affordable health care.”

– President Trump said it had to happen—but it isn't going to happen. The Republican plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare collapsed Monday night after two more GOP senators announced their opposition, leaving Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell without enough votes to move the legislation forward, and leaving the party with no clear path toward what it has been trying to achieve for seven years. A roundup of coverage: Sens. Mike Lee and Jerry Moran sealed the bill's fate by declaring their opposition, joining Sens. Rand Paul and Susan Collins. Aides tell CNN that the two men, who opposed the legislation for different reasons, decided to announce their opposition together so that neither would be seen as the deciding third Republican vote against the plan. While Lee and Moran were working on their statement, Trump was dining on steak, succotash, and "farm stand peach cobbler" at the White House with eight other senators while discussing health care reform. An insider tells Politico that Trump "made an impassioned pitch on why Republicans needed to do it now." "He basically said, if we don't do this, we're in trouble," the source says. "That we have the Senate, House, and White House and we have to do it or we're going to look terrible." According to the New York Times, the bill failed because the GOP has failed to learn this lesson: "An American entitlement, once established, can almost never be retracted." Conservative senators demanding full repeal of ObamaCare were unable to reach a deal with senators whose states accepted, and now rely on, ObamaCare's expansion of Medicaid. McConnell now plans to hold a fresh vote on repeal legislation passed by the House and Senate in 2015, which gives Congress two years to come up with a replacement for ObamaCare. But that strategy was abandoned by the GOP earlier this year because of concerns about chaos in the marketplace, and it may be a struggle to pass repeal-only legislation now, the AP reports. Trump tweeted in support of repeal after McConnell said it had become clear that the replacement bill wouldn't succeed. The Washington Post reports that in what appears to be a fifth nail in the legislation's coffin, Sen. John McCain issued a statement late Monday urging fellow lawmakers to not "repeat the original mistakes that led to ObamaCare's failure," including crafting the legislation on a "strict party-line basis." He called for Congress to "return to regular order, hold hearings, receive input from members of both parties, and heed the recommendations of our nation's governors."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Capitol Hill police officers arrest a group protesting the Republican healthcare bill outside the offices of Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 17, 2017. The Senate... (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — The implosion of the Senate Republican health care bill leaves a divided GOP with its flagship legislative priority in tatters and confronts a wounded President Donald Trump and congressional leaders with dicey decisions about addressing their perhaps unattainable seven-year-old promise of repealing President Barack Obama's law. Two GOP senators — Utah's Mike Lee and Jerry Moran of Kansas — sealed the measure's doom late Monday when each announced they would vote "no" in an initial, critical vote that had been expected as soon as next week. Their startling, tandem announcement meant that at least four of the 52 GOP senators were ready to block the measure — two more than Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had to spare in the face of a wall of Democratic opposition. "Regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful," McConnell said in a late evening statement that essentially waved a white flag. It was the second stinging setback on the issue in three weeks for McConnell, whose reputation as a legislative mastermind has been marred as he's failed to unite his chamber's Republicans behind a health overhaul package that's highlighted jagged divides between conservatives and moderates. In late June, he abandoned an initial package after he lacked enough GOP support to pass. The episode has also been jarring for Trump, whose intermittent lobbying and nebulous, often contradictory descriptions of what he's wanted have shown he has limited clout with senators. That despite a determination by Trump, McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to demonstrate that a GOP running the White House and Congress can govern effectively. Now, McConnell said, the Senate would vote on a measure the GOP-run Congress approved in 2015, only to be vetoed by Obama — a bill repealing much of Obama's statute, with a two-year delay designed to give lawmakers time to enact a replacement. Trump embraced that idea last month after an initial version of McConnell's bill collapsed due under Republican divisions, and did so again late Monday. "Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!" Trump tweeted. But the prospects for approving a clean repeal bill followed by work on replacement legislation, even with Trump ready to sign it, seemed shaky. Trump and party leaders had started this year embracing that strategy, only to abandon it when it seemed incapable of passing Congress, with many Republicans worried it would cause insurance market and political chaos because of uncertainty that they would approve substitute legislation. McConnell's failed bill would have left 22 million uninsured by 2026, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, a number that many Republicans found unpalatable. But the vetoed 2015 measure would be even worse, the budget office said last January, producing 32 million additional uninsured people by 2026 — figures that seemed likely to drive a stake into that bill's prospects for passing Congress. That would seem to leave McConnell with an option he described last month — negotiating with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. That would likely be on a narrower package aimed more at keeping insurers in difficult marketplaces they're either abandoning or imposing rapidly growing premiums. "The core of this bill is unworkable," Schumer said in a statement. He said Republicans "should start from scratch and work with Democrats on a bill that lowers premiums, provides long-term stability to the markets and improves our health care system." Similar to legislation the House approved in May after its own setbacks, McConnell's bill would repeal Obama's tax penalties on people who don't buy coverage and cut the Medicaid program for the poor, elderly and nursing home residents. It rolled back many of the statute's requirements for the policies insurers can sell and eliminated many tax increases that raised money for Obama's expansion to 20 million more people, though it retained the law's tax boosts on high earners. Besides Lee and Moran, two other GOP senators had previously declared their opposition to McConnell's bill: moderate Maine Sen. Susan Collins and conservative Rand Paul of Kentucky. And other moderates were wavering and could have been difficult for McConnell and Trump to win over because of the bill's Medicaid cuts: Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Rob Portman of Ohio, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Dean Heller of Nevada, probably the most endangered Senate Republican in next year's elections. The range of objections lodged by the dissident senators underscored the warring viewpoints within his own party that McConnell had to try patching over. Lee complained that the GOP bill didn't go far enough in rolling back Obama's robust coverage requirements, while moderates like Collins berated its Medicaid cuts and the millions it would leave without insurance. McConnell's revised version aimed to satisfy both camps, by incorporating language by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas allowing insurers to sell skimpy plans alongside more robust ones, and by adding tens of billions of dollars to treat opioid addiction and to defray consumer costs. His efforts did not achieve the intended result. ||||| Washington (CNN) The Republicans' signature campaign promise to repeal and replace Obamacare came to a screeching halt Monday night after Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas came together, shocked Capitol Hill and vowed to vote against the latest draft of the GOP's health care bill. "We should not put our stamp of approval on bad policy," Moran said in a bold statement that derailed Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's bid to overhaul the Affordable Care Act. McConnell could only lose two senators and still pass the bill, and Maine's Susan Collins and Kentucky's Rand Paul had already defected. Across town, over rosemary-grilled rib eye and summer vegetable succotash at the White House, President Donald Trump and GOP leaders were attempting to convince a group of reliably conservative rank-and-filers to join with them and vote for the health care bill. But as they dined on lemon ricotta agnolotti with heirloom tomato ragout and the "farm stand peach cobbler," the Senate rebellion against the health care bill was well underway. That's because Lee and Moran were working all day Monday on how they could announce their opposition together. The goal was to avoid being the notorious and definitive third "no" vote, aides told CNN. If they announced together, Moran and Lee could share the heat. But also implicit in their joint opposition was a clear fact: They represented different, significant concerns with the bill. Their joint opposition served to provide cover for other on-the-fence colleagues who may soon join them in publicly opposing the GOP's effort at finally making good on its cornerstone campaign promise of the past seven years. Trump and top White House aides were caught off guard Lee and Moran's move, a senior White House official said Tuesday, adding the President was "annoyed." Monday's dinner was a "strategy conversation," the official said where Trump made the case that now is the time for Republicans to deliver on their promise of repealing Obamacare. "If you have control of the House, Senate and White House, we have to get this done," Trump said, according to the official. "This dinner was with senators who know the ebbs and flows of legislation and it was more of here is what to expect going forward," the official added. "Although we didn't expect the announcement last night." Trump expressed some of that annoyance on Twitter Tuesday morning. "We were let down by all of the Democrats and a few Republicans. Most Republicans were loyal, terrific & worked really hard. We will return!" Trump tweeted We were let down by all of the Democrats and a few Republicans. Most Republicans were loyal, terrific & worked really hard. We will return! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2017 A Senate GOP aide with direct knowledge of the ongoing upheaval told CNN that Lee and Moran are likely just the first of many to announce publicly they oppose the bill. "More senators are ready to jump," the aide said. "This wasn't done without that knowledge." The developments ended any hope that McConnell, with his Republican Senate majority, can pass the current version of the health care bill he's been crafting for months. He announced a plan to set up a vote on a straight repeal of Obamacare, a move that could let some Republican senators save face but likely wouldn't pass given lawmakers are skittish about repealing Obamacare without a replacement. "Regretfully," McConnell said in a statement late Monday, "it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful." A post shared by SJC (@jcornyn) on Jul 17, 2017 at 6:18pm PDT Pressure behind the scenes In recent days, aides said there had been several exchanges among wary senators about how and when to announce opposition to the bill. Going into the weekend, two Republican senators -- Collins and Paul -- were already publicly opposed to it. It only took one more lawmaker to stop the health care bill in its tracks. Of course, the weekend provided an unexpected turn of events. While Republicans were scheduled to vote on health care this week, Sen. John McCain underwent surgery for a blood clot, an unforseen medical episode that required the senior senator from Arizona to stay at home and rest. McConnell announced Saturday night the bill would be delayed. Without McCain in town, McConnell had no chance of passing health care. Behind the scenes, leadership applied pressure. They asked Republican rank-and-filers to keep their powder dry and come quietly to them with any problems they had with the bill rather than battling it out in the press. The goal for leaders was to continue working through the week and lobby members privately, with the idea being to set up the vote once McCain came back to Washington. "At this point, every day without another 'no' is a small victory," a senior GOP aide told CNN Monday morning. A Lee aide told CNN that Lee did not inform McConnell or his office directly about his statement. And, the aide said that the closest that the Utah senator ever got to supporting the bill was "at most undecided." The simplest explanation for his public opposition: In Lee's opinion, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's amendment -- which gave insurers more flexibility to offer skimpier plans in the health care market -- didn't go far enough to reduce premiums. "In addition to not repealing all of the Obamacare taxes, it doesn't go far enough in lowering premiums for middle class families; nor does it create enough free space from the most costly Obamacare regulations," Lee said in a statement. As soon as the news was out Monday night that the bill was sunk, Republicans from Trump to the recovering McCain had advice on the best path forward. "The Congress must now return to regular order, hold hearings, receive input from members of both parties, and heed the recommendations of our nation's governors so that we can produce a bill that finally provides Americans with access to quality and affordable health care," McCain said in a statement. McConnell then said that he'd move forward with a procedural motion and make as the first amendment a 2015 repeal bill -- which was ultimately vetoed by President Barack Obama that had earned support two years ago even from senators who are wavering today. That legislation was meant to be a messaging exercise and when leadership briefly considered bringing it back up again earlier this year, there was widespread distaste for the idea. The plan would repeal Obamacare, but delay the repeal for two years. JUST WATCHED Collins to vote 'no' on GOP health-care bill Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Collins to vote 'no' on GOP health-care bill 01:18 So much has changed in a week Republican leaders unveiled their overhauled health care bill less than a week ago. GOP leadership aides were upbeat following a lengthy meeting last Thursday afternoon in McConnell's office when Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma worked with McConnell and his top aides to convince four Republicans from states that had expanded Medicaid under Obamacare that the bill would work for their constituents. After the meeting, the aides thought the votes were trending in their direction and that Rob Portman of Ohio, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, and Dean Heller of Nevada would come around. They were so relieved that soon after the meeting several of McConnell and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn's top leadership and health care aides joyfully bolted from their offices in the Capitol -- with supermarket-baked cookies and cakes in hand -- to celebrate the birthday of Eric Ueland, the bow-tied and cheerful staff director of the Senate Budget Committee who, like them, was deeply enmeshed in the intense and uncertain negotiations. It was a brief and welcomed sugary relief from the unrelenting pressure they had been under for months. Then came the weekend. In an attempt to win over a handful of skittish Republican governors, Vice President Mike Pence and Verma were dispatched to Rhode Island to the National Governors Association's summer meeting. But things went off the rails there. Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy, a Democrat, described Pence's outreach as "pretty atrocious" as the vice president tried to make the case to governors that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office was wrong about its estimate that 15 million people would lose health care over the next decade. Republicans weren't happy either. After a speech in which Pence claimed 60,000 disabled Ohioans were waiting to get health care, Ohio Gov. John Kasich's office openly dismissed the VP's numbers. It was unclear by the end of the meeting if Pence had done anything to convince Republican Brian Sandoval of Nevada to support the bill. Without Sandoval's blessing there were real questions as to whether Heller could back the plan. On Monday evening, things devolved even more. Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson , who had told reporters he'd vote "yes" to advance the GOP's health care bill last week, suddenly told reporters he was undecided. Johnson told reporters he'd come to question leadership after a report in The Washington Post cited an anonymous lobbyist saying that McConnell had been telling moderates that a change in the growth rate for Medicaid wouldn't actually go into effect. Johnson admitted he no longer was sure if he could support the motion to proceed to the health care bill. "You know I was strongly in favor of doing that last week before I read the comments by Sen. McConnell," Johnson said. "I've confirmed those from senators that those comments were made too so I find those comments very troubling, and I think that really does put in jeopardy the motion to proceed vote." Johnson called the comments "a real breach of trust." Of course, nothing in Washington is ever truly dead. One needs only to look back to March, when House Republicans pulled their health care bill from what would have been a failing vote, only to rebound and pass it two months later. On the triumphant day of passage, Trump hosted GOP congressmen at the White House for a victory celebration on a picture-perfect May afternoon — that now looks premature given the Senate bill was felled by dissension among several factions of the Senate Republican caucus. "We've developed a bond," Trump said at the time. "This has really brought the Republican Party together." ||||| President Donald Trump convened a strategy session over steak and succotash at the White House with senators Monday night, trying to plot an uphill path to repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a GOP alternative. He made an impassioned pitch on why Republicans needed to do it now — and the political peril they could face if they didn’t “repeal and replace” after promising to do it for years. He also vented about Democrats and the legislative process. “He basically said, if we don’t do this, we’re in trouble,” said one person briefed on the meeting. “That we have the Senate, House and White House, and we have to do it or we’re going to look terrible.” Story Continued Below Meanwhile, two senators — neither invited to the dinner — were simultaneously drafting statements saying that they couldn’t support the current Senate health care bill. They released the statements just after Trump’s White House meal concluded. Trump had no idea the statements were coming, according to several White House and congressional officials. His top aides were taken aback, and the White House was soon on the phone with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The abrupt collapse of the current plan blew up what the White House wanted for months and undoubtedly set back Republicans in their goal to overhaul President Barack Obama’s legislation. It certainly frustrated a number of the president’s top aides, who have negotiated to-the-letter certain packages for certain senators for a summer solution. The most reliable politics newsletter. Sign up for POLITICO Playbook and get the latest news, every morning — in your inbox. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. But Trump, who has not fretted over the details of the proposed legislation, seemed ready to try something else — trading rib-eye negotiations for his favorite pastime. Within an hour, Trump was back on Twitter, where he put forward a different idea — one he has posited privately for months — after talking to McConnell and top aides. “Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!” he tweeted. Trump is fine doing it that way, said one White House aide — as “long as something gets done.” To Trump, the Obamacare fight has always been about scoring a win. He doesn’t care nearly as much about the specifics, people close to him say, and hasn’t understood why legislators won’t just make deals and bring something, anything, to his desk. He has said publicly and privately he didn’t understand it would take this long. “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated,” Trump said in February. At a different point, he said only Middle East peace would be harder. Along the way, Trump has weighed various options, from not paying cost-sharing subsidies and letting the law implode to repealing it without a replacement — which he veered back to Monday night on Twitter. “He told us months ago we could just let it blow up and blame the Democrats,” said one activist who met with Trump at the White House. He praised the conservative version of the law passed through the House in a Rose Garden fête before trashing it as “mean” in a meeting with moderate senators. Earlier Monday evening, just after Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) announced their opposition, a White House official said the team would go back to working with individual members on the bill. There was no desire, this person said, to restart negotiations from scratch. White House officials said they purposely picked veteran lawmakers who they saw as allies to attend the dinner with Trump, not legislators they thought were on the fence. But the bill was already on a knife edge, with a vote delayed this week due to the absence of Arizona Sen. John McCain due to a medical procedure. Trump has privately wondered why legislators don’t seem to listen to him, and the blow from Moran and Lee illustrated the limits of the president’s capacity to master the art of the Washington deal. “None of the people at the dinner were the ones they should have been worried about,” said one person involved in the discussions. Trump allies have sometimes attacked Republicans the White House needs to support the bill. He has alienated some senators with his unorthodox tweets and his inattention to policy details, even as they have praised others on his staff. He has sometimes expressed a view that Democrats would like to work with Republicans, as he did Monday night, even though his staff harbors skepticism. “Why would Trump call McCain crusty Monday afternoon?” one White House official asked. “Because that’s the word that came to his brain.” According to several people briefed on the matter, Trump and McConnell were prepared to make similar statements Monday evening. But Trump pre-empted the Senate majority leader — sending a quick tweet that took even some of his staff by surprise. “There it is,” one aide said, two minutes after promising news within “an hour.” “Regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful,” McConnell said, in a missive from Don Stewart, his spokesman. A White House official, per usual policy, said Trump’s tweet would speak for itself. ||||| Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) delayed a vote on a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare until Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) recovers from surgery. (Reuters) Perhaps the two “no” votes from Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) would have been enough to sink the GOP health-care effort. Senate Republicans and virtually all political watchers have been cultivating a sense of suspense — who would be the third “no” vote? — when in fact there are likely, according to Collins, many more “no” votes (eight to 10, she said in TV interviews Sunday). Then a very public and simple barrier to passage emerged — Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) undetermined recuperation time. With two “no” votes already clinched, Senate GOP leaders could not even pretend to have sufficient support without McCain (who actually might be a “no” vote in the end). Now comes perhaps the death knell for Trumpcare: Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) both announced their opposition Monday night. To be clear, the Better Care Reconciliation Act was already at death’s door before McCain took ill and before Lee and Moran’s announcements. A handful of moderates continue to refuse to stomach huge Medicaid cuts. In an act of exceptional duplicity, McConnell reportedly told moderates not to worry about Medicaid cuts (presumably because Congress will never have the nerve to go through with them), which understandably angered conservatives. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson told a Wisconsin paper, “I am concerned about Leader McConnell’s comments to apparently some of my Republican colleagues — ‘Don’t worry about some of the Medicaid reforms, those are scheduled so far in the future they’ll never take effect.’ I’ve got to confirm those comments. … I think those comments are going to really put the motion to proceed in jeopardy, whether it’s on my part or others.” He continued: “Many of us, one of the main reasons we are willing to support a bill that doesn’t even come close to repealing Obamacare … was because at least we were devolving the management back to the states, and putting some level of sustainability into an unsustainable entitlement program. If our leader is basically saying don’t worry about it, we’ve designed it so that those reforms will never take effect, first of all, that’s a pretty significant breach of trust, and why support the bill then?” Additional time has never been an asset for the administration. The more time that passes, the more anger Team Trump seems to induce in wavering members. CNN reported: [Vice President] Pence and top Medicare and Medicaid administrator Seema Verma were deployed to Rhode Island over the weekend to meet with skeptical governors at the National Governors Association’s summer meeting. In private meetings, Pence and Verma tried to convince governors that the GOP’s health care bill would give them greater flexibility to design Medicaid programs that were better tailored to their needs. But the weekend didn’t go especially well for the administration. After a speech in which Pence claimed 60,000 disabled Ohioans were waiting to get care, a spokesman for Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich dismissed the claim as false on Twitter. [Connecticut Democratic Gov. Dan] Malloy described Pence’s private meeting with the governors Saturday as “pretty atrocious” as Pence encouraged governors to dismiss an unfavorable score from the Congressional Budget Office that showed 15 million Americans would lose Medicaid coverage over the next decade. And of course the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring on the newest version of the bill has yet to come out. Each time the CBO has produced a score, decried as fake by the White House, a spasm of concern has gripped the Republican caucus. Republicans get cold(er) feet with each reminder of how many people will lose insurance, be cut off from Medicaid and/or have to pay more for coverage. On the floor of the Senate, Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) needled Republicans, imploring them to use the time to secure a CBO score and to hold hearings on the bill. (He told Republicans they should “use this extra week, or extra weeks, to do what Republicans should have done a long time ago: hold public hearings. Allow the stakeholders to come in and express their concerns.” That idea likely sends shivers down the spines of most Republicans as they contemplate the parade of doctors, patients, insurers, advocates for the elderly and other witnesses who would come forward.) In sum, given the choice between holding up the Senate until McCain returns and changing at least two of the declared “no” votes, or moving on so as to avoid the agony of extended dismal coverage and the humiliation of a losing vote on the floor, wouldn’t Republicans rather proceed to the debt limit, the budget and tax reform? Let’s be candid: McConnell knows that forcing some of his members (especially Dean Heller of Nevada) to vote in support of a grossly unpopular bill would be a political death sentence. He cannot in his heart of hearts be thrilled with the prospect of a vote, especially one he will now almost certainly lose; all he need to do is show he tried everything possible. Initially, McConnell may have figured a ridiculously early deadline for a vote in July could have cleared the decks (win or lose), but now he has a ready-made excuse for ditching the whole exercise. Sure, they can come back to the bill — sometime. Gosh, if only McCain hadn’t gotten ill. Well, now we’ve got four “no” votes. Let a hundred excuses bloom. UPDATE: McCain has now chimed in with what amounts to a fifth “no” vote. In a written statement he declares, “One of the major problems with Obamacare was that it was written on a strict party-line basis and driven through Congress without a single Republican vote. As this law continues to crumble in Arizona and states across the country, we must not repeat the original mistakes that led to Obamacare’s failure.” He urges Congress to “return to regular order, hold hearings, receive input from members of both parties, and heed the recommendations of our nation’s governors so that we can produce a bill that finally provides Americans with access to quality and affordable health care.”

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Authorities found the body of Arkansas real estate agent Beverly Carter overnight, days after she vanished while showing a house to a prospective customer. Interested in ? Add as an interest to stay up to date on the latest news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Add Interest Carter's body was found in Cabot, Pulaski County Sheriff's Office Lt. Carl Minden told ABC News. The Little Rock suburb is located about 25 miles north of the house she was showing in Scott. Aaron Lewis, 33, has been apprehended and admitted to the kidnapping after being questioned by police, Minden said. Lewis did not admit to the slaying and did not provide any details about Carter's whereabouts, Minden said. Lewis is scheduled to appear in court this morning and faces a charge of capital murder, Minden said. Pulaski County Sheriffs Office Carter vanished Thursday after showing the home in Scott, a small community located in the central part of the state. Lewis was involved in a car accident Sunday, but he slipped away after being treated at a Little Rock hospital because authorities hadn’t yet received the warrant to arrest him. Pulaski County Sheriffs Office Following Carter’s disappearance, police and hundreds of her friends scoured the woods, searching for any sign of her. Carter, 50, is survived by her husband of more than 30 years, Carl, as well as two grown sons and four grandchildren, with another grandchild on the way. Get real-time updates as this story unfolds. To start, just "star" this story in ABC News' phone app. Download ABC News for iPhone here or ABC News for Android here. ||||| Arron Lewis being walked into court (Photo: Dan Grossman/THV 11 News) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- Pulaski County sheriff's deputies are reporting that they have located the body of missing real estate agent Beverly Carter, 49. As of 6:45 a.m. Tuesday, 33-year-old Arron Lewis is officially charged with capital murder of Carter. He was initially booked on a kidnapping charge and a parole hold for the Arkansas Department of Corrections. Lewis is also charged with robbery and four charges of possession of firearms by certain persons. A press conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. with the sheriff's office to share more information. THV11 will be there. After over 12 hours of interviewing by investigators, Lewis was transported and booked into the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility (PCRDF). Shortly after he was booked, investigators obtained information that led them to the 12100 block of Hwy 5 (Cabot city address in Pulaski County), which is the location of Argos Concrete Co., about 20 miles from where she reportedly disappeared. Investigators located Carter's body in a shallow grave on the property. Her family was then notified. Lewis was originally booked on kidnapping charges around 12:40 Tuesday morning for kidnapping and a parole violation on $1 million bond. In court Tuesday morning, Lewis pleaded not guilty to all charges and he is now being held with no bond. Beverly Carter murder suspect Arron Lewis speaks after his arraignment Tuesday morning. During his walk from the sheriff's office to the jail, Lewis made several statements including apologizing to Carter's family, and claiming of a co-defendant "Trevor", but authorities say that statement is unfounded and he is the only person charged in this case. Beverly Carter (Photo: PCSO) Search crews from all over the state were in Scott on Monday. "That was the location where she was last known to be so that was where we hedged our bet on searching," he added. "What we're trying to piece together is what is that connection; why did he pick Mrs. Carter? We don't know." THV11 has learned that Lewis is a former employee of Argos Concrete. The general manager said he worked for the company about 30-40 days before quitting about four weeks ago. Related Stories: Full Coverage: Investigation continues into disappearance of realtor http://on.kthv.com/1sxIsw5 Witnesses describe real estate suspect's arrest http://on.kthv.com/1vpJsBt TIMELINE: Arkansas realtor still missing; suspect in custody http://on.kthv.com/1sLcDjL LISTEN: 911 call reporting sighting of Arron Lewis http://on.kthv.com/1vqj4rh Arron Lewis, the man arrested for the kidnapping of real estate agent Beverly Carter, is being walked out of the Pulaski County Sheriff's deputies. Read or Share this story: http://on.kthv.com/YJKrzG

– Authorities have recovered the body of Beverly Carter, the Arkansas real estate agent who disappeared after showing a home Thursday. THV11 reports her body was found in a shallow grave on a property in Pulaski County; the AP describes the location as that of the Argos concrete company. Officials headed there after suspect Arron Lewis was questioned for 12 hours; authorities say he admitted to kidnapping Carter, ABC News reports, but not to murdering her, and he didn't say where she was. Lewis was booked into prison before investigators received information pointing to the property where Carter was buried, THV notes. Lewis' kidnapping charges are being changed to capital murder—but any link between Lewis and Carter remains mysterious.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Authorities found the body of Arkansas real estate agent Beverly Carter overnight, days after she vanished while showing a house to a prospective customer. Interested in ? Add as an interest to stay up to date on the latest news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Add Interest Carter's body was found in Cabot, Pulaski County Sheriff's Office Lt. Carl Minden told ABC News. The Little Rock suburb is located about 25 miles north of the house she was showing in Scott. Aaron Lewis, 33, has been apprehended and admitted to the kidnapping after being questioned by police, Minden said. Lewis did not admit to the slaying and did not provide any details about Carter's whereabouts, Minden said. Lewis is scheduled to appear in court this morning and faces a charge of capital murder, Minden said. Pulaski County Sheriffs Office Carter vanished Thursday after showing the home in Scott, a small community located in the central part of the state. Lewis was involved in a car accident Sunday, but he slipped away after being treated at a Little Rock hospital because authorities hadn’t yet received the warrant to arrest him. Pulaski County Sheriffs Office Following Carter’s disappearance, police and hundreds of her friends scoured the woods, searching for any sign of her. Carter, 50, is survived by her husband of more than 30 years, Carl, as well as two grown sons and four grandchildren, with another grandchild on the way. Get real-time updates as this story unfolds. To start, just "star" this story in ABC News' phone app. Download ABC News for iPhone here or ABC News for Android here. ||||| Arron Lewis being walked into court (Photo: Dan Grossman/THV 11 News) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- Pulaski County sheriff's deputies are reporting that they have located the body of missing real estate agent Beverly Carter, 49. As of 6:45 a.m. Tuesday, 33-year-old Arron Lewis is officially charged with capital murder of Carter. He was initially booked on a kidnapping charge and a parole hold for the Arkansas Department of Corrections. Lewis is also charged with robbery and four charges of possession of firearms by certain persons. A press conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. with the sheriff's office to share more information. THV11 will be there. After over 12 hours of interviewing by investigators, Lewis was transported and booked into the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility (PCRDF). Shortly after he was booked, investigators obtained information that led them to the 12100 block of Hwy 5 (Cabot city address in Pulaski County), which is the location of Argos Concrete Co., about 20 miles from where she reportedly disappeared. Investigators located Carter's body in a shallow grave on the property. Her family was then notified. Lewis was originally booked on kidnapping charges around 12:40 Tuesday morning for kidnapping and a parole violation on $1 million bond. In court Tuesday morning, Lewis pleaded not guilty to all charges and he is now being held with no bond. Beverly Carter murder suspect Arron Lewis speaks after his arraignment Tuesday morning. During his walk from the sheriff's office to the jail, Lewis made several statements including apologizing to Carter's family, and claiming of a co-defendant "Trevor", but authorities say that statement is unfounded and he is the only person charged in this case. Beverly Carter (Photo: PCSO) Search crews from all over the state were in Scott on Monday. "That was the location where she was last known to be so that was where we hedged our bet on searching," he added. "What we're trying to piece together is what is that connection; why did he pick Mrs. Carter? We don't know." THV11 has learned that Lewis is a former employee of Argos Concrete. The general manager said he worked for the company about 30-40 days before quitting about four weeks ago. Related Stories: Full Coverage: Investigation continues into disappearance of realtor http://on.kthv.com/1sxIsw5 Witnesses describe real estate suspect's arrest http://on.kthv.com/1vpJsBt TIMELINE: Arkansas realtor still missing; suspect in custody http://on.kthv.com/1sLcDjL LISTEN: 911 call reporting sighting of Arron Lewis http://on.kthv.com/1vqj4rh Arron Lewis, the man arrested for the kidnapping of real estate agent Beverly Carter, is being walked out of the Pulaski County Sheriff's deputies. Read or Share this story: http://on.kthv.com/YJKrzG

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has revealed that leader Kim Jong Un's younger sister is a senior official in the ruling Workers' Party, strengthening analysts' views that she is an increasingly important part of the family dynasty that runs the country. State media on Thursday referred to Kim Yo Jong as a departmental vice director within the party's Central Committee. Analysts say the mention could signal her growing role in supporting her brother's authoritarian rule. The siblings' late father, former leader Kim Jong Il, was seen as relying on his own sister during his 17-year rule. Outsiders closely study North Korea's opaque ruling power dynamics for clues about a secretive country that pursues nuclear weapons and threatens its neighbors with war. The Korean Central News Agency first referred to Kim Yo Jong as a senior official in the Central Committee in March, but this is the first time state media have specified her role. Yang Moo-jin, a North Korea expert at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said a departmental vice director is roughly equivalent to a vice Cabinet minister. The announcement of Kim Yo Jong's role shows that the government is now confident enough to introduce her as an important part of its leadership, Yang said. Cheong Seong-chang, an analyst at South Korea's private Sejong Institute, said Kim Yo Jong is likely to have greater influence than other departmental vice directors because she is a member of the Kim family. In establishing his sister in a senior role in the ruling party, Kim Jong Un is further strengthening his control of North Korea's power elite, Cheong said. Since taking over North Korea's leadership following the death of his father in 2011, Kim Jong Un has removed key members of the old guard. The process was highlighted by the 2013 execution of his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, the husband of Kim Jong Il's influential sister. Jang, who was once considered the second most powerful man in North Korea, was accused of treason. Kim Jong Un's most influential advisers now appear to be Choe Ryong Hae, the secretary of the party's Central Committee who recently visited Russia as a special envoy, and Hwang Pyong So, vice marshal of the Korean People's Army. ||||| Image copyright AFP Students in North Korea will have to complete a three-year course on the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, as part of their secondary school studies, it's been reported. The new course was introduced to the curriculum this year, according to South Korea's state-owned KBS World Radio website. The radio station says it has obtained a copy of the North Korean Education Committee's "compulsory education outline", which establishes "the history of Kim Jong-un as an official school subject". Schoolchildren will have to complete 81 hours of study over three years, the report says. There aren't yet any textbooks that could help them understand the leader's life, so classes are instead taught using materials from the ruling Workers' Party of Korea. "The classes are also said to be teaching Kim's quotes, theses and orders he gave to the ruling party and military," the website says. While there has been relatively little trace of a personality cult surrounding Kim Jong-un since he took power in December 2011, some observers say the new classes could signal the start of one. Children in the North's schools are already required to take courses on several key political personalities, including 160 hours of study on the country's founder, Kim Il-sung. Use #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter.

– First Kim Jong Un got rid of the cane—and now, in his latest reminder that he's the strong, all-powerful leader of North Korea, he's installed his sister in a Cabinet-level governmental position. The country's state media officially announced today that Kim Yo Jong has been named a departmental vice director within the Workers' Party's Central Committee, which some say could be a show of her increasing influence on her brother's administration, the AP reports. Rumored to be about 27, Kim Yo Jong had been referenced before as being involved with the party, but this announcement elevates her to a more senior level and positions her as the only relative of Kim Jong Un to hold an official governmental title, Reuters notes. The news agency adds that her appointment makes this the third generation that's involved somehow in the running of North Korea: The AP notes that her late father, Kim Jong Il, often confided in his own sister, Kim Kyong Hui, who used to be a vital part of the current regime, along with her husband (we all know how that turned out). Kim Yo Jong is said to have attended a Swiss boarding school with Kim Jong Un and another older brother, who doesn't have any role in government that's been officially acknowledged, Reuters notes. Her addition to the employment roster indicates Kim Jong Un trusts her just enough to help him keep the North Korean people in awe of their family's dynasty—a mission he's also apparently trying to accomplish by making secondary-school students study his life and times for three years in order to graduate, the BBC reports.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has revealed that leader Kim Jong Un's younger sister is a senior official in the ruling Workers' Party, strengthening analysts' views that she is an increasingly important part of the family dynasty that runs the country. State media on Thursday referred to Kim Yo Jong as a departmental vice director within the party's Central Committee. Analysts say the mention could signal her growing role in supporting her brother's authoritarian rule. The siblings' late father, former leader Kim Jong Il, was seen as relying on his own sister during his 17-year rule. Outsiders closely study North Korea's opaque ruling power dynamics for clues about a secretive country that pursues nuclear weapons and threatens its neighbors with war. The Korean Central News Agency first referred to Kim Yo Jong as a senior official in the Central Committee in March, but this is the first time state media have specified her role. Yang Moo-jin, a North Korea expert at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said a departmental vice director is roughly equivalent to a vice Cabinet minister. The announcement of Kim Yo Jong's role shows that the government is now confident enough to introduce her as an important part of its leadership, Yang said. Cheong Seong-chang, an analyst at South Korea's private Sejong Institute, said Kim Yo Jong is likely to have greater influence than other departmental vice directors because she is a member of the Kim family. In establishing his sister in a senior role in the ruling party, Kim Jong Un is further strengthening his control of North Korea's power elite, Cheong said. Since taking over North Korea's leadership following the death of his father in 2011, Kim Jong Un has removed key members of the old guard. The process was highlighted by the 2013 execution of his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, the husband of Kim Jong Il's influential sister. Jang, who was once considered the second most powerful man in North Korea, was accused of treason. Kim Jong Un's most influential advisers now appear to be Choe Ryong Hae, the secretary of the party's Central Committee who recently visited Russia as a special envoy, and Hwang Pyong So, vice marshal of the Korean People's Army. ||||| Image copyright AFP Students in North Korea will have to complete a three-year course on the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, as part of their secondary school studies, it's been reported. The new course was introduced to the curriculum this year, according to South Korea's state-owned KBS World Radio website. The radio station says it has obtained a copy of the North Korean Education Committee's "compulsory education outline", which establishes "the history of Kim Jong-un as an official school subject". Schoolchildren will have to complete 81 hours of study over three years, the report says. There aren't yet any textbooks that could help them understand the leader's life, so classes are instead taught using materials from the ruling Workers' Party of Korea. "The classes are also said to be teaching Kim's quotes, theses and orders he gave to the ruling party and military," the website says. While there has been relatively little trace of a personality cult surrounding Kim Jong-un since he took power in December 2011, some observers say the new classes could signal the start of one. Children in the North's schools are already required to take courses on several key political personalities, including 160 hours of study on the country's founder, Kim Il-sung. Use #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter.

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Vince Vaughn Arrested for DUI Mug Shot Released Vince Vaughn Arrested for DUI, Mug Shot Released EXCLUSIVE 12:26 PM PT -- Vince Vaughn's mug shot just got released, and it looks like he was taking his arrest in stride ... showing off a slight grin. Yearbook status much? 9:30 AM PT -- According to Manhattan Beach PD, Vaughn and his passenger were stopped at the checkpoint around 12:30 AM, and asked to step out of the vehicle. Cops say both men were uncooperative and, initially, refused to get out. Once they did, Vaughn was arrested around 1 AM and booked and cited for misdemeanor DUI, as well as obstructing an officer. His passenger was booked for obstruction and public intoxication. Both men posted bail and have been released. Vince Vaughn is in jail after an early morning bust for DUI ... TMZ has learned. According to law enforcement, the actor was booked into jail around 4 AM Sunday in Manhattan Beach, CA -- about 30 minutes south of Los Angeles. We're told Vaughn is still in custody right now. The details of his arrest are still unclear, but according to a source ... he was stopped at a checkpoint while driving with a passenger in his car. If charged, this would be Vaughn's first DUI offense. We've reached out to his reps ... no word back yet. ||||| Please enable Javascript to watch this video Actor Vince Vaughn was arrested early Sunday morning on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to authorities. Vaughn was stopped at a DUI checkpoint on Artesia Boulevard and Prospect Avenue, between Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach, around 12:30 a.m., according to Sgt. Matt Sabosky of the Manhattan Beach Police Department. The "Dodgeball" actor was subsequently arrested for driving under the influence and for resisting, delaying or obstructing officers, Sgt. Matt Sabosky said. An unidentified male passenger traveling with Vaughn was also arrested on charges of obstructing officers and public intoxication, Sabosky said. Additional details on the passenger were not immediately available. Regarding the charge of resisting officers, Sgt. Tim Zins, another spokesman for the Manhattan Beach Police Department, offered clarification later Sunday. He said Vaughn wasn't "fighting with officers, but more of delaying the investigation." "There was no officer use of force or anything like that," Zins said. Both men were taken to the Manhattan Beach Jail, and later left. Vaughn was issued a citation to appear in court, Sabosky stated. Details about Vaughn's bail weren't available Sunday morning. Representatives for Vaughn did not immediately respond to requests for comment. KTLA's Juan Flores contributed to this story.

– Vince Vaughn was arrested early Sunday and charged with a DUI, according to TMZ. The "Wedding Crashers" star and an unnamed male passenger were stopped at a checkpoint in Hermosa beach around 1 a.m. when authorities claim they were asked to step out of the vehicle and both allegedly were uncooperative after initially refusing the request. Per KTLA, Sgt. Matt Sabosky of the Manhattan Beach Police Department said Vaughn was placed under arrest for driving under the influence and for resisting, delaying or obstructing officers. His companion was also arrested on an obstructing charge. The men were booked in Manhattan Beach Jail and have since posted bail.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Vince Vaughn Arrested for DUI Mug Shot Released Vince Vaughn Arrested for DUI, Mug Shot Released EXCLUSIVE 12:26 PM PT -- Vince Vaughn's mug shot just got released, and it looks like he was taking his arrest in stride ... showing off a slight grin. Yearbook status much? 9:30 AM PT -- According to Manhattan Beach PD, Vaughn and his passenger were stopped at the checkpoint around 12:30 AM, and asked to step out of the vehicle. Cops say both men were uncooperative and, initially, refused to get out. Once they did, Vaughn was arrested around 1 AM and booked and cited for misdemeanor DUI, as well as obstructing an officer. His passenger was booked for obstruction and public intoxication. Both men posted bail and have been released. Vince Vaughn is in jail after an early morning bust for DUI ... TMZ has learned. According to law enforcement, the actor was booked into jail around 4 AM Sunday in Manhattan Beach, CA -- about 30 minutes south of Los Angeles. We're told Vaughn is still in custody right now. The details of his arrest are still unclear, but according to a source ... he was stopped at a checkpoint while driving with a passenger in his car. If charged, this would be Vaughn's first DUI offense. We've reached out to his reps ... no word back yet. ||||| Please enable Javascript to watch this video Actor Vince Vaughn was arrested early Sunday morning on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to authorities. Vaughn was stopped at a DUI checkpoint on Artesia Boulevard and Prospect Avenue, between Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach, around 12:30 a.m., according to Sgt. Matt Sabosky of the Manhattan Beach Police Department. The "Dodgeball" actor was subsequently arrested for driving under the influence and for resisting, delaying or obstructing officers, Sgt. Matt Sabosky said. An unidentified male passenger traveling with Vaughn was also arrested on charges of obstructing officers and public intoxication, Sabosky said. Additional details on the passenger were not immediately available. Regarding the charge of resisting officers, Sgt. Tim Zins, another spokesman for the Manhattan Beach Police Department, offered clarification later Sunday. He said Vaughn wasn't "fighting with officers, but more of delaying the investigation." "There was no officer use of force or anything like that," Zins said. Both men were taken to the Manhattan Beach Jail, and later left. Vaughn was issued a citation to appear in court, Sabosky stated. Details about Vaughn's bail weren't available Sunday morning. Representatives for Vaughn did not immediately respond to requests for comment. KTLA's Juan Flores contributed to this story.

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Alex Rodriguez may have to start serving a suspension as soon as it is announced rather than wait for a grievance to play out. FILE - In this July 15, 2013, file photo, New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez heads out to batting practice before a Class AA baseball game with the Trenton Thunder against the Reading Phillies... (Associated Press) FILE - In this June 22, 2010, file photo, New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez warms up before batting during a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix. After a week's worth of high drama,... (Associated Press) Major League Baseball may try to suspend A-Rod under its collective bargaining agreement instead of its drug rules, which would eliminate any chance of delaying a penalty until after the case goes to an arbitrator, The Associated Press has learned. Rodriguez has never been disciplined for a drug offense, and a first offender under baseball's Joint Drug Agreement is entitled to an automatic stay if the players' association files a grievance _ meaning the penalty is put on hold until after an arbitrator rules. While use of banned performance-enhancing substances falls under the drug agreement, MLB may argue other alleged violations are punishable under the labor contract, a person familiar with management's deliberations told the AP, speaking on condition of anonymity because no statements were authorized. Taking that action would prevent the New York Yankees third baseman from returning to the field, even if he recovers from a quadriceps injury cited by the team as the reason for keeping him on the disabled list. And merely threatening to use that provision might give MLB leverage to force a deal. The Yankees expect Rodriguez to be accused of recruiting other athletes for the clinic, of attempting to obstruct MLB's investigation, and of not being truthful with MLB in the past when he discussed his relationship with Dr. Anthony Galea, who pleaded guilty two years ago to a federal charge of bringing unapproved drugs into the United States from Canada. Four years ago, Rodriguez admitted using PEDs while with Texas from 2001-03. He has repeatedly denied using them since. Baseball has been investigating Rodriguez and other players since a January report in the Miami New Times alleging they received PEDs from Biogenesis of America, a closed anti-aging clinic on Florida. "We're still involved in the process of preparing for an eventual appeal in this matter," Rodriguez's lawyer, David Cornwell, said Monday on ESPN New York Radio. "My understanding is that the next step that is going to be taken is that the players' association and baseball will meet to discuss the investigation and baseball's focus on particular players. So we'll see how that process plays out. But at this point my understanding or my expectation is that we're going to be working through the process towards an appeal." Cornwell did not return an email seeking comment. Aside from the drug agreement, there is no automatic stay for suspensions under baseball's labor contract. Rodriguez could be punished under Article XII (B) of the Basic Agreement, which states: "Players may be disciplined for just cause for conduct that is materially detrimental or materially prejudicial to the best interests of baseball including, but not limited to, engaging in conduct in violation of federal, state or local law." If suspended under that section, Rodriguez would serve the penalty while a grievance is litigated before arbitrator Fredric Horowitz _ unless the union asks for a stay and the arbitrator grants one, which would be unusual under the grievance procedure. And baseball could always try to punish A-Rod on drug violations later. It would be difficult for Commissioner Bud Selig to remove the arbitrator from the process. A provision in Article XI gives the commissioner permission to rule instead of the arbitrator on a complaint "involving the preservation of the integrity of, or the maintenance of public confidence in, the game of baseball." But a letter from Selig that is Attachment 1 states: "I understand that the players' association has expressed concern that the commissioner might take some action pursuant to Article XI (A) (1) (b) of the Basic Agreement which could negate rights of players under the new Basic Agreement. While I have difficulty seeing that this is a real problem, I am quite willing to assure the association that the commissioner will take no such action." In addition, if Selig attempted to bypass the arbitrator, the union would have the right to reopen the labor contract with respect to that provision. Cornwell would not respond to a report in the New York Daily News on Monday that said Selig would not pursue a lifetime ban if Rodriguez accepted a suspension through 2014. "There's been all sorts of reports, all sorts of sources and all sorts of breaking news and breathless coverage, and I don't feel any need to respond to any of it," Cornwell told ESPN. In announcing Ryan Braun's 65-game suspension last week, MLB cited violations of both the labor contract and drug agreement. A person familiar with that deal, speaking on condition of anonymity because no statements were authorized, said 50 games of the penalty for the 2011 NL MVP were connected to Biogenesis. The additional 15 games stemmed from the Milwaukee outfielder's actions during the grievance that overturned his October 2011 positive test for testosterone. Cornwell represented Braun in the 2012 hearing before arbitrator Shyam Das, but said he was not involved in Braun's agreement to be suspended. Rodriguez, who turned 38 Saturday, has not played this season following hip surgery in January. The three-time AL MVP, fifth on the career list with 647 home runs, appeared to be on the verge of rejoining New York on July 22, but the Yankees said a day earlier that an MRI revealed a strained quadriceps. Rodriguez pushed to be activated last Friday, but the Yankees said he wouldn't even resume a minor league injury rehabilitation assignment until Aug. 1. Rodriguez then went on a New York radio station to criticize the team's decision. The Miami New Times story was prompted by information provided by Porter Fischer, an ex-Biogenesis employee. "What's been made public are various documents that a disgruntled ex-employee of Biogenesis allegedly stole. I would imagine we'll spend time talking with the arbitrators about the documents and things of that nature, their authenticity, their relevancy, the reliability," Cornwell told ESPN. Gary Smith, a spokesman for Fischer, responded in an email: "Cornwell can get in line with many others who want to attack Porter Fischer for exposing the truth and is left without support. He did it because it was the right thing to do." Also Monday, Toronto manager John Gibbons said he thinks Blue Jays outfielder Melky Cabrera won't be penalized. Cabrera, MVP of the 2012 All-Star game, was banned for 50 games last year for a positive testosterone test while with San Francisco. "We don't think anything's going to happen," Gibbons said. "We think, because he served his time, it's over with. I haven't given it much thought and the GM hasn't talked much about it." ___ AP Baseball Writer Janie McCauley and AP Sports Writer Tim Reynolds contributed to this report. ||||| After Alex Rodriguez's lawyer said his client would fight any discipline from Major League Baseball, a source familiar with discussions told ESPN's "Outside the Lines" Wednesday that A-Rod's representatives are now negotiating a possible settlement that could result in a lengthy suspension. The source said MLB officials have told Rodriguez's attorneys that they are willing to ban him for life, although sources said it was not clear commissioner Bud Selig was prepared to make such a move, knowing Rodriguez would fight it in arbitration. Several sources have told "Outside the Lines" that some MLB officials have pushed for a lifetime ban, saying they would rather force Rodriguez to defend himself than agree to a suspension that allows him play while he appeals. Rodriguez was presented with MLB's evidence in recent days, detailing what sources said were "volumes" of documents establishing a connection between Rodriguez and Biogenesis clinic founder Tony Bosch. Sources said MLB was also given evidence supporting accusations that Rodriguez attempted to coerce at least one witness in MLB's investigation. That accusation is the basis of MLB's argument that Rodriguez may be punished for his conduct, in addition to multiple violations of the game's joint drug agreement. MLB is apparently hoping that Rodriguez will accept a lengthy suspension that could keep him off the field through at least next season, without the time and trouble of an arbitration hearing. Rodriguez's attorney, David Cornwell, has consistently said they will fight any suspension. MLB is expected to issue suspensions for Rodriguez and other players connected to Bosch within the next few days. Most players are expected to accept 50-game suspensions -- the standard punishment for a first PED violation -- without appeal.

– Word from inside Major League Baseball is that Alex Rodriguez is facing a possible lifetime ban for his links to the Biogenesis performance-enhancing drug scandal, and the MLB has now begun negotiating a settlement with his legal team for a long suspension instead, ESPN and the New York Post report. The lifetime ban wouldn't necessarily stick, and sources say the MLB is trying to avoid the hassle of an inevitable appeal by A-Rod, whose lawyers have previously said they will fight any discipline. The suspension deal being considered could be close to a full season. If a settlement isn't reached, the MLB is looking at a tricky bit of legal maneuvering to keep A-Rod from playing while he awaits an appeal, the AP reports. If he is disciplined under the Joint Drug Agreement, his penalty is put on hold until after an arbitrator's ruling. But a source says the MLB may instead attempt to punish him under the labor contract, which would prevent him from playing. That threat might be enough to force his team to agree to a settlement, the details of which could be announced as soon as today.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Alex Rodriguez may have to start serving a suspension as soon as it is announced rather than wait for a grievance to play out. FILE - In this July 15, 2013, file photo, New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez heads out to batting practice before a Class AA baseball game with the Trenton Thunder against the Reading Phillies... (Associated Press) FILE - In this June 22, 2010, file photo, New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez warms up before batting during a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix. After a week's worth of high drama,... (Associated Press) Major League Baseball may try to suspend A-Rod under its collective bargaining agreement instead of its drug rules, which would eliminate any chance of delaying a penalty until after the case goes to an arbitrator, The Associated Press has learned. Rodriguez has never been disciplined for a drug offense, and a first offender under baseball's Joint Drug Agreement is entitled to an automatic stay if the players' association files a grievance _ meaning the penalty is put on hold until after an arbitrator rules. While use of banned performance-enhancing substances falls under the drug agreement, MLB may argue other alleged violations are punishable under the labor contract, a person familiar with management's deliberations told the AP, speaking on condition of anonymity because no statements were authorized. Taking that action would prevent the New York Yankees third baseman from returning to the field, even if he recovers from a quadriceps injury cited by the team as the reason for keeping him on the disabled list. And merely threatening to use that provision might give MLB leverage to force a deal. The Yankees expect Rodriguez to be accused of recruiting other athletes for the clinic, of attempting to obstruct MLB's investigation, and of not being truthful with MLB in the past when he discussed his relationship with Dr. Anthony Galea, who pleaded guilty two years ago to a federal charge of bringing unapproved drugs into the United States from Canada. Four years ago, Rodriguez admitted using PEDs while with Texas from 2001-03. He has repeatedly denied using them since. Baseball has been investigating Rodriguez and other players since a January report in the Miami New Times alleging they received PEDs from Biogenesis of America, a closed anti-aging clinic on Florida. "We're still involved in the process of preparing for an eventual appeal in this matter," Rodriguez's lawyer, David Cornwell, said Monday on ESPN New York Radio. "My understanding is that the next step that is going to be taken is that the players' association and baseball will meet to discuss the investigation and baseball's focus on particular players. So we'll see how that process plays out. But at this point my understanding or my expectation is that we're going to be working through the process towards an appeal." Cornwell did not return an email seeking comment. Aside from the drug agreement, there is no automatic stay for suspensions under baseball's labor contract. Rodriguez could be punished under Article XII (B) of the Basic Agreement, which states: "Players may be disciplined for just cause for conduct that is materially detrimental or materially prejudicial to the best interests of baseball including, but not limited to, engaging in conduct in violation of federal, state or local law." If suspended under that section, Rodriguez would serve the penalty while a grievance is litigated before arbitrator Fredric Horowitz _ unless the union asks for a stay and the arbitrator grants one, which would be unusual under the grievance procedure. And baseball could always try to punish A-Rod on drug violations later. It would be difficult for Commissioner Bud Selig to remove the arbitrator from the process. A provision in Article XI gives the commissioner permission to rule instead of the arbitrator on a complaint "involving the preservation of the integrity of, or the maintenance of public confidence in, the game of baseball." But a letter from Selig that is Attachment 1 states: "I understand that the players' association has expressed concern that the commissioner might take some action pursuant to Article XI (A) (1) (b) of the Basic Agreement which could negate rights of players under the new Basic Agreement. While I have difficulty seeing that this is a real problem, I am quite willing to assure the association that the commissioner will take no such action." In addition, if Selig attempted to bypass the arbitrator, the union would have the right to reopen the labor contract with respect to that provision. Cornwell would not respond to a report in the New York Daily News on Monday that said Selig would not pursue a lifetime ban if Rodriguez accepted a suspension through 2014. "There's been all sorts of reports, all sorts of sources and all sorts of breaking news and breathless coverage, and I don't feel any need to respond to any of it," Cornwell told ESPN. In announcing Ryan Braun's 65-game suspension last week, MLB cited violations of both the labor contract and drug agreement. A person familiar with that deal, speaking on condition of anonymity because no statements were authorized, said 50 games of the penalty for the 2011 NL MVP were connected to Biogenesis. The additional 15 games stemmed from the Milwaukee outfielder's actions during the grievance that overturned his October 2011 positive test for testosterone. Cornwell represented Braun in the 2012 hearing before arbitrator Shyam Das, but said he was not involved in Braun's agreement to be suspended. Rodriguez, who turned 38 Saturday, has not played this season following hip surgery in January. The three-time AL MVP, fifth on the career list with 647 home runs, appeared to be on the verge of rejoining New York on July 22, but the Yankees said a day earlier that an MRI revealed a strained quadriceps. Rodriguez pushed to be activated last Friday, but the Yankees said he wouldn't even resume a minor league injury rehabilitation assignment until Aug. 1. Rodriguez then went on a New York radio station to criticize the team's decision. The Miami New Times story was prompted by information provided by Porter Fischer, an ex-Biogenesis employee. "What's been made public are various documents that a disgruntled ex-employee of Biogenesis allegedly stole. I would imagine we'll spend time talking with the arbitrators about the documents and things of that nature, their authenticity, their relevancy, the reliability," Cornwell told ESPN. Gary Smith, a spokesman for Fischer, responded in an email: "Cornwell can get in line with many others who want to attack Porter Fischer for exposing the truth and is left without support. He did it because it was the right thing to do." Also Monday, Toronto manager John Gibbons said he thinks Blue Jays outfielder Melky Cabrera won't be penalized. Cabrera, MVP of the 2012 All-Star game, was banned for 50 games last year for a positive testosterone test while with San Francisco. "We don't think anything's going to happen," Gibbons said. "We think, because he served his time, it's over with. I haven't given it much thought and the GM hasn't talked much about it." ___ AP Baseball Writer Janie McCauley and AP Sports Writer Tim Reynolds contributed to this report. ||||| After Alex Rodriguez's lawyer said his client would fight any discipline from Major League Baseball, a source familiar with discussions told ESPN's "Outside the Lines" Wednesday that A-Rod's representatives are now negotiating a possible settlement that could result in a lengthy suspension. The source said MLB officials have told Rodriguez's attorneys that they are willing to ban him for life, although sources said it was not clear commissioner Bud Selig was prepared to make such a move, knowing Rodriguez would fight it in arbitration. Several sources have told "Outside the Lines" that some MLB officials have pushed for a lifetime ban, saying they would rather force Rodriguez to defend himself than agree to a suspension that allows him play while he appeals. Rodriguez was presented with MLB's evidence in recent days, detailing what sources said were "volumes" of documents establishing a connection between Rodriguez and Biogenesis clinic founder Tony Bosch. Sources said MLB was also given evidence supporting accusations that Rodriguez attempted to coerce at least one witness in MLB's investigation. That accusation is the basis of MLB's argument that Rodriguez may be punished for his conduct, in addition to multiple violations of the game's joint drug agreement. MLB is apparently hoping that Rodriguez will accept a lengthy suspension that could keep him off the field through at least next season, without the time and trouble of an arbitration hearing. Rodriguez's attorney, David Cornwell, has consistently said they will fight any suspension. MLB is expected to issue suspensions for Rodriguez and other players connected to Bosch within the next few days. Most players are expected to accept 50-game suspensions -- the standard punishment for a first PED violation -- without appeal.

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NEW YORK, New York -- Hillary Clinton unveiled her vision for the economy Monday, placing her focus squarely on boosting the middle class through a three-part plan to create jobs, reduce income inequality and hold financial institutions more accountable. "Previous generations of Americans built the greatest economy and strongest middle class the world has ever known on the promise of a basic bargain: if you work hard and do your part, you should be able to get ahead," she said in a speech at the New School, a progressive university in New York City. "But over the past several decades, that bargain has eroded. Our job is to make it strong again." Clinton, in the first major economic policy speech of her campaign, proposed expanding the workforce, especially for women, through both private and public investments, better benefits and lower healthcare costs for workers, and a reformed, more balanced tax code. Her goal, she said, was to create more "pathways" into the middle class. "The defining challenge of our time is clear," she said. "We must raise incomes for hard working Americans so they can afford a middle class life." Clinton drew a stark comparison with her counterparts on the Republican side of the race. She took aim first at Jeb Bush, who Clinton pounced on last week for saying that "people need to work longer hours" in an interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader. "Let him tell that to the nurse who stands on her feet all day, or the teacher who in that classroom or the trucker who drives all night," she said. "They do not need a lecture, they need a raise." But Bush was not talking about the work ethic of Americans. In a press conference with reporters after a town hall in Hudson, New Hampshire, he said that his words had been "taken out of context" and that he was referring to the need for people to have the opportunity for full-time work. "If we're going to grow the economy people need to stop being part-time workers, they need to have access to greater opportunities to work," Bush said. Clinton went on to attack by name Sen. Marco Rubio on his tax reform plan, calling it "bad economics" to cut taxes for the wealthy, and Gov. Scott Walker, whom she said has "made [his] name stomping on workers' rights." Walker will formally enter the race Monday night in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the site of his 2012 recall election victory. "I will fight back against these mean-spirited attacks," she said. Though Clinton made Republicans her main foil as she laid out her plans, she also differentiated herself from Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who has recently been gaining on her in the polls. Sanders' arguments for promoting economic fairness -- in part by reducing the amount of wealth going to the richest Americans -- are helping him to draw crowds numbering in the thousands at his campaign rallies. Sanders' definition of the "defining challenge" is different from Clinton's. He uses the phrase to describe the wealth gap between poor and working Americans and the wealthy and said in an interview with the Washington Post that he would sacrifice economic growth in favor of redistribution. Though narrowing that gap is part of the plan she described Monday, Clinton distinguished herself from Sanders by emphasizing that the middle class must rise along with corporate profits and executive compensation. Clinton proposed measures like raising the minimum wage and investing in an infrastructure bank to create jobs, both which Sanders also supports, but also talked about immigration as an "engine of strong growth" and called on companies to expand profit-sharing programs. And while Sanders has called definitively for a breakup of the big banks, Clinton introduced a more nuanced plan to regulate the financial industry. "We have to go beyond Dodd-Frank," she said. "Too-big-to-fail is still too big of a problem." Clinton said major financial institutions today are still "too complex" and that a "shadow banking system" of hedge funds and high frequency trading is creating new threats to American consumers. "While institutions have paid large fines and in some cases, admitted guilt, too often it has seemed that the human beings responsible get off with limited consequences or none at all," she said. "This is wrong and under my watch, it will change." Clinton laid the groundwork for a separate policy speech on Wall Street reform, as well as a series of more specific announcements in the coming weeks on other economic policies like wage growth, college affordability and paid leave. Clinton will travel to New Hampshire later this week, where she is expected to talk more about incentives to encourage corporate profit-sharing. CBS News' Catherine Cannon contributed to this report. ||||| The Justice Department is renewing its efforts to charge individuals in corporate investigations, seeking to address long-running criticism, particularly from Democrats, that they treat executive wrongdoing lightly. In the latest push, Justice Department officials issued a memo Wednesday to prosecutors outlining best practices and recommending that they only consider a company to have cooperated in an investigation if that company...

– Mitt Romney once said corporations are people, in the sense that their profits end up in people's pockets, and the Justice Department now agrees, in the sense that corporations are made up of people that it can prosecute. The department has launched a push to start punishing the people responsible for white-collar crimes instead of just the corporations they work for, reports the New York Times, which describes it as Attorney General Loretta Lynch's first major policy shift. "Corporations can only commit crimes through flesh-and-blood people," Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates tells the Times, saying those people need to be held responsible and "the public needs to have confidence that there is one system of justice and it applies equally regardless of whether that crime occurs on a street corner or in a boardroom." Federal prosecutors nationwide have been told to focus more on individual corporate execs and put more pressure on companies to turn over their names, the Wall Street Journal reports, although the new guidelines aren't binding and it's not clear whether they result in more white-collar wrongdoers being jailed. The Journal notes that the Justice Department shift follows heavy criticism of the Obama administration for punishing HSBC with a $1.9 billion fine for money laundering while failing to prosecute individuals involved. In July, Hillary Clinton said that too often, "the human beings responsible get off with limited consequences or none at all," per CBS News, and promised that would change under her administration.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.NEW YORK, New York -- Hillary Clinton unveiled her vision for the economy Monday, placing her focus squarely on boosting the middle class through a three-part plan to create jobs, reduce income inequality and hold financial institutions more accountable. "Previous generations of Americans built the greatest economy and strongest middle class the world has ever known on the promise of a basic bargain: if you work hard and do your part, you should be able to get ahead," she said in a speech at the New School, a progressive university in New York City. "But over the past several decades, that bargain has eroded. Our job is to make it strong again." Clinton, in the first major economic policy speech of her campaign, proposed expanding the workforce, especially for women, through both private and public investments, better benefits and lower healthcare costs for workers, and a reformed, more balanced tax code. Her goal, she said, was to create more "pathways" into the middle class. "The defining challenge of our time is clear," she said. "We must raise incomes for hard working Americans so they can afford a middle class life." Clinton drew a stark comparison with her counterparts on the Republican side of the race. She took aim first at Jeb Bush, who Clinton pounced on last week for saying that "people need to work longer hours" in an interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader. "Let him tell that to the nurse who stands on her feet all day, or the teacher who in that classroom or the trucker who drives all night," she said. "They do not need a lecture, they need a raise." But Bush was not talking about the work ethic of Americans. In a press conference with reporters after a town hall in Hudson, New Hampshire, he said that his words had been "taken out of context" and that he was referring to the need for people to have the opportunity for full-time work. "If we're going to grow the economy people need to stop being part-time workers, they need to have access to greater opportunities to work," Bush said. Clinton went on to attack by name Sen. Marco Rubio on his tax reform plan, calling it "bad economics" to cut taxes for the wealthy, and Gov. Scott Walker, whom she said has "made [his] name stomping on workers' rights." Walker will formally enter the race Monday night in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the site of his 2012 recall election victory. "I will fight back against these mean-spirited attacks," she said. Though Clinton made Republicans her main foil as she laid out her plans, she also differentiated herself from Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who has recently been gaining on her in the polls. Sanders' arguments for promoting economic fairness -- in part by reducing the amount of wealth going to the richest Americans -- are helping him to draw crowds numbering in the thousands at his campaign rallies. Sanders' definition of the "defining challenge" is different from Clinton's. He uses the phrase to describe the wealth gap between poor and working Americans and the wealthy and said in an interview with the Washington Post that he would sacrifice economic growth in favor of redistribution. Though narrowing that gap is part of the plan she described Monday, Clinton distinguished herself from Sanders by emphasizing that the middle class must rise along with corporate profits and executive compensation. Clinton proposed measures like raising the minimum wage and investing in an infrastructure bank to create jobs, both which Sanders also supports, but also talked about immigration as an "engine of strong growth" and called on companies to expand profit-sharing programs. And while Sanders has called definitively for a breakup of the big banks, Clinton introduced a more nuanced plan to regulate the financial industry. "We have to go beyond Dodd-Frank," she said. "Too-big-to-fail is still too big of a problem." Clinton said major financial institutions today are still "too complex" and that a "shadow banking system" of hedge funds and high frequency trading is creating new threats to American consumers. "While institutions have paid large fines and in some cases, admitted guilt, too often it has seemed that the human beings responsible get off with limited consequences or none at all," she said. "This is wrong and under my watch, it will change." Clinton laid the groundwork for a separate policy speech on Wall Street reform, as well as a series of more specific announcements in the coming weeks on other economic policies like wage growth, college affordability and paid leave. Clinton will travel to New Hampshire later this week, where she is expected to talk more about incentives to encourage corporate profit-sharing. CBS News' Catherine Cannon contributed to this report. ||||| The Justice Department is renewing its efforts to charge individuals in corporate investigations, seeking to address long-running criticism, particularly from Democrats, that they treat executive wrongdoing lightly. In the latest push, Justice Department officials issued a memo Wednesday to prosecutors outlining best practices and recommending that they only consider a company to have cooperated in an investigation if that company...

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CLEVELAND An Ohio man whose hoax distress call triggered a massive U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue mission on Lake Erie must pay $489,000 in restitution, a U.S. appeals court said Tuesday. Danik Kumar, a licensed pilot, told authorities in March 2012 he saw what he thought was a distress flare coming up from a boat as he flew over Lake Erie near Cleveland. When asked by Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport to take a closer look, Kumar did not see a vessel, but reported seeing more flares and a fishing boat with four people onboard wearing life jackets and active strobe lights, the opinion said. The 21-hour search included a 140-foot U.S. Coast Guard cutter, three smaller rescue boats, a rescue helicopter and a Canadian CC130 Hercules airplane. A month later, the then 19-year-old freshman at Bowling Green State University admitted to making a false report. Kumar pleaded guilty to making a false distress call. A federal judge sentenced Kumar to serve three months in prison and pay restitution of $277,000 to the U.S. Coast Guard and $212,000 to the Canadian Armed Forces. His attorneys had argued that Kumar was liable only for the search's direct costs to the U.S. Coast Guard, estimated by a defense expert at $118,000, and no Canadian Armed Forces costs. A panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the federal judge's rulings. One judge dissented in part, finding she would have ordered the district court to reduce the "inflated cost figure." Kumar has served his prison term, dropped out of school and may file another appeal, attorney Edmund Searby said Tuesday. "Like every other litigant, the government should be limited to actual losses," Searby said. "They are going to make him pay it off for decades." (Reporting by Kim Palmer; Editing by David Bailey, Bernard Orr) ||||| CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man who was 19 when he made a false distress call that triggered a massive, 21-hour search on Lake Erie must pay $489,000 in restitution to the U.S. and Canadian agencies involved in the needless rescue effort, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. In a 2-1 ruling, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati found that a lower court properly ordered 21-year-old Danik Kumar of Sandusky to pay for all costs associated with the March 2012 search, launched after he reported seeing a fishing boat with four people on board sending up flares on Lake Erie as he was flying a small plane overhead. About 70 personnel from the U.S. Coast Guard and the Canadian Coast Guard used three boats, a helicopter and a small plane before calling off the search. A month later, Kumar told investigators that though he originally thought he saw a single flare go up, he never saw a boat, according to court records. Kumar told investigators that he continued reporting a boat in distress for fear of sounding stupid and ruining his chances of becoming a Coast Guard aviator, court records say. After Kumar pleaded guilty to making a false distress call, federal Judge Sara Lioi sentenced him to three months in jail, and ordered him to pay $277,000 to the U.S. Coast Guard and $212,000 to the Canadian Coast Guard. In upholding Lioi's order, the 6th Circuit majority said that although the ruling is "an onerous burden on the shoulders of a young man," U.S. law was intended to deal harshly with hoaxes to help deter future ones. In a dissenting opinion, Judge Helene White wrote that the government's estimated cost of the search was too high and shouldn't have included indirect costs, such as payroll processing and building maintenance. Kumar's Cleveland attorney, Edmund Searby, said he's considering his appeal options. "It's just a sad story," he said. "I'm not defending what he did, but it's an awful large penalty to pay. ... He's never going to recover — on some level — from this." The government's prosecutor, Michelle Baeppler, argued that Kumar needed to be held responsible for every cost associated with the search, from the gas used in the boats and aircraft to maintenance and depreciation costs incurred from their use. "His claim that he should only have to pay for a few items ... is truly a simplistic and naive notion of the cost involved in conducting a search and rescue operation," Baeppler wrote. Searby never disputed that Kumar should pay restitution, but argued it shouldn't be any higher than $118,000. Searby said Kumar had to drop out of Bowling Green State University's aviation program and is figuring out what to do next. "Danik's dream has long been to be a pilot, but it's unclear now whether that dream can be realized," Searby said. "I'd hate for it to end like this." ___ Follow Amanda Lee Myers on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AmandaLeeAP

– When he was 19, Danik Kumar made a distress call that resulted in an unnecessary 21-hour, 70-person search on Lake Erie. The Ohio man, now 21, told emergency workers that, while flying a small plane, he'd spotted four people on a boat sending out flares. Seems that wasn't quite the case: The college freshman later told investigators the boat was a fiction, though he thought he had seen one flare. Now he'll have to pay $489,000 in restitution to the US and Canadian Coast Guards; he was also sentenced to three months in prison, the AP reports. Why not tell the truth? Kumar kept going with the more elaborate story because he worried he'd sound stupid otherwise, thus losing his shot at working for the Coast Guard, the AP reports. He pleaded guilty to a false call. A federal appeals court upheld the sentence: It may be "an onerous burden on the shoulders of a young man," but it's necessary to help prevent something like this from happening again."I'm not defending what he did, but it's an awful large penalty to pay," says Kumar's lawyer, who's considering a further appeal. "He's never going to recover—on some level—from this." He has already served his jail time and quit school, his lawyer says, via Reuters.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.CLEVELAND An Ohio man whose hoax distress call triggered a massive U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue mission on Lake Erie must pay $489,000 in restitution, a U.S. appeals court said Tuesday. Danik Kumar, a licensed pilot, told authorities in March 2012 he saw what he thought was a distress flare coming up from a boat as he flew over Lake Erie near Cleveland. When asked by Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport to take a closer look, Kumar did not see a vessel, but reported seeing more flares and a fishing boat with four people onboard wearing life jackets and active strobe lights, the opinion said. The 21-hour search included a 140-foot U.S. Coast Guard cutter, three smaller rescue boats, a rescue helicopter and a Canadian CC130 Hercules airplane. A month later, the then 19-year-old freshman at Bowling Green State University admitted to making a false report. Kumar pleaded guilty to making a false distress call. A federal judge sentenced Kumar to serve three months in prison and pay restitution of $277,000 to the U.S. Coast Guard and $212,000 to the Canadian Armed Forces. His attorneys had argued that Kumar was liable only for the search's direct costs to the U.S. Coast Guard, estimated by a defense expert at $118,000, and no Canadian Armed Forces costs. A panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the federal judge's rulings. One judge dissented in part, finding she would have ordered the district court to reduce the "inflated cost figure." Kumar has served his prison term, dropped out of school and may file another appeal, attorney Edmund Searby said Tuesday. "Like every other litigant, the government should be limited to actual losses," Searby said. "They are going to make him pay it off for decades." (Reporting by Kim Palmer; Editing by David Bailey, Bernard Orr) ||||| CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man who was 19 when he made a false distress call that triggered a massive, 21-hour search on Lake Erie must pay $489,000 in restitution to the U.S. and Canadian agencies involved in the needless rescue effort, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. In a 2-1 ruling, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati found that a lower court properly ordered 21-year-old Danik Kumar of Sandusky to pay for all costs associated with the March 2012 search, launched after he reported seeing a fishing boat with four people on board sending up flares on Lake Erie as he was flying a small plane overhead. About 70 personnel from the U.S. Coast Guard and the Canadian Coast Guard used three boats, a helicopter and a small plane before calling off the search. A month later, Kumar told investigators that though he originally thought he saw a single flare go up, he never saw a boat, according to court records. Kumar told investigators that he continued reporting a boat in distress for fear of sounding stupid and ruining his chances of becoming a Coast Guard aviator, court records say. After Kumar pleaded guilty to making a false distress call, federal Judge Sara Lioi sentenced him to three months in jail, and ordered him to pay $277,000 to the U.S. Coast Guard and $212,000 to the Canadian Coast Guard. In upholding Lioi's order, the 6th Circuit majority said that although the ruling is "an onerous burden on the shoulders of a young man," U.S. law was intended to deal harshly with hoaxes to help deter future ones. In a dissenting opinion, Judge Helene White wrote that the government's estimated cost of the search was too high and shouldn't have included indirect costs, such as payroll processing and building maintenance. Kumar's Cleveland attorney, Edmund Searby, said he's considering his appeal options. "It's just a sad story," he said. "I'm not defending what he did, but it's an awful large penalty to pay. ... He's never going to recover — on some level — from this." The government's prosecutor, Michelle Baeppler, argued that Kumar needed to be held responsible for every cost associated with the search, from the gas used in the boats and aircraft to maintenance and depreciation costs incurred from their use. "His claim that he should only have to pay for a few items ... is truly a simplistic and naive notion of the cost involved in conducting a search and rescue operation," Baeppler wrote. Searby never disputed that Kumar should pay restitution, but argued it shouldn't be any higher than $118,000. Searby said Kumar had to drop out of Bowling Green State University's aviation program and is figuring out what to do next. "Danik's dream has long been to be a pilot, but it's unclear now whether that dream can be realized," Searby said. "I'd hate for it to end like this." ___ Follow Amanda Lee Myers on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AmandaLeeAP

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Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Sep. 29, 2017, 12:31 PM GMT / Updated Sep. 29, 2017, 7:19 PM GMT By Adam Edelman The Justice Department is demanding that Facebook turn over information from three accounts that could provide access to the personal details of thousands of activists who expressed interest in anti-Trump rallies. The department obtained search warrants targeting three Facebook accounts that were used to organize Inauguration Day protests against Donald Trump, the ACLU said late Thursday. But accessing those accounts would provide information on thousands of other users who "liked" an anti-Trump Facebook page, the group explained. The ACLU’s Washington, D.C., office said in a statement it would fight the enforcement of the search warrants. "Opening up the entire contents of a personal Facebook page for review by the government is a gross invasion of privacy," said Scott Michelman, a senior staff attorney at ACLU. "When law enforcement officers can comb through records concerning political organizing in opposition to the very administration for which those officers work, the result is the chilling of First Amendment-protected political activity." The warrants were issued as part of an ongoing case by the Justice Department against people who allegedly broke laws while protesting Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration in Washington. Prosecutors have said the website, DisruptJ20.org, was used to organize "a violent riot." A person holds up a sign in protest before the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump at Freedom Plaza in Washington on Jan. 20, 2017. Joshua Lott / AFP - Getty Images file One search warrant was issued for the DisruptJ20 Facebook page, which has since been renamed Resist This, requiring the group’s moderator, Emmelia Talarico, to hand over "nonpublic lists of people who planned to attend political organizing events and even the names of people who simply liked, followed, reacted to, commented o or otherwise engaged with the content on the Facebook page," the ACLU said in a motion filed Thursday in U.S. Superior Court in Washington. That could include nearly 6,000 Facebook users who "liked" the page from Nov. 1, 2016, to Feb. 9, 2017. Two other warrants obtained by the Justice Department would require Facebook to hand over "all information from the personal Facebook profiles of local DisruptJ20 activists' Lacy MacAuley and Legba Carrefour from Nov. 1, 2016, through Feb. 9, 2017. The warrants demand "all private messages, friend lists, status updates, comments, photos, video and other private information solely intended for the users’ Facebook friends and family, even if they have nothing to do with Inauguration Day," the ACLU said. A Facebook spokesperson wouldn't comment on whether the company would comply with the warrants but said the company had "successfully fought in court to be able to notify the three people whose broad account information was requested by the government." ||||| The ACLU-DC is trying to stop three search warrants that’d let the Department of Justice snoop around protesters’ Facebook accounts over Inauguration Day protests. They filed in D.C. Superior Court on Thursday, saying the government’s demands violate the Fourth Amendment because they are so broad, and threatening First Amendment speech. These warrants ask for too much information not directly relevant to the federal probe, argues the ACLU. This includes information on the plaintiffs’ friends, associates, and the approximately 6000 individuals who just “liked” an anti-Donald Trump Facebook page. Requested data would go back to Nov. 1, 2016, a week before the presidential election. “The warrants make no provision for avoiding or minimizing invasions into personal and associational/expression information, for preventing such information from being shared widely within the government, or for destroying irrelevant material when the investigation is concluded,” said the ACLU filing. In other words, this might chill First Amendment speech by giving the government means to observe anyone who were simply linked to anti-Trump protesters. This fight stems from arrests made Jan. 20. Demonstrators came to Washington D.C. to protest President Donald Trump‘s inauguration, and over 200 ended up getting charged with felony rioting. In investigating the alleged criminality, the federal government later got three search warrants from the D.C. Superior Court against three Facebook accounts: the disruptj20 page (now known as Resist This) owned by Emmelia Talarico, and personal accounts owned by Lacy MacAuley, and Legba Carrefour. According to the ACLU, these people didn’t initially know about warrants because of a gag order. Facebook fought this gag order, which was later dropped by the government shortly before the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled on it. Talarico, MacAuley, and Carrefour hadn’t even been charged with Inauguration Day-related arrested by the US Attorney, said the ACLU. The DOJ declined to comment. The government previously tried to get their hands on the IP addresses of 1.3 million people who visited the DisruptJ20.org website. DreamHost, the hosting provider, was served a search warrant, which they fought in court. The DOJ amended their demand in August to now omitting the digital address of visitors, and unpublished posts hosted on the site. A court took this further, by placing more restrictions on investigators. Officials must explain how information will be reviewed, show how they will abstain from collecting prohibited information, and abstain from sharing and publishing collected information, even with other government agencies. The DOJ is appealing these restrictions. DreamHost, who was ordered to hand over the information under this new court decision, was mulling over whether to appeal as well. [Screengrab via BBC] ||||| Washington (CNN) Trump administration lawyers are demanding the private account information of potentially thousands of Facebook users in three separate search warrants served on the social media giant, according to court documents obtained by CNN. The warrants specifically target the accounts of three Facebook users who are described by their attorneys as "anti-administration activists who have spoken out at organized events, and who are generally very critical of this administration's policies." One of those users, Emmelia Talarico, operated the disruptj20 page where Inauguration Day protests were organized and discussed; the page was visited by an estimated 6,000 users whose identities the government would have access to if Facebook hands over the information sought in the search warrants. In court filings, Talarico says if her account information was given to the government, officials would have access to her "personal passwords, security questions and answers, and credit card information," plus "the private lists of invitees and attendees to multiple political events sponsored by the page." These warrants were first reported by LawNewz.com Facebook went through seven months of legal proceedings so it could make all three of the Facebook users aware that the government attorneys wanted their online details. Read More

– Attorneys for the Department of Justice filed search warrants in February to access the Facebook accounts of three people described as "anti-administration activists," CNN reports. According to NBC News, not only would the search warrants give the government access to—as the ACLU puts it—"all private messages, friend lists, status updates, comments, photos, video, and other private information" of those three individuals but also the names of approximately 6,000 people who "liked" an anti-Trump protest page run by one of them. Facebook spent seven months fighting the government in court to be able to inform the users—Emmelia Talarico, Lacy MacAuley, and Legba Carrefour—about the search warrants, winning that argument this month. With the search warrants now public, the ACLU filed in defense of the three Facebook users Thursday, LawNewz reports. The Department of Justice is seeking access to the trio's Facebook accounts in connection with the arrests of hundreds of protesters during President Trump's inauguration. But the ACLU claims the search warrants violate the Fourth Amendment by being too broad and could chill free speech. "Opening up the entire contents of a personal Facebook page for review by the government is a gross invasion of privacy," a senior staff attorney at the ACLU tells NBC. Not only that but access to a protest Facebook page run by Talarico could give the government the names of thousands of people interest in anti-Trump protests, opening them up to government observation. The ACLU is seeking to quash the search warrants.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Sep. 29, 2017, 12:31 PM GMT / Updated Sep. 29, 2017, 7:19 PM GMT By Adam Edelman The Justice Department is demanding that Facebook turn over information from three accounts that could provide access to the personal details of thousands of activists who expressed interest in anti-Trump rallies. The department obtained search warrants targeting three Facebook accounts that were used to organize Inauguration Day protests against Donald Trump, the ACLU said late Thursday. But accessing those accounts would provide information on thousands of other users who "liked" an anti-Trump Facebook page, the group explained. The ACLU’s Washington, D.C., office said in a statement it would fight the enforcement of the search warrants. "Opening up the entire contents of a personal Facebook page for review by the government is a gross invasion of privacy," said Scott Michelman, a senior staff attorney at ACLU. "When law enforcement officers can comb through records concerning political organizing in opposition to the very administration for which those officers work, the result is the chilling of First Amendment-protected political activity." The warrants were issued as part of an ongoing case by the Justice Department against people who allegedly broke laws while protesting Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration in Washington. Prosecutors have said the website, DisruptJ20.org, was used to organize "a violent riot." A person holds up a sign in protest before the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump at Freedom Plaza in Washington on Jan. 20, 2017. Joshua Lott / AFP - Getty Images file One search warrant was issued for the DisruptJ20 Facebook page, which has since been renamed Resist This, requiring the group’s moderator, Emmelia Talarico, to hand over "nonpublic lists of people who planned to attend political organizing events and even the names of people who simply liked, followed, reacted to, commented o or otherwise engaged with the content on the Facebook page," the ACLU said in a motion filed Thursday in U.S. Superior Court in Washington. That could include nearly 6,000 Facebook users who "liked" the page from Nov. 1, 2016, to Feb. 9, 2017. Two other warrants obtained by the Justice Department would require Facebook to hand over "all information from the personal Facebook profiles of local DisruptJ20 activists' Lacy MacAuley and Legba Carrefour from Nov. 1, 2016, through Feb. 9, 2017. The warrants demand "all private messages, friend lists, status updates, comments, photos, video and other private information solely intended for the users’ Facebook friends and family, even if they have nothing to do with Inauguration Day," the ACLU said. A Facebook spokesperson wouldn't comment on whether the company would comply with the warrants but said the company had "successfully fought in court to be able to notify the three people whose broad account information was requested by the government." ||||| The ACLU-DC is trying to stop three search warrants that’d let the Department of Justice snoop around protesters’ Facebook accounts over Inauguration Day protests. They filed in D.C. Superior Court on Thursday, saying the government’s demands violate the Fourth Amendment because they are so broad, and threatening First Amendment speech. These warrants ask for too much information not directly relevant to the federal probe, argues the ACLU. This includes information on the plaintiffs’ friends, associates, and the approximately 6000 individuals who just “liked” an anti-Donald Trump Facebook page. Requested data would go back to Nov. 1, 2016, a week before the presidential election. “The warrants make no provision for avoiding or minimizing invasions into personal and associational/expression information, for preventing such information from being shared widely within the government, or for destroying irrelevant material when the investigation is concluded,” said the ACLU filing. In other words, this might chill First Amendment speech by giving the government means to observe anyone who were simply linked to anti-Trump protesters. This fight stems from arrests made Jan. 20. Demonstrators came to Washington D.C. to protest President Donald Trump‘s inauguration, and over 200 ended up getting charged with felony rioting. In investigating the alleged criminality, the federal government later got three search warrants from the D.C. Superior Court against three Facebook accounts: the disruptj20 page (now known as Resist This) owned by Emmelia Talarico, and personal accounts owned by Lacy MacAuley, and Legba Carrefour. According to the ACLU, these people didn’t initially know about warrants because of a gag order. Facebook fought this gag order, which was later dropped by the government shortly before the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled on it. Talarico, MacAuley, and Carrefour hadn’t even been charged with Inauguration Day-related arrested by the US Attorney, said the ACLU. The DOJ declined to comment. The government previously tried to get their hands on the IP addresses of 1.3 million people who visited the DisruptJ20.org website. DreamHost, the hosting provider, was served a search warrant, which they fought in court. The DOJ amended their demand in August to now omitting the digital address of visitors, and unpublished posts hosted on the site. A court took this further, by placing more restrictions on investigators. Officials must explain how information will be reviewed, show how they will abstain from collecting prohibited information, and abstain from sharing and publishing collected information, even with other government agencies. The DOJ is appealing these restrictions. DreamHost, who was ordered to hand over the information under this new court decision, was mulling over whether to appeal as well. [Screengrab via BBC] ||||| Washington (CNN) Trump administration lawyers are demanding the private account information of potentially thousands of Facebook users in three separate search warrants served on the social media giant, according to court documents obtained by CNN. The warrants specifically target the accounts of three Facebook users who are described by their attorneys as "anti-administration activists who have spoken out at organized events, and who are generally very critical of this administration's policies." One of those users, Emmelia Talarico, operated the disruptj20 page where Inauguration Day protests were organized and discussed; the page was visited by an estimated 6,000 users whose identities the government would have access to if Facebook hands over the information sought in the search warrants. In court filings, Talarico says if her account information was given to the government, officials would have access to her "personal passwords, security questions and answers, and credit card information," plus "the private lists of invitees and attendees to multiple political events sponsored by the page." These warrants were first reported by LawNewz.com Facebook went through seven months of legal proceedings so it could make all three of the Facebook users aware that the government attorneys wanted their online details. Read More

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Aaron Sorkin's last two films have been adaptations of books about a game changing tech mogul and a dynamic personality who wasn't afraid to think differently to achieve success. Which makes him a very logical choice to take on the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic. According to the LA Times, the TV and film vet is amongst Sony's top choices to adapt Walter Isaacson's new biography of the late Apple co-founder, who died earlier this month. The studio purchased the film rights to the book shortly thereafter and have made the project a high priority. An Oscar winner for his spitfire take on Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of Facebook in "The Social Network" and one of the pens behind this fall's "Moneyball," the story of Oakland A's general manager Bill Beane's newage, statistical approach to the game of baseball, Sorkin does big personalities well. He created and wrote many of the best episodes of the White House drama, "The West Wing," while also writing the political comedy "Charlie Wilson's War," and the dramas "The American President" and "A Few Good Men." For more, click over to the LA Times . For details from the Isaacson book, click here ||||| If you're going to turn a non-idiotic book into a non-idiotic movie, and the central character is some kind of against-the-grain man, then you can only turn to one person for help with this script: Aaron Sorkin. It worked great for Social Network, it worked okay enough for Moneyball, and now Sony's approaching Sorkin to adapt Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, according to the L.A. Times. Sorkin's a longtime Apple loyalist (even though he hates the Internet with a mighty passion), and he and Jobs knew each other, which could nudge the script into hagiography territory, especially this close to Jobs's death. Too bad Aaron Sorkin is the only writer in Hollywood. [24 Frames/LAT] ||||| “Why don’t you come on up here and let me give you a tour of the place.” I’d never met Steve Jobs but we’d begun a phone friendship. It began when I was quoted somewhere answering the question “Mac or PC?” and I said, “Everything I’ve ever written, I’ve written on a Mac.” He called me to say he appreciated the quote and said if there was ever anything he could do for me I should give him a ring. Then he would call me from time to time to compliment me on an episode of television or a movie I’d written that he’d particularly liked. When someone’s making a courtesy call I like not to make them stay on the phone very long. So I never got a chance to tell Steve that he was making truly great American products that people wanted to buy. I never got to tell him about the experience of “opening the box” that so many of us are talking about this week. Or about how my young daughter can’t walk past an Apple store without going in. I never told him how I loved his sense of showmanship. There’s a huge difference between a showman and huckster. A showman’s got the goods. The second-to-last call I got from Steve came the day a television series of mine was canceled. “I just want to make sure you’re not discouraged,” he said. Why would an almost stranger take even 60 seconds out of his day to make that call? It had to have been because he was an awfully nice man. And that he knew what it felt like to blow it on a big stage. But it’s his last call I’ll always remember. He wanted me to write a Pixar movie. I told him I loved Pixar movies, I’d seen all of them at least twice and felt they were small miracles, but that I didn’t think I’d be good at it. STEVE: Why not? ME: I just—I don’t think I can make inanimate objects talk. STEVE: Once you make them talk they won’t be inanimate. ME: The truth is I don’t know how to tell those stories. I have a young kid who loves Pixar movies and she’ll turn cartwheels if I tell her I’m writing one and I don’t want to disappoint her by writing the only bad movie in the history of Pixar. (long silence) Clockwise from top left: Louie Psihoyos / Corbis; Getty Images (5); Newsweek Archives STEVE: Jeez ... write about THAT. ME: Steve— STEVE: Why don’t you come up here and let me give you a tour of the place.

– Sony is making a Steve Jobs movie based on the biography by Walter Isaacson, and none other than Social Network scribe Aaron Sorkin is being courted to write it, the Los Angeles Times reports. A source says Sorkin is considering the idea, but neither Sorkin nor Sony gave an official comment. Still, it seems like a good fit: LA Times: “Sorkin is known for penning stories about the lives of fiercely smart, if difficult, figures, of which Jobs certainly was one. Isaacson's take on the late executive as someone whose penchant for ‘magical thinking’ was both a great advantage and a fatal liability seems particularly suited to a Sorkin script.” New York: “If you're going to turn a non-idiotic book into a non-idiotic movie, and the central character is some kind of against-the-grain man, then you can only turn to one person for help with this script: Aaron Sorkin. It worked great for Social Network, it worked OK enough for Moneyball.” Huffington Post: “Aaron Sorkin's last two films have been adaptations of books about a game changing tech mogul and a dynamic personality who wasn't afraid to think differently to achieve success. Which makes him a very logical choice to take on the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic.” Plus, Sorkin was a longtime Apple fan, and Steve Jobs himself once asked him to write a Pixar movie—a request Sorkin declined.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Aaron Sorkin's last two films have been adaptations of books about a game changing tech mogul and a dynamic personality who wasn't afraid to think differently to achieve success. Which makes him a very logical choice to take on the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic. According to the LA Times, the TV and film vet is amongst Sony's top choices to adapt Walter Isaacson's new biography of the late Apple co-founder, who died earlier this month. The studio purchased the film rights to the book shortly thereafter and have made the project a high priority. An Oscar winner for his spitfire take on Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of Facebook in "The Social Network" and one of the pens behind this fall's "Moneyball," the story of Oakland A's general manager Bill Beane's newage, statistical approach to the game of baseball, Sorkin does big personalities well. He created and wrote many of the best episodes of the White House drama, "The West Wing," while also writing the political comedy "Charlie Wilson's War," and the dramas "The American President" and "A Few Good Men." For more, click over to the LA Times . For details from the Isaacson book, click here ||||| If you're going to turn a non-idiotic book into a non-idiotic movie, and the central character is some kind of against-the-grain man, then you can only turn to one person for help with this script: Aaron Sorkin. It worked great for Social Network, it worked okay enough for Moneyball, and now Sony's approaching Sorkin to adapt Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, according to the L.A. Times. Sorkin's a longtime Apple loyalist (even though he hates the Internet with a mighty passion), and he and Jobs knew each other, which could nudge the script into hagiography territory, especially this close to Jobs's death. Too bad Aaron Sorkin is the only writer in Hollywood. [24 Frames/LAT] ||||| “Why don’t you come on up here and let me give you a tour of the place.” I’d never met Steve Jobs but we’d begun a phone friendship. It began when I was quoted somewhere answering the question “Mac or PC?” and I said, “Everything I’ve ever written, I’ve written on a Mac.” He called me to say he appreciated the quote and said if there was ever anything he could do for me I should give him a ring. Then he would call me from time to time to compliment me on an episode of television or a movie I’d written that he’d particularly liked. When someone’s making a courtesy call I like not to make them stay on the phone very long. So I never got a chance to tell Steve that he was making truly great American products that people wanted to buy. I never got to tell him about the experience of “opening the box” that so many of us are talking about this week. Or about how my young daughter can’t walk past an Apple store without going in. I never told him how I loved his sense of showmanship. There’s a huge difference between a showman and huckster. A showman’s got the goods. The second-to-last call I got from Steve came the day a television series of mine was canceled. “I just want to make sure you’re not discouraged,” he said. Why would an almost stranger take even 60 seconds out of his day to make that call? It had to have been because he was an awfully nice man. And that he knew what it felt like to blow it on a big stage. But it’s his last call I’ll always remember. He wanted me to write a Pixar movie. I told him I loved Pixar movies, I’d seen all of them at least twice and felt they were small miracles, but that I didn’t think I’d be good at it. STEVE: Why not? ME: I just—I don’t think I can make inanimate objects talk. STEVE: Once you make them talk they won’t be inanimate. ME: The truth is I don’t know how to tell those stories. I have a young kid who loves Pixar movies and she’ll turn cartwheels if I tell her I’m writing one and I don’t want to disappoint her by writing the only bad movie in the history of Pixar. (long silence) Clockwise from top left: Louie Psihoyos / Corbis; Getty Images (5); Newsweek Archives STEVE: Jeez ... write about THAT. ME: Steve— STEVE: Why don’t you come up here and let me give you a tour of the place.

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PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Portland city leaders are considering a plan to build tiny houses for homeless people to help get them off the streets. The tiny houses would be about 200 square feet and look a lot like the ones at The Caravan Tiny House Hotel in northeast Portland. Brad Gibson and Karen Timmerman lived on the streets for five years before they found an affordable apartment. But if city leaders get their way, homeless people will have a faster and better option — micro communities. Michael Withey, who represents Micro Community Concepts, pitched the idea to Portland City Council. The houses would be built on surplus city lands, and residents would pay rent between $250 and $350 per month. Withey said the project is self-sustaining. “Half the rents we collect from these homes will go into a fund to fund the next microcommunity that will help the next set of people that need help,” he said. The tiny homes, however, would need a tiny bit of startup cash – probably in the neighborhood of $1 million. Mayor Charlie Hales’ team said they don’t yet know where it would come from. “Whether it’s city money, state money or federal money, we’re going to try and get creative and figure out all the places where we can bring money into this to try different kinds of pilots for different kinds of housing needs,” said Josh Alpert, strategic initiatives director. Gibson and Timmerman fully support the tiny homes as an intermediate step to stability, but they also said it won’t replace emergency homeless camps because “people on the street do need a place to go.” The concept is still in the very early stages, and the city has formed a task force to examine it. They’ll meet for the first time in two weeks. ||||| With an estimated 2,000 of its residents sleeping under bridges, on streets and in empty lots in a variety of makeshift shelters, the city of Portland, Oregon, is on a quest to provide more safe housing for those without a permanent address. Thinking beyond typical dorm-style shelters, it has launched a task force that will meet September 4th "to assess the viability of using tiny homes as a potential for housing houseless people," says Josh Alpert, Director of Strategic Initiatives for Mayor Charlie Hales. Alpert hopes the first batch of homes will be ready for occupancy by late February 2015. The mayor's office began looking into the idea of micro homes in June after housing advocate Michael Withey presented an idea to the city council based on designs by architecture firm TechDwell. Alpert says he envisions a pilot program in which up to ten structures are erected on four separate city-owned lots. The idea is to establish the micro communities in various neighborhoods "so that no one area is feeling overburdened," Alpert adds. TechDwell The tiny houses will be selected through a request-for-proposals process and will hinge on two key factors: cost and the ability to meet city and county building codes. Tim Cornell of TechDwell, who has already met with Alpert to discuss his prototype, says he can deliver micro homes that sleep two people and have bathrooms and kitchens built-in for $20,000 each. His FlexDwell prototype (shown at right) measures 16 feet wide and 12 feet deep and features a sloped ceiling that is 12-ft. high in front. Made of prefab materials available at Home Depot and Lowe's, it includes two sleeping pods joined by a kitchen, bathroom and eating area. To save space, the bathroom shares a sink with the kitchen. "We could have them built on-site in 45 days" after an order is placed, Cornell says. Because the tiny houses offer dwellers more privacy than big shelters, they may appeal to people who are reluctant to give up the sense of independence that comes from living on the street. The micro homes could also be cheaper than temporary emergency shelters, which cost up to $16,000 a year and lack plumbing. "If there is a potential to get even one person off the streets, it's worth trying," says Alpert. "Simply having a roof over their head may enable them to springboard into finding a job."

– It isn't cheap for Portland, Ore., to house its sizable homeless population. An emergency shelter room costs $16,000 a year and lacks basic plumbing, and there aren't enough rooms to prevent 2,000 people from setting up shelters under bridges, on sidewalks, and in abandoned lots throughout the city on any given night. So Mayor Charlie Hales' office is trying to get creative and think outside the standard dorm shelter box: The current top idea under consideration is providing micro-homes for minimal rent to help people get off the streets and into jobs. A task force meets next week to "assess the viability of using tiny homes as a potential for housing houseless people," the director of strategic initiatives tells Time, adding that he hopes the first homes will be ready as soon as February 2015. Architectural firm TechDwell has already pitched an idea for a two-person dwelling made out of prefab materials, featuring separate entrances and sleeping areas and a common kitchen and bathroom. The price tag: $20,000. Each person would have roughly 100 square feet of living space, with the pilot program putting up to 10 structures on four city lots. Residents would pay around $250 to $350 a month in rent, and after an initial $1 million outlay, the project would be self-sustaining, reports KPTV. (Meanwhile, in China, one family appears to have been thrown out of its house with no explanation.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Portland city leaders are considering a plan to build tiny houses for homeless people to help get them off the streets. The tiny houses would be about 200 square feet and look a lot like the ones at The Caravan Tiny House Hotel in northeast Portland. Brad Gibson and Karen Timmerman lived on the streets for five years before they found an affordable apartment. But if city leaders get their way, homeless people will have a faster and better option — micro communities. Michael Withey, who represents Micro Community Concepts, pitched the idea to Portland City Council. The houses would be built on surplus city lands, and residents would pay rent between $250 and $350 per month. Withey said the project is self-sustaining. “Half the rents we collect from these homes will go into a fund to fund the next microcommunity that will help the next set of people that need help,” he said. The tiny homes, however, would need a tiny bit of startup cash – probably in the neighborhood of $1 million. Mayor Charlie Hales’ team said they don’t yet know where it would come from. “Whether it’s city money, state money or federal money, we’re going to try and get creative and figure out all the places where we can bring money into this to try different kinds of pilots for different kinds of housing needs,” said Josh Alpert, strategic initiatives director. Gibson and Timmerman fully support the tiny homes as an intermediate step to stability, but they also said it won’t replace emergency homeless camps because “people on the street do need a place to go.” The concept is still in the very early stages, and the city has formed a task force to examine it. They’ll meet for the first time in two weeks. ||||| With an estimated 2,000 of its residents sleeping under bridges, on streets and in empty lots in a variety of makeshift shelters, the city of Portland, Oregon, is on a quest to provide more safe housing for those without a permanent address. Thinking beyond typical dorm-style shelters, it has launched a task force that will meet September 4th "to assess the viability of using tiny homes as a potential for housing houseless people," says Josh Alpert, Director of Strategic Initiatives for Mayor Charlie Hales. Alpert hopes the first batch of homes will be ready for occupancy by late February 2015. The mayor's office began looking into the idea of micro homes in June after housing advocate Michael Withey presented an idea to the city council based on designs by architecture firm TechDwell. Alpert says he envisions a pilot program in which up to ten structures are erected on four separate city-owned lots. The idea is to establish the micro communities in various neighborhoods "so that no one area is feeling overburdened," Alpert adds. TechDwell The tiny houses will be selected through a request-for-proposals process and will hinge on two key factors: cost and the ability to meet city and county building codes. Tim Cornell of TechDwell, who has already met with Alpert to discuss his prototype, says he can deliver micro homes that sleep two people and have bathrooms and kitchens built-in for $20,000 each. His FlexDwell prototype (shown at right) measures 16 feet wide and 12 feet deep and features a sloped ceiling that is 12-ft. high in front. Made of prefab materials available at Home Depot and Lowe's, it includes two sleeping pods joined by a kitchen, bathroom and eating area. To save space, the bathroom shares a sink with the kitchen. "We could have them built on-site in 45 days" after an order is placed, Cornell says. Because the tiny houses offer dwellers more privacy than big shelters, they may appeal to people who are reluctant to give up the sense of independence that comes from living on the street. The micro homes could also be cheaper than temporary emergency shelters, which cost up to $16,000 a year and lack plumbing. "If there is a potential to get even one person off the streets, it's worth trying," says Alpert. "Simply having a roof over their head may enable them to springboard into finding a job."

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An alleged jewellery store robber who says he kissed a hostage out of compassion was tracked down through his DNA, a Paris newspaper reports. He and another man were said to have seized an employee of the store in the French capital last April, holding her in her home, says Le Parisien. Tying her up, they poured water on her, saying it was petrol, and threatened to burn her if she did not co-operate. Detectives later traced the DNA from the woman's cheek to the suspect. Now in prison in the south of France for separate offences, the suspect, 22, said he had kissed her to "relieve her trauma", an unnamed police source told Le Parisien. Two masked men seized the woman outside her home before forcing her inside. They frightened her into divulging the codes of the alarm system and the safes in the unnamed jewellery store, in Paris's eastern 20th arrondissement. One of the gang then went to the store and robbed it while the other man stayed with the woman, who was held for four hours. Once freed, the store employee alerted police and a DNA sample was taken, which finally led to the suspect in his prison cell in the Nimes area on 22 January. France saw a spate of jewellery store robberies last year, ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.

– Ah, l'amour. Police have captured an admitted jewel thief in Paris, and all because he made the last-second mistake of planting a kiss on his hostage. In April the 20-year-old, identified only as "Pierre G," and an accomplice allegedly followed a 56-year-old jewelry store employee home, where they tied her to a chair. They then poured water over her head, saying that it was gasoline and threatening to burn her if she didn't give them the store's alarm codes, the BBC and Telegraph report. The woman talked, and Pierre's accomplice went to swipe the jewels while he stayed with the hostage. He untied her four hours later—and gave her a parting kiss on the cheek, in what police called "a sign of compassion after the terrible ordeal she'd just been through." The woman called the police immediately, and they swabbed her cheek for DNA. Months later they got a match, and on January 22 they arrested the suspect. He admitted the deed, and said he'd kissed the woman to "ease her trauma."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.An alleged jewellery store robber who says he kissed a hostage out of compassion was tracked down through his DNA, a Paris newspaper reports. He and another man were said to have seized an employee of the store in the French capital last April, holding her in her home, says Le Parisien. Tying her up, they poured water on her, saying it was petrol, and threatened to burn her if she did not co-operate. Detectives later traced the DNA from the woman's cheek to the suspect. Now in prison in the south of France for separate offences, the suspect, 22, said he had kissed her to "relieve her trauma", an unnamed police source told Le Parisien. Two masked men seized the woman outside her home before forcing her inside. They frightened her into divulging the codes of the alarm system and the safes in the unnamed jewellery store, in Paris's eastern 20th arrondissement. One of the gang then went to the store and robbed it while the other man stayed with the woman, who was held for four hours. Once freed, the store employee alerted police and a DNA sample was taken, which finally led to the suspect in his prison cell in the Nimes area on 22 January. France saw a spate of jewellery store robberies last year, ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.

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Pippa Middleton and Boyfriend Split: Reports Bauer-Griffin Pippa is single!That's the news out of England, where Duchess Catherine 's younger sister, Pippa Middleton, is said to have broken up with boyfriend Alex Loudon, who accompanied her to the Royal Wedding in April."It is common knowledge in their close circle of friends that Pippa and Alex have recently split up," a friend is quoted as telling the Times of London Middleton's newfound celebrity put a strain on the relationship, though the pair will "stay good friends," the Sun reports.Loudon, 30, is a former professional cricket player turned broker.Lately, Middleton, 27, has been spending quite a bit of time with George Percy, an old roommate from her college days.She and Percy, the son of the Duke of Northumberland, recently partied in Spain together and also watched some tennis together at the Queens Club. ||||| Pip Pip Hooray! To the delight of thousands of men on this side of the pond and the other, Pippa Middleton has split from her British beau, Alex Loudon, according to People Loudon, 30, who was Middleton's lucky plus one at the royal wedding, is a broker who once dabbled in the world of professional cricket playing. But Middleton's new found, royal by association celebrity proved to be too much for the British bloke. The pair reportedly parted ways in May."It is common knowledge in their close circle of friends that Pippa and Alex have recently split up," a friend of the ex-couple told the Times of London But just because Middleton won't be settling down with this former sportsman anytime soon doesn't mean she's totally on the market. Middleton has been spending time with ex-boyfriend, George Percy, the son of the Duke Northumberland. They were spotted together recently at the Queens Club taking in a tennis match.

– Pippa Middleton's social schedule is generating intense speculation about who, if anyone, she's dating. The young woman who wowed the world with her sensational turn as sister Kate Middleton's maid of honor is sparking speculation about whether she's still romantically linked with cricket-star-turned-banker Alex Loudon. She's been seen around town, and in Spain, with former flame George Percy, son of the Duke of Northumberland, one of Britain's richest men. Which, of course, led Britain's newspapers to report that she and Loudon have separated since they have not been seen in public together for several weeks. "It is common knowledge in their close circle of friends that Pippa and Alex have recently split up," a friend explains, according to the Times of London. People has jumped on the "they're done" bandwagon, and reports that her newfound fame is to blame. Click for more on the reported split.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Pippa Middleton and Boyfriend Split: Reports Bauer-Griffin Pippa is single!That's the news out of England, where Duchess Catherine 's younger sister, Pippa Middleton, is said to have broken up with boyfriend Alex Loudon, who accompanied her to the Royal Wedding in April."It is common knowledge in their close circle of friends that Pippa and Alex have recently split up," a friend is quoted as telling the Times of London Middleton's newfound celebrity put a strain on the relationship, though the pair will "stay good friends," the Sun reports.Loudon, 30, is a former professional cricket player turned broker.Lately, Middleton, 27, has been spending quite a bit of time with George Percy, an old roommate from her college days.She and Percy, the son of the Duke of Northumberland, recently partied in Spain together and also watched some tennis together at the Queens Club. ||||| Pip Pip Hooray! To the delight of thousands of men on this side of the pond and the other, Pippa Middleton has split from her British beau, Alex Loudon, according to People Loudon, 30, who was Middleton's lucky plus one at the royal wedding, is a broker who once dabbled in the world of professional cricket playing. But Middleton's new found, royal by association celebrity proved to be too much for the British bloke. The pair reportedly parted ways in May."It is common knowledge in their close circle of friends that Pippa and Alex have recently split up," a friend of the ex-couple told the Times of London But just because Middleton won't be settling down with this former sportsman anytime soon doesn't mean she's totally on the market. Middleton has been spending time with ex-boyfriend, George Percy, the son of the Duke Northumberland. They were spotted together recently at the Queens Club taking in a tennis match.

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As 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse stormed theaters over the long weekend, critics took aim at billboards featuring Oscar Isaac’s Apocalypse choking Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique. Among them was Rose McGowan, who elaborated on a May 25 Facebook post to THR: "There is a major problem when the men and women at 20th Century Fox think casual violence against women is the way to market a film. There is no context in the ad, just a woman getting strangled. The fact that no one flagged this is offensive and frankly, stupid. The geniuses behind this, and I use that term lightly, need to to take a long hard look at the mirror and see how they are contributing to society. Imagine if it were a black man being strangled by a white man, or a gay male being strangled by a hetero? The outcry would be enormous. So let’s right this wrong. 20th Century Fox, since you can’t manage to put any women directors on your slate for the next two years, how about you at least replace your ad?" She continued: "I’ll close with a text my friend sent, a conversation with his daughter. It follows: ‘My daughter and I were just having a deep discussion on the brutality of that hideous X-Men poster yesterday. Her words: 'Dad, why is that monster man committing violence against a woman?' This from a 9-year-old. If she can see it, why can’t Fox?" In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox apologized for the billboard: "In our enthusiasm to show the villainy of the character Apocalypse we didn’t immediately recognize the upsetting connotation of this image in print form. Once we realized how insensitive it was, we quickly took steps to remove those materials. We apologize for our actions and would never condone violence against women." The image has met with criticism on the East Coast as well. New York blogger EV Grieve posted a photo of the poster above a subway station in the city at First Avenue and 14th Street that had been covered with eight pieces of paper that connected to say, "This violence in my kid's face is not okay." "I do see it as problematic," says Jennifer McCleary-Sills, director of gender violence and rights for the International Center for Research on Women, a global research institute that seeks to empower women, advance gender equality and fight poverty in the developing world. "I understand that some might not see it as an issue because it is a film about violence … with male and female characters who are warriors and fighting each other as equals." She continued that even though the image depicts a fictitious scene in a fantasy film and features characters who are "mutants," it can still have an affect on anyone who sees it. "Here's the thing: Where do we draw the line?" she asks. "They morph into humans and most of their interactions are similar to what humans would have while as mutants. … The fantasy life can involve violence against women, and that shows how normalized it is. The argument that it shouldn't be offensive because they are mutants doesn't hold any water, … and what really is the challenge here is the intentionality of it. You could have chosen any from the thousands of images, but you chose this one. Whose attention did you want to get and to what end?" She adds that the "striking image" of Apocalypse choking Mystique is a reminder of how violence against women is used as a default and "seen as sexy for all the wrong reasons." "There are no silver bullets," McCleary-Sills adds. "I'm glad that a bit of a stink has been raised about this and that people are being provoked to think about why this image isn't OK and why [the studio] could've done better." Devin Faraci, editor-in-chief of the blog Birth.Movies.Death agrees, calling the billboard "tone deaf as hell." "Images of violence against women are pretty common in the X-Men universe, which is a pretty violent universe. The problem is taking this one image out of context and having it be an image that is not fantastical in nature. Setting aside that Apocalypse and Mystique look like Smurfs, it's just an image of a big guy choking out a smaller woman. I have wracked my brains trying to come up with an example of a marketing image like this featuring two men, and I've come up empty," he tells THR. Should the studio have picked another image? Writer and editor Jay Edidin, an X-Men expert who is one half of the podcast “Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men," says "unquestionably." "It's gratuitous, it's offensive in completely useless ways. Offensive isn't always necessarily bad, but this is offensive in ways that serve absolutely no purpose, and while it does depict a scene from the actual film, it's also a terrible representation of the movie as a whole," Edidin notes. June 3, 12 pm Updated with Fox statement. A version of this story first appeared in the June 10 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. ||||| By the way Here, you'll find things that you may or may not be interested in about the East Village and other parts of New York City. Appreciating what's here while it's still here. Remembering what's no longer here. Wishing some things weren't here that are here. ||||| Fox was doing so well with the Deadpool marketing and then this happened. Clearly, it seems like a no-brainer to capitalize on the film’s biggest stars for the last marketing push for X-Men: Apocalypse but this image is grossly problematic. Yes, you have a power struggle on display between Oscar Issac as the film’s villain Apocalypse and Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique but it’s also an image of Lawrence at her most disempowered. To most this poster might not seem like a problem but that is the problem. While we should know better, the truth is that we don’t. It’s perfectly plausible that it was ok’d simply because it showcases their most bankable stars and this shot in the film might be the only time they’re face to face. So no, my first reaction isn’t to raise a pitchfork and charge after Fox, I still want to see this movie but more than anger I felt embarrassment for them because they also didn’t see the problem. In terms of advertising it just means the number of people’s eyes seeing it and thinking, “Cool, new X-Men movie”. And that goes to show how much as a society we’ve been conditioned by advertising to be unconsciously misogynistic. On some level the image probably makes most women uncomfortable if not down right angry. It sends the message that the outdated use of violence against women is still very much seen as totally cool to use to sell a movie. It’s not. Out of context this still is cringe-worthy because it doesn’t show the complexities of how this goes down. By the looks of the latest X-Men: Apocalypse trailer, it seems like we are very much getting an X-Men team led by Mystique, the first time a woman is at the forefront of any Marvel team-up on film. That’s awesome and promising. The use of the scene in the trailer, which the image is taken from, in context makes sense. Mystique leads a charge against Apocalypse after he takes Charles Xavier (Who also gets his ass kicked in a scene too, why wasn’t that used?) and ends up in the position in question. Maybe right after it she kicks his ass or the young mutants work together to help her. We don’t know but the moment is more effective in the trailer to show Apocalypse’s cruelty and makes me want to see the movie. In a building sized ad without context it made me say, “What the fuck?” because it shows complete disregard and disrespect toward a female audience. This powerful image of the villain choking out the heroine is selling the stakes on the sort of exploitative representation that women are tired of seeing. Frankly, it’s also inappropriate for kids to be exposed to the imagery in such a public way. The huge error on Fox’s part continues a practice that doesn’t reflect it’s whole movie going audience in the best light. They need to own up to it. It’s not going to be silently and submissively accepted anymore. It should be known that we’re beyond that. Its also tiring but necessary to explain to people who don’t see the problem why it’s a problem. And it’s generally guys who don’t think it’s a problem and can’t see why it is. Simply put: it’s okay for women (your friends & relatives) to have a problem with this sorta thing because it shows us in a light that we don’t want to continue to be seen anymore in things we love to watch too. It isn’t meant to take those things away or to change them so it’s no longer what you love. And if this is meant to advertise to the sort of people who love to consume seeing women as weak in a power-play imagery, then that’s a huge encouraging misstep on the wrong side of history. I’d like to think that continuing to talk about this will enlighten people who don’t see it that way to put themselves in the shoes of fellow fans who don’t want to be depicted as lesser to sell tickets or to stir up controversy and talk for the film to cause buzz. It’s just a reminder that the old status quo isn’t gonna fly anymore because audiences are getting smarter, more diverse and beginning to outnumber those who don’t want to recognize voices outside of their own. ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. Photo: Marvel Comics Total Nerd Things You Should Know About X-Men: Apocalypse Ranker Comics 848k views 26 items Follow We live in an age of superhero movies. It's truly a wonderful time to be a comic book fan, but the last thing we want is for every movie to look and feel the same and for the superhero bubble to burst. Fortunately for us X-Men: Apocalypse is shaping up to be a comic book adaptation like no other! This movie is not only introducing one of the more complex villains in all of comic lore it's also bringing us the young iterations of the classic X-Men. This film is simultaneously setting up a new universe of X-Men (with Cyclops, Jean, Storm etc.) while it's wrapping up both the old franchises (Mystique, Older Magneto/Xavier etc.)! If done right this film has the potential to be not only an incredible film, but the truest adaptation of the X-Men to the screen we've seen yet. Remember the '90s X-Men animated series? (Of course you do! if you don't it's on Netflix, stop everything and go!) This looks to be that wonderful vibe, complete with the mall and Jubilee's bright yellow jacket! Needless to say we're excited. So we wanted to learn as much as we could about the project and where it stands now, then share all of that with you. These are the best fun facts about X-Men: Apocalypse ! Vote up the fact your most excited about below! 1 We May Finally See All Of The X-Men Powers Used To Their Full Potential Photo: via Tumblr The world (the real one) grows more and more accepting of the fantastical nature of superhero films with each new movie. After 15 years of these movies it seems we may finally get a full comic adaptation out of the X-Men films. Lucas Till, who plays Havoc, kept mentioning his Dragon Ball Z kamehameha training in prep for Havoc's energy blast and we're stoked to finally see it done right (and see the brotherly dynamic between him and Cyclops). The world (the real one) grows more and more accepting of the fantastical nature of superhero films with each new movie. After 15 years of these movies it seems we may finally get a full comic adaptation out of the X-Men films. Lucas Till, who plays Havoc, kept mentioning hiskamehameha training in prep for Havoc's energy blast and we're stoked to finally see it done right (and see the brotherly dynamic between him and Cyclops). Things You Should Know About Marvel Studios' Phase 3 The Top Animated Sex Symbols 2 Xavier Finally Has A Shaved Head Photo: via Tumblr In his third go at the character, James McAvoy finally got to rock the iconic shaved head of Charles Xavier. He thought he'd be bald when cast in X-Men: First Class and would stay that way onward, so he was very excited to finally get to do it in this film. In his third go at the character, James McAvoy finally got to rock the iconic shaved head of Charles Xavier. He thought he'd be bald when cast inand would stay that way onward, so he was very excited to finally get to do it in this film. 3 So Much Blue Photo: via Tumblr This is the first film ever to feature all of the major blue mutants! Mystique, Beast, and Nightcrawler all have major parts in the film. In the comics, it's later revealed that Mystique is Nightcrawler's mother - perhaps they will work that into the film. This is the first film ever to feature all of the major blue mutants! Mystique, Beast, and Nightcrawler all have major parts in the film. In the comics, it's later revealed that Mystique is Nightcrawler's mother - perhaps they will work that into the film. 32 Things You Didn't Know About Wolverine 7 Mythical Creatures That Were Found in Real Life

– Billboards advertising X-Men: Apocalypse are raising hackles because they depict a scene in the superhero movie in which the villain, Apocalypse, played by Oscar Isaac, chokes the character Mystique, played by Jennifer Lawrence. "There is a major problem when the men and women at 20th Century Fox think casual violence against women is the way to market a film. There is no context in the ad, just a woman getting strangled," actress Rose McGowan tells the Hollywood Reporter, though the billboard does also include the name of the movie, its release date, and the tagline, "Only the strong will survive." (THR has a picture of it.) "Imagine if it were a black man being strangled by a white man, or a gay male being strangled by a hetero?" McGowan continues. "The outcry would be enormous." She's not the only one upset: New York blog EV Grieve posted a picture last month of one of the X-Men subway ads, upon which someone had posted the words, "This violence in my kid's face is not OK." "I recently passed two billboards for the new X-Men: Apocalypse movie along 880-N, and IT WAS NOT OKAY," reads a Facebook post from Kelly Morgen that McGowan shared. "I felt angry, uncomfortable, and shocked to see a frightened woman being choked by a man." "The problem is taking this one image out of context and having it be an image that is not fantastical in nature. Setting aside that Apocalypse and Mystique look like Smurfs, it's just an image of a big guy choking out a smaller woman," movie blogger Devin Faraci tells THR. "I have wracked my brains trying to come up with an example of a marketing image like this featuring two men, and I've come up empty." Sample of the unhappiness on Twitter: "Choosing the scene where Apocalypse throttles Mystique to plaster over promo posters was unecessary, insensitive & imho a dumb plot reveal," writes @chriscrowing. Sample of the rebuttals on Twitter: "What kind of bizarre broken mind do you have to have to think Apocalypse and Mystique represent 'men' and 'women' as concepts," writes @TheSickDork. But that argument doesn't' hold any water, women's rights activist Jennifer McCleary-Sills tells THR. "Where do we draw the line?" she says. The characters are mutants, sure, but "they morph into humans and most of their interactions are similar to what humans would have while as mutants. … The fantasy life can involve violence against women, and that shows how normalized it is." "To most this poster might not seem like a problem but that is the problem," writes Sabina Ibarra at Legion of Leia. "[It] goes to show how much as a society we’ve been conditioned by advertising to be unconsciously misogynistic." (Here are 26 things to know about the movie.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.As 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse stormed theaters over the long weekend, critics took aim at billboards featuring Oscar Isaac’s Apocalypse choking Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique. Among them was Rose McGowan, who elaborated on a May 25 Facebook post to THR: "There is a major problem when the men and women at 20th Century Fox think casual violence against women is the way to market a film. There is no context in the ad, just a woman getting strangled. The fact that no one flagged this is offensive and frankly, stupid. The geniuses behind this, and I use that term lightly, need to to take a long hard look at the mirror and see how they are contributing to society. Imagine if it were a black man being strangled by a white man, or a gay male being strangled by a hetero? The outcry would be enormous. So let’s right this wrong. 20th Century Fox, since you can’t manage to put any women directors on your slate for the next two years, how about you at least replace your ad?" She continued: "I’ll close with a text my friend sent, a conversation with his daughter. It follows: ‘My daughter and I were just having a deep discussion on the brutality of that hideous X-Men poster yesterday. Her words: 'Dad, why is that monster man committing violence against a woman?' This from a 9-year-old. If she can see it, why can’t Fox?" In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox apologized for the billboard: "In our enthusiasm to show the villainy of the character Apocalypse we didn’t immediately recognize the upsetting connotation of this image in print form. Once we realized how insensitive it was, we quickly took steps to remove those materials. We apologize for our actions and would never condone violence against women." The image has met with criticism on the East Coast as well. New York blogger EV Grieve posted a photo of the poster above a subway station in the city at First Avenue and 14th Street that had been covered with eight pieces of paper that connected to say, "This violence in my kid's face is not okay." "I do see it as problematic," says Jennifer McCleary-Sills, director of gender violence and rights for the International Center for Research on Women, a global research institute that seeks to empower women, advance gender equality and fight poverty in the developing world. "I understand that some might not see it as an issue because it is a film about violence … with male and female characters who are warriors and fighting each other as equals." She continued that even though the image depicts a fictitious scene in a fantasy film and features characters who are "mutants," it can still have an affect on anyone who sees it. "Here's the thing: Where do we draw the line?" she asks. "They morph into humans and most of their interactions are similar to what humans would have while as mutants. … The fantasy life can involve violence against women, and that shows how normalized it is. The argument that it shouldn't be offensive because they are mutants doesn't hold any water, … and what really is the challenge here is the intentionality of it. You could have chosen any from the thousands of images, but you chose this one. Whose attention did you want to get and to what end?" She adds that the "striking image" of Apocalypse choking Mystique is a reminder of how violence against women is used as a default and "seen as sexy for all the wrong reasons." "There are no silver bullets," McCleary-Sills adds. "I'm glad that a bit of a stink has been raised about this and that people are being provoked to think about why this image isn't OK and why [the studio] could've done better." Devin Faraci, editor-in-chief of the blog Birth.Movies.Death agrees, calling the billboard "tone deaf as hell." "Images of violence against women are pretty common in the X-Men universe, which is a pretty violent universe. The problem is taking this one image out of context and having it be an image that is not fantastical in nature. Setting aside that Apocalypse and Mystique look like Smurfs, it's just an image of a big guy choking out a smaller woman. I have wracked my brains trying to come up with an example of a marketing image like this featuring two men, and I've come up empty," he tells THR. Should the studio have picked another image? Writer and editor Jay Edidin, an X-Men expert who is one half of the podcast “Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men," says "unquestionably." "It's gratuitous, it's offensive in completely useless ways. Offensive isn't always necessarily bad, but this is offensive in ways that serve absolutely no purpose, and while it does depict a scene from the actual film, it's also a terrible representation of the movie as a whole," Edidin notes. June 3, 12 pm Updated with Fox statement. A version of this story first appeared in the June 10 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. ||||| By the way Here, you'll find things that you may or may not be interested in about the East Village and other parts of New York City. Appreciating what's here while it's still here. Remembering what's no longer here. Wishing some things weren't here that are here. ||||| Fox was doing so well with the Deadpool marketing and then this happened. Clearly, it seems like a no-brainer to capitalize on the film’s biggest stars for the last marketing push for X-Men: Apocalypse but this image is grossly problematic. Yes, you have a power struggle on display between Oscar Issac as the film’s villain Apocalypse and Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique but it’s also an image of Lawrence at her most disempowered. To most this poster might not seem like a problem but that is the problem. While we should know better, the truth is that we don’t. It’s perfectly plausible that it was ok’d simply because it showcases their most bankable stars and this shot in the film might be the only time they’re face to face. So no, my first reaction isn’t to raise a pitchfork and charge after Fox, I still want to see this movie but more than anger I felt embarrassment for them because they also didn’t see the problem. In terms of advertising it just means the number of people’s eyes seeing it and thinking, “Cool, new X-Men movie”. And that goes to show how much as a society we’ve been conditioned by advertising to be unconsciously misogynistic. On some level the image probably makes most women uncomfortable if not down right angry. It sends the message that the outdated use of violence against women is still very much seen as totally cool to use to sell a movie. It’s not. Out of context this still is cringe-worthy because it doesn’t show the complexities of how this goes down. By the looks of the latest X-Men: Apocalypse trailer, it seems like we are very much getting an X-Men team led by Mystique, the first time a woman is at the forefront of any Marvel team-up on film. That’s awesome and promising. The use of the scene in the trailer, which the image is taken from, in context makes sense. Mystique leads a charge against Apocalypse after he takes Charles Xavier (Who also gets his ass kicked in a scene too, why wasn’t that used?) and ends up in the position in question. Maybe right after it she kicks his ass or the young mutants work together to help her. We don’t know but the moment is more effective in the trailer to show Apocalypse’s cruelty and makes me want to see the movie. In a building sized ad without context it made me say, “What the fuck?” because it shows complete disregard and disrespect toward a female audience. This powerful image of the villain choking out the heroine is selling the stakes on the sort of exploitative representation that women are tired of seeing. Frankly, it’s also inappropriate for kids to be exposed to the imagery in such a public way. The huge error on Fox’s part continues a practice that doesn’t reflect it’s whole movie going audience in the best light. They need to own up to it. It’s not going to be silently and submissively accepted anymore. It should be known that we’re beyond that. Its also tiring but necessary to explain to people who don’t see the problem why it’s a problem. And it’s generally guys who don’t think it’s a problem and can’t see why it is. Simply put: it’s okay for women (your friends & relatives) to have a problem with this sorta thing because it shows us in a light that we don’t want to continue to be seen anymore in things we love to watch too. It isn’t meant to take those things away or to change them so it’s no longer what you love. And if this is meant to advertise to the sort of people who love to consume seeing women as weak in a power-play imagery, then that’s a huge encouraging misstep on the wrong side of history. I’d like to think that continuing to talk about this will enlighten people who don’t see it that way to put themselves in the shoes of fellow fans who don’t want to be depicted as lesser to sell tickets or to stir up controversy and talk for the film to cause buzz. It’s just a reminder that the old status quo isn’t gonna fly anymore because audiences are getting smarter, more diverse and beginning to outnumber those who don’t want to recognize voices outside of their own. ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. Photo: Marvel Comics Total Nerd Things You Should Know About X-Men: Apocalypse Ranker Comics 848k views 26 items Follow We live in an age of superhero movies. It's truly a wonderful time to be a comic book fan, but the last thing we want is for every movie to look and feel the same and for the superhero bubble to burst. Fortunately for us X-Men: Apocalypse is shaping up to be a comic book adaptation like no other! This movie is not only introducing one of the more complex villains in all of comic lore it's also bringing us the young iterations of the classic X-Men. This film is simultaneously setting up a new universe of X-Men (with Cyclops, Jean, Storm etc.) while it's wrapping up both the old franchises (Mystique, Older Magneto/Xavier etc.)! If done right this film has the potential to be not only an incredible film, but the truest adaptation of the X-Men to the screen we've seen yet. Remember the '90s X-Men animated series? (Of course you do! if you don't it's on Netflix, stop everything and go!) This looks to be that wonderful vibe, complete with the mall and Jubilee's bright yellow jacket! Needless to say we're excited. So we wanted to learn as much as we could about the project and where it stands now, then share all of that with you. These are the best fun facts about X-Men: Apocalypse ! Vote up the fact your most excited about below! 1 We May Finally See All Of The X-Men Powers Used To Their Full Potential Photo: via Tumblr The world (the real one) grows more and more accepting of the fantastical nature of superhero films with each new movie. After 15 years of these movies it seems we may finally get a full comic adaptation out of the X-Men films. Lucas Till, who plays Havoc, kept mentioning his Dragon Ball Z kamehameha training in prep for Havoc's energy blast and we're stoked to finally see it done right (and see the brotherly dynamic between him and Cyclops). The world (the real one) grows more and more accepting of the fantastical nature of superhero films with each new movie. After 15 years of these movies it seems we may finally get a full comic adaptation out of the X-Men films. Lucas Till, who plays Havoc, kept mentioning hiskamehameha training in prep for Havoc's energy blast and we're stoked to finally see it done right (and see the brotherly dynamic between him and Cyclops). Things You Should Know About Marvel Studios' Phase 3 The Top Animated Sex Symbols 2 Xavier Finally Has A Shaved Head Photo: via Tumblr In his third go at the character, James McAvoy finally got to rock the iconic shaved head of Charles Xavier. He thought he'd be bald when cast in X-Men: First Class and would stay that way onward, so he was very excited to finally get to do it in this film. In his third go at the character, James McAvoy finally got to rock the iconic shaved head of Charles Xavier. He thought he'd be bald when cast inand would stay that way onward, so he was very excited to finally get to do it in this film. 3 So Much Blue Photo: via Tumblr This is the first film ever to feature all of the major blue mutants! Mystique, Beast, and Nightcrawler all have major parts in the film. In the comics, it's later revealed that Mystique is Nightcrawler's mother - perhaps they will work that into the film. This is the first film ever to feature all of the major blue mutants! Mystique, Beast, and Nightcrawler all have major parts in the film. In the comics, it's later revealed that Mystique is Nightcrawler's mother - perhaps they will work that into the film. 32 Things You Didn't Know About Wolverine 7 Mythical Creatures That Were Found in Real Life

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We are not responding to Trump but everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should. # imwithher ||||| Republican presidential contender Donald Trump said that Hillary Clinton got "schlonged" by then-Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary. (Reuters) In a long campaign that’s far from over, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comment in Grand Rapids, Mich., that Hillary Clinton — former first lady, former U.S. senator, former secretary of state, woman — “got schlonged” in her 2008 primary run might be considered just another insult. Trump, after all, has been down in the dirt slinging mud before, calling Rosie O’Donnell a “fat pig” and a “slob” and making comments that certainly seemed critical of Megyn Kelly’s menstrual cycle. But there was something different about “schlonged.” Sure, it was sexist — especially given Trump’s general disapproval of Clinton’s bathroom use during the recent Democratic presidential debate. [Trump: Clinton’s debate bathroom break was ‘disgusting’] “Republican frontrunner Donald Trump used a campaign stop in Michigan on Monday to make astonishingly sexist attacks against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton,” the left-leaning ThinkProgress wrote. “. . . ‘Schlong’ is a well-known reference to a man’s genitals. There are no alternative definitions for the word, according to Merriam-Webster.” Sexism for Trump, however, is nothing new. In an email to The Washington Post, Harvard University’s Steven Pinker, a noted researcher on language and cognition, pointed out that Trump, using a term that comes to English via Yiddish and Middle High German, may simply have been trying to say something else. Here are six times Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has insulted women, from Rosie O'Donnell to Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi. (Sarah Parnass and Nicki DeMarco/The Washington Post) “Given Trump’s history of vulgarity and misogyny, it’s entirely possible that he had created a sexist term for ‘defeat’ (as far as I know there is no such slang verb in Yiddish),” Pinker wrote. “But given his history with sloppy language it’s also possible that it’s a malaprop.” Trump’s problem? He’s a gentile who, linguistically, may have wandered too far from home. “Many goyim are confused by the large number of Yiddish terms beginning with ‘schl’ or ‘schm’ (schlemiel, schlemazzle, schmeggegge, schlub, schlock, schlep, schmutz, schnook), and use them incorrectly or interchangeably,” he wrote. “And headline writers often ransack the language for onomatopoeic synonyms for ‘defeat’ such as drub, whomp, thump, wallop, whack, trounce, clobber, smash, trample, and Obama’s own favorite, shellac (which in fact sounds a bit like schlong). So an alternative explanation is that Trump reached for what he thought was a Yinglish word for ‘beat’ and inadvertently coined an obscene one.” But Trump has used the word “schlonged” at least once before — in a 2011 discussion of a House seat Republicans lost. “I watched a popular Republican woman [Jane Corwin] not only lose but get schlonged by a Democrat [Kathy Hochul] nobody ever heard of for the congressional seat, and that was because, simply, because of the Paul Ryan plan,” Trump said at the time. “That was an attack on Medicare. Now he’s trying to soften it, but whether you like it or not, that was an attack on Medicare.” 1 of 14 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × Trump’s most insulting jabs at other presidential candidates View Photos Republican Donald Trump has made incendiary comments — many of them directed at his opponents — that keep him in the spotlight. Caption Republican Donald Trump has made incendiary comments — many of them directed at his opponents — that keep him in the spotlight. Donald Trump’s attacks on his presidential opponents get him into hot water but also keep attention focused on him. Here, Trump, fifth from left, and his rivals appear on stage before the first GOP debate, hosted by Fox News Channel. John Minchillo/AP Buy Photo Wait 1 second to continue. Still, maybe the power of “schlonged” was in its relative novelty. Trump could have used many other vulgar synonyms for “lost” — even the F-word, had he been so bold. Yet he casually chose an unusual formulation favored by frat boys and comedians working blue, not aspirants for the nation’s highest office. [Trumps wins Politifact’s lie of the year] Indeed, Nexis notes just seven uses of “schlonged.” Two were Trump’s recent jab at Clinton; one referenced a “long-schlonged” reality TV star; one appeared in an obituary for Philip Seymour Hoffman, noting the actor’s role as a “gauche gay boom operator with a crush on [a] long-schlonged superstar” in the film “Boogie Nights”; another appeared in an article about the HBO show “Hung”; and another in the transcript of an episode of Comedy Central’s long-canceled “The Man Show.” Only one use of “schlonged” as a verb came from a respected political source. In 2011, NPR’s Neal Conan made this observation (to The Post’s Chris Cillizza) on the 1984 Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro campaign: “That ticket went on to get schlonged at the polls.” As Ben Jacobs of the Guardian noted: “Has any candidate for Borough President, let alone President of the United States ever used ‘schlonged’ in public before?” Or, as another Twitter user wrote: “Because the leader of the free world would definitely publicly use the word ‘schlonged.’ ” And another: ” ‘Schlonged.’ Verb, right?” Perhaps the sting of “schlonged” is best explained by grammarians. As The Post’s Jenna Johnson noted, this is quite a memorable example of “turning a vulgar noun . . . into a verb” — something we all do when we use verbs like “trend” or “Google.” “This conversion of nouns to verbs is known as ‘verbing’ and it has been around for as long as the English language itself,” Oxford University Press noted in 2013. “Ancient verbs such as rain and thunder and more recent conversions such as access, chair, debut, highlight and impact were all originally used only as nouns before they became verbs.” Perhaps anticipating Trump’s use of “schlonged,” the Press also noted: “Verbing exists essentially to make what we say shorter and snappier. It can also give a more dynamic sense to ideas.” One need not be a Trump detractor to condemn such usage. Benjamin Franklin, complaining about “awkward and abominable” nouns-as-verbs such as “notice,” “advocate” and “progress” in 1789, wrote a lexicographer: “If you should happen to be of my Opinion with respect to these Innovations you will use your Authority in reprobating them.” GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Trump, as usual, was not inclined to look back with regret on “schlonged,” and marched onward. “THANK YOU Grand Rapids, Michigan!” he tweeted. “Time to end political correctness & secure our homeland!” Fred Barbash contributed to this report. ||||| By now you have likely heard that the newest installment of did-he-actually-say-that moments from the candidacy of Donald Trump is perhaps the funniest one of them all. Speaking to a gathered crowd last night in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the GOP frontrunner spoke about Hillary Clinton and said the following: “She was going to beat [Obama,] she was favored to win, and she got schlonged. She lost, I mean she lost.” Video of the must-see-it-to-believe-it moment is here: Let’s just put this in perspective for a quick moment. The man who by all accounts is closest to becoming the next President of the United States — following in the footsteps of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson — cried out that a female competitor got schlonged. The last time I heard the word schlonged was at my all-male high school in New Jersey where some guys have a weird obsession with pranking each other with drawings of male anatomy. I was happy to leave the phrase there ten years ago, though I must admit, I’ve had a hard time not laughing all morning at the absurdity of watching Trump bust it out on the campaign trail. It marks a weird gray area for members of the media, who today find themselves covering the story but wondering if “schlonged” crosses into a territory of discomfort deserving of a bleep-out. Each network and media outlet has its own style guide complete with a dizzying array of things you can and can not say, but I’m willing to bet that as of this Winter Solstice, “schlonged” does not appear in any of them. Perhaps the craziest thing is that this isn’t even the first time Trump has been on-record using the word “schlonged”. In 2011 he — get this — referred to a Congressional election in New York much in the same fashion in an interview to The Washington Post: “I watched a popular Republican woman [Jane Corwin] not only lose but get schlonged by a Democrat [Kathy Hochul] nobody ever heard of for the congressional seat and that was because, simply, because of the Paul Ryan plan.” It only took 13 minutes for MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday to introduce the instantly-infamous clip, which came right after airing Trump’s other set of off-the-wall comments about Clinton’s bathroom break as “disgusting”. Seeing Willie Geist‘s motion to present Trump’s sophomoric clip, Mika Brzezinski quickly interjected to Geist, “No no no no schlong! No no no, no. Nope, no.” Geist instead calmly continued, “We’re gonna put this out there, people who are thinking about voting should know this.” The video clip in question played in its entirety — no bleep-outs, just pure and unedited. While Joe Scarborough joked, “Is that Yiddish?,” Brzezinksi was far less amused, admitting it was a comment, “we shouldn’t show.” Kasie Hunt presented the clip again on MSNBC in the 10 a.m. ET hour — and although she referred to it as “vulgar language” — “schlonged” again went unedited. Over on CNN, New Day host Chris Cuomo also rolled the clip shortly after 7:30 a.m. and declared to his guests, “Schlonged was the word he used!”. On the topic, one of those guests — Jeffrey Lord — went on to say, “Well you know Hillary Clinton is married to Bill and we all know the episodes there… I don’t even want to repeat on air what was done in the little room adjacent to the Oval Office.” While everyone on the set of New Day expressed immediate disapproval of the commentary, I think I can only describe the childish Lord in a way that would recycle some of the anatomy-based rhetoric aforementioned. What were we talking about? Oh yeah, Donald Trump told thousands of cheering supporters that Hillary Clinton got schlonged by President Barack Obama. Morning Express with Robin Meade on HLN also let Trump’s schlonged-flag fly unedited in the 7 a.m. ET hour Tuesday as well. At 10:24 a.m. ET, a CNN voiceover package identified the phrase as, “an R-rated derogatory term while referring to [Clinton’s] 2008 defeat to Barack Obama.” On-screen, the headline TRUMP USES CRUDE LANGUAGE IN ATTACK ON CLINTON blared out. The clip played unedited. Al Jazeera America played out the full version at 9:50 a.m. ET.; Your World This Morning on the network also played it earlier in the day at 7:34 a.m. ET. As the morning went on however, it seems as if one outlet began to question whether or not “schlonged” should be edited while the clip plays on air. At 10:30 a.m. ET, Stuart Varney on Varney & Co. on Fox Business presented the clip with a bleep; the host immediately acknowledged, “We bleeped it out — that was a reference to a male anatomy, OK? We bleeped it out.” Varney continued to refer to it as a “war on Women” comment. Fox News also followed suit, as Bill Hemmer on America’s Newsroom rolled the bleeped-clip and said, “We bleeped that because it is unsuitable in some corners.” Seems strangely, dare I say, politically correct for Fox of all networks to acquiesce to not offending viewers. And as for the morning show Fox & Friends? Well, they seemed to have skipped the segment all together during Elisabeth Hasselbeck‘s final day, presumably because the linguist Trump himself phoned in for a live interview. They did however focus heavily on the ongoing Trump-Clinton battle of assumed ISIS propaganda, but nothing on the schlong shot heard ’round the world. [images via Twitter and screengrab] — >> Follow J.D. Durkin on Twitter (@MediaiteJD) This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author. ||||| Ready to Resist? Sign up for Take Action Now and we’ll send you three meaningful actions every Tuesday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Travel With The Nation Be the first to hear about Nation Travels destinations, and explore the world with kindred spirits. Fight Back! Sign up for Take Action Now and we’ll send you three meaningful actions you can each week. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Apparently I haven’t been clear about the meaning of “schlong.” I thought it was simply slang for “penis,” but The Washington Post says it’s actually a term for “a large penis.” Who knew? I’ve never had reason to use the word in my long career in journalism, until now. Ad Policy As you may know, Donald Trump derided Hillary Clinton all kinds of ways Monday night. He said her mid-debate bathroom break was “too disgusting” to talk about. But this was the flourish: “Even a race to Obama, she was gonna beat Obama. I don’t know who would be worse, I don’t know, how could it be worse? But she was going to beat—she was favored to win—and she got schlonged, she lost, I mean she lost,” Trump said. “Schlonged.” By a black man. With that one word, Trump showed he’s mastered the dark art of whipping paranoid white men into a frenzy. Remember earlier this year, when his supporters began calling Republican Trump skeptics “cuckservatives?” They borrowed a term for a porn genre where white men watch their wives be taken by a black man (who knew?), and applied it to non-Trump conservatives who were insufficiently focused on protecting the rights of white Americans. Nice young conservative writers like Matt K. Lewis at the Daily Caller actually had to explain the pervy term for their readers (he’d been on the receiving end). I did so for Salon, never thinking that discussing porn would be part of my job as a political journalist. And now here we are. Schlonged. Only minutes before the news came out about what Trump said of Clinton and Obama, I’d been reading an article about his friendships with black celebrities, and how hard it is for some of them to like the “new” racist Donald (how they endured his racist birtherism against the president is beyond me). Russell Simmons told an odd story; I quoted it on Twitter. “He was a good host, that’s for sure,” Simmons told The New York Times. “You’d be in the steam room and he’d come in, fully clothed, and say, ‘You guys O.K. in there?’ Just a nice guy.” Trump, fully clothed, in a steam room with presumably naked or perhaps towel-clad black men. I thought that was weird. Help The Nation raise $200,000 by 12/31! Your gift will be matched! Donate Today Then came “schlonged.” It’s all of a piece with Trump’s cruel, towel-snapping approach to campaigning. From labeling Jeb Bush “low energy”—a G-rated way to say he’s running on low testosterone—to giving Senator Lindsey Graham’s phone number to a crowd of Trump backers on national television, Trump has gloried in playing the bully, and his supporters eat it up. But I don’t see it working against Hillary Clinton. Already, in his very first real jabs at her, he’s gone too far—at least for a general electorate. She’s not a GOP primary opponent; he’ll have to face her (if they both win their primaries) in November 2016, a presidential year when the so-called Obama coalition—young people, African Americans, Latinos, LGBT folks, and single white women—go to the polls. They won’t thrill to his crude insults about schlongs and her icky lady parts. In fact, that coalition, behind Obama, schlonged John McCain and Mitt Romney. It will schlong the birther-in-chief, who’s now found an innovative way to insult both Obama and Clinton, next year. If Republicans are crude enough to nominate him, that is. I wrote a few weeks ago about Donald Trump’s bottomless bottom. Every time you think he’s gone as low as he can go, he goes further. ||||| Trump on Hillary 2008: “She got schlonged” posted at 10:31 am on December 22, 2015 by Ed Morrissey And thus does another term enter the political lexicon. Donald Trump offered this analysis of the 2008 Democratic primary race after a weird rant about Hillary Clinton’s extended bathroom break, in which he declared she did something so “disgusting” that he couldn’t bring himself to explain it. Trump then declared that Hillary got “schlonged” in the primaries, which may trouble some Trump supporters … who will have to decide whether this is an “elegant,” “classy,” or merely “great” argument: According to Dictionary.com, there is only one definition for “schlong”: noun , Slang: Vulgar. 1. the penis. < Yiddish shlang literally, ‘serpent’ < Middle High German slange < Old High German slango Ah, the things you learn while writing about politics! (Full disclosure: I know a little Yiddish anyway, and this one ain’t exactly an esoteric term.) Needless to say, Team Hillary was all over this new front in the War On Women: We are not responding to Trump but everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should. #imwithher — Jennifer Palmieri (@jmpalmieri) December 22, 2015 ABC’s Good Morning America was so unhappy about it that they bleeped the word, even in print: “Even a race to Obama, she was gonna beat Obama. I don’t know who would be worse, I don’t know, how could it be worse?” he told the crowd. “She was favored to win and she got [expletive], she lost, I mean she lost,” he told the crowd. “But I watched her the other night, it was hard, it was really hard because there were a lot of other things on better, including reading books and reading financial papers which I actually enjoy reading.” The GOP frontrunner also attacked Clinton for taking a bathroom break during the most recent Democratic debate. “I know where she went, it’s disgusting, I don’t want to talk about it. No, it’s too disgusting. Don’t say it, it’s disgusting, let’s not talk, we want to be very, very straight up. But I thought that, wasn’t that a weird deal,” Trump said. To take a lighthearted view of this, one could argue that Trump meant that Hillary got beaten by male privilege in the Democratic party … naaaah, no one’s going to buy that. Well, almost no one, and no one outside of Trump’s dedicated fan base. On the less lighthearted side, this crass and classless stream of consciousness might delight the true Clinton haters, but it’s not going to improve views of Trump among other voters. It will give Team Hillary even more openings to play the victim card after Republicans successfully defused the War on Women meme in 2014. It’s sheer buffonery, which suffices for entertainment but does not paint the GOP as a serious option for Obama in 2017. Update: Contra the commenters, I’m not arguing that this is going to derail Trump in the primaries. I’m making a general-election argument about how this will play with voters when Trump has to face one candidate head-to-head instead of a crowded primary field. Related Posts: ||||| FARRAGUT, Tenn. — What would it take for Ted Cruz to criticize Donald Trump? The Texas senator wasn’t going for the throat when Trump suggested that Mexico sends rapists and murderers into the United States. Nor when Trump suggested during the first GOP debate that a Fox News anchor was testy with him because she had her period. Nor when Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. Cruz also took a pass on Tuesday after Trump said that Hillary Clinton “got schlonged” by Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries, using a Yiddish vulgarism for the male genitalia. Trump critics deemed the comment sexist, if not outright misogynistic. “There are an abundance of political pundits in the world who, like Statler and Waldorf” – the heckling Muppets — “assess every comment every candidate makes,” Cruz told reporters before a campaign rally near Knoxville, Tenn., when asked if he views Trump’s comments about the Democratic front-runner inappropriate. “I don’t need to be another political pundit. I’m going to let Donald Trump speak for himself and I’m going to focus on my positive, optimistic conservative vision for this country.” Cruz turned 45 today, and he celebrated with more than 2,000 cheering fans in a high school gym in Farragut, Tenn. A Quinnipiac University poll released this morning found that, with six weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses, Trump and Cruz are about neck and neck nationally, with Trump at 28 percent and Cruz at 24 percent. And half of American voters would be embarrassed at the prospect of a President Trump. Cruz, who regularly mocks Obama and Clinton, has resisted taking swipes at Trump, who has a habit of making outrageous comments. While he welcomed the latest poll as a sign of strength in his campaign, he stuck to that script — even as he predicted the GOP contest will come down to a head-to-head fight between himself and Trump. “Our numbers are surging… It could easily end up being a two-man race between Donald Trump and me, and I think that presents a good choice for the American people,” he said. On Monday, at a rally in Michigan, Trump showed his vulgar side in recounting Clinton’s loss to Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary. “She got schlonged,” he said. Cruz declined to distance himself or judge the front-runner’s language. But he said, “This process is a job interview.” Cruz started a week-long, 12-city “Cruz Country Christmas Tour” on Thursday in Las Vegas. He’s focusing mostly on the South, with stops already in Virginia, Georgia and Alabama. He’ll be in Arkansas tonight and Oklahoma tomorrow. Cruz stumps in Cisco, Texas, on Dec. 29 — his only public event between Christmas and New Year’s. Texas holds one of the March 1 SuperDuper Tuesday contests, and Cruz is determined to make that part of his firewall. These are Southern states, Cruz reminded the crowd in Farragut — states with lots of gun lovers and religious activists. Cruz made several Tennessee-specific references. Vowing to pull the United States out of the recently agreed Paris climate accord, Cruz invoked Al Gore, the former Tennessee senator and vice president. Satellite records, he insisted, show no global warming in the last 18 years, “an inconvenient truth,” as Cruz put it, referring to a movie Gore made to raise awareness about climate change. (As usual, Cruz glossed over the myriad other evidence behind the scientific consensus that the climate is changing in dangerous ways due in part to human activity.) Cruz also referred to a shooting at a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, vowing that as president, he will clamp down on radical Islamic jihadists, here and abroad. Cruz’s dad, pastor Rafael Cruz, warmed up the crowd, recounting the way the future senator, age 9, got a nightly dose of Christian-hued conservatism every night from him over dinner during the presidential race between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. “He was passionate about the Constitution.. and that passion became like fire in his bones… My son Ted Cruz will not compromise…. That fire is as alive today as it was over 30 years ago,” the elder Cruz attested.

– The word of the day is clearly "schlonged," as used in a sentence by Donald Trump referring to Hillary Clinton in 2008: "She was favored to win, and she got schlonged." The Yiddish word is, as the New York Times explains, "a boorish word for penis." Some of the resulting coverage: All about the word: The Washington Post conducts a "linguistic investigation" into the term and sums up Trump's problem: "He’s a gentile who, linguistically, may have wandered too far from home." It also notes that he's used it before, in 2011, referring to the defeat of female House candidate Jane Corwin: “I watched a popular Republican woman not only lose but get schlonged." Coverage: Mediaite looks at how the story was covered and the "weird gray area" for journalists worried about being offensive; it notes that Fox News bleeped the word out in early coverage. Team Clinton: “We are not responding to Trump but everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should," tweeted communications chief Jennifer Palmieri. Team Trump: “I think he was meaning, like, slung to the ground, slung around," spokesperson Katrina Pierson said on CNN. “Are we really talking about the definition of a word?” And: “What does schlonged mean then?" she asked as another panel member objected. "Why don’t you tell me what schlonged means.” From the right: "This crass and classless stream of consciousness might delight the true Clinton haters, but it’s not going to improve views of Trump among other voters," writes Ed Morrissey at the conservative Hot Air blog. "It will give Team Hillary even more openings to play the victim card after Republicans successfully defused the War on Women meme in 2014." From the left: "I don’t see it working against Hillary Clinton," writes Joan Walsh at the Nation. "Already, in his very first real jabs at her, he’s gone too far—at least for a general electorate." In November, young voters and minorities "won't thrill to his crude insults." From the trail: Ted Cruz wasn't among those criticizing Trump, notes the Dallas Morning News. No need to "assess every comment every candidate makes," he said. “I don’t need to be another political pundit. I’m going to let Donald Trump speak for himself."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.We are not responding to Trump but everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should. # imwithher ||||| Republican presidential contender Donald Trump said that Hillary Clinton got "schlonged" by then-Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary. (Reuters) In a long campaign that’s far from over, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comment in Grand Rapids, Mich., that Hillary Clinton — former first lady, former U.S. senator, former secretary of state, woman — “got schlonged” in her 2008 primary run might be considered just another insult. Trump, after all, has been down in the dirt slinging mud before, calling Rosie O’Donnell a “fat pig” and a “slob” and making comments that certainly seemed critical of Megyn Kelly’s menstrual cycle. But there was something different about “schlonged.” Sure, it was sexist — especially given Trump’s general disapproval of Clinton’s bathroom use during the recent Democratic presidential debate. [Trump: Clinton’s debate bathroom break was ‘disgusting’] “Republican frontrunner Donald Trump used a campaign stop in Michigan on Monday to make astonishingly sexist attacks against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton,” the left-leaning ThinkProgress wrote. “. . . ‘Schlong’ is a well-known reference to a man’s genitals. There are no alternative definitions for the word, according to Merriam-Webster.” Sexism for Trump, however, is nothing new. In an email to The Washington Post, Harvard University’s Steven Pinker, a noted researcher on language and cognition, pointed out that Trump, using a term that comes to English via Yiddish and Middle High German, may simply have been trying to say something else. Here are six times Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has insulted women, from Rosie O'Donnell to Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi. (Sarah Parnass and Nicki DeMarco/The Washington Post) “Given Trump’s history of vulgarity and misogyny, it’s entirely possible that he had created a sexist term for ‘defeat’ (as far as I know there is no such slang verb in Yiddish),” Pinker wrote. “But given his history with sloppy language it’s also possible that it’s a malaprop.” Trump’s problem? He’s a gentile who, linguistically, may have wandered too far from home. “Many goyim are confused by the large number of Yiddish terms beginning with ‘schl’ or ‘schm’ (schlemiel, schlemazzle, schmeggegge, schlub, schlock, schlep, schmutz, schnook), and use them incorrectly or interchangeably,” he wrote. “And headline writers often ransack the language for onomatopoeic synonyms for ‘defeat’ such as drub, whomp, thump, wallop, whack, trounce, clobber, smash, trample, and Obama’s own favorite, shellac (which in fact sounds a bit like schlong). So an alternative explanation is that Trump reached for what he thought was a Yinglish word for ‘beat’ and inadvertently coined an obscene one.” But Trump has used the word “schlonged” at least once before — in a 2011 discussion of a House seat Republicans lost. “I watched a popular Republican woman [Jane Corwin] not only lose but get schlonged by a Democrat [Kathy Hochul] nobody ever heard of for the congressional seat, and that was because, simply, because of the Paul Ryan plan,” Trump said at the time. “That was an attack on Medicare. Now he’s trying to soften it, but whether you like it or not, that was an attack on Medicare.” 1 of 14 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × Trump’s most insulting jabs at other presidential candidates View Photos Republican Donald Trump has made incendiary comments — many of them directed at his opponents — that keep him in the spotlight. Caption Republican Donald Trump has made incendiary comments — many of them directed at his opponents — that keep him in the spotlight. Donald Trump’s attacks on his presidential opponents get him into hot water but also keep attention focused on him. Here, Trump, fifth from left, and his rivals appear on stage before the first GOP debate, hosted by Fox News Channel. John Minchillo/AP Buy Photo Wait 1 second to continue. Still, maybe the power of “schlonged” was in its relative novelty. Trump could have used many other vulgar synonyms for “lost” — even the F-word, had he been so bold. Yet he casually chose an unusual formulation favored by frat boys and comedians working blue, not aspirants for the nation’s highest office. [Trumps wins Politifact’s lie of the year] Indeed, Nexis notes just seven uses of “schlonged.” Two were Trump’s recent jab at Clinton; one referenced a “long-schlonged” reality TV star; one appeared in an obituary for Philip Seymour Hoffman, noting the actor’s role as a “gauche gay boom operator with a crush on [a] long-schlonged superstar” in the film “Boogie Nights”; another appeared in an article about the HBO show “Hung”; and another in the transcript of an episode of Comedy Central’s long-canceled “The Man Show.” Only one use of “schlonged” as a verb came from a respected political source. In 2011, NPR’s Neal Conan made this observation (to The Post’s Chris Cillizza) on the 1984 Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro campaign: “That ticket went on to get schlonged at the polls.” As Ben Jacobs of the Guardian noted: “Has any candidate for Borough President, let alone President of the United States ever used ‘schlonged’ in public before?” Or, as another Twitter user wrote: “Because the leader of the free world would definitely publicly use the word ‘schlonged.’ ” And another: ” ‘Schlonged.’ Verb, right?” Perhaps the sting of “schlonged” is best explained by grammarians. As The Post’s Jenna Johnson noted, this is quite a memorable example of “turning a vulgar noun . . . into a verb” — something we all do when we use verbs like “trend” or “Google.” “This conversion of nouns to verbs is known as ‘verbing’ and it has been around for as long as the English language itself,” Oxford University Press noted in 2013. “Ancient verbs such as rain and thunder and more recent conversions such as access, chair, debut, highlight and impact were all originally used only as nouns before they became verbs.” Perhaps anticipating Trump’s use of “schlonged,” the Press also noted: “Verbing exists essentially to make what we say shorter and snappier. It can also give a more dynamic sense to ideas.” One need not be a Trump detractor to condemn such usage. Benjamin Franklin, complaining about “awkward and abominable” nouns-as-verbs such as “notice,” “advocate” and “progress” in 1789, wrote a lexicographer: “If you should happen to be of my Opinion with respect to these Innovations you will use your Authority in reprobating them.” GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Trump, as usual, was not inclined to look back with regret on “schlonged,” and marched onward. “THANK YOU Grand Rapids, Michigan!” he tweeted. “Time to end political correctness & secure our homeland!” Fred Barbash contributed to this report. ||||| By now you have likely heard that the newest installment of did-he-actually-say-that moments from the candidacy of Donald Trump is perhaps the funniest one of them all. Speaking to a gathered crowd last night in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the GOP frontrunner spoke about Hillary Clinton and said the following: “She was going to beat [Obama,] she was favored to win, and she got schlonged. She lost, I mean she lost.” Video of the must-see-it-to-believe-it moment is here: Let’s just put this in perspective for a quick moment. The man who by all accounts is closest to becoming the next President of the United States — following in the footsteps of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson — cried out that a female competitor got schlonged. The last time I heard the word schlonged was at my all-male high school in New Jersey where some guys have a weird obsession with pranking each other with drawings of male anatomy. I was happy to leave the phrase there ten years ago, though I must admit, I’ve had a hard time not laughing all morning at the absurdity of watching Trump bust it out on the campaign trail. It marks a weird gray area for members of the media, who today find themselves covering the story but wondering if “schlonged” crosses into a territory of discomfort deserving of a bleep-out. Each network and media outlet has its own style guide complete with a dizzying array of things you can and can not say, but I’m willing to bet that as of this Winter Solstice, “schlonged” does not appear in any of them. Perhaps the craziest thing is that this isn’t even the first time Trump has been on-record using the word “schlonged”. In 2011 he — get this — referred to a Congressional election in New York much in the same fashion in an interview to The Washington Post: “I watched a popular Republican woman [Jane Corwin] not only lose but get schlonged by a Democrat [Kathy Hochul] nobody ever heard of for the congressional seat and that was because, simply, because of the Paul Ryan plan.” It only took 13 minutes for MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday to introduce the instantly-infamous clip, which came right after airing Trump’s other set of off-the-wall comments about Clinton’s bathroom break as “disgusting”. Seeing Willie Geist‘s motion to present Trump’s sophomoric clip, Mika Brzezinski quickly interjected to Geist, “No no no no schlong! No no no, no. Nope, no.” Geist instead calmly continued, “We’re gonna put this out there, people who are thinking about voting should know this.” The video clip in question played in its entirety — no bleep-outs, just pure and unedited. While Joe Scarborough joked, “Is that Yiddish?,” Brzezinksi was far less amused, admitting it was a comment, “we shouldn’t show.” Kasie Hunt presented the clip again on MSNBC in the 10 a.m. ET hour — and although she referred to it as “vulgar language” — “schlonged” again went unedited. Over on CNN, New Day host Chris Cuomo also rolled the clip shortly after 7:30 a.m. and declared to his guests, “Schlonged was the word he used!”. On the topic, one of those guests — Jeffrey Lord — went on to say, “Well you know Hillary Clinton is married to Bill and we all know the episodes there… I don’t even want to repeat on air what was done in the little room adjacent to the Oval Office.” While everyone on the set of New Day expressed immediate disapproval of the commentary, I think I can only describe the childish Lord in a way that would recycle some of the anatomy-based rhetoric aforementioned. What were we talking about? Oh yeah, Donald Trump told thousands of cheering supporters that Hillary Clinton got schlonged by President Barack Obama. Morning Express with Robin Meade on HLN also let Trump’s schlonged-flag fly unedited in the 7 a.m. ET hour Tuesday as well. At 10:24 a.m. ET, a CNN voiceover package identified the phrase as, “an R-rated derogatory term while referring to [Clinton’s] 2008 defeat to Barack Obama.” On-screen, the headline TRUMP USES CRUDE LANGUAGE IN ATTACK ON CLINTON blared out. The clip played unedited. Al Jazeera America played out the full version at 9:50 a.m. ET.; Your World This Morning on the network also played it earlier in the day at 7:34 a.m. ET. As the morning went on however, it seems as if one outlet began to question whether or not “schlonged” should be edited while the clip plays on air. At 10:30 a.m. ET, Stuart Varney on Varney & Co. on Fox Business presented the clip with a bleep; the host immediately acknowledged, “We bleeped it out — that was a reference to a male anatomy, OK? We bleeped it out.” Varney continued to refer to it as a “war on Women” comment. Fox News also followed suit, as Bill Hemmer on America’s Newsroom rolled the bleeped-clip and said, “We bleeped that because it is unsuitable in some corners.” Seems strangely, dare I say, politically correct for Fox of all networks to acquiesce to not offending viewers. And as for the morning show Fox & Friends? Well, they seemed to have skipped the segment all together during Elisabeth Hasselbeck‘s final day, presumably because the linguist Trump himself phoned in for a live interview. They did however focus heavily on the ongoing Trump-Clinton battle of assumed ISIS propaganda, but nothing on the schlong shot heard ’round the world. [images via Twitter and screengrab] — >> Follow J.D. Durkin on Twitter (@MediaiteJD) This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author. ||||| Ready to Resist? Sign up for Take Action Now and we’ll send you three meaningful actions every Tuesday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Travel With The Nation Be the first to hear about Nation Travels destinations, and explore the world with kindred spirits. Fight Back! Sign up for Take Action Now and we’ll send you three meaningful actions you can each week. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Apparently I haven’t been clear about the meaning of “schlong.” I thought it was simply slang for “penis,” but The Washington Post says it’s actually a term for “a large penis.” Who knew? I’ve never had reason to use the word in my long career in journalism, until now. Ad Policy As you may know, Donald Trump derided Hillary Clinton all kinds of ways Monday night. He said her mid-debate bathroom break was “too disgusting” to talk about. But this was the flourish: “Even a race to Obama, she was gonna beat Obama. I don’t know who would be worse, I don’t know, how could it be worse? But she was going to beat—she was favored to win—and she got schlonged, she lost, I mean she lost,” Trump said. “Schlonged.” By a black man. With that one word, Trump showed he’s mastered the dark art of whipping paranoid white men into a frenzy. Remember earlier this year, when his supporters began calling Republican Trump skeptics “cuckservatives?” They borrowed a term for a porn genre where white men watch their wives be taken by a black man (who knew?), and applied it to non-Trump conservatives who were insufficiently focused on protecting the rights of white Americans. Nice young conservative writers like Matt K. Lewis at the Daily Caller actually had to explain the pervy term for their readers (he’d been on the receiving end). I did so for Salon, never thinking that discussing porn would be part of my job as a political journalist. And now here we are. Schlonged. Only minutes before the news came out about what Trump said of Clinton and Obama, I’d been reading an article about his friendships with black celebrities, and how hard it is for some of them to like the “new” racist Donald (how they endured his racist birtherism against the president is beyond me). Russell Simmons told an odd story; I quoted it on Twitter. “He was a good host, that’s for sure,” Simmons told The New York Times. “You’d be in the steam room and he’d come in, fully clothed, and say, ‘You guys O.K. in there?’ Just a nice guy.” Trump, fully clothed, in a steam room with presumably naked or perhaps towel-clad black men. I thought that was weird. Help The Nation raise $200,000 by 12/31! Your gift will be matched! Donate Today Then came “schlonged.” It’s all of a piece with Trump’s cruel, towel-snapping approach to campaigning. From labeling Jeb Bush “low energy”—a G-rated way to say he’s running on low testosterone—to giving Senator Lindsey Graham’s phone number to a crowd of Trump backers on national television, Trump has gloried in playing the bully, and his supporters eat it up. But I don’t see it working against Hillary Clinton. Already, in his very first real jabs at her, he’s gone too far—at least for a general electorate. She’s not a GOP primary opponent; he’ll have to face her (if they both win their primaries) in November 2016, a presidential year when the so-called Obama coalition—young people, African Americans, Latinos, LGBT folks, and single white women—go to the polls. They won’t thrill to his crude insults about schlongs and her icky lady parts. In fact, that coalition, behind Obama, schlonged John McCain and Mitt Romney. It will schlong the birther-in-chief, who’s now found an innovative way to insult both Obama and Clinton, next year. If Republicans are crude enough to nominate him, that is. I wrote a few weeks ago about Donald Trump’s bottomless bottom. Every time you think he’s gone as low as he can go, he goes further. ||||| Trump on Hillary 2008: “She got schlonged” posted at 10:31 am on December 22, 2015 by Ed Morrissey And thus does another term enter the political lexicon. Donald Trump offered this analysis of the 2008 Democratic primary race after a weird rant about Hillary Clinton’s extended bathroom break, in which he declared she did something so “disgusting” that he couldn’t bring himself to explain it. Trump then declared that Hillary got “schlonged” in the primaries, which may trouble some Trump supporters … who will have to decide whether this is an “elegant,” “classy,” or merely “great” argument: According to Dictionary.com, there is only one definition for “schlong”: noun , Slang: Vulgar. 1. the penis. < Yiddish shlang literally, ‘serpent’ < Middle High German slange < Old High German slango Ah, the things you learn while writing about politics! (Full disclosure: I know a little Yiddish anyway, and this one ain’t exactly an esoteric term.) Needless to say, Team Hillary was all over this new front in the War On Women: We are not responding to Trump but everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should. #imwithher — Jennifer Palmieri (@jmpalmieri) December 22, 2015 ABC’s Good Morning America was so unhappy about it that they bleeped the word, even in print: “Even a race to Obama, she was gonna beat Obama. I don’t know who would be worse, I don’t know, how could it be worse?” he told the crowd. “She was favored to win and she got [expletive], she lost, I mean she lost,” he told the crowd. “But I watched her the other night, it was hard, it was really hard because there were a lot of other things on better, including reading books and reading financial papers which I actually enjoy reading.” The GOP frontrunner also attacked Clinton for taking a bathroom break during the most recent Democratic debate. “I know where she went, it’s disgusting, I don’t want to talk about it. No, it’s too disgusting. Don’t say it, it’s disgusting, let’s not talk, we want to be very, very straight up. But I thought that, wasn’t that a weird deal,” Trump said. To take a lighthearted view of this, one could argue that Trump meant that Hillary got beaten by male privilege in the Democratic party … naaaah, no one’s going to buy that. Well, almost no one, and no one outside of Trump’s dedicated fan base. On the less lighthearted side, this crass and classless stream of consciousness might delight the true Clinton haters, but it’s not going to improve views of Trump among other voters. It will give Team Hillary even more openings to play the victim card after Republicans successfully defused the War on Women meme in 2014. It’s sheer buffonery, which suffices for entertainment but does not paint the GOP as a serious option for Obama in 2017. Update: Contra the commenters, I’m not arguing that this is going to derail Trump in the primaries. I’m making a general-election argument about how this will play with voters when Trump has to face one candidate head-to-head instead of a crowded primary field. Related Posts: ||||| FARRAGUT, Tenn. — What would it take for Ted Cruz to criticize Donald Trump? The Texas senator wasn’t going for the throat when Trump suggested that Mexico sends rapists and murderers into the United States. Nor when Trump suggested during the first GOP debate that a Fox News anchor was testy with him because she had her period. Nor when Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. Cruz also took a pass on Tuesday after Trump said that Hillary Clinton “got schlonged” by Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries, using a Yiddish vulgarism for the male genitalia. Trump critics deemed the comment sexist, if not outright misogynistic. “There are an abundance of political pundits in the world who, like Statler and Waldorf” – the heckling Muppets — “assess every comment every candidate makes,” Cruz told reporters before a campaign rally near Knoxville, Tenn., when asked if he views Trump’s comments about the Democratic front-runner inappropriate. “I don’t need to be another political pundit. I’m going to let Donald Trump speak for himself and I’m going to focus on my positive, optimistic conservative vision for this country.” Cruz turned 45 today, and he celebrated with more than 2,000 cheering fans in a high school gym in Farragut, Tenn. A Quinnipiac University poll released this morning found that, with six weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses, Trump and Cruz are about neck and neck nationally, with Trump at 28 percent and Cruz at 24 percent. And half of American voters would be embarrassed at the prospect of a President Trump. Cruz, who regularly mocks Obama and Clinton, has resisted taking swipes at Trump, who has a habit of making outrageous comments. While he welcomed the latest poll as a sign of strength in his campaign, he stuck to that script — even as he predicted the GOP contest will come down to a head-to-head fight between himself and Trump. “Our numbers are surging… It could easily end up being a two-man race between Donald Trump and me, and I think that presents a good choice for the American people,” he said. On Monday, at a rally in Michigan, Trump showed his vulgar side in recounting Clinton’s loss to Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary. “She got schlonged,” he said. Cruz declined to distance himself or judge the front-runner’s language. But he said, “This process is a job interview.” Cruz started a week-long, 12-city “Cruz Country Christmas Tour” on Thursday in Las Vegas. He’s focusing mostly on the South, with stops already in Virginia, Georgia and Alabama. He’ll be in Arkansas tonight and Oklahoma tomorrow. Cruz stumps in Cisco, Texas, on Dec. 29 — his only public event between Christmas and New Year’s. Texas holds one of the March 1 SuperDuper Tuesday contests, and Cruz is determined to make that part of his firewall. These are Southern states, Cruz reminded the crowd in Farragut — states with lots of gun lovers and religious activists. Cruz made several Tennessee-specific references. Vowing to pull the United States out of the recently agreed Paris climate accord, Cruz invoked Al Gore, the former Tennessee senator and vice president. Satellite records, he insisted, show no global warming in the last 18 years, “an inconvenient truth,” as Cruz put it, referring to a movie Gore made to raise awareness about climate change. (As usual, Cruz glossed over the myriad other evidence behind the scientific consensus that the climate is changing in dangerous ways due in part to human activity.) Cruz also referred to a shooting at a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, vowing that as president, he will clamp down on radical Islamic jihadists, here and abroad. Cruz’s dad, pastor Rafael Cruz, warmed up the crowd, recounting the way the future senator, age 9, got a nightly dose of Christian-hued conservatism every night from him over dinner during the presidential race between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. “He was passionate about the Constitution.. and that passion became like fire in his bones… My son Ted Cruz will not compromise…. That fire is as alive today as it was over 30 years ago,” the elder Cruz attested.

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MONTREAL — Most people who get a headache will reach for a pain reliever. Andrew Peters reaches into a dark place, one filled with frightening questions. Is it just a headache caused by stress? Is it his sore neck acting up? Or is it the dreaded CTE, a degenerative brain disease that is devastating the lives of athletes who’ve suffered concussions – people just like him. “I don’t know if I’m worried for no reason,” Peters said by phone. “I don’t know if I’m worried for good reason. I don’t know?” The retired NHL enforcer has watched with interest as stories about the brain began mingling with tales of sporting brawn. He knows all about Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE. He knows people who suffer from it. He knows people who are suing the NHL, saying the league didn’t do enough to protect them from concussions. The organizers of the lawsuit asked him to join, but Peters conferred with his agent and decided against it. “My day-to-day life is very good compared to the guys in the stories you hear, the guys that filed for the suit,” the 33-year-old said. “I don’t think I’m at that point yet, but some of them have 30 years on me.” Peters knows there’s something wrong, though, and he believes concussions are the cause. He’s been diagnosed with seven since age 15, and he estimates he suffered another dozen that didn’t qualify back then but would meet today’s definition. He hasn’t yet undergone CTE testing, which is another reason he declined to join the lawsuit that features fellow former Sabres Richie Dunn and Morris Titanic. “I know there are some ongoing effects from my career,” Peters said. “I know there are. That’s blatantly obvious. I would rather find out more about me and what I’m going through before I just jump on and ride these guys’ coattails. They’ve done the testing. They’ve lived their life. “It didn’t surprise me that I’d know some of the names on it. It didn’t surprise me that I wouldn’t know some of the names on it. I felt sorry for the guys that signed on because I understood.” Peters, who wasn’t afraid to have a beer after a game, stopped drinking alcohol more than 18 months ago because his head couldn’t handle it anymore. “A lot of that was the impact alcohol had on my symptoms and emotions,” he said. “I guess those can be natural with any person, any human being, but you factor in the head shots that I’ve taken over the years and it magnifies them. Alcohol magnifies them even more, and those are things you need to learn how to live with.” Peters suffered most of his head trauma during fights. He dropped the gloves 187 times through junior hockey, the minor leagues and the NHL, according to HockeyFights.com. Pugilism is what got the 6-foot-4, 240-pounder to the top of the sport, and it’s what kept him around for six seasons. “However many enforcers there were in the league, there were very few who enjoyed it, I can assure you of that,” he said. “I was one of the ones that did not enjoy it, but I knew it was a necessary evil for me to keep my job. “Night in and night out you knew you were maybe one punch away from your career being over. It made it really hard to go to the rink. At the same time, you love hockey. Where else are you going to have an opportunity to do what you’re doing and live the life you’re living?” The debate stirred by the lawsuit is whether anyone knew the fights, concussions and hits to the head were causing irreparable damage. The players in the lawsuit say they didn’t know but claim the NHL should have been aware based on growing scientific evidence. “No one was sitting me down and warning me about the long-term effects,” said Peters, who began his junior career in 1995 and retired from the NHL in 2010. “No one was saying, ‘Andrew, just so you know before you go out this season, don’t get into too many fights.’ No one ever said that. I don’t think players were ever sat down and told that because they don’t ever want to skew the vision of what the job is. “Do you know what you’re in for? I don’t think you know that you’re in for CTE and life-lasting traumatic brain injuries. I don’t think you ever think that stuff is a possibility. You feel invincible. You’re a National Hockey League player. “I think it’s kind of like ignorance is bliss, but it’s also like don’t ask, don’t tell mentality.” One question needs to be asked: Would he do it again? He earned more than $3 million in salary, but what’s the price for peace of mind? “If I had to do it over again and I had to have the same role, no, I wouldn’t,” he said. Rip’s riff One of the most recognizable faces in the Sabres’ organization has been with the team since the start and has never played a game. Equipment manager Rip Simonick has seen them all, though, and he’s got plenty of stories. His favorite memory involving Saturday’s opponent – Montreal – was the Sabres’ visit Jan. 28, 1977. The legendary blizzard was in full swing in Buffalo. “We ended up getting out with 12 hockey players,” Simonick said. “Players got to the airport in snowmobiles if their neighbor or friend had snowmobiles. This was in the ’70s, so there weren’t that many four-wheel drives. Some emergency vehicles took guys to the airport, and we just took off. There was nothing we could do. “When we’re taking off, the wheels on the prop plane hit a snow bank. We thought we were going down. The plane just tilted forward, the pilot pulled it back up and we got up. Those were harrowing moments.” Despite being undermanned, the Sabres earn a 3-3 tie against the Canadiens. On the fly • Nashville is targeting Dec. 20 as the day injured goaltender Pekka Rinne will ramp up his activity. He’s been out since Oct. 24 after needing hip surgery because of an infection. “To be honest, there is never going to be a timetable that is going to be perfect for us until we see him back on the ice,” General Manager David Poile said. • Tampa Bay was 12-5 and averaging 3.1 goals per game when Steven Stamkos suffered a broken leg Nov. 11. Without him, the Lightning are 5-5-1 and scoring 2.1 goals per game. • Longtime Flames captain Jarome Iginla returns to Calgary on Tuesday with the Bruins. “I don’t think I’ll cry,” he said. “I’m not an extremely emotional person. Nostalgic? Well, my wife says I am.” email: jvogl@buffnews.com ||||| FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2013, file photo, former Buffalo Sabres player Andrew Peters, left, and Sabres players talk during an NHL hockey workout in Amherst, N.Y. Peters has been suspended indefinitely... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2013, file photo, former Buffalo Sabres player Andrew Peters, left, and Sabres players talk during an NHL hockey workout in Amherst, N.Y. Peters has been suspended indefinitely... (Associated Press) BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Former NHL enforcer Andrew Peters has been suspended indefinitely as coach of a youth hockey team pending a Buffalo police investigation into his role in an on-ice brawl. Buffalo Junior Sabres president Kevyn Adams announced the suspension Sunday, a day after the melee occurred during a game between the Peters-coached 15-and-Under team and the Ontario-based Hamilton Junior Bulldogs. A video posted on YouTube shows the fight escalating into the Sabres' bench, when Peters becomes involved in attempting to separate the players. At one point, the 36-year-old appears to shove a Hamilton player backward onto the ice. Buffalo police were called to the downtown arena to investigate the brawl, but no charges were filed. The investigation continues, police spokesman Michael DeGeorge wrote in an email. The Junior Sabres suspended Peters immediately after the game. "We are very disappointed in the series of events that unfolded," Adams, a former NHL player, said in a statement. "We are currently reviewing the situation and in the meantime have suspended head coach Andrew Peters indefinitely until the matter is over." According to a person familiar with the situation, Peters told Junior Sabres officials that he slipped while attempting to get one of the Hamilton players away from Buffalo's bench. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the conversation was to remain private. Listed at 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds, Peters was known for his physical style while playing six NHL seasons , including five with the Sabres. He scored four goals and seven points, and totaled 650 penalty minutes in 229 career games from 2003 through 2010. He has maintained a home in Buffalo and works for the Sabres as a co-host of a show titled "The Enforcers," which is broadcast daily on TV and radio. Peters also faces potential discipline from the New York State Amateur Hockey Association. The association's regional president, David Braunstein, told the AP he will investigate what happened during the brawl. Braunstein said he intends to view the video and seek out other possible footage, as well as speak to the on-ice officials. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| Former Buffalo Sabres forward Andrew Peters was suspended indefinitely from coaching the Junior Sabres after a brawl between 15-year-old players broke out on the ice Saturday and a video appears to show a coach punching an opposing player when the fight spills into his team's bench. “We are very disappointed in the series of events that unfolded during the 15U Buffalo Junior Sabres game on Saturday,�? Buffalo Junior Sabres President Kevyn Adams said in a statement released Sunday. “We are currently reviewing the situation and in the meantime have suspended Head Coach Andrew Peters indefinitely until the matter is resolved.�? In addition, Buffalo police said Sunday they are investigating the incident. Peters, who was a notorious fighter on the ice during his days with the Sabres, is the coach of the Junior Sabres Midget 15U team. The team was playing the Hamilton Junior Bulldogs on Saturday morning in a tournament at HarborCenter. In a video of the brawl posted on YouTube, and first reported on by WIVB-TV, multiple players are seen fighting on the ice as referees try to keep them apart. One referee is seen trying to pull apart two players who are down on the ice right next to the boards and the bench area. A man in a dark sweater who appears to be Peters is standing in the bench area pointing and gesturing during the fight. The video shows the Bulldog player who was by the boards getting up to his feet and the referee skating away. Next, the Hamilton player reaches over the boards toward the Junior Sabres on the bench and Peters makes his way down to them. The referees also approach. At first it looks like Peters is breaking up the fight and pushing the players away from each other. But then the video appears to show Peters punch the Hamilton player. The player is knocked down, a referee pulls him to his feet and then the player skates away from the melee. Two players – one from each team – were given "game misconduct" penalties, according to an incident report written by officials at the tournament, said David M. Braunstein, president of the West Section of the New York State Amateur Hockey Association. Braunstein, who was not at the game, said that he had looked at the report "quickly" and that he didn't think it mentioned anything about anyone else being reprimanded. Braunstein had not yet seen the video when contacted Sunday morning by The Buffalo News. However, he said he had received multiple texts and emails about it. "I was made aware of it," said Braunstein, who serves with the hockey association as a volunteer. "I just haven't had an opportunity to look at it and deal with it. Everybody is interested in it. We want to make sure we do the right thing." Peters, 36, played for the Sabres from 2003-09 and retired from the NHL after the 2009-10 season. He was mostly known as an enforcer, logging just seven points but 650 penalty minutes in 229 career games. Peters is also a host of "The Instigators," a hockey show that airs weekdays on WGR-550 Radio and the MSG Network. He took part in the Sabres' infamous brawl with the Ottawa Senators 10 years ago. [RELATED STORY: Inside the Sabres: Reliving the Senators brawl, 10 years later] Four years ago, Peters discussed with The Buffalo News his concerns about the impacts of the concussions he suffered during his career, mostly from fighting. He dropped the gloves 187 times through junior hockey, the minor leagues and the NHL, according to HockeyFights.com. Buffalo News Sports Reporter John Vogl wrote that it was Peters' penchant for pugilism that "got the 6-foot-4, 240-pounder to the top of the sport, and it’s what kept him around for six seasons." “However many enforcers there were in the league, there were very few who enjoyed it, I can assure you of that,�? Peters told The News in the 2013 interview. “I was one of the ones that did not enjoy it, but I knew it was a necessary evil for me to keep my job."

– When he played for the Buffalo Sabres, Andrew Peters had one clear role: that of a tough-guy enforcer who was quick to fight. Now he's retired as a player and coaching teens—and in hot water over a hockey brawl. Peters has been suspended as head coach of the Junior Sabres after a video emerged that appears to show him punching or shoving a player from the opposing team during a melee, reports the Buffalo News. The video isn't crystal clear, however, and the AP reports that Peters has told team officials that he slipped while trying to get the player away from the bench. The teen fell to the ice, though he got up immediately. It could get worse for the 36-year-old Peters: Buffalo police are investigating. "We are very disappointed in the series of events that unfolded during the (15-and-under) Buffalo Junior Sabres game on Saturday," said Buffalo Junior Sabres President Kevyn Adams in a statement. Peters, he added, will remain on suspension until the matter is resolved. During his radio show Monday morning—it's called The Instigators—Peters said he could not discuss the altercation, but added that he didn't do a good job of communicating to his team that fighting in youth sports is "unacceptable," per WKBW. In six NHL seasons, the winger had only 7 points but 650 penalty minutes—though he once told the Buffalo News that while he disliked fighting, he viewed it as a "necessary evil" to keep his job.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.MONTREAL — Most people who get a headache will reach for a pain reliever. Andrew Peters reaches into a dark place, one filled with frightening questions. Is it just a headache caused by stress? Is it his sore neck acting up? Or is it the dreaded CTE, a degenerative brain disease that is devastating the lives of athletes who’ve suffered concussions – people just like him. “I don’t know if I’m worried for no reason,” Peters said by phone. “I don’t know if I’m worried for good reason. I don’t know?” The retired NHL enforcer has watched with interest as stories about the brain began mingling with tales of sporting brawn. He knows all about Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE. He knows people who suffer from it. He knows people who are suing the NHL, saying the league didn’t do enough to protect them from concussions. The organizers of the lawsuit asked him to join, but Peters conferred with his agent and decided against it. “My day-to-day life is very good compared to the guys in the stories you hear, the guys that filed for the suit,” the 33-year-old said. “I don’t think I’m at that point yet, but some of them have 30 years on me.” Peters knows there’s something wrong, though, and he believes concussions are the cause. He’s been diagnosed with seven since age 15, and he estimates he suffered another dozen that didn’t qualify back then but would meet today’s definition. He hasn’t yet undergone CTE testing, which is another reason he declined to join the lawsuit that features fellow former Sabres Richie Dunn and Morris Titanic. “I know there are some ongoing effects from my career,” Peters said. “I know there are. That’s blatantly obvious. I would rather find out more about me and what I’m going through before I just jump on and ride these guys’ coattails. They’ve done the testing. They’ve lived their life. “It didn’t surprise me that I’d know some of the names on it. It didn’t surprise me that I wouldn’t know some of the names on it. I felt sorry for the guys that signed on because I understood.” Peters, who wasn’t afraid to have a beer after a game, stopped drinking alcohol more than 18 months ago because his head couldn’t handle it anymore. “A lot of that was the impact alcohol had on my symptoms and emotions,” he said. “I guess those can be natural with any person, any human being, but you factor in the head shots that I’ve taken over the years and it magnifies them. Alcohol magnifies them even more, and those are things you need to learn how to live with.” Peters suffered most of his head trauma during fights. He dropped the gloves 187 times through junior hockey, the minor leagues and the NHL, according to HockeyFights.com. Pugilism is what got the 6-foot-4, 240-pounder to the top of the sport, and it’s what kept him around for six seasons. “However many enforcers there were in the league, there were very few who enjoyed it, I can assure you of that,” he said. “I was one of the ones that did not enjoy it, but I knew it was a necessary evil for me to keep my job. “Night in and night out you knew you were maybe one punch away from your career being over. It made it really hard to go to the rink. At the same time, you love hockey. Where else are you going to have an opportunity to do what you’re doing and live the life you’re living?” The debate stirred by the lawsuit is whether anyone knew the fights, concussions and hits to the head were causing irreparable damage. The players in the lawsuit say they didn’t know but claim the NHL should have been aware based on growing scientific evidence. “No one was sitting me down and warning me about the long-term effects,” said Peters, who began his junior career in 1995 and retired from the NHL in 2010. “No one was saying, ‘Andrew, just so you know before you go out this season, don’t get into too many fights.’ No one ever said that. I don’t think players were ever sat down and told that because they don’t ever want to skew the vision of what the job is. “Do you know what you’re in for? I don’t think you know that you’re in for CTE and life-lasting traumatic brain injuries. I don’t think you ever think that stuff is a possibility. You feel invincible. You’re a National Hockey League player. “I think it’s kind of like ignorance is bliss, but it’s also like don’t ask, don’t tell mentality.” One question needs to be asked: Would he do it again? He earned more than $3 million in salary, but what’s the price for peace of mind? “If I had to do it over again and I had to have the same role, no, I wouldn’t,” he said. Rip’s riff One of the most recognizable faces in the Sabres’ organization has been with the team since the start and has never played a game. Equipment manager Rip Simonick has seen them all, though, and he’s got plenty of stories. His favorite memory involving Saturday’s opponent – Montreal – was the Sabres’ visit Jan. 28, 1977. The legendary blizzard was in full swing in Buffalo. “We ended up getting out with 12 hockey players,” Simonick said. “Players got to the airport in snowmobiles if their neighbor or friend had snowmobiles. This was in the ’70s, so there weren’t that many four-wheel drives. Some emergency vehicles took guys to the airport, and we just took off. There was nothing we could do. “When we’re taking off, the wheels on the prop plane hit a snow bank. We thought we were going down. The plane just tilted forward, the pilot pulled it back up and we got up. Those were harrowing moments.” Despite being undermanned, the Sabres earn a 3-3 tie against the Canadiens. On the fly • Nashville is targeting Dec. 20 as the day injured goaltender Pekka Rinne will ramp up his activity. He’s been out since Oct. 24 after needing hip surgery because of an infection. “To be honest, there is never going to be a timetable that is going to be perfect for us until we see him back on the ice,” General Manager David Poile said. • Tampa Bay was 12-5 and averaging 3.1 goals per game when Steven Stamkos suffered a broken leg Nov. 11. Without him, the Lightning are 5-5-1 and scoring 2.1 goals per game. • Longtime Flames captain Jarome Iginla returns to Calgary on Tuesday with the Bruins. “I don’t think I’ll cry,” he said. “I’m not an extremely emotional person. Nostalgic? Well, my wife says I am.” email: jvogl@buffnews.com ||||| FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2013, file photo, former Buffalo Sabres player Andrew Peters, left, and Sabres players talk during an NHL hockey workout in Amherst, N.Y. Peters has been suspended indefinitely... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2013, file photo, former Buffalo Sabres player Andrew Peters, left, and Sabres players talk during an NHL hockey workout in Amherst, N.Y. Peters has been suspended indefinitely... (Associated Press) BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Former NHL enforcer Andrew Peters has been suspended indefinitely as coach of a youth hockey team pending a Buffalo police investigation into his role in an on-ice brawl. Buffalo Junior Sabres president Kevyn Adams announced the suspension Sunday, a day after the melee occurred during a game between the Peters-coached 15-and-Under team and the Ontario-based Hamilton Junior Bulldogs. A video posted on YouTube shows the fight escalating into the Sabres' bench, when Peters becomes involved in attempting to separate the players. At one point, the 36-year-old appears to shove a Hamilton player backward onto the ice. Buffalo police were called to the downtown arena to investigate the brawl, but no charges were filed. The investigation continues, police spokesman Michael DeGeorge wrote in an email. The Junior Sabres suspended Peters immediately after the game. "We are very disappointed in the series of events that unfolded," Adams, a former NHL player, said in a statement. "We are currently reviewing the situation and in the meantime have suspended head coach Andrew Peters indefinitely until the matter is over." According to a person familiar with the situation, Peters told Junior Sabres officials that he slipped while attempting to get one of the Hamilton players away from Buffalo's bench. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the conversation was to remain private. Listed at 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds, Peters was known for his physical style while playing six NHL seasons , including five with the Sabres. He scored four goals and seven points, and totaled 650 penalty minutes in 229 career games from 2003 through 2010. He has maintained a home in Buffalo and works for the Sabres as a co-host of a show titled "The Enforcers," which is broadcast daily on TV and radio. Peters also faces potential discipline from the New York State Amateur Hockey Association. The association's regional president, David Braunstein, told the AP he will investigate what happened during the brawl. Braunstein said he intends to view the video and seek out other possible footage, as well as speak to the on-ice officials. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| Former Buffalo Sabres forward Andrew Peters was suspended indefinitely from coaching the Junior Sabres after a brawl between 15-year-old players broke out on the ice Saturday and a video appears to show a coach punching an opposing player when the fight spills into his team's bench. “We are very disappointed in the series of events that unfolded during the 15U Buffalo Junior Sabres game on Saturday,�? Buffalo Junior Sabres President Kevyn Adams said in a statement released Sunday. “We are currently reviewing the situation and in the meantime have suspended Head Coach Andrew Peters indefinitely until the matter is resolved.�? In addition, Buffalo police said Sunday they are investigating the incident. Peters, who was a notorious fighter on the ice during his days with the Sabres, is the coach of the Junior Sabres Midget 15U team. The team was playing the Hamilton Junior Bulldogs on Saturday morning in a tournament at HarborCenter. In a video of the brawl posted on YouTube, and first reported on by WIVB-TV, multiple players are seen fighting on the ice as referees try to keep them apart. One referee is seen trying to pull apart two players who are down on the ice right next to the boards and the bench area. A man in a dark sweater who appears to be Peters is standing in the bench area pointing and gesturing during the fight. The video shows the Bulldog player who was by the boards getting up to his feet and the referee skating away. Next, the Hamilton player reaches over the boards toward the Junior Sabres on the bench and Peters makes his way down to them. The referees also approach. At first it looks like Peters is breaking up the fight and pushing the players away from each other. But then the video appears to show Peters punch the Hamilton player. The player is knocked down, a referee pulls him to his feet and then the player skates away from the melee. Two players – one from each team – were given "game misconduct" penalties, according to an incident report written by officials at the tournament, said David M. Braunstein, president of the West Section of the New York State Amateur Hockey Association. Braunstein, who was not at the game, said that he had looked at the report "quickly" and that he didn't think it mentioned anything about anyone else being reprimanded. Braunstein had not yet seen the video when contacted Sunday morning by The Buffalo News. However, he said he had received multiple texts and emails about it. "I was made aware of it," said Braunstein, who serves with the hockey association as a volunteer. "I just haven't had an opportunity to look at it and deal with it. Everybody is interested in it. We want to make sure we do the right thing." Peters, 36, played for the Sabres from 2003-09 and retired from the NHL after the 2009-10 season. He was mostly known as an enforcer, logging just seven points but 650 penalty minutes in 229 career games. Peters is also a host of "The Instigators," a hockey show that airs weekdays on WGR-550 Radio and the MSG Network. He took part in the Sabres' infamous brawl with the Ottawa Senators 10 years ago. [RELATED STORY: Inside the Sabres: Reliving the Senators brawl, 10 years later] Four years ago, Peters discussed with The Buffalo News his concerns about the impacts of the concussions he suffered during his career, mostly from fighting. He dropped the gloves 187 times through junior hockey, the minor leagues and the NHL, according to HockeyFights.com. Buffalo News Sports Reporter John Vogl wrote that it was Peters' penchant for pugilism that "got the 6-foot-4, 240-pounder to the top of the sport, and it’s what kept him around for six seasons." “However many enforcers there were in the league, there were very few who enjoyed it, I can assure you of that,�? Peters told The News in the 2013 interview. “I was one of the ones that did not enjoy it, but I knew it was a necessary evil for me to keep my job."

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Before Election Day, Harold Diamond, an 80-year-old retired elementary school principal, enjoyed a $55,000 annual pension after working for 39 years for the Monticello School District. Now Diamond, of Wurtsboro in Sullivan County, is a millionaire a hundred times over. He won a $326 million jackpot from New York's Mega Millions. It's the largest Lottery payout in the state's history. "I simply can't envision that kind of money," Diamond said, according to a news release from the New York Lottery. "It's very hard to fathom. We feel very blessed." Diamond opted to take the cash value of the prize, earning him a single lump sum payment totaling $197,456,087, according to the Lottery. That means $130,676,438 in cash after required withholdings. Diamond bought the winning ticket after voting on Nov. 4. The weather was bad. His wife, Carol, insisted they pull over at the Valero on Route 302 and eat at a Subway restaurant instead of going further into Middletown for dinner. "I reluctantly agreed," Diamond said. Diamond bought 10 $1 tickets, letting the system generate the numbers. One combination -- 09 15 24 39 41 and Mega Ball 01 -- ended up being worth $326 million. But Diamond didn't realize it immediately. "I put the ticket in my wallet and forgot about it," he said, according to the New York Lottery. The next day he went to play golf. Some others in the clubhouse were talking about a jackpot-winning ticket sold at the Valero on Route 302. The news sent Diamond home to get the ticket, watch the evening news and realized he'd made New York history. "I was in a dither, a real daze," he told the Lottery. Today, Diamond gave full credit to his wife, a 36-year veteran of the Goshen school district where she taught math at Goshen High School before retiring in 1994. "I have to thank her with both barrels because if it weren't for her insistence, we would not be here today," he said. Diamond said he has been working with a financial adviser to figure out what comes next. Preliminary plans for the money include helping family and "giving back to the local community," according to the Lottery. Contact Teri Weaver anytime: Email | Twitter | 315-470-2274 ||||| An 80-year-old retired school principal is the sole winner of the Nov. 4 $326 million Mega Millions jackpot, the biggest prize in New York Lottery history. Harold Diamond of the Sullivan County town of Wurtsboro says he bought the ticket at a highway service center where he had stopped at his wife Carol's insistence to wait out a storm on Election Day. Diamond said that he bought 10 tickets for $10, then put them in his wallet. He didn't even check to see if he won until after hearing the winning ticket had been purchased at the service center the next day while playing a round of golf. “I put the ticket in my wallet and forgot about it,” he said matter-of-factly. “I went to play golf the next day and the guys in the clubhouse were talking about the jackpot-winning ticket someone bought at a Valero on Route 302 and I thought, 'Wait a minute, I bought a ticket there last night.'” Jackpot $326M Mega Millions Ticket Sold in New York The jackpot-hitting ticket was sold at a Valero gas station on New York Route 302 in Middletown within the last week, lottery officials say. Sheldon Dutes reports. (Published Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014) The New York Lottery's Yolanda Vega presented a giant ceremonial check to Diamond on Monday. He has chosen to take the cash value of the annuitized prize, which comes to about $130 million after taxes. Diamond, who was an elementary school principal for 35 years, says he plans to use the money to help family and give back to the local community. Diamond was the principal at Emmac C. Chase Elementary School in Wurtsburo and George L. Cooke Elementary School in Monticello. He has also been a member of the Wurtsboro Volunteer Fire Department for 50 years.

– If Harold Diamond's wife hadn't insisted they ride out a storm by getting a sandwich at a local Subway, they wouldn't be millions of dollars richer right now. The retired elementary school principal, 80, and his wife, Carol, had pulled over to eat on Election Day into a highway service station on Route 302 in Middletown, NY—"I reluctantly agreed," he tells the Post-Standard—when Diamond decided to buy 10 Mega Millions lottery tickets for $10, NBC New York reports. It wasn't until the next day after golfing that he heard the winning $326 million ticket had been sold at the Valero gas station where he had purchased his own ticket. "I saw the first five numbers, so I immediately knew we won a million," he told reporters, per the New York Daily News. "And then when I saw the last number, I yelled up to my wife, 'I think we won a few bucks!'" That "few bucks" amounts to the largest NY Lottery payout ever—about $130 million after taxes on the $197 million lump-sum payout, according to the Post-Standard. "I was in a dither, a real daze," Diamond reportedly told the NY Lottery after realizing his good fortune. He received his giant ceremonial check yesterday from the NY Lottery's Yolanda Vega at the Valero where it all started. With Carol by his side, Diamond told the crowd gathered there that "I always listen to what she says," notes the Daily News. The Diamonds, who have been married for 55 years, reportedly plan on visiting Hawaii, where they celebrated their 25th anniversary, as well as helping out family members and "giving back to the local community," as per the Post-Standard. (Here's what to do if you ever win Mega Millions.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Before Election Day, Harold Diamond, an 80-year-old retired elementary school principal, enjoyed a $55,000 annual pension after working for 39 years for the Monticello School District. Now Diamond, of Wurtsboro in Sullivan County, is a millionaire a hundred times over. He won a $326 million jackpot from New York's Mega Millions. It's the largest Lottery payout in the state's history. "I simply can't envision that kind of money," Diamond said, according to a news release from the New York Lottery. "It's very hard to fathom. We feel very blessed." Diamond opted to take the cash value of the prize, earning him a single lump sum payment totaling $197,456,087, according to the Lottery. That means $130,676,438 in cash after required withholdings. Diamond bought the winning ticket after voting on Nov. 4. The weather was bad. His wife, Carol, insisted they pull over at the Valero on Route 302 and eat at a Subway restaurant instead of going further into Middletown for dinner. "I reluctantly agreed," Diamond said. Diamond bought 10 $1 tickets, letting the system generate the numbers. One combination -- 09 15 24 39 41 and Mega Ball 01 -- ended up being worth $326 million. But Diamond didn't realize it immediately. "I put the ticket in my wallet and forgot about it," he said, according to the New York Lottery. The next day he went to play golf. Some others in the clubhouse were talking about a jackpot-winning ticket sold at the Valero on Route 302. The news sent Diamond home to get the ticket, watch the evening news and realized he'd made New York history. "I was in a dither, a real daze," he told the Lottery. Today, Diamond gave full credit to his wife, a 36-year veteran of the Goshen school district where she taught math at Goshen High School before retiring in 1994. "I have to thank her with both barrels because if it weren't for her insistence, we would not be here today," he said. Diamond said he has been working with a financial adviser to figure out what comes next. Preliminary plans for the money include helping family and "giving back to the local community," according to the Lottery. Contact Teri Weaver anytime: Email | Twitter | 315-470-2274 ||||| An 80-year-old retired school principal is the sole winner of the Nov. 4 $326 million Mega Millions jackpot, the biggest prize in New York Lottery history. Harold Diamond of the Sullivan County town of Wurtsboro says he bought the ticket at a highway service center where he had stopped at his wife Carol's insistence to wait out a storm on Election Day. Diamond said that he bought 10 tickets for $10, then put them in his wallet. He didn't even check to see if he won until after hearing the winning ticket had been purchased at the service center the next day while playing a round of golf. “I put the ticket in my wallet and forgot about it,” he said matter-of-factly. “I went to play golf the next day and the guys in the clubhouse were talking about the jackpot-winning ticket someone bought at a Valero on Route 302 and I thought, 'Wait a minute, I bought a ticket there last night.'” Jackpot $326M Mega Millions Ticket Sold in New York The jackpot-hitting ticket was sold at a Valero gas station on New York Route 302 in Middletown within the last week, lottery officials say. Sheldon Dutes reports. (Published Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014) The New York Lottery's Yolanda Vega presented a giant ceremonial check to Diamond on Monday. He has chosen to take the cash value of the annuitized prize, which comes to about $130 million after taxes. Diamond, who was an elementary school principal for 35 years, says he plans to use the money to help family and give back to the local community. Diamond was the principal at Emmac C. Chase Elementary School in Wurtsburo and George L. Cooke Elementary School in Monticello. He has also been a member of the Wurtsboro Volunteer Fire Department for 50 years.

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But when exactly does the Atlantic hurricane season start and how long does it last? And what can people do to prepare in the face of the most dangerous storms on Earth? From hurricane naming conventions to staying safe in a storm, we'll detail all you need to know about this year's hurricane season. (The Atlantic saw its first hurricane of the season on July 6, and it's called Beryl.) Hurricanes so far this season: Hurricanes are tropical cyclones. When a tropical cyclone's sustained winds reach 39 to 73 mph (63 to 118 km/h), it is considered a tropical storm and it gets a name from a list put out by the World Meteorological Organization. Once those sustained winds reach 74 to 95 mph (119 to 153 km/h), that storm becomes a Category 1 hurricane. According to the Saffir-Simpson scale, here are the sustained winds linked to categories 2 through 5 hurricanes: Category 2: 96 to 110 mph (154 to 177 km/h) Category 3: 111 to 129 mph (178 to 208 km/h) Category 4: 130 to 156 mph (209 to 251 km/h) Category 5: 157 mph or higher (252 km/h or higher) Hurricanes are the most violent storms on Earth, according to NASA. At heart, hurricanes are fueled by just two ingredients: heat and water. Hurricanes are seeded over the warm waters above the equator, where the air above the ocean's surface takes in heat and moisture. As the hot air rises, it leaves a lower pressure region below it. This process repeats as air from higher pressure areas moves into the lower pressure area, heats up, and rises, in turn, producing swirls in the air, according to NASA. Once this hot air gets high enough into the atmosphere, it cools off and condenses into clouds. Now, the growing, swirling vortex of air and clouds grows and grows and can become a thunderstorm. So, the first condition needed for hurricanes is warmer waters in the Atlantic Ocean, which cause a number of other conditions favorable to hurricanes. "When the waters are warmer, it tends to mean you have lower pressures. It means a more unstable atmosphere, which is conducive to hurricanes intensifying," said Phil Klotzbach, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University. "These thunderstorms, which are the building blocks of hurricanes, are better able to organize and get going." Another key factor: wind shear, or the change in wind direction with height into the atmosphere, Klotzbach said. "When you have a warm tropical Atlantic, you have reduced levels of wind shear," Klotzbach told Live Science. "When you have a lot of wind shear it basically tears apart the hurricane." (Storms that form on different sides of the equator have different spin orientations, thanks to Earth's slight tilt on its axis, according to NASA.) The individual ingredients for hurricanes, however, don't pop up at random; they are guided by larger weather systems. "There are two dominant climate patterns that really control the wind and pressure patterns across the Atlantic," said Gerry Bell, the lead seasonal hurricane forecaster for NOAA's Climate Prediction Center in Washington, D.C. The first is the El Niño/La Niña cycle. During an El Niño, in which ocean water around the northwestern coast of South America becomes warner than usual, Atlantic hurricanes are suppressed, while La Niña creates more favorable conditions for hurricanes, Bell said. The second climate pattern is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), which is, as the name implies, a trend that lasts anywhere from 25 to 40 years and is associated with warmer waters in the Atlantic and stronger African monsoons, Bell said. "When this pattern is in its warm phase, or a warmer tropical Atlantic Ocean, we tend to see stronger hurricane patterns for decades at a time," Bell told Live Science. A warm-phase AMO conducive to hurricanes prevailed between 1950 and 1970 and since 1995, Bell said. Officially, the Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1 and runs until Nov. 30. In the Eastern Pacific Ocean, hurricane season begins May 15 and ends Nov. 30, according to the National Weather Service. However, most of these storms hit during peak hurricane season between August and October, on both coasts, according to the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center. Hurricane scientists at Colorado State University predicted a slightly above-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2018, they announced on April 5. At the time, he researchers, who are part of CSU's Tropical Meteorology Project team, forecast 14 named storms, and of those about seven will become full-blown hurricanes and three will reach major hurricane strength, meaning a Category 3, 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale (sustained winds of at least 111 mph, or 179 km/h). On July 2, CSU revised their forecast, and now predict a below-average season with 11 named storms, four hurricanes and one major hurricane. Their downgraded forecast was due to cooling waters in parts of the Atlantic Ocean as well as a higher chance of a weak El Niño, which puts the brakes on hurricanes, forming in the next few months. "With the decrease in our forecast, the probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the United States coastline and in the Caribbean has decreased as well," CSU said in a statement. The CSU team will update their hurricane season forecast again on Aug. 2, they said. On May 24, NOAA released its forecast for the 2018 hurricane season, predicting that the season would be be slightly more active than usual, with a 75 percent chance of an above-normal or near-normal season. To make their predictions, scientists analyze a host of factors, from wind speed to sea surface temperatures. Because the El Niño/La Niña cycle typically materializes in summer or early fall, forecasts done too early have limited meaning, Bell said. [A History of Destruction: 8 Great Hurricanes] The Climate Prediction Center classifies hurricane seasons as above-normal (between 12 and 28 tropical storms and between seven and 15 hurricanes); near-normal (Between 10 and 15 tropical storms and between four and nine hurricanes) and below-normal (Between four and nine tropical storms and two to four hurricanes). During this season, according to NOAA, there is a 70 percent chance of 10 to 16 named storms developing, with winds of 39 mph (63 km/h) or higher. Of those named storms, five to nine could achieve hurricane strength, with winds of at least 74 mph (119 km/h) or higher, and one to four storms could develop into major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5, with winds reaching at least 111 mph, or 179 km/h). On July 6, the Atlantic's first hurricane of the season whipped into shape, transforming from a tropical depression to a full-strength Category 1 hurricane in a mere 24 hours. Called Beryl, the hurricane was packing sustained winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) as of 5 p.m. ET on July 6, with higher gusts, according to NOAA. On July 10, a system that had formed south of Bermuda on July 3 reached hurricane status to become the second hurricane of the year. Hurricane Chris strengthened to a Category 2 storm the following day, only to later weaken and fizzle out as it moved north, crossing the Gulf Stream. Last year ended up being an extremely active hurricane season, with 17 named storms. Of those named storms, 10 became hurricanes, with six of those reaching major hurricane status. The season saw the first two major hurricanes — Harvey in Texas and Irma in the southeastern U.S. — to hit the continental U.S. in 12 years, according to the Climate Prediction Center. Another notably devastating hurricane of 2017, Maria tore through Puerto Rico, leaving most of the island without power and clean water. [Hurricane Maria's Aftermath: Photos Reveal Devastation on Caribbean Islands] Hurricane Harvey, which at its peak had maximums sustained wind speeds of 110 mph (175 km/h), making it just shy of a category 4 hurricane when it made landfall in Port Aransas, Texas, according to the National Hurricane Center. Harvey was downgraded to a category 1 storm by the time it hit Houston, but it caused record rainfall, killed at least 60 people, flooded huge swaths of Houston, and caused bilions of dollars in damage, Live Science reported. [In Photos: Hurricane Harvey Takes Aim at Texas] Barely a week after Harvey's onslaught, Hurricane Irma, another major hurricane , battered several Caribbean islands, completely destroying the island of Barbuda, grazed Puerto Rico, and barreled directly into Florida, causing massive flooding, storm surges and during the worst part of the storm for Florida, 15 million people, or about three-fourths of Florida's population, lacked power, according to the Department of Homeland Security. At its peak, Hurricane Irma had maximum sustained wind speeds of 180 mph (290 km/h) and spanned hundreds of miles across, making it one of the strongest and biggest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center. Hurricane Irma killed at least 69 people across the state of Florida and has also caused billions of dollars in damage. According to HurricaneCity, a hurricane-tracking website, here are the top 10 cities most frequently hit or affected by hurricanes since record-keeping began in 1871: Cape Hatteras, North Carolina: Every 1.36 years (affected by 108 hurricanes since 1871) Morehead City, North Carolina: Every 1.54 years Grand Bahamas Island, Bahamas: Every 1.62 years Cayman Islands (most affected area in the Caribbean): Every 1.72 years Wilmington, North Carolina: Every 1.72 years Great Abaco Island, Bahamas: Every 1.8 years Andros Island, Bahamas: Every 1.83 years (affected 80 times since 1871) Bermuda: Every 1.85 years (hit by hurricanes 36 times since 1871 and affected 79 times) Savannah, Georgia: Every 1.92 years Miami, Florida: Every 1.97 years (affected 74 times) Once a storm has wind speeds of 38 mph (58 km/h), it is officially a tropical storm. At 74 mph (119 km/h), the storm has reached hurricane levels. At that point, scientists use a 1 to 5 scale known as the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to classify hurricane strength, with category 1 being the least severe hurricanes and category 5 being the strongest. Some scientists have also proposed adding a category 6 to account for storms that are well beyond the highest sustained wind speed for a category 5 hurricane. Category Sustained wind speed (mph) Potential damage 1 74-95 Minimal, with some roof leakage, gutter damage, snapped tree branches and toppled trees with shallow roots 2 96-110 Moderate, with major roof and siding damage; uprooted trees could block roads; power loss possible for days to weeks 3 111-129 Devastating damage, with gable and decking damage, many more uprooted trees and extended power outages 4 130-156 Catastrophic damage; roofs and exterior walls will be destroyed; trees will snap; power outages for weeks to months. Large area uninhabitable for weeks or months 5 157 or higher High fraction of framed houses will be destroyed; power outages for weeks to months; and huge swaths uninhabitable for same period Source: NOAA's National Hurricane Center Some scientists have argued against using just wind speed as a metric to determine a storm's severity and potential damage, arguing that other metrics such as storm surge height or rainfall could provide better insight into a storm's ferocity. However, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has argued that metrics like storm surges can be hard to predict because local differences in the shape of the terrain of the ocean floor leading up to the coastline can determine the height of storm surges. Hurricanes, tropical storms and typhoons refer to the same type of storm, but the nomenclature reveals where they form. Tropical cyclone refers to any storm that formed 300 miles (482 km) south of the equator, whereas hurricanes are storms formed in the Northeast Pacificand Atlantic, typhoons are tropical storms that form in the Northwest Pacific and cyclone is the term used for storms in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean, according to NOAA's ocean service. Hurricanes initially were named in honor of the feast day for a Catholic saint. For instance, Hurricane San Felipe occurred on Sept. 13, 1876, or the feast day of Saint Phillip, according to the National Hurricane Center. Hurricanes that struck on the same day would be distinguished by a suffix placed on the later one, Live Science previously reported. For example, a storm that struck on Sept. 13, 1928, was dubbed Hurricane San Felipe II, to distinguish it from the 1876 storm. However, by the 1950s, the naming convention changed and in the U.S., hurricanes were given female names based on the international alphabet, according to the NHC. The practice of calling storms by female names only was abandoned in 1978. Despite the seemingly open-ended possibilities, meteorologists do not have free reign in deciding names. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has a long list of alphabetical storm names that repeats on a six-year cycle. The organization aims for clear and simple names. Names are in English, Spanish, Dutch and French, to account for the many languages spoken by people potentially affected by hurricanes. "Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive given names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older, more cumbersome, latitude-longitude identification methods. These advantages are especially important in exchanging detailed storm information between hundreds of widely scattered stations, coastal bases and ships at sea," the organization says on its website. If a storm was so devastating that using the name again would be insensitive, the group meets and agrees to strike the name from the list. For instance, people don't have to worry about facing the wrath of a Hurricane Katrina, Ike, Hattie or Opal again, because those names have been retired, according to the NHC. For the 2018 hurricane season, the following hurricane names could come into play in the North Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, according to the WMO: Alberto Beryl Chris Debby Ernesto Florence Gordon Helene Isaac Joyce Kirk Leslie Michael Nadine Oscar Patty Rafael Sara Tony Valerie William Staying safe during the hurricane season starts with a simple step: Have a plan. People can plan for hurricanes using a simple guide at Ready.gov. Plans need to be worked out for all family members. And for those animal lovers out there, Fido and Mr. Whiskers also need an escape plan. This plan includes figuring out how to determe whether it's safe to hunker down at home during a storm or whether you are in an evacuation zone. If so, there is likely a specific route you should take in the event of an evacuation, as many roads may be closed, Live Science previously reported. If you are in an evacuation zone, you also need to figure out accommodations during the storm — this could be anything from staying with family and friends to renting a motel to staying in a shelter. Family members often have trouble reaching each other during hurricanes, so determining a preset meeting place and protocol can be helpful. Sometimes, local cellphone lines are overloaded during a storm, so consider texting. Another alternative is to have a central out-of-state contact who can relay messages between separated family members. During a storm, pets should be leashed or placed in a carrier, and their emergency supplies should include a list of their vaccinations as well as a photo in case they get lost, according to the Humane Society for the United States. Also important is finding someone who can care for them, in the event that a hotel or shelter does not accept pets. During an emergency, they should also be wearing a collar with the information of an out-of-state contact in case they get separated from you, according to the HSUS. Anyone who lives in a hurricane-prone area would do well to protect their property in advance of a flood. Because hurricanes often cause their damage when trees fall on property, homeowners can reduce the risk of damage by trimming trees or removing damaged trees and limbs, according to Ready.gov. Another easy step is to make sure rain gutters are fixed in place and free of debris. Reinforcing the roof, doors and windows, including a garage door, is also important, according to Ready.gov. Power generators can also be an important tool if the power is cut off for long periods of time. A power generator needs to be kept outside, as they produce dangerous levels of carbon monoxide. People who are very serious about prevention may even consider building a "safe room" — a fortified room designed to withstand the punishing winds of a tornado or hurricane, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency pamphlet "Taking Shelter from the Storm: Building a Safe Room for Your Home or Small Business," (FEMA, 2014). People living in hurricane country also need to have a stash of emergency supplies, ideally placed in multiple locations throughout a dwelling. According to Ready.gov, a basic disaster kit should include: A gallon of water per person per day for at least three days A three-day supply of non-perishable food A battery-powered or hand-crank radio A flashlight with extra batteries A first aid kit A whistle to get help Dust mask Moist towelettes, garbage cans and plastic ties for sanitation A wrench or pliers for turning off busted pipes Maps A can opener for food And cellphone chargers Originally published on Live Science. ||||| (CNN) Michael, now a Category 1 hurricane slashing Cuba, is forecast to be a "dangerous major hurricane" when it smacks the US Gulf Coast on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said. The forecast indicates Michael may be a Category 3 hurricane -- with winds from 111 to 129 mph -- when it strikes. "Life-threatening storm surge is possible along portions of the Florida Gulf Coast regardless of the storm's exact track or intensity," the center said. "Well-built framed homes may incur major damage or removal of roof decking and gable ends. Many trees will be snapped or uprooted, blocking numerous roads. Electricity and water will be unavailable for several days to weeks after the storm passes." Floridians scurried to prepare after Gov. Rick Scott expanded a state of emergency declaration to include 35 counties and activated 1,250 National Guardsmen for hurricane duty. #Michael could produce three life-threatening hazards along portions of the northeastern Gulf Coast: storm surge, heavy rainfall, and hurricane-force winds, with storm surge and hurricane watches in effect. Residents in these areas should follow advice given by local officials. pic.twitter.com/JZENNHSQTK "Heavy rainfall from Michael could produce life-threatening flash flooding from the Florida Panhandle and Big Bend region into portions of the Carolinas through Thursday," the hurricane center said. Michael has undergone a period of "rapid intensification" -- defined as an increase of sustained winds of 35 mph in a 24-hour period. The storm went from 40 mph on Sunday to 75 mph on Monday and is expected to undergo rapid intensification again in the next 24 hours. The Category 1 hurricane now has maximum sustained winds of 90 mph. A Category 2 hurricane has sustained winds of 96 to 110 mph . Storms with winds of at least 111 mph are designated as "major" hurricanes. Late Monday, Michael's center was about 485 miles south of Panama City, Florida and 450 miles south of Apalachicola, with the storm moving northward at 12 miles per hour. Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 35 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extended outward up to 175 miles, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm is aiming at a region that stretches from Mobile, Alabama, through the Florida Panhandle and into the Big Bend area of northern Florida. A hurricane warning from the National Weather Service was declared for the Alabama-Florida border to the Suwannee River in Florida. A warning means that hurricane conditions are expected somewhere within the designated area, and warnings are typically issued 36 hours before tropical-storm-force winds are expected, the weather service said. Storm and storm surge watches were issued for the Gulf Coast from the Mississippi-Alabama border to Chassahowitzka, Florida, north of Tampa Bay. As forecast, Michael would be the first Category 3 or higher hurricane to hit the Panhandle since Hurricane Dennis in 2005. Monday, it became the seventh hurricane of 2018 in the Atlantic Basin. On average, the Atlantic would have about five hurricanes by October 8. 'Everybody's got to get ready' Scott warned that Michael could reach land as a Category 2 hurricane, with winds in excess of 100 mph. "This storm has the potential to bring devastating impacts to communities across the Panhandle and Big Bend and every family must be prepared." "Everybody's got to get ready. Don't take a chance," he said. "We're going to get storm surge, we have wind, we have a chance of flooding, we have a significant chance of tornadoes." The governor declared a state of emergency for Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Holmes, Washington, Bay, Jackson, Calhoun, Gulf, Gadsden, Liberty, Franklin, Leon, Wakulla, Jefferson, Madison, Taylor, Hamilton, Suwannee, Lafayette, Dixie, Columbia, Gilchrist, Levy and Citrus counties. Voluntary, and in some cases, mandatory, evacuations were issued in some areas along the Florida Panhandle coast. Florida State University campuses in Tallahassee and Panama City plan to close Tuesday through Friday. In Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey issued a statewide state of emergency in anticipation of damage from Hurricane Michael. The governor's declaration activates the state's emergency operations plan, according to Ivey's office. Michael will dump heavy rain on Cuba before heading toward the US. Hurricane conditions expected in western Cuba In the Caribbean, a hurricane warning is in effect for the Cuban province of Pinar del Rio -- where most of Cuba's famed cigar tobacco is grown -- and a tropical storm warning has been issued for the Isle of Youth. A warning for the coast of Mexico from Tulum to Cabo Catoche, was canceled late Monday. "Hurricane conditions will continue over portions of the far western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio through this evening. Tropical storm conditions are expected across the remainder of the warning areas in Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula through tonight," the center said. "Michael is expected to produce heavy rainfall and flash flooding over portions of western Cuba and the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico during the next couple of days," it said. According to an alert published by the Cuban Civil Defense, meteorologists warned affected residents that they could experience hurricane-force winds. Officials also alerted residents living on the coast of the possibility of flooding caused by the storm.

– The Atlantic hurricane season officially runs through Nov. 30, and it looks like Florida may be about to get socked with at least one more. CNN reports Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in 26 counties in preparation for Tropical Storm Michael as it heads away from Cuba and toward the northeastern Gulf Coast, expected to make landfall anywhere between Tuesday night and early Thursday, depending on which way the storm travels and how quickly. But the weather system may not remain a tropical storm much longer: "Michael expected to become a hurricane very soon," read a National Hurricane Center advisory early Monday. In a Sunday presser, Scott, who has activated 500 National Guard troops, warned that Michael—which the Weather Channel noted "rapidly intensified" from Sunday into Monday morning—could come ashore as a Category 2 hurricane, with winds gusting at more than 100mph. "This storm has the potential to bring devastating impacts to communities across the Panhandle and Big Bend and every family must be prepared," he noted. "We're going to get storm surge, we have wind, we have a chance of flooding, we have a significant chance of tornadoes."

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This story does not necessarily represent the position of our parent company, IBM. ||||| Whipping winds, torrential downpours, power outages and floods — hurricane season in the Atlantic brings a host of dramatic and dangerous weather with it. But when exactly does the Atlantic hurricane season start and how long does it last? And what can people do to prepare in the face of the most dangerous storms on Earth? From hurricane naming conventions to staying safe in a storm, we'll detail all you need to know about this year's hurricane season. (The Atlantic saw its first hurricane of the season on July 6, and it's called Beryl.) Hurricanes so far this season: Hurricanes are tropical cyclones. When a tropical cyclone's sustained winds reach 39 to 73 mph (63 to 118 km/h), it is considered a tropical storm and it gets a name from a list put out by the World Meteorological Organization. Once those sustained winds reach 74 to 95 mph (119 to 153 km/h), that storm becomes a Category 1 hurricane. According to the Saffir-Simpson scale, here are the sustained winds linked to categories 2 through 5 hurricanes: Category 2: 96 to 110 mph (154 to 177 km/h) Category 3: 111 to 129 mph (178 to 208 km/h) Category 4: 130 to 156 mph (209 to 251 km/h) Category 5: 157 mph or higher (252 km/h or higher) Hurricanes are the most violent storms on Earth, according to NASA. At heart, hurricanes are fueled by just two ingredients: heat and water. Hurricanes are seeded over the warm waters above the equator, where the air above the ocean's surface takes in heat and moisture. As the hot air rises, it leaves a lower pressure region below it. This process repeats as air from higher pressure areas moves into the lower pressure area, heats up, and rises, in turn, producing swirls in the air, according to NASA. Once this hot air gets high enough into the atmosphere, it cools off and condenses into clouds. Now, the growing, swirling vortex of air and clouds grows and grows and can become a thunderstorm. So, the first condition needed for hurricanes is warmer waters in the Atlantic Ocean, which cause a number of other conditions favorable to hurricanes. "When the waters are warmer, it tends to mean you have lower pressures. It means a more unstable atmosphere, which is conducive to hurricanes intensifying," said Phil Klotzbach, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University. "These thunderstorms, which are the building blocks of hurricanes, are better able to organize and get going." Another key factor: wind shear, or the change in wind direction with height into the atmosphere, Klotzbach said. "When you have a warm tropical Atlantic, you have reduced levels of wind shear," Klotzbach told Live Science. "When you have a lot of wind shear it basically tears apart the hurricane." (Storms that form on different sides of the equator have different spin orientations, thanks to Earth's slight tilt on its axis, according to NASA.) The individual ingredients for hurricanes, however, don't pop up at random; they are guided by larger weather systems. "There are two dominant climate patterns that really control the wind and pressure patterns across the Atlantic," said Gerry Bell, the lead seasonal hurricane forecaster for NOAA's Climate Prediction Center in Washington, D.C. The first is the El Niño/La Niña cycle. During an El Niño, in which ocean water around the northwestern coast of South America becomes warner than usual, Atlantic hurricanes are suppressed, while La Niña creates more favorable conditions for hurricanes, Bell said. The second climate pattern is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), which is, as the name implies, a trend that lasts anywhere from 25 to 40 years and is associated with warmer waters in the Atlantic and stronger African monsoons, Bell said. "When this pattern is in its warm phase, or a warmer tropical Atlantic Ocean, we tend to see stronger hurricane patterns for decades at a time," Bell told Live Science. A warm-phase AMO conducive to hurricanes prevailed between 1950 and 1970 and since 1995, Bell said. Officially, the Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1 and runs until Nov. 30. In the Eastern Pacific Ocean, hurricane season begins May 15 and ends Nov. 30, according to the National Weather Service. However, most of these storms hit during peak hurricane season between August and October, on both coasts, according to the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center. Hurricane scientists at Colorado State University predicted a slightly above-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2018, they announced on April 5. At the time, he researchers, who are part of CSU's Tropical Meteorology Project team, forecast 14 named storms, and of those about seven will become full-blown hurricanes and three will reach major hurricane strength, meaning a Category 3, 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale (sustained winds of at least 111 mph, or 179 km/h). On July 2, CSU revised their forecast, and now predict a below-average season with 11 named storms, four hurricanes and one major hurricane. Their downgraded forecast was due to cooling waters in parts of the Atlantic Ocean as well as a higher chance of a weak El Niño, which puts the brakes on hurricanes, forming in the next few months. "With the decrease in our forecast, the probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the United States coastline and in the Caribbean has decreased as well," CSU said in a statement. The CSU team will update their hurricane season forecast again on Aug. 2, they said. On May 24, NOAA released its forecast for the 2018 hurricane season, predicting that the season would be be slightly more active than usual, with a 75 percent chance of an above-normal or near-normal season. To make their predictions, scientists analyze a host of factors, from wind speed to sea surface temperatures. Because the El Niño/La Niña cycle typically materializes in summer or early fall, forecasts done too early have limited meaning, Bell said. [A History of Destruction: 8 Great Hurricanes] The Climate Prediction Center classifies hurricane seasons as above-normal (between 12 and 28 tropical storms and between seven and 15 hurricanes); near-normal (Between 10 and 15 tropical storms and between four and nine hurricanes) and below-normal (Between four and nine tropical storms and two to four hurricanes). During this season, according to NOAA, there is a 70 percent chance of 10 to 16 named storms developing, with winds of 39 mph (63 km/h) or higher. Of those named storms, five to nine could achieve hurricane strength, with winds of at least 74 mph (119 km/h) or higher, and one to four storms could develop into major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5, with winds reaching at least 111 mph, or 179 km/h). On July 6, the Atlantic's first hurricane of the season whipped into shape, transforming from a tropical depression to a full-strength Category 1 hurricane in a mere 24 hours. Called Beryl, the hurricane was packing sustained winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) as of 5 p.m. ET on July 6, with higher gusts, according to NOAA. On July 10, a system that had formed south of Bermuda on July 3 reached hurricane status to become the second hurricane of the year. Hurricane Chris strengthened to a Category 2 storm the following day, only to later weaken and fizzle out as it moved north, crossing the Gulf Stream. Last year ended up being an extremely active hurricane season, with 17 named storms. Of those named storms, 10 became hurricanes, with six of those reaching major hurricane status. The season saw the first two major hurricanes — Harvey in Texas and Irma in the southeastern U.S. — to hit the continental U.S. in 12 years, according to the Climate Prediction Center. Another notably devastating hurricane of 2017, Maria tore through Puerto Rico, leaving most of the island without power and clean water. [Hurricane Maria's Aftermath: Photos Reveal Devastation on Caribbean Islands] Hurricane Harvey, which at its peak had maximums sustained wind speeds of 110 mph (175 km/h), making it just shy of a category 4 hurricane when it made landfall in Port Aransas, Texas, according to the National Hurricane Center. Harvey was downgraded to a category 1 storm by the time it hit Houston, but it caused record rainfall, killed at least 60 people, flooded huge swaths of Houston, and caused bilions of dollars in damage, Live Science reported. [In Photos: Hurricane Harvey Takes Aim at Texas] Barely a week after Harvey's onslaught, Hurricane Irma, another major hurricane , battered several Caribbean islands, completely destroying the island of Barbuda, grazed Puerto Rico, and barreled directly into Florida, causing massive flooding, storm surges and during the worst part of the storm for Florida, 15 million people, or about three-fourths of Florida's population, lacked power, according to the Department of Homeland Security. At its peak, Hurricane Irma had maximum sustained wind speeds of 180 mph (290 km/h) and spanned hundreds of miles across, making it one of the strongest and biggest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center. Hurricane Irma killed at least 69 people across the state of Florida and has also caused billions of dollars in damage. According to HurricaneCity, a hurricane-tracking website, here are the top 10 cities most frequently hit or affected by hurricanes since record-keeping began in 1871: Cape Hatteras, North Carolina: Every 1.36 years (affected by 108 hurricanes since 1871) Morehead City, North Carolina: Every 1.54 years Grand Bahamas Island, Bahamas: Every 1.62 years Cayman Islands (most affected area in the Caribbean): Every 1.72 years Wilmington, North Carolina: Every 1.72 years Great Abaco Island, Bahamas: Every 1.8 years Andros Island, Bahamas: Every 1.83 years (affected 80 times since 1871) Bermuda: Every 1.85 years (hit by hurricanes 36 times since 1871 and affected 79 times) Savannah, Georgia: Every 1.92 years Miami, Florida: Every 1.97 years (affected 74 times) Once a storm has wind speeds of 38 mph (58 km/h), it is officially a tropical storm. At 74 mph (119 km/h), the storm has reached hurricane levels. At that point, scientists use a 1 to 5 scale known as the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to classify hurricane strength, with category 1 being the least severe hurricanes and category 5 being the strongest. Some scientists have also proposed adding a category 6 to account for storms that are well beyond the highest sustained wind speed for a category 5 hurricane. Category Sustained wind speed (mph) Potential damage 1 74-95 Minimal, with some roof leakage, gutter damage, snapped tree branches and toppled trees with shallow roots 2 96-110 Moderate, with major roof and siding damage; uprooted trees could block roads; power loss possible for days to weeks 3 111-129 Devastating damage, with gable and decking damage, many more uprooted trees and extended power outages 4 130-156 Catastrophic damage; roofs and exterior walls will be destroyed; trees will snap; power outages for weeks to months. Large area uninhabitable for weeks or months 5 157 or higher High fraction of framed houses will be destroyed; power outages for weeks to months; and huge swaths uninhabitable for same period Source: NOAA's National Hurricane Center Some scientists have argued against using just wind speed as a metric to determine a storm's severity and potential damage, arguing that other metrics such as storm surge height or rainfall could provide better insight into a storm's ferocity. However, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has argued that metrics like storm surges can be hard to predict because local differences in the shape of the terrain of the ocean floor leading up to the coastline can determine the height of storm surges. Hurricanes, tropical storms and typhoons refer to the same type of storm, but the nomenclature reveals where they form. Tropical cyclone refers to any storm that formed 300 miles (482 km) south of the equator, whereas hurricanes are storms formed in the Northeast Pacificand Atlantic, typhoons are tropical storms that form in the Northwest Pacific and cyclone is the term used for storms in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean, according to NOAA's ocean service. Hurricanes initially were named in honor of the feast day for a Catholic saint. For instance, Hurricane San Felipe occurred on Sept. 13, 1876, or the feast day of Saint Phillip, according to the National Hurricane Center. Hurricanes that struck on the same day would be distinguished by a suffix placed on the later one, Live Science previously reported. For example, a storm that struck on Sept. 13, 1928, was dubbed Hurricane San Felipe II, to distinguish it from the 1876 storm. However, by the 1950s, the naming convention changed and in the U.S., hurricanes were given female names based on the international alphabet, according to the NHC. The practice of calling storms by female names only was abandoned in 1978. Despite the seemingly open-ended possibilities, meteorologists do not have free reign in deciding names. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has a long list of alphabetical storm names that repeats on a six-year cycle. The organization aims for clear and simple names. Names are in English, Spanish, Dutch and French, to account for the many languages spoken by people potentially affected by hurricanes. "Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive given names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older, more cumbersome, latitude-longitude identification methods. These advantages are especially important in exchanging detailed storm information between hundreds of widely scattered stations, coastal bases and ships at sea," the organization says on its website. If a storm was so devastating that using the name again would be insensitive, the group meets and agrees to strike the name from the list. For instance, people don't have to worry about facing the wrath of a Hurricane Katrina, Ike, Hattie or Opal again, because those names have been retired, according to the NHC. For the 2018 hurricane season, the following hurricane names could come into play in the North Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, according to the WMO: Alberto Beryl Chris Debby Ernesto Florence Gordon Helene Isaac Joyce Kirk Leslie Michael Nadine Oscar Patty Rafael Sara Tony Valerie William Staying safe during the hurricane season starts with a simple step: Have a plan. People can plan for hurricanes using a simple guide at Ready.gov. Plans need to be worked out for all family members. And for those animal lovers out there, Fido and Mr. Whiskers also need an escape plan. This plan includes figuring out how to determe whether it's safe to hunker down at home during a storm or whether you are in an evacuation zone. If so, there is likely a specific route you should take in the event of an evacuation, as many roads may be closed, Live Science previously reported. If you are in an evacuation zone, you also need to figure out accommodations during the storm — this could be anything from staying with family and friends to renting a motel to staying in a shelter. Family members often have trouble reaching each other during hurricanes, so determining a preset meeting place and protocol can be helpful. Sometimes, local cellphone lines are overloaded during a storm, so consider texting. Another alternative is to have a central out-of-state contact who can relay messages between separated family members. During a storm, pets should be leashed or placed in a carrier, and their emergency supplies should include a list of their vaccinations as well as a photo in case they get lost, according to the Humane Society for the United States. Also important is finding someone who can care for them, in the event that a hotel or shelter does not accept pets. During an emergency, they should also be wearing a collar with the information of an out-of-state contact in case they get separated from you, according to the HSUS. Anyone who lives in a hurricane-prone area would do well to protect their property in advance of a flood. Because hurricanes often cause their damage when trees fall on property, homeowners can reduce the risk of damage by trimming trees or removing damaged trees and limbs, according to Ready.gov. Another easy step is to make sure rain gutters are fixed in place and free of debris. Reinforcing the roof, doors and windows, including a garage door, is also important, according to Ready.gov. Power generators can also be an important tool if the power is cut off for long periods of time. A power generator needs to be kept outside, as they produce dangerous levels of carbon monoxide. People who are very serious about prevention may even consider building a "safe room" — a fortified room designed to withstand the punishing winds of a tornado or hurricane, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency pamphlet "Taking Shelter from the Storm: Building a Safe Room for Your Home or Small Business," (FEMA, 2014). People living in hurricane country also need to have a stash of emergency supplies, ideally placed in multiple locations throughout a dwelling. According to Ready.gov, a basic disaster kit should include: A gallon of water per person per day for at least three days A three-day supply of non-perishable food A battery-powered or hand-crank radio A flashlight with extra batteries A first aid kit A whistle to get help Dust mask Moist towelettes, garbage cans and plastic ties for sanitation A wrench or pliers for turning off busted pipes Maps A can opener for food And cellphone chargers Originally published on Live Science. ||||| (CNN) Michael, now a Category 1 hurricane slashing Cuba, is forecast to be a "dangerous major hurricane" when it smacks the US Gulf Coast on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said. The forecast indicates Michael may be a Category 3 hurricane -- with winds from 111 to 129 mph -- when it strikes. "Life-threatening storm surge is possible along portions of the Florida Gulf Coast regardless of the storm's exact track or intensity," the center said. "Well-built framed homes may incur major damage or removal of roof decking and gable ends. Many trees will be snapped or uprooted, blocking numerous roads. Electricity and water will be unavailable for several days to weeks after the storm passes." Floridians scurried to prepare after Gov. Rick Scott expanded a state of emergency declaration to include 35 counties and activated 1,250 National Guardsmen for hurricane duty. #Michael could produce three life-threatening hazards along portions of the northeastern Gulf Coast: storm surge, heavy rainfall, and hurricane-force winds, with storm surge and hurricane watches in effect. Residents in these areas should follow advice given by local officials. pic.twitter.com/JZENNHSQTK "Heavy rainfall from Michael could produce life-threatening flash flooding from the Florida Panhandle and Big Bend region into portions of the Carolinas through Thursday," the hurricane center said. Michael has undergone a period of "rapid intensification" -- defined as an increase of sustained winds of 35 mph in a 24-hour period. The storm went from 40 mph on Sunday to 75 mph on Monday and is expected to undergo rapid intensification again in the next 24 hours. The Category 1 hurricane now has maximum sustained winds of 90 mph. A Category 2 hurricane has sustained winds of 96 to 110 mph . Storms with winds of at least 111 mph are designated as "major" hurricanes. Late Monday, Michael's center was about 485 miles south of Panama City, Florida and 450 miles south of Apalachicola, with the storm moving northward at 12 miles per hour. Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 35 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extended outward up to 175 miles, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm is aiming at a region that stretches from Mobile, Alabama, through the Florida Panhandle and into the Big Bend area of northern Florida. A hurricane warning from the National Weather Service was declared for the Alabama-Florida border to the Suwannee River in Florida. A warning means that hurricane conditions are expected somewhere within the designated area, and warnings are typically issued 36 hours before tropical-storm-force winds are expected, the weather service said. Storm and storm surge watches were issued for the Gulf Coast from the Mississippi-Alabama border to Chassahowitzka, Florida, north of Tampa Bay. As forecast, Michael would be the first Category 3 or higher hurricane to hit the Panhandle since Hurricane Dennis in 2005. Monday, it became the seventh hurricane of 2018 in the Atlantic Basin. On average, the Atlantic would have about five hurricanes by October 8. 'Everybody's got to get ready' Scott warned that Michael could reach land as a Category 2 hurricane, with winds in excess of 100 mph. "This storm has the potential to bring devastating impacts to communities across the Panhandle and Big Bend and every family must be prepared." "Everybody's got to get ready. Don't take a chance," he said. "We're going to get storm surge, we have wind, we have a chance of flooding, we have a significant chance of tornadoes." The governor declared a state of emergency for Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Holmes, Washington, Bay, Jackson, Calhoun, Gulf, Gadsden, Liberty, Franklin, Leon, Wakulla, Jefferson, Madison, Taylor, Hamilton, Suwannee, Lafayette, Dixie, Columbia, Gilchrist, Levy and Citrus counties. Voluntary, and in some cases, mandatory, evacuations were issued in some areas along the Florida Panhandle coast. Florida State University campuses in Tallahassee and Panama City plan to close Tuesday through Friday. In Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey issued a statewide state of emergency in anticipation of damage from Hurricane Michael. The governor's declaration activates the state's emergency operations plan, according to Ivey's office. Michael will dump heavy rain on Cuba before heading toward the US. Hurricane conditions expected in western Cuba In the Caribbean, a hurricane warning is in effect for the Cuban province of Pinar del Rio -- where most of Cuba's famed cigar tobacco is grown -- and a tropical storm warning has been issued for the Isle of Youth. A warning for the coast of Mexico from Tulum to Cabo Catoche, was canceled late Monday. "Hurricane conditions will continue over portions of the far western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio through this evening. Tropical storm conditions are expected across the remainder of the warning areas in Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula through tonight," the center said. "Michael is expected to produce heavy rainfall and flash flooding over portions of western Cuba and the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico during the next couple of days," it said. According to an alert published by the Cuban Civil Defense, meteorologists warned affected residents that they could experience hurricane-force winds. Officials also alerted residents living on the coast of the possibility of flooding caused by the storm.

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You’re going to die. What do you want to happen next? Seattle designer Katrina Spade has a radical idea — a part-chapel, part-funeral home to compost human remains — that may be up and running in seven years. Around seven years ago, Katrina Spade had a radical idea about death. As her second child became a toddler, the Seattle-based designer remembers thinking: “If they’re growing up, I’m going down.” The more she looked into conventional burial and cremation, the more expensive — environmentally and financially — they seemed. “What if,” she thought, “we could just become compost?” She started calling her idea the Urban Death Project and imagined a stories-tall, chapel-like building in the city where bodies could be laid to rest in a mix of other organic matter (wood chips, alfalfa, straw) and become nutrient-rich soil. At the end of the weekslong process, loved ones could return — not to gather ashes, but mulch. At first, it seemed like an improbable fantasy that people responded to with disbelief, revulsion, nervous laughter or fascination — and a lot of questions. Would it work? Would it be legal? How long would the process take? Would it stink? Spade formed a nonprofit and attracted a team of experts (architects, engineers, soil biologists, funeral-law specialists, a forensic anthropologist) that is getting close to the answers. They’ve approached lawmakers in Olympia and partnered with scientists who already compost cows. They’ve run an experiment with a pile of wood chips and the body of a 78-year-old woman who donated her remains for scientific research. Over the next few weeks, they’ll try to raise $500,000, hoping to build the first Urban Death prototype at Washington State University this spring. Some hurdles remain, but Spade is relentlessly optimistic that the project is viable, both technically and culturally. If everything goes according to plan, Seattle could have the first working Urban Death Project by 2023 — in just seven years. “Our bodies,” Spade said, “are full of potential. We have nutrients in us and there’s no way we should be packed into a box that doesn’t let us go into the earth. Decay and decomposition are amazing processes we are terrified of because they might seem icky and scary — your body aging, your food rotting — but without those processes, we would not be alive.” Her idea is in line with other baby-boomer death-care trends. That generation has been moving away from so-called “traditional” burials with embalming, concrete grave liners and waterproof caskets — which, Spade and other “alt-death” professionals hasten to point out, are innovations that came into vogue between the Civil War and the 1960s. This shift is especially strong in Washington state, with King County’s cremation rate at about 75 percent (the national rate is around 50 percent); environmentally sensitive funeral services like Elemental in Seattle (which offers carbon-neutral cremation and eco-friendly embalming); and natural burial grounds like the White Eagle preserve at Ekone Ranch in Klickitat County, where bodies are buried in simple, biodegradable baskets and shrouds. The Urban Death Project goes even further. Instead of one body occupying a single piece of real estate (an urn, a cemetery plot), the Urban Death Project would compost several bodies at a time, beginning with a “laying-in” ceremony at the top of its multistory “core.” Corpses would slowly descend through the process, resulting in soil that’s mostly the person laid to rest at the top — as well as particles of others. Spade’s project is, in a sense, a communalization of death. Seattle-based architectural designer Katrina Spade is proposing a new death-care option for sustainability-minded people: composting our corpses. She hopes to build the first Urban Death Care facility in Seattle. (Lauren Frohne / The Seattle Times) Ethical, emotional issues Spade has a lifelong intimacy with compost. She grew up at the end of a dirt road in New Hampshire where her family raised animals for slaughter and vegetables to freeze for the winter. Between the rural lifestyle and her parents’ jobs — her father worked as a doctor, her mother as a physician assistant and environmental activist — Spade was introduced to the cycle of life and death at the dinner table. She studied anthropology in Pennsylvania and worked in epidemiology at Stanford University (studying the bone density of long-distance runners) before returning to New England. While helping care for her grandfather, who had been diagnosed with dementia, Spade attended the Yestermorrow Design/Build School, where she studied permaculture and helped build a “Pain Mound,” named for French inventor Jean Pain, which produces enough energy to heat water and methane to fuel stoves and generators — and ends with a rich mound of soil. A few years after her motherhood-mortality revelation, Spade won an $80,000 “climate fellow” grant from the Echoing Green foundation to pursue her idea. Since then, the architecture firm Olson Kundig has hosted a design intensive, and law students at Wake Forest University — led by professor Tanya Marsh — are looking at state statutes to see what it would take to make human composting legal. Mortality composting is a blend of biology and engineering.” - Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, a WSU soil microbiologist Talks about the prototype are under way at Washington State University. Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, a WSU soil microbiologist, said her conversations with officials at the university — which already works with human subjects and has a well-respected livestock-composting research program — have been “very promising.” She estimates that a 150- to 200-pound person will produce six pounds of nitrogen, two pounds of phosphorus and one pound of potassium: the same 6-2-1 ratio of cottonseed meal fertilizer. “Mortality composting is a blend of biology and engineering,” Carpenter-Boggs explained, and it’s becoming more popular. In the past, a rancher with a dead, 1,500-pound steer could call a local renderer, who’d pay a little money to pick up the animal and turn it into ingredients for marshmallows, Jell-O and glue. Those days are mostly gone. Partially because of disease scares (like mad cow) and partially because synthetic products are cheaper, the rendering industry shrank. Burning and burying animals was cumbersome and attracted scavengers, so soil scientists like Carpenter-Boggs stepped in to teach farmers about mortality composting. A successful pile, she said, can turn that 1,500-pound steer into fertile, odorless soil within a couple of months. Composting human beings, of course, brings a whole other kaleidoscope of ethical and emotional issues. When Carpenter-Boggs first started talking about the Urban Death Project prototype with colleagues at WSU, she said she could “see the assumptions on people’s faces … an assumption of disrespect.” Those reactions, she suspects, are partly because livestock composting — like human cremation — sometimes involves pulverizing leftover bones into grit. Carpenter-Boggs, on the other hand, is trying to fine-tune a process for human remains that leaves the work of decomposition to microorganisms and minimizes mechanical interference. “I think I need a better explanation for people’s assumptions than ‘oh, they’re going to grind up grandma,’ ” Carpenter-Boggs said, “but we’ve thought about this. It will be respectful … The second or third time they hear about it, it’s no longer a surprise.” Her work with the Urban Death Project has shifted her attitude about the death-care industry. Carpenter-Boggs has begun paying more attention to under-researched phenomena like how drugs in our bodies might impact the wider environment. (She’s currently studying how human dentistry might affect the Urban Death Project by composting buffalo teeth that have been fitted with posthumous fillings.) More importantly, Carpenter-Boggs said she’s begun to recognize “how the disconnection of our death care from culture and personal control has been sad — it’s possible for companies to make a lot of money off something most people don’t want to think about.” Service Corporation International, for example, is the largest funeral-business consolidator in North America, with roughly half a dozen brands (including Dignity Memorial) and over 2,000 locations. The company, which lists its stock price at the top of its homepage, has been the target of lawsuits and investigations, including a 2013 Bloomberg Businessweek report that found it charged an average of $6,256 for a standard funeral — not including funeral plot or casket, which run between $2,495 and $175,000. According to Bloomberg, that price tag was 42 percent higher than the ones at independent funeral homes. Beauty in rituals Nora Menkin, president of the Urban Death Project’s board, has been on the front lines of reforming the death-care industry for almost a decade. As managing funeral director of the nonprofit People’s Memorial Association, she tries to promote transparency, provide information about more affordable and eco-friendly death-care options and combat predatory business practices. (She also has a sense of humor. From her bio: “Since death runs in her family, Nora decided to become a funeral director.”) The Urban Death Project, she said, is a natural extension of that work, and Menkin thinks it could provide new, meaningful death rituals for the living. Spade hopes so, too. She envisions loved ones carrying the deceased up a ramp wrapped around the Urban Death Project’s core for whatever kind of “laying-in” ceremony feels appropriate. “People love to say, ‘Just cremate me, don’t make a fuss,’ ” she said. “I think human death is worth a fuss! I suspect that in this culture, we’re not that good at grieving … we’re really good at denying that death exists.” Death, Spade said, “can be beautiful.” When she first started working on the Urban Death Project, her grandmother — who also suffered from dementia — was dying. Spade stayed with her during the final days. The experience of being with a dying person, she said, “is like someone giving birth. There’s a stoppage of time that happens: waiting for someone to go, like waiting for someone to arrive. Sometimes, the only thing to do is just be there.” A few months later, Spade’s brother-in-law died. Her partner’s family drove his body to his childhood home in New Hampshire, where they put him on dry ice, built a coffin and shrine, then held a dayslong home funeral. “We sat, and cried, and laughed,” Spade said. “It was, again, stunningly beautiful.” Spade imagines Seattle’s first Urban Death Project handling 850 bodies a year, and her nonprofit licensing out its technology to other urban-death centers around the country — and, eventually, the world. But for now, she just wants to get people used to the idea. She might be closer than she thinks. A few weeks ago, Menkin met with a rabbi. “She said, ‘I heard about this new thing where you can be composted,’ ” Menkin recalled. “I told her we’re working on it.” The rabbi looked surprised. “Oh!” she said. “You mean we can’t do it yet?” ||||| Composting and Recycling The WSU Waste Management program manages all compost and recycling generated by Dining Services operations. This program is just one of many ongoing efforts to increase sustainability at WSU through education, prevention, recycling/reusing, treatment and disposal. Compost In 1994, WSU was the first university in the nation to build commercial-scale composting facility. Located on the southeast corner of campus, the facility composts between 10,000-11,000 pounds of organic waste per month. Approximately, 1 percent of this is food waste. On a university level, organic materials, including animal bedding and yard waste, accounts for around 50 percent of all campus-wide waste products. Dining Services generates 227 tons of compost per year. Compost produced at the facility is used as soil enrichment in campus greenhouses, by the research farms and by the landscaping crew. Recycling Glass, plastic, cardboard and tin containers used in food preparation are all recycled through WSU’s recycling center. All dining centers provide receptacles for recyclable containers. Over the 2015 fiscal year, WSU Dining Services diverted an estimated 228 tons of recyclables from the landfill. Recycling is gathered from around campus and transported the on campus recycling facility where it is processed, bailed and then sold as a commodity. As a result, the energy expended to transport and process campus recycling is significantly less. ||||| PULLMAN – Washington State University is acquiring the necessary approvals to test equipment to compost human remains at one of its facilities in what is bluntly being called the Urban Death Project. Founded by Seattle-based designer Katrina Spade, the Urban Death Project is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that seeks to create an ecological alternative for the care of the deceased by returning their bodies to the earth through a process she calls “recomposition.” Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, associate professor for WSU’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, said the project team is in an exciting yet boring phase of seeking necessary approvals to conduct such research on WSU’s campus. Carpenter-Boggs and Rick Finch, manager of the WSU Waste Management program, both sit on the project’s technical advisory team, which consists of several other professors, morticians, anthropologists and authors from across the country. The WSU Compost Facility has received modifications to its air quality permit from the Washington State Department of Ecology that would allow it to conduct a pilot study of composting human remains in part of the university’s existing 66-foot-long, in-vessel composter. The approval order for the permit modifications will be issued in a week or two, Robert Koster of the department’s air quality program wrote in an email. The facility, at the end of Dairy Road in Pullman, already converts animal carcasses and entrails, as well as animal bedding and manure, into compost. Air emissions from the composting of human remains are not expected to change from those of composting other animal carcasses, according to a notice from the state Department of Ecology. The project has also been approved by state and county offices for the state Department of Health’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety, said Marta Coursey, director of communications for WSU’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. Still, several WSU scientific committees, the dean of CAHNRS and the WSU vice president of research must review legal and ethical issues, biosafety protocols and other aspects of the research before it can move forward. A verdict is likely to come in by the first or second week of October, Coursey said. Were the project to move forward, the compost facility’s in-vessel composter would be divided into three 22-foot sections to isolate the study from other composting activity. Koster said the department received no comments for or against the project during a monthlong public comment period that closed Sept. 15. The university published a legal ad about the comment period, but issued no news releases about it.

– While the "Urban Death Project" may sound like the title of Hollywood's latest horror film, it's something else entirely—though perhaps not less macabre. It's a Seattle-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has a novel idea when it comes to making burials greener: composting human remains. It calls its system "Recomposition" and says it "transforms bodies into soil so that we can grow new life after we die." As the Moscow-Pullman Daily News reports, the team is currently in the process of getting the necessary OKs to move forward. Most recently, they learned they'll be granted wiggle room by the state Department of Ecology regarding permitted "air pollution sources," a step on the way toward their intended pilot experiment: composting remains in a portion of Washington State University's composter. As WSU explains, in 1994 it became the first university in America to build its own commercial-size composting facility. The Daily News reports animal remains—carcasses, entrails, and manure—are already processed there. A post on the state's Department of Ecology website explains the 66-foot-long composter will be divided into three 22-foot parts, which will allow the project to isolate the human testing from the typical composting activities there. Other hoops have been jumped through, but a final decision won't come from WSU on the project until early October. The project's FAQ addresses a range of questions, including whether bones and teeth can be composted. The short answer: They think so. The Seattle Times notes the project has run one experiment thus far involving wood chips and a 78-year-old woman's remains. (Read about another green burial idea.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.You’re going to die. What do you want to happen next? Seattle designer Katrina Spade has a radical idea — a part-chapel, part-funeral home to compost human remains — that may be up and running in seven years. Around seven years ago, Katrina Spade had a radical idea about death. As her second child became a toddler, the Seattle-based designer remembers thinking: “If they’re growing up, I’m going down.” The more she looked into conventional burial and cremation, the more expensive — environmentally and financially — they seemed. “What if,” she thought, “we could just become compost?” She started calling her idea the Urban Death Project and imagined a stories-tall, chapel-like building in the city where bodies could be laid to rest in a mix of other organic matter (wood chips, alfalfa, straw) and become nutrient-rich soil. At the end of the weekslong process, loved ones could return — not to gather ashes, but mulch. At first, it seemed like an improbable fantasy that people responded to with disbelief, revulsion, nervous laughter or fascination — and a lot of questions. Would it work? Would it be legal? How long would the process take? Would it stink? Spade formed a nonprofit and attracted a team of experts (architects, engineers, soil biologists, funeral-law specialists, a forensic anthropologist) that is getting close to the answers. They’ve approached lawmakers in Olympia and partnered with scientists who already compost cows. They’ve run an experiment with a pile of wood chips and the body of a 78-year-old woman who donated her remains for scientific research. Over the next few weeks, they’ll try to raise $500,000, hoping to build the first Urban Death prototype at Washington State University this spring. Some hurdles remain, but Spade is relentlessly optimistic that the project is viable, both technically and culturally. If everything goes according to plan, Seattle could have the first working Urban Death Project by 2023 — in just seven years. “Our bodies,” Spade said, “are full of potential. We have nutrients in us and there’s no way we should be packed into a box that doesn’t let us go into the earth. Decay and decomposition are amazing processes we are terrified of because they might seem icky and scary — your body aging, your food rotting — but without those processes, we would not be alive.” Her idea is in line with other baby-boomer death-care trends. That generation has been moving away from so-called “traditional” burials with embalming, concrete grave liners and waterproof caskets — which, Spade and other “alt-death” professionals hasten to point out, are innovations that came into vogue between the Civil War and the 1960s. This shift is especially strong in Washington state, with King County’s cremation rate at about 75 percent (the national rate is around 50 percent); environmentally sensitive funeral services like Elemental in Seattle (which offers carbon-neutral cremation and eco-friendly embalming); and natural burial grounds like the White Eagle preserve at Ekone Ranch in Klickitat County, where bodies are buried in simple, biodegradable baskets and shrouds. The Urban Death Project goes even further. Instead of one body occupying a single piece of real estate (an urn, a cemetery plot), the Urban Death Project would compost several bodies at a time, beginning with a “laying-in” ceremony at the top of its multistory “core.” Corpses would slowly descend through the process, resulting in soil that’s mostly the person laid to rest at the top — as well as particles of others. Spade’s project is, in a sense, a communalization of death. Seattle-based architectural designer Katrina Spade is proposing a new death-care option for sustainability-minded people: composting our corpses. She hopes to build the first Urban Death Care facility in Seattle. (Lauren Frohne / The Seattle Times) Ethical, emotional issues Spade has a lifelong intimacy with compost. She grew up at the end of a dirt road in New Hampshire where her family raised animals for slaughter and vegetables to freeze for the winter. Between the rural lifestyle and her parents’ jobs — her father worked as a doctor, her mother as a physician assistant and environmental activist — Spade was introduced to the cycle of life and death at the dinner table. She studied anthropology in Pennsylvania and worked in epidemiology at Stanford University (studying the bone density of long-distance runners) before returning to New England. While helping care for her grandfather, who had been diagnosed with dementia, Spade attended the Yestermorrow Design/Build School, where she studied permaculture and helped build a “Pain Mound,” named for French inventor Jean Pain, which produces enough energy to heat water and methane to fuel stoves and generators — and ends with a rich mound of soil. A few years after her motherhood-mortality revelation, Spade won an $80,000 “climate fellow” grant from the Echoing Green foundation to pursue her idea. Since then, the architecture firm Olson Kundig has hosted a design intensive, and law students at Wake Forest University — led by professor Tanya Marsh — are looking at state statutes to see what it would take to make human composting legal. Mortality composting is a blend of biology and engineering.” - Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, a WSU soil microbiologist Talks about the prototype are under way at Washington State University. Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, a WSU soil microbiologist, said her conversations with officials at the university — which already works with human subjects and has a well-respected livestock-composting research program — have been “very promising.” She estimates that a 150- to 200-pound person will produce six pounds of nitrogen, two pounds of phosphorus and one pound of potassium: the same 6-2-1 ratio of cottonseed meal fertilizer. “Mortality composting is a blend of biology and engineering,” Carpenter-Boggs explained, and it’s becoming more popular. In the past, a rancher with a dead, 1,500-pound steer could call a local renderer, who’d pay a little money to pick up the animal and turn it into ingredients for marshmallows, Jell-O and glue. Those days are mostly gone. Partially because of disease scares (like mad cow) and partially because synthetic products are cheaper, the rendering industry shrank. Burning and burying animals was cumbersome and attracted scavengers, so soil scientists like Carpenter-Boggs stepped in to teach farmers about mortality composting. A successful pile, she said, can turn that 1,500-pound steer into fertile, odorless soil within a couple of months. Composting human beings, of course, brings a whole other kaleidoscope of ethical and emotional issues. When Carpenter-Boggs first started talking about the Urban Death Project prototype with colleagues at WSU, she said she could “see the assumptions on people’s faces … an assumption of disrespect.” Those reactions, she suspects, are partly because livestock composting — like human cremation — sometimes involves pulverizing leftover bones into grit. Carpenter-Boggs, on the other hand, is trying to fine-tune a process for human remains that leaves the work of decomposition to microorganisms and minimizes mechanical interference. “I think I need a better explanation for people’s assumptions than ‘oh, they’re going to grind up grandma,’ ” Carpenter-Boggs said, “but we’ve thought about this. It will be respectful … The second or third time they hear about it, it’s no longer a surprise.” Her work with the Urban Death Project has shifted her attitude about the death-care industry. Carpenter-Boggs has begun paying more attention to under-researched phenomena like how drugs in our bodies might impact the wider environment. (She’s currently studying how human dentistry might affect the Urban Death Project by composting buffalo teeth that have been fitted with posthumous fillings.) More importantly, Carpenter-Boggs said she’s begun to recognize “how the disconnection of our death care from culture and personal control has been sad — it’s possible for companies to make a lot of money off something most people don’t want to think about.” Service Corporation International, for example, is the largest funeral-business consolidator in North America, with roughly half a dozen brands (including Dignity Memorial) and over 2,000 locations. The company, which lists its stock price at the top of its homepage, has been the target of lawsuits and investigations, including a 2013 Bloomberg Businessweek report that found it charged an average of $6,256 for a standard funeral — not including funeral plot or casket, which run between $2,495 and $175,000. According to Bloomberg, that price tag was 42 percent higher than the ones at independent funeral homes. Beauty in rituals Nora Menkin, president of the Urban Death Project’s board, has been on the front lines of reforming the death-care industry for almost a decade. As managing funeral director of the nonprofit People’s Memorial Association, she tries to promote transparency, provide information about more affordable and eco-friendly death-care options and combat predatory business practices. (She also has a sense of humor. From her bio: “Since death runs in her family, Nora decided to become a funeral director.”) The Urban Death Project, she said, is a natural extension of that work, and Menkin thinks it could provide new, meaningful death rituals for the living. Spade hopes so, too. She envisions loved ones carrying the deceased up a ramp wrapped around the Urban Death Project’s core for whatever kind of “laying-in” ceremony feels appropriate. “People love to say, ‘Just cremate me, don’t make a fuss,’ ” she said. “I think human death is worth a fuss! I suspect that in this culture, we’re not that good at grieving … we’re really good at denying that death exists.” Death, Spade said, “can be beautiful.” When she first started working on the Urban Death Project, her grandmother — who also suffered from dementia — was dying. Spade stayed with her during the final days. The experience of being with a dying person, she said, “is like someone giving birth. There’s a stoppage of time that happens: waiting for someone to go, like waiting for someone to arrive. Sometimes, the only thing to do is just be there.” A few months later, Spade’s brother-in-law died. Her partner’s family drove his body to his childhood home in New Hampshire, where they put him on dry ice, built a coffin and shrine, then held a dayslong home funeral. “We sat, and cried, and laughed,” Spade said. “It was, again, stunningly beautiful.” Spade imagines Seattle’s first Urban Death Project handling 850 bodies a year, and her nonprofit licensing out its technology to other urban-death centers around the country — and, eventually, the world. But for now, she just wants to get people used to the idea. She might be closer than she thinks. A few weeks ago, Menkin met with a rabbi. “She said, ‘I heard about this new thing where you can be composted,’ ” Menkin recalled. “I told her we’re working on it.” The rabbi looked surprised. “Oh!” she said. “You mean we can’t do it yet?” ||||| Composting and Recycling The WSU Waste Management program manages all compost and recycling generated by Dining Services operations. This program is just one of many ongoing efforts to increase sustainability at WSU through education, prevention, recycling/reusing, treatment and disposal. Compost In 1994, WSU was the first university in the nation to build commercial-scale composting facility. Located on the southeast corner of campus, the facility composts between 10,000-11,000 pounds of organic waste per month. Approximately, 1 percent of this is food waste. On a university level, organic materials, including animal bedding and yard waste, accounts for around 50 percent of all campus-wide waste products. Dining Services generates 227 tons of compost per year. Compost produced at the facility is used as soil enrichment in campus greenhouses, by the research farms and by the landscaping crew. Recycling Glass, plastic, cardboard and tin containers used in food preparation are all recycled through WSU’s recycling center. All dining centers provide receptacles for recyclable containers. Over the 2015 fiscal year, WSU Dining Services diverted an estimated 228 tons of recyclables from the landfill. Recycling is gathered from around campus and transported the on campus recycling facility where it is processed, bailed and then sold as a commodity. As a result, the energy expended to transport and process campus recycling is significantly less. ||||| PULLMAN – Washington State University is acquiring the necessary approvals to test equipment to compost human remains at one of its facilities in what is bluntly being called the Urban Death Project. Founded by Seattle-based designer Katrina Spade, the Urban Death Project is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that seeks to create an ecological alternative for the care of the deceased by returning their bodies to the earth through a process she calls “recomposition.” Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, associate professor for WSU’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, said the project team is in an exciting yet boring phase of seeking necessary approvals to conduct such research on WSU’s campus. Carpenter-Boggs and Rick Finch, manager of the WSU Waste Management program, both sit on the project’s technical advisory team, which consists of several other professors, morticians, anthropologists and authors from across the country. The WSU Compost Facility has received modifications to its air quality permit from the Washington State Department of Ecology that would allow it to conduct a pilot study of composting human remains in part of the university’s existing 66-foot-long, in-vessel composter. The approval order for the permit modifications will be issued in a week or two, Robert Koster of the department’s air quality program wrote in an email. The facility, at the end of Dairy Road in Pullman, already converts animal carcasses and entrails, as well as animal bedding and manure, into compost. Air emissions from the composting of human remains are not expected to change from those of composting other animal carcasses, according to a notice from the state Department of Ecology. The project has also been approved by state and county offices for the state Department of Health’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety, said Marta Coursey, director of communications for WSU’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. Still, several WSU scientific committees, the dean of CAHNRS and the WSU vice president of research must review legal and ethical issues, biosafety protocols and other aspects of the research before it can move forward. A verdict is likely to come in by the first or second week of October, Coursey said. Were the project to move forward, the compost facility’s in-vessel composter would be divided into three 22-foot sections to isolate the study from other composting activity. Koster said the department received no comments for or against the project during a monthlong public comment period that closed Sept. 15. The university published a legal ad about the comment period, but issued no news releases about it.

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IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Airstrikes pounded the area around Iraq's largest dam on Saturday in an effort to drive out militants who captured it earlier this month, as reports emerged of the massacre of some 80 members of the Yazidi religious minority by Islamic extremists. Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community settle at a new camp outside the old camp of Bajid Kandala at Feeshkhabour town near the Syria-Iraq border, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The U.N. this week declared... (Associated Press) Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community gather at a park near the Turkey-Iraq border at the Ibrahim al-Khalil crossing, as they try to cross to Turkey, in Zakho, 300 miles (475 kilometers) northwest... (Associated Press) Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community settle at a new camp outside the old camp of Bajid Kandala at Feeshkhabour town near the Syria-Iraq border, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The U.N. this week declared... (Associated Press) Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community walk on the Delal bridge in Zakho, 300 miles (475 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The U.N. this week declared the situation in... (Associated Press) Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community settle at a new camp outside the old camp of Bajid Kandala at Feeshkhabour town near the Syria-Iraq border, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The U.N. this week declared... (Associated Press) German's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, speaks to the press upon his arrival at the airport in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, Pool) (Associated Press) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, right, speaks during a meeting with German's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter, left, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, Pool) (Associated Press) An Iraqi woman and her son from the Yazidi community sleep at a park near the Turkey-Iraq border at the Ibrahim al-Khalil crossing, as they try to cross to Turkey, in Zakho, 300 miles (475 kilometers)... (Associated Press) Residents living near the Mosul Dam told The Associated Press that the area was being targeted by airstrikes, but it was not immediately clear whether the attacks were being carried out by Iraq's air force or the U.S., which last week launched an air campaign aimed at halting the advance of the Islamic State group across the country's north. The extremist group seized the dam on the Tigris River on Aug. 7. Residents near the dam say the airstrikes killed militants, but that could not immediately be confirmed. The residents spoke on condition of anonymity out of fears for their safety. A Yazidi lawmaker and a Kurdish security official meanwhile said Islamic State fighters massacred scores of Yazidi men Friday afternoon after seizing the village of Kocho. Both said they based their information on the accounts of survivors and warned that the minority group remains in danger despite U.S. aid drops and airstrikes launched to protect them. Islamic State fighters besieged the village for several days and gave its Yazidi residents a deadline to convert to Islam, Yazidi lawmaker Mahma Khalil said Saturday. "When the residents refused to do this, the massacre took place," he said. Halgurd Hekmat, a spokesman for Kurdish security forces, said the militants took the women and children of Kocho to the nearby city of Tal Afar, which is controlled by the Islamic State group. Their accounts could not immediately be confirmed. Areas held by the extremist group are not accessible to reporters. Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled when the Islamic State group earlier this month captured the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, near the Syrian border. The Yazidis practice an ancient religion that the Sunni Muslim radicals consider heretical. The plight of the Yazidis, tens of thousands of whom were stranded on a desert mountaintop for days, encircled by the Islamic extremists, prompted the U.S. to launch aid lifts as well as airstrikes to help Kurdish fighters get them to safety. Most of the Yazidis were eventually able to escape to Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish region. Some 1.5 million people have been displaced by fighting since the Islamic State group's rapid advance across northern and western Iraq began in June. The decision to launch airstrikes marked the first direct U.S. military intervention in Iraq since the last troops withdrew in 2011, and reflected growing international concern about the extremist group, which has carved out a self-styled Islamic state in large parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria. On Saturday, Britain's Ministry of Defense said it deployed a U.S.-made spy plane over northern Iraq to monitor the humanitarian crisis and movements of Islamic State militants. It said the converted Boeing KC-135 tanker, called a Rivet Joint, would monitor mobile phone calls and other communication. Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was in Baghdad on Saturday, where he announced his government would provide more than 24 million euros ($32.2 million) in humanitarian aid to Iraq. "The first German air force planes are flying to Irbil at this moment to deliver humanitarian aid," Steinmeier said in a joint press conference with Iraq's acting Foreign Minister Hussein Shahristani. "In the current situation where minorities, especially in northern Iraq, are expelled and murdered, where children are orphaned and women are enslaved, humanitarian aid is extremely important." Two British planes also landed Saturday in the Kurdish regional capital Irbil carrying humanitarian supplies. Khalil, the Yazidi lawmaker, said the U.S. must do more to protect those fleeing the Islamic State group. "We have been calling on the U.S. administration and Iraqi government to intervene and help the innocent people, but it seems that nobody is listening," Khalil said. ___ Yacoub reported from Baghdad. Associated Press writer Vivian Salama in Baghdad, Frank Jordans in Berlin and Shawn Pogatchnik in Dublin contributed to this report. ||||| Iraqi children, displaced by the siege of Mount Sinjar by Islamic State militants, speak of the lives they left behind. (Reuters) Iraqi children, displaced by the siege of Mount Sinjar by Islamic State militants, speak of the lives they left behind. (Reuters) Extremist fighters have killed more than 80 men and detained hundreds of women in a Yazidi village, Yazidis and Kurdish officials said Saturday, offering a reminder that the ancient minority sect is still at risk despite President Obama’s conclusion that the threat had passed for those stranded on Mount Sinjar. Islamic State militants drove into the village of Kocho, about 15 miles southwest of the town of Sinjar, on Friday, following a week-long siege in which the al-Qaeda inspired group demanded that residents convert to Islam or face death, said the reports, which could not be independently verified. The men were rounded up and executed, while the women were taken to an undisclosed location, according to Ziad Sinjar, a pesh merga commander based on the edge of Mount Sinjar, citing the accounts of villagers nearby. Six men were injured but survived, and managed to escape to a nearby village where they are being sheltered by sympathetic local Sunni Iraqis, he said. One of them told him that 84 Yazidi men were lined up and shot and that more than 300 women were taken away. Yazidi activists and Kurdish officials said at least 80 men were killed and hundreds of women taken away after the fighters entered the village shortly after 1 pm on Friday. “The villagers had received local assurances that they were safe,” said Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq’s former foreign minister who is now working closely with the Kurdistan Regional Government. “Maybe they killed them in revenge for the setbacks they have suffered from the air strikes.” 1 of 10 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × Majority of Yazidis return to Iraq View Photos Many who had been trapped at risk of death fled to Syria and now are in northern Iraq, shaken but no longer in imminent danger. Caption Many who had been trapped at risk of death fled to Syria and now are in northern Iraq, shaken but no longer in imminent danger. A Yazidi girl enters the temple in Lalish, Iraq, the Yazidi holy sanctuary. Tens of thousands of the Iraqi minority sect have been displaced after being attacked by the Islamic State militant group. They are spilling across northern Iraq — sleeping in fields, cars and abandoned buildings — but at least they are safe. Sebastian Meyer/For the Washington Post Buy Photo Wait 1 second to continue. The accounts could not be independently confirmed nor the conflicting numbers reconciled, but fears had been growing for the welfare of Yazidis in the village since the Islamic State siege began on Aug. 7. The U.S. Central Command said Friday that it had carried out a drone attack south of the town of Sinjar after receiving reports of an attack in the area. The drone “struck and destroyed two vehicles,” it said. The alleged killings came a day after Obama called off plans for a military evacuation of Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar, saying they were no longer at risk. If confirmed, the events in Kocho would constitute the worst single atrocity committed against the Yazidis since the Aug. 3 assault on Sinjar triggered a humanitarian crisis and contributed to the Obama administration’s decision to intervene. At least 10 U.S. airstrikes and drops of food and medicine have since helped tens of thousands of Yazidis reach safety after they sought refuge on the mountain nearly two weeks ago, then got stranded in the barren terrain without water or food. Obama declared Thursday that the U.S. effort “broke the ISIL siege of Mount Sinjar.” A team of U.S. Special Forces and aid officials dispatched to the mountain Wednesday concluded that the intervention had dispelled the imminent threat to the lives of ­Yazidis, he said. But although the airstrikes appear to have helped those trapped on the mountain reach safety, people who did not join the initial exodus are still at risk, Yazidis say. “The sole mission of the airstrikes was to protect the people on the mountain, not to free anyone outside the mountain,” said Murad Ismael, a Yazidi activist based in Washington. Kocho is south of the town of Sinjar, from which the exodus took place, and many residents were unable to join the flight because they were cut off by the Islamic State advance, according to Yazidi refugees in northern Iraq. After the Islamic State fighters surrounded the village last week, they issued a deadline of Sunday, which was extended to Monday, then extended again several times as the week wore on. On Friday, the fighters moved in, apparently unopposed. Ismael said he believed the Islamic State was emboldened to strike against the village after Obama called off the evacuation plan. The Islamic State fighters “did not kill [the people in Kocho] when there was air coverage,” he said. “They started killing only after Obama said the siege is over. They got the message and decided to kill these people.” Obama has said the airstrikes will continue, even though the plan to evacuate Yazidis from the mountain has been dropped, and stressed that Iraqis still face a “dire” threat from the Islamic State. The administration also has said it will send arms directly to Kurdish forces, with the approval of Iraq’s central government. On Friday, the effort to arm the Kurds against the Islamic State received a boost when the European Union gave its blessing to individual European nations sending weapons. The E.U. also said it would look for ways to prevent Islamic State jihadists from benefiting from oil sales. So far, France and the Czech Republic have said they will supply arms, and other countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, have indicated they are open to the possibility. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Britain would “consider favorably” any Kurdish request for weapons. At the United Nations, Iraqi Ambassador Mohammed Alhakim said his government has asked the United States to increase its airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq beyond the limits set by Obama of targets related to humanitarian missions and protection of U.S. personnel. “We are working with the United States on this,” Alhakim said. His remarks followed the U.N. Security Council’s unanimous adoption of a resolution condemning the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, or the al-Nusra Front, and ordering all U.N. member states to take action to prevent terrorist recruits from traveling to the region and to stop efforts to finance them. In a release Friday by the U.S.-backed Syrian Opposition Coalition, Syrian rebels fighting against the Islamic State and the al-Nusra Front, as well as government forces, said they were in desperate straits in the northwestern area near the Turkish border and pleaded for supplies from the West that have been withheld from them but are flooding into Iraq. “We have limited time to face this danger,” rebel commander Abdallah Awda said. “All of Syria’s neighbors will be threatened by ISIS.” ISIS and ISIL are acronyms for alternative names for the Islamic State. Karla Adam in London and Karen DeYoung in Washington contributed to this report. ||||| U.S. Airstrikes In Iraq Pound Area Near Mosul Dam Enlarge this image toggle caption Youssef Boudlal/Reuters/Landov Youssef Boudlal/Reuters/Landov Update at 1:25 p.m. ET. U.S. F/A-18s and drones are conducting airstrikes around the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq, a senior U.S. official tells NPR. The region has seen stepped up fighting in recent days between Kurdish peshmerga forces and Islamic State, or ISIS, militants. Residents living near the Mosul Dam told The Associated Press that the area was being targeted in airstrikes. Islamic State fighters seized the dam on the Tigris River on Aug. 7. The residents near the dam told AP that the airstrikes killed militants, but that could not immediately be confirmed. Meanwhile, more details are emerging from the latest alleged massacre of minority Yazidis by Islamic State militants in northwestern Iraq. As we first reported on Friday, Iraqi and Kurdish officials said at least 80 individuals from the religious community were killed. Last week, officials in Baghdad said hundreds of Yazidis had been executed in similar fashion. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Dohuk that Yazidi villagers and activists say extremists demanded that residents of Kocho village, about 15 miles southwest of the town of Sinjar, convert to Islam or face execution. When they refused, the men were reportedly killed. He said reports claim that the women of the village were rounded up and the men taken outdoors and executed. Peter says estimates of the number dead range from 80 to "much higher figures." Senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari, a former Iraqi foreign minister, told Reuters that the militants "arrived in vehicles and they started their killing" Friday afternoon. "We believe it's because of their creed: convert or be killed," the official said. "The villagers had received local assurances that they were safe," he was quoted by The Washington Post as saying. "Maybe they killed them in revenge for the setbacks they have suffered from the [U.S.] airstrikes." Officials warned that the Yazidis, an ancient religious minority, remain in danger despite U.S. aid drops and airstrikes launched to protect them. In a statement from U.S. Central Command, the Pentagon said it destroyed two armed vehicles in the area where the massacre was reported. ||||| Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate August 10, 2014. BAGHDAD Islamic State insurgents "massacred" some 80 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority in a village in the country's north, a Yazidi lawmaker and two Kurdish officials said on Friday. "They arrived in vehicles and they started their killing this afternoon," senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters. "We believe it's because of their creed: convert or be killed." A Yazidi lawmaker and another senior Kurdish official also said the killings had taken place and that the women of the village were kidnapped. A push by Islamic State militants through northern Iraq to the border with the Kurdish region has alarmed the Baghdad government, drawn the first U.S. air strikes since the end of American occupation in 2001 and sent tens of thousands of Yazidis and Christians fleeing for their lives. Yazidi parliamentarian Mahama Khalil said he had spoken to villagers who had survived the attack. They said the killings took place during a one-hour period. The resident of a nearby village said an Islamic State fighter from the same area gave him details of the bloodshed. "He told me that the Islamic State had spent five days trying to persuade villagers to convert to Islam and that a long lecture was delivered about the subject today," said the villager. "He then said the men were gathered and shot dead. The women and girls were probably taken to Tal Afar because that is where the foreign fighters are." That account could not be independently confirmed. Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq's human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some of their victims, including women and children. Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added. (Reporting by Isabel Coles, Michael Georgy and Raheem Salman; Writing by Alexander Dziadosz; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

– The Yazidis who managed to escape to the mountains seem to be protected from Islamic State militants, but those who stayed in their villages clearly are not. Reports from the village of Kocho in northern Iraq say that extremists executed about 80 Yazidi men yesterday and took away about 300 women and children. "They arrived in vehicles and they started their killing," a Kurdish official tells Reuters. "We believe it's because of their creed: convert or be killed." A resident of a nearby village said the militants had spent the better part of a week trying unsuccessfully to convince the Yazidis in Kocho to convert to their brand of Islam. “The villagers had received local assurances that they were safe,” Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq’s former foreign minister, tells the Washington Post. “Maybe they killed them in revenge for the setbacks they have suffered from the airstrikes.” The accounts have not been confirmed, though NPR notes that Iraqi officials reported an even larger massacre last week. Elsewhere, the AP reports airstrikes near the giant Mosul Dam in an apparent attempt to wrest control of it back from the militants. It wasn't clear whether US or Iraqi planes were involved.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Airstrikes pounded the area around Iraq's largest dam on Saturday in an effort to drive out militants who captured it earlier this month, as reports emerged of the massacre of some 80 members of the Yazidi religious minority by Islamic extremists. Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community settle at a new camp outside the old camp of Bajid Kandala at Feeshkhabour town near the Syria-Iraq border, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The U.N. this week declared... (Associated Press) Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community gather at a park near the Turkey-Iraq border at the Ibrahim al-Khalil crossing, as they try to cross to Turkey, in Zakho, 300 miles (475 kilometers) northwest... (Associated Press) Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community settle at a new camp outside the old camp of Bajid Kandala at Feeshkhabour town near the Syria-Iraq border, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The U.N. this week declared... (Associated Press) Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community walk on the Delal bridge in Zakho, 300 miles (475 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The U.N. this week declared the situation in... (Associated Press) Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community settle at a new camp outside the old camp of Bajid Kandala at Feeshkhabour town near the Syria-Iraq border, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The U.N. this week declared... (Associated Press) German's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, speaks to the press upon his arrival at the airport in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, Pool) (Associated Press) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, right, speaks during a meeting with German's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter, left, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, Pool) (Associated Press) An Iraqi woman and her son from the Yazidi community sleep at a park near the Turkey-Iraq border at the Ibrahim al-Khalil crossing, as they try to cross to Turkey, in Zakho, 300 miles (475 kilometers)... (Associated Press) Residents living near the Mosul Dam told The Associated Press that the area was being targeted by airstrikes, but it was not immediately clear whether the attacks were being carried out by Iraq's air force or the U.S., which last week launched an air campaign aimed at halting the advance of the Islamic State group across the country's north. The extremist group seized the dam on the Tigris River on Aug. 7. Residents near the dam say the airstrikes killed militants, but that could not immediately be confirmed. The residents spoke on condition of anonymity out of fears for their safety. A Yazidi lawmaker and a Kurdish security official meanwhile said Islamic State fighters massacred scores of Yazidi men Friday afternoon after seizing the village of Kocho. Both said they based their information on the accounts of survivors and warned that the minority group remains in danger despite U.S. aid drops and airstrikes launched to protect them. Islamic State fighters besieged the village for several days and gave its Yazidi residents a deadline to convert to Islam, Yazidi lawmaker Mahma Khalil said Saturday. "When the residents refused to do this, the massacre took place," he said. Halgurd Hekmat, a spokesman for Kurdish security forces, said the militants took the women and children of Kocho to the nearby city of Tal Afar, which is controlled by the Islamic State group. Their accounts could not immediately be confirmed. Areas held by the extremist group are not accessible to reporters. Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled when the Islamic State group earlier this month captured the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, near the Syrian border. The Yazidis practice an ancient religion that the Sunni Muslim radicals consider heretical. The plight of the Yazidis, tens of thousands of whom were stranded on a desert mountaintop for days, encircled by the Islamic extremists, prompted the U.S. to launch aid lifts as well as airstrikes to help Kurdish fighters get them to safety. Most of the Yazidis were eventually able to escape to Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish region. Some 1.5 million people have been displaced by fighting since the Islamic State group's rapid advance across northern and western Iraq began in June. The decision to launch airstrikes marked the first direct U.S. military intervention in Iraq since the last troops withdrew in 2011, and reflected growing international concern about the extremist group, which has carved out a self-styled Islamic state in large parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria. On Saturday, Britain's Ministry of Defense said it deployed a U.S.-made spy plane over northern Iraq to monitor the humanitarian crisis and movements of Islamic State militants. It said the converted Boeing KC-135 tanker, called a Rivet Joint, would monitor mobile phone calls and other communication. Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was in Baghdad on Saturday, where he announced his government would provide more than 24 million euros ($32.2 million) in humanitarian aid to Iraq. "The first German air force planes are flying to Irbil at this moment to deliver humanitarian aid," Steinmeier said in a joint press conference with Iraq's acting Foreign Minister Hussein Shahristani. "In the current situation where minorities, especially in northern Iraq, are expelled and murdered, where children are orphaned and women are enslaved, humanitarian aid is extremely important." Two British planes also landed Saturday in the Kurdish regional capital Irbil carrying humanitarian supplies. Khalil, the Yazidi lawmaker, said the U.S. must do more to protect those fleeing the Islamic State group. "We have been calling on the U.S. administration and Iraqi government to intervene and help the innocent people, but it seems that nobody is listening," Khalil said. ___ Yacoub reported from Baghdad. Associated Press writer Vivian Salama in Baghdad, Frank Jordans in Berlin and Shawn Pogatchnik in Dublin contributed to this report. ||||| Iraqi children, displaced by the siege of Mount Sinjar by Islamic State militants, speak of the lives they left behind. (Reuters) Iraqi children, displaced by the siege of Mount Sinjar by Islamic State militants, speak of the lives they left behind. (Reuters) Extremist fighters have killed more than 80 men and detained hundreds of women in a Yazidi village, Yazidis and Kurdish officials said Saturday, offering a reminder that the ancient minority sect is still at risk despite President Obama’s conclusion that the threat had passed for those stranded on Mount Sinjar. Islamic State militants drove into the village of Kocho, about 15 miles southwest of the town of Sinjar, on Friday, following a week-long siege in which the al-Qaeda inspired group demanded that residents convert to Islam or face death, said the reports, which could not be independently verified. The men were rounded up and executed, while the women were taken to an undisclosed location, according to Ziad Sinjar, a pesh merga commander based on the edge of Mount Sinjar, citing the accounts of villagers nearby. Six men were injured but survived, and managed to escape to a nearby village where they are being sheltered by sympathetic local Sunni Iraqis, he said. One of them told him that 84 Yazidi men were lined up and shot and that more than 300 women were taken away. Yazidi activists and Kurdish officials said at least 80 men were killed and hundreds of women taken away after the fighters entered the village shortly after 1 pm on Friday. “The villagers had received local assurances that they were safe,” said Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq’s former foreign minister who is now working closely with the Kurdistan Regional Government. “Maybe they killed them in revenge for the setbacks they have suffered from the air strikes.” 1 of 10 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × Majority of Yazidis return to Iraq View Photos Many who had been trapped at risk of death fled to Syria and now are in northern Iraq, shaken but no longer in imminent danger. Caption Many who had been trapped at risk of death fled to Syria and now are in northern Iraq, shaken but no longer in imminent danger. A Yazidi girl enters the temple in Lalish, Iraq, the Yazidi holy sanctuary. Tens of thousands of the Iraqi minority sect have been displaced after being attacked by the Islamic State militant group. They are spilling across northern Iraq — sleeping in fields, cars and abandoned buildings — but at least they are safe. Sebastian Meyer/For the Washington Post Buy Photo Wait 1 second to continue. The accounts could not be independently confirmed nor the conflicting numbers reconciled, but fears had been growing for the welfare of Yazidis in the village since the Islamic State siege began on Aug. 7. The U.S. Central Command said Friday that it had carried out a drone attack south of the town of Sinjar after receiving reports of an attack in the area. The drone “struck and destroyed two vehicles,” it said. The alleged killings came a day after Obama called off plans for a military evacuation of Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar, saying they were no longer at risk. If confirmed, the events in Kocho would constitute the worst single atrocity committed against the Yazidis since the Aug. 3 assault on Sinjar triggered a humanitarian crisis and contributed to the Obama administration’s decision to intervene. At least 10 U.S. airstrikes and drops of food and medicine have since helped tens of thousands of Yazidis reach safety after they sought refuge on the mountain nearly two weeks ago, then got stranded in the barren terrain without water or food. Obama declared Thursday that the U.S. effort “broke the ISIL siege of Mount Sinjar.” A team of U.S. Special Forces and aid officials dispatched to the mountain Wednesday concluded that the intervention had dispelled the imminent threat to the lives of ­Yazidis, he said. But although the airstrikes appear to have helped those trapped on the mountain reach safety, people who did not join the initial exodus are still at risk, Yazidis say. “The sole mission of the airstrikes was to protect the people on the mountain, not to free anyone outside the mountain,” said Murad Ismael, a Yazidi activist based in Washington. Kocho is south of the town of Sinjar, from which the exodus took place, and many residents were unable to join the flight because they were cut off by the Islamic State advance, according to Yazidi refugees in northern Iraq. After the Islamic State fighters surrounded the village last week, they issued a deadline of Sunday, which was extended to Monday, then extended again several times as the week wore on. On Friday, the fighters moved in, apparently unopposed. Ismael said he believed the Islamic State was emboldened to strike against the village after Obama called off the evacuation plan. The Islamic State fighters “did not kill [the people in Kocho] when there was air coverage,” he said. “They started killing only after Obama said the siege is over. They got the message and decided to kill these people.” Obama has said the airstrikes will continue, even though the plan to evacuate Yazidis from the mountain has been dropped, and stressed that Iraqis still face a “dire” threat from the Islamic State. The administration also has said it will send arms directly to Kurdish forces, with the approval of Iraq’s central government. On Friday, the effort to arm the Kurds against the Islamic State received a boost when the European Union gave its blessing to individual European nations sending weapons. The E.U. also said it would look for ways to prevent Islamic State jihadists from benefiting from oil sales. So far, France and the Czech Republic have said they will supply arms, and other countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, have indicated they are open to the possibility. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Britain would “consider favorably” any Kurdish request for weapons. At the United Nations, Iraqi Ambassador Mohammed Alhakim said his government has asked the United States to increase its airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq beyond the limits set by Obama of targets related to humanitarian missions and protection of U.S. personnel. “We are working with the United States on this,” Alhakim said. His remarks followed the U.N. Security Council’s unanimous adoption of a resolution condemning the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, or the al-Nusra Front, and ordering all U.N. member states to take action to prevent terrorist recruits from traveling to the region and to stop efforts to finance them. In a release Friday by the U.S.-backed Syrian Opposition Coalition, Syrian rebels fighting against the Islamic State and the al-Nusra Front, as well as government forces, said they were in desperate straits in the northwestern area near the Turkish border and pleaded for supplies from the West that have been withheld from them but are flooding into Iraq. “We have limited time to face this danger,” rebel commander Abdallah Awda said. “All of Syria’s neighbors will be threatened by ISIS.” ISIS and ISIL are acronyms for alternative names for the Islamic State. Karla Adam in London and Karen DeYoung in Washington contributed to this report. ||||| U.S. Airstrikes In Iraq Pound Area Near Mosul Dam Enlarge this image toggle caption Youssef Boudlal/Reuters/Landov Youssef Boudlal/Reuters/Landov Update at 1:25 p.m. ET. U.S. F/A-18s and drones are conducting airstrikes around the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq, a senior U.S. official tells NPR. The region has seen stepped up fighting in recent days between Kurdish peshmerga forces and Islamic State, or ISIS, militants. Residents living near the Mosul Dam told The Associated Press that the area was being targeted in airstrikes. Islamic State fighters seized the dam on the Tigris River on Aug. 7. The residents near the dam told AP that the airstrikes killed militants, but that could not immediately be confirmed. Meanwhile, more details are emerging from the latest alleged massacre of minority Yazidis by Islamic State militants in northwestern Iraq. As we first reported on Friday, Iraqi and Kurdish officials said at least 80 individuals from the religious community were killed. Last week, officials in Baghdad said hundreds of Yazidis had been executed in similar fashion. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Dohuk that Yazidi villagers and activists say extremists demanded that residents of Kocho village, about 15 miles southwest of the town of Sinjar, convert to Islam or face execution. When they refused, the men were reportedly killed. He said reports claim that the women of the village were rounded up and the men taken outdoors and executed. Peter says estimates of the number dead range from 80 to "much higher figures." Senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari, a former Iraqi foreign minister, told Reuters that the militants "arrived in vehicles and they started their killing" Friday afternoon. "We believe it's because of their creed: convert or be killed," the official said. "The villagers had received local assurances that they were safe," he was quoted by The Washington Post as saying. "Maybe they killed them in revenge for the setbacks they have suffered from the [U.S.] airstrikes." Officials warned that the Yazidis, an ancient religious minority, remain in danger despite U.S. aid drops and airstrikes launched to protect them. In a statement from U.S. Central Command, the Pentagon said it destroyed two armed vehicles in the area where the massacre was reported. ||||| Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate August 10, 2014. BAGHDAD Islamic State insurgents "massacred" some 80 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority in a village in the country's north, a Yazidi lawmaker and two Kurdish officials said on Friday. "They arrived in vehicles and they started their killing this afternoon," senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters. "We believe it's because of their creed: convert or be killed." A Yazidi lawmaker and another senior Kurdish official also said the killings had taken place and that the women of the village were kidnapped. A push by Islamic State militants through northern Iraq to the border with the Kurdish region has alarmed the Baghdad government, drawn the first U.S. air strikes since the end of American occupation in 2001 and sent tens of thousands of Yazidis and Christians fleeing for their lives. Yazidi parliamentarian Mahama Khalil said he had spoken to villagers who had survived the attack. They said the killings took place during a one-hour period. The resident of a nearby village said an Islamic State fighter from the same area gave him details of the bloodshed. "He told me that the Islamic State had spent five days trying to persuade villagers to convert to Islam and that a long lecture was delivered about the subject today," said the villager. "He then said the men were gathered and shot dead. The women and girls were probably taken to Tal Afar because that is where the foreign fighters are." That account could not be independently confirmed. Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq's human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some of their victims, including women and children. Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added. (Reporting by Isabel Coles, Michael Georgy and Raheem Salman; Writing by Alexander Dziadosz; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Mr. Suleiman’s ascension may incite public anger — crowds have already begun shouting chants against him — but would also be likely to put at ease those who benefited from the status quo, at least in the short term. “He is a tough man, strong, business-oriented, efficient,” said Emad Shahin, a former professor at American University in Cairo and now at Notre Dame. “He is a very skillful negotiator.” Photo Mr. Suleiman has run Egypt’s General Intelligence Service since 1993, taking over as the nation was battling Islamic extremists. He is 74 years old and, like Mr. Mubarak, fought in two wars with Israel. He is said to hold a similar worldview, deeply distrusting Iran, favoring close relations with Washington, supporting the cold peace with Israel, and against easing up on the Muslim Brotherhood, the principal opposition group in Egypt. He has managed most of Egypt’s hottest issues, including dealing with Hamas, Hezbollah and Sudan. With the choice of Mr. Suleiman, experts said it was clear that Mr. Mubarak was playing to what he now views as his most important constituency, perhaps the only one that can ensure his safety and a smooth exit from power — the military. Mr. Suleiman was selected on the same day that Mr. Mubarak named a former air force commander, Ahmed Shafiq, as his new prime minister. Several analysts said this had suggested that the appointments were part of a strategy aimed at allowing the military to consolidate control of the government. “What concerns us now is this is clearly a military takeover,” said Mr. Shahin. “I would not be surprised if Mubarak disappears tomorrow or after tomorrow.” Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up You will receive emails containing news content , updates and promotions from The New York Times. You may opt-out at any time. You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. Thank you for subscribing. An error has occurred. Please try again later. View all New York Times newsletters. Mr. Suleiman is known as a dapper dresser, preferring suits over military uniforms. Still, just as every president has been since Gamal Abdel Nasser, he is a fully military man. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Though he is not a member of the governing National Democratic Party, which is prohibited because he was in the military, he is a consummate insider, seen by many as the link between Egyptian politics and its military. He had been so close to the president, traveling with him on most state visits, that Mr. Mubarak issued a special decree to allow Mr. Suleiman to retain his post even after passing the mandatory retirement age. In secret diplomatic memos sent from the United States Embassy in Cairo to Washington and made public by WikiLeaks, Mr. Suleiman is described as sharing Washington’s foreign policy agenda. Photo In one such memo, a top embassy diplomat said that Mr. Suleiman told the ambassador, “Egypt is America’s partner.” The cable also said: “Egypt will continue to provide the USG with its knowledge and expertise on the critical regional issues, such as Lebanon and Iraq. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains the core issue.” It also said that Mr. Suleiman had “contended a peaceful resolution would be a ‘big blow’ to terrorist organizations that use the conflict as a pretext.” Mr. Suleiman’s elevation reflects a new reality set in motion by the days of protests. For years, his name was thought to be on the short list of candidates for president — behind that of Mr. Mubarak’s younger son, Gamal. While the old guard, the military and the West liked the notion of Mr. Suleiman taking over, it was clear that the Mubarak family had been maneuvering to see the son replace the father, experts said. “This has been a long time in the making,” Mr. Assaad said. “Gamal is clearly off the table. He would be unacceptable now. Suleiman was the military’s candidate forever.” Mr. Suleiman was born July 2, 1936, in Qena, a city in Upper Egypt. He graduated from Egypt’s military academy and received training in the former Soviet Union, just like Mr. Mubarak. He also studied political science at Cairo University and at Ain Shams University in Cairo. He is credited with having negotiated several cease-fires between Israel and the Palestinians and, despite his position, is said to also have the respect of Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip. But even those who admire him say that his appointment now, in the face of unprecedented civil unrest, puts him in an unenviable position. Advertisement Continue reading the main story “If he was appointed before, it would have been good,” said Mr. Shokry, the former ambassador to Syria. “But now, no one knows what he will be asked to do or what role he will play, and he is going be considered part of a regime that is in a shaky position.” ||||| Egypt's first vice president in three decades, and a possible successor to President Hosni Mubarak, has for years been a key interlocutor for U.S. diplomats, military officials and congressional delegations, diplomatic cables suggest. His elevation Saturday raises intriguing possibilities. Diplomats have long considered Omar Suleiman, the head of Egyptian intelligence services, a possible vice president—he had been promised the job years ago—and indeed the likeliest successor to the president if Mr. Mubarak failed in his bid to create a family dynasty. He is considered both a loyalist to Mr. Mubarak and a serious rival to the president's son, Gamal Mubarak. View Full Image Agence France-Presse/Getty Images President Hosni Mubarak, left, Vice President Omar Suleiman, center and Chief of Staff Sami Anan during a visit to army commanders in Cairo Sunday, in an image taken from Egyptian television. His candidacy to lead the country should Mr. Mubarak fall also suggests how a transition of power might be accomplished. Mr. Suleiman enjoys the support of army, intelligence and security leaders, in addition to that of the U.S. Yet in his mid-70s he is considered too old to contemplate a multi-year presidency himself. And despite Washington's respect for Mr. Suleiman, U.S. officials are increasingly coming to believe that this military man isn't the long-term fix Cairo needs. They say his closeness to Mr. Mubarak is probably too high a hurdle for him to clear, and that he is, at best, a transitional figure. "It's pretty clear he's not the one the people are calling for," a U.S. official working on the Mideast said. According to dozens of diplomatic cables sent over the past five years and released by the WikiLeaks website, most high-level U.S. delegations in recent years to Cairo have included a visit with Mr. Suleiman. That includes visits by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Gen. David Petraeus and FBI Director Robert Mueller, numerous congressional delegations and regular contacts with the ambassador and political officers, according to the cables. In the view of U.S. diplomats in Cairo, Mr. Suleiman is a key figure in the Mubarak regime, responsible primarily for the Arab-Israeli peace talks; management of the Gaza strip tinderbox, Hamas and associated arms-smuggling in Sinai; relations with regional troublemakers, especially Iran and Syria; and broad counterterrorism cooperation with the U.S. Photos: Sunday Protests View Slideshow Reuters Regional Upheaval View Interactive A succession of rallies and demonstrations, in Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and Algeria have been inspired directly by the popular outpouring of anger that toppled Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. See how these uprising progressed. He has played an active role in the Mideast peace process, particularly in trying to forge a compromise between rival Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, and has been at the forefront of the Egyptian effort to crack own on arms smuggling from Egypt into Gaza. Mr. Suleiman has been "the point person on both the U.S. relationship and the Israel-Egyptian relationship," Jon Alterman, Mideast director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Associated Press. "He's very reassuring both ways." The diplomats in the cables describe Mr. Suleiman as ruthless but a straight shooter and a reliable partner in the war on terror. In a 2009 cable, the embassy in Cairo reported that Mr. Suleiman and Interior Minister Habib al-Adly "keep the domestic beasts at bay, and Mubarak is not one to lose sleep over their tactics." When it came time to repatriate Guantanamo prisoners, Mr. Suleiman was the key go-between with the U.S., and his promises of lawful treatment were taken seriously. His word "is the [Egyptian government's] guarantee, and the [government's] track record of cooperation on [counterterror] issues lends further support to this assessment," one cable said. Mr. Suleiman on most issues has echoed President Mubarak, the documents noted, though he placed as much emphasis on the long-term dangers posed by Iran's nuclear program as on its short-term efforts to destabilize the region. Mr. Mubarak worried more about Iran's meddling in Arab affairs. Mr. Suleiman told U.S. visitors in 2008 that an attack on Iran's nuclear program would backfire, and urged stiffer sanctions instead, according to the cables. He said "such an attack would not destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities and would only unite Iranians with their leadership and against the U.S. He repeated the need to make Iran 'busy with its people' by effective sanctions, citing the successful example of Libya." Much like Mr. Mubarak, Mr. Suleiman views Islamic radicalism as one of the clearest threats to Egypt, saying the regime is "circled" by Islamic radicals and pointing to Hamas, Hezbollah, Iranian support for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and wider radical activities in the region, including Sudan and Somalia. He includes the Muslim Brotherhood in this wider radical universe, even though it appears to be a nonviolent movement today. —Jay Solomon contributed to this article. Write to Keith Johnson at keith.johnson@wsj.com

– Hosni Mubarak's new vice president—and possible successor—may help shore up support with Egypt's powerful military and reassure the United States, but Omar Suleiman will do little to save Mubarak's presidency. Suleiman leads Egypt’s foreign intelligence service, has similar political views as Mubarak, is considered the establishment pick by the public—indeed, there have already been chants against Suleiman. "It's pretty clear he's not the one the people are calling for," a US official working in the Mideast tells the Wall Street Journal. “If he was appointed before, it would have been good,” a former ambassador tells the New York Times. “But now, no one knows what he will be asked to do or what role he will play, and he is going be considered part of a regime that is in a shaky position.” Suleiman was actually promised the VP position years ago, but Mubarak reneged and tried positioning his son to take over instead. Now, the choice of Suleiman could signal the military intends on running things. “What concerns us now is this is clearly a military takeover,” says a former professor at American University in Cairo. “I would not be surprised if Mubarak disappears tomorrow or after tomorrow.”

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Mr. Suleiman’s ascension may incite public anger — crowds have already begun shouting chants against him — but would also be likely to put at ease those who benefited from the status quo, at least in the short term. “He is a tough man, strong, business-oriented, efficient,” said Emad Shahin, a former professor at American University in Cairo and now at Notre Dame. “He is a very skillful negotiator.” Photo Mr. Suleiman has run Egypt’s General Intelligence Service since 1993, taking over as the nation was battling Islamic extremists. He is 74 years old and, like Mr. Mubarak, fought in two wars with Israel. He is said to hold a similar worldview, deeply distrusting Iran, favoring close relations with Washington, supporting the cold peace with Israel, and against easing up on the Muslim Brotherhood, the principal opposition group in Egypt. He has managed most of Egypt’s hottest issues, including dealing with Hamas, Hezbollah and Sudan. With the choice of Mr. Suleiman, experts said it was clear that Mr. Mubarak was playing to what he now views as his most important constituency, perhaps the only one that can ensure his safety and a smooth exit from power — the military. Mr. Suleiman was selected on the same day that Mr. Mubarak named a former air force commander, Ahmed Shafiq, as his new prime minister. Several analysts said this had suggested that the appointments were part of a strategy aimed at allowing the military to consolidate control of the government. “What concerns us now is this is clearly a military takeover,” said Mr. Shahin. “I would not be surprised if Mubarak disappears tomorrow or after tomorrow.” Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up You will receive emails containing news content , updates and promotions from The New York Times. You may opt-out at any time. You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. Thank you for subscribing. An error has occurred. Please try again later. View all New York Times newsletters. Mr. Suleiman is known as a dapper dresser, preferring suits over military uniforms. Still, just as every president has been since Gamal Abdel Nasser, he is a fully military man. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Though he is not a member of the governing National Democratic Party, which is prohibited because he was in the military, he is a consummate insider, seen by many as the link between Egyptian politics and its military. He had been so close to the president, traveling with him on most state visits, that Mr. Mubarak issued a special decree to allow Mr. Suleiman to retain his post even after passing the mandatory retirement age. In secret diplomatic memos sent from the United States Embassy in Cairo to Washington and made public by WikiLeaks, Mr. Suleiman is described as sharing Washington’s foreign policy agenda. Photo In one such memo, a top embassy diplomat said that Mr. Suleiman told the ambassador, “Egypt is America’s partner.” The cable also said: “Egypt will continue to provide the USG with its knowledge and expertise on the critical regional issues, such as Lebanon and Iraq. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains the core issue.” It also said that Mr. Suleiman had “contended a peaceful resolution would be a ‘big blow’ to terrorist organizations that use the conflict as a pretext.” Mr. Suleiman’s elevation reflects a new reality set in motion by the days of protests. For years, his name was thought to be on the short list of candidates for president — behind that of Mr. Mubarak’s younger son, Gamal. While the old guard, the military and the West liked the notion of Mr. Suleiman taking over, it was clear that the Mubarak family had been maneuvering to see the son replace the father, experts said. “This has been a long time in the making,” Mr. Assaad said. “Gamal is clearly off the table. He would be unacceptable now. Suleiman was the military’s candidate forever.” Mr. Suleiman was born July 2, 1936, in Qena, a city in Upper Egypt. He graduated from Egypt’s military academy and received training in the former Soviet Union, just like Mr. Mubarak. He also studied political science at Cairo University and at Ain Shams University in Cairo. He is credited with having negotiated several cease-fires between Israel and the Palestinians and, despite his position, is said to also have the respect of Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip. But even those who admire him say that his appointment now, in the face of unprecedented civil unrest, puts him in an unenviable position. Advertisement Continue reading the main story “If he was appointed before, it would have been good,” said Mr. Shokry, the former ambassador to Syria. “But now, no one knows what he will be asked to do or what role he will play, and he is going be considered part of a regime that is in a shaky position.” ||||| Egypt's first vice president in three decades, and a possible successor to President Hosni Mubarak, has for years been a key interlocutor for U.S. diplomats, military officials and congressional delegations, diplomatic cables suggest. His elevation Saturday raises intriguing possibilities. Diplomats have long considered Omar Suleiman, the head of Egyptian intelligence services, a possible vice president—he had been promised the job years ago—and indeed the likeliest successor to the president if Mr. Mubarak failed in his bid to create a family dynasty. He is considered both a loyalist to Mr. Mubarak and a serious rival to the president's son, Gamal Mubarak. View Full Image Agence France-Presse/Getty Images President Hosni Mubarak, left, Vice President Omar Suleiman, center and Chief of Staff Sami Anan during a visit to army commanders in Cairo Sunday, in an image taken from Egyptian television. His candidacy to lead the country should Mr. Mubarak fall also suggests how a transition of power might be accomplished. Mr. Suleiman enjoys the support of army, intelligence and security leaders, in addition to that of the U.S. Yet in his mid-70s he is considered too old to contemplate a multi-year presidency himself. And despite Washington's respect for Mr. Suleiman, U.S. officials are increasingly coming to believe that this military man isn't the long-term fix Cairo needs. They say his closeness to Mr. Mubarak is probably too high a hurdle for him to clear, and that he is, at best, a transitional figure. "It's pretty clear he's not the one the people are calling for," a U.S. official working on the Mideast said. According to dozens of diplomatic cables sent over the past five years and released by the WikiLeaks website, most high-level U.S. delegations in recent years to Cairo have included a visit with Mr. Suleiman. That includes visits by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Gen. David Petraeus and FBI Director Robert Mueller, numerous congressional delegations and regular contacts with the ambassador and political officers, according to the cables. In the view of U.S. diplomats in Cairo, Mr. Suleiman is a key figure in the Mubarak regime, responsible primarily for the Arab-Israeli peace talks; management of the Gaza strip tinderbox, Hamas and associated arms-smuggling in Sinai; relations with regional troublemakers, especially Iran and Syria; and broad counterterrorism cooperation with the U.S. Photos: Sunday Protests View Slideshow Reuters Regional Upheaval View Interactive A succession of rallies and demonstrations, in Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and Algeria have been inspired directly by the popular outpouring of anger that toppled Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. See how these uprising progressed. He has played an active role in the Mideast peace process, particularly in trying to forge a compromise between rival Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, and has been at the forefront of the Egyptian effort to crack own on arms smuggling from Egypt into Gaza. Mr. Suleiman has been "the point person on both the U.S. relationship and the Israel-Egyptian relationship," Jon Alterman, Mideast director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Associated Press. "He's very reassuring both ways." The diplomats in the cables describe Mr. Suleiman as ruthless but a straight shooter and a reliable partner in the war on terror. In a 2009 cable, the embassy in Cairo reported that Mr. Suleiman and Interior Minister Habib al-Adly "keep the domestic beasts at bay, and Mubarak is not one to lose sleep over their tactics." When it came time to repatriate Guantanamo prisoners, Mr. Suleiman was the key go-between with the U.S., and his promises of lawful treatment were taken seriously. His word "is the [Egyptian government's] guarantee, and the [government's] track record of cooperation on [counterterror] issues lends further support to this assessment," one cable said. Mr. Suleiman on most issues has echoed President Mubarak, the documents noted, though he placed as much emphasis on the long-term dangers posed by Iran's nuclear program as on its short-term efforts to destabilize the region. Mr. Mubarak worried more about Iran's meddling in Arab affairs. Mr. Suleiman told U.S. visitors in 2008 that an attack on Iran's nuclear program would backfire, and urged stiffer sanctions instead, according to the cables. He said "such an attack would not destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities and would only unite Iranians with their leadership and against the U.S. He repeated the need to make Iran 'busy with its people' by effective sanctions, citing the successful example of Libya." Much like Mr. Mubarak, Mr. Suleiman views Islamic radicalism as one of the clearest threats to Egypt, saying the regime is "circled" by Islamic radicals and pointing to Hamas, Hezbollah, Iranian support for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and wider radical activities in the region, including Sudan and Somalia. He includes the Muslim Brotherhood in this wider radical universe, even though it appears to be a nonviolent movement today. —Jay Solomon contributed to this article. Write to Keith Johnson at keith.johnson@wsj.com

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Afghanistan peace deal with Taliban needed, say MPs The number of UK troops in Afghanistan will be reduced from 9,000 to 5,200 by the end of 2013 An Afghan-led peace deal with the Taliban is needed to stop Afghanistan sliding into civil war after British troops leave, a group of MPs has said. The defence select committee said the UK had a responsibility to "make Afghanistan work" after 2014. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond told the BBC nobody could say "with certainty what the future for Afghanistan" would be. While it was not perfect, "significant progress" had been made, he added. The MPs' report focused on the planned withdrawal of UK combat troops at the end of 2014 and the transfer of responsibilities to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). The committee said it wanted to see: Open and free elections An appropriately trained and equipped ANSF with continuing financial support A strong judicial system that protects human rights Continued development aid Effective measures to tackle corruption and the drug trade '50-50 chance' The committee highlighted significant gaps in the capabilities of the ANSF in areas such as helicopters and close air support and medical care. Committee chairman James Arbuthnot said some of the witnesses who gave evidence "thought there was a 50-50 chance of Afghanistan descending into civil war". "It's only partly in the hands of the international community to stave that off. It's largely within the hands of the Afghan people themselves," he told the BBC. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. He said the UK and its international partners must show the Afghan people that they will abide by their obligations to continue to support them in their efforts. At the end of any conflict, a degree of reconciliation is needed, he said, and it was necessary to bring in the Taliban and all sections of society, such as women and tribal groupings. Paul Rogers, professor of peace studies at Bradford University, said there was little alternative but to talk to the Taliban. "One has to face the very awkward fact that they are going to have some some sort of role in the governance of the country, and if that can be negotiated, then at least Afghanistan has a chance of a viable peace," he said. Prof Michael Clarke, from the Royal United Services Institute, who gave evidence to the committee, said either the Afghan army would be big and well-trained enough to give a truly independent Afghanistan a chance, or it would not, and the country could descend into civil war. "The problem is whether the whole operation is judged a success or failure is now effectively out of our hands," he said. "All the military can usefully achieve, they have now achieved." The international community still had scope to help the Afghan army and in external politics in the region, he added. The MPs said they had received "very little" information about the involvement of the Ministry of Defence and the UK Foreign Office in Afghanistan beyond 2014. They called on the government to provide detailed plans and costs for withdrawal to ensure the protection of military personnel. There are currently 9,000 British service personnel in Afghanistan, reducing to 5,200 by the end of 2013. In Helmand - where British troops have been based since 2006 - a ceremony has been held to mark the end of the latest tour of Afghanistan. Brig Rupert Jones, of 1 Mechanized Brigade, who will take command for the next six months, said: "The Afghans are now ready to lead operations this summer when traditionally the insurgency tends to be stronger." 'Huge corruption' Mr Hammond told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the committee had heard a range of views about the outcome in Afghanistan, some optimistic, some not. "I completely accept nobody can say with certainty what the future for Afghanistan will be, but what I can say is that the future of Afghanistan will have to be determined by the Afghan people," Mr Hammond said. "What we have done is give them that opportunity." Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. While admitting there was a "huge amount of corruption" in the Afghan government and "huge problems" in the country, he said it was important to focus on the achievements made by Nato forces. "We have created a 350,000-strong Afghan national security forces from scratch. Are they perfect? No, they are not. Are they increasingly capable and increasingly confident? Yes, they are," he said. "Eighty per cent of operations are now led by the Afghans, planned by the Afghans and executed by the Afghans. Increasingly the ISAF forces are in the barracks as a back-up reserve, with the Afghans actually doing the fighting on the ground. This is very significant progress." The UK intervened in Afghanistan primarily to "address the terrorists who were using the chaos in Afghanistan as a base to attack Western interests", he said. "It was always clear this could not be an open-ended intervention. We had to create the conditions where we would eventually be able to withdraw and allow the Afghans to maintain their own security so our security was protected. "While the situation is not perfect we have come a long way to being able to deliver that objective." In a statement, the defence secretary said: "We will continue to support governance and development in Afghanistan through the next decade, with £178m per year of development aid agreed until 2017, to ensure that the progress made will not be lost." ||||| Afghanistan could descend into civil war within a few years of British, US and other Nato troops ending their frontline role there at the end of 2014, the Commons cross-party defence committee warned on Wednesday. The committee suggested that the British government's attitude towards Afghanistan was one of simply hoping for the best, since it would have little influence over the country's future. Former British ambassadors to Afghanistan told the committee that Nato's understanding of the Taliban was limited, that "corruption and abuse of power was intrinsic in Afghan society" and that the country's economy depended heavily on the drugs trade. The MPs warned that the start of an Afghan-led peace settlement with the Taliban was vital to ensure the country's stability and security after the withdrawal of British troops next year. But they added that coalition forces' lack of progress in reducing violence in the country "does not augur well for improving security and economic development on a long-term sustainable basis". The committee also criticised the government for failing to combat the perception that the pullout amounted to "withdrawal through fatigue". Publication of the report came a day after the government announced that the last group of Royal Marines to be deployed in Afghanistan was returning to the UK. Troops from 40 Commando Royal Marines were based in the Nahr-e Saraj district. The 7,200-strong Royal Marine Corps has deployed commandos to Afghanistan 12 times since 2001, and 40 Commando were the first British troops in the country that year, securing Bagram airfield and patrolling the streets of Kabul. The defence committee said that the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Office took an optimistic view of the future yet gave very little information about how they planned to be involved in Afghanistan beyond 2014, James Arbuthnot, chairman of the committee, said: "We have received starkly opposing predictions for Afghanistan's outlook, post-2014. The fact is that the UK has limited influence." The report concluded: "We hope that Afghanistan can become a secure, prosperous and flourishing country but we are concerned that Afghanistan could descend into civil war within a few years." Some ground may have to be given in negotiations with the Taliban but the committee stressed the importance of open and free elections and said the rule of law and human rights should not be compromised in any settlement. The committee said that all Afghan people, including women, must be involved in the peace process. If women were excluded as a consequence of negotiating with the Taliban, the progress made could easily unravel, the MPs warned. "If the UK is to continue to provide financial and training support to Afghanistan post-2014, there needs to be a clear articulation of the areas the UK will fund and support and the outcomes it expects to achieve", the report said. "It must be clear to those engaged in the peace negotiations that, in providing support in the future, the UK will be paying close attention to the progress on the rights of women, children and minority groups, the tackling of corruption and the furtherance of the rule of law". The report also claimed that not enough was being done to train and equip Afghan security forces properly. Concerns remained over the capability of Afghan forces to fill the gap left by withdrawing coalition forces, particularly in terms of helicopters, close air support and logistics, the committee said. "We are concerned that the ANSF [Afghan national security forces totalling about 350,000] will reduce its strength by over a third on current plans based on the expectation that the insurgency will have been diminished," the report added. "The government should urge the international community to develop a contingency plan in case the level of the insurgency does not diminish".

– Afghanistan is in danger of descending into civil war after coalition forces end their frontline role next year, and the UK government's strategy appears to be simply to withdraw and hope for the best, a group of British lawmakers warns. A report from a cross-party defense committee warns that coalition forces' failure to reduce violence does not bode well for Afghanistan's future, and the government has done little to counter the perception that the pullout is basically "withdrawal through fatigue," the Guardian reports. The committee said an Afghan-led peace deal with the Taliban is key to securing the country's future, as are free elections and efforts to combat corruption and the drug trade, the BBC reports. The lawmakers expressed concern that not enough was being done to train and equip Afghan forces before the pullout. "We hope that Afghanistan can become a secure, prosperous, and flourishing country but we are concerned that Afghanistan could descend into civil war within a few years," the report concludes.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Afghanistan peace deal with Taliban needed, say MPs The number of UK troops in Afghanistan will be reduced from 9,000 to 5,200 by the end of 2013 An Afghan-led peace deal with the Taliban is needed to stop Afghanistan sliding into civil war after British troops leave, a group of MPs has said. The defence select committee said the UK had a responsibility to "make Afghanistan work" after 2014. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond told the BBC nobody could say "with certainty what the future for Afghanistan" would be. While it was not perfect, "significant progress" had been made, he added. The MPs' report focused on the planned withdrawal of UK combat troops at the end of 2014 and the transfer of responsibilities to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). The committee said it wanted to see: Open and free elections An appropriately trained and equipped ANSF with continuing financial support A strong judicial system that protects human rights Continued development aid Effective measures to tackle corruption and the drug trade '50-50 chance' The committee highlighted significant gaps in the capabilities of the ANSF in areas such as helicopters and close air support and medical care. Committee chairman James Arbuthnot said some of the witnesses who gave evidence "thought there was a 50-50 chance of Afghanistan descending into civil war". "It's only partly in the hands of the international community to stave that off. It's largely within the hands of the Afghan people themselves," he told the BBC. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. He said the UK and its international partners must show the Afghan people that they will abide by their obligations to continue to support them in their efforts. At the end of any conflict, a degree of reconciliation is needed, he said, and it was necessary to bring in the Taliban and all sections of society, such as women and tribal groupings. Paul Rogers, professor of peace studies at Bradford University, said there was little alternative but to talk to the Taliban. "One has to face the very awkward fact that they are going to have some some sort of role in the governance of the country, and if that can be negotiated, then at least Afghanistan has a chance of a viable peace," he said. Prof Michael Clarke, from the Royal United Services Institute, who gave evidence to the committee, said either the Afghan army would be big and well-trained enough to give a truly independent Afghanistan a chance, or it would not, and the country could descend into civil war. "The problem is whether the whole operation is judged a success or failure is now effectively out of our hands," he said. "All the military can usefully achieve, they have now achieved." The international community still had scope to help the Afghan army and in external politics in the region, he added. The MPs said they had received "very little" information about the involvement of the Ministry of Defence and the UK Foreign Office in Afghanistan beyond 2014. They called on the government to provide detailed plans and costs for withdrawal to ensure the protection of military personnel. There are currently 9,000 British service personnel in Afghanistan, reducing to 5,200 by the end of 2013. In Helmand - where British troops have been based since 2006 - a ceremony has been held to mark the end of the latest tour of Afghanistan. Brig Rupert Jones, of 1 Mechanized Brigade, who will take command for the next six months, said: "The Afghans are now ready to lead operations this summer when traditionally the insurgency tends to be stronger." 'Huge corruption' Mr Hammond told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the committee had heard a range of views about the outcome in Afghanistan, some optimistic, some not. "I completely accept nobody can say with certainty what the future for Afghanistan will be, but what I can say is that the future of Afghanistan will have to be determined by the Afghan people," Mr Hammond said. "What we have done is give them that opportunity." Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. While admitting there was a "huge amount of corruption" in the Afghan government and "huge problems" in the country, he said it was important to focus on the achievements made by Nato forces. "We have created a 350,000-strong Afghan national security forces from scratch. Are they perfect? No, they are not. Are they increasingly capable and increasingly confident? Yes, they are," he said. "Eighty per cent of operations are now led by the Afghans, planned by the Afghans and executed by the Afghans. Increasingly the ISAF forces are in the barracks as a back-up reserve, with the Afghans actually doing the fighting on the ground. This is very significant progress." The UK intervened in Afghanistan primarily to "address the terrorists who were using the chaos in Afghanistan as a base to attack Western interests", he said. "It was always clear this could not be an open-ended intervention. We had to create the conditions where we would eventually be able to withdraw and allow the Afghans to maintain their own security so our security was protected. "While the situation is not perfect we have come a long way to being able to deliver that objective." In a statement, the defence secretary said: "We will continue to support governance and development in Afghanistan through the next decade, with £178m per year of development aid agreed until 2017, to ensure that the progress made will not be lost." ||||| Afghanistan could descend into civil war within a few years of British, US and other Nato troops ending their frontline role there at the end of 2014, the Commons cross-party defence committee warned on Wednesday. The committee suggested that the British government's attitude towards Afghanistan was one of simply hoping for the best, since it would have little influence over the country's future. Former British ambassadors to Afghanistan told the committee that Nato's understanding of the Taliban was limited, that "corruption and abuse of power was intrinsic in Afghan society" and that the country's economy depended heavily on the drugs trade. The MPs warned that the start of an Afghan-led peace settlement with the Taliban was vital to ensure the country's stability and security after the withdrawal of British troops next year. But they added that coalition forces' lack of progress in reducing violence in the country "does not augur well for improving security and economic development on a long-term sustainable basis". The committee also criticised the government for failing to combat the perception that the pullout amounted to "withdrawal through fatigue". Publication of the report came a day after the government announced that the last group of Royal Marines to be deployed in Afghanistan was returning to the UK. Troops from 40 Commando Royal Marines were based in the Nahr-e Saraj district. The 7,200-strong Royal Marine Corps has deployed commandos to Afghanistan 12 times since 2001, and 40 Commando were the first British troops in the country that year, securing Bagram airfield and patrolling the streets of Kabul. The defence committee said that the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Office took an optimistic view of the future yet gave very little information about how they planned to be involved in Afghanistan beyond 2014, James Arbuthnot, chairman of the committee, said: "We have received starkly opposing predictions for Afghanistan's outlook, post-2014. The fact is that the UK has limited influence." The report concluded: "We hope that Afghanistan can become a secure, prosperous and flourishing country but we are concerned that Afghanistan could descend into civil war within a few years." Some ground may have to be given in negotiations with the Taliban but the committee stressed the importance of open and free elections and said the rule of law and human rights should not be compromised in any settlement. The committee said that all Afghan people, including women, must be involved in the peace process. If women were excluded as a consequence of negotiating with the Taliban, the progress made could easily unravel, the MPs warned. "If the UK is to continue to provide financial and training support to Afghanistan post-2014, there needs to be a clear articulation of the areas the UK will fund and support and the outcomes it expects to achieve", the report said. "It must be clear to those engaged in the peace negotiations that, in providing support in the future, the UK will be paying close attention to the progress on the rights of women, children and minority groups, the tackling of corruption and the furtherance of the rule of law". The report also claimed that not enough was being done to train and equip Afghan security forces properly. Concerns remained over the capability of Afghan forces to fill the gap left by withdrawing coalition forces, particularly in terms of helicopters, close air support and logistics, the committee said. "We are concerned that the ANSF [Afghan national security forces totalling about 350,000] will reduce its strength by over a third on current plans based on the expectation that the insurgency will have been diminished," the report added. "The government should urge the international community to develop a contingency plan in case the level of the insurgency does not diminish".

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NFL And Players Meet, But Punt On Anthem Controversy Enlarge this image toggle caption Michael Conroy/AP Michael Conroy/AP Updated 5 p.m. ET NFL owners and players met at league headquarters in New York on Tuesday but put forward no policy changes regarding the controversial player protests during the national anthem. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters Wednesday that the participants did not discuss the idea of team owners disciplining players for protesting, saying that it "wasn't necessary." "Everyone should stand for the national anthem," Goodell said. "We all feel very strongly about our country and our pride, and we're going to continue to do that." In terms of the protesting players, he said, "what we've tried to do is deal with the underlying issue and understand what they're protesting and try to address that matter." Goodell stated that currently "six or seven" players are participating in the protests. He called the dialogue unprecedented, "between our players, between our owners, between our club officials, between the league. And that is a really positive change for us, that we think is ultimately going to pay dividends." Eleven owners and 13 players attended the meeting that lasted for several hours and was variously described as "positive" and "constructive," but didn't signal any changes on the protests that have seen players take a knee, sit or raise fists during pregame renditions of the national anthem to protest against racial inequality and police shootings of unarmed black men. "We heard what they had to say and they heard us," Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross said. "It's open talks and that's a good thing." Goodell had previously said the league "did not ask" for any change to the policy on the national anthem. That policy says players "should" stand for performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner," but in the wake of the protests, some have suggested changing that language to "must." The NFL Players Association union and the league issued a joint statement, saying the sides came together "to promote positive social change and address inequality in our communities." "NFL executives and owners joined NFLPA executives and player leaders to review and discuss plans to utilize our platform to promote equality and effectuate positive change. We agreed that these are common issues and pledged to meet again to continue this work together," the statement read. "As we said last week, everyone who is part of our NFL community has a tremendous respect for our country, our flag, our anthem and our military. In the best American tradition, we are coming together to find common ground and commit to the hard work required for positive change," it continued. Last week, Commissioner Goodell said in a memo to the teams that the league prefers for players to stand during the anthem. Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, who has been a leading spokesman for the players on this issue, said the discussion covered "everything to do with the state of the NFL now, obviously anthem protests, activism that players have been doing, and how we can move this forward to really amplify players' voices and amplify these issues and make some long sustainable changes." "I'm not sure we're close to a resolution, but conversations are ongoing," he added. Indianapolis Colts defensive back Darius Butler told Sports Illustrated that it was a good dialogue, adding, "it's not going to be fixed overnight." The protests were touched off a year ago when then-San Francisco 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick began taking a knee for the anthem. When President Trump weighed in last month saying owners should "fire" players for such protests, the issue snowballed into a national debate over those who see the matter as one of free speech and others who see it as a lack of respect for the flag and the national anthem. Kaepernick, who became a free agent this season has remained unsigned. Earlier this week his attorney said he was filing a grievance against the NFL and owners for allegedly conspiring to shut him out of the league over the protests. ||||| By leaving the rule alone, the league has chosen to avoid more internal strife with its players and to potentially weather more criticism from fans and President Trump, who has repeatedly ridiculed the league for not firing players who demonstrate during the anthem. “We need to be above petty attacks from anybody, because racial and socioeconomic inequality has existed in this country for too long,” Jed York, the chief executive and co-owner of the San Francisco 49ers, said when asked about the president’s criticism of the league. “You got to block out the noise and go do your job, and that’s what we need to focus on.” The meeting on Tuesday included the N.F.L.’s commissioner, Roger Goodell; the director of the players’ union, DeMaurice F. Smith; and 11 owners, including Robert K. Kraft of the New England Patriots and Arthur M. Blank of the Atlanta Falcons. They met for almost four hours with a dozen players, including Malcolm Jenkins of the Philadelphia Eagles, Eric Reid of the 49ers and Kenny Stills of the Dolphins, all of whom have protested during the anthem. “We just talked about how the owners could come alongside us and we could, collectively, collaboratively, work together to actually create some change, real changes,” Jenkins said afterward, flanked by other players. “We feel a real responsibility to our country, to our communities, so we’re working through ways to really have long lasting, real change.” Jenkins said there had been no discussion during the meeting about prohibiting players from kneeling during the national anthem; whether players continue to do so, he said, would be an individual decision. He also said that Kaepernick had been invited to the meeting but chose not to attend. Kaepernick’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, later said it was possible that Kaepernick would attend future meetings. The league’s broadcasters and sponsors have tried to tiptoe past the public spat as pockets of fans have said they would no longer go to games or buy N.F.L. merchandise. Some teams, too, have had to handle a large number of calls from angry fans. Last week, the Jaguars took the unusual step of apologizing to military leaders in the Jacksonville area for demonstrating during the national anthem before their game in London last month.

– The NFL says it is not going to punish players who stand or kneel when the anthem is played before games—but a meeting between officials, players, and owners in New York City Tuesday failed to resolve the controversy. The meeting at the league's headquarters lasted several hours and included 11 owners and 13 players as well as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and other officials, NPR reports. Despite persistent attacks from President Trump, Goodell said the league did not ask for any changes to the anthem policy, which states that players "should"—not must—stand when the anthem is played. Goodell said the league and players would probably meet again in two weeks. Owners said the meeting had been "positive" and "constructive" despite the lack of a resolution. "We need to be above petty attacks from anybody, because racial and socioeconomic inequality has existed in this country for too long," San Francisco 49ers co-owner and chief executive Jed York told the New York Times when asked about Trump's remarks. "You got to block out the noise and go do your job, and that’s what we need to focus on." (The player who started the protests says he has been blackballed by owners.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.NFL And Players Meet, But Punt On Anthem Controversy Enlarge this image toggle caption Michael Conroy/AP Michael Conroy/AP Updated 5 p.m. ET NFL owners and players met at league headquarters in New York on Tuesday but put forward no policy changes regarding the controversial player protests during the national anthem. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters Wednesday that the participants did not discuss the idea of team owners disciplining players for protesting, saying that it "wasn't necessary." "Everyone should stand for the national anthem," Goodell said. "We all feel very strongly about our country and our pride, and we're going to continue to do that." In terms of the protesting players, he said, "what we've tried to do is deal with the underlying issue and understand what they're protesting and try to address that matter." Goodell stated that currently "six or seven" players are participating in the protests. He called the dialogue unprecedented, "between our players, between our owners, between our club officials, between the league. And that is a really positive change for us, that we think is ultimately going to pay dividends." Eleven owners and 13 players attended the meeting that lasted for several hours and was variously described as "positive" and "constructive," but didn't signal any changes on the protests that have seen players take a knee, sit or raise fists during pregame renditions of the national anthem to protest against racial inequality and police shootings of unarmed black men. "We heard what they had to say and they heard us," Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross said. "It's open talks and that's a good thing." Goodell had previously said the league "did not ask" for any change to the policy on the national anthem. That policy says players "should" stand for performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner," but in the wake of the protests, some have suggested changing that language to "must." The NFL Players Association union and the league issued a joint statement, saying the sides came together "to promote positive social change and address inequality in our communities." "NFL executives and owners joined NFLPA executives and player leaders to review and discuss plans to utilize our platform to promote equality and effectuate positive change. We agreed that these are common issues and pledged to meet again to continue this work together," the statement read. "As we said last week, everyone who is part of our NFL community has a tremendous respect for our country, our flag, our anthem and our military. In the best American tradition, we are coming together to find common ground and commit to the hard work required for positive change," it continued. Last week, Commissioner Goodell said in a memo to the teams that the league prefers for players to stand during the anthem. Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, who has been a leading spokesman for the players on this issue, said the discussion covered "everything to do with the state of the NFL now, obviously anthem protests, activism that players have been doing, and how we can move this forward to really amplify players' voices and amplify these issues and make some long sustainable changes." "I'm not sure we're close to a resolution, but conversations are ongoing," he added. Indianapolis Colts defensive back Darius Butler told Sports Illustrated that it was a good dialogue, adding, "it's not going to be fixed overnight." The protests were touched off a year ago when then-San Francisco 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick began taking a knee for the anthem. When President Trump weighed in last month saying owners should "fire" players for such protests, the issue snowballed into a national debate over those who see the matter as one of free speech and others who see it as a lack of respect for the flag and the national anthem. Kaepernick, who became a free agent this season has remained unsigned. Earlier this week his attorney said he was filing a grievance against the NFL and owners for allegedly conspiring to shut him out of the league over the protests. ||||| By leaving the rule alone, the league has chosen to avoid more internal strife with its players and to potentially weather more criticism from fans and President Trump, who has repeatedly ridiculed the league for not firing players who demonstrate during the anthem. “We need to be above petty attacks from anybody, because racial and socioeconomic inequality has existed in this country for too long,” Jed York, the chief executive and co-owner of the San Francisco 49ers, said when asked about the president’s criticism of the league. “You got to block out the noise and go do your job, and that’s what we need to focus on.” The meeting on Tuesday included the N.F.L.’s commissioner, Roger Goodell; the director of the players’ union, DeMaurice F. Smith; and 11 owners, including Robert K. Kraft of the New England Patriots and Arthur M. Blank of the Atlanta Falcons. They met for almost four hours with a dozen players, including Malcolm Jenkins of the Philadelphia Eagles, Eric Reid of the 49ers and Kenny Stills of the Dolphins, all of whom have protested during the anthem. “We just talked about how the owners could come alongside us and we could, collectively, collaboratively, work together to actually create some change, real changes,” Jenkins said afterward, flanked by other players. “We feel a real responsibility to our country, to our communities, so we’re working through ways to really have long lasting, real change.” Jenkins said there had been no discussion during the meeting about prohibiting players from kneeling during the national anthem; whether players continue to do so, he said, would be an individual decision. He also said that Kaepernick had been invited to the meeting but chose not to attend. Kaepernick’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, later said it was possible that Kaepernick would attend future meetings. The league’s broadcasters and sponsors have tried to tiptoe past the public spat as pockets of fans have said they would no longer go to games or buy N.F.L. merchandise. Some teams, too, have had to handle a large number of calls from angry fans. Last week, the Jaguars took the unusual step of apologizing to military leaders in the Jacksonville area for demonstrating during the national anthem before their game in London last month.

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The Trump administration moved Tuesday to ban rapid-fire bump stock devices like the ones used in last year’s Las Vegas massacre, submitting a new rule that makes them illegal to own or sell and will likely set the stage for long legal battles with gun rights groups and owners. The regulation, signed and submitted by Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, is expected to be formally published by week’s end and take effect in late March, senior Justice Department officials said. Owners of bump stocks will then have 90 days... ||||| FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2017 file photo, a little-known device called a "bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. The Trump administration... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2017 file photo, a little-known device called a "bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. The Trump administration is moving to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2017 file photo, a little-known device called a "bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. The Trump administration is moving to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2017 file photo, a little-known device called a "bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. The Trump administration... (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration moved Tuesday to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, and has made them illegal to possess beginning in late March. The devices will be banned under a federal law that prohibits machine guns, according to a senior Justice Department official. Bump stocks became a focal point of the national gun control debate after they were used in October 2017 when a man opened fired from his Las Vegas hotel suite into a crowd at a country music concert below, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The regulation, which was signed by Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on Tuesday morning, will go into effect 90 days after it is formally published in the Federal Register, which is expected to happen on Friday, the Justice Department official said. The official wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly ahead of the regulation's formal publication and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. In March, President Donald Trump said his administration would "ban" the devices, which he said "turn legal weapons into illegal machines." Shortly after the president's comments, the Justice Department announced that it had started the process to amend federal firearms regulations to define bump stocks as machine guns. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sought public comment on the proposal, drawing more than 35,000 comments. The amended regulations reverse a 2010 ATF decision that found bump stocks did not amount to machine guns and could not be regulated unless Congress changed existing firearms law or passed a new one. In the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting, there was a growing push by some members of Congress to ban bump stocks, but no legislation was passed. At least 10 states have sought their own restrictions on the devices. People who own bump stocks will be required to either surrender them to the ATF or destroy them by late March, the official said. The change has undergone a legal review and the Justice Department and ATF are ready to fight any legal challenge that may be brought, the official added. The amended rule was met almost immediately with resistance from gun rights advocates, including Gun Owners of America, which said it would file a lawsuit against the Justice Department and ATF in order to protect gun owners from the "unconstitutional regulations." "These regulations implicate Second Amendment rights, and courts should be highly suspect when an agency changes its 'interpretation' of a statute in order to impair the exercise of enumerated constitutional rights," the organization's executive director, Erich Pratt, said. Police said the gunman in the Las Vegas massacre, Stephen Paddock, fired for more than 10 minutes using multiple weapons outfitted with target scopes and bump stocks. Paddock fatally shot himself after the shooting and there were 23 assault-style weapons, including 14 fitted with rapid-fire "bump stock" devices, strewn about the room near his body on the floor of his 32nd-floor hotel suite at the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel. The largest manufacturer of bump stocks, Slide Fire Solutions, announced in April that it was going to stop taking orders and shutting down its website. The remaining stock of the devices is now being sold by another company, RW Arms, based in Fort Worth, Texas. ___ Associated Press writer Lisa Marie Pane in Boise, Idaho, contributed to this report. ___ Follow Michael Balsamo on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MikeBalsamo1 . ||||| Justice Department Bans Bump Stocks, Devices Used In Deadly Las Vegas Shooting Enlarge this image toggle caption Rick Bowmer/AP Rick Bowmer/AP The Trump administration is banning bump stocks, the firearm attachment that allows a semiautomatic weapon to shoot almost as fast as a machine gun. The devices, also known as slide fires, came under intense scrutiny after they were used by the gunman who opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas last year, killing 58 people. The massacre touched off a public outcry, including from some lawmakers, for the accessories to be banned. Under a new federal rule announced Tuesday by the Justice Department, bump stocks will be redefined as "machine guns" and therefore outlawed under existing law. The new regulations, which were signed by acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, will take effect 90 days after being published in the Federal Register. A Justice Department official said that would likely happen Friday. Current bump stock owners will have the 90 days before the new rule takes effect to either destroy the devices they own or turn them in to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Justice Department officials say they don't know exactly how many bump stocks are privately owned, but they estimate the number in the tens of thousands. The move has met with mixed reactions from gun rights groups. In an emailed statement, the NRA said it is "disappointed" that the new rule doesn't include an amnesty, which would have allowed people who bought the attachments when they were still considered legal, to keep them. Gun Owners of America went further, promising a lawsuit. In a statement, it called the administration's move "arbitrary," and an unacceptable reinterpretation of the federal laws against machine guns. In the past, the GOA has said that banning bump stock attachments could lead to the eventual banning of semi-automatic rifles. Shannon Watts, founder of the gun control group 'Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America,' welcomed the rule, saying it may signal a new openness on the part of the administration to tighter firearms regulations. "We're very hopeful that we can go in now, in January, and put forward something like a background check bill, a bill that would close the loophole that allows unlicensed gun sales without a background check," she says. "And have President Trump sign that into law." But Watts says she would rather have seen bump stocks banned by an act of Congress, as some Democratic members of Congress proposed in the weeks after the Las Vegas massacre. In previous years, federal firearms regulators ruled they could not ban bump stocks under existing federal law. Las Vegas caused the Trump Administration to order the ATF to review that decision. The Justice Department followed up by proposing a federal rule change that would reclassify bump stocks so they fell under the definition of a 'machine gun,' as it's now doing. Fully automatic machine guns are strictly controlled in the U.S. It is illegal under federal law for a private citizen to own a machine gun that was manufactured after 1986. Regulators at the ATF have become increasingly preoccupied with vetting a wide variety of attachments for guns, some of them created with 3D printing technology. Last week the agency announced a policy requiring any new accessory needing evaluation to be submitted to the agency along with the firearm it's supposed to modify, to make it easier for the ATF to test it. ||||| The Department of Justice on Tuesday made official new regulations to make bump stocks illegal. The move makes sense, even though it isn't likely to make a major difference in combating mass shootings. Bump stocks are an attachment that can make semi-automatic weapons capable of rapid fire by taking advantage of the recoil after firing a gun, causing it to move quickly back and forth as the shooter's finger rests on the trigger. They are not particularly widespread and over the years were mainly a niche item that some gun hobbyists used for recreational purposes. They received national attention after the Las Vegas shooting, when Stephen Paddock used the attachments to help him unleash an avalanche of bullets on a crowd, killing 58 people. Under the new regulations, bump stocks will be considered "machine guns" for the purposes of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rules. The change makes sense. The federal government goes to great lengths to restrict the availability of machine guns. It is illegal to own any fully automatic gun manufactured after 1986, and acquiring one manufactured before that is typically prohibitively time consuming and expensive and requires significant background checks and registration. Given how much effort the ATF goes through to restrict machine guns, it makes sense that it would also ban parts such as bump stocks that can allow a relative novice to turn a semi-automatic gun into a weapon that roughly approximates a machine gun. After Las Vegas, even the National Rifle Association suggested that the ATF consider updating regulations on bump stocks, arguing, "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations." Doing this within the confines of clarifying existing regulations also avoids a scenario of Congress writing a law pitched as a ban of bump stocks that is written in a way that allows for broader regulation of semi-automatic guns. While the move makes sense, it also shouldn't be seen as something that is going to have much of an effect on mass shootings. In nearly all cases, bump stocks would be pretty useless as they make guns a lot less accurate. The Las Vegas tragedy was unique in the sense that somebody was shooting on a large crowd from above, about 1,200 feet away, so he wasn't aiming at any specific person, but rather was firing off as many rounds as possible toward a general area to maximize the carnage. So that was a rare instance in which having access to bump stocks probably increased the death toll. But the attachment would be unlikely to help shooters in other cases. UPDATE: As Robert VerBruggen and Steve Gutowski point out, pursuing this action by regulation rather than through an act of Congress, the Trump administration is opening itself up to legal challenges. The issue is that regulations define a machine gun as "any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger." While the bump stock can approximate automatic fire, it still requires multiple pulls of the trigger.

– Bump stocks can turn a semiautomatic weapon into a firearm that shoots at nearly the speed of a machine gun, and a "machine gun" is what the devices will be considered going forward. NPR reports the Trump administration on Tuesday announced a ban on the attachments, a move facilitated by the devices' reclassification as "machine guns"—they'll then be covered by the federal law that prohibits the guns. It'll take about 90 days for the regulation to go into effect, and it doesn't just impact the sale of new devices: Those who possess the attachment—tens of thousands are estimated to exist—will need to destroy them or hand them over to the ATF before the 90 days are through. The move is the culmination of President Trump's March announcement that the devices would be banned; 14 of them were infamously attached to weapons found in the hotel room from which Stephen Paddock unleashed the October 2017 Las Vegas massacre. The Wall Street Journal reports the Justice Department says the redefinition has passed a legal review that attorneys with the ATF participated in—notably, as the ATF in 2010 determined bump stocks weren't machine guns. The DOJ says it is ready to fight any legal challenges that may arise, and they almost certainly will. The AP reports Gun Owners of America vowed to file a suit. The Washington Examiner's take is that the move is the right one, but not one that will really impact future mass shootings, as the devices reduce a gun's accuracy. The Las Vegas shooting was a special case due to the shooter's distance (1,200 feet) and angle (shooting from above).

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.The Trump administration moved Tuesday to ban rapid-fire bump stock devices like the ones used in last year’s Las Vegas massacre, submitting a new rule that makes them illegal to own or sell and will likely set the stage for long legal battles with gun rights groups and owners. The regulation, signed and submitted by Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, is expected to be formally published by week’s end and take effect in late March, senior Justice Department officials said. Owners of bump stocks will then have 90 days... ||||| FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2017 file photo, a little-known device called a "bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. The Trump administration... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2017 file photo, a little-known device called a "bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. The Trump administration is moving to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2017 file photo, a little-known device called a "bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. The Trump administration is moving to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2017 file photo, a little-known device called a "bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. The Trump administration... (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration moved Tuesday to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, and has made them illegal to possess beginning in late March. The devices will be banned under a federal law that prohibits machine guns, according to a senior Justice Department official. Bump stocks became a focal point of the national gun control debate after they were used in October 2017 when a man opened fired from his Las Vegas hotel suite into a crowd at a country music concert below, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The regulation, which was signed by Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on Tuesday morning, will go into effect 90 days after it is formally published in the Federal Register, which is expected to happen on Friday, the Justice Department official said. The official wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly ahead of the regulation's formal publication and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. In March, President Donald Trump said his administration would "ban" the devices, which he said "turn legal weapons into illegal machines." Shortly after the president's comments, the Justice Department announced that it had started the process to amend federal firearms regulations to define bump stocks as machine guns. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sought public comment on the proposal, drawing more than 35,000 comments. The amended regulations reverse a 2010 ATF decision that found bump stocks did not amount to machine guns and could not be regulated unless Congress changed existing firearms law or passed a new one. In the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting, there was a growing push by some members of Congress to ban bump stocks, but no legislation was passed. At least 10 states have sought their own restrictions on the devices. People who own bump stocks will be required to either surrender them to the ATF or destroy them by late March, the official said. The change has undergone a legal review and the Justice Department and ATF are ready to fight any legal challenge that may be brought, the official added. The amended rule was met almost immediately with resistance from gun rights advocates, including Gun Owners of America, which said it would file a lawsuit against the Justice Department and ATF in order to protect gun owners from the "unconstitutional regulations." "These regulations implicate Second Amendment rights, and courts should be highly suspect when an agency changes its 'interpretation' of a statute in order to impair the exercise of enumerated constitutional rights," the organization's executive director, Erich Pratt, said. Police said the gunman in the Las Vegas massacre, Stephen Paddock, fired for more than 10 minutes using multiple weapons outfitted with target scopes and bump stocks. Paddock fatally shot himself after the shooting and there were 23 assault-style weapons, including 14 fitted with rapid-fire "bump stock" devices, strewn about the room near his body on the floor of his 32nd-floor hotel suite at the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel. The largest manufacturer of bump stocks, Slide Fire Solutions, announced in April that it was going to stop taking orders and shutting down its website. The remaining stock of the devices is now being sold by another company, RW Arms, based in Fort Worth, Texas. ___ Associated Press writer Lisa Marie Pane in Boise, Idaho, contributed to this report. ___ Follow Michael Balsamo on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MikeBalsamo1 . ||||| Justice Department Bans Bump Stocks, Devices Used In Deadly Las Vegas Shooting Enlarge this image toggle caption Rick Bowmer/AP Rick Bowmer/AP The Trump administration is banning bump stocks, the firearm attachment that allows a semiautomatic weapon to shoot almost as fast as a machine gun. The devices, also known as slide fires, came under intense scrutiny after they were used by the gunman who opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas last year, killing 58 people. The massacre touched off a public outcry, including from some lawmakers, for the accessories to be banned. Under a new federal rule announced Tuesday by the Justice Department, bump stocks will be redefined as "machine guns" and therefore outlawed under existing law. The new regulations, which were signed by acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, will take effect 90 days after being published in the Federal Register. A Justice Department official said that would likely happen Friday. Current bump stock owners will have the 90 days before the new rule takes effect to either destroy the devices they own or turn them in to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Justice Department officials say they don't know exactly how many bump stocks are privately owned, but they estimate the number in the tens of thousands. The move has met with mixed reactions from gun rights groups. In an emailed statement, the NRA said it is "disappointed" that the new rule doesn't include an amnesty, which would have allowed people who bought the attachments when they were still considered legal, to keep them. Gun Owners of America went further, promising a lawsuit. In a statement, it called the administration's move "arbitrary," and an unacceptable reinterpretation of the federal laws against machine guns. In the past, the GOA has said that banning bump stock attachments could lead to the eventual banning of semi-automatic rifles. Shannon Watts, founder of the gun control group 'Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America,' welcomed the rule, saying it may signal a new openness on the part of the administration to tighter firearms regulations. "We're very hopeful that we can go in now, in January, and put forward something like a background check bill, a bill that would close the loophole that allows unlicensed gun sales without a background check," she says. "And have President Trump sign that into law." But Watts says she would rather have seen bump stocks banned by an act of Congress, as some Democratic members of Congress proposed in the weeks after the Las Vegas massacre. In previous years, federal firearms regulators ruled they could not ban bump stocks under existing federal law. Las Vegas caused the Trump Administration to order the ATF to review that decision. The Justice Department followed up by proposing a federal rule change that would reclassify bump stocks so they fell under the definition of a 'machine gun,' as it's now doing. Fully automatic machine guns are strictly controlled in the U.S. It is illegal under federal law for a private citizen to own a machine gun that was manufactured after 1986. Regulators at the ATF have become increasingly preoccupied with vetting a wide variety of attachments for guns, some of them created with 3D printing technology. Last week the agency announced a policy requiring any new accessory needing evaluation to be submitted to the agency along with the firearm it's supposed to modify, to make it easier for the ATF to test it. ||||| The Department of Justice on Tuesday made official new regulations to make bump stocks illegal. The move makes sense, even though it isn't likely to make a major difference in combating mass shootings. Bump stocks are an attachment that can make semi-automatic weapons capable of rapid fire by taking advantage of the recoil after firing a gun, causing it to move quickly back and forth as the shooter's finger rests on the trigger. They are not particularly widespread and over the years were mainly a niche item that some gun hobbyists used for recreational purposes. They received national attention after the Las Vegas shooting, when Stephen Paddock used the attachments to help him unleash an avalanche of bullets on a crowd, killing 58 people. Under the new regulations, bump stocks will be considered "machine guns" for the purposes of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rules. The change makes sense. The federal government goes to great lengths to restrict the availability of machine guns. It is illegal to own any fully automatic gun manufactured after 1986, and acquiring one manufactured before that is typically prohibitively time consuming and expensive and requires significant background checks and registration. Given how much effort the ATF goes through to restrict machine guns, it makes sense that it would also ban parts such as bump stocks that can allow a relative novice to turn a semi-automatic gun into a weapon that roughly approximates a machine gun. After Las Vegas, even the National Rifle Association suggested that the ATF consider updating regulations on bump stocks, arguing, "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations." Doing this within the confines of clarifying existing regulations also avoids a scenario of Congress writing a law pitched as a ban of bump stocks that is written in a way that allows for broader regulation of semi-automatic guns. While the move makes sense, it also shouldn't be seen as something that is going to have much of an effect on mass shootings. In nearly all cases, bump stocks would be pretty useless as they make guns a lot less accurate. The Las Vegas tragedy was unique in the sense that somebody was shooting on a large crowd from above, about 1,200 feet away, so he wasn't aiming at any specific person, but rather was firing off as many rounds as possible toward a general area to maximize the carnage. So that was a rare instance in which having access to bump stocks probably increased the death toll. But the attachment would be unlikely to help shooters in other cases. UPDATE: As Robert VerBruggen and Steve Gutowski point out, pursuing this action by regulation rather than through an act of Congress, the Trump administration is opening itself up to legal challenges. The issue is that regulations define a machine gun as "any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger." While the bump stock can approximate automatic fire, it still requires multiple pulls of the trigger.

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A new and troubling trend in which youth deliberately do not eat and then go on to drink alcohol in excess appears to be sweeping US college campuses, new research suggests. Known as "drunkorexia," the practice refers to a combination of diet-related behaviors, such as food restriction, excessive exercise, or binge eating and purging, with alcohol use, lead investigator Dipali V. Rinker, PhD, research assistant professor, University of Houston, in Texas, told Medscape Medical News. Dr Rinker's research showed that 8 of 10 college students, many of whom were men, recently engaged in at least one behavior related to drunkorexia. The aim of the practice, said Dr Rinker, seems to be to get drunker or get drunk faster. This may involve induced vomiting, the consumption of laxatives or diuretics, or not eating at all before drinking. Dr Rinker presented the findings at the 39th Annual Research Society on Alcoholism Scientific Meeting in New Orleans. The study included 1184 college students from the University of Houston and from a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace. All participants completed a Web-based survey. They had to have engaged in at least one episode of heavy drinking in the past 30 days. An episode of heavy drinking was defined as having four or more drinks in one sitting for women and five or more drinks in one sitting for men. The mean age of participants was 22.3 years. Almost 60% were women, and almost two thirds (63.3%) were white. Results showed that 81% of the sample reported engaging in at least one drunkorexia behavior once in the past 3 months. The analysis also showed that young people living in fraternity or sorority houses were the most likely to engage in negative behaviors surrounding alcohol use. The next most likely group were those living in residence halls, followed by those living off campus, and, finally, those living at home. Living away from family for the first time and feeling intense stress at school may be contributing factors, said Dr Rinker. But there are other driving forces. "Our data suggest that college students are more likely to engage in these specific compensatory behaviors if they are athletes, are already heavy drinkers, are coping with negative emotions, are engaging in disordered eating practices already, and, most importantly, because they perceive it to be a highly normative behavior among college students." She said she was surprised that it is not just young women who engage in drunkorexia. "Our study suggested that males are just as likely, if not more likely, to engage in these behaviors. We suspect that this is because men, in general, just tend to engage in riskier drinking behaviors than women." Drunkorexia can have significant fallout in terms mental and physical health. "Engaging in these behaviors is associated with heavier and more problematic drinking and alcohol-related consequences, such as blacking out, getting into fights, passing out, or driving under the influence," said Dr Rinker. Because the phenomenon has only been studied among college students, researchers do not know whether nonstudents are also engaging in these behaviors. Clinicians can play a role in reducing or controlling the drunkorexia phenomenon, said Dr Rinker. "They can provide information to college students that indicates that these behaviors are far less normative than they think they are and can encourage students to eat and exercise in a healthy manner." The research was supported by a grant from the University of Houston and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. 39th Annual Research Society on Alcoholism Scientific Meeting: Presented June 27, 2016. ||||| “Drunkorexia” is a colloquial term for the practice of skipping meals or exercising heavily before consuming alcohol. The trend isn’t new for college students, with the word “drunkorexia” appearing in news headlines -- and alarming parents -- for a few years now. But a new study, presented this week at the Research Society on Alcoholism’s annual meeting, suggests the behavior may be more common than previously thought, and is an issue for male and female students. Eight out of 10 college students who participated in the study said they had recently engaged in at least one behavior related to drunkorexia. "College students appear to engage in these behaviors to increase alcohol effects or reduce alcohol-related calories by engaging in bulimic-type or diet/exercising/calorie-restricted eating behaviors," Dipali Rinker, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Houston and author of the study, said in a statement. "Our information examines the association between these different types of drunkorexic behaviors and other predictors of problem drinking among college students, such as gender differences." Rinker’s study was based on a survey that included responses from 1,184 college students, most of them from the University of Houston, who had drunk heavily at least once in the past 30 days. More than 80 percent of the students said they had engaged in at least one behavior in the last three months that Rinker considered to be related to drunkorexia. The behaviors included inducing vomiting, consuming laxatives or diuretics, or not eating anything before drinking. “Long term, it’s not a good idea to skip nutritious meals in order to consume more calories from alcohol,” Aaron White, the program director of college and underage drinking prevention at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, said. “Then there are the short-term consequences. Having food in your stomach reduces peak blood alcohol levels about a third, so if you flip that, your peak level is significantly higher, increasing risk of blackouts, injuries and poor decisions. The consequences are worse than the consequences of not saving the calories.” It's often students who drink heavily that engage in the behaviors, White added. "We're not talking about someone concerned about a 150-calorie glass of wine," he said. "We're talking about someone who is concerned about 1,000 calories from binge drinking, and that's the person you just don't want skipping meals." Rinker found that students who lived in fraternity and sorority houses were the most likely to report engaging in the behavior, followed by those living in residence halls. Women were more likely to engage in the bulimic-type behaviors than men, according to the study, but both genders were equally likely to engage in some kind of drunkorexic behavior, such as skipping meals. The new study aimed to expand the definition of drunkorexia, Rinker said, which may explain why earlier research had suggested fewer students engaged in the behavior. Other studies had also suggested there was a sharper gender divide. A 2009 study found that 50 percent of college women reported restricting food intake before drinking, more than 1.5 times the share of men who reported the behavior. Research also suggests that men and women often have different motivations for engaging in the behavior. A 2014 study, published in the Journal of American College Health, concluded that “women were significantly more likely than men to restrict what they ate prior to alcohol consumption,” and that “this was driven by women’s greater desire to control their weight.” Nearly 60 percent of female college students responding to a 2012 survey who reported drinking alcohol said they had also engaged in self-induced vomiting. The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders states that 72 percent of women who say they abuse alcohol also suffer from an eating disorder. In 2011, researchers at the University of Missouri at Columbia found that 16 percent of college students responding to a survey reported restricting calories to “save them” for drinking. Women were three times as likely to report engaging in the behavior than men. Male students, on the other hand, were more likely to engage in the behavior to save money for purchasing alcohol. A study from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism found that 20 percent of incoming female freshmen responding to a survey said they had engaged in drunkorexic behavior in the last two weeks. Most of them said they did it not for dieting or cost-saving reasons, however. Instead, they skipped meals because they knew they could get more intoxicated more quickly on an empty stomach. “We are now aware that this is happening, but there’s still a lot that we just don’t know,” White, of the NIAAA, said. “For instance, how do we prevent it? Students doing this to save calories are different than students doing this to save money or students who are doing it to get as drunk as possible. There’s a lot left to untangle here about what exactly is happening.”

– The term "drunkorexia" has been used for several years to describe a particularly risky type of behavior on college campuses—students skip meals or exercise intensely before drinking, or deliberately purge during or afterward. Generally, the idea is to cut down on calories consumed or to increase the buzz, and sometimes a little of both. A new study, however, suggests that the practice is far more common that thought, reports Inside Higher Ed. The University of Houston survey rounded up nearly 1,200 students who had at least one bout of heavy drinking in the previous month and found that eight in 10 had engaged in at least one behavior linked to drunkorexia, including inducing vomiting, consuming laxatives, or skipping food entirely before drinking. The other surprise to lead researcher Dr. Dipali Rinker: This wasn't a phenomenon exclusive to female students. "Our study suggested that males are just as likely, if not more likely, to engage in these behaviors," she tells Medscape. "We suspect that this is because men, in general, just tend to engage in riskier drinking behaviors than women." Rinker presented her findings at the Research Society on Alcoholism's annual meeting in New Orleans, and another researcher's paper shows that the issue isn't confined to America. An Australian study of female college students found that nearly 60% used drunkorexia behavior. “It’s a new phenomenon ­involving disordered eating purely for the sole purpose of saving calories for alcohol,” says researcher Alissa Knight of the University of South Australia. (These are the heaviest drinking cities in America.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.A new and troubling trend in which youth deliberately do not eat and then go on to drink alcohol in excess appears to be sweeping US college campuses, new research suggests. Known as "drunkorexia," the practice refers to a combination of diet-related behaviors, such as food restriction, excessive exercise, or binge eating and purging, with alcohol use, lead investigator Dipali V. Rinker, PhD, research assistant professor, University of Houston, in Texas, told Medscape Medical News. Dr Rinker's research showed that 8 of 10 college students, many of whom were men, recently engaged in at least one behavior related to drunkorexia. The aim of the practice, said Dr Rinker, seems to be to get drunker or get drunk faster. This may involve induced vomiting, the consumption of laxatives or diuretics, or not eating at all before drinking. Dr Rinker presented the findings at the 39th Annual Research Society on Alcoholism Scientific Meeting in New Orleans. The study included 1184 college students from the University of Houston and from a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace. All participants completed a Web-based survey. They had to have engaged in at least one episode of heavy drinking in the past 30 days. An episode of heavy drinking was defined as having four or more drinks in one sitting for women and five or more drinks in one sitting for men. The mean age of participants was 22.3 years. Almost 60% were women, and almost two thirds (63.3%) were white. Results showed that 81% of the sample reported engaging in at least one drunkorexia behavior once in the past 3 months. The analysis also showed that young people living in fraternity or sorority houses were the most likely to engage in negative behaviors surrounding alcohol use. The next most likely group were those living in residence halls, followed by those living off campus, and, finally, those living at home. Living away from family for the first time and feeling intense stress at school may be contributing factors, said Dr Rinker. But there are other driving forces. "Our data suggest that college students are more likely to engage in these specific compensatory behaviors if they are athletes, are already heavy drinkers, are coping with negative emotions, are engaging in disordered eating practices already, and, most importantly, because they perceive it to be a highly normative behavior among college students." She said she was surprised that it is not just young women who engage in drunkorexia. "Our study suggested that males are just as likely, if not more likely, to engage in these behaviors. We suspect that this is because men, in general, just tend to engage in riskier drinking behaviors than women." Drunkorexia can have significant fallout in terms mental and physical health. "Engaging in these behaviors is associated with heavier and more problematic drinking and alcohol-related consequences, such as blacking out, getting into fights, passing out, or driving under the influence," said Dr Rinker. Because the phenomenon has only been studied among college students, researchers do not know whether nonstudents are also engaging in these behaviors. Clinicians can play a role in reducing or controlling the drunkorexia phenomenon, said Dr Rinker. "They can provide information to college students that indicates that these behaviors are far less normative than they think they are and can encourage students to eat and exercise in a healthy manner." The research was supported by a grant from the University of Houston and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. 39th Annual Research Society on Alcoholism Scientific Meeting: Presented June 27, 2016. ||||| “Drunkorexia” is a colloquial term for the practice of skipping meals or exercising heavily before consuming alcohol. The trend isn’t new for college students, with the word “drunkorexia” appearing in news headlines -- and alarming parents -- for a few years now. But a new study, presented this week at the Research Society on Alcoholism’s annual meeting, suggests the behavior may be more common than previously thought, and is an issue for male and female students. Eight out of 10 college students who participated in the study said they had recently engaged in at least one behavior related to drunkorexia. "College students appear to engage in these behaviors to increase alcohol effects or reduce alcohol-related calories by engaging in bulimic-type or diet/exercising/calorie-restricted eating behaviors," Dipali Rinker, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Houston and author of the study, said in a statement. "Our information examines the association between these different types of drunkorexic behaviors and other predictors of problem drinking among college students, such as gender differences." Rinker’s study was based on a survey that included responses from 1,184 college students, most of them from the University of Houston, who had drunk heavily at least once in the past 30 days. More than 80 percent of the students said they had engaged in at least one behavior in the last three months that Rinker considered to be related to drunkorexia. The behaviors included inducing vomiting, consuming laxatives or diuretics, or not eating anything before drinking. “Long term, it’s not a good idea to skip nutritious meals in order to consume more calories from alcohol,” Aaron White, the program director of college and underage drinking prevention at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, said. “Then there are the short-term consequences. Having food in your stomach reduces peak blood alcohol levels about a third, so if you flip that, your peak level is significantly higher, increasing risk of blackouts, injuries and poor decisions. The consequences are worse than the consequences of not saving the calories.” It's often students who drink heavily that engage in the behaviors, White added. "We're not talking about someone concerned about a 150-calorie glass of wine," he said. "We're talking about someone who is concerned about 1,000 calories from binge drinking, and that's the person you just don't want skipping meals." Rinker found that students who lived in fraternity and sorority houses were the most likely to report engaging in the behavior, followed by those living in residence halls. Women were more likely to engage in the bulimic-type behaviors than men, according to the study, but both genders were equally likely to engage in some kind of drunkorexic behavior, such as skipping meals. The new study aimed to expand the definition of drunkorexia, Rinker said, which may explain why earlier research had suggested fewer students engaged in the behavior. Other studies had also suggested there was a sharper gender divide. A 2009 study found that 50 percent of college women reported restricting food intake before drinking, more than 1.5 times the share of men who reported the behavior. Research also suggests that men and women often have different motivations for engaging in the behavior. A 2014 study, published in the Journal of American College Health, concluded that “women were significantly more likely than men to restrict what they ate prior to alcohol consumption,” and that “this was driven by women’s greater desire to control their weight.” Nearly 60 percent of female college students responding to a 2012 survey who reported drinking alcohol said they had also engaged in self-induced vomiting. The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders states that 72 percent of women who say they abuse alcohol also suffer from an eating disorder. In 2011, researchers at the University of Missouri at Columbia found that 16 percent of college students responding to a survey reported restricting calories to “save them” for drinking. Women were three times as likely to report engaging in the behavior than men. Male students, on the other hand, were more likely to engage in the behavior to save money for purchasing alcohol. A study from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism found that 20 percent of incoming female freshmen responding to a survey said they had engaged in drunkorexic behavior in the last two weeks. Most of them said they did it not for dieting or cost-saving reasons, however. Instead, they skipped meals because they knew they could get more intoxicated more quickly on an empty stomach. “We are now aware that this is happening, but there’s still a lot that we just don’t know,” White, of the NIAAA, said. “For instance, how do we prevent it? Students doing this to save calories are different than students doing this to save money or students who are doing it to get as drunk as possible. There’s a lot left to untangle here about what exactly is happening.”

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The governor has called on creditors to postpone bond payments and restructure the U.S. territory's $72 billion in public debt as the government closes out its fiscal year Tuesday amid growing uncertainty about the island's economy. The U.S. and Puerto Rico flags wave in front of the governor’s mansion in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 29, 2015. International economists released a critical report on Puerto Rico's economy... (Associated Press) A woman walks in front of a closed down bank in the neighborhood of Rio Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 29, 2015. The bills on the closed bank doors read in Spanish "No to the value added... (Associated Press) A man in a local bar watches Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla on television delivering an address on the state of the island's finances, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 29, 2015.... (Associated Press) A man drinks a beer in a local bar as he watches Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla on television delivering an address on the state of the island's finances, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday,... (Associated Press) FILE- In this April 30, 2015, file photo, Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla delivers his budget address for the next fiscal year at the Capitol building in San Juan. Puerto Rico's governor believes... (Associated Press) A man plays his guitar while he begs for money in front of a closed down business in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 29, 2015. International economists released a critical report on Puerto Rico's... (Associated Press) A man stands in front of a jewelry store in the neighborhood of Rio Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 29, 2015. The jewelry itself is surrounded by closed down businesses. International economists... (Associated Press) Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said Monday night that he will start meeting this week with legislators of all political parties as well as religious leaders and business owners to talk about how best to solve the financial crisis, which has drawn comparisons to the debt crunch that has hit Greece. "I will ask everyone for sacrifices," Garcia said in a televised address without providing details. "If we don't assume that responsibility today, we risk not having solutions within reach or, even worse, losing control over them, giving the power of decision to others." Garcia said he wants a debt repayment moratorium of several years although he didn't give a precise time frame. Bondholders have yet to comment, and it's unknown what options Puerto Rico will have if they reject the proposal. The island's government cannot file for bankruptcy under current U.S. rules, nor can its public agencies. Garcia's administration has pushing for the right of Puerto Rico's public agencies to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 9, and the White House urged Congress on Monday to consider changing the law to allow for that. The White House, however, said no one was contemplating a federal bailout of Puerto Rico. Garcia's team has until Aug. 30 to develop an economic and financial reform plan, which would require approval by the territory's legislature. Legislators are currently debating a $9.8 billion government budget that calls for $674 million in cuts and sets aside $1.5 billion to help pay down the debt. The budget has to be approved by Tuesday. Garcia went on TV just hours after international economists hired by his administration released a report painting a grim picture of the government's financial bind and of Puerto Rico's economy, which has been in recession for nearly nine years. Their report said structural reforms, fiscal adjustment and debt restructuring is needed quickly. "Unless a comprehensive approach is taken, the inevitable will happen and be far more damaging to the people of Puerto Rico," warned Anne Krueger, a former World Bank chief economist who worked on the report and presented the findings to dozens of government officials. The economists praised Garcia's administration for taking action on higher taxes, pension reforms, spending cuts and freezes, but they also said revenue projections systematically exceed collections. They added that government policy failures have hurt Puerto Rico's economy. "Growth has not just been low, but output has actually been contracting for almost a decade now, which is remarkable for an economy suffering neither civil strife nor overt financial crisis," the report said. Some opposition legislators remain resistant to Garcia's plan, accusing him of not including them in the debate. Rep. Jose Aponte told reporters the proposed measures are futile. "It's deceased, and they're taking it to the doctor to revive it," he said of the economy. Sergio Marxuach, policy director at the Puerto Rico-based consulting group Center for the New Economy, drew parallels between the economic problems in Greece and Puerto Rico. "If we look at how the government operates, the lack of transparency of public finances, the bad quality of statistics, the massive tax evasion, the government corruption ... it's the same in Greece like in Puerto Rico," he said. "When it comes to the magnitude of the crisis, obviously Greece is at a much more complicated and deeper level ... and I hope we don't end up there." The Greek government just shuttered banks for six business days and imposed restrictions on cash withdrawals. Greece's five-year financial crisis has sparked questions about its continued membership in the 19-nation shared euro currency and the European Union. Puerto Rico's power company faces a Wednesday deadline for a roughly $400 million debt payment that it will likely default on, according to Moody's. The power company owes some $9 billion and faces a restructuring as the government continues to negotiate with creditors. Businesses and consumers are bracing for an increase in taxes aimed at generating more revenue. A new sales tax of 11.5 percent, the highest compared with any U.S. state, goes into effect Wednesday and a new services tax begins Oct. 1, to be followed by a transition to a value-added tax by April 1. ___ Associated Press writer Josh Lederman in Washington contributed to this report. ___ Danica Coto on Twitter: www.twitter.com/danicacoto ||||| The Obama administration is not considering a federal bailout of Puerto Rico to help it emerge from a crippling debt crisis, a White House spokesman said Monday. ADVERTISEMENT “There is no one in the administration or in D.C. federal government that’s contemplating a federal bailout of Puerto Rico,” press secretary Josh Earnest said. Puerto Rico’s governor declared over the weekend that the island could not repay more than $70 billion in debt, a situation that could spook financial markets at a time when Greece is also facing a severe debt crisis. Earnest said the administration is committed to working with Puerto Rican officials to resolve the crisis. The federal government’s assistance to Puerto Rico will be similar to what it offered to Detroit, Earnest said, consisting of advice from a panel of administration officials and experts. Detroit declared Chapter 9 bankruptcy in 2013, which helped it emerge from its own financial crisis. Earnest also said Congress should consider giving Puerto Rico the ability to file Chapter 9 bankruptcy to restructure its debt and allow creditors to recoup some of their investments. --This report was updated at 2:12 p.m. ||||| The declaration by Puerto Rico’s governor that the island’s $72 billion in debt is “not payable” was not only a warning to its creditors. It was also aimed at leaders in Washington, who perhaps more than anyone could determine whether Puerto Rico’s finances can be stabilized or will slide into chaos. But the federal response was relatively reserved on Monday. The White House made it clear that Puerto Rico would not receive a “federal bailout” but expressed some support for an effort to allow the island’s public corporations to use federal bankruptcy protections. As a United States commonwealth, Puerto Rico is not allowed to authorize bankruptcy, which means that impairing its debts could prove practically impossible. But the push in Congress for Chapter 9 faces stiff opposition from many Republicans, particularly conservatives, who say that allowing Puerto Rico to restructure its debts in bankruptcy would amount to a free pass for decades of fiscal mismanagement by local government officials. The debate could have significant ramifications for the 2016 presidential elections, particularly in the critical battleground state of Florida, which has a growing population of people who have left Puerto Rico. Many of these residents departed because of the declining economy but still have families there and stay engaged in local politics.

– Puerto Rico can't pay its debts, and the federal government has made it clear that it's not going to shell out $72 billion to cover them. "There is no one in the administration or in DC federal government that's contemplating a federal bailout of Puerto Rico," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said yesterday, per the Hill. But the White House says it may support allowing the island's public corporations to file for bankruptcy, reports the New York Times, which notes that Congress would have to back such a move for the US commonwealth, and that many Republicans are opposed to giving a "free pass" to officials who let the island's finances slide into such a perilous state. In a televised address yesterday, Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla called for debt restructuring and postponed payments, the AP reports. The same day, economists released a report offering a very bleak assessment of the island's economy. "Growth has not just been low, but output has actually been contracting for almost a decade now, which is remarkable for an economy suffering neither civil strife nor overt financial crisis," they wrote. Puerto Ricans can't vote in presidential elections, but the crisis could still become a major issue in 2016 because there are millions of emigrants and people of Puerto Rican descent living in the US, and their political power is rising in Florida, the Times notes.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The governor has called on creditors to postpone bond payments and restructure the U.S. territory's $72 billion in public debt as the government closes out its fiscal year Tuesday amid growing uncertainty about the island's economy. The U.S. and Puerto Rico flags wave in front of the governor’s mansion in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 29, 2015. International economists released a critical report on Puerto Rico's economy... (Associated Press) A woman walks in front of a closed down bank in the neighborhood of Rio Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 29, 2015. The bills on the closed bank doors read in Spanish "No to the value added... (Associated Press) A man in a local bar watches Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla on television delivering an address on the state of the island's finances, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 29, 2015.... (Associated Press) A man drinks a beer in a local bar as he watches Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla on television delivering an address on the state of the island's finances, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday,... (Associated Press) FILE- In this April 30, 2015, file photo, Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla delivers his budget address for the next fiscal year at the Capitol building in San Juan. Puerto Rico's governor believes... (Associated Press) A man plays his guitar while he begs for money in front of a closed down business in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 29, 2015. International economists released a critical report on Puerto Rico's... (Associated Press) A man stands in front of a jewelry store in the neighborhood of Rio Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 29, 2015. The jewelry itself is surrounded by closed down businesses. International economists... (Associated Press) Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said Monday night that he will start meeting this week with legislators of all political parties as well as religious leaders and business owners to talk about how best to solve the financial crisis, which has drawn comparisons to the debt crunch that has hit Greece. "I will ask everyone for sacrifices," Garcia said in a televised address without providing details. "If we don't assume that responsibility today, we risk not having solutions within reach or, even worse, losing control over them, giving the power of decision to others." Garcia said he wants a debt repayment moratorium of several years although he didn't give a precise time frame. Bondholders have yet to comment, and it's unknown what options Puerto Rico will have if they reject the proposal. The island's government cannot file for bankruptcy under current U.S. rules, nor can its public agencies. Garcia's administration has pushing for the right of Puerto Rico's public agencies to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 9, and the White House urged Congress on Monday to consider changing the law to allow for that. The White House, however, said no one was contemplating a federal bailout of Puerto Rico. Garcia's team has until Aug. 30 to develop an economic and financial reform plan, which would require approval by the territory's legislature. Legislators are currently debating a $9.8 billion government budget that calls for $674 million in cuts and sets aside $1.5 billion to help pay down the debt. The budget has to be approved by Tuesday. Garcia went on TV just hours after international economists hired by his administration released a report painting a grim picture of the government's financial bind and of Puerto Rico's economy, which has been in recession for nearly nine years. Their report said structural reforms, fiscal adjustment and debt restructuring is needed quickly. "Unless a comprehensive approach is taken, the inevitable will happen and be far more damaging to the people of Puerto Rico," warned Anne Krueger, a former World Bank chief economist who worked on the report and presented the findings to dozens of government officials. The economists praised Garcia's administration for taking action on higher taxes, pension reforms, spending cuts and freezes, but they also said revenue projections systematically exceed collections. They added that government policy failures have hurt Puerto Rico's economy. "Growth has not just been low, but output has actually been contracting for almost a decade now, which is remarkable for an economy suffering neither civil strife nor overt financial crisis," the report said. Some opposition legislators remain resistant to Garcia's plan, accusing him of not including them in the debate. Rep. Jose Aponte told reporters the proposed measures are futile. "It's deceased, and they're taking it to the doctor to revive it," he said of the economy. Sergio Marxuach, policy director at the Puerto Rico-based consulting group Center for the New Economy, drew parallels between the economic problems in Greece and Puerto Rico. "If we look at how the government operates, the lack of transparency of public finances, the bad quality of statistics, the massive tax evasion, the government corruption ... it's the same in Greece like in Puerto Rico," he said. "When it comes to the magnitude of the crisis, obviously Greece is at a much more complicated and deeper level ... and I hope we don't end up there." The Greek government just shuttered banks for six business days and imposed restrictions on cash withdrawals. Greece's five-year financial crisis has sparked questions about its continued membership in the 19-nation shared euro currency and the European Union. Puerto Rico's power company faces a Wednesday deadline for a roughly $400 million debt payment that it will likely default on, according to Moody's. The power company owes some $9 billion and faces a restructuring as the government continues to negotiate with creditors. Businesses and consumers are bracing for an increase in taxes aimed at generating more revenue. A new sales tax of 11.5 percent, the highest compared with any U.S. state, goes into effect Wednesday and a new services tax begins Oct. 1, to be followed by a transition to a value-added tax by April 1. ___ Associated Press writer Josh Lederman in Washington contributed to this report. ___ Danica Coto on Twitter: www.twitter.com/danicacoto ||||| The Obama administration is not considering a federal bailout of Puerto Rico to help it emerge from a crippling debt crisis, a White House spokesman said Monday. ADVERTISEMENT “There is no one in the administration or in D.C. federal government that’s contemplating a federal bailout of Puerto Rico,” press secretary Josh Earnest said. Puerto Rico’s governor declared over the weekend that the island could not repay more than $70 billion in debt, a situation that could spook financial markets at a time when Greece is also facing a severe debt crisis. Earnest said the administration is committed to working with Puerto Rican officials to resolve the crisis. The federal government’s assistance to Puerto Rico will be similar to what it offered to Detroit, Earnest said, consisting of advice from a panel of administration officials and experts. Detroit declared Chapter 9 bankruptcy in 2013, which helped it emerge from its own financial crisis. Earnest also said Congress should consider giving Puerto Rico the ability to file Chapter 9 bankruptcy to restructure its debt and allow creditors to recoup some of their investments. --This report was updated at 2:12 p.m. ||||| The declaration by Puerto Rico’s governor that the island’s $72 billion in debt is “not payable” was not only a warning to its creditors. It was also aimed at leaders in Washington, who perhaps more than anyone could determine whether Puerto Rico’s finances can be stabilized or will slide into chaos. But the federal response was relatively reserved on Monday. The White House made it clear that Puerto Rico would not receive a “federal bailout” but expressed some support for an effort to allow the island’s public corporations to use federal bankruptcy protections. As a United States commonwealth, Puerto Rico is not allowed to authorize bankruptcy, which means that impairing its debts could prove practically impossible. But the push in Congress for Chapter 9 faces stiff opposition from many Republicans, particularly conservatives, who say that allowing Puerto Rico to restructure its debts in bankruptcy would amount to a free pass for decades of fiscal mismanagement by local government officials. The debate could have significant ramifications for the 2016 presidential elections, particularly in the critical battleground state of Florida, which has a growing population of people who have left Puerto Rico. Many of these residents departed because of the declining economy but still have families there and stay engaged in local politics.

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Image copyright Getty Images One of the world's most famous gun-makers, Smith & Wesson, has nearly tripled profits for the three months to October. The firm said its net profit was $14.2m (£9.46m) for the period, compared with $5.2m for the same period last year. The US gun maker said net sales rose 32.1% to $143.2m, with its firearms division accounting for $124.9m - an increase of 15.2%. Its shares rose 4.65% on the news and have jumped 125% this year. Smith & Wesson reported higher orders for its polymer pistols ranges, as well as long guns such as bolt-action rifles. The results had beaten expectations and the company said it would raise 2016 guidance for both profits and revenue. Cash flow for the six months to October was also positive, despite a build-up in inventory ahead of the Christmas shopping season, the company said. Chief executive James Debney said that the balance sheet remained healthy. Some analysts have said the surge in gun sales across the US is due to growing crime rates together with worries over restrictions on gun ownership - particularly in the wake of mass shooting incidents. Gun ownership Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The right to bear arms in the US is enshrined in the constitution and is a key civil liberty Gun ownership in the US and the exact meaning of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms has been a heavily debated topic for years. Following the latest shooting in the US that left at least 14 people dead after gunmen attacked a community centre in San Bernardino, US President Barack Obama said the country must make it harder for potential attackers to obtain guns. Demands for tougher legislation, however, are constantly met with much anger from pro-gun civil libertarians. Analysts say the argument is complicated. "The [number one] driver of firearms sales is fear," Brian Ruttenbur, an analyst at BB&T Capital Markets, told Bloomberg. "Primarily, fear of registration restrictions, banning and things like that," he said. In addition to being a leader in firearm manufacturing and design, Smith & Wesson said it provided "training to the global military, law enforcement, and consumer markets". British conglomerate Tomkins owned Smith & Wesson from 1987 to 2001, while also owning baker Rank Hovis McDougall, earning Tomkins the sobriquet 'buns-to-guns'. Walmart - the world's largest retailer - is also the biggest seller of guns in the US. ||||| Americans are still stocking up on guns, says Smith & Wesson. The iconic gun maker posted quarterly sales of $143 million, up 32% from last year. Gun sales have been hot for several years. There is no official tally of how many guns are sold in the United States, but the FBI is on track this year to process a record number of background checks, which are a close proxy for sales. Related: The recent rise and fall of the AR-15 Smith & Wesson (SWHC)'s sales don't include the period after last week's terror attacks in San Bernardino, which left 14 dead. Gun sales often rise after high-profile shootings, especially if they're accompanied by calls for tighter restrictions on guns. Shares of Smith & Wesson have surged 116% this year, while Sturm, Ruger (RGR)'s stock has climbed 66% this year. Related: 220 million FBI gun background checks since 1998: Here's how they work

– It's been a very good year for one particular gunmaker. Smith & Wesson tripled its profits in the three months leading up to October, with net income of $14.2 million (it was $5.2 million during the same period last year), the BBC reports. Net sales have grown 32.1%, to $143.2 million, with its firearms unit adding $18.4 million to that pot. Behind the sales surge: "The [number one] driver of firearms sales is fear," a BB&T Capital Markets analyst says, noting that gun-rights proponents may be stockpiling because they're afraid of future weapons bans or restrictions. CNNMoney notes that these latest figures don't count guns sold after last week's San Bernardino shooting, noting that firearms sales often spike after such events. (Coming soon: a shopping channel for guns.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Image copyright Getty Images One of the world's most famous gun-makers, Smith & Wesson, has nearly tripled profits for the three months to October. The firm said its net profit was $14.2m (£9.46m) for the period, compared with $5.2m for the same period last year. The US gun maker said net sales rose 32.1% to $143.2m, with its firearms division accounting for $124.9m - an increase of 15.2%. Its shares rose 4.65% on the news and have jumped 125% this year. Smith & Wesson reported higher orders for its polymer pistols ranges, as well as long guns such as bolt-action rifles. The results had beaten expectations and the company said it would raise 2016 guidance for both profits and revenue. Cash flow for the six months to October was also positive, despite a build-up in inventory ahead of the Christmas shopping season, the company said. Chief executive James Debney said that the balance sheet remained healthy. Some analysts have said the surge in gun sales across the US is due to growing crime rates together with worries over restrictions on gun ownership - particularly in the wake of mass shooting incidents. Gun ownership Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The right to bear arms in the US is enshrined in the constitution and is a key civil liberty Gun ownership in the US and the exact meaning of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms has been a heavily debated topic for years. Following the latest shooting in the US that left at least 14 people dead after gunmen attacked a community centre in San Bernardino, US President Barack Obama said the country must make it harder for potential attackers to obtain guns. Demands for tougher legislation, however, are constantly met with much anger from pro-gun civil libertarians. Analysts say the argument is complicated. "The [number one] driver of firearms sales is fear," Brian Ruttenbur, an analyst at BB&T Capital Markets, told Bloomberg. "Primarily, fear of registration restrictions, banning and things like that," he said. In addition to being a leader in firearm manufacturing and design, Smith & Wesson said it provided "training to the global military, law enforcement, and consumer markets". British conglomerate Tomkins owned Smith & Wesson from 1987 to 2001, while also owning baker Rank Hovis McDougall, earning Tomkins the sobriquet 'buns-to-guns'. Walmart - the world's largest retailer - is also the biggest seller of guns in the US. ||||| Americans are still stocking up on guns, says Smith & Wesson. The iconic gun maker posted quarterly sales of $143 million, up 32% from last year. Gun sales have been hot for several years. There is no official tally of how many guns are sold in the United States, but the FBI is on track this year to process a record number of background checks, which are a close proxy for sales. Related: The recent rise and fall of the AR-15 Smith & Wesson (SWHC)'s sales don't include the period after last week's terror attacks in San Bernardino, which left 14 dead. Gun sales often rise after high-profile shootings, especially if they're accompanied by calls for tighter restrictions on guns. Shares of Smith & Wesson have surged 116% this year, while Sturm, Ruger (RGR)'s stock has climbed 66% this year. Related: 220 million FBI gun background checks since 1998: Here's how they work

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Twin brothers Ruslan and Roman Glukhoy have been sentenced to prison for the death of a father and his teenage daughter in a 2014 crash on Antelope Road that occurred as the brothers were fleeing law enforcement officers. Ruslan Glukhoy was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole, and Roman Glukhoy was sentenced to 30 years to life in state prison, according to a Placer County District Attorney’s Office news release. The 21-year-old brothers were found guilty by separate juries after a nearly two-month trial for the April 2, 2014, deaths of Jose Barriga-Tovar, 35, of Sacramento and his 14-year-old daughter, Anahi Tovar. Ruslan Glukhoy was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, as well as burglary, felony evading and special allegations that the murder occurred during the commission of a felony and involved multiple victims. Roman Glukhoy was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in the fatal crash. Never miss a local story. Sign up today for a free 30 day free trial of unlimited digital access. SUBSCRIBE NOW Barriga-Tovar was driving his daughter to a friend’s home, where she and the friend often met to take the bus to Cooley Middle School in Roseville, when the Glukhoys, in a stolen truck, struck Barriga-Tovar’s Kia. Authorities estimated the pickup reached speeds of more than 100 mph during a pursuit along Interstate 80 before exiting onto Antelope Road. The crash ended a crime spree that began in south Auburn with the Glukhoys and a friend, Yuriy Merkushev, taking off in a BMW after a car burglary. Roman was driving when the BMW crashed at a Loomis offramp, Placer County prosecutors said. The three ran away, but Merkushev was captured by Auburn police and arrested on suspicion of burglary. The Glukhoy brothers stole the pickup from a nearby home and, with Ruslan behind the wheel, they led law enforcement officers in a high-speed chase before running a red light and crashing into the Tovar vehicle. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| Twin Sacramento brothers Roman and Ruslan Glukhoy have been convicted in Placer County Superior Court of murder in a crash while fleeing police that killed a Sacramento father and daughter. The 21-year-old twins were found guilty by two separate juries after a two-month trial in Roseville. The fatal crash took place April 2, 2014, in Antelope. It ended a pursuit that started in South Auburn after the Glukhoys and a third man were spotted breaking into cars. They sped away when approached by two Auburn Police officers. According to the Placer County District Attorney’s Office, Roman was behind the wheel at the start, fleeing at high speeds and eventually crashing at a Loomis Interstate 80 off-ramp. The two brothers ran away and were able to steal a truck from a Loomis residence, with Ruslan taking over the driving and his brother in the back seat. The attempt to shake law enforcement ended on Antelope Road, where the stolen truck sped through a red light and slammed into the side of a car occupied by Jose Luis Tovar-Barriga, 35, and Anahi Tovar, 14, a student at Roseville’s Cooley Middle School. Both victims were pronounced dead at the scene. Supervising Deputy District Attorney David Tellman prosecuted the case. Tellman said he was pleased with the verdict of both juries and attributed the successful prosecution to the quality investigation. The Placer County Sheriff’s Department, Auburn Police Department, California Highway Patrol and the Sacramento County Crime Lab were key contributors to the prosecution. Ruslan was convicted of multiple offenses, including two counts of first-degree murder. Ruslan’s identical twin brother, Roman was convicted by a separate jury of multiple offenses, including two counts of second degree murder. Ruslan’s jury also decided that the murder occurred during the commission of a felony and that there were multiple victims. Ruslan is facing a potential sentence of life in prison without parole, while Glukhoy is facing a potential sentence of 30 years to life in state prison. The Glukhoy brothers remain in the Placer County Jail and are being held without bail. Sentencing is to take place Jan. 20 before Judge Coleen Nichols, who presided over the trial. Ruslan’s guilty verdict was on Thursday. Roman’s was Monday. ~ Gus Thomson ||||| Kimani Eli Randolph, 22, goes on trial Monday in Sacramento Superior Court on a murder charge in the brazen 2017 robbery of a Citrus Heights Rite Aid pharmacy that led to the death of 87-year-old Marilyn Stribley.

– They share the same birthday and, now, the same fate: decades behind bars. California twins Ruslan and Roman Glukhoy were on Friday sentenced for the murders of Jose Barriga-Tovar and his 14-year-old daughter, Anahi Tovar. The 35-year-old was driving his child to a friend's house on the morning of April 2, 2014, to catch the bus to school when they were struck by a stolen pickup being driven by Ruslan in Antelope, just northeast of Sacramento. It was the deadly climax of a chase that began in South Auburn, where the identical brothers and a third man were observed breaking into cars, reports the Auburn Journal. They sped away in a BMW, only to crash at an I-80 off-ramp. The brothers, then 19, next stole the truck, which Placer County officials believe they were driving as fast as 100mph before the fatal crash occurred. Ruslan Glukhoy was handed life in prison without parole; his brother got 30 years to life, reports the Sacramento Bee. In an interview with the Bee days after the crash, the men's parents spoke of the promise the boys—immigrants to America from Ukraine 13 years prior—once held as star wrestlers (Roman won a state championship). They said things began to fall apart after a 2011 car crash that led both to become dependent on prescription painkillers. In her own interview with the Bee, Anahi Corona-Tovar, wife and mother to the victims, recounted learning about the deaths while watching the morning news. (These parents lost two children in a car wreck, but are now having twins.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Twin brothers Ruslan and Roman Glukhoy have been sentenced to prison for the death of a father and his teenage daughter in a 2014 crash on Antelope Road that occurred as the brothers were fleeing law enforcement officers. Ruslan Glukhoy was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole, and Roman Glukhoy was sentenced to 30 years to life in state prison, according to a Placer County District Attorney’s Office news release. The 21-year-old brothers were found guilty by separate juries after a nearly two-month trial for the April 2, 2014, deaths of Jose Barriga-Tovar, 35, of Sacramento and his 14-year-old daughter, Anahi Tovar. Ruslan Glukhoy was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, as well as burglary, felony evading and special allegations that the murder occurred during the commission of a felony and involved multiple victims. Roman Glukhoy was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in the fatal crash. Never miss a local story. Sign up today for a free 30 day free trial of unlimited digital access. SUBSCRIBE NOW Barriga-Tovar was driving his daughter to a friend’s home, where she and the friend often met to take the bus to Cooley Middle School in Roseville, when the Glukhoys, in a stolen truck, struck Barriga-Tovar’s Kia. Authorities estimated the pickup reached speeds of more than 100 mph during a pursuit along Interstate 80 before exiting onto Antelope Road. The crash ended a crime spree that began in south Auburn with the Glukhoys and a friend, Yuriy Merkushev, taking off in a BMW after a car burglary. Roman was driving when the BMW crashed at a Loomis offramp, Placer County prosecutors said. The three ran away, but Merkushev was captured by Auburn police and arrested on suspicion of burglary. The Glukhoy brothers stole the pickup from a nearby home and, with Ruslan behind the wheel, they led law enforcement officers in a high-speed chase before running a red light and crashing into the Tovar vehicle. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| Twin Sacramento brothers Roman and Ruslan Glukhoy have been convicted in Placer County Superior Court of murder in a crash while fleeing police that killed a Sacramento father and daughter. The 21-year-old twins were found guilty by two separate juries after a two-month trial in Roseville. The fatal crash took place April 2, 2014, in Antelope. It ended a pursuit that started in South Auburn after the Glukhoys and a third man were spotted breaking into cars. They sped away when approached by two Auburn Police officers. According to the Placer County District Attorney’s Office, Roman was behind the wheel at the start, fleeing at high speeds and eventually crashing at a Loomis Interstate 80 off-ramp. The two brothers ran away and were able to steal a truck from a Loomis residence, with Ruslan taking over the driving and his brother in the back seat. The attempt to shake law enforcement ended on Antelope Road, where the stolen truck sped through a red light and slammed into the side of a car occupied by Jose Luis Tovar-Barriga, 35, and Anahi Tovar, 14, a student at Roseville’s Cooley Middle School. Both victims were pronounced dead at the scene. Supervising Deputy District Attorney David Tellman prosecuted the case. Tellman said he was pleased with the verdict of both juries and attributed the successful prosecution to the quality investigation. The Placer County Sheriff’s Department, Auburn Police Department, California Highway Patrol and the Sacramento County Crime Lab were key contributors to the prosecution. Ruslan was convicted of multiple offenses, including two counts of first-degree murder. Ruslan’s identical twin brother, Roman was convicted by a separate jury of multiple offenses, including two counts of second degree murder. Ruslan’s jury also decided that the murder occurred during the commission of a felony and that there were multiple victims. Ruslan is facing a potential sentence of life in prison without parole, while Glukhoy is facing a potential sentence of 30 years to life in state prison. The Glukhoy brothers remain in the Placer County Jail and are being held without bail. Sentencing is to take place Jan. 20 before Judge Coleen Nichols, who presided over the trial. Ruslan’s guilty verdict was on Thursday. Roman’s was Monday. ~ Gus Thomson ||||| Kimani Eli Randolph, 22, goes on trial Monday in Sacramento Superior Court on a murder charge in the brazen 2017 robbery of a Citrus Heights Rite Aid pharmacy that led to the death of 87-year-old Marilyn Stribley.

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By Kim Glovas, Rahel Solomon PHILADELHIA (CBS) – Philadelphia homicide detectives are asking for the public’s help in finding the killer of two people who were found dead last Friday in Fairmount Park. Homicide Captain James Clark says 25-year-old Shakoor Arline and 32-year-old Lisa Smith were having a sexual encounter in the back of an SUV, when someone opened the back seat door and fired, at close range, multiple times. Police said Arline was naked at the time of the shooting and Smith was partially naked. “It appears very much to be a crime of passion,” Clark said. “You’ve got nine shots fired, all of them head shots to both of the victims, so it appears to be very much a crime of passion. Both were involved with other people, so obviously that’s where our investigation is looking at right now.” Police say Arline and Smith had been romantically involved on-and-off for years and had met at a previous job. “They had outside relationships so obviously that’s where our investigation is gonna start because somebody knew that they were in the park at that time and obviously had issue with that,” said Clark. Clark says preliminary reports indicate the two were murdered between midnight Thursday and 5 a.m. Friday. The bodies weren’t found until nearly 3 p.m. that day. Police say some fingerprints were lifted from inside and outside the car. He says police have spoken to one woman who knew one of the victims. They are hoping to speak to a man who knew the other victim as well, but police say so far, there are no suspects. Arline lived with his family on the 2800 block of West Girard Avenue. Neighbors tell Eyewitness News he loved to fix cars and was known as a hard worker. “It really is a travesty,” said neighbor Henry Murray, “but I just hope and pray to God justice will be served and I think it will be in this case because he’s a good guy.” Anyone with information on the murders is urged to call the homicide division at 215-686-3334. ||||| Shakoor Arline Philadelphia police say the man and woman found dead inside an SUV in Fairmount Park were in a relationship, while also maintaining other romantic relationships.Capt. James Clark of the Homicide Unit said on Monday those relationships are the focus of the investigation."I can tell you from the crime scene that it was very much a crime of passion," Clark said.The partially-clothed bodies of Shakoor Arline, 25, of the 2800 block of W. Girard Avenue, and Lisa Smith, 32, from the 6300 block of Oakland Street, were found inside the vehicle on Friday.Investigators say the two were having a sexual encounter when someone opened the rear door of the white Toyota SUV and shot them at close range.Nine shots were fired, police say, and all of them resulted in gunshot wounds to their heads."Somebody knew they were in the park at that time and obviously had issue with that," Clark said.The shooter then fled in an unknown direction.Investigators are still awaiting autopsy results, but believe Arline and Smith were killed sometime between midnight and 5 a.m.Clark said they have talked to Arline's girlfriend so far in this case, but police still want to talk to Smith's boyfriend. Clark said the man is not a person of interest at this point, "just someone we want to talk to."Action News was there on Friday as a woman, who told police she was Arline's girlfriend, came running to the scene.Both Arline and Smith met while working together, though they no longer worked for the same employer, Clark said.Smith had several children.It was noted that the SUV had Arizona license plates. Clark said that it was Smith's vehicle, and she was originally from Arizona.Clark said both were 'upstanding individuals' and had no issues with the police.The incident was reported at 2:40 p.m. in the 800 block of Lemon Hill Drive when a maintenance crew emptying trash cans found the victims inside the rear of the vehicle.They approached the SUV because it was parked in an unusual place and a back window was broken out.Anyone with information is asked to contact the Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit at 215-686-3334/3335.

– Police are investigating a "crime of passion" in Philadelphia: the shooting of a man and woman who were having sex in the backseat of an SUV. Authorities say Shakoor Arline, 25, and Lisa Smith, 32, were naked or partially naked in Smith's vehicle in Fairmount Park when an assailant opened the SUV door and fired nine shots, each one hitting Arline or Smith in the head, sometime between midnight and 5am on Friday, per CBS Philadelphia and ABC6; their bodies were found around 3pm. The victims had been dating on-and-off for years but "both were involved with other people," homicide captain James Clark says. "Obviously that’s where our investigation is looking at right now," Clark continues. "Somebody knew that they were in the park at that time and obviously had issue with that." Clark says police have spoken to Arline's girlfriend but hope to soon speak with Smith's boyfriend. The man isn't necessarily a person of interest, "just someone we want to talk to," Clark adds; ABC6 reports Smith had several children. Police are also looking into Arline and Smith's cellphone records, shell casings from a .40 caliber handgun found at the scene, and fingerprints found on the door of the SUV, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.By Kim Glovas, Rahel Solomon PHILADELHIA (CBS) – Philadelphia homicide detectives are asking for the public’s help in finding the killer of two people who were found dead last Friday in Fairmount Park. Homicide Captain James Clark says 25-year-old Shakoor Arline and 32-year-old Lisa Smith were having a sexual encounter in the back of an SUV, when someone opened the back seat door and fired, at close range, multiple times. Police said Arline was naked at the time of the shooting and Smith was partially naked. “It appears very much to be a crime of passion,” Clark said. “You’ve got nine shots fired, all of them head shots to both of the victims, so it appears to be very much a crime of passion. Both were involved with other people, so obviously that’s where our investigation is looking at right now.” Police say Arline and Smith had been romantically involved on-and-off for years and had met at a previous job. “They had outside relationships so obviously that’s where our investigation is gonna start because somebody knew that they were in the park at that time and obviously had issue with that,” said Clark. Clark says preliminary reports indicate the two were murdered between midnight Thursday and 5 a.m. Friday. The bodies weren’t found until nearly 3 p.m. that day. Police say some fingerprints were lifted from inside and outside the car. He says police have spoken to one woman who knew one of the victims. They are hoping to speak to a man who knew the other victim as well, but police say so far, there are no suspects. Arline lived with his family on the 2800 block of West Girard Avenue. Neighbors tell Eyewitness News he loved to fix cars and was known as a hard worker. “It really is a travesty,” said neighbor Henry Murray, “but I just hope and pray to God justice will be served and I think it will be in this case because he’s a good guy.” Anyone with information on the murders is urged to call the homicide division at 215-686-3334. ||||| Shakoor Arline Philadelphia police say the man and woman found dead inside an SUV in Fairmount Park were in a relationship, while also maintaining other romantic relationships.Capt. James Clark of the Homicide Unit said on Monday those relationships are the focus of the investigation."I can tell you from the crime scene that it was very much a crime of passion," Clark said.The partially-clothed bodies of Shakoor Arline, 25, of the 2800 block of W. Girard Avenue, and Lisa Smith, 32, from the 6300 block of Oakland Street, were found inside the vehicle on Friday.Investigators say the two were having a sexual encounter when someone opened the rear door of the white Toyota SUV and shot them at close range.Nine shots were fired, police say, and all of them resulted in gunshot wounds to their heads."Somebody knew they were in the park at that time and obviously had issue with that," Clark said.The shooter then fled in an unknown direction.Investigators are still awaiting autopsy results, but believe Arline and Smith were killed sometime between midnight and 5 a.m.Clark said they have talked to Arline's girlfriend so far in this case, but police still want to talk to Smith's boyfriend. Clark said the man is not a person of interest at this point, "just someone we want to talk to."Action News was there on Friday as a woman, who told police she was Arline's girlfriend, came running to the scene.Both Arline and Smith met while working together, though they no longer worked for the same employer, Clark said.Smith had several children.It was noted that the SUV had Arizona license plates. Clark said that it was Smith's vehicle, and she was originally from Arizona.Clark said both were 'upstanding individuals' and had no issues with the police.The incident was reported at 2:40 p.m. in the 800 block of Lemon Hill Drive when a maintenance crew emptying trash cans found the victims inside the rear of the vehicle.They approached the SUV because it was parked in an unusual place and a back window was broken out.Anyone with information is asked to contact the Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit at 215-686-3334/3335.

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A junior surfing competition has attracted global attention after a podium photo showing the best female won half as much as the male champ. Zoe Steyn won ZAR4000 (AUD$400), while Rio Waida, the male winner, surfed his way to ZAR8000 (AUD$800) at the Billabong Pro Junior series in Ballito, South Africa, on the weekend. That this could be a bad look apparently did not occur to the surf comp's organisers, who posted the pic on the Ballito Pro Facebook page. Here's another look at the figures on the cheque. The post was shared thousands of times, with comments such as: "Did the girls surf a different ocean that was easier we don't know about?" "This is ridiculous. It is not 1918, it is 2018. The competition organisers should be deeply ashamed of themselves. What are we teaching our girls through this sort of archaic discrimination." Ballito Pro then attempted to handball the criticism to the World Surf League (WSL), which is the governing body of the event. It said the WSL determines all prize money, and the organisers had brought the pay disparity to the league's attention. So we asked the WSL what was going on. 'Men get double the money, because there are double the competitors' WSL Australia/Oceania Regional Manager Will Hayden-Smith told Hack the Ballito Pro photo "on first glance does look like a huge disparity". "It highlights an issue, but it's a very complicated one," he said. The WSL argument comes down to the concept of prize-money-per-surfer, which it says shows the equality of pay between male and female competitors. It works like this: say there are 10 surfers competing for a total pot of $100 in prize money. That works out to a ratio of $10-per-surfer. The winner gets $50, and the runners up get the rest. Now say there is a female competition of five surfers. At the same ratio of $10-per-surfer, the total prize money is $50. The winner gets only $25. That was the case at the Ballito Pro, the WSL said. There were twice as many male surfers as female ones: 36 compared to 18. To keep the same money-per-surfer ratio for men and women, the prize money for the female winner had to be half as much as the men. "Men get double the prize money only because there are double the competitors," Will Hayden-Smith said. The same thing happens at Australian junior surfing events. "In Australia, the prize money at a junior event is $2,500 for women and $5,000 for men. In the men's field we have 64 surfers and in the women's field we have 24." The solutions to this would be to either just scrap the ratio system that leads to female winners competing for less, or to increase the number of female surfers to match that of the men. The WSL said that neither were options right now. "The demand is simply not there," Will Hayden-Smith said. "We usually have a waiting list of about four surfers to get into the women's competition." "On the men's side we have about 30-40 on the waiting list. "If the demand was there on the women's side we would expand the draws." Would increasing prize money increase popularity? Critics have argued that one way of increasing the popularity of women's surfing could be to increase the amount of prize money. More than 10 years after the conservative organisers of Wimbledon agreed to award equal prize money to female tennis players, surfing's stance may look dated. The male-dominated sport has struggled to shed its hyper-masculine image and complaints of entrenched sexism. Top female pro surfers have said they are expected to wear bikinis instead of boardies when they compete in order to attract sponsors. Two years ago, former top 10 surfer Rebecca Woods told the ABC sponsors were ignoring female surf talent in favour of model looks. She said that after she was dropped by her sponsor, Billabong, she had to spend up to $30,000 of her savings per year to go on tour. "And you know, seeing certain girls that would rock up at events with their g-strings pulled very high up their bum and getting paid a lot of money basically just to do that," she said. "And then they lose in their first heat." 'Women's surfing has done better than other women's sports' Will acknowledged that, whatever the reason for the difference in prize money, the Ballito Pro photo circulating online could be a bad look for the sport. He said female surfers also struggled more than male surfers to get sponsored. "That's one reason we charge less entry fees," he said. "At the QS 6,000 pro surf event in Manly in March, the entry fee for the men was US$250 and for women US$150," he said. "This was just because we felt that if we charge the same entry fee that would prohibit women from competing." He said surfing had been running a women's championship tour for four decades, and had done a better job of equal pay than other sports. Two years ago, we reported that an entire women's AFL team cost less than a single average male player - most female players were earning about $5,000 a year, while the average male AFL footballer was taking home about $300,000. Will pointed out that the world's best paid female surfer, Tyler Wright, earned hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. In 2016, she earned more than the top male surfer. "We do want to note the fact we have done a lot of things right at the championship level," he said. "We do acknowledge there's room for improvement." ||||| LOS ANGELES, California/USA (Wednesday, June 27, 2018) - The World Surf League (WSL) oversees men's and women's professional surfing around the globe across multiple disciplines and development tiers. In recent years, the organization has instituted pay parity at the Championship Tour level and we are in the process of instituting across other disciplines. As we continue to steward and enhance professional surfing worldwide, our focus will be on elevating the development tiers in this area. The issue raised with regards to the Billabong Ballito Pro Junior stemmed from a pay parity execution based on original 32-man and 16-woman fields. However, withdrawals from the men's event left a 24-man field (withdrawals saw only 14 ultimately compete on the women's side) and a subsequent pay disparity between the two events. This is an important topic to us. Our sport features amazing women athletes who compete alongside their male counterparts. We are committed to providing a platform for the best surfers in the world, regardless of gender, and recognize that prizing is an important factor in creating that platform. ||||| Of course, a handful of blokes turned up to "explain" why such a discrepancy would exist in the first place. I’ll save you the time of trawling through the post yourself to discover the truth behind gender pay gaps in multimillion-dollar competition industries: it’s because no-one wants to watch women sports, sponsors get no returns from them, and women in general are rubbish. But it’s not sexism, okay? It’s business! Members of the public were quick to call out Billabong for endorsing such blatant inequality. “Does this mean women get to pay half as much for their clothes now?” asked more than a few people. The real mystery here is how no-one involved in this competition at any step of the way thought it was at all wrong or even odd to have two competition winners judged so differently despite having performed in the same conditions. Thanking people for bringing "awareness" to something that’s so blindingly obvious just shows how insidious sexism is across many industries. “The Ballito Pro maintains its stance as a pro-gender equality competition, which is evident from the ongoing development of the women’s series year-on-year,” they wrote on Facebook. “We are grateful to everyone who brought awareness to this issue and we value all the contribution, comment and participation that has prompted discussions, at the highest level, for a speedy resolution.” This week, the ABC also ran a story on a young woman doing a butcher’s apprenticeship. Sarah Wadland’s family have worked as butchers for more than 100 years but she’s the first woman in the generational line to go into the business. You’d think that would have been met with enthusiasm, but Wadland says she struggled to find support from both the men in her family and her peers. She had worked as a cashier in her grandfather’s shop, but she was forced to seek an apprenticeship elsewhere because the men in her family didn’t want her to enter the trade. Her peers said she was doing it ‘for attention’, because of course the only reason a girl would want to enter a male-dominated industry would be to somehow make a spectacle of herself. Women currently account for only 6 per cent of Australia’s butchers, and that number can hardly grow higher if invisible barriers continue to prevent their inclusion in the field. This is what all too many people don’t understand when they deny the depths to which sexism operates to keep women from succeeding in areas traditionally considered to be the realm of men. Women’s sports are "boring", so we won’t pay them as much. Women should just try harder to do "men’s jobs", but we’ll denigrate their attempts so that they feel unwelcome and unqualified. If women want equality, they should do the hard and dangerous stuff that men do but we’ll make sure to gang up on them until they quit and then say it’s just that they couldn’t hack the pace. The impact of sexism on women’s careers is about so much more than legislation and formalised pay grades. By repeatedly sending the message that certain pursuits are masculine and that women trying to involve themselves are just obnoxious interlopers, society enables the continued disadvantage of those not privileged by gender. It’s not good enough for large corporations such as Billabong to need the public to point out these obvious inequalities, nor does it reflect well on the general make-up of those institutions that discrimination like this is seen as so standard that literally no-one thinks to challenge it. ||||| Billabong and the World Surf League have faced criticism over the disparity in prize money between the male and female winners of a junior surfing tournament in South Africa. The winners – Rio Waida from Indonesia and Zoe Steyn from South Africa – were pictured on the stage with oversized cheques, but Steyn’s at 4000 rand ($400) was half that of Waida’s. The picture, which was shared by the organisers of the Ballito Pro on Twitter, immediately provoked condemnation. Meggie Palmer (@MeggiePalmer) Global #surfing brands pay girl surf champs half the prize money of the boys. When questioned, they still condone it. Serious lack of leadership from @billabong1973 @wsl @BOS @billabongwomens @SASurfing 😡 https://t.co/0OWa7aVlq9 #billabongJNR #BallitoPro pic.twitter.com/u4onDEaThe Brent Lindeque (@BrentLindeque) And for those not in the know... this is the current conversation. Same ocean. Same boards. Same amount of difficulty. Same passion. Different winnings. Like 50% difference.#GenderPayGap #BallitoPro pic.twitter.com/FPp3WRywpN Emma Alberici (@albericie) Why is the girl paid less than the boy? Again ........ merit? 😠@TheBallitoPro https://t.co/h5bZJYoM6o The event organisers and Billabong both said the World Surf League determined the prize money and they were committed to gender equality. “The Ballito Pro maintains its stance as a pro-gender equality competition, which is evident from the ongoing development of the women’s series year-on-year,” the organisers said. “Based on this commitment to equality, we are meeting with all relevant stakeholders to discuss how any potential discrepancies can be resolved. “The World Surf League is the sanctioning body for WSL-aligned surfing events such as the Ballito Pro. The WSL implements certain criteria to determine surf ratings and prize money, and we have formally requested a detailed outline of this process for future discussion.” Will Hayden-Smith, WSL’s regional manager, told the ABC in Australia that the photo of the winners “on first glance does look like a huge disparity”. The issue at stake is the size of the prize-money pot per surfer. Since the WSL came into existence in 2014, prize money for men and women has been at parity, but the men’s pot is bigger because the male field is almost double the size. The idea is that the average take-home per surfer, male or female, from each event is roughly the same. On Facebook, a post by the event organisers received more than 2,000 comments, mostly condemning the pay disparity. Surfing South Africa’s general manager, Robin De Kock, told Cape Town radio it would fight against any unfair pay practices and that it was unusual for men and women to be paid differently at the amateur level. “Women and men pay the same entry fee, so they should get the same prize money,” De Kock said. “We are not going to let this rest. It is an embarrassment to surfing.” ||||| The organisers of a surfing tournament that took place near Durban are facing backlash over a major discrepancy in the prize money for two junior surfing champs. Rio Waida from Indonesia and Zoe Steyn from South Africa each scooped the first prize in the junior male and female surfing categories. Read: How local surf champ Alfonso Peters used surfing to escape the streets But Styen, the female the winner, only received half the prize money of her male counterpart. A photo has been circulating on social media showing what has been called "blatant sexism". Billabong, sponsors of the Ballito Pro surfing event, have passed the buck to The World Surf League (WSL) who govern the event and determine prize money and rankings. The WSL, in a statement, says it has made strides in support of women's surfing. The league says it "appreciates the feedback and dialogue on this front". Also read: How the tide turned for the Hassiem brothers after their 2006 shark ordeal Surfing South Africa, the official governing body of surfing in the country, says it will fight to rectify such unjust practices at international surfing events. Surfing SA's general manager, Robin De Kock, says that young men and women earn the same prize money at their amateur competitions. We are not going to let this rest, it's an embarrassment to surfing. — Robin De Kock, General Manager at Surfing South Africa The women and men pay the same entry fee, so they should get the same prize money. — Robin De Kock, General Manager at Surfing South Africa Take a listen:

– The image is head-scratching: The two young winners of the Billabong Junior Series at the Ballito Pro, a surf competition held in South Africa, stand next to one another holding their prize checks—but the male winner's check (about $600) is for twice the amount of the female winner's. Outcry was swift, Mashable reports, with many pointing out on social media that winners Rio Waida and Zoe Steyn surfed the same waves in the same ocean and incurred the same costs for equipment, travel, nutrition, and doctors. The World Surf League, the sport's governing body, said in a statement that the discrepancy had to do with the fact that there were more competitors in the male division than the female division—which didn't go over well with some commenters, the Guardian reports, pointing out one condemnation of WSL's "condoning" the pay gap. And Surfing South Africa's general manager pointed out to Cape Talk radio show, "The women and men pay the same entry fee, so they should get the same prize money." (A WSL rep explains to ABC why the issue is "complicated" and how the prize pot works, noting that not as many women want to compete in the women's event.) The WSL also noted in its statement that it is in the process of instituting pay parity across all levels of competition. Ballito Pro organizers and Billabong also responded with a statement noting their commitment to gender equality. But at the Sydney Morning Herald, Clementine Ford says the issue comes down to sexism, sarcastically noting the reasons some men have given for the prize gap: "No one wants to watch women sportsing, sponsors get no returns from them, and women in general are rubbish."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.A junior surfing competition has attracted global attention after a podium photo showing the best female won half as much as the male champ. Zoe Steyn won ZAR4000 (AUD$400), while Rio Waida, the male winner, surfed his way to ZAR8000 (AUD$800) at the Billabong Pro Junior series in Ballito, South Africa, on the weekend. That this could be a bad look apparently did not occur to the surf comp's organisers, who posted the pic on the Ballito Pro Facebook page. Here's another look at the figures on the cheque. The post was shared thousands of times, with comments such as: "Did the girls surf a different ocean that was easier we don't know about?" "This is ridiculous. It is not 1918, it is 2018. The competition organisers should be deeply ashamed of themselves. What are we teaching our girls through this sort of archaic discrimination." Ballito Pro then attempted to handball the criticism to the World Surf League (WSL), which is the governing body of the event. It said the WSL determines all prize money, and the organisers had brought the pay disparity to the league's attention. So we asked the WSL what was going on. 'Men get double the money, because there are double the competitors' WSL Australia/Oceania Regional Manager Will Hayden-Smith told Hack the Ballito Pro photo "on first glance does look like a huge disparity". "It highlights an issue, but it's a very complicated one," he said. The WSL argument comes down to the concept of prize-money-per-surfer, which it says shows the equality of pay between male and female competitors. It works like this: say there are 10 surfers competing for a total pot of $100 in prize money. That works out to a ratio of $10-per-surfer. The winner gets $50, and the runners up get the rest. Now say there is a female competition of five surfers. At the same ratio of $10-per-surfer, the total prize money is $50. The winner gets only $25. That was the case at the Ballito Pro, the WSL said. There were twice as many male surfers as female ones: 36 compared to 18. To keep the same money-per-surfer ratio for men and women, the prize money for the female winner had to be half as much as the men. "Men get double the prize money only because there are double the competitors," Will Hayden-Smith said. The same thing happens at Australian junior surfing events. "In Australia, the prize money at a junior event is $2,500 for women and $5,000 for men. In the men's field we have 64 surfers and in the women's field we have 24." The solutions to this would be to either just scrap the ratio system that leads to female winners competing for less, or to increase the number of female surfers to match that of the men. The WSL said that neither were options right now. "The demand is simply not there," Will Hayden-Smith said. "We usually have a waiting list of about four surfers to get into the women's competition." "On the men's side we have about 30-40 on the waiting list. "If the demand was there on the women's side we would expand the draws." Would increasing prize money increase popularity? Critics have argued that one way of increasing the popularity of women's surfing could be to increase the amount of prize money. More than 10 years after the conservative organisers of Wimbledon agreed to award equal prize money to female tennis players, surfing's stance may look dated. The male-dominated sport has struggled to shed its hyper-masculine image and complaints of entrenched sexism. Top female pro surfers have said they are expected to wear bikinis instead of boardies when they compete in order to attract sponsors. Two years ago, former top 10 surfer Rebecca Woods told the ABC sponsors were ignoring female surf talent in favour of model looks. She said that after she was dropped by her sponsor, Billabong, she had to spend up to $30,000 of her savings per year to go on tour. "And you know, seeing certain girls that would rock up at events with their g-strings pulled very high up their bum and getting paid a lot of money basically just to do that," she said. "And then they lose in their first heat." 'Women's surfing has done better than other women's sports' Will acknowledged that, whatever the reason for the difference in prize money, the Ballito Pro photo circulating online could be a bad look for the sport. He said female surfers also struggled more than male surfers to get sponsored. "That's one reason we charge less entry fees," he said. "At the QS 6,000 pro surf event in Manly in March, the entry fee for the men was US$250 and for women US$150," he said. "This was just because we felt that if we charge the same entry fee that would prohibit women from competing." He said surfing had been running a women's championship tour for four decades, and had done a better job of equal pay than other sports. Two years ago, we reported that an entire women's AFL team cost less than a single average male player - most female players were earning about $5,000 a year, while the average male AFL footballer was taking home about $300,000. Will pointed out that the world's best paid female surfer, Tyler Wright, earned hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. In 2016, she earned more than the top male surfer. "We do want to note the fact we have done a lot of things right at the championship level," he said. "We do acknowledge there's room for improvement." ||||| LOS ANGELES, California/USA (Wednesday, June 27, 2018) - The World Surf League (WSL) oversees men's and women's professional surfing around the globe across multiple disciplines and development tiers. In recent years, the organization has instituted pay parity at the Championship Tour level and we are in the process of instituting across other disciplines. As we continue to steward and enhance professional surfing worldwide, our focus will be on elevating the development tiers in this area. The issue raised with regards to the Billabong Ballito Pro Junior stemmed from a pay parity execution based on original 32-man and 16-woman fields. However, withdrawals from the men's event left a 24-man field (withdrawals saw only 14 ultimately compete on the women's side) and a subsequent pay disparity between the two events. This is an important topic to us. Our sport features amazing women athletes who compete alongside their male counterparts. We are committed to providing a platform for the best surfers in the world, regardless of gender, and recognize that prizing is an important factor in creating that platform. ||||| Of course, a handful of blokes turned up to "explain" why such a discrepancy would exist in the first place. I’ll save you the time of trawling through the post yourself to discover the truth behind gender pay gaps in multimillion-dollar competition industries: it’s because no-one wants to watch women sports, sponsors get no returns from them, and women in general are rubbish. But it’s not sexism, okay? It’s business! Members of the public were quick to call out Billabong for endorsing such blatant inequality. “Does this mean women get to pay half as much for their clothes now?” asked more than a few people. The real mystery here is how no-one involved in this competition at any step of the way thought it was at all wrong or even odd to have two competition winners judged so differently despite having performed in the same conditions. Thanking people for bringing "awareness" to something that’s so blindingly obvious just shows how insidious sexism is across many industries. “The Ballito Pro maintains its stance as a pro-gender equality competition, which is evident from the ongoing development of the women’s series year-on-year,” they wrote on Facebook. “We are grateful to everyone who brought awareness to this issue and we value all the contribution, comment and participation that has prompted discussions, at the highest level, for a speedy resolution.” This week, the ABC also ran a story on a young woman doing a butcher’s apprenticeship. Sarah Wadland’s family have worked as butchers for more than 100 years but she’s the first woman in the generational line to go into the business. You’d think that would have been met with enthusiasm, but Wadland says she struggled to find support from both the men in her family and her peers. She had worked as a cashier in her grandfather’s shop, but she was forced to seek an apprenticeship elsewhere because the men in her family didn’t want her to enter the trade. Her peers said she was doing it ‘for attention’, because of course the only reason a girl would want to enter a male-dominated industry would be to somehow make a spectacle of herself. Women currently account for only 6 per cent of Australia’s butchers, and that number can hardly grow higher if invisible barriers continue to prevent their inclusion in the field. This is what all too many people don’t understand when they deny the depths to which sexism operates to keep women from succeeding in areas traditionally considered to be the realm of men. Women’s sports are "boring", so we won’t pay them as much. Women should just try harder to do "men’s jobs", but we’ll denigrate their attempts so that they feel unwelcome and unqualified. If women want equality, they should do the hard and dangerous stuff that men do but we’ll make sure to gang up on them until they quit and then say it’s just that they couldn’t hack the pace. The impact of sexism on women’s careers is about so much more than legislation and formalised pay grades. By repeatedly sending the message that certain pursuits are masculine and that women trying to involve themselves are just obnoxious interlopers, society enables the continued disadvantage of those not privileged by gender. It’s not good enough for large corporations such as Billabong to need the public to point out these obvious inequalities, nor does it reflect well on the general make-up of those institutions that discrimination like this is seen as so standard that literally no-one thinks to challenge it. ||||| Billabong and the World Surf League have faced criticism over the disparity in prize money between the male and female winners of a junior surfing tournament in South Africa. The winners – Rio Waida from Indonesia and Zoe Steyn from South Africa – were pictured on the stage with oversized cheques, but Steyn’s at 4000 rand ($400) was half that of Waida’s. The picture, which was shared by the organisers of the Ballito Pro on Twitter, immediately provoked condemnation. Meggie Palmer (@MeggiePalmer) Global #surfing brands pay girl surf champs half the prize money of the boys. When questioned, they still condone it. Serious lack of leadership from @billabong1973 @wsl @BOS @billabongwomens @SASurfing 😡 https://t.co/0OWa7aVlq9 #billabongJNR #BallitoPro pic.twitter.com/u4onDEaThe Brent Lindeque (@BrentLindeque) And for those not in the know... this is the current conversation. Same ocean. Same boards. Same amount of difficulty. Same passion. Different winnings. Like 50% difference.#GenderPayGap #BallitoPro pic.twitter.com/FPp3WRywpN Emma Alberici (@albericie) Why is the girl paid less than the boy? Again ........ merit? 😠@TheBallitoPro https://t.co/h5bZJYoM6o The event organisers and Billabong both said the World Surf League determined the prize money and they were committed to gender equality. “The Ballito Pro maintains its stance as a pro-gender equality competition, which is evident from the ongoing development of the women’s series year-on-year,” the organisers said. “Based on this commitment to equality, we are meeting with all relevant stakeholders to discuss how any potential discrepancies can be resolved. “The World Surf League is the sanctioning body for WSL-aligned surfing events such as the Ballito Pro. The WSL implements certain criteria to determine surf ratings and prize money, and we have formally requested a detailed outline of this process for future discussion.” Will Hayden-Smith, WSL’s regional manager, told the ABC in Australia that the photo of the winners “on first glance does look like a huge disparity”. The issue at stake is the size of the prize-money pot per surfer. Since the WSL came into existence in 2014, prize money for men and women has been at parity, but the men’s pot is bigger because the male field is almost double the size. The idea is that the average take-home per surfer, male or female, from each event is roughly the same. On Facebook, a post by the event organisers received more than 2,000 comments, mostly condemning the pay disparity. Surfing South Africa’s general manager, Robin De Kock, told Cape Town radio it would fight against any unfair pay practices and that it was unusual for men and women to be paid differently at the amateur level. “Women and men pay the same entry fee, so they should get the same prize money,” De Kock said. “We are not going to let this rest. It is an embarrassment to surfing.” ||||| The organisers of a surfing tournament that took place near Durban are facing backlash over a major discrepancy in the prize money for two junior surfing champs. Rio Waida from Indonesia and Zoe Steyn from South Africa each scooped the first prize in the junior male and female surfing categories. Read: How local surf champ Alfonso Peters used surfing to escape the streets But Styen, the female the winner, only received half the prize money of her male counterpart. A photo has been circulating on social media showing what has been called "blatant sexism". Billabong, sponsors of the Ballito Pro surfing event, have passed the buck to The World Surf League (WSL) who govern the event and determine prize money and rankings. The WSL, in a statement, says it has made strides in support of women's surfing. The league says it "appreciates the feedback and dialogue on this front". Also read: How the tide turned for the Hassiem brothers after their 2006 shark ordeal Surfing South Africa, the official governing body of surfing in the country, says it will fight to rectify such unjust practices at international surfing events. Surfing SA's general manager, Robin De Kock, says that young men and women earn the same prize money at their amateur competitions. We are not going to let this rest, it's an embarrassment to surfing. — Robin De Kock, General Manager at Surfing South Africa The women and men pay the same entry fee, so they should get the same prize money. — Robin De Kock, General Manager at Surfing South Africa Take a listen:

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Passaic bodega owner claims $338 million Powerball prize STAFF WRITERS The Record Photos: Powerball jackpot claimed in Passaic CHRIS PEDOTA / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Pedro Quezada at Eagle Liquors Monday. Every evening, Pedro Quezada buys a lottery ticket at Eagle Liquors in Passaic. On Monday, though, he came to cash in. Surrounded by a media gantlet and a pack of joyful neighbors, the 44-year-old immigrant from the Dominican Republic who runs a nearby bodega signed the Powerball ticket he had bought two days before —the one that hit the $338 million jackpot, the one that everyone had been buzzing about all afternoon, hoping it had gone to someone they knew. Then he called his family to give them the news. “Tell her to come here and help me count it,” he said into the phone. Moments later, his wife was on the line. “I'm a millionaire, Ines,” he said. “Did you hear?” Rarely does good news arrive in such fantastic fashion in this neighborhood, one of North Jersey’s poorest enclaves tucked in the bell curve of the Passaic River and cut off from the rest of the city by the six traffic-clogged lanes of Route 21. It’s a place where the typical household income is $26,000, half the children live in poverty, half the adults lack a high school diploma, only 10 percent own their homes. When the news did arrive — in the form of the numbers 17, 29, 31, 52, 53 and Powerball 31 — it didn’t matter that Quezada’s was a form of luck that would likely never strike here again. “It’s a blessing for the neighborhood,” said Daphne Robinson, 44, “It gives people hope that there is a blessing somewhere, for somebody.” News of the winner’s identity traveled quickly along streets where most of the pedestrians seemed to know each other. Neighbors who had waited under awnings all day for the winner’s identity — ever since the state Lottery Commission announced that morning that the lone winning ticket in the Saturday Powerball drawing was sold in the City of Passaic — now hollered to each other about the sudden good fortune of one of their own. “Hey, Charlie,” one man yelled to another outside a barbershop. “Why wasn't it you that won all that money?” The fervor continued around the Quezadas’ apartment building, one of about a dozen beige-and-brown buildings along School Street. “I'm living next to a millionaire!” a woman announced from her doorway. Quezada, a father of five who has owned the Apple Deli and Grocery on Eighth Street since 2006, seemed to be still processing the news as he fielded questions. He answered in Spanish. How was he feeling? “I’m nervous and tired.” How does it feel to be a millionaire? “I don't know, I don't have it.” What would he do with the money? “I want to help a lot of people, in whatever they need, in rent, in whatever.” Later, outside his apartment building, his wife, Ines Sanchez, said she hadn’t really grasped the idea … yet. “We never expected it, but thank God,” she said. “I couldn't believe it. I still don't.” The Quezada family was hit with their share of bad luck recently. Thieves broke into their small apartment about two years ago, stealing everything from clothes to jewelry, friends and neighbors said. About a year before that, a fire destroyed much of their bodega. “They had nothing for a while,” said longtime friend Alberto Liranzo. “Now they got enough money to buy a million bodegas.” Neighbors described the family as a quiet, tight unit. Ines would walk her children to school every day while Pedro worked days and nights. His first job in the States was at a T-shirt printing factory, said a friend who worked there with him. “Usually it's people that are already millionaires winning these things,” said neighbor Eladia Vazquez, 55. “I'm just glad it went to somebody that could use it.” The lump sum payout is $211 million, amounting to about $152 million after state and federal taxes, Lottery Executive Director Carole Hedinger said. One second-prize ticket worth $1 million was also sold in New Jersey, at a 7-Eleven in Mahwah, she said. Powerball is played in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The chance of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is about 1 in 175 million. Sunil Sethi, 51, the owner of Eagle Liquors, said lottery officials informed him when he opened at 9 a.m. that his store had sold the jackpot winner, sending a shock wave of excitement through the neighborhood. The predominantly Latino, African-American and Polish area has been on a downward trajectory for decades, residents said. The single-family homes were split into apartments long ago, and residents complain about petty crimes and sidewalk drug dealing. Recently, there have been glimmers of a better future, from the bright green artificial turf on the new baseball field behind the Vreeland Village public housing development to the big sign in front of the boarded-up Uniroyal factory building announcing that a 550-unit apartment and retail complex is coming. But such promises don’t measure up to the dreams of a better life elsewhere shared by seemingly everyone on the street. For Michel DeLillo, 51, it’s a house with a back yard where the 3-year-old grandson she is raising can play. For Daphne Robinson, it’s the promise of more available work in Atlanta. For a 27-year-old man who goes by the name Johnboy, it’s someplace not too far away, maybe on the border of a blue-collar stronghold like neighboring Garfield or Saddle Brook. “I’ve got house dreams,” he said. Perhaps it is those dreams that propel so many to Eagle Liquors, a nondescript storefront between a mini-mart and a store that sells live poultry where, once a year or so, someone will buy the $219 bottle of Louis Roederer champagne but the most popular choice is the $1 shooter of Paul Masson brandy. The cardboard “Lucky Location, play here” sign that dangles over the lottery ticket counter was provided by the lottery commission because the store “sold a winning ticket in the past,” said Judith Drucker, a commission spokeswoman. So many people stop in regularly to play the lottery that one employee, Pravin Mankodia, 67, does nothing but sell tickets six days a week, from opening until closing, and neighbors said a line forms around noon every day. “That line is too long,” said Angel Manguel, 30, who lives around the corner. “And everyone is familiar.” Elsa Ramirez, who runs the poultry store two doors down, is a regular. “I spend $50 a day on the lottery,” she said. “Last year I won $20,000, but you can see I’m still here with the chickens.” More than $41 million worth of Powerball tickets were sold in New Jersey ahead of Saturday’s drawing, Hedinger said. Eagle Liquors will receive a $10,000 commission for selling the winning ticket. Neighbors said they wouldn’t blame Quezada if he left with his winnings, but hoped he would be able to invest some of it in the community. “It’s not a neighborhood no more,” said Kasim Washington, a local community activist. “You would be a fool to stay in the ’hood with that type of money.” Douglas Frederick, 50, said he comes to Eagle Liquors twice a day to buy tickets — scratch games in the morning and Pick 3 in the afternoon. He’s won several times, usually around $100 or $300. “I wish I could win the big one,” he said. “I would still stay here. I would represent my community. We need to have it built up a little better. “I would like to open up a gym around here so that the kids could have someplace to go instead of being out here on the street.” Staff Writers Jim Norman, Michael Linhorst and Dave Sheingold contributed to this report. Email: alvarado@northjersey.com and akin@northjersey.com ||||| The winner of a $338 million Powerball jackpot told several media outlets Monday that his first priority will be helping his family. FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a Powerball form and purchased ticket are on the counter at the Jayhawk Food Mart in Lawrence, Kan. A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six... (Associated Press) Pedro Quezada, 44, entered Eagle Liquors store, where the ticket was sold, late Monday afternoon. The Passaic store owner ran Quezada's ticket through the lottery machine to validate that it was a winner as a newspaper and television outlets recorded the moment. The New Jersey Lottery confirmed that the winning ticket was validated at the store at 4:30 p.m. Monday, but officials said they didn't yet know the winner's name. Quezada told reporters in Spanish that he was "very happy" and that he intends to help his family. His wife, Ines Sanchez, told the Bergen Record that Quezada called her with the news Monday afternoon. "I still can't believe it," she said. "We never expected it but thank God." The numbers drawn Saturday were 17, 29, 31, 52, 53 and Powerball 31. A lump sum payout would be $221 million, or about $152 million after taxes. It's the fourth-largest jackpot in Powerball history. The family's apartment sits at the end of a short dead end block that abuts a highway in Passaic, 15 miles northwest of New York City. Neighbors stood out in the rain Monday night and spoke with pride that one of their own had struck it rich. Eladia Vazquez has lived across the street from Quezada's building for the past 25 years. The block has a half-dozen three-story brick apartment buildings on each side, and Vazquez says it's a neighborhood where everyone knows everyone, including what car they drive and what parking space they use. Vazquez described Quezada and his wife as "quiet and not overly talkative" but sensed that they seemed to be working all the time. "This is super for all of us on this block," she said. "They deserve it because they are hardworking people." Richard Delgado, who lives down the block from Quezada's building, said the man was "a hard worker, like all of us here. We all get up in the morning and go to work." Delgado said he got up Sunday morning and was going to take his dog for a walk when he heard the radio announce the Powerball results. "When I heard there was one winner and it was in New Jersey, I immediately went and checked my tickets," Delgado said. "I wanted to be that guy." When asked what it would be like to suddenly win such a large amount, Delgado said a person would have to set priorities. "No. 1 is your health, because if you don't have that, the rest doesn't matter," he said. "No. 2 is your family. You take care of your own and live the rest of your life in peace. That's all anyone can do." No one had won the Powerball jackpot since early February, when Dave Honeywell in Virginia bought the winning ticket and elected a cash lump sum for his $217 million jackpot. The largest Powerball jackpot ever came in at $587.5 million in November. The winning numbers were picked on two different tickets _ one by a couple in Missouri and the other by an Arizona man _ and the jackpot was split. Nebraska still holds the record for the largest Powerball jackpot won on a single ticket _ $365 million _ by eight workers at a Lincoln meatpacking plant in February 2006. Powerball is played in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The chance of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is about 1 in 175 million. ___ Associated Press writer Angela Delli Santi contributed to this report from Lawrenceville, N.J.

– Bodega owner Pedro Quezada has seen his share of hard times. The 44-year-old father of five lives with his wife and kids in Passaic, one of the poorest areas of North Jersey; years ago, a fire destroyed much of their store, and just one year later, thieves stole everything they could from the family's apartment. But now, finally, Quezada's luck has changed: On Saturday, as he did every night, he bought a Powerball ticket from Eagle Liquors—but this time, his was the winning ticket. He returned to Eagle Liquors last night to reveal himself to his excited neighbors as the winner of the $338 million jackpot. With the lump sum payment, he'll take home about $152 million after taxes, the Record reports. He also broke the news to his family: He called them only after signing the ticket, telling his wife, "I'm a millionaire, Ines. Did you hear?" Neighbors described the couple as quiet but hard-working, and expressed happiness at their good fortune. "I'm just glad it went to somebody that could use it," says one. Another calls the win "a blessing for the neighborhood," because "it gives people hope that there is a blessing somewhere, for somebody." As for what Quezada will do with the money, he says, "I want to help a lot of people, in whatever they need, in rent, in whatever." First, he'll help his family, the AP reports. In Spanish, he told reporters that he's "very happy."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Passaic bodega owner claims $338 million Powerball prize STAFF WRITERS The Record Photos: Powerball jackpot claimed in Passaic CHRIS PEDOTA / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Pedro Quezada at Eagle Liquors Monday. Every evening, Pedro Quezada buys a lottery ticket at Eagle Liquors in Passaic. On Monday, though, he came to cash in. Surrounded by a media gantlet and a pack of joyful neighbors, the 44-year-old immigrant from the Dominican Republic who runs a nearby bodega signed the Powerball ticket he had bought two days before —the one that hit the $338 million jackpot, the one that everyone had been buzzing about all afternoon, hoping it had gone to someone they knew. Then he called his family to give them the news. “Tell her to come here and help me count it,” he said into the phone. Moments later, his wife was on the line. “I'm a millionaire, Ines,” he said. “Did you hear?” Rarely does good news arrive in such fantastic fashion in this neighborhood, one of North Jersey’s poorest enclaves tucked in the bell curve of the Passaic River and cut off from the rest of the city by the six traffic-clogged lanes of Route 21. It’s a place where the typical household income is $26,000, half the children live in poverty, half the adults lack a high school diploma, only 10 percent own their homes. When the news did arrive — in the form of the numbers 17, 29, 31, 52, 53 and Powerball 31 — it didn’t matter that Quezada’s was a form of luck that would likely never strike here again. “It’s a blessing for the neighborhood,” said Daphne Robinson, 44, “It gives people hope that there is a blessing somewhere, for somebody.” News of the winner’s identity traveled quickly along streets where most of the pedestrians seemed to know each other. Neighbors who had waited under awnings all day for the winner’s identity — ever since the state Lottery Commission announced that morning that the lone winning ticket in the Saturday Powerball drawing was sold in the City of Passaic — now hollered to each other about the sudden good fortune of one of their own. “Hey, Charlie,” one man yelled to another outside a barbershop. “Why wasn't it you that won all that money?” The fervor continued around the Quezadas’ apartment building, one of about a dozen beige-and-brown buildings along School Street. “I'm living next to a millionaire!” a woman announced from her doorway. Quezada, a father of five who has owned the Apple Deli and Grocery on Eighth Street since 2006, seemed to be still processing the news as he fielded questions. He answered in Spanish. How was he feeling? “I’m nervous and tired.” How does it feel to be a millionaire? “I don't know, I don't have it.” What would he do with the money? “I want to help a lot of people, in whatever they need, in rent, in whatever.” Later, outside his apartment building, his wife, Ines Sanchez, said she hadn’t really grasped the idea … yet. “We never expected it, but thank God,” she said. “I couldn't believe it. I still don't.” The Quezada family was hit with their share of bad luck recently. Thieves broke into their small apartment about two years ago, stealing everything from clothes to jewelry, friends and neighbors said. About a year before that, a fire destroyed much of their bodega. “They had nothing for a while,” said longtime friend Alberto Liranzo. “Now they got enough money to buy a million bodegas.” Neighbors described the family as a quiet, tight unit. Ines would walk her children to school every day while Pedro worked days and nights. His first job in the States was at a T-shirt printing factory, said a friend who worked there with him. “Usually it's people that are already millionaires winning these things,” said neighbor Eladia Vazquez, 55. “I'm just glad it went to somebody that could use it.” The lump sum payout is $211 million, amounting to about $152 million after state and federal taxes, Lottery Executive Director Carole Hedinger said. One second-prize ticket worth $1 million was also sold in New Jersey, at a 7-Eleven in Mahwah, she said. Powerball is played in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The chance of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is about 1 in 175 million. Sunil Sethi, 51, the owner of Eagle Liquors, said lottery officials informed him when he opened at 9 a.m. that his store had sold the jackpot winner, sending a shock wave of excitement through the neighborhood. The predominantly Latino, African-American and Polish area has been on a downward trajectory for decades, residents said. The single-family homes were split into apartments long ago, and residents complain about petty crimes and sidewalk drug dealing. Recently, there have been glimmers of a better future, from the bright green artificial turf on the new baseball field behind the Vreeland Village public housing development to the big sign in front of the boarded-up Uniroyal factory building announcing that a 550-unit apartment and retail complex is coming. But such promises don’t measure up to the dreams of a better life elsewhere shared by seemingly everyone on the street. For Michel DeLillo, 51, it’s a house with a back yard where the 3-year-old grandson she is raising can play. For Daphne Robinson, it’s the promise of more available work in Atlanta. For a 27-year-old man who goes by the name Johnboy, it’s someplace not too far away, maybe on the border of a blue-collar stronghold like neighboring Garfield or Saddle Brook. “I’ve got house dreams,” he said. Perhaps it is those dreams that propel so many to Eagle Liquors, a nondescript storefront between a mini-mart and a store that sells live poultry where, once a year or so, someone will buy the $219 bottle of Louis Roederer champagne but the most popular choice is the $1 shooter of Paul Masson brandy. The cardboard “Lucky Location, play here” sign that dangles over the lottery ticket counter was provided by the lottery commission because the store “sold a winning ticket in the past,” said Judith Drucker, a commission spokeswoman. So many people stop in regularly to play the lottery that one employee, Pravin Mankodia, 67, does nothing but sell tickets six days a week, from opening until closing, and neighbors said a line forms around noon every day. “That line is too long,” said Angel Manguel, 30, who lives around the corner. “And everyone is familiar.” Elsa Ramirez, who runs the poultry store two doors down, is a regular. “I spend $50 a day on the lottery,” she said. “Last year I won $20,000, but you can see I’m still here with the chickens.” More than $41 million worth of Powerball tickets were sold in New Jersey ahead of Saturday’s drawing, Hedinger said. Eagle Liquors will receive a $10,000 commission for selling the winning ticket. Neighbors said they wouldn’t blame Quezada if he left with his winnings, but hoped he would be able to invest some of it in the community. “It’s not a neighborhood no more,” said Kasim Washington, a local community activist. “You would be a fool to stay in the ’hood with that type of money.” Douglas Frederick, 50, said he comes to Eagle Liquors twice a day to buy tickets — scratch games in the morning and Pick 3 in the afternoon. He’s won several times, usually around $100 or $300. “I wish I could win the big one,” he said. “I would still stay here. I would represent my community. We need to have it built up a little better. “I would like to open up a gym around here so that the kids could have someplace to go instead of being out here on the street.” Staff Writers Jim Norman, Michael Linhorst and Dave Sheingold contributed to this report. Email: alvarado@northjersey.com and akin@northjersey.com ||||| The winner of a $338 million Powerball jackpot told several media outlets Monday that his first priority will be helping his family. FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a Powerball form and purchased ticket are on the counter at the Jayhawk Food Mart in Lawrence, Kan. A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six... (Associated Press) Pedro Quezada, 44, entered Eagle Liquors store, where the ticket was sold, late Monday afternoon. The Passaic store owner ran Quezada's ticket through the lottery machine to validate that it was a winner as a newspaper and television outlets recorded the moment. The New Jersey Lottery confirmed that the winning ticket was validated at the store at 4:30 p.m. Monday, but officials said they didn't yet know the winner's name. Quezada told reporters in Spanish that he was "very happy" and that he intends to help his family. His wife, Ines Sanchez, told the Bergen Record that Quezada called her with the news Monday afternoon. "I still can't believe it," she said. "We never expected it but thank God." The numbers drawn Saturday were 17, 29, 31, 52, 53 and Powerball 31. A lump sum payout would be $221 million, or about $152 million after taxes. It's the fourth-largest jackpot in Powerball history. The family's apartment sits at the end of a short dead end block that abuts a highway in Passaic, 15 miles northwest of New York City. Neighbors stood out in the rain Monday night and spoke with pride that one of their own had struck it rich. Eladia Vazquez has lived across the street from Quezada's building for the past 25 years. The block has a half-dozen three-story brick apartment buildings on each side, and Vazquez says it's a neighborhood where everyone knows everyone, including what car they drive and what parking space they use. Vazquez described Quezada and his wife as "quiet and not overly talkative" but sensed that they seemed to be working all the time. "This is super for all of us on this block," she said. "They deserve it because they are hardworking people." Richard Delgado, who lives down the block from Quezada's building, said the man was "a hard worker, like all of us here. We all get up in the morning and go to work." Delgado said he got up Sunday morning and was going to take his dog for a walk when he heard the radio announce the Powerball results. "When I heard there was one winner and it was in New Jersey, I immediately went and checked my tickets," Delgado said. "I wanted to be that guy." When asked what it would be like to suddenly win such a large amount, Delgado said a person would have to set priorities. "No. 1 is your health, because if you don't have that, the rest doesn't matter," he said. "No. 2 is your family. You take care of your own and live the rest of your life in peace. That's all anyone can do." No one had won the Powerball jackpot since early February, when Dave Honeywell in Virginia bought the winning ticket and elected a cash lump sum for his $217 million jackpot. The largest Powerball jackpot ever came in at $587.5 million in November. The winning numbers were picked on two different tickets _ one by a couple in Missouri and the other by an Arizona man _ and the jackpot was split. Nebraska still holds the record for the largest Powerball jackpot won on a single ticket _ $365 million _ by eight workers at a Lincoln meatpacking plant in February 2006. Powerball is played in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The chance of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is about 1 in 175 million. ___ Associated Press writer Angela Delli Santi contributed to this report from Lawrenceville, N.J.

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Staff writers OAKLAND -- About 1,000 people gathered peacefully Wednesday in the amphitheater in front of City Hall and spent several hours planning for a meeting Thursday to discuss the mechanics for a general strike next week. After Tuesday night's violence, hundreds of Oakland residents appeared to have come out to help transform Occupy Oakland from a relatively disorganized, loose-knit movement to a broad-based community drive to implement a general strike. What the protesters are hoping for is the support of unions, teachers, students and workers to shut down the city next Wednesday. "I think the police brutality drew a lot of people out of the hills and into the streets," said Josh Chavanne, 29, a freelance Web designer from Oakland. "There is nothing like a little inhumanity to turn on people's humanity." At Thursday's meeting, the protesters hope to work out the logistics of the strike, which would involve taking students out of schools, shutting down businesses and mobilizing demonstrators in the city center. The Wednesday night meeting was far more organized and sophisticated than any previous Occupy Oakland activity since the movement started Oct. 10. At one point, organizers divided the crowd into small working groups of between 20 and 30 people to discuss the proposal for a general strike. After discussing concerns, they voted overwhelmingly to approve the proposal. Advertisement "The vitality of Paris in May 1968 and the Velvet Revolution in Eastern Europe came from general strikes. If we shut down the city, there is no chance (the city leaders) won't hear us," Chavanne said. Protesters said the proposed strike is the next step in the global Occupy Wall Street movement. They want to move their anger and dissatisfaction from the tent city encampment to a strike because they believe it will force government and corporate leaders to take them seriously. "This is what Occupy Oakland needed to be from the beginning,'' said Adam Groszkiewicz, a student at the College of Alameda and a representative of Save Our Schools. "This is bringing out a more serious side of people, rather than just rage for rage's sake." Wednesday's gathering was in stark contrast to the chaos of Tuesday, when the city dismantled the two-week old encampment at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, leading to clashes between hundreds of protesters and police, who used tear gas in attempts to disperse the crowd. Protesters on Wednesday night took down a chain-link fence authorities had stationed around the plaza lawn and at one point erected at least one tent. Mayor Jean Quan is taking heat for the decision to move on the encampment and the chaos that followed. On Quan's Facebook page, at least 8,900 people have commented, many negatively, on a Tuesday morning statement commending police, firefighters and public works crews who "worked over the past week to peacefully close the encampment." Many comments call for Quan's ouster, call her unfit for office and say she should be ashamed of how police acted. Quan said she did not know the raid would happen Tuesday morning, when she was on city business at the White House. "I don't do the tactical planning," she said. Plans to break up the camp began Oct. 20 after reports that campers denied access to medics called in to treat a woman who fell and needed medical attention. The tipping point, Quan said, was a news report that a man was beaten with a piece of lumber. Interim police Chief Howard Jordan was told it would take five days to arrange for backup from other police agencies. By Saturday the health and safety conditions inside the camp had "devolved," said City Administrator Deanna Santana. Officials decided to stage the raid in the early morning, when the fewest people would be at the camp. Jordan defended his officers, calling their performance "professional" during the protest. Jordan said the Oakland Police Department's protocol for nonlethal weapons allows their use in volatile situations.  He said Oakland police used bean bags and tear gas but do not use rubber bullets or wooden dowels. It is possible that other law enforcement agencies did, he said. More than a dozen agencies from across Northern California assisted Oakland police under a mutual aid agreement. Meanwhile, the National Lawyers Guild and the American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday sent a public records request to the Oakland Police Department about use of force. They are calling for a full investigation and a stop to the use of force. Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen, 24, of Daly City, was injured in Tuesday's violence, suffering a fractured skull. He was taken to Highland Hospital, where he is in critical condition. Friends say he was hit in the head by a tear-gas canister. Quan said she and Jordan are willing to meet with the protesters but must first determine who the leaders are. They confirmed six to seven injuries occurred Tuesday night. Quan said the reason the police weren't on scene Wednesday because the dynamics are different. Tuesday night, the plaza was closed and police were charged with keeping protesters out. Wednesday night, the plaza was open and people were meeting peacefully. Staff writers Angela Woodall, Thomas Peele, Rick Hurd, Matt Krupnick and Josh Richman contributed to this report. To claim personal belongings from the Occupy Oakland encampment, call 510-615-5566 ||||| More disturbing details continue to come out of last night's mayhem in Oakland, where police used tear gas and what sure looks like flash bombs and rubber bullets against protesters. Perhaps the worst so far is the story of Scott Olsen, who completed two tours of duty in Iraq, and joined the Occupy Oakland movement as a member of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War. He is now in stable but critical condition at a California hospital after being hit in the head with what witnesses say was a "police projectile." ||||| An Iraq war veteran has a fractured skull and brain swelling after allegedly being hit by a police projectile. Scott Olsen is in a "critical condition" in Highland hospital in Oakland, a hospital spokesman confirmed. Olsen, 24, suffered the head injury during protests in Oakland on Tuesday evening. More than 15 people were arrested after a crowd gathered to demonstrate against the police operation to clear two Occupy Oakland camps in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Jay Finneburgh, a photographer who was covering the protest, published pictures of Olsen lying on the ground. "This poor guy was right behind me when he was hit in the head with a police projectile. He went down hard and did not get up," Finneburgh wrote. Olsen was taken to Highland by fellow protesters. The Guardian spoke to people with Olsen at the hospital. Adele Carpenter, who knows Olsen through his involvement with anti-war groups, said she arrived at the hospital at 11pm on Tuesday night. Carpenter said she was told by a doctor at the hospital that Olsen had a skull fracture and was in a "serious but stable" condition. She said he had been sedated and was unconscious. "I'm just absolutely devastated that someone who did two tours of Iraq and came home safely is now lying in a US hospital because of the domestic police force," Carpenter said. Olsen had only moved to Oakland in July, Carpenter said. He is a member of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War, and met Carpenter through her work with the civilian soldier alliance. Keith Shannon, who served with Olsen in Iraq, arrived at the hospital after protesters contacted him through Facebook. He confirmed Olsen had a fractured skull, and said he had been told by a doctor Olsen also had brain swelling. A neurosurgeon was due to assess Olsen to determine if he needed surgery, Shannon said. "It's really hard," Shannon said. "I really wish I had gone out with him instead of staying home last night." Shannon, who is also 24, said he had seen the video footage showing Olsen lying on the floor as a police officer throws an explosive device near him. "It's terrible to go over to Iraq twice and come back injured, and then get injured by the police that are supposed to be protecting us," he said. He said Olsen had served two tours of Iraq, in 2006 and 2007. Olsen was in 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines with Shannon before leaving the military in 2010. He moved to the San Francisco area in July and works for Opswat, a software company, living with Shannon in Daly City, just south of San Francisco. Shannon said Olsen was hit in the head by a tear gas canister or smoke canister shot by a police officer. He said Olsen had a curved scar on his forehead consistent with a canister. Protesters who had accompanied Olsen to Highland hospital got in touch with Shannon through Facebook, after Olsen said he lived with someone called "Keith". Shannon said he was told Olsen was unable to say his surname. Olsen is originally from Wisconsin and some of his family were planning to fly out to California to be with him, Shannon said. Video footage published to YouTube shows Olsen lying prone in front of a line of police. Around 10 people gather around him in an apparent attempt to provide aid, before a police officer throws an explosive device into their midst, scattering the group. Footage captured after the explosion, which appears to be from a flash bang grenade, shows Olsen being carried away by a group of people. Oakland police confirmed at a press conference that they used tear gas and baton rounds, but said they did not use flash bang grenades. Police could not be immediately reached for comment.

– The police raid on Occupy Oakland last night has left one of the demonstrators in serious condition with a fractured skull. He is identified as two-time Iraq war vet Scott Olsen, 24, and he apparently got hit with some kind of police projectile, maybe a tear gas canister, reports the Oakland Tribune. Several people were hit by projectiles and overcome with gas, including members of the media, notes the Tribune. "This poor guy was right behind me when he was hit in the head with a police projectile," a photographer at the scene tells the Guardian. "He went down hard and did not get up." A friend of Olsen's at the hospital tells the newspaper, "I'm just absolutely devastated that someone who did two tours of Iraq and came home safely is now lying in a US hospital because of the domestic police force." A YouTube video of last night's unrest shows protesters carrying an injured man, apparently Olsen, from the scene. Click for more.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Staff writers OAKLAND -- About 1,000 people gathered peacefully Wednesday in the amphitheater in front of City Hall and spent several hours planning for a meeting Thursday to discuss the mechanics for a general strike next week. After Tuesday night's violence, hundreds of Oakland residents appeared to have come out to help transform Occupy Oakland from a relatively disorganized, loose-knit movement to a broad-based community drive to implement a general strike. What the protesters are hoping for is the support of unions, teachers, students and workers to shut down the city next Wednesday. "I think the police brutality drew a lot of people out of the hills and into the streets," said Josh Chavanne, 29, a freelance Web designer from Oakland. "There is nothing like a little inhumanity to turn on people's humanity." At Thursday's meeting, the protesters hope to work out the logistics of the strike, which would involve taking students out of schools, shutting down businesses and mobilizing demonstrators in the city center. The Wednesday night meeting was far more organized and sophisticated than any previous Occupy Oakland activity since the movement started Oct. 10. At one point, organizers divided the crowd into small working groups of between 20 and 30 people to discuss the proposal for a general strike. After discussing concerns, they voted overwhelmingly to approve the proposal. Advertisement "The vitality of Paris in May 1968 and the Velvet Revolution in Eastern Europe came from general strikes. If we shut down the city, there is no chance (the city leaders) won't hear us," Chavanne said. Protesters said the proposed strike is the next step in the global Occupy Wall Street movement. They want to move their anger and dissatisfaction from the tent city encampment to a strike because they believe it will force government and corporate leaders to take them seriously. "This is what Occupy Oakland needed to be from the beginning,'' said Adam Groszkiewicz, a student at the College of Alameda and a representative of Save Our Schools. "This is bringing out a more serious side of people, rather than just rage for rage's sake." Wednesday's gathering was in stark contrast to the chaos of Tuesday, when the city dismantled the two-week old encampment at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, leading to clashes between hundreds of protesters and police, who used tear gas in attempts to disperse the crowd. Protesters on Wednesday night took down a chain-link fence authorities had stationed around the plaza lawn and at one point erected at least one tent. Mayor Jean Quan is taking heat for the decision to move on the encampment and the chaos that followed. On Quan's Facebook page, at least 8,900 people have commented, many negatively, on a Tuesday morning statement commending police, firefighters and public works crews who "worked over the past week to peacefully close the encampment." Many comments call for Quan's ouster, call her unfit for office and say she should be ashamed of how police acted. Quan said she did not know the raid would happen Tuesday morning, when she was on city business at the White House. "I don't do the tactical planning," she said. Plans to break up the camp began Oct. 20 after reports that campers denied access to medics called in to treat a woman who fell and needed medical attention. The tipping point, Quan said, was a news report that a man was beaten with a piece of lumber. Interim police Chief Howard Jordan was told it would take five days to arrange for backup from other police agencies. By Saturday the health and safety conditions inside the camp had "devolved," said City Administrator Deanna Santana. Officials decided to stage the raid in the early morning, when the fewest people would be at the camp. Jordan defended his officers, calling their performance "professional" during the protest. Jordan said the Oakland Police Department's protocol for nonlethal weapons allows their use in volatile situations.  He said Oakland police used bean bags and tear gas but do not use rubber bullets or wooden dowels. It is possible that other law enforcement agencies did, he said. More than a dozen agencies from across Northern California assisted Oakland police under a mutual aid agreement. Meanwhile, the National Lawyers Guild and the American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday sent a public records request to the Oakland Police Department about use of force. They are calling for a full investigation and a stop to the use of force. Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen, 24, of Daly City, was injured in Tuesday's violence, suffering a fractured skull. He was taken to Highland Hospital, where he is in critical condition. Friends say he was hit in the head by a tear-gas canister. Quan said she and Jordan are willing to meet with the protesters but must first determine who the leaders are. They confirmed six to seven injuries occurred Tuesday night. Quan said the reason the police weren't on scene Wednesday because the dynamics are different. Tuesday night, the plaza was closed and police were charged with keeping protesters out. Wednesday night, the plaza was open and people were meeting peacefully. Staff writers Angela Woodall, Thomas Peele, Rick Hurd, Matt Krupnick and Josh Richman contributed to this report. To claim personal belongings from the Occupy Oakland encampment, call 510-615-5566 ||||| More disturbing details continue to come out of last night's mayhem in Oakland, where police used tear gas and what sure looks like flash bombs and rubber bullets against protesters. Perhaps the worst so far is the story of Scott Olsen, who completed two tours of duty in Iraq, and joined the Occupy Oakland movement as a member of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War. He is now in stable but critical condition at a California hospital after being hit in the head with what witnesses say was a "police projectile." ||||| An Iraq war veteran has a fractured skull and brain swelling after allegedly being hit by a police projectile. Scott Olsen is in a "critical condition" in Highland hospital in Oakland, a hospital spokesman confirmed. Olsen, 24, suffered the head injury during protests in Oakland on Tuesday evening. More than 15 people were arrested after a crowd gathered to demonstrate against the police operation to clear two Occupy Oakland camps in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Jay Finneburgh, a photographer who was covering the protest, published pictures of Olsen lying on the ground. "This poor guy was right behind me when he was hit in the head with a police projectile. He went down hard and did not get up," Finneburgh wrote. Olsen was taken to Highland by fellow protesters. The Guardian spoke to people with Olsen at the hospital. Adele Carpenter, who knows Olsen through his involvement with anti-war groups, said she arrived at the hospital at 11pm on Tuesday night. Carpenter said she was told by a doctor at the hospital that Olsen had a skull fracture and was in a "serious but stable" condition. She said he had been sedated and was unconscious. "I'm just absolutely devastated that someone who did two tours of Iraq and came home safely is now lying in a US hospital because of the domestic police force," Carpenter said. Olsen had only moved to Oakland in July, Carpenter said. He is a member of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War, and met Carpenter through her work with the civilian soldier alliance. Keith Shannon, who served with Olsen in Iraq, arrived at the hospital after protesters contacted him through Facebook. He confirmed Olsen had a fractured skull, and said he had been told by a doctor Olsen also had brain swelling. A neurosurgeon was due to assess Olsen to determine if he needed surgery, Shannon said. "It's really hard," Shannon said. "I really wish I had gone out with him instead of staying home last night." Shannon, who is also 24, said he had seen the video footage showing Olsen lying on the floor as a police officer throws an explosive device near him. "It's terrible to go over to Iraq twice and come back injured, and then get injured by the police that are supposed to be protecting us," he said. He said Olsen had served two tours of Iraq, in 2006 and 2007. Olsen was in 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines with Shannon before leaving the military in 2010. He moved to the San Francisco area in July and works for Opswat, a software company, living with Shannon in Daly City, just south of San Francisco. Shannon said Olsen was hit in the head by a tear gas canister or smoke canister shot by a police officer. He said Olsen had a curved scar on his forehead consistent with a canister. Protesters who had accompanied Olsen to Highland hospital got in touch with Shannon through Facebook, after Olsen said he lived with someone called "Keith". Shannon said he was told Olsen was unable to say his surname. Olsen is originally from Wisconsin and some of his family were planning to fly out to California to be with him, Shannon said. Video footage published to YouTube shows Olsen lying prone in front of a line of police. Around 10 people gather around him in an apparent attempt to provide aid, before a police officer throws an explosive device into their midst, scattering the group. Footage captured after the explosion, which appears to be from a flash bang grenade, shows Olsen being carried away by a group of people. Oakland police confirmed at a press conference that they used tear gas and baton rounds, but said they did not use flash bang grenades. Police could not be immediately reached for comment.

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British woman dies after Everest trek October is peak trekking season in Nepal A British woman has died after being taken ill while on a trekking trip in Nepal's Everest region, police say. The 49-year-old was reportedly found dead in her hotel room after complaining of breathing difficulties. Local police told the AFP news agency she had just returned from a trek to Everest base camp, at 5,364m (17,700ft) above sea level, with her daughter. The Foreign Office said it was notified of the death and was providing consular assistance to the family. Police spokesman Purushottam Silwal said the pair were on their way to Nepal's capital Kathmandu when the woman experienced trouble breathing and decided to stop for a night at a hotel in Khumjung. He suggested the death could be down to altitude sickness, which leads to headaches, fatigue and dizziness and occurs when people ascend heights too quickly. The woman's body has been airlifted to Kathmandu for a post-mortem examination, he added. October is peak trekking season in Nepal, which is home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains. ||||| AFP / Robert Kay A British woman died after returning from a trip to Everest base camp with her daughter A British woman on a trekking trip in Nepal's Everest region was found dead in her hotel room after complaining of respiratory problems, local police said Monday. The 49-year-old and her daughter were returning from a trip to Everest base camp, located at 5,364 metres (17,700 feet), when she experienced trouble breathing and stopped for a night at a hotel in Khumjung, en route to the capital Kathmandu. "She possibly died of altitude sickness," local police official, Purushottam Silwal, told AFP. "Her body was airlifted to Kathmandu for a post-mortem," Silwal said. Altitude sickness strikes when people ascend heights too quickly, as the decreased atmosphere pressure causes headaches, fatigue and dizziness. The incident follows the death of a Japanese climber last month, who slipped and fell during an ascent of Mount Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest peak. October is peak trekking season in the Himalayan nation, which is home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains. Hundreds of climbers abandoned plans to ascend Mount Everest in April this year after 16 Nepalese guides were killed in an avalanche, marking the deadliest day on the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) peak.

– After the worst-ever Mount Everest disaster killed 16 Sherpa guides earlier this year, climbing season was cut short—but even getting to base camp can be deadly. A 49-year-old British woman who was trekking in the region died in her hotel room after returning from the camp, which is 17,700 feet above sea level, the BBC reports. The woman, who was trekking with her daughter, had complained of breathing difficulties. "She possibly died of altitude sickness," a local police official tells AFP. "Her body was airlifted to Kathmandu for a post-mortem." (Before the window for climbing the mountain closed in May, two women hired a helicopter to bring them past the danger zone where an avalanche killed the Sherpas.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.British woman dies after Everest trek October is peak trekking season in Nepal A British woman has died after being taken ill while on a trekking trip in Nepal's Everest region, police say. The 49-year-old was reportedly found dead in her hotel room after complaining of breathing difficulties. Local police told the AFP news agency she had just returned from a trek to Everest base camp, at 5,364m (17,700ft) above sea level, with her daughter. The Foreign Office said it was notified of the death and was providing consular assistance to the family. Police spokesman Purushottam Silwal said the pair were on their way to Nepal's capital Kathmandu when the woman experienced trouble breathing and decided to stop for a night at a hotel in Khumjung. He suggested the death could be down to altitude sickness, which leads to headaches, fatigue and dizziness and occurs when people ascend heights too quickly. The woman's body has been airlifted to Kathmandu for a post-mortem examination, he added. October is peak trekking season in Nepal, which is home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains. ||||| AFP / Robert Kay A British woman died after returning from a trip to Everest base camp with her daughter A British woman on a trekking trip in Nepal's Everest region was found dead in her hotel room after complaining of respiratory problems, local police said Monday. The 49-year-old and her daughter were returning from a trip to Everest base camp, located at 5,364 metres (17,700 feet), when she experienced trouble breathing and stopped for a night at a hotel in Khumjung, en route to the capital Kathmandu. "She possibly died of altitude sickness," local police official, Purushottam Silwal, told AFP. "Her body was airlifted to Kathmandu for a post-mortem," Silwal said. Altitude sickness strikes when people ascend heights too quickly, as the decreased atmosphere pressure causes headaches, fatigue and dizziness. The incident follows the death of a Japanese climber last month, who slipped and fell during an ascent of Mount Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest peak. October is peak trekking season in the Himalayan nation, which is home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains. Hundreds of climbers abandoned plans to ascend Mount Everest in April this year after 16 Nepalese guides were killed in an avalanche, marking the deadliest day on the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) peak.

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New York (CNN) A veteran First Amendment lawyer says that CNN should sue the White House for revoking press access from reporter Jim Acosta. Floyd Abrams, a constitutional law expert who has appeared frequently before the Supreme Court, told CNN's Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday that CNN has a case. "I think it's a really strong lawsuit," Abrams said. "I can understand CNN being reluctant to sue because the president keeps saying CNN is the enemy of me, and CNN might have reluctance to have a lawsuit titled 'CNN vs. Donald Trump.' That said, yes, I think they should sue." Abrams said. Last Wednesday, The White House suspended the CNN chief White House correspondent hours after Acosta pressed Trump at a press conference. Acosta was forced to turn in his Secret Service "hard pass." which speeds up entry and exit from the White House. Abrams said Acosta's ouster sets a dangerous precedent. Read More ||||| The White House revoked CNN's Jim Acosta's credentials after a testy exchange with the President Donald Trump during a news conference last week. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images White House CNN sues Trump to get Jim Acosta's press pass restored The lawsuit marks a stark escalation in the president's feud with the media. CNN on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and top administration officials demanding that correspondent Jim Acosta’s access to the White House be restored, a dramatic turn in the president’s years-long battle with the press that sets up a court fight over the First Amendment. "While the suit is specific to CNN and Acosta, this could have happened to anyone," CNN said in announcing the lawsuit, which asks for a restraining order requiring that Acosta’s security credentials be returned. "If left unchallenged, the actions of the White House would create a dangerous chilling effect for any journalist who covers our elected officials." Story Continued Below The White House revoked Acosta's credentials, known as a “hard pass,” several hours after a testy exchange with the president during a news conference last week. Trump told Acosta “CNN should be ashamed” for employing him during the back-and-forth, which included a White House staffer attempting to take the microphone out of Acosta’s hand. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed last week that Acosta’s pass was revoked due to the reporter “placing his hands on a young woman,” but any contact appeared incidental. CNN is arguing in its suit that the pass was pulled as retaliation for aggressive coverage of the president. The most reliable politics newsletter. Sign up for POLITICO Playbook and get the latest news, every morning — in your inbox. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. “This severe and unprecedented punishment is the culmination of years of hostility by President Trump against CNN and Acosta based on the contents of their reporting — an unabashed attempt to censor the press and exclude reporters from the White House who challenge and dispute the President’s point of view,” read the complaint. CNN argued in the complaint that Trump and White House staff violated Acosta's First and Fifth Amendment rights, and the network said it is seeking a declaration that taking away Acosta's credentials was unconstitutional. In a lengthy statement on Tuesday, Sanders derided the suit as “more grandstanding from CNN” and said that the White House will “vigorously defend against this lawsuit.” Sanders cited dozens of hard pass holders employed by CNN and said, “Mr. Acosta is no more or less special than any other media outlet or reporter with respect to the First Amendment.” Sanders described Acosta refusing to yield the mic to the press aide and alleged, “This was not the first time this reporter has inappropriately refused to yield to other reporters.” She said, “The White House cannot run an orderly and fair press conference when a reporter acts this way, which is neither appropriate nor professional. The First Amendment is not served when a single reporter, of more than 150 present, attempts to monopolize the floor. If there is no check on this type of behavior it impedes the ability of the President, the White House staff, and members of the media to conduct business.” The statement represented a stark shift from Sanders’ previous comments on the matter, which have focused on the contact between Acosta and the press aide, and not his desire to ask additional questions. Sanders’ arguments about Acosta “placing his hands on” the aide have been widely dismissed and were further weakened when she posted what appeared to many to be an altered video of the incident, designed to make the contact look more significant than it was. Trump said Friday that Acosta’s “a very unprofessional man” and insinuated the pass was pulled because he acted irreverently in the White House. The president warned “there could be” other journalists barred next. In the suit, CNN’s lawyers wrote that “the only reasonable inference from Defendants’ conduct is that they have revoked Acosta’s credentials as a form of content- and viewpoint-based discrimination and in retaliation for Plaintiffs’ exercise of protected First Amendment activity.” CNN said in its complaint that CEO Jeff Zucker asked White House chief of staff John Kelly to reinstate Acosta's "hard pass," which allows reporters to freely enter and exit the White House compound and travel on Air Force One. Zucker told Kelly that the incident was seen internally as "part of a 'pattern of targeted harassment'" against CNN, a favorite target of Trump's in his frequent battles against the news media. White House officials told CNN and Acosta they did not intend to return his credentials, according to the complaint. The complaint also stated that administration officials had denied Acosta access to “daily passes,” effectively banning him from the White House grounds. CNN sent Acosta to cover Trump's trip to Paris over the weekend, but the reporter was told he would not be allowed to cover events held by the president, including a planned visit to an American military cemetery that was ultimately canceled. Acosta was granted press credentials by the French government, but the Secret Service still refused him access to Trump's events, according to the complaint. The White House Correspondents Association issued a statement Tuesday supporting CNN in challenging the White House. “Revoking access to the White House complex amounted to disproportionate reaction to the events of last Wednesday. We continue to urge the Administration to reverse course and fully reinstate CNN’s correspondent,” the organization said in a statement. “The President of the United States should not be in the business of arbitrarily picking the men and women who cover him.” The Radio Television Digital News Association and its Voice of the First Amendment Task Force also offered support Tuesday for CNN’s suit. RTDNA Executive Director Dan Shelley called the Trump administration’s punishment of CNN and Acosta “outrageous and unacceptable” and “an unwarranted escalation of anti-First Amendment and press freedom rancor consistently used by this president and his acolytes.” In addition to Trump, the suit named Sanders, Kelly, Deputy Chief of Staff Bill Shine and the Secret Service and its director Randolph Alles, as well as the Secret Service agent who revoked Acosta’s pass, listed as a “John Doe.” Among CNN’s lawyers is Ted Olson, the former solicitor general under George W. Bush known for his role in major Supreme Court cases, including Bush. v. Gore, following the disputed 2000 election, and the overturning of California’s ban on same-sex marriage. “The Supreme Court has held in no uncertain terms that the First Amendment protects ‘robust political debate,’ including ‘speech that is critical of those who hold public office,’” Olson said in a statement. “Mr. Acosta’s press credentials must be restored so that all members of the press know they will remain free to ask tough questions, challenge government officials, and report the business of the nation to the American people.” ||||| New York (CNN) CNN has filed a lawsuit against President Trump and several of his aides, seeking the immediate restoration of chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta's access to the White House. The lawsuit is a response to the White House's suspension of Acosta's press pass, known as a Secret Service "hard pass," last week . The suit alleges that Acosta and CNN's First and Fifth Amendment rights are being violated by the ban. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday morning. It was docketed and assigned to Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee. The judge has given the defendants an 11 a.m. Wednesday deadline to file responses to the suit. He has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. Both CNN and Acosta are plaintiffs in the lawsuit. There are six defendants: Trump, chief of staff John Kelly, press secretary Sarah Sanders, deputy chief of staff for communications Bill Shine, Secret Service director Randolph Alles, and the Secret Service officer who took Acosta's hard pass away last Wednesday. The six defendants are all named because of their roles in enforcing and announcing Acosta's suspension. "This is not a step we have taken lightly. But the White House action is unprecedented," CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker said in an internal memo to staff. Sanders responded to the suit by saying that CNN is "grandstanding" by suing. She said the administration will "vigorously defend" itself. ( Read the White House's full response here. In a statement on Tuesday morning, CNN said it is seeking a preliminary injunction so that Acosta can return to the White House right away, and a ruling from the court preventing the White House from revoking Acosta's pass in the future. "CNN filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration this morning in DC District Court," the statement read. "It demands the return of the White House credentials of CNN's Chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. The wrongful revocation of these credentials violates CNN and Acosta's First Amendment rights of freedom of the press, and their Fifth Amendment rights to due process. We have asked this court for an immediate restraining order requiring the pass be returned to Jim, and will seek permanent relief as part of this process." The White House Correspondents' Association said it "strongly supports CNN's goal of seeing their correspondent regain a US Secret Service security credential that the White House should not have taken away in the first place." CNN also asserted that other news organizations could have been targeted by the Trump administration this way, and could be in the future. "While the suit is specific to CNN and Acosta, this could have happened to anyone," the network said. "If left unchallenged, the actions of the White House would create a dangerous chilling effect for any journalist who covers our elected officials." Sanders pointed out that lots of other CNN reporters and producers have press passes. But to many journalists and press defenders, that's not the issue. Echoing the views of many journalists, the correspondents' association said the president "should not be in the business of arbitrarily picking the men and women who cover him." Trump's actions and threats fly in the face of decades of tradition and precedent. Republican and Democratic administrations alike have had a permissive approach toward press passes, erring on the side of greater access, even for obscure, partisan or fringe outlets. The ACLU, in a statement supporting CNN, said "it is un-American and unlawful for the president to expel a reporter from the WH briefing room for doing his job. It shouldn't take a lawsuit from CNN to remind the president of the First Amendment." The legal battle On CNN's side, CNN Worldwide chief counsel David Vigilante is joined by two prominent attorneys, Ted Boutrous and Theodore Olson. Both men are partners at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Last week, before he was retained by CNN, Boutrous tweeted that the action against Acosta was "angry, irrational, false, arbitrary, capricious content-based discrimination," and thus a clear violation of the First Amendment. In an interview on Tuesday morning, Boutrous said CNN tried to resolve the matter privately, but the White House was not responsive so "we really had no choice but to sue." "We didn't want to have to go to court. We wanted to just report the news," he said. "Mr. Acosta wants to report the news. CNN wants to report the news." CNN's lawsuit cites, among other precedents, a 1977 ruling in favor of Robert Sherrill, a muckraking journalist who was denied access to the White House in 1966. Eleven years later, a D.C. Court of Appeals judge ruled that the Secret Service had to establish "narrow and specific" standards for judging applicants. In practice, the key question is whether the applicant would pose a threat to the president. The code of federal regulations states that "in granting or denying a request for a security clearance made in response to an application for a White House press pass, officials of the Secret Service will be guided solely by the principle of whether the applicant presents a potential source of physical danger to the President and/or the family of the President so serious as to justify his or her exclusion from White House press privileges." There are other guidelines as well. Floyd Abrams, one of the country's most respected First Amendment lawyers, said case law specifies that before a press pass is denied, "you have to have notice, you have to have a chance to respond, and you have to have a written opinion by the White House as to what it's doing and why, so the courts can examine it." "We've had none of those things here," Abrams said. CNN's suit makes the same point. White House's shifting rationales Acosta found out about his suspension when he walked up to the northwest gate of the White House, as usual, for a live shot last Wednesday night. He was abruptly told to turn in his "hard pass," which speeds up entry and exit from the grounds. "I was just told to do it," the Secret Service officer said. Around the same time Acosta was denied entry to the White House grounds, Sanders announced the decision and claimed that he had behaved inappropriately at a presidential news conference earlier in the day. At first Sanders accused Acosta of "placing his hands" on an intern who was trying to take a microphone away from him. In reality, Acosta held onto the mic, said "pardon me, ma'am," asked a followup question, then gave up the mic. On Twitter, Sanders shared a distorted video clip of the press conference that didn't show the complete back-and-forth. The same video had been posted by an InfoWars personality two hours earlier. The White House's rationale was widely mocked and dismissed by journalists across the political spectrum. And Trump himself has cast doubt on the rationale: He said on Friday that Acosta was "not nice to that young woman," but then he said, "I don't hold him for that because it wasn't overly, you know, horrible." In Tuesday's response to the lawsuit, Sanders did not repeat her claim about Acosta "placing his hands" in the intern. Instead, she accused Acosta of being disrespectful and unprofessional. As for the argument that Acosta isn't respectful enough, that justification "is not sufficient as a matter of law," CNN's lawsuit asserts. "The content and viewpoint of CNN's and Acosta's reporting on the Trump administration—not his interaction with the staffer at the November 7 press conference—were the real reason the White House indefinitely revoked his press credentials," the suit states. Acosta is on a previously scheduled vacation this week. He declined to comment on the lawsuit. Since his pass was suspended, he has continued to do part of his job, contacting sources and filing stories, but he has been unable to attend White House events or ask questions in person -- a basic part of any White House correspondent's role. "Relevant precedent says that a journalist has a First Amendment right of access to places closed to the public but open generally to the press. That includes press rooms and news conferences," Jonathan Peters, a media law professor at the University of Georgia, told CNN last week. "In those places, if access is generally inclusive of the press, then access can't be denied arbitrarily or absent compelling reasons. And the reasons that the White House gave were wholly unconvincing and uncompelling." Last Thursday, according to the suit, Zucker wrote to Kelly and requested reinstatement of Acosta's credentials. Zucker's message said that "no complaints were raised with CNN and there was no attempt to reach anyone at CNN before taking this unlawful action." The next day, CNN sent a formal letter to the White House repeating the request and warning of a possible lawsuit. Over the weekend, Acosta reported on the president's trip to France. Ahead of Trump's planned visit to an American military cemetery, he requested and received a credential from the French government, but was denied access by the Secret Service. "It was not without irony to me that a U.S. White House correspondent who is an American citizen was denied access to a ceremony by his own government but was granted access by the government of France," CNN Washington bureau chief Sam Feist noted in a declaration attached to the lawsuit. Feist said "Jim's ability to cover a public event of historic international importance was completely blocked by the White House." A high-stakes case David McCraw, the top newsroom lawyer at The New York Times, said instances of news organizations suing a president are extremely rare. Past examples are The New York Times v. U.S., the famous Supreme Court case involving the Pentagon Papers in 1971, and CNN's 1981 case against the White House and the broadcast networks, when CNN sued to be included in the White House press pool. The backdrop to this new suit, of course, is Trump's antipathy for CNN and other news outlets. He regularly derides reporters from CNN and the network as a whole. But he also seeks out attention from CNN and other outlets. During his presidential campaign, Trump told CNN that, if elected, he would not kick reporters out of the White House. But since moving into the White House, he has mused privately about taking away credentials, CNN reported earlier this year. He brought it up publicly on Twitter in May, tweeting "take away credentials?" as a question. And he said it again on Friday, two days after blacklisting Acosta. "It could be others also," he said, suggesting he may strip press passes from other reporters. Unprompted, he then named and insulted April Ryan, a CNN analyst and veteran radio correspondent. "The revocation of Acosta's credentials is only the beginning," CNN's suit alleges. Correction: The original version of this article listed the former director of the Secret Service as a defendant; the actual defendant is the current director.

– CNN has sued the White House over last week's controversy involving reporter Jim Acosta. The White House revoked Acosta's press credentials after he rebuffed an intern who was trying to take his mic away as the reporter peppered President Trump with questions. Now the network wants a judge to intervene and restore his credentials, reports the Washington Post. The White House accused Acosta of "placing his hands" on the female intern, and Acosta accused the White House of distorting what happened. Controversy also erupted over video of the incident. “We have asked this court for an immediate restraining order requiring the pass be returned to Jim,” said a network statement. "If left unchallenged, the actions of the White House would create a dangerous chilling effect for any journalist who covers our elected officials," it added, per Politico. The development comes after renowned First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams floated the idea of a lawsuit over the weekend on CNN. "I think it's a really strong lawsuit," said Abrams. The suit names six defendants: Trump, chief of staff John Kelly, press chief Sarah Sanders, deputy chief of staff for communications Bill Shine, Secret Service director Joseph Clancy, and an unnamed Secret Service officer who took the physical pass from Acosta. (The reporter once clashed with Stephen Miller, too.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.New York (CNN) A veteran First Amendment lawyer says that CNN should sue the White House for revoking press access from reporter Jim Acosta. Floyd Abrams, a constitutional law expert who has appeared frequently before the Supreme Court, told CNN's Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday that CNN has a case. "I think it's a really strong lawsuit," Abrams said. "I can understand CNN being reluctant to sue because the president keeps saying CNN is the enemy of me, and CNN might have reluctance to have a lawsuit titled 'CNN vs. Donald Trump.' That said, yes, I think they should sue." Abrams said. Last Wednesday, The White House suspended the CNN chief White House correspondent hours after Acosta pressed Trump at a press conference. Acosta was forced to turn in his Secret Service "hard pass." which speeds up entry and exit from the White House. Abrams said Acosta's ouster sets a dangerous precedent. Read More ||||| The White House revoked CNN's Jim Acosta's credentials after a testy exchange with the President Donald Trump during a news conference last week. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images White House CNN sues Trump to get Jim Acosta's press pass restored The lawsuit marks a stark escalation in the president's feud with the media. CNN on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and top administration officials demanding that correspondent Jim Acosta’s access to the White House be restored, a dramatic turn in the president’s years-long battle with the press that sets up a court fight over the First Amendment. "While the suit is specific to CNN and Acosta, this could have happened to anyone," CNN said in announcing the lawsuit, which asks for a restraining order requiring that Acosta’s security credentials be returned. "If left unchallenged, the actions of the White House would create a dangerous chilling effect for any journalist who covers our elected officials." Story Continued Below The White House revoked Acosta's credentials, known as a “hard pass,” several hours after a testy exchange with the president during a news conference last week. Trump told Acosta “CNN should be ashamed” for employing him during the back-and-forth, which included a White House staffer attempting to take the microphone out of Acosta’s hand. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed last week that Acosta’s pass was revoked due to the reporter “placing his hands on a young woman,” but any contact appeared incidental. CNN is arguing in its suit that the pass was pulled as retaliation for aggressive coverage of the president. The most reliable politics newsletter. Sign up for POLITICO Playbook and get the latest news, every morning — in your inbox. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. “This severe and unprecedented punishment is the culmination of years of hostility by President Trump against CNN and Acosta based on the contents of their reporting — an unabashed attempt to censor the press and exclude reporters from the White House who challenge and dispute the President’s point of view,” read the complaint. CNN argued in the complaint that Trump and White House staff violated Acosta's First and Fifth Amendment rights, and the network said it is seeking a declaration that taking away Acosta's credentials was unconstitutional. In a lengthy statement on Tuesday, Sanders derided the suit as “more grandstanding from CNN” and said that the White House will “vigorously defend against this lawsuit.” Sanders cited dozens of hard pass holders employed by CNN and said, “Mr. Acosta is no more or less special than any other media outlet or reporter with respect to the First Amendment.” Sanders described Acosta refusing to yield the mic to the press aide and alleged, “This was not the first time this reporter has inappropriately refused to yield to other reporters.” She said, “The White House cannot run an orderly and fair press conference when a reporter acts this way, which is neither appropriate nor professional. The First Amendment is not served when a single reporter, of more than 150 present, attempts to monopolize the floor. If there is no check on this type of behavior it impedes the ability of the President, the White House staff, and members of the media to conduct business.” The statement represented a stark shift from Sanders’ previous comments on the matter, which have focused on the contact between Acosta and the press aide, and not his desire to ask additional questions. Sanders’ arguments about Acosta “placing his hands on” the aide have been widely dismissed and were further weakened when she posted what appeared to many to be an altered video of the incident, designed to make the contact look more significant than it was. Trump said Friday that Acosta’s “a very unprofessional man” and insinuated the pass was pulled because he acted irreverently in the White House. The president warned “there could be” other journalists barred next. In the suit, CNN’s lawyers wrote that “the only reasonable inference from Defendants’ conduct is that they have revoked Acosta’s credentials as a form of content- and viewpoint-based discrimination and in retaliation for Plaintiffs’ exercise of protected First Amendment activity.” CNN said in its complaint that CEO Jeff Zucker asked White House chief of staff John Kelly to reinstate Acosta's "hard pass," which allows reporters to freely enter and exit the White House compound and travel on Air Force One. Zucker told Kelly that the incident was seen internally as "part of a 'pattern of targeted harassment'" against CNN, a favorite target of Trump's in his frequent battles against the news media. White House officials told CNN and Acosta they did not intend to return his credentials, according to the complaint. The complaint also stated that administration officials had denied Acosta access to “daily passes,” effectively banning him from the White House grounds. CNN sent Acosta to cover Trump's trip to Paris over the weekend, but the reporter was told he would not be allowed to cover events held by the president, including a planned visit to an American military cemetery that was ultimately canceled. Acosta was granted press credentials by the French government, but the Secret Service still refused him access to Trump's events, according to the complaint. The White House Correspondents Association issued a statement Tuesday supporting CNN in challenging the White House. “Revoking access to the White House complex amounted to disproportionate reaction to the events of last Wednesday. We continue to urge the Administration to reverse course and fully reinstate CNN’s correspondent,” the organization said in a statement. “The President of the United States should not be in the business of arbitrarily picking the men and women who cover him.” The Radio Television Digital News Association and its Voice of the First Amendment Task Force also offered support Tuesday for CNN’s suit. RTDNA Executive Director Dan Shelley called the Trump administration’s punishment of CNN and Acosta “outrageous and unacceptable” and “an unwarranted escalation of anti-First Amendment and press freedom rancor consistently used by this president and his acolytes.” In addition to Trump, the suit named Sanders, Kelly, Deputy Chief of Staff Bill Shine and the Secret Service and its director Randolph Alles, as well as the Secret Service agent who revoked Acosta’s pass, listed as a “John Doe.” Among CNN’s lawyers is Ted Olson, the former solicitor general under George W. Bush known for his role in major Supreme Court cases, including Bush. v. Gore, following the disputed 2000 election, and the overturning of California’s ban on same-sex marriage. “The Supreme Court has held in no uncertain terms that the First Amendment protects ‘robust political debate,’ including ‘speech that is critical of those who hold public office,’” Olson said in a statement. “Mr. Acosta’s press credentials must be restored so that all members of the press know they will remain free to ask tough questions, challenge government officials, and report the business of the nation to the American people.” ||||| New York (CNN) CNN has filed a lawsuit against President Trump and several of his aides, seeking the immediate restoration of chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta's access to the White House. The lawsuit is a response to the White House's suspension of Acosta's press pass, known as a Secret Service "hard pass," last week . The suit alleges that Acosta and CNN's First and Fifth Amendment rights are being violated by the ban. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday morning. It was docketed and assigned to Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee. The judge has given the defendants an 11 a.m. Wednesday deadline to file responses to the suit. He has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. Both CNN and Acosta are plaintiffs in the lawsuit. There are six defendants: Trump, chief of staff John Kelly, press secretary Sarah Sanders, deputy chief of staff for communications Bill Shine, Secret Service director Randolph Alles, and the Secret Service officer who took Acosta's hard pass away last Wednesday. The six defendants are all named because of their roles in enforcing and announcing Acosta's suspension. "This is not a step we have taken lightly. But the White House action is unprecedented," CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker said in an internal memo to staff. Sanders responded to the suit by saying that CNN is "grandstanding" by suing. She said the administration will "vigorously defend" itself. ( Read the White House's full response here. In a statement on Tuesday morning, CNN said it is seeking a preliminary injunction so that Acosta can return to the White House right away, and a ruling from the court preventing the White House from revoking Acosta's pass in the future. "CNN filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration this morning in DC District Court," the statement read. "It demands the return of the White House credentials of CNN's Chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. The wrongful revocation of these credentials violates CNN and Acosta's First Amendment rights of freedom of the press, and their Fifth Amendment rights to due process. We have asked this court for an immediate restraining order requiring the pass be returned to Jim, and will seek permanent relief as part of this process." The White House Correspondents' Association said it "strongly supports CNN's goal of seeing their correspondent regain a US Secret Service security credential that the White House should not have taken away in the first place." CNN also asserted that other news organizations could have been targeted by the Trump administration this way, and could be in the future. "While the suit is specific to CNN and Acosta, this could have happened to anyone," the network said. "If left unchallenged, the actions of the White House would create a dangerous chilling effect for any journalist who covers our elected officials." Sanders pointed out that lots of other CNN reporters and producers have press passes. But to many journalists and press defenders, that's not the issue. Echoing the views of many journalists, the correspondents' association said the president "should not be in the business of arbitrarily picking the men and women who cover him." Trump's actions and threats fly in the face of decades of tradition and precedent. Republican and Democratic administrations alike have had a permissive approach toward press passes, erring on the side of greater access, even for obscure, partisan or fringe outlets. The ACLU, in a statement supporting CNN, said "it is un-American and unlawful for the president to expel a reporter from the WH briefing room for doing his job. It shouldn't take a lawsuit from CNN to remind the president of the First Amendment." The legal battle On CNN's side, CNN Worldwide chief counsel David Vigilante is joined by two prominent attorneys, Ted Boutrous and Theodore Olson. Both men are partners at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Last week, before he was retained by CNN, Boutrous tweeted that the action against Acosta was "angry, irrational, false, arbitrary, capricious content-based discrimination," and thus a clear violation of the First Amendment. In an interview on Tuesday morning, Boutrous said CNN tried to resolve the matter privately, but the White House was not responsive so "we really had no choice but to sue." "We didn't want to have to go to court. We wanted to just report the news," he said. "Mr. Acosta wants to report the news. CNN wants to report the news." CNN's lawsuit cites, among other precedents, a 1977 ruling in favor of Robert Sherrill, a muckraking journalist who was denied access to the White House in 1966. Eleven years later, a D.C. Court of Appeals judge ruled that the Secret Service had to establish "narrow and specific" standards for judging applicants. In practice, the key question is whether the applicant would pose a threat to the president. The code of federal regulations states that "in granting or denying a request for a security clearance made in response to an application for a White House press pass, officials of the Secret Service will be guided solely by the principle of whether the applicant presents a potential source of physical danger to the President and/or the family of the President so serious as to justify his or her exclusion from White House press privileges." There are other guidelines as well. Floyd Abrams, one of the country's most respected First Amendment lawyers, said case law specifies that before a press pass is denied, "you have to have notice, you have to have a chance to respond, and you have to have a written opinion by the White House as to what it's doing and why, so the courts can examine it." "We've had none of those things here," Abrams said. CNN's suit makes the same point. White House's shifting rationales Acosta found out about his suspension when he walked up to the northwest gate of the White House, as usual, for a live shot last Wednesday night. He was abruptly told to turn in his "hard pass," which speeds up entry and exit from the grounds. "I was just told to do it," the Secret Service officer said. Around the same time Acosta was denied entry to the White House grounds, Sanders announced the decision and claimed that he had behaved inappropriately at a presidential news conference earlier in the day. At first Sanders accused Acosta of "placing his hands" on an intern who was trying to take a microphone away from him. In reality, Acosta held onto the mic, said "pardon me, ma'am," asked a followup question, then gave up the mic. On Twitter, Sanders shared a distorted video clip of the press conference that didn't show the complete back-and-forth. The same video had been posted by an InfoWars personality two hours earlier. The White House's rationale was widely mocked and dismissed by journalists across the political spectrum. And Trump himself has cast doubt on the rationale: He said on Friday that Acosta was "not nice to that young woman," but then he said, "I don't hold him for that because it wasn't overly, you know, horrible." In Tuesday's response to the lawsuit, Sanders did not repeat her claim about Acosta "placing his hands" in the intern. Instead, she accused Acosta of being disrespectful and unprofessional. As for the argument that Acosta isn't respectful enough, that justification "is not sufficient as a matter of law," CNN's lawsuit asserts. "The content and viewpoint of CNN's and Acosta's reporting on the Trump administration—not his interaction with the staffer at the November 7 press conference—were the real reason the White House indefinitely revoked his press credentials," the suit states. Acosta is on a previously scheduled vacation this week. He declined to comment on the lawsuit. Since his pass was suspended, he has continued to do part of his job, contacting sources and filing stories, but he has been unable to attend White House events or ask questions in person -- a basic part of any White House correspondent's role. "Relevant precedent says that a journalist has a First Amendment right of access to places closed to the public but open generally to the press. That includes press rooms and news conferences," Jonathan Peters, a media law professor at the University of Georgia, told CNN last week. "In those places, if access is generally inclusive of the press, then access can't be denied arbitrarily or absent compelling reasons. And the reasons that the White House gave were wholly unconvincing and uncompelling." Last Thursday, according to the suit, Zucker wrote to Kelly and requested reinstatement of Acosta's credentials. Zucker's message said that "no complaints were raised with CNN and there was no attempt to reach anyone at CNN before taking this unlawful action." The next day, CNN sent a formal letter to the White House repeating the request and warning of a possible lawsuit. Over the weekend, Acosta reported on the president's trip to France. Ahead of Trump's planned visit to an American military cemetery, he requested and received a credential from the French government, but was denied access by the Secret Service. "It was not without irony to me that a U.S. White House correspondent who is an American citizen was denied access to a ceremony by his own government but was granted access by the government of France," CNN Washington bureau chief Sam Feist noted in a declaration attached to the lawsuit. Feist said "Jim's ability to cover a public event of historic international importance was completely blocked by the White House." A high-stakes case David McCraw, the top newsroom lawyer at The New York Times, said instances of news organizations suing a president are extremely rare. Past examples are The New York Times v. U.S., the famous Supreme Court case involving the Pentagon Papers in 1971, and CNN's 1981 case against the White House and the broadcast networks, when CNN sued to be included in the White House press pool. The backdrop to this new suit, of course, is Trump's antipathy for CNN and other news outlets. He regularly derides reporters from CNN and the network as a whole. But he also seeks out attention from CNN and other outlets. During his presidential campaign, Trump told CNN that, if elected, he would not kick reporters out of the White House. But since moving into the White House, he has mused privately about taking away credentials, CNN reported earlier this year. He brought it up publicly on Twitter in May, tweeting "take away credentials?" as a question. And he said it again on Friday, two days after blacklisting Acosta. "It could be others also," he said, suggesting he may strip press passes from other reporters. Unprompted, he then named and insulted April Ryan, a CNN analyst and veteran radio correspondent. "The revocation of Acosta's credentials is only the beginning," CNN's suit alleges. Correction: The original version of this article listed the former director of the Secret Service as a defendant; the actual defendant is the current director.

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Hunting and killing have driven a dramatic decline in the orangutan population on Borneo where nearly 150,000 animals have been lost from the island’s forests in 16 years, conservationists warn. Borneo orangutan found riddled with gunshots in latest attack Read more While the steepest percentage losses occurred in regions where the forest has been cut down to make way for palm oil and acacia plantations, more animals were killed by hunters who ventured into the forest, or by farm workers when the apes encroached on agricultural land, a study found. Researchers estimate that the number of orangutans left on Borneo now stands at between 70,000 and 100,000, meaning the population more than halved over the study period which ran from 1999 to 2015. Without fresh efforts to protect the animals, the numbers could fall at least another 45,000 in the next 35 years, the conservationists predict. The real decline could be worse, because the prediction is based only on habitat loss, and does not include killings. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The steepest percentage losses occurred in areas where the forest has been cut down to make way for palm oil and acacia plantations. Photograph: Marc Ancrenaz The bleak assessment of the state of the Bornean apes comes from an international team of conservationists who compiled one of the most comprehensive reports yet on the animals, which in 2016 were declared “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Conservationists predict orangutan numbers could fall at least another 45,000 in the next 35 years. Photograph: Marc Ancrenaz “I expected to see a fairly steep decline, but I did not anticipate it would be this large,” said Serge Wich, a co-author on the report at Liverpool John Moores University. “When we did the analyses, we ran them again and again to figure out if we had made a mistake somewhere. You think the numbers can’t be that high, but unfortunately they are.” The researchers studied 16 years of ground and helicopter surveys that recorded the numbers and locations of nests that orangutans built in the trees from branches and leaves. The nests have long been used to infer the sizes of orangutan populations because the animals themselves are so elusive. Writing in the journal Current Biology, the team describe how the decline in nests from 1999 to 2015 points to the staggering loss of 148,500 orangutans in Borneo. The conservationists identified 64 separate groups of orangutans on the island, but only 38 are thought to comprise more than 100 individuals, the minimum that is considered viable for a group. The forests of Borneo are being fragmented by new plantations and building projects and the associated loss of trees led to falls in local orangutan populations of up to 75%, the study found. In the dense forests, orangutan numbers fell by 50%. While that is a lower rate, it amounts to more animals because most of the apes live in these areas. “This is the biggest chunk of the loss,” said Maria Voigt at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. “More than 70% of the orangutans lost are in the forest.” New species of orangutan discovered in Sumatra – and is already endangered Read more Hunters in Borneo tend to enter the forest to find pigs and deer, but if they encounter a large orangutan, they can take the animals for food. Female orangutans are occasionally killed for their young, which are sold on as pets. Far more of the apes die when they venture on to plantations, and into people’s gardens, where they are shot or killed with machetes. Last week, authorities on Borneo found the body of a male orangutan bearing machete scars and wounds from 130 airgun pellets. “We need to work with people to help them understand that orangutans are not dangerous and that it’s illegal to kill them,” Wich said. One approach that might work, he said, is to have Indonesian and Malaysian role models raise awareness of orangutans through social media. “We know this decline has been largely due to hunting, and if we can turn that around, these orangutans could, over a long period, bounce back. When you lost the habitat, it’s gone forever, but the forests are still there. If we can stop the hunting and killing, we can reverse the trend.” Emma Keller at WWF said: “Orangutans are disappearing at an alarming rate. Their forests homes have been lost and degraded, and hunting threatens the existence of this magnificent great ape. Immediate action is needed to reform industries that have pushed orangutans to the brink of extinction. Consumers can make a difference through only supporting brands and retailers that buy sustainable palm oil.” ||||| Borneo Has Lost 100,000 Orangutans Since 1999 Enlarge this image toggle caption Bay Ismoyo /AFP/Getty Images Bay Ismoyo /AFP/Getty Images The world's largest species of orangutans is rapidly disappearing. Borneo has lost more than 100,000 orangutans in the last 16 years – that's more than the number of the critically endangered species remaining. This species — the Bornean orangutan — is only found on the island, which is divided between Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. It has seen dramatic deforestation, as lush jungle is converted into palm oil and paper pulp plantations. But deforestation doesn't full explain the great apes' rapid decline. Maria Voigt, a scientist at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, says hunting is "at least a major driver if not the major driver." The team's research, carried out through the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, was published today in Current Biology. Voigt and her research team compiled years of field surveys about the Bornean orangutans' population. "And after these 16 years, basically there was enough data to pull it together and combine it with information on things that influence orangutan numbers," she says. Combining this information, she says, allowed the researchers to estimate orangutan numbers and how they've changed over time. They overlaid that information with historical data about land use "to see what has happened in the different areas where we see decline," Voigt adds, "and then to kind of pick up what could be the reason for that decline. Deforestation on the island is stark. Borneo "has the largest deforestation rates in the world, with an average 350,000 ha cleared every year between 2001 and 2016," according to the Center for International Forestry Research. Click here for a map from the CIFOR where you can see how the landscape has changed. Forest fires are also a recurring threat to orangutans, Voigt says. Their assessment that 100,000 orangutans have been lost is "much higher than people had anticipated in a short time," Voigt says. And it's worth noting that even though the deforested areas have seen the highest rates of decline, forested areas or areas that are selectively logged have seen the highest absolute number of orangutans lost. "That's because while the rates of decline were less precipitous in those areas, that's also where far more orangutans are found," the researchers said in a statement. Voigt says that in some ways, orangutans are more resilient and flexible than anticipated: "They can walk on the ground for certain distances. They can also feed on plants like acacia or palm that are not their natural food. So they might be able to survive in landscapes where you have coexistence between development, in terms of plantations, and forests, as long as there is enough forest for them to survive and they are not killed." But only occasional killing of orangutans can "already be enough to wipe the population out in the long term." Part of the reason is that their reproductive cycle is very long, averaging a baby only 6-8 years, she says. It's likely that more have been lost in the last 16 years than remain alive, the researchers say. They estimate that 70,000 to 100,000 animals are left. And of the 64 remaining populations of orangutans on the island, just 38 have more than 100 individuals, which is considered the minimum to be viable in the long term. There are two other species of orangutans – both only found in Sumatra, in Indonesia, and both critically endangered. The IUCN Red List (published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature) estimates that the Tapanuli Orangutan has fewer than 800 individuals remaining, and the Sumatran Orangutan has fewer than 14,000. The Bornean Orangutans' survival, Voigt says, is going to depend on protecting the habitat that's still there, and raising awareness about how even occasional killing of the animals could lead to their extinction.

– The future looks bleak for the world's orangutans following the release this week of a study that found Borneo lost approximately 148,500 orangutans—more than half its orangutan population—between 1999 and 2015. “I expected to see a fairly steep decline, but I did not anticipate it would be this large,” study coauthor Serge Wich tells the Guardian. "You think the numbers can’t be that high, but unfortunately they are.” Coauthor Maria Voigt agrees, telling NPR the number of orangutans lost is "much higher than people had anticipated." It's estimated there are only 70,000 to 100,000 Bornean orangutans left—the orangutan species is found only on the island of Borneo—and only half the remaining 64 orangutan populations on the island contain enough members to have a viable future. Part of the problem is habitat loss. Borneo has the worst deforestation rate in the world, with approximately 865,000 acres of forest lost to development every year between 2001 and 2016. Researchers estimate another 45,000 orangutans could be lost in the next 35 years from deforestation alone. But Voigt says hunting of orangutans is "at least a major driver if not the major driver" for their decline. They're killed for food or when they wander onto plantations; mothers are killed to sell their babies as pets. “We know this decline has been largely due to hunting, and if we can turn that around, these orangutans could, over a long period, bounce back," Wich tells the Guardian. The world's other two species of orangutans—both found in Indonesia—have fewer than 15,000 or so members combined. (A recent study found great apes may be able to "read minds.")

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Hunting and killing have driven a dramatic decline in the orangutan population on Borneo where nearly 150,000 animals have been lost from the island’s forests in 16 years, conservationists warn. Borneo orangutan found riddled with gunshots in latest attack Read more While the steepest percentage losses occurred in regions where the forest has been cut down to make way for palm oil and acacia plantations, more animals were killed by hunters who ventured into the forest, or by farm workers when the apes encroached on agricultural land, a study found. Researchers estimate that the number of orangutans left on Borneo now stands at between 70,000 and 100,000, meaning the population more than halved over the study period which ran from 1999 to 2015. Without fresh efforts to protect the animals, the numbers could fall at least another 45,000 in the next 35 years, the conservationists predict. The real decline could be worse, because the prediction is based only on habitat loss, and does not include killings. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The steepest percentage losses occurred in areas where the forest has been cut down to make way for palm oil and acacia plantations. Photograph: Marc Ancrenaz The bleak assessment of the state of the Bornean apes comes from an international team of conservationists who compiled one of the most comprehensive reports yet on the animals, which in 2016 were declared “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Conservationists predict orangutan numbers could fall at least another 45,000 in the next 35 years. Photograph: Marc Ancrenaz “I expected to see a fairly steep decline, but I did not anticipate it would be this large,” said Serge Wich, a co-author on the report at Liverpool John Moores University. “When we did the analyses, we ran them again and again to figure out if we had made a mistake somewhere. You think the numbers can’t be that high, but unfortunately they are.” The researchers studied 16 years of ground and helicopter surveys that recorded the numbers and locations of nests that orangutans built in the trees from branches and leaves. The nests have long been used to infer the sizes of orangutan populations because the animals themselves are so elusive. Writing in the journal Current Biology, the team describe how the decline in nests from 1999 to 2015 points to the staggering loss of 148,500 orangutans in Borneo. The conservationists identified 64 separate groups of orangutans on the island, but only 38 are thought to comprise more than 100 individuals, the minimum that is considered viable for a group. The forests of Borneo are being fragmented by new plantations and building projects and the associated loss of trees led to falls in local orangutan populations of up to 75%, the study found. In the dense forests, orangutan numbers fell by 50%. While that is a lower rate, it amounts to more animals because most of the apes live in these areas. “This is the biggest chunk of the loss,” said Maria Voigt at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. “More than 70% of the orangutans lost are in the forest.” New species of orangutan discovered in Sumatra – and is already endangered Read more Hunters in Borneo tend to enter the forest to find pigs and deer, but if they encounter a large orangutan, they can take the animals for food. Female orangutans are occasionally killed for their young, which are sold on as pets. Far more of the apes die when they venture on to plantations, and into people’s gardens, where they are shot or killed with machetes. Last week, authorities on Borneo found the body of a male orangutan bearing machete scars and wounds from 130 airgun pellets. “We need to work with people to help them understand that orangutans are not dangerous and that it’s illegal to kill them,” Wich said. One approach that might work, he said, is to have Indonesian and Malaysian role models raise awareness of orangutans through social media. “We know this decline has been largely due to hunting, and if we can turn that around, these orangutans could, over a long period, bounce back. When you lost the habitat, it’s gone forever, but the forests are still there. If we can stop the hunting and killing, we can reverse the trend.” Emma Keller at WWF said: “Orangutans are disappearing at an alarming rate. Their forests homes have been lost and degraded, and hunting threatens the existence of this magnificent great ape. Immediate action is needed to reform industries that have pushed orangutans to the brink of extinction. Consumers can make a difference through only supporting brands and retailers that buy sustainable palm oil.” ||||| Borneo Has Lost 100,000 Orangutans Since 1999 Enlarge this image toggle caption Bay Ismoyo /AFP/Getty Images Bay Ismoyo /AFP/Getty Images The world's largest species of orangutans is rapidly disappearing. Borneo has lost more than 100,000 orangutans in the last 16 years – that's more than the number of the critically endangered species remaining. This species — the Bornean orangutan — is only found on the island, which is divided between Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. It has seen dramatic deforestation, as lush jungle is converted into palm oil and paper pulp plantations. But deforestation doesn't full explain the great apes' rapid decline. Maria Voigt, a scientist at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, says hunting is "at least a major driver if not the major driver." The team's research, carried out through the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, was published today in Current Biology. Voigt and her research team compiled years of field surveys about the Bornean orangutans' population. "And after these 16 years, basically there was enough data to pull it together and combine it with information on things that influence orangutan numbers," she says. Combining this information, she says, allowed the researchers to estimate orangutan numbers and how they've changed over time. They overlaid that information with historical data about land use "to see what has happened in the different areas where we see decline," Voigt adds, "and then to kind of pick up what could be the reason for that decline. Deforestation on the island is stark. Borneo "has the largest deforestation rates in the world, with an average 350,000 ha cleared every year between 2001 and 2016," according to the Center for International Forestry Research. Click here for a map from the CIFOR where you can see how the landscape has changed. Forest fires are also a recurring threat to orangutans, Voigt says. Their assessment that 100,000 orangutans have been lost is "much higher than people had anticipated in a short time," Voigt says. And it's worth noting that even though the deforested areas have seen the highest rates of decline, forested areas or areas that are selectively logged have seen the highest absolute number of orangutans lost. "That's because while the rates of decline were less precipitous in those areas, that's also where far more orangutans are found," the researchers said in a statement. Voigt says that in some ways, orangutans are more resilient and flexible than anticipated: "They can walk on the ground for certain distances. They can also feed on plants like acacia or palm that are not their natural food. So they might be able to survive in landscapes where you have coexistence between development, in terms of plantations, and forests, as long as there is enough forest for them to survive and they are not killed." But only occasional killing of orangutans can "already be enough to wipe the population out in the long term." Part of the reason is that their reproductive cycle is very long, averaging a baby only 6-8 years, she says. It's likely that more have been lost in the last 16 years than remain alive, the researchers say. They estimate that 70,000 to 100,000 animals are left. And of the 64 remaining populations of orangutans on the island, just 38 have more than 100 individuals, which is considered the minimum to be viable in the long term. There are two other species of orangutans – both only found in Sumatra, in Indonesia, and both critically endangered. The IUCN Red List (published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature) estimates that the Tapanuli Orangutan has fewer than 800 individuals remaining, and the Sumatran Orangutan has fewer than 14,000. The Bornean Orangutans' survival, Voigt says, is going to depend on protecting the habitat that's still there, and raising awareness about how even occasional killing of the animals could lead to their extinction.

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A three month old baby was summoned to the US embassy in London after his grandfather accidentally ticked a box claiming the youngster was a terrorist. Factory owner Paul Kenyon, 62, had planned to fly his family to Florida for a holiday to his villa in Orlando, but made the mistake on the ESTA form needed for entry into the country. It meant little Harvey Kenyon-Cairns's application was refused and he was asked to attend a grilling from US officials in London. Mr Kenyon travelled down with his daughter and Harvey's mother, Faye, from his home in Poynton, Cheshire, to the embassy in Grosvenor Square just three days before their flight, but the Visa failed to arrive in time. He admitted the whole affair cost him an extra £3,000 as he had to pay for extra flights so that Faye, 27, her partner John Cairns, 31, and Harvey could still come with them. ||||| A three-month old baby was summoned to the US embassy in London for an interview after his grandfather mistakenly identified him as a terrorist. Harvey Kenyon-Cairns had been due to fly to Orlando in Florida for his first overseas holiday, until his grandfather Paul Kenyon made the error on a visa waiver form. Beware copycat websites overcharging for Esta and Ehic documents Read more On the part of the Esta form which reads “Do you seek to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, or genocide?” Kenyon ticked yes instead of no. He only learned of his error when his grandson’s travel was refused. “I couldn’t believe that they couldn’t see it was a genuine mistake and that a three-month-old baby would be no harm to anyone,” said the 62-year-old. The baby was taken from his home in Poynton, Cheshire, to the embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, to be questioned by officials. The round trip took about 10 hours, longer than the nine-and-a-half-hour flight time from Manchester to Orlando. “Baby Harvey was good as gold for the interview and never cried once. I thought about taking him along in an orange jumpsuit, but thought better of it,” said Kenyon. “They didn’t appear to have a sense of humour over it at all and couldn’t see the funny side. “He’s obviously never engaged in genocide, or espionage, but he has sabotaged quite a few nappies in his time, though I didn’t tell them that at the US embassy.” The mess-up cost Kenyon an extra £3,000 ($3,800), as the new visa didn’t arrive in time for the family’s flights. He flew out to his holiday villa with his wife, Cathy, 57, and his granddaughter Ava on the scheduled date, but Harvey and his parents, Faye Kenyon-Cairns, 27, and her partner John Cairns, 31, had to fly out separately a few days later. “It was a very expensive mistake, but I was hoping the US embassy would realise that it was just a simple error without us having to jump through all the hoops,” said Kenyon. He added: “If you were a terrorist, I suspect you’d not be ticking yes on the Esta form anyway.”

– Whether Harvey Kenyon-Cairns was nervous at the US Embassy in London as he was questioned about possible terrorist activities is unclear, but his grandfather tells the Guardian Harvey was "good as gold" and didn't cry once. Which is surprising, as Harvey is a 3-month-old British infant, caught up in what grandpa Paul Kenyon calls a "genuine mistake" that led to more than $3,700 in extra costs to make a Florida vacation happen after Harvey's travel papers didn't show up in time. It all started when the elder Kenyon was preparing for his extended family's trip from the UK to Orlando and filling out Electronic System for Travel Authorization forms, which the Telegraph explains are necessary if one is traveling to the US under a visa waiver program. But after filling out five forms for himself and other family members, Kenyon mistakenly checked "yes" for the question on Harvey's form that asked: "Do you seek to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, or genocide?" The family had to cart Harvey on a 10-hour round trip from his home in Cheshire to the London Embassy, where he was apparently cleared of all terrorist ties—though "he has sabotaged quite a few [diapers] in his time," his grandpa notes. Kenyon, who'd considered dressing baby Harvey up in an orange prison suit for his interview, decided against it because the Embassy "didn't appear to have a sense of humor over it." Kenyon also points out that "if you were a terrorist, I suspect you’d not be ticking yes on the ESTA form anyway." (The FBI is now poring over three years' worth of terror tips.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.A three month old baby was summoned to the US embassy in London after his grandfather accidentally ticked a box claiming the youngster was a terrorist. Factory owner Paul Kenyon, 62, had planned to fly his family to Florida for a holiday to his villa in Orlando, but made the mistake on the ESTA form needed for entry into the country. It meant little Harvey Kenyon-Cairns's application was refused and he was asked to attend a grilling from US officials in London. Mr Kenyon travelled down with his daughter and Harvey's mother, Faye, from his home in Poynton, Cheshire, to the embassy in Grosvenor Square just three days before their flight, but the Visa failed to arrive in time. He admitted the whole affair cost him an extra £3,000 as he had to pay for extra flights so that Faye, 27, her partner John Cairns, 31, and Harvey could still come with them. ||||| A three-month old baby was summoned to the US embassy in London for an interview after his grandfather mistakenly identified him as a terrorist. Harvey Kenyon-Cairns had been due to fly to Orlando in Florida for his first overseas holiday, until his grandfather Paul Kenyon made the error on a visa waiver form. Beware copycat websites overcharging for Esta and Ehic documents Read more On the part of the Esta form which reads “Do you seek to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, or genocide?” Kenyon ticked yes instead of no. He only learned of his error when his grandson’s travel was refused. “I couldn’t believe that they couldn’t see it was a genuine mistake and that a three-month-old baby would be no harm to anyone,” said the 62-year-old. The baby was taken from his home in Poynton, Cheshire, to the embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, to be questioned by officials. The round trip took about 10 hours, longer than the nine-and-a-half-hour flight time from Manchester to Orlando. “Baby Harvey was good as gold for the interview and never cried once. I thought about taking him along in an orange jumpsuit, but thought better of it,” said Kenyon. “They didn’t appear to have a sense of humour over it at all and couldn’t see the funny side. “He’s obviously never engaged in genocide, or espionage, but he has sabotaged quite a few nappies in his time, though I didn’t tell them that at the US embassy.” The mess-up cost Kenyon an extra £3,000 ($3,800), as the new visa didn’t arrive in time for the family’s flights. He flew out to his holiday villa with his wife, Cathy, 57, and his granddaughter Ava on the scheduled date, but Harvey and his parents, Faye Kenyon-Cairns, 27, and her partner John Cairns, 31, had to fly out separately a few days later. “It was a very expensive mistake, but I was hoping the US embassy would realise that it was just a simple error without us having to jump through all the hoops,” said Kenyon. He added: “If you were a terrorist, I suspect you’d not be ticking yes on the Esta form anyway.”

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15:11. Lima, Mar. 22. Peruvian citizen Adelma Marina Tapia Ruiz and other 33 people died this morning in the terrorist attack that rocked Brussels, Belgium. Tapia, 36, was at Zaventem Airport waiting for a flight that would take her, her husband and two daughters to New York for a family reunion. According to her brother Fernando Tapia, her three-year-old twins and her Belgian husband were leaving the waiting area during the attack. This kept them alive, although one of the girls was injured by a shard. She is said to be out of danger. Born in the jungle region of Ucayali, Adelma and her family were going to New York to meet her sisters Celia and Milenka. The plan was to get together for Holy Week. One of her dreams was to open a Peruvian restaurant in Brussels. Fernando Tapia posted a message on Facebook to confirm her death. “Rest in peace my little sister and my sympathy to everyone, as we all know how hard it will be to go on in your absence, cause we won't see you anymore.” (END) RRC/RRC/RMB Published: 3/22/2016 ||||| Photo Adelma Tapia Ruiz, a Peruvian woman who had lived in Brussels for almost nine years, was traveling with her twin 3-year-old daughters, Maureen and Alondra, to visit her mother in New York when two bombs exploded at Brussels Airport on Tuesday. Ms. Tapia, 36, was killed, making her one of the first known victims of the assaults, which killed at least 30 people. Maureen had shrapnel wounds in one arm, while Alondra was not injured. Ms. Tapia’s husband, Christopher Delcambe, who was seeing his family off at the airport, was also injured during the explosion, and he and Maureen were hospitalized. “We danced together at an event for Women’s Day just recently,” said Lady Sindey Jouany, a friend of Ms. Tapia’s who lives in Paris. “She was a very active woman. I’m still in shock. At first I thought it was someone else, and it took time to understand how this could have happened to her and how close to home it has hit.” Fernando Tapia Coral, Ms. Tapia’s older brother, confirmed his sister’s death in a post on Facebook. “It’s very complicated to describe this pain that we’re feeling at home, but as an older brother I know that I have to do it,” Mr. Tapia wrote. “But even more incomprehensible is not being able to be close to her. And this tragedy today touched the doors of my family this morning in the Brussels airport when my sister Adelma Tapia died in the terrorist attack and was not able to survive this jihadist attack that we’ll never understand.” In an interview, Mr. Tapia said: “The girls had been playing, and Christopher followed them out of the gate area when the explosion occurred suddenly. Christopher couldn’t find Adelma.” Ms. Tapia had three sisters and two brothers. “They are in shock and can’t even talk,” Mr. Tapia said. “We are from Pucallpa, and everyone here is also in shock.” He added that one of his sisters was trying to fly to Belgium to help identify the body. “Adelma was a chef and had studied marketing; she wanted to set up a Peruvian restaurant in Brussels,” Mr. Tapia said. Ms. Tapia’s Facebook page is filled with photographs of her and her children. In one post she wrote about participating in a Peruvian food festival sponsored by the Peruvian consul general in Brussels. An earlier version of this blog post misstated the condition of Ms. Tapia’s husband, Christopher Delcambe. He was injured in the attack; he was not unharmed. An earlier version of this blog post misidentified the city in Peru from which the Tapia family comes. It is Pucallpa, not Iquitos.

– No Brussels victim's story will be anything less than a tragedy, as the first publicly confirmed casualty—Adelma Tapia Ruiz—demonstrates. A native of Peru, the 36-year-old had called Brussels home for the past nine years and was headed to New York to visit family when the bombs detonated at Brussels' Zaventem airport. Tapia was killed, but the 3-year-old twin girls who were accompanying her survived, as did her Belgian husband, who was seeing his girls off, reports the New York Times. One of the girls, Maureen, suffered shrapnel wounds in her arm; dad Christophe Delcambe was also hospitalized with injuries. The other daughter, Alondra, was unharmed. Tapia's brother explained that "the girls had been playing, and (Delcambe) followed them out of the gate area when the explosion occurred suddenly," with Peruvian media suggesting this saved their lives. Tapia's Facebook account is filled with family photos and pictures of the girls.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.15:11. Lima, Mar. 22. Peruvian citizen Adelma Marina Tapia Ruiz and other 33 people died this morning in the terrorist attack that rocked Brussels, Belgium. Tapia, 36, was at Zaventem Airport waiting for a flight that would take her, her husband and two daughters to New York for a family reunion. According to her brother Fernando Tapia, her three-year-old twins and her Belgian husband were leaving the waiting area during the attack. This kept them alive, although one of the girls was injured by a shard. She is said to be out of danger. Born in the jungle region of Ucayali, Adelma and her family were going to New York to meet her sisters Celia and Milenka. The plan was to get together for Holy Week. One of her dreams was to open a Peruvian restaurant in Brussels. Fernando Tapia posted a message on Facebook to confirm her death. “Rest in peace my little sister and my sympathy to everyone, as we all know how hard it will be to go on in your absence, cause we won't see you anymore.” (END) RRC/RRC/RMB Published: 3/22/2016 ||||| Photo Adelma Tapia Ruiz, a Peruvian woman who had lived in Brussels for almost nine years, was traveling with her twin 3-year-old daughters, Maureen and Alondra, to visit her mother in New York when two bombs exploded at Brussels Airport on Tuesday. Ms. Tapia, 36, was killed, making her one of the first known victims of the assaults, which killed at least 30 people. Maureen had shrapnel wounds in one arm, while Alondra was not injured. Ms. Tapia’s husband, Christopher Delcambe, who was seeing his family off at the airport, was also injured during the explosion, and he and Maureen were hospitalized. “We danced together at an event for Women’s Day just recently,” said Lady Sindey Jouany, a friend of Ms. Tapia’s who lives in Paris. “She was a very active woman. I’m still in shock. At first I thought it was someone else, and it took time to understand how this could have happened to her and how close to home it has hit.” Fernando Tapia Coral, Ms. Tapia’s older brother, confirmed his sister’s death in a post on Facebook. “It’s very complicated to describe this pain that we’re feeling at home, but as an older brother I know that I have to do it,” Mr. Tapia wrote. “But even more incomprehensible is not being able to be close to her. And this tragedy today touched the doors of my family this morning in the Brussels airport when my sister Adelma Tapia died in the terrorist attack and was not able to survive this jihadist attack that we’ll never understand.” In an interview, Mr. Tapia said: “The girls had been playing, and Christopher followed them out of the gate area when the explosion occurred suddenly. Christopher couldn’t find Adelma.” Ms. Tapia had three sisters and two brothers. “They are in shock and can’t even talk,” Mr. Tapia said. “We are from Pucallpa, and everyone here is also in shock.” He added that one of his sisters was trying to fly to Belgium to help identify the body. “Adelma was a chef and had studied marketing; she wanted to set up a Peruvian restaurant in Brussels,” Mr. Tapia said. Ms. Tapia’s Facebook page is filled with photographs of her and her children. In one post she wrote about participating in a Peruvian food festival sponsored by the Peruvian consul general in Brussels. An earlier version of this blog post misstated the condition of Ms. Tapia’s husband, Christopher Delcambe. He was injured in the attack; he was not unharmed. An earlier version of this blog post misidentified the city in Peru from which the Tapia family comes. It is Pucallpa, not Iquitos.

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Woman summoned and booked for flouting traffic regulations after she was filmed driving out of Riyadh hotel Police in Saudi Arabia have penalised a woman filmed driving a car, according to a spokesman, who warned against violations of a ban on female motorists to be lifted in June. Authorities summoned the woman for flouting traffic regulations after she appeared in a video driving out of a hotel in Riyadh. “We call on all Saudi citizens to respect the law and wait until the ban on women driving formally ends,” the police spokesman said. He did not specify the nature of the penalty, but added that the woman filmed leaving the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the capital had not been arrested. He said the owner of the car was also booked for violating traffic rules. Women are still not in the driving seat in Saudi Arabia | Madawi al-Rasheed Read more Last month Saudi Arabia announced it would allow women to obtain driving licences under a royal decree to take effect next summer. The Gulf kingdom was the only country in the world to prohibit women from taking the wheel, a ban viewed by many as a symbol of repression. Many Saudi women fear they are easy prey for conservatives in a state where male guardians – typically their fathers, husbands or brothers – have authority to make decisions on their behalf. ||||| RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi woman who appeared in a video driving a car in the capital, Riyadh, has been briefly detained for violating the country's ban on women driving, which is set to be lifted in June. The state-linked Sabq news website reported on Monday that the woman in the video, who was unnamed, was identified and summoned by security authorities. Her male guardian — who is typically a woman's father or husband — was then asked to sign a pledge that she wouldn't violate traffic regulations again. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to ban women from driving. King Salman announced last month that women will be granted driving licenses and be allowed to drive next summer. The decision came after decades of struggle by women's rights activists.

– A Saudi woman who appeared in a video driving a car in Riyadh was briefly detained for violating the country's ban on women driving, which is set to be lifted in June, per the AP. The state-linked Sabq news website reported on Monday that the woman in the video, who was unnamed, was identified and summoned by security authorities. AFP notes she was spotted driving out of a hotel in the capital. "We call on all Saudi citizens to respect the law and wait until the ban on women driving formally ends," a police spokesman says. The spokesman adds that the woman wasn't arrested, and that the car's owner was also booked for breaking traffic rules. Her male guardian—typically a woman's father or husband—was then asked to sign a pledge that she wouldn't violate traffic regulations again. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to ban women from driving. King Salman announced last month that women will be granted driving licenses and be allowed to drive next summer. The decision came after decades of struggle by women's rights activists.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Woman summoned and booked for flouting traffic regulations after she was filmed driving out of Riyadh hotel Police in Saudi Arabia have penalised a woman filmed driving a car, according to a spokesman, who warned against violations of a ban on female motorists to be lifted in June. Authorities summoned the woman for flouting traffic regulations after she appeared in a video driving out of a hotel in Riyadh. “We call on all Saudi citizens to respect the law and wait until the ban on women driving formally ends,” the police spokesman said. He did not specify the nature of the penalty, but added that the woman filmed leaving the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the capital had not been arrested. He said the owner of the car was also booked for violating traffic rules. Women are still not in the driving seat in Saudi Arabia | Madawi al-Rasheed Read more Last month Saudi Arabia announced it would allow women to obtain driving licences under a royal decree to take effect next summer. The Gulf kingdom was the only country in the world to prohibit women from taking the wheel, a ban viewed by many as a symbol of repression. Many Saudi women fear they are easy prey for conservatives in a state where male guardians – typically their fathers, husbands or brothers – have authority to make decisions on their behalf. ||||| RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi woman who appeared in a video driving a car in the capital, Riyadh, has been briefly detained for violating the country's ban on women driving, which is set to be lifted in June. The state-linked Sabq news website reported on Monday that the woman in the video, who was unnamed, was identified and summoned by security authorities. Her male guardian — who is typically a woman's father or husband — was then asked to sign a pledge that she wouldn't violate traffic regulations again. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to ban women from driving. King Salman announced last month that women will be granted driving licenses and be allowed to drive next summer. The decision came after decades of struggle by women's rights activists.

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Image caption The Bois de Boulogne, one of Paris's two main woods, has been named as a possible site Next summer, nudists or naturists may be able to bare it all in a designated area of the French capital, Paris. City councillors have approved plans for an experimental nudist area, possibly in one of Paris's parks or in wooded areas on its outskirts. The Green Party, which proposed the plan, said France was a top destination for naturists, and its capital city should have somewhere for them to go. One centrist councillor, however, called the idea "demented". He said the idea of authorising full-scale nudity in the middle of the capital might be seen as a provocation, especially at a time when feelings were still running high over the 'burkini' issue, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports. But those who support the move say, in a country with numerous clothes-free beaches and holiday camps, Paris should also be a draw for naturists. "We've got two million nudists in France which is doubled during the summer with visitors," said David Belliard, co-chairman of the ecologist group in the city council. "For them Paris is the world's premier tourist destination and there's no public place for them to go. We want to try out a recreational area where nudists can freely strip off." Deputy Mayor of Paris Bruno Julliard said he was in favour of the plan, as was Mayor Anne Hidalgo. He said the likeliest site for the naturist zone is in one of Paris's two main woods - the Bois de Boulogne to the west or Bois de Vincennes to the east - "near a lake, in a regulated setting so that there is no threat to public order". 'Historic' road closure Hours earlier, Paris's city council approved another controversial plan - to transform a highway into a walkway. Some 3.3km (2 miles) of road from the Tuileries Garden toward the Bastille neighbourhood will be closed down and turned into a pedestrian-only zone. Conservatives have argued this will worsen the city's traffic situation and put commuters at a disadvantage. But Mayor Hidalgo has hailed the move as "historic". It is part of her plan to tackle high levels of pollution in the capital, the AP news agency reported. This will not be the first time a highway has been converted into a walkway. A road along the Left Bank has already been converted for pedestrian use. ||||| Paris city councillors will debate Monday on creating spaces for nudists, an idea that Mayor Anne Hidalgo thinks is “très sympa [nice/fun]”. The proposal, put forward by three Green councillors, will be debated Monday. Hidalgo’s deputy Bruno Julliard told RMC radio earlier in the day (see tweet below) that “we will accept the creation of a nudist camp in Paris”. "Nous allons accepter la proposition d'un camp naturiste à Paris", déclare le 1er adjoint au maire @BrunoJulliard sur RMC #BourdinDirect pic.twitter.com/PGh0PwKZRH — Jean-Jacques Bourdin (@JJBourdin_RMC) September 26, 2016 Paris has very little to offer those who like to relax and exercise in the great outdoors in nothing but their “birthday suits”, and nudism is considered indecent exposure, punishable by up to a year in jail and a maximum fine of 15,000 euros. Paris has also banned the “monokini”, a revealing one-piece swimsuit, and the g-string, in public spaces. There is just one swimming pool, the Roger Le Gall in the city’s 12th arrondissement, which allows nude swimming (three times a week after 9pm). Green councillor David Belliard, who sponsored the proposal, told journalists: “France is the world’s top destination for naturists, and every year two million Germans, Dutch, Britons and Belgians come to the country for its nudist beaches. It shouldn’t be impossible to accommodate them in Paris too.” “We have to find an outdoor space where nudism is allowed, in the city’s parks, forests or on the banks of the Seine,” he added.

– Paris, a place for fashionistas and nudists alike? Maybe. Parisian city councilors have given the green light to a plan that would see the creation of a clothing-free zone somewhere within the city limits, the BBC reports. The location of the nudist area has yet to be determined, but Deputy Mayor Bruno Julliard—a supporter—said the intention is to prevent any disruption of "public order" and suggested two wooded areas, the westside Bois de Boulogne or eastside Bois de Vincennes. France is famous for its nude beaches, and proponents—including the mayor—say that nudists should have a place within the capital city. For a country that's said to have 2 million nudists, the capital has been a mostly unwelcoming place. Currently, nudism in Paris is punishable by up to a year in prison and a fine of up to $16,800, reports France24. It notes a single swimming pool in the city allows naked swimming, but even then, only after 9pm on certain days of the week. Opponents worry about inflaming tensions between conservative and liberal groups, particularly on the heels of the burkini brouhaha. Despite those objections, the BBC suggests the zone could be in place as early as next summer.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Image caption The Bois de Boulogne, one of Paris's two main woods, has been named as a possible site Next summer, nudists or naturists may be able to bare it all in a designated area of the French capital, Paris. City councillors have approved plans for an experimental nudist area, possibly in one of Paris's parks or in wooded areas on its outskirts. The Green Party, which proposed the plan, said France was a top destination for naturists, and its capital city should have somewhere for them to go. One centrist councillor, however, called the idea "demented". He said the idea of authorising full-scale nudity in the middle of the capital might be seen as a provocation, especially at a time when feelings were still running high over the 'burkini' issue, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports. But those who support the move say, in a country with numerous clothes-free beaches and holiday camps, Paris should also be a draw for naturists. "We've got two million nudists in France which is doubled during the summer with visitors," said David Belliard, co-chairman of the ecologist group in the city council. "For them Paris is the world's premier tourist destination and there's no public place for them to go. We want to try out a recreational area where nudists can freely strip off." Deputy Mayor of Paris Bruno Julliard said he was in favour of the plan, as was Mayor Anne Hidalgo. He said the likeliest site for the naturist zone is in one of Paris's two main woods - the Bois de Boulogne to the west or Bois de Vincennes to the east - "near a lake, in a regulated setting so that there is no threat to public order". 'Historic' road closure Hours earlier, Paris's city council approved another controversial plan - to transform a highway into a walkway. Some 3.3km (2 miles) of road from the Tuileries Garden toward the Bastille neighbourhood will be closed down and turned into a pedestrian-only zone. Conservatives have argued this will worsen the city's traffic situation and put commuters at a disadvantage. But Mayor Hidalgo has hailed the move as "historic". It is part of her plan to tackle high levels of pollution in the capital, the AP news agency reported. This will not be the first time a highway has been converted into a walkway. A road along the Left Bank has already been converted for pedestrian use. ||||| Paris city councillors will debate Monday on creating spaces for nudists, an idea that Mayor Anne Hidalgo thinks is “très sympa [nice/fun]”. The proposal, put forward by three Green councillors, will be debated Monday. Hidalgo’s deputy Bruno Julliard told RMC radio earlier in the day (see tweet below) that “we will accept the creation of a nudist camp in Paris”. "Nous allons accepter la proposition d'un camp naturiste à Paris", déclare le 1er adjoint au maire @BrunoJulliard sur RMC #BourdinDirect pic.twitter.com/PGh0PwKZRH — Jean-Jacques Bourdin (@JJBourdin_RMC) September 26, 2016 Paris has very little to offer those who like to relax and exercise in the great outdoors in nothing but their “birthday suits”, and nudism is considered indecent exposure, punishable by up to a year in jail and a maximum fine of 15,000 euros. Paris has also banned the “monokini”, a revealing one-piece swimsuit, and the g-string, in public spaces. There is just one swimming pool, the Roger Le Gall in the city’s 12th arrondissement, which allows nude swimming (three times a week after 9pm). Green councillor David Belliard, who sponsored the proposal, told journalists: “France is the world’s top destination for naturists, and every year two million Germans, Dutch, Britons and Belgians come to the country for its nudist beaches. It shouldn’t be impossible to accommodate them in Paris too.” “We have to find an outdoor space where nudism is allowed, in the city’s parks, forests or on the banks of the Seine,” he added.

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The August rally in Charlottesville, organized by Unite the Right, which brought together several far-right groups, came amid a string of protests by white supremacist groups of removals of Confederate monuments across the South. Hundreds demonstrated against the city’s decision to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general. The rally, following a torch-lit march a night earlier, devolved quickly into racial taunts, shoves and brawls. The governor declared a state of emergency, and the police and the National Guard cleared the area. Mr. Fields was among the crowd of demonstrators “engaged in chants promoting or expressing white supremacist and other racist and anti-Semitic views,” according to the Justice Department. After they were dispersed, prosecutors said, Mr. Fields drove away and encountered a “racially and ethnically diverse crowd of individuals” at the bottom of a hill who were protesting discrimination. “Fields slowly reversed his vehicle to the top of the hill,” prosecutors wrote in the indictment in trying to underscore his intent, “then rapidly accelerated, ran through a stop sign and across a raised pedestrian mall, and drove directly into the crowd.” Mr. Fields’s car stopped only when it hit another vehicle, and then he fled, court papers said. Ms. Heyer was killed and dozens injured. In the hours and days afterward, Mr. Trump alternated his responses, condemning the violence but refusing at first to criticize white nationalists or the neo-Nazi slogans on display at the protest. He blamed “hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides” and said the demonstrators included “some very fine people.” Civil rights advocates rebuked Mr. Trump, his fellow Republicans rushed to condemn the resurgence of white supremacist rallies and others aligned with the White House withdrew their support, including several corporate executives, prompting the president to disband a pair of advisory councils they served on. But as conservatives and progressives castigated Mr. Trump, David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, sent the president an ominous warning. “I would recommend you take a good look in the mirror & remember it was White Americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists,” Mr. Duke wrote on Twitter. Mr. Sessions was in some ways an unusual voice to emerge from the Trump administration on the violence, first in denouncing it last summer and now in the Justice Department bringing hate crime charges. He has long been skeptical of expanding hate crime laws that create federal jurisdiction over certain assaults and murders. ||||| This photo provided by the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail shows James Alex Fields Jr., who was charged with second-degree murder and other counts after authorities say he rammed his car into a crowd of protesters Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va., where a white supremacist rally took place. (Photo: AP) A federal grand jury in Virginia indicted an Ohio man Wednesday with federal hate crimes in the death of a woman run down by a car after a "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville last summer. James Alex Fields Jr., 21, of Maumee, Ohio, had already been charged in state court in connection with the death of Heather Heyer for allegedly ramming his car into a group of counter-protesters. Heyer was killed the last day of the August weekend rally organized by white supremacists and their sympathizers protesting the removal of Robert E. Lee's statue from a Charlottesville park. The highly publicized event drew supporters and counter-protesters to the university town in central Virginia. Fields was indicted on one federal count of a hate crime resulting in Heyer's death, 28 counts of hate crimes for causing bodily injury and involving an attempt to kill and one count of racially motivated violent interference with a federally protected activity. The grand jury was sitting in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville. The memorial on 4th Street is built up with more flowers while two spectators drop their bouquets into the formation. Following protests that turned violent on Saturday and a day of memorial and mourning on Sunday, the town of Charlottesville, Va., continues to recover from the social rift. (Photo: Henry Taylor, USA TODAY) In announcing the indictment, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said his department has determined that "hateful ideologies will not have the last word and their adherents will not get away with violent crimes against those they target." Sessions said the indictment "should send a clear message to every would-be criminal in America that we aggressively prosecute violent crimes of hate that threaten the core principles of our nation." According to the indictment, Fields traveled to Charlottesville to participate in the rally that was widely publicized on social media as associated with white supremacist individuals and other far-right groups. After authorities declared the event an "unlawful assembly," Fields left the area, but returned in his car as crowds drifted away from the site of the rally, the indictment charged. He then encountered a group of counter-protesters who were chanting and carrying signs promoting equality and protesting against racial discrimination. The indictment alleged that Fields slowly backed up his car in a downtown street then rapidly accelerated, ran through a stop sign and across a raised pedestrian mall, and drove directly into the crowd, hitting numerous individuals, killing Heyer, and injuring many others. He then fled the scene. In January, Fields was charged by a state court with first-degree murder among other crimes for which he will be tried in November. Shortly after the incident, President Donald Trump weighed in. "I think there is blame on both sides," Trump told reporters. "What about the 'alt-left' that came charging at, as you say, the 'alt-right,' do they have any semblance of guilt?" Trump asked. "What about the fact they came charging with clubs in hands, swinging clubs, do they have any problem? I think they do." "You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say it, but I will say it right now," Trump added. Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2N2CIHz

– James Alex Fields Jr., who allegedly drove into a crowd of people protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, has been indicted on 30 hate crime charges by a federal grand jury, including a hate crime resulting in the death of Heather Heyer. According to court records, Fields traveled to Charlottesville to participate in a "Unite the Right" rally, which was advertised on social media as a gathering of white supremacists and other sympathizers protesting the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from a Charlottesville park, reports USA Today. Fields, 21, of Maumee, Ohio, is accused of driving his car from the top of a hill down a narrow, one-way street toward a group of counter-protesters that was chanting and carrying signs in support of equality and protesting racial and other forms of discrimination. According to the Daily Progress, prosecutors say that when Fields got to the "racially and ethnically diverse" group, he backed his car up to the top of the hill and then hit the gas and drove down the hill directly into the crowd. He allegedly struck and killed 32-year-old Heyer and injured more than a dozen others before fleeing the scene. Fields is also facing 10 state charges that include first-degree murder and malicious wounding. He is slated to go on trial in November in Charlottesville. In announcing the charges, which carry a possible sentence of life in prison, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, “Today’s indictment should send a clear message to every would-be criminal in America that we aggressively prosecute violent crimes of hate that threaten the core principles of our nation,” per the New York Times.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.The August rally in Charlottesville, organized by Unite the Right, which brought together several far-right groups, came amid a string of protests by white supremacist groups of removals of Confederate monuments across the South. Hundreds demonstrated against the city’s decision to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general. The rally, following a torch-lit march a night earlier, devolved quickly into racial taunts, shoves and brawls. The governor declared a state of emergency, and the police and the National Guard cleared the area. Mr. Fields was among the crowd of demonstrators “engaged in chants promoting or expressing white supremacist and other racist and anti-Semitic views,” according to the Justice Department. After they were dispersed, prosecutors said, Mr. Fields drove away and encountered a “racially and ethnically diverse crowd of individuals” at the bottom of a hill who were protesting discrimination. “Fields slowly reversed his vehicle to the top of the hill,” prosecutors wrote in the indictment in trying to underscore his intent, “then rapidly accelerated, ran through a stop sign and across a raised pedestrian mall, and drove directly into the crowd.” Mr. Fields’s car stopped only when it hit another vehicle, and then he fled, court papers said. Ms. Heyer was killed and dozens injured. In the hours and days afterward, Mr. Trump alternated his responses, condemning the violence but refusing at first to criticize white nationalists or the neo-Nazi slogans on display at the protest. He blamed “hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides” and said the demonstrators included “some very fine people.” Civil rights advocates rebuked Mr. Trump, his fellow Republicans rushed to condemn the resurgence of white supremacist rallies and others aligned with the White House withdrew their support, including several corporate executives, prompting the president to disband a pair of advisory councils they served on. But as conservatives and progressives castigated Mr. Trump, David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, sent the president an ominous warning. “I would recommend you take a good look in the mirror & remember it was White Americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists,” Mr. Duke wrote on Twitter. Mr. Sessions was in some ways an unusual voice to emerge from the Trump administration on the violence, first in denouncing it last summer and now in the Justice Department bringing hate crime charges. He has long been skeptical of expanding hate crime laws that create federal jurisdiction over certain assaults and murders. ||||| This photo provided by the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail shows James Alex Fields Jr., who was charged with second-degree murder and other counts after authorities say he rammed his car into a crowd of protesters Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va., where a white supremacist rally took place. (Photo: AP) A federal grand jury in Virginia indicted an Ohio man Wednesday with federal hate crimes in the death of a woman run down by a car after a "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville last summer. James Alex Fields Jr., 21, of Maumee, Ohio, had already been charged in state court in connection with the death of Heather Heyer for allegedly ramming his car into a group of counter-protesters. Heyer was killed the last day of the August weekend rally organized by white supremacists and their sympathizers protesting the removal of Robert E. Lee's statue from a Charlottesville park. The highly publicized event drew supporters and counter-protesters to the university town in central Virginia. Fields was indicted on one federal count of a hate crime resulting in Heyer's death, 28 counts of hate crimes for causing bodily injury and involving an attempt to kill and one count of racially motivated violent interference with a federally protected activity. The grand jury was sitting in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville. The memorial on 4th Street is built up with more flowers while two spectators drop their bouquets into the formation. Following protests that turned violent on Saturday and a day of memorial and mourning on Sunday, the town of Charlottesville, Va., continues to recover from the social rift. (Photo: Henry Taylor, USA TODAY) In announcing the indictment, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said his department has determined that "hateful ideologies will not have the last word and their adherents will not get away with violent crimes against those they target." Sessions said the indictment "should send a clear message to every would-be criminal in America that we aggressively prosecute violent crimes of hate that threaten the core principles of our nation." According to the indictment, Fields traveled to Charlottesville to participate in the rally that was widely publicized on social media as associated with white supremacist individuals and other far-right groups. After authorities declared the event an "unlawful assembly," Fields left the area, but returned in his car as crowds drifted away from the site of the rally, the indictment charged. He then encountered a group of counter-protesters who were chanting and carrying signs promoting equality and protesting against racial discrimination. The indictment alleged that Fields slowly backed up his car in a downtown street then rapidly accelerated, ran through a stop sign and across a raised pedestrian mall, and drove directly into the crowd, hitting numerous individuals, killing Heyer, and injuring many others. He then fled the scene. In January, Fields was charged by a state court with first-degree murder among other crimes for which he will be tried in November. Shortly after the incident, President Donald Trump weighed in. "I think there is blame on both sides," Trump told reporters. "What about the 'alt-left' that came charging at, as you say, the 'alt-right,' do they have any semblance of guilt?" Trump asked. "What about the fact they came charging with clubs in hands, swinging clubs, do they have any problem? I think they do." "You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say it, but I will say it right now," Trump added. Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2N2CIHz

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The Queen has reportedly been hit “extremely hard” by the loss of her corgi Willow who died on Sunday - ending Her Majesty’s close association with the breed dating back eight decades. The dog, which was 14th generation and descended from the Queen’s first dog Susan, was suffering from a cancer-related illness. It is understood The Queen did not want Willow, who was almost 15, to suffer any further. Insiders said she was hit “extremely hard” by the loss of Willow, who had become her most devoted companion. As a descendant of Susan, who was an 18th birthday present when she was then Princess Elizabeth, Willow had a particularly close link with the Queen. On her 90th birthday, when she posed for portraits with her grandchildren, she also let her dogs share the limelight. Willow was one of four dogs at the time who featured in a picture with her, taken on steps in the grounds of Windsor castle. ||||| The Queen is said to be extremely saddened by the loss of of her beloved corgi Willow - ending Her Majesty's historic connection with the breed which dates back eight decades. Willow was 14th generation and descended from the Queen's first dog Susan, according to the Daily Mail, and had been suffering from a cancer-related illness. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below The publication claims the 91-year-old monarch didn't want Willow - who was about to turn 15 - to suffer any further. Willow's corgi descendant Susan had been a gift to the Queen on her 18th birthday - when she was then known as Princess Elizabeth. Getty Images Anwar Hussein Meanwhile, Willow had featured in the famous Olympics opening ceremony sketch with James Bond's Daniel Craig and the Queen alongside corgi Holly, who died at Balmoral aged 13 in 2016. The Queen's corgis were also present in Her Majesty's 90th birthday portrait, in which the Monarch posed with her beloved grandchildren. The Queen is said to have one last corgi, called Whisper, which she adopted after the death of his owner, who was a former Sandringham gamekeeper. She also has two corgi-dachshund crosses - Vulcan and Candy. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Back in 2015, it was reported that the monarch had stopped breeding Pembrokeshire Welsh corgis because she didn't want to leave any behind when she dies. Monty Roberts, a former advisor to the royal family and frequent guest at the royal residences, previously told Vanity Fair: "She didn't want to have any more young dogs [despite his encouragement to breed more in 2012]. Getty Images Lisa Sheridan "She didn't want to leave any young dog behind. She wanted to put an end to it." The Queen fell in love with the breed as a young child, and has owned 30 corgis over the years. Buckingham Palace declined to comment.

– For the first time since 1944, Queen Elizabeth II does not own a corgi. Willow, nearly 15 years old and the last of the monarch's long line of corgis, was reportedly put down after a battle with cancer, though Buckingham Palace says it is a private matter and is not commenting. The Guardian reports that Willow was the 14th generation descended from a corgi then-Princess Elizabeth was given when she turned 18 at the end of World War II; she has owned more than 30 Pembrokeshire Welsh corgis since then. In 2015, it was reported that Elizabeth stopped breeding the dogs. "She didn't want to leave any young dog behind" when she died, a former royal adviser told Vanity Fair at the time. The queen does still own Vulcan and Candy, "dorgis," a dachshund-corgi mix that resulted from Princess Margaret's dachshund mating with one of Elizabeth's corgis. Prior to Willow's death, the other two corgis who appeared with the queen and Daniel Craig in a James Bond sketch for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, Monty and Holly, had died. Monty died soon after filming the sketch, in which the three dogs performed tummy rolls and stood up, and Holly died in 2016. Sources tell the Telegraph Willow's death has been "extremely hard" for the queen.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.The Queen has reportedly been hit “extremely hard” by the loss of her corgi Willow who died on Sunday - ending Her Majesty’s close association with the breed dating back eight decades. The dog, which was 14th generation and descended from the Queen’s first dog Susan, was suffering from a cancer-related illness. It is understood The Queen did not want Willow, who was almost 15, to suffer any further. Insiders said she was hit “extremely hard” by the loss of Willow, who had become her most devoted companion. As a descendant of Susan, who was an 18th birthday present when she was then Princess Elizabeth, Willow had a particularly close link with the Queen. On her 90th birthday, when she posed for portraits with her grandchildren, she also let her dogs share the limelight. Willow was one of four dogs at the time who featured in a picture with her, taken on steps in the grounds of Windsor castle. ||||| The Queen is said to be extremely saddened by the loss of of her beloved corgi Willow - ending Her Majesty's historic connection with the breed which dates back eight decades. Willow was 14th generation and descended from the Queen's first dog Susan, according to the Daily Mail, and had been suffering from a cancer-related illness. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below The publication claims the 91-year-old monarch didn't want Willow - who was about to turn 15 - to suffer any further. Willow's corgi descendant Susan had been a gift to the Queen on her 18th birthday - when she was then known as Princess Elizabeth. Getty Images Anwar Hussein Meanwhile, Willow had featured in the famous Olympics opening ceremony sketch with James Bond's Daniel Craig and the Queen alongside corgi Holly, who died at Balmoral aged 13 in 2016. The Queen's corgis were also present in Her Majesty's 90th birthday portrait, in which the Monarch posed with her beloved grandchildren. The Queen is said to have one last corgi, called Whisper, which she adopted after the death of his owner, who was a former Sandringham gamekeeper. She also has two corgi-dachshund crosses - Vulcan and Candy. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Back in 2015, it was reported that the monarch had stopped breeding Pembrokeshire Welsh corgis because she didn't want to leave any behind when she dies. Monty Roberts, a former advisor to the royal family and frequent guest at the royal residences, previously told Vanity Fair: "She didn't want to have any more young dogs [despite his encouragement to breed more in 2012]. Getty Images Lisa Sheridan "She didn't want to leave any young dog behind. She wanted to put an end to it." The Queen fell in love with the breed as a young child, and has owned 30 corgis over the years. Buckingham Palace declined to comment.

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New York (CNN) Steven McDonald, the paralyzed New York police officer whose act of forgiveness made him a city's hero and an international emblem, died Tuesday on Long Island, five days after being hospitalized for a heart attack, the NYPD said. He was 59. A shooting while on patrol in 1986 left McDonald quadriplegic, but he outlasted expert prognosis and dedicated his years to spreading a message of hope and courage to children, cops and violence-worn communities near and far. "No one could have predicted that Steven would touch so many people, in New York and around the world," NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said. "Like so many cops, Steven joined the NYPD to make a difference in people's lives. And he accomplished that every day." McDonald had been on the force for just under two years when he was shot three times and critically injured by a 15-year-old boy on a misty July afternoon in Central Park. The bullets, striking him in the head, then arm and throat, left him intubated and in a wheelchair. Doctors said he wouldn't live more than five years. His wife, three months pregnant with their first child, collapsed when she heard the news. But months later, on the day of their newborn son's baptism, McDonald's wife, Patti Ann, read a letter from her husband that initiated his mission of empathy. "I'm sometimes angry at the teenage boy who shot me,'' she said, her voice quivering, The New York Times reported then. ''But more often I feel sorry for him. I only hope that he can turn his life into helping and not hurting people. I forgive him and hope that he can find peace and purpose in his life.'' McDonald brought his message to inner-city schools and church groups, and around the world to war-torn communities, including Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Israel. He campaigned for gun control alongside Michael Bloomberg and against cloning research with George W. Bush. Propelled by his strong Catholic faith, McDonald was blessed along with his family by Pope John Paul II in 1993. In 2004, McDonald was promoted to detective first grade with the NYPD. It was with the department, where he'd visit commands and roll calls and preach the importance of teamwork, that McDonald got the most pleasure, O'Neill wrote Tuesday in an internal memo. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday called McDonald "this city's greatest example of heroism and grace." "There is no greater example of honor and service to others. Let it be our mission to continue his work," de Blasio said. McDonald, born in Queens and raised on Long Island, the son of an NYPD officer, the Times said, was also the father to an NYPD officer. Conor McDonald, 29, joined the NYPD in 2010. Last year, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant. McDonald is also survived by his wife. His story, too, lives on. As recently as November, McDonald spoke with students in New York, CNN affiliate NY1 reported. "Honestly, I thought it was so inspiring how after what happened to him, he's able to forgive the man who did this to him," one young woman told the station. "To hear his story from his own mouth, to hear that he was so forgiving, it was very moving," another said. ||||| This is a set of web collections curated by Mark Graham using the Archive-IT service of the Internet Archive. They include web captures of the ISKME.org website as well as captures from sites hosted by IGC.org.These web captures are available to the general public.For more information about this collection please feel free to contact Mark via Send Mail ||||| A plainclothes police officer when he was shot, Officer McDonald remained on the Police Department’s payroll afterward as a first-grade detective, at times appearing at roll calls and offering support for wounded officers. Image Mr. McDonald in 1986, the year he was shot and paralyzed. His son, Conor, who was born six months after the shooting, is a sergeant with the New York Police Department and represents the fourth generation of the family to serve in the department. “No one could have predicted that Steven would touch so many people, in New York and around the world,” Commissioner O’Neill said. “Like so many cops, Steven joined the N.Y.P.D. to make a difference in people’s lives. And he accomplished that every day.” Officer McDonald was 29 with two years on the police force when he and his partner were on patrol on July 12, 1986. About 4:15 p.m., they stopped three boys who had been reported to be loitering near the boathouse at the northern end of Central Park. Officer McDonald began speaking with one of the boys, Shavod Jones. Seconds later, Mr. Jones pulled out a handgun and shot him three times.

– Steven McDonald spent the last 30 years of his life in a wheelchair, but the NYPD officer shot by a teen in Central Park chose forgiveness, becoming "an international emblem," per CNN. McDonald died Tuesday at a Long Island hospital at age 59, just days after suffering a heart attack, the NYPD announced—and his inspirational story is once more making the rounds, per the New York Times. "No one could have predicted that Steven would touch so many people, in New York and around the world," said NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill. "Like so many cops, Steven joined the NYPD to make a difference in people's lives. And he accomplished that every day." McDonald was just 29, with a pregnant wife and only two years on the force, when he was shot by 15-year-old Shavod Jones, whom he had stopped for loitering with two other boys on July 12, 1986. Doctors didn't think he'd make it more than a few months, but McDonald persevered and forgave. "I'm sometimes angry," he said at son Conor's baptism, a few months after the shooting. "But more often I feel sorry for [Jones]. I forgive him and hope that he can find peace and purpose in his life." The two even wrote each other—after McDonald sent stamps, stationery, and a note that said, "Let's start a dialogue"—though that ended when McDonald declined to help Jones seek parole (Jones died in a motorcycle accident days after his 1995 release). McDonald traveled to schools, churches, and conflict-ridden areas around the globe to spread his message of faith and forgiveness, and to speak on gun control. Son Conor, now 29, became an NYPD officer in 2010 and is now a sergeant. "[McDonald is] this city's greatest example of heroism and grace," says Mayor Bill de Blasio.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.New York (CNN) Steven McDonald, the paralyzed New York police officer whose act of forgiveness made him a city's hero and an international emblem, died Tuesday on Long Island, five days after being hospitalized for a heart attack, the NYPD said. He was 59. A shooting while on patrol in 1986 left McDonald quadriplegic, but he outlasted expert prognosis and dedicated his years to spreading a message of hope and courage to children, cops and violence-worn communities near and far. "No one could have predicted that Steven would touch so many people, in New York and around the world," NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said. "Like so many cops, Steven joined the NYPD to make a difference in people's lives. And he accomplished that every day." McDonald had been on the force for just under two years when he was shot three times and critically injured by a 15-year-old boy on a misty July afternoon in Central Park. The bullets, striking him in the head, then arm and throat, left him intubated and in a wheelchair. Doctors said he wouldn't live more than five years. His wife, three months pregnant with their first child, collapsed when she heard the news. But months later, on the day of their newborn son's baptism, McDonald's wife, Patti Ann, read a letter from her husband that initiated his mission of empathy. "I'm sometimes angry at the teenage boy who shot me,'' she said, her voice quivering, The New York Times reported then. ''But more often I feel sorry for him. I only hope that he can turn his life into helping and not hurting people. I forgive him and hope that he can find peace and purpose in his life.'' McDonald brought his message to inner-city schools and church groups, and around the world to war-torn communities, including Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Israel. He campaigned for gun control alongside Michael Bloomberg and against cloning research with George W. Bush. Propelled by his strong Catholic faith, McDonald was blessed along with his family by Pope John Paul II in 1993. In 2004, McDonald was promoted to detective first grade with the NYPD. It was with the department, where he'd visit commands and roll calls and preach the importance of teamwork, that McDonald got the most pleasure, O'Neill wrote Tuesday in an internal memo. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday called McDonald "this city's greatest example of heroism and grace." "There is no greater example of honor and service to others. Let it be our mission to continue his work," de Blasio said. McDonald, born in Queens and raised on Long Island, the son of an NYPD officer, the Times said, was also the father to an NYPD officer. Conor McDonald, 29, joined the NYPD in 2010. Last year, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant. McDonald is also survived by his wife. His story, too, lives on. As recently as November, McDonald spoke with students in New York, CNN affiliate NY1 reported. "Honestly, I thought it was so inspiring how after what happened to him, he's able to forgive the man who did this to him," one young woman told the station. "To hear his story from his own mouth, to hear that he was so forgiving, it was very moving," another said. ||||| This is a set of web collections curated by Mark Graham using the Archive-IT service of the Internet Archive. They include web captures of the ISKME.org website as well as captures from sites hosted by IGC.org.These web captures are available to the general public.For more information about this collection please feel free to contact Mark via Send Mail ||||| A plainclothes police officer when he was shot, Officer McDonald remained on the Police Department’s payroll afterward as a first-grade detective, at times appearing at roll calls and offering support for wounded officers. Image Mr. McDonald in 1986, the year he was shot and paralyzed. His son, Conor, who was born six months after the shooting, is a sergeant with the New York Police Department and represents the fourth generation of the family to serve in the department. “No one could have predicted that Steven would touch so many people, in New York and around the world,” Commissioner O’Neill said. “Like so many cops, Steven joined the N.Y.P.D. to make a difference in people’s lives. And he accomplished that every day.” Officer McDonald was 29 with two years on the police force when he and his partner were on patrol on July 12, 1986. About 4:15 p.m., they stopped three boys who had been reported to be loitering near the boathouse at the northern end of Central Park. Officer McDonald began speaking with one of the boys, Shavod Jones. Seconds later, Mr. Jones pulled out a handgun and shot him three times.

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Richard Jefferson Sr., the father of longtime NBA veteran Richard Jefferson, was killed in a drive-by shooting in California on Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Jefferson Sr., 65, was shot Wednesday evening in Compton and pronounced dead at an area hospital later that night. Investigators do not know the motive at this time, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department told ESPN in a statement Thursday, and homicide bureau detectives are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the shooting. Richard Jefferson played 17 seasons in the NBA, winning a championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 as a key role player off the bench. The 37-year-old forward is currently a free agent after averaging 8.2 minutes per game in 20 appearances with the Denver Nuggets last season and has started to pursue a post-playing career in broadcast journalism, appearing on ESPN and other networks. Jefferson's parents split when he was young, and the basketball star grew up in Glendale, Arizona, with his mother. His father lived in California. Jefferson and his father grew closer in recent years, sources told ESPN, with Jefferson, his wife and two children spending their summers in Los Angeles' South Bay, not far from Jefferson Sr.'s home in Inglewood. ||||| The father of NBA champion Richard Jefferson was reportedly killed in a drive-by shooting in California Wednesday night. According to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, Richard Allen Jefferson, the 65-year-old father of the basketball player, was shot and killed in Compton after several gunshots were fired from a dark-colored vehicle. Jefferson was hit multiple times in the torso and pronounced dead at the hospital. The younger Jefferson, 38, played 17 seasons in the NBA, including seven with the then-New Jersey Nets and last season with the Denver Nuggets. He won a championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2015, as well as a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. It’s unclear if Jefferson Sr. was targeted in the shooting.

– NBA champion Richard Jefferson's father was killed Wednesday night in a drive-by shooting, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Per TMZ, Richard Jefferson Sr., 65, was in front of a liquor store in a mostly residential area of Compton, Calif., when a vehicle approached and someone inside started shooting. The senior Jefferson was reportedly pronounced dead at a hospital. An investigation is underway, and authorities are unsure whether he was the intended target. The younger Jefferson played 17 seasons in the NBA and won a championship in 2016 with the Cleveland Cavaliers. His parents separated when he was a child. He grew up in Arizona, while his dad lived in California. The father and son had become closer in recent years, ESPN reports.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Richard Jefferson Sr., the father of longtime NBA veteran Richard Jefferson, was killed in a drive-by shooting in California on Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Jefferson Sr., 65, was shot Wednesday evening in Compton and pronounced dead at an area hospital later that night. Investigators do not know the motive at this time, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department told ESPN in a statement Thursday, and homicide bureau detectives are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the shooting. Richard Jefferson played 17 seasons in the NBA, winning a championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 as a key role player off the bench. The 37-year-old forward is currently a free agent after averaging 8.2 minutes per game in 20 appearances with the Denver Nuggets last season and has started to pursue a post-playing career in broadcast journalism, appearing on ESPN and other networks. Jefferson's parents split when he was young, and the basketball star grew up in Glendale, Arizona, with his mother. His father lived in California. Jefferson and his father grew closer in recent years, sources told ESPN, with Jefferson, his wife and two children spending their summers in Los Angeles' South Bay, not far from Jefferson Sr.'s home in Inglewood. ||||| The father of NBA champion Richard Jefferson was reportedly killed in a drive-by shooting in California Wednesday night. According to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, Richard Allen Jefferson, the 65-year-old father of the basketball player, was shot and killed in Compton after several gunshots were fired from a dark-colored vehicle. Jefferson was hit multiple times in the torso and pronounced dead at the hospital. The younger Jefferson, 38, played 17 seasons in the NBA, including seven with the then-New Jersey Nets and last season with the Denver Nuggets. He won a championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2015, as well as a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. It’s unclear if Jefferson Sr. was targeted in the shooting.

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Touchscreen devices like smartphones and tablets are now fixtures of many households, so it comes as little surprise to learn that young children who don’t work or go to school are among their most active users. In the first study of its kind, researchers have learned that infants and toddlers who spend more time on these devices sleep less at night. It’s a troubling finding, but the reasons for these sleep disruptions are still unclear. Traditional screen time, like television and video games, has been linked to sleep problems in children, but less is known about portable touchscreens, such as smartphones and tablets. In the first study to investigate potential links between touchscreens and sleep in young children, a research team led by Tim Smith from Birkbeck University of London has found that the same sleep disruption effect applies to these modern devices. By surveying parents about their kids’ touchscreen use and sleep patterns, these researchers have found that every additional hour of tablet or smartphone use among children between the ages of six months and three years results in about 15 minutes less total sleep. These findings now appear in Scientific Advances. Advertisement From June 2015 to March 2016, the parents of 715 infants and toddlers aged six months to 36 months (3 years) participated in the online survey. Roughly 70 percent of the parents surveyed owned a touchscreen device of some kind. In these households, 75 percent of young children used a touchscreen on a daily basis. Amongst children who had daily access to touchscreens, 51 percent were between the ages of six to 11 months, and 92 percent were between 25 to 36 months. Parents were asked to report on the average duration of their child’s daytime and nighttime sleep, the time it typically takes for their child to fall asleep, and the frequency of their night awakenings. When parsing the results, the researchers controlled for age, sex, TV exposure, and maternal education. According to their findings, babies and toddlers who spent more time with a touchscreen device slept less at night. Some of these kids managed to nap a bit longer during the day, but they still slept for less time overall. On average, each hour that a child spent on a smartphone or tablet resulted in 26 minutes less nighttime sleep, and about 10 minutes more daytime sleep, amounting to 15.6 minutes less total sleep. Touchscreen use was also linked to an increase in the time it took these kids to fall asleep, but there appeared to be no effect on the number of times these kids woke up at night. Advertisement “These results indicate that the popularity and accessibility of touchscreen devices has led to high levels of usage by babies and toddlers, and this is associated with reduced sleep,” noted Smith in a release. “Future research is now needed to build on this initial study to try and understand whether touchscreen use is causing sleep problems and how types of use may mitigate these risks.” Looking ahead, the researchers would like to understand the mechanics behind this link, and to develop more objective measures of sleep. Online surveys are just a start—what’s required now are empirical sleep tracking studies to confirm the parent-reported findings. Michael Gradisar, a psychologist at Flinders University who wasn’t involved with the study, says this research raises awareness of the fact that babies are using technological devices, but does little to explain the reasons behind the reported correlations. “This was a survey of infants’ and toddlers’ touchscreen use and sleep, and so the type of protocol used does not tell us if touchscreen use causes poor sleep, or whether children with poor sleep are more likely to be given touch screen devices from their parents—for example, to distract them or settle them down,” Gradisar told Gizmodo. “There are also other factors that can affect a young child’s sleep—such as napping, evening stimulation (noise, artificial lighting)—that were not considered in the study’s prediction of infants’ nighttime sleep. If they were, the contribution of touch screen use to nighttime sleep might be less than anticipated.” Advertisement Gradisar brings up a bunch of good points, including the issue of artificial lighting. Previous studies have indicated that light from electronic devices may interrupt the body’s natural circadian rhythm, making it more difficult to fall asleep. This might explain why kids who use touchscreens are having a harder time falling asleep and why they’re getting less sleep overall, but more research is need to suss that out. Gradisar has some advice for the Birkbeck University researchers’ next steps. “From here, the researchers could examine babies’ touchscreen use and sleep over a longer period of time,” he said. “This should produce results that will make it more clear if an increase in touchscreen use in young children occurs before seeing sleep problems in these kids, or vice versa. This has been done in adults, and the findings showed that sleep problems occurred first, which were then followed by an increase in technology use. This might happen because people believe they may as well do something, rather than lie down in bed worrying in the dark.” Advertisement Denying our children access to these devices wholesale is neither desirable or achievable. Touchscreens are now a reality of modern life, so we need to figure out how and why these devices might be affecting our children, and develop sensible guidelines to manage their use. [Scientific Reports] ||||| Data from 715 UK infants and toddlers aged 6–36 months indicated a significant association between the frequency of touchscreen use and sleep quantity (reduced total duration, with reduced duration of night-time and increased daytime sleep), and longer sleep onset (time taken to fall asleep). Every additional hour of tablet use was associated with 15.6 minutes less total sleep (on average, 26.4 minutes less of night-time sleep and 10.8 minutes more of daytime sleep). However, we found no association between touchscreen use and the number of night awakenings. To our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate the association between touchscreen use and infant/toddler sleep. Our results are consistent with a recent meta-review in older children and adolescents illustrating the negative effects of touchscreen use on sleep quality and quantity27, extending the findings to younger children under the age of 3. Our results also extend existing reports on the negative effects of TV exposure on sleep in this age group20,21,22,23,24. We show that, independent of other known factors related to sleep and touchscreen use (age, sex, maternal education and TV exposure), touchscreen use was robustly associated with many sleep attributes. Studies that have examined media use and sleep have hypothesized four potential mechanisms by which screen time can affect sleep in older children and adolescents. Firstly, electronic media may directly displace the time that children have available for sleep, leading to later bedtime and shorter night-time sleep duration6,7. Secondly, the content of the media may elevate psychological and physiological arousal, making it more difficult for children to fall asleep and reducing the quality of sleep28. Third, the bright blue light from screens can affect the circadian timing through melatonin suppression29,30, indirectly affecting arousal levels. Fourth, certain heritable traits in a child such as sensation seeking or hyperactivity, which correlate highly with his/her family environment, may also lead to both irregular sleep patterns and increased tablet use. As infants and toddlers have less control over their bedtime schedule, the displacement account is less likely to explain shorter sleep duration than in older children or adolescents, unless parents are, themselves inconsistent and irregular in their night-time routine. However, the portability of touchscreens does allow more flexibility in terms of where such devices are used. As such, some young children who have a touchscreen device in their bedroom may delay falling asleep in favor of playing on a touchscreen or even seek the device when restless in the night. Our finding of increased sleep latency could be due to increased physiological arousal from the media content or from the bright light. However, in the current study we are unable to confirm these hypotheses, as information on the time or nature of exposure is not available. Future research is needed to clarify this relationship by carefully documenting the time and content of use, and, if possible, also measure melatonin levels, physiological arousal and specific temperament traits. In addition to shorter night-time sleep, increased touchscreen use was also associated with increased daytime sleep. Similarly, increased background TV exposure (not necessarily TV that the child is watching) was also independently associated with reduced daytime sleep. Recent studies in toddlers suggest that daytime nap duration is negatively correlated with night-time sleep duration and sleep onset31. As such, touchscreen use may indirectly influence daytime sleep duration by reducing night-time sleep quality, or vice versa. This hypothesis would also be consistent with studies in older children, which found increased media use affecting daytime functioning due to indirect effects of poor quality and quantity of night-time sleep32. However, unlike school children, infants and toddlers regularly nap in the day. Thus, the indirect impact of media use on emotional and cognitive functioning through sleep might be lessened in this younger age group, as they are able to ‘catch up’ with their sleep during the day. Our findings indicate that this may not be the case, as despite on average sleeping more during the day, infants and toddlers who spend more time on a touchscreen still spend less overall time sleeping. Future studies that examine the impact of media use on developmental outcomes in this younger age group should take into account both daytime and night-time sleep duration. In addition to the quantity of sleep, Nakagawa and colleagues also reported an association between day time naps that occurred during late afternoon and shorter night-time sleep duration and late sleep onset time31. The extent to which increased touchscreen use affects timing of daytime naps cannot be determined in the present study, but warrants further investigation. Sleep fragmentation, as measured by the number of night awakenings, was not associated with touchscreen use in the current study, when controlling for the known confounds. Previous studies in older children and adolescents that included this variable have reported mixed results: while one study found a positive association between media use and self-report night-time awakenings in adolescents33, another study in younger children aged between 4 and 10 years did not34. However, sleep fragmentation in the previous and current study was based on self or parent-report, which may not be reliable. A recent study in infants using both parent-report and an objective actigraphy measure of sleep revealed a weak association between the two measures for the frequency of night awakening (r = 0.10), but a strong correlation for nocturnal sleep duration (r = 0.43)35. Furthermore, the objective measure of sleep fragmentation was also found to have the strongest impact on infant cognitive development35. Although we did not find an association between touchscreen use and sleep quality, this could be due to an underestimation of night awakenings by parent report. It is important that future studies also include an objective measure of sleep fragmentation, either using actigraphy or EEG measures. In this study, we included a range of specific sleep outcomes encompassing quality, quantity and onset of sleep. Our findings extend the limited knowledge at present on media use and sleep in toddlers beyond TV exposure. Yet, a few limitations should be noted. Firstly, our findings are based on cross-sectional data, therefore a directional relationship between touchscreen use and sleep cannot be established. It is possible that infants and toddlers who use touchscreen devices more frequently also require less sleep. Future longitudinal or intervention studies will be needed to examine the direction of causality. Secondly, as mentioned above, we did not include specific records of the timing, content and location of use. Such information would be crucial in future studies to elucidate the mechanisms by which touchscreen usage impacts sleep patterns. Previous studies in older children do suggest, however, that it is not the exposure to a media device per se that impacts sleep, but the modifiable aspects of media such as content, timing and environment that may have a damaging effect on sleep24. Third, the current study only investigated the association between touchscreen use and sleep, it will be important for future studies to establish whether this reduced sleep indirectly impacts cognitive functioning. It is worth noting that touchscreen use may also have positive effect on some aspects of development. In our recent study of the same sample of infants and toddlers, increased active touchscreen use was associated with earlier achievement in fine motor milestones12. Thus, total restriction of touchscreen use may limit young children in terms of the potential benefits of these devices. Together, our findings emphasize the need for a more in-depth understanding of how to maximize benefits and minimize negative consequences of this modern technology. ||||| Toddlers are fiddling more with tablets and smartphones during the day, and it's robbing them of sleep at night, a new study from England suggests. In the study, children ages 6 months to 3 years who spent more time playing with touch-screen devices during the day got less sleep overall and took longer to fall asleep, compared with the youngsters who used touch screens less frequently, the researchers found. The findings also showed that compared with the kids who used touch screens less frequently, the babies and small children who used touch screens more often slept more during the day but less at night, according to the study, published today (April 13) in the journal Scientific Reports. [7 Ways to Short-Circuit Kids' Mobile Addiction] This is the first study to look at the link between toddlers' touch-screen use and sleep, said lead study author Tim Smith, a lecturer in cognitive psychology at Birkbeck, University of London. Although the use of smartphones and tablets is widespread, little was known about the extent to which infants and toddlers were using touch-screen devices in the U.K. before the researchers carried out their study, Smith said. Still, despite a dearth of studies on the subject, parents had been advised to limit their small children's screen time due to concerns about its possible negative effects on sleep, he noted. In the new study, the researchers asked more than 700 families in the U.K. to complete an online questionnaire. This survey asked parents how often their youngsters played with a smartphone or tablet on a typical day. The parents also provided information about how much time their child spent sleeping, how often the child woke up each night and how long it took for the child to fall asleep. Previous studies in children and teens have shown that there's a connection between increased screen time and both a later bedtime and less shut-eye each night. But scientists had a limited understanding of the effects of touch-screen use on sleep in young children. The study found that infants that were 6 to 11 months old used touch screens for about 8 minutes a day, on average. Kids ages 12 to 18 months used them for an average of 19 minutes a day, and kids ages 19 to 25 months used them for 25 minutes a day on average. The 2-year-olds (older than 25 months) in the study logged about 44 minutes a day, on average, on the devices. And as touch-screen time increased among younger children, it cut into their sleep, the researchers found. Every additional hour of touch-screen use by young children was associated with 15.6 minutes less total sleep, according to the study. Specifically, each additional hour spent using a touch screen was linked to 26 fewer minutes of sleep at night, on average, and 11 more minutes of sleep during the day, on average, for a total of 15 fewer minutes of sleep overall. [25 Scientific Tips for Raising Happy Kids] The researchers didn't look into why more use of tablets and smartphones interfered with sleep in young children. Other research, however, has suggested some possible ways that more screen time can affect sleep in older children and teens, and these factors may also affect younger children, the researchers noted. One explanation is that time spent using these devices cuts into the time available for older kids and teens to nod off, Smith told Live Science. In other words, instead of sleeping, adolescents are spending time on smartphones and tablets. In addition, using touch screens can stimulate a child mentally and physiologically, making it more difficult for them to fall asleep and preventing them from sleeping as well as they otherwise would, Smith said. Nor did the researchers look at whether the reduced amount of sleep in young children had a negative effect on their health, well-being or development, Smith said. But in future studies, the research team hopes to examine the long-term effects of touch-screen use on children's brains, development and cognitive abilities, he said. [11 Facts Every Parent Should Know About Their Baby's Brain] In the meantime, Smith said, the best guidelines for parents on electronic media use in children comes from the American Academy of Pediatrics. The AAP advises limiting a child's overall use of these devices coupled with carefully supervising the activities that children are doing on these devices, he noted. It's also a good idea for children to avoid using smartphones and tablets in the hour before bedtime, Smith added. Originally published on Live Science.

– It's been established that screen time in its traditional form—think television and video games—is linked to sleep problems in kids, note researchers in introducing their more specific study: one that, for the first time, looks at touch-screen use among very young children. What they found is a link to poorer sleep, and it starts as early as infancy. Reporting in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers find that the more kids ages 6 months to 3 years use touch screens during the day, the longer it takes them to fall asleep and the less sleep they log in total. The study is observational and does not prove that the use of touch screens causes sleep issues, but researchers say the link warrants further study. According to a survey of 715 UK parents, kids 6 to 11 months old use touch screens (in the form of smartphones and/or tablets) an average of 8 minutes a day. That goes up to 19 minutes for kids ages 12 to 18 months, up again to 25 minutes for kids 19 to 25 months, and up again to 44 minutes for 2-year-olds, reports Live Science. Every hour of additional touch-screen use was associated with about 15 minutes less total sleep, though interestingly that increase in use was linked to 26 fewer minutes at night but 11 more during daytime napping. It's unclear why, though Gizmodo notes artificial lighting has been shown to disrupt the body's circadian rhythm and make it harder to fall asleep. (Less sleep in kids is linked to ADHD and behavioral problems.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Touchscreen devices like smartphones and tablets are now fixtures of many households, so it comes as little surprise to learn that young children who don’t work or go to school are among their most active users. In the first study of its kind, researchers have learned that infants and toddlers who spend more time on these devices sleep less at night. It’s a troubling finding, but the reasons for these sleep disruptions are still unclear. Traditional screen time, like television and video games, has been linked to sleep problems in children, but less is known about portable touchscreens, such as smartphones and tablets. In the first study to investigate potential links between touchscreens and sleep in young children, a research team led by Tim Smith from Birkbeck University of London has found that the same sleep disruption effect applies to these modern devices. By surveying parents about their kids’ touchscreen use and sleep patterns, these researchers have found that every additional hour of tablet or smartphone use among children between the ages of six months and three years results in about 15 minutes less total sleep. These findings now appear in Scientific Advances. Advertisement From June 2015 to March 2016, the parents of 715 infants and toddlers aged six months to 36 months (3 years) participated in the online survey. Roughly 70 percent of the parents surveyed owned a touchscreen device of some kind. In these households, 75 percent of young children used a touchscreen on a daily basis. Amongst children who had daily access to touchscreens, 51 percent were between the ages of six to 11 months, and 92 percent were between 25 to 36 months. Parents were asked to report on the average duration of their child’s daytime and nighttime sleep, the time it typically takes for their child to fall asleep, and the frequency of their night awakenings. When parsing the results, the researchers controlled for age, sex, TV exposure, and maternal education. According to their findings, babies and toddlers who spent more time with a touchscreen device slept less at night. Some of these kids managed to nap a bit longer during the day, but they still slept for less time overall. On average, each hour that a child spent on a smartphone or tablet resulted in 26 minutes less nighttime sleep, and about 10 minutes more daytime sleep, amounting to 15.6 minutes less total sleep. Touchscreen use was also linked to an increase in the time it took these kids to fall asleep, but there appeared to be no effect on the number of times these kids woke up at night. Advertisement “These results indicate that the popularity and accessibility of touchscreen devices has led to high levels of usage by babies and toddlers, and this is associated with reduced sleep,” noted Smith in a release. “Future research is now needed to build on this initial study to try and understand whether touchscreen use is causing sleep problems and how types of use may mitigate these risks.” Looking ahead, the researchers would like to understand the mechanics behind this link, and to develop more objective measures of sleep. Online surveys are just a start—what’s required now are empirical sleep tracking studies to confirm the parent-reported findings. Michael Gradisar, a psychologist at Flinders University who wasn’t involved with the study, says this research raises awareness of the fact that babies are using technological devices, but does little to explain the reasons behind the reported correlations. “This was a survey of infants’ and toddlers’ touchscreen use and sleep, and so the type of protocol used does not tell us if touchscreen use causes poor sleep, or whether children with poor sleep are more likely to be given touch screen devices from their parents—for example, to distract them or settle them down,” Gradisar told Gizmodo. “There are also other factors that can affect a young child’s sleep—such as napping, evening stimulation (noise, artificial lighting)—that were not considered in the study’s prediction of infants’ nighttime sleep. If they were, the contribution of touch screen use to nighttime sleep might be less than anticipated.” Advertisement Gradisar brings up a bunch of good points, including the issue of artificial lighting. Previous studies have indicated that light from electronic devices may interrupt the body’s natural circadian rhythm, making it more difficult to fall asleep. This might explain why kids who use touchscreens are having a harder time falling asleep and why they’re getting less sleep overall, but more research is need to suss that out. Gradisar has some advice for the Birkbeck University researchers’ next steps. “From here, the researchers could examine babies’ touchscreen use and sleep over a longer period of time,” he said. “This should produce results that will make it more clear if an increase in touchscreen use in young children occurs before seeing sleep problems in these kids, or vice versa. This has been done in adults, and the findings showed that sleep problems occurred first, which were then followed by an increase in technology use. This might happen because people believe they may as well do something, rather than lie down in bed worrying in the dark.” Advertisement Denying our children access to these devices wholesale is neither desirable or achievable. Touchscreens are now a reality of modern life, so we need to figure out how and why these devices might be affecting our children, and develop sensible guidelines to manage their use. [Scientific Reports] ||||| Data from 715 UK infants and toddlers aged 6–36 months indicated a significant association between the frequency of touchscreen use and sleep quantity (reduced total duration, with reduced duration of night-time and increased daytime sleep), and longer sleep onset (time taken to fall asleep). Every additional hour of tablet use was associated with 15.6 minutes less total sleep (on average, 26.4 minutes less of night-time sleep and 10.8 minutes more of daytime sleep). However, we found no association between touchscreen use and the number of night awakenings. To our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate the association between touchscreen use and infant/toddler sleep. Our results are consistent with a recent meta-review in older children and adolescents illustrating the negative effects of touchscreen use on sleep quality and quantity27, extending the findings to younger children under the age of 3. Our results also extend existing reports on the negative effects of TV exposure on sleep in this age group20,21,22,23,24. We show that, independent of other known factors related to sleep and touchscreen use (age, sex, maternal education and TV exposure), touchscreen use was robustly associated with many sleep attributes. Studies that have examined media use and sleep have hypothesized four potential mechanisms by which screen time can affect sleep in older children and adolescents. Firstly, electronic media may directly displace the time that children have available for sleep, leading to later bedtime and shorter night-time sleep duration6,7. Secondly, the content of the media may elevate psychological and physiological arousal, making it more difficult for children to fall asleep and reducing the quality of sleep28. Third, the bright blue light from screens can affect the circadian timing through melatonin suppression29,30, indirectly affecting arousal levels. Fourth, certain heritable traits in a child such as sensation seeking or hyperactivity, which correlate highly with his/her family environment, may also lead to both irregular sleep patterns and increased tablet use. As infants and toddlers have less control over their bedtime schedule, the displacement account is less likely to explain shorter sleep duration than in older children or adolescents, unless parents are, themselves inconsistent and irregular in their night-time routine. However, the portability of touchscreens does allow more flexibility in terms of where such devices are used. As such, some young children who have a touchscreen device in their bedroom may delay falling asleep in favor of playing on a touchscreen or even seek the device when restless in the night. Our finding of increased sleep latency could be due to increased physiological arousal from the media content or from the bright light. However, in the current study we are unable to confirm these hypotheses, as information on the time or nature of exposure is not available. Future research is needed to clarify this relationship by carefully documenting the time and content of use, and, if possible, also measure melatonin levels, physiological arousal and specific temperament traits. In addition to shorter night-time sleep, increased touchscreen use was also associated with increased daytime sleep. Similarly, increased background TV exposure (not necessarily TV that the child is watching) was also independently associated with reduced daytime sleep. Recent studies in toddlers suggest that daytime nap duration is negatively correlated with night-time sleep duration and sleep onset31. As such, touchscreen use may indirectly influence daytime sleep duration by reducing night-time sleep quality, or vice versa. This hypothesis would also be consistent with studies in older children, which found increased media use affecting daytime functioning due to indirect effects of poor quality and quantity of night-time sleep32. However, unlike school children, infants and toddlers regularly nap in the day. Thus, the indirect impact of media use on emotional and cognitive functioning through sleep might be lessened in this younger age group, as they are able to ‘catch up’ with their sleep during the day. Our findings indicate that this may not be the case, as despite on average sleeping more during the day, infants and toddlers who spend more time on a touchscreen still spend less overall time sleeping. Future studies that examine the impact of media use on developmental outcomes in this younger age group should take into account both daytime and night-time sleep duration. In addition to the quantity of sleep, Nakagawa and colleagues also reported an association between day time naps that occurred during late afternoon and shorter night-time sleep duration and late sleep onset time31. The extent to which increased touchscreen use affects timing of daytime naps cannot be determined in the present study, but warrants further investigation. Sleep fragmentation, as measured by the number of night awakenings, was not associated with touchscreen use in the current study, when controlling for the known confounds. Previous studies in older children and adolescents that included this variable have reported mixed results: while one study found a positive association between media use and self-report night-time awakenings in adolescents33, another study in younger children aged between 4 and 10 years did not34. However, sleep fragmentation in the previous and current study was based on self or parent-report, which may not be reliable. A recent study in infants using both parent-report and an objective actigraphy measure of sleep revealed a weak association between the two measures for the frequency of night awakening (r = 0.10), but a strong correlation for nocturnal sleep duration (r = 0.43)35. Furthermore, the objective measure of sleep fragmentation was also found to have the strongest impact on infant cognitive development35. Although we did not find an association between touchscreen use and sleep quality, this could be due to an underestimation of night awakenings by parent report. It is important that future studies also include an objective measure of sleep fragmentation, either using actigraphy or EEG measures. In this study, we included a range of specific sleep outcomes encompassing quality, quantity and onset of sleep. Our findings extend the limited knowledge at present on media use and sleep in toddlers beyond TV exposure. Yet, a few limitations should be noted. Firstly, our findings are based on cross-sectional data, therefore a directional relationship between touchscreen use and sleep cannot be established. It is possible that infants and toddlers who use touchscreen devices more frequently also require less sleep. Future longitudinal or intervention studies will be needed to examine the direction of causality. Secondly, as mentioned above, we did not include specific records of the timing, content and location of use. Such information would be crucial in future studies to elucidate the mechanisms by which touchscreen usage impacts sleep patterns. Previous studies in older children do suggest, however, that it is not the exposure to a media device per se that impacts sleep, but the modifiable aspects of media such as content, timing and environment that may have a damaging effect on sleep24. Third, the current study only investigated the association between touchscreen use and sleep, it will be important for future studies to establish whether this reduced sleep indirectly impacts cognitive functioning. It is worth noting that touchscreen use may also have positive effect on some aspects of development. In our recent study of the same sample of infants and toddlers, increased active touchscreen use was associated with earlier achievement in fine motor milestones12. Thus, total restriction of touchscreen use may limit young children in terms of the potential benefits of these devices. Together, our findings emphasize the need for a more in-depth understanding of how to maximize benefits and minimize negative consequences of this modern technology. ||||| Toddlers are fiddling more with tablets and smartphones during the day, and it's robbing them of sleep at night, a new study from England suggests. In the study, children ages 6 months to 3 years who spent more time playing with touch-screen devices during the day got less sleep overall and took longer to fall asleep, compared with the youngsters who used touch screens less frequently, the researchers found. The findings also showed that compared with the kids who used touch screens less frequently, the babies and small children who used touch screens more often slept more during the day but less at night, according to the study, published today (April 13) in the journal Scientific Reports. [7 Ways to Short-Circuit Kids' Mobile Addiction] This is the first study to look at the link between toddlers' touch-screen use and sleep, said lead study author Tim Smith, a lecturer in cognitive psychology at Birkbeck, University of London. Although the use of smartphones and tablets is widespread, little was known about the extent to which infants and toddlers were using touch-screen devices in the U.K. before the researchers carried out their study, Smith said. Still, despite a dearth of studies on the subject, parents had been advised to limit their small children's screen time due to concerns about its possible negative effects on sleep, he noted. In the new study, the researchers asked more than 700 families in the U.K. to complete an online questionnaire. This survey asked parents how often their youngsters played with a smartphone or tablet on a typical day. The parents also provided information about how much time their child spent sleeping, how often the child woke up each night and how long it took for the child to fall asleep. Previous studies in children and teens have shown that there's a connection between increased screen time and both a later bedtime and less shut-eye each night. But scientists had a limited understanding of the effects of touch-screen use on sleep in young children. The study found that infants that were 6 to 11 months old used touch screens for about 8 minutes a day, on average. Kids ages 12 to 18 months used them for an average of 19 minutes a day, and kids ages 19 to 25 months used them for 25 minutes a day on average. The 2-year-olds (older than 25 months) in the study logged about 44 minutes a day, on average, on the devices. And as touch-screen time increased among younger children, it cut into their sleep, the researchers found. Every additional hour of touch-screen use by young children was associated with 15.6 minutes less total sleep, according to the study. Specifically, each additional hour spent using a touch screen was linked to 26 fewer minutes of sleep at night, on average, and 11 more minutes of sleep during the day, on average, for a total of 15 fewer minutes of sleep overall. [25 Scientific Tips for Raising Happy Kids] The researchers didn't look into why more use of tablets and smartphones interfered with sleep in young children. Other research, however, has suggested some possible ways that more screen time can affect sleep in older children and teens, and these factors may also affect younger children, the researchers noted. One explanation is that time spent using these devices cuts into the time available for older kids and teens to nod off, Smith told Live Science. In other words, instead of sleeping, adolescents are spending time on smartphones and tablets. In addition, using touch screens can stimulate a child mentally and physiologically, making it more difficult for them to fall asleep and preventing them from sleeping as well as they otherwise would, Smith said. Nor did the researchers look at whether the reduced amount of sleep in young children had a negative effect on their health, well-being or development, Smith said. But in future studies, the research team hopes to examine the long-term effects of touch-screen use on children's brains, development and cognitive abilities, he said. [11 Facts Every Parent Should Know About Their Baby's Brain] In the meantime, Smith said, the best guidelines for parents on electronic media use in children comes from the American Academy of Pediatrics. The AAP advises limiting a child's overall use of these devices coupled with carefully supervising the activities that children are doing on these devices, he noted. It's also a good idea for children to avoid using smartphones and tablets in the hour before bedtime, Smith added. Originally published on Live Science.

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Carrabassett Valley, Maine (CNN) -- Several ski-lift riders fell to the ground and others were trapped in the air Tuesday when a lift a broke down at Sugarloaf Ski Resort in Maine. Before the accident, high winds had delayed the opening of the lift. Conditions at the time of the accident were windy, but not unusually so following a major snowstorm, a spokesman for the resort said. More than 200 people were trapped up to 90 minutes and as many as nine were injured, officials said. Ethan Austin, a spokesman for the resort, said the derailment on one tower of the Spillway East lift happened around 10:30 a.m. ET, when lift's cable skipped over the edge of a pulley. Five of the lift's chairs fell 25 to 30 feet and hit the ground, he said. "The chairs were pretty mangled, but the ski patrol was there right away," patron Ben Martin told CNN affiliate WCSH. Winds had diminished by midmorning and resort personnel checked the lift prior to opening, Sugarloaf said in a statement. Austin said conditions were basically what is expected after a major storm. The rescue operation was completed around noon. The lift will remain closed until the preliminary investigation is completed and it is cleared by the state to resume operation, the resort said. Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, Maine, was treating eight patients, according to spokeswoman Jill Gray. She could not provide the nature of the injuries or the conditions of the patients. A ninth person originally was taken by ambulance to Franklin Memorial, but that person had to be taken by helicopter to Maine Medical Center in Portland, Gray said. Sugarloaf said seven people were injured. Robb Atkinson, a CNN employee who initially was trapped on the lift, said he saw skiers fall from the lift when it came to an abrupt stop during high winds. "I felt a jerk," said Atkinson, who was riding the lift with his wife. He also described hearing "screams from skiers below" as he watched at least three chairs drop 20 to 30 feet to the ground. Matt Rolfson, 17, of Albion, Maine, was on a parallel lift with a friend and shot video from his helmet cam of injured skiers. "People on the lift yelled to see if everyone was OK," said Rolfson, adding a portion of the Spillway East line did a "yo-yo." He told CNN his lift was unaffected and he skied down later to offer assistance. High winds were gusting between 30 mph and 50 mph in the area at the time, according to CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras, and temperatures at the resort were well below freezing. Austin said Tuesday afternoon there were an estimated 220 people on the more than 100 chairs on the lift, and the process of evacuating everyone from the chairs dangling above the resort was under way. "You had to slide off the chair lift 40 feet off the ground into a swing," Atkinson said. After that, skiers were lowered down to the ground and had to ski to the base of the mountain, he said. Franklin County Emergency officials contacted Gov. John Baldacci with updates on the incident and subsequent rescues, according to David Farmer, Baldacci's deputy chief of staff. "It's extremely unusual," Austin said. Sugarloaf has never had a lift derailment of this nature in its 60-year history, he added. The cause of the accident was under investigation. "We're deeply concerned about those who were injured," said Austin, "and we're committed to understanding the cause of this incident. We want our guests to have fun, but our first priority is their safety." Two inspectors with the Maine Safety Board were sent to Sugarloaf to investigate, said Farmer. The probe is "protocol for any accident where the state government oversees certification of a ski resort," he added. The resort is located about 100 miles north of Portland, Maine. 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– Several people were injured when a ski lift broke at a Maine ski resort today, sending their chairs plunging about 30 feet to the ground. None of the injuries appear to be life-threatening. All 200 or so people who had been trapped on the lift at the Sugarloaf resort have been safely brought down, reports CNN. A local hospital said it received three injured skiers and was expecting three more. A seventh person was transferred elsewhere. Click here for more details on the accident, which occurred when a cable slipped off a pulley.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Carrabassett Valley, Maine (CNN) -- Several ski-lift riders fell to the ground and others were trapped in the air Tuesday when a lift a broke down at Sugarloaf Ski Resort in Maine. Before the accident, high winds had delayed the opening of the lift. Conditions at the time of the accident were windy, but not unusually so following a major snowstorm, a spokesman for the resort said. More than 200 people were trapped up to 90 minutes and as many as nine were injured, officials said. Ethan Austin, a spokesman for the resort, said the derailment on one tower of the Spillway East lift happened around 10:30 a.m. ET, when lift's cable skipped over the edge of a pulley. Five of the lift's chairs fell 25 to 30 feet and hit the ground, he said. "The chairs were pretty mangled, but the ski patrol was there right away," patron Ben Martin told CNN affiliate WCSH. Winds had diminished by midmorning and resort personnel checked the lift prior to opening, Sugarloaf said in a statement. Austin said conditions were basically what is expected after a major storm. The rescue operation was completed around noon. The lift will remain closed until the preliminary investigation is completed and it is cleared by the state to resume operation, the resort said. Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, Maine, was treating eight patients, according to spokeswoman Jill Gray. She could not provide the nature of the injuries or the conditions of the patients. A ninth person originally was taken by ambulance to Franklin Memorial, but that person had to be taken by helicopter to Maine Medical Center in Portland, Gray said. Sugarloaf said seven people were injured. Robb Atkinson, a CNN employee who initially was trapped on the lift, said he saw skiers fall from the lift when it came to an abrupt stop during high winds. "I felt a jerk," said Atkinson, who was riding the lift with his wife. He also described hearing "screams from skiers below" as he watched at least three chairs drop 20 to 30 feet to the ground. Matt Rolfson, 17, of Albion, Maine, was on a parallel lift with a friend and shot video from his helmet cam of injured skiers. "People on the lift yelled to see if everyone was OK," said Rolfson, adding a portion of the Spillway East line did a "yo-yo." He told CNN his lift was unaffected and he skied down later to offer assistance. High winds were gusting between 30 mph and 50 mph in the area at the time, according to CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras, and temperatures at the resort were well below freezing. Austin said Tuesday afternoon there were an estimated 220 people on the more than 100 chairs on the lift, and the process of evacuating everyone from the chairs dangling above the resort was under way. "You had to slide off the chair lift 40 feet off the ground into a swing," Atkinson said. After that, skiers were lowered down to the ground and had to ski to the base of the mountain, he said. Franklin County Emergency officials contacted Gov. John Baldacci with updates on the incident and subsequent rescues, according to David Farmer, Baldacci's deputy chief of staff. "It's extremely unusual," Austin said. Sugarloaf has never had a lift derailment of this nature in its 60-year history, he added. The cause of the accident was under investigation. "We're deeply concerned about those who were injured," said Austin, "and we're committed to understanding the cause of this incident. We want our guests to have fun, but our first priority is their safety." Two inspectors with the Maine Safety Board were sent to Sugarloaf to investigate, said Farmer. The probe is "protocol for any accident where the state government oversees certification of a ski resort," he added. The resort is located about 100 miles north of Portland, Maine. Atkinson and Rolfson said patrons were excited about up to two feet of new snow on the slopes. Both will be back at Sugarloaf on Wednesday. CNN's Alta Spells, Justin Lear and Phil Gast contributed to this report. ||||| Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from March 2011. This uses the new HQ software for distributed crawling by Kenji Nagahashi. What’s in the data set: Crawl start date: 09 March, 2011 Crawl end date: 23 December, 2011 Number of captures: 2,713,676,341 Number of unique URLs: 2,273,840,159 Number of hosts: 29,032,069 The seed list for this crawl was a list of Alexa’s top 1 million web sites, retrieved close to the crawl start date. We used Heritrix (3.1.1-SNAPSHOT) crawler software and respected robots.txt directives. The scope of the crawl was not limited except for a few manually excluded sites. However this was a somewhat experimental crawl for us, as we were using newly minted software to feed URLs to the crawlers, and we know there were some operational issues with it. For example, in many cases we may not have crawled all of the embedded and linked objects in a page since the URLs for these resources were added into queues that quickly grew bigger than the intended size of the crawl (and therefore we never got to them). We also included repeated crawls of some Argentinian government sites, so looking at results by country will be somewhat skewed. We have made many changes to how we do these wide crawls since this particular example, but we wanted to make the data available “warts and all” for people to experiment with. We have also done some further analysis of the content. If you would like access to this set of crawl data, please contact us at info at archive dot org and let us know who you are and what you’re hoping to do with it. We may not be able to say “yes” to all requests, since we’re just figuring out whether this is a good idea, but everyone will be considered.

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Pintauro told Oprah Winfrey that he has been keeping his diagnosis a secret for 12 years. Former child actor Danny Pintauro has revealed that he is HIV positive. Pintauro — who played Jonathan on the Tony Danza sitcom Who's the Boss? — told Oprah Winfrey during Saturday's episode of Oprah: Where Are They Now? that he was diagnosed with the virus in 2003 but has waited until now to go public with the news. "I wanted to tell you this a long time ago, but I wasn't ready — I'm ready now — that I'm HIV positive, and I have been for 12 years," Pintauro, 39, told Winfrey. "It's just a big deal. It's not something that people are talking about right now really." Pintauro, who came out as gay in 1997, explained that he had been forced out at the time by a tabloid magazine reporter. He said he is now hoping to serve as a role model for those with the virus. "I missed the opportunity to be a beacon of light for gay kids who were going through what I was going through because I was outed — it wasn't by choice," he said. Pintauro explained that he was initially worried that the diagnosis would mean that he would have trouble starting a romantic relationship. In 2014, Pintauro married Wil Tabares, whom he met after his diagnosis. Pintauro, who also detailed his previous crystal meth abuse during the interview, added that learning he is HIV positive actually provided him with a feeling of calm. "There was a sense of relief," he said. "You've spent so much time terrified that you're going to get it, and then you have it, and you don't have to be terrified anymore." A clip from the interview can be seen below. Email: Ryan.Gajewski@THR.com Twitter: @_RyanGajewski ||||| Who's the Boss Star Danny Pintauro is a married man! The 38-year-old actor wed Wil Tabares on Thursday in a small beach ceremony in Dana Point, CA, People magazine reports. VIDEO: Growing Pains Star Talks Life After Stardom The two reportedly got engaged in 2013 in Palm Springs after a year of dating. Pintauro is best known for playing Jonathan Bower on the long-running '80s family sitcom, which also starred Tony Danza, Alyssa Milano and Judith Light.

– Danny Pintauro, who played Jonathan on Who's the Boss?, revealed a big secret when he went on Oprah Winfrey's Oprah: Where Are They Now? "I wanted to tell you this a long time ago, but I wasn't ready—I'm ready now—that I'm HIV-positive, and I have been for 12 years," said Pintauro, 39, per the Hollywood Reporter. The former child star came out as gay in 1997. "It's just a big deal," he said of his diagnosis. "It's not something that people are talking about right now really," and he hopes to be a role model for others with HIV. (Pintauro got married last year.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Pintauro told Oprah Winfrey that he has been keeping his diagnosis a secret for 12 years. Former child actor Danny Pintauro has revealed that he is HIV positive. Pintauro — who played Jonathan on the Tony Danza sitcom Who's the Boss? — told Oprah Winfrey during Saturday's episode of Oprah: Where Are They Now? that he was diagnosed with the virus in 2003 but has waited until now to go public with the news. "I wanted to tell you this a long time ago, but I wasn't ready — I'm ready now — that I'm HIV positive, and I have been for 12 years," Pintauro, 39, told Winfrey. "It's just a big deal. It's not something that people are talking about right now really." Pintauro, who came out as gay in 1997, explained that he had been forced out at the time by a tabloid magazine reporter. He said he is now hoping to serve as a role model for those with the virus. "I missed the opportunity to be a beacon of light for gay kids who were going through what I was going through because I was outed — it wasn't by choice," he said. Pintauro explained that he was initially worried that the diagnosis would mean that he would have trouble starting a romantic relationship. In 2014, Pintauro married Wil Tabares, whom he met after his diagnosis. Pintauro, who also detailed his previous crystal meth abuse during the interview, added that learning he is HIV positive actually provided him with a feeling of calm. "There was a sense of relief," he said. "You've spent so much time terrified that you're going to get it, and then you have it, and you don't have to be terrified anymore." A clip from the interview can be seen below. Email: Ryan.Gajewski@THR.com Twitter: @_RyanGajewski ||||| Who's the Boss Star Danny Pintauro is a married man! The 38-year-old actor wed Wil Tabares on Thursday in a small beach ceremony in Dana Point, CA, People magazine reports. VIDEO: Growing Pains Star Talks Life After Stardom The two reportedly got engaged in 2013 in Palm Springs after a year of dating. Pintauro is best known for playing Jonathan Bower on the long-running '80s family sitcom, which also starred Tony Danza, Alyssa Milano and Judith Light.

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They said he often stayed with his girlfriend instead of the home he shared with his mother, stepfather and young stepsister. They said he was courteous and had dreamed of a career in the music business. ||||| New York police have arrested a suspect linked to the murder of a Brooklyn man who was stabbed and beaten Monday after he engaged in a threesome that took an unexpected turn, local media reported. Christopher Membreno, 24, has been arrested and charged with murdering Manos Ikonomidis, 20, according to the New York Post. Ikonomidis was found in an apartment building early Monday in Park Slope, Brooklyn, "unconscious and unresponsive with a stab to the chest and trauma to the body," the New York Police Department told Fox News. Ikonomidis was transported to Methodist Hospital where he died. KKK FLIERS FOUND IN NEW YORK NEIGHBORHOOD He reportedly was seen earlier in the apartment building with a man and woman. The three got involved in a sexual act together when one of the men tried to record the affair, but the woman became angry, according to the Daily News. Revealed: How man's threesome ended with him being beaten and stabbed to death https://t.co/e5W8TPVEqq pic.twitter.com/biIPAfaxLh — Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) June 20, 2017 The woman and man left the apartment, leaving Ikonomidis behind. A tenant living in the building told the Daily News that the woman called her partner, Membreno, who reportedly was not part of the affair, and alleged that she was raped. Membreno and two other men allegedly went into the apartment building and chased Ikonomidis with baseball bats, police said. The men reportedly also stabbed the young man. PROTESTERS STORM ‘JULIUS CAESAR’ PERFORMANCE AGAIN Ikonomidis knocked on the door of neighbor Joy Liguori, who called the police. “I saw the blood,” Ligouri told the Daily News. “It was out on the couch. That’s when I told him, ‘God, honey, you’re bleeding.’ He goes, ‘They stabbed me! They stabbed me twice! They stabbed me.” Lynne Moeser, Ligouri’s relative, said Ikonomidis told her, “they hit me in the head, they hit my head with a bat.”

– Police arrested a suspect Monday in the murder of a 20-year-old man following a consensual threesome in New York City, the New York Post reports. Police say the victim, Manos Ikonomidis, had a threesome with an unnamed woman and a 21-year-old man. The woman got upset when one of the men tried to film their encounter and later told her boyfriend, 24-year-old Christopher Membreno, she had been raped. Police say she also sent a message to Ikonomidis' girlfriend telling her Ikonomidis "will be taken care of." Police say Membreno and two other men showed up at an apartment building early Monday, stabbed Ikonomidis multiple times, and hit him over the head with baseball bats. The New York Daily News reports Ikonomidis knocked on neighbors' doors asking for help while "gushing" blood. One building resident says it was like "something out of a horror movie." Police found Ikonomidis in the apartment building unconscious; he died at the hospital, according to Fox News. Membreno was arrested Monday evening. Police say they have no evidence the threesome wasn't consensual. A neighbor remembers Ikonomidis as someone who "always tried to help you out when you needed it."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.They said he often stayed with his girlfriend instead of the home he shared with his mother, stepfather and young stepsister. They said he was courteous and had dreamed of a career in the music business. ||||| New York police have arrested a suspect linked to the murder of a Brooklyn man who was stabbed and beaten Monday after he engaged in a threesome that took an unexpected turn, local media reported. Christopher Membreno, 24, has been arrested and charged with murdering Manos Ikonomidis, 20, according to the New York Post. Ikonomidis was found in an apartment building early Monday in Park Slope, Brooklyn, "unconscious and unresponsive with a stab to the chest and trauma to the body," the New York Police Department told Fox News. Ikonomidis was transported to Methodist Hospital where he died. KKK FLIERS FOUND IN NEW YORK NEIGHBORHOOD He reportedly was seen earlier in the apartment building with a man and woman. The three got involved in a sexual act together when one of the men tried to record the affair, but the woman became angry, according to the Daily News. Revealed: How man's threesome ended with him being beaten and stabbed to death https://t.co/e5W8TPVEqq pic.twitter.com/biIPAfaxLh — Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) June 20, 2017 The woman and man left the apartment, leaving Ikonomidis behind. A tenant living in the building told the Daily News that the woman called her partner, Membreno, who reportedly was not part of the affair, and alleged that she was raped. Membreno and two other men allegedly went into the apartment building and chased Ikonomidis with baseball bats, police said. The men reportedly also stabbed the young man. PROTESTERS STORM ‘JULIUS CAESAR’ PERFORMANCE AGAIN Ikonomidis knocked on the door of neighbor Joy Liguori, who called the police. “I saw the blood,” Ligouri told the Daily News. “It was out on the couch. That’s when I told him, ‘God, honey, you’re bleeding.’ He goes, ‘They stabbed me! They stabbed me twice! They stabbed me.” Lynne Moeser, Ligouri’s relative, said Ikonomidis told her, “they hit me in the head, they hit my head with a bat.”

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It looks there’s another nail in the coffin of the not-quite-dead-yet Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader. Mary Ellen Keating, a company spokesperson, told Ars by e-mail that while earlier reports of the firing of the entire Nook hardware team were incorrect, there were indeed some “job eliminations across the organization." Keating declined to give any more specifics. Last month, three top B&N Nook executives also left the company. In her e-mail, Keating added: We believe we have a strong management team in place at Nook, having recruited significant new talent. The new Nook management team is focused on managing the business efficiently so that it becomes financially strong while at the same time aggressively moving to drive revenue growth. In January 2014, Barnes & Noble also announced that “device and accessories sales” plummeted to $88.7 million during the October through December 2013 holiday period, a drop of 66.7 percent. The company attributed the loss to “lower unit selling volume and lower average selling prices.” Of course, that was prime shopping season, when most retailers see a spike in sales. The company added that “digital content sales” were $36.5 million during the same time frame, a drop of 27.3 percent. ||||| Spencer Platt/Getty Images Barnes & Noble laid off its Nook hardware engineers, according to a source that tipped Business Insider. The engineers were let go last Thursday, according to our source. This follows Barnes & Noble dismissing the VP of Hardware, Bill Saperstein in January. Barnes & Noble confirmed that it laid people off when we asked. A spokesperson told us: "We've been very clear about our focus on rationalizing the NOOK business and positioning it for future success and value creation. As we've aligned NOOK's cost structure with business realities, staffing levels in certain areas of our organization have changed, leading to some job eliminations. We're not going to comment specifically on those eliminations." The Nook was its answer to the Amazon's Kindle. Barnes & Noble tried making a Nook e-reader, and a Nook tablet that competed with the iPad, and the Kindle Fire. It was a bold, and aggressive attempt to fend off the rise of Internet companies that were destroying booksellers. It did not work, though. In the September quarter of last year, Nook revenue was down 32.2% on a year-over-year basis, and it had an EBITDA loss of $45.2 million. Those numbers made Nook the worst- performing part of Barnes & Noble. Barnes & Noble has been talking about reducing the size of its Nook business for a year. Last February, Barnes & Noble executives were privately acknowledging that the Nook line needs to go. It decided to move away from making its own devices, and focus on just doing its own applications, and digital distribution. Barnes & Noble stopped making a tablet, but continued making a Nook e-reader, the GlowLight. We're not sure what the future holds for the GlowLight. While it's shedding staff, a spokesperson said Barnes & Noble remains committed to the Nook group: "We believe we have a strong management team in place at NOOK, having recruited significant new talent. The new NOOK management team is focused on managing the business efficiently so that it becomes financially strong while at the same time aggressively moving to drive revenue growth." Update: After posting this, Barnes & Noble told us that it did not eliminate its entire hardware department, but it declined to provide specifics.

– Barnes & Noble's Nook was already on death's door, and things look even more grim today after news broke that the company had laid off the tablet's hardware engineers. Initially, Business Insider reported that the company had fired its entire engineering staff for the product. The company later told Ars Technica that wasn't true, and that it hadn't laid off all the engineers, but it didn't provide specific numbers, and confirmed that there had been bloodletting. "As we've aligned Nook's cost structure with business realities, staffing levels in certain areas of our organization have changed, leading to some job eliminations," a spokesperson said, adding that the company was still committed to the tablet. But Kwame Opam at The Verge thinks "the writing is on the wall" for the Nook, given that sales dropped 66.7% year-over-year this holiday season.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.It looks there’s another nail in the coffin of the not-quite-dead-yet Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader. Mary Ellen Keating, a company spokesperson, told Ars by e-mail that while earlier reports of the firing of the entire Nook hardware team were incorrect, there were indeed some “job eliminations across the organization." Keating declined to give any more specifics. Last month, three top B&N Nook executives also left the company. In her e-mail, Keating added: We believe we have a strong management team in place at Nook, having recruited significant new talent. The new Nook management team is focused on managing the business efficiently so that it becomes financially strong while at the same time aggressively moving to drive revenue growth. In January 2014, Barnes & Noble also announced that “device and accessories sales” plummeted to $88.7 million during the October through December 2013 holiday period, a drop of 66.7 percent. The company attributed the loss to “lower unit selling volume and lower average selling prices.” Of course, that was prime shopping season, when most retailers see a spike in sales. The company added that “digital content sales” were $36.5 million during the same time frame, a drop of 27.3 percent. ||||| Spencer Platt/Getty Images Barnes & Noble laid off its Nook hardware engineers, according to a source that tipped Business Insider. The engineers were let go last Thursday, according to our source. This follows Barnes & Noble dismissing the VP of Hardware, Bill Saperstein in January. Barnes & Noble confirmed that it laid people off when we asked. A spokesperson told us: "We've been very clear about our focus on rationalizing the NOOK business and positioning it for future success and value creation. As we've aligned NOOK's cost structure with business realities, staffing levels in certain areas of our organization have changed, leading to some job eliminations. We're not going to comment specifically on those eliminations." The Nook was its answer to the Amazon's Kindle. Barnes & Noble tried making a Nook e-reader, and a Nook tablet that competed with the iPad, and the Kindle Fire. It was a bold, and aggressive attempt to fend off the rise of Internet companies that were destroying booksellers. It did not work, though. In the September quarter of last year, Nook revenue was down 32.2% on a year-over-year basis, and it had an EBITDA loss of $45.2 million. Those numbers made Nook the worst- performing part of Barnes & Noble. Barnes & Noble has been talking about reducing the size of its Nook business for a year. Last February, Barnes & Noble executives were privately acknowledging that the Nook line needs to go. It decided to move away from making its own devices, and focus on just doing its own applications, and digital distribution. Barnes & Noble stopped making a tablet, but continued making a Nook e-reader, the GlowLight. We're not sure what the future holds for the GlowLight. While it's shedding staff, a spokesperson said Barnes & Noble remains committed to the Nook group: "We believe we have a strong management team in place at NOOK, having recruited significant new talent. The new NOOK management team is focused on managing the business efficiently so that it becomes financially strong while at the same time aggressively moving to drive revenue growth." Update: After posting this, Barnes & Noble told us that it did not eliminate its entire hardware department, but it declined to provide specifics.

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Please enable Javascript to watch this video CHESTER, Va. – Police have released the names of the suspect and victims in a triple homicide at a Chester home on Thanksgiving night. Officers discovered two women and a man shot to death at a home on Dogwood Ridge Court in the Ashley Forrest subdivision around 11:30 p.m. Officials said the women’s bodies were found inside the home and that the man’s body was found in the front yard. The victims were identified as 58-year-old Jeanett L. Gattis, 30-year-old Candice L. Kunze and 36-year-old Andrew E. Buthorn. "The victims and suspect all lived at the residence in the 14000 block of Dogwood Ridge Court and this incident appears to be domestic related," Sgt. P.H. Zoffuto with Chesterfield Police said in a news release. "Jeanett Gattis is the wife of Christopher Gattis. Buthorn is the boyfriend of Kunze, who is the daughter of Jeanett Gattis." Police said 58-year-old Christopher Gattis was arrested at the scene without incident. Gattis, who is being held without bond at the Chesterfield County Jail, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Neighbors said everyone on the block is close-knit and that many of them knew the victims and the suspect. One neighbor said that when heard a gunshot last night, police were already on the scene by the time he came outside. He said he then saw a man's body and the suspect in handcuffs. Neighbor Mike Brown was stunned by the tragedy and said the suspect was a friend and a gentle man. "We were all friends. We hang out sometimes [and] cook out in the back,” neighbor Mike Brown said. "I mean every time I see them, they're always the same way. [I] had no clue that they were having problems that I knew of, but behind closed doors is behind closed doors." Additionally, sources and neighbors said the suspect was a youth pastor at a local church. Anyone with information that could help investigators should call the Chesterfield County Police Department at 804-748-1251 or Crime Solvers at 804-748-0660. This is a developing story, so anyone with more information can submit a news tip here. ||||| "I have one detained; be advised he shot three people...I got one male subject on the ground. He's got two gunshots to the stomach...Sir, we have two females down in the kitchen." ||||| Three people were found slain at a house in Virginia on Thanksgiving night, authorities said, and a suspect was arrested who was described in a newspaper account as a youth pastor at a church. Police described the incident as domestic-related. The police in Chesterfield County, Va., a suburb of Richmond, said Jeanett L. Gattis, 58, Candice L. Kunze, 30, and Andrew E. Buthorn, 36, were all found dead at a house on Dogwood Court in Chester, Va. All had been shot, police said. They said Christopher R. Gattis, 58, was arrested at the scene and charged with three counts of murder. In a statement, the Chesterfield County police said the victims and suspect all lived at the same house. They said Jeanett Gattis was the wife of Christopher Gattis, the man who was arrested. They said Candice Kunze was the daughter of Jeanett Gattis. Buthorn was described by police as the boyfriend of Kunze. A Facebook profile page for a Christopher Gattis listed his occupation as director of youth ministry since 2014 at the Grace Lutheran Church in Chester, Va. Two photographs on the profile page showed a man who resembled the man shown in the booking photograph police released of the suspect. The man in both of the Facebook pictures and in the booking photograph wears a mustache and goatee. The man in the booking photo is older, however. On the website of the Grace Lutheran Church, the following statement could be read late Friday night. "Members of Grace Lutheran Church are deeply saddened by the loss of life Thursday night as a result of three individuals being shot in Chester and this tragedy included members of Grace Lutheran Church. "Grace Lutheran Church has experienced many hardships over the years, but this heartbreak has unique challenges. Grace Lutheran Church asks for the prayers from the community as our congregation begins the process of addressing the grief being experienced by everyone involved." As read Friday night, nothing on the church website made any specific reference to Gattis by name, or to any role of his at the church. Available online public records for Christopher R. Gattis say nothing about any employment at the church. However, the Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper described Gattis on its website as a youth pastor. According to the Times-Dispatch, the website of Grace Lutheran had said he was the youth pastor there. ||||| Members of Grace Lutheran Church are deeply saddened by the loss of life last night as a result of three individuals being shot in Chester and this tragedy included members of Grace Lutheran Church. Grace Lutheran Church has experienced many hardships over the years, but this heartbreak has unique challenges. Grace Lutheran Church asks for the prayers from the community as our congregation begins the process of addressing the grief being experienced by everyone involved.

– A Virginia youth pastor has been charged in a triple murder after his wife, her daughter, and her daughter's boyfriend were found dead at a home in a Richmond suburb on Thanksgiving, the Washington Post reports. According to WWBT, the bodies of 58-year-old Jeanett Gattis and her 30-year-old daughter, Candice Kunze, were found in a house in Chester on Thanksgiving night. The body of Kunze's boyfriend, 36-year-old Andrew Buthorn, was found in the yard. All three lived at the house and had been fatally shot. Christopher Gattis, 58, was arrested at the scene. He's been charged with three counts of first-degree murder, the New York Daily News reports. Grace Lutheran Church, where Christopher Gattis is a youth pastor, says it's "deeply saddened" by the incident and "asks for the prayers from the community as our congregation begins the process of addressing the grief being experienced by everyone involved." Jeanett Gattis' boss at Napier Realtors remembers her as a "wonderful lady," saying "it's just tragic beyond words." A neighbor of the family tells WTVR he "had no clue that they were having problems that I knew of, but behind closed doors is behind closed doors." No motive for the killings has been identified.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Please enable Javascript to watch this video CHESTER, Va. – Police have released the names of the suspect and victims in a triple homicide at a Chester home on Thanksgiving night. Officers discovered two women and a man shot to death at a home on Dogwood Ridge Court in the Ashley Forrest subdivision around 11:30 p.m. Officials said the women’s bodies were found inside the home and that the man’s body was found in the front yard. The victims were identified as 58-year-old Jeanett L. Gattis, 30-year-old Candice L. Kunze and 36-year-old Andrew E. Buthorn. "The victims and suspect all lived at the residence in the 14000 block of Dogwood Ridge Court and this incident appears to be domestic related," Sgt. P.H. Zoffuto with Chesterfield Police said in a news release. "Jeanett Gattis is the wife of Christopher Gattis. Buthorn is the boyfriend of Kunze, who is the daughter of Jeanett Gattis." Police said 58-year-old Christopher Gattis was arrested at the scene without incident. Gattis, who is being held without bond at the Chesterfield County Jail, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Neighbors said everyone on the block is close-knit and that many of them knew the victims and the suspect. One neighbor said that when heard a gunshot last night, police were already on the scene by the time he came outside. He said he then saw a man's body and the suspect in handcuffs. Neighbor Mike Brown was stunned by the tragedy and said the suspect was a friend and a gentle man. "We were all friends. We hang out sometimes [and] cook out in the back,” neighbor Mike Brown said. "I mean every time I see them, they're always the same way. [I] had no clue that they were having problems that I knew of, but behind closed doors is behind closed doors." Additionally, sources and neighbors said the suspect was a youth pastor at a local church. Anyone with information that could help investigators should call the Chesterfield County Police Department at 804-748-1251 or Crime Solvers at 804-748-0660. This is a developing story, so anyone with more information can submit a news tip here. ||||| "I have one detained; be advised he shot three people...I got one male subject on the ground. He's got two gunshots to the stomach...Sir, we have two females down in the kitchen." ||||| Three people were found slain at a house in Virginia on Thanksgiving night, authorities said, and a suspect was arrested who was described in a newspaper account as a youth pastor at a church. Police described the incident as domestic-related. The police in Chesterfield County, Va., a suburb of Richmond, said Jeanett L. Gattis, 58, Candice L. Kunze, 30, and Andrew E. Buthorn, 36, were all found dead at a house on Dogwood Court in Chester, Va. All had been shot, police said. They said Christopher R. Gattis, 58, was arrested at the scene and charged with three counts of murder. In a statement, the Chesterfield County police said the victims and suspect all lived at the same house. They said Jeanett Gattis was the wife of Christopher Gattis, the man who was arrested. They said Candice Kunze was the daughter of Jeanett Gattis. Buthorn was described by police as the boyfriend of Kunze. A Facebook profile page for a Christopher Gattis listed his occupation as director of youth ministry since 2014 at the Grace Lutheran Church in Chester, Va. Two photographs on the profile page showed a man who resembled the man shown in the booking photograph police released of the suspect. The man in both of the Facebook pictures and in the booking photograph wears a mustache and goatee. The man in the booking photo is older, however. On the website of the Grace Lutheran Church, the following statement could be read late Friday night. "Members of Grace Lutheran Church are deeply saddened by the loss of life Thursday night as a result of three individuals being shot in Chester and this tragedy included members of Grace Lutheran Church. "Grace Lutheran Church has experienced many hardships over the years, but this heartbreak has unique challenges. Grace Lutheran Church asks for the prayers from the community as our congregation begins the process of addressing the grief being experienced by everyone involved." As read Friday night, nothing on the church website made any specific reference to Gattis by name, or to any role of his at the church. Available online public records for Christopher R. Gattis say nothing about any employment at the church. However, the Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper described Gattis on its website as a youth pastor. According to the Times-Dispatch, the website of Grace Lutheran had said he was the youth pastor there. ||||| Members of Grace Lutheran Church are deeply saddened by the loss of life last night as a result of three individuals being shot in Chester and this tragedy included members of Grace Lutheran Church. Grace Lutheran Church has experienced many hardships over the years, but this heartbreak has unique challenges. Grace Lutheran Church asks for the prayers from the community as our congregation begins the process of addressing the grief being experienced by everyone involved.

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O.J. Simpson could get out of prison later this year, if a pivotal parole hearing goes his way. The hearing will likely take place in July, according to David Smith, spokesman for the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners. Depending on the outcome, the “Juice” could be loose as soon as Oct. 1. Previous ratings of Simpson have scored him in the low-risk category for release. Simpson — who was famously acquitted in 1995 in the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman — has been serving out a nine-to-33-year sentence for his role in a 2007 incident that unfolded in a Las Vegas hotel room. He and armed associates allegedly confronted memorabilia dealers Bruce Fromong and Alfred Beardsley and took pieces of Simpson’s memorabilia from them. Simpson was convicted on charges including kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. The former college and pro football star said at his sentencing that he was trying to reclaim family heirlooms and other personal items that had been stolen from him, and claimed that he was unaware his associates were carrying guns. Simpson’s lawyers in the Nevada case argued that the crime did not justify the time. They said that Simpson, 69, was getting a dose of payback from the Nevada justice system after his acquittal in the Brown and Goldman murders. Simpson has always denied that he was their killer, though the Brown and Goldman families won a wrongful death civil judgment against him in 1997. Since 2008, Simpson has been at Lovelock Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in a remote desert town of the same name. This summer, Nevada prison inmate #1027820 will have his first chance at freedom. It comes at a time when Simpson has vaulted back into the limelight with the documentary “O.J.: Made in America,” which captured the Academy Award for best documentary. Ron Goldman’s father, Fred, told CNN he is not surprised Simpson may be released from prison in October. “Simpson has proven over and over again, throughout his life, he has absolutely no concern for the law or authority,” Goldman said. Simpson’s attorneys did not respond to a request for comment. At least four of seven commissioners will have to vote in Simpson’s favor in order for him to be released. Here’s how they will make their decision. How Simpson could get parole With a minimum sentence of nine years, this is the first year Simpson could be released. But he was granted parole on some of the counts against him at a 2013 hearing. This summer, he will only have to make parole on seven of the original 12 counts. Prosecutors declined to comment on the likelihood of Simpson being paroled. Simpson’s prosecution in the deaths and civil suit loss will have no impact on his bid for parole, said Smith, the parole board spokesman. The parole board scores an inmate on several factors — the higher the total score, the greater the risk involved in releasing them. A person with a score of zero to five points is deemed low risk; six to 11 points, medium risk; and 12 or more, high risk. In 2013, Simpson scored three points overall. Little has changed for him since then, and he is likely to score similarly when he goes before the board again this summer. In his favor: He will turn 70 years old in July, and people above the age of 41 are considered less likely to commit a crime (-1 point). Simpson was above the age of 24 at the time of his first arrest; he has never had parole or probation revoked; he is retired and is believed to have no gang ties; he is a medium custody inmate (all 0 points). In 2013, he had no record of disciplinary action over the year before the hearing, earning him -1 point. Simpson has maintained a pattern of good behavior and is likely to have the same score again this summer. Completing an educational, vocational or treatment program would also help him. Simpson scored zero in this category in 2013, but testified then that he was on the waiting list to get into a “commitment to change” program. If he got in, he will likely score -1 point this year. Another factor in Simpson’s favor — one that no doubt enrages the Brown and Goldman families — is the fact that his risk assessment states “no prior conviction history.” Working against him: He has a property crime conviction in the 2007 incident (2 points). In the “drug/alcohol use/abuse” category, Simpson’s 2013 parole documents cite a history of “frequent abuse, serious disruption of functioning.” (2 points) As men are statistically more likely than women to commit crimes, he also scores one point for his gender. The severity of the crime is another factor for the commissioners to consider, outside of the risk assessment score sheet. Simpson received the highest level of offense severity for his kidnapping conviction in the hotel raid, during which the memorabilia dealers said they feared leaving the hotel room under threat from Simpson’s gun-wielding associates. The “substantial financial loss” one of the memorabilia dealers incurred was also cited in 2013 as a factor that made Simpson’s crime more serious. ‘A model prisoner’ If Simpson does score as low risk in 2017, the board still has the latitude to deny him parole. Should that happen, Simpson would go before the parole board again before 2020, Smith said. But Simpson fits the profile of a state prison inmate who receives parole at the first opportunity, Nevada defense attorney Dan Hill said. “Simpson’s age, the fact that he was given parole on the first sentencing batch, weigh in his favor,” Hill said. “So does the fact that he was by all accounts a model prisoner, as does any acceptance of responsibility for his actions.” In a video of the 2013 hearing, Simpson pleads with the parole commissioners. “My crime was trying to retrieve for my family my own property that was stolen from me,” Simpson tells the panel. “I just wish I had never gone to that room. I wish I had just said keep it and not worry about it.” Simpson tells the board that he helps supervise in the prison gym, disinfects equipment, mops floors, coaches and umpires games. “Because of I guess my age, guys come to me,” Simpson says. “I’m sure the powers here know that I advise a lot of guys. I’d like to feel I kept a lot of trouble from happening. Since I’ve been here by getting involved in some of the conflicts that some of the individuals here have had.” The old-fashioned principle of remorse Members of the parole board “work with the old-fashioned principal of wanting to hear the inmate is remorseful for their crime,” said Gabe Grasso, a veteran Nevada defense attorney who was part of the team representing Simpson in the Las Vegas kidnapping case. Grasso, who stopped representing the former star running back eight years ago, has seen dozens of former clients go before the parole board. “What O.J. has going for him is I don’t think Fromong will want to show up screaming and testifying against him,” the lawyer added. “He was upset, insulted, but I don’t think that he thought the price should be what it was.” Fromong told CNN that he would testify in favor of Simpson’s release. “I told the district attorney at the time (of his conviction) that I only thought that O.J. Simpson deserved one to three years in state prison,” Fromong said. “O.J.’s done his time, he’s been a model inmate,” he said. The other victim, Alfred Beardsley, died in 2015. “Something else that could help O.J., he did not set up the meeting in the hotel room,” Grasso added. Tom Riccio, a Los Angeles man who had been convicted on stolen property charges before the 2007 incident, arranged the meeting between Simpson and the memorabilia dealers. “I hope he does get his life together,” Riccio told CNN. “I hope he doesn’t take matters into his own hands anymore. I hope he has learned his lesson.” “He was just trying to get his stuff back,” Riccio said. “A lot of memorabilia but also a lot of personal items, mementos. I don’t think a regular person would get nine to 33 years for these crimes. They were getting him for other things.” ||||| (CNN) O.J. Simpson could get out of prison later this year, if a pivotal parole hearing goes his way. The hearing will likely take place in July, according to David Smith, spokesman for the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners. Depending on the outcome, the "Juice" could be loose as soon as October 1. Previous ratings of Simpson have scored him in the low-risk category for release. Simpson -- who was famously acquitted in 1995 in the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman -- has been serving out a nine-to-33-year sentence for his role in a 2007 incident that unfolded in a Las Vegas hotel room. He and armed associates allegedly confronted memorabilia dealers Bruce Fromong and Alfred Beardsley and took pieces of Simpson's memorabilia from them. Simpson was convicted on charges including kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. The former college and pro football star said at his sentencing that he was trying to reclaim family heirlooms and other personal items that had been stolen from him, and claimed that he was unaware his associates were carrying guns. O.J. Simpson, 68, in a corrections photo released in 2016. Simpson's lawyers in the Nevada case argued that the crime did not justify the time. They said that Simpson, 69, was getting a dose of payback from the Nevada justice system after his acquittal in the Brown and Goldman murders. Simpson has always denied that he was their killer, though the Brown and Goldman families won a wrongful death civil judgment against him in 1997. Since 2008, Simpson has been at Lovelock Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in a remote desert town of the same name. This summer, Nevada prison inmate #1027820 will have his first chance at freedom. It comes at a time when Simpson has vaulted back into the limelight with the documentary "O.J.: Made in America," which captured the Academy Award for best documentary. Ron Goldman's father, Fred, told CNN he is not surprised Simpson may be released from prison in October. "Simpson has proven over and over again, throughout his life, he has absolutely no concern for the law or authority," Goldman said. A hallway inside Lovelock Correctional Center. Simpson's attorneys did not respond to a request for comment. At least four of seven commissioners will have to vote in Simpson's favor in order for him to be released. Here's how they will make their decision. How Simpson could get parole With a minimum sentence of nine years, this is the first year Simpson could be released. But he was granted parole on some of the counts against him at a 2013 hearing. This summer, he will only have to make parole on seven of the original 12 counts. Prosecutors declined to comment on the likelihood of Simpson being paroled. Simpson's prosecution in the deaths and civil suit loss will have no impact on his bid for parole, said Smith, the parole board spokesman. The parole board scores an inmate on several factors -- the higher the total score, the greater the risk involved in releasing them. A person with a score of zero to five points is deemed low risk; six to 11 points, medium risk; and 12 or more, high risk. In 2013, Simpson scored three points overall. Little has changed for him since then, and he is likely to score similarly when he goes before the board again this summer. Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? It has been more than 20 years since O.J. Simpson went on trial and was found not guilty of the slayings of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. Click through for an update on some of the key players in the trial. Hide Caption 1 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? O.J. Simpson: On June 17, 1994, Simpson was charged with the murders of Simpson and Goldman. After a lengthy, high profile trial, he was found not guilty. He later lost a civil trial and was ordered to pay millions in damages. Today, Simpson is behind bars after being convicted in a 2007 kidnapping and robbery. He is scheduled to have a parole hearing on July 20. Hide Caption 2 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Judge Lance Ito: Ito, who made the decision to allow cameras in the courtroom for Simpson's trial and changed the course of televised trials. He retired from the Los Angeles Superior Court bench in January 2015. Hide Caption 3 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Marcia Clark: Clark spent years as a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles. She became a household name as the lead prosecutor in the Simpson trial, one of the only cases she ever lost. Clark has published multiple mystery novels and short stories, with her latest book, "The Competition," came out in July 2014. Hide Caption 4 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Gil Garcetti: The Los Angeles district attorney during the Simpson trial served one more term after the trial despite criticism of how he handled it, but eventually made a career change. Garcetti has created multiple books of photographic essays, including "Reverence for Beauty." Hide Caption 5 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Johnnie Cochran: During Simpson's 1995 trial, Cochran famously quipped, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit," in reminding jurors during his summation that the former star football running back couldn't fit his hand inside a bloody glove found at the scene of the killings. Cochran died on March 29, 2005, at age 67, in his home in Los Angeles from an inoperable brain tumor. Hide Caption 6 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Robert Shapiro: Part of Simpson's "dream team" legal defense, he went on to write best-selling legal books and offer legal analysis for news programs. Shapirio also co-founded do-it-yourself legal website LegalZoom and in memory of his son, who died of an overdose, founded the Brent Shapiro Foundation. Hide Caption 7 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? F. Lee Bailey: Bailey was the "dream team" attorney who pointed out racist statements by prosecution witness Det. Mark Fuhrman. Bailey later was disbarred in Massachusetts and Florida for misconduct, and as of 2014 had given up seeking readmission to the bar. He spends his days flying airplanes and helicopters. Hide Caption 8 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Robert Kardashian: A close friend of Simpson and an attorney who would go on to participate in the trial as part of Simpson's defense team. Kardashian died at age 59 in 2003 from esophageal cancer. His ex-wife, Kris, and his children, Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob, became television stars with their reality show, "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." Hide Caption 9 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Alan Dershowitz: Dershowitz played a major role in Simpson's defense team. He retired in 2014 after 50 years of teaching at Harvard University. Dershowitz has written 30 books. His legal autobiography, "Taking The Stand: My Life in the Law," came out in October 2013. Hide Caption 10 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Mark Fuhrman: The former Los Angeles Police Department detective gave testimony about finding the infamous bloody glove, but the defense tried to paint Fuhrman as a racist who planted the glove to frame Simpson. He lied about using racial slurs and pleaded no contest to perjury charges. He is a forensic and crime scene expert for FOX News. Hide Caption 11 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Kato Kaelin: Kaelin lived in Simpson's guest house at the time of the murders, and he was called to the stand as a witness during the trial. Since the trial, Kaelin has done some acting, hosts his own show in Beverly Hills and is part of a clothing line called "Kato's Kouch Potatoes." Hide Caption 12 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Fred Goldman: Ron Goldman's mourning father was outspoken in demanding justice for his son. He filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Simpson in 1997 after Simpson was cleared of criminal charges in the murders. That civil suit found Simpson liable for the deaths, and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages. Hide Caption 13 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Kim Goldman: Ronald Goldman's sister, Kim, testified during the trial. In May 2014, Goldman wrote a book about her brother's death and her experiences with the trial, telling CNN it had taken the last decade-plus years for her to find her voice. Hide Caption 14 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Denise Brown: Nicole Brown Simpson's sister, Denise, testified in the murder trial that her sister was an abused wife. In 2010, Brown started a group for public speakers on domestic violence, sexual assault, mental health and more, called The Elite Speaker's Bureau, Inc. Hide Caption 15 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Allan Park: Park was the limousine driver who drove Simpson to the Los Angeles airport the night of the murders. He testified in the trial. To avoid pressure he felt from the media and fears he developed about retaliation for his testimony, he discreetly moved in with family on Catalina Island for seven years. Hide Caption 16 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Faye Resnick: Resnick was a friend of Nicole Brown Simpson who allegedly had a 30-minute conversation with her a short time before the murder. Today, Resnick is a television personality and interior designer, best known for her appearances on the reality show "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills." Hide Caption 17 of 17 In his favor: He will turn 70 years old in July, and people above the age of 41 are considered less likely to commit a crime (-1 point). Simpson was above the age of 24 at the time of his first arrest; he has never had parole or probation revoked; he is retired and is believed to have no gang ties; he is a medium custody inmate (all 0 points). In 2013, he had no record of disciplinary action over the year before the hearing, earning him -1 point. Simpson has maintained a pattern of good behavior and is likely to have the same score again this summer. Completing an educational, vocational or treatment program would also help him. Simpson scored zero in this category in 2013, but testified then that he was on the waiting list to get into a "commitment to change" program. If he got in, he will likely score -1 point this year. Another factor in Simpson's favor -- one that no doubt enrages the Brown and Goldman families -- is the fact that his risk assessment states "no prior conviction history." Working against him: He has a property crime conviction in the 2007 incident (2 points). In the "drug/alcohol use/abuse" category, Simpson's 2013 parole documents cite a history of "frequent abuse, serious disruption of functioning." (2 points) As men are statistically more likely than women to commit crimes, he also scores one point for his gender. The severity of the crime is another factor for the commissioners to consider, outside of the risk assessment score sheet. Simpson received the highest level of offense severity for his kidnapping conviction in the hotel raid, during which the memorabilia dealers said they feared leaving the hotel room under threat from Simpson's gun-wielding associates. The "substantial financial loss" one of the memorabilia dealers incurred was also cited in 2013 as a factor that made Simpson's crime more serious. 'A model prisoner' If Simpson does score as low risk in 2017, the board still has the latitude to deny him parole. Should that happen, Simpson would go before the parole board again before 2020, Smith said. But Simpson fits the profile of a state prison inmate who receives parole at the first opportunity, Nevada defense attorney Dan Hill said. "Simpson's age, the fact that he was given parole on the first sentencing batch, weigh in his favor," Hill said. "So does the fact that he was by all accounts a model prisoner, as does any acceptance of responsibility for his actions." In a video of the 2013 hearing, Simpson pleads with the parole commissioners. "My crime was trying to retrieve for my family my own property that was stolen from me," Simpson tells the panel. "I just wish I had never gone to that room. I wish I had just said keep it and not worry about it." Simpson tells the board that he helps supervise in the prison gym, disinfects equipment, mops floors, coaches and umpires games. "Because of I guess my age, guys come to me," Simpson says. "I'm sure the powers here know that I advise a lot of guys. I'd like to feel I kept a lot of trouble from happening. Since I've been here by getting involved in some of the conflicts that some of the individuals here have had." JUST WATCHED O.J. Simpson: I've been a good inmate Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH O.J. Simpson: I've been a good inmate 02:31 The old-fashioned principle of remorse Members of the parole board "work with the old-fashioned principal of wanting to hear the inmate is remorseful for their crime," said Gabe Grasso, a veteran Nevada defense attorney who was part of the team representing Simpson in the Las Vegas kidnapping case. Grasso, who stopped representing the former star running back eight years ago, has seen dozens of former clients go before the parole board. "What O.J. has going for him is I don't think Fromong will want to show up screaming and testifying against him," the lawyer added. "He was upset, insulted, but I don't think that he thought the price should be what it was." Fromong told CNN that he would testify in favor of Simpson's release. "I told the district attorney at the time (of his conviction) that I only thought that O.J. Simpson deserved one to three years in state prison," Fromong said. "O.J.'s done his time, he's been a model inmate," he said. The other victim, Alfred Beardsley, died in 2015. "Something else that could help O.J., he did not set up the meeting in the hotel room," Grasso added. Tom Riccio, a Los Angeles man who had been convicted on stolen property charges before the 2007 incident, arranged the meeting between Simpson and the memorabilia dealers. "I hope he does get his life together," Riccio told CNN. "I hope he doesn't take matters into his own hands anymore. I hope he has learned his lesson." "He was just trying to get his stuff back," Riccio said. "A lot of memorabilia but also a lot of personal items, mementos. I don't think a regular person would get nine to 33 years for these crimes. They were getting him for other things."

– OJ Simpson's nine-to-33-year sentence for his role in an armed hotel room robbery could see him behind bars in a Nevada state prison until 2041—or freed as soon as this October. This is the first year in which Simpson will be eligible for parole, and lawyers say there's a good chance the 69-year-old inmate will be granted it, despite the fact that the Oscar-winning OJ: Made in America documentary has put murder allegations against him back in the spotlight. "Simpson's age, the fact that he was given parole on the first sentencing batch, weigh in his favor," a Nevada defense attorney tells KTLA. "So does the fact that he was by all accounts a model prisoner, as does any acceptance of responsibility for his actions." Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of killing ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, and the fact that their families won a wrongful death civil suit against him in 1997 will not count against him at the parole hearing, lawyers say. Bruce Fromong, one of the two memorabilia dealers Simpson was convicted of robbing, says he will testify in favor of his release. "OJ's done his time, he's been a model inmate," he tells CNN. Ron Goldman's father says he isn't surprised by the news the former football star might be released, because "Simpson has proven over and over again, throughout his life, he has absolutely no concern for the law or authority."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.O.J. Simpson could get out of prison later this year, if a pivotal parole hearing goes his way. The hearing will likely take place in July, according to David Smith, spokesman for the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners. Depending on the outcome, the “Juice” could be loose as soon as Oct. 1. Previous ratings of Simpson have scored him in the low-risk category for release. Simpson — who was famously acquitted in 1995 in the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman — has been serving out a nine-to-33-year sentence for his role in a 2007 incident that unfolded in a Las Vegas hotel room. He and armed associates allegedly confronted memorabilia dealers Bruce Fromong and Alfred Beardsley and took pieces of Simpson’s memorabilia from them. Simpson was convicted on charges including kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. The former college and pro football star said at his sentencing that he was trying to reclaim family heirlooms and other personal items that had been stolen from him, and claimed that he was unaware his associates were carrying guns. Simpson’s lawyers in the Nevada case argued that the crime did not justify the time. They said that Simpson, 69, was getting a dose of payback from the Nevada justice system after his acquittal in the Brown and Goldman murders. Simpson has always denied that he was their killer, though the Brown and Goldman families won a wrongful death civil judgment against him in 1997. Since 2008, Simpson has been at Lovelock Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in a remote desert town of the same name. This summer, Nevada prison inmate #1027820 will have his first chance at freedom. It comes at a time when Simpson has vaulted back into the limelight with the documentary “O.J.: Made in America,” which captured the Academy Award for best documentary. Ron Goldman’s father, Fred, told CNN he is not surprised Simpson may be released from prison in October. “Simpson has proven over and over again, throughout his life, he has absolutely no concern for the law or authority,” Goldman said. Simpson’s attorneys did not respond to a request for comment. At least four of seven commissioners will have to vote in Simpson’s favor in order for him to be released. Here’s how they will make their decision. How Simpson could get parole With a minimum sentence of nine years, this is the first year Simpson could be released. But he was granted parole on some of the counts against him at a 2013 hearing. This summer, he will only have to make parole on seven of the original 12 counts. Prosecutors declined to comment on the likelihood of Simpson being paroled. Simpson’s prosecution in the deaths and civil suit loss will have no impact on his bid for parole, said Smith, the parole board spokesman. The parole board scores an inmate on several factors — the higher the total score, the greater the risk involved in releasing them. A person with a score of zero to five points is deemed low risk; six to 11 points, medium risk; and 12 or more, high risk. In 2013, Simpson scored three points overall. Little has changed for him since then, and he is likely to score similarly when he goes before the board again this summer. In his favor: He will turn 70 years old in July, and people above the age of 41 are considered less likely to commit a crime (-1 point). Simpson was above the age of 24 at the time of his first arrest; he has never had parole or probation revoked; he is retired and is believed to have no gang ties; he is a medium custody inmate (all 0 points). In 2013, he had no record of disciplinary action over the year before the hearing, earning him -1 point. Simpson has maintained a pattern of good behavior and is likely to have the same score again this summer. Completing an educational, vocational or treatment program would also help him. Simpson scored zero in this category in 2013, but testified then that he was on the waiting list to get into a “commitment to change” program. If he got in, he will likely score -1 point this year. Another factor in Simpson’s favor — one that no doubt enrages the Brown and Goldman families — is the fact that his risk assessment states “no prior conviction history.” Working against him: He has a property crime conviction in the 2007 incident (2 points). In the “drug/alcohol use/abuse” category, Simpson’s 2013 parole documents cite a history of “frequent abuse, serious disruption of functioning.” (2 points) As men are statistically more likely than women to commit crimes, he also scores one point for his gender. The severity of the crime is another factor for the commissioners to consider, outside of the risk assessment score sheet. Simpson received the highest level of offense severity for his kidnapping conviction in the hotel raid, during which the memorabilia dealers said they feared leaving the hotel room under threat from Simpson’s gun-wielding associates. The “substantial financial loss” one of the memorabilia dealers incurred was also cited in 2013 as a factor that made Simpson’s crime more serious. ‘A model prisoner’ If Simpson does score as low risk in 2017, the board still has the latitude to deny him parole. Should that happen, Simpson would go before the parole board again before 2020, Smith said. But Simpson fits the profile of a state prison inmate who receives parole at the first opportunity, Nevada defense attorney Dan Hill said. “Simpson’s age, the fact that he was given parole on the first sentencing batch, weigh in his favor,” Hill said. “So does the fact that he was by all accounts a model prisoner, as does any acceptance of responsibility for his actions.” In a video of the 2013 hearing, Simpson pleads with the parole commissioners. “My crime was trying to retrieve for my family my own property that was stolen from me,” Simpson tells the panel. “I just wish I had never gone to that room. I wish I had just said keep it and not worry about it.” Simpson tells the board that he helps supervise in the prison gym, disinfects equipment, mops floors, coaches and umpires games. “Because of I guess my age, guys come to me,” Simpson says. “I’m sure the powers here know that I advise a lot of guys. I’d like to feel I kept a lot of trouble from happening. Since I’ve been here by getting involved in some of the conflicts that some of the individuals here have had.” The old-fashioned principle of remorse Members of the parole board “work with the old-fashioned principal of wanting to hear the inmate is remorseful for their crime,” said Gabe Grasso, a veteran Nevada defense attorney who was part of the team representing Simpson in the Las Vegas kidnapping case. Grasso, who stopped representing the former star running back eight years ago, has seen dozens of former clients go before the parole board. “What O.J. has going for him is I don’t think Fromong will want to show up screaming and testifying against him,” the lawyer added. “He was upset, insulted, but I don’t think that he thought the price should be what it was.” Fromong told CNN that he would testify in favor of Simpson’s release. “I told the district attorney at the time (of his conviction) that I only thought that O.J. Simpson deserved one to three years in state prison,” Fromong said. “O.J.’s done his time, he’s been a model inmate,” he said. The other victim, Alfred Beardsley, died in 2015. “Something else that could help O.J., he did not set up the meeting in the hotel room,” Grasso added. Tom Riccio, a Los Angeles man who had been convicted on stolen property charges before the 2007 incident, arranged the meeting between Simpson and the memorabilia dealers. “I hope he does get his life together,” Riccio told CNN. “I hope he doesn’t take matters into his own hands anymore. I hope he has learned his lesson.” “He was just trying to get his stuff back,” Riccio said. “A lot of memorabilia but also a lot of personal items, mementos. I don’t think a regular person would get nine to 33 years for these crimes. They were getting him for other things.” ||||| (CNN) O.J. Simpson could get out of prison later this year, if a pivotal parole hearing goes his way. The hearing will likely take place in July, according to David Smith, spokesman for the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners. Depending on the outcome, the "Juice" could be loose as soon as October 1. Previous ratings of Simpson have scored him in the low-risk category for release. Simpson -- who was famously acquitted in 1995 in the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman -- has been serving out a nine-to-33-year sentence for his role in a 2007 incident that unfolded in a Las Vegas hotel room. He and armed associates allegedly confronted memorabilia dealers Bruce Fromong and Alfred Beardsley and took pieces of Simpson's memorabilia from them. Simpson was convicted on charges including kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. The former college and pro football star said at his sentencing that he was trying to reclaim family heirlooms and other personal items that had been stolen from him, and claimed that he was unaware his associates were carrying guns. O.J. Simpson, 68, in a corrections photo released in 2016. Simpson's lawyers in the Nevada case argued that the crime did not justify the time. They said that Simpson, 69, was getting a dose of payback from the Nevada justice system after his acquittal in the Brown and Goldman murders. Simpson has always denied that he was their killer, though the Brown and Goldman families won a wrongful death civil judgment against him in 1997. Since 2008, Simpson has been at Lovelock Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in a remote desert town of the same name. This summer, Nevada prison inmate #1027820 will have his first chance at freedom. It comes at a time when Simpson has vaulted back into the limelight with the documentary "O.J.: Made in America," which captured the Academy Award for best documentary. Ron Goldman's father, Fred, told CNN he is not surprised Simpson may be released from prison in October. "Simpson has proven over and over again, throughout his life, he has absolutely no concern for the law or authority," Goldman said. A hallway inside Lovelock Correctional Center. Simpson's attorneys did not respond to a request for comment. At least four of seven commissioners will have to vote in Simpson's favor in order for him to be released. Here's how they will make their decision. How Simpson could get parole With a minimum sentence of nine years, this is the first year Simpson could be released. But he was granted parole on some of the counts against him at a 2013 hearing. This summer, he will only have to make parole on seven of the original 12 counts. Prosecutors declined to comment on the likelihood of Simpson being paroled. Simpson's prosecution in the deaths and civil suit loss will have no impact on his bid for parole, said Smith, the parole board spokesman. The parole board scores an inmate on several factors -- the higher the total score, the greater the risk involved in releasing them. A person with a score of zero to five points is deemed low risk; six to 11 points, medium risk; and 12 or more, high risk. In 2013, Simpson scored three points overall. Little has changed for him since then, and he is likely to score similarly when he goes before the board again this summer. Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? It has been more than 20 years since O.J. Simpson went on trial and was found not guilty of the slayings of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. Click through for an update on some of the key players in the trial. Hide Caption 1 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? O.J. Simpson: On June 17, 1994, Simpson was charged with the murders of Simpson and Goldman. After a lengthy, high profile trial, he was found not guilty. He later lost a civil trial and was ordered to pay millions in damages. Today, Simpson is behind bars after being convicted in a 2007 kidnapping and robbery. He is scheduled to have a parole hearing on July 20. Hide Caption 2 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Judge Lance Ito: Ito, who made the decision to allow cameras in the courtroom for Simpson's trial and changed the course of televised trials. He retired from the Los Angeles Superior Court bench in January 2015. Hide Caption 3 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Marcia Clark: Clark spent years as a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles. She became a household name as the lead prosecutor in the Simpson trial, one of the only cases she ever lost. Clark has published multiple mystery novels and short stories, with her latest book, "The Competition," came out in July 2014. Hide Caption 4 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Gil Garcetti: The Los Angeles district attorney during the Simpson trial served one more term after the trial despite criticism of how he handled it, but eventually made a career change. Garcetti has created multiple books of photographic essays, including "Reverence for Beauty." Hide Caption 5 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Johnnie Cochran: During Simpson's 1995 trial, Cochran famously quipped, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit," in reminding jurors during his summation that the former star football running back couldn't fit his hand inside a bloody glove found at the scene of the killings. Cochran died on March 29, 2005, at age 67, in his home in Los Angeles from an inoperable brain tumor. Hide Caption 6 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Robert Shapiro: Part of Simpson's "dream team" legal defense, he went on to write best-selling legal books and offer legal analysis for news programs. Shapirio also co-founded do-it-yourself legal website LegalZoom and in memory of his son, who died of an overdose, founded the Brent Shapiro Foundation. Hide Caption 7 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? F. Lee Bailey: Bailey was the "dream team" attorney who pointed out racist statements by prosecution witness Det. Mark Fuhrman. Bailey later was disbarred in Massachusetts and Florida for misconduct, and as of 2014 had given up seeking readmission to the bar. He spends his days flying airplanes and helicopters. Hide Caption 8 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Robert Kardashian: A close friend of Simpson and an attorney who would go on to participate in the trial as part of Simpson's defense team. Kardashian died at age 59 in 2003 from esophageal cancer. His ex-wife, Kris, and his children, Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob, became television stars with their reality show, "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." Hide Caption 9 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Alan Dershowitz: Dershowitz played a major role in Simpson's defense team. He retired in 2014 after 50 years of teaching at Harvard University. Dershowitz has written 30 books. His legal autobiography, "Taking The Stand: My Life in the Law," came out in October 2013. Hide Caption 10 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Mark Fuhrman: The former Los Angeles Police Department detective gave testimony about finding the infamous bloody glove, but the defense tried to paint Fuhrman as a racist who planted the glove to frame Simpson. He lied about using racial slurs and pleaded no contest to perjury charges. He is a forensic and crime scene expert for FOX News. Hide Caption 11 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Kato Kaelin: Kaelin lived in Simpson's guest house at the time of the murders, and he was called to the stand as a witness during the trial. Since the trial, Kaelin has done some acting, hosts his own show in Beverly Hills and is part of a clothing line called "Kato's Kouch Potatoes." Hide Caption 12 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Fred Goldman: Ron Goldman's mourning father was outspoken in demanding justice for his son. He filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Simpson in 1997 after Simpson was cleared of criminal charges in the murders. That civil suit found Simpson liable for the deaths, and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages. Hide Caption 13 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Kim Goldman: Ronald Goldman's sister, Kim, testified during the trial. In May 2014, Goldman wrote a book about her brother's death and her experiences with the trial, telling CNN it had taken the last decade-plus years for her to find her voice. Hide Caption 14 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Denise Brown: Nicole Brown Simpson's sister, Denise, testified in the murder trial that her sister was an abused wife. In 2010, Brown started a group for public speakers on domestic violence, sexual assault, mental health and more, called The Elite Speaker's Bureau, Inc. Hide Caption 15 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Allan Park: Park was the limousine driver who drove Simpson to the Los Angeles airport the night of the murders. He testified in the trial. To avoid pressure he felt from the media and fears he developed about retaliation for his testimony, he discreetly moved in with family on Catalina Island for seven years. Hide Caption 16 of 17 Photos: O.J. Simpson trial: Where are they now? Faye Resnick: Resnick was a friend of Nicole Brown Simpson who allegedly had a 30-minute conversation with her a short time before the murder. Today, Resnick is a television personality and interior designer, best known for her appearances on the reality show "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills." Hide Caption 17 of 17 In his favor: He will turn 70 years old in July, and people above the age of 41 are considered less likely to commit a crime (-1 point). Simpson was above the age of 24 at the time of his first arrest; he has never had parole or probation revoked; he is retired and is believed to have no gang ties; he is a medium custody inmate (all 0 points). In 2013, he had no record of disciplinary action over the year before the hearing, earning him -1 point. Simpson has maintained a pattern of good behavior and is likely to have the same score again this summer. Completing an educational, vocational or treatment program would also help him. Simpson scored zero in this category in 2013, but testified then that he was on the waiting list to get into a "commitment to change" program. If he got in, he will likely score -1 point this year. Another factor in Simpson's favor -- one that no doubt enrages the Brown and Goldman families -- is the fact that his risk assessment states "no prior conviction history." Working against him: He has a property crime conviction in the 2007 incident (2 points). In the "drug/alcohol use/abuse" category, Simpson's 2013 parole documents cite a history of "frequent abuse, serious disruption of functioning." (2 points) As men are statistically more likely than women to commit crimes, he also scores one point for his gender. The severity of the crime is another factor for the commissioners to consider, outside of the risk assessment score sheet. Simpson received the highest level of offense severity for his kidnapping conviction in the hotel raid, during which the memorabilia dealers said they feared leaving the hotel room under threat from Simpson's gun-wielding associates. The "substantial financial loss" one of the memorabilia dealers incurred was also cited in 2013 as a factor that made Simpson's crime more serious. 'A model prisoner' If Simpson does score as low risk in 2017, the board still has the latitude to deny him parole. Should that happen, Simpson would go before the parole board again before 2020, Smith said. But Simpson fits the profile of a state prison inmate who receives parole at the first opportunity, Nevada defense attorney Dan Hill said. "Simpson's age, the fact that he was given parole on the first sentencing batch, weigh in his favor," Hill said. "So does the fact that he was by all accounts a model prisoner, as does any acceptance of responsibility for his actions." In a video of the 2013 hearing, Simpson pleads with the parole commissioners. "My crime was trying to retrieve for my family my own property that was stolen from me," Simpson tells the panel. "I just wish I had never gone to that room. I wish I had just said keep it and not worry about it." Simpson tells the board that he helps supervise in the prison gym, disinfects equipment, mops floors, coaches and umpires games. "Because of I guess my age, guys come to me," Simpson says. "I'm sure the powers here know that I advise a lot of guys. I'd like to feel I kept a lot of trouble from happening. Since I've been here by getting involved in some of the conflicts that some of the individuals here have had." JUST WATCHED O.J. Simpson: I've been a good inmate Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH O.J. Simpson: I've been a good inmate 02:31 The old-fashioned principle of remorse Members of the parole board "work with the old-fashioned principal of wanting to hear the inmate is remorseful for their crime," said Gabe Grasso, a veteran Nevada defense attorney who was part of the team representing Simpson in the Las Vegas kidnapping case. Grasso, who stopped representing the former star running back eight years ago, has seen dozens of former clients go before the parole board. "What O.J. has going for him is I don't think Fromong will want to show up screaming and testifying against him," the lawyer added. "He was upset, insulted, but I don't think that he thought the price should be what it was." Fromong told CNN that he would testify in favor of Simpson's release. "I told the district attorney at the time (of his conviction) that I only thought that O.J. Simpson deserved one to three years in state prison," Fromong said. "O.J.'s done his time, he's been a model inmate," he said. The other victim, Alfred Beardsley, died in 2015. "Something else that could help O.J., he did not set up the meeting in the hotel room," Grasso added. Tom Riccio, a Los Angeles man who had been convicted on stolen property charges before the 2007 incident, arranged the meeting between Simpson and the memorabilia dealers. "I hope he does get his life together," Riccio told CNN. "I hope he doesn't take matters into his own hands anymore. I hope he has learned his lesson." "He was just trying to get his stuff back," Riccio said. "A lot of memorabilia but also a lot of personal items, mementos. I don't think a regular person would get nine to 33 years for these crimes. They were getting him for other things."

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EMBED More News Videos What we know about SW Houston shooting rampage EMBED More News Videos An eyewitness describes the takedown of a suspect following a shooting rampage on Weslayan Street. EMBED More News Videos An active shooter situation is reported in southwest Houston Active shooter scene still active but contained. Suspect DOA. Media staging area at Wells Fargo parking lot at 3900 Bissonnett & Weslayan. — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) September 26, 2016 Our bomb squad will be checking suspect's vehicle. Crime scene covers a multiple block area near Weslayan at Bissonnet.#hounews — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) September 26, 2016 ⚠ AlertHouston |Shelter-in-Place until Further Notice in SW Houston https://t.co/lwgPJ0w2NR #hounews — AlertHouston (@AlertHouston) September 26, 2016 Several people shot by suspect are being transported to area hospitals; unknown exact number or severity of injuries #hounews — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) September 26, 2016 EMBED More News Videos A witness to the shooting shares his account 6:29am: HFD dispatched to corner of Weslayan and Bissonnet 6:32am: First unit arrives, determines active shooter situation 7:02am: Suspect down (per police scanner) EMBED More News Videos Initial reports indicate multiple people have been shot in the Weslayan area Active shooter at Weslayan & Bissonnet has been shot by our officers; no reports of other suspects at this time #hounews — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) September 26, 2016 EMBED More News Videos A fire official shares an update on the active shooter situation in the West University area EMBED More News Videos Removal of shooting rampage suspect's body from scene. EMBED More News Videos A woman tells abc13 about the shooting this morning in southwest Houston EMBED More News Videos A father says he feels blessed after avoiding the active shooter situation in southwest Houston EMBED More News Videos A boy who lives in the area where the active shooter situation happened shares what he heard Eyewitnesses ducked for cover after police say a lawyer armed with several weapons opened fire near a southwest Houston strip center, injuring nine people before he was shot and killed by officers. Police have refused to confirm his identity, or speculate on a motive.A bomb squad cleared a vehicle near the scene. The Porsche in question is registered to Nathan DeSai.ABC News has learned that two guns and Nazi materials were found at the scene. ABC13 has confirmed that the Nazi materials found inside the car registered to DeSai.DeSai has been identified as a local attorney. Eyewitness News has been in contact with DeSai's father and former law partner.One source tells Eyewitness News that the vehicle was found filled with weapons.HFD says six people were taken to area hospitals after they were injured by the shooter. Three were treated at the scene for injuries from broken glass, and released.One victim is in critical condition with a gunshot wound, according to Memorial Hermann Hospital. Additionally, we know one is in fair condition and three are in good condition.Two people were taken to Memorial Hermann Red Duke Trauma Institute and another three were taken to Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital. A sixth patient was transported to Ben Taub. Three patients have been treated and released, and officials say all are expected to survive.A shelter-in-place had been ordered for the West University area shortly before HPD confirmed the alleged shooter was fatally shot by officers. The order was lifted hours later, as the investigation progressed.West University Elementary School said it would open on time in spite of the shooting investigation.Weslayan remains closed to traffic while officers investigate.At around 6:30 this morning, HFD scanners reported a suspect was at a strip center firing upon vehicles."We received a call at 6:29 that we had a shooting at the Petco store...the first units were directed to the parking lot where the shooting was still active," HFD's Jay Evans says.Emergency vehicles flooded the area around the strip center bordered by Weslayan, Bissonnet and Law Street.Antwon Wilson witnessed the shooting and told Eyewitness News he was shaken up after being caught in the crossfire."I literally heard the gunshots past my face," Wilson said. "It's a hard pill to swallow."Wilson said there was a steady shooting back and forth as officers worked to bring the active shooting situation to a close.Police concentrated much of their focus during the shooting on an apartment complex on nearby Law Street, located behind the strip center.Governor Greg Abbott encouraged his Twitter followers to pray for the Houston shooting victims.Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, meantime, expressed his sorrow for the victims of the shooting.We're following this story on Eyewitness News. Watch for updates on air, online and on our mobile news app. ||||| Police investigate the car believed to belong to the alleged shooter at the scene of a shooting along Wesleyan at Law Street in Houston that left multiple people injured and the alleged shooter dead,... (Associated Press) Police investigate the car believed to belong to the alleged shooter at the scene of a shooting along Wesleyan at Law Street in Houston that left multiple people injured and the alleged shooter dead, Monday morning, Sept. 26, 2016, in Houston. (Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP) (Associated Press) HOUSTON (AP) — A disgruntled lawyer who had numerous weapons randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood Monday morning, hitting six people, one critically, before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said. Another three people had injuries from glass or debris. The first report of the shootings came in at about 6:30 a.m., Police Chief Martha Montalvo said at a news conference, and the suspect began firing at officers when they arrived. Montalvo did not identify the man; Mayor Sylvester Turner told KTRK-TV that the lawyer was "disgruntled" and "either fired or had a bad relationship with this law firm." Numerous weapons were found at the scene, a bomb-squad robot examined a Porsche that's believed to be the shooter's and bomb squad officers also were scouring the suspect's residence, Montalvo said. The entrance to the condo complex, which is near the affluent enclave of West University Place, was still blocked off with police tape late Monday morning. Several cars with bullet holes and shattered windows were at a nearby strip mall. Jennifer Molleda and her husband live in the same condo complex as the shooter. Though she heard gunshots about 6:12 a.m. and called 911, her husband left for work. The 45-year-old called him not long after, and he told her "I'm hit, I'm hit." After the shooting stopped at 7:15 a.m., Molleda found her husband, 49-year-old Alan Wakim, several blocks away in the parking lot of a nearby strip mall. His Mustang had two shots that went through the windshield, and he told her that he saw a red laser beam before the shots were fired. He was taken to a hospital to be treated. "He got out of his car, we hugged, we cried," Molleda said, adding that after she saw everything he believes the man was "aiming to kill." Molleda said that said a few weeks ago, the suspect brandished an assault-style weapon at roofers in the complex. She said she didn't know him very well but described him as quiet. "He's a normal, average Joe," she said. Another witness, 30-year-old Antwon Wilson, inadvertently drove into the shooting scene after dropping off his girlfriend at work and could "literally hear the gunfire flying." He managed to flee and escape injury. Lee Williams left his home in the neighborhood upon hearing gunshots and began directing traffic away from the condo complex, noting that people usually cut through the area to avoid some busier intersections. One car ignored him, he said, and was immediately shot at. Williams couldn't see the gunman because it was dark, but believed he saw the muzzle flashes. "Whatever cars were going by, he was shooting at them," the 55-year-old said, noting he heard at least 50 gunshots over 40 or so minutes. As he was being interviewed, neighbors came by and patted him on the back, thanking him for keeping people safe. Of the nine people hurt, Houston Fire Department spokesman Ruy Lozano said six were shot and three had minor injuries related to glass. Montalvo said one person was hospitalized in critical condition and another in serious condition. "The investigation is active. It's very, very early. We want to make sure there is no other gunman. We are checking every angle, I can assure you," Turner told the TV station.

– The man who opened fire in a Houston neighborhood Monday morning and randomly shot six people has been described as a disgruntled lawyer, reports AP. Mayor Sylvester Turner tells KTRK-TV that the unidentified man was either fired from "or had a bad relationship with this law firm." The gunman died at the scene, apparently from a police bullet. None of those he shot were killed, though one victim is critically injured. Three additional people have injuries from glass or debris. The first report of the shootings came in about 6:30am, Police Chief Martha Montalvo said at a news conference, and the suspect began firing at officers when they arrived. Numerous weapons were found at the scene, a bomb-squad robot examined a Porsche that's believed to be the shooter's, and bomb squad officers also were scouring the suspect's residence, Montalvo said. Jennifer Molleda and her husband live in the same condo complex as the shooter. Though she heard gunshots about 6:12am and called 911, her husband left for work. The 45-year-old called him not long after, and he told her, "I'm hit, I'm hit." After the shooting stopped at 7:15 a.m., Molleda found her husband, 49-year-old Alan Wakim, several blocks away in the parking lot of a nearby strip mall. His Mustang had two shots that went through the windshield, and he told her that he saw a red laser beam before the shots were fired. He was taken to a hospital to be treated.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.EMBED More News Videos What we know about SW Houston shooting rampage EMBED More News Videos An eyewitness describes the takedown of a suspect following a shooting rampage on Weslayan Street. EMBED More News Videos An active shooter situation is reported in southwest Houston Active shooter scene still active but contained. Suspect DOA. Media staging area at Wells Fargo parking lot at 3900 Bissonnett & Weslayan. — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) September 26, 2016 Our bomb squad will be checking suspect's vehicle. Crime scene covers a multiple block area near Weslayan at Bissonnet.#hounews — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) September 26, 2016 ⚠ AlertHouston |Shelter-in-Place until Further Notice in SW Houston https://t.co/lwgPJ0w2NR #hounews — AlertHouston (@AlertHouston) September 26, 2016 Several people shot by suspect are being transported to area hospitals; unknown exact number or severity of injuries #hounews — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) September 26, 2016 EMBED More News Videos A witness to the shooting shares his account 6:29am: HFD dispatched to corner of Weslayan and Bissonnet 6:32am: First unit arrives, determines active shooter situation 7:02am: Suspect down (per police scanner) EMBED More News Videos Initial reports indicate multiple people have been shot in the Weslayan area Active shooter at Weslayan & Bissonnet has been shot by our officers; no reports of other suspects at this time #hounews — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) September 26, 2016 EMBED More News Videos A fire official shares an update on the active shooter situation in the West University area EMBED More News Videos Removal of shooting rampage suspect's body from scene. EMBED More News Videos A woman tells abc13 about the shooting this morning in southwest Houston EMBED More News Videos A father says he feels blessed after avoiding the active shooter situation in southwest Houston EMBED More News Videos A boy who lives in the area where the active shooter situation happened shares what he heard Eyewitnesses ducked for cover after police say a lawyer armed with several weapons opened fire near a southwest Houston strip center, injuring nine people before he was shot and killed by officers. Police have refused to confirm his identity, or speculate on a motive.A bomb squad cleared a vehicle near the scene. The Porsche in question is registered to Nathan DeSai.ABC News has learned that two guns and Nazi materials were found at the scene. ABC13 has confirmed that the Nazi materials found inside the car registered to DeSai.DeSai has been identified as a local attorney. Eyewitness News has been in contact with DeSai's father and former law partner.One source tells Eyewitness News that the vehicle was found filled with weapons.HFD says six people were taken to area hospitals after they were injured by the shooter. Three were treated at the scene for injuries from broken glass, and released.One victim is in critical condition with a gunshot wound, according to Memorial Hermann Hospital. Additionally, we know one is in fair condition and three are in good condition.Two people were taken to Memorial Hermann Red Duke Trauma Institute and another three were taken to Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital. A sixth patient was transported to Ben Taub. Three patients have been treated and released, and officials say all are expected to survive.A shelter-in-place had been ordered for the West University area shortly before HPD confirmed the alleged shooter was fatally shot by officers. The order was lifted hours later, as the investigation progressed.West University Elementary School said it would open on time in spite of the shooting investigation.Weslayan remains closed to traffic while officers investigate.At around 6:30 this morning, HFD scanners reported a suspect was at a strip center firing upon vehicles."We received a call at 6:29 that we had a shooting at the Petco store...the first units were directed to the parking lot where the shooting was still active," HFD's Jay Evans says.Emergency vehicles flooded the area around the strip center bordered by Weslayan, Bissonnet and Law Street.Antwon Wilson witnessed the shooting and told Eyewitness News he was shaken up after being caught in the crossfire."I literally heard the gunshots past my face," Wilson said. "It's a hard pill to swallow."Wilson said there was a steady shooting back and forth as officers worked to bring the active shooting situation to a close.Police concentrated much of their focus during the shooting on an apartment complex on nearby Law Street, located behind the strip center.Governor Greg Abbott encouraged his Twitter followers to pray for the Houston shooting victims.Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, meantime, expressed his sorrow for the victims of the shooting.We're following this story on Eyewitness News. Watch for updates on air, online and on our mobile news app. ||||| Police investigate the car believed to belong to the alleged shooter at the scene of a shooting along Wesleyan at Law Street in Houston that left multiple people injured and the alleged shooter dead,... (Associated Press) Police investigate the car believed to belong to the alleged shooter at the scene of a shooting along Wesleyan at Law Street in Houston that left multiple people injured and the alleged shooter dead, Monday morning, Sept. 26, 2016, in Houston. (Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP) (Associated Press) HOUSTON (AP) — A disgruntled lawyer who had numerous weapons randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood Monday morning, hitting six people, one critically, before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said. Another three people had injuries from glass or debris. The first report of the shootings came in at about 6:30 a.m., Police Chief Martha Montalvo said at a news conference, and the suspect began firing at officers when they arrived. Montalvo did not identify the man; Mayor Sylvester Turner told KTRK-TV that the lawyer was "disgruntled" and "either fired or had a bad relationship with this law firm." Numerous weapons were found at the scene, a bomb-squad robot examined a Porsche that's believed to be the shooter's and bomb squad officers also were scouring the suspect's residence, Montalvo said. The entrance to the condo complex, which is near the affluent enclave of West University Place, was still blocked off with police tape late Monday morning. Several cars with bullet holes and shattered windows were at a nearby strip mall. Jennifer Molleda and her husband live in the same condo complex as the shooter. Though she heard gunshots about 6:12 a.m. and called 911, her husband left for work. The 45-year-old called him not long after, and he told her "I'm hit, I'm hit." After the shooting stopped at 7:15 a.m., Molleda found her husband, 49-year-old Alan Wakim, several blocks away in the parking lot of a nearby strip mall. His Mustang had two shots that went through the windshield, and he told her that he saw a red laser beam before the shots were fired. He was taken to a hospital to be treated. "He got out of his car, we hugged, we cried," Molleda said, adding that after she saw everything he believes the man was "aiming to kill." Molleda said that said a few weeks ago, the suspect brandished an assault-style weapon at roofers in the complex. She said she didn't know him very well but described him as quiet. "He's a normal, average Joe," she said. Another witness, 30-year-old Antwon Wilson, inadvertently drove into the shooting scene after dropping off his girlfriend at work and could "literally hear the gunfire flying." He managed to flee and escape injury. Lee Williams left his home in the neighborhood upon hearing gunshots and began directing traffic away from the condo complex, noting that people usually cut through the area to avoid some busier intersections. One car ignored him, he said, and was immediately shot at. Williams couldn't see the gunman because it was dark, but believed he saw the muzzle flashes. "Whatever cars were going by, he was shooting at them," the 55-year-old said, noting he heard at least 50 gunshots over 40 or so minutes. As he was being interviewed, neighbors came by and patted him on the back, thanking him for keeping people safe. Of the nine people hurt, Houston Fire Department spokesman Ruy Lozano said six were shot and three had minor injuries related to glass. Montalvo said one person was hospitalized in critical condition and another in serious condition. "The investigation is active. It's very, very early. We want to make sure there is no other gunman. We are checking every angle, I can assure you," Turner told the TV station.

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Please enable Javascript to watch this video BUNKER HILL, Ind. (May 5, 2015)-- Administrators suspended four students in a rural central Indiana school district for suspected gang activity. The students involved are in elementary school and in fifth grade. It's a gang incident some in Miami County just can't believe. "Part of the student fight was about somebody being in a gang," said Doug Arnold, Superintendent, Maconaquah School Corporation. Arnold called the situation shocking, as four fifth grade students are suspended and facing expulsion. He said the gang talk started last week after a fight at the elementary school among students. "What we saw was, there were a few students who said, this is our gang. This is our symbol. Another one said, I want to be a part of that gang. The other one said no," said Arnold. Arnold said administrators started investigating and found multiple students involved. As of Tuesday, four were suspended. "We have an initial four," said Arnold, "There could be an additional, several more. We don't know. We don't expect any more than a dozen." The district said the concept of the "gang" went so far that some students even had a made-up gang symbol scratched into their skin. "My understanding is one of the students scratched themselves with this symbol and might have used a small blade they took from a pencil sharpener," said Arnold, "One of the students had a band-aid covering it and when the administrator approached the student it had been scratched on the arm." Arnold said the district is still investigating the incident. They're pushing for expulsion for the four because of specific board policy that prohibits any gang-related activity. The superintendent said administrators want to know where the kids got this idea of a gang and if they really understand it. "Fifth graders, you don't expect to see this," he said, "We know there are some kids having a hard time fitting in. One way to do that is to say, you know, you two or three guys, we are all together. This is one group. You other kids aren't a part of it." Parents said they never thought they'd hear the idea of a fifth-grade gang coming from their child's school. "I was shocked. I expect to hear that from middle and high school but from elementary, I was shocked," said Lisa Wilson. "We have board policy that prohibits any kind of gang-like activity. We're not going to tolerate it. When we discovered it, it was dealt with immediately. It was dealt with seriously. We're going to investigate to make sure that there's nothing else involved. And if there is, it will be dealt with in a similar fashion," said Arnold. Arnold said the elementary principal is in the process of drafting a letter to send home to parents explaining the situation. He went on to say the recommended expulsion for the students will likely extend just to the remainder of the current school year. ||||| BUNKER HILL , Ind., May 5 (UPI) -- A school in a rural Indiana town suspended four fifth-graders it accused of taking part in gang activity, according to a report. The students attended Maconaquah Elementary School in Bunker Hill, a town in the central part of the state that had a recorded population of 888 in the 2010 census. "Part of the student fight was about somebody being in a gang," Doug Arnold, superintendent of Maconaquah School Corp., told WXIN. "What we saw was, there were a few students who said, 'This is our gang. This is our symbol.' Another one said, 'I want to be a part of that gang.' The other one said, 'No.' " Administrators investigated and found several students were involved, Arnold said, adding that the gang even had a symbol. "My understanding is one of the students scratched themselves with this symbol and might have used a small blade they took from a pencil sharpener," he said. The school board is still investigating the allegations and intends to expel the four students based on a board policy prohibiting gang-related activity. The average age of students in fifth grade is 10 or 11. "Fifth-graders, you don't expect to see this," Arnold said. "We know there are some kids having a hard time fitting in. One way to do that is to say, you know, 'You two or three guys, we are all together. This is one group. You other kids aren't a part of it.' "

– A rural school in the small Indiana town of Bunker Hill, home to just 888 people, is down four students after they were suspended for suspected gang activity. The kicker: They're believed to be between 10 and 11 years old. Though Maconaquah Elementary School is still investigating the incident, it says it will likely expel the four fifth-graders for the remainder of the school year because gang activity is banned according to school board policy, UPI reports. School officials say the move followed a fight between two students, one of whom was reportedly barred from joining the supposed gang. At least 12 students believed they were involved in the group and some were handed a lesser penalty, reports the Kokomo Tribune. Superintendent Doug Arnold notes the gang even had a symbol, and at least one child was branded with it. "My understanding is one of the students scratched themselves with this symbol and might have used a small blade they took from a pencil sharpener," he says, per Fox 59. The child "had a band-aid covering it and when the administrator approached the student it had been scratched on the arm." It isn't clear if any further action will be taken regarding the other students involved, though Arnold says, "We're going to investigate to make sure that there's nothing else involved. And if there is, it will be dealt with in a similar fashion." He notes that gang activity among fifth-graders was a surprise. "I expect to hear that from middle and high school, but from elementary, I was shocked," a parent adds. Officials will investigate how the gang formed and if its members understand the idea behind it before proceeding with expulsions.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Please enable Javascript to watch this video BUNKER HILL, Ind. (May 5, 2015)-- Administrators suspended four students in a rural central Indiana school district for suspected gang activity. The students involved are in elementary school and in fifth grade. It's a gang incident some in Miami County just can't believe. "Part of the student fight was about somebody being in a gang," said Doug Arnold, Superintendent, Maconaquah School Corporation. Arnold called the situation shocking, as four fifth grade students are suspended and facing expulsion. He said the gang talk started last week after a fight at the elementary school among students. "What we saw was, there were a few students who said, this is our gang. This is our symbol. Another one said, I want to be a part of that gang. The other one said no," said Arnold. Arnold said administrators started investigating and found multiple students involved. As of Tuesday, four were suspended. "We have an initial four," said Arnold, "There could be an additional, several more. We don't know. We don't expect any more than a dozen." The district said the concept of the "gang" went so far that some students even had a made-up gang symbol scratched into their skin. "My understanding is one of the students scratched themselves with this symbol and might have used a small blade they took from a pencil sharpener," said Arnold, "One of the students had a band-aid covering it and when the administrator approached the student it had been scratched on the arm." Arnold said the district is still investigating the incident. They're pushing for expulsion for the four because of specific board policy that prohibits any gang-related activity. The superintendent said administrators want to know where the kids got this idea of a gang and if they really understand it. "Fifth graders, you don't expect to see this," he said, "We know there are some kids having a hard time fitting in. One way to do that is to say, you know, you two or three guys, we are all together. This is one group. You other kids aren't a part of it." Parents said they never thought they'd hear the idea of a fifth-grade gang coming from their child's school. "I was shocked. I expect to hear that from middle and high school but from elementary, I was shocked," said Lisa Wilson. "We have board policy that prohibits any kind of gang-like activity. We're not going to tolerate it. When we discovered it, it was dealt with immediately. It was dealt with seriously. We're going to investigate to make sure that there's nothing else involved. And if there is, it will be dealt with in a similar fashion," said Arnold. Arnold said the elementary principal is in the process of drafting a letter to send home to parents explaining the situation. He went on to say the recommended expulsion for the students will likely extend just to the remainder of the current school year. ||||| BUNKER HILL , Ind., May 5 (UPI) -- A school in a rural Indiana town suspended four fifth-graders it accused of taking part in gang activity, according to a report. The students attended Maconaquah Elementary School in Bunker Hill, a town in the central part of the state that had a recorded population of 888 in the 2010 census. "Part of the student fight was about somebody being in a gang," Doug Arnold, superintendent of Maconaquah School Corp., told WXIN. "What we saw was, there were a few students who said, 'This is our gang. This is our symbol.' Another one said, 'I want to be a part of that gang.' The other one said, 'No.' " Administrators investigated and found several students were involved, Arnold said, adding that the gang even had a symbol. "My understanding is one of the students scratched themselves with this symbol and might have used a small blade they took from a pencil sharpener," he said. The school board is still investigating the allegations and intends to expel the four students based on a board policy prohibiting gang-related activity. The average age of students in fifth grade is 10 or 11. "Fifth-graders, you don't expect to see this," Arnold said. "We know there are some kids having a hard time fitting in. One way to do that is to say, you know, 'You two or three guys, we are all together. This is one group. You other kids aren't a part of it.' "

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Photo Advertisement Continue reading the main story Donald J. Trump seemed irritated. He had been grilled for two hours in a lawsuit over a failed Florida real estate project, and he told the lawyer that her questions were “very stupid.” When the lawyer, Elizabeth Beck, asked for a medical break, Mr. Trump and his lawyers objected, demanding that the deposition continue. Ms. Beck said it was urgent — she needed to pump breast milk for her 3-month-old daughter, and she took the pump out to make her point. Mr. Trump erupted. “You’re disgusting,” he told Ms. Beck, in a remark that is not disputed by either side. He then walked out of the room, ending the testimony for the day. In his unorthodox campaign for the Republican nomination for president, Mr. Trump has portrayed himself as a teller of difficult truths, whose wealth unburdens him from the careful pronouncements of ordinary candidates. “Politicians,” he has said, “are all talk.” Hundreds of pages of sworn testimony by Mr. Trump over the past decade show something less flattering. Some of his claims, made under oath, and under pressure, are shown to be hyperbolic overstatements, and others to be shadings of the truth or even outright misstatements. And in rare instances, he turns boorish and demeaning. The testimony, drawn from a series of lawsuits since 2007, reveals much about the personal preoccupations and business tactics of the developer-turned-candidate. It showcases Mr. Trump’s fixation with his image as a financial success, and lays bare his hypersensitivity to any suggestion of failure. It chronicles his methodical cultivation — and elbows-out defense — of a brand name he has licensed around the world for millions of dollars in fees; and it at times displays a lack of sympathy for ordinary consumers who have lost money on the purchase of Trump-branded products. In the Beck deposition, he said that home buyers who had forfeited their down payments in a building bearing his name were “very lucky” that the project failed because, he asserted, they would have lost more had the project proceeded after the financial crisis of 2008. Advertisement Continue reading the main story “Congratulate your clients,” Mr. Trump told Ms. Beck and her husband and co-counsel, Jared Beck, whose clients had alleged that they lost tens of thousands of dollars each. A lawyer for Mr. Trump, Alan Garten, said the depositions showed that “Mr. Trump, unlike the other candidates (all of whom are career politicians), is a determined businessman who stands up for what he believes, speaks his mind and talks from the heart.” Above all, the testimony suggests that Mr. Trump’s relationship with the truth can be tenuous — especially when it involves claims about his business. “Have you ever exaggerated in statements about your properties?” one lawyer asked him. “I think everyone does,” Mr. Trump replied. “Does that mean that sometimes you’ll inflate the value of your properties in your statements?” the lawyer tried a moment later. “Not beyond reason,” he answered. Case by case, lawyers deposing Mr. Trump examined his public statements. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Was he the developer of Trump-branded condominium towers in Tampa and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and in Mexico, as marketing materials led some buyers to believe? Nope. (“I’m a builder in New York,” he said. “Generally, when I venture outside of New York, I do a form of a license.”) Was he really paid $1 million for a 2005 speech, as he had boasted on television? He was not. (It was $400,000; in testimony, he said he counted efforts to promote the talk as a form of payment.) Did his debts ever reach $9 billion in the 1990s, as he said in two of his books to dramatize his eventual financial comeback? They did not. (“That is a mistake,” Mr. Trump said, “and I don’t know how it got there.”) But, he said, it hardly mattered. “Frankly, whether it’s $9 billion or $3.6 billion,” Mr. Trump said, “I don’t think makes any difference to anybody if they hear the story.” In words that echo now that he is a candidate, Mr. Trump compared his own inclination toward blurring the facts to a strategy he learned from America’s elected officials. “I’m no different from a politician running for office,” he said. “You always want to put the best foot forward.” The lawsuits for which Mr. Trump was deposed stemmed largely from real estate deals that went bust. In two of the cases, Mr. Trump was accused of misleading home buyers about his role as a developer of condominium towers in Florida when he was in fact licensing his name to the projects. In a third case, he was the accuser, leveling claims of defamation against Timothy O’Brien, a reporter for The New York Times at the time who asserted in a book that Mr. Trump’s net worth was far less than he had publicly claimed. (Mr. Trump settled with plaintiffs in one condo case; he won the other. He failed to prove his case against Mr. O’Brien.) For Mr. Trump, a man accustomed to luxurious private planes and a solicitous staff, the dozens of hours of tedious testimony represented a humbling and, at times, aggravating concession to the American legal system. His temper sometimes flared. Under questioning by Ms. Beck in 2011 in the Florida real estate case, he was insulting. “Do you even know what you’re doing?” he challenged her. But when Ms. Beck insisted on pausing for an hour to pump breast milk, Mr. Trump, in the words of her husband, had “a meltdown” during a break in the deposition. In a letter at the time, Mr. Beck said Mr. Trump had called his wife “uptight” as well as “disgusting.” Mr. Garten, the Trump lawyer, did not dispute Mr. Beck’s account of Mr. Trump’s language, but said it “was in no way a statement about her decision to breast-feed or pump.” “It was solely the fact that she was appearing to do it in the middle of a deposition,” he said — although no one involved suggested that she had gone beyond displaying the pump. Continue reading the main story First Draft Newsletter Subscribe for updates on the 2016 presidential race, the White House and Congress, delivered to your inbox Monday - Friday. Mr. Garten added: “In my 20 years of legal practice, I’ve never seen more bizarre behavior at a deposition. That is what led to his remark.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Advertisement Continue reading the main story Mr. Garten said that “every accommodation” had been made for Ms. Beck to take breaks, but that he believed she was seeking to buy time to come up with new questions for Mr. Trump. The Becks lost one of their cases against Mr. Trump and are appealing. The depositions also expose other intriguing details about the habits and preferences of a man whose public persona can have a one-dimensional quality. Alcohol? He does not touch it, Mr. Trump testified. Television? “I don’t have a lot of time,” he said, “for listening to television.” Text messages? Not for him. For a candidate who says he is an authority on modern business, Mr. Trump is slow to adopt technology. In 2007, he said he had no home or office computer. “Does your secretary send emails on your behalf?” he was asked. His secretary generally typed letters, Mr. Trump said. “I don’t do the email thing.” By 2013, Mr. Trump was still not sold on email. “Very rarely, but I use it,” he said under questioning. Perhaps the most striking revelations surround Mr. Trump’s fluid evaluations of his own financial portfolio, which he declared in a deposition can fluctuate based on his “feelings.” “Yes, even my own feelings,” Mr. Trump testified, “as to where the world is, where the world is going, and that can change rapidly from day to day.” In the deposition for the defamation lawsuit, lawyers for Mr. O’Brien asked Mr. Trump to explain the role his feelings played in valuing a parcel of land in Westchester County, N.Y. He had stated it was worth $80 million one year and then $150 million the next. “Was it your view of the value of the property that changed from 2005 to 2006?” he was asked. “Yeah, that the value of the property has gone up substantially,” Mr. Trump said. “Did you have any appraisal done?” he was asked a moment later. “I don’t believe so, no.” “Did you have any basis for that view other than your own opinion?” a lawyer followed up. “I don’t believe so, no,” he said. That unconventional approach may raise questions about Mr. Trump’s public claim this month that he is worth $10 billion. Pressed repeatedly in depositions about optimistic financial figures, Mr. Trump sounded, even years ago, like a man who was weighing a campaign for elected office. “I didn’t confirm or deny,” Mr. Trump joked at one point, “as a politician would say.” But not just any politician, the depositions suggest. In 2013, when a lawyer asked Mr. Trump how he chose his business partners, Mr. Trump made clear the level of office he had in the back of his mind. “You get references and opinions of people, and you go on that,” Mr. Trump said. “That’s true with the president of the United States.” The lawyer questioning Mr. Trump seemed perplexed. “Did we have references for the president of the United States?” Before Mr. Trump could answer, his lawyer jumped in. “Objection.” ||||| Washington (CNN) Donald Trump distanced himself Tuesday from comments one of his top advisers made in an explosive interview while defending the Republican presidential candidate from a decades-old rape accusation. Michael Cohen, special counsel to Trump and an executive vice president at The Trump Organization, apologized Tuesday after telling the Daily Beast that legally "you cannot rape your spouse." The rape claim stems from an accusation Trump's then-wife Ivana Trump leveled at her husband during divorce proceedings in the early 1990s, an allegation she walked back Tuesday. "He's speaking for himself. He's not speaking for me, obviously," Trump said to CNN's Don Lemon Tuesday, which aired on "The Situation Room." Trump called The Daily Beast a "joke" desperate to remain relevant. "Michael was extremely angry because he knew (the alleged incident) never took place," Trump told Lemon. Marital rape has been illegal in all 50 states since 1993 and non-consensual sex between spouses does in fact constitute rape, said Scott Berkowitz, the president and founder of the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. Cohen apologized for his comments Tuesday, calling them "inarticulate," and said the reporter's question sent him into a tailspin. "As an attorney, husband and father there are many injustices that offend me but nothing more than charges of rape or racism. They hit me at my core. Rarely am I surprised by the press, but the gall of this particular reporter to make such a reprehensible and false allegation against Mr. Trump truly stunned me. In my moment of shock and anger, I made an inarticulate comment - which I do not believe -- and which I apologize for entirely," Cohen said in a statement to CNN. Cohen, who is one of Trump's top lawyers, threatened to sue the Daily Beast reporter and ruin the reporter's life. "I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we're in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don't have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know," Cohen said, according to the Daily Beast. "So I'm warning you, tread very f---ing lightly, because what I'm going to do to you is going to be f---ing disgusting. You understand me?" "Mr. Trump didn't know of his comments but disagrees with them," Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told CNN, referring to Cohen's remarks to the Daily Beast. In a statement obtained by CNN, Ivana Trump said the Daily Beast story "is totally without merit." "I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald. The story is totally without merit. Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of. I have nothing but fondness for Donald and wish him the best of luck on his campaign. Incidentally, I think he would make an incredible president," Ivana Trump said in the statement, which was verified by the Trump campaign. The campaign also distanced itself from Cohen, who has spent weeks appearing on multiple television news shows, including CNN's "New Day," to play up Trump's candidacy for president and defend the campaign from attacks from Trump's primary opponents. "Michael Cohen is a corporate employee and is not affiliated with the campaign in any way.=," Lewandowski told CNN. When asked whether Cohen would continue to make television appearances and behave as a surrogate for Trump, he dismissed the question, saying the campaign and Trump's company are separate enterprises. "This would be like asking Nike what they think of Reebok," Lewandowski said. JUST WATCHED Trump adviser backs controversial Huckabee comments Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Trump adviser backs controversial Huckabee comments 01:29 "Mr. Trump speaks for Mr. Trump and nobody but Mr. Trump speaks for him," a campaign source told CNN on Tuesday morning. A second campaign source toed the same line and pushed back against the notion that Cohen is a surrogate for the campaign. "He is speaking as someone who has great insight into Mr. Trump's skills as an executive," the source said. Both sources emphasized that Cohen is employed by the Trump Organization and not the campaign. Cohen has not only repeatedly appeared on TV to support Trump's presidential campaign, but he has also provided statements in response to political reporters' inquiries about Trump campaign controversies. Cohen sent CNN a statement via email earlier this month when Trump's official Twitter account posted photo of men in Nazi uniforms. In a deposition during divorce proceedings, Ivana Trump accused her husband of raping her during a 1989 incident, an accusation that was first revealed in the 1993 book by former Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III, "Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump." CNN could not obtain a copy of the deposition. As the book was about to be published, Ivana Trump wrote a statement that was printed on the first page of that book: "I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent," she said in the statement. "I referred to this as a 'rape,' but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense." A Trump campaign spokesperson said in a statement that the rape accusation "is old news and it never happened." "It is a standard lawyer technique, which was used to exploit more money from Mr. Trump especially since he had an ironclad prenuptial agreement," the spokesperson said. Democrats quickly pounced on Cohen's remarks, with Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz calling Cohen's comments "a new low" in a statement Tuesday morning and telling Republicans to take a stand. "Rape is rape. Full stop. End of story. There is no difference or division between 'forcible', 'legitimate', 'marital' or any other label Republicans slap on before the word 'rape'. All rape is a disgusting violation, and Americans have fought too long and hard for that to be acknowledged to still have it questioned in 2015," Wasserman-Schultz said in the statement. "It's a pattern of outrageous comments that must stop, and Republicans should call it what it is - despicable." Ivana Trump is Donald Trump's first wife and mother to his three oldest children: Ivanka, Eric and Donald, Jr. who are all top officials at The Trump Organization. Trump is now married to his third wife, Melania Trump.

– The New York Times has pored over hundreds of pages of Donald Trump testimony from his many lawsuits over the last decade and found a lot of what it describes as "hyperbolic overstatements" and "outright misstatements," as well as some instances of truly obnoxious behavior—like the time he told a lawyer who wanted to take a break to pump breast milk that she was "disgusting." That happened during a 2011 hearing in a Florida real estate case, the Times reports, when lawyer Elizabeth Beck asked for a medical break to pump milk for her 3-month-old daughter, holding up the pump to make a point when the Trump team objected. "You're disgusting," Trump said, per the Times, and walked out of the room, ending proceedings for the day. Trump lawyer Alan Garten doesn't dispute the events, but he tells the Times that "disgusting" wasn't a statement on breastfeeding—it was on Beck displaying the pump. "In my 20 years of legal practice, I've never seen more bizarre behavior at a deposition," the lawyer says. "That is what led to his remark." Another Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen, has apologized for falsely claiming that "by the very definition, you can't rape your spouse." He tells CNN that the remark was made in a "moment of shock and anger" when a Daily Beast reporter brought up a decades-old allegation. The Trump campaign tells CNN that Trump "didn't know of his comments but disagrees with them" and that Cohen is a Trump corporate employee not affiliated in any way with the campaign.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Photo Advertisement Continue reading the main story Donald J. Trump seemed irritated. He had been grilled for two hours in a lawsuit over a failed Florida real estate project, and he told the lawyer that her questions were “very stupid.” When the lawyer, Elizabeth Beck, asked for a medical break, Mr. Trump and his lawyers objected, demanding that the deposition continue. Ms. Beck said it was urgent — she needed to pump breast milk for her 3-month-old daughter, and she took the pump out to make her point. Mr. Trump erupted. “You’re disgusting,” he told Ms. Beck, in a remark that is not disputed by either side. He then walked out of the room, ending the testimony for the day. In his unorthodox campaign for the Republican nomination for president, Mr. Trump has portrayed himself as a teller of difficult truths, whose wealth unburdens him from the careful pronouncements of ordinary candidates. “Politicians,” he has said, “are all talk.” Hundreds of pages of sworn testimony by Mr. Trump over the past decade show something less flattering. Some of his claims, made under oath, and under pressure, are shown to be hyperbolic overstatements, and others to be shadings of the truth or even outright misstatements. And in rare instances, he turns boorish and demeaning. The testimony, drawn from a series of lawsuits since 2007, reveals much about the personal preoccupations and business tactics of the developer-turned-candidate. It showcases Mr. Trump’s fixation with his image as a financial success, and lays bare his hypersensitivity to any suggestion of failure. It chronicles his methodical cultivation — and elbows-out defense — of a brand name he has licensed around the world for millions of dollars in fees; and it at times displays a lack of sympathy for ordinary consumers who have lost money on the purchase of Trump-branded products. In the Beck deposition, he said that home buyers who had forfeited their down payments in a building bearing his name were “very lucky” that the project failed because, he asserted, they would have lost more had the project proceeded after the financial crisis of 2008. Advertisement Continue reading the main story “Congratulate your clients,” Mr. Trump told Ms. Beck and her husband and co-counsel, Jared Beck, whose clients had alleged that they lost tens of thousands of dollars each. A lawyer for Mr. Trump, Alan Garten, said the depositions showed that “Mr. Trump, unlike the other candidates (all of whom are career politicians), is a determined businessman who stands up for what he believes, speaks his mind and talks from the heart.” Above all, the testimony suggests that Mr. Trump’s relationship with the truth can be tenuous — especially when it involves claims about his business. “Have you ever exaggerated in statements about your properties?” one lawyer asked him. “I think everyone does,” Mr. Trump replied. “Does that mean that sometimes you’ll inflate the value of your properties in your statements?” the lawyer tried a moment later. “Not beyond reason,” he answered. Case by case, lawyers deposing Mr. Trump examined his public statements. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Was he the developer of Trump-branded condominium towers in Tampa and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and in Mexico, as marketing materials led some buyers to believe? Nope. (“I’m a builder in New York,” he said. “Generally, when I venture outside of New York, I do a form of a license.”) Was he really paid $1 million for a 2005 speech, as he had boasted on television? He was not. (It was $400,000; in testimony, he said he counted efforts to promote the talk as a form of payment.) Did his debts ever reach $9 billion in the 1990s, as he said in two of his books to dramatize his eventual financial comeback? They did not. (“That is a mistake,” Mr. Trump said, “and I don’t know how it got there.”) But, he said, it hardly mattered. “Frankly, whether it’s $9 billion or $3.6 billion,” Mr. Trump said, “I don’t think makes any difference to anybody if they hear the story.” In words that echo now that he is a candidate, Mr. Trump compared his own inclination toward blurring the facts to a strategy he learned from America’s elected officials. “I’m no different from a politician running for office,” he said. “You always want to put the best foot forward.” The lawsuits for which Mr. Trump was deposed stemmed largely from real estate deals that went bust. In two of the cases, Mr. Trump was accused of misleading home buyers about his role as a developer of condominium towers in Florida when he was in fact licensing his name to the projects. In a third case, he was the accuser, leveling claims of defamation against Timothy O’Brien, a reporter for The New York Times at the time who asserted in a book that Mr. Trump’s net worth was far less than he had publicly claimed. (Mr. Trump settled with plaintiffs in one condo case; he won the other. He failed to prove his case against Mr. O’Brien.) For Mr. Trump, a man accustomed to luxurious private planes and a solicitous staff, the dozens of hours of tedious testimony represented a humbling and, at times, aggravating concession to the American legal system. His temper sometimes flared. Under questioning by Ms. Beck in 2011 in the Florida real estate case, he was insulting. “Do you even know what you’re doing?” he challenged her. But when Ms. Beck insisted on pausing for an hour to pump breast milk, Mr. Trump, in the words of her husband, had “a meltdown” during a break in the deposition. In a letter at the time, Mr. Beck said Mr. Trump had called his wife “uptight” as well as “disgusting.” Mr. Garten, the Trump lawyer, did not dispute Mr. Beck’s account of Mr. Trump’s language, but said it “was in no way a statement about her decision to breast-feed or pump.” “It was solely the fact that she was appearing to do it in the middle of a deposition,” he said — although no one involved suggested that she had gone beyond displaying the pump. Continue reading the main story First Draft Newsletter Subscribe for updates on the 2016 presidential race, the White House and Congress, delivered to your inbox Monday - Friday. Mr. Garten added: “In my 20 years of legal practice, I’ve never seen more bizarre behavior at a deposition. That is what led to his remark.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Advertisement Continue reading the main story Mr. Garten said that “every accommodation” had been made for Ms. Beck to take breaks, but that he believed she was seeking to buy time to come up with new questions for Mr. Trump. The Becks lost one of their cases against Mr. Trump and are appealing. The depositions also expose other intriguing details about the habits and preferences of a man whose public persona can have a one-dimensional quality. Alcohol? He does not touch it, Mr. Trump testified. Television? “I don’t have a lot of time,” he said, “for listening to television.” Text messages? Not for him. For a candidate who says he is an authority on modern business, Mr. Trump is slow to adopt technology. In 2007, he said he had no home or office computer. “Does your secretary send emails on your behalf?” he was asked. His secretary generally typed letters, Mr. Trump said. “I don’t do the email thing.” By 2013, Mr. Trump was still not sold on email. “Very rarely, but I use it,” he said under questioning. Perhaps the most striking revelations surround Mr. Trump’s fluid evaluations of his own financial portfolio, which he declared in a deposition can fluctuate based on his “feelings.” “Yes, even my own feelings,” Mr. Trump testified, “as to where the world is, where the world is going, and that can change rapidly from day to day.” In the deposition for the defamation lawsuit, lawyers for Mr. O’Brien asked Mr. Trump to explain the role his feelings played in valuing a parcel of land in Westchester County, N.Y. He had stated it was worth $80 million one year and then $150 million the next. “Was it your view of the value of the property that changed from 2005 to 2006?” he was asked. “Yeah, that the value of the property has gone up substantially,” Mr. Trump said. “Did you have any appraisal done?” he was asked a moment later. “I don’t believe so, no.” “Did you have any basis for that view other than your own opinion?” a lawyer followed up. “I don’t believe so, no,” he said. That unconventional approach may raise questions about Mr. Trump’s public claim this month that he is worth $10 billion. Pressed repeatedly in depositions about optimistic financial figures, Mr. Trump sounded, even years ago, like a man who was weighing a campaign for elected office. “I didn’t confirm or deny,” Mr. Trump joked at one point, “as a politician would say.” But not just any politician, the depositions suggest. In 2013, when a lawyer asked Mr. Trump how he chose his business partners, Mr. Trump made clear the level of office he had in the back of his mind. “You get references and opinions of people, and you go on that,” Mr. Trump said. “That’s true with the president of the United States.” The lawyer questioning Mr. Trump seemed perplexed. “Did we have references for the president of the United States?” Before Mr. Trump could answer, his lawyer jumped in. “Objection.” ||||| Washington (CNN) Donald Trump distanced himself Tuesday from comments one of his top advisers made in an explosive interview while defending the Republican presidential candidate from a decades-old rape accusation. Michael Cohen, special counsel to Trump and an executive vice president at The Trump Organization, apologized Tuesday after telling the Daily Beast that legally "you cannot rape your spouse." The rape claim stems from an accusation Trump's then-wife Ivana Trump leveled at her husband during divorce proceedings in the early 1990s, an allegation she walked back Tuesday. "He's speaking for himself. He's not speaking for me, obviously," Trump said to CNN's Don Lemon Tuesday, which aired on "The Situation Room." Trump called The Daily Beast a "joke" desperate to remain relevant. "Michael was extremely angry because he knew (the alleged incident) never took place," Trump told Lemon. Marital rape has been illegal in all 50 states since 1993 and non-consensual sex between spouses does in fact constitute rape, said Scott Berkowitz, the president and founder of the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. Cohen apologized for his comments Tuesday, calling them "inarticulate," and said the reporter's question sent him into a tailspin. "As an attorney, husband and father there are many injustices that offend me but nothing more than charges of rape or racism. They hit me at my core. Rarely am I surprised by the press, but the gall of this particular reporter to make such a reprehensible and false allegation against Mr. Trump truly stunned me. In my moment of shock and anger, I made an inarticulate comment - which I do not believe -- and which I apologize for entirely," Cohen said in a statement to CNN. Cohen, who is one of Trump's top lawyers, threatened to sue the Daily Beast reporter and ruin the reporter's life. "I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we're in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don't have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know," Cohen said, according to the Daily Beast. "So I'm warning you, tread very f---ing lightly, because what I'm going to do to you is going to be f---ing disgusting. You understand me?" "Mr. Trump didn't know of his comments but disagrees with them," Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told CNN, referring to Cohen's remarks to the Daily Beast. In a statement obtained by CNN, Ivana Trump said the Daily Beast story "is totally without merit." "I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald. The story is totally without merit. Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of. I have nothing but fondness for Donald and wish him the best of luck on his campaign. Incidentally, I think he would make an incredible president," Ivana Trump said in the statement, which was verified by the Trump campaign. The campaign also distanced itself from Cohen, who has spent weeks appearing on multiple television news shows, including CNN's "New Day," to play up Trump's candidacy for president and defend the campaign from attacks from Trump's primary opponents. "Michael Cohen is a corporate employee and is not affiliated with the campaign in any way.=," Lewandowski told CNN. When asked whether Cohen would continue to make television appearances and behave as a surrogate for Trump, he dismissed the question, saying the campaign and Trump's company are separate enterprises. "This would be like asking Nike what they think of Reebok," Lewandowski said. JUST WATCHED Trump adviser backs controversial Huckabee comments Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Trump adviser backs controversial Huckabee comments 01:29 "Mr. Trump speaks for Mr. Trump and nobody but Mr. Trump speaks for him," a campaign source told CNN on Tuesday morning. A second campaign source toed the same line and pushed back against the notion that Cohen is a surrogate for the campaign. "He is speaking as someone who has great insight into Mr. Trump's skills as an executive," the source said. Both sources emphasized that Cohen is employed by the Trump Organization and not the campaign. Cohen has not only repeatedly appeared on TV to support Trump's presidential campaign, but he has also provided statements in response to political reporters' inquiries about Trump campaign controversies. Cohen sent CNN a statement via email earlier this month when Trump's official Twitter account posted photo of men in Nazi uniforms. In a deposition during divorce proceedings, Ivana Trump accused her husband of raping her during a 1989 incident, an accusation that was first revealed in the 1993 book by former Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III, "Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump." CNN could not obtain a copy of the deposition. As the book was about to be published, Ivana Trump wrote a statement that was printed on the first page of that book: "I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent," she said in the statement. "I referred to this as a 'rape,' but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense." A Trump campaign spokesperson said in a statement that the rape accusation "is old news and it never happened." "It is a standard lawyer technique, which was used to exploit more money from Mr. Trump especially since he had an ironclad prenuptial agreement," the spokesperson said. Democrats quickly pounced on Cohen's remarks, with Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz calling Cohen's comments "a new low" in a statement Tuesday morning and telling Republicans to take a stand. "Rape is rape. Full stop. End of story. There is no difference or division between 'forcible', 'legitimate', 'marital' or any other label Republicans slap on before the word 'rape'. All rape is a disgusting violation, and Americans have fought too long and hard for that to be acknowledged to still have it questioned in 2015," Wasserman-Schultz said in the statement. "It's a pattern of outrageous comments that must stop, and Republicans should call it what it is - despicable." Ivana Trump is Donald Trump's first wife and mother to his three oldest children: Ivanka, Eric and Donald, Jr. who are all top officials at The Trump Organization. Trump is now married to his third wife, Melania Trump.

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Washington (CNN) Donald Trump has arrived in Washington -- and he's going to be here for at least four years. The reality of the moment, that the real estate mogul and reality show star will recite the oath of office Friday, is finally taking hold. At noon Friday, the most divisive campaign in recent history -- and a similarly contentious transition period, marked by Trump's attacks on Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, and dozens of House Democrats saying they'll boycott Trump's swearing-in over it -- reaches its end. Trump's brash statements about ISIS , his cozy relationship with Russia and his criticism of NATO have the world bracing for a new type of American president. But before all that, Republicans and Trump's still-growing staff are set for a celebration. Trump and Vice-President elect Mike Pence go through the ceremony at the Capitol at noon, followed by a parade up Pennsylvania Avenue -- and past Trump's new hotel -- to be followed by a weekend of balls and an anticipated flurry of new executive actions Monday. Donald Trump and wife Melania arrive for the inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Speaking at a pre-inauguration concert Thursday night at the Lincoln Memorial, which featured performances by Lee Greenwood, Toby Keith and 3 Doors Down, Trump told the crowd he vowed to be a president "for all our people." "It's a movement like we've never seen anywhere in the world, they say. There's never been a movement like this. And it's something very, very special," Trump said. "And we're going to unify our country. And our phrase, you all know it -- half of you are wearing the hat, 'Make America great again.' But we're going to make America great for all our people, everybody. Everybody throughout our country. That includes the inner cities. That includes everybody." Later, speaking at a dinner held at Washington's Union Station, Trump thanked Pence, his top advisers and his family as he reflected on his election victory. "That was some big victory. That was some victory," said Trump, who also mused that "next time, we're going to win the old fashioned way," an apparent reference to victory in the popular vote as well as the Electoral College. Protesters, police scuffle Protesters and Washington police scuffled Thursday night outside a meeting of pro-Trump conservatives, the first of several demonstrations aimed at disrupting the new administration's inaugural weekend. Protesters gathered on 14th Street outside the National Press Club to demonstrate against "DeploraBall," an event organized by some of Trump's most fervent supporters. The name riffs off the campaign description of some Trump backers by his defeated opponent, Hillary Clinton, as a "basket of deplorables." As attendees -- some of whom were clad in suits and red hats, others dressed in gowns -- entered the event, demonstrators chanted "Shame" and "Nazis go home" behind a phalanx of police. Some held signs that read "No Alt Reich" and "No Nazi USA." Other protesters chanted against the "alt-right," "fascists" and "Nazi scum," though it could not be immediately determined who was attending the event. Some protesters could be seen setting small fires in the streets, though it was unclear what was set ablaze. A motorcycle was damaged on the street, and police could be seen pepper-spraying some protesters. Washington waits Meanwhile, the transition of power -- from a Democratic president to a Republican one -- has shut down much of Washington and left its thousands of political staffers in quiet anticipation. At the same time, President Barack Obama's last boxes are being packed and his few remaining aides are preparing to move out as they enter their last moments hours of Obama's eight years in the White House. Obama is spending the last full day of his presidency in the White House on Thursday, where staffers are saying their wistful goodbyes. "After six years here, walking through these doors for the final time," White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz tweeted. After six years here, walking through these doors for the final time. pic.twitter.com/LUB0DnM4RU — Eric Schultz (@EricSchultz) January 19, 2017 Outgoing White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest tweeted his thanks to the press corps. "It's been an honor to serve. And to all those fighting for a better future, I'll see you on the other side. Thanks," he wrote. It's been an honor to serve. And to all those fighting for a better future, I'll see you on the other side. Thanks. —@joshearnest — Josh Earnest (@PressSec) January 19, 2017 All around them, Washington is hustling to prepare for Trump's swearing-in on the steps of the Capitol. Barricades are up all around the Capitol building and traffic has ground to a halt through downtown Washington, as the Secret Service restricts access to an event where the President-elect, outgoing President, much of Congress and the Supreme Court will be on-hand. DC workers are also navigating around the closures of five Metro stops -- Mount Vernon Square, Archives, Federal Triangle, Smithsonian and the Pentagon. Out-of-towners are streaming into Washington hotels, and small protests are popping up day and night around the Capitol complex. One unexpected bit of inauguration-week drama: Questions over whether the National Park Service would set aside its ban on umbrellas, with rain forecast for Friday's inauguration. The decision: Long umbrellas still won't be allowed. But attendees can bring small, collapsible umbrellas. Confirmation battles On Capitol Hill, members of the Senate are gearing up for an immediate battle over confirming Trump's Cabinet picks. About seven nominees may receive confirmation votes Friday afternoon, after Trump's inauguration, while Democrats are already looking to draw out the process with some of the picks, like secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson and HHS nominee Tom Price. Obama held his final news conference Wednesday -- and his final interview was with a podcast run by a group of former aides, Tommy Vietor, Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Dan Pfeiffer. In his final news conference, Obama offered an optimistic message as his party prepares to watch Republicans reverse many of its accomplishments from his tenure in office. "It is true that behind closed doors, I curse more than I do publicly, and sometimes I get mad and frustrated like everybody else does," Obama said. "But at my core, I think we're going to be OK. We just have to fight for it, we have to work for it and not take it for granted." After Trump's inauguration, Obama and his family will depart on one last presidential plane ride -- to a vacation in Palm Springs, California. They'll travel back on their own. ||||| President-elect Donald Trump attends a concert on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial on the eve of his inauguration. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post) Did you miss Trump’s inaugural concert? Titled “Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration” at the Lincoln Memorial, it was a combination of weird, patriotic and weirdly patriotic. Here’s everything you need to know: [Despite criticism, country singers will be performing all over Trump’s inauguration weekend] Jon Voight’s speech Although Trump’s inaugural speech Friday will supposedly be all about unity, that was not exactly the theme of Jon Voight’s remarks. “We have all been witness to a very grueling year and a half for the president-elect. We have been witness to a barrage of propaganda that left us all breathless with anticipation, not knowing if God could reverse all the negative lies against Mr. Trump whose only desire was to make America great again,” Voight said. “He certainly didn’t need this job. And, yes, yes, God answered all our prayers. Because here it is, we will be part of history, all of us.” Voight continued: “And President Lincoln, who sits here with us, I’m sure, is smiling knowing America will be saved by an honest and good man who will work for all the people no matter their creed or color,” he said. “So, my friends, let us rejoice in knowing that from this time on, we will see a renewed America.” Actor Jon Voight speaks during the pre-inaugural “Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration.” (David J. Phillip/AP) DJ Ravidrums The Florida drummer, who has performed with Mariah Carey and Paula Abdul, received plenty of backlash for appearing at the inauguration, but he shook it off: “As a first generation Indian American, I view my participation in the inauguration as a unique opportunity to bring visibility to others like me,” he wrote on Facebook. Ravidrums got the concert off to a pretty strange start, as it’s unclear whether anyone was expecting a frenetic drum performance. The weirdness was rivaled only by the dancers in glowing costumes. Make America Wonder WTF Is Happening Again pic.twitter.com/vbwgpPp7N6 — Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) January 19, 2017 Sam Moore The soul singer belted out the classic “America the Beautiful,” as one of the more traditional parts of the concert. Singer Sam Moore performs. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) The Frontmen of Country Trump, seated next to wife Melania and daughter Ivanka, nodded and slightly swayed along to the music provided by this trio, made up of singers from various country bands: Tim Rushlow of Little Texas, Larry Stewart of Restless Heart, and Richie McDonald of Lonestar. They performed a medley of their greatest hits, including “The Bluest Eyes in Texas” and “Why Does It Have to Be” from Restless Heart. Rushlow sang Little Texas’s “Amy’s Back in Austin” and “God Blessed Texas,” while McDonald crooned “Walking in Memphis” and “I’m Already There.” “It’s an honor for us to be here representing music from Nashville, Tennessee, all the great bands out of Nashville over the last 30 years,” Stewart said. Lee Greenwood and the Frontmen of Country. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Lee Greenwood Greenwood, who wrote “God Bless the USA,” strolled out and performed the rest of his signature patriotic tune. Of all the songs, Trump was the biggest fan of this one — he stood up about halfway through (and appeared to urge his family to do the same), singing along to a few words during the chorus. Afterward, Trump brought in Greenwood for a handshake and briefly chatted with the rest of the Frontmen of Country, while the crowd chanted “USA! USA!” 3 Doors Down The pop-rock band most famous in the early 2000s kicked things off with “Broken,” a song with lyrics that could relate to the Trump voters who feel “forgotten”: “This is the call to the broken, stand up and take back your world today.” Then the group ticked off its biggest hits (“When I’m Gone,” “Kryptonite,” “Here Without You”) as Trump sat in his chair and swayed a bit but also turned to talk to his family. Brad Arnold of 3 Doors Down (Mike Segar/Reuters) The Piano Guys Never heard of these “four musical dads from Utah”? You’re not alone, although apparently they have one of the most-viewed YouTube channels ever. (This sparked CNN’s Jake Tapper to wonder whether they were the first YouTube sensation to play a presidential inaugural concert. It’s possible.) After an instrumental piano performance, one of the Piano Guys spoke: “Okay, America, it’s time to put all our differences aside,” he declared. “It’s time to unite our hearts, our minds and our voices as one. Because when we do, it’s gonna be okay.” This led into a jaunty, upbeat song called, fittingly, “Okay,” that repeated the line “It’s gonna be okay!” over and over. Trump stood up to sway along during this song, too. The Piano Guys perform. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Toby Keith The country star closed out the show on a very patriotic note, with military tribute “American Soldier” and “Made in America.” “On behalf of my family, my band and all my fans, I want to salute the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and the Coast Guard,” Keith said during his set. “Thanks to Barack Obama for your service. And thanks for the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump. I salute you.” As he launched into “Beer For My Horses” (recorded as a duet with Willie Nelson), Keith foisted a red cup into the sky, and tweaked the lyrics from “we’ll all meet back at the local saloon” to “we’ll all get smashed at the inaugural celebration” — an interesting song choice, given that Trump does not drink alcohol. Keith finished out the set with his best-known song, the post-9/11 anthem “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American),” which he dedicated to his father. The song includes the famous line, “We’ll put a boot in your ass, it’s the American way,” and Keith sang it with gusto. Toby Keith during “Beer for My Horses.”(AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Trump’s remarks At the end of the nearly two-hour concert, Trump spoke to the crowd: “I’d like to congratulate our incredible entertainers tonight. Toby and Lee Greenwood and all of the great talent. It was really very special,” he said, also thanking the military band. “This started out tonight being a small little concert, and then we had the idea maybe we’ll do it in front of the Lincoln Memorial. I don’t know if it’s ever been done before, but if it has, very seldom,” Trump said. (As many on Twitter pointed out, President Obama hosted an inaugural concert there in 2009.) “And the people came by the thousands and thousands and here we are tonight.” Trump added that he was looking forward to Friday’s official ceremony: “We’re going to unify our country. And our phrase — you all know it, half of you are wearing the hat — ‘Make America Great Again.’ But we’re going to make America great for all our people, everybody.” Read more: A fierce will to win pushed Trump to the top Trump begins inaugural festivities as he prepares for presidency Trump is right. He didn’t create the country’s divisions. But will he heal them? ||||| Trump At Lincoln Memorial Concert: 'You're Not Forgotten Anymore' Enlarge this image toggle caption Pool/Getty Images Pool/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump kicked off his inaugural festivities on Thursday evening with a concert at the Lincoln Memorial, promising to unify the country but also reflecting on his unlikely election. toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images "This journey began 18 months ago. I had something to do with it, but you had much more to do with it than I did," Trump said. "I'm the messenger. I'm just the messenger." He pledged to "make America great for all our people," citing his campaign slogan. And Trump told his supporters — calling them "the forgotten man and the forgotten woman" that helped propel him to victory — that they wouldn't be "forgotten anymore." He recounted how the polls had counted him out against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton — a favorite tale of his to tell in the weeks after his win. "That last month of the campaign, we knew that something special was happening," Trump said. "And I can only tell you this, the polls started going up, up up, but they didn't want to give us credit because they forget about a lot of us." toggle caption Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images Trump's remarks weren't without bombast, though. He boasted of the crowds that had gathered — though the National Mall and surrounding areas were nowhere near capacity. toggle caption Pool/Getty Images He said of the concert at the Lincoln Memorial: "I don't know if this has ever been done before." In fact, several presidents have held pre-inauguration concerts there, including George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Obama's 2009 celebration featured Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen and U2 and drew more than 400,000 people. Trump said he was looking forward to officially taking the oath of office on Friday at noon, telling the crowd, "You're going to cheer me on but I'm going to be cheering you on because what we've done is so special." Trump spoke at the end of the concert, which had earlier featured performances from Lee Greenwood, Toby Keith, 3 Doors Down and a fusion drummer/DJ called Ravidrums. A fireworks celebration concluded the concert. And while the pomp and circumstance of the evening overall, along with Trump's more muted words, did strike the unifying theme that was missing throughout the bitter campaign, actor Jon Voight's comments to begin the evening didn't exactly set that tone. "We have been witness to a barrage of propaganda that left us all breathless with anticipation, not knowing if God could reverse all the negative lies against Mr. Trump, whose only desire was to make America great again," Voight said, reflecting back on the campaign. ||||| Trump spoke at the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr declared ‘I have a dream’, and told the largely white crowd: ‘You’re not forgotten any more’ Donald Trump staked his claim to Washington on Thursday by promising to “make America great again” while at the feet of the US capital’s giant marble statue of Abraham Lincoln in a celebration of patriotic music, military pageantry and fireworks. Donald Trump to be sworn in on day that few expected and many feared Read more The president-elect delivered a brief speech from the Lincoln Memorial, close to the spot where in 1963 Martin Luther King Jr declared, “I have a dream.” Trump told the largely white crowd: “You’re not forgotten any more.” On a cold night of heavy and sometimes heavy-handed symbolism ahead of Friday’s inauguration, Trump led thousands of supporters in chants of “make America great again”, saying: “And I’ll add, greater than ever before.” A spectacular array of fireworks shot into the sky and spelled: “U-S-A” as the Battle Hymn of the Republic rang out. Accompanied by his wife, Melania, and other family members, he then walked up the steps and spent the better part of a minute silently contemplating the seated Lincoln, the president who won the civil war and helped end slavery. His celebrated Gettysburg address and second inaugural address are inscribed on the chamber walls. Supporters lined the pool at the National Mall, many wearing “Make America great again” baseball caps and other regalia, though the area was far from full and some left early as temperatures plummeted after dark. Nearby were the Vietnam war memorial and ghostly figures of soldiers at the Korean war memorial. But it was the juxtaposition with Trump’s fellow Republican Lincoln, the 16th and arguably greatest US president, that was most striking. Hollywood actor Jon Voight, a vocal Trump supporter, told the crowd: “President Lincoln who sits here with us I’m sure is smiling knowing we will be led by an honest and good man, who will work for all the people no matter their creed or colour. We will see a renewed America.” Some observers, however, found the choice of the Lincoln Memorial jarring. Keith Stiggers, 25, who is African American, said: “When I saw that I was like, wow! Probably a lot of his supporters don’t like Lincoln and his legacy for the country. Is he going to uphold that legacy or is he going to do what he can to step on it?” Probably a lot of his supporters don’t like Lincoln. Is he going to uphold that legacy or is he going to step on it? Keith Stiggers Stiggers, a law student, had come with his fiancee to support democracy and feels that Friday’s inaugural address will be crucial. “I think he should definitely build bridges. He got a lot of support from the ‘alt-right’ and now he should make it clear he is governing for all Americans. His speech is going to be very important; it’s going to dictate the pace of his presidency.” The free “welcome celebration” had begun just after 4pm with military marching, music and pageantry, including the national anthem, followed by a change of gear with drummer DJ Ravidrums (Ravi Jakhotia), who has served as a personal DJ for Hugh Hefner. Behind him giant TV screens flashed the names of every US state. There were performances from soul singer Sam Moore and an improvised country music group, laden with patriotism. Eventually Trump and his wife, Melania, appeared to the soundtrack of the Rolling Stones’ Heart of Stone. The president-elect turned to give Lincoln a military salute before descending the steps to chants of “Trump! Trump! Trump!” Red, white and who? Trump inaugural concert features few A-listers Read more They joined other family members behind protective glass to watch artists including the Piano Guys – “It’s time to put all our differences aside” – rock band 3 Doors Down, Lee Greenwood and country singer Toby Keith, who was introduced as “one of the most popular artists in history”. Trump is said to have had trouble attracting A-list stars to appear at the event. Tom Barrack, president of the presidential inauguration committee, then introduced the TV celebrity and businessman turned politician. “I would like you to pay tribute to the courage, to the strength, to the loyalty of this man,” he said. Trump, holding a microphone in his left hand, thanked his supporters and said: “I’m just the messenger … It’s a movement like we’ve never seen anywhere in the world, they say … it’s something that’s very, very special. The phrase, you all know it, half of you are wearing the hat: make America great again.” Trump reflected on the noisy rallies of his election effort, which few observers thought would lead to Friday’s ceremonies 18 months ago. “There was never an empty seat, like tonight,” he said. “We all knew that last month of the campaign … we knew that something special was happening. “The polls started going up, up, up, but they didn’t want to give us credit. Because they forgot about a lot of us. When the campaign started I called it the forgotten man and forgotten woman. Well, you’re not forgotten any more.” The crowd cheered. Trump promised to bring jobs back, and not let other countries take US jobs any longer, while also rebuilding the military. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump addresses a pre-inaugural rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters “We are going to do things that haven’t been done in our country for many, many decades, I promise you.” Washington is a Democratic stronghold where Trump polled less than 5% in the election, but his supporters relished their time in the capital. Chris Lehman, 55, a maintenance supervisor from Belmar, New Jersey, said: “It’s thrilling to be here today. This is a historic event. We’ve got a president again who’s proud of the country and will bring jobs back to the country. It’s a good feeling. He’s brought jobs back even before he’s taken the keys to the office yet. Unfortunately he’ll probably spend the first 20 days undoing the garbage President Obama did at the end to slow him down.” Lehman, 55, booked his hotel in nearby Baltimore before the election because he was so confident of Trump’s victory. “You don’t become a billionaire by losing and not knowing what you’re doing,” he said. “He speaks his heart and he speaks his mind. You know what he’s saying is the truth, and you’ve got to love a president like that. He doesn’t owe anybody anything. He can come in and do this right.” Shannon Wilburn, 48, who runs a Christian youth centre, travelled with a friend from Roby, Texas, for her first visit to the US capital. “We just wanted to be here as patriotic Americans. It’s a bucket list thing to see a swearing-in of a president. I do believe Donald Trump is a Christian. One of the biggest things is his pro-life stance and, as a Christ follower, it’s very hard to accept someone who’s not.” Wilburn said she doubted that Trump will be able to bridge the partisan divide in his inaugural address on Friday. “They’re not even going to give him a day. Look at the Democrats boycotting it. He can’t get one day of grace. That’s a little frustrating, I think.” Nearly a million people are expected on the National Mall in Washington for a ceremonial transfer of power that will observe time-honoured traditions and pageantry but usher in profound political uncertainties. Trump has promised to shake up the postwar liberal order, issued contradictory policy statements and, even before taking office, sparked anger in foreign capitals with his volatile approach. Questions have been raised over the character and temperament of a man who boasted about groping women and still picks fights on Twitter. Protests are expected on Friday, and a huge women’s march is planned for Saturday, as liberals dig in for four years of opposition to Trump, who enters office as the most unpopular of at least the past seven presidents at the beginning of their terms, according to opinion polls. He also takes power under the shadow of Russia’s alleged meddling in the presidential election, which has led some Democrats to question his legitimacy. Up to 60 members of Congress will boycott the inauguration ceremony at the US Capitol. At least 28,000 security personnel from 36 state, local and federal agencies will be deployed for inauguration events, reportedly costing $200m, divided between taxpayers and private donors. Parts of the capital are on lockdown, with steel barriers erected on normally busy streets, to head off disruptive protests. Trump and his wife, Melania, will on Friday morning go to the White House for tea with Obama and his wife, Michelle, even as house movers work upstairs to swap their private possessions. The inauguration ceremony will begin with performances by the Talladega Marching Tornadoes, the Rockettes dance troupe, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and 16-year-old singer Jackie Evancho. At noon, in a scene not so long ago unthinkable to the political establishment, Trump will take the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts. He will place his hand on his own Bible – a gift from his mother in 1955 – as well as a Bible used by Abraham Lincoln at his first inauguration. In an operatic tableau, standing nearby will be Hillary Clinton, the candidate Trump threatened to jail during the campaign. She received 2.9 million more votes than he did last November but lost the electoral college. Former presidents Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Jimmy Carter will also be present. Trump will become the first US president in the 240-year-old republic who has never served in the military or held public office. At 70 he will also be the oldest in his first term, eclipsing Ronald Reagan’s record. Barrack said Trump’s inaugural speech would focus on “the issues that unite us” and claimed that the divisions from the campaign would “vanish”. “What you’ll hear in his address is a switch from candidate to president,” he told the CBS This Morning show.

– Donald Trump promised to make America "greater than ever before" at a concert at the Lincoln Memorial on the eve of his inauguration. "We're going to unify our country," the president-elect told the crowd. "And our phrase—you all know it, half of you are wearing the hat—'Make America Great Again.' But we're going to make America great for all our people, everybody." Trump, speaking after a concert that featured Lee Greenwood, Toby Keith, and 3 Doors Down, among others, recounted his election victory, boasted about the size of the crowd, and promised the "forgotten man and the forgotten woman" who voted for him that they wouldn't be "forgotten anymore," reports NPR. Fireworks spelled "USA" during the event. "This started out tonight being a small little concert, and then we had the idea maybe we'll do it in front of the Lincoln Memorial. I don't know if it's ever been done before, but if it has, very seldom," Trump said, per the Washington Post, which notes that President Obama hosted an inaugural concert at the same spot in 2009. Jon Voight also spoke, telling the crowd that "God answered all of our prayers" and that Lincoln himself would be "smiling knowing we will be led by an honest and good man." The Guardian reports that thousands of supporters, many in "Make America Great Again" hats, were in attendance, though the area was apparently far from full. CNN reports that during a post-concert dinner at Union Station, Trump thanked his advisers and promised to "win the old-fashioned way" next time.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Washington (CNN) Donald Trump has arrived in Washington -- and he's going to be here for at least four years. The reality of the moment, that the real estate mogul and reality show star will recite the oath of office Friday, is finally taking hold. At noon Friday, the most divisive campaign in recent history -- and a similarly contentious transition period, marked by Trump's attacks on Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, and dozens of House Democrats saying they'll boycott Trump's swearing-in over it -- reaches its end. Trump's brash statements about ISIS , his cozy relationship with Russia and his criticism of NATO have the world bracing for a new type of American president. But before all that, Republicans and Trump's still-growing staff are set for a celebration. Trump and Vice-President elect Mike Pence go through the ceremony at the Capitol at noon, followed by a parade up Pennsylvania Avenue -- and past Trump's new hotel -- to be followed by a weekend of balls and an anticipated flurry of new executive actions Monday. Donald Trump and wife Melania arrive for the inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Speaking at a pre-inauguration concert Thursday night at the Lincoln Memorial, which featured performances by Lee Greenwood, Toby Keith and 3 Doors Down, Trump told the crowd he vowed to be a president "for all our people." "It's a movement like we've never seen anywhere in the world, they say. There's never been a movement like this. And it's something very, very special," Trump said. "And we're going to unify our country. And our phrase, you all know it -- half of you are wearing the hat, 'Make America great again.' But we're going to make America great for all our people, everybody. Everybody throughout our country. That includes the inner cities. That includes everybody." Later, speaking at a dinner held at Washington's Union Station, Trump thanked Pence, his top advisers and his family as he reflected on his election victory. "That was some big victory. That was some victory," said Trump, who also mused that "next time, we're going to win the old fashioned way," an apparent reference to victory in the popular vote as well as the Electoral College. Protesters, police scuffle Protesters and Washington police scuffled Thursday night outside a meeting of pro-Trump conservatives, the first of several demonstrations aimed at disrupting the new administration's inaugural weekend. Protesters gathered on 14th Street outside the National Press Club to demonstrate against "DeploraBall," an event organized by some of Trump's most fervent supporters. The name riffs off the campaign description of some Trump backers by his defeated opponent, Hillary Clinton, as a "basket of deplorables." As attendees -- some of whom were clad in suits and red hats, others dressed in gowns -- entered the event, demonstrators chanted "Shame" and "Nazis go home" behind a phalanx of police. Some held signs that read "No Alt Reich" and "No Nazi USA." Other protesters chanted against the "alt-right," "fascists" and "Nazi scum," though it could not be immediately determined who was attending the event. Some protesters could be seen setting small fires in the streets, though it was unclear what was set ablaze. A motorcycle was damaged on the street, and police could be seen pepper-spraying some protesters. Washington waits Meanwhile, the transition of power -- from a Democratic president to a Republican one -- has shut down much of Washington and left its thousands of political staffers in quiet anticipation. At the same time, President Barack Obama's last boxes are being packed and his few remaining aides are preparing to move out as they enter their last moments hours of Obama's eight years in the White House. Obama is spending the last full day of his presidency in the White House on Thursday, where staffers are saying their wistful goodbyes. "After six years here, walking through these doors for the final time," White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz tweeted. After six years here, walking through these doors for the final time. pic.twitter.com/LUB0DnM4RU — Eric Schultz (@EricSchultz) January 19, 2017 Outgoing White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest tweeted his thanks to the press corps. "It's been an honor to serve. And to all those fighting for a better future, I'll see you on the other side. Thanks," he wrote. It's been an honor to serve. And to all those fighting for a better future, I'll see you on the other side. Thanks. —@joshearnest — Josh Earnest (@PressSec) January 19, 2017 All around them, Washington is hustling to prepare for Trump's swearing-in on the steps of the Capitol. Barricades are up all around the Capitol building and traffic has ground to a halt through downtown Washington, as the Secret Service restricts access to an event where the President-elect, outgoing President, much of Congress and the Supreme Court will be on-hand. DC workers are also navigating around the closures of five Metro stops -- Mount Vernon Square, Archives, Federal Triangle, Smithsonian and the Pentagon. Out-of-towners are streaming into Washington hotels, and small protests are popping up day and night around the Capitol complex. One unexpected bit of inauguration-week drama: Questions over whether the National Park Service would set aside its ban on umbrellas, with rain forecast for Friday's inauguration. The decision: Long umbrellas still won't be allowed. But attendees can bring small, collapsible umbrellas. Confirmation battles On Capitol Hill, members of the Senate are gearing up for an immediate battle over confirming Trump's Cabinet picks. About seven nominees may receive confirmation votes Friday afternoon, after Trump's inauguration, while Democrats are already looking to draw out the process with some of the picks, like secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson and HHS nominee Tom Price. Obama held his final news conference Wednesday -- and his final interview was with a podcast run by a group of former aides, Tommy Vietor, Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Dan Pfeiffer. In his final news conference, Obama offered an optimistic message as his party prepares to watch Republicans reverse many of its accomplishments from his tenure in office. "It is true that behind closed doors, I curse more than I do publicly, and sometimes I get mad and frustrated like everybody else does," Obama said. "But at my core, I think we're going to be OK. We just have to fight for it, we have to work for it and not take it for granted." After Trump's inauguration, Obama and his family will depart on one last presidential plane ride -- to a vacation in Palm Springs, California. They'll travel back on their own. ||||| President-elect Donald Trump attends a concert on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial on the eve of his inauguration. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post) Did you miss Trump’s inaugural concert? Titled “Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration” at the Lincoln Memorial, it was a combination of weird, patriotic and weirdly patriotic. Here’s everything you need to know: [Despite criticism, country singers will be performing all over Trump’s inauguration weekend] Jon Voight’s speech Although Trump’s inaugural speech Friday will supposedly be all about unity, that was not exactly the theme of Jon Voight’s remarks. “We have all been witness to a very grueling year and a half for the president-elect. We have been witness to a barrage of propaganda that left us all breathless with anticipation, not knowing if God could reverse all the negative lies against Mr. Trump whose only desire was to make America great again,” Voight said. “He certainly didn’t need this job. And, yes, yes, God answered all our prayers. Because here it is, we will be part of history, all of us.” Voight continued: “And President Lincoln, who sits here with us, I’m sure, is smiling knowing America will be saved by an honest and good man who will work for all the people no matter their creed or color,” he said. “So, my friends, let us rejoice in knowing that from this time on, we will see a renewed America.” Actor Jon Voight speaks during the pre-inaugural “Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration.” (David J. Phillip/AP) DJ Ravidrums The Florida drummer, who has performed with Mariah Carey and Paula Abdul, received plenty of backlash for appearing at the inauguration, but he shook it off: “As a first generation Indian American, I view my participation in the inauguration as a unique opportunity to bring visibility to others like me,” he wrote on Facebook. Ravidrums got the concert off to a pretty strange start, as it’s unclear whether anyone was expecting a frenetic drum performance. The weirdness was rivaled only by the dancers in glowing costumes. Make America Wonder WTF Is Happening Again pic.twitter.com/vbwgpPp7N6 — Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) January 19, 2017 Sam Moore The soul singer belted out the classic “America the Beautiful,” as one of the more traditional parts of the concert. Singer Sam Moore performs. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) The Frontmen of Country Trump, seated next to wife Melania and daughter Ivanka, nodded and slightly swayed along to the music provided by this trio, made up of singers from various country bands: Tim Rushlow of Little Texas, Larry Stewart of Restless Heart, and Richie McDonald of Lonestar. They performed a medley of their greatest hits, including “The Bluest Eyes in Texas” and “Why Does It Have to Be” from Restless Heart. Rushlow sang Little Texas’s “Amy’s Back in Austin” and “God Blessed Texas,” while McDonald crooned “Walking in Memphis” and “I’m Already There.” “It’s an honor for us to be here representing music from Nashville, Tennessee, all the great bands out of Nashville over the last 30 years,” Stewart said. Lee Greenwood and the Frontmen of Country. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Lee Greenwood Greenwood, who wrote “God Bless the USA,” strolled out and performed the rest of his signature patriotic tune. Of all the songs, Trump was the biggest fan of this one — he stood up about halfway through (and appeared to urge his family to do the same), singing along to a few words during the chorus. Afterward, Trump brought in Greenwood for a handshake and briefly chatted with the rest of the Frontmen of Country, while the crowd chanted “USA! USA!” 3 Doors Down The pop-rock band most famous in the early 2000s kicked things off with “Broken,” a song with lyrics that could relate to the Trump voters who feel “forgotten”: “This is the call to the broken, stand up and take back your world today.” Then the group ticked off its biggest hits (“When I’m Gone,” “Kryptonite,” “Here Without You”) as Trump sat in his chair and swayed a bit but also turned to talk to his family. Brad Arnold of 3 Doors Down (Mike Segar/Reuters) The Piano Guys Never heard of these “four musical dads from Utah”? You’re not alone, although apparently they have one of the most-viewed YouTube channels ever. (This sparked CNN’s Jake Tapper to wonder whether they were the first YouTube sensation to play a presidential inaugural concert. It’s possible.) After an instrumental piano performance, one of the Piano Guys spoke: “Okay, America, it’s time to put all our differences aside,” he declared. “It’s time to unite our hearts, our minds and our voices as one. Because when we do, it’s gonna be okay.” This led into a jaunty, upbeat song called, fittingly, “Okay,” that repeated the line “It’s gonna be okay!” over and over. Trump stood up to sway along during this song, too. The Piano Guys perform. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Toby Keith The country star closed out the show on a very patriotic note, with military tribute “American Soldier” and “Made in America.” “On behalf of my family, my band and all my fans, I want to salute the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and the Coast Guard,” Keith said during his set. “Thanks to Barack Obama for your service. And thanks for the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump. I salute you.” As he launched into “Beer For My Horses” (recorded as a duet with Willie Nelson), Keith foisted a red cup into the sky, and tweaked the lyrics from “we’ll all meet back at the local saloon” to “we’ll all get smashed at the inaugural celebration” — an interesting song choice, given that Trump does not drink alcohol. Keith finished out the set with his best-known song, the post-9/11 anthem “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American),” which he dedicated to his father. The song includes the famous line, “We’ll put a boot in your ass, it’s the American way,” and Keith sang it with gusto. Toby Keith during “Beer for My Horses.”(AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Trump’s remarks At the end of the nearly two-hour concert, Trump spoke to the crowd: “I’d like to congratulate our incredible entertainers tonight. Toby and Lee Greenwood and all of the great talent. It was really very special,” he said, also thanking the military band. “This started out tonight being a small little concert, and then we had the idea maybe we’ll do it in front of the Lincoln Memorial. I don’t know if it’s ever been done before, but if it has, very seldom,” Trump said. (As many on Twitter pointed out, President Obama hosted an inaugural concert there in 2009.) “And the people came by the thousands and thousands and here we are tonight.” Trump added that he was looking forward to Friday’s official ceremony: “We’re going to unify our country. And our phrase — you all know it, half of you are wearing the hat — ‘Make America Great Again.’ But we’re going to make America great for all our people, everybody.” Read more: A fierce will to win pushed Trump to the top Trump begins inaugural festivities as he prepares for presidency Trump is right. He didn’t create the country’s divisions. But will he heal them? ||||| Trump At Lincoln Memorial Concert: 'You're Not Forgotten Anymore' Enlarge this image toggle caption Pool/Getty Images Pool/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump kicked off his inaugural festivities on Thursday evening with a concert at the Lincoln Memorial, promising to unify the country but also reflecting on his unlikely election. toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images "This journey began 18 months ago. I had something to do with it, but you had much more to do with it than I did," Trump said. "I'm the messenger. I'm just the messenger." He pledged to "make America great for all our people," citing his campaign slogan. And Trump told his supporters — calling them "the forgotten man and the forgotten woman" that helped propel him to victory — that they wouldn't be "forgotten anymore." He recounted how the polls had counted him out against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton — a favorite tale of his to tell in the weeks after his win. "That last month of the campaign, we knew that something special was happening," Trump said. "And I can only tell you this, the polls started going up, up up, but they didn't want to give us credit because they forget about a lot of us." toggle caption Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images Trump's remarks weren't without bombast, though. He boasted of the crowds that had gathered — though the National Mall and surrounding areas were nowhere near capacity. toggle caption Pool/Getty Images He said of the concert at the Lincoln Memorial: "I don't know if this has ever been done before." In fact, several presidents have held pre-inauguration concerts there, including George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Obama's 2009 celebration featured Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen and U2 and drew more than 400,000 people. Trump said he was looking forward to officially taking the oath of office on Friday at noon, telling the crowd, "You're going to cheer me on but I'm going to be cheering you on because what we've done is so special." Trump spoke at the end of the concert, which had earlier featured performances from Lee Greenwood, Toby Keith, 3 Doors Down and a fusion drummer/DJ called Ravidrums. A fireworks celebration concluded the concert. And while the pomp and circumstance of the evening overall, along with Trump's more muted words, did strike the unifying theme that was missing throughout the bitter campaign, actor Jon Voight's comments to begin the evening didn't exactly set that tone. "We have been witness to a barrage of propaganda that left us all breathless with anticipation, not knowing if God could reverse all the negative lies against Mr. Trump, whose only desire was to make America great again," Voight said, reflecting back on the campaign. ||||| Trump spoke at the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr declared ‘I have a dream’, and told the largely white crowd: ‘You’re not forgotten any more’ Donald Trump staked his claim to Washington on Thursday by promising to “make America great again” while at the feet of the US capital’s giant marble statue of Abraham Lincoln in a celebration of patriotic music, military pageantry and fireworks. Donald Trump to be sworn in on day that few expected and many feared Read more The president-elect delivered a brief speech from the Lincoln Memorial, close to the spot where in 1963 Martin Luther King Jr declared, “I have a dream.” Trump told the largely white crowd: “You’re not forgotten any more.” On a cold night of heavy and sometimes heavy-handed symbolism ahead of Friday’s inauguration, Trump led thousands of supporters in chants of “make America great again”, saying: “And I’ll add, greater than ever before.” A spectacular array of fireworks shot into the sky and spelled: “U-S-A” as the Battle Hymn of the Republic rang out. Accompanied by his wife, Melania, and other family members, he then walked up the steps and spent the better part of a minute silently contemplating the seated Lincoln, the president who won the civil war and helped end slavery. His celebrated Gettysburg address and second inaugural address are inscribed on the chamber walls. Supporters lined the pool at the National Mall, many wearing “Make America great again” baseball caps and other regalia, though the area was far from full and some left early as temperatures plummeted after dark. Nearby were the Vietnam war memorial and ghostly figures of soldiers at the Korean war memorial. But it was the juxtaposition with Trump’s fellow Republican Lincoln, the 16th and arguably greatest US president, that was most striking. Hollywood actor Jon Voight, a vocal Trump supporter, told the crowd: “President Lincoln who sits here with us I’m sure is smiling knowing we will be led by an honest and good man, who will work for all the people no matter their creed or colour. We will see a renewed America.” Some observers, however, found the choice of the Lincoln Memorial jarring. Keith Stiggers, 25, who is African American, said: “When I saw that I was like, wow! Probably a lot of his supporters don’t like Lincoln and his legacy for the country. Is he going to uphold that legacy or is he going to do what he can to step on it?” Probably a lot of his supporters don’t like Lincoln. Is he going to uphold that legacy or is he going to step on it? Keith Stiggers Stiggers, a law student, had come with his fiancee to support democracy and feels that Friday’s inaugural address will be crucial. “I think he should definitely build bridges. He got a lot of support from the ‘alt-right’ and now he should make it clear he is governing for all Americans. His speech is going to be very important; it’s going to dictate the pace of his presidency.” The free “welcome celebration” had begun just after 4pm with military marching, music and pageantry, including the national anthem, followed by a change of gear with drummer DJ Ravidrums (Ravi Jakhotia), who has served as a personal DJ for Hugh Hefner. Behind him giant TV screens flashed the names of every US state. There were performances from soul singer Sam Moore and an improvised country music group, laden with patriotism. Eventually Trump and his wife, Melania, appeared to the soundtrack of the Rolling Stones’ Heart of Stone. The president-elect turned to give Lincoln a military salute before descending the steps to chants of “Trump! Trump! Trump!” Red, white and who? Trump inaugural concert features few A-listers Read more They joined other family members behind protective glass to watch artists including the Piano Guys – “It’s time to put all our differences aside” – rock band 3 Doors Down, Lee Greenwood and country singer Toby Keith, who was introduced as “one of the most popular artists in history”. Trump is said to have had trouble attracting A-list stars to appear at the event. Tom Barrack, president of the presidential inauguration committee, then introduced the TV celebrity and businessman turned politician. “I would like you to pay tribute to the courage, to the strength, to the loyalty of this man,” he said. Trump, holding a microphone in his left hand, thanked his supporters and said: “I’m just the messenger … It’s a movement like we’ve never seen anywhere in the world, they say … it’s something that’s very, very special. The phrase, you all know it, half of you are wearing the hat: make America great again.” Trump reflected on the noisy rallies of his election effort, which few observers thought would lead to Friday’s ceremonies 18 months ago. “There was never an empty seat, like tonight,” he said. “We all knew that last month of the campaign … we knew that something special was happening. “The polls started going up, up, up, but they didn’t want to give us credit. Because they forgot about a lot of us. When the campaign started I called it the forgotten man and forgotten woman. Well, you’re not forgotten any more.” The crowd cheered. Trump promised to bring jobs back, and not let other countries take US jobs any longer, while also rebuilding the military. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump addresses a pre-inaugural rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters “We are going to do things that haven’t been done in our country for many, many decades, I promise you.” Washington is a Democratic stronghold where Trump polled less than 5% in the election, but his supporters relished their time in the capital. Chris Lehman, 55, a maintenance supervisor from Belmar, New Jersey, said: “It’s thrilling to be here today. This is a historic event. We’ve got a president again who’s proud of the country and will bring jobs back to the country. It’s a good feeling. He’s brought jobs back even before he’s taken the keys to the office yet. Unfortunately he’ll probably spend the first 20 days undoing the garbage President Obama did at the end to slow him down.” Lehman, 55, booked his hotel in nearby Baltimore before the election because he was so confident of Trump’s victory. “You don’t become a billionaire by losing and not knowing what you’re doing,” he said. “He speaks his heart and he speaks his mind. You know what he’s saying is the truth, and you’ve got to love a president like that. He doesn’t owe anybody anything. He can come in and do this right.” Shannon Wilburn, 48, who runs a Christian youth centre, travelled with a friend from Roby, Texas, for her first visit to the US capital. “We just wanted to be here as patriotic Americans. It’s a bucket list thing to see a swearing-in of a president. I do believe Donald Trump is a Christian. One of the biggest things is his pro-life stance and, as a Christ follower, it’s very hard to accept someone who’s not.” Wilburn said she doubted that Trump will be able to bridge the partisan divide in his inaugural address on Friday. “They’re not even going to give him a day. Look at the Democrats boycotting it. He can’t get one day of grace. That’s a little frustrating, I think.” Nearly a million people are expected on the National Mall in Washington for a ceremonial transfer of power that will observe time-honoured traditions and pageantry but usher in profound political uncertainties. Trump has promised to shake up the postwar liberal order, issued contradictory policy statements and, even before taking office, sparked anger in foreign capitals with his volatile approach. Questions have been raised over the character and temperament of a man who boasted about groping women and still picks fights on Twitter. Protests are expected on Friday, and a huge women’s march is planned for Saturday, as liberals dig in for four years of opposition to Trump, who enters office as the most unpopular of at least the past seven presidents at the beginning of their terms, according to opinion polls. He also takes power under the shadow of Russia’s alleged meddling in the presidential election, which has led some Democrats to question his legitimacy. Up to 60 members of Congress will boycott the inauguration ceremony at the US Capitol. At least 28,000 security personnel from 36 state, local and federal agencies will be deployed for inauguration events, reportedly costing $200m, divided between taxpayers and private donors. Parts of the capital are on lockdown, with steel barriers erected on normally busy streets, to head off disruptive protests. Trump and his wife, Melania, will on Friday morning go to the White House for tea with Obama and his wife, Michelle, even as house movers work upstairs to swap their private possessions. The inauguration ceremony will begin with performances by the Talladega Marching Tornadoes, the Rockettes dance troupe, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and 16-year-old singer Jackie Evancho. At noon, in a scene not so long ago unthinkable to the political establishment, Trump will take the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts. He will place his hand on his own Bible – a gift from his mother in 1955 – as well as a Bible used by Abraham Lincoln at his first inauguration. In an operatic tableau, standing nearby will be Hillary Clinton, the candidate Trump threatened to jail during the campaign. She received 2.9 million more votes than he did last November but lost the electoral college. Former presidents Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Jimmy Carter will also be present. Trump will become the first US president in the 240-year-old republic who has never served in the military or held public office. At 70 he will also be the oldest in his first term, eclipsing Ronald Reagan’s record. Barrack said Trump’s inaugural speech would focus on “the issues that unite us” and claimed that the divisions from the campaign would “vanish”. “What you’ll hear in his address is a switch from candidate to president,” he told the CBS This Morning show.

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President Donald Trump said his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would not have happened without Otto Warmbier, the American college student who died almost exactly one year ago after he was released from detention in North Korea. Speaking at a press conference after Tuesday’s summit in Singapore, Trump paid tribute to Warmbier. “Without Otto Warmbier, this summit wouldn’t have happened,” the President said. “Otto is someone who did not die in vain.” Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia student, was touring North Korea when he was arrested for allegedly stealing a propaganda sign. He was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor. Warmbier returned to Ohio in June 2017 in a coma after North Korea released him on “humanitarian grounds.” By then, he had spend 17 months a North Korean prison. He died six days after arriving back in the U.S. North Korean officials said Warmbier suffered a brain injury after contacting botulism, a form of poisoning, but U.S. doctors found no evidence of the condition. “Something happened from that day,” Trump said at the press conference Tuesday. “It was a terrible thing, it was brutal, but a lot of people started to focus on what was going on — including North Korea.” North Korean officials accused Trump of overdramatizing Warmbier’s condition in an effort to pressure Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons arsenal. But in his first face-to-face encounter with Kim, Trump was accused of ignoring the pariah state’s human rights record. In April, Warmbier’s parents filed a lawsuit against North Korea, alleging that the government tortured and murdered their son. Ahead of Tuesday’s highly anticipated summit, Vice President Mike Pence reportedly said Trump traveled to Singapore with Warmbier’s family “on his heart.” ||||| President Trump said Tuesday after his historic summit with North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un that the meeting between the two leaders may not have happened if not for the death of Otto Warmbier. Warmbier, 22, was a student at the University of Virginia when he was arrested in North Korea in January 2016 for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fell into a coma while incarcerated. He was brought back to the U.S. in June 2017 only to die a few days later. “Otto did not die in vain,” Trump said as he discussed North Korea’s human rights record. Trump’s comments on Warmbier came after Vice President Mike Pence reassured the Ohio man’s father when he spoke to him ahead of the Singapore summit. “Today I assured his dad, as the president said two days ago, their beloved son, Otto Warmbier, will not have died in vain,” Pence said. The vice president commended Trump on his success thus far with North Korea, speaking of that country’s participation in the Winter Olympics, the suspension of all ballistic missile testing and, recently, the release of three American hostages. Warmbier's parents, Fred and Cindy, said on Trump's comments, "We appreciate President Trump's recent comments about our family. We are proud of Otto and miss him. Hopefully something positive can come from this.” Trump said during the news conference that the remains of Americans who died during the Korean War will also be brought home. He said it was a last minute deal and expected more than 6,000 Americans’ remains to be brought back to the U.S. Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj and Serafin Gomez and the Associated Press contributed to this report. ||||| Buy Photo Enquirer columnist Byron McCauley. (Photo: Amanda Rossmann / The Enquirer)Buy Photo Before our sitting president returns from a meeting with the murdering despot of North Korea, Kim Jung Un, and pushes forth alternative facts, remember this. When Otto Warmbier of Wyoming, Ohio came back to the United States after spending 15 months as a prisoner of North Korea, his head was shaved. He was blind. He was deaf. A tube protruded from his nose. He howled and jerked. He was completely unresponsive. These facts can be found in a lawsuit filed in April by Fred and Cindy Warmbier, Otto's mom and dad. Understandably, they want to hold Kim Jung Un and his thuggish regime responsible for the death of their son, who was a student at the academically rigorous University of Virginia. If past is prologue, Trump will leave this meeting with this meeting with a positive narrative. It will go something like this: The Honorable Kim Jung Un as a man who can be reasoned with. Although we did not resolve the issue of North Korea's nuclear weapons development, we made great progress and will keep the conversation going. I did what no other president in modern history has done, which is to engage North Korea to begin to bring them into the fold of civilized nations. I look forward to keeping the conversation going. I could go on, but you get it. This will be a great photo opportunity for the president, unlike the photos that are emerging from last week's G7 Summit in Canada. In those Trump seemed as much at odds with our friends than he seems friendly with our (former?) enemies. But to be crystal clear, Otto Warmbier's blood covers the hands of Kim and his regime. So, pardon us if we are less than giddy over Trump's visit. Notably, Vice President Mike Pence Saturday said he shared a message with the Warmbier family from Trump that Otto's death would not be in vain. Nothing less than a public apology from North Korea to the Warmbier family, among other gestures of contrition and responsibility, should be acceptable. And that should be a starting point. Mr. President, can you make that happen and tell us what the North Koreans said? The last time we saw Otto Warmbier alive, two board-straight police types were taking him away in handcuffs after a North Korean court sentenced him to 15 years hard labor. Warmbier had admitted to removing a poster from a wall, which led a to a trumped-up charge of subversion. Warmbier was handsome, thick-haired and tall in a light-weight sports jacket. He wept. He asked for mercy. Then he was gone. The next time we saw him, almost exactly one year ago today (June 13), Warmbier emerged from a chartered plane on a stretcher. That was all could see. He died days later in a Cincinnati hospital. His family's lawsuit offers a small glimpse of the brutality he must have suffered and the pain they experienced when Otto was gone. If President Trump comes away with a positive narrative from the summit (and we know he will), the Warmbiers need to be part of the story. Enquirer local columnist Byron McCauley is also a member of The Enquirer editorial board. He can be reached at bmccauley@enquirer.com or (513) 768-8565. Twitter: @byronmccauley. Read or Share this story: https://cin.ci/2sXa01z

– Before the event took place, President Trump said his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un showed Otto Warmbier "has not died in vain." He upped that rhetoric Tuesday. "Without Otto Warmbier, this summit wouldn't have happened," Trump said, per Time. "It was a terrible thing," the president added of the US college student's death almost exactly a year ago after he returned unresponsive from a stint in a North Korean prison camp. But "something happened from that day," Trump said. "A lot of people started to focus on what was going on—including North Korea." After referencing North Korea's human rights record, Trump repeated, "Otto did not die in vain," per Fox News. Cincinnati Enquirer columnist Byron McCauley suggests it was more than a passing reference. Writing Monday, McCauley noted "Warmbier's blood covers the hands of Kim and his regime," so "if President Trump comes away with a positive narrative from the summit … the Warmbiers need to be part of the story." (Warmbier's parents claim their son was "brutally tortured and murdered" by North Korea.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.President Donald Trump said his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would not have happened without Otto Warmbier, the American college student who died almost exactly one year ago after he was released from detention in North Korea. Speaking at a press conference after Tuesday’s summit in Singapore, Trump paid tribute to Warmbier. “Without Otto Warmbier, this summit wouldn’t have happened,” the President said. “Otto is someone who did not die in vain.” Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia student, was touring North Korea when he was arrested for allegedly stealing a propaganda sign. He was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor. Warmbier returned to Ohio in June 2017 in a coma after North Korea released him on “humanitarian grounds.” By then, he had spend 17 months a North Korean prison. He died six days after arriving back in the U.S. North Korean officials said Warmbier suffered a brain injury after contacting botulism, a form of poisoning, but U.S. doctors found no evidence of the condition. “Something happened from that day,” Trump said at the press conference Tuesday. “It was a terrible thing, it was brutal, but a lot of people started to focus on what was going on — including North Korea.” North Korean officials accused Trump of overdramatizing Warmbier’s condition in an effort to pressure Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons arsenal. But in his first face-to-face encounter with Kim, Trump was accused of ignoring the pariah state’s human rights record. In April, Warmbier’s parents filed a lawsuit against North Korea, alleging that the government tortured and murdered their son. Ahead of Tuesday’s highly anticipated summit, Vice President Mike Pence reportedly said Trump traveled to Singapore with Warmbier’s family “on his heart.” ||||| President Trump said Tuesday after his historic summit with North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un that the meeting between the two leaders may not have happened if not for the death of Otto Warmbier. Warmbier, 22, was a student at the University of Virginia when he was arrested in North Korea in January 2016 for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fell into a coma while incarcerated. He was brought back to the U.S. in June 2017 only to die a few days later. “Otto did not die in vain,” Trump said as he discussed North Korea’s human rights record. Trump’s comments on Warmbier came after Vice President Mike Pence reassured the Ohio man’s father when he spoke to him ahead of the Singapore summit. “Today I assured his dad, as the president said two days ago, their beloved son, Otto Warmbier, will not have died in vain,” Pence said. The vice president commended Trump on his success thus far with North Korea, speaking of that country’s participation in the Winter Olympics, the suspension of all ballistic missile testing and, recently, the release of three American hostages. Warmbier's parents, Fred and Cindy, said on Trump's comments, "We appreciate President Trump's recent comments about our family. We are proud of Otto and miss him. Hopefully something positive can come from this.” Trump said during the news conference that the remains of Americans who died during the Korean War will also be brought home. He said it was a last minute deal and expected more than 6,000 Americans’ remains to be brought back to the U.S. Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj and Serafin Gomez and the Associated Press contributed to this report. ||||| Buy Photo Enquirer columnist Byron McCauley. (Photo: Amanda Rossmann / The Enquirer)Buy Photo Before our sitting president returns from a meeting with the murdering despot of North Korea, Kim Jung Un, and pushes forth alternative facts, remember this. When Otto Warmbier of Wyoming, Ohio came back to the United States after spending 15 months as a prisoner of North Korea, his head was shaved. He was blind. He was deaf. A tube protruded from his nose. He howled and jerked. He was completely unresponsive. These facts can be found in a lawsuit filed in April by Fred and Cindy Warmbier, Otto's mom and dad. Understandably, they want to hold Kim Jung Un and his thuggish regime responsible for the death of their son, who was a student at the academically rigorous University of Virginia. If past is prologue, Trump will leave this meeting with this meeting with a positive narrative. It will go something like this: The Honorable Kim Jung Un as a man who can be reasoned with. Although we did not resolve the issue of North Korea's nuclear weapons development, we made great progress and will keep the conversation going. I did what no other president in modern history has done, which is to engage North Korea to begin to bring them into the fold of civilized nations. I look forward to keeping the conversation going. I could go on, but you get it. This will be a great photo opportunity for the president, unlike the photos that are emerging from last week's G7 Summit in Canada. In those Trump seemed as much at odds with our friends than he seems friendly with our (former?) enemies. But to be crystal clear, Otto Warmbier's blood covers the hands of Kim and his regime. So, pardon us if we are less than giddy over Trump's visit. Notably, Vice President Mike Pence Saturday said he shared a message with the Warmbier family from Trump that Otto's death would not be in vain. Nothing less than a public apology from North Korea to the Warmbier family, among other gestures of contrition and responsibility, should be acceptable. And that should be a starting point. Mr. President, can you make that happen and tell us what the North Koreans said? The last time we saw Otto Warmbier alive, two board-straight police types were taking him away in handcuffs after a North Korean court sentenced him to 15 years hard labor. Warmbier had admitted to removing a poster from a wall, which led a to a trumped-up charge of subversion. Warmbier was handsome, thick-haired and tall in a light-weight sports jacket. He wept. He asked for mercy. Then he was gone. The next time we saw him, almost exactly one year ago today (June 13), Warmbier emerged from a chartered plane on a stretcher. That was all could see. He died days later in a Cincinnati hospital. His family's lawsuit offers a small glimpse of the brutality he must have suffered and the pain they experienced when Otto was gone. If President Trump comes away with a positive narrative from the summit (and we know he will), the Warmbiers need to be part of the story. Enquirer local columnist Byron McCauley is also a member of The Enquirer editorial board. He can be reached at bmccauley@enquirer.com or (513) 768-8565. Twitter: @byronmccauley. Read or Share this story: https://cin.ci/2sXa01z

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(CNN) If "diplomatic dance" were an event at the Winter Olympics, Kim Jong Un's younger sister would be favored to win gold. With a smile, a handshake and a warm message in South Korea's presidential guest book, Kim Yo Jong has struck a chord with the public just one day into the PyeongChang Games. "I hope Pyongyang and Seoul get closer in our people's hearts and move forward the future of prosperous unification," she said in her guest book message, referring to the capitals of North and South Korea. Seen by some as her brother's answer to American first daughter Ivanka Trump, Kim, 30, is not only a powerful member of Kim Jong Un's kitchen cabinet but also a foil to the perception of North Korea as antiquated and militaristic. But as North Korea's brutal dictator, Kim's brother has ruled with an iron fist since coming to power, operating Nazi-style prison camps , repressing political opposition and even executing senior officers and his own family members in an effort to consolidate power. In Pyeongchang, her presence is a major story line for reporters and the buzz on the street, with some in South Korea curious and accepting, while others are skeptical, if not downright cynical. "Her being here is not that bad, but I feel North Korea has shown up to the Olympics without paying," said Yoon Jun-young, 23, indicating that the nation hasn't made any political concessions to mirror its participation on the international sporting stage. Kate Yoo, 21, who like Yoon spoke to CNN during Saturday's hockey match between Switzerland and the unified Korean team, said she doesn't think it's "the best thing to have her here, although maybe part of having one of the Kim dynasty over is like a safeguard, then they won't attack." Presidential invitation delivered It wasn't until this week that the world learned Kim Yo Jong would join her nation's Olympic delegation. Just a few days later, she is the face of North Korea at PyeongChang. The first member of the North's ruling dynasty to visit the South since the Korean War ended in an armistice in 1953, Kim on Saturday made headlines across the globe when she delivered an invitation to South Korean President Moon Jae-in to visit North Korea. It happened during a historic meeting between North and South Korean officials at Seoul's presidential palace. South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, shakes hands with Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister. Images from the lunch meeting at the Blue House -- broadcast live on South Korean TV -- showed Moon sitting in front of Kim, rather than Kim Yong Nam, North Korea's ceremonial head of state who was technically the more senior official at the meeting. Kim Yo Jong also attended Saturday's hockey match. She sat with Kim Yong Nam, Moon and his wife, Kim Jung-sook. The Swiss won 8-0. At a dinner at a hotel in Gangneung, the sub-host city of the Olympics, Kim Yo Jong was "wearing a wine-colored jacket and black pants," South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported. The event was hosted by South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon for North Korea's high-level delegation. Asked about Seoul, Kim said: "It doesn't feel unfamiliar," Yonhap reported. 'She is the person he trusts' Like most members of her family, little is definitively known about Kim beyond her official rank. Born in 1987, she studied in Switzerland, like Kim Jong Un, and is believed to have attended Kim Il Sung University and a European school for her higher education. Kim Yo Jong is believed to be the youngest of seven siblings that their father, Kim Jong Il, had with four women. Kim Jong Un and Kim Yo Jong have the same mother, Ko Yong Hui. Kim Yo Jong was always close to her father, and after returning from Switzerland, she was appointed to positions of responsibility in the government, according to Michael Madden, who runs the blog North Korea Leadership Watch. "Kim Yo Jong's power exists because of proximity to the leader himself. She is the person he trusts more than anyone else in the regime," said Ken Gause, North Korean leadership expert. She's been known to act as an advance-team leader, inspecting sites before official visits and taking on administrative duties, analysts said. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, and North Korea's ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong Nam, attend the hockey match on Saturday, February 10, 2018, between Switzerland and the unified Korean team. She was promoted last year to the country's Politburo, the senior body of North Korea's communist party, as an alternate member. She is a close aide to her brother "and since his accession manages his public events, itineraries and logistical needs, among other tasks," according to North Korea Leadership Watch. Kim is now among her brother's top 20 officials and is seen as something of a gatekeeper to the leader, the analysts said. "She's probably one of the most influential people on Kim Jong Un himself, precisely because he has very few people he can trust," said Balbina Hwang, visiting professor at Georgetown University and founder of the National Committee on North Korea. North Korea's Ivanka Trump Kim Yo Jong's profile has been steadily rising since 2014, when she was made deputy director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers' Party. Her position is such that, according to a Seoul-based think tank run by North Korean defectors, Kim briefly took charge of the country while her brother was reportedly ill with gout or diabetes in late 2014. She also plays an important role as an informant for her brother, Gause said. Experts say her visit for the Winter Games is calculated to answer the expected presence of Ivanka Trump at the closing ceremonies. "Kim Yo Jong is the perfect counterpart to this," Hwang said. "And it also is a signal that North Korea is not this crazy, weird former Cold War state -- but it too has young women that are capable and are the future leadership." Park Young-sun, 45, Park Young-sun, a 45-year-old South Korean public servant, said she was pleased to see Kim Yo Jong at Saturday's hockey game, which she called it a "great lesson for my children." "They learned that winning is not everything and that you can get more cheers for trying to overcome differences," Park said. South Korean Choi Yoon-seok, 21, had a hunch Kim would show up to Saturday's hockey game. Choi Yoon-seok, 21 "I highly appreciate ... her making such a difficult decision," said Choi, the brother of unified team player Choi Ji-yeon "I felt a little strange to see North Koreans so close," he said. "But when they chanted, 'Him Nae Ra,' which means 'cheer up,' I realized that they are not strangers. We are the same people using the same language and supporting the same team." ||||| Kim Yo Jong, center, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, walks with South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon, right, and Kim Yong Nam, left, North Korea's nominal head of state, to attend a luncheon... (Associated Press) Kim Yo Jong, center, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, walks with South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon, right, and Kim Yong Nam, left, North Korea's nominal head of state, to attend a luncheon in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. A rare invitation to Pyongyang for South Korea's... (Associated Press) GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister headed home Sunday night after a whirlwind three days in South Korea, where she sat among world dignitaries at the Olympics and tossed a diplomatic offer to the South aimed at ending seven decades of hostility. Kim Yo Jong and the rest of the North Korean delegation departed for Pyongyang on her brother's private jet, a day after they delivered his hopes for a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in during a lunch at Seoul's presidential palace. They capped their final day in South Korea by joining Moon at a Seoul concert given by a visiting North Korean art troupe led by the head of the immensely popular Moranbong band, whose young female members are hand-picked by Kim Jong Un. Accepting North Korea's demand to transport more than 100 members of the art troupe by sea, South Korea treated the Mangyongbong-92 ferry as an exemption to the maritime sanctions it imposed on the North, a controversial move amid concerns that the North is trying to use the Olympics to poke holes in international sanctions. South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon hosted the North Koreans for lunch Sunday before Moon's chief of staff, Im Jong-seok, hosted them for dinner ahead of the concert. Kim Yo Jong, 30, is an increasingly prominent figure in her brother's government and the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. The North Korean delegation also included the country's 90-year-old head of state, Kim Yong Nam. In dispatching the highest level of government officials the North has ever sent to the South, Kim Jong Un revealed a sense of urgency to break out of deep diplomatic isolation in the face of toughening sanctions over his nuclear program, analysts say. "Honestly, I didn't know I would come here so suddenly. I thought things would be strange and very different, but I found a lot of things being similar," Kim said while proposing a toast at Sunday's dinner, according to Moon's office. "Here's to hoping that we could see the pleasant people (of the South) again in Pyeongchang and bring closer the future where we are one again." South Korea accommodated both the North Korean government officials and members of the art troupe at the Wakerhill hotel in Seoul. The riverside facility is named after late U.S. Army commander Walton Walker, who's considered a war hero in the South for his battles against the North during the Korean War. It was built in the 1960s under the government of late anti-communist dictator Park Chung-hee as a luxury facility for U.S. troops stationed in South Korea. The North Koreans went through a busy schedule in South Korea as the world watched their every move. They were whisked back and forth between Seoul and the Olympic towns of Pyeongchang and Gangneung. They shared the VIP box with world leaders at the opening ceremony and joined Moon in cheering for the first-ever inter-Korean Olympic team as it debuted in the women's ice hockey tournament. Saturday's game ended in a crushing 8-0 loss to Switzerland. The most important part of the visit, however, came during one of the quieter moments. Invited by Moon for lunch at Seoul's presidential palace, Kim Yo Jong verbally delivered her brother's hope for a summit with Moon in Pyongyang, a meeting that she said would help significantly improve ties after an extended period of animosity. "We hope that President (Moon) could leave a legacy that would last over generations by leading the way in opening a new era of unification," she said, according to Moon's office. Though Moon has used the Olympics to resurrect meaningful communication with North Korea after a diplomatic stalemate over its nuclear program, he didn't immediately jump on the North Korean offer for a summit. He said the Koreas should create an environment so that a summit could take place. He also called for the need of a quick resumption of dialogue between North Korea and the United States. After arriving in Seoul on Friday, the North Koreans attended a chilly opening ceremony at Pyeongchang's Olympic Stadium, taking their place among world dignitaries, including U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who seemed to go out of their way to not acknowledge the North Koreans despite sitting just few feet (meters) away. Analysts say Kim Jong Un's decision to send his sister to the South reflected an eagerness to break out of diplomatic isolation by improving ties with the South, which the country could eventually use as a bridge to approach the United States. The U.S.-led international community has been tightening the screws on North Korea with sanctions designed to punish its economy and rein in its efforts to expand its nuclear weapons and missile program, which now includes developmental long-range missiles targeting the U.S. mainland. By also sending a youthful, photogenic individual who would surely draw international attention at the Olympics, Kim might have also been trying to construct a fresher image of the country, particularly in face of U.S. efforts to use the Olympics as an occasion to highlight the North's brutal human rights record. Always flanked by thick groups of bodyguards, Kim Yo Jong commanded attention wherever she went, walking among throngs of journalists with a quiet poise and occasionally shooting an enigmatic smile at cameras. The Koreas previously held summits in 2000 and 2007, both hosted in Pyongyang by Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un's late father. The previous meetings came after rounds of international talks aimed at eliminating the North's nuclear program, which eventually failed. Moon has always expressed a desire to reach out to North Korea. Reviving inter-Korean dialogue is critical for the policies of Moon, who insists that Seoul should be in control in international efforts to deal with the North Korean nuclear issue. "The fate of our nation must be determined by our own selves — we must not allow the repeat of unfortunate past history where our fate was determined with no regard to our opinions," Moon said in a speech to South Korean lawmakers in November. But analysts say it may be more difficult for the South to arrange a summit with the North coming off a year in which Pyongyang test-fired dozens of missiles, including three ICBMs, and conducted its most powerful nuclear test to date. South Korea may also need to persuade traditional allies the United States and Japan, which have raised concerns that the North is attempting to use its outreach as a release valve for international pressure. ___ Kim Tong-hyung covers the Koreas for The Associated Press. Follow him on Twitter at @KimTongHyung.

– North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister headed home Sunday night after a whirlwind three days in South Korea, where she sat among world dignitaries at the Olympics and tossed a diplomatic offer to the South aimed at ending seven decades of hostility. Kim Yo Jong and the North Korean delegation departed for Pyongyang on her brother's private jet, reports the AP, a day after they delivered his hopes for a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. They capped their final day in South Korea by joining Moon at a Seoul concert given by a North Korean art troupe led by the head of the immensely popular Moranbong band. Kim Yo Jong, 30, is an increasingly prominent figure in her brother's government and the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. In dispatching the highest level of government officials ever, Kim Jong Un revealed a sense of urgency to break out of deep diplomatic isolation, analysts say. The North Koreans kept a busy schedule as the world watched their every move. By also sending a youthful, photogenic individual who would draw international attention, Kim might have also been trying to construct a fresher image of his country. It appears to have worked, with one CNN headline declaring that she was "stealing the show." Always flanked by bodyguards, Kim Yo Jong commanded attention wherever she went, walking among throngs of journalists with quiet poise and occasionally shooting an enigmatic smile at cameras. "Honestly, I didn't know I would come here so suddenly. I thought things would be strange and very different, but I found a lot of things being similar," Kim said during a toast at Sunday's dinner, per Moon's office. "Here's to hoping that we could see the pleasant people (of the South) again in Pyeongchang and bring closer the future where we are one again."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.(CNN) If "diplomatic dance" were an event at the Winter Olympics, Kim Jong Un's younger sister would be favored to win gold. With a smile, a handshake and a warm message in South Korea's presidential guest book, Kim Yo Jong has struck a chord with the public just one day into the PyeongChang Games. "I hope Pyongyang and Seoul get closer in our people's hearts and move forward the future of prosperous unification," she said in her guest book message, referring to the capitals of North and South Korea. Seen by some as her brother's answer to American first daughter Ivanka Trump, Kim, 30, is not only a powerful member of Kim Jong Un's kitchen cabinet but also a foil to the perception of North Korea as antiquated and militaristic. But as North Korea's brutal dictator, Kim's brother has ruled with an iron fist since coming to power, operating Nazi-style prison camps , repressing political opposition and even executing senior officers and his own family members in an effort to consolidate power. In Pyeongchang, her presence is a major story line for reporters and the buzz on the street, with some in South Korea curious and accepting, while others are skeptical, if not downright cynical. "Her being here is not that bad, but I feel North Korea has shown up to the Olympics without paying," said Yoon Jun-young, 23, indicating that the nation hasn't made any political concessions to mirror its participation on the international sporting stage. Kate Yoo, 21, who like Yoon spoke to CNN during Saturday's hockey match between Switzerland and the unified Korean team, said she doesn't think it's "the best thing to have her here, although maybe part of having one of the Kim dynasty over is like a safeguard, then they won't attack." Presidential invitation delivered It wasn't until this week that the world learned Kim Yo Jong would join her nation's Olympic delegation. Just a few days later, she is the face of North Korea at PyeongChang. The first member of the North's ruling dynasty to visit the South since the Korean War ended in an armistice in 1953, Kim on Saturday made headlines across the globe when she delivered an invitation to South Korean President Moon Jae-in to visit North Korea. It happened during a historic meeting between North and South Korean officials at Seoul's presidential palace. South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, shakes hands with Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister. Images from the lunch meeting at the Blue House -- broadcast live on South Korean TV -- showed Moon sitting in front of Kim, rather than Kim Yong Nam, North Korea's ceremonial head of state who was technically the more senior official at the meeting. Kim Yo Jong also attended Saturday's hockey match. She sat with Kim Yong Nam, Moon and his wife, Kim Jung-sook. The Swiss won 8-0. At a dinner at a hotel in Gangneung, the sub-host city of the Olympics, Kim Yo Jong was "wearing a wine-colored jacket and black pants," South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported. The event was hosted by South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon for North Korea's high-level delegation. Asked about Seoul, Kim said: "It doesn't feel unfamiliar," Yonhap reported. 'She is the person he trusts' Like most members of her family, little is definitively known about Kim beyond her official rank. Born in 1987, she studied in Switzerland, like Kim Jong Un, and is believed to have attended Kim Il Sung University and a European school for her higher education. Kim Yo Jong is believed to be the youngest of seven siblings that their father, Kim Jong Il, had with four women. Kim Jong Un and Kim Yo Jong have the same mother, Ko Yong Hui. Kim Yo Jong was always close to her father, and after returning from Switzerland, she was appointed to positions of responsibility in the government, according to Michael Madden, who runs the blog North Korea Leadership Watch. "Kim Yo Jong's power exists because of proximity to the leader himself. She is the person he trusts more than anyone else in the regime," said Ken Gause, North Korean leadership expert. She's been known to act as an advance-team leader, inspecting sites before official visits and taking on administrative duties, analysts said. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, and North Korea's ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong Nam, attend the hockey match on Saturday, February 10, 2018, between Switzerland and the unified Korean team. She was promoted last year to the country's Politburo, the senior body of North Korea's communist party, as an alternate member. She is a close aide to her brother "and since his accession manages his public events, itineraries and logistical needs, among other tasks," according to North Korea Leadership Watch. Kim is now among her brother's top 20 officials and is seen as something of a gatekeeper to the leader, the analysts said. "She's probably one of the most influential people on Kim Jong Un himself, precisely because he has very few people he can trust," said Balbina Hwang, visiting professor at Georgetown University and founder of the National Committee on North Korea. North Korea's Ivanka Trump Kim Yo Jong's profile has been steadily rising since 2014, when she was made deputy director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers' Party. Her position is such that, according to a Seoul-based think tank run by North Korean defectors, Kim briefly took charge of the country while her brother was reportedly ill with gout or diabetes in late 2014. She also plays an important role as an informant for her brother, Gause said. Experts say her visit for the Winter Games is calculated to answer the expected presence of Ivanka Trump at the closing ceremonies. "Kim Yo Jong is the perfect counterpart to this," Hwang said. "And it also is a signal that North Korea is not this crazy, weird former Cold War state -- but it too has young women that are capable and are the future leadership." Park Young-sun, 45, Park Young-sun, a 45-year-old South Korean public servant, said she was pleased to see Kim Yo Jong at Saturday's hockey game, which she called it a "great lesson for my children." "They learned that winning is not everything and that you can get more cheers for trying to overcome differences," Park said. South Korean Choi Yoon-seok, 21, had a hunch Kim would show up to Saturday's hockey game. Choi Yoon-seok, 21 "I highly appreciate ... her making such a difficult decision," said Choi, the brother of unified team player Choi Ji-yeon "I felt a little strange to see North Koreans so close," he said. "But when they chanted, 'Him Nae Ra,' which means 'cheer up,' I realized that they are not strangers. We are the same people using the same language and supporting the same team." ||||| Kim Yo Jong, center, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, walks with South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon, right, and Kim Yong Nam, left, North Korea's nominal head of state, to attend a luncheon... (Associated Press) Kim Yo Jong, center, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, walks with South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon, right, and Kim Yong Nam, left, North Korea's nominal head of state, to attend a luncheon in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. A rare invitation to Pyongyang for South Korea's... (Associated Press) GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister headed home Sunday night after a whirlwind three days in South Korea, where she sat among world dignitaries at the Olympics and tossed a diplomatic offer to the South aimed at ending seven decades of hostility. Kim Yo Jong and the rest of the North Korean delegation departed for Pyongyang on her brother's private jet, a day after they delivered his hopes for a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in during a lunch at Seoul's presidential palace. They capped their final day in South Korea by joining Moon at a Seoul concert given by a visiting North Korean art troupe led by the head of the immensely popular Moranbong band, whose young female members are hand-picked by Kim Jong Un. Accepting North Korea's demand to transport more than 100 members of the art troupe by sea, South Korea treated the Mangyongbong-92 ferry as an exemption to the maritime sanctions it imposed on the North, a controversial move amid concerns that the North is trying to use the Olympics to poke holes in international sanctions. South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon hosted the North Koreans for lunch Sunday before Moon's chief of staff, Im Jong-seok, hosted them for dinner ahead of the concert. Kim Yo Jong, 30, is an increasingly prominent figure in her brother's government and the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. The North Korean delegation also included the country's 90-year-old head of state, Kim Yong Nam. In dispatching the highest level of government officials the North has ever sent to the South, Kim Jong Un revealed a sense of urgency to break out of deep diplomatic isolation in the face of toughening sanctions over his nuclear program, analysts say. "Honestly, I didn't know I would come here so suddenly. I thought things would be strange and very different, but I found a lot of things being similar," Kim said while proposing a toast at Sunday's dinner, according to Moon's office. "Here's to hoping that we could see the pleasant people (of the South) again in Pyeongchang and bring closer the future where we are one again." South Korea accommodated both the North Korean government officials and members of the art troupe at the Wakerhill hotel in Seoul. The riverside facility is named after late U.S. Army commander Walton Walker, who's considered a war hero in the South for his battles against the North during the Korean War. It was built in the 1960s under the government of late anti-communist dictator Park Chung-hee as a luxury facility for U.S. troops stationed in South Korea. The North Koreans went through a busy schedule in South Korea as the world watched their every move. They were whisked back and forth between Seoul and the Olympic towns of Pyeongchang and Gangneung. They shared the VIP box with world leaders at the opening ceremony and joined Moon in cheering for the first-ever inter-Korean Olympic team as it debuted in the women's ice hockey tournament. Saturday's game ended in a crushing 8-0 loss to Switzerland. The most important part of the visit, however, came during one of the quieter moments. Invited by Moon for lunch at Seoul's presidential palace, Kim Yo Jong verbally delivered her brother's hope for a summit with Moon in Pyongyang, a meeting that she said would help significantly improve ties after an extended period of animosity. "We hope that President (Moon) could leave a legacy that would last over generations by leading the way in opening a new era of unification," she said, according to Moon's office. Though Moon has used the Olympics to resurrect meaningful communication with North Korea after a diplomatic stalemate over its nuclear program, he didn't immediately jump on the North Korean offer for a summit. He said the Koreas should create an environment so that a summit could take place. He also called for the need of a quick resumption of dialogue between North Korea and the United States. After arriving in Seoul on Friday, the North Koreans attended a chilly opening ceremony at Pyeongchang's Olympic Stadium, taking their place among world dignitaries, including U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who seemed to go out of their way to not acknowledge the North Koreans despite sitting just few feet (meters) away. Analysts say Kim Jong Un's decision to send his sister to the South reflected an eagerness to break out of diplomatic isolation by improving ties with the South, which the country could eventually use as a bridge to approach the United States. The U.S.-led international community has been tightening the screws on North Korea with sanctions designed to punish its economy and rein in its efforts to expand its nuclear weapons and missile program, which now includes developmental long-range missiles targeting the U.S. mainland. By also sending a youthful, photogenic individual who would surely draw international attention at the Olympics, Kim might have also been trying to construct a fresher image of the country, particularly in face of U.S. efforts to use the Olympics as an occasion to highlight the North's brutal human rights record. Always flanked by thick groups of bodyguards, Kim Yo Jong commanded attention wherever she went, walking among throngs of journalists with a quiet poise and occasionally shooting an enigmatic smile at cameras. The Koreas previously held summits in 2000 and 2007, both hosted in Pyongyang by Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un's late father. The previous meetings came after rounds of international talks aimed at eliminating the North's nuclear program, which eventually failed. Moon has always expressed a desire to reach out to North Korea. Reviving inter-Korean dialogue is critical for the policies of Moon, who insists that Seoul should be in control in international efforts to deal with the North Korean nuclear issue. "The fate of our nation must be determined by our own selves — we must not allow the repeat of unfortunate past history where our fate was determined with no regard to our opinions," Moon said in a speech to South Korean lawmakers in November. But analysts say it may be more difficult for the South to arrange a summit with the North coming off a year in which Pyongyang test-fired dozens of missiles, including three ICBMs, and conducted its most powerful nuclear test to date. South Korea may also need to persuade traditional allies the United States and Japan, which have raised concerns that the North is attempting to use its outreach as a release valve for international pressure. ___ Kim Tong-hyung covers the Koreas for The Associated Press. Follow him on Twitter at @KimTongHyung.

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Witnessing protests in your city? Share your photos with CNN iReport. (CNN) -- Before the Brooklyn Nets and Cleveland Cavaliers faced off on the basketball court Monday night, several players were already scoring points with protesters outside the arena. As they warmed up for the game, Cleveland Cavaliers LeBron James and Kyrie Irving were among the players wearing T-shirts that said "I can't breathe" -- Eric Garner's last words, which have become a rallying cry for protesters after last week's grand jury decision not to indict an officer in his death. Outside the Barclays Center, a large crowd of demonstrators swarmed the streets, chanting "hands up, don't shoot" and "black lives matter." The crowd erupted in cheers after an organizer told them about the players' T-shirts. The NBA players' show of support for protesters comes a week after five players from the St. Louis Rams walked onto the field and raised their palms in the air, demonstrating the "hands up, don't shoot" gesture that protesters have been using in demonstrations over the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Activists have been threatening to disrupt the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who are visiting New York and attending the Nets-Cavaliers game. "They need to know this is what America is. ... America is a system where those who benefit from others neglect to see the underclass, the people who are underprivileged, and that's why we're out here," said Jibri Nuriddin, a protester from New York. Demonstrations, he said, aren't going to stop. "We're going to keep chanting and keep marching," he told CNN from outside the arena. "Everyone's going to know that this is an issue. We're not going to let this issue die." Amanda Jack, a public defender in New York, said she joined protests after seeing many of her clients suffer at the hands of what she called a racist system. "There can't be any more business as usual when this kind of injustice continues. I think this (basketball game) is one of the examples of consumerism and excess, so it's time. Shut it down," she said. "We've got to address our broken justice system." Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former New York police officer, said protesters have a right to take a stand. "There's nothing more American than having the right to voice your concern," he told CNN's "The Situation Room." "We want them to be constructive and not destructive." The New York demonstration was one of a number of protests across the United States Monday night, days after a grand jury in New York City decided not to indict a police officer in Eric Garner's death and two weeks after a Missouri grand jury decided not to indict former Officer Darren Wilson in Brown's killing. In Washington, demonstrators protesting police violence laid down in the street several blocks from the White House on Monday, blocking rush hour traffic. Protesters chanted, "black lives matter" and "off the sidewalks, into the streets." One woman held a sign that said, "Stop killing us." The demonstration blocked traffic at cross streets along Connecticut Avenue, a major thoroughfare that connects the White House to upper northwest Washington. Collette Flanagan of Dallas told protesters her unarmed son was killed by police. "Our babies should be here in the prime of their lives," she said. And Berkeley, California, protestors temporarily shut down the I-80 freeway in both directions Monday night. New York mayor praises police New York Mayor Bill de Blasio praised police officers' handling of the protests. "They've respected people's right under the First Amendment to express their views. They've kept the peace. They've kept order," he told reporters Monday. "We had only a handful arrests the last two days, which is extraordinarily impressive given all of the activity that's happening." De Blasio says he understands parents who are worried about what might happen if their kids encounter police. The New York mayor says he's had to warn his own son about that possibility. "When he was just becoming a teenager, you know, the conversation was a difficult one and a complicated one, because you're trying to say to a young person who obviously looks up to police, you know, be careful and be smart and respect the police, but also recognize that there are these realities to be grappled with -- and that's a tough conversation to have with a young man," he said. De Blasio is white. His son is biracial. "This is a national reality. It's not just a New York reality," de Blasio said. "And that, unfortunately, is further evidence of how much more we all have to learn from each other. ... The goal is to get to a day when no parent feels they have to have that conversation." Protesters flood California streets A day after a heated standoff on a freeway between protesters in Oakland, California, and the California Highway Patrol, demonstrators in the area took to the streets again Monday. CNN affiliate KTVU showed throngs of protesters in the streets in Berkeley, California. It was a peaceful scene, KTVU reported. But violence erupted in earlier Berkeley protests Monday. Some protesters looted and vandalized businesses, police spokeswoman Jennifer Coats said. One protester was struck in the head with a hammer when he tried to keep fellow protesters from damaging and looting a Radio Shack, she said. The man was hospitalized, but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. Two Berkeley officers also suffered minor injuries. Coats said five people were arrested, but she did not know the charges. On Sunday night, demonstrators flooded a highway in Oakland, California. Some threw explosives, bottles and rocks at officers, authorities said. Officers responded by deploying gas and arresting eight protesters. In the end, two officers suffered minor injuries. Police said five patrol cars were damaged. Not everyone is on their side In Imperial, Missouri, demonstrators staged a different kind of protest Sunday. They burned St. Louis Rams football jerseys after the protest by players last week, CNN affiliate KSDK reported. "Why would you do something like that? It's utterly ridiculous," said Larry Magee. "I think the Rams ought to pack their bags, and I'll give them a plane ticket back to L.A." Daughter: 'This is not a black-and-white issue' Garner's daughter Erica said she was deeply moved by the diversity of protesters who have demonstrated across the country. "This is not a black-and-white issue. This is a national crisis," Erica Garner said. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has announced a federal civil rights investigation into Garner's death. And on Monday, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he was asking the state's governor to issue an executive order to change the way the state reviews cases such as Garner's. The order, Schneiderman's office said in a statement, should direct the attorney general "to investigate and, if necessary, prosecute cases involving unarmed civilians killed by police officers." "The horrible events surrounding the death of Eric Garner have revealed a deep crisis of confidence in some of the fundamental elements of our criminal justice system," Schneiderman said. Unlike with the Michael Brown case, a video showing the moments leading up to Garner's death has been widely circulated. Erica Garner says that video has struck a nerve with many. "For white people to come out and show how deeply they was hurt and like Asians and, you know, different people from different nations and different parts of the world to come out and show that they felt the same way I felt on that video, I greatly appreciated it. It's like a sense of I'm not the only one that feels this way." This story was based on reporting by Julian Cummings, Athena Jones, Joe Sutton, Holly Yan, Dan Simon, Stephanie Gallman, Wayne Sterling, Laura Ly, Daniel Verello and Deborah Feyerick and was written by Catherine E. Shoichet, Holly Yan and Ralph Ellis. ||||| December 8, 2014 10:46 PM LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers wears an ‘I Can’t Breathe’ shirt during warmups before his game against the Brooklyn Nets during their game at the Barclays Center on December 8, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — LeBron James wore an “I Can’t Breathe” shirt before the Cavaliers took on the Nets on Monday night, much like Derrick Rose did this weekend. Rose warmed up in the shirt Saturday before Chicago played Golden State. It refers to Eric Garner, who died July 17 after a New York City police officer placed him in a chokehold when he was being arrested for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. A recording of the arrest showed Garner gasping, “I can’t breathe” during the fatal encounter, and thousands have protested a grand jury decision not to indict the officer since the announcement on Wednesday. “It was spectacular,” James said of the shirt. “I loved it. I’m looking for one.” James found a shirt, and was seen wearing it during warmups. Several other players from both teams wore similar shirts, including Kevin Garnett and Deron Williams of the Nets. Britain’s Prince William and Princess Kate attended the game, where they met and posed for photos with James. “It’s a huge honor,” James said at the Cavaliers’ practice. “The stuff you read about, people like them only in books growing up, and to hear that they’re coming in town to see me play and they want to see me do what I do best, it’s a huge honor.” James said he was excited to get to meet the royal couple. “I’ve had people from all across the board as far as stature, but the President of the United States, that was pretty huge,” he said. “To have those two, to say they were traveling here and one of the things that they wanted to do was see me play, it’s a pretty big deal in my household.” You May Also Be Interested In These Stories Keidel: Mets Lack That Killer Instinct — And That’s Why Their Fans Are Anxious Hartnett: Kreider ‘Sick And Tired’ Of Rangers Coming Up Short Of Stanley Cup Schwei’s Mets Notes: Power Has Disappeared Of Late, And So Have Wins Dottino’s Game Balls And Gassers: Giants Somehow Blow Another One (TM and © Copyright 2014 CBS Radio Inc. and its relevant subsidiaries. CBS RADIO and EYE Logo TM and Copyright 2014 CBS Broadcasting Inc. Used under license. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.) ||||| LeBron James talks about himself and Kyrie Irving wearing "I can't breathe" T-shirts during warm-ups before the Cavaliers' game against the Nets. (1:53) BROOKLYN -- Several players on both the Cleveland Cavaliers and Brooklyn Nets, including LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, Kyrie Irving and Deron Williams, wore black "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts during pregame warm-ups Monday, following in the footsteps of Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose who wore the same shirt in a game Saturday to show support for the family of Eric Garner. Of his T-shirt, LeBron James said: "It's not a Cavs thing. It's a worldly thing." Al Bello/Getty Images "It's not a Cavs thing," James said before the game. "It's a worldly thing." On several occasions in the past couple weeks, James has spoken out about the deaths of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Tamir Rice in Cleveland. Like Garner, Brown and Rice were both African-American males that died because of a confrontation with a police officer. "It's just for us to make a [statement] to understand what we're going through as a society," James said when asked about the T-shirt. "I've been quoted over and over about what's going on as far as it's more of a notion to the family, more than anything. Obviously, as a society we have to do better. We have to be better for one another. It doesn't matter what race you are. It's more of a shout out to the family more than anything, because they're the ones that should be getting all the energy and effort." James told reporters on Sunday he was "looking for" a T-shirt like the one Rose wore. Nets guard Jarrett Jack heard James' comments and supplied the shirts for players on both teams to wear. "The power of social media," James said. Editor's Picks Whitlock: Why black folks can't breathe Sensitivity training for police won't change the laws that have suffocated black society since Jim Crow laws were repealed, Jason Whitlock writes. Before the game, Jack, who played for Cleveland last season, told reporters he offered the T-shirts to members of the Cavs. "I just heard people's opinion on the topic, and I know [the Cavaliers] are on the road, this is the place where it happened, so if they wanted to be a part of the cause or make a statement without actually necessarily saying any words, I definitely extended the invitation," Jack said. "Obviously Kyrie was my teammate, so I reached out to him, I heard 'Bron say something about it when Derrick Rose took the stance on it, so I reached out to my people out here, Excel Sports Management [Jack's agency], they was able to make it happen, they made a few shirts for those guys happen over there, so I know us as a team we're gonna go out and try to make a stance and show that we're a team that's not with prejudice. We want to have tolerance for everybody. And I just want to allow those guys to come be a part of it as well as much as we could."

– As Eric Garner protesters staged a "die-in" outside Barclays Center in Brooklyn last night, players from both the Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers donned T-shirts to show their support. LeBron James was among those wearing an "I Can't Breathe" shirt during a pregame warm-up, referring to Garner's last words, CBS reports. The Chicago Bulls' Derrick Rose wore one on Saturday, and after James told reporters he was looking for the same shirt, the Nets' Jarrett Jack supplied them to both teams. James tells ESPN that the shirt is mostly a "shout out to the family," but "as a society we have to do better. We have to be better for one another. It doesn't matter what race you are." James also met Prince William and his wife, Kate, who were at the game and posed with him for photos. "The stuff you read about, people like them only in books growing up, and to hear that they're coming in town to see me play and they want to see me do what I do best, it's a huge honor," the player tells CBS. Outside the arena, the crowd of protesters cheered when they were told about the shirts being worn by James and other players, including the Cavaliers' Kyrie Irving and the Nets' Kevin Garnett and Deron Williams, CNN reports.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Witnessing protests in your city? Share your photos with CNN iReport. (CNN) -- Before the Brooklyn Nets and Cleveland Cavaliers faced off on the basketball court Monday night, several players were already scoring points with protesters outside the arena. As they warmed up for the game, Cleveland Cavaliers LeBron James and Kyrie Irving were among the players wearing T-shirts that said "I can't breathe" -- Eric Garner's last words, which have become a rallying cry for protesters after last week's grand jury decision not to indict an officer in his death. Outside the Barclays Center, a large crowd of demonstrators swarmed the streets, chanting "hands up, don't shoot" and "black lives matter." The crowd erupted in cheers after an organizer told them about the players' T-shirts. The NBA players' show of support for protesters comes a week after five players from the St. Louis Rams walked onto the field and raised their palms in the air, demonstrating the "hands up, don't shoot" gesture that protesters have been using in demonstrations over the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Activists have been threatening to disrupt the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who are visiting New York and attending the Nets-Cavaliers game. "They need to know this is what America is. ... America is a system where those who benefit from others neglect to see the underclass, the people who are underprivileged, and that's why we're out here," said Jibri Nuriddin, a protester from New York. Demonstrations, he said, aren't going to stop. "We're going to keep chanting and keep marching," he told CNN from outside the arena. "Everyone's going to know that this is an issue. We're not going to let this issue die." Amanda Jack, a public defender in New York, said she joined protests after seeing many of her clients suffer at the hands of what she called a racist system. "There can't be any more business as usual when this kind of injustice continues. I think this (basketball game) is one of the examples of consumerism and excess, so it's time. Shut it down," she said. "We've got to address our broken justice system." Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former New York police officer, said protesters have a right to take a stand. "There's nothing more American than having the right to voice your concern," he told CNN's "The Situation Room." "We want them to be constructive and not destructive." The New York demonstration was one of a number of protests across the United States Monday night, days after a grand jury in New York City decided not to indict a police officer in Eric Garner's death and two weeks after a Missouri grand jury decided not to indict former Officer Darren Wilson in Brown's killing. In Washington, demonstrators protesting police violence laid down in the street several blocks from the White House on Monday, blocking rush hour traffic. Protesters chanted, "black lives matter" and "off the sidewalks, into the streets." One woman held a sign that said, "Stop killing us." The demonstration blocked traffic at cross streets along Connecticut Avenue, a major thoroughfare that connects the White House to upper northwest Washington. Collette Flanagan of Dallas told protesters her unarmed son was killed by police. "Our babies should be here in the prime of their lives," she said. And Berkeley, California, protestors temporarily shut down the I-80 freeway in both directions Monday night. New York mayor praises police New York Mayor Bill de Blasio praised police officers' handling of the protests. "They've respected people's right under the First Amendment to express their views. They've kept the peace. They've kept order," he told reporters Monday. "We had only a handful arrests the last two days, which is extraordinarily impressive given all of the activity that's happening." De Blasio says he understands parents who are worried about what might happen if their kids encounter police. The New York mayor says he's had to warn his own son about that possibility. "When he was just becoming a teenager, you know, the conversation was a difficult one and a complicated one, because you're trying to say to a young person who obviously looks up to police, you know, be careful and be smart and respect the police, but also recognize that there are these realities to be grappled with -- and that's a tough conversation to have with a young man," he said. De Blasio is white. His son is biracial. "This is a national reality. It's not just a New York reality," de Blasio said. "And that, unfortunately, is further evidence of how much more we all have to learn from each other. ... The goal is to get to a day when no parent feels they have to have that conversation." Protesters flood California streets A day after a heated standoff on a freeway between protesters in Oakland, California, and the California Highway Patrol, demonstrators in the area took to the streets again Monday. CNN affiliate KTVU showed throngs of protesters in the streets in Berkeley, California. It was a peaceful scene, KTVU reported. But violence erupted in earlier Berkeley protests Monday. Some protesters looted and vandalized businesses, police spokeswoman Jennifer Coats said. One protester was struck in the head with a hammer when he tried to keep fellow protesters from damaging and looting a Radio Shack, she said. The man was hospitalized, but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. Two Berkeley officers also suffered minor injuries. Coats said five people were arrested, but she did not know the charges. On Sunday night, demonstrators flooded a highway in Oakland, California. Some threw explosives, bottles and rocks at officers, authorities said. Officers responded by deploying gas and arresting eight protesters. In the end, two officers suffered minor injuries. Police said five patrol cars were damaged. Not everyone is on their side In Imperial, Missouri, demonstrators staged a different kind of protest Sunday. They burned St. Louis Rams football jerseys after the protest by players last week, CNN affiliate KSDK reported. "Why would you do something like that? It's utterly ridiculous," said Larry Magee. "I think the Rams ought to pack their bags, and I'll give them a plane ticket back to L.A." Daughter: 'This is not a black-and-white issue' Garner's daughter Erica said she was deeply moved by the diversity of protesters who have demonstrated across the country. "This is not a black-and-white issue. This is a national crisis," Erica Garner said. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has announced a federal civil rights investigation into Garner's death. And on Monday, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he was asking the state's governor to issue an executive order to change the way the state reviews cases such as Garner's. The order, Schneiderman's office said in a statement, should direct the attorney general "to investigate and, if necessary, prosecute cases involving unarmed civilians killed by police officers." "The horrible events surrounding the death of Eric Garner have revealed a deep crisis of confidence in some of the fundamental elements of our criminal justice system," Schneiderman said. Unlike with the Michael Brown case, a video showing the moments leading up to Garner's death has been widely circulated. Erica Garner says that video has struck a nerve with many. "For white people to come out and show how deeply they was hurt and like Asians and, you know, different people from different nations and different parts of the world to come out and show that they felt the same way I felt on that video, I greatly appreciated it. It's like a sense of I'm not the only one that feels this way." This story was based on reporting by Julian Cummings, Athena Jones, Joe Sutton, Holly Yan, Dan Simon, Stephanie Gallman, Wayne Sterling, Laura Ly, Daniel Verello and Deborah Feyerick and was written by Catherine E. Shoichet, Holly Yan and Ralph Ellis. ||||| December 8, 2014 10:46 PM LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers wears an ‘I Can’t Breathe’ shirt during warmups before his game against the Brooklyn Nets during their game at the Barclays Center on December 8, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — LeBron James wore an “I Can’t Breathe” shirt before the Cavaliers took on the Nets on Monday night, much like Derrick Rose did this weekend. Rose warmed up in the shirt Saturday before Chicago played Golden State. It refers to Eric Garner, who died July 17 after a New York City police officer placed him in a chokehold when he was being arrested for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. A recording of the arrest showed Garner gasping, “I can’t breathe” during the fatal encounter, and thousands have protested a grand jury decision not to indict the officer since the announcement on Wednesday. “It was spectacular,” James said of the shirt. “I loved it. I’m looking for one.” James found a shirt, and was seen wearing it during warmups. Several other players from both teams wore similar shirts, including Kevin Garnett and Deron Williams of the Nets. Britain’s Prince William and Princess Kate attended the game, where they met and posed for photos with James. “It’s a huge honor,” James said at the Cavaliers’ practice. “The stuff you read about, people like them only in books growing up, and to hear that they’re coming in town to see me play and they want to see me do what I do best, it’s a huge honor.” James said he was excited to get to meet the royal couple. “I’ve had people from all across the board as far as stature, but the President of the United States, that was pretty huge,” he said. “To have those two, to say they were traveling here and one of the things that they wanted to do was see me play, it’s a pretty big deal in my household.” You May Also Be Interested In These Stories Keidel: Mets Lack That Killer Instinct — And That’s Why Their Fans Are Anxious Hartnett: Kreider ‘Sick And Tired’ Of Rangers Coming Up Short Of Stanley Cup Schwei’s Mets Notes: Power Has Disappeared Of Late, And So Have Wins Dottino’s Game Balls And Gassers: Giants Somehow Blow Another One (TM and © Copyright 2014 CBS Radio Inc. and its relevant subsidiaries. CBS RADIO and EYE Logo TM and Copyright 2014 CBS Broadcasting Inc. Used under license. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.) ||||| LeBron James talks about himself and Kyrie Irving wearing "I can't breathe" T-shirts during warm-ups before the Cavaliers' game against the Nets. (1:53) BROOKLYN -- Several players on both the Cleveland Cavaliers and Brooklyn Nets, including LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, Kyrie Irving and Deron Williams, wore black "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts during pregame warm-ups Monday, following in the footsteps of Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose who wore the same shirt in a game Saturday to show support for the family of Eric Garner. Of his T-shirt, LeBron James said: "It's not a Cavs thing. It's a worldly thing." Al Bello/Getty Images "It's not a Cavs thing," James said before the game. "It's a worldly thing." On several occasions in the past couple weeks, James has spoken out about the deaths of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Tamir Rice in Cleveland. Like Garner, Brown and Rice were both African-American males that died because of a confrontation with a police officer. "It's just for us to make a [statement] to understand what we're going through as a society," James said when asked about the T-shirt. "I've been quoted over and over about what's going on as far as it's more of a notion to the family, more than anything. Obviously, as a society we have to do better. We have to be better for one another. It doesn't matter what race you are. It's more of a shout out to the family more than anything, because they're the ones that should be getting all the energy and effort." James told reporters on Sunday he was "looking for" a T-shirt like the one Rose wore. Nets guard Jarrett Jack heard James' comments and supplied the shirts for players on both teams to wear. "The power of social media," James said. Editor's Picks Whitlock: Why black folks can't breathe Sensitivity training for police won't change the laws that have suffocated black society since Jim Crow laws were repealed, Jason Whitlock writes. Before the game, Jack, who played for Cleveland last season, told reporters he offered the T-shirts to members of the Cavs. "I just heard people's opinion on the topic, and I know [the Cavaliers] are on the road, this is the place where it happened, so if they wanted to be a part of the cause or make a statement without actually necessarily saying any words, I definitely extended the invitation," Jack said. "Obviously Kyrie was my teammate, so I reached out to him, I heard 'Bron say something about it when Derrick Rose took the stance on it, so I reached out to my people out here, Excel Sports Management [Jack's agency], they was able to make it happen, they made a few shirts for those guys happen over there, so I know us as a team we're gonna go out and try to make a stance and show that we're a team that's not with prejudice. We want to have tolerance for everybody. And I just want to allow those guys to come be a part of it as well as much as we could."

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He’s still living a secret life. The hooker-loving Eliot Spitzer was seeing a sultry 25-year-old blond at the same time he was carrying on with his girlfriend — but became enraged when the Russian bombshell wanted to move back to her native country, sources said Monday. The disgraced former governor is accused of attacking Svetlana Travis — aka Svetlana Zakharova — Saturday night inside a posh, $1,000-a-night suite at The Plaza hotel on Fifth Ave., a day before she flew home. Spitzer’s lawyer admitted the two know each other. But he denied allegations that Spitzer got physical with Travis and said she never told cops he did. EX-GOV. ELIOT SPITZER BEING INVESTIGATED FOR ASSAULTING WOMAN AT PLAZA HOTEL Democrat Spitzer and his girlfriend, Lis Smith, 33, broke up in December. It was revealed in 2013 that the fallen governor was dating Smith, a Democratic operative who left her job after their relationship became public. On Monday night, Spitzer issued a statement denying he was dating Travis. Svetlana Travis (pictured) was trying to break up with Eliot Spitzer when the alleged choking incident took place, sources said. “The woman who initially made the allegation was not my girlfriend. Lis Smith was my girlfriend, and I had and have deep affection for Lis,” he said. Travis is the same woman who calls herself “Svetlana Z” and wrote a 2014 article for the website Medium that was headlined “Sex Is Sex, But Money Is Money,” “Inside Edition” reported Monday. In the article, the woman, who claimed to earn upward of $5,000 a night, wrote: “I’m a businesswoman. I did what politicians in this country are always encouraging immigrants to do: work hard, seize opportunity, maximize your talents.” SPITZER, PATERSON AIDE TO LEAD FIGHT AGAINST ASSISTED SUICIDE IN NEW YORK When the Daily News asked by email if she wrote the article, a person claiming to be Travis said she did not. A Gmail account is included in Travis’ public records and tracks to a Russian-language message board offering escort services and erotic massages. Sources said that the 25-year-old Travis cut herself with a broken glass after Spitzer allegedly choked and pushed her at the Fifth Avenue hotel near Central Park. (Alo Ceballos/FilmMagic) The person claiming to be Travis, who refused to provide a photo for verification and later deleted the Gmail account, said she was already back in Russia. She said she was suicidal and that’s why she initially said Spitzer hurt her and then recanted. “If I didn’t say Eliot started (it) all, I think I would be hospitalized in some mental home for a few months. I made up the story in order to not be hospitalized,” the person claiming to be Travis wrote. She said she’d tried to cut her wrists Saturday night while Spitzer was with her at the hotel. He pushed her onto the bed to stop her, she wrote. She denied being a call girl and said she’s fine now. Police sources said that after Spitzer, 56, allegedly choked and pushed Travis — someone he’s known for two years — at the hotel, she cut herself with a broken glass. “She then cut herself with the glass,” one source said. “It wasn’t really on the wrist, like she was trying to kill herself. It was more on the arm. She said she was having a nervous breakdown.” Front page of the New York Daily News for February 15, 2016, details how former Attorney General and Gov. Eliot Spitzer is being investigated after allegedly assaulting and possibly choking a woman at the Plaza hotel. SPITZER PLAZA ATTACK DRAMA (New York Daily News) Daily News Front: Pay For Luv Gov How the News covered latest Spitzer scandal (l.) and initial bombshell in 2008 when he was caught in hooker sting. Travis went to Roosevelt Hospital, where she named the “Luv Gov” as her attacker, the sources said. After the hospital visit, while she was being driven by police, “at one point she gets out of the car and says she doesn’t want to press charges,” a source said. ELIOT SPITZER HAS FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES, THROWS BOOK PARTY FOR GIRLFRIEND'S FORMER BEAU In the hours after the alleged scrap, Spitzer was caught on hotel video wearing a wool cap pulled down low over his eyes, sources said. While Travis was in the hospital, a man identifying himself as “George” called twice to ask about seeing her. Later, a man believed to be the same person showed up using the name “George” and wanted to see her but was told he could not, sources said. Police believe the caller and the visitor were Spitzer because hospital video shows him wearing the same wool cap, sources said. The Plaza Hotel, where Spitzer allegedly choked Svetlana Travis, who has since taken off to native Russia. (BRENDAN MCDERMID/REUTERS) Spitzer was known to use the alias “George Fox” — the name of a longtime friend and supporter — when he was soliciting hookers in 2008. Later Monday, Spitzer’s lawyer sent a “fact sheet” acknowledging he was in the hotel room with Travis — but strongly denying he had assaulted her or been involved in any criminal activity. The lawyer wouldn’t say what type of relationship the two had or how long they’d known each other. The ex-governor visited her at The Plaza hotel at her request as she passed through New York on her way back to Russia, the statement said. “They had a brief and amicable conversation, and then Mr. Spitzer left,” his attorney Adam Kaufmann said. When Travis called a few hours later and asked Spitzer to return to The Plaza, he did, the lawyer said. New York Daily News front pages of 2016 “He saw her becoming highly emotional and threatening to self-harm. She dialed 911 and said she was having a breakdown,” Kaufmann wrote. “She then called 911 again and sought to cancel her prior call to 911. She was distraught and Mr. Spitzer sought to keep her calm. There were no allegations to 911 or to the police — either in the 911 call or when they responded to the Plaza hotel — of any assault or physical contact,” the lawyer said. The allegation against Spitzer came during her psychiatric evaluation, Kaufmann said. The woman claiming to be Travis told The News in an email that she and Spitzer “were friends, but not anymore.” She said she had a history of suicide attempts and had been institutionalized in the past. When she saw how deeply she’d cut her wrist Saturday night she dialed 911 — then called back to cancel out of fear she’d be locked up in a mental ward, she explained. “He didn’t choke me,” she wrote. “Eliot didn’t cut me, didn’t choke me, he knows about my mental issues in the past and he was the only one who had helped me that night.” Eliot Spitzer is seen in 2008 as New York governor speaking about the prostitution scandal that led to his resignation. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) Prosecutors will determine whether any charges will be filed against Spitzer. NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce is leading the investigation. Spitzer has yet to be interviewed by cops. The super of a Murray Hill building where Travis lived said she moved out in late January. Neither he nor a neighbor had seen Spitzer at the building. “She seemed friendly. She’s Russian. I know who he is, but he’s never been here,” the neighbor said of Spitzer. The neighbor, who did not want to be identified, said there was an eviction notice on her door last month. “On Jan. 29, which was a Friday night, was the last time I physically saw her here,” the neighbor said. “She had to be out by the 31st. She took out some lamps and a couple of boxes with books, normal moving stuff.” Travis had lived at the building for about a year, he said. “She was always quiet, polite to people in the hallway,” the neighbor said. “She was soft-spoken. There was never any disturbances, loud music. Definitely no governors here.” Spitzer resigned in disgrace in March 2008 after he was embroiled in a prostitution scandal linked to escort Ashley Dupre. Before that, the Luv Gov was the state’s hard-charging attorney general, earning the more flattering Sheriff of Wall Street nickname. Sign up for BREAKING NEWS Emails privacy policy Thanks for subscribing! ||||| His son didn’t get into Dartmouth and that makes him sad, because he loves his son and he knows how much pressure the boy puts on himself. I understand. His wife won’t let him have his late-night bowls of mint chocolate chip ice cream anymore and she nags him about the Sunday afternoons he spends watching golf on television. I frown. His doctor says he needs more vitamin D, and maybe he should consider anti-depressants, too, but he’s sure if he could just find something meaningful to do with his life, he would feel better. I make a little tsk-ing noise, widen my eyes. I am close to crying. I tell him he’s sweet for caring about his son so much. I tell him if I were with him, I would let him eat all the ice cream he wanted, and Sunday afternoons would be set aside for watching golf, because why shouldn’t people do what makes them happy? Then I tell him I don’t know about vitamin D and anti-depressants (that’s the truest thing I’ll say all week), but he seems very healthy and, as I say this, I gently touch his thigh and dip my head a little and look at him so my eyes are half hidden — I’ve practiced in the mirror. I smile without showing my teeth — I’ve practiced that, too — and wait for him to reach for me. But he’s not ready for that; he wants to tell me about how he hit a triple for his softball team last weekend, how it was “magical,” how he wishes he could feel that good all the time. I’ve had men like him before, and they’re sweet, but they can be tricky, too. I don’t know what a triple is, and I have no idea what it has to do with magic, but I do know we’ve been talking for 15 minutes. I know it’s important that he feel like we have all day, that we have forever. Time can’t exist for us. But I know exactly how much time we do have. I kick off my shoes (simple, beige $600 Louboutins that I got on sale for $250) that I wore specially for him because he told me he’s “not a fancy guy.” (If he were fancy, I’d wear my black Louboutins.) He’s still talking about triples and magic and meaning. We have 35 minutes. It’s plenty of time, but I don’t want to take any unnecessary risks. My job is all about minimizing risk. I move closer, tell him I have an idea that would make him feel good. I tell him it would make me feel good, too. I tell him I’ve been thinking about it since he texted me two days ago. I gently claw his thigh with my fresh, red (any other color, you’re taking a risk) manicure. I moisten my lips, flash just a little tooth. He’s shy, but he’s a man. He stops talking. The tricky part of my job is over. Now it’s time for sex. I arrived in New York City from Chelyabinsk, a city right in the middle of Russia, when I was 19 years old, with $300 in my pocket. I turned 24 in March and have managed to save $200,000, by fucking for money. I’ve traveled to Morocco, Paris, Beijing, and Monaco. Men have brought me tea from London, chocolates from Switzerland, lingerie from France and shoes from Italy. I’ve bought my parents a little village house. (I told them I had a rich American boyfriend who was taking care of me.) I don’t hate men. I am not a victim of child trafficking. I have never been raped, or drugged, or done porn. I’m not an addict. I never had a pimp. I don’t suffer from what my American girlfriends call “daddy issues” and what my shrink refers to as “malformed identity centering on early childhood abandonment.” My dad had lovers. I don’t blame my parents for my job, or my life. Other kids have other problems. My parents had problems when they were kids. My therapist has helped me see that. I’m a businesswoman. I did what politicians in this country are always encouraging immigrants to do. Work hard, seize opportunity, maximize your talents, and adjust and adapt to the new world economy. I haven’t worked as an escort for over a year. Not because the job was illegal, though that’s part of it. And not because I sometimes had to deal with idiots, though that was part of it, too. I got out because I want to study filmmaking, and psychology, and I can afford to do that now. I got out because eventually I’d like to get married and have a kid, and the longer I escorted, the trickier that would get. My life since I quit has been sort of complicated, and I’ll tell you about that. But first I’ll tell you how I got into the business, and what it was like. I grew up in central Russia. When I was little, I wanted to be a tour guide and see the world. Then a tour bus came through our town and it was small and stinky with no air conditioning. The tour guide had frizzy hair and sweat stains under her arms. I thought tour guides in the United States probably had it better. I had the phone number of a Russian woman who had said she would host me. When I arrived at JFK, she told me to take the train to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. I knew about it because in Russian movies it’s a place where you can buy smoked salmon and caviar and nice clothes, and where only people who really achieve can go. I felt lucky. When I came out of the train station I saw all these ugly people, people in wheelchairs, old people, and the streets were smelly and the people were wearing clothes worse than what people wore in the Soviet Union and the train station was loud and I thought: Fuck, this is not the America that I heard of. I spent four days there before I met a girl who said I could live with her in Manhattan. When I got there and looked around, I understood the fuss. I understood why all people want to come here. I applied for jobs at restaurants and medical offices, but no one would hire me. I saw an ad for dancers and called. They picked me up in a truck filled with other young girls. There were a lot of drunken men at the club, trying to touch different parts of my body. I made $300 and decided I would never do that again. I answered another ad, to work in a Turkish café. The owner said, you don’t have to work: If you just let me fuck you, I’ll pay you. No thank you, I said. Actually, it was more like, fuck off, you stupid dude. I’d been in New York two weeks, but I was getting better at English. Then I saw an ad about massage. It said I didn’t need experience and I could make up to $500 a day. I stood in a room with another girl and when the guy came in and got undressed, I did what the other girl did, and rubbed his back and his legs. Then after 30 minutes the other girl got undressed, and I realized, “Oh, this is why I’m getting $100 an hour.” So I got undressed and we jerked him off. I started working five days a week. After two months, the spa told me I couldn’t work there anymore. I don’t know if it was because they were mad because I had been seeing private clients, or they just wanted to keep getting new girls. The other girl from the spa and I decided to rent an apartment and to work on our own. We pooled our savings and bought a massage table and a bed and we started advertising on Backpage.com. We were making about $800 a day each. Most of the guys wanted more than a massage, which is what they all called a hand job, and they offered to pay more. I’m not sure what my friend did, but I always said no. One of my regulars, he would come for a massage three times a week, and always give me nice tips, sometimes $100. He asked about my life in Russia and told me I might feel better if I talked to a psychologist. He gave me the number of one he’d heard of, who spoke Russian, and extra money to pay for a few months to talk to her. And he offered me $1,000 an hour to have sex with him. It was tempting, but I thought that if I ever fucked for money, I would never respect myself again. He told me he liked me just the way I was. He told me he would like to help me get into school, to take care of me. He told me I would be a great psychologist, because I made people feel comfortable. So when he invited me to the Plaza Hotel one night, I went. He had an expensive suite with great views, opened a bottle of expensive champagne, and we started to talk. We talked for a while and then we got undressed and had sex. He gave me an envelope with $1,000, but he said it wasn’t payment; it was just because he liked me so much. He had to leave the next morning for a business trip to Chicago, but I stayed in the suite and ordered room service — orange juice and a big fluffy omelet with mushrooms and beautiful golden toast and little pats of butter shaped like sea shells. I was so happy. I felt like Vivian from Pretty Woman. He didn’t call me when he got back from Chicago. I called him, but he didn’t answer, so I called him at work. His secretary told me he was “not available.” She told me he would not be available, ever. I opened my eyes that day. Clients knew me as Angelina or Anna. Angelina was “sweet, intelligent, fun and playful… a devoted pleasure seeker who takes enjoying life very seriously indeed.” Anna was more shy, a “European companion who adores luxury travel… often passionate, sometimes hilarious but rarely forgettable.” Angelina cost $800 an hour, $4,000 for the night; Anna ran $900 and $5,000. According to rankings in The Erotic Review (TER), the Yelp of the commercial sex world, each rated in the top 1 percent of all escorts. But there are lots of young, pretty girls in my business. What got me to the top — and what kept me there — was my work ethic and attention to detail. I was successful because I learned some hard, valuable lessons about making it in the sex-for-money business. Here are some of them: Lesson 1: Spend Money to Make Money I paid someone to write my ad copy. I paid professional photographers $1,500 to shoot my pictures. I considered those investments in myself. The best page for escorts, Eros.com, costs $400 a month to place an ad. They charge the most, and they attract the most serious escorts and guys who are willing to submit to screening. Backpage is more wide open, and it gets cheaper guys, as well as scary, freaky guys. Craigslist is barely worth mentioning. That’s where people get killed. I spent $50 a day on Eros so I could be listed in the “What’s New” section, and I learned that to have an impact I had to be “new” for at least 20 days a month. I spent $500 a week for a “featured” spot. So that’s almost $4,000 a month right there. The girls who would only spend the basic $400 a month, they’d only get one email in two weeks. They’d be sitting at home, sucking their fingers. Then there’s rent, because you want a separate apartment to do your work, because you can’t worry about roommates, and that costs at least $3,000 in Manhattan. You can rent a cheaper place in the Bronx, or Queens, sure, but you think guys with money are going to come see you there? In my first ads, I used very little copy. What was the point? What I know now is that guys want to know the women they’re fucking. It surprised me, but a lot of them — most of them — really need to feel a sort of connection. Reading about Angelina’s easy laugh, or how Anna loves luxury travel, made them more comfortable. And when they’re more comfortable, they call. I always wondered why Playboy ran those little interviews with the girls alongside the photos. Now I know. The guys who are jerking off want to feel like they know the girl. Lesson 2: Make Stereotypes Work for You Anna and Angelina were exotic and vaguely foreign-sounding without any specific nationality. Men here — especially American men — have certain ideas about certain nationalities. If you’re a South American girl, then you’re wild, you’re fun, and you love to fuck. If you’re Asian, you’re bad! You’re freaky, and you’ll do anything, and you’ll want to do more! American men think Russians are hot, but also icy and mean. Some of the guys have had some not-so-good experiences with what I learned they call Russian gold diggers. American girls are seen as being in really good shape and put-together, and open-minded and fun. Sometimes they have cute ponytails and big smiles, but guys think they’re sort of selfish and bitchy, too. Once I learned all that, I decided that Angelina and Anna would be beautiful and mysterious, cosmopolitan, but no one would be able to tell from their names what part of the world they were from. They wouldn’t give a client any reason to rule them out based on stereotypes. It’s just smart business. Lesson 3: The Price Is Right These days, guys can fuck porn stars for $2,000 — and they advertise on the same sites I do. They can hire “sugar babies” for $4,000 a month. There are even “sex vacations” for $2,000 where you get food and lodging thrown in along with the sex. So if you want to make money as an escort, you better deliver something special. I did couples. I offered toys, role-playing, and BDSM. (I didn’t do anal and I didn’t even know what it was until one of my clients asked about it, then explained it. At first I thought he was joking and I think I hurt his feelings a little when I laughed. If I ever were to do anal, I would charge at least $1,500 for it, mostly because what I learned is that guys think it’s so forbidden and are so shy about asking for it and that they think most girls don’t really like it). Mostly, I offered understanding. The truth is, even for guys who hire me for three or four hours, the sex usually only takes about 15 minutes. It’s the understanding they’re buying. White girls can charge the most, at least in New York. Then Spanish girls, then Asians (Koreans and Japanese tend to demand more than Chinese), then black girls. I don’t know if it’s supply and demand or what, but one of my clients, a handsome blonde actor, he told me to take advantage. He told me he’d been up for 10 commercials in the past five months, and hadn’t gotten a single one. He said it was because the marketplace wanted brunettes now, because of the increasing Latino population and their buying power. (I often learn business tips from my customers, even when they don’t know it.) In any case, I took advantage. I charged top dollar. What amazes me is some of the American girls who only charge $400. I don’t know if it’s because they’re stupid, or too lazy to study the competition, or they’re not as serious about their work. Maybe it’s because they never stepped on a stinky tourist bus with no air conditioning. Lesson 4: One Is the Most Profitable Number With an agency, they screen your clients. They set up your appointments. They take care of you. What they also take is your money. For massage parlors, it’s half. For escort agencies, it’s 30 to 40 percent. Girls who work at the agencies don’t want to deal with owning their own businesses. To me, that’s shortsighted. First off, the ones that advertise 20 girls usually have two, one blonde and one brunette. So, of course, those girls are working hard. Really hard. If an agency gets 20 clients a day, each of those girls is fucking 10 guys — a day. At the end of a summer, they have $50,000, but they had to fuck a lot of guys for that. To me, that’s not worth it. It’s not cost-effective. I worked hard, but once I went into business for myself, I worked hard for myself, not someone else. It’s the entrepreneurs who get rich. I’m 5'7", 119 pounds, with long legs, hazel eyes, full lips, and a slim body that has been getting attention since I entered puberty. That’s the raw material. It’s my product, so I took care of it. I’m a vegetarian and I have a personal trainer. I got manicures and pedicures at least twice a week, always red, and always showed up in expensive lingerie and thigh-high stockings. Every time I met a client it was a performance, so I prepared. My mascara cost $130. Hair color was $200; eye shadow was $50, as was foundation and lipstick. A nice lingerie set costs at least $100; I spent $600. Not to mention the shoes. In real life, girls prepare in the same way, then the guy takes her to a diner, or he says, “Let’s go to a sports bar and we can drink bottles of beer.” What a schmuck. No wonder so many guys complain about not getting laid. My dates gave me flowers, Prada coats, iPhones. They did not take me to diners, or sports bars. When a guy meets an escort, he wants to be nice, he wants to prove he’s the best, he wants to be great. And then in real life, he can be so stupid. Last Valentine’s Day, I was in a McDonald’s near my apartment. Valentine’s and Christmas and Easter are never big days in my business, at least with the guys who have money. I came there to drink some Coca-Cola and because the internet worked faster than in my apartment. I had bought myself flowers, daisies and violets. There was a couple sitting next to me and the girl said, “OMG, how cute are your flowers?” I was in a pretty good mood and I said to the guy, “Maybe it’s time to buy your girlfriend flowers,” and he said, “She’s okay without them.” I’m not sure why, but that made me so mad. “Fuck you!” I said to the guy, and I left. The big part of my job started at the door. You don’t pay attention to the envelope he has. You pretend it doesn’t even exist. You’re smiling because he’s a handsome man, and there’s chemistry. If he’s shy, you offer him a glass of wine. If he’s super shy, you ask, can you massage him, there’s nothing wrong with a massage, right? Sometimes I would say, “Oh, you’re so handsome,” because people like to be flattered, even if it’s not true. People like to believe the better things, because believing better things is easier. And guys who are paying $1,000 an hour really believe the better things! If he can afford $1,000 an hour, he already thinks he’s cool. When a guy’s got money, he thinks he’s cool, cooler than regular people. They all wanted you to come, and they wanted you to come more than once. The 60-year-old guy who wants me to come five times before he has an orgasm believes it’s because he cares about me. But it’s because he wants to prove to himself that he can still make a young girl come. (I told lies for a living, but the biggest lies in the world are the lies people tell themselves.) So of course I pretended to come. And I learned that the best, most convincing, easiest way to show my clients I had an orgasm was just to say, “I just came.” That’s it. Nothing fancy. I’m not that good an actress, and it’s not necessary, anyway. “Oh, I came” would always do the trick. They believed it. They were so proud. The truth is, for most girls, you can’t tell: It’s like God, or love, you don’t see it, but you believe it exists. As important as it was for me to do, and say, certain things, equally important was what not to do and say. I didn’t ask about the guy’s family. Not because it was crossing any boundaries (you’d be surprised at how many men brag about their kids) but because what if someone had just died? That would make him sad. I never, ever wanted to make a client sad. For the same reason, I didn’t talk about anything that was bothering me. In Russia we have an expression: “If I’m hungry and you’re full, you won’t understand me.” A billionaire doesn’t understand what shitty problems I have. It’s bad business. Telling your guy might get him to help you once, or twice, but it’s going to turn a potential regular, long-term client into a non-repeat customer. A guy will complain to you over and over, but he doesn’t want to hear your complaints. I promise you that. I tried to be entertaining. I would tell clients I just got back from Dubai, or Hawaii. I’ve never been to either place, but I learned about them on television and I told stories about all the sheiks in the marble hotels in the desert, and the big waves at Oahu. It made me more exotic, more interesting. Guys like to fuck women with pretty faces and slim bodies, but they also like to fuck interesting girls. I don’t eat a lot. Once a day I ordered vegetable fried rice from a place around the corner because it’s fast — five minutes to cook, five minutes to deliver, five minutes to eat — and if I spent two hours in a restaurant, that’s at least $1,600 I was not depositing into my bank account. I eat slower now, but still not a lot. If a guy wanted to take me to dinner, I would have a salad, and juice. No garlic, no onions, no coffee. Nothing that stinks. Even if he doesn’t mind, other men will. I rarely drink and don’t do drugs. Payment in advance. Condoms, of course. No discussion of price over the phone. I was available 12 hours a day, noon till midnight. I was always prompt, always nice, even when the client was rude. One or two bad reviews can hurt business. I liked to book two or three days in advance. If a guy emailed and said, “Hey, what’s up, are you free later?” I wouldn’t see a guy like that. It’s better to have two great, dependable clients than 10 occasional customers. That’s what’s called the “80–20 principle.” I read it in a business book. I would travel with clients. I wanted them to know I was special, but not bitchy. So when I told them I wanted first class on the jet, I didn’t say, “You have to treat me right!” I said, “I have really long legs and in coach they get cramped and then I lose my flexibility, I cannot do doggie style so good.” That seemed to do the trick. Even though what I really want to do is to be a film director, or a psychologist, I study business, too. I had to. One of the biggest things I always read was to learn from your mistakes. My biggest mistake when I started was when the guy asked if I had a boyfriend, and I said no, which was true. Then when he asked why not, I said “Because he couldn’t fuck me good.” I said that because I thought it would get the men excited. But what happened is the guy would try to fuck you so hard. So hard! I could tell it wasn’t the natural way they did it, it was awful. So after that, when a guy would ask why I don’t have a boyfriend, I would frown a little and say, “Well, he was Jewish and I didn’t want to convert because it would have killed my parents,” and the guy would look at me and hold my hand and say, “Oh, I totally understand, poor thing,” and all the guys would be so sweet, and gentle. Even the Jewish guys. Ninety percent of my clients were married, and most were bankers. If you know an investment banker who tells you he’s never been to an escort, you know a saint — or more likely a liar. About a third of the guys liked to watch me masturbate. I’d say 98 percent wanted to go down on me. Fifty percent told me what big dicks they have. The ones who bothered me were the ones who really did have giant dicks (about one fifth of the guys who thought they did). No girl wants to take one of those on. Eighty percent asked if I came. Some wanted to take me shopping; others wanted to take me to dinner. One guy just sat and looked at me like I was a statue. I asked him if he didn’t want to do something, to have some fun, and he just shushed me. Another guy just fucked me for an hour, and he kept making train noises, “Wooo, wooo, wooo.” I put my finger in his ass so he’d come faster, but it didn’t work. Finally I just lay there, didn’t even pretend I was enjoying it. That’s rare for me, to stop pretending. But come on. Woo, woo, wooo? It was annoying. Men are all alike, but they’re all different, too. One guy paid me $20,000 a month and I needed to be available to him two full days and nights every week. He was 62, divorced, a very nice guy. I would have liked a couple other guys like him. Sometimes we went to movies, or to dinner. Sometimes we fucked. He had cancer and he said he loved me and wanted to marry me. I don’t know how much money he had. I didn’t want to marry him and find out he just had debt. And I wasn’t comfortable asking him how much he would leave me. This might sound odd, but it just doesn’t seem right to ask. Plus, I didn’t want to make him feel bad. For business reasons, and because I liked him. He used to get four or five escorts a week, but he stopped after he met me because he said he loves me. I needed to be honest with him. So I told him, “I like you, but I don’t love you. I can’t fall in love in just a few months.” He said that was okay, I was young, I would learn. I had another guy in his 60s, from Illinois. He said he wanted me to move to Illinois with him. “No,” I said, “I don’t think so.” I didn’t come from Russia to the United States so that I could live in fucking Illinois! I didn’t tell him that, but it’s what I thought. He said he had come to New York to find a wife, because New York was the best, and escorts in New York were the best. He said they all like to fuck so much. They all like to please you. I was in a bad mood, so I said, “We like to please you because you pay us!” We stopped seeing each other after that. I had one guy videotape us having sex and when I noticed I grabbed his phone and erased it and told him to get the hell out of my apartment. I had another guy tell me he wanted free sex, or he was going to call the cops. I told him I would put his phone number up on Backpage.com and say he was a gay escort. You run into assholes, and you have to know how to handle them. Young guys are bad. Virgins are awful. Young virgins are a nightmare. I had one guy, all he had done was watch porn and jerk off until he was 25. So it was “Do this position, do that position, turn over, turn around.” I don’t think he even knew how to talk to a woman. I felt sad for him. But I tried to be nice. Clients fall into four categories. There are the guys who want to pay for your companionship. There are the guys who think they’re buying a relationship. There are the ones who think they own you. And then there are the couples. The first group is the simplest. The second, while they think they’re sweet, can be much more demanding. The guys in the third group were the biggest headaches. One guy demanded to pour honey all over me before he fucked me. I said no. He said he’d pay double and I said no. He said he’d pay triple and I said okay. The whole time, I was thinking about cleaning the sheets, and another two and half hours of hair and makeup. That’s when I decided that if he ever asked me for honey again, I’d charge quadruple. At least. My favorite kind of client was the fourth kind — the guy who invited me over for a threesome with his wife, or girlfriend. A great thing about doing couples: With a couple, you would go through the door and see a table covered with good wine, different types of cheese and fruits, like it’s a celebration of something. If it’s just a guy, you see a glass of water and an envelope on the shelf. There were also more positive emotions — more emotions, period. With a guy, you feel like he wants to have it all, to make sure he’s getting his money’s worth. When it’s a girl, you can just relax and have your conversation. You can eat fruit. Usually threesomes are two or three hours long. The couples were always shy, even though they had done threesomes before. (I was never the first for a couple. I’m not sure why.) I had to do the first step. “I’d like to get to know you better,” I would say, or, “I’d like to kiss you.” Even with the emotions and the conversation, I knew, they were not paying me to talk. First I would be with the girl. Then the guy would be standing there and wouldn’t know what to do, so I would invite him to kiss with us. All of a sudden we’d all be naked, in the bed, but then it would be the girl and me having fun, and the guy doing his own thing, and honestly, I would forget about him. His girlfriend would definitely forget about him. I promise you that. And then after 30 minutes, she would remember she had a boyfriend and that he might be lonely. She would usually give him a blow job then. Ninety percent of the time I wouldn’t do much with the guy in a threesome. Partly because I was having so much fun with his girlfriend, but mostly because it wouldn’t have been good business. I didn’t want the girls to be jealous. I loved doing couples, but I charged more than twice as much. I got $2,000 an hour, and the sessions were usually at least two hours. I charged more not because the work was harder — it obviously wasn’t — but because I could. That’s the cool thing about capitalism. It was hard to quit. My psychologist said the best way to leave the business was to think about doing it the rest of my life. Usually, a girl thinks she’ll work one more week, save a few more thousand dollars. Or one month, one more trip to Las Vegas. But then another year has passed. I would see girls on The Erotic Review with 600 reviews. That’s 10 years, at least. I didn’t want to be one of those girls. Some of my girlfriends have quit but they haven’t managed to stay quit. One got a job on Wall Street. They pay her $6,000 a month. I used to make that in a day. So did she. She escorts in her spare time. It’s hard to give up money. Another girlfriend got a job at an advertising agency. Nice people, good benefits, interesting work. But she started at $80,000 a year. She knew she could make that in two months as an escort, so she decided she would just take the occasional client, just to “supplement” her income. Now she’s almost full-time at both jobs. She’s making money, but she’s a wreck. I don’t know if I would recommend being an escort. I know that there are dangers. Getting arrested is just one thing. I read about the serial killers. Child trafficking. Violent pimps. I think those people should be locked up forever. But I never felt close to any of that stuff. I think it’s because I approached it like a business. My psychologist says I was lucky. I miss some things, not just the money. I enjoyed to dress nice all the time, to put on makeup. Now I don’t have a reason to even put nail polish on, and I miss that. I’m wearing my T-shirt and jeans every day for weeks, and I do my own manicure and pedicure, and sometimes that makes me a little sad. I’ve had one boyfriend since I quit escorting. I met him at a nice bar. He was just a few years older than me, very polite, a banker. When I met him, he told me he used to fly in his private jet to Vegas all the time. I believed him. But then when we went out, it was always, “Let’s just meet for drinks, why don’t you come over later?” ||||| This is a collection of web page captures from links added to, or changed on, Wikipedia pages. 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Headlines Source: Woman Accusing Spitzer of Assault Previously Wrote About Life As a $5,000-a-Night Escort Playing Source: Woman Accusing Spitzer of Assault Previously Wrote About Life As a $5,000-a-Night Escort Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is under investigation for an alleged assault at the Plaza Hotel after published reports claim he choked a 25-year-old woman in a hotel. Read: Presidential Hopefuls Sound Off on Sudden Death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia On Saturday night, the woman called 911 and cops rushed to the fifteenth floor where they reportedly found the former governor. He reportedly told them: "Everything's fine. There's no problem." Cops left, but several minutes later, they returned and entered the suite after noticing blood and broken glass, according to reports. The woman was identified as Russian-born Svetlana Travis. She reportedly told police that Spitzer choked her before she sliced her wrists. She was rushed to Mt. Sinai hospital. We've learned that a woman calling herself “Svetlana Z” wrote an article in 2014 for the website Medium, titled, "Sex Is Sex, But Money Is Money.” "I'm a businesswoman. I did what politicians in this country are always encouraging immigrants to do: work hard, seize opportunity, maximize your talents," she wrote. A scource said the woman who wrote the article is, in fact, the Svetlana involved in the Spitzer incident. The article was accompanied by short clips and photos showing Svetlana Z in various provocative situations, detailing her life as a high-class escort earning as much as $5,000 a night. Her relationship with Spitzer is not known. There are reports she has flown back to Russia. She is reportedly not cooperating with the investigation and does not want to press charges. INSIDE EDITION has learned that Travis has attended film classes at New York Film Academy. Spitzer has not been charged in the incident. Following reports of the alleged incident, his spokeswoman said: "There is no truth to the allegation." Read: Man Charged With Severely Burning Girlfriend's 1-Year-Old Son in the Bath The incident unfolded in room 1541 in one of the hotel's Edwardian Suites. It features Louis XV-style furnishings, gold bathroom fixtures and butler services. Spitzer resigned in disgrace in 2008 after the bombshell revelation that he was “Client 9,” his code name for a high-priced call girl ring. Ashley Dupre, 22, became famous as the former call girl who charged Spitzer more than $4,000 a night. Spitzer split from his wife of 26 years, Silda, who stood by his side when he resigned in disgrace - a moment in political history that inspired the TV show, "The Good Wife." Spitzer has most recently been linked to public relations executive Lis Smith, who once served as Mayor Bill de Blasio’s spokeswoman. They broke it off last Christmas. Receive Breaking News By signing up, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Your e-mail was submitted successfully. Sorry, your email address was not processed. Please try again. ||||| Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as governor of New York in 2008 amid reports that he was a client of a high-priced prostitution ring, is now at the center of a new criminal investigation, according to officials, after a 26-year-old woman said he choked her when they were alone in a room at the Plaza Hotel. But on Monday, Mr. Spitzer’s lawyer said that the woman had apologized by email for making up the allegation. “There is no case here,” said the lawyer, Adam S. Kaufmann, who added that he had given the Manhattan district attorney’s office a copy of the email and who also provided a copy to The New York Times. “There was no assault.” The investigation is being conducted by detectives from the New York Police Department, along with the district attorney’s office, which declined to comment about the email. The police have said the investigation is continuing.

– The woman accusing Eliot Spitzer of assaulting her at the Plaza Hotel on Saturday is a $5,000-per-night escort, sources tell Inside Edition. She's been identified as Svetlana Travis, 25, and sources say she's the same "Svetlana Z" who wrote a Medium article in 2014 about having sex for money, to the tune of $5,000 a night. Spitzer hasn't been charged, and his alleged relationship with Travis is not clear. Sources tell the New York Daily News they were in a romantic relationship and the alleged attack happened after Spitzer got upset that Travis (original last name: Zakharova) wanted to return to her native Russia. But a woman claiming to be Travis, who responded to the Daily News' emailed inquiry, denies that she's the same person who wrote the Medium article. She also says she was the one who hurt herself by trying to cut her wrists, and that Spitzer actually stopped her: "If I didn’t say Eliot started (it) all, I think I would be hospitalized in some mental home for a few months. I made up the story in order to not be hospitalized," she wrote, though she would not provide a photo to verify she is in fact Travis. Spitzer's lawyers acknowledge he knew Travis and even that he saw her Saturday, but say he did not hurt her, and they tell the New York Times she has apologized for fabricating the story and has flown back to Russia.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.He’s still living a secret life. The hooker-loving Eliot Spitzer was seeing a sultry 25-year-old blond at the same time he was carrying on with his girlfriend — but became enraged when the Russian bombshell wanted to move back to her native country, sources said Monday. The disgraced former governor is accused of attacking Svetlana Travis — aka Svetlana Zakharova — Saturday night inside a posh, $1,000-a-night suite at The Plaza hotel on Fifth Ave., a day before she flew home. Spitzer’s lawyer admitted the two know each other. But he denied allegations that Spitzer got physical with Travis and said she never told cops he did. EX-GOV. ELIOT SPITZER BEING INVESTIGATED FOR ASSAULTING WOMAN AT PLAZA HOTEL Democrat Spitzer and his girlfriend, Lis Smith, 33, broke up in December. It was revealed in 2013 that the fallen governor was dating Smith, a Democratic operative who left her job after their relationship became public. On Monday night, Spitzer issued a statement denying he was dating Travis. Svetlana Travis (pictured) was trying to break up with Eliot Spitzer when the alleged choking incident took place, sources said. “The woman who initially made the allegation was not my girlfriend. Lis Smith was my girlfriend, and I had and have deep affection for Lis,” he said. Travis is the same woman who calls herself “Svetlana Z” and wrote a 2014 article for the website Medium that was headlined “Sex Is Sex, But Money Is Money,” “Inside Edition” reported Monday. In the article, the woman, who claimed to earn upward of $5,000 a night, wrote: “I’m a businesswoman. I did what politicians in this country are always encouraging immigrants to do: work hard, seize opportunity, maximize your talents.” SPITZER, PATERSON AIDE TO LEAD FIGHT AGAINST ASSISTED SUICIDE IN NEW YORK When the Daily News asked by email if she wrote the article, a person claiming to be Travis said she did not. A Gmail account is included in Travis’ public records and tracks to a Russian-language message board offering escort services and erotic massages. Sources said that the 25-year-old Travis cut herself with a broken glass after Spitzer allegedly choked and pushed her at the Fifth Avenue hotel near Central Park. (Alo Ceballos/FilmMagic) The person claiming to be Travis, who refused to provide a photo for verification and later deleted the Gmail account, said she was already back in Russia. She said she was suicidal and that’s why she initially said Spitzer hurt her and then recanted. “If I didn’t say Eliot started (it) all, I think I would be hospitalized in some mental home for a few months. I made up the story in order to not be hospitalized,” the person claiming to be Travis wrote. She said she’d tried to cut her wrists Saturday night while Spitzer was with her at the hotel. He pushed her onto the bed to stop her, she wrote. She denied being a call girl and said she’s fine now. Police sources said that after Spitzer, 56, allegedly choked and pushed Travis — someone he’s known for two years — at the hotel, she cut herself with a broken glass. “She then cut herself with the glass,” one source said. “It wasn’t really on the wrist, like she was trying to kill herself. It was more on the arm. She said she was having a nervous breakdown.” Front page of the New York Daily News for February 15, 2016, details how former Attorney General and Gov. Eliot Spitzer is being investigated after allegedly assaulting and possibly choking a woman at the Plaza hotel. SPITZER PLAZA ATTACK DRAMA (New York Daily News) Daily News Front: Pay For Luv Gov How the News covered latest Spitzer scandal (l.) and initial bombshell in 2008 when he was caught in hooker sting. Travis went to Roosevelt Hospital, where she named the “Luv Gov” as her attacker, the sources said. After the hospital visit, while she was being driven by police, “at one point she gets out of the car and says she doesn’t want to press charges,” a source said. ELIOT SPITZER HAS FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES, THROWS BOOK PARTY FOR GIRLFRIEND'S FORMER BEAU In the hours after the alleged scrap, Spitzer was caught on hotel video wearing a wool cap pulled down low over his eyes, sources said. While Travis was in the hospital, a man identifying himself as “George” called twice to ask about seeing her. Later, a man believed to be the same person showed up using the name “George” and wanted to see her but was told he could not, sources said. Police believe the caller and the visitor were Spitzer because hospital video shows him wearing the same wool cap, sources said. The Plaza Hotel, where Spitzer allegedly choked Svetlana Travis, who has since taken off to native Russia. (BRENDAN MCDERMID/REUTERS) Spitzer was known to use the alias “George Fox” — the name of a longtime friend and supporter — when he was soliciting hookers in 2008. Later Monday, Spitzer’s lawyer sent a “fact sheet” acknowledging he was in the hotel room with Travis — but strongly denying he had assaulted her or been involved in any criminal activity. The lawyer wouldn’t say what type of relationship the two had or how long they’d known each other. The ex-governor visited her at The Plaza hotel at her request as she passed through New York on her way back to Russia, the statement said. “They had a brief and amicable conversation, and then Mr. Spitzer left,” his attorney Adam Kaufmann said. When Travis called a few hours later and asked Spitzer to return to The Plaza, he did, the lawyer said. New York Daily News front pages of 2016 “He saw her becoming highly emotional and threatening to self-harm. She dialed 911 and said she was having a breakdown,” Kaufmann wrote. “She then called 911 again and sought to cancel her prior call to 911. She was distraught and Mr. Spitzer sought to keep her calm. There were no allegations to 911 or to the police — either in the 911 call or when they responded to the Plaza hotel — of any assault or physical contact,” the lawyer said. The allegation against Spitzer came during her psychiatric evaluation, Kaufmann said. The woman claiming to be Travis told The News in an email that she and Spitzer “were friends, but not anymore.” She said she had a history of suicide attempts and had been institutionalized in the past. When she saw how deeply she’d cut her wrist Saturday night she dialed 911 — then called back to cancel out of fear she’d be locked up in a mental ward, she explained. “He didn’t choke me,” she wrote. “Eliot didn’t cut me, didn’t choke me, he knows about my mental issues in the past and he was the only one who had helped me that night.” Eliot Spitzer is seen in 2008 as New York governor speaking about the prostitution scandal that led to his resignation. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) Prosecutors will determine whether any charges will be filed against Spitzer. NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce is leading the investigation. Spitzer has yet to be interviewed by cops. The super of a Murray Hill building where Travis lived said she moved out in late January. Neither he nor a neighbor had seen Spitzer at the building. “She seemed friendly. She’s Russian. I know who he is, but he’s never been here,” the neighbor said of Spitzer. The neighbor, who did not want to be identified, said there was an eviction notice on her door last month. “On Jan. 29, which was a Friday night, was the last time I physically saw her here,” the neighbor said. “She had to be out by the 31st. She took out some lamps and a couple of boxes with books, normal moving stuff.” Travis had lived at the building for about a year, he said. “She was always quiet, polite to people in the hallway,” the neighbor said. “She was soft-spoken. There was never any disturbances, loud music. Definitely no governors here.” Spitzer resigned in disgrace in March 2008 after he was embroiled in a prostitution scandal linked to escort Ashley Dupre. Before that, the Luv Gov was the state’s hard-charging attorney general, earning the more flattering Sheriff of Wall Street nickname. Sign up for BREAKING NEWS Emails privacy policy Thanks for subscribing! ||||| His son didn’t get into Dartmouth and that makes him sad, because he loves his son and he knows how much pressure the boy puts on himself. I understand. His wife won’t let him have his late-night bowls of mint chocolate chip ice cream anymore and she nags him about the Sunday afternoons he spends watching golf on television. I frown. His doctor says he needs more vitamin D, and maybe he should consider anti-depressants, too, but he’s sure if he could just find something meaningful to do with his life, he would feel better. I make a little tsk-ing noise, widen my eyes. I am close to crying. I tell him he’s sweet for caring about his son so much. I tell him if I were with him, I would let him eat all the ice cream he wanted, and Sunday afternoons would be set aside for watching golf, because why shouldn’t people do what makes them happy? Then I tell him I don’t know about vitamin D and anti-depressants (that’s the truest thing I’ll say all week), but he seems very healthy and, as I say this, I gently touch his thigh and dip my head a little and look at him so my eyes are half hidden — I’ve practiced in the mirror. I smile without showing my teeth — I’ve practiced that, too — and wait for him to reach for me. But he’s not ready for that; he wants to tell me about how he hit a triple for his softball team last weekend, how it was “magical,” how he wishes he could feel that good all the time. I’ve had men like him before, and they’re sweet, but they can be tricky, too. I don’t know what a triple is, and I have no idea what it has to do with magic, but I do know we’ve been talking for 15 minutes. I know it’s important that he feel like we have all day, that we have forever. Time can’t exist for us. But I know exactly how much time we do have. I kick off my shoes (simple, beige $600 Louboutins that I got on sale for $250) that I wore specially for him because he told me he’s “not a fancy guy.” (If he were fancy, I’d wear my black Louboutins.) He’s still talking about triples and magic and meaning. We have 35 minutes. It’s plenty of time, but I don’t want to take any unnecessary risks. My job is all about minimizing risk. I move closer, tell him I have an idea that would make him feel good. I tell him it would make me feel good, too. I tell him I’ve been thinking about it since he texted me two days ago. I gently claw his thigh with my fresh, red (any other color, you’re taking a risk) manicure. I moisten my lips, flash just a little tooth. He’s shy, but he’s a man. He stops talking. The tricky part of my job is over. Now it’s time for sex. I arrived in New York City from Chelyabinsk, a city right in the middle of Russia, when I was 19 years old, with $300 in my pocket. I turned 24 in March and have managed to save $200,000, by fucking for money. I’ve traveled to Morocco, Paris, Beijing, and Monaco. Men have brought me tea from London, chocolates from Switzerland, lingerie from France and shoes from Italy. I’ve bought my parents a little village house. (I told them I had a rich American boyfriend who was taking care of me.) I don’t hate men. I am not a victim of child trafficking. I have never been raped, or drugged, or done porn. I’m not an addict. I never had a pimp. I don’t suffer from what my American girlfriends call “daddy issues” and what my shrink refers to as “malformed identity centering on early childhood abandonment.” My dad had lovers. I don’t blame my parents for my job, or my life. Other kids have other problems. My parents had problems when they were kids. My therapist has helped me see that. I’m a businesswoman. I did what politicians in this country are always encouraging immigrants to do. Work hard, seize opportunity, maximize your talents, and adjust and adapt to the new world economy. I haven’t worked as an escort for over a year. Not because the job was illegal, though that’s part of it. And not because I sometimes had to deal with idiots, though that was part of it, too. I got out because I want to study filmmaking, and psychology, and I can afford to do that now. I got out because eventually I’d like to get married and have a kid, and the longer I escorted, the trickier that would get. My life since I quit has been sort of complicated, and I’ll tell you about that. But first I’ll tell you how I got into the business, and what it was like. I grew up in central Russia. When I was little, I wanted to be a tour guide and see the world. Then a tour bus came through our town and it was small and stinky with no air conditioning. The tour guide had frizzy hair and sweat stains under her arms. I thought tour guides in the United States probably had it better. I had the phone number of a Russian woman who had said she would host me. When I arrived at JFK, she told me to take the train to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. I knew about it because in Russian movies it’s a place where you can buy smoked salmon and caviar and nice clothes, and where only people who really achieve can go. I felt lucky. When I came out of the train station I saw all these ugly people, people in wheelchairs, old people, and the streets were smelly and the people were wearing clothes worse than what people wore in the Soviet Union and the train station was loud and I thought: Fuck, this is not the America that I heard of. I spent four days there before I met a girl who said I could live with her in Manhattan. When I got there and looked around, I understood the fuss. I understood why all people want to come here. I applied for jobs at restaurants and medical offices, but no one would hire me. I saw an ad for dancers and called. They picked me up in a truck filled with other young girls. There were a lot of drunken men at the club, trying to touch different parts of my body. I made $300 and decided I would never do that again. I answered another ad, to work in a Turkish café. The owner said, you don’t have to work: If you just let me fuck you, I’ll pay you. No thank you, I said. Actually, it was more like, fuck off, you stupid dude. I’d been in New York two weeks, but I was getting better at English. Then I saw an ad about massage. It said I didn’t need experience and I could make up to $500 a day. I stood in a room with another girl and when the guy came in and got undressed, I did what the other girl did, and rubbed his back and his legs. Then after 30 minutes the other girl got undressed, and I realized, “Oh, this is why I’m getting $100 an hour.” So I got undressed and we jerked him off. I started working five days a week. After two months, the spa told me I couldn’t work there anymore. I don’t know if it was because they were mad because I had been seeing private clients, or they just wanted to keep getting new girls. The other girl from the spa and I decided to rent an apartment and to work on our own. We pooled our savings and bought a massage table and a bed and we started advertising on Backpage.com. We were making about $800 a day each. Most of the guys wanted more than a massage, which is what they all called a hand job, and they offered to pay more. I’m not sure what my friend did, but I always said no. One of my regulars, he would come for a massage three times a week, and always give me nice tips, sometimes $100. He asked about my life in Russia and told me I might feel better if I talked to a psychologist. He gave me the number of one he’d heard of, who spoke Russian, and extra money to pay for a few months to talk to her. And he offered me $1,000 an hour to have sex with him. It was tempting, but I thought that if I ever fucked for money, I would never respect myself again. He told me he liked me just the way I was. He told me he would like to help me get into school, to take care of me. He told me I would be a great psychologist, because I made people feel comfortable. So when he invited me to the Plaza Hotel one night, I went. He had an expensive suite with great views, opened a bottle of expensive champagne, and we started to talk. We talked for a while and then we got undressed and had sex. He gave me an envelope with $1,000, but he said it wasn’t payment; it was just because he liked me so much. He had to leave the next morning for a business trip to Chicago, but I stayed in the suite and ordered room service — orange juice and a big fluffy omelet with mushrooms and beautiful golden toast and little pats of butter shaped like sea shells. I was so happy. I felt like Vivian from Pretty Woman. He didn’t call me when he got back from Chicago. I called him, but he didn’t answer, so I called him at work. His secretary told me he was “not available.” She told me he would not be available, ever. I opened my eyes that day. Clients knew me as Angelina or Anna. Angelina was “sweet, intelligent, fun and playful… a devoted pleasure seeker who takes enjoying life very seriously indeed.” Anna was more shy, a “European companion who adores luxury travel… often passionate, sometimes hilarious but rarely forgettable.” Angelina cost $800 an hour, $4,000 for the night; Anna ran $900 and $5,000. According to rankings in The Erotic Review (TER), the Yelp of the commercial sex world, each rated in the top 1 percent of all escorts. But there are lots of young, pretty girls in my business. What got me to the top — and what kept me there — was my work ethic and attention to detail. I was successful because I learned some hard, valuable lessons about making it in the sex-for-money business. Here are some of them: Lesson 1: Spend Money to Make Money I paid someone to write my ad copy. I paid professional photographers $1,500 to shoot my pictures. I considered those investments in myself. The best page for escorts, Eros.com, costs $400 a month to place an ad. They charge the most, and they attract the most serious escorts and guys who are willing to submit to screening. Backpage is more wide open, and it gets cheaper guys, as well as scary, freaky guys. Craigslist is barely worth mentioning. That’s where people get killed. I spent $50 a day on Eros so I could be listed in the “What’s New” section, and I learned that to have an impact I had to be “new” for at least 20 days a month. I spent $500 a week for a “featured” spot. So that’s almost $4,000 a month right there. The girls who would only spend the basic $400 a month, they’d only get one email in two weeks. They’d be sitting at home, sucking their fingers. Then there’s rent, because you want a separate apartment to do your work, because you can’t worry about roommates, and that costs at least $3,000 in Manhattan. You can rent a cheaper place in the Bronx, or Queens, sure, but you think guys with money are going to come see you there? In my first ads, I used very little copy. What was the point? What I know now is that guys want to know the women they’re fucking. It surprised me, but a lot of them — most of them — really need to feel a sort of connection. Reading about Angelina’s easy laugh, or how Anna loves luxury travel, made them more comfortable. And when they’re more comfortable, they call. I always wondered why Playboy ran those little interviews with the girls alongside the photos. Now I know. The guys who are jerking off want to feel like they know the girl. Lesson 2: Make Stereotypes Work for You Anna and Angelina were exotic and vaguely foreign-sounding without any specific nationality. Men here — especially American men — have certain ideas about certain nationalities. If you’re a South American girl, then you’re wild, you’re fun, and you love to fuck. If you’re Asian, you’re bad! You’re freaky, and you’ll do anything, and you’ll want to do more! American men think Russians are hot, but also icy and mean. Some of the guys have had some not-so-good experiences with what I learned they call Russian gold diggers. American girls are seen as being in really good shape and put-together, and open-minded and fun. Sometimes they have cute ponytails and big smiles, but guys think they’re sort of selfish and bitchy, too. Once I learned all that, I decided that Angelina and Anna would be beautiful and mysterious, cosmopolitan, but no one would be able to tell from their names what part of the world they were from. They wouldn’t give a client any reason to rule them out based on stereotypes. It’s just smart business. Lesson 3: The Price Is Right These days, guys can fuck porn stars for $2,000 — and they advertise on the same sites I do. They can hire “sugar babies” for $4,000 a month. There are even “sex vacations” for $2,000 where you get food and lodging thrown in along with the sex. So if you want to make money as an escort, you better deliver something special. I did couples. I offered toys, role-playing, and BDSM. (I didn’t do anal and I didn’t even know what it was until one of my clients asked about it, then explained it. At first I thought he was joking and I think I hurt his feelings a little when I laughed. If I ever were to do anal, I would charge at least $1,500 for it, mostly because what I learned is that guys think it’s so forbidden and are so shy about asking for it and that they think most girls don’t really like it). Mostly, I offered understanding. The truth is, even for guys who hire me for three or four hours, the sex usually only takes about 15 minutes. It’s the understanding they’re buying. White girls can charge the most, at least in New York. Then Spanish girls, then Asians (Koreans and Japanese tend to demand more than Chinese), then black girls. I don’t know if it’s supply and demand or what, but one of my clients, a handsome blonde actor, he told me to take advantage. He told me he’d been up for 10 commercials in the past five months, and hadn’t gotten a single one. He said it was because the marketplace wanted brunettes now, because of the increasing Latino population and their buying power. (I often learn business tips from my customers, even when they don’t know it.) In any case, I took advantage. I charged top dollar. What amazes me is some of the American girls who only charge $400. I don’t know if it’s because they’re stupid, or too lazy to study the competition, or they’re not as serious about their work. Maybe it’s because they never stepped on a stinky tourist bus with no air conditioning. Lesson 4: One Is the Most Profitable Number With an agency, they screen your clients. They set up your appointments. They take care of you. What they also take is your money. For massage parlors, it’s half. For escort agencies, it’s 30 to 40 percent. Girls who work at the agencies don’t want to deal with owning their own businesses. To me, that’s shortsighted. First off, the ones that advertise 20 girls usually have two, one blonde and one brunette. So, of course, those girls are working hard. Really hard. If an agency gets 20 clients a day, each of those girls is fucking 10 guys — a day. At the end of a summer, they have $50,000, but they had to fuck a lot of guys for that. To me, that’s not worth it. It’s not cost-effective. I worked hard, but once I went into business for myself, I worked hard for myself, not someone else. It’s the entrepreneurs who get rich. I’m 5'7", 119 pounds, with long legs, hazel eyes, full lips, and a slim body that has been getting attention since I entered puberty. That’s the raw material. It’s my product, so I took care of it. I’m a vegetarian and I have a personal trainer. I got manicures and pedicures at least twice a week, always red, and always showed up in expensive lingerie and thigh-high stockings. Every time I met a client it was a performance, so I prepared. My mascara cost $130. Hair color was $200; eye shadow was $50, as was foundation and lipstick. A nice lingerie set costs at least $100; I spent $600. Not to mention the shoes. In real life, girls prepare in the same way, then the guy takes her to a diner, or he says, “Let’s go to a sports bar and we can drink bottles of beer.” What a schmuck. No wonder so many guys complain about not getting laid. My dates gave me flowers, Prada coats, iPhones. They did not take me to diners, or sports bars. When a guy meets an escort, he wants to be nice, he wants to prove he’s the best, he wants to be great. And then in real life, he can be so stupid. Last Valentine’s Day, I was in a McDonald’s near my apartment. Valentine’s and Christmas and Easter are never big days in my business, at least with the guys who have money. I came there to drink some Coca-Cola and because the internet worked faster than in my apartment. I had bought myself flowers, daisies and violets. There was a couple sitting next to me and the girl said, “OMG, how cute are your flowers?” I was in a pretty good mood and I said to the guy, “Maybe it’s time to buy your girlfriend flowers,” and he said, “She’s okay without them.” I’m not sure why, but that made me so mad. “Fuck you!” I said to the guy, and I left. The big part of my job started at the door. You don’t pay attention to the envelope he has. You pretend it doesn’t even exist. You’re smiling because he’s a handsome man, and there’s chemistry. If he’s shy, you offer him a glass of wine. If he’s super shy, you ask, can you massage him, there’s nothing wrong with a massage, right? Sometimes I would say, “Oh, you’re so handsome,” because people like to be flattered, even if it’s not true. People like to believe the better things, because believing better things is easier. And guys who are paying $1,000 an hour really believe the better things! If he can afford $1,000 an hour, he already thinks he’s cool. When a guy’s got money, he thinks he’s cool, cooler than regular people. They all wanted you to come, and they wanted you to come more than once. The 60-year-old guy who wants me to come five times before he has an orgasm believes it’s because he cares about me. But it’s because he wants to prove to himself that he can still make a young girl come. (I told lies for a living, but the biggest lies in the world are the lies people tell themselves.) So of course I pretended to come. And I learned that the best, most convincing, easiest way to show my clients I had an orgasm was just to say, “I just came.” That’s it. Nothing fancy. I’m not that good an actress, and it’s not necessary, anyway. “Oh, I came” would always do the trick. They believed it. They were so proud. The truth is, for most girls, you can’t tell: It’s like God, or love, you don’t see it, but you believe it exists. As important as it was for me to do, and say, certain things, equally important was what not to do and say. I didn’t ask about the guy’s family. Not because it was crossing any boundaries (you’d be surprised at how many men brag about their kids) but because what if someone had just died? That would make him sad. I never, ever wanted to make a client sad. For the same reason, I didn’t talk about anything that was bothering me. In Russia we have an expression: “If I’m hungry and you’re full, you won’t understand me.” A billionaire doesn’t understand what shitty problems I have. It’s bad business. Telling your guy might get him to help you once, or twice, but it’s going to turn a potential regular, long-term client into a non-repeat customer. A guy will complain to you over and over, but he doesn’t want to hear your complaints. I promise you that. I tried to be entertaining. I would tell clients I just got back from Dubai, or Hawaii. I’ve never been to either place, but I learned about them on television and I told stories about all the sheiks in the marble hotels in the desert, and the big waves at Oahu. It made me more exotic, more interesting. Guys like to fuck women with pretty faces and slim bodies, but they also like to fuck interesting girls. I don’t eat a lot. Once a day I ordered vegetable fried rice from a place around the corner because it’s fast — five minutes to cook, five minutes to deliver, five minutes to eat — and if I spent two hours in a restaurant, that’s at least $1,600 I was not depositing into my bank account. I eat slower now, but still not a lot. If a guy wanted to take me to dinner, I would have a salad, and juice. No garlic, no onions, no coffee. Nothing that stinks. Even if he doesn’t mind, other men will. I rarely drink and don’t do drugs. Payment in advance. Condoms, of course. No discussion of price over the phone. I was available 12 hours a day, noon till midnight. I was always prompt, always nice, even when the client was rude. One or two bad reviews can hurt business. I liked to book two or three days in advance. If a guy emailed and said, “Hey, what’s up, are you free later?” I wouldn’t see a guy like that. It’s better to have two great, dependable clients than 10 occasional customers. That’s what’s called the “80–20 principle.” I read it in a business book. I would travel with clients. I wanted them to know I was special, but not bitchy. So when I told them I wanted first class on the jet, I didn’t say, “You have to treat me right!” I said, “I have really long legs and in coach they get cramped and then I lose my flexibility, I cannot do doggie style so good.” That seemed to do the trick. Even though what I really want to do is to be a film director, or a psychologist, I study business, too. I had to. One of the biggest things I always read was to learn from your mistakes. My biggest mistake when I started was when the guy asked if I had a boyfriend, and I said no, which was true. Then when he asked why not, I said “Because he couldn’t fuck me good.” I said that because I thought it would get the men excited. But what happened is the guy would try to fuck you so hard. So hard! I could tell it wasn’t the natural way they did it, it was awful. So after that, when a guy would ask why I don’t have a boyfriend, I would frown a little and say, “Well, he was Jewish and I didn’t want to convert because it would have killed my parents,” and the guy would look at me and hold my hand and say, “Oh, I totally understand, poor thing,” and all the guys would be so sweet, and gentle. Even the Jewish guys. Ninety percent of my clients were married, and most were bankers. If you know an investment banker who tells you he’s never been to an escort, you know a saint — or more likely a liar. About a third of the guys liked to watch me masturbate. I’d say 98 percent wanted to go down on me. Fifty percent told me what big dicks they have. The ones who bothered me were the ones who really did have giant dicks (about one fifth of the guys who thought they did). No girl wants to take one of those on. Eighty percent asked if I came. Some wanted to take me shopping; others wanted to take me to dinner. One guy just sat and looked at me like I was a statue. I asked him if he didn’t want to do something, to have some fun, and he just shushed me. Another guy just fucked me for an hour, and he kept making train noises, “Wooo, wooo, wooo.” I put my finger in his ass so he’d come faster, but it didn’t work. Finally I just lay there, didn’t even pretend I was enjoying it. That’s rare for me, to stop pretending. But come on. Woo, woo, wooo? It was annoying. Men are all alike, but they’re all different, too. One guy paid me $20,000 a month and I needed to be available to him two full days and nights every week. He was 62, divorced, a very nice guy. I would have liked a couple other guys like him. Sometimes we went to movies, or to dinner. Sometimes we fucked. He had cancer and he said he loved me and wanted to marry me. I don’t know how much money he had. I didn’t want to marry him and find out he just had debt. And I wasn’t comfortable asking him how much he would leave me. This might sound odd, but it just doesn’t seem right to ask. Plus, I didn’t want to make him feel bad. For business reasons, and because I liked him. He used to get four or five escorts a week, but he stopped after he met me because he said he loves me. I needed to be honest with him. So I told him, “I like you, but I don’t love you. I can’t fall in love in just a few months.” He said that was okay, I was young, I would learn. I had another guy in his 60s, from Illinois. He said he wanted me to move to Illinois with him. “No,” I said, “I don’t think so.” I didn’t come from Russia to the United States so that I could live in fucking Illinois! I didn’t tell him that, but it’s what I thought. He said he had come to New York to find a wife, because New York was the best, and escorts in New York were the best. He said they all like to fuck so much. They all like to please you. I was in a bad mood, so I said, “We like to please you because you pay us!” We stopped seeing each other after that. I had one guy videotape us having sex and when I noticed I grabbed his phone and erased it and told him to get the hell out of my apartment. I had another guy tell me he wanted free sex, or he was going to call the cops. I told him I would put his phone number up on Backpage.com and say he was a gay escort. You run into assholes, and you have to know how to handle them. Young guys are bad. Virgins are awful. Young virgins are a nightmare. I had one guy, all he had done was watch porn and jerk off until he was 25. So it was “Do this position, do that position, turn over, turn around.” I don’t think he even knew how to talk to a woman. I felt sad for him. But I tried to be nice. Clients fall into four categories. There are the guys who want to pay for your companionship. There are the guys who think they’re buying a relationship. There are the ones who think they own you. And then there are the couples. The first group is the simplest. The second, while they think they’re sweet, can be much more demanding. The guys in the third group were the biggest headaches. One guy demanded to pour honey all over me before he fucked me. I said no. He said he’d pay double and I said no. He said he’d pay triple and I said okay. The whole time, I was thinking about cleaning the sheets, and another two and half hours of hair and makeup. That’s when I decided that if he ever asked me for honey again, I’d charge quadruple. At least. My favorite kind of client was the fourth kind — the guy who invited me over for a threesome with his wife, or girlfriend. A great thing about doing couples: With a couple, you would go through the door and see a table covered with good wine, different types of cheese and fruits, like it’s a celebration of something. If it’s just a guy, you see a glass of water and an envelope on the shelf. There were also more positive emotions — more emotions, period. With a guy, you feel like he wants to have it all, to make sure he’s getting his money’s worth. When it’s a girl, you can just relax and have your conversation. You can eat fruit. Usually threesomes are two or three hours long. The couples were always shy, even though they had done threesomes before. (I was never the first for a couple. I’m not sure why.) I had to do the first step. “I’d like to get to know you better,” I would say, or, “I’d like to kiss you.” Even with the emotions and the conversation, I knew, they were not paying me to talk. First I would be with the girl. Then the guy would be standing there and wouldn’t know what to do, so I would invite him to kiss with us. All of a sudden we’d all be naked, in the bed, but then it would be the girl and me having fun, and the guy doing his own thing, and honestly, I would forget about him. His girlfriend would definitely forget about him. I promise you that. And then after 30 minutes, she would remember she had a boyfriend and that he might be lonely. She would usually give him a blow job then. Ninety percent of the time I wouldn’t do much with the guy in a threesome. Partly because I was having so much fun with his girlfriend, but mostly because it wouldn’t have been good business. I didn’t want the girls to be jealous. I loved doing couples, but I charged more than twice as much. I got $2,000 an hour, and the sessions were usually at least two hours. I charged more not because the work was harder — it obviously wasn’t — but because I could. That’s the cool thing about capitalism. It was hard to quit. My psychologist said the best way to leave the business was to think about doing it the rest of my life. Usually, a girl thinks she’ll work one more week, save a few more thousand dollars. Or one month, one more trip to Las Vegas. But then another year has passed. I would see girls on The Erotic Review with 600 reviews. That’s 10 years, at least. I didn’t want to be one of those girls. Some of my girlfriends have quit but they haven’t managed to stay quit. One got a job on Wall Street. They pay her $6,000 a month. I used to make that in a day. So did she. She escorts in her spare time. It’s hard to give up money. Another girlfriend got a job at an advertising agency. Nice people, good benefits, interesting work. But she started at $80,000 a year. She knew she could make that in two months as an escort, so she decided she would just take the occasional client, just to “supplement” her income. Now she’s almost full-time at both jobs. She’s making money, but she’s a wreck. I don’t know if I would recommend being an escort. I know that there are dangers. Getting arrested is just one thing. I read about the serial killers. Child trafficking. Violent pimps. I think those people should be locked up forever. But I never felt close to any of that stuff. I think it’s because I approached it like a business. My psychologist says I was lucky. I miss some things, not just the money. I enjoyed to dress nice all the time, to put on makeup. Now I don’t have a reason to even put nail polish on, and I miss that. I’m wearing my T-shirt and jeans every day for weeks, and I do my own manicure and pedicure, and sometimes that makes me a little sad. I’ve had one boyfriend since I quit escorting. I met him at a nice bar. He was just a few years older than me, very polite, a banker. When I met him, he told me he used to fly in his private jet to Vegas all the time. I believed him. But then when we went out, it was always, “Let’s just meet for drinks, why don’t you come over later?” ||||| This is a collection of web page captures from links added to, or changed on, Wikipedia pages. 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Headlines Source: Woman Accusing Spitzer of Assault Previously Wrote About Life As a $5,000-a-Night Escort Playing Source: Woman Accusing Spitzer of Assault Previously Wrote About Life As a $5,000-a-Night Escort Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is under investigation for an alleged assault at the Plaza Hotel after published reports claim he choked a 25-year-old woman in a hotel. Read: Presidential Hopefuls Sound Off on Sudden Death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia On Saturday night, the woman called 911 and cops rushed to the fifteenth floor where they reportedly found the former governor. He reportedly told them: "Everything's fine. There's no problem." Cops left, but several minutes later, they returned and entered the suite after noticing blood and broken glass, according to reports. The woman was identified as Russian-born Svetlana Travis. She reportedly told police that Spitzer choked her before she sliced her wrists. She was rushed to Mt. Sinai hospital. We've learned that a woman calling herself “Svetlana Z” wrote an article in 2014 for the website Medium, titled, "Sex Is Sex, But Money Is Money.” "I'm a businesswoman. I did what politicians in this country are always encouraging immigrants to do: work hard, seize opportunity, maximize your talents," she wrote. A scource said the woman who wrote the article is, in fact, the Svetlana involved in the Spitzer incident. The article was accompanied by short clips and photos showing Svetlana Z in various provocative situations, detailing her life as a high-class escort earning as much as $5,000 a night. Her relationship with Spitzer is not known. There are reports she has flown back to Russia. She is reportedly not cooperating with the investigation and does not want to press charges. INSIDE EDITION has learned that Travis has attended film classes at New York Film Academy. Spitzer has not been charged in the incident. Following reports of the alleged incident, his spokeswoman said: "There is no truth to the allegation." Read: Man Charged With Severely Burning Girlfriend's 1-Year-Old Son in the Bath The incident unfolded in room 1541 in one of the hotel's Edwardian Suites. It features Louis XV-style furnishings, gold bathroom fixtures and butler services. Spitzer resigned in disgrace in 2008 after the bombshell revelation that he was “Client 9,” his code name for a high-priced call girl ring. Ashley Dupre, 22, became famous as the former call girl who charged Spitzer more than $4,000 a night. Spitzer split from his wife of 26 years, Silda, who stood by his side when he resigned in disgrace - a moment in political history that inspired the TV show, "The Good Wife." Spitzer has most recently been linked to public relations executive Lis Smith, who once served as Mayor Bill de Blasio’s spokeswoman. They broke it off last Christmas. Receive Breaking News By signing up, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Your e-mail was submitted successfully. Sorry, your email address was not processed. Please try again. ||||| Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as governor of New York in 2008 amid reports that he was a client of a high-priced prostitution ring, is now at the center of a new criminal investigation, according to officials, after a 26-year-old woman said he choked her when they were alone in a room at the Plaza Hotel. But on Monday, Mr. Spitzer’s lawyer said that the woman had apologized by email for making up the allegation. “There is no case here,” said the lawyer, Adam S. Kaufmann, who added that he had given the Manhattan district attorney’s office a copy of the email and who also provided a copy to The New York Times. “There was no assault.” The investigation is being conducted by detectives from the New York Police Department, along with the district attorney’s office, which declined to comment about the email. The police have said the investigation is continuing.

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Posted December 14, 2006 Scott Bloch is the Associate Director for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative Task Force for the Office of the Deputy Attorney General. He holds a B.A. in English and a J.D. in law from the University of Kansas. Bloch has practiced law, taught at the University of Kansas, and has published in a variety of academic journals. Matt Dunn is a dentist in private practice in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Dunn holds a B.A. in government from Pomona College and a D.D.S. from Northwestern University. He is an officer of the Colorado Republican Leadership Program, and has advised and written for several Colorado political figures. Michael Hurt is the Legislative Director for U.S. Representative John Hostettler. Mr. Hurt holds degrees in economics and political science from Valparaiso University and an M.A. in national security studies from Georgetown University. Previously he was Senior Policy Advisor for National Security Affairs to U.S. Representative Jim Saxton, and he has written for National Security Studies Quarterly. Philip McGoohan is President and Managing Director of Anderson-Roethle, Inc. He holds a B.A. in history from Trinity College and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College. Mr. McGoohan has extensive experience in business, banking, and public policy philanthropy, and sits on numerous boards of corporate and philanthropic organizations. Christine O'Donnell is President and founder of a national youth organization, The Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth. Ms. O'Donnell is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she majored in English and communications. She has made numerous television appearances, been interviewed and profiled in national newspapers and magazines, and works as a media and public relations consultant. Crystal Roberts is Counsel for the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Ms. Roberts is a graduate of Denison University with a B.A in history, and holds a J.D. from the William and Mary College School of Law. Ms. Roberts previously worked as a Legal Policy Analyst for the Family Research Council, and her editorials have appeared in several national newspapers. Timothy Sandefur is a law clerk with Hart, King, and Coldren law firm. Mr. Sandefur holds a B.A. in political economy from Hillsdale College and a J.D. from Chapman University Law School. He has written numerous legal briefs, and is a contributing editor for Liberty magazine and the articles editor for Nexus. Melissa Seckora is Editorial Assistant for National Review magazine. She graduated from James Madison College at Michigan State University with a B.A. in political theory and constitutional democracy. She writes on national politics, culture, and the arts, and she broke the story on a significant case of academic dishonesty about the history of gun ownership in America. Paula Steiner is Senior Legislative Assistant for U.S. Representative Steven LaTourette. Mrs. Steiner graduated with a B.A. from Ashland University in political science and Spanish, and also holds an M.A. in political science from Ball State University. In addition to previous service as Legislative Aide to U.S. Representative Ralph Regula, Mrs. Steiner taught at Indiana University East. Michael Toth is Public Affairs Specialist for the White House Office of Management and Budget. He holds a B.A. in History from Stanford. Mr. Toth has been a political consultant for the California Strategies campaign organization, a clerk on the American Stock Exchange, and editor-in-chief of the Stanford Review. ||||| As a woman of principled determination, with a governing philosophy centered on the core values of the great American tradition and a wide experience in taking on the liberal establishment, Christine O’Donnell is your candidate for U.S. Senate from the First State. Christine has served as a marketing and media consultant to various clients, including: Icon Pictures’ The Passion of The Christ; Natalia Tsarkova, the Vatican’s first female portrait painter; and non-profit organizations such as the World Education and Development Fund, a charity that provides scholarships to children in poor communities throughout Latin America. After attending Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ, Christine was awarded a 2002 Abraham Lincoln Graduate Fellowship in Constitutional Government from the Claremont Institute in Claremont, CA. She resides in Wilmington, DE. Christine O’Donnell is a nationally recognized political commentator and marketing consultant. She appears weekly, sometimes daily, on national news outlets such as the Fox News Channel, CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC and ABC, including major ratings hits like “The O’Reilly Factor,” “Hannity & Colmes,” “The Glenn Beck Show,” “Hardball with Chris Matthews” and “Entertainment Tonight.” Christine is also a frequent radio talk show guest-host on WGMD in Rehoboth Beach and WDEL in Wilmington, DE. As part of a delegation of journalists, Christine toured the middle-eastern country of Jordan as a guest of the Royal Jordanian government. Having witnessed firsthand the oppression in the Middle East, Christine describes this journey as truly a life changing experience and says it deepened her commitment to the women’s movement. An effective communicator, Christine is known for her skill in winning over even those who disagree with her most. Liberal Bill Maher stated, “I don’t know how many times you’ve been here but it’s always a good show when you’re on.” Even Democratic strategist James Carville was forced to admit of Christine O’Donnell “Now, this is one hip woman,” on CNN’s “Crossfire.” During her 20-year career, Christine has served as a social advocate in Washington, D.C., participating in regular White House and Capitol Hill strategy meetings and leading delegations to the United Nations to lobby on behalf of pro-family global policies. She’s successfully debated Cabinet members, lawmakers and international leaders. In the early 1990’s Christine worked for the Republican National Committee (under then Chairman Haley Barbour) helping to develop the marketing strategy credited with having had a key role in the historic ’94 Republican Congressional sweep.Christine and the Family Christine O’Donnell is a member of the Delaware Press Association and served on the Board of Directors for Birthright of Delaware until May 2008.

– Oxford isn't the only school Delaware senate candidate Christine O'Donnell didn't attend, no matter how many times she might say that she did. "Claremont Graduate University has no student or education record for an individual named Christine O'Donnell," says a unequivocal statement from the school in answer to the latest fib to surface in the Tea Partier's campaign. O'Donnell lists "Claremont Graduate University" on her LinkedIn profile, just as she lists Oxford, which she also never attended. She also mentions in her campaign site bio a 2002 "graduate fellowship" from California's Claremont Institute think tank, which does exist, but it doesn't offer a "graduate" fellowship, which would imply one has graduated from college. O'Donnell did graduate—from Fairleigh Dickinson—just this month, though she had been claiming she graduated years ago, notes Talking Points Memo. For more on her growing list of credential fudges, click here.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Posted December 14, 2006 Scott Bloch is the Associate Director for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative Task Force for the Office of the Deputy Attorney General. He holds a B.A. in English and a J.D. in law from the University of Kansas. Bloch has practiced law, taught at the University of Kansas, and has published in a variety of academic journals. Matt Dunn is a dentist in private practice in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Dunn holds a B.A. in government from Pomona College and a D.D.S. from Northwestern University. He is an officer of the Colorado Republican Leadership Program, and has advised and written for several Colorado political figures. Michael Hurt is the Legislative Director for U.S. Representative John Hostettler. Mr. Hurt holds degrees in economics and political science from Valparaiso University and an M.A. in national security studies from Georgetown University. Previously he was Senior Policy Advisor for National Security Affairs to U.S. Representative Jim Saxton, and he has written for National Security Studies Quarterly. Philip McGoohan is President and Managing Director of Anderson-Roethle, Inc. He holds a B.A. in history from Trinity College and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College. Mr. McGoohan has extensive experience in business, banking, and public policy philanthropy, and sits on numerous boards of corporate and philanthropic organizations. Christine O'Donnell is President and founder of a national youth organization, The Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth. Ms. O'Donnell is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she majored in English and communications. She has made numerous television appearances, been interviewed and profiled in national newspapers and magazines, and works as a media and public relations consultant. Crystal Roberts is Counsel for the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Ms. Roberts is a graduate of Denison University with a B.A in history, and holds a J.D. from the William and Mary College School of Law. Ms. Roberts previously worked as a Legal Policy Analyst for the Family Research Council, and her editorials have appeared in several national newspapers. Timothy Sandefur is a law clerk with Hart, King, and Coldren law firm. Mr. Sandefur holds a B.A. in political economy from Hillsdale College and a J.D. from Chapman University Law School. He has written numerous legal briefs, and is a contributing editor for Liberty magazine and the articles editor for Nexus. Melissa Seckora is Editorial Assistant for National Review magazine. She graduated from James Madison College at Michigan State University with a B.A. in political theory and constitutional democracy. She writes on national politics, culture, and the arts, and she broke the story on a significant case of academic dishonesty about the history of gun ownership in America. Paula Steiner is Senior Legislative Assistant for U.S. Representative Steven LaTourette. Mrs. Steiner graduated with a B.A. from Ashland University in political science and Spanish, and also holds an M.A. in political science from Ball State University. In addition to previous service as Legislative Aide to U.S. Representative Ralph Regula, Mrs. Steiner taught at Indiana University East. Michael Toth is Public Affairs Specialist for the White House Office of Management and Budget. He holds a B.A. in History from Stanford. Mr. Toth has been a political consultant for the California Strategies campaign organization, a clerk on the American Stock Exchange, and editor-in-chief of the Stanford Review. ||||| As a woman of principled determination, with a governing philosophy centered on the core values of the great American tradition and a wide experience in taking on the liberal establishment, Christine O’Donnell is your candidate for U.S. Senate from the First State. Christine has served as a marketing and media consultant to various clients, including: Icon Pictures’ The Passion of The Christ; Natalia Tsarkova, the Vatican’s first female portrait painter; and non-profit organizations such as the World Education and Development Fund, a charity that provides scholarships to children in poor communities throughout Latin America. After attending Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ, Christine was awarded a 2002 Abraham Lincoln Graduate Fellowship in Constitutional Government from the Claremont Institute in Claremont, CA. She resides in Wilmington, DE. Christine O’Donnell is a nationally recognized political commentator and marketing consultant. She appears weekly, sometimes daily, on national news outlets such as the Fox News Channel, CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC and ABC, including major ratings hits like “The O’Reilly Factor,” “Hannity & Colmes,” “The Glenn Beck Show,” “Hardball with Chris Matthews” and “Entertainment Tonight.” Christine is also a frequent radio talk show guest-host on WGMD in Rehoboth Beach and WDEL in Wilmington, DE. As part of a delegation of journalists, Christine toured the middle-eastern country of Jordan as a guest of the Royal Jordanian government. Having witnessed firsthand the oppression in the Middle East, Christine describes this journey as truly a life changing experience and says it deepened her commitment to the women’s movement. An effective communicator, Christine is known for her skill in winning over even those who disagree with her most. Liberal Bill Maher stated, “I don’t know how many times you’ve been here but it’s always a good show when you’re on.” Even Democratic strategist James Carville was forced to admit of Christine O’Donnell “Now, this is one hip woman,” on CNN’s “Crossfire.” During her 20-year career, Christine has served as a social advocate in Washington, D.C., participating in regular White House and Capitol Hill strategy meetings and leading delegations to the United Nations to lobby on behalf of pro-family global policies. She’s successfully debated Cabinet members, lawmakers and international leaders. In the early 1990’s Christine worked for the Republican National Committee (under then Chairman Haley Barbour) helping to develop the marketing strategy credited with having had a key role in the historic ’94 Republican Congressional sweep.Christine and the Family Christine O’Donnell is a member of the Delaware Press Association and served on the Board of Directors for Birthright of Delaware until May 2008.

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PROVIDENCE — With Rhode Island’s first same-sex weddings just hours away, local city and town clerks said Tuesday that they were receiving a light but in some cases steady stream of calls and questions from couples interested in marrying. Of nine communities surveyed by The Providence Journal, Providence and Pawtucket appeared to be the busiest as the Aug. 1 date approaches, with at least 7 couples taking advantage of a pre-registration period in Providence and more than 10 people calling with questions in Pawtucket. The questions have dealt with everything from what’s needed to get a marriage license to what a couple with a civil union has to do to marry to whether a couple that married elsewhere can marry here in Rhode Island, said Pawtucket City Clerk Richard J. Goldstein. The answer for couples who married elsewhere is yes, they can marry here too, though they don’t have to marry here to take advantage of the legal benefits that come with marriage. “It’s not necessary,” Goldstein said. “But there are people who would have wanted to get married here, in Rhode Island, because it’s their home state.” Other communities reported fewer calls, but all of those contacted by The Journal had received at least one. Newport City Clerk Kathleen Silvia said she expects a couple from out of state to come in Thursday for a license and a couple from Rhode Island with a civil union to come in for a license. She said the Rhode Island couple will “merge” their civil union license into a marriage license, meaning they will not have a wedding ceremony. Under the marriage legislation that state lawmakers passed in May, such couples also have the option of holding a wedding to make the jump from a civil union to a marriage. Elsewhere, North Kingstown reported one call, while South Kingstown reported two from couples who are in civil unions; Narragansett reported “a few phone calls,” Warwick reported two phone calls and East Providence and Bristol each reported two requests for licenses. All the clerks agreed on one thing: They’re not sure what to expect on Thursday, when same-sex couples — like heterosexual couples — will be able to walk in, fill out the paperwork and obtain a license on the spot, within minutes. “If it is busy, we just hope that people will be patient,” said Warwick City Clerk Marie Ahlert. One change that will be in place Thursday for all couples seeking marriage licenses is new application forms. While the old forms specified names for a bride and a groom, the new forms allow each applicant to “select what is most appropriate for them” — bride, groom or spouse, said Dara Chadwick, spokeswoman for the state Department of Health. The Aug. 1 date for same-sex weddings will go on despite a legal challenge Tuesday in Superior Court, Providence. Ronald L’Heureux, a cofounder of the Faith Alliance to Preserve the Sanctity of Marriage as Defined by God, brought a petition and complaint to the court on Tuesday morning and sought a temporary restraining order to stop the law from taking effect. Judge Daniel A. Procaccini denied the request, saying L’Heureux had fallen “far short” of the criteria needed to obtain a temporary restraining order, said court spokesman Craig Berke. Instead, Procaccini scheduled a preliminary hearing for Aug. 9. L’Heureux’s complaint, which names Governor Chafee, state Department of Health Director Michael Fine and 75 state lawmakers who voted for same-sex marriage as defendants, argues that legalizing same-sex marriage will violate religious freedoms guaranteed by the state Constitution, forcing people to accept, in public spheres such as schools, a practice that they oppose based on their faith. “It violates the Constitution and causes irreparable harm, and once it passes they’re going to teach my children and grandchildren conduct that’s reprehensible to my faith,” said L’Heureux, who represented himself in court. Ray Sullivan, campaign director of Marriage Equality Rhode Island, which led the effort to pass same-sex marriage, said the lawsuit “was expected, and the judge’s decision came as little surprise.” One of the first same-sex weddings that will take place in Rhode Island will be that of Rep. Frank Ferri, D-Warwick, and his husband, Tony Caparco. They married in Vancouver in 2006, and they will marry again on Thursday evening, in Warwick. House Speaker Gordon D. Fox, who championed the same-sex marriage legislation, will officiate. Governor Chafee, another supporter of the legislation, said Tuesday that neither he nor his wife, Stephanie, have been asked to officiate any same-sex weddings. But Chafee will be the focus at a fundraising event on Wednesday, at the Providence Performing Arts Center. The fundraiser is being held to thank Chafee for his “leadership, longstanding support and commitment to marriage equality,” according to an invitation for the event. With reports from Linda Borg, Alex Kuffner, Philip Marcelo, Michael P. McKinney, Donita Naylor and Barbara Polichetti. ||||| Two bride figurines are seen during a rally in response to the California Supreme Court's ruling regarding Proposition 8 in Hollywood, California May 26, 2009. MINNEAPOLIS Surrounded by nearly 1,000 people in the marble rotunda of Minneapolis City Hall, Margaret Miles and Cathy ten Broeke were the first gay couple to tie the knot in Minnesota, one of two states where same-sex marriage became legal on Thursday. "By the power now finally invested in me," said Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak to boisterous cheers from family members and supporters of gay marriage, "I hereby declare Margaret and Cathy legally married." The couple's five-year-old son, wearing a black tuxedo, participated in the ceremony along with a gay men's chorus wearing black T-shirts declaring, "Marry Us." Miles, 49, fell in love with ten Broeke, 44, while working at a nonprofit organization that helps the homeless. The couple wanted to marry more than a decade ago, but the law prevented it. So they settled for a commitment ceremony and a mountain of paperwork to legally merge their lives. Now that Minnesota has officially sanctioned gay marriage, the couple said they will no longer worry about their legal status. Rhode Island - one hour ahead on eastern time - and Minnesota on Thursday became the 12th and 13th states to sanction gay nuptials. Minnesota became the second in the Midwest, after Iowa. In Rhode Island, the smallest U.S. state by area and the last in New England to legalize gay marriage, Democratic state Representative Frank Ferri will wed his partner of three decades, Tony Carparco. While the two men wed seven years ago when they vacationed in Canada, Ferri - who helped lead the drive for legalization in Rhode Island - said Thursday's ceremony in their home state would be more meaningful. Minneapolis couple Miles and ten Broeke said the legalization of gay marriage would end a stigma for them. Not long ago, a child told the couple's 5-year-old son that he could not have two mothers. "No one can say that anymore," said Miles, crying. Michelle Farley and Leisha Suggs plan to exchange vows on the rooftop of a Japanese restaurant on the south side of Minneapolis before a small group of friends. Farley, 35, and Suggs, 28, fell in love while attending the University of Maryland seven years ago. When the couple moved to Minnesota — a place they perceived as progressive — they were shocked to see a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage on the 2012 ballot. "It was very scary," Farley said. Minnesota voters rejected the proposal and elected a Democratic majority to the state Legislature. Those lawmakers voted in May to make gay marriage legal. In the hours before gay marriage became legal in the state, Paul Portenlanger, 40, and Gregg Bell, 43, held hands as they strolled along the banks of the Mississippi River. The couple, who were married three years ago in Washington, D.C., were on their way to a pre-marriage party. Both men plan to skip work on Thursday, search local parks for gay marriages and drink champagne, they said. (Reporting by Todd Melby in Minneapolis and Svea Herbst-Bayliss in Providence, Rhode Island; Editing by Greg McCune and John Stonestreet) ||||| Dozens of gay couples began tying the knot early Thursday morning at Minneapolis City Hall as Minnesota became the latest state to legalize same-sex marriage. Al Giraud, right, wipes a tear from his eye as his partner Jeff Isaacson, left. reads his wedding vows as Mayor R.T. Rybak officiates their ceremony at the Minneapolis Freedom to Marry Celebration and... (Associated Press) Same-sex couple Margaret Miles and Cathy ten Broeke kiss after they were married just after midnight Thursday Aug. 1, 2013 on the steps of the Rotunda at Minneapolis City Hall by Mayor R. T. Rybak and... (Associated Press) Jeff Isaacson, left, and Al Giraud, right, kiss for the first time as a married couple during the Minneapolis Freedom to Marry Celebration and Weddings at the Minneapolis City Hall, Thursday, Aug. 1,... (Associated Press) Margaret Miles, right, celebrates with wife Cathy ten Broeke, left, after they were married at the Minneapolis Freedom to Marry Celebration and Weddings, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 at the Minneapolis City... (Associated Press) In the Sunken Gardens at the Como Zoo Park Zoo and Conservatory, St. Paul, MN, grooms Reid Bordson, right, and Paul Nolle, left got married after midnight Thursday Aug. 1, 2013 when gay marriages became... (Associated Press) Same-sex couple Margaret Miles and Cathy ten Broeke were married Thursday Aug. 1, 2013 just after midnight on the steps of the Rotunda at Minneapolis City Hall by Mayor R. T. Rybak. Hundreds of family,... (Associated Press) Margaret Mile, left, holds onto her partner Cathy ten Broekes' hand, right, shortly before their wedding ceremony at the Minneapolis Freedom to Marry Celebration and Weddings, Wednesday, July 31, 2013,... (Associated Press) "I didn't expect to cry quite that hard," said a beaming Cathy ten Broeke, who with Margaret Miles was the first gay couple to be wed at City Hall. After Miles and ten Broeke exchanged vows and rings just before midnight Wednesday, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak had musicians kill a few minutes until the clock struck 12:01 a.m. Thursday, when the law went into effect. Then the attending crowd burst into applause as Rybak pronounced Miles and ten Broeke married. The couple stood nearby embracing their 5-year-old son, Louie. "We do," all three said to more cheers as they promised to be a family. Forty-two couples were expected to be married by Rybak and several Hennepin County judges in the hours before dawn. Weddings were scheduled to start at the stroke of midnight at Minneapolis City Hall, St. Paul's Como Park, Mall of America's Chapel of Love and at county courthouses around the state. One group planned a cluster of weddings in a Duluth tavern. "I don't think either of us ever thought we'd see this day," said Mike Bolin, of the Minneapolis suburb of Richfield, who was marrying Jay Resch, his partner of six years, at Minneapolis City Hall. "We met at low points in both of our lives, and to have arrived at this point _ there's going to be a lot of tears." Rhode Island was joining Minnesota on Thursday in becoming the 12th and 13th U.S. states to allow gay marriage, along with the District of Columbia. The national gay rights group Freedom to Marry estimates that about 30 percent of the U.S. population now lives in places where gay marriage is legal. The first gay weddings in Rhode Island were planned for later Thursday morning. In Minnesota, budget officials estimated that about 5,000 gay couples would marry in the first year. Its enactment capped a fast turnabout on the issue in just over two years. After voters rejected a constitutional ban on gay marriage last fall, the state Legislature this spring moved to make it legal. Rhode Island becomes the last New England state to allow same-sex marriage. Lawmakers in the heavily Catholic state passed the marriage law this spring, after more than 16 years of efforts by same-sex marriage supporters. Both Minnesota and Rhode Island will automatically recognize marriages performed in other states. Bolin and Resch celebrated Wednesday night with several hundred others at Wilde Roast Cafe along the Mississippi River north of downtown Minneapolis. Many at the event planned to walk to City Hall for the mass nuptials. Dayton proclaimed Aug. 1 to be "Freedom to Marry Day" in Minnesota. Golden Valley-based General Mills Inc. donated Betty Crocker cakes for the event, which was also to feature performances by local musicians and services donated by wedding photographers, florists and other businesses. Weddings were not limited to the Twin Cities. In St. Cloud, Stearns County court administrator Tim Roberts planned to marry a couple at 12:01 a.m. at the courthouse. "It feels historic. It's an honor to be a part of it," Roberts said. Midnight weddings were also planned for courthouses in Clay County, Polk County and elsewhere. At Mall of America, Holli Bartelt and Amy Petrich from the southeastern Minnesota town of Wykoff were set to become the first couple married at the Chapel of Love. Owner Felicia Glass-Wilcox said she hoped to start the ceremony a few minutes early, so the vows could be pronounced seconds after midnight. "We'd like for them to be able to say they are the very first married in the state, but for sure they'll be able to say they're one of the first," Glass-Wilcox said. She said the chapel had four more gay couples booked for weddings in the next five days. Bartelt, 33, proposed to Petrich, 37, in April in a photo booth at the Bloomington mall. It was a few weeks before the Legislature approved the law, but Bartelt said she was confident by then that it would pass. She had been in contact with a mall employee about the proposal, who later suggested the couple could be first to get married at the chapel. Bartelt, a health coach, planned to wear an ivory-colored dress, while Petrich, a baker for Mayo Clinic, was wearing an ivory suit. A group of about 50 family members and close friends were planning to join them, including Bartelt's 10-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter. "Everybody deserves the right to be happy," said Bartelt. "That's really what it's all about. It's a big day for us, and a big day for Minnesota, and something I hope my kids look back on some day and say, `Wow, we got to be part of that.'" ___ Associated Press writers Jeff Baenen in Minneapolis and David Klepper from Providence, R.I., contributed to this report.

– At midnight, Minnesota and Rhode Island became the 12th and 13th states to legalize gay marriage and there were dozens of couples waiting at Minneapolis City Hall and courthouses across the state, the AP reports. Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak pronounced the first couple married before a cheering crowd of nearly 1,000, reports Reuters. "By the power now finally invested in me," he said as the couple's 5-year-old son looked on, "I hereby declare Margaret and Cathy legally married." Officials in Minnesota estimate 5,000 gay couples will marry in the state this year. The first same-sex weddings in Rhode Island will happen this morning but the state isn't expecting a rush: It's the last New England state to legalize gay marriage and many couples have already gotten married in neighboring states. One of those who is getting married today is Democratic state Rep. Frank Ferri, who helped lead the push for legalization, the Providence Journal reports. Ferri married his partner in Canada in 2006 but he says a ceremony in his home state will be more meaningful.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.PROVIDENCE — With Rhode Island’s first same-sex weddings just hours away, local city and town clerks said Tuesday that they were receiving a light but in some cases steady stream of calls and questions from couples interested in marrying. Of nine communities surveyed by The Providence Journal, Providence and Pawtucket appeared to be the busiest as the Aug. 1 date approaches, with at least 7 couples taking advantage of a pre-registration period in Providence and more than 10 people calling with questions in Pawtucket. The questions have dealt with everything from what’s needed to get a marriage license to what a couple with a civil union has to do to marry to whether a couple that married elsewhere can marry here in Rhode Island, said Pawtucket City Clerk Richard J. Goldstein. The answer for couples who married elsewhere is yes, they can marry here too, though they don’t have to marry here to take advantage of the legal benefits that come with marriage. “It’s not necessary,” Goldstein said. “But there are people who would have wanted to get married here, in Rhode Island, because it’s their home state.” Other communities reported fewer calls, but all of those contacted by The Journal had received at least one. Newport City Clerk Kathleen Silvia said she expects a couple from out of state to come in Thursday for a license and a couple from Rhode Island with a civil union to come in for a license. She said the Rhode Island couple will “merge” their civil union license into a marriage license, meaning they will not have a wedding ceremony. Under the marriage legislation that state lawmakers passed in May, such couples also have the option of holding a wedding to make the jump from a civil union to a marriage. Elsewhere, North Kingstown reported one call, while South Kingstown reported two from couples who are in civil unions; Narragansett reported “a few phone calls,” Warwick reported two phone calls and East Providence and Bristol each reported two requests for licenses. All the clerks agreed on one thing: They’re not sure what to expect on Thursday, when same-sex couples — like heterosexual couples — will be able to walk in, fill out the paperwork and obtain a license on the spot, within minutes. “If it is busy, we just hope that people will be patient,” said Warwick City Clerk Marie Ahlert. One change that will be in place Thursday for all couples seeking marriage licenses is new application forms. While the old forms specified names for a bride and a groom, the new forms allow each applicant to “select what is most appropriate for them” — bride, groom or spouse, said Dara Chadwick, spokeswoman for the state Department of Health. The Aug. 1 date for same-sex weddings will go on despite a legal challenge Tuesday in Superior Court, Providence. Ronald L’Heureux, a cofounder of the Faith Alliance to Preserve the Sanctity of Marriage as Defined by God, brought a petition and complaint to the court on Tuesday morning and sought a temporary restraining order to stop the law from taking effect. Judge Daniel A. Procaccini denied the request, saying L’Heureux had fallen “far short” of the criteria needed to obtain a temporary restraining order, said court spokesman Craig Berke. Instead, Procaccini scheduled a preliminary hearing for Aug. 9. L’Heureux’s complaint, which names Governor Chafee, state Department of Health Director Michael Fine and 75 state lawmakers who voted for same-sex marriage as defendants, argues that legalizing same-sex marriage will violate religious freedoms guaranteed by the state Constitution, forcing people to accept, in public spheres such as schools, a practice that they oppose based on their faith. “It violates the Constitution and causes irreparable harm, and once it passes they’re going to teach my children and grandchildren conduct that’s reprehensible to my faith,” said L’Heureux, who represented himself in court. Ray Sullivan, campaign director of Marriage Equality Rhode Island, which led the effort to pass same-sex marriage, said the lawsuit “was expected, and the judge’s decision came as little surprise.” One of the first same-sex weddings that will take place in Rhode Island will be that of Rep. Frank Ferri, D-Warwick, and his husband, Tony Caparco. They married in Vancouver in 2006, and they will marry again on Thursday evening, in Warwick. House Speaker Gordon D. Fox, who championed the same-sex marriage legislation, will officiate. Governor Chafee, another supporter of the legislation, said Tuesday that neither he nor his wife, Stephanie, have been asked to officiate any same-sex weddings. But Chafee will be the focus at a fundraising event on Wednesday, at the Providence Performing Arts Center. The fundraiser is being held to thank Chafee for his “leadership, longstanding support and commitment to marriage equality,” according to an invitation for the event. With reports from Linda Borg, Alex Kuffner, Philip Marcelo, Michael P. McKinney, Donita Naylor and Barbara Polichetti. ||||| Two bride figurines are seen during a rally in response to the California Supreme Court's ruling regarding Proposition 8 in Hollywood, California May 26, 2009. MINNEAPOLIS Surrounded by nearly 1,000 people in the marble rotunda of Minneapolis City Hall, Margaret Miles and Cathy ten Broeke were the first gay couple to tie the knot in Minnesota, one of two states where same-sex marriage became legal on Thursday. "By the power now finally invested in me," said Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak to boisterous cheers from family members and supporters of gay marriage, "I hereby declare Margaret and Cathy legally married." The couple's five-year-old son, wearing a black tuxedo, participated in the ceremony along with a gay men's chorus wearing black T-shirts declaring, "Marry Us." Miles, 49, fell in love with ten Broeke, 44, while working at a nonprofit organization that helps the homeless. The couple wanted to marry more than a decade ago, but the law prevented it. So they settled for a commitment ceremony and a mountain of paperwork to legally merge their lives. Now that Minnesota has officially sanctioned gay marriage, the couple said they will no longer worry about their legal status. Rhode Island - one hour ahead on eastern time - and Minnesota on Thursday became the 12th and 13th states to sanction gay nuptials. Minnesota became the second in the Midwest, after Iowa. In Rhode Island, the smallest U.S. state by area and the last in New England to legalize gay marriage, Democratic state Representative Frank Ferri will wed his partner of three decades, Tony Carparco. While the two men wed seven years ago when they vacationed in Canada, Ferri - who helped lead the drive for legalization in Rhode Island - said Thursday's ceremony in their home state would be more meaningful. Minneapolis couple Miles and ten Broeke said the legalization of gay marriage would end a stigma for them. Not long ago, a child told the couple's 5-year-old son that he could not have two mothers. "No one can say that anymore," said Miles, crying. Michelle Farley and Leisha Suggs plan to exchange vows on the rooftop of a Japanese restaurant on the south side of Minneapolis before a small group of friends. Farley, 35, and Suggs, 28, fell in love while attending the University of Maryland seven years ago. When the couple moved to Minnesota — a place they perceived as progressive — they were shocked to see a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage on the 2012 ballot. "It was very scary," Farley said. Minnesota voters rejected the proposal and elected a Democratic majority to the state Legislature. Those lawmakers voted in May to make gay marriage legal. In the hours before gay marriage became legal in the state, Paul Portenlanger, 40, and Gregg Bell, 43, held hands as they strolled along the banks of the Mississippi River. The couple, who were married three years ago in Washington, D.C., were on their way to a pre-marriage party. Both men plan to skip work on Thursday, search local parks for gay marriages and drink champagne, they said. (Reporting by Todd Melby in Minneapolis and Svea Herbst-Bayliss in Providence, Rhode Island; Editing by Greg McCune and John Stonestreet) ||||| Dozens of gay couples began tying the knot early Thursday morning at Minneapolis City Hall as Minnesota became the latest state to legalize same-sex marriage. Al Giraud, right, wipes a tear from his eye as his partner Jeff Isaacson, left. reads his wedding vows as Mayor R.T. Rybak officiates their ceremony at the Minneapolis Freedom to Marry Celebration and... (Associated Press) Same-sex couple Margaret Miles and Cathy ten Broeke kiss after they were married just after midnight Thursday Aug. 1, 2013 on the steps of the Rotunda at Minneapolis City Hall by Mayor R. T. Rybak and... (Associated Press) Jeff Isaacson, left, and Al Giraud, right, kiss for the first time as a married couple during the Minneapolis Freedom to Marry Celebration and Weddings at the Minneapolis City Hall, Thursday, Aug. 1,... (Associated Press) Margaret Miles, right, celebrates with wife Cathy ten Broeke, left, after they were married at the Minneapolis Freedom to Marry Celebration and Weddings, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 at the Minneapolis City... (Associated Press) In the Sunken Gardens at the Como Zoo Park Zoo and Conservatory, St. Paul, MN, grooms Reid Bordson, right, and Paul Nolle, left got married after midnight Thursday Aug. 1, 2013 when gay marriages became... (Associated Press) Same-sex couple Margaret Miles and Cathy ten Broeke were married Thursday Aug. 1, 2013 just after midnight on the steps of the Rotunda at Minneapolis City Hall by Mayor R. T. Rybak. Hundreds of family,... (Associated Press) Margaret Mile, left, holds onto her partner Cathy ten Broekes' hand, right, shortly before their wedding ceremony at the Minneapolis Freedom to Marry Celebration and Weddings, Wednesday, July 31, 2013,... (Associated Press) "I didn't expect to cry quite that hard," said a beaming Cathy ten Broeke, who with Margaret Miles was the first gay couple to be wed at City Hall. After Miles and ten Broeke exchanged vows and rings just before midnight Wednesday, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak had musicians kill a few minutes until the clock struck 12:01 a.m. Thursday, when the law went into effect. Then the attending crowd burst into applause as Rybak pronounced Miles and ten Broeke married. The couple stood nearby embracing their 5-year-old son, Louie. "We do," all three said to more cheers as they promised to be a family. Forty-two couples were expected to be married by Rybak and several Hennepin County judges in the hours before dawn. Weddings were scheduled to start at the stroke of midnight at Minneapolis City Hall, St. Paul's Como Park, Mall of America's Chapel of Love and at county courthouses around the state. One group planned a cluster of weddings in a Duluth tavern. "I don't think either of us ever thought we'd see this day," said Mike Bolin, of the Minneapolis suburb of Richfield, who was marrying Jay Resch, his partner of six years, at Minneapolis City Hall. "We met at low points in both of our lives, and to have arrived at this point _ there's going to be a lot of tears." Rhode Island was joining Minnesota on Thursday in becoming the 12th and 13th U.S. states to allow gay marriage, along with the District of Columbia. The national gay rights group Freedom to Marry estimates that about 30 percent of the U.S. population now lives in places where gay marriage is legal. The first gay weddings in Rhode Island were planned for later Thursday morning. In Minnesota, budget officials estimated that about 5,000 gay couples would marry in the first year. Its enactment capped a fast turnabout on the issue in just over two years. After voters rejected a constitutional ban on gay marriage last fall, the state Legislature this spring moved to make it legal. Rhode Island becomes the last New England state to allow same-sex marriage. Lawmakers in the heavily Catholic state passed the marriage law this spring, after more than 16 years of efforts by same-sex marriage supporters. Both Minnesota and Rhode Island will automatically recognize marriages performed in other states. Bolin and Resch celebrated Wednesday night with several hundred others at Wilde Roast Cafe along the Mississippi River north of downtown Minneapolis. Many at the event planned to walk to City Hall for the mass nuptials. Dayton proclaimed Aug. 1 to be "Freedom to Marry Day" in Minnesota. Golden Valley-based General Mills Inc. donated Betty Crocker cakes for the event, which was also to feature performances by local musicians and services donated by wedding photographers, florists and other businesses. Weddings were not limited to the Twin Cities. In St. Cloud, Stearns County court administrator Tim Roberts planned to marry a couple at 12:01 a.m. at the courthouse. "It feels historic. It's an honor to be a part of it," Roberts said. Midnight weddings were also planned for courthouses in Clay County, Polk County and elsewhere. At Mall of America, Holli Bartelt and Amy Petrich from the southeastern Minnesota town of Wykoff were set to become the first couple married at the Chapel of Love. Owner Felicia Glass-Wilcox said she hoped to start the ceremony a few minutes early, so the vows could be pronounced seconds after midnight. "We'd like for them to be able to say they are the very first married in the state, but for sure they'll be able to say they're one of the first," Glass-Wilcox said. She said the chapel had four more gay couples booked for weddings in the next five days. Bartelt, 33, proposed to Petrich, 37, in April in a photo booth at the Bloomington mall. It was a few weeks before the Legislature approved the law, but Bartelt said she was confident by then that it would pass. She had been in contact with a mall employee about the proposal, who later suggested the couple could be first to get married at the chapel. Bartelt, a health coach, planned to wear an ivory-colored dress, while Petrich, a baker for Mayo Clinic, was wearing an ivory suit. A group of about 50 family members and close friends were planning to join them, including Bartelt's 10-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter. "Everybody deserves the right to be happy," said Bartelt. "That's really what it's all about. It's a big day for us, and a big day for Minnesota, and something I hope my kids look back on some day and say, `Wow, we got to be part of that.'" ___ Associated Press writers Jeff Baenen in Minneapolis and David Klepper from Providence, R.I., contributed to this report.

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A naked woman is sitting on a bar stool, her legs held open by two real-life customers who casually sip their beers as porn actor James Deen repeatedly slams into her. A couple of men stand next to the action with their iPhones held out at arm's length, but mostly the crowd seems more interested in the glasses of whiskey being passed around than in the moaning girl. They pour the shots down their throats and someone lets a burp rip. It's a Tuesday afternoon but the windows of this bar in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood are taped over with black plastic to make it look like nighttime. They're filming a porno inside. This is a shoot for one of Kink.com's many BDSM fetish websites, Public Disgrace, in which "women are bound, stripped, and punished in public." There are three porn actors and the rest of the 15 or so people at this tiny watering hole -- all male save for two women -- are fans of the site or just people off the street. My friend who tipped me off about the shoot is one of the latter: He happened to be walking by the bar when he noticed that something was being filmed inside and as a video editor he couldn't resist checking it out. After a quick background check and some paperwork he was instructed: You can touch her, slap her, spit on her and finger fuck her, you just can't have sex with her. He instead opted to talk to the crew about nerdy things like lighting techniques and camera equipment. By the time I arrive, there is liquid dripping from the actress's chin, which I assume means that the scene is over. I soon realize that her face isn't glistening from the "money shot" but rather the saliva of all the men at the bar. "She begged each of them to spit on her," my friend explains, his eyes wide. It feels like he's trying to secretly communicate with me through his blinks, Morse code style. The message is a mix of repulsion ("They shocked her with cattle prods," he tells me later) and titillation ("I'd never seen a girl go down on another girl in person"). The scene is building to a climax and a sweaty, red-faced man yells, "Yeah, dig deep!" After some delay, the less experienced performer comes on the actress's face and James, who has been in over 1,000 porn films, immediately follows. This garners praise from an onlooker who shouts: "Nice work!" Afterward, James pulls his T-shirt over his head and slides a cigarette into his mouth. This isn't the first time I've watched this man have sex and, if you've recently browsed online porn, chances are you've seen him before too. At 25, after just seven years in the game, he's one of the most visible men in the industry. I think of him as a cold, brutish performer -- but when he hears that I want to interview him, he comes right up with a warm smile on his face and juts out his hand to introduce himself. As I find when we go back to Kink's headquarters to chat, he is thoughtful, self-effacing and polite. After a quick shower, he meets me in a conference room barefoot, wearing plaid pajamas and sipping from a bottle of apple juice. He looks more like a kid ready for a bedtime story than the man I watched hock a loogie on a bound, naked woman an hour ago. I notice that his eyes, which are usually upstaged by his aggressive performances, are such a delicate, piercing blue that it just might excuse his choice of pseudonym. While periodically lifting his shirt to show me the fresh bug bite swelling on his chest, we talk about sex as art, Viagra, fake orgasms and why people should never try to have sex like a porn star. Can you remember the first porn that you ever saw? Well, the first time I actually saw porn it was in a magazine. I was in kindergarten or first grade and I was walking along this horse trail behind my school and it looked like somebody had thrown out a bunch of porn. So there were a couple porn magazines there and I opened one of them up and there was a picture of a dude banging a chick and I went: "This! This! I wanna do this! This is awesome!" Really, at that young age you thought, "I want to do this when I grow up? Yeah. That's what it was. Did you even really know what you were looking at? Oh yeah. I knew about sex. Well, how do you like it now that you've achieved that childhood dream? Love it. Everything about it. What is it exactly, though? You just love sex and get to have it all the time? I love sex, I get to have sex all the time. Also, I like meeting different people and playing with people's personalities. As lame as it is to say, it's quasi artistic. There is art to what we do, there's a vision, a performance. It's like acting but you get to come. [Laughs] It's very fun playing characters and trying to mesh with people and figure out how you and a stranger can create some sort of intense moment where you're able to express something. I feel like sex is the most real expression. It's self-expression in its truest form. As holier and on-a-pedestal as that sounds, at the end of the day porn is fun because you get to have awesome sex every day with beautiful women and travel around and get paid. The idea of seeking connection and self-expression goes against most people's assumptions about why a guy would get into porn. Right, and it might be me just trying to justify something that I do. But, yeah, I feel like expressing ourselves sexually is something that is really true and honest. As far as just being able to fuck girls, that never entered my mind as a reason to do porn. The guys at the shoot were coming up to you and saying, "Oh man, you have the best job in the world," which is something I'm sure you hear a lot. Is the job really as great as they think? Mhmm, yeah, it is. Every now and then I'll work with a girl who is doing this just for the money and doesn't want to kiss, doesn't want to talk, doesn't want to do anything other than get her paycheck. But it's so rare. For the most part, everybody that is in porn now really genuinely wants to do porn. Nowadays, girls will come out of high school and say, "I'm gonna be the next Jenna Jameson! I'm gonna be a sexual creature of desirability for the world and it's gonna be amazing!" I think it's awesome that's happening. It's very rare that I meet girls who are like, "I just need to get drunk. I'm just doing this because I have to." You have so many men, and women, making assumptions based on your movies about what normal or hot sex looks like. What does it feel like to be influencing the way that people have sex? That's way more responsibility than I want. We do stuff for the camera, we are having sex for the people at home, so not necessarily everything that we do feels good. I once did a magazine interview where they asked me for tips on how to have sex like a porn star and one of my biggest pieces of advice was, don't. The key to sex is that you need to communicate with your partner about what they're into and what they're not into. If you're trying to have sex like a porn star, you're not -- [a guy walks by carrying a giggling, limp girl in a bathrobe up the stairs]. I think somebody made someone come until they couldn't walk. But, yeah, if you're going to try to have sex like a porn star you need to make sure that the person you're having sex with wants to be fucked like a porn star. I really hope I don't have that responsibility of teaching people how to have sex. How has the industry changed over the years? The industry's changed a lot. It used to be more fun. It's still fun, it's just that right now the economy sucks and, you know, piracy. No one is accustomed to paying for any sort of entertainment anymore. I work for burningangel.com which is run by Joanna Angel, and she says that now you have to work twice as hard for half the amount of money, and I think that's absolutely true. When people are complaining about the old days of porn she's like, "Did you really think that the days of showing up for three hours and making insane amounts of money was gonna last? It's a job." People who worked in porn during the days when it was one big party are always talking about the "good old days." I saw the old days, they were great, but it's still great, you just gotta work a little harder. How do you manage to do as many scenes as you do and work for as long as you do? Male performers have to be turned on, there's no faking it, right? Not really. But, I mean, girls are pretty amazing. It's very rare where I find a girl where I'm like: You are not attractive. I'm pretty much attracted to something with every single girl. As far as stamina and stuff goes, maybe it's because I'm young. Today I probably only did 30 minutes of actual work, the rest of the time we were setting up, taking breaks. How common is it for guys to use Viagra? Nowadays it's completely standard for guys to show up with their pills and say "gimme a 30 minute warning for the scene." When I first started, guys were like, "If you can't do it without it, you shouldn't be doing it at all." Me personally, I used Cialis one time because I was doing this scene with a girl and her husband and there was no reason for me to be there. I was like, "She doesn't even know I'm back here!" For me, if the girl's not into it, even in [rough] Kink scenes, that kills it for me. I always make this rape joke where I'm like, "Rape does nothing for me unless you're in on it." We joke around at Kink about how "frape" [fake rape] is awesome, but rape is serious, not cool. What I don't like about a lot of the performers who are pharmaceutically assisted is that a lot of the passion is missing. They kind of have sex like robots. Their scenes will be emotionless and I just don't like emotionless sex. What do you think of the pay disparity between male and female performers? I think I'm overpaid. There are people who buy porn for the guys, they do exist, but the girls get paid what they get paid because at the end of the day most of the audience is buying the movie for the girl. There was talk years ago of starting a union so that guys could get paid as much as the girls and I'm like, dude, if every guy in porn quit tomorrow there would be a whole bunch of new guys lined up out the door with a bottle of Viagra. How common do you think it is for women to fake orgasms in scenes? I wouldn't say that a lot of girls are faking it. I've definitely had to tell girls, "Hey, I want you to at least pretend to have an orgasm so that the viewer can go, 'Oh well that girl's really enjoying herself and having fun.'" What did you think of the frat boy types who showed up to this shoot? They were a little drunk. Those guys were like, "You gotta come hang out with us and party with us." I'm sure they think I can pull any girl in the world. Most of the time when girls hear you do porn it's 50-50: Either they want to bang you so they can be like "I banged a porn star" or they wanna not talk to you because they think you're a creep who's just gonna try to fuck them. How does what you do for a living impact your personal life? I've never really had much of a personal life. I have people in my life that I'm friends with but there's nothing I really like doing so I end up pretty much hanging out at my house and working all day. Before I did porn I was a little gutter punk kid in Pasadena who got drunk in a park with my friends. I'm still friends with those same people. The last time I did something interesting, I hung out with them and we talked in an alley outside of a bar while the world passed by us. What about your romantic life? Porn hasn't really changed my romantic life. People always ask me if it's hard to have a girlfriend in porn and I always tell them that I don't think it's any harder than in real life. I've dated girls in porn and I've dated girls that aren't in porn. The same complications I had before I was in porn are the same complications I have now that I'm in porn. ||||| Porn Wikileaks is attempting to expose the identities—and STDs—of thousands of adult-film performers. Richard Abowitz talks to the vigilante who claims to be behind the effort. Like many of the women who perform in porn for a couple of years, Monica Foster knew that people might find out her real name. She even self-published a book warning others considering getting into the industry about the impossibility of total anonymity. Photo Illustration What she didn't expect was Porn Wikileaks, a website that became infamous on Wednesday after Gawker.com ran a story about the renegade website's attempts to expose the identities of thousands of porn performers. (Gawker also implied that Porn Wikileaks has revealed the performers' STD statuses, which, so far, isn't true.) Revealing porn actors' real names is significant because, for every Jenna Jameson and Sasha Grey working today, there are thousands of other people who have worked in porn who are now teachers, lawyers, doctors, housewives—people with a vested interest in keeping their past concealed by a pseudonym. "They posted pictures of my dad, my mom, my sister," says Foster. "They put pictures of their residence and their actual addresses and private phone numbers. They posted a photo of my apartment." Despite years in adult entertainment, this exposure of her private life was unprecedented and unanticipated, says Foster. She has been driven nearly "psychotic" by it. "My mom is a school teacher and people have emailed and called the elementary school," she says. "No other website has done anything like that unless they were stalkers, and that is what I think about the people who run that website. I have been living in fear." This fear has engulfed much of the porn world, as Porn Wikileaks has threatened to destroy one of the central pillars of the adult-film industry: anonymity. But who is the man behind the website? For all the power Porn Wikileaks wields, most porn stars suspect that the man in charge of it is someone they think very little of. His name, they say, is Donald Carlos Seoane, a.k.a. Donny Long, a washed-up former porn actor and director who, according to a separate website dedicated to exposing him, has had multiple run-ins with the law. Reached by The Daily Beast via email, a person who admits to creating the website—but who denies that he's Donny Long—offered, in a rant characteristic of all his responses, a quixotic and nonsensical motive for the creation of Porn Wikileaks: "To get the gays out of straight porn and illegal gay pimps that have ruined porn and shut it down making condoms mandatory by the government now. The fag loving has got to stop. California is full of gay Mexicans and now they can even marry which is so wrong." As for the potential safety risk of giving out information like the home addresses of porn stars, the creator of Porn Wikileaks offers: "Do you consider it a safety risk to make other people in the real worlds [sic] addresses and information public like Abortion doctors, government workers, or attention whores working at Starbucks with their cleavage hanging out?" Such sensitive information in the hands of a loose cannon is understandably unnerving to those it might affect. These sorts of wildly racist and homophobic rants reflect the tone of Porn Wikileaks itself. For instance, a single generic sentence in the entry for porn star Dana DeArmond reads: "Dana dearmond born Real Name Dana Michelle De Armond is a pornographic whore, and Hooker." All of the porn stars on Porn Wikileaks are referred to as whores and Hookers. It's worth noting that Donny Long's entry on Porn Wikileaks is more self-serving: "Donny Long is the last hetero man willing to stand up [sic] the Gay Mafia destroying porn. He is retired in the porn business in California because he sold his business but still tells the truth about the fag crossovers destroying straight porn as we know it."

– Nobody knows for sure who's behind the Porn Wikileaks website, which is exposing the personal information of porn stars, but those in the industry have a pretty good guess. They tell the Daily Beast and Salon it's likely a former porn actor and director named Donny Long, aka Donald Carlos Seonae. He's infamous for his homophobic and racist screeds, and likes to harp about how gay actors are ruining the business. Long defended the site to both outlets but denied being its creator. The Beast talks to someone via email who does claim to be the creator (but denies being Long) who says its intent is to "to get the gays out of straight porn and illegal gay pimps that have ruined porn" ... and goes on like that for a while. Meantime, porn actors are distraught over having their real names, addresses, and personal photos (including those of family members) made public. They also dread that more is coming, including results of STD tests. "I'm living in fear,' says one female star who complains that her mom has been harassed. Click for more.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.A naked woman is sitting on a bar stool, her legs held open by two real-life customers who casually sip their beers as porn actor James Deen repeatedly slams into her. A couple of men stand next to the action with their iPhones held out at arm's length, but mostly the crowd seems more interested in the glasses of whiskey being passed around than in the moaning girl. They pour the shots down their throats and someone lets a burp rip. It's a Tuesday afternoon but the windows of this bar in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood are taped over with black plastic to make it look like nighttime. They're filming a porno inside. This is a shoot for one of Kink.com's many BDSM fetish websites, Public Disgrace, in which "women are bound, stripped, and punished in public." There are three porn actors and the rest of the 15 or so people at this tiny watering hole -- all male save for two women -- are fans of the site or just people off the street. My friend who tipped me off about the shoot is one of the latter: He happened to be walking by the bar when he noticed that something was being filmed inside and as a video editor he couldn't resist checking it out. After a quick background check and some paperwork he was instructed: You can touch her, slap her, spit on her and finger fuck her, you just can't have sex with her. He instead opted to talk to the crew about nerdy things like lighting techniques and camera equipment. By the time I arrive, there is liquid dripping from the actress's chin, which I assume means that the scene is over. I soon realize that her face isn't glistening from the "money shot" but rather the saliva of all the men at the bar. "She begged each of them to spit on her," my friend explains, his eyes wide. It feels like he's trying to secretly communicate with me through his blinks, Morse code style. The message is a mix of repulsion ("They shocked her with cattle prods," he tells me later) and titillation ("I'd never seen a girl go down on another girl in person"). The scene is building to a climax and a sweaty, red-faced man yells, "Yeah, dig deep!" After some delay, the less experienced performer comes on the actress's face and James, who has been in over 1,000 porn films, immediately follows. This garners praise from an onlooker who shouts: "Nice work!" Afterward, James pulls his T-shirt over his head and slides a cigarette into his mouth. This isn't the first time I've watched this man have sex and, if you've recently browsed online porn, chances are you've seen him before too. At 25, after just seven years in the game, he's one of the most visible men in the industry. I think of him as a cold, brutish performer -- but when he hears that I want to interview him, he comes right up with a warm smile on his face and juts out his hand to introduce himself. As I find when we go back to Kink's headquarters to chat, he is thoughtful, self-effacing and polite. After a quick shower, he meets me in a conference room barefoot, wearing plaid pajamas and sipping from a bottle of apple juice. He looks more like a kid ready for a bedtime story than the man I watched hock a loogie on a bound, naked woman an hour ago. I notice that his eyes, which are usually upstaged by his aggressive performances, are such a delicate, piercing blue that it just might excuse his choice of pseudonym. While periodically lifting his shirt to show me the fresh bug bite swelling on his chest, we talk about sex as art, Viagra, fake orgasms and why people should never try to have sex like a porn star. Can you remember the first porn that you ever saw? Well, the first time I actually saw porn it was in a magazine. I was in kindergarten or first grade and I was walking along this horse trail behind my school and it looked like somebody had thrown out a bunch of porn. So there were a couple porn magazines there and I opened one of them up and there was a picture of a dude banging a chick and I went: "This! This! I wanna do this! This is awesome!" Really, at that young age you thought, "I want to do this when I grow up? Yeah. That's what it was. Did you even really know what you were looking at? Oh yeah. I knew about sex. Well, how do you like it now that you've achieved that childhood dream? Love it. Everything about it. What is it exactly, though? You just love sex and get to have it all the time? I love sex, I get to have sex all the time. Also, I like meeting different people and playing with people's personalities. As lame as it is to say, it's quasi artistic. There is art to what we do, there's a vision, a performance. It's like acting but you get to come. [Laughs] It's very fun playing characters and trying to mesh with people and figure out how you and a stranger can create some sort of intense moment where you're able to express something. I feel like sex is the most real expression. It's self-expression in its truest form. As holier and on-a-pedestal as that sounds, at the end of the day porn is fun because you get to have awesome sex every day with beautiful women and travel around and get paid. The idea of seeking connection and self-expression goes against most people's assumptions about why a guy would get into porn. Right, and it might be me just trying to justify something that I do. But, yeah, I feel like expressing ourselves sexually is something that is really true and honest. As far as just being able to fuck girls, that never entered my mind as a reason to do porn. The guys at the shoot were coming up to you and saying, "Oh man, you have the best job in the world," which is something I'm sure you hear a lot. Is the job really as great as they think? Mhmm, yeah, it is. Every now and then I'll work with a girl who is doing this just for the money and doesn't want to kiss, doesn't want to talk, doesn't want to do anything other than get her paycheck. But it's so rare. For the most part, everybody that is in porn now really genuinely wants to do porn. Nowadays, girls will come out of high school and say, "I'm gonna be the next Jenna Jameson! I'm gonna be a sexual creature of desirability for the world and it's gonna be amazing!" I think it's awesome that's happening. It's very rare that I meet girls who are like, "I just need to get drunk. I'm just doing this because I have to." You have so many men, and women, making assumptions based on your movies about what normal or hot sex looks like. What does it feel like to be influencing the way that people have sex? That's way more responsibility than I want. We do stuff for the camera, we are having sex for the people at home, so not necessarily everything that we do feels good. I once did a magazine interview where they asked me for tips on how to have sex like a porn star and one of my biggest pieces of advice was, don't. The key to sex is that you need to communicate with your partner about what they're into and what they're not into. If you're trying to have sex like a porn star, you're not -- [a guy walks by carrying a giggling, limp girl in a bathrobe up the stairs]. I think somebody made someone come until they couldn't walk. But, yeah, if you're going to try to have sex like a porn star you need to make sure that the person you're having sex with wants to be fucked like a porn star. I really hope I don't have that responsibility of teaching people how to have sex. How has the industry changed over the years? The industry's changed a lot. It used to be more fun. It's still fun, it's just that right now the economy sucks and, you know, piracy. No one is accustomed to paying for any sort of entertainment anymore. I work for burningangel.com which is run by Joanna Angel, and she says that now you have to work twice as hard for half the amount of money, and I think that's absolutely true. When people are complaining about the old days of porn she's like, "Did you really think that the days of showing up for three hours and making insane amounts of money was gonna last? It's a job." People who worked in porn during the days when it was one big party are always talking about the "good old days." I saw the old days, they were great, but it's still great, you just gotta work a little harder. How do you manage to do as many scenes as you do and work for as long as you do? Male performers have to be turned on, there's no faking it, right? Not really. But, I mean, girls are pretty amazing. It's very rare where I find a girl where I'm like: You are not attractive. I'm pretty much attracted to something with every single girl. As far as stamina and stuff goes, maybe it's because I'm young. Today I probably only did 30 minutes of actual work, the rest of the time we were setting up, taking breaks. How common is it for guys to use Viagra? Nowadays it's completely standard for guys to show up with their pills and say "gimme a 30 minute warning for the scene." When I first started, guys were like, "If you can't do it without it, you shouldn't be doing it at all." Me personally, I used Cialis one time because I was doing this scene with a girl and her husband and there was no reason for me to be there. I was like, "She doesn't even know I'm back here!" For me, if the girl's not into it, even in [rough] Kink scenes, that kills it for me. I always make this rape joke where I'm like, "Rape does nothing for me unless you're in on it." We joke around at Kink about how "frape" [fake rape] is awesome, but rape is serious, not cool. What I don't like about a lot of the performers who are pharmaceutically assisted is that a lot of the passion is missing. They kind of have sex like robots. Their scenes will be emotionless and I just don't like emotionless sex. What do you think of the pay disparity between male and female performers? I think I'm overpaid. There are people who buy porn for the guys, they do exist, but the girls get paid what they get paid because at the end of the day most of the audience is buying the movie for the girl. There was talk years ago of starting a union so that guys could get paid as much as the girls and I'm like, dude, if every guy in porn quit tomorrow there would be a whole bunch of new guys lined up out the door with a bottle of Viagra. How common do you think it is for women to fake orgasms in scenes? I wouldn't say that a lot of girls are faking it. I've definitely had to tell girls, "Hey, I want you to at least pretend to have an orgasm so that the viewer can go, 'Oh well that girl's really enjoying herself and having fun.'" What did you think of the frat boy types who showed up to this shoot? They were a little drunk. Those guys were like, "You gotta come hang out with us and party with us." I'm sure they think I can pull any girl in the world. Most of the time when girls hear you do porn it's 50-50: Either they want to bang you so they can be like "I banged a porn star" or they wanna not talk to you because they think you're a creep who's just gonna try to fuck them. How does what you do for a living impact your personal life? I've never really had much of a personal life. I have people in my life that I'm friends with but there's nothing I really like doing so I end up pretty much hanging out at my house and working all day. Before I did porn I was a little gutter punk kid in Pasadena who got drunk in a park with my friends. I'm still friends with those same people. The last time I did something interesting, I hung out with them and we talked in an alley outside of a bar while the world passed by us. What about your romantic life? Porn hasn't really changed my romantic life. People always ask me if it's hard to have a girlfriend in porn and I always tell them that I don't think it's any harder than in real life. I've dated girls in porn and I've dated girls that aren't in porn. The same complications I had before I was in porn are the same complications I have now that I'm in porn. ||||| Porn Wikileaks is attempting to expose the identities—and STDs—of thousands of adult-film performers. Richard Abowitz talks to the vigilante who claims to be behind the effort. Like many of the women who perform in porn for a couple of years, Monica Foster knew that people might find out her real name. She even self-published a book warning others considering getting into the industry about the impossibility of total anonymity. Photo Illustration What she didn't expect was Porn Wikileaks, a website that became infamous on Wednesday after Gawker.com ran a story about the renegade website's attempts to expose the identities of thousands of porn performers. (Gawker also implied that Porn Wikileaks has revealed the performers' STD statuses, which, so far, isn't true.) Revealing porn actors' real names is significant because, for every Jenna Jameson and Sasha Grey working today, there are thousands of other people who have worked in porn who are now teachers, lawyers, doctors, housewives—people with a vested interest in keeping their past concealed by a pseudonym. "They posted pictures of my dad, my mom, my sister," says Foster. "They put pictures of their residence and their actual addresses and private phone numbers. They posted a photo of my apartment." Despite years in adult entertainment, this exposure of her private life was unprecedented and unanticipated, says Foster. She has been driven nearly "psychotic" by it. "My mom is a school teacher and people have emailed and called the elementary school," she says. "No other website has done anything like that unless they were stalkers, and that is what I think about the people who run that website. I have been living in fear." This fear has engulfed much of the porn world, as Porn Wikileaks has threatened to destroy one of the central pillars of the adult-film industry: anonymity. But who is the man behind the website? For all the power Porn Wikileaks wields, most porn stars suspect that the man in charge of it is someone they think very little of. His name, they say, is Donald Carlos Seoane, a.k.a. Donny Long, a washed-up former porn actor and director who, according to a separate website dedicated to exposing him, has had multiple run-ins with the law. Reached by The Daily Beast via email, a person who admits to creating the website—but who denies that he's Donny Long—offered, in a rant characteristic of all his responses, a quixotic and nonsensical motive for the creation of Porn Wikileaks: "To get the gays out of straight porn and illegal gay pimps that have ruined porn and shut it down making condoms mandatory by the government now. The fag loving has got to stop. California is full of gay Mexicans and now they can even marry which is so wrong." As for the potential safety risk of giving out information like the home addresses of porn stars, the creator of Porn Wikileaks offers: "Do you consider it a safety risk to make other people in the real worlds [sic] addresses and information public like Abortion doctors, government workers, or attention whores working at Starbucks with their cleavage hanging out?" Such sensitive information in the hands of a loose cannon is understandably unnerving to those it might affect. These sorts of wildly racist and homophobic rants reflect the tone of Porn Wikileaks itself. For instance, a single generic sentence in the entry for porn star Dana DeArmond reads: "Dana dearmond born Real Name Dana Michelle De Armond is a pornographic whore, and Hooker." All of the porn stars on Porn Wikileaks are referred to as whores and Hookers. It's worth noting that Donny Long's entry on Porn Wikileaks is more self-serving: "Donny Long is the last hetero man willing to stand up [sic] the Gay Mafia destroying porn. He is retired in the porn business in California because he sold his business but still tells the truth about the fag crossovers destroying straight porn as we know it."

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Story highlights Trump's personal attorney has hired Stephen Ryan, a partner at McDermott, Will and Emery Cohen was a prominent TV surrogate for Trump during his presidential campaign Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump's longtime attorney and adviser Michael Cohen has hired a lawyer to represent him in the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Cohen told CNN on Friday. Cohen, who serves as Trump's personal attorney, hired Stephen Ryan, a partner at the DC-based law firm McDermott, Will and Emery, to handle inquiries related to the investigations into Russian meddling in the election. News of the hire comes two weeks after Cohen was subpoenaed by the House intelligence committee as part of the committee's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Michael Cohen New Day 4/11 Cohen told CNN earlier this week that he is "committed to complying with the subpoena." He has also agreed to testify before the committee September 5. He declined to say whether he is fielding additional investigative inquiries, directing all questions on the matter to his attorney. Ryan did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Cohen served as executive vice president and special counsel at the Trump Organization during Trump's presidential campaign and did not hold a formal title in the campaign. But he was a prominent TV surrogate for Trump during the campaign and led the National Diversity Coalition in support of it. JUST WATCHED Flynn, Cohen issued subpoenas in Russia probe Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Flynn, Cohen issued subpoenas in Russia probe 02:32 Read More ||||| Attorney Stephen Ryan in 2007 at a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing in Washington. (Linda Davidson/The Washington Post) MIAMI — Michael Cohen, who for years has served as President Trump’s personal attorney, has hired a lawyer of his own to help him navigate the expanding Russia investigation. Cohen confirmed Friday to The Washington Post that he has retained Stephen M. Ryan, a Washington-based lawyer from the law firm McDermott, Will & Emery who has experience prosecuting criminal cases as an assistant U.S. attorney. Cohen’s hiring of Ryan as his personal lawyer was first reported by Katy Tur of NBC News. Cohen’s decision is the latest indication that the Russia probe overseen by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is intensifying and could end up focusing on a number of Trump associates, both inside and outside the White House. [Trump lashes out at Russia probe; Pence hires a lawyer] Michael Caputo, a New York-based political operative and radio commentator who served as a senior communications adviser on Trump's campaign, also has hired a lawyer of his own to navigate the Russia probe. Caputo has retained Dennis C. Vacco, a former New York state attorney general and a partner at the law firm Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman. His hiring also was first reported by NBC's Tur. On Thursday, Vice President Pence’s office announced that the vice president had hired outside legal counsel, Richard Cullen, to assist him with inquiries from the Mueller investigation as well as congressional committee probes. During a Friday morning event here in Miami, The Post asked Pence whether he had any comment about hiring his own lawyer. The vice president said only: “It’s very routine. Very routine.” It is not entirely clear what role Cohen or Caputo might have in the Russia investigation. Cohen, who worked as a lawyer for the Trump Organization for a decade, made an appearance in the dossier compiled by a former British spy. The dossier, which was published online in January by BuzzFeed, alleged that he had traveled to Prague to meet with Russians and coordinate their hacking efforts. Trump has rejected the dossier as “fake news,” and Cohen has vigorously denied its allegations about him, noting he was in California at the time it alleged he had visited Prague. Congressional investigators asked President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to turn over documents related to potential contacts with Russia and testify in front of Congress — but on May 30, Cohen said he'd refused to do so. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) In January, Cohen was involved in a separate incident that could potentially have drawn the attention of investigators. He has confirmed that he met with a Ukrainian lawmaker at a New York hotel at the urging of a former Trump business associate named Felix Sater. At the meeting, Sater gave Cohen a peace plan that the lawmaker had drawn up for his country that would have paved the way for the lifting of sanctions imposed on Russia after its 2014 military incursion in Ukraine. The New York Times reported that Cohen said he took the plan and left it in the White House office of then national security adviser Michael Flynn, days before Flynn resigned over his contacts with Russia's ambassador. Cohen told the Post that he had merely recommended Flynn as the proper recipient for the plan but that he had taken the written proposal home and thrown it away. [Amid Russia scrutiny, Trump associates received informal Ukraine peace proposal] Caputo, who briefly worked for the campaign, was an ally to former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. He lived in Moscow for several years in the 1990s, and briefly held a contract in 2000 with the Russian conglomerate Gazprom Media to improve Russian President Vladimir Putin's image in the United States.

– In a sign that Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign is ramping up, President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has hired his own lawyer. NBC's Katy Tur broke the news on Twitter. CNN reports Cohen was subpoenaed by the House intelligence committee two weeks ago and has agreed to testify by Sept. 5. It's unclear exactly why Mueller's investigation is interested in Cohen, though he was mentioned in the Trump dossier compiled by a former British spy, according to the Washington Post. The dossier claimed Cohen traveled to Prague to meet with Russians to coordinate hacking efforts. Cohen has denied it, and Trump called the dossier "fake news." But Cohen, a lawyer for the Trump Organization for a decade, did meet with a Ukrainian lawmaker in January in New York and received a plan from a former Trump associate that could have led to the lifting of Russian sanctions. Cohen says he threw the plan away, but it's been reported he gave it to Michael Flynn. Cohen isn't the only one lawyering up. It was reported Thursday that Vice President Pence hired outside legal counsel, and now a Trump campaign senior communications adviser has also hired a lawyer. A source "familiar with the situation" says the FBI has contacted Michael Caputo in connection with the Russia investigation. Again, it's unclear why the FBI is interested in Caputo, though he was a known ally to Paul Manafort, lived in Moscow for a time, and was briefly hired to improve Vladimir Putin's image in the US.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Story highlights Trump's personal attorney has hired Stephen Ryan, a partner at McDermott, Will and Emery Cohen was a prominent TV surrogate for Trump during his presidential campaign Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump's longtime attorney and adviser Michael Cohen has hired a lawyer to represent him in the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Cohen told CNN on Friday. Cohen, who serves as Trump's personal attorney, hired Stephen Ryan, a partner at the DC-based law firm McDermott, Will and Emery, to handle inquiries related to the investigations into Russian meddling in the election. News of the hire comes two weeks after Cohen was subpoenaed by the House intelligence committee as part of the committee's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Michael Cohen New Day 4/11 Cohen told CNN earlier this week that he is "committed to complying with the subpoena." He has also agreed to testify before the committee September 5. He declined to say whether he is fielding additional investigative inquiries, directing all questions on the matter to his attorney. Ryan did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Cohen served as executive vice president and special counsel at the Trump Organization during Trump's presidential campaign and did not hold a formal title in the campaign. But he was a prominent TV surrogate for Trump during the campaign and led the National Diversity Coalition in support of it. JUST WATCHED Flynn, Cohen issued subpoenas in Russia probe Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Flynn, Cohen issued subpoenas in Russia probe 02:32 Read More ||||| Attorney Stephen Ryan in 2007 at a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing in Washington. (Linda Davidson/The Washington Post) MIAMI — Michael Cohen, who for years has served as President Trump’s personal attorney, has hired a lawyer of his own to help him navigate the expanding Russia investigation. Cohen confirmed Friday to The Washington Post that he has retained Stephen M. Ryan, a Washington-based lawyer from the law firm McDermott, Will & Emery who has experience prosecuting criminal cases as an assistant U.S. attorney. Cohen’s hiring of Ryan as his personal lawyer was first reported by Katy Tur of NBC News. Cohen’s decision is the latest indication that the Russia probe overseen by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is intensifying and could end up focusing on a number of Trump associates, both inside and outside the White House. [Trump lashes out at Russia probe; Pence hires a lawyer] Michael Caputo, a New York-based political operative and radio commentator who served as a senior communications adviser on Trump's campaign, also has hired a lawyer of his own to navigate the Russia probe. Caputo has retained Dennis C. Vacco, a former New York state attorney general and a partner at the law firm Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman. His hiring also was first reported by NBC's Tur. On Thursday, Vice President Pence’s office announced that the vice president had hired outside legal counsel, Richard Cullen, to assist him with inquiries from the Mueller investigation as well as congressional committee probes. During a Friday morning event here in Miami, The Post asked Pence whether he had any comment about hiring his own lawyer. The vice president said only: “It’s very routine. Very routine.” It is not entirely clear what role Cohen or Caputo might have in the Russia investigation. Cohen, who worked as a lawyer for the Trump Organization for a decade, made an appearance in the dossier compiled by a former British spy. The dossier, which was published online in January by BuzzFeed, alleged that he had traveled to Prague to meet with Russians and coordinate their hacking efforts. Trump has rejected the dossier as “fake news,” and Cohen has vigorously denied its allegations about him, noting he was in California at the time it alleged he had visited Prague. Congressional investigators asked President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to turn over documents related to potential contacts with Russia and testify in front of Congress — but on May 30, Cohen said he'd refused to do so. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) In January, Cohen was involved in a separate incident that could potentially have drawn the attention of investigators. He has confirmed that he met with a Ukrainian lawmaker at a New York hotel at the urging of a former Trump business associate named Felix Sater. At the meeting, Sater gave Cohen a peace plan that the lawmaker had drawn up for his country that would have paved the way for the lifting of sanctions imposed on Russia after its 2014 military incursion in Ukraine. The New York Times reported that Cohen said he took the plan and left it in the White House office of then national security adviser Michael Flynn, days before Flynn resigned over his contacts with Russia's ambassador. Cohen told the Post that he had merely recommended Flynn as the proper recipient for the plan but that he had taken the written proposal home and thrown it away. [Amid Russia scrutiny, Trump associates received informal Ukraine peace proposal] Caputo, who briefly worked for the campaign, was an ally to former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. He lived in Moscow for several years in the 1990s, and briefly held a contract in 2000 with the Russian conglomerate Gazprom Media to improve Russian President Vladimir Putin's image in the United States.

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Clark Griswold can forget about driving all the way to Walley World. If "National Lampoon's Vacation" had been shot today, he just couldn't have taken the time off work. That's according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which show that Americans are taking fewer, shorter vacations. Workers pay a career penalty for vacation Nine million Americans took a week off in July 1976, the peak month each year for summer travel. Yet in July 2014, just seven million did. Keeping in mind that 60 million more Americans have jobs today than in 1976, that adds up to a huge decline in the share of workers taking vacations. Some rough calculations show, in fact, that about 80 percent of workers once took an annual weeklong vacation — and now, just 56 percent do. It's not as if Americans are cutting back on an excessive vacation habit, either. The United States is the only developed economy that doesn't guarantee its workers a paid vacation. Most of its peer nations promise about 20 days off a year, according to a report by Rebecca Ray, Milla Sanes, and John Schmitt of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. About a quarter of the American workforce doesn't get paid vacation, according to data they cite from the National Compensation Survey. The no-vacationers usually work part-time or for small employers in low-wage jobs. The average American gets 14 days off from work, according to an annual survey by the travel company Expedia, but actually uses only 10 of those days each year. It's an open question why Americans don't use it all. They say their bosses are supportive and that scheduling got in the way. Others say they're are just stockpiling it for some future trip —but wouldn't someone, then, eventually take that trip? One possibility is that vacation suffers from a "Prisoner's Dilemma." It's dangerous to be "that guy" who uses all the time off they get when everyone else is on the job, so workers limit their vacations. On balance, The Wall Street Journal says, the evidence does support that theory. Workers pay a career penalty for vacation. If Americans could establish a pro-vacation norm, those pressures would lessen. That seems to be happening in some workplaces, where bosses require workers to use their time off. That might be, for the most part, just a management fad. Yet it is surprisingly normal in one industry: finance. That's not out of kindness, however. Regulators have long recommended banks require vacations as a way of making it harder to conceal embezzlement. It's not clear what's driving the trend towards fewer, shorter vacations. Tourism tends to be very cyclical, but the decline of the great American vacation seems to have been a gradual affair. There aren't any shortage of possible explanations: lessened job security, stagnant median incomes, rising part-time employment, and an increasing share of households with more than one member employed could all be parts of the story. There's no obvious sign that any of this has hurt the travel industry, though. Hotel occupancy is back to pre-recession highs, and employment in the leisure and hospitality industry has been one of the bright spots of the recovery. It seems like they're carrying on, Griswolds or not. * Here's how the math works. The Current Population Survey surveys workers once a month about a specific "reference week." If an employed person says they were absent that week — that is, they worked zero hours — and the reason why is "vacation," they're counted here. There's no reason to think that workers are more likely to take off during the survey's reference week than any other, so we can divide the number of vacation absences by the number of workers, and raise that to the fourth power to get the percentage of workers who took a weeklong vacation in one month. Now we multiply the percentage of Americans who didn't across the last twelve months, since vacation is (obviously) seasonal. That gives you the share who haven't taken a vacation in the last year. The calculations assume that nobody takes more than one weeklong vacation each year. ||||| My wife and I returned Friday from two weeks of vacation in China, hanging out with one of our sons (posted there with the Peace Corps) and his girlfriend. We were mostly unplugged, wandered miles every day, traipsed the Great Wall and watched pandas, among other exotic (to us) exploits. And that’s what vacations are for – time away from the desk to, as an old friend once described it, get a chance to rub our fur in a different direction for a while. Who knew we were so rare? The folks at Vox report, based on recent federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data, that fewer Americans are taking weeklong vacations than in previous decades, for a range of reasons including fear of career repercussions to jobs that don’t offer accrued vacation days. According to Vox: “Nine million Americans took a week off in July 1976, the peak month each year for summer travel. Yet in July 2014, just seven million did. Keeping in mind that 60 million more Americans have jobs today than in 1976, that adds up to a huge decline in the share of workers taking vacations. “Some rough calculations show, in fact, that about 80 percent of workers once took an annual weeklong vacation — and now, just 56 percent do.” American workers receive an average of 14 vacation days a year, according to annual studies by Expedia. The average for the industrialized world is 20 days, led by generous time-off policies in many European countries. Yet Americans last year only used, on average, 10 of their 14 vacation. Many opted to leave the days in the bank, planning to use them later on, or hoping to cash them in at retirement. That's what vacations are for - time away from the desk to, as an old friend once described it, get a chance to rub our fur in a different direction for a while. But others cite difficulty in scheduling the time away (conflicts with fellow workers’ time off and synchronizing vacation time with working family members), lack of money to pay for trips, and job insecurity. When it comes time for layoffs, you don’t want to be the person deemed most expendable. Glassdoor conducted its own survey and found some different results: It says Americans took only about half of their allotted vacation time, though the reasons were similar to Expedia’s findings. When we’re on vacation, most of us still stay connected to work through email or other methods (guilty of that myself). Glassdoor found that those who reported working while on vacation cited the sense that no one could do their work while they were away (33%) and fear of falling behind (28%), among other reasons – including fear of getting fired. And that’s not healthy. When we work all the time and skip vacations, we often become burned out, resulting in reduced productivity and increased stress that can affect our physical health and personal relationships. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go check the office vacation calendar for next year. It’s never too early to plan. Follow Scott Martelle on Twitter @smartelle. ||||| Shutterstock.com Many Americans who are skittish about taking their vacation think they are overworked. But Chinese people appear to be even less willing to take time off. China — which is hosting the World Leisure Games in Qingdao this weekend — has a work culture even less vacation-friendly than the U.S. Over 72% of Chinese workers have not taken a paid vacation in the last three years, according to a report by Xinhua, the state news agency, cited by the New York Times. Less than 14% of Chinese workers took a paid vacation in the last three years. Workers in China who have been employed continuously for one year are entitled to paid annual leave, according to the China Law Blog. The situation is better — if far from ideal — in the U.S. Employees only use 51% of their eligible paid vacation time and paid time off, according to another recent survey of 2,300 workers who receive paid vacation. The survey was carried out by research firm Harris Interactive for the careers website Glassdoor. What’s more, 61% of Americans work while they’re on vacation, despite complaints from family members; one-in-four report being contacted by a colleague about a work-related matter while taking time off, while one-in-five have been contacted by their boss. Workers appear to be getting more skittish when it comes to asking for time off. And employers too are clamping down: Summer Fridays are dead in the water, according to a 2015 survey of 15,723 Americans surveyed by Google Consumer Surveys in May 2015 for vacation site Priceline.com. Some 40% of Americans will leave vacation time on the table, a third study found, citing a post-recession “work martyr complex” among worker who feel tied to their desk. The study by GfK Public Affairs and Corporate Communications and the U.S. Travel Association — which obviously has a vested interest in workers using up all their paid vacation time — found that one-third of the 1,000-plus respondents say they cannot afford to take their time, 40% fear returning to a mountain of work and 35% believe no one else can do their work. Also see: The Moneyologist: How many people should go on vacation together? This complex is reinforced by company culture and lack of encouragement from management to take time off, the GfK survey found. Even though senior business leaders overwhelmingly recognize the importance of using time off, two-thirds of American employees said their company says nothing about the need to take vacation days or discourages using them. In fact, one-third of senior business leaders state they never or rarely talk with employees about the benefits of taking time off. Most American workers receive around 10 paid work days a year and six federal holidays, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a nonprofit left-of-center think tank in Washington, D.C. So based on Bureau of Labor Statistics’ current average weekly earnings, they’re leaving more than $1,300 on the table by only taking half their paid time off. This amounts to more than $52 billion, according to economic researcher Oxford Economics, “All Work, No Pay: The Impact of Forfeited Time Off” — commissioned by the U.S. Travel Association and sponsored by American Express. Workers in the European Union are legally guaranteed at least 20 paid vacation days a year — and 25 or even 30 days a year in some European countries. Chinese workers who have been employed between one and 10 years are entitled to five days, and entitled to two weeks between 10 and 20 years’ service, the China Law Blog notes. People not used to taking time off may not understand that paid vacation is actually built into their compensation package. Under the The Fair Labor Standards Act, the U.S. is also one of the few developed countries that does not require employers to provide paid time off (see chart, below). Still, 91% of full-time U.S. workers receive paid vacation, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, but only 49% of low-wage workers — those in the bottom fourth of earners — get paid vacation. Why don’t they take what’s due? “Fear,” says Scott Dobroski, career trends analyst at Glassdoor. “That’s the underscoring theme.” Some 28% of workers told Glassdoor they fear getting behind while they’re sitting on a beach, another 17% actually say they fear losing their job, 19% don’t take all of their days in the hopes that it will give them an edge for a promotion, while 13% are competitive and wanting to outperform colleagues. As workers shoulder a heavier workload post-recession, he says others are afraid of not meeting goals. And that fear may not be misplaced, experts say. Citing cultural differences between Americans and Europeans is a “significant misreading” of the issue, says John Schmitt, senior economist at CEPR. “I don’t think that Americans love their families less than German or French workers who take all their vacation time,” he says. “Americans have less job security than European workers. That’s why they eat lunch at their desk and work late. And if you’re on vacation you are likely to miss important meetings.” Most U.S. companies have an “employment-at-will” doctrine, meaning they can be fired for any reason or no reason at all, unless they have a written contract, they’re in a labor union that has other rules relating to conditions of employment or they’re fired because of some kind of discrimination. “We have almost no job security in the U.S., no legal requirement for severance pay and, with very few exceptions, can be laid off without notice,” Schmitt says. (Of course, most employees can also leave without notice, although two weeks’ notice is standard when resigning.) “The inability to disconnect has led to a blurring of personal versus work life,” says Piera Palazzolo, senior vice president for marketing at Dale Carnegie Training. Since people take their work with them wherever they go, she says, they may simply decide to stay put. But what’s bad for the employee, she adds, is also bad for the employer. “Taking vacation is important for creativity and energy levels,” Palazzolo says. “They may be going through the motions at work, but not taking time off can lead to burnout.” In fact, more than half of American workers say just that — that they are burned out and overworked. This story has been updated. Other articles by Quentin Fottrell: This is the best time to quit your job in years How salary negotiations can earn you $1 million h 25% of firms give bonuses for incompetence More from MarketWatch

– The US is the only developed country in the world that doesn't require its workers to have access to paid vacation. While those in the European Union are guaranteed at least 20 paid vacation days a year (and 25 or even 30 days in some countries), most Americans get about 10 paid days a year and use only half, according to a new survey reported in MarketWatch. And of those actually on vacation, 61% confess to working while vacationing, with one in four saying they were contacted by a colleague and one in five saying they were contacted by a boss. Things were apparently better in 1976 when 9 million Americans took a week of vacation in July, reports Vox. This past July, even with 60 million more Americans employed than in 1976, only 7 million took a week off. Some calculations put just 56% of workers taking a weeklong vacation in a given year, a figure that used to be as high as 80%. Top reasons for people taking less vacation time are less accrual of days and fear of hurting one's career or place at work. "That's not healthy," writes Scott Martelle in the LA Times. (Check out how many Americans don't get any paid vacation at all.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Clark Griswold can forget about driving all the way to Walley World. If "National Lampoon's Vacation" had been shot today, he just couldn't have taken the time off work. That's according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which show that Americans are taking fewer, shorter vacations. Workers pay a career penalty for vacation Nine million Americans took a week off in July 1976, the peak month each year for summer travel. Yet in July 2014, just seven million did. Keeping in mind that 60 million more Americans have jobs today than in 1976, that adds up to a huge decline in the share of workers taking vacations. Some rough calculations show, in fact, that about 80 percent of workers once took an annual weeklong vacation — and now, just 56 percent do. It's not as if Americans are cutting back on an excessive vacation habit, either. The United States is the only developed economy that doesn't guarantee its workers a paid vacation. Most of its peer nations promise about 20 days off a year, according to a report by Rebecca Ray, Milla Sanes, and John Schmitt of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. About a quarter of the American workforce doesn't get paid vacation, according to data they cite from the National Compensation Survey. The no-vacationers usually work part-time or for small employers in low-wage jobs. The average American gets 14 days off from work, according to an annual survey by the travel company Expedia, but actually uses only 10 of those days each year. It's an open question why Americans don't use it all. They say their bosses are supportive and that scheduling got in the way. Others say they're are just stockpiling it for some future trip —but wouldn't someone, then, eventually take that trip? One possibility is that vacation suffers from a "Prisoner's Dilemma." It's dangerous to be "that guy" who uses all the time off they get when everyone else is on the job, so workers limit their vacations. On balance, The Wall Street Journal says, the evidence does support that theory. Workers pay a career penalty for vacation. If Americans could establish a pro-vacation norm, those pressures would lessen. That seems to be happening in some workplaces, where bosses require workers to use their time off. That might be, for the most part, just a management fad. Yet it is surprisingly normal in one industry: finance. That's not out of kindness, however. Regulators have long recommended banks require vacations as a way of making it harder to conceal embezzlement. It's not clear what's driving the trend towards fewer, shorter vacations. Tourism tends to be very cyclical, but the decline of the great American vacation seems to have been a gradual affair. There aren't any shortage of possible explanations: lessened job security, stagnant median incomes, rising part-time employment, and an increasing share of households with more than one member employed could all be parts of the story. There's no obvious sign that any of this has hurt the travel industry, though. Hotel occupancy is back to pre-recession highs, and employment in the leisure and hospitality industry has been one of the bright spots of the recovery. It seems like they're carrying on, Griswolds or not. * Here's how the math works. The Current Population Survey surveys workers once a month about a specific "reference week." If an employed person says they were absent that week — that is, they worked zero hours — and the reason why is "vacation," they're counted here. There's no reason to think that workers are more likely to take off during the survey's reference week than any other, so we can divide the number of vacation absences by the number of workers, and raise that to the fourth power to get the percentage of workers who took a weeklong vacation in one month. Now we multiply the percentage of Americans who didn't across the last twelve months, since vacation is (obviously) seasonal. That gives you the share who haven't taken a vacation in the last year. The calculations assume that nobody takes more than one weeklong vacation each year. ||||| My wife and I returned Friday from two weeks of vacation in China, hanging out with one of our sons (posted there with the Peace Corps) and his girlfriend. We were mostly unplugged, wandered miles every day, traipsed the Great Wall and watched pandas, among other exotic (to us) exploits. And that’s what vacations are for – time away from the desk to, as an old friend once described it, get a chance to rub our fur in a different direction for a while. Who knew we were so rare? The folks at Vox report, based on recent federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data, that fewer Americans are taking weeklong vacations than in previous decades, for a range of reasons including fear of career repercussions to jobs that don’t offer accrued vacation days. According to Vox: “Nine million Americans took a week off in July 1976, the peak month each year for summer travel. Yet in July 2014, just seven million did. Keeping in mind that 60 million more Americans have jobs today than in 1976, that adds up to a huge decline in the share of workers taking vacations. “Some rough calculations show, in fact, that about 80 percent of workers once took an annual weeklong vacation — and now, just 56 percent do.” American workers receive an average of 14 vacation days a year, according to annual studies by Expedia. The average for the industrialized world is 20 days, led by generous time-off policies in many European countries. Yet Americans last year only used, on average, 10 of their 14 vacation. Many opted to leave the days in the bank, planning to use them later on, or hoping to cash them in at retirement. That's what vacations are for - time away from the desk to, as an old friend once described it, get a chance to rub our fur in a different direction for a while. But others cite difficulty in scheduling the time away (conflicts with fellow workers’ time off and synchronizing vacation time with working family members), lack of money to pay for trips, and job insecurity. When it comes time for layoffs, you don’t want to be the person deemed most expendable. Glassdoor conducted its own survey and found some different results: It says Americans took only about half of their allotted vacation time, though the reasons were similar to Expedia’s findings. When we’re on vacation, most of us still stay connected to work through email or other methods (guilty of that myself). Glassdoor found that those who reported working while on vacation cited the sense that no one could do their work while they were away (33%) and fear of falling behind (28%), among other reasons – including fear of getting fired. And that’s not healthy. When we work all the time and skip vacations, we often become burned out, resulting in reduced productivity and increased stress that can affect our physical health and personal relationships. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go check the office vacation calendar for next year. It’s never too early to plan. Follow Scott Martelle on Twitter @smartelle. ||||| Shutterstock.com Many Americans who are skittish about taking their vacation think they are overworked. But Chinese people appear to be even less willing to take time off. China — which is hosting the World Leisure Games in Qingdao this weekend — has a work culture even less vacation-friendly than the U.S. Over 72% of Chinese workers have not taken a paid vacation in the last three years, according to a report by Xinhua, the state news agency, cited by the New York Times. Less than 14% of Chinese workers took a paid vacation in the last three years. Workers in China who have been employed continuously for one year are entitled to paid annual leave, according to the China Law Blog. The situation is better — if far from ideal — in the U.S. Employees only use 51% of their eligible paid vacation time and paid time off, according to another recent survey of 2,300 workers who receive paid vacation. The survey was carried out by research firm Harris Interactive for the careers website Glassdoor. What’s more, 61% of Americans work while they’re on vacation, despite complaints from family members; one-in-four report being contacted by a colleague about a work-related matter while taking time off, while one-in-five have been contacted by their boss. Workers appear to be getting more skittish when it comes to asking for time off. And employers too are clamping down: Summer Fridays are dead in the water, according to a 2015 survey of 15,723 Americans surveyed by Google Consumer Surveys in May 2015 for vacation site Priceline.com. Some 40% of Americans will leave vacation time on the table, a third study found, citing a post-recession “work martyr complex” among worker who feel tied to their desk. The study by GfK Public Affairs and Corporate Communications and the U.S. Travel Association — which obviously has a vested interest in workers using up all their paid vacation time — found that one-third of the 1,000-plus respondents say they cannot afford to take their time, 40% fear returning to a mountain of work and 35% believe no one else can do their work. Also see: The Moneyologist: How many people should go on vacation together? This complex is reinforced by company culture and lack of encouragement from management to take time off, the GfK survey found. Even though senior business leaders overwhelmingly recognize the importance of using time off, two-thirds of American employees said their company says nothing about the need to take vacation days or discourages using them. In fact, one-third of senior business leaders state they never or rarely talk with employees about the benefits of taking time off. Most American workers receive around 10 paid work days a year and six federal holidays, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a nonprofit left-of-center think tank in Washington, D.C. So based on Bureau of Labor Statistics’ current average weekly earnings, they’re leaving more than $1,300 on the table by only taking half their paid time off. This amounts to more than $52 billion, according to economic researcher Oxford Economics, “All Work, No Pay: The Impact of Forfeited Time Off” — commissioned by the U.S. Travel Association and sponsored by American Express. Workers in the European Union are legally guaranteed at least 20 paid vacation days a year — and 25 or even 30 days a year in some European countries. Chinese workers who have been employed between one and 10 years are entitled to five days, and entitled to two weeks between 10 and 20 years’ service, the China Law Blog notes. People not used to taking time off may not understand that paid vacation is actually built into their compensation package. Under the The Fair Labor Standards Act, the U.S. is also one of the few developed countries that does not require employers to provide paid time off (see chart, below). Still, 91% of full-time U.S. workers receive paid vacation, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, but only 49% of low-wage workers — those in the bottom fourth of earners — get paid vacation. Why don’t they take what’s due? “Fear,” says Scott Dobroski, career trends analyst at Glassdoor. “That’s the underscoring theme.” Some 28% of workers told Glassdoor they fear getting behind while they’re sitting on a beach, another 17% actually say they fear losing their job, 19% don’t take all of their days in the hopes that it will give them an edge for a promotion, while 13% are competitive and wanting to outperform colleagues. As workers shoulder a heavier workload post-recession, he says others are afraid of not meeting goals. And that fear may not be misplaced, experts say. Citing cultural differences between Americans and Europeans is a “significant misreading” of the issue, says John Schmitt, senior economist at CEPR. “I don’t think that Americans love their families less than German or French workers who take all their vacation time,” he says. “Americans have less job security than European workers. That’s why they eat lunch at their desk and work late. And if you’re on vacation you are likely to miss important meetings.” Most U.S. companies have an “employment-at-will” doctrine, meaning they can be fired for any reason or no reason at all, unless they have a written contract, they’re in a labor union that has other rules relating to conditions of employment or they’re fired because of some kind of discrimination. “We have almost no job security in the U.S., no legal requirement for severance pay and, with very few exceptions, can be laid off without notice,” Schmitt says. (Of course, most employees can also leave without notice, although two weeks’ notice is standard when resigning.) “The inability to disconnect has led to a blurring of personal versus work life,” says Piera Palazzolo, senior vice president for marketing at Dale Carnegie Training. Since people take their work with them wherever they go, she says, they may simply decide to stay put. But what’s bad for the employee, she adds, is also bad for the employer. “Taking vacation is important for creativity and energy levels,” Palazzolo says. “They may be going through the motions at work, but not taking time off can lead to burnout.” In fact, more than half of American workers say just that — that they are burned out and overworked. This story has been updated. Other articles by Quentin Fottrell: This is the best time to quit your job in years How salary negotiations can earn you $1 million h 25% of firms give bonuses for incompetence More from MarketWatch

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SAN RAMON (KPIX 5) — A three-year-old girl has died after developing complications during a dental procedure in San Ramon over the weekend. Firefighters and paramedics were called to the Dentalbliss office in San Ramon when the girl, identified as Marvelena Rady, did not wake up from the unidentfied procedure. “We received a medical call, my officers, of a three-year-old female juvenile that was going through a dental procedure and had some complications,” . When we arrived here San Ramon Fire was already on scene performing CPR.” Marvelena was transported by ambulance to San Ramon Valley Regional Center where she was pronounced dead. The coroner’s office says the cause of her death is still under investigation. Marvelena family tells me they are devastated – They are still trying to figure out what happened and at the same time making funeral arrangements for their little girl — Her father posted this message on Facebook “God have mercy on you my daughter.” The girl’s dentist, Dr. Cheri Dang at Dentalbliss said she could not comment about what happened, and added her attorney would get in touch with me. We have not heard from her since. ||||| Homam Rady is on Facebook. To connect with Homam, sign up for Facebook today. ||||| 3-year-old girl dies after dental procedure in San Ramon Photo: Steven G. De Polo, Getty Image Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 File photo of emergency room sign. Red Emergency Sign at Hospital File photo of emergency room sign. Red Emergency Sign at Hospital Photo: Steven G. De Polo, Getty Image Image 2 of 3 111 Deerwood Rd, San Ramon 111 Deerwood Rd, San Ramon Photo: Google Maps Image 3 of 3 111 Deerwood Rd, San Ramon 111 Deerwood Rd, San Ramon Photo: Google Maps 3-year-old girl dies after dental procedure in San Ramon 1 / 3 Back to Gallery A 3-year-old girl died over the weekend after undergoing a dental procedure at a San Ramon medical office, officials said. The girl, identified Tuesday as Marvelena Rady of Brentwood by the Contra Costa County coroner’s office, died Saturday after complications from a morning procedure at the Dentalbliss dental office. Emergency personnel went to the office about 10 a.m. Saturday when someone there called 911 saying the girl had stopped breathing after treatment, said Battalion Chief Dan McNamara, a spokesman for San Ramon Valley Fire. A crew immediately responded to the office at 111 Deerwood Road and found the child not breathing. She was rushed to San Ramon Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, McNamara said. Officials have not said whether Marvelena was under anesthesia, what procedure she was receiving or her exact cause of death. San Ramon police officials said there was no criminal investigation into the incident. San Ramon Valley Fire officials said they could not release details as to what caused Marvelena to stop breathing. Wendy Hayward, a spokeswoman for the San Ramon Regional Medical Center, declined to comment on the incident, citing patient privacy laws. Dr. Cheri Dang, a general practice dentist with a general anesthesia permit, is listed in business records as the owner of the dental office. Dang did not return calls for comment. Officials from the Dental Board of California said they are investigating the incident. Kevin Schultz is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: kschultz@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @kevinedschultz ||||| Related Stories San Ramon dentist allowed to stay in business following 3-year-old's death SAN RAMON -- A 3-year-old girl who died after complications during a dental procedure over the weekend has been identified by the Contra Costa County coroner's bureau. Marvelena Rady, of Brentwood, died Saturday in San Ramon, a Contra Costa Sheriff's deputy confirmed Tuesday morning. No other information was immediately available on an exact cause of death. The child's father, Homam Rady, posted news reports on his Facebook page after the procedure about his child being rushed to a hospital Saturday. CBS affiliate KPIX-TV reported that firefighters and paramedics were called to the Dentalbliss Dental office in San Ramon when the girl did not wake up from the unidentified procedure. Dan McNamara, the battalion chief with San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District, confirmed Tuesday they received a call around 10 a.m. Saturday from the 100 block of Deerwood Road and transported a patient to San Ramon Regional Medical Center. The doctor listed for the Dentalbliss Dental office at 111 Deerwood Road, Suite 170, is Cheri Amanda Dang, according to the state licensing board. She has held a dentist license since June 2009 and also has a general anesthesia permit. Dang did not return phone calls for comment. The girl was transported by ambulance to the medical center where she was pronounced dead, the station reported. The coroner's office said the cause of death is still under investigation. Advertisement Reached Monday night through Facebook, Rady declined to be interviewed, saying he and his family needed time to grieve. He posted on Facebook, "God have mercy on you my daughter," and others posted messages of support for him and his family. San Ramon Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Wendy Haworth declined to comment Tuesday morning, saying patient privacy laws prevented disclosure of any information. While it's unknown what happened to Marvelena, a bill authored by Assemblyman Tony Thurmond, D-Richmond, would put in place protections for children undergoing dental procedures. Assembly Bill 2235, known as Caleb's Law, would require the Dental Board of California to study whether current law sufficiently protects children who get anesthesia during dental procedures. The legislation was inspired by Caleb Sears, a healthy 6-year-old Albany boy who died last year during an elective dental procedure while under anesthesia, which his oral surgeon was allowed to administer without help from any other medical professionals. The measure would also require dentists to report patient deaths on forms approved by the board that includes specific information about the nature of the death. When lawmakers return to work in August, the bill must be heard by the Senate Appropriations Committee and on the Senate floor before it goes back to the Assembly for consideration. Staff writers Jessica Calefati, Katrina Cameron and Angela Ruggiero and wire reports contributed to this story. Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180 or follow him at Twitter.com/allaboutgeorge.

– A California family is "devastated" after a 3-year-old girl died Saturday following a dental procedure in San Ramon, CBS SF Bay Area reports. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, staff at Dentalbliss called 911 when they were unable to get Marvelena Rady to wake up following a procedure. She wasn't breathing when emergency responders arrived and was pronounced dead at the hospital. Officials have said Marvelena died of complications from the dental procedure but haven't said what the procedure was, whether she was under anesthesia, or what the cause of death is. No criminal investigation is being undertaken. Dentalbliss' dentist is listed as Dr. Cheri Dang, who's been licensed since 2009, the Mercury News reports. "God have mercy on you my daughter," Marvelena's father posted on Facebook.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.SAN RAMON (KPIX 5) — A three-year-old girl has died after developing complications during a dental procedure in San Ramon over the weekend. Firefighters and paramedics were called to the Dentalbliss office in San Ramon when the girl, identified as Marvelena Rady, did not wake up from the unidentfied procedure. “We received a medical call, my officers, of a three-year-old female juvenile that was going through a dental procedure and had some complications,” . When we arrived here San Ramon Fire was already on scene performing CPR.” Marvelena was transported by ambulance to San Ramon Valley Regional Center where she was pronounced dead. The coroner’s office says the cause of her death is still under investigation. Marvelena family tells me they are devastated – They are still trying to figure out what happened and at the same time making funeral arrangements for their little girl — Her father posted this message on Facebook “God have mercy on you my daughter.” The girl’s dentist, Dr. Cheri Dang at Dentalbliss said she could not comment about what happened, and added her attorney would get in touch with me. We have not heard from her since. ||||| Homam Rady is on Facebook. To connect with Homam, sign up for Facebook today. ||||| 3-year-old girl dies after dental procedure in San Ramon Photo: Steven G. De Polo, Getty Image Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 File photo of emergency room sign. Red Emergency Sign at Hospital File photo of emergency room sign. Red Emergency Sign at Hospital Photo: Steven G. De Polo, Getty Image Image 2 of 3 111 Deerwood Rd, San Ramon 111 Deerwood Rd, San Ramon Photo: Google Maps Image 3 of 3 111 Deerwood Rd, San Ramon 111 Deerwood Rd, San Ramon Photo: Google Maps 3-year-old girl dies after dental procedure in San Ramon 1 / 3 Back to Gallery A 3-year-old girl died over the weekend after undergoing a dental procedure at a San Ramon medical office, officials said. The girl, identified Tuesday as Marvelena Rady of Brentwood by the Contra Costa County coroner’s office, died Saturday after complications from a morning procedure at the Dentalbliss dental office. Emergency personnel went to the office about 10 a.m. Saturday when someone there called 911 saying the girl had stopped breathing after treatment, said Battalion Chief Dan McNamara, a spokesman for San Ramon Valley Fire. A crew immediately responded to the office at 111 Deerwood Road and found the child not breathing. She was rushed to San Ramon Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, McNamara said. Officials have not said whether Marvelena was under anesthesia, what procedure she was receiving or her exact cause of death. San Ramon police officials said there was no criminal investigation into the incident. San Ramon Valley Fire officials said they could not release details as to what caused Marvelena to stop breathing. Wendy Hayward, a spokeswoman for the San Ramon Regional Medical Center, declined to comment on the incident, citing patient privacy laws. Dr. Cheri Dang, a general practice dentist with a general anesthesia permit, is listed in business records as the owner of the dental office. Dang did not return calls for comment. Officials from the Dental Board of California said they are investigating the incident. Kevin Schultz is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: kschultz@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @kevinedschultz ||||| Related Stories San Ramon dentist allowed to stay in business following 3-year-old's death SAN RAMON -- A 3-year-old girl who died after complications during a dental procedure over the weekend has been identified by the Contra Costa County coroner's bureau. Marvelena Rady, of Brentwood, died Saturday in San Ramon, a Contra Costa Sheriff's deputy confirmed Tuesday morning. No other information was immediately available on an exact cause of death. The child's father, Homam Rady, posted news reports on his Facebook page after the procedure about his child being rushed to a hospital Saturday. CBS affiliate KPIX-TV reported that firefighters and paramedics were called to the Dentalbliss Dental office in San Ramon when the girl did not wake up from the unidentified procedure. Dan McNamara, the battalion chief with San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District, confirmed Tuesday they received a call around 10 a.m. Saturday from the 100 block of Deerwood Road and transported a patient to San Ramon Regional Medical Center. The doctor listed for the Dentalbliss Dental office at 111 Deerwood Road, Suite 170, is Cheri Amanda Dang, according to the state licensing board. She has held a dentist license since June 2009 and also has a general anesthesia permit. Dang did not return phone calls for comment. The girl was transported by ambulance to the medical center where she was pronounced dead, the station reported. The coroner's office said the cause of death is still under investigation. Advertisement Reached Monday night through Facebook, Rady declined to be interviewed, saying he and his family needed time to grieve. He posted on Facebook, "God have mercy on you my daughter," and others posted messages of support for him and his family. San Ramon Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Wendy Haworth declined to comment Tuesday morning, saying patient privacy laws prevented disclosure of any information. While it's unknown what happened to Marvelena, a bill authored by Assemblyman Tony Thurmond, D-Richmond, would put in place protections for children undergoing dental procedures. Assembly Bill 2235, known as Caleb's Law, would require the Dental Board of California to study whether current law sufficiently protects children who get anesthesia during dental procedures. The legislation was inspired by Caleb Sears, a healthy 6-year-old Albany boy who died last year during an elective dental procedure while under anesthesia, which his oral surgeon was allowed to administer without help from any other medical professionals. The measure would also require dentists to report patient deaths on forms approved by the board that includes specific information about the nature of the death. When lawmakers return to work in August, the bill must be heard by the Senate Appropriations Committee and on the Senate floor before it goes back to the Assembly for consideration. Staff writers Jessica Calefati, Katrina Cameron and Angela Ruggiero and wire reports contributed to this story. Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180 or follow him at Twitter.com/allaboutgeorge.

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Kanye West has a lot to celebrate! On Tuesday, the 41-year-old “All Mine” rapper revealed his dad Ray West’s cancer was in remission and in honor of his recovery, the father and son duo ate bugs. “Overcome fear,” Kanye captioned an Instagram photo showing the insects. “My dad and I are going to eat this plate of bugs to celebrate him beating cancer. No more fear,” Kanye added. Kanye and Ray appeared to be munching down on a plate of sautéed crickets. In July, PEOPLE confirmed Kanye’s father was diagnosed with prostate cancer. “Kanye’s dad was diagnosed with cancer and is already receiving treatment,” a Keeping Up with the Kardashians source previously told PEOPLE. “He seems to be responding well to the treatment and everyone is hopeful he will be okay.” “Kanye doesn’t really talk about it. You can tell it’s something that’s very difficult for him,” the source continued, adding that it’s been helpful for the Kanye to lean on his wife Kim Kardashian West and their three children North, 5, Saint, 2, and Chicago, 8 months, for support. “When his mom suddenly passed away, Kanye was all alone. Having Kim and the kids around helps in difficult situations,” the insider said. RELATED VIDEO: Kanye West’s Behavior ‘Can Be Exhausting’ for Kim Kardashian: Source Kanye’s mother Donda died in 2007 at the age of 58, following cosmetic surgery complications. Kanye and Ray West Noel Vasquez/Getty In January 2008, the Los Angeles coroner determined that Donda died of heart disease while suffering from “multiple post-operative factors” after plastic surgery. In addition to celebrating his father’s health, Kanye recently opened up about his own during an interview with TMZ. After promising his new album Yandhi would drop during his Saturday Night Live appearance on Sept. 29, Kanye revealed it will now be released on Nov. 23. Kanye and Donda West Brian Ach/WireImage RELATED: Kanye West Is Struggling Leading Up to Anniversary of His Mother Donda’s Death: Source “I started incorporating sounds you’ve never heard before, concepts that people don’t talk about. Concepts talking about body shaming, women being looked down upon for how many people they’ve slept with,” the rapper said explaining the reason for the album’s delay. “It’s just a full Ye album,” he explained, adding that all of the albums he’d previously released weren’t on the same level as the music he’s currently working on. “Those five albums that I dropped earlier were like superhero rehabilitation. Now the alien Ye is fully back in mode, off of medication, working out, breaking as much fresh air as possible, thinking, doing, being himself,” Kanye told TMZ. ||||| Kanye West Celebrates Dad Beating Cancer In Weirdest Way Possible Kanye West Celebrates Dad Beating Cancer by Eating Bugs with Him Kanye West and his father are buggin' out -- in a good way -- to celebrate his old man beating cancer. Ye just announced in a very unique way that his dad, Ray West, has kicked cancer's ass ... by sharing a photo of a plate full of bugs. West says ... "My dad and I are going to eat this plate of bugs to celebrate him beating cancer. No more fear." Kanye's in Detroit Tuesday ... so it's unclear where he was able to find this cuisine. We broke the story ... Ray was diagnosed with prostate cancer in July -- not stomach cancer as was first believed -- and Kanye dropped everything to help out upon getting the news. Fortunately, it seems like it's all good for his dad now. Can't wait to see how they celebrate when Ye releases his new album.

– Kanye West (or "Ye," as he now likes to be called) has been making headlines as of late, stumping for Trump on Saturday Night Live and irritating the likes of Lana Del Rey with his comments on the 13th Amendment. His latest stunt involves a bonding experience with his father, Ray West. "My dad and I are going to eat this plate of bugs to celebrate him beating cancer," West shared on Instagram Tuesday, posting a photo of their alleged repast. "No more fear." TMZ reports that the elder West was diagnosed with prostate cancer in July; the rapper's mother, Donda, died in 2007 after complications from cosmetic surgery, per People. TMZ notes it's not clear where Ye, who was said to be in Detroit Tuesday, found an eatery specializing in creepy-crawlies.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Kanye West has a lot to celebrate! On Tuesday, the 41-year-old “All Mine” rapper revealed his dad Ray West’s cancer was in remission and in honor of his recovery, the father and son duo ate bugs. “Overcome fear,” Kanye captioned an Instagram photo showing the insects. “My dad and I are going to eat this plate of bugs to celebrate him beating cancer. No more fear,” Kanye added. Kanye and Ray appeared to be munching down on a plate of sautéed crickets. In July, PEOPLE confirmed Kanye’s father was diagnosed with prostate cancer. “Kanye’s dad was diagnosed with cancer and is already receiving treatment,” a Keeping Up with the Kardashians source previously told PEOPLE. “He seems to be responding well to the treatment and everyone is hopeful he will be okay.” “Kanye doesn’t really talk about it. You can tell it’s something that’s very difficult for him,” the source continued, adding that it’s been helpful for the Kanye to lean on his wife Kim Kardashian West and their three children North, 5, Saint, 2, and Chicago, 8 months, for support. “When his mom suddenly passed away, Kanye was all alone. Having Kim and the kids around helps in difficult situations,” the insider said. RELATED VIDEO: Kanye West’s Behavior ‘Can Be Exhausting’ for Kim Kardashian: Source Kanye’s mother Donda died in 2007 at the age of 58, following cosmetic surgery complications. Kanye and Ray West Noel Vasquez/Getty In January 2008, the Los Angeles coroner determined that Donda died of heart disease while suffering from “multiple post-operative factors” after plastic surgery. In addition to celebrating his father’s health, Kanye recently opened up about his own during an interview with TMZ. After promising his new album Yandhi would drop during his Saturday Night Live appearance on Sept. 29, Kanye revealed it will now be released on Nov. 23. Kanye and Donda West Brian Ach/WireImage RELATED: Kanye West Is Struggling Leading Up to Anniversary of His Mother Donda’s Death: Source “I started incorporating sounds you’ve never heard before, concepts that people don’t talk about. Concepts talking about body shaming, women being looked down upon for how many people they’ve slept with,” the rapper said explaining the reason for the album’s delay. “It’s just a full Ye album,” he explained, adding that all of the albums he’d previously released weren’t on the same level as the music he’s currently working on. “Those five albums that I dropped earlier were like superhero rehabilitation. Now the alien Ye is fully back in mode, off of medication, working out, breaking as much fresh air as possible, thinking, doing, being himself,” Kanye told TMZ. ||||| Kanye West Celebrates Dad Beating Cancer In Weirdest Way Possible Kanye West Celebrates Dad Beating Cancer by Eating Bugs with Him Kanye West and his father are buggin' out -- in a good way -- to celebrate his old man beating cancer. Ye just announced in a very unique way that his dad, Ray West, has kicked cancer's ass ... by sharing a photo of a plate full of bugs. West says ... "My dad and I are going to eat this plate of bugs to celebrate him beating cancer. No more fear." Kanye's in Detroit Tuesday ... so it's unclear where he was able to find this cuisine. We broke the story ... Ray was diagnosed with prostate cancer in July -- not stomach cancer as was first believed -- and Kanye dropped everything to help out upon getting the news. Fortunately, it seems like it's all good for his dad now. Can't wait to see how they celebrate when Ye releases his new album.

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Image copyright iStock Image caption Plane seats have been getting smaller Legislation that would have set minimum standards for passenger space aboard commercial aeroplanes has failed to pass in the US Senate. In recent years, airlines looking for cost savings have reduced the sizes of seats and cut the amount of passenger legroom, among other changes. Passengers have often complained about the increasingly cramped quarters. Some flights have been disrupted after disputes broke out among passengers because of seating arrangements. "It costs you an arm and a leg just to have room for your arms and legs," said Senator Chuck Schumer, who sponsored the amendment, which was attached to a broader aviation bill. Many airlines now charge passengers if they want more legroom. Under the legislation, airlines would have been barred from further reducing the "size, width, padding and pitch" of seats. It also addressed legroom and the width of the aisles. Airline companies opposed the bill saying the measure was attempting to "re-regulate" the industry. The amendment failed 42-54 with all but one Republican voting against the legislation. ||||| The battle over the shrinking airline seat was renewed on Capitol Hill Thursday as the Senate struck down an effort to end the leg and knee squeeze. [The Senate just voted against airplane legroom standards] By a 54-to-43 vote on the Senate floor, a measure was defeated that would have kept airlines from reducing seat size and the distance between rows for 30 days. Meantime, the Federal Aviation Administration would have had 180 days to come up with regulations on the width, padding and leg room each seat should provide. The measure, proposed as an amendment to an FAA reauthorization the Senate is considering, also would have required airlines to prominently display on their websites just how much space they allowed for each passenger. The 1.7 million Americans who fly within the United States each day have gotten bigger. Almost 79 million Americans are obese — 35 percent of the population — and the number is projected to reach 50 percent by 2030. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the average weight of a woman these days is equal to that of the average man in the 1960s: 166 pounds. The average man now weighs almost 196 pounds. The average seat belt is about 40 inches long, and the FAA requires flight attendants “to discreetly offer” a 24-inch seat belt extender to passengers whose girth demands one. In the 1970s, the average cheap seat was 18 inches wide. Now it’s about an inch-and-a-half less. In the old days, there was almost a yard of distance between rows in the economy section. Today, it’s about 31 inches. After the House last month defeated an effort to let the FAA determine the proper seat size, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) complained that passengers are packed in “like sardines.” “Flying is not pleasant anymore,” Schumer said. “You’re crammed in. I’m not that tall. I’m a little under 6-foot-1, and what I do when I fly is I take out the magazine and the airsickness bag and the little folder that tells you where the exits are to gain a 16th-of-an-inch more legroom, so my knees don’t bang into the seat in front of me.” “There’s been constant shrinkage,” he said. “They shouldn’t be cutting inches of legroom and seat width. It’s time for the FAA to step up and stop this problem from continuing.” That’s what he tried to make happen Thursday, but too many of his Senate colleagues rejected his appeal and his amendment. ||||| The fight to stop airline seats from shrinking died Thursday on Capitol Hill. The Senate rejected an amendment introduced by Senator Charles Schumer that would have required the Federal Aviation Administration to set a minimum seat size and distance between seat rows on airplanes. The Democrat from New York claimed the distance between airline seats has contracted to around 31 inches from 35 over the years. The average seat size has also shrunk to 17 inches from 18.5 inches. Related: Which airline offers the most legroom? There is no federal mandate that dictates how much space airlines must have between seat rows other than in the exit rows. The amendment, which was attached to a FAA reauthorization bill, failed Thursday 42-54 -- largely along party lines. "Airlines have been cramming consumers into airplanes like sardines and instead of lowering their prices several major airlines went the other direction -- they started charging for the extra inches in legroom that was once considered standard," Schumer said in a statement after Thursday's vote. Related: Your next flight could be in this new Airbus cabin Shrinking personal space has become a top complaint from fliers. Airline companies and manufactures have been working to upgrade cabins to fit more seats without compromising passenger space. After all, more seats tend to mean higher ticket sales. Schumer blamed airline lobbyists for the defeat, but said he would continue to work to get the legislation passed.

– Airline seats are getting smaller, Americans are getting bigger—and the Senate has decided the issue is none of its business. A proposal from Sen. Charles Schumer to do something about ever-shrinking airline seats and legroom was rejected Thursday by a 54-to-42 vote, with almost every Republican in the chamber voting against it, the BBC reports. The amendment from Schumer—who complains that "it costs you an arm and a leg just to have room for your arms and legs"—was attached to a broader aviation bill. It would have banned airlines from reducing seat size and the distance between rows for 30 days while the FAA worked on setting seat size and row spacing requirements for US airlines, reports CNNMoney. It would also have required airlines to post seat sizes on their websites. The amendment "would ensure that airlines can't keep chopping down on seat size and legroom until consumers are packed in like sardines in a can on every flight," said Schumer, who blamed airline lobbyists for the defeat. "Flying is not pleasant anymore. You're crammed in." The Washington Post notes that the width of the average economy seat has shrunk to 17 inches from 18.5 inches since the '70s, rows are now more than 4 inches closer together, and the proportion of Americans considered obese has soared to 35% over the same period. A similar amendment introduced in the House earlier this year was also shot down.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Image copyright iStock Image caption Plane seats have been getting smaller Legislation that would have set minimum standards for passenger space aboard commercial aeroplanes has failed to pass in the US Senate. In recent years, airlines looking for cost savings have reduced the sizes of seats and cut the amount of passenger legroom, among other changes. Passengers have often complained about the increasingly cramped quarters. Some flights have been disrupted after disputes broke out among passengers because of seating arrangements. "It costs you an arm and a leg just to have room for your arms and legs," said Senator Chuck Schumer, who sponsored the amendment, which was attached to a broader aviation bill. Many airlines now charge passengers if they want more legroom. Under the legislation, airlines would have been barred from further reducing the "size, width, padding and pitch" of seats. It also addressed legroom and the width of the aisles. Airline companies opposed the bill saying the measure was attempting to "re-regulate" the industry. The amendment failed 42-54 with all but one Republican voting against the legislation. ||||| The battle over the shrinking airline seat was renewed on Capitol Hill Thursday as the Senate struck down an effort to end the leg and knee squeeze. [The Senate just voted against airplane legroom standards] By a 54-to-43 vote on the Senate floor, a measure was defeated that would have kept airlines from reducing seat size and the distance between rows for 30 days. Meantime, the Federal Aviation Administration would have had 180 days to come up with regulations on the width, padding and leg room each seat should provide. The measure, proposed as an amendment to an FAA reauthorization the Senate is considering, also would have required airlines to prominently display on their websites just how much space they allowed for each passenger. The 1.7 million Americans who fly within the United States each day have gotten bigger. Almost 79 million Americans are obese — 35 percent of the population — and the number is projected to reach 50 percent by 2030. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the average weight of a woman these days is equal to that of the average man in the 1960s: 166 pounds. The average man now weighs almost 196 pounds. The average seat belt is about 40 inches long, and the FAA requires flight attendants “to discreetly offer” a 24-inch seat belt extender to passengers whose girth demands one. In the 1970s, the average cheap seat was 18 inches wide. Now it’s about an inch-and-a-half less. In the old days, there was almost a yard of distance between rows in the economy section. Today, it’s about 31 inches. After the House last month defeated an effort to let the FAA determine the proper seat size, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) complained that passengers are packed in “like sardines.” “Flying is not pleasant anymore,” Schumer said. “You’re crammed in. I’m not that tall. I’m a little under 6-foot-1, and what I do when I fly is I take out the magazine and the airsickness bag and the little folder that tells you where the exits are to gain a 16th-of-an-inch more legroom, so my knees don’t bang into the seat in front of me.” “There’s been constant shrinkage,” he said. “They shouldn’t be cutting inches of legroom and seat width. It’s time for the FAA to step up and stop this problem from continuing.” That’s what he tried to make happen Thursday, but too many of his Senate colleagues rejected his appeal and his amendment. ||||| The fight to stop airline seats from shrinking died Thursday on Capitol Hill. The Senate rejected an amendment introduced by Senator Charles Schumer that would have required the Federal Aviation Administration to set a minimum seat size and distance between seat rows on airplanes. The Democrat from New York claimed the distance between airline seats has contracted to around 31 inches from 35 over the years. The average seat size has also shrunk to 17 inches from 18.5 inches. Related: Which airline offers the most legroom? There is no federal mandate that dictates how much space airlines must have between seat rows other than in the exit rows. The amendment, which was attached to a FAA reauthorization bill, failed Thursday 42-54 -- largely along party lines. "Airlines have been cramming consumers into airplanes like sardines and instead of lowering their prices several major airlines went the other direction -- they started charging for the extra inches in legroom that was once considered standard," Schumer said in a statement after Thursday's vote. Related: Your next flight could be in this new Airbus cabin Shrinking personal space has become a top complaint from fliers. Airline companies and manufactures have been working to upgrade cabins to fit more seats without compromising passenger space. After all, more seats tend to mean higher ticket sales. Schumer blamed airline lobbyists for the defeat, but said he would continue to work to get the legislation passed.

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DUBAI A US Navy sailor on a brief shopping stop in Dubai alleged a bus driver attempted to rape her at knifepoint. The Pakistani driver, K.S., was unable to present identification documents showing his age before the Dubai Criminal Court to answer the charges. The sailor, 28-year-old M.J., used her 24-hour pass to visit Mall of The Emirates while her ship was docked at Port Khaled in Sharjah. Instead of getting into a taxi, however she chose to take a bus back to her ship. But the driver took her to a deserted area and went to the back of the bus and lunged at the sailor. Article continues below She told the court that the suspect tore off her clothes and tried to rape her. “I resisted him to the best of my ability, but he touched me all over. He touched my breasts and bit me everywhere … the more I resisted, the harder he bit me,” the sailor testified. M.J. said she stopped resisting when the assailant took out a medium-sized kitchen knife. “For fear of him cutting me I did what he asked, but when he attempted to fondle my breasts again, I saw my chance. I knocked the knife from his hand, and had him in a stranglehold between my thighs,” the sailor told the court. The US sailor said she left the bus and declined the driver’s invitation to drive her back to the port. She immediately reported the incident to her superior. When police arrested the suspect the next day, he was drunk. Besides attempted rape, the driver was also charged with illegally consuming alcohol and assault. The driver initially confessed all charges to police, but in court he only admitted to drinking alcohol illegally. “I was too drunk the night before to remember much of what happened,” he said. Forensics experts found traces of M.J.’s blood and hair on the bus, as well as K.S.’s semen on his and the victim’s clothing. ||||| DUBAI // A bus driver who tried to rape a passenger at knifepoint chose the wrong victim, a court heard yesterday. The female sailor knocked a knife from her attacker's grasp, broke it in two, bit his hand, wrestled him to the ground and put him in a stranglehold between her thighs. Having beaten him into submission, she left the bus and reported the incident to her boss. Prosecutors told the Criminal Court the sailor, 28, was on 24-hour shore leave on January 19 this year when the attack happened. After visits to Mall of the Emirates and a supermarket, she decided to head back to Khalid Port and was trying to hail a taxi when the bus stopped beside her. She climbed aboard and sat in the back seat but became suspicious of the route the driver was taking. “I noticed he did not take the main road and when I asked him he told me not to worry,” she said. About 10 minutes later, the driver pulled up in an area where a number of other buses had parked, sat next to her and tried to kiss her, prosecutors say. When she pushed him away he pulled a knife and told her he was going to rape her, and that she must do as he said. Police arrested the driver the next day at his home. “He was drunk at the time of arrest,” said the attending officer. The driver, K S, 21, from Pakistan, was charged with attempted rape, threatening to kill, assault and consuming alcohol illegally. He confessed only to the alcohol charge and said he was too drunk on the night to remember what else happened. The court ordered he be examined to determine his age after he failed to provide the court with a birth certificate. Tests found traces of the sailor’s blood and hair on the bus. The case was adjourned to May 1. salamir@thenational.ae

– What could have been horrific ended up being heroic: A US Navy sailor reportedly fought off a Dubai bus driver who attempted to rape her in January. The news came via a court hearing on Tuesday, in which the 28-year-old recounted the series of events, per the National: While trying to hail a taxi to take her back to Khalid Port while on shore leave on Jan. 19, a bus pulled up. "I noticed he did not take the main road and when I asked him he told me not to worry," she says. That obviously wasn't the case: He pulled over 10 minutes later, pulled out a kitchen knife, and told her he intended to rape her, according to prosecutors. What happens next is nothing short of amazing: The woman knocked the knife out of his hand, broke it in half, bit him, then forced him to the ground and got him in a stranglehold between her thighs. She then exited the bus and reported the crime. The driver was arrested the next day, and the National reports that evidence was found on the bus: the sailor's hair and blood (she testified that he bit her repeatedly before she fought him off, reports Gulf News). The case will resume May 1.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.DUBAI A US Navy sailor on a brief shopping stop in Dubai alleged a bus driver attempted to rape her at knifepoint. The Pakistani driver, K.S., was unable to present identification documents showing his age before the Dubai Criminal Court to answer the charges. The sailor, 28-year-old M.J., used her 24-hour pass to visit Mall of The Emirates while her ship was docked at Port Khaled in Sharjah. Instead of getting into a taxi, however she chose to take a bus back to her ship. But the driver took her to a deserted area and went to the back of the bus and lunged at the sailor. Article continues below She told the court that the suspect tore off her clothes and tried to rape her. “I resisted him to the best of my ability, but he touched me all over. He touched my breasts and bit me everywhere … the more I resisted, the harder he bit me,” the sailor testified. M.J. said she stopped resisting when the assailant took out a medium-sized kitchen knife. “For fear of him cutting me I did what he asked, but when he attempted to fondle my breasts again, I saw my chance. I knocked the knife from his hand, and had him in a stranglehold between my thighs,” the sailor told the court. The US sailor said she left the bus and declined the driver’s invitation to drive her back to the port. She immediately reported the incident to her superior. When police arrested the suspect the next day, he was drunk. Besides attempted rape, the driver was also charged with illegally consuming alcohol and assault. The driver initially confessed all charges to police, but in court he only admitted to drinking alcohol illegally. “I was too drunk the night before to remember much of what happened,” he said. Forensics experts found traces of M.J.’s blood and hair on the bus, as well as K.S.’s semen on his and the victim’s clothing. ||||| DUBAI // A bus driver who tried to rape a passenger at knifepoint chose the wrong victim, a court heard yesterday. The female sailor knocked a knife from her attacker's grasp, broke it in two, bit his hand, wrestled him to the ground and put him in a stranglehold between her thighs. Having beaten him into submission, she left the bus and reported the incident to her boss. Prosecutors told the Criminal Court the sailor, 28, was on 24-hour shore leave on January 19 this year when the attack happened. After visits to Mall of the Emirates and a supermarket, she decided to head back to Khalid Port and was trying to hail a taxi when the bus stopped beside her. She climbed aboard and sat in the back seat but became suspicious of the route the driver was taking. “I noticed he did not take the main road and when I asked him he told me not to worry,” she said. About 10 minutes later, the driver pulled up in an area where a number of other buses had parked, sat next to her and tried to kiss her, prosecutors say. When she pushed him away he pulled a knife and told her he was going to rape her, and that she must do as he said. Police arrested the driver the next day at his home. “He was drunk at the time of arrest,” said the attending officer. The driver, K S, 21, from Pakistan, was charged with attempted rape, threatening to kill, assault and consuming alcohol illegally. He confessed only to the alcohol charge and said he was too drunk on the night to remember what else happened. The court ordered he be examined to determine his age after he failed to provide the court with a birth certificate. Tests found traces of the sailor’s blood and hair on the bus. The case was adjourned to May 1. salamir@thenational.ae

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A Pakistani official says doctors have successfully removed a bullet from a 14-year-old girl who was shot by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women. A wounded Pakistani girl, Malala Yousufzai, is moved to a helicopter to be taken to Peshawar for treatment in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus... (Associated Press) A wounded Pakistani girl, Malala Yousufzai, is moved to a helicopter to be taken to Peshawar for treatment in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus... (Associated Press) In this photo released by Inter Services Public Relations department, Pakistani soldiers carry wounded Pakistani girl, Malala Yousufzai, from a military helicopter to a military hospital in Peshawar,... (Associated Press) The information minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said Wednesday that a team of army and civilian surgeons are treating Malala Yousufzai in a military hospital in Peshawar. Mian Iftikhar Hussain says the operation took hours to remove the bullet from the girl's neck because there were complications. He says she was improving but was still unconscious. Yousufzai was admired across Pakistan for exposing the Taliban's atrocities and advocating for girls' education in the face of religious extremism. On Tuesday a Taliban gunmen shot her in the head and neck on her way home from school. ||||| Prayers are being offered across Pakistan for the recovery of Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old education rights activist who has undergone surgery to remove a bullet lodged in her skull. She was shot on Tuesday on her way home from school in Mingora, the main town in the Swat Valley region of northwest Pakistan, and is being treated at Peshawar's Combined Military Hospital. She remains in critical condition, family members told Al Jazeera. Pakistan's national airline has placed an air ambulance on standby to take Yousafzai abroad for treatment if needed, government sources said, but medics are wary of lengthy travel times given her unstable condition, while officials have rushed to issue her a passport. Students said that Yousafzai "is like our sister". "We pray for her earliest recovery and well-being," said 14-year-old Shamaila. "We also pray that other students can benefit from Malala's enlightening views." 'Where is Malala?' Yousafzai was with her classmates, taking a school van home following an examination at the Khushal public school, when unidentified men stopped the vehicle, asking if it was the transport from that school. When told that it was, one man asked: "Where is Malala?" As she was identified, the assailant reportedly drew a pistol and shot Yousafzai in the head and the neck. Another girl on the bus was also wounded. "The man started firing a handgun [...] then I don't know what happened to me and found myself in hospital," said Shazia Ramazan, a friend of Yousafzai who was shot in the hand. IN VIDEO Witness: A documentary on Malala's work in Swat Doctors at the Saidu Sharif Medical Complex in Mingora said the bullet penetrated Yousafzai's skull but missed her brain, leaving her out of immediate danger. Ahmed Shah Yousafzai, Malala's uncle, said on Tuesday there was "strict security inside and outside the hospital", after the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack. Ehsanullah Ehsan, a Pakistani Taliban spokesman, said the group had repeatedly warned Yousafzai to stop speaking out against them. "She is a Western-minded girl. She always speaks against us," he said by telephone from an undisclosed location. "We will target anyone who speaks against the Taliban. "We warned her several times to stop speaking against the Taliban and to stop supporting Western non-governmental organisations, and to come to the path of Islam." The Taliban said it was not only "allowed" to target young girls, but it was "obligatory" when such a person "leads a campaign against Islam and sharia". The spokesman also referred to the Quranic story of Hazrat Khizar, who killed a young child, justifying it to Prophet Musa (Moses in other religions), by saying the boy would overburden his pious parents with his disobedience, and that God would "replace" the boy with a more obedient son. Against 'co-education' Ehsan said that the Pakistani Taliban had not banned education for girls, "instead, our crime is that we tried to bring the education system for both boy and girls under sharia. "We are deadly against co-education and secular education systems, and Sharia orders us to be against it". The group also criticised media coverage of the shooting, saying: "After this incident, [the] media poured out all of its smelly propaganda against Taliban mujahideen with their poisonous tongues. " ... will the blind media pay any attention to the hundreds of respectful sisters whom are in the secret detention centres of ISI [Pakistan's spy agency] and suffering by their captivity? "Would you like to put an eye on more than 3,000 young men killed in secret detention centres, whose bodies are found in different areas of Swat, claimed to be killed in encounters and died by cardiac arrest?" IN VIDEO Asma Jahangir, h uman rights lawyer, discusses the state of women's rights in Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari strongly condemned the attack, but said it would not shake Pakistan's resolve to battle fighters or the government's determination to support women's education. Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, prime minister, called Yousafzai "a daughter of Pakistan". Private schools in the Swat Valley shut their doors on Wednesday, in protest at the attack, though government schools are open as per their normal routine. Further demonstrations against the Taliban were also expected in the Swat district later on Wednesday. Victoria Nuland, the US state department spokeswoman, said: "Directing violence at children is barbaric. It's cowardly. And our hearts go out to her and the others who were wounded, as well as their families." The local chapter of the TTP, led by Maulana Fazlullah, controlled much of Swat from 2007 to 2009, but were ousted by an army offensive in July 2009. Local reports indicate, however, that the group was only driven into the surrounding areas, rather than being wiped out, and it has since staged a resurgence. Tuesday's shooting in broad daylight in Mingora, the main town of Swat Valley, raises serious questions about security more than three years after the army claimed to have crushed the local Taliban. Peace award Yousafzai rose to international prominence as an 11-year-old in 2009, writing an anonymised diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban, before featuring in two documentaries made by New York Times journalists. She also featured in an Al Jazeera documentary. She had famously stood against the TTP's attempts to stop girls from going to school, and was awarded the National Peace Award for Youth. The international children's advocacy group KidsRights Foundation nominated her for the International Children's Peace Prize, making her the first Pakistani girl put forward for the award. Her struggle resonated with tens of thousands of girls who were being denied an education by the Taliban and other armed groups across northwest Pakistan, where the government has been fighting such groups since 2007. In a 2011 BBC News report, Yusafzai read out an extract of her diary that gave a sense of the fear she endured under the Taliban. "I was very much scared because the Taliban announced yesterday that girls should stop going to schools," she said. "Today our head teacher told the school assembly that school uniform is no longer compulsory and from tomorrow onwards, girls should come in their normal dresses. Out of 27, only 11 girls attended the school today."

– A team of military and civilian surgeons have removed the bullet from 14-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taliban yesterday as she was returning home from school. There are conflicting reports about where the bullet was located—the AP says it was in her neck, while al-Jazeera says it was lodged in her skull—and her condition following the hours-long operation is still critical, but improving. Security is tight at the hospital where she is being treated, and ambulances are on hand to take her abroad if necessary. The New York Times' Adam Bellick, who spent months filming a two-part documentary about Malala and her family, says he hopes the girl's "fantastically stubborn and feisty" personality will help her recover. "Malala comes across as a steady, calming force, undeterred by anxiety or risk. She is mature beyond her years. She never displayed a mood swing and never complained about my laborious and redundant interviews," he says.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.A Pakistani official says doctors have successfully removed a bullet from a 14-year-old girl who was shot by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women. A wounded Pakistani girl, Malala Yousufzai, is moved to a helicopter to be taken to Peshawar for treatment in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus... (Associated Press) A wounded Pakistani girl, Malala Yousufzai, is moved to a helicopter to be taken to Peshawar for treatment in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus... (Associated Press) In this photo released by Inter Services Public Relations department, Pakistani soldiers carry wounded Pakistani girl, Malala Yousufzai, from a military helicopter to a military hospital in Peshawar,... (Associated Press) The information minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said Wednesday that a team of army and civilian surgeons are treating Malala Yousufzai in a military hospital in Peshawar. Mian Iftikhar Hussain says the operation took hours to remove the bullet from the girl's neck because there were complications. He says she was improving but was still unconscious. Yousufzai was admired across Pakistan for exposing the Taliban's atrocities and advocating for girls' education in the face of religious extremism. On Tuesday a Taliban gunmen shot her in the head and neck on her way home from school. ||||| Prayers are being offered across Pakistan for the recovery of Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old education rights activist who has undergone surgery to remove a bullet lodged in her skull. She was shot on Tuesday on her way home from school in Mingora, the main town in the Swat Valley region of northwest Pakistan, and is being treated at Peshawar's Combined Military Hospital. She remains in critical condition, family members told Al Jazeera. Pakistan's national airline has placed an air ambulance on standby to take Yousafzai abroad for treatment if needed, government sources said, but medics are wary of lengthy travel times given her unstable condition, while officials have rushed to issue her a passport. Students said that Yousafzai "is like our sister". "We pray for her earliest recovery and well-being," said 14-year-old Shamaila. "We also pray that other students can benefit from Malala's enlightening views." 'Where is Malala?' Yousafzai was with her classmates, taking a school van home following an examination at the Khushal public school, when unidentified men stopped the vehicle, asking if it was the transport from that school. When told that it was, one man asked: "Where is Malala?" As she was identified, the assailant reportedly drew a pistol and shot Yousafzai in the head and the neck. Another girl on the bus was also wounded. "The man started firing a handgun [...] then I don't know what happened to me and found myself in hospital," said Shazia Ramazan, a friend of Yousafzai who was shot in the hand. IN VIDEO Witness: A documentary on Malala's work in Swat Doctors at the Saidu Sharif Medical Complex in Mingora said the bullet penetrated Yousafzai's skull but missed her brain, leaving her out of immediate danger. Ahmed Shah Yousafzai, Malala's uncle, said on Tuesday there was "strict security inside and outside the hospital", after the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack. Ehsanullah Ehsan, a Pakistani Taliban spokesman, said the group had repeatedly warned Yousafzai to stop speaking out against them. "She is a Western-minded girl. She always speaks against us," he said by telephone from an undisclosed location. "We will target anyone who speaks against the Taliban. "We warned her several times to stop speaking against the Taliban and to stop supporting Western non-governmental organisations, and to come to the path of Islam." The Taliban said it was not only "allowed" to target young girls, but it was "obligatory" when such a person "leads a campaign against Islam and sharia". The spokesman also referred to the Quranic story of Hazrat Khizar, who killed a young child, justifying it to Prophet Musa (Moses in other religions), by saying the boy would overburden his pious parents with his disobedience, and that God would "replace" the boy with a more obedient son. Against 'co-education' Ehsan said that the Pakistani Taliban had not banned education for girls, "instead, our crime is that we tried to bring the education system for both boy and girls under sharia. "We are deadly against co-education and secular education systems, and Sharia orders us to be against it". The group also criticised media coverage of the shooting, saying: "After this incident, [the] media poured out all of its smelly propaganda against Taliban mujahideen with their poisonous tongues. " ... will the blind media pay any attention to the hundreds of respectful sisters whom are in the secret detention centres of ISI [Pakistan's spy agency] and suffering by their captivity? "Would you like to put an eye on more than 3,000 young men killed in secret detention centres, whose bodies are found in different areas of Swat, claimed to be killed in encounters and died by cardiac arrest?" IN VIDEO Asma Jahangir, h uman rights lawyer, discusses the state of women's rights in Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari strongly condemned the attack, but said it would not shake Pakistan's resolve to battle fighters or the government's determination to support women's education. Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, prime minister, called Yousafzai "a daughter of Pakistan". Private schools in the Swat Valley shut their doors on Wednesday, in protest at the attack, though government schools are open as per their normal routine. Further demonstrations against the Taliban were also expected in the Swat district later on Wednesday. Victoria Nuland, the US state department spokeswoman, said: "Directing violence at children is barbaric. It's cowardly. And our hearts go out to her and the others who were wounded, as well as their families." The local chapter of the TTP, led by Maulana Fazlullah, controlled much of Swat from 2007 to 2009, but were ousted by an army offensive in July 2009. Local reports indicate, however, that the group was only driven into the surrounding areas, rather than being wiped out, and it has since staged a resurgence. Tuesday's shooting in broad daylight in Mingora, the main town of Swat Valley, raises serious questions about security more than three years after the army claimed to have crushed the local Taliban. Peace award Yousafzai rose to international prominence as an 11-year-old in 2009, writing an anonymised diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban, before featuring in two documentaries made by New York Times journalists. She also featured in an Al Jazeera documentary. She had famously stood against the TTP's attempts to stop girls from going to school, and was awarded the National Peace Award for Youth. The international children's advocacy group KidsRights Foundation nominated her for the International Children's Peace Prize, making her the first Pakistani girl put forward for the award. Her struggle resonated with tens of thousands of girls who were being denied an education by the Taliban and other armed groups across northwest Pakistan, where the government has been fighting such groups since 2007. In a 2011 BBC News report, Yusafzai read out an extract of her diary that gave a sense of the fear she endured under the Taliban. "I was very much scared because the Taliban announced yesterday that girls should stop going to schools," she said. "Today our head teacher told the school assembly that school uniform is no longer compulsory and from tomorrow onwards, girls should come in their normal dresses. Out of 27, only 11 girls attended the school today."

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Congratulations! It’s a baby… moon? A bright clump spotted orbiting Saturn at the outermost edge of its A ring may be a brand new moon in the process of being born, according to research recently published in the journal Icarus. “We have not seen anything like this before,” said Carl Murray of Queen Mary University in London, lead author of the paper. “We may be looking at the act of birth, where this object is just leaving the rings and heading off to be a moon in its own right.” In images acquired with Cassini’s narrow-angle camera in 2013, a 1,200-kilometer-long, 10-kilometer-wide arc of icy material was observed traveling along the edge of the A ring. The arc is thought to be the result of gravitational perturbations caused by an as-yet unseen embedded object about a kilometer wide — possibly a miniature moon in the process of formation. The half-mile-wide object has been unofficially named “Peggy,” after lead author Murray’s mother-in-law (whose 80th birthday it was on the day he was studying the Cassini NAC images.) Murray first announced the findings on Dec. 10, 2013 at the AGU 13 meeting in San Francisco. According to the team’s paper, Peggy’s effects on the A ring has been visible to Cassini since May 2012. Eventually Peggy may coalesce into a slightly larger moon and move outward, establishing its own orbital path around Saturn. This is how many of Saturn’s other moons are thought to have formed much further back in the planet’s history. Now, its rings having been depleted of moon-stuff, can only create tiny objects like Peggy. “Witnessing the possible birth of a tiny moon is an exciting, unexpected event.” – Linda Spilker, Cassini Project Scientist at JPL While it is possible that the bright perturbation is the result of an object’s breakup rather than formation, researchers are still looking forward to finding out more about its evolution. Read more on the NASA/JPL news release here. To find out more about the Cassini mission visit saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and www.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team’s website is at ciclops.org. By Jason Major - A graphic designer in Rhode Island, Jason writes about space exploration on his blog Lights In The Dark, Discovery News, and, of course, here on Universe Today. Ad astra! Carl Murray, Cassini, formation, Janus, JPL, Moon, NASA, Peggy, Saturn ||||| Astronomers say a bright blob at the edge of Saturn's rings may be evidence that a new moon is forming. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute) The moons that orbit Saturn may be increasing by one -- an icy, pint-sized object that astronomers have named “Peggy.” NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has spotted evidence that a mysterious object measuring perhaps half a mile across is disturbing the outer edge of Saturn’s large, bright A ring. The object’s gravity seems to have roughed up the ring’s usually smooth profile. PHOTOS: Amazing close-ups of moons As a result, a stretch of the A ring that measures 750 miles long and 6 miles wide is now about 20% brighter than it would typically appear. The fuzzy blob on the A ring’s edge was imaged by Cassini’s narrow-angle camera exactly one year ago, on April 15, 2013. Peggy, which is believed to have caused this mess, is too small for Cassini to see directly. But NASA scientists hope to get a closer look in late 2016, when Cassini is scheduled to fly near the A ring. There’s good reason to think Peggy could join the very long list of Saturnian moons (a list that includes 53 official moons and nine provisional ones). Astronomers have theorized that the moons started out as collections of ice from Saturn’s hefty rings and then drifted into orbits farther away. The oldest moons probably formed when the rings were more substantial. By coalescing so much material, they grew large and drifted into orbits farther away from the planet. Younger moons, on the other hand, tend to be smaller and closer in. If Peggy is indeed a moon, it would certainly seem to be following that pattern. “We may be looking at the act of birth, where this object is just leaving the rings and heading off to be a moon in its own right,” Carl Murray, an astronomer at Queen Mary University of London, said in a statement from NASA. “We have not seen anything like this before.” Murray is the lead author of a report on Peggy that was published online Monday in the journal Icarus. Peggy -- named after Murray’s mother-in-law, according to reports -- is probably as big as it’s ever going to get. It might even be coming apart, according to NASA. But it may still be able to give scientists clues about how Saturn’s dozens of other moons came to be. If you're charmed by the idea of a baby moon, you like the things I write about. Follow me on Twitter and "like" Los Angeles Times Science & Health on Facebook. ALSO: Neanderthals: Smarter than we thought? 'The world is headed for a post-antibiotic era,' WHO official warns MERS: CDC confirms first U.S. case of Middle East respiratory syndrome

– Astronomers think they're seeing a first—the birth of a Saturn moon. NASA's Cassini spacecraft spotted what the LA Times describes as a "fuzzy blob" near one of the planet's rings, though astronomers may not know for sure whether the maybe-moon they've nicknamed "Peggy" is an actual moon until Cassini gets a closer look late next year. The planet is old hat at this, with 53 confirmed moons and nine more suspected ones, thanks to those famous rings, notes Time. (It describes the rings, made of ice and rock, as "the nurseries in which all of the moons are born.") Still, astronomers have never been able to see the process. “We may be looking at the act of birth, where this object is just leaving the rings and heading off to be a moon in its own right,” says Carl Murray, an astronomer at Queen Mary University of London. “We have not seen anything like this before.” Murray, incidentally, picked the name "Peggy" in honor of his mother-in-law, who turned 80 the day he first studied the Cassini images, notes Universe Today. Peggy the celestial object is relatively tiny at just a half-mile wide, dwarfed by bigger moons such as Enceladus, which was recently found to have a big underground ocean.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Congratulations! It’s a baby… moon? A bright clump spotted orbiting Saturn at the outermost edge of its A ring may be a brand new moon in the process of being born, according to research recently published in the journal Icarus. “We have not seen anything like this before,” said Carl Murray of Queen Mary University in London, lead author of the paper. “We may be looking at the act of birth, where this object is just leaving the rings and heading off to be a moon in its own right.” In images acquired with Cassini’s narrow-angle camera in 2013, a 1,200-kilometer-long, 10-kilometer-wide arc of icy material was observed traveling along the edge of the A ring. The arc is thought to be the result of gravitational perturbations caused by an as-yet unseen embedded object about a kilometer wide — possibly a miniature moon in the process of formation. The half-mile-wide object has been unofficially named “Peggy,” after lead author Murray’s mother-in-law (whose 80th birthday it was on the day he was studying the Cassini NAC images.) Murray first announced the findings on Dec. 10, 2013 at the AGU 13 meeting in San Francisco. According to the team’s paper, Peggy’s effects on the A ring has been visible to Cassini since May 2012. Eventually Peggy may coalesce into a slightly larger moon and move outward, establishing its own orbital path around Saturn. This is how many of Saturn’s other moons are thought to have formed much further back in the planet’s history. Now, its rings having been depleted of moon-stuff, can only create tiny objects like Peggy. “Witnessing the possible birth of a tiny moon is an exciting, unexpected event.” – Linda Spilker, Cassini Project Scientist at JPL While it is possible that the bright perturbation is the result of an object’s breakup rather than formation, researchers are still looking forward to finding out more about its evolution. Read more on the NASA/JPL news release here. To find out more about the Cassini mission visit saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and www.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team’s website is at ciclops.org. By Jason Major - A graphic designer in Rhode Island, Jason writes about space exploration on his blog Lights In The Dark, Discovery News, and, of course, here on Universe Today. Ad astra! Carl Murray, Cassini, formation, Janus, JPL, Moon, NASA, Peggy, Saturn ||||| Astronomers say a bright blob at the edge of Saturn's rings may be evidence that a new moon is forming. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute) The moons that orbit Saturn may be increasing by one -- an icy, pint-sized object that astronomers have named “Peggy.” NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has spotted evidence that a mysterious object measuring perhaps half a mile across is disturbing the outer edge of Saturn’s large, bright A ring. The object’s gravity seems to have roughed up the ring’s usually smooth profile. PHOTOS: Amazing close-ups of moons As a result, a stretch of the A ring that measures 750 miles long and 6 miles wide is now about 20% brighter than it would typically appear. The fuzzy blob on the A ring’s edge was imaged by Cassini’s narrow-angle camera exactly one year ago, on April 15, 2013. Peggy, which is believed to have caused this mess, is too small for Cassini to see directly. But NASA scientists hope to get a closer look in late 2016, when Cassini is scheduled to fly near the A ring. There’s good reason to think Peggy could join the very long list of Saturnian moons (a list that includes 53 official moons and nine provisional ones). Astronomers have theorized that the moons started out as collections of ice from Saturn’s hefty rings and then drifted into orbits farther away. The oldest moons probably formed when the rings were more substantial. By coalescing so much material, they grew large and drifted into orbits farther away from the planet. Younger moons, on the other hand, tend to be smaller and closer in. If Peggy is indeed a moon, it would certainly seem to be following that pattern. “We may be looking at the act of birth, where this object is just leaving the rings and heading off to be a moon in its own right,” Carl Murray, an astronomer at Queen Mary University of London, said in a statement from NASA. “We have not seen anything like this before.” Murray is the lead author of a report on Peggy that was published online Monday in the journal Icarus. Peggy -- named after Murray’s mother-in-law, according to reports -- is probably as big as it’s ever going to get. It might even be coming apart, according to NASA. But it may still be able to give scientists clues about how Saturn’s dozens of other moons came to be. If you're charmed by the idea of a baby moon, you like the things I write about. Follow me on Twitter and "like" Los Angeles Times Science & Health on Facebook. ALSO: Neanderthals: Smarter than we thought? 'The world is headed for a post-antibiotic era,' WHO official warns MERS: CDC confirms first U.S. case of Middle East respiratory syndrome

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Surely, you've seen our recent work on anthropodermic bibliopegy, the early modern practice of binding books in human skin? No? Well, a quick refresher: some books, since the 16th century but before our own time, were bound in human skin. Why? "The confessions of criminals were occasionally bound in the skin of the convicted," Harvard librarian Heather Cole explained, "or an individual might request to be memorialized for family or lovers in the form of a book." Qué romantico! Anyway, we know it happened because people refer to it happening in the literature of the time, and also because some books bore inscriptions that literally said that they were bound in skin. But such tomes are suspect. You can't just trust anyone who says they've bound a book in human skin. For example, one had this inscription, but turned out to be stupid sheepskin: The bynding of this booke is all that remains of my dear friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma on the Fourth Day of August, 1632. King Mbesa did give me the book, it being one of poore Jonas chiefe possessions, together with ample of his skin to bynd it. And so, I am happy to report, the Houghton Library's copy of Arsène Houssaye’s Des destinées de l’ame "is without a doubt bound in human skin," Cole, who is the assistant curator of modern nooks and manuscripts at the library, reports in a new blog post. (Des destinées de l’ame, by the way, translates to The destiny of the soul.) ||||| Houghton Library contains countless curiosities. Perhaps the most disturbing example is Arsène Houssaye’s Des destinées de l’ame (FC8.H8177.879dc), bound in human skin. In the mid-1880s, Houssaye (1815-1896) presented his recent book, a meditation on the soul and life after death, to his friend Dr. Ludovic Bouland (1839-1932), a noted medical doctor and prominent bibliophile. Bouland bound the book with skin from the unclaimed body of a female mental patient who had died of a stroke. Inserted in the volume is an autograph manuscript note written by Bouland: “Ce livre est relié en peau humaine parcheminée, c’est pour lui laisser tout son cachet qu’a dessein on n’y a point appliqué d’ornement. En le regardant attentivement on distingue facilement les pores de la peau. Un livre sur l’Ame humaine méritait bien qu’on lui donnait un vetement humain: aussi lui avais je réservé depuis longtemps ce morceau de peau humaine pris sur le dor d’une femme. Il est curieux de voir les aspects différents que prend cette peau selon le mode de préparation au quel elle est soumise. La comparer par exemple avec le petit volume que j’ai dans ma bibliothèque, Sever. Pinaeus de Virginitatis notis qui lui aussi est relié en peau humaine mais tannée au sumac.” “This book is bound in human skin parchment on which no ornament has been stamped to preserve its elegance. By looking carefully you easily distinguish the pores of the skin. A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering: I had kept this piece of human skin taken from the back of a woman. It is interesting to see the different aspects that change this skin according to the method of preparation to which it is subjected. Compare for example with the small volume I have in my library, Sever. Pinaeus de Virginitatis notis which is also bound in human skin but tanned with sumac.” The other volume to which Bouland refers, Séverin Pineau’s De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis (Amsterdam, 1663), bound by distinguished Paris binder Marcellin Lortic, is now in the collection of the Wellcome Library. Des destinées de l’ame was deposited at Houghton in 1934 by book collector John B. Stetson, Jr., and given to the library by Stetson’s widow in 1954. While books bound in human skin are now objects of fascination and revulsion, the practice was once somewhat common. Termed anthropodermic bibliopegy, the binding of books in human skin has occurred at least since the 16th century. The confessions of criminals were occasionally bound in the skin of the convicted, or an individual might request to be memorialized for family or lovers in the form of a book. Although this is the only known example of an anthropodermic book in Houghton’s collection, Harvard libraries hold one other example: the Countway Library’s Center for the History of Medicine holds a French translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Lyon, 1597) which may have an anthropodermic binding. (Practicarvm qvaestionvm circa leges regias Hispaniæ primæ partis nouæ collectionis regiæ (Madrid, 1605-1606) in the collections of the Harvard Law School Library Historical & Special Collections, used to be considered a third example; it has since been proven to be sheepskin.) [Thanks to Heather Cole, Assistant Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts, for contributing this post] ||||| Arsène Houssaye’s Des destinées de l’ame, housed in Harvard’s Houghton Library. (Harvard, Houghton Library) This book is covered in human flesh. Really. Harvard scientists confirmed today that a volume in one of its libraries contained a book that is “without a doubt” bound in human skin. The phenomenon is called anthropodermic bibliopegy and it used to be fairly common until — well, frankly, we stopped doing that kind of thing. There were three such books suspected to be in the Harvard libraries, but testing found that two of the three were actually bound in sheepskin. The final book in the triumvirate is authentically human. French novelist and poet Arsène Houssaye’s Des destinées de l’ame, housed in Harvard’s Houghton Library, is described as a “collection of essays meditating on the human spirit,” according to Samuel Jacobs’s archival account in the Crimson: Houghton’s associate librarian for collections, Thomas Horrocks, describes the light volume as one of the author’s lesser works. Be that as it may, probably the most remarkable thing about the book is its creepy inscription. Houssaye reveals that the book’s binding is the human skin taken from the back of a woman, specifically an unclaimed body of a female mental patient who died of a stroke, according to Heather Cole, Houghton’s assistant curator of modern books & manuscripts. “By looking carefully you easily distinguish the pores of the skin,” Houssaye wrote. “A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering.” Using a process called peptide mass fingerprinting, scientists were able to use microscopic samples of the covering to eliminate the possibility that the book was made out of other common binding materials like sheep, cattle or goat skin. “The analytical data, taken together with the provenance of Des destinées de l’ame, make it very unlikely that the source could be other than human,” said Bill Lane, director of the Harvard Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Resource Laboratory, in a blog post explaining the findings. So there you have it. The real thing that we might all wish had been fake.

– Harvard has confirmed a creepy find in its Houghton Library: A 19th-century book about the soul is bound in human skin. Tests revealed that French poet's Arsène Houssaye’s Des Destinées de l'Ame—The Destiny of the Soul—really does have a human binding, backing up the author's claim in the inscription that it had been bound in skin taken from the back of a female mental patient who died of a stroke, the Washington Post reports. "By looking carefully you easily distinguish the pores of the skin," Houssaye wrote in the volume he presented to a friend. "A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering." Testing in Harvard labs revealed that another book thought to have been bound in human skin was actually bound in sheepskin, despite an inscription reading, "The bynding of this booke is all that remains of my dear friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma on the Fourth Day of August, 1632," the Atlantic finds. Revolting as it may seem today, the binding of books in human skins, a practice called "anthropodermic bibliopegy," was once fairly common, the library's blog notes, explaining that "the confessions of criminals were occasionally bound in the skin of the convicted, or an individual might request to be memorialized for family or lovers in the form of a book."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Surely, you've seen our recent work on anthropodermic bibliopegy, the early modern practice of binding books in human skin? No? Well, a quick refresher: some books, since the 16th century but before our own time, were bound in human skin. Why? "The confessions of criminals were occasionally bound in the skin of the convicted," Harvard librarian Heather Cole explained, "or an individual might request to be memorialized for family or lovers in the form of a book." Qué romantico! Anyway, we know it happened because people refer to it happening in the literature of the time, and also because some books bore inscriptions that literally said that they were bound in skin. But such tomes are suspect. You can't just trust anyone who says they've bound a book in human skin. For example, one had this inscription, but turned out to be stupid sheepskin: The bynding of this booke is all that remains of my dear friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma on the Fourth Day of August, 1632. King Mbesa did give me the book, it being one of poore Jonas chiefe possessions, together with ample of his skin to bynd it. And so, I am happy to report, the Houghton Library's copy of Arsène Houssaye’s Des destinées de l’ame "is without a doubt bound in human skin," Cole, who is the assistant curator of modern nooks and manuscripts at the library, reports in a new blog post. (Des destinées de l’ame, by the way, translates to The destiny of the soul.) ||||| Houghton Library contains countless curiosities. Perhaps the most disturbing example is Arsène Houssaye’s Des destinées de l’ame (FC8.H8177.879dc), bound in human skin. In the mid-1880s, Houssaye (1815-1896) presented his recent book, a meditation on the soul and life after death, to his friend Dr. Ludovic Bouland (1839-1932), a noted medical doctor and prominent bibliophile. Bouland bound the book with skin from the unclaimed body of a female mental patient who had died of a stroke. Inserted in the volume is an autograph manuscript note written by Bouland: “Ce livre est relié en peau humaine parcheminée, c’est pour lui laisser tout son cachet qu’a dessein on n’y a point appliqué d’ornement. En le regardant attentivement on distingue facilement les pores de la peau. Un livre sur l’Ame humaine méritait bien qu’on lui donnait un vetement humain: aussi lui avais je réservé depuis longtemps ce morceau de peau humaine pris sur le dor d’une femme. Il est curieux de voir les aspects différents que prend cette peau selon le mode de préparation au quel elle est soumise. La comparer par exemple avec le petit volume que j’ai dans ma bibliothèque, Sever. Pinaeus de Virginitatis notis qui lui aussi est relié en peau humaine mais tannée au sumac.” “This book is bound in human skin parchment on which no ornament has been stamped to preserve its elegance. By looking carefully you easily distinguish the pores of the skin. A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering: I had kept this piece of human skin taken from the back of a woman. It is interesting to see the different aspects that change this skin according to the method of preparation to which it is subjected. Compare for example with the small volume I have in my library, Sever. Pinaeus de Virginitatis notis which is also bound in human skin but tanned with sumac.” The other volume to which Bouland refers, Séverin Pineau’s De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis (Amsterdam, 1663), bound by distinguished Paris binder Marcellin Lortic, is now in the collection of the Wellcome Library. Des destinées de l’ame was deposited at Houghton in 1934 by book collector John B. Stetson, Jr., and given to the library by Stetson’s widow in 1954. While books bound in human skin are now objects of fascination and revulsion, the practice was once somewhat common. Termed anthropodermic bibliopegy, the binding of books in human skin has occurred at least since the 16th century. The confessions of criminals were occasionally bound in the skin of the convicted, or an individual might request to be memorialized for family or lovers in the form of a book. Although this is the only known example of an anthropodermic book in Houghton’s collection, Harvard libraries hold one other example: the Countway Library’s Center for the History of Medicine holds a French translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Lyon, 1597) which may have an anthropodermic binding. (Practicarvm qvaestionvm circa leges regias Hispaniæ primæ partis nouæ collectionis regiæ (Madrid, 1605-1606) in the collections of the Harvard Law School Library Historical & Special Collections, used to be considered a third example; it has since been proven to be sheepskin.) [Thanks to Heather Cole, Assistant Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts, for contributing this post] ||||| Arsène Houssaye’s Des destinées de l’ame, housed in Harvard’s Houghton Library. (Harvard, Houghton Library) This book is covered in human flesh. Really. Harvard scientists confirmed today that a volume in one of its libraries contained a book that is “without a doubt” bound in human skin. The phenomenon is called anthropodermic bibliopegy and it used to be fairly common until — well, frankly, we stopped doing that kind of thing. There were three such books suspected to be in the Harvard libraries, but testing found that two of the three were actually bound in sheepskin. The final book in the triumvirate is authentically human. French novelist and poet Arsène Houssaye’s Des destinées de l’ame, housed in Harvard’s Houghton Library, is described as a “collection of essays meditating on the human spirit,” according to Samuel Jacobs’s archival account in the Crimson: Houghton’s associate librarian for collections, Thomas Horrocks, describes the light volume as one of the author’s lesser works. Be that as it may, probably the most remarkable thing about the book is its creepy inscription. Houssaye reveals that the book’s binding is the human skin taken from the back of a woman, specifically an unclaimed body of a female mental patient who died of a stroke, according to Heather Cole, Houghton’s assistant curator of modern books & manuscripts. “By looking carefully you easily distinguish the pores of the skin,” Houssaye wrote. “A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering.” Using a process called peptide mass fingerprinting, scientists were able to use microscopic samples of the covering to eliminate the possibility that the book was made out of other common binding materials like sheep, cattle or goat skin. “The analytical data, taken together with the provenance of Des destinées de l’ame, make it very unlikely that the source could be other than human,” said Bill Lane, director of the Harvard Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Resource Laboratory, in a blog post explaining the findings. So there you have it. The real thing that we might all wish had been fake.

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BERLIN (AP) — German police say the pilot of a passenger jet destined for Zurich made an unscheduled stop at Stuttgart airport because a Swiss passenger become aggressive after being denied champagne. Reutlingen police say crew members were unable to calm the 44-year-old business class passenger, who was angered by their refusal to serve her more sparkling wine on the flight from Moscow late Saturday. Police said in a statement Sunday that the woman, who wasn't named, was escorted off the Airbus A320 and ordered to pay a security of 5,000 euros ($5,871). They said the 43 passengers on board were never in danger, but the total cost involved in the unplanned stopover likely amounted to several tens of thousands of euros. ||||| SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A woman is in jail after threatening to kill fellow passengers on a Southwest flight from Portland to Sacramento. The chaotic scene was captured on video that a fellow passenger sent to CBS13. The incident began after a woman attempted to smoke in the airplane bathroom and alter the smoke detector, according to airline officials. The man who shot the video said the woman was ordered back to her seat but began yelling irrationally, threatening to kill everyone on board, and demanding that the plane land. He says she pushed a flight attendant and had to be physically restrained by passengers and crew for the remaining 30 minutes of the flight. Law enforcement officers were waiting at the gate and arrested 24-year-old Valerie Curbelo on the spot. ALSO READ: Pilot Survives Plane Crash At Sacramento Executive Airport CBS13’s Marc Thompson went to the Sacramento County Jail to get Curbelo’s side of the story. Why did you try and smoke in the bathroom?” Thompson asked. “The anxiety, yeah the anxiety,” Curbelo said. But Cabello couldn’t say what she was anxious about, or why she acted the way she did. “You were saying some pretty threatening things like you were going to kill everybody on the plane, why did you say that?” Thompson asked. ALSO READ: Judge Refuses To Delay Escaped Mental Patient’s Extradition To Hawaii “I don’t know,” Curbelo replied. “It was not me. It was not me.” Cabello is from Sandy, Oregon just outside of Portland. She wouldn’t discuss why she was flying to Sacramento. She was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on the charge of making criminal threats. ||||| PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A woman was caught smoking on a flight from Portland to Sacramento on Saturday, resulting in a mid-air meltdown and threats to “kill everyone on this plane.” The woman, 24-year-old Valerie Curbello, who lives in Sandy, was restrained by passengers and the flight crew before being escorted off the plane and arrested upon landing. Southwest Airlines provided a statement on the incident: Our Crew in command of Flight 2943 traveling from Portland on Saturday afternoon safely landed on-time in Sacramento following an inflight disturbance. Our reports from Flight Attendants indicate a Customer violated federal laws by both smoking onboard an aircraft and by tampering with a smoke detector in an aircraft restroom. Our Crew enforced the regulation and that was followed by the passenger outburst. The safety of our Crew and Passengers is our top priority and we take all threats seriously. The Pilots declared an emergency to receive priority handling from air traffic controllers, and our Crew handled the situation onboard until the plane landed and local authorities stepped in. The flight carried 136 Customers and a Crew of five. A passenger told KOIN 6 News Curbello was removed from the plane’s bathroom when people learned she was smoking. The witness said she removed an oxygen mask as she got “more uncontrollable.” Curbello told a Sacramento CBS affiliate reporter she was trying to smoke because she was having anxiety. “It was not me, it was not me,” Curbello told the reporter. A friend of Curbello’s told KOIN 6 News she took Curbello to a mental health crisis center just days before the incident on the plane. She was worried about Cubello and doesn’t know why she went to Sacramento. She is being held in a Sacramento jail on $75,000 bail.

– It was an eventful weekend for some airline passengers, who had to deal with outbursts over champagne—and threats against their lives. First to Sacramento, where a woman was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight that arrived from Portland on Saturday, reports KOIN. Officials say the woman tampered with a smoke detector and lit up in the plane's bathroom. Told to return to her seat, the woman was then seen on a video, shouting, "I will kill everybody on this f------ plane." The man who recorded the video says the women also pushed a flight attendant and had to be physically restrained, per CBS Sacramento. When the flight landed, Valerie Curbelo, 24, was arrested and charged with making criminal threats. She later blamed "anxiety" for her actions, per CBS. Meanwhile, a 44-year-old Swiss woman aboard a flight from Moscow to Zurich caused an unscheduled stop Saturday when she was denied champagne. The business-class passenger became aggressive when she was told flight attendants would stop filling her glass, reports the AP. The plane eventually had to land in Stuttgart, Germany. The unnamed woman was hit with a nearly $6,000 fine. Officials say the unplanned stop likely cost tens of thousands of dollars more. (This plane had to divert hundreds of miles because flyers had to "go really bad.")

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.BERLIN (AP) — German police say the pilot of a passenger jet destined for Zurich made an unscheduled stop at Stuttgart airport because a Swiss passenger become aggressive after being denied champagne. Reutlingen police say crew members were unable to calm the 44-year-old business class passenger, who was angered by their refusal to serve her more sparkling wine on the flight from Moscow late Saturday. Police said in a statement Sunday that the woman, who wasn't named, was escorted off the Airbus A320 and ordered to pay a security of 5,000 euros ($5,871). They said the 43 passengers on board were never in danger, but the total cost involved in the unplanned stopover likely amounted to several tens of thousands of euros. ||||| SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A woman is in jail after threatening to kill fellow passengers on a Southwest flight from Portland to Sacramento. The chaotic scene was captured on video that a fellow passenger sent to CBS13. The incident began after a woman attempted to smoke in the airplane bathroom and alter the smoke detector, according to airline officials. The man who shot the video said the woman was ordered back to her seat but began yelling irrationally, threatening to kill everyone on board, and demanding that the plane land. He says she pushed a flight attendant and had to be physically restrained by passengers and crew for the remaining 30 minutes of the flight. Law enforcement officers were waiting at the gate and arrested 24-year-old Valerie Curbelo on the spot. ALSO READ: Pilot Survives Plane Crash At Sacramento Executive Airport CBS13’s Marc Thompson went to the Sacramento County Jail to get Curbelo’s side of the story. Why did you try and smoke in the bathroom?” Thompson asked. “The anxiety, yeah the anxiety,” Curbelo said. But Cabello couldn’t say what she was anxious about, or why she acted the way she did. “You were saying some pretty threatening things like you were going to kill everybody on the plane, why did you say that?” Thompson asked. ALSO READ: Judge Refuses To Delay Escaped Mental Patient’s Extradition To Hawaii “I don’t know,” Curbelo replied. “It was not me. It was not me.” Cabello is from Sandy, Oregon just outside of Portland. She wouldn’t discuss why she was flying to Sacramento. She was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on the charge of making criminal threats. ||||| PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A woman was caught smoking on a flight from Portland to Sacramento on Saturday, resulting in a mid-air meltdown and threats to “kill everyone on this plane.” The woman, 24-year-old Valerie Curbello, who lives in Sandy, was restrained by passengers and the flight crew before being escorted off the plane and arrested upon landing. Southwest Airlines provided a statement on the incident: Our Crew in command of Flight 2943 traveling from Portland on Saturday afternoon safely landed on-time in Sacramento following an inflight disturbance. Our reports from Flight Attendants indicate a Customer violated federal laws by both smoking onboard an aircraft and by tampering with a smoke detector in an aircraft restroom. Our Crew enforced the regulation and that was followed by the passenger outburst. The safety of our Crew and Passengers is our top priority and we take all threats seriously. The Pilots declared an emergency to receive priority handling from air traffic controllers, and our Crew handled the situation onboard until the plane landed and local authorities stepped in. The flight carried 136 Customers and a Crew of five. A passenger told KOIN 6 News Curbello was removed from the plane’s bathroom when people learned she was smoking. The witness said she removed an oxygen mask as she got “more uncontrollable.” Curbello told a Sacramento CBS affiliate reporter she was trying to smoke because she was having anxiety. “It was not me, it was not me,” Curbello told the reporter. A friend of Curbello’s told KOIN 6 News she took Curbello to a mental health crisis center just days before the incident on the plane. She was worried about Cubello and doesn’t know why she went to Sacramento. She is being held in a Sacramento jail on $75,000 bail.

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“I’m not condemning his patriotism — patriots can criticize. They’re allowed to criticize. I don’t hear from him what I heard from Harry Truman, what I heard from Bill Clinton, what I heard from Jimmy Carter, which is these wonderful words about what a great country we are, what an exceptional country we are. When he called us an exceptional country, he said we’re an exceptional country, but so is Greece.” — former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, interview on Fox News’ “The Kelly File,” Feb. 19, 2015 Does former Mayor Giuliani not listen to Obama’s speeches? The president has consistently expressed love of country and extolled the virtues of the United States in many speeches, while also at times acknowledging what he considered flaws and mistakes made in the past (what critics have labeled “an apology tour”). Here are a few examples from Obama: “I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy; our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ That is the true genius of America.” —July 27, 2004 “These people are a part of me. And they are part of America, this country that I love.” —March 18, 2008 “The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain.” —August 28, 2008 “The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known.” —June 4, 2009 “Each time I look at that flag, I’m reminded that our destiny is stitched together like those 50 stars and those 13 stripes. No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together. This nation is great because we worked as a team. This nation is great because we get each other’s backs. And if we hold fast to that truth, in this moment of trial, there is no challenge too great; no mission too hard.” —Jan. 24, 2012 “We keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon knowing that providence is with us and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.” —Sept. 6, 2012 “I just spoke to Governor Romney and I congratulated him and Congressman Ryan on a hard-fought campaign. We may have battled fiercely, but it is only because we love this country deeply and we care so much about its future….What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on Earth, the belief that our destiny is shared, that this country only works when we except certain obligations to one another and the future generations so that the freedom which so many Americans have fought for and died for comes with responsibilities as well as rights, and among those are love, and charity, and duty, and patriotism. That’s what makes America great.” —Nov. 7, 2012 “If we refocus our energies on building an economy that grows for everybody, and gives every child in this country a fair chance at success, then I remain confident that the future still looks brighter than the past, and that the best days for this country we love are still ahead.” —Dec. 4, 2013 “I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being. But what makes us exceptional is not our ability to flout international norms and the rule of law; it is our willingness to affirm them through our actions.” —May 28, 2014 It’s also worth noting that, contrary to Giuliani’s assertion that Obama said Greece is an exceptional country, what Obama said, in response to a question in 2009, was that this is what he suspected Greeks believe: “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” But Obama was just getting warmed up. His next sentence was: “I’m enormously proud of my country and its role and history in the world.” He continued: “If you think of our current situation, the United States remains the largest economy in the world. We have unmatched military capability. And I think that we have a core set of values that are enshrined in our Constitution, in our body of law, in our democratic practices, in our belief in free speech and equality, that — though imperfect — are exceptional.” The Pinocchio Test Giuliani must have muted the sound whenever Obama spoke. He certainly has every right to his opinion about the tenor of the president’s remarks. But he has no business claiming something that is so factually incorrect — or easily disproved. He earns four Pinocchios. Four Pinocchios (About our rating scale) Send us facts to check by filling out this form Follow The Fact Checker on Twitter and friend us on Facebook ||||| “Comment is free, but facts are sacred.” — C.P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, 1921 About The Fact Checker In an award-winning journalism career spanning more than three decades, Glenn Kessler has covered foreign policy, economic policy, the White House, Congress, politics, airline safety and Wall Street. He was The Washington Post’s chief State Department reporter for nine years, traveling around the world with three different Secretaries of State. Before that, he covered tax and budget policy for The Washington Post and also served as the newspaper’s national business editor. Kessler has long specialized in digging beyond the conventional wisdom, such as when he earned a “laurel” from the Columbia Journalism Review* for obtaining Federal Aviation Administration records that showed that then President Bill Clinton had not delayed any scheduled flights when he had a controversial haircut on an airport tarmac. Kessler helped pioneer the fact-checking of candidates’ statements during the 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, when he was chief political correspondent for Newsday, and continued to do it during the last four presidential campaigns for The Post. The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) in 2015 awarded Kessler its Media Literate Media award, presented every two years, for his work on The Fact Checker. In 2007, St. Martins Press published Kessler’s widely acclaimed book on Condoleezza Rice, The Confidante. Kessler appears frequently on television and has lectured widely on U.S. foreign policy. Our Goal This column first appeared during the 2008 campaign and The Washington Post revived it as a permanent feature at the start of 2011. We will not be bound by the antics of the presidential campaign season, but will focus on any statements by political figures and government officials–in the United States and abroad–that cry out for fact-checking. It’s a big world out there, and so we will rely on readers to ask questions and point out statements that need to be checked. The purpose of this Web site, and an accompanying column in the Sunday print edition of The Washington Post, is to “truth squad” the statements of political figures regarding issues of great importance, be they national, international or local. As a presidential election approaches, we will increasingly focus on statements made in the heat of the presidential contest. But we will not be limited to political charges or countercharges. We will seek to explain difficult issues, provide missing context and provide analysis and explanation of various “code words” used by politicians, diplomats and others to obscure or shade the truth. The success of this project depends, to a great extent, on the involvement of you–the reader. We will rely on our readers to send us suggestions on topics to fact check and tips on erroneous claims by political candidates, interest groups, and the media. Once we have posted an item on a subject, we invite your comments and contributions. 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– The Washington Post is fact-checking Rudy Giuliani's recent claims about President Obama: On Fox News, the former New York mayor followed similar comments at a dinner by saying he never hears from the president about "what a great country we are, what an exceptional country we are. When he called us an exceptional country, he said we’re an exceptional country, but so is Greece." Actually, Glenn Kessler finds, Obama talks about how great the US is pretty frequently, and his remarks on Greece were mischaracterized, landing Giuliani a "four Pinocchio" score. That's the Post Fact Checker's maximum, and it denotes "whoppers." Among Obama's comments on the topic: Obama's 2004 Democratic National Convention speech helped bring him to the world's attention—and right off the bat, he was praising an exceptional country. "In no other country on Earth is my story even possible," he said, describing the "greatness of our nation." During his first run for president: "Let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain.” And his second: "We are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth." Here he is last year: "I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being. But what makes us exceptional is not our ability to flout international norms and the rule of law; it is our willingness to affirm them through our actions." As for those comments on Greece, he was talking about how Greeks feel: "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." Still, 2016 hopeful Scott Walker doesn't seem to disagree with Giuliani.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.“I’m not condemning his patriotism — patriots can criticize. They’re allowed to criticize. I don’t hear from him what I heard from Harry Truman, what I heard from Bill Clinton, what I heard from Jimmy Carter, which is these wonderful words about what a great country we are, what an exceptional country we are. When he called us an exceptional country, he said we’re an exceptional country, but so is Greece.” — former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, interview on Fox News’ “The Kelly File,” Feb. 19, 2015 Does former Mayor Giuliani not listen to Obama’s speeches? The president has consistently expressed love of country and extolled the virtues of the United States in many speeches, while also at times acknowledging what he considered flaws and mistakes made in the past (what critics have labeled “an apology tour”). Here are a few examples from Obama: “I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy; our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ That is the true genius of America.” —July 27, 2004 “These people are a part of me. And they are part of America, this country that I love.” —March 18, 2008 “The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain.” —August 28, 2008 “The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known.” —June 4, 2009 “Each time I look at that flag, I’m reminded that our destiny is stitched together like those 50 stars and those 13 stripes. No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together. This nation is great because we worked as a team. This nation is great because we get each other’s backs. And if we hold fast to that truth, in this moment of trial, there is no challenge too great; no mission too hard.” —Jan. 24, 2012 “We keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon knowing that providence is with us and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.” —Sept. 6, 2012 “I just spoke to Governor Romney and I congratulated him and Congressman Ryan on a hard-fought campaign. We may have battled fiercely, but it is only because we love this country deeply and we care so much about its future….What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on Earth, the belief that our destiny is shared, that this country only works when we except certain obligations to one another and the future generations so that the freedom which so many Americans have fought for and died for comes with responsibilities as well as rights, and among those are love, and charity, and duty, and patriotism. That’s what makes America great.” —Nov. 7, 2012 “If we refocus our energies on building an economy that grows for everybody, and gives every child in this country a fair chance at success, then I remain confident that the future still looks brighter than the past, and that the best days for this country we love are still ahead.” —Dec. 4, 2013 “I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being. But what makes us exceptional is not our ability to flout international norms and the rule of law; it is our willingness to affirm them through our actions.” —May 28, 2014 It’s also worth noting that, contrary to Giuliani’s assertion that Obama said Greece is an exceptional country, what Obama said, in response to a question in 2009, was that this is what he suspected Greeks believe: “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” But Obama was just getting warmed up. His next sentence was: “I’m enormously proud of my country and its role and history in the world.” He continued: “If you think of our current situation, the United States remains the largest economy in the world. We have unmatched military capability. And I think that we have a core set of values that are enshrined in our Constitution, in our body of law, in our democratic practices, in our belief in free speech and equality, that — though imperfect — are exceptional.” The Pinocchio Test Giuliani must have muted the sound whenever Obama spoke. He certainly has every right to his opinion about the tenor of the president’s remarks. But he has no business claiming something that is so factually incorrect — or easily disproved. He earns four Pinocchios. Four Pinocchios (About our rating scale) Send us facts to check by filling out this form Follow The Fact Checker on Twitter and friend us on Facebook ||||| “Comment is free, but facts are sacred.” — C.P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, 1921 About The Fact Checker In an award-winning journalism career spanning more than three decades, Glenn Kessler has covered foreign policy, economic policy, the White House, Congress, politics, airline safety and Wall Street. He was The Washington Post’s chief State Department reporter for nine years, traveling around the world with three different Secretaries of State. Before that, he covered tax and budget policy for The Washington Post and also served as the newspaper’s national business editor. Kessler has long specialized in digging beyond the conventional wisdom, such as when he earned a “laurel” from the Columbia Journalism Review* for obtaining Federal Aviation Administration records that showed that then President Bill Clinton had not delayed any scheduled flights when he had a controversial haircut on an airport tarmac. Kessler helped pioneer the fact-checking of candidates’ statements during the 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, when he was chief political correspondent for Newsday, and continued to do it during the last four presidential campaigns for The Post. The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) in 2015 awarded Kessler its Media Literate Media award, presented every two years, for his work on The Fact Checker. In 2007, St. Martins Press published Kessler’s widely acclaimed book on Condoleezza Rice, The Confidante. Kessler appears frequently on television and has lectured widely on U.S. foreign policy. Our Goal This column first appeared during the 2008 campaign and The Washington Post revived it as a permanent feature at the start of 2011. We will not be bound by the antics of the presidential campaign season, but will focus on any statements by political figures and government officials–in the United States and abroad–that cry out for fact-checking. It’s a big world out there, and so we will rely on readers to ask questions and point out statements that need to be checked. The purpose of this Web site, and an accompanying column in the Sunday print edition of The Washington Post, is to “truth squad” the statements of political figures regarding issues of great importance, be they national, international or local. As a presidential election approaches, we will increasingly focus on statements made in the heat of the presidential contest. But we will not be limited to political charges or countercharges. We will seek to explain difficult issues, provide missing context and provide analysis and explanation of various “code words” used by politicians, diplomats and others to obscure or shade the truth. The success of this project depends, to a great extent, on the involvement of you–the reader. We will rely on our readers to send us suggestions on topics to fact check and tips on erroneous claims by political candidates, interest groups, and the media. Once we have posted an item on a subject, we invite your comments and contributions. You can follow us on Twitter at GlennKesslerWP or friend us on Facebook. We welcome comments and suggestions via tweets (Include #FactCheckThis in your tweet) or on our Facebook page. You can also email us at factchecker@washpost.com. If you have facts or documents that shed more light on the subject under discussion, or if you think we have made a mistake, let us know. We also want to make sure that the authors of questionable claims have ample opportunity to argue their case. We plan to issue our own opinion on factual disputes (see our rules on the “Pinocchio Test” on this Web page) but it can be revised and updated when fresh evidence emerges. C-SPAN Interviews On January 15, 2012, C-SPAN aired a one-hour interview with Glenn Kessler about the Fact Checker column and his life and career, which has been viewed on-line more than 400,000 times. (A transcript of the interview is also available.) In 2014, C-SPAN aired a second one-hour interview with Kessler. A Few Basic Principles • This is a fact-checking operation, not an opinion-checking operation. We are interested only in verifiable facts, though on occasion we may examine the roots of political rhetoric. • We will focus our attention and resources on the issues that are most important to voters. We cannot nitpick every detail of every speech. • We will stick to the facts of the issue under examination and are unmoved by ad hominem attacks. The identity or political ties of the person or organization making a charge is irrelevant: all that matters is whether their facts are accurate or inaccurate. • We will adopt a “reasonable man” standard for reaching conclusions. We do not demand 100 percent proof. • We will strive to be dispassionate and non-partisan, drawing attention to inaccurate statements on both left and right. The Pinocchio Test Where possible, we will adopt the following standard in fact-checking the claims of a politician, political candidate, diplomat or interest group. Repeated misstatements of previously debunked statistics can, over time, result in higher Pinocchio ratings for a particular claim. In other words, we may hold a politician to a higher standard if he or she already has been put on notice that a certain “fact” is dubious. We do make some allowance for statements made in live interviews, as opposed to a prepared text. We will judge more harshly statements from a prepared text, on the grounds that the politician and staff had time to discuss the statistic. We also make allowances if the politician or interest group acknowledges an error was made. Some shading of the facts. Selective telling of the truth. Some omissions and exaggerations, but no outright falsehoods. (You could view this as “mostly true.”) Significant omissions and/or exaggerations. Some factual error may be involved but not necessarily. A politician can create a false, misleading impression by playing with words and using legalistic language that means little to ordinary people. (Similar to “half true.”) Three Pinocchios Significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions. This gets into the realm of “mostly false.” But it could include statements which are technically correct (such as based on official government data) but are so taken out of context as to be very misleading. The line between Two and Three can be bit fuzzy and we do not award half-Pinocchios. So we strive to explain the factors that tipped us toward a Three. Whoppers. Statements and claims that contain “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” will be recognized with our prized Geppetto checkmark. A statement that represents a clear but unacknowledged “flip-flop” from a previously-held position. There are occasions when it is impossible to render a snap judgment because the issue is very complex or there are good arguments on both sides. In this case, we will withhold our judgment until we can gather more facts. We will use this website to shed as much light as possible on factual controversies that are not easily resolved. *** All judgments are subject to debate and criticism from our readers and interested parties, and can be revised if fresh evidence emerges. We invite you to join the discussion on these pages and contact the Fact Checker directly with tips, suggestions, and complaints. If you feel that we are being too harsh on one candidate and too soft on another, there is a simple remedy: let us know about misstatements and factual errors we may have overlooked. ————————————————————– Columbia Journalism Review, May 1993: * “LAUREL to New York Newsday, and to staff writer Glenn Kessler, for a record-breaking solo flight. With most of the nation’s news media zooming in on the president’s $ 200 haircut on the Los Angeles Airport runway and roaring about the disruptions his hirsutic hubris caused, Kessler took off in a different direction — and landed on some hard, concrete facts. His analysis of Federal Aviation Administration records, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, revealed that, contrary to stories of circling planes, jammed-up runways, and inconvenienced passengers (and contrary, too, to the apology the White House felt pressured to make), only one (unscheduled) air taxi reported an actual (two-minute) delay. Unfortunately, most of the nation’s news media, in usual near-perfect formation, found neither time nor space to correct a story that had been wildly off course.”

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1 of 2. A man pushes a Gendarmerie officer (C) away from an angry crowd, moments before he manages to escape in the back of a vehicle after being accused of being a supporter of the ousted Seleka fighters, in the capital Bangui February 5, 2014. BANGUI (Reuters) - A group of soldiers in Central African Republic's capital lynched a man on Wednesday whom they suspected of having been a rebel, minutes after hearing the new president promise to restore security at a ceremony to reinstate the divided country's armed forces. Meanwhile Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned that rebels who have fled the capital Bangui in recent weeks are regrouping in the country's northwest where they have launched renewed attacks against civilians. A Reuters witness saw about 20 uniformed soldiers accuse a member of the crowd at a training center in the capital Bangui of having belonged to Seleka, the mostly Muslim rebel group that seized power in a coup last March. They then stabbed him repeatedly until he was dead. A soldier stamped on the lifeless body, which was then dragged through the streets, dismembered and set alight as residents looked on and took photographs. Ten minutes earlier, about 20 meters (yards) away, the new interim president, Catherine Samba-Panza, had addressed the crowd of at least 1,000 soldiers at a ceremony meant to re-introduce the army to the nation after it effectively disappeared from view during Seleka's rule. "Within a month, I would like to fully secure the greater part of the country, and I aim to stick to my word," she said. Samba-Panza, appointed to lead the country to elections next February two weeks ago after coup leader Michel Djotodia stepped down under intense international pressure, made clear it would take time to restore order. "At a certain point, everyone will be held responsible for their acts. I am warning troublemakers who continue to sow disorder in the country," she said. REBELS REGROUPING Seleka's 10-month occupation of cities and towns across the country has been marked by rampant looting, torture and murder. The deep resentment they spawned among the Christian majority led to the formation of Christian "anti-balaka" militias, meaning "anti-machete" in the local Sango language, further fanning the flames of inter-religious bloodshed. About 1 million people, a quarter of the former French colony's population, have fled their homes. And the presence of 1,600 French soldiers and 5,000 African troops has so far failed to stop the tit-for-tat violence, which the United Nations says has already killed more than 2,000 people. At least 22 people, including 16 women, were killed on Wednesday when Seleka fighters attacked Nzakone, in northwestern Central African Republic, according to a resident of the village contacted by Reuters. "We're calling for the new government to send (African and French) soldiers to protect us and our towns, otherwise we'll be wiped out," said Elie Chikolo, adding that another 18 people were killed in attacks on nearby villages last week. Most Seleka fighters withdrew from Bangui after Samba-Panza's inauguration last month, but Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday that the rebels were regrouping. The rights group accused Chadian peacekeepers of facilitating the movements of Seleka leaders responsible for a new wave of atrocities. "If the African Union is truly going to protect civilians in the Central African Republic, it needs to rein in the rogue activities of the Chadian peacekeeping troops," said Peter Bouckaert, HRW's emergencies director. Many of Seleka's fighters come from Chad and Sudan, but Chadian officials deny supporting the rebels. Chadian military officials said on Wednesday they had detained and disarmed 262 fleeing Seleka fighters that had entered Chad, seizing more than 300 weapons, ammunition and a dozen vehicles. "We didn't want to give our weapons to the French, so we crossed over to give them to the Chadians," Seleka's Colonel Ahmat Abdelkérim Bahar told a Reuters journalist in the town of Doba. (Additional reporting by Madjiasra Nako in Doba; Writing by Emma Farge and Joe Bavier; Editing by Kevin Liffey, Sonya Hepinstall and Eric Walsh) ||||| The military ceremony Wednesday was meant to be a fresh beginning, an army being reconstituted after months of bloodshed, in front of a new interim president who declared how proud she was of the nation’s soldiers. But moments after the ceremony ended, the past returned with vengeance. A group of uniformed soldiers, witnesses said, spotted a man in the crowd who they suspected was a former rebel. They grabbed him and stripped off his clothes. Within seconds, he was stabbed to death with knives and machetes. One soldier stomped on his face; another dropped a huge slab of rock on his head. They chopped off one of his legs, the other foot and a hand. The soldiers dragged the corpse onto a busy avenue, as African peacekeepers watched. Then the soldiers grabbed tires from a nearby repair shop, threw them on the corpse and set it on fire. They posed for pictures, smiling with the burned corpse. Many bystanders approved of the man’s brutal end. Revenge had become part of their society’s fabric. “We think it was okay that the soldiers killed him,” said Junior Mazongo, 27, an employee at the tire repair shop. “In Africa, you take my eye, and I will take yours. You take my arm, and I will take yours.” Wednesday’s lynching was the latest disturbing sign of how far the Central African Republic, one of the world’s poorest countries, has disintegrated into a spiral of atrocities. The Seleka rebels seized power in a military coup in March, and since then, thousands of civilians have been killed and displaced as clashes between the mostly Muslim rebels and Christian militias have engulfed this Christian-majority nation. Last month, Michel Djotodia, the president installed by the rebels, resigned after pressure from regional countries in a bid to bring peace, and an interim president, Catherine Samba-Panza, filled his position. But those efforts have failed to stop the violence. Today, about 6,500 French and African peacekeepers are struggling to stem the brutalities. Wednesday’s violence also unveiled the tense environment in the capital. Even as the peacekeepers patrol the streets of Bangui and traffic has returned to normal in many areas, pockets of insecurity prevail. Sporadic gunfire explodes during the day. Muslim areas are still being looted; the streets empty by sundown. Nevertheless, the military ceremony was imbued with a sense of optimism. Samba-Panza pledged to secure most of the country “within a month” and vowed to go after anyone who fomented instability. “At a certain point, everyone will be held responsible for their acts,” she said in her address to the roughly 4,000 officers and soldiers. “I am warning troublemakers who continue to sow disorder in the country.” Shortly after Samba-Panza left, the soldiers targeted the alleged former rebel. It was unclear whether he was a Muslim or Christian, but many witnesses suspected that he was a Muslim because of his alleged ties to the rebels. Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director for Human Rights Watch, arrived shortly after the man was killed. He said the African peacekeepers were there but did nothing. A short while later, French soldiers arrived. “The body was completely on fire,” Bouckaert said. “People were taking photos, kids were standing around watching. The French troops walked up to the body and told people to back away.” “Then a woman came up to me and said, ‘We’ll eat him after he is cooked,’ ” Bouckaert said. “And then this guy walks up with the man’s leg. The soldiers just gasped. They are like, ‘Put it down,’ so he throws it into the fire, and he leaves. They just let him leave.” Afterward, local Red Cross workers came and carried away the remains. Within moments, traffic returned to the avenue, as the sidewalk craftsmen and employees of the tire repair shop went back to work. The only evidence of the lynching was the charred black patch on the road. Many of the soldiers involved in the killing could be identified in photos. Bouckaert said it was essential for Samba-Panza to condemn this “act of barbarity” and hold the perpetrators accountable. “This was a beautiful moment this morning,” Bouckaert said. “It was a moment of hope that suddenly turned into a moment of absolute horror once again. I have been here this time for two weeks, and I have seen five lynchings, or attempted lynchings. It’s not calming down. The horror is still unfolding.”

– A military event that was supposed to signal a new start for the Central African Republic became a horrific lynching that put the country's divisions on stark display yesterday. Moments after a speech from Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza hailing the reconstitution of the national army, a group of about 20 soldiers accused a man in the crowd of being a former rebel—and swiftly stabbed him to death. They then hacked off several of his limbs, dragged his lifeless body to a busy street, and set it on fire, the Washington Post reports. The soldiers then took smiling pictures in front of the blaze. African Peacekeeping troops simply watched, as did the crowd—which seemed largely approving. French troops eventually arrived and pushed people back. "A woman came up to me and said, 'We'll eat him after he is cooked,'" says a Human Rights Watch official who was there. CAR's Christian majority deeply resents the mostly-Muslim rebels, whose 10-month reign following a March coup was marked by looting, torture, and murder, Reuters explains. The rebels left power last month, but are regrouping in the Northwest.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.1 of 2. A man pushes a Gendarmerie officer (C) away from an angry crowd, moments before he manages to escape in the back of a vehicle after being accused of being a supporter of the ousted Seleka fighters, in the capital Bangui February 5, 2014. BANGUI (Reuters) - A group of soldiers in Central African Republic's capital lynched a man on Wednesday whom they suspected of having been a rebel, minutes after hearing the new president promise to restore security at a ceremony to reinstate the divided country's armed forces. Meanwhile Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned that rebels who have fled the capital Bangui in recent weeks are regrouping in the country's northwest where they have launched renewed attacks against civilians. A Reuters witness saw about 20 uniformed soldiers accuse a member of the crowd at a training center in the capital Bangui of having belonged to Seleka, the mostly Muslim rebel group that seized power in a coup last March. They then stabbed him repeatedly until he was dead. A soldier stamped on the lifeless body, which was then dragged through the streets, dismembered and set alight as residents looked on and took photographs. Ten minutes earlier, about 20 meters (yards) away, the new interim president, Catherine Samba-Panza, had addressed the crowd of at least 1,000 soldiers at a ceremony meant to re-introduce the army to the nation after it effectively disappeared from view during Seleka's rule. "Within a month, I would like to fully secure the greater part of the country, and I aim to stick to my word," she said. Samba-Panza, appointed to lead the country to elections next February two weeks ago after coup leader Michel Djotodia stepped down under intense international pressure, made clear it would take time to restore order. "At a certain point, everyone will be held responsible for their acts. I am warning troublemakers who continue to sow disorder in the country," she said. REBELS REGROUPING Seleka's 10-month occupation of cities and towns across the country has been marked by rampant looting, torture and murder. The deep resentment they spawned among the Christian majority led to the formation of Christian "anti-balaka" militias, meaning "anti-machete" in the local Sango language, further fanning the flames of inter-religious bloodshed. About 1 million people, a quarter of the former French colony's population, have fled their homes. And the presence of 1,600 French soldiers and 5,000 African troops has so far failed to stop the tit-for-tat violence, which the United Nations says has already killed more than 2,000 people. At least 22 people, including 16 women, were killed on Wednesday when Seleka fighters attacked Nzakone, in northwestern Central African Republic, according to a resident of the village contacted by Reuters. "We're calling for the new government to send (African and French) soldiers to protect us and our towns, otherwise we'll be wiped out," said Elie Chikolo, adding that another 18 people were killed in attacks on nearby villages last week. Most Seleka fighters withdrew from Bangui after Samba-Panza's inauguration last month, but Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday that the rebels were regrouping. The rights group accused Chadian peacekeepers of facilitating the movements of Seleka leaders responsible for a new wave of atrocities. "If the African Union is truly going to protect civilians in the Central African Republic, it needs to rein in the rogue activities of the Chadian peacekeeping troops," said Peter Bouckaert, HRW's emergencies director. Many of Seleka's fighters come from Chad and Sudan, but Chadian officials deny supporting the rebels. Chadian military officials said on Wednesday they had detained and disarmed 262 fleeing Seleka fighters that had entered Chad, seizing more than 300 weapons, ammunition and a dozen vehicles. "We didn't want to give our weapons to the French, so we crossed over to give them to the Chadians," Seleka's Colonel Ahmat Abdelkérim Bahar told a Reuters journalist in the town of Doba. (Additional reporting by Madjiasra Nako in Doba; Writing by Emma Farge and Joe Bavier; Editing by Kevin Liffey, Sonya Hepinstall and Eric Walsh) ||||| The military ceremony Wednesday was meant to be a fresh beginning, an army being reconstituted after months of bloodshed, in front of a new interim president who declared how proud she was of the nation’s soldiers. But moments after the ceremony ended, the past returned with vengeance. A group of uniformed soldiers, witnesses said, spotted a man in the crowd who they suspected was a former rebel. They grabbed him and stripped off his clothes. Within seconds, he was stabbed to death with knives and machetes. One soldier stomped on his face; another dropped a huge slab of rock on his head. They chopped off one of his legs, the other foot and a hand. The soldiers dragged the corpse onto a busy avenue, as African peacekeepers watched. Then the soldiers grabbed tires from a nearby repair shop, threw them on the corpse and set it on fire. They posed for pictures, smiling with the burned corpse. Many bystanders approved of the man’s brutal end. Revenge had become part of their society’s fabric. “We think it was okay that the soldiers killed him,” said Junior Mazongo, 27, an employee at the tire repair shop. “In Africa, you take my eye, and I will take yours. You take my arm, and I will take yours.” Wednesday’s lynching was the latest disturbing sign of how far the Central African Republic, one of the world’s poorest countries, has disintegrated into a spiral of atrocities. The Seleka rebels seized power in a military coup in March, and since then, thousands of civilians have been killed and displaced as clashes between the mostly Muslim rebels and Christian militias have engulfed this Christian-majority nation. Last month, Michel Djotodia, the president installed by the rebels, resigned after pressure from regional countries in a bid to bring peace, and an interim president, Catherine Samba-Panza, filled his position. But those efforts have failed to stop the violence. Today, about 6,500 French and African peacekeepers are struggling to stem the brutalities. Wednesday’s violence also unveiled the tense environment in the capital. Even as the peacekeepers patrol the streets of Bangui and traffic has returned to normal in many areas, pockets of insecurity prevail. Sporadic gunfire explodes during the day. Muslim areas are still being looted; the streets empty by sundown. Nevertheless, the military ceremony was imbued with a sense of optimism. Samba-Panza pledged to secure most of the country “within a month” and vowed to go after anyone who fomented instability. “At a certain point, everyone will be held responsible for their acts,” she said in her address to the roughly 4,000 officers and soldiers. “I am warning troublemakers who continue to sow disorder in the country.” Shortly after Samba-Panza left, the soldiers targeted the alleged former rebel. It was unclear whether he was a Muslim or Christian, but many witnesses suspected that he was a Muslim because of his alleged ties to the rebels. Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director for Human Rights Watch, arrived shortly after the man was killed. He said the African peacekeepers were there but did nothing. A short while later, French soldiers arrived. “The body was completely on fire,” Bouckaert said. “People were taking photos, kids were standing around watching. The French troops walked up to the body and told people to back away.” “Then a woman came up to me and said, ‘We’ll eat him after he is cooked,’ ” Bouckaert said. “And then this guy walks up with the man’s leg. The soldiers just gasped. They are like, ‘Put it down,’ so he throws it into the fire, and he leaves. They just let him leave.” Afterward, local Red Cross workers came and carried away the remains. Within moments, traffic returned to the avenue, as the sidewalk craftsmen and employees of the tire repair shop went back to work. The only evidence of the lynching was the charred black patch on the road. Many of the soldiers involved in the killing could be identified in photos. Bouckaert said it was essential for Samba-Panza to condemn this “act of barbarity” and hold the perpetrators accountable. “This was a beautiful moment this morning,” Bouckaert said. “It was a moment of hope that suddenly turned into a moment of absolute horror once again. I have been here this time for two weeks, and I have seen five lynchings, or attempted lynchings. It’s not calming down. The horror is still unfolding.”

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Now available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK. OFFICIAL T-SHIRT DESIGNS ADDED! PICTURES & DETAILS BELOW! AND YES, IT IS POSSIBLE TO GET BOTH T-SHIRT DESIGNS - SEE THE FAQ FOR MORE INFO! WE DID IT, MARSHMALLOWS! With six hours to spare, we shattered the last record we were aiming for, passing 87,143 to become the Kickstarter with the all-time highest number of backers. Let's review our accomplishments for a moment, shall we? Fastest project to reach $1 million. Fastest project to reach $2 million. All-time highest-funded project in FILM category. Third highest-funded project in Kickstarter history. Most project backers of any project in Kickstarter history. And we suspect there might be others. You're simply amazing. As a token of our appreciation to the 90,000+ backers who have helped us raise more than $5.6 million to support the film, we're excited to announce that all backers pledging $10 or more will get an additional reward: a sheet of exclusive Veronica Mars stickers designed just for our backers. We're finalizing the designs, but we expect them to look a lot like this: Check back here every day for more announcements and new rewards, and help us make the Veronica Mars movie we (and you) have been waiting for. LoVe and Gratitude - Rob, Kristen & The Team Stay Involved! We need your help to spread the word! Please LIKE us at http://www.facebook.com/TheVeronicaMarsMovie and youtube.com/veronicamarsmovie and FOLLOW us on Twitter via @VeronicaMars, @RobThomas and @IMKristenBell to stay involved. Tell other fans! Tell co-workers and classmates! And of course, keep checking here for more updates! NEW!!! Official T-Shirt Designs! Great news! We've got official t-shirt designs to share, and we couldn't be more excited about them. Backers at $25 and above will get to choose from two options. The first is California Noir, featuring the world's sassiest detective back in action. The second is called Mini-Blinds, and takes a more subtle approach. Both t-shirt designs are black, and printed on unbelievably soft, beautiful materials. These are not never-to-be-worn t-shirts, we guarantee. These are the real deal. When the Kickstarter campaign ends, after we've had a little time to organize the results, we'll get in touch backers so you can tell us your preferred design, size, etc. April 11 April 2 We are in the home stretch now, Marshmallows! And here's the new situation: our not-so-secret ambition is to have more backers than any Kickstarter drive in history. To do that we just need to get past Double Fine Adventure's 87,142 backers. We just need 23,000 more backers. So, starting right now, we're adding an official $1 donor level. Get your friends to climb aboard, and help us make history! Also, starting today, Kickstarter backers are going to begin receiving exclusive for-your-eyes only content. You can get in on that with a simple $1 pledge! (And of course, if you've already donated, you're already on the exclusive update gravy wagon.) Plus, there'll be a backers-only treat tomorrow. I promise. You guys are the best. Keep it up. Our love is epic. - Rob March 13 Well, there's no other way to say it: wow. We asked for help, and you came through in the biggest way. It's hard to believe how fast we shattered some of Kickstarter's biggest records, but that's what you guys do. Us? We're just excited and grateful, and thrilled that so many of you want to go back to Neptune with us. But you know what? Now that we know what's possible, there's more work to do. $2,000,000 is just the beginning! We've got 30 days, and the more we raise, the bigger and better this movie will be. So, let's not pop the cork on this champagne yet. We still need you! Please keep it up, and we'll keep working to deserve your support. - Rob 11 hours, you guys? Seriously? It only took you 11 HOURS to cross 2 million dollars? You speedy little marshmallows :) Words can't even express how excited we are. You came through, and I'll keep my promise too. We're going to make the best Veronica Mars movie anyone ever made, and the movie YOU deserve. Because YOU made this happen. But there's still time, and the more we raise, the better we can make it. All of the money you pledge this month goes right back into making this movie the one you've been waiting for, and the movie we've been waiting to make. So call your friends. Rally the troops. Lets break another record. LoVe always, kristen bell Day 1: Messages from Rob & Kristen Almost since Veronica Mars went off the air, there's been talk of making a movie. In that span, I've taken different tactics in dealing with the question of whether it might happen. To be clear, I've always wanted to make a Veronica Mars movie. I love writing these characters and working with these actors. Kristen Bell has always wanted to make the movie. There was a moment, a few years ago, when we thought we had a real shot at making it happen. I developed a pitch that revolved around graduation day at Hearst college -- Wallace and Mac were graduating at least, Veronica had been sidetracked by freeing Keith from prison. Plus, there was a murder in Neptune that was affecting the beach city's spring break business in much the same way a great white shark affected the beach community of Amity. I probably stoked fan fervor in my optimistic comments about the prospects. Warner Bros. wasn’t convinced there was enough interest to warrant a major studio-sized movie about Veronica and the project never got off the ground. After that, I tried to tamp down expectations. I didn't want to be guilty — at least not twice — of building up hope when the odds seemed so long. Still, without fail, in every interview I do or every place I speak, I get the "will there be a Veronica Mars movie?" question. Even after a couple of years of downplaying the chances, I'd still run across blog postings headlined, "will Rob Thomas shut up about the Veronica Mars movie, already!" I was trying to. I promise. I first found out about Kickstarter a couple of years ago from an Austin musician friend of mine — Robert Harrison, lead singer of Cotton Mather, the band that gave us "Lily Dreams On," our closing song of season 1. He financed a rerelease of the band's fantastic Kontiki album. Later, I was marveling about Kickstarter with another buddy of mine who said off-handedly, "You should use Kickstarter to raise the money to make the Veronica Mars movie." I chuckled. That seemed like a silly idea in the moment. We'd need millions. But for the next few weeks, the notion was never far from my mind. I started doing the proverbial back-of-a-cocktail-napkin math. The average pledge on Kickstarter is $71. Hell, if we could get 30,000 people to give the average donation, we could finance the movie, particularly if the cast and I were willing to work cheap. The most common donation amount on Kickstarter is $25. Surely, 80,000 of our three million viewers would find that price-point viable! Of course, Warner Bros. still owns Veronica Mars and we would need their blessing and cooperation to pull this off. Kristen and I met with the Warner Bros. brass, and they agreed to allow us to take this shot. They were extremely cool about it, as a matter of fact. Their reaction was, if you can show there’s enough fan interest to warrant a movie, we’re on board. So this is it. This is our shot. I believe it's the only one we've got. It's nerve-wracking. I suppose we could fail in spectacular fashion, but there's also the chance that we completely revolutionize how projects like ours can get made. No Kickstarter project ever has set a goal this high. It's up to you, the fans, now. If the project is successful, our plan is to go into production this summer and the movie will be released in early 2014. Life has taken Veronica away from Neptune. In the years since spoiling Keith's chances to be reelected sheriff, Veronica hasn't taken a case. But something big is about to bring her back home and back to her calling. My goal is to include as many of your favorite characters as possible. It is, after all, time for Veronica’s 10-year high school reunion. Keep in mind that the more money we raise, the cooler movie we can make. A two million dollar fundraising total probably means cross words are exchanged at the class reunion. Three million? We can afford a full-on brawl. Ten million? Who knows... For some reason the Neptune High class reunion takes place on a nuclear submarine! A Hobbit shows up! There’s a Bollywood end-credit dance number! I’ve always wanted to direct Bill Murray. We’ll figure out something cool. Hey, if that total goes high enough, I’ll bet the good folks at Warner Bros. will agree a sequel is a good idea. Thanks to everyone who hasn't lost faith. Rob Day 1: A Message from Kristen dearest marshmallows... I am currently the happiest blonde in a hamster ball the world has ever seen. We have been waiting so long to make this movie dream a movie reality, and it’s because of YOUR commitment, YOUR persistence, that we finally have a chance. We just have one more step to go. You have banded together like the sassy little honey badgers you are and made this possibility happen. i promise if we hit our goal, we will make the sleuthiest, snarkiest, it’s-all-fun-and-games-‘til-one-of-you-gets-my-foot-up-your-ass movie we possibly can. I promise to give it my all. i promise to work my hardest to give everyone a little bit more Veronica, and i will be oh so honored to do so. I only ask for one thing in return. If I ever die, do me a favor. Go on Oprah and tell the world that I loved kittens. LoVe to you ALL, kristen bell More Countries! More Continents! Our first nine reward levels are now available to backers in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. (But please note that additional charges for international shipping might apply!) Thank you so much for your patience. We're so happy to have you aboard. ||||| This morning, television writer Rob Thomas launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a movie based on the cult teen detective show he created, Veronica Mars. If they get to $2,000,000, they'll make the movie and Warner Bros. will distribute it and everyone will win. Right? Wrong! While I'm a fan of V. Mars and her sleuth gang, this Kickstarter strikes me as a bit problematic. And you know what? So does a lot of Kickstarter. In Veronica Mars's case, they're asking you to pay for what will ultimately be a studio movie. This is not some independent film, financed on credit cards and bake sales. Nor is this an investment that anyone who donates will ever see a return on; essentially you'll be a pro bono producer. There's even a joke in the campaign's introductory video about giving donors an associate producer credit, the joke being that the title is itself a joke. Aside from some assorted rewards that only get good in the really high donation brackets, the only thing you get in return for your investment is the movie, which (depending on the size of your investment) you'll have to pay for anyway. And that movie will be based on a little-watched television show that's been off the air for six years. It's hard to see how the juice is really worth the squeeze. If this was some little indie movie it'd be different, but again Warner Bros. will be the ones distributing it and, theoretically, pocketing any extra money that comes in. Basically you're donating money to a movie studio. Is that something anyone should be asking you to do? Which brings up the larger issue of Kickstarter as a whole. Most of these campaigns aren't people who need the money, they're people who just want it. The same could be said for lots of actual charities, sure — if you boil the word "need" down enough, nothing but food, water, and air is left. But here in the bourgie, comfy confines of wealthy Western society, we're talking about people like the indie musician Amanda Palmer, who raised $1.2 million on Kickstarter to make and distribute a folk album. That's all. Amanda Palmer, who is married to successful author Neil Gaiman and has been a prominent musician for a decade or so. Handed $1.2 million because she asked for it. People are free to spend their money however they want, but there's something so unseemly about the asking, isn't there? Maybe that reaction is owed to some overly reserved New England quality in me that I should fight against, but I can't help but feel that Kickstarter campaigns for stuff like this, that is stuff people are having no trouble selling elsewhere, are a bit gauche. Plus it's too easy. Sure there might be some campaigning to be done on, I dunno, Twitter or whatever, but mostly Kickstarter is a passive thing. You set up the page, set certain reward levels, and then sit back and watch the dough roll in. Well, that's if you're prominent enough, I guess. Anyone can start a Kickstarter for just about any reason. I guess my ire is really directed at the famous and semi-famous people who, rather than hustle around town drumming up the money from proper backers and investors and then hoping money from their fans will roll in, just make some cutesy video instead and figure their work done. There's an arrogance to it that I find extremely unbecoming. You need look no further for evidence of that arrogance (in the guise of doing a Super Cool thing) than the reward for a $400 donation to the Veronica Mars movie: "If you kick in $400 to the cause, we will love you so much that Kristen (@IMKristenBell) and Rob (@RobThomas) will follow you on Twitter for an entire year." I mean ugh, right?? This is the kind of thing that Kickstarter facilitates. It's the height of tacky. Another part of my revulsion is, yes, likely to do with the simple fact that art-related Kickstarter campaigns strip away the pretense that art and commerce aren't inextricably linked. Money has always been part of the commercial art game, but the budgeting and haggling is usually done out of view, by a few select professionals. Kickstarter, though, puts the economic reality right out in the light for all to see. Someone like Amanda Palmer is essentially telling us that she doesn't want to work on spec, so if we want to hear something new, we have to pay in advance. At a moment when we're discussing the complexities of for-pay creativity, Kickstarter openly democratizes the compensatory system. I intellectually know that's probably a good thing, but my gut still finds all the upfront money talk to be a bit unrefined, let's say. Art should exist for art's sake! Crassly bringing money into the conversation sullies everything. So, I know that part of my distaste is silly. But there's still the problem of that tackiness, the self-indulgence posing as community bartering. That would be more palatable if there was some return on the investment beyond the production of a thing that people giving the money were going to buy anyway. I realize it's unrealistic to propose that Kickstarter figures out some kind of reciprocity arrangement. That would defeat the whole point, really. And I realize that were it not for an outrageous thing like this, the Veronica Mars movie could very likely never be made. (Maybe that would be a good thing though? If you think about it?) It's pessimistic to rain on everyone's "we can do this" parade, yes, but wealthy celebrities drumming up consequence-free cash for their next projects just doesn't feel like the proper use of a site like Kickstarter. Want to start a campaign to, I dunno, send a dying person on a nice trip? Sure, go right ahead. It doesn't even have to be as serious as that. Use Kickstarter to get a sports team some new equipment, whatever. But when it's used to pay production costs for a Warner Bros. movie, the system seems abused. Clearly I'm in a minority here. The Veronica Mars campaign has shot past a million dollars in less than a day. (Of course, studio economics being what they are, they are still nearly a million dollars short of their goal.) So people are into the idea of funding this movie. And that's fine, it's their money. What annoys me is that the campaign's success might embolden other essentially corporate interests to do the same thing. It's free money and they pocket all the profit! It's a great arrangement for them, so why wouldn't they try it? As charming as the Veronica Mars crew is, some darkness lies behind their big idea. Which is why it might ultimately be better if it fails. There, I said it. Corporate opportunism posing as empowerment of the masses is not something we should encourage. Sorry, Logan. But hey, Mars crew. When you do make it, because you will? At least put all the names of the people who donated to the movie in the closing credits. The largest Kickstarter in history probably deserves the longest movie credits, don't you think? Want to add to this story? Let us know in comments or send an email to the author at rlawson at theatlantic dot com. You can share ideas for stories on the Open Wire. Richard Lawson

– Veronica Mars fans eager for a movie based on the TV series put their money where their hopes are, and it looks like a film will be coming. Series creator Rob Thomas launched a Kickstarter campaign yesterday to fund a big-screen version of the show, which starred Kristen Bell as a young sleuth and ended its three-season run in 2007. On the Kickstarter website, Thomas said the $2 million fundraiser represents "our one shot to see a Veronica Mars movie happen." The $2 million was raised in just 10 hours, E! reports, and the campaign—which had reached more than $2.6 million as of this posting—still has 29 days left. It's the fastest project yet to reach $1 million on Kickstarter—in 4 hours, 24 minutes—and the most-funded film or video project to date, according to a rep for the site. Thomas said Veronica Mars owner Warner Bros. has given the project its blessing, and Bell and other cast members are ready to begin production this summer for a 2014 release. A studio spokesman said a limited release, meaning it may not be on thousands of screens or in every city, is likely at this point. Of course, not everyone is a fan of the Kickstarter strategy: In an Atlantic Wire post titled, "Anyone Know of a Better Charity Than the Veronica Mars Movie?," Richard Lawson points out that Warner Bros. will theoretically pocket any extra money raised.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Now available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK. OFFICIAL T-SHIRT DESIGNS ADDED! PICTURES & DETAILS BELOW! AND YES, IT IS POSSIBLE TO GET BOTH T-SHIRT DESIGNS - SEE THE FAQ FOR MORE INFO! WE DID IT, MARSHMALLOWS! With six hours to spare, we shattered the last record we were aiming for, passing 87,143 to become the Kickstarter with the all-time highest number of backers. Let's review our accomplishments for a moment, shall we? Fastest project to reach $1 million. Fastest project to reach $2 million. All-time highest-funded project in FILM category. Third highest-funded project in Kickstarter history. Most project backers of any project in Kickstarter history. And we suspect there might be others. You're simply amazing. As a token of our appreciation to the 90,000+ backers who have helped us raise more than $5.6 million to support the film, we're excited to announce that all backers pledging $10 or more will get an additional reward: a sheet of exclusive Veronica Mars stickers designed just for our backers. We're finalizing the designs, but we expect them to look a lot like this: Check back here every day for more announcements and new rewards, and help us make the Veronica Mars movie we (and you) have been waiting for. LoVe and Gratitude - Rob, Kristen & The Team Stay Involved! We need your help to spread the word! Please LIKE us at http://www.facebook.com/TheVeronicaMarsMovie and youtube.com/veronicamarsmovie and FOLLOW us on Twitter via @VeronicaMars, @RobThomas and @IMKristenBell to stay involved. Tell other fans! Tell co-workers and classmates! And of course, keep checking here for more updates! NEW!!! Official T-Shirt Designs! Great news! We've got official t-shirt designs to share, and we couldn't be more excited about them. Backers at $25 and above will get to choose from two options. The first is California Noir, featuring the world's sassiest detective back in action. The second is called Mini-Blinds, and takes a more subtle approach. Both t-shirt designs are black, and printed on unbelievably soft, beautiful materials. These are not never-to-be-worn t-shirts, we guarantee. These are the real deal. When the Kickstarter campaign ends, after we've had a little time to organize the results, we'll get in touch backers so you can tell us your preferred design, size, etc. April 11 April 2 We are in the home stretch now, Marshmallows! And here's the new situation: our not-so-secret ambition is to have more backers than any Kickstarter drive in history. To do that we just need to get past Double Fine Adventure's 87,142 backers. We just need 23,000 more backers. So, starting right now, we're adding an official $1 donor level. Get your friends to climb aboard, and help us make history! Also, starting today, Kickstarter backers are going to begin receiving exclusive for-your-eyes only content. You can get in on that with a simple $1 pledge! (And of course, if you've already donated, you're already on the exclusive update gravy wagon.) Plus, there'll be a backers-only treat tomorrow. I promise. You guys are the best. Keep it up. Our love is epic. - Rob March 13 Well, there's no other way to say it: wow. We asked for help, and you came through in the biggest way. It's hard to believe how fast we shattered some of Kickstarter's biggest records, but that's what you guys do. Us? We're just excited and grateful, and thrilled that so many of you want to go back to Neptune with us. But you know what? Now that we know what's possible, there's more work to do. $2,000,000 is just the beginning! We've got 30 days, and the more we raise, the bigger and better this movie will be. So, let's not pop the cork on this champagne yet. We still need you! Please keep it up, and we'll keep working to deserve your support. - Rob 11 hours, you guys? Seriously? It only took you 11 HOURS to cross 2 million dollars? You speedy little marshmallows :) Words can't even express how excited we are. You came through, and I'll keep my promise too. We're going to make the best Veronica Mars movie anyone ever made, and the movie YOU deserve. Because YOU made this happen. But there's still time, and the more we raise, the better we can make it. All of the money you pledge this month goes right back into making this movie the one you've been waiting for, and the movie we've been waiting to make. So call your friends. Rally the troops. Lets break another record. LoVe always, kristen bell Day 1: Messages from Rob & Kristen Almost since Veronica Mars went off the air, there's been talk of making a movie. In that span, I've taken different tactics in dealing with the question of whether it might happen. To be clear, I've always wanted to make a Veronica Mars movie. I love writing these characters and working with these actors. Kristen Bell has always wanted to make the movie. There was a moment, a few years ago, when we thought we had a real shot at making it happen. I developed a pitch that revolved around graduation day at Hearst college -- Wallace and Mac were graduating at least, Veronica had been sidetracked by freeing Keith from prison. Plus, there was a murder in Neptune that was affecting the beach city's spring break business in much the same way a great white shark affected the beach community of Amity. I probably stoked fan fervor in my optimistic comments about the prospects. Warner Bros. wasn’t convinced there was enough interest to warrant a major studio-sized movie about Veronica and the project never got off the ground. After that, I tried to tamp down expectations. I didn't want to be guilty — at least not twice — of building up hope when the odds seemed so long. Still, without fail, in every interview I do or every place I speak, I get the "will there be a Veronica Mars movie?" question. Even after a couple of years of downplaying the chances, I'd still run across blog postings headlined, "will Rob Thomas shut up about the Veronica Mars movie, already!" I was trying to. I promise. I first found out about Kickstarter a couple of years ago from an Austin musician friend of mine — Robert Harrison, lead singer of Cotton Mather, the band that gave us "Lily Dreams On," our closing song of season 1. He financed a rerelease of the band's fantastic Kontiki album. Later, I was marveling about Kickstarter with another buddy of mine who said off-handedly, "You should use Kickstarter to raise the money to make the Veronica Mars movie." I chuckled. That seemed like a silly idea in the moment. We'd need millions. But for the next few weeks, the notion was never far from my mind. I started doing the proverbial back-of-a-cocktail-napkin math. The average pledge on Kickstarter is $71. Hell, if we could get 30,000 people to give the average donation, we could finance the movie, particularly if the cast and I were willing to work cheap. The most common donation amount on Kickstarter is $25. Surely, 80,000 of our three million viewers would find that price-point viable! Of course, Warner Bros. still owns Veronica Mars and we would need their blessing and cooperation to pull this off. Kristen and I met with the Warner Bros. brass, and they agreed to allow us to take this shot. They were extremely cool about it, as a matter of fact. Their reaction was, if you can show there’s enough fan interest to warrant a movie, we’re on board. So this is it. This is our shot. I believe it's the only one we've got. It's nerve-wracking. I suppose we could fail in spectacular fashion, but there's also the chance that we completely revolutionize how projects like ours can get made. No Kickstarter project ever has set a goal this high. It's up to you, the fans, now. If the project is successful, our plan is to go into production this summer and the movie will be released in early 2014. Life has taken Veronica away from Neptune. In the years since spoiling Keith's chances to be reelected sheriff, Veronica hasn't taken a case. But something big is about to bring her back home and back to her calling. My goal is to include as many of your favorite characters as possible. It is, after all, time for Veronica’s 10-year high school reunion. Keep in mind that the more money we raise, the cooler movie we can make. A two million dollar fundraising total probably means cross words are exchanged at the class reunion. Three million? We can afford a full-on brawl. Ten million? Who knows... For some reason the Neptune High class reunion takes place on a nuclear submarine! A Hobbit shows up! There’s a Bollywood end-credit dance number! I’ve always wanted to direct Bill Murray. We’ll figure out something cool. Hey, if that total goes high enough, I’ll bet the good folks at Warner Bros. will agree a sequel is a good idea. Thanks to everyone who hasn't lost faith. Rob Day 1: A Message from Kristen dearest marshmallows... I am currently the happiest blonde in a hamster ball the world has ever seen. We have been waiting so long to make this movie dream a movie reality, and it’s because of YOUR commitment, YOUR persistence, that we finally have a chance. We just have one more step to go. You have banded together like the sassy little honey badgers you are and made this possibility happen. i promise if we hit our goal, we will make the sleuthiest, snarkiest, it’s-all-fun-and-games-‘til-one-of-you-gets-my-foot-up-your-ass movie we possibly can. I promise to give it my all. i promise to work my hardest to give everyone a little bit more Veronica, and i will be oh so honored to do so. I only ask for one thing in return. If I ever die, do me a favor. Go on Oprah and tell the world that I loved kittens. LoVe to you ALL, kristen bell More Countries! More Continents! Our first nine reward levels are now available to backers in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. (But please note that additional charges for international shipping might apply!) Thank you so much for your patience. We're so happy to have you aboard. ||||| This morning, television writer Rob Thomas launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a movie based on the cult teen detective show he created, Veronica Mars. If they get to $2,000,000, they'll make the movie and Warner Bros. will distribute it and everyone will win. Right? Wrong! While I'm a fan of V. Mars and her sleuth gang, this Kickstarter strikes me as a bit problematic. And you know what? So does a lot of Kickstarter. In Veronica Mars's case, they're asking you to pay for what will ultimately be a studio movie. This is not some independent film, financed on credit cards and bake sales. Nor is this an investment that anyone who donates will ever see a return on; essentially you'll be a pro bono producer. There's even a joke in the campaign's introductory video about giving donors an associate producer credit, the joke being that the title is itself a joke. Aside from some assorted rewards that only get good in the really high donation brackets, the only thing you get in return for your investment is the movie, which (depending on the size of your investment) you'll have to pay for anyway. And that movie will be based on a little-watched television show that's been off the air for six years. It's hard to see how the juice is really worth the squeeze. If this was some little indie movie it'd be different, but again Warner Bros. will be the ones distributing it and, theoretically, pocketing any extra money that comes in. Basically you're donating money to a movie studio. Is that something anyone should be asking you to do? Which brings up the larger issue of Kickstarter as a whole. Most of these campaigns aren't people who need the money, they're people who just want it. The same could be said for lots of actual charities, sure — if you boil the word "need" down enough, nothing but food, water, and air is left. But here in the bourgie, comfy confines of wealthy Western society, we're talking about people like the indie musician Amanda Palmer, who raised $1.2 million on Kickstarter to make and distribute a folk album. That's all. Amanda Palmer, who is married to successful author Neil Gaiman and has been a prominent musician for a decade or so. Handed $1.2 million because she asked for it. People are free to spend their money however they want, but there's something so unseemly about the asking, isn't there? Maybe that reaction is owed to some overly reserved New England quality in me that I should fight against, but I can't help but feel that Kickstarter campaigns for stuff like this, that is stuff people are having no trouble selling elsewhere, are a bit gauche. Plus it's too easy. Sure there might be some campaigning to be done on, I dunno, Twitter or whatever, but mostly Kickstarter is a passive thing. You set up the page, set certain reward levels, and then sit back and watch the dough roll in. Well, that's if you're prominent enough, I guess. Anyone can start a Kickstarter for just about any reason. I guess my ire is really directed at the famous and semi-famous people who, rather than hustle around town drumming up the money from proper backers and investors and then hoping money from their fans will roll in, just make some cutesy video instead and figure their work done. There's an arrogance to it that I find extremely unbecoming. You need look no further for evidence of that arrogance (in the guise of doing a Super Cool thing) than the reward for a $400 donation to the Veronica Mars movie: "If you kick in $400 to the cause, we will love you so much that Kristen (@IMKristenBell) and Rob (@RobThomas) will follow you on Twitter for an entire year." I mean ugh, right?? This is the kind of thing that Kickstarter facilitates. It's the height of tacky. Another part of my revulsion is, yes, likely to do with the simple fact that art-related Kickstarter campaigns strip away the pretense that art and commerce aren't inextricably linked. Money has always been part of the commercial art game, but the budgeting and haggling is usually done out of view, by a few select professionals. Kickstarter, though, puts the economic reality right out in the light for all to see. Someone like Amanda Palmer is essentially telling us that she doesn't want to work on spec, so if we want to hear something new, we have to pay in advance. At a moment when we're discussing the complexities of for-pay creativity, Kickstarter openly democratizes the compensatory system. I intellectually know that's probably a good thing, but my gut still finds all the upfront money talk to be a bit unrefined, let's say. Art should exist for art's sake! Crassly bringing money into the conversation sullies everything. So, I know that part of my distaste is silly. But there's still the problem of that tackiness, the self-indulgence posing as community bartering. That would be more palatable if there was some return on the investment beyond the production of a thing that people giving the money were going to buy anyway. I realize it's unrealistic to propose that Kickstarter figures out some kind of reciprocity arrangement. That would defeat the whole point, really. And I realize that were it not for an outrageous thing like this, the Veronica Mars movie could very likely never be made. (Maybe that would be a good thing though? If you think about it?) It's pessimistic to rain on everyone's "we can do this" parade, yes, but wealthy celebrities drumming up consequence-free cash for their next projects just doesn't feel like the proper use of a site like Kickstarter. Want to start a campaign to, I dunno, send a dying person on a nice trip? Sure, go right ahead. It doesn't even have to be as serious as that. Use Kickstarter to get a sports team some new equipment, whatever. But when it's used to pay production costs for a Warner Bros. movie, the system seems abused. Clearly I'm in a minority here. The Veronica Mars campaign has shot past a million dollars in less than a day. (Of course, studio economics being what they are, they are still nearly a million dollars short of their goal.) So people are into the idea of funding this movie. And that's fine, it's their money. What annoys me is that the campaign's success might embolden other essentially corporate interests to do the same thing. It's free money and they pocket all the profit! It's a great arrangement for them, so why wouldn't they try it? As charming as the Veronica Mars crew is, some darkness lies behind their big idea. Which is why it might ultimately be better if it fails. There, I said it. Corporate opportunism posing as empowerment of the masses is not something we should encourage. Sorry, Logan. But hey, Mars crew. When you do make it, because you will? At least put all the names of the people who donated to the movie in the closing credits. The largest Kickstarter in history probably deserves the longest movie credits, don't you think? Want to add to this story? Let us know in comments or send an email to the author at rlawson at theatlantic dot com. You can share ideas for stories on the Open Wire. Richard Lawson

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Muhammad Ali was a masterful boxer, winning the heavyweight championship three times while redefining the sport. Outside the ring, Ali often used his mouth to fight his battles. Whether he was taunting opponents like Joe Frazier or George Foreman, or backing up his religious, political and social stances, Ali was an effective orator. Here are some of his greatest moments. “Henry, this is no jive. The fight will end in five.” A young Cassius Clay, in a 1963 interview, claiming to have predicted the round in which he would beat the British boxer Henry Cooper. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Clay taunted the boxer Sonny Liston in the days before their world heavyweight title bout in February 1964. “I am the greatest.” Before his fight against Sonny Liston in 1964, Clay made his famous boast. “Shoot them for what? They never called me nigger. They never lynched me.” Ali refused to be drafted into the armed forces during the Vietnam War. He was denied a boxing license and did not fight for three years. “My name is Muhammad Ali, and you will announce it right there in center of that ring.” Ali addressing Ernie Terrell, who kept calling him Cassius Clay, before Ali slapped him in the face during a television interview. “Why is Jesus White?” Ali in 1971, recounting a childhood conversation with his mother. “I have wrestled with a alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, throwed thunder in jail.” Before the heavyweight championship fight in 1974 against George Foreman known as “The Rumble in the Jungle.” ||||| The boxer wasn’t known as the Louisville Lip for nothing. Following his death in the US on Friday, here are Ali’s sharpest verbal jabs and most withering putdowns Muhammad Ali - referred to by some as the Louisville Lip - had a way with words that few sports personalities have come close to rivalling. Journalists over the decades have faced an uphill battle trying to out-word the boxer, given that he usually did a far better job of describing himself or his opponents than they could. Muhammad Ali: share your photos and tributes with us Read more Selecting the best quotes from the millions of words Ali uttered at lightning speed during his career is a challenge, but here are some of the best known, along with a few that are less well remembered. On boxing I’m not the greatest. I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‘em out, I pick the round. I’m the boldest, the prettiest, the most superior, most scientific, most skillfullest fighter in the ring today.” It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.” He even penned a poem before taking on Sonny Liston in 1964: ...now Clay swings with a right, what a beautiful swing And raises the bear straight out of the ring; Liston is rising and the ref wears a frown For he can’t start counting ‘til Liston comes down; Now Liston disappears from view, the crowd is getting frantic But our radar stations have picked him up somewhere over the Atlantic; Who would have thought when they came to the fight That they’d witness the launching of a human satellite? Yes the crowd did not dream when they laid down their money That they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny.” A 1967 quote reproduced in Hunter S Thompson’s 1978 Rolling Stone feature: When I’m gone, boxing will be nothing again. The fans with the cigars and the hats turned down’ll be there, but no more housewives and little men in the street and foreign presidents. It’s goin’ to be back to the fighter who comes to town, smells a flower, visits a hospital, blows a horn and says he’s in shape. Old hat. I was the onliest boxer in history people asked questions like a senator.” Sometimes there was even a touch of humility: There are no pleasures in a fight, but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.” The Rumble in the Jungle, 1974 Float like a butterfly sting like a bee – his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.” And in an equally famous boast: I done something new for this fight. I wrestled with an alligator. I tussled with a whale. I handcuffed lightning, I thrown thunder in jail. Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick. I’m so mean I make medicine sick.” Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and got into bed before the room was dark.” The Thrilla in Manilla, 1975 I saw your wife. You’re not as dumb as you look.” Better remembered, perhaps, is this line: It will be a killer and a chiller and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.” Draft dodging Ali also strayed into the political arena after refusing to serve in the US army during the Vietnam war. His explanation? I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong” Of the US government’s attempts to jail him for draft-dodging, he said: They did what they thought was right, and I did what I thought was right.” And after being convicted of draft-dodging in 1970, in one of his most famous lines, he said: I am America. I am the part you won’t recognise. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky, my name not yours. My religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.” Race Many of his comments referred explicitly to race and the treatment of black people in the US: Muhammad Ali obituary Read more I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin’ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.” Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.” I may not talk perfect white talk-type English, but I give you wisdom.” Name change, 1964 Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn’t choose it and I don’t want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name – it means beloved of God, and I insist people use it when people speak to me and of me.” Later in life He maintained his sharp tongue despite the toll that boxing had taken on his body: People say I talk so slow today. That’s no surprise. I calculated I’ve taken 29,000 punches. But I earned $57m and I saved half of it. So I took a few hard knocks. Do you know how many black men are killed every year by guns and knives without a penny to their names? I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.” What I suffered physically was worth what I’ve accomplished in life. A man who is not courageous enough to take risks will never accomplish anything in life.” A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” Last words I’m not afraid of dying. I have faith; I do everything I can to live my life right; and I believe that dying will bring me closer to God.” ||||| CLOSE Oscar de la Hoya, Bernard Hopkins and other boxers repeat quotes from Muhammad Ali. USA TODAY Sports Muhammad Ali is considered to be one of the best boxers of all-time. (Photo: Paul Hawthorne, Getty Images) Muhammad Ali, considered to be the greatest heavyweight boxer, died late Friday night in a Phoenix-area hospital at 74 years old. Here is a list of some of his best quotes (in no particular order): 1. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't. 2. "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." 3. "I'm young; I'm handsome; I'm fast. I can't possibly be beat." 4. "Don’t count the days; make the days count." 5. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it." Jesse Jackson said this as early as 1983, according to the Associated Press, and Ali used it in his 2004 book. 6. “It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am." 7. “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” 8. “If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.” 9. “Braggin' is when a person says something and can’t do it. I do what I say.” 10. "I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was." 11. "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." 12. "I'm so mean, I make medicine sick." 13. "I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked." 14. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” 15. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” 16. "A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” 17. “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.” 18. "I shook up the world. Me! Whee!" 19. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” 20. “At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.” 21. "A man who has no imagination has no wings." 22. "He’s (Sonny Liston) too ugly to be the world champ. The world champ should be pretty like me!" 23. "I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own." 24. “I’ve wrestled with alligators. I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning. And throw thunder in jail.” 25. "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong." “How tall are you? So I can know in advance how far to step back when you fall down!” #MuhammadAlipic.twitter.com/8rrmqL1fUP — Muhammad Ali (@MuhammadAli) April 6, 2016 26. “It’s not bragging if you can back it up.” 27. "I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them." 28. "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." 29. “I’m not the greatest, I’m the double greatest.” 30. “Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.”

– Muhammad Ali, who died Friday at age 74, wasn't known as the Louisville Lip for nothing. The man whose quick hands and feet stunned opponents inside the ring—and won him three heavyweight-boxing championships—showed just as much verbal dexterity for the microphones. Some of his best quotes, per the New York Times, the Guardian, and USA Today: Before the 1974 George Foreman Fight "Float like a butterfly sting like a bee—his hands can’t hit what his eyes can't see." "I done something new for this fight. I wrestled with an alligator. I tussled with a whale. I handcuffed lightning, I thrown thunder in jail. Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean I make medicine sick." In refusing to be drafted into the Vietnam war "I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong." "Shoot them for what? They never called me n-----. They never lynched me." In converting to Islam and changing his name "Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn’t choose it and I don’t want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name—it means beloved of God, and I insist people use it when people speak to me and of me." "What’s my name, fool? What’s my name?" he said in 1967 while fighting Ernie Terrell, who refused to recognize Ali's name change. And more "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." "At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don’t get very far." "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong." "Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Muhammad Ali was a masterful boxer, winning the heavyweight championship three times while redefining the sport. Outside the ring, Ali often used his mouth to fight his battles. Whether he was taunting opponents like Joe Frazier or George Foreman, or backing up his religious, political and social stances, Ali was an effective orator. Here are some of his greatest moments. “Henry, this is no jive. The fight will end in five.” A young Cassius Clay, in a 1963 interview, claiming to have predicted the round in which he would beat the British boxer Henry Cooper. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Clay taunted the boxer Sonny Liston in the days before their world heavyweight title bout in February 1964. “I am the greatest.” Before his fight against Sonny Liston in 1964, Clay made his famous boast. “Shoot them for what? They never called me nigger. They never lynched me.” Ali refused to be drafted into the armed forces during the Vietnam War. He was denied a boxing license and did not fight for three years. “My name is Muhammad Ali, and you will announce it right there in center of that ring.” Ali addressing Ernie Terrell, who kept calling him Cassius Clay, before Ali slapped him in the face during a television interview. “Why is Jesus White?” Ali in 1971, recounting a childhood conversation with his mother. “I have wrestled with a alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, throwed thunder in jail.” Before the heavyweight championship fight in 1974 against George Foreman known as “The Rumble in the Jungle.” ||||| The boxer wasn’t known as the Louisville Lip for nothing. Following his death in the US on Friday, here are Ali’s sharpest verbal jabs and most withering putdowns Muhammad Ali - referred to by some as the Louisville Lip - had a way with words that few sports personalities have come close to rivalling. Journalists over the decades have faced an uphill battle trying to out-word the boxer, given that he usually did a far better job of describing himself or his opponents than they could. Muhammad Ali: share your photos and tributes with us Read more Selecting the best quotes from the millions of words Ali uttered at lightning speed during his career is a challenge, but here are some of the best known, along with a few that are less well remembered. On boxing I’m not the greatest. I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‘em out, I pick the round. I’m the boldest, the prettiest, the most superior, most scientific, most skillfullest fighter in the ring today.” It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.” He even penned a poem before taking on Sonny Liston in 1964: ...now Clay swings with a right, what a beautiful swing And raises the bear straight out of the ring; Liston is rising and the ref wears a frown For he can’t start counting ‘til Liston comes down; Now Liston disappears from view, the crowd is getting frantic But our radar stations have picked him up somewhere over the Atlantic; Who would have thought when they came to the fight That they’d witness the launching of a human satellite? Yes the crowd did not dream when they laid down their money That they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny.” A 1967 quote reproduced in Hunter S Thompson’s 1978 Rolling Stone feature: When I’m gone, boxing will be nothing again. The fans with the cigars and the hats turned down’ll be there, but no more housewives and little men in the street and foreign presidents. It’s goin’ to be back to the fighter who comes to town, smells a flower, visits a hospital, blows a horn and says he’s in shape. Old hat. I was the onliest boxer in history people asked questions like a senator.” Sometimes there was even a touch of humility: There are no pleasures in a fight, but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.” The Rumble in the Jungle, 1974 Float like a butterfly sting like a bee – his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.” And in an equally famous boast: I done something new for this fight. I wrestled with an alligator. I tussled with a whale. I handcuffed lightning, I thrown thunder in jail. Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick. I’m so mean I make medicine sick.” Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and got into bed before the room was dark.” The Thrilla in Manilla, 1975 I saw your wife. You’re not as dumb as you look.” Better remembered, perhaps, is this line: It will be a killer and a chiller and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.” Draft dodging Ali also strayed into the political arena after refusing to serve in the US army during the Vietnam war. His explanation? I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong” Of the US government’s attempts to jail him for draft-dodging, he said: They did what they thought was right, and I did what I thought was right.” And after being convicted of draft-dodging in 1970, in one of his most famous lines, he said: I am America. I am the part you won’t recognise. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky, my name not yours. My religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.” Race Many of his comments referred explicitly to race and the treatment of black people in the US: Muhammad Ali obituary Read more I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin’ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.” Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.” I may not talk perfect white talk-type English, but I give you wisdom.” Name change, 1964 Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn’t choose it and I don’t want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name – it means beloved of God, and I insist people use it when people speak to me and of me.” Later in life He maintained his sharp tongue despite the toll that boxing had taken on his body: People say I talk so slow today. That’s no surprise. I calculated I’ve taken 29,000 punches. But I earned $57m and I saved half of it. So I took a few hard knocks. Do you know how many black men are killed every year by guns and knives without a penny to their names? I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.” What I suffered physically was worth what I’ve accomplished in life. A man who is not courageous enough to take risks will never accomplish anything in life.” A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” Last words I’m not afraid of dying. I have faith; I do everything I can to live my life right; and I believe that dying will bring me closer to God.” ||||| CLOSE Oscar de la Hoya, Bernard Hopkins and other boxers repeat quotes from Muhammad Ali. USA TODAY Sports Muhammad Ali is considered to be one of the best boxers of all-time. (Photo: Paul Hawthorne, Getty Images) Muhammad Ali, considered to be the greatest heavyweight boxer, died late Friday night in a Phoenix-area hospital at 74 years old. Here is a list of some of his best quotes (in no particular order): 1. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't. 2. "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." 3. "I'm young; I'm handsome; I'm fast. I can't possibly be beat." 4. "Don’t count the days; make the days count." 5. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it." Jesse Jackson said this as early as 1983, according to the Associated Press, and Ali used it in his 2004 book. 6. “It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am." 7. “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” 8. “If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.” 9. “Braggin' is when a person says something and can’t do it. I do what I say.” 10. "I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was." 11. "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." 12. "I'm so mean, I make medicine sick." 13. "I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked." 14. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” 15. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” 16. "A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” 17. “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.” 18. "I shook up the world. Me! Whee!" 19. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” 20. “At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.” 21. "A man who has no imagination has no wings." 22. "He’s (Sonny Liston) too ugly to be the world champ. The world champ should be pretty like me!" 23. "I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own." 24. “I’ve wrestled with alligators. I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning. And throw thunder in jail.” 25. "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong." “How tall are you? So I can know in advance how far to step back when you fall down!” #MuhammadAlipic.twitter.com/8rrmqL1fUP — Muhammad Ali (@MuhammadAli) April 6, 2016 26. “It’s not bragging if you can back it up.” 27. "I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them." 28. "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." 29. “I’m not the greatest, I’m the double greatest.” 30. “Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.”

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Navy is quite literally pulling people out of the stands to replace its players after quarterback Tago Smith left the game against Fordham with a knee injury. Per multiple reports, freshman backup quarterback Malcolm Perry, fully adorned in his dress whites to start the game, was pulled from the stands to dress out in a uniform at halftime. He will wear No. 5 in the second half. WOW! One of the Freshman Midshipmen in his dress whites was pulled out of the stands & sent to locker room. Replacing QB Tago Smith. #Navy — Pam Chvotkin (@reddusfoximus) September 3, 2016 Freshman QB Malcolm Perry was not dressed to start the game. He was pulled out of the Brigade when Tago went down. Will wear #5 in 2nd H — Scott Strasemeier (@ScottStras) September 3, 2016 Smith, making his first start as the successor to Keenan Reynolds, rushed for 97 yards and completed his lone pass attempt against Fordham before sustaining his knee injury. It's not clear yet what the extent of his injury is. Perry, a true freshman, finished with 30 yards rushing in the 52-16 win. ||||| After Navy quarterback Tago Smith goes down with an injury, the Midshipmen grab a backup, Malcolm Perry, from the stands and have him get dressed in the locker room before making an appearance in the fourth quarter. (0:22) Playing quarterback at Navy isn't a job, but it's sometimes an adventure. After starting quarterback Tago Smith injured his right knee in the first half of Saturday's 52-16 victory against FCS opponent Fordham, the Midshipmen pulled freshman Malcolm Perry out of the stands. Perry, listed as the team's No. 4 quarterback after preseason camp, was wearing his uniform whites while sitting in the brigade at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. By the fourth quarter, Perry, from Clarksville, Tennessee, was playing in the game. Navy freshman quarterback Malcolm Perry started the day in the stands but was running plays by the fourth quarter of the Midshipmen's 52-16 victory over Fordham. Rob Carr/Getty Images He ran for 32 yards on his first five carries in the Midshipmen's triple-option spread offense. He finished with 30 yards on seven rushing attempts, and he didn't throw a pass. After Smith was injured, Navy's coaches decided to get Perry out of the stands. They also had to send someone to get his uniform, which was inside the team's locker room at the academy. Navy officials said Perry didn't dress for the game because he was sick earlier this week, missing practices Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. He returned to practice Thursday and played in the JV game against Louisburg Junior College of North Carolina on Friday. Senior Will Worth took over the offense after Smith was hurt. Worth ran times for 22 yards with one touchdown and completed all three of his passes for 78 yards with one score. The extent of Smith's injury wasn't immediately known. The senior from Fayetteville, Georgia, had waited the past three seasons to start while playing behind Keenan Reynolds. Smith ran 10 times for 97 yards with two touchdowns and completed his only pass attempt for 45 yards before he was hurt against Fordham. Sophomore Zach Abey, who was the team's No. 3 quarterback, was suspended from playing in the game.

– When starter Tago Smith went out with an injury in the first half of Navy's game Saturday against Fordham, the team literally pulled a student out of the stands to play quarterback, USA Today reports. Granted that student, Malcolm Perry, is technically the team's fourth-string quarterback, but still. Perry was out of uniform (but in his Navy dress whites, according to CBS Sports) and in the stands because he was sick. But at halftime he found himself suiting up and joining the rest of the team. Despite being a backup to the backup, Perry actually saw some game time at the end of a 52-16 Navy blowout, leading the team on a 90-yard drive for a field goal. ESPN reports the freshman ran for 30 yards and didn't throw a pass while living out the fantasy of anyone who's ever attended a football game.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Navy is quite literally pulling people out of the stands to replace its players after quarterback Tago Smith left the game against Fordham with a knee injury. Per multiple reports, freshman backup quarterback Malcolm Perry, fully adorned in his dress whites to start the game, was pulled from the stands to dress out in a uniform at halftime. He will wear No. 5 in the second half. WOW! One of the Freshman Midshipmen in his dress whites was pulled out of the stands & sent to locker room. Replacing QB Tago Smith. #Navy — Pam Chvotkin (@reddusfoximus) September 3, 2016 Freshman QB Malcolm Perry was not dressed to start the game. He was pulled out of the Brigade when Tago went down. Will wear #5 in 2nd H — Scott Strasemeier (@ScottStras) September 3, 2016 Smith, making his first start as the successor to Keenan Reynolds, rushed for 97 yards and completed his lone pass attempt against Fordham before sustaining his knee injury. It's not clear yet what the extent of his injury is. Perry, a true freshman, finished with 30 yards rushing in the 52-16 win. ||||| After Navy quarterback Tago Smith goes down with an injury, the Midshipmen grab a backup, Malcolm Perry, from the stands and have him get dressed in the locker room before making an appearance in the fourth quarter. (0:22) Playing quarterback at Navy isn't a job, but it's sometimes an adventure. After starting quarterback Tago Smith injured his right knee in the first half of Saturday's 52-16 victory against FCS opponent Fordham, the Midshipmen pulled freshman Malcolm Perry out of the stands. Perry, listed as the team's No. 4 quarterback after preseason camp, was wearing his uniform whites while sitting in the brigade at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. By the fourth quarter, Perry, from Clarksville, Tennessee, was playing in the game. Navy freshman quarterback Malcolm Perry started the day in the stands but was running plays by the fourth quarter of the Midshipmen's 52-16 victory over Fordham. Rob Carr/Getty Images He ran for 32 yards on his first five carries in the Midshipmen's triple-option spread offense. He finished with 30 yards on seven rushing attempts, and he didn't throw a pass. After Smith was injured, Navy's coaches decided to get Perry out of the stands. They also had to send someone to get his uniform, which was inside the team's locker room at the academy. Navy officials said Perry didn't dress for the game because he was sick earlier this week, missing practices Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. He returned to practice Thursday and played in the JV game against Louisburg Junior College of North Carolina on Friday. Senior Will Worth took over the offense after Smith was hurt. Worth ran times for 22 yards with one touchdown and completed all three of his passes for 78 yards with one score. The extent of Smith's injury wasn't immediately known. The senior from Fayetteville, Georgia, had waited the past three seasons to start while playing behind Keenan Reynolds. Smith ran 10 times for 97 yards with two touchdowns and completed his only pass attempt for 45 yards before he was hurt against Fordham. Sophomore Zach Abey, who was the team's No. 3 quarterback, was suspended from playing in the game.

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DALLAS — Heather Mounce, who was saved in a dramatic rescue last August on the Oregon Coast, has been charged with 96 counts, including identity theft, first-degree theft, aggravated theft, and criminal mistreatment. Court records show that the charges were filed against the Dallas resident on Thursday with the Polk County Circuit Court. Mounce is scheduled for an arraignment on an indictment on Aug. 14. Theft victims are listed in the charges as Dallas Retirement Village, Oregon Center for Nursing, Mark and Elizabeth Weisensee, the owners of Dallas-based OpenRoad Transportation, and Antony Emil Britt, who is described in the court documents as a “elderly and dependent person,” in Mounce’s care. Mounce also is charged with multiple counts of identity theft involving Britt. Charges list that Mounce “with the intent to deceive or defraud, convert to defendant’s own use, create, obtain, possess, transfer and utter personal identification of” several businesses, including Oregon Live/Oregonian Media Group, Monster.com/Monster Worldwide, Career Builder and Survey Monkey. The charges date between September of 2013 to July 14. District Attorney Aaron Felton said the investigation into the case started about a year ago. He wouldn't comment further, citing the undergoing investigation and prosecution. Mounce was reported as a missing person on Aug. 12, 2017 and was the subject of a four-day search before her husband found her stranded on a cliff near the Sea Lion Caves north of Florence. He called 911 to report that he found her alive. Local emergency crews attempted a rescue, but were unsuccessful due to the steep terrain. They called in the U.S. Coast Guard Sector North Bend. A Coast Guard helicopter and crew arrived within minutes and were able to pluck her off the cliff on the afternoon of Aug. 16. Family members reported her missing on Aug. 12 and police found her vehicle that day parked close to where she was found. ||||| Inside the rescue of Heather Mounce Copyright by KOIN - All rights reserved Heather Mounce in an undated photo posted on a Facebook page, August 17, 2017 [ + - ] Video Amy Frazier and KOIN 6 News Staff - PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Karen Sparks was planning a vigil for Friday night for her missing cousin, Heather Mounce, when she got a text from another cousin. The text said Heather was found alive. Sparks, who lives in Idaho, said she was at Fred Meyer printing more flyers for the search. "I had to take a deep breath and sit down at Fred Meyer and all the workers all came over to assist me. They were so happy. I was happy," she told KMVT TV in Twin Falls, Idaho. "Terrible news turned into a miracle." Mounce, 37, was last seen Saturday morning. She was found Wednesday near the Sea Lion Caves in Florence. Authorities said her determined husband, Denton Davision, found her near where her car was found earlier. In the 911 call, Davison told the dispatcher he could see his wife. "I am on the rocky beach, I think it's Cox Rock, she's up in the bushes, she's waving at me," he said. "She's alive she's alive, she's on that hillside." The dispatcher asked again for a location and Davison said, "Highway 101, Cox Rock area, she's waving at me from the bushes, 100-150 feet up the cliff from the ocean. I don't think I can get to her." While Davison remains on the line, the 911 operator called the rescue units -- including a rope unit to rappel down and the Coast Guard. Listen to the entire 911 call here: She was found about 180 feet down the side of a cliff, according to Lt. Alex Webber, the pilot for the Coast Guard crew that rescued her. Coast Guard video of the rescue of Heather Mounce: Webber said they looked around and spotted her, then hovered about 250 feet above the water. The crew lowered rescue swimmer Petty Officer 3rd Class Tyler Stacey about 180 feet, to the spot where Mounce was "clinging on to some bushes on the cliff," Webber said. Stacey said it was hard to see her. "She was covered by some pretty big bushes she had landed on. I don't know if she had fallen or how she got into the position she did," Stacey said. "But it appeared she had gotten herself into a situation where she was basically being suspended by a big bush and it was on a pretty sheer surface." She looked grateful the Coast Guard found her, he said. "She was very scared, but when I got up to her she definitely wanted to get out of there." The windy conditions made it a bit more of a challenge to get her connected for the rescue. She lost her balance and fell onto him, he said, "and I basically caught her and was able to grab onto her long enough to where I could fly her other arm through the device and secure her." Webber said, "He put his rescue strap around her, at which point the flight mechanic who was operating the hoist cable vectored us back off the cliff and then we reeled her up." Mounce seemed "a little bit out of it," which Stacey believed was because she was missing for 4 days without food or water. He said she wasn't wearing shoes, her feet were swollen and she was scraped up. Webber said the fire department made a landing spot on Hwy 101, where they landed and helped Mounce get to a waiting ambulance. "She was in stable condition once dropped off," Webber said. Karen Sparks said she was amazed at the support from around the country they received in the days they searched for Mounce. She just wants to hug and kiss Mounce. "Her mother and her children, at least they have her back," Sparks said. "I want to say thank you to all the first responders and the Coast Guard and police and Oregon State Police." "We can only go forward from here and we pray that she heals and recovers quickly and we can't wait to get that hug," Sparks said. It is hard to put into words the elation we feel that Heather was found alive and well yesterday. It is nothing short of a miracle. We are beyond happy that she is safe and recovering. We would like to thank everyone for the time and effort put into the official Facebook page as well as all the flyers that were distributed by family, friends, and strangers. The public support has been overwhelming. Thank... you to the Coast Guard team who made the amazing rescue. Finally a big thank you to the Dallas Police Department for working with us so closely during this time.We will not be granting any interviews at this time as our focus will be on Heathers recovery. Please continue to pray for her and our family.God bless. KMVT in Twin Falls, Idaho contributed to this report and granted permission to KOIN for this story.

– Last summer, Heather Mae Mounce was reported missing by her family; her car was found abandoned along Highway 101 in Oregon. After her then-husband ultimately spotted her, four days later, "clinging to bushes" 180 feet down the side of a cliff, a Coast Guard helicopter crew airlifted her from the ridge in what KOIN calls a "dramatic" rescue that made headlines. This summer is also dramatic for the 28-year-old Oregon woman, but in a decidedly different way: She has been charged with 96 felonies. Mounce is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the Dallas Retirement Village, Oregon Center for Nursing, and OpenRoad Transportation, the Statesman Journal reports; she's also accused of stealing the identity of an "elderly and dependent" man whom she was caring for, along with $5,000 from him. She faces 62 counts of identity theft, 24 counts of criminal mistreatment, and 10 other charges; the charges date from September 2013 until July of this year. Authorities have not said whether there is any link to her disappearance in August of last year, but the Polk County District Attorney says an investigation into the case began about a year ago, per the Polk County Itemizer-Observer. Authorities at the time said that she appeared to have left her car of her own free will and that they did not believe she had been abducted. She filed for divorce three months later. Of the charges she faces, the Dallas Retirement Village says in a statement, "We are working closely with the state and Polk County Attorney’s Office in their investigation of this individual and former employee. ... We can assure that she had no access to any personal resident records."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.DALLAS — Heather Mounce, who was saved in a dramatic rescue last August on the Oregon Coast, has been charged with 96 counts, including identity theft, first-degree theft, aggravated theft, and criminal mistreatment. Court records show that the charges were filed against the Dallas resident on Thursday with the Polk County Circuit Court. Mounce is scheduled for an arraignment on an indictment on Aug. 14. Theft victims are listed in the charges as Dallas Retirement Village, Oregon Center for Nursing, Mark and Elizabeth Weisensee, the owners of Dallas-based OpenRoad Transportation, and Antony Emil Britt, who is described in the court documents as a “elderly and dependent person,” in Mounce’s care. Mounce also is charged with multiple counts of identity theft involving Britt. Charges list that Mounce “with the intent to deceive or defraud, convert to defendant’s own use, create, obtain, possess, transfer and utter personal identification of” several businesses, including Oregon Live/Oregonian Media Group, Monster.com/Monster Worldwide, Career Builder and Survey Monkey. The charges date between September of 2013 to July 14. District Attorney Aaron Felton said the investigation into the case started about a year ago. He wouldn't comment further, citing the undergoing investigation and prosecution. Mounce was reported as a missing person on Aug. 12, 2017 and was the subject of a four-day search before her husband found her stranded on a cliff near the Sea Lion Caves north of Florence. He called 911 to report that he found her alive. Local emergency crews attempted a rescue, but were unsuccessful due to the steep terrain. They called in the U.S. Coast Guard Sector North Bend. A Coast Guard helicopter and crew arrived within minutes and were able to pluck her off the cliff on the afternoon of Aug. 16. Family members reported her missing on Aug. 12 and police found her vehicle that day parked close to where she was found. ||||| Inside the rescue of Heather Mounce Copyright by KOIN - All rights reserved Heather Mounce in an undated photo posted on a Facebook page, August 17, 2017 [ + - ] Video Amy Frazier and KOIN 6 News Staff - PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Karen Sparks was planning a vigil for Friday night for her missing cousin, Heather Mounce, when she got a text from another cousin. The text said Heather was found alive. Sparks, who lives in Idaho, said she was at Fred Meyer printing more flyers for the search. "I had to take a deep breath and sit down at Fred Meyer and all the workers all came over to assist me. They were so happy. I was happy," she told KMVT TV in Twin Falls, Idaho. "Terrible news turned into a miracle." Mounce, 37, was last seen Saturday morning. She was found Wednesday near the Sea Lion Caves in Florence. Authorities said her determined husband, Denton Davision, found her near where her car was found earlier. In the 911 call, Davison told the dispatcher he could see his wife. "I am on the rocky beach, I think it's Cox Rock, she's up in the bushes, she's waving at me," he said. "She's alive she's alive, she's on that hillside." The dispatcher asked again for a location and Davison said, "Highway 101, Cox Rock area, she's waving at me from the bushes, 100-150 feet up the cliff from the ocean. I don't think I can get to her." While Davison remains on the line, the 911 operator called the rescue units -- including a rope unit to rappel down and the Coast Guard. Listen to the entire 911 call here: She was found about 180 feet down the side of a cliff, according to Lt. Alex Webber, the pilot for the Coast Guard crew that rescued her. Coast Guard video of the rescue of Heather Mounce: Webber said they looked around and spotted her, then hovered about 250 feet above the water. The crew lowered rescue swimmer Petty Officer 3rd Class Tyler Stacey about 180 feet, to the spot where Mounce was "clinging on to some bushes on the cliff," Webber said. Stacey said it was hard to see her. "She was covered by some pretty big bushes she had landed on. I don't know if she had fallen or how she got into the position she did," Stacey said. "But it appeared she had gotten herself into a situation where she was basically being suspended by a big bush and it was on a pretty sheer surface." She looked grateful the Coast Guard found her, he said. "She was very scared, but when I got up to her she definitely wanted to get out of there." The windy conditions made it a bit more of a challenge to get her connected for the rescue. She lost her balance and fell onto him, he said, "and I basically caught her and was able to grab onto her long enough to where I could fly her other arm through the device and secure her." Webber said, "He put his rescue strap around her, at which point the flight mechanic who was operating the hoist cable vectored us back off the cliff and then we reeled her up." Mounce seemed "a little bit out of it," which Stacey believed was because she was missing for 4 days without food or water. He said she wasn't wearing shoes, her feet were swollen and she was scraped up. Webber said the fire department made a landing spot on Hwy 101, where they landed and helped Mounce get to a waiting ambulance. "She was in stable condition once dropped off," Webber said. Karen Sparks said she was amazed at the support from around the country they received in the days they searched for Mounce. She just wants to hug and kiss Mounce. "Her mother and her children, at least they have her back," Sparks said. "I want to say thank you to all the first responders and the Coast Guard and police and Oregon State Police." "We can only go forward from here and we pray that she heals and recovers quickly and we can't wait to get that hug," Sparks said. It is hard to put into words the elation we feel that Heather was found alive and well yesterday. It is nothing short of a miracle. We are beyond happy that she is safe and recovering. We would like to thank everyone for the time and effort put into the official Facebook page as well as all the flyers that were distributed by family, friends, and strangers. The public support has been overwhelming. Thank... you to the Coast Guard team who made the amazing rescue. Finally a big thank you to the Dallas Police Department for working with us so closely during this time.We will not be granting any interviews at this time as our focus will be on Heathers recovery. Please continue to pray for her and our family.God bless. KMVT in Twin Falls, Idaho contributed to this report and granted permission to KOIN for this story.

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Theater shooter James Holmes is in court this week as prosecutors outline their case. Will we finally learn what was inside his notebook? Christine Pelisek on the possible surprises. Almost six months after 12 people were killed and at least 70 were injured in a shooting rampage at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.—and just days after a deadly hostage standoff rattled the town once more—the highly anticipated preliminary hearing is set to begin today for accused mass shooter James E. Holmes. The purpose of the preliminary hearing, which is expected to last through the week and draw hundreds of witnesses, victims, and members of the media to the Arapahoe County courthouse, is to determine if there is sufficient evidence to put the 25-year-old former University of Colorado Denver neuroscience doctoral student on trial. Holmes, who has not yet entered a plea and has made at least one suicide attempt by running headfirst into a jail cell wall, has been charged with 166 counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder and possession of explosive devices. This will be the first time that details about the shooting and Holmes’s capture by police minutes after the rampage will be revealed. In July, Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester issued a gag order barring attorneys and investigators from speaking publicly about the case. The contents of a notebook that Holmes sent his school psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton, on July 19—the day before the shooting—that reportedly contained violent images of an attack may also be divulged. Holmes is suspected of gunning down 12 people and injuring 70 others in a shooting spree at the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises at the Century 16 movie theater on July 20 in Aurora. On that fateful night, police say Holmes, with his hair dyed red as a creepy homage to Batman’s Joker, was dressed in combat gear and armed with an assault rifle, a Glock pistol, a shotgun, and two canisters of what sources say was tear gas. After Holmes was arrested at the back of the theater, police discovered that his third-floor apartment had been booby-trapped with explosives, trip wire, and gasoline. Authorities believe that Holmes had rigged his apartment so that it would kill responders when they arrived to investigate after the shooting. Police say Holmes went on his rampage one month after he withdrew from the Ph.D. program after failing a year-end exam. On that day, he bought an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle to add to his burgeoning collection of weapons. At the preliminary hearing, Arapahoe County prosecutors will likely outline their case against Holmes and present evidence to show that Holmes’s rampage was premeditated and that he methodically began preparing for the attack months earlier. In an earlier hearing, prosecutors said that in March of 2012 Holmes told a fellow classmate he wanted to kill people. Prosecutors are also expected to call to the stand police investigators, first responders, coroner officials, as well as a number of injured moviegoers who witnessed the bloodbath. In addition, prosecutors are set to play the 911 calls by dozens of frantic moviegoers as well as show some of the 30 hours of video from the theater. Holmes’s defense team, which has repeatedly suggested that the wiry former student suffers from mental illness, is planning to call at least one mental-health expert, and will undoubtedly take the position that Holmes, who now sports longer brown hair and a bushy beard as he sits zombielike through hearings, was insane at the time of the mass shooting and can’t be found guilty of the heinous crimes. According to ABC News, defense attorneys also plan to call two unidentified witnesses who will testify about Holmes’ mental state—a move that was heavily opposed by the prosecution at a hearing last week. The witnesses, who have never been interviewed by the defense team, are cooperating with Colorado law-enforcement authorities, ABC reported. The preliminary hearing will be held in the courthouse’s biggest courtroom, and there will also be overflow rooms capable of seating hundreds of people. Armed law-enforcement personnel will be stationed on the court’s rooftops. The hearing is expected to draw hundreds of spectators, including the macabre fans of Holmes who call themselves Holmsies. Meanwhile, the theater, which has been closed since the shooting, is set to reopen on Jan. 17. Several family members of those killed have criticized Cinemark, the theater owners, after they sent them invitations to the grand opening offering “a special evening of remembrance” followed by the showing of a movie. In a letter to Cinemark, the families wrote: “During the holiday we didn’t think anyone or anything could make our grief worse but you, Cinemark, have managed to do just that by sending us an invitation two days after Christmas inviting us to attend the re-opening of your theater in Aurora where our loved ones were massacred.” ||||| James Holmes hearing may reveal "difficult" evidence Retailers preparing for their most critical time of the year Retailers preparing for their most critical time of the year The storied football team of Gallaudet, the nation's first university for the deaf (CBS News) In Colorado, the suspect in last July's movie theater killings returns to court Monday. James Holmes will listen as prosecutors detail the evidence against him. It's information that up until now has not been released. Holmes is accused of opening fire in a crowded Aurora movie theater July 20, killing 12 people and wounding 70. Complete Coverage: Colorado Massacre James Holmes is mentally ill: lawyers Only radio transmissions between first responders that night have been made public so far. The new evidence could include testimony from victims and witnesses, as well as video and 911 calls from inside theater 9, where the shooting happened. The district attorney has warned victims' families they might not want to attend. In a letter, he asked them to "carefully consider whether or not you think that you are ready to be exposed to potentially difficult information at the hearing." In order to keep the public and press away from victims and families who do attend, officials have set up a separate courtroom where they can watch the proceedings on a closed circuit feed. Jessica Watts / CBS News Jessica Watts will be there. She's attended every hearing so far in honor of her cousin Jonathon Blunk, a husband and father of two who was killed inside the theater. "I had made a promise to him right after the shooting. I visited the crosses and told him that I would see this through to the end," she said. Holmes attorneys will challenge the evidence. They are also ready to call their own witnesses to describes Holmes' mental state, likely setting up an insanity defense. At the end of the week, the judge will decide if there is enough evidence for Holmes to stand trial.

– James Holmes will be back in court today for the first time in almost six months for a preliminary hearing as the prosecution lays out its case against the 25-year-old, to establish whether there is sufficient evidence to put him on trial. Holmes has been charged with 166 counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder, and hasn't yet entered a plea. Prosecutors are expected to bring a slew of police detectives, first responders, and witnesses who were inside the theater to the stand, the Daily Beast reports. And it's not going to be pretty: CBS notes that the DA has asked victims' families to "carefully consider whether or not you think that you are ready to be exposed to potentially difficult information at the hearing." Prosecutors are expected to play dozens of 911 calls from frightened moviegoers, and show video from the theater. There's also a chance the public will finally learn the contents of the notebook he sent his school psychiatrist the day before the shooting—which reportedly contains violent images. The defense, for its part, intends to call at least one mental health expert in hopes of mounting an insanity defense.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Theater shooter James Holmes is in court this week as prosecutors outline their case. Will we finally learn what was inside his notebook? Christine Pelisek on the possible surprises. Almost six months after 12 people were killed and at least 70 were injured in a shooting rampage at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.—and just days after a deadly hostage standoff rattled the town once more—the highly anticipated preliminary hearing is set to begin today for accused mass shooter James E. Holmes. The purpose of the preliminary hearing, which is expected to last through the week and draw hundreds of witnesses, victims, and members of the media to the Arapahoe County courthouse, is to determine if there is sufficient evidence to put the 25-year-old former University of Colorado Denver neuroscience doctoral student on trial. Holmes, who has not yet entered a plea and has made at least one suicide attempt by running headfirst into a jail cell wall, has been charged with 166 counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder and possession of explosive devices. This will be the first time that details about the shooting and Holmes’s capture by police minutes after the rampage will be revealed. In July, Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester issued a gag order barring attorneys and investigators from speaking publicly about the case. The contents of a notebook that Holmes sent his school psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton, on July 19—the day before the shooting—that reportedly contained violent images of an attack may also be divulged. Holmes is suspected of gunning down 12 people and injuring 70 others in a shooting spree at the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises at the Century 16 movie theater on July 20 in Aurora. On that fateful night, police say Holmes, with his hair dyed red as a creepy homage to Batman’s Joker, was dressed in combat gear and armed with an assault rifle, a Glock pistol, a shotgun, and two canisters of what sources say was tear gas. After Holmes was arrested at the back of the theater, police discovered that his third-floor apartment had been booby-trapped with explosives, trip wire, and gasoline. Authorities believe that Holmes had rigged his apartment so that it would kill responders when they arrived to investigate after the shooting. Police say Holmes went on his rampage one month after he withdrew from the Ph.D. program after failing a year-end exam. On that day, he bought an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle to add to his burgeoning collection of weapons. At the preliminary hearing, Arapahoe County prosecutors will likely outline their case against Holmes and present evidence to show that Holmes’s rampage was premeditated and that he methodically began preparing for the attack months earlier. In an earlier hearing, prosecutors said that in March of 2012 Holmes told a fellow classmate he wanted to kill people. Prosecutors are also expected to call to the stand police investigators, first responders, coroner officials, as well as a number of injured moviegoers who witnessed the bloodbath. In addition, prosecutors are set to play the 911 calls by dozens of frantic moviegoers as well as show some of the 30 hours of video from the theater. Holmes’s defense team, which has repeatedly suggested that the wiry former student suffers from mental illness, is planning to call at least one mental-health expert, and will undoubtedly take the position that Holmes, who now sports longer brown hair and a bushy beard as he sits zombielike through hearings, was insane at the time of the mass shooting and can’t be found guilty of the heinous crimes. According to ABC News, defense attorneys also plan to call two unidentified witnesses who will testify about Holmes’ mental state—a move that was heavily opposed by the prosecution at a hearing last week. The witnesses, who have never been interviewed by the defense team, are cooperating with Colorado law-enforcement authorities, ABC reported. The preliminary hearing will be held in the courthouse’s biggest courtroom, and there will also be overflow rooms capable of seating hundreds of people. Armed law-enforcement personnel will be stationed on the court’s rooftops. The hearing is expected to draw hundreds of spectators, including the macabre fans of Holmes who call themselves Holmsies. Meanwhile, the theater, which has been closed since the shooting, is set to reopen on Jan. 17. Several family members of those killed have criticized Cinemark, the theater owners, after they sent them invitations to the grand opening offering “a special evening of remembrance” followed by the showing of a movie. In a letter to Cinemark, the families wrote: “During the holiday we didn’t think anyone or anything could make our grief worse but you, Cinemark, have managed to do just that by sending us an invitation two days after Christmas inviting us to attend the re-opening of your theater in Aurora where our loved ones were massacred.” ||||| James Holmes hearing may reveal "difficult" evidence Retailers preparing for their most critical time of the year Retailers preparing for their most critical time of the year The storied football team of Gallaudet, the nation's first university for the deaf (CBS News) In Colorado, the suspect in last July's movie theater killings returns to court Monday. James Holmes will listen as prosecutors detail the evidence against him. It's information that up until now has not been released. Holmes is accused of opening fire in a crowded Aurora movie theater July 20, killing 12 people and wounding 70. Complete Coverage: Colorado Massacre James Holmes is mentally ill: lawyers Only radio transmissions between first responders that night have been made public so far. The new evidence could include testimony from victims and witnesses, as well as video and 911 calls from inside theater 9, where the shooting happened. The district attorney has warned victims' families they might not want to attend. In a letter, he asked them to "carefully consider whether or not you think that you are ready to be exposed to potentially difficult information at the hearing." In order to keep the public and press away from victims and families who do attend, officials have set up a separate courtroom where they can watch the proceedings on a closed circuit feed. Jessica Watts / CBS News Jessica Watts will be there. She's attended every hearing so far in honor of her cousin Jonathon Blunk, a husband and father of two who was killed inside the theater. "I had made a promise to him right after the shooting. I visited the crosses and told him that I would see this through to the end," she said. Holmes attorneys will challenge the evidence. They are also ready to call their own witnesses to describes Holmes' mental state, likely setting up an insanity defense. At the end of the week, the judge will decide if there is enough evidence for Holmes to stand trial.

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ROCKVILLE, MD, December 4, 2009-- Dr. Lisa Swinton McLaughlin, Senior Medical Officer for The American National Red Cross, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in healthcare administration.Initially a lawyer, Dr. McLaughlin specialized in child abuse and neglect cases. Her exposure to the medical issues of these children led her to apply to medical school. She brought her talents to the Red Cross in 2007 and has since been working on national policies governing blood collection and donor recruitment, particularly in minority communities, reviewing national safety projects, coordinating with various subcommittees, handling initiatives for clinical care services, and assisting in apheresis special projects. Dr. McLaughlin is proud to be associated with an organization that responds to people in crisis around the world. Dr. McLaughlin was selected for the Greater Baltimore Committee, The Leadership Class of 2009. She attributes her success to the lessons learned from her parents, her persistence, and the support of her husband Michael, her friends, family and mentors.Dr. McLaughlin completed her fellowship in transfusion medicine in 2007 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University and her residency in anatomical and clinical pathology in 2006 at the University of Kansas Medical Center, from which institution she also obtained her MD in 2002. She is a licensed physician in the states of Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina, Nebraska and New Jersey.In addition to her medical qualifications, Dr. McLaughlin received a JD and a Bachelor of Arts in United States and Modern European History and Secondary Education, both from Creighton University. Her professional affiliations include the Nebraska State Bar Association, The Missouri Bar, the American Association of Blood Banks, the American Society for Apheresis, and the American Society for Clinical Pathology. She also sits on the board of directors of REACH! Partnership. Dr. Laughlin looks forward to continued growth at the Red Cross.For more information, visit http://www.redcross.org Cambridge Who's Who is an exclusive membership organization that recognizes and empowers executives, professionals and entrepreneurs throughout the world. From healthcare to law, engineering to finance, manufacturing to education, every major industry is represented by its 400,000 active members. Cambridge Who's Who membership provides individuals with a valuable third party endorsement of their accomplishments and gives them the tools needed to brand themselves and their businesses effectively. In addition to publishing biographies in print and electronic form, Cambridge Who's Who offers an online networking platform where members can establish new business relationships and achieve career advancement within their company, industry or profession.For more information, please visit our site: Cambridge Who's Who ||||| Upgrade to full digital for only $3 extra per month. If you need assistance, call us at (844) 466-1452 or e-mail owhdigital@ggl.bhmginc.com . Your sports-only digital subscription does not include access to this section. To start a new subscription or to add digital access to your print subscription, click Sign Up to join Subscriber Plus. If you’re already a digital subscriber, Log In. If you need other assistance, call (844) 466-1452 or email owhdigital@ggl.bhmginc.com. Learn more about Subscriber Plus.

– In her 56 years, Lisa Swinton McLaughlin racked up more accomplishments than most who live decades longer manage to do: A Creighton University law school grad, she worked for 13 years as a Nebraska special assistant attorney general—before heading to medical school and ultimately becoming executive medical officer with the American Red Cross in Baltimore. As a 2009 press release explained, McLaughlin "specialized in child abuse and neglect cases. Her exposure to the medical issues of these children led her to apply to medical school." But there remained one void: children of her own. McLaughlin married husband Mike in 1999, and spent a decade undergoing various fertility and in-vitro procedures. And then, last year, she became pregnant with twins. She gave birth to premature boys, both healthy, on Dec. 27, reports the Omaha World-Herald. Sons Jordan, 3 pounds and 3 ounces, and Dylan, 3 pounds, remained in the hospital when McLaughlin headed home four days later. Mike says she was in pain but attributed it to the cesarean section incision. Though she was able to hold the babies and "stroke them and love them," McLaughlin died of a bowel obstruction on Jan. 4. Death "wasn't even in her vocabulary," Mike tells the World-Herald. The 67-year-old plans to move back to his native Nebraska so that family members can help him raise the boys. (A Phoenix woman died before she could hold her newborn quadruplets.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.ROCKVILLE, MD, December 4, 2009-- Dr. Lisa Swinton McLaughlin, Senior Medical Officer for The American National Red Cross, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in healthcare administration.Initially a lawyer, Dr. McLaughlin specialized in child abuse and neglect cases. Her exposure to the medical issues of these children led her to apply to medical school. She brought her talents to the Red Cross in 2007 and has since been working on national policies governing blood collection and donor recruitment, particularly in minority communities, reviewing national safety projects, coordinating with various subcommittees, handling initiatives for clinical care services, and assisting in apheresis special projects. Dr. McLaughlin is proud to be associated with an organization that responds to people in crisis around the world. Dr. McLaughlin was selected for the Greater Baltimore Committee, The Leadership Class of 2009. She attributes her success to the lessons learned from her parents, her persistence, and the support of her husband Michael, her friends, family and mentors.Dr. McLaughlin completed her fellowship in transfusion medicine in 2007 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University and her residency in anatomical and clinical pathology in 2006 at the University of Kansas Medical Center, from which institution she also obtained her MD in 2002. She is a licensed physician in the states of Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina, Nebraska and New Jersey.In addition to her medical qualifications, Dr. McLaughlin received a JD and a Bachelor of Arts in United States and Modern European History and Secondary Education, both from Creighton University. Her professional affiliations include the Nebraska State Bar Association, The Missouri Bar, the American Association of Blood Banks, the American Society for Apheresis, and the American Society for Clinical Pathology. She also sits on the board of directors of REACH! Partnership. Dr. Laughlin looks forward to continued growth at the Red Cross.For more information, visit http://www.redcross.org Cambridge Who's Who is an exclusive membership organization that recognizes and empowers executives, professionals and entrepreneurs throughout the world. From healthcare to law, engineering to finance, manufacturing to education, every major industry is represented by its 400,000 active members. Cambridge Who's Who membership provides individuals with a valuable third party endorsement of their accomplishments and gives them the tools needed to brand themselves and their businesses effectively. In addition to publishing biographies in print and electronic form, Cambridge Who's Who offers an online networking platform where members can establish new business relationships and achieve career advancement within their company, industry or profession.For more information, please visit our site: Cambridge Who's Who ||||| Upgrade to full digital for only $3 extra per month. If you need assistance, call us at (844) 466-1452 or e-mail owhdigital@ggl.bhmginc.com . Your sports-only digital subscription does not include access to this section. To start a new subscription or to add digital access to your print subscription, click Sign Up to join Subscriber Plus. If you’re already a digital subscriber, Log In. If you need other assistance, call (844) 466-1452 or email owhdigital@ggl.bhmginc.com. Learn more about Subscriber Plus.

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Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Novelist Bret Easton Ellis has some inspired casting ideas for a planned “American Psycho” remake. “I have warned Lionsgate that I will not approve a new version of ‘American Psycho’ unless it stars Scott Disick or Miles Fisher,” Ellis tweeted, adding, “I am waiting for Scott Disick to ask: ‘Who in the hell is Bret Easton Ellis?’ ” Word leaked that Lionsgate has an updated “Psycho” script by a David Fincher disciple named Noble Jones. Scarily slick Disick plays himself on “Kourtney & Kim Take New York,” while Fisher is the “J. Edgar” actor who grabbed attention for making an “American Psycho” music video set to the Talking Heads’ “This Must Be the Place.” ||||| Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries continued to prove just how on different pages a married couple can be on "Kourtney and Kim Take New York" (Sun., 10PM ET on E!). Kris didn't take it very well when Kim said, "I'm never moving to Minnesota. Ever." This was because she had made a deal with him that when he was done playing, he could choose their home for half the year and she would choose the other half. It would appear Kim had second thoughts about that. "How am I going to have my career and live in Minnesota?" she asked. She then said she wanted to raise her kids in LA, because "That's where I'm from. That's all I know." Kris' counter to that was that there was no guarantee she'd still have a career after she has kids and they start growing up. "No one will probably care about you. Let's be honest," he said.

– If you are somehow not already creeped out by Kourtney Kardashian's boyfriend and babydaddy Scott Disick, this should do the trick: None other than Bret Easton Ellis himself wants Disick for the planned American Psycho remake, the New York Post reports. "I have warned Lionsgate that I will not approve a new version of 'American Psycho' unless it stars SCOTT DISICK or MILES FISHER," Ellis recently tweeted, continuing, "I am waiting for Scott Disick to ask: 'Who in the hell is Bret Easton Ellis?'" "Not going to happen, I know just who u r!" Disick quickly responded. He had earlier expressed his excitement at the announcement of the remake, tweeting, "best news i have ever heard! i hope they call me!" If you don't quite see the resemblance between Disick and Ellis' sociopathic killer Patrick Bateman, who apparently serves as Disick's style icon, perhaps this video will shed some light. In other news related to the Kardashian clan, there was much Kim-and-Kris drama on last night's episode of Kourtney & Kim Take New York. (Spoiler alert: It doesn't end well for the couple.) Click for one of the clips.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Novelist Bret Easton Ellis has some inspired casting ideas for a planned “American Psycho” remake. “I have warned Lionsgate that I will not approve a new version of ‘American Psycho’ unless it stars Scott Disick or Miles Fisher,” Ellis tweeted, adding, “I am waiting for Scott Disick to ask: ‘Who in the hell is Bret Easton Ellis?’ ” Word leaked that Lionsgate has an updated “Psycho” script by a David Fincher disciple named Noble Jones. Scarily slick Disick plays himself on “Kourtney & Kim Take New York,” while Fisher is the “J. Edgar” actor who grabbed attention for making an “American Psycho” music video set to the Talking Heads’ “This Must Be the Place.” ||||| Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries continued to prove just how on different pages a married couple can be on "Kourtney and Kim Take New York" (Sun., 10PM ET on E!). Kris didn't take it very well when Kim said, "I'm never moving to Minnesota. Ever." This was because she had made a deal with him that when he was done playing, he could choose their home for half the year and she would choose the other half. It would appear Kim had second thoughts about that. "How am I going to have my career and live in Minnesota?" she asked. She then said she wanted to raise her kids in LA, because "That's where I'm from. That's all I know." Kris' counter to that was that there was no guarantee she'd still have a career after she has kids and they start growing up. "No one will probably care about you. Let's be honest," he said.

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A woman who, as a newborn, was abandoned in the bathroom of a Pennsylvania fast-food restaurant said she has found her birth mother just three weeks after launching a search that garnered worldwide attention, and as her mother prepared to look for her. FILE - This March 2, 2014, file photo, provided by Katheryn Deprill that she posted on Facebook, shows Deprill holding a sign that says she is seeking her birth mother. Deprill was abandoned in the bathroom... (Associated Press) Katheryn Deprill, 27, said Tuesday she felt "pure joy" when she met her biological mother for the first time Monday at an attorney's office. And, after she learned the sad details of her conception and abandonment, she said she understood why her mom did what she did. "She is better than anything I could've ever imagined. She is so sweet and amazing. I'm so happy," said Deprill, who has become known as the Burger King Baby. The woman had decided about six months ago to launch her own search for the daughter she gave up. Deprill began her quest on March 2 by posting on her Facebook page a photo in which she held up a sign that said, "Looking for my birth mother. ... She abandoned me in the Burger King bathroom only hours old, Allentown PA. Please help me find her by sharing my post." The photo was shared more than 30,000 times by Facebook users around the world, and Deprill's story landed in numerous media outlets. That caught the attention of the woman who abandoned her, and she came forward to attorney John Waldron, who arranged for them to meet. Deprill said she bears a very strong resemblance to the woman, whose name she wouldn't disclose. "It looked like I was looking in a mirror," she said. Deprill, an EMT and married mother of three who lives outside Allentown in South Whitehall Township, said she embraced her mother. "I got the hug that I had wanted for the last 27 years, and that broke the ice," she said. "I asked if I could have it, and she said, 'absolutely,' and just held her arms open, and the rest is history." The pair met for about four hours and exchanged contact information. Deprill said they plan to meet again. "We are definitely going to have a relationship," she said. Deprill declined to address the circumstances of her abandonment, referring those questions to Waldron. The attorney said the woman said that, as a 16-year-old, she was raped while traveling abroad and became pregnant. The woman said she hid the pregnancy from her parents and, after giving birth in her bedroom, felt she could not take her newborn to the hospital because she would have to answer questions. Waldron had his staff prepare for the reunification with flowers, chocolates and boxes of tissues. Deprill, who had launched the search with the blessing and encouragement of her adoptive parents, was accompanied by her adoptive mother and her youngest son, 7-month-old Jackson. "It was one of the most emotional, joyful, dramatic, exciting things I've ever seen," Waldron said, adding there's no doubt in his mind that his client is Deprill's mother. "If you sat there for five minutes and heard them and watched them and observed them and looked at them, you would know," he said. Deprill said her birth mother expressed regret during their tear-filled meeting. She said she forgave her "110 percent, absolutely." ||||| SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - Katheryn Deprill, the "Burger King baby," finally met her mom Monday afternoon. Deprill was only hours old when she was abandoned in the restroom of a Burger King in Allentown on Sept. 15, 1986. She declined to identify her mother after the meeting, but described her as "a normal person" and "very loving." She did say her mother lives in the Lehigh Valley. The two women were reunited at 1:45 p.m. Monday in the office of attorney John Waldron in Allentown. Their meeting left Deprill "super excited -- it's better than what I thought." "They immediately hugged," said Waldron, who arranged the meeting at the request of Deprill's birth mother. "It was exciting, emotional, dramatic." "It was really fun seeing something this happy and this joyful," he told 69 News. The 27-year-old South Whitehall woman made national news earlier this month after she posted a photo of herself on Facebook, holding a "looking for my birth mother" sign. Waldron also declined to identify Deprill's birth mother. He said the woman and her husband already had made a decision to try to find the baby she had given up 27 years ago. He added all the media coverage about Deprill's search made it easier, but also "scared Mom a bit. She did not want to be in the limelight." According to Waldron, Deprill's birth mother had been raped while traveling in another country and became pregnant. He said abortion was not an option. She managed to keep her pregnancy a secret. When the baby was born, she told him, she could not take her to the hospital without questions being asked. "She left the baby in a location where the baby would be found and cared for. She kissed the baby on the forehead, Katheryn, and left," said Waldron. After the meeting, Deprill said her mother "was extremely upset that she had to leave me and it wasn't what she wanted, but she felt she had no other means. She was only 17 years old. "She left me somewhere she knew I'd be found. She did not want to throw me away." Deprill said her mother feared what her parents would think about her becoming pregnant. Deprill said her mom quickly learned she was looking for her, but contacted a lawyer for advice. She said it just took awhile for them to get reconnected. The unidentified woman also met seven-month-old Jackson, Deprill's youngest son, and Deprill's adoptive mother, who accompanied her to the meeting. Waldron said the birth mother's husband was also there. Deprill said her birth mother wants to be involved in their lives and she hopes they will meet again soon. Waldron said, "It's a starting point for them because now they've started a relationship, and they're going to stay in contact." Deprill has said one of the main motivators to find her biological mother is to learn more about her medical history. She said on Monday, her mom answered all medical questions she could to help her.

– On Sept. 15, 1986, a worker and a customer at a Burger King in Allentown, Pa., heard an infant crying in the women's room. They found the baby, later named Katheryn Deprill, just hours old, wrapped in a maroon shirt and lying on top of a plastic bag. Deprill's mother was never found, and the infant was adopted and raised happily. But Deprill always wondered about her birth mother, and on March 2 she launched a public search via Facebook for her, which netted almost 33,000 shares. Little did she know that about six months ago, her birth mother had launched her own search. When she heard Deprill was looking for her, she got in touch with a lawyer—and the two women met at his office Monday, the Morning Call reports. "It was pure shock to see it was actually her standing there," says Deprill, now 28. "The first thing I got was my hug that I wanted." Then, she got answers. Her birth mother (who remains publicly unidentified) explained that she was raped and impregnated while on a family vacation in a foreign country at 16. She hid the pregnancy from her family and gave birth in secret, in her bedroom, at 17. She then brought Deprill to Burger King because she knew someone at the crowded restaurant would find her. "She did not want to throw me away," Deprill tells WFMZ. "She was a kid in high school," explains the birth mom's lawyer. "Back then, you couldn't just go to a hospital and drop the baby off, no questions asked." Deprill has said she's not interested in pressing charges—she described her feelings after meeting her birth mom as "pure joy" and said she forgives her "110%, absolutely," the AP reports—and the two plan on continuing their relationship.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.A woman who, as a newborn, was abandoned in the bathroom of a Pennsylvania fast-food restaurant said she has found her birth mother just three weeks after launching a search that garnered worldwide attention, and as her mother prepared to look for her. FILE - This March 2, 2014, file photo, provided by Katheryn Deprill that she posted on Facebook, shows Deprill holding a sign that says she is seeking her birth mother. Deprill was abandoned in the bathroom... (Associated Press) Katheryn Deprill, 27, said Tuesday she felt "pure joy" when she met her biological mother for the first time Monday at an attorney's office. And, after she learned the sad details of her conception and abandonment, she said she understood why her mom did what she did. "She is better than anything I could've ever imagined. She is so sweet and amazing. I'm so happy," said Deprill, who has become known as the Burger King Baby. The woman had decided about six months ago to launch her own search for the daughter she gave up. Deprill began her quest on March 2 by posting on her Facebook page a photo in which she held up a sign that said, "Looking for my birth mother. ... She abandoned me in the Burger King bathroom only hours old, Allentown PA. Please help me find her by sharing my post." The photo was shared more than 30,000 times by Facebook users around the world, and Deprill's story landed in numerous media outlets. That caught the attention of the woman who abandoned her, and she came forward to attorney John Waldron, who arranged for them to meet. Deprill said she bears a very strong resemblance to the woman, whose name she wouldn't disclose. "It looked like I was looking in a mirror," she said. Deprill, an EMT and married mother of three who lives outside Allentown in South Whitehall Township, said she embraced her mother. "I got the hug that I had wanted for the last 27 years, and that broke the ice," she said. "I asked if I could have it, and she said, 'absolutely,' and just held her arms open, and the rest is history." The pair met for about four hours and exchanged contact information. Deprill said they plan to meet again. "We are definitely going to have a relationship," she said. Deprill declined to address the circumstances of her abandonment, referring those questions to Waldron. The attorney said the woman said that, as a 16-year-old, she was raped while traveling abroad and became pregnant. The woman said she hid the pregnancy from her parents and, after giving birth in her bedroom, felt she could not take her newborn to the hospital because she would have to answer questions. Waldron had his staff prepare for the reunification with flowers, chocolates and boxes of tissues. Deprill, who had launched the search with the blessing and encouragement of her adoptive parents, was accompanied by her adoptive mother and her youngest son, 7-month-old Jackson. "It was one of the most emotional, joyful, dramatic, exciting things I've ever seen," Waldron said, adding there's no doubt in his mind that his client is Deprill's mother. "If you sat there for five minutes and heard them and watched them and observed them and looked at them, you would know," he said. Deprill said her birth mother expressed regret during their tear-filled meeting. She said she forgave her "110 percent, absolutely." ||||| SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - Katheryn Deprill, the "Burger King baby," finally met her mom Monday afternoon. Deprill was only hours old when she was abandoned in the restroom of a Burger King in Allentown on Sept. 15, 1986. She declined to identify her mother after the meeting, but described her as "a normal person" and "very loving." She did say her mother lives in the Lehigh Valley. The two women were reunited at 1:45 p.m. Monday in the office of attorney John Waldron in Allentown. Their meeting left Deprill "super excited -- it's better than what I thought." "They immediately hugged," said Waldron, who arranged the meeting at the request of Deprill's birth mother. "It was exciting, emotional, dramatic." "It was really fun seeing something this happy and this joyful," he told 69 News. The 27-year-old South Whitehall woman made national news earlier this month after she posted a photo of herself on Facebook, holding a "looking for my birth mother" sign. Waldron also declined to identify Deprill's birth mother. He said the woman and her husband already had made a decision to try to find the baby she had given up 27 years ago. He added all the media coverage about Deprill's search made it easier, but also "scared Mom a bit. She did not want to be in the limelight." According to Waldron, Deprill's birth mother had been raped while traveling in another country and became pregnant. He said abortion was not an option. She managed to keep her pregnancy a secret. When the baby was born, she told him, she could not take her to the hospital without questions being asked. "She left the baby in a location where the baby would be found and cared for. She kissed the baby on the forehead, Katheryn, and left," said Waldron. After the meeting, Deprill said her mother "was extremely upset that she had to leave me and it wasn't what she wanted, but she felt she had no other means. She was only 17 years old. "She left me somewhere she knew I'd be found. She did not want to throw me away." Deprill said her mother feared what her parents would think about her becoming pregnant. Deprill said her mom quickly learned she was looking for her, but contacted a lawyer for advice. She said it just took awhile for them to get reconnected. The unidentified woman also met seven-month-old Jackson, Deprill's youngest son, and Deprill's adoptive mother, who accompanied her to the meeting. Waldron said the birth mother's husband was also there. Deprill said her birth mother wants to be involved in their lives and she hopes they will meet again soon. Waldron said, "It's a starting point for them because now they've started a relationship, and they're going to stay in contact." Deprill has said one of the main motivators to find her biological mother is to learn more about her medical history. She said on Monday, her mom answered all medical questions she could to help her.

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FILE - In this May 9, 2014 file photo, soul singer Charles Bradley performs at the Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta, Ga. His publicist said Bradley died Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 after a battle with... (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Bradley, known as the "Screaming Eagle of Soul" for a powerful, raspy style that evoked one of his musical heroes, James Brown, died Saturday at age 68. Bradley, who achieved success later in life with his 2011 debut album "No Time for Dreaming," was diagnosed with stomach cancer in the fall of 2016 and underwent treatment, according to a statement from his publicist Shazila Mohammed. He headed out to tour earlier this year after receiving a clean bill of health, but the cancer returned recently, spreading to his liver, the statement said. Recording on the Daptone label, Bradley was a fiery live performer. He followed up his first album with "Victim of Love" in 2013. His third album, "Changes," was released last year. Among his TV appearances was a stop last year on "CBS This Morning: Saturday," which earned him an Emmy nomination. Born in Gainesville, Florida, Bradley found himself living in New York at age 8. He left home as a teenager and lived as an itinerant until he settled in Brooklyn 20 years ago. Bradley idolized Brown, working as a Brown impersonator known as Black Velvet before he was discovered by Gabriel Roth, a Daptone co-founder. He later became known for closing shows under his own name with hugs for his audiences. "The world lost a ton of heart today," Roth said in the statement. "Charles was somehow one of the meekest and strongest people I've ever known. His pain was a cry for universal love and humanity. His soulful moans and screams will echo forever on records and in the ears and hearts of those who were fortunate enough to share time with him." Roth said he told Bradley recently there's solace to be found for fans knowing Bradley "will continue to inspire love and music in this world for generations to come." Bradley's response? "I tried." ||||| Charles Bradley, the acclaimed soul singer and exuberant live performer who saw his career ascend late in life, died Saturday following a bout with stomach and liver cancer. He was 68. Related Charles Bradley on Covering Black Sabbath, Emotional New LP New York soul singer tells how real-life hardship, including his mother's death, influenced emotional 'Changes' album "It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Charles Bradley," the singer's rep said in a statement. "Always a fighter, Charles battled cancer with everything he had. He was diagnosed with stomach cancer in the fall of 2016 and underwent treatment. Bradley headed out on the road earlier this year after receiving a clean bill of health but the cancer recently returned, spreading to his liver." Bradley's reps added, "Thank you for your prayers during this difficult time. Mr. Bradley was truly grateful for all the love he’s received from his fans and we hope his message of love is remembered and carried on." "The world lost a ton of heart today," Gabriel Roth, co-founder of Bradley's label Daptone Records, said. "Charles was somehow one of the meekest and strongest people I've ever known. His pain was a cry for universal love and humanity. His soulful moans and screams will echo forever on records and in the ears and hearts of those who were fortunate enough to share time with him. "I find some solace knowing that he will continue to inspire love and music in this world for generations to come," he added. "I told him as much a few days ago. He smiled and told me, 'I tried.' It was probably the simplest and most inspiring thing he ever told me. I think he wanted to hug each person on this planet individually. I mean that literally, and anyone that ever saw him knows that he honestly tried." "RIP to our dear brother Charles Bradley," veteran Afrobeat group and Daptone Records labelmate Antibalas wrote on Twitter. "Your heart was too big for this planet. See you on the other side. We love you." Over the course of three albums – 2011's No Time for Dreaming, 2013's Victim of Love and 2016's Changes – Bradley, known as the "Screaming Eagle of Soul," blended heartfelt ballads of love, longing and remorse with raucous tracks celebrating joy and the survival of a hardscrabble life. Charles Edward Bradley was born November 5th, 1948 in Florida but his mother, who had left for New York, moved Bradley to Brooklyn when he was 8 years old. At 14, Bradley left home and became homeless, sleeping on New York subway trains for warmth. "I was afraid that she was going to hurt me, so I left," Bradley said of his mother in the 2012 documentary Charles Bradley: Soul of America. "We couldn't see eye to eye and I was getting blamed for everything, so I was very bitter." In 1962, Bradley's sister took him to James Brown's landmark performance at the Apollo Theater when he was 14. The show transformed Bradley, who would later find regional success in New York as a James Brown impersonator named Black Velvet. "It was breathtaking," Bradley told Rolling Stone of the Apollo show in 2016. "I didn't know who James Brown really was but I wanted to go see. When they called James Brown onstage, I'll never forget they had this purple light and yellow light – my two favorite colors. And when they introduced him, he came flying on the stage on one leg and I said, 'What in the hell is this?' [Laughs] And I was mesmerized. I was just gone. I was just shocked. Shocked. I said, 'Wow. I wanna be something like that.'" The fledgling impersonator went home, attached string to a broom to emulate Brown's bombastic mic swings, and began impersonating the singer in private before performing his first show as Brown at age 19 in 1967. "I was really scared to do it, so they snuck a bottle of gin [laughs] in the gym with 7-Up in it, and I got fired up," he told Rolling Stone. "I said, 'Give me that mic!' ... I ain't never stopped yet." A drifter as a teen who battled with illiteracy, poverty and chronic unemployment, the Brooklyn singer would later nearly die from a penicillin allergy and find his brother murdered by Bradley's own nephew. Bradley became an itinerant after leaving home, traveling across the country in 1977 after spending 10 years as a cook at a Maine hospital for the mentally ill before ending up in California. Shows would come occasionally, but Bradley was unable to find any success in music at the time. After getting laid off from his job after 17 years in 1994, Bradley reconnected with his estranged mother Inez, moving back to Brooklyn to take care of her. At the time, Bradley nearly died from an allergy. "I was sick as a dog," he said in Soul of America. "I was close to death. I'm allergic to penicillin and they was feeding me penicillin and my body had shut down." After recovering, his brother Joseph told him, "Now do something that you want to do. Follow your dreams. You love music. Do it." As documented in Soul of America, the singer was a functional illiterate, able to read at a first-grade level and seeing a tutor weekly to improve his reading skills. Shortly after his hospitalization, Bradley endured one of the biggest tragedies of his life when his older brother Joseph was robbed and murdered by one of Bradley's nephews. "I stopped dead; I blocked it out of my head," Bradley told Okayplayer in 2011. "I said 'Lord, please don’t let it be true.' ... I went down screaming." Bradley detailed the event in 2011's "Heartaches and Pain," singing, "I woke up this morning/My momma she was cryin/So i looked out my window/Police lights was flashing/People was screaming/So i ran down to the street/My friends grabbed my shoulder/And he said these words to me: Life is full of sorrow." With his brother's call to "follow his dreams" echoing in his head, Bradley eked out a living in New York clubs covering Brown, incorporating wigs and costumes he would hand-sew himself. (During the day, Bradley worked as a handyman to make ends meet.) Roth saw one of Bradley's shows and introduced him to label producer-musician Tom Brenneck, who would go on to produce all three Bradley albums. "I'll carry that man in my heart for the rest of my life," Brenneck said in a statement. In 2011, at the age of 62, Bradley released his debut album No Time for Dreaming with the Menahan Street Band after a string of singles. The album, which included the galvanizing "The World (Is Going Up in Flames)," was named by Rolling Stone as one of the 50 Best Albums of the Year. "Don’t tell me how to live my life / When you never felt the pain," Bradley sings. "I been struggling for over 42 years trying to make it in the industry," he said in Soul of America. "And at the age of 62, I'm just beginning to find my way through. I never made enough money to support myself in music, but I'm hoping that this album will make a turning point for me ... I ask myself why it took so long, but you can't question God when he want to do things." Victim of Love, with its unlikely hit "Strictly Reserved for You," would follow in 2013, earning near-universal critical acclaim and bolstering Bradley's status as a soul star with unmatched authenticity. Bradley's final album, Changes, arrived in 2016, taking its title from a cover on the album of Black Sabbath's 1972 ballad. Bradley hadn't heard of the heavy metal pioneers, but connected with Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler's personal lyrics about transformation as Bradley watched his mom's health deteriorate. "The verse that really stuck to me was, 'It took so long to realize/That I can still hear her last goodbyes/Now all my days are filled with tears/Wish I could go back and change these years,'" Bradley told Rolling Stone. "Because it was like my mom saying she was sick and she was leaving me and something about that song … I just took the last lyrics and wow. So I got stuck on it. I didn't really have to 'learn' it; it just stuck to my brain." The minimalist video, shot shortly after Bradley's mom's death, consists solely of a close-up one-shot of the singer at his most vulnerable. As fiery and poignant as Bradley could be on record, his live shows allowed the singer to both channel his decades of adoration for Brown alongside his own boisterous flourishes. Like labelmate Sharon Jones, a Charles Bradley show balanced the flamboyant with the crestfallen, alternating between elated party and a singer's catharsis laid bare in public. Bradley was a relentlessly transfixing presence onstage, able to quiet an entire audience with a ballad before turning a crowd frenzied with full-stage dancing and a deep, full-throated roar. Last year, doctors discovered a cancerous tumor in his stomach, forcing Bradley to cancel his fall tour. "I will fight through this like I've fought through the many other obstacles in my life," Bradley said at the time. "Music is how I share my love with the world, and the love that my fans have given back brings me so much joy." Earlier this month, the cancer metastasized to his liver. "I love all of you out there that made my dreams come true," Bradley said earlier this month. "When I come back, I'll come back strong, with God's love. With God's will, I'll be back soon." "Right now, I don't see a stopping point 'cause I don't see no place where I can stop at and rest in peace," he told Rolling Stone last year. "But I know that from doing shows for the public, the love when I go out into the audience and hug 'em and the things that they say to me personally … [pauses] Wow. It's not only me onstage doing it. I open their hearts up and they feel the love of my heart and when I go out there and really respond to 'em and talk to 'em, they tell me some things." Toward the end of Soul of America, Bradley cried when discussing his place in the world. "Sometimes I say, 'God, just call me home.' Because every day I get out and I fight and fight the keep the honesty [and] the decency of a human being walking the planet and loving everybody as God asked you to love everybody," Bradley said. "How much more can one give before they find love on the planet? I say, 'Father, when the time of the hour you want me, I'm ready to go.' And before I leave this world, I say, 'Let the world know they can't change me ... I love everybody. I never do nobody no harm.'"

– Charles Bradley, known as the "Screaming Eagle of Soul" for a powerful, raspy style that evoked one of his musical heroes, James Brown, died Saturday at age 68. Bradley, who achieved success later in life with his 2011 debut album No Time for Dreaming," was diagnosed with stomach cancer in the fall of 2016 and underwent treatment, according to a statement from his publicist Shazila Mohammed. He headed out to tour earlier this year after receiving a clean bill of health, reports the AP, but the cancer returned recently, spreading to his liver. "I love all of you out there that made my dreams come true," Bradley said earlier this month, per Rolling Stone. Recording on the Daptone label, Bradley was a fiery live performer. He followed up his first album with Victim of Love in 2013. His third album, Changes, was released last year. A stop last year on CBS This Morning: Saturday earned him an Emmy nomination. Bradley idolized Brown, working as a Brown impersonator known as Black Velvet before he was discovered by Gabriel Roth, a Daptone co-founder. He later became known for closing shows under his own name with hugs for his audiences. "The world lost a ton of heart today," Roth said in the statement. "Charles was somehow one of the meekest and strongest people I've ever known. His pain was a cry for universal love and humanity. His soulful moans and screams will echo forever on records and in the ears and hearts of those who were fortunate enough to share time with him." Roth said he told Bradley recently there's solace to be found for fans knowing Bradley "will continue to inspire love and music in this world for generations to come." Bradley's response? "I tried." The Rolling Stone obituary has much more here.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.FILE - In this May 9, 2014 file photo, soul singer Charles Bradley performs at the Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta, Ga. His publicist said Bradley died Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 after a battle with... (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Bradley, known as the "Screaming Eagle of Soul" for a powerful, raspy style that evoked one of his musical heroes, James Brown, died Saturday at age 68. Bradley, who achieved success later in life with his 2011 debut album "No Time for Dreaming," was diagnosed with stomach cancer in the fall of 2016 and underwent treatment, according to a statement from his publicist Shazila Mohammed. He headed out to tour earlier this year after receiving a clean bill of health, but the cancer returned recently, spreading to his liver, the statement said. Recording on the Daptone label, Bradley was a fiery live performer. He followed up his first album with "Victim of Love" in 2013. His third album, "Changes," was released last year. Among his TV appearances was a stop last year on "CBS This Morning: Saturday," which earned him an Emmy nomination. Born in Gainesville, Florida, Bradley found himself living in New York at age 8. He left home as a teenager and lived as an itinerant until he settled in Brooklyn 20 years ago. Bradley idolized Brown, working as a Brown impersonator known as Black Velvet before he was discovered by Gabriel Roth, a Daptone co-founder. He later became known for closing shows under his own name with hugs for his audiences. "The world lost a ton of heart today," Roth said in the statement. "Charles was somehow one of the meekest and strongest people I've ever known. His pain was a cry for universal love and humanity. His soulful moans and screams will echo forever on records and in the ears and hearts of those who were fortunate enough to share time with him." Roth said he told Bradley recently there's solace to be found for fans knowing Bradley "will continue to inspire love and music in this world for generations to come." Bradley's response? "I tried." ||||| Charles Bradley, the acclaimed soul singer and exuberant live performer who saw his career ascend late in life, died Saturday following a bout with stomach and liver cancer. He was 68. Related Charles Bradley on Covering Black Sabbath, Emotional New LP New York soul singer tells how real-life hardship, including his mother's death, influenced emotional 'Changes' album "It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Charles Bradley," the singer's rep said in a statement. "Always a fighter, Charles battled cancer with everything he had. He was diagnosed with stomach cancer in the fall of 2016 and underwent treatment. Bradley headed out on the road earlier this year after receiving a clean bill of health but the cancer recently returned, spreading to his liver." Bradley's reps added, "Thank you for your prayers during this difficult time. Mr. Bradley was truly grateful for all the love he’s received from his fans and we hope his message of love is remembered and carried on." "The world lost a ton of heart today," Gabriel Roth, co-founder of Bradley's label Daptone Records, said. "Charles was somehow one of the meekest and strongest people I've ever known. His pain was a cry for universal love and humanity. His soulful moans and screams will echo forever on records and in the ears and hearts of those who were fortunate enough to share time with him. "I find some solace knowing that he will continue to inspire love and music in this world for generations to come," he added. "I told him as much a few days ago. He smiled and told me, 'I tried.' It was probably the simplest and most inspiring thing he ever told me. I think he wanted to hug each person on this planet individually. I mean that literally, and anyone that ever saw him knows that he honestly tried." "RIP to our dear brother Charles Bradley," veteran Afrobeat group and Daptone Records labelmate Antibalas wrote on Twitter. "Your heart was too big for this planet. See you on the other side. We love you." Over the course of three albums – 2011's No Time for Dreaming, 2013's Victim of Love and 2016's Changes – Bradley, known as the "Screaming Eagle of Soul," blended heartfelt ballads of love, longing and remorse with raucous tracks celebrating joy and the survival of a hardscrabble life. Charles Edward Bradley was born November 5th, 1948 in Florida but his mother, who had left for New York, moved Bradley to Brooklyn when he was 8 years old. At 14, Bradley left home and became homeless, sleeping on New York subway trains for warmth. "I was afraid that she was going to hurt me, so I left," Bradley said of his mother in the 2012 documentary Charles Bradley: Soul of America. "We couldn't see eye to eye and I was getting blamed for everything, so I was very bitter." In 1962, Bradley's sister took him to James Brown's landmark performance at the Apollo Theater when he was 14. The show transformed Bradley, who would later find regional success in New York as a James Brown impersonator named Black Velvet. "It was breathtaking," Bradley told Rolling Stone of the Apollo show in 2016. "I didn't know who James Brown really was but I wanted to go see. When they called James Brown onstage, I'll never forget they had this purple light and yellow light – my two favorite colors. And when they introduced him, he came flying on the stage on one leg and I said, 'What in the hell is this?' [Laughs] And I was mesmerized. I was just gone. I was just shocked. Shocked. I said, 'Wow. I wanna be something like that.'" The fledgling impersonator went home, attached string to a broom to emulate Brown's bombastic mic swings, and began impersonating the singer in private before performing his first show as Brown at age 19 in 1967. "I was really scared to do it, so they snuck a bottle of gin [laughs] in the gym with 7-Up in it, and I got fired up," he told Rolling Stone. "I said, 'Give me that mic!' ... I ain't never stopped yet." A drifter as a teen who battled with illiteracy, poverty and chronic unemployment, the Brooklyn singer would later nearly die from a penicillin allergy and find his brother murdered by Bradley's own nephew. Bradley became an itinerant after leaving home, traveling across the country in 1977 after spending 10 years as a cook at a Maine hospital for the mentally ill before ending up in California. Shows would come occasionally, but Bradley was unable to find any success in music at the time. After getting laid off from his job after 17 years in 1994, Bradley reconnected with his estranged mother Inez, moving back to Brooklyn to take care of her. At the time, Bradley nearly died from an allergy. "I was sick as a dog," he said in Soul of America. "I was close to death. I'm allergic to penicillin and they was feeding me penicillin and my body had shut down." After recovering, his brother Joseph told him, "Now do something that you want to do. Follow your dreams. You love music. Do it." As documented in Soul of America, the singer was a functional illiterate, able to read at a first-grade level and seeing a tutor weekly to improve his reading skills. Shortly after his hospitalization, Bradley endured one of the biggest tragedies of his life when his older brother Joseph was robbed and murdered by one of Bradley's nephews. "I stopped dead; I blocked it out of my head," Bradley told Okayplayer in 2011. "I said 'Lord, please don’t let it be true.' ... I went down screaming." Bradley detailed the event in 2011's "Heartaches and Pain," singing, "I woke up this morning/My momma she was cryin/So i looked out my window/Police lights was flashing/People was screaming/So i ran down to the street/My friends grabbed my shoulder/And he said these words to me: Life is full of sorrow." With his brother's call to "follow his dreams" echoing in his head, Bradley eked out a living in New York clubs covering Brown, incorporating wigs and costumes he would hand-sew himself. (During the day, Bradley worked as a handyman to make ends meet.) Roth saw one of Bradley's shows and introduced him to label producer-musician Tom Brenneck, who would go on to produce all three Bradley albums. "I'll carry that man in my heart for the rest of my life," Brenneck said in a statement. In 2011, at the age of 62, Bradley released his debut album No Time for Dreaming with the Menahan Street Band after a string of singles. The album, which included the galvanizing "The World (Is Going Up in Flames)," was named by Rolling Stone as one of the 50 Best Albums of the Year. "Don’t tell me how to live my life / When you never felt the pain," Bradley sings. "I been struggling for over 42 years trying to make it in the industry," he said in Soul of America. "And at the age of 62, I'm just beginning to find my way through. I never made enough money to support myself in music, but I'm hoping that this album will make a turning point for me ... I ask myself why it took so long, but you can't question God when he want to do things." Victim of Love, with its unlikely hit "Strictly Reserved for You," would follow in 2013, earning near-universal critical acclaim and bolstering Bradley's status as a soul star with unmatched authenticity. Bradley's final album, Changes, arrived in 2016, taking its title from a cover on the album of Black Sabbath's 1972 ballad. Bradley hadn't heard of the heavy metal pioneers, but connected with Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler's personal lyrics about transformation as Bradley watched his mom's health deteriorate. "The verse that really stuck to me was, 'It took so long to realize/That I can still hear her last goodbyes/Now all my days are filled with tears/Wish I could go back and change these years,'" Bradley told Rolling Stone. "Because it was like my mom saying she was sick and she was leaving me and something about that song … I just took the last lyrics and wow. So I got stuck on it. I didn't really have to 'learn' it; it just stuck to my brain." The minimalist video, shot shortly after Bradley's mom's death, consists solely of a close-up one-shot of the singer at his most vulnerable. As fiery and poignant as Bradley could be on record, his live shows allowed the singer to both channel his decades of adoration for Brown alongside his own boisterous flourishes. Like labelmate Sharon Jones, a Charles Bradley show balanced the flamboyant with the crestfallen, alternating between elated party and a singer's catharsis laid bare in public. Bradley was a relentlessly transfixing presence onstage, able to quiet an entire audience with a ballad before turning a crowd frenzied with full-stage dancing and a deep, full-throated roar. Last year, doctors discovered a cancerous tumor in his stomach, forcing Bradley to cancel his fall tour. "I will fight through this like I've fought through the many other obstacles in my life," Bradley said at the time. "Music is how I share my love with the world, and the love that my fans have given back brings me so much joy." Earlier this month, the cancer metastasized to his liver. "I love all of you out there that made my dreams come true," Bradley said earlier this month. "When I come back, I'll come back strong, with God's love. With God's will, I'll be back soon." "Right now, I don't see a stopping point 'cause I don't see no place where I can stop at and rest in peace," he told Rolling Stone last year. "But I know that from doing shows for the public, the love when I go out into the audience and hug 'em and the things that they say to me personally … [pauses] Wow. It's not only me onstage doing it. I open their hearts up and they feel the love of my heart and when I go out there and really respond to 'em and talk to 'em, they tell me some things." Toward the end of Soul of America, Bradley cried when discussing his place in the world. "Sometimes I say, 'God, just call me home.' Because every day I get out and I fight and fight the keep the honesty [and] the decency of a human being walking the planet and loving everybody as God asked you to love everybody," Bradley said. "How much more can one give before they find love on the planet? I say, 'Father, when the time of the hour you want me, I'm ready to go.' And before I leave this world, I say, 'Let the world know they can't change me ... I love everybody. I never do nobody no harm.'"

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Supreme Court blocks ruling that let transgender Va. student use boys' bathroom The Supreme Court signaled in an order Wednesday that it is highly likely to grapple with the issue of transgender bathrooms in its coming term. Acting on a 5-3 vote, the justices put on hold a groundbreaking court ruling requiring a Virginia school district to accommodate a transgender high school student’s request to use the boys’ bathroom. Story Continued Below It’s the first time the high court has shown interest in the transgender bathroom issue, which has prompted nearly half of states to sue the Obama administration over its interpretation of federal civil rights law. The Justice and Education Departments have said transgender students are offered sweeping civil rights protections under federal law, including their right to access bathrooms and locker rooms in alignment with their gender identity. The American Civil Liberties Union is representing student Gavin Grimm in the case. Senior staff attorney Joshua Block said, “We are disappointed that the court has issued a stay and that Gavin will have to begin another school year isolated from his peers and stigmatized by the Gloucester County school board just because he’s a boy who is transgender. We remain hopeful that Gavin will ultimately prevail.” Francisco Negrón, general counsel and associate executive director of legal advocacy at the National School Boards Association, said the high court eventually will have to resolve the issue of transgender bathroom access. "A quick court resolution would be a welcome thing," he said, as schools and districts are struggling with conflicting messages and policies from the federal government, states, districts and court cases. Attorneys for the school board said they welcomed the Supreme Court’s action "as the new school year approaches." "The Board continues to believe that its resolution of this complex matter fully considered the interests of all students and parents in the Gloucester County school system," the school board said. The Justice Department declined to comment. Justice Stephen Breyer joined with the court’s four GOP appointees to lift—for now—the obligation of the Gloucester County school system to allow Grimm to use the bathroom of his choice in accordance with Obama Administration guidance. In a statement accompanying the order, Breyer said he was agreeing to the stay as a “courtesy” because the court is in recess and putting the ruling on hold "will preserve the status quo." The three other Democratic appointees opposed the stay. However, since only four justices are needed to grant review in a case, the fact that the four Republican appointees favored the stay sought by the school district is a strong sign the high court will agree to take up the case this fall. Nathan Smith, director of public policy for the LGBT advocacy organization GLSEN, said "preserving the 'status quo’ unfortunately means allowing a school district to discriminate against a transgender student." "But it doesn’t seem like the decision here was on the merits of the case, so we feel pretty confident that they’ll ultimately rule in a just way," Smith added. "But at least in the short-term we’re pretty disappointed.” A Richmond, Va.-based federal appeals court ruled in April that the U.S. Department of Education acted within its authority when issuing guidance to school systems on the transgender bathroom issue and that Grimm’s school had a duty to follow it. The school board filed an emergency application with SCOTUS last month, asking Chief Justice John Roberts to suspend a lower court’s decision granting Grimm bathroom access while they ask the Supreme Court to take up the case. As is customary, Roberts referred the request to the full court. Authors: ||||| The school board said it intended to file an appeal petition by the end of this month that formally asks the high court to review the 4th Circuit's decision. If the justices agree to hear the case, which now seems likely, it would be one of the court's major cases of the coming term. If a 4-4 deadlock is averted, the case could yield the court's first ruling on the issue of transgender rights. ||||| RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia school board can block a transgender male from using the boys restroom when school starts next month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. In a 5-3 decision, the high court put on hold a lower court ruling that ordered the Gloucester County School Board to let Gavin Grimm use the bathroom that matches his gender identity. The school board is expected to ask the justices to further intervene in the case later this month. The decision means Grimm will be barred from using the boys bathroom for at least the first half of his senior year, said Josh Block, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who's representing Grimm. The school board says it plans to formally ask the Supreme Court to review 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Grimm's case by the end of August and then it will be months before the justices decide whether to do so. Block said he's disappointed the teen will have to begin another school year being "stigmatized and isolated from the rest of his peers just because he is transgender." But he said he remains hopeful that Grimm will ultimately prevail in the case. Grimm, who was born female but identifies as male, was allowed to use the boys restroom at his high school for several weeks in 2014. But after some parents complained, the school board adopted a policy requiring students to use either the restroom that corresponds with their biological gender or a private, single-stall restroom. Grimm argues the policy violates Title IX, a federal law that bars sex discrimination in schools. The school board counters that allowing Grimm use the boys restroom raises privacy concerns and may cause some parents to pull their children out of school. An attorney for the board didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. If the justices agree to hear Grimm's case, the order will remain on hold until the court makes a final ruling, the court's ruling said. If they deny the school board's petition for review, the order requiring the board to let Grimm use the boys bathroom will be reinstated. The appeals court sided with Grimm in April, saying the federal judge who previously dismissed Grimm's Title IX discrimination claim ignored a U.S. Department of Education rule that transgender students in public schools must be allowed to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity. The appeals court reinstated Grimm's Title IX claim and sent it back to the district court for further consideration. But the high court's decision Wednesday puts Grimm's case on hold until the justices decide whether to intervene. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented. Justice Stephen Breyer said he agreed to put the case on hold to "preserve the status quo" until the court decides whether to weigh in. ___ Follow Alanna Durkin Richer on Twitter at https://twitter.com/aedurkinricher. Her work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/journalist/alanna-durkin-richer.

– Seventeen-year-old Gavin Grimm will start his senior year of high school once again banned from using the boys restroom, the AP reports. In a 5-3 decision on Wednesday, the US Supreme Court put a hold on the decision of a lower court that would have allowed Grimm, a transgender male, to use the boys restroom at his school in Virginia. According to the Los Angeles Times, an appeals court ruled in April that the school board was in violation of Title IX when it barred Grimm from the boys restroom. Grimm's lawyer says the Supreme Court's decision means Grimm will continue to be "stigmatized and isolated from the rest of his peers just because he is transgender." However, Politico reports it's likely the Supreme Court will hear Grimm's case when it reconvenes in the fall. And that's good news for Grimm and transgender students like him: A hearing on the issue will probably result in a 4-4 tie, which will uphold the appeals court's earlier ruling and allow Grimm to use the boys restroom—albeit months from now, according to the Times. The appeals court's ruling will also be upheld if the Supreme Court decides not to hear the case. Grimm used the boys restroom for a few weeks in 2014 until a number of parents complained. The Virginia school board says it wants to "protect the basic expectations of bodily privacy."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Supreme Court blocks ruling that let transgender Va. student use boys' bathroom The Supreme Court signaled in an order Wednesday that it is highly likely to grapple with the issue of transgender bathrooms in its coming term. Acting on a 5-3 vote, the justices put on hold a groundbreaking court ruling requiring a Virginia school district to accommodate a transgender high school student’s request to use the boys’ bathroom. Story Continued Below It’s the first time the high court has shown interest in the transgender bathroom issue, which has prompted nearly half of states to sue the Obama administration over its interpretation of federal civil rights law. The Justice and Education Departments have said transgender students are offered sweeping civil rights protections under federal law, including their right to access bathrooms and locker rooms in alignment with their gender identity. The American Civil Liberties Union is representing student Gavin Grimm in the case. Senior staff attorney Joshua Block said, “We are disappointed that the court has issued a stay and that Gavin will have to begin another school year isolated from his peers and stigmatized by the Gloucester County school board just because he’s a boy who is transgender. We remain hopeful that Gavin will ultimately prevail.” Francisco Negrón, general counsel and associate executive director of legal advocacy at the National School Boards Association, said the high court eventually will have to resolve the issue of transgender bathroom access. "A quick court resolution would be a welcome thing," he said, as schools and districts are struggling with conflicting messages and policies from the federal government, states, districts and court cases. Attorneys for the school board said they welcomed the Supreme Court’s action "as the new school year approaches." "The Board continues to believe that its resolution of this complex matter fully considered the interests of all students and parents in the Gloucester County school system," the school board said. The Justice Department declined to comment. Justice Stephen Breyer joined with the court’s four GOP appointees to lift—for now—the obligation of the Gloucester County school system to allow Grimm to use the bathroom of his choice in accordance with Obama Administration guidance. In a statement accompanying the order, Breyer said he was agreeing to the stay as a “courtesy” because the court is in recess and putting the ruling on hold "will preserve the status quo." The three other Democratic appointees opposed the stay. However, since only four justices are needed to grant review in a case, the fact that the four Republican appointees favored the stay sought by the school district is a strong sign the high court will agree to take up the case this fall. Nathan Smith, director of public policy for the LGBT advocacy organization GLSEN, said "preserving the 'status quo’ unfortunately means allowing a school district to discriminate against a transgender student." "But it doesn’t seem like the decision here was on the merits of the case, so we feel pretty confident that they’ll ultimately rule in a just way," Smith added. "But at least in the short-term we’re pretty disappointed.” A Richmond, Va.-based federal appeals court ruled in April that the U.S. Department of Education acted within its authority when issuing guidance to school systems on the transgender bathroom issue and that Grimm’s school had a duty to follow it. The school board filed an emergency application with SCOTUS last month, asking Chief Justice John Roberts to suspend a lower court’s decision granting Grimm bathroom access while they ask the Supreme Court to take up the case. As is customary, Roberts referred the request to the full court. Authors: ||||| The school board said it intended to file an appeal petition by the end of this month that formally asks the high court to review the 4th Circuit's decision. If the justices agree to hear the case, which now seems likely, it would be one of the court's major cases of the coming term. If a 4-4 deadlock is averted, the case could yield the court's first ruling on the issue of transgender rights. ||||| RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia school board can block a transgender male from using the boys restroom when school starts next month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. In a 5-3 decision, the high court put on hold a lower court ruling that ordered the Gloucester County School Board to let Gavin Grimm use the bathroom that matches his gender identity. The school board is expected to ask the justices to further intervene in the case later this month. The decision means Grimm will be barred from using the boys bathroom for at least the first half of his senior year, said Josh Block, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who's representing Grimm. The school board says it plans to formally ask the Supreme Court to review 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Grimm's case by the end of August and then it will be months before the justices decide whether to do so. Block said he's disappointed the teen will have to begin another school year being "stigmatized and isolated from the rest of his peers just because he is transgender." But he said he remains hopeful that Grimm will ultimately prevail in the case. Grimm, who was born female but identifies as male, was allowed to use the boys restroom at his high school for several weeks in 2014. But after some parents complained, the school board adopted a policy requiring students to use either the restroom that corresponds with their biological gender or a private, single-stall restroom. Grimm argues the policy violates Title IX, a federal law that bars sex discrimination in schools. The school board counters that allowing Grimm use the boys restroom raises privacy concerns and may cause some parents to pull their children out of school. An attorney for the board didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. If the justices agree to hear Grimm's case, the order will remain on hold until the court makes a final ruling, the court's ruling said. If they deny the school board's petition for review, the order requiring the board to let Grimm use the boys bathroom will be reinstated. The appeals court sided with Grimm in April, saying the federal judge who previously dismissed Grimm's Title IX discrimination claim ignored a U.S. Department of Education rule that transgender students in public schools must be allowed to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity. The appeals court reinstated Grimm's Title IX claim and sent it back to the district court for further consideration. But the high court's decision Wednesday puts Grimm's case on hold until the justices decide whether to intervene. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented. Justice Stephen Breyer said he agreed to put the case on hold to "preserve the status quo" until the court decides whether to weigh in. ___ Follow Alanna Durkin Richer on Twitter at https://twitter.com/aedurkinricher. Her work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/journalist/alanna-durkin-richer.

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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s campaign raised $3.1 million from donors in May, more than doubling previous monthly hauls as he began soliciting donations to battle Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Republican U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, June 18, 2016. REUTERS/Nancy Wiechec But with spending that outpaced inflows, the New York real estate magnate’s campaign began June with just $1.29 million in cash, putting it well-behind Clinton’s $42 million war chest, according to federal disclosures filed late on Monday. Clinton’s campaign raised $26 million in May. The figures underscore the huge money advantage Clinton is hoping to enjoy leading into the Nov. 8 election, one that could allow her a large staff and millions of dollars of television and digital ads in battleground states. Trump, who has self-funded most of his campaign and only held his first general election fundraiser on May 25, is betting he can run a race that builds on his low-spending, insurgent primary operation. Trump’s surrogates, however, have said the cash is now “pouring in” for the general election. For months the biggest cash injections into Trump’s campaign coffers were from his personal bank accounts. He has loaned his campaign $46 million since launching last year. Trump may still have several hurdles to cross before convincing deep-pocketed donors to write the kind of checks that would make him competitive with Clinton’s campaign bank account. Trump donors, allies and other Republican operatives continue to express concerns about his campaign operation, which has been dogged by internal battles, a threadbare campaign infrastructure of about 30 paid staffers, and a barely existent fundraising apparatus. On Monday, Trump fired his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who had been tasked with overseeing the campaign’s fundraising arm. The primary Super PAC supporting Trump, Great America PAC, reported raising $1.4 million in May - accounting for most of the $2.5 million the group has raised this year. The PAC had $500,971 cash remaining at the beginning of June. Clinton’s cash advantage has been fueled in part by the Super PAC supporting her. Priorities USA raised $12 million in the last month, ending May with a $52 million in cash. Three unions, AFT Solidarity, Liuna Building America and International Union of Operating Engineers, each gave $1 million. The group has largely been tasked with attacking Trump. And so far, they have spent more than $5.7 million this year on television ads alone attacking the Republican. (In fifth paragraph, this story corrects the date of first Trump general election fundraiser to May 25) ||||| Donald Trump raised a dismal $3.1 million last month -- and spent well over twice that -- and loaned his campaign more money to keep it afloat, according to financial reports filed late Monday. Trump's campaign ended May with $1.2 million in cash on hand, compared with $42 million for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Including allied super PACs that have filed their fundraising reports, Trump's effort had just short of $2 million in cash while Clinton's side had $94 million. Several competing super PACs are vying to be fundraising vehicles for Trump, not all of which have filed yet. During the primaries, Trump said repeatedly that he was self-funding his campaign -- although that was never completely true. But he has said that he does not intend to self-fund for the general election, meaning that he will have to vastly step up his fundraising if he is to keep pace. Trump has held a number of fundraising events in recent weeks, but so far, major donors have been scarce. By contrast, Clinton had her best fundraising month yet in May, her campaign's filing with the Federal Election Commission showed. The filings came on a day when Trump's campaign churned with the sudden dismissal of its combative manager, Corey Lewandowski. Republicans are increasingly concerned about Trump's operation, and big-money GOP donors have shown reluctance to give heavily to Trump's campaign. Monday's filing may not generate much confidence. Not only did Trump not make good on his promise to retire a $43-million loan he made to his campaign, he upped it by $2.1 million to $45.3 million. Trump has called that money a "gift" to the American people. But with it still in the books as a loan, donors may continue to worry that money they give would ultimately go to repay a candidate who claims to be a billionaire. The money was needed, it appears, to run a campaign that has been spending more than it is taking in. Trump's campaign spent $6.7 million during the month. ||||| Filings to Federal Election Commission show Democrat’s campaign holding far more money than Republican’s, raising questions about his fundraising efforts Donald Trump’s campaign budget was widely mocked on Tuesday as figures showed him paying his own companies and children while raising far less money than his rival for the US presidency, Hillary Clinton. The businessman lavished nearly $1m on hats, pens, T-shirts, mugs and stickers last month but has not run a TV advert since he effectively secured the Republican nomination on 4 May. His minimal social media effort is led by his own bombastic tweeting. Trump spent $6.7m in May, filings released by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show. He spent more than $423,000 on facility rental and catering at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, and another $350,000 on travel air on Tag Air, the holding company that owns Trump’s jet. In total, roughly one-fifth of Trump’s expenditures in May went to his own companies or in reimbursements to Trump’s children. His son Eric’s wine company received nearly $4,000. And buried in the financial report was $35,000 in payments to a mysterious entity called “Draper Sterling” for “web advertising”, a reference that raised questions and caused mirth on social media because of its similarity to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, the fictional advertising agency in the TV drama Mad Men. Trump’s campaign war chest is dwarfed by that of rival Hillary Clinton, representing one of the biggest financial mismatches in presidential election history. While the Republican presumptive nominee entered June with just $1.3m in the bank, Clinton had $42.5m, according to filings released by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) – making her campaign cash reserve 32 times larger than that of Trump. Whereas he had about 70 staff in total, she had 683. The figures are likely to feed a growing feeling of panic among Republicans about Trump’s chances in November. The presumptive Republican nominee is trailing Clinton in opinion polls and, after weeks of controversy over racially charged remarks, fired his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, on Monday. Despite winning the Republican primary contest on 4 May, Trump evidently did not enjoy an immediate boost in fundraising. Donors gave just over $3m that month. Clinton, by contrast, brought in more than $26m in May. Trump loaned his effort another $2.2m, bringing his total outlay over the past year to about $46m – almost all of which is loans. During speeches, the self-proclaimed billionaire has claimed that low spending should be seen as a strength, not a weakness, and noted that Jeb Bush’s millions did not lead to political success. However, his meagre total of $1.3m in campaign cash at the end of May was less even than defeated Republican opponents Ted Cruz and Ben Carson. It was also well short of the previous Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, who in May 2012 raised $23.4m and had more than $17m in the bank. George Clooney admits money he raised for Hillary Clinton is 'obscene' Read more On Tuesday, the Trump campaign pushed back against the barrage of criticism, saying it held its first campaign fundraising event on 25 May. It claimed the campaign’s fundraising has been “incredible” and has seen a “tremendous outpouring” of support for Trump and money to the Republican party. Trump said: “If need be, there could be unlimited ‘cash on hand’ as I would put up my own money, as I have already done through the primaries, spending over $50m. Our campaign is leaner and more efficient, like our government should be.” Most pro-Trump Super Pacs were not due to file financial reports on Monday, having either just formed recently or being subject to a different schedule. Great America Pac took in $1.4m in May, the most it has raised so far. Its donors include Stanley Hubbard, a Minnesota-based broadcasting executive, who gave $25,000. Clinton entered June with a war chest of more than $42m, up from $30m a month earlier and her highest in any other FEC report to date. This reflects how Clinton was able to ease up on advertising spending as the threat from primary opponent Bernie Sanders receded. She spent about $14m in May – down from almost $24m in April and $31.6m in February, when the senator from Vermont posed a significant challenge. Clinton raised more than $26m in May. Her campaign said this came from more than 650,000 contributions from about 430,000 people. The average donation was about $44. “We’re starting the general election in strong financial shape thanks to the support of more than 1.3 million people and strategic investments that helped us conserve our resources,” said Robby Mook, campaign manager for Clinton. “That grassroots support will be critical to our success and will ensure that we have the resources we need to communicate Hillary Clinton’s message that we are stronger together.” Clinton’s campaign has reserved nearly $21m in television ads in the coming weeks in major swing states. In contrast Trump’s campaign has yet to make a single general election ad buy. In addition, Priorities USA, the main Super Pac helping Clinton’s presidential election effort, raised $12m in May. Its key contributors include the Chicago media mogul Fred Eychaner, who gave $3m; and the New York financiers Donald Sussman, who gave $2m, and Bernard Schwartz, who gave $1m. The robust health of the Clinton finances could add to Republican anxieties. The party began June with about $20m in the bank – only a third as much cash as it had four years earlier when Romney was the presumptive nominee. FEC reports reflecting the first few weeks after Trump became the party’s flag-bearer show the Republican National Committee (RNC) raised $13m in May – little different from what it raised in April when there was still uncertainty over the nominee. By comparison, four years earlier, Romney helped the RNC bring in $34m and begin June 2012 with more than $60m in available cash. The figures put another question mark over Trump’s embattled campaign. His spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, asserted recently: “There are no fundraising concerns whatsoever. The money is pouring in and Mr Trump has received tremendous support.” Outside the presidential race, Eychaner gave $2m and Hollywood tycoon Haim Saban gave $1m to Democratic Super Pacs active in the House and Senate races, the Associated Press reported. On the Republican side the Freedom Partners Action Fund, a political group led by the conservative billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, collected $8m, mostly in large donations. Charles Koch gave $3m. Sanders raised $16.4m and spent $12.9m in May. He started June with $9.2m in cash, which was better than he did in April, when he ended the month with only $5.7m.

– Donald Trump's campaign is so low on cash it wouldn't be considered a high roller at one of his casinos, according to financial disclosures released late Monday. The Trump campaign began June with just $1.29 million in cash, compared to $42 million for Hillary Clinton's well-heeled campaign, reports Reuters. He did manage to raise $3.1 million in May, a hefty sum by Trump campaign standards, but that total was dwarfed by the $26 million Clinton raised during the same month. Trump loaned his campaign around $2.2 million, bringing that total to around $46 million. The filings reveal that around a fifth of what Trump's campaign spent in May went to Trump-owned companies or to his children, the Guardian reports. When super PACs are included in the total, Clinton's side has a war chest of $94 million compared to under $2 million for Trump, though some Trump-allied PACs have yet to file, the Los Angeles Times reports. The lousy fundraising figures for May are "totally inexplicable" in light of the fact that he was the presumptive GOP nominee for almost the entire month, had momentum, and was "running against the Democrat [Republicans] most love to hate," writes Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post. He warns that if Trump has another month where the funding gap between the two campaigns is so overwhelming, "the general election may be over before it ever really started." (On Monday, the Trump campaign parted ways with Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager who oversaw fundraising operations.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s campaign raised $3.1 million from donors in May, more than doubling previous monthly hauls as he began soliciting donations to battle Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Republican U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, June 18, 2016. REUTERS/Nancy Wiechec But with spending that outpaced inflows, the New York real estate magnate’s campaign began June with just $1.29 million in cash, putting it well-behind Clinton’s $42 million war chest, according to federal disclosures filed late on Monday. Clinton’s campaign raised $26 million in May. The figures underscore the huge money advantage Clinton is hoping to enjoy leading into the Nov. 8 election, one that could allow her a large staff and millions of dollars of television and digital ads in battleground states. Trump, who has self-funded most of his campaign and only held his first general election fundraiser on May 25, is betting he can run a race that builds on his low-spending, insurgent primary operation. Trump’s surrogates, however, have said the cash is now “pouring in” for the general election. For months the biggest cash injections into Trump’s campaign coffers were from his personal bank accounts. He has loaned his campaign $46 million since launching last year. Trump may still have several hurdles to cross before convincing deep-pocketed donors to write the kind of checks that would make him competitive with Clinton’s campaign bank account. Trump donors, allies and other Republican operatives continue to express concerns about his campaign operation, which has been dogged by internal battles, a threadbare campaign infrastructure of about 30 paid staffers, and a barely existent fundraising apparatus. On Monday, Trump fired his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who had been tasked with overseeing the campaign’s fundraising arm. The primary Super PAC supporting Trump, Great America PAC, reported raising $1.4 million in May - accounting for most of the $2.5 million the group has raised this year. The PAC had $500,971 cash remaining at the beginning of June. Clinton’s cash advantage has been fueled in part by the Super PAC supporting her. Priorities USA raised $12 million in the last month, ending May with a $52 million in cash. Three unions, AFT Solidarity, Liuna Building America and International Union of Operating Engineers, each gave $1 million. The group has largely been tasked with attacking Trump. And so far, they have spent more than $5.7 million this year on television ads alone attacking the Republican. (In fifth paragraph, this story corrects the date of first Trump general election fundraiser to May 25) ||||| Donald Trump raised a dismal $3.1 million last month -- and spent well over twice that -- and loaned his campaign more money to keep it afloat, according to financial reports filed late Monday. Trump's campaign ended May with $1.2 million in cash on hand, compared with $42 million for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Including allied super PACs that have filed their fundraising reports, Trump's effort had just short of $2 million in cash while Clinton's side had $94 million. Several competing super PACs are vying to be fundraising vehicles for Trump, not all of which have filed yet. During the primaries, Trump said repeatedly that he was self-funding his campaign -- although that was never completely true. But he has said that he does not intend to self-fund for the general election, meaning that he will have to vastly step up his fundraising if he is to keep pace. Trump has held a number of fundraising events in recent weeks, but so far, major donors have been scarce. By contrast, Clinton had her best fundraising month yet in May, her campaign's filing with the Federal Election Commission showed. The filings came on a day when Trump's campaign churned with the sudden dismissal of its combative manager, Corey Lewandowski. Republicans are increasingly concerned about Trump's operation, and big-money GOP donors have shown reluctance to give heavily to Trump's campaign. Monday's filing may not generate much confidence. Not only did Trump not make good on his promise to retire a $43-million loan he made to his campaign, he upped it by $2.1 million to $45.3 million. Trump has called that money a "gift" to the American people. But with it still in the books as a loan, donors may continue to worry that money they give would ultimately go to repay a candidate who claims to be a billionaire. The money was needed, it appears, to run a campaign that has been spending more than it is taking in. Trump's campaign spent $6.7 million during the month. ||||| Filings to Federal Election Commission show Democrat’s campaign holding far more money than Republican’s, raising questions about his fundraising efforts Donald Trump’s campaign budget was widely mocked on Tuesday as figures showed him paying his own companies and children while raising far less money than his rival for the US presidency, Hillary Clinton. The businessman lavished nearly $1m on hats, pens, T-shirts, mugs and stickers last month but has not run a TV advert since he effectively secured the Republican nomination on 4 May. His minimal social media effort is led by his own bombastic tweeting. Trump spent $6.7m in May, filings released by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show. He spent more than $423,000 on facility rental and catering at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, and another $350,000 on travel air on Tag Air, the holding company that owns Trump’s jet. In total, roughly one-fifth of Trump’s expenditures in May went to his own companies or in reimbursements to Trump’s children. His son Eric’s wine company received nearly $4,000. And buried in the financial report was $35,000 in payments to a mysterious entity called “Draper Sterling” for “web advertising”, a reference that raised questions and caused mirth on social media because of its similarity to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, the fictional advertising agency in the TV drama Mad Men. Trump’s campaign war chest is dwarfed by that of rival Hillary Clinton, representing one of the biggest financial mismatches in presidential election history. While the Republican presumptive nominee entered June with just $1.3m in the bank, Clinton had $42.5m, according to filings released by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) – making her campaign cash reserve 32 times larger than that of Trump. Whereas he had about 70 staff in total, she had 683. The figures are likely to feed a growing feeling of panic among Republicans about Trump’s chances in November. The presumptive Republican nominee is trailing Clinton in opinion polls and, after weeks of controversy over racially charged remarks, fired his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, on Monday. Despite winning the Republican primary contest on 4 May, Trump evidently did not enjoy an immediate boost in fundraising. Donors gave just over $3m that month. Clinton, by contrast, brought in more than $26m in May. Trump loaned his effort another $2.2m, bringing his total outlay over the past year to about $46m – almost all of which is loans. During speeches, the self-proclaimed billionaire has claimed that low spending should be seen as a strength, not a weakness, and noted that Jeb Bush’s millions did not lead to political success. However, his meagre total of $1.3m in campaign cash at the end of May was less even than defeated Republican opponents Ted Cruz and Ben Carson. It was also well short of the previous Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, who in May 2012 raised $23.4m and had more than $17m in the bank. George Clooney admits money he raised for Hillary Clinton is 'obscene' Read more On Tuesday, the Trump campaign pushed back against the barrage of criticism, saying it held its first campaign fundraising event on 25 May. It claimed the campaign’s fundraising has been “incredible” and has seen a “tremendous outpouring” of support for Trump and money to the Republican party. Trump said: “If need be, there could be unlimited ‘cash on hand’ as I would put up my own money, as I have already done through the primaries, spending over $50m. Our campaign is leaner and more efficient, like our government should be.” Most pro-Trump Super Pacs were not due to file financial reports on Monday, having either just formed recently or being subject to a different schedule. Great America Pac took in $1.4m in May, the most it has raised so far. Its donors include Stanley Hubbard, a Minnesota-based broadcasting executive, who gave $25,000. Clinton entered June with a war chest of more than $42m, up from $30m a month earlier and her highest in any other FEC report to date. This reflects how Clinton was able to ease up on advertising spending as the threat from primary opponent Bernie Sanders receded. She spent about $14m in May – down from almost $24m in April and $31.6m in February, when the senator from Vermont posed a significant challenge. Clinton raised more than $26m in May. Her campaign said this came from more than 650,000 contributions from about 430,000 people. The average donation was about $44. “We’re starting the general election in strong financial shape thanks to the support of more than 1.3 million people and strategic investments that helped us conserve our resources,” said Robby Mook, campaign manager for Clinton. “That grassroots support will be critical to our success and will ensure that we have the resources we need to communicate Hillary Clinton’s message that we are stronger together.” Clinton’s campaign has reserved nearly $21m in television ads in the coming weeks in major swing states. In contrast Trump’s campaign has yet to make a single general election ad buy. In addition, Priorities USA, the main Super Pac helping Clinton’s presidential election effort, raised $12m in May. Its key contributors include the Chicago media mogul Fred Eychaner, who gave $3m; and the New York financiers Donald Sussman, who gave $2m, and Bernard Schwartz, who gave $1m. The robust health of the Clinton finances could add to Republican anxieties. The party began June with about $20m in the bank – only a third as much cash as it had four years earlier when Romney was the presumptive nominee. FEC reports reflecting the first few weeks after Trump became the party’s flag-bearer show the Republican National Committee (RNC) raised $13m in May – little different from what it raised in April when there was still uncertainty over the nominee. By comparison, four years earlier, Romney helped the RNC bring in $34m and begin June 2012 with more than $60m in available cash. The figures put another question mark over Trump’s embattled campaign. His spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, asserted recently: “There are no fundraising concerns whatsoever. The money is pouring in and Mr Trump has received tremendous support.” Outside the presidential race, Eychaner gave $2m and Hollywood tycoon Haim Saban gave $1m to Democratic Super Pacs active in the House and Senate races, the Associated Press reported. On the Republican side the Freedom Partners Action Fund, a political group led by the conservative billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, collected $8m, mostly in large donations. Charles Koch gave $3m. Sanders raised $16.4m and spent $12.9m in May. He started June with $9.2m in cash, which was better than he did in April, when he ended the month with only $5.7m.

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From the blog First Minister on Referendum Outcome September 19, 2014 Thank you Scotland for 1.6 million votes for Scottish independence. Our friends in the Highlands of Scotland are still to speak, so the final results aren’t in but we know that there is going to be a majority for the No campaign. It’s important to say that our referendum was an agreed and consented process… ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption First Minister Alex Salmond: "Scotland's future is in Scotland's hands." Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has launched his government's independence blueprint, calling it a "mission statement" for the future. The 670-page White Paper promised a "revolution" in social policy, with childcare at its heart. The launch came ahead of next September's independence referendum. Alistair Darling, leader of the campaign to keep the Union, branded the document a "work of fiction, full of meaningless assertions". On 18 September, Scots voters will be asked the yes/no question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?" Launching the paper - titled Scotland's Future: Your guide to an independent Scotland - in Glasgow, Mr Salmond said: "This is the most comprehensive blueprint for an independent country ever published, not just for Scotland but for any prospective independent nation.‬‬‬ Scotland's first minister and his deputy behaved today less like excited midwives and more like low-key, well-briefed company executives launching a corporate re-branding exercise "But more than that, it is a mission statement and a prospectus for the kind of country we should be and which this government believes we can be. "Our vision is of an independent Scotland regaining its place as an equal member of the family of nations. However, we do not seek independence as an end in itself, but rather as a means to changing Scotland for the better." As well as making the case for independence, the White Paper also set out a series of policy pledges which the SNP said it would pursue if elected as the government of an independent Scotland. These included: Thirty hours of childcare per week in term time for all three and four-year-olds, as well as vulnerable two-year-olds. Trident nuclear weapons, currently based on the Clyde, removed within the first parliament. Housing benefit reforms, described by critics as the "bedroom tax", to be abolished, and a halt to the rollout of Universal Credit. It would be in Scotland's interest to keep the pound, while the Bank of England would continue as "lender of last resort". BBC Scotland replaced at the start of 2017 with a new Scottish broadcasting service, continuing a formal relationship with the rest of the BBC. Basic rate tax allowances and tax credits to rise at least in line with inflation. A safe, "triple-locked" pension system. Minimum wage to "rise alongside the cost of living". The Scottish government said Scotland's finances were healthier than those of the UK, providing a strong foundation to put the focus of the referendum campaign on Scotland's future. Document Scotland's Future (summary) [1.06KB] Most computers will open PDF documents automatically, but you may need Adobe Reader Download the reader here Mr Salmond said the list of policies would help address what he described as the "damage caused by the vast social disparities which have seen the UK become one of the most unequal societies in the developed world". "We know we have the people, the skills and resources to make Scotland a more successful country," he added. "What we need now are the economic tools and powers to build a more competitive, dynamic economy and create more jobs. "This guide contains policies which offer nothing less than a revolution in employment and social policy for Scotland, with a transformational change in childcare at the heart of those plans. "Our proposals will make it far easier for parents to balance work and family life and will allow many more people, especially women, to move into the workforce, fostering economic growth and helping to boost revenues - which will in itself help pay for the policy." White Paper: Main policy pledges Thirty hours of childcare per week in term time for all three and four-year-olds, as well as vulnerable two-year-olds. Trident nuclear weapons, currently based on the Clyde, removed within the first parliament. Housing benefit reforms, described by critics as the "bedroom tax" to be abolished in first year of an independent Scottish parliament. Basic rate tax allowances and tax credits to rise at least in line with inflation. Review UK plan for increasing state pension age to 67. Minimum wage to rise at least in line with inflation. Basic rate tax allowances and tax credits to rise at least in line with inflation. BBC Scotland replaced at the start of 2017 with a new Scottish broadcasting service, continuing a formal relationship with the rest of the BBC. Single tier state pension of £160 per week from April 2016. Royal Mail returned to public ownership. Pound to be retained under "currency union". New employment measures to help more women into work. Scottish citizens entitled to Scottish passport at the same cost as UK one. Scottish Defence Force to enlist 15,000 regulars and 5,000 reservists. Scottish-born British citizens living in another country will automatically be Scottish citizens. British citizens living in Scotland considered Scottish citizens, including those holding dual nationality. At-a-glance: White Paper Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon addressed MSPs at Holyrood just a few hours after the document was published, and said the blueprint for independence would drive forward the debate over the country's future. Blair Jenkins, chief executive of the pro-independence Yes Scotland campaign, said of the White Paper: "It addresses the questions and concerns that matter to the people who live and work in Scotland, from childcare to how the country will be rid of Trident and the nuclear weapons of mass destruction. "It is a very informative and easy-to-understand guide and it will open a new dimension in the debate about Scotland's future and the choice we face next September over the opportunity to make our own decisions according to our own needs, priorities and aspirations or sticking with a Westminster system that is simply not working for Scotland." But Mr Darling, the former UK chancellor who now leads the Better Together campaign, said the White Paper had failed to give credible answers to fundamentally important questions. He went on: "What currency would we use? Who will set our mortgage rates? How much would taxes have to go up? How will we pay pensions and benefits in future? "It is a fantasy to say we can leave the UK but still keep all the benefits of UK membership. The White Paper is a work of fiction. It is thick with false promises and meaningless assertions. "Instead of a credible and costed plan, we have a wish-list of political promises without any answers on how Alex Salmond would pay for them." Mr Darling said the childcare pledge could be delivered now, and raised concern about the viability of the Scottish government's plan to keep the pound, saying SNP ministers needed a currency "Plan B". The Scottish government's critics have also questioned its plan to get rid of Trident nuclear weapons - currently based on the Clyde - while being a member of Nato. For the UK government, Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael said the Scottish government had deliberately ignored the uncertainties and difficulties of independence, and had failed to put a price tag on its vision, adding: "Rarely have so many words been used to answer so little. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Alistair Darling: "They haven't answered any of the fundamental questions to which Scotland wants the answers." "We know that the terms of independence would need to be negotiated with many countries including the rest of the UK and the EU. "An honest assessment of the challenges and uncertainties of leaving the UK would have seriously helped the debate between now and September. Instead we have been given a wish with no price list. Today was their chance to level with people. They have chosen a different path and people in Scotland will judge them on that."

– Ahead of its Sept. 18 independence referendum, Scotland has unveiled a 670-page document (available here) laying out the foundations for the proposed country. "This is the most comprehensive blueprint for an independent country ever published," says Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond. "We do not seek independence as an end in itself, but rather as a means to changing Scotland for the better." To that end, the White Paper features plans for a social policy "revolution," the BBC reports. Scotland's currency would remain the pound, the country would stay in the European Union, and the queen would still be queen, Salmond says, per Reuters. But under the plan: The government would open some 35,000 jobs amid a push for women in the workforce, the Scotsman reports. Officials would offer 30 hours per week of childcare for toddlers. Minimum wage would be tied to cost of living. A pension system would be "triple-locked" for security. The first parliament would rid the country of Trident nukes. The country would collect its own taxes. Scotland would have its own defense force. The document is seeking to win support for independence as polls show 47% are against the idea, 38% back it, and 15% haven't decided, Reuters notes. If the backers ultimately win, the country would become independent on March 24, 2016.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.From the blog First Minister on Referendum Outcome September 19, 2014 Thank you Scotland for 1.6 million votes for Scottish independence. Our friends in the Highlands of Scotland are still to speak, so the final results aren’t in but we know that there is going to be a majority for the No campaign. It’s important to say that our referendum was an agreed and consented process… ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption First Minister Alex Salmond: "Scotland's future is in Scotland's hands." Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has launched his government's independence blueprint, calling it a "mission statement" for the future. The 670-page White Paper promised a "revolution" in social policy, with childcare at its heart. The launch came ahead of next September's independence referendum. Alistair Darling, leader of the campaign to keep the Union, branded the document a "work of fiction, full of meaningless assertions". On 18 September, Scots voters will be asked the yes/no question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?" Launching the paper - titled Scotland's Future: Your guide to an independent Scotland - in Glasgow, Mr Salmond said: "This is the most comprehensive blueprint for an independent country ever published, not just for Scotland but for any prospective independent nation.‬‬‬ Scotland's first minister and his deputy behaved today less like excited midwives and more like low-key, well-briefed company executives launching a corporate re-branding exercise "But more than that, it is a mission statement and a prospectus for the kind of country we should be and which this government believes we can be. "Our vision is of an independent Scotland regaining its place as an equal member of the family of nations. However, we do not seek independence as an end in itself, but rather as a means to changing Scotland for the better." As well as making the case for independence, the White Paper also set out a series of policy pledges which the SNP said it would pursue if elected as the government of an independent Scotland. These included: Thirty hours of childcare per week in term time for all three and four-year-olds, as well as vulnerable two-year-olds. Trident nuclear weapons, currently based on the Clyde, removed within the first parliament. Housing benefit reforms, described by critics as the "bedroom tax", to be abolished, and a halt to the rollout of Universal Credit. It would be in Scotland's interest to keep the pound, while the Bank of England would continue as "lender of last resort". BBC Scotland replaced at the start of 2017 with a new Scottish broadcasting service, continuing a formal relationship with the rest of the BBC. Basic rate tax allowances and tax credits to rise at least in line with inflation. A safe, "triple-locked" pension system. Minimum wage to "rise alongside the cost of living". The Scottish government said Scotland's finances were healthier than those of the UK, providing a strong foundation to put the focus of the referendum campaign on Scotland's future. Document Scotland's Future (summary) [1.06KB] Most computers will open PDF documents automatically, but you may need Adobe Reader Download the reader here Mr Salmond said the list of policies would help address what he described as the "damage caused by the vast social disparities which have seen the UK become one of the most unequal societies in the developed world". "We know we have the people, the skills and resources to make Scotland a more successful country," he added. "What we need now are the economic tools and powers to build a more competitive, dynamic economy and create more jobs. "This guide contains policies which offer nothing less than a revolution in employment and social policy for Scotland, with a transformational change in childcare at the heart of those plans. "Our proposals will make it far easier for parents to balance work and family life and will allow many more people, especially women, to move into the workforce, fostering economic growth and helping to boost revenues - which will in itself help pay for the policy." White Paper: Main policy pledges Thirty hours of childcare per week in term time for all three and four-year-olds, as well as vulnerable two-year-olds. Trident nuclear weapons, currently based on the Clyde, removed within the first parliament. Housing benefit reforms, described by critics as the "bedroom tax" to be abolished in first year of an independent Scottish parliament. Basic rate tax allowances and tax credits to rise at least in line with inflation. Review UK plan for increasing state pension age to 67. Minimum wage to rise at least in line with inflation. Basic rate tax allowances and tax credits to rise at least in line with inflation. BBC Scotland replaced at the start of 2017 with a new Scottish broadcasting service, continuing a formal relationship with the rest of the BBC. Single tier state pension of £160 per week from April 2016. Royal Mail returned to public ownership. Pound to be retained under "currency union". New employment measures to help more women into work. Scottish citizens entitled to Scottish passport at the same cost as UK one. Scottish Defence Force to enlist 15,000 regulars and 5,000 reservists. Scottish-born British citizens living in another country will automatically be Scottish citizens. British citizens living in Scotland considered Scottish citizens, including those holding dual nationality. At-a-glance: White Paper Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon addressed MSPs at Holyrood just a few hours after the document was published, and said the blueprint for independence would drive forward the debate over the country's future. Blair Jenkins, chief executive of the pro-independence Yes Scotland campaign, said of the White Paper: "It addresses the questions and concerns that matter to the people who live and work in Scotland, from childcare to how the country will be rid of Trident and the nuclear weapons of mass destruction. "It is a very informative and easy-to-understand guide and it will open a new dimension in the debate about Scotland's future and the choice we face next September over the opportunity to make our own decisions according to our own needs, priorities and aspirations or sticking with a Westminster system that is simply not working for Scotland." But Mr Darling, the former UK chancellor who now leads the Better Together campaign, said the White Paper had failed to give credible answers to fundamentally important questions. He went on: "What currency would we use? Who will set our mortgage rates? How much would taxes have to go up? How will we pay pensions and benefits in future? "It is a fantasy to say we can leave the UK but still keep all the benefits of UK membership. The White Paper is a work of fiction. It is thick with false promises and meaningless assertions. "Instead of a credible and costed plan, we have a wish-list of political promises without any answers on how Alex Salmond would pay for them." Mr Darling said the childcare pledge could be delivered now, and raised concern about the viability of the Scottish government's plan to keep the pound, saying SNP ministers needed a currency "Plan B". The Scottish government's critics have also questioned its plan to get rid of Trident nuclear weapons - currently based on the Clyde - while being a member of Nato. For the UK government, Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael said the Scottish government had deliberately ignored the uncertainties and difficulties of independence, and had failed to put a price tag on its vision, adding: "Rarely have so many words been used to answer so little. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Alistair Darling: "They haven't answered any of the fundamental questions to which Scotland wants the answers." "We know that the terms of independence would need to be negotiated with many countries including the rest of the UK and the EU. "An honest assessment of the challenges and uncertainties of leaving the UK would have seriously helped the debate between now and September. Instead we have been given a wish with no price list. Today was their chance to level with people. They have chosen a different path and people in Scotland will judge them on that."

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WASHINGTON — When Rex W. Tillerson, the former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, arrived in Washington five months ago to become the secretary of state, his boosters said he brought two valuable assets to a job that had usually gone to someone steeped in government and diplomacy: a long history managing a global company, and deep relationships from the Middle East to Russia that enabled him to close deals. But his first opportunity to use that experience — as a behind-the-scenes mediator in the dispute between Qatar and Saudi Arabia — has put Mr. Tillerson in exactly the place a secretary of state does not want to be: in public disagreement with the president who appointed him. Mr. Tillerson tried to position himself as an intermediary and sought for all sides to put their demands on the table. But President Trump openly sided with the Saudis, first on Twitter, then again at a news conference. Mr. Trump called Qatar a “funder of terrorism at a very high level” just as the State Department was questioning whether the Saudis were using the terrorism charge to cover for “long-simmering grievances” between the Arab nations. Some in the White House say that the discord in the Qatar dispute is part of a broader struggle over who is in charge of Middle East policy — Mr. Tillerson or Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and a senior adviser — and that the secretary of state has a tin ear about the political realities of the Trump administration. Others say it is merely symptomatic of a dysfunctional State Department that, under Mr. Tillerson’s uncertain leadership, does not yet have in place the senior political appointees who make the wheels of diplomacy turn. ||||| Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s frustrations with the White House have been building for months. Last Friday, they exploded. The normally laconic Texan unloaded on Johnny DeStefano, the head of the presidential personnel office, for torpedoing proposed nominees to senior State Department posts and for questioning his judgment. Story Continued Below Tillerson also complained that the White House was leaking damaging information about him to the news media, according to a person familiar with the meeting. Above all, he made clear that he did not want DeStefano’s office to “have any role in staffing” and “expressed frustration that anybody would know better” than he about who should work in his department — particularly after the president had promised him autonomy to make his own decisions and hires, according to a senior White House aide familiar with the conversation. The episode stunned other White House officials gathered in chief of staff Reince Priebus’ office, leaving them silent as Tillerson raised his voice. In the room with Tillerson and DeStefano were Priebus, top Trump aide Jared Kushner and Margaret Peterlin, the secretary of state’s chief of staff. The encounter, described by four people familiar with what happened, was so explosive that Kushner approached Peterlin afterward and told her that Tillerson’s outburst was completely unprofessional, according to two of the people familiar with the exchange, and told her that they needed to work out a solution. “Colleagues are capable of frank exchanges,” said R.C. Hammond, a State Department spokesman, when asked about the disagreement. “Evaluating nominees did get off to a slow start, but it is now moving along at a pretty good clip.” The most reliable politics newsletter. Sign up for POLITICO Playbook and get the latest news, every morning — in your inbox. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. It was the loudest manifestation yet of how frustrated Tillerson is in his new role. He has complained about White House attempts to push personnel on him; about the president’s tweets; and about the work conditions in a West Wing where he sometimes finds loyalty and competence hard to come by. Above all, the former ExxonMobil CEO, accustomed to having the final word on both personnel and policy in his corporate life, has balked at taking orders from political aides younger and less experienced than he is. Disputes between the White House and a Cabinet secretary, particularly over personnel, aren't unusual. The Obama White House told Hillary Clinton that her friend Sidney Blumenthal couldn’t join her at the State Department. Other secretaries in Trump’s Cabinet have also clashed with DeStefano, who has a difficult job balancing White House requests, political considerations and headstrong Cabinet secretaries, many with executive experience. “It’s very common that there would be some tensions and some tussles between the White House and departments or agencies about senior personnel decisions,” said Matthew Waxman, a senior official in the State Department and National Security Council under President George W. Bush. “It’s just very abnormal that these issues wouldn’t be worked out more quickly.” Waxman, now a professor at Columbia University, said the fights are likely harder for a Cabinet secretary like Tillerson, who is accustomed to supreme control as a CEO. “But we have a system of government where political appointments run very, very deep,” he said. “It’s the way the system works. The White House has the final say.” Tillerson’s frustration with White House meddling began early and has been a persistent issue. “He went into this with a very negative attitude towards the White House,” said a former senior State Department official familiar with his thinking, who recounted that during the transition, Tillerson opposed a candidate proposed by Trump’s team simply on the grounds that Trump’s team was proposing him. He has sometimes conducted talks with potential job candidates without telling the White House, said one person familiar with his actions. Tillerson has told senior officials that Trump promised him autonomy, and that he wanted it, according to people who have spoken to him. “Rex is a 65-year-old guy who worked his way up from the bottom at Exxon, and he chafes at the idea of taking orders from a 38-year-old political operative,” said a former transition aide who worked closely with Tillerson. DeStefano worked for years as a senior adviser to former House Speaker John Boehner before he joined the Trump administration, where he has struggled to fill thousands of jobs across the government, though the pace has quickened in recent weeks. White House spokesman Michael Short blamed some of the staffing delays on “obstruction” from Senate Democrats and said that many diplomatic positions need careful vetting. “The meeting was productive and there was consensus on the topic of staffing, which is moving forward more quickly,” Short added. Where Tillerson is concerned, the frustration goes both ways. Many of his proposed nominees have been rejected by DeStefano’s Office of Presidential Personnel either because they are Democrats or because they are Republicans who were critical of Trump during the campaign. Though Brian Hook, the State Department’s director of policy planning, told associates several weeks ago that the department had several people in the pipeline, few have been announced since, and the White House continues to resist Tillerson’s choices. He’s also faced resistance to leaning on civil servants. Tillerson has expressed his desire to nominate Susan Thornton, a career foreign service officer now serving as the acting assistant secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, to take over the job in an official capacity — a move White House staffers have resisted, saying they want a political person in the role. “If the secretary is putting forward a nominee such as Susan, he is doing it because he believes she's the most qualified and best fit for the position,” said Tillerson spokesman Hammond. “In this particular case, he has the experience of working with her, since she has been on the job since February. That includes a trip to Beijing, a visit from the Chinese president to Mar-a-Lago, and the first of a series of four dialogues.” The secretary has additionally clashed with the White House over ambassadors, according to several people familiar with the conversations, and some of the conversations are ongoing. Tillerson has also drawn criticism for isolating himself — with the help of Peterlin, his chief of staff — in his office on the State Department’s seventh floor and for excluding many career diplomats from the policymaking process. That has frustrated the White House because even the president’s senior aides have had difficulty reaching him at times. His leadership of the State Department seems a vast departure from his stewardship of Exxon, where he was considered a kinder, gentler executive than his predecessor, the combative and bombastic Lee Raymond. Asked about how to lead a large organization during a time of crisis, he told students at his alma mater, the University of Texas, early last year: “You do have to communicate in times like this and you have to be visible.”

– Secretary of State Rex Tillerson finds dealing with the White House frustrating, and tensions boiled over Friday when he "exploded" at a White House aide, insiders tell Politico. The sources say White House officials present, including Jared Kushner, were "stunned" when Tillerson laid into presidential personnel office chief Johnny DeStefano for rejecting his picks for State Department posts. Tillerson also accused the White House of leaking damaging information about him to the media, the sources say. DeStefano's office has turned down many of Tillerson's choices for top posts either for being Democrats or for being Republicans who criticized Trump during the campaign, aides say. The outburst from the former Exxon CEO came after disagreements with the White House on issues including Qatar, where he has tried to mediate in the dispute with other Arab nations, only to be publicly undermined by President Trump. Insiders tell the New York Times that Tillerson and Kushner are struggling for control of Middle East policy, and Tillerson is frustrated that he doesn't have the autonomy Trump promised him. "Rex is a 65-year-old guy who worked his way up from the bottom at Exxon, and he chafes at the idea of taking orders from a 38-year-old political operative," a former transition aide tells Politico of DeStefano.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.WASHINGTON — When Rex W. Tillerson, the former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, arrived in Washington five months ago to become the secretary of state, his boosters said he brought two valuable assets to a job that had usually gone to someone steeped in government and diplomacy: a long history managing a global company, and deep relationships from the Middle East to Russia that enabled him to close deals. But his first opportunity to use that experience — as a behind-the-scenes mediator in the dispute between Qatar and Saudi Arabia — has put Mr. Tillerson in exactly the place a secretary of state does not want to be: in public disagreement with the president who appointed him. Mr. Tillerson tried to position himself as an intermediary and sought for all sides to put their demands on the table. But President Trump openly sided with the Saudis, first on Twitter, then again at a news conference. Mr. Trump called Qatar a “funder of terrorism at a very high level” just as the State Department was questioning whether the Saudis were using the terrorism charge to cover for “long-simmering grievances” between the Arab nations. Some in the White House say that the discord in the Qatar dispute is part of a broader struggle over who is in charge of Middle East policy — Mr. Tillerson or Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and a senior adviser — and that the secretary of state has a tin ear about the political realities of the Trump administration. Others say it is merely symptomatic of a dysfunctional State Department that, under Mr. Tillerson’s uncertain leadership, does not yet have in place the senior political appointees who make the wheels of diplomacy turn. ||||| Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s frustrations with the White House have been building for months. Last Friday, they exploded. The normally laconic Texan unloaded on Johnny DeStefano, the head of the presidential personnel office, for torpedoing proposed nominees to senior State Department posts and for questioning his judgment. Story Continued Below Tillerson also complained that the White House was leaking damaging information about him to the news media, according to a person familiar with the meeting. Above all, he made clear that he did not want DeStefano’s office to “have any role in staffing” and “expressed frustration that anybody would know better” than he about who should work in his department — particularly after the president had promised him autonomy to make his own decisions and hires, according to a senior White House aide familiar with the conversation. The episode stunned other White House officials gathered in chief of staff Reince Priebus’ office, leaving them silent as Tillerson raised his voice. In the room with Tillerson and DeStefano were Priebus, top Trump aide Jared Kushner and Margaret Peterlin, the secretary of state’s chief of staff. The encounter, described by four people familiar with what happened, was so explosive that Kushner approached Peterlin afterward and told her that Tillerson’s outburst was completely unprofessional, according to two of the people familiar with the exchange, and told her that they needed to work out a solution. “Colleagues are capable of frank exchanges,” said R.C. Hammond, a State Department spokesman, when asked about the disagreement. “Evaluating nominees did get off to a slow start, but it is now moving along at a pretty good clip.” The most reliable politics newsletter. Sign up for POLITICO Playbook and get the latest news, every morning — in your inbox. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. It was the loudest manifestation yet of how frustrated Tillerson is in his new role. He has complained about White House attempts to push personnel on him; about the president’s tweets; and about the work conditions in a West Wing where he sometimes finds loyalty and competence hard to come by. Above all, the former ExxonMobil CEO, accustomed to having the final word on both personnel and policy in his corporate life, has balked at taking orders from political aides younger and less experienced than he is. Disputes between the White House and a Cabinet secretary, particularly over personnel, aren't unusual. The Obama White House told Hillary Clinton that her friend Sidney Blumenthal couldn’t join her at the State Department. Other secretaries in Trump’s Cabinet have also clashed with DeStefano, who has a difficult job balancing White House requests, political considerations and headstrong Cabinet secretaries, many with executive experience. “It’s very common that there would be some tensions and some tussles between the White House and departments or agencies about senior personnel decisions,” said Matthew Waxman, a senior official in the State Department and National Security Council under President George W. Bush. “It’s just very abnormal that these issues wouldn’t be worked out more quickly.” Waxman, now a professor at Columbia University, said the fights are likely harder for a Cabinet secretary like Tillerson, who is accustomed to supreme control as a CEO. “But we have a system of government where political appointments run very, very deep,” he said. “It’s the way the system works. The White House has the final say.” Tillerson’s frustration with White House meddling began early and has been a persistent issue. “He went into this with a very negative attitude towards the White House,” said a former senior State Department official familiar with his thinking, who recounted that during the transition, Tillerson opposed a candidate proposed by Trump’s team simply on the grounds that Trump’s team was proposing him. He has sometimes conducted talks with potential job candidates without telling the White House, said one person familiar with his actions. Tillerson has told senior officials that Trump promised him autonomy, and that he wanted it, according to people who have spoken to him. “Rex is a 65-year-old guy who worked his way up from the bottom at Exxon, and he chafes at the idea of taking orders from a 38-year-old political operative,” said a former transition aide who worked closely with Tillerson. DeStefano worked for years as a senior adviser to former House Speaker John Boehner before he joined the Trump administration, where he has struggled to fill thousands of jobs across the government, though the pace has quickened in recent weeks. White House spokesman Michael Short blamed some of the staffing delays on “obstruction” from Senate Democrats and said that many diplomatic positions need careful vetting. “The meeting was productive and there was consensus on the topic of staffing, which is moving forward more quickly,” Short added. Where Tillerson is concerned, the frustration goes both ways. Many of his proposed nominees have been rejected by DeStefano’s Office of Presidential Personnel either because they are Democrats or because they are Republicans who were critical of Trump during the campaign. Though Brian Hook, the State Department’s director of policy planning, told associates several weeks ago that the department had several people in the pipeline, few have been announced since, and the White House continues to resist Tillerson’s choices. He’s also faced resistance to leaning on civil servants. Tillerson has expressed his desire to nominate Susan Thornton, a career foreign service officer now serving as the acting assistant secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, to take over the job in an official capacity — a move White House staffers have resisted, saying they want a political person in the role. “If the secretary is putting forward a nominee such as Susan, he is doing it because he believes she's the most qualified and best fit for the position,” said Tillerson spokesman Hammond. “In this particular case, he has the experience of working with her, since she has been on the job since February. That includes a trip to Beijing, a visit from the Chinese president to Mar-a-Lago, and the first of a series of four dialogues.” The secretary has additionally clashed with the White House over ambassadors, according to several people familiar with the conversations, and some of the conversations are ongoing. Tillerson has also drawn criticism for isolating himself — with the help of Peterlin, his chief of staff — in his office on the State Department’s seventh floor and for excluding many career diplomats from the policymaking process. That has frustrated the White House because even the president’s senior aides have had difficulty reaching him at times. His leadership of the State Department seems a vast departure from his stewardship of Exxon, where he was considered a kinder, gentler executive than his predecessor, the combative and bombastic Lee Raymond. Asked about how to lead a large organization during a time of crisis, he told students at his alma mater, the University of Texas, early last year: “You do have to communicate in times like this and you have to be visible.”

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Judge Orders Trump Administration To Fully Restore DACA Enlarge this image toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP Evan Vucci/AP A Washington, D.C.-based federal judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration must fully restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying the government's rationale for dropping it is inadequate. The order by U.S. District Judge John Bates barring the administration from ending DACA is the third such mandate by a district court, and the latest blow to the administration's efforts to eliminate DACA. President Trump announced plans to shutter the program, which protects young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation, in September 2017. Since then the Department of Homeland Security has stopped accepting new applications and processing renewals. In the 25-page opinion, Bates also denied a motion by the Department of Homeland Security to vacate a previous decision in which he determined the administration's explanations for phasing out the Obama-era program were "arbitrary and capricious." Bates had stayed his April ruling to restart DACA within 90 days, giving Homeland Security attorneys an opportunity "to better explain its view that DACA is unlawful." But on Friday, he concluded the government's legal judgments remained "inadequately explained." The judge's conclusion says: "The Court has already once given DHS the opportunity to remedy these deficiencies—either by providing a coherent explanation of its legal opinion or by reissuing its decision for bona fide policy reasons that would preclude judicial review—so it will not do so again." California and New York district court judges have also ruled against the Trump administration, finding that the manner in which it concluded DACA was unlawful and violated the Administrative Procedures Act. DHS is appealing those judgments. Bates did grant Homeland Security's request for time to consider an appeal. The government has 20 days to submit its petition. If that effort is unsuccessful, DACA will have to be fully implemented on Aug. 23. In closing, Bates wrote that Friday's ruling does not imply that the government cannot revoke DACA but that it simply has not provided a sound legal justification for doing so. "A conclusory assertion that a prior policy is illegal, accompanied by a hodgepodge of illogical or post hoc policy assertions, simply will not do," Bates wrote. ||||| NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration must fully restore a program that protects from deportation some young immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children, including accepting new applications for the program. U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington, D.C., said he would stay Friday’s order, however, until August 23 to give the administration time to decide whether to appeal. Bates first issued a ruling in April ordering the federal government to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, including taking applications. He stayed that ruling for 90 days to give the government time to better explain why the program should be ended. On Friday Bates, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, a Republican, said he would not revise his previous ruling because the arguments of President Donald Trump’s administration did not override his concerns. Under DACA, roughly 700,000 young adults, often referred to as “Dreamers”, were protected from deportation and given work permits for two-year periods, after which they must re-apply to the program. The program was created in 2012 under former President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Two other federal courts in California and New York had previously ordered that DACA remain in place while litigation challenging Trump’s decision to end it continued. Those rulings only required the government to process DACA renewals, not new applications. Another lawsuit in a Texas federal court is seeking to end DACA. A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday that the government would continue to defend its position that it “acted within its lawful authority in deciding to wind down DACA in an orderly manner.” Congress so far has failed to pass legislation to address the fate of the Dreamers, including a potential path to citizenship. Friday’s ruling came in lawsuits filed by several groups and institutions, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Princeton University. FILE PHOTO: Activists and DACA recipients march up Broadway during the start of their 'Walk to Stay Home,' a five-day 250-mile walk from New York to Washington D.C., to demand that Congress pass a Clean Dream Act, in Manhattan, New York, U.S., February 15, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo ||||| Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen wrote a June memo that the judge singled out for criticism. He wrote it offered “nothing even remotely approaching a considered legal assessment” about DACA. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo Judge orders full restart of DACA program A D.C.-based federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to restart in full the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The decision is the latest legal blow against President Donald Trump’s decision to phase out the Obama-era program, which offers deportation relief to undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Story Continued Below The restart won’t be immediate. U.S. District Judge John Bates said Friday that the order would be delayed until Aug. 23 to allow the government to appeal, but he denied a Justice Department motion to reconsider his earlier decision, saying there were still deficiencies in the administration's rationale for rescinding DACA. “The court has already once given DHS the opportunity to remedy these deficiencies — either by providing a coherent explanation of its legal opinion or by reissuing its decision for bona fide policy reasons that would preclude judicial review,” said Bates, “So it will not do so again.” Bates in April became the third federal judge to order the administration to restart renewals for people previously approved for DACA. Morning Shift newsletter Get the latest on employment and immigration, every weekday morning — in your inbox. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. He also threatened to vacate the memo ending DACA — and thereby restore the program in full — if Trump officials could not present an adequate reason for ending it. In a 25-page opinion Friday, Bates, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, rejected the administration’s argument that the original decision to end DACA remained sound. Specifically, he criticized a June memo issued by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. In the memo, Nielsen said she stood by the legal rationale laid out in a Sept. 5 directive from then-acting Secretary Elaine Duke. Bates said the Nielsen memo, like Duke’s before it, “offers nothing even remotely approaching a considered legal assessment that this court could subject to judicial review.” More than 700,000 undocumented immigrants are enrolled in the DACA program, according to the latest statistics. If Friday’s ruling goes into effect later this month, the administration will be required to accept new applications from people who meet DACA’s eligibility requirements.

– Back in April, US District Judge John Bates gave the Trump administration 90 days to provide some kind of rationale for why the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, aka DACA, was unlawful, which is what the Department of Homeland Security claimed when the program was officially rescinded in March. DHS apparently didn't offer such proof, and on Friday Bates ordered DACA to be restarted in full, Politico reports. Reuters notes that Bates' decision applies not only to DACA renewals, but also to new applications. The DACA restart will be delayed until Aug. 23 to give the government the chance to appeal. Bates is the third judge so far to slap back the Trump administration's attempts to get rid of the program. In his 25-page opinion cited by NPR, Bates also nixed a previous DHS motion to void his previous decision that the administration's reasoning for pulling back the program—which allows immigrants who came to the US as children (known as "Dreamers") to legally remain and work here with permits—was "arbitrary and capricious." On Friday, Bates noted in his ruling that the government's arguments for why DACA should end were still "inadequately explained." "A conclusory assertion that a prior policy is illegal, accompanied by a hodgepodge of illogical or post hoc policy assertions, simply will not do," Bates wrote.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Judge Orders Trump Administration To Fully Restore DACA Enlarge this image toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP Evan Vucci/AP A Washington, D.C.-based federal judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration must fully restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying the government's rationale for dropping it is inadequate. The order by U.S. District Judge John Bates barring the administration from ending DACA is the third such mandate by a district court, and the latest blow to the administration's efforts to eliminate DACA. President Trump announced plans to shutter the program, which protects young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation, in September 2017. Since then the Department of Homeland Security has stopped accepting new applications and processing renewals. In the 25-page opinion, Bates also denied a motion by the Department of Homeland Security to vacate a previous decision in which he determined the administration's explanations for phasing out the Obama-era program were "arbitrary and capricious." Bates had stayed his April ruling to restart DACA within 90 days, giving Homeland Security attorneys an opportunity "to better explain its view that DACA is unlawful." But on Friday, he concluded the government's legal judgments remained "inadequately explained." The judge's conclusion says: "The Court has already once given DHS the opportunity to remedy these deficiencies—either by providing a coherent explanation of its legal opinion or by reissuing its decision for bona fide policy reasons that would preclude judicial review—so it will not do so again." California and New York district court judges have also ruled against the Trump administration, finding that the manner in which it concluded DACA was unlawful and violated the Administrative Procedures Act. DHS is appealing those judgments. Bates did grant Homeland Security's request for time to consider an appeal. The government has 20 days to submit its petition. If that effort is unsuccessful, DACA will have to be fully implemented on Aug. 23. In closing, Bates wrote that Friday's ruling does not imply that the government cannot revoke DACA but that it simply has not provided a sound legal justification for doing so. "A conclusory assertion that a prior policy is illegal, accompanied by a hodgepodge of illogical or post hoc policy assertions, simply will not do," Bates wrote. ||||| NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration must fully restore a program that protects from deportation some young immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children, including accepting new applications for the program. U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington, D.C., said he would stay Friday’s order, however, until August 23 to give the administration time to decide whether to appeal. Bates first issued a ruling in April ordering the federal government to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, including taking applications. He stayed that ruling for 90 days to give the government time to better explain why the program should be ended. On Friday Bates, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, a Republican, said he would not revise his previous ruling because the arguments of President Donald Trump’s administration did not override his concerns. Under DACA, roughly 700,000 young adults, often referred to as “Dreamers”, were protected from deportation and given work permits for two-year periods, after which they must re-apply to the program. The program was created in 2012 under former President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Two other federal courts in California and New York had previously ordered that DACA remain in place while litigation challenging Trump’s decision to end it continued. Those rulings only required the government to process DACA renewals, not new applications. Another lawsuit in a Texas federal court is seeking to end DACA. A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday that the government would continue to defend its position that it “acted within its lawful authority in deciding to wind down DACA in an orderly manner.” Congress so far has failed to pass legislation to address the fate of the Dreamers, including a potential path to citizenship. Friday’s ruling came in lawsuits filed by several groups and institutions, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Princeton University. FILE PHOTO: Activists and DACA recipients march up Broadway during the start of their 'Walk to Stay Home,' a five-day 250-mile walk from New York to Washington D.C., to demand that Congress pass a Clean Dream Act, in Manhattan, New York, U.S., February 15, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo ||||| Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen wrote a June memo that the judge singled out for criticism. He wrote it offered “nothing even remotely approaching a considered legal assessment” about DACA. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo Judge orders full restart of DACA program A D.C.-based federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to restart in full the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The decision is the latest legal blow against President Donald Trump’s decision to phase out the Obama-era program, which offers deportation relief to undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Story Continued Below The restart won’t be immediate. U.S. District Judge John Bates said Friday that the order would be delayed until Aug. 23 to allow the government to appeal, but he denied a Justice Department motion to reconsider his earlier decision, saying there were still deficiencies in the administration's rationale for rescinding DACA. “The court has already once given DHS the opportunity to remedy these deficiencies — either by providing a coherent explanation of its legal opinion or by reissuing its decision for bona fide policy reasons that would preclude judicial review,” said Bates, “So it will not do so again.” Bates in April became the third federal judge to order the administration to restart renewals for people previously approved for DACA. Morning Shift newsletter Get the latest on employment and immigration, every weekday morning — in your inbox. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. He also threatened to vacate the memo ending DACA — and thereby restore the program in full — if Trump officials could not present an adequate reason for ending it. In a 25-page opinion Friday, Bates, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, rejected the administration’s argument that the original decision to end DACA remained sound. Specifically, he criticized a June memo issued by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. In the memo, Nielsen said she stood by the legal rationale laid out in a Sept. 5 directive from then-acting Secretary Elaine Duke. Bates said the Nielsen memo, like Duke’s before it, “offers nothing even remotely approaching a considered legal assessment that this court could subject to judicial review.” More than 700,000 undocumented immigrants are enrolled in the DACA program, according to the latest statistics. If Friday’s ruling goes into effect later this month, the administration will be required to accept new applications from people who meet DACA’s eligibility requirements.

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First, a prosecutor would need to appeal to – perhaps exploit – Stone’s natural sense of self-preservation. For all the trouble he has been mixed up in over his long career, Stone has never been at any real risk of serving time behind bars. Friday’s indictment might change his bearing a bit. It’s one thing to rail publicly against the possibility of a theoretical future indictment, but another to see seven federal criminal charges, carrying a total maximum sentence of 50 years, in black and white. As a practical matter, Stone isn’t looking at anything close to 50 years, but he easily could be facing five years or so if convicted on all counts. For a 66 year-old man like Stone, that could mean most or all of the rest of his life, which has to be at least a bit sobering. And the evidence laid out in the indictment seems locked in; over and over again, the indictment quotes Stone’s lies and then cites hard proof – typically Stone’s own texts – to prove that he lied. A good prosecutor could make a compelling case that cooperation offers Stone his best and most realistic chance to get through the case without having to serve time. Second, as much as we don’t like to acknowledge it in our quest for pure justice, money matters. It is expensive to defend yourself in federal court, and it is jaw-droppingly costly to go to trial. Stone has flashed vulnerability on this, declaring that he faces legal fees of $2 million – not an outrageous estimate, if a trial is involved – while noting that he is “not a wealthy man” and begging for crowdfunded donations. Third, Stone is nothing if not ego-driven. We all are, of course, but Stone’s in his own league. A prosecutor might therefore make a pitch to Stone along these lines. You can stay quiet, you can be a “stand-up” guy, you can fight the government and maybe even go to trial. Trump will send nice tweets about you, you’ll have a heavy media following for a couple years, but ultimately you’ll be a strange footnote in history. Or you can flip and be John Dean. ||||| A New Jersey woman found a stack of love letters over 60 years old near a beach after Superstorm Sandy swept through her town. Kathleen Mullen tells WABC she found the letters while taking a walk on a trail after the storm had passed. "They were obviously tied with a pink ribbon, so I automatically knew they were love letters," she told the station. After drying them by a fireplace, Mullen discovered the letters were written between 1942 and 1947 by Dorothy Fallon of New Jersey to her fiance Lynn Farnham, of Vermont. "There isn't much more to tall you tonight, dear. I love you very much. Yours always, Dotty," one read. Determined to return the letters to the family, Mullen searched on Facebook, Craigslist and other sites hoping to find the couple. She eventually found the couple's niece, who told WABC she was amazed by the discovery. "It's magical. This can't be real," Shelly Farnham-Hilber said. Farnham-Hilber said Lynn Farnham served in World War II and is now deceased. His widow now lives in a nursing home. WABC reports it is unclear where the letters were before they ended up on the beach. Click for more from WABC.

– Just when you thought Hurricane Sandy stories couldn't get any worse: The nation's fifth-largest sewage treatment plant, located in Newark, still hasn't been fully repaired after being hit by a 12-foot wave during the storm. So 18 days later, it continues to pump millions of gallons of partially treated human waste daily into New York Harbor, close to the Statue of Liberty, reports NBC New York. There is still no target date when the sewage plant might be fully operational again, with a senior official saying only "ASAP." In less depressing Sandy news, the scrap wood from storm-damaged Rockaway Beach Boardwalk is proving quite valuable for salvagers—a block-long section of boardwalk wood could fetch up to $250,000, reports New York. And one New Jersey woman found a collection of love letters that are more than 60 years old on the beach, reports Fox News. "It's magical. This can't be real," said a niece of the woman who wrote the letters.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.First, a prosecutor would need to appeal to – perhaps exploit – Stone’s natural sense of self-preservation. For all the trouble he has been mixed up in over his long career, Stone has never been at any real risk of serving time behind bars. Friday’s indictment might change his bearing a bit. It’s one thing to rail publicly against the possibility of a theoretical future indictment, but another to see seven federal criminal charges, carrying a total maximum sentence of 50 years, in black and white. As a practical matter, Stone isn’t looking at anything close to 50 years, but he easily could be facing five years or so if convicted on all counts. For a 66 year-old man like Stone, that could mean most or all of the rest of his life, which has to be at least a bit sobering. And the evidence laid out in the indictment seems locked in; over and over again, the indictment quotes Stone’s lies and then cites hard proof – typically Stone’s own texts – to prove that he lied. A good prosecutor could make a compelling case that cooperation offers Stone his best and most realistic chance to get through the case without having to serve time. Second, as much as we don’t like to acknowledge it in our quest for pure justice, money matters. It is expensive to defend yourself in federal court, and it is jaw-droppingly costly to go to trial. Stone has flashed vulnerability on this, declaring that he faces legal fees of $2 million – not an outrageous estimate, if a trial is involved – while noting that he is “not a wealthy man” and begging for crowdfunded donations. Third, Stone is nothing if not ego-driven. We all are, of course, but Stone’s in his own league. A prosecutor might therefore make a pitch to Stone along these lines. You can stay quiet, you can be a “stand-up” guy, you can fight the government and maybe even go to trial. Trump will send nice tweets about you, you’ll have a heavy media following for a couple years, but ultimately you’ll be a strange footnote in history. Or you can flip and be John Dean. ||||| A New Jersey woman found a stack of love letters over 60 years old near a beach after Superstorm Sandy swept through her town. Kathleen Mullen tells WABC she found the letters while taking a walk on a trail after the storm had passed. "They were obviously tied with a pink ribbon, so I automatically knew they were love letters," she told the station. After drying them by a fireplace, Mullen discovered the letters were written between 1942 and 1947 by Dorothy Fallon of New Jersey to her fiance Lynn Farnham, of Vermont. "There isn't much more to tall you tonight, dear. I love you very much. Yours always, Dotty," one read. Determined to return the letters to the family, Mullen searched on Facebook, Craigslist and other sites hoping to find the couple. She eventually found the couple's niece, who told WABC she was amazed by the discovery. "It's magical. This can't be real," Shelly Farnham-Hilber said. Farnham-Hilber said Lynn Farnham served in World War II and is now deceased. His widow now lives in a nursing home. WABC reports it is unclear where the letters were before they ended up on the beach. Click for more from WABC.

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Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today. The world map might look differently had the Greek volcano Thera not erupted 3,500 years ago in what geologists believe was the single-most powerful explosive event ever witnessed. Thera didn't just blow a massive hole into the island of Santorini – it set the entire ancient Mediterranean onto a different course, like a train that switched tracks to head off in a brand new direction. Minoan culture, the dominant civilization in the Mediterranean at the time, crumbled as a result of the eruption, historians believe, changing the political landscape of the ancient world indefinitely. Environmental effects were felt across the globe, as far away as China and perhaps even North America and Antarctica. The legend of Atlantis and the story of the Biblical plagues and subsequent exodus from Egypt have also been connected to the epic catastrophe. Dwarfed the atomic bomb Historians and archaeologists have had trouble deciding on the year Thera erupted, with dates ranging anywhere from 1645 BC to 1500 BC. Studies of ash deposits on the ocean floor have revealed, however, that when the volcano did blow, it did so with a force dwarfing anything humans had ever seen or have seen since. There are no first-person accounts of what happened that day, but scientists can compare it to the detailed records available from the famous eruption of Krakatoa, Indonesia, in 1883. That fiery explosion killed upwards of 40,000 people in just a few hours, produced colossal tsunamis 40 feet tall, spewed volcanic ash across Asia, and caused a drop in global temperatures and created strangely colored sunsets for three years. The blast was heard 3,000 miles away. Thera's eruption was four or five times more powerful than Krakatoa, geologists believe, exploding with the energy of several hundred atomic bombs in a fraction of a second. An absence of human remains and valuables like metal suggest that the Minoan residents of Santorini predicted the eruption and the island was evacuated, but the culture as a whole did not fare as well. Based on the nearby island of Crete, the powerful Minoan civilization declined suddenly soon after Thera blew its top. Tsunamis spawned by the eruption would have swamped its naval fleet and coastal villages first off, historians think. A drop in temperatures caused by the massive amounts of sulphur dioxide spouted into the atmosphere then led to several years of cold, wet summers in the region, ruining harvests. The lethal combination overran every mighty Minoan stronghold in less than 50 years. In just a short time, their peaceful, efficient bureaucracy made way for the warring city-state system of ancient Greece to dominate the Mediterranean. The Aegean would turn out to be a fundamental building block for the history of Europe, and the Minoan decline changed its early foundation completely. Famous legends Thera didn't just alter the cultural make up of Europe, it has kept adventurers and treasure hunters busy too. When the Greek philosopher Plato described the lost city of Atlantis over a thousand years after the volcanic eruption, he may have been referring to Thera folklore passed down in Greece over many generations and exaggerated like a game of broken telephone. The eruption has also been loosely linked with the Biblical story of Moses and the exodus from Egypt. The effects of Thera's eruption could have explained many of the plagues described in the Old Testament, including the days of darkness and polluting of the rivers, according to some theories. ||||| Credit: Danny Alvarez/Shutterstock If Aleppo's death toll is mistaken, the earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, may be a contender for the top 10 deadliest disasters. Even in a modern mass disaster, though, estimating the death toll is a tricky business. In the year after the quake, the government of Haiti estimated that the magnitude-7.0 quake and its aftermath killed 230,000 people; in January 2011, officials revised the figure to 316,000. Those figures are highly disputed, however. A 2010 study published in the journal Medicine, Conflict and Survival put the number at around 160,000 deaths. A 2011 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) draft report from 2011 claimed even lower numbers — between 46,000 and 85,000. The disparities reflect the difficulty of counting deaths even in the modern era, not to mention the political wrangling that goes on over "official" numbers. Many critics of Haiti's estimates argue that the government revised the death toll up in order to secure further international aid. On the other side of the argument, according to the Columbia Journalism Review, were those who accused USAID of leaking the report to discredit the Haitian government.

– "The single-most powerful explosive event ever witnessed" took place somewhere between 1645 BC and 1500 BC, when the volcano Thera erupted on what's now the island of Santorini. LiveScience reports its power has been likened to that of an 1883 eruption in Indonesia that could be heard 3,000 miles away and killed some 40,000 people. No such count is available for the Thera explosion, which is why it doesn't make LiveScience's list of the 11 deadliest natural disasters "for which reasonably accurate death tolls exist." It includes the 2004 Indian Ocean quake and tsunami, which hit Indonesia hardest and killed as many as a quarter of a million people overall. Here are five disasters that didn't strike so recently: 526 Antioch quake: The best estimate comes from John Malalas, a Greek chronicler from the Byzantine city where the quake struck whose writings from the time put the toll at about 250,000. A 2007 paper noted that the temblor's May timing was inopportune as the city's population was swollen with tourists there for Ascension Day, resulting in an elevated toll. 1556 Shaanxi earthquake: As far as earthquakes go, this is pretty much the worst. Believed to have been about a magnitude 8, it is said to have demolished a 621-square-mile region of China's Shaanxi province on Jan. 23 of that year, killing some 830,000 people. 1839 India cyclone: Some 20,000 ships were wiped out by the cyclone and resulting storm surge that struck the port city of Coringa on Nov. 25, but that number pales in comparison to the estimated death toll: 300,000 people. 1920 Haiyuan earthquake: The US Geological Survey believes that this quake that hit central China on Dec. 16 of that year registered as a magnitude 7.8. Landslides were a big contributor to the death toll, which researchers in 2010 estimated as 273,400. 1931 Central China Floods: Pegged by LiveScience as the deadliest of all natural disasters, this one spanned the months of July and August. The estimated ranges of those killed is a huge one, but the number is big regardless: Somewhere between 2 million and 3.7 million were killed when the Yangtze River flooded due to strong rains and melting snow, affecting some 70,000 square miles. Click for LiveScience's full list.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today. The world map might look differently had the Greek volcano Thera not erupted 3,500 years ago in what geologists believe was the single-most powerful explosive event ever witnessed. Thera didn't just blow a massive hole into the island of Santorini – it set the entire ancient Mediterranean onto a different course, like a train that switched tracks to head off in a brand new direction. Minoan culture, the dominant civilization in the Mediterranean at the time, crumbled as a result of the eruption, historians believe, changing the political landscape of the ancient world indefinitely. Environmental effects were felt across the globe, as far away as China and perhaps even North America and Antarctica. The legend of Atlantis and the story of the Biblical plagues and subsequent exodus from Egypt have also been connected to the epic catastrophe. Dwarfed the atomic bomb Historians and archaeologists have had trouble deciding on the year Thera erupted, with dates ranging anywhere from 1645 BC to 1500 BC. Studies of ash deposits on the ocean floor have revealed, however, that when the volcano did blow, it did so with a force dwarfing anything humans had ever seen or have seen since. There are no first-person accounts of what happened that day, but scientists can compare it to the detailed records available from the famous eruption of Krakatoa, Indonesia, in 1883. That fiery explosion killed upwards of 40,000 people in just a few hours, produced colossal tsunamis 40 feet tall, spewed volcanic ash across Asia, and caused a drop in global temperatures and created strangely colored sunsets for three years. The blast was heard 3,000 miles away. Thera's eruption was four or five times more powerful than Krakatoa, geologists believe, exploding with the energy of several hundred atomic bombs in a fraction of a second. An absence of human remains and valuables like metal suggest that the Minoan residents of Santorini predicted the eruption and the island was evacuated, but the culture as a whole did not fare as well. Based on the nearby island of Crete, the powerful Minoan civilization declined suddenly soon after Thera blew its top. Tsunamis spawned by the eruption would have swamped its naval fleet and coastal villages first off, historians think. A drop in temperatures caused by the massive amounts of sulphur dioxide spouted into the atmosphere then led to several years of cold, wet summers in the region, ruining harvests. The lethal combination overran every mighty Minoan stronghold in less than 50 years. In just a short time, their peaceful, efficient bureaucracy made way for the warring city-state system of ancient Greece to dominate the Mediterranean. The Aegean would turn out to be a fundamental building block for the history of Europe, and the Minoan decline changed its early foundation completely. Famous legends Thera didn't just alter the cultural make up of Europe, it has kept adventurers and treasure hunters busy too. When the Greek philosopher Plato described the lost city of Atlantis over a thousand years after the volcanic eruption, he may have been referring to Thera folklore passed down in Greece over many generations and exaggerated like a game of broken telephone. The eruption has also been loosely linked with the Biblical story of Moses and the exodus from Egypt. The effects of Thera's eruption could have explained many of the plagues described in the Old Testament, including the days of darkness and polluting of the rivers, according to some theories. ||||| Credit: Danny Alvarez/Shutterstock If Aleppo's death toll is mistaken, the earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, may be a contender for the top 10 deadliest disasters. Even in a modern mass disaster, though, estimating the death toll is a tricky business. In the year after the quake, the government of Haiti estimated that the magnitude-7.0 quake and its aftermath killed 230,000 people; in January 2011, officials revised the figure to 316,000. Those figures are highly disputed, however. A 2010 study published in the journal Medicine, Conflict and Survival put the number at around 160,000 deaths. A 2011 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) draft report from 2011 claimed even lower numbers — between 46,000 and 85,000. The disparities reflect the difficulty of counting deaths even in the modern era, not to mention the political wrangling that goes on over "official" numbers. Many critics of Haiti's estimates argue that the government revised the death toll up in order to secure further international aid. On the other side of the argument, according to the Columbia Journalism Review, were those who accused USAID of leaking the report to discredit the Haitian government.

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Hillary Clinton on Saturday cast blame for her surprise election loss on the announcement by the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, days before the election that he had revived the inquiry into her use of a private email server. In her most extensive remarks since she conceded the race to Donald J. Trump early Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton told donors on a 30-minute conference call that Mr. Comey’s decision to send a letter to Congress about the inquiry 11 days before Election Day had thrust the controversy back into the news and had prevented her from ending the campaign with an optimistic closing argument. “There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful,” Mrs. Clinton said, according to a donor who relayed the remarks. But, she added, “our analysis is that Comey’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum.” Mrs. Clinton said a second letter from Mr. Comey, clearing her once again, which came two days before Election Day, had been even more damaging. In that letter, Mr. Comey said an examination of a new trove of emails, which had been found on the computer of Anthony D. Weiner, the estranged husband of one of her top aides, had not caused him to change his earlier conclusion that Mrs. Clinton should face no charges over her handling of classified information. ||||| Hillary Clinton has blamed the FBI's decision to revive an investigation into her email accounts for her devastating defeat in the US presidential election. In a call on Saturday with top campaign donors, Clinton said her campaign was in the lead until FBI director James Comey sent a letter to Congress on October 28 announcing that the FBI had uncovered emails possibly related to its earlier investigation into her use of a private server as secretary of state. The new examination was sparked by an unrelated investigation into former New York Representative Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of one of her top aides. The surprise announcement by the FBI came after three debates in which president-elect Donald Trump, a Republican, was widely panned for his performance. Clinton told the donors that her campaign was leading by large margins in nearly every battleground state and was tied in Arizona, a traditionally Republican stronghold, until Comey released his letter. Trump's campaign and Republican supporters seized on the news, even though it was unclear whether Clinton's correspondence was tied up in the probe. Comey told politicians the Sunday before the election that the bureau had found no evidence to warrant criminal charges. His "all clear" message only served to further motivate Trump supporters, Clinton told donors on the call. In the nine days between Comey's initial statement and his "all clear" announcement, nearly 24 million people cast early ballots. That was roughly 18 percent of the expected total votes for president. While Clinton accepted some blame of her loss, said donors who listened to her call, she made little mention of the many other factors political analysts saw as driving Trump's victory. OPINION: Spoiled Americans now want to flee what they created Clinton told her supporters on Saturday that her team had drafted a memo that looked at the changing opinion polls leading up to the election and that the letter from Comey proved to be a turning point. The memo prepared by Clinton's campaign, a copy of which was seen by the Reuters news agency, said voters who decided which candidate to support in the last week were more likely to support Trump than Clinton. "In the end, late breaking developments in the race proved one hurdle too many for us to overcome," the memo concluded. A spokesperson for the FBI could not immediately be reached for comment. Democrats have spent much of this week reeling for their loss, with many in the party beginning a process of soul-searching designed to figure out what exactly went wrong. Liberals such as Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren say Democrats must embrace a more aggressive economic message - one Clinton largely shied away from during her campaign.

– Hillary Clinton isn't writing James Comey any love letters these days, reports the New York Times, with the vanquished Democrat briefly raising her head Saturday to tell top fundraisers in a conference call that while "there are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful," the FBI director's late-breaking letters to Congress "raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum." Following the final debate in Las Vegas and before Comey's first letter to Congress, Clinton said, "we felt so good about where we were. We just had a real wind at our back." Then Comey's letter dropped 11 days before the election, and "we dropped, and we had to keep really pushing to regain our advantage, which going into last weekend we had." Per a campaign memo Monday morning quarterbacking the loss: "There is no question that a week from Election Day, Secretary Clinton was poised for a historic win," but that "late-breaking developments in the race proved one hurdle too many for us to overcome." The final nail in the coffin was actually Comey's second letter, two days before the election, giving Clinton the all-clear; her campaign contends that only further alienated her from voters who doubted her trustworthiness. There's another interesting dynamic at play in that nine-day window, notes Al Jazeera: Some 24 million people, or roughly 18% of all voters, voted between Comey's two letters. Still, some top Dems point to the campaign's self-inflicted wounds. "There is a special place in hell for Clinton staff, allegedly including Cheryl Mills, that okayed the email server setup," says a former top aide to Harry Reid. Admitted Clinton on Friday in a national call to voters: "Look, I’m not going to sugarcoat it. These have been very, very tough days."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Hillary Clinton on Saturday cast blame for her surprise election loss on the announcement by the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, days before the election that he had revived the inquiry into her use of a private email server. In her most extensive remarks since she conceded the race to Donald J. Trump early Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton told donors on a 30-minute conference call that Mr. Comey’s decision to send a letter to Congress about the inquiry 11 days before Election Day had thrust the controversy back into the news and had prevented her from ending the campaign with an optimistic closing argument. “There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful,” Mrs. Clinton said, according to a donor who relayed the remarks. But, she added, “our analysis is that Comey’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum.” Mrs. Clinton said a second letter from Mr. Comey, clearing her once again, which came two days before Election Day, had been even more damaging. In that letter, Mr. Comey said an examination of a new trove of emails, which had been found on the computer of Anthony D. Weiner, the estranged husband of one of her top aides, had not caused him to change his earlier conclusion that Mrs. Clinton should face no charges over her handling of classified information. ||||| Hillary Clinton has blamed the FBI's decision to revive an investigation into her email accounts for her devastating defeat in the US presidential election. In a call on Saturday with top campaign donors, Clinton said her campaign was in the lead until FBI director James Comey sent a letter to Congress on October 28 announcing that the FBI had uncovered emails possibly related to its earlier investigation into her use of a private server as secretary of state. The new examination was sparked by an unrelated investigation into former New York Representative Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of one of her top aides. The surprise announcement by the FBI came after three debates in which president-elect Donald Trump, a Republican, was widely panned for his performance. Clinton told the donors that her campaign was leading by large margins in nearly every battleground state and was tied in Arizona, a traditionally Republican stronghold, until Comey released his letter. Trump's campaign and Republican supporters seized on the news, even though it was unclear whether Clinton's correspondence was tied up in the probe. Comey told politicians the Sunday before the election that the bureau had found no evidence to warrant criminal charges. His "all clear" message only served to further motivate Trump supporters, Clinton told donors on the call. In the nine days between Comey's initial statement and his "all clear" announcement, nearly 24 million people cast early ballots. That was roughly 18 percent of the expected total votes for president. While Clinton accepted some blame of her loss, said donors who listened to her call, she made little mention of the many other factors political analysts saw as driving Trump's victory. OPINION: Spoiled Americans now want to flee what they created Clinton told her supporters on Saturday that her team had drafted a memo that looked at the changing opinion polls leading up to the election and that the letter from Comey proved to be a turning point. The memo prepared by Clinton's campaign, a copy of which was seen by the Reuters news agency, said voters who decided which candidate to support in the last week were more likely to support Trump than Clinton. "In the end, late breaking developments in the race proved one hurdle too many for us to overcome," the memo concluded. A spokesperson for the FBI could not immediately be reached for comment. Democrats have spent much of this week reeling for their loss, with many in the party beginning a process of soul-searching designed to figure out what exactly went wrong. Liberals such as Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren say Democrats must embrace a more aggressive economic message - one Clinton largely shied away from during her campaign.

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MADISON, Ala. (AP) — A new Alabama minor league baseball team's name is taking off like a rocket after making a big stink. Meet the Madison-based Rocket City Trash Pandas. Al.com reports the team held an event Saturday to unveil their new logo and start merchandise sales. They will begin playing in 2020. "The name has gone viral," said managing partner Ralph Nelson. Nelson told the newspaper they had already received merchandise requests from 30 countries around the world. The team's logo features a racoon lifting off in a trash-can like rocket. A team press release said official team colors included "Space Black, Rocket Red, Sky Blue and Trashcan Gray." A California-based marketing firm helped developed the concept, which pays homage to the region's aerospace industry. And trash pandas. ||||| If you’re looking at the newly-revealed logos for the Rocket City Trash Pandas, you’re looking at them with people from around the world. The new minor league baseball team that will begin play in Madison in 2020 held a shindig Saturday night in Dublin Park in their home city to pull the curtain back on the logos for the team and kick off sales of team merchandise. “This name has gone viral,” Ralph Nelson, the team’s managing partner, told AL.com on Thursday. The bizarre name – which came from a nomination by Matthew Higley of Lacey’s Spring – has captured worldwide attention, Nelson said. “Thirty foreign countries, we have requests for merchandise,” Nelson said. Seriously? “We have people from Japan, Germany, Ireland, England and Italy that would wear it tomorrow if we got it to them,” said Emo Furfori, the team’s community relations director. Nelson said the team has purchased about $100,000 worth of merchandise. “We bought probably three or four times the merchandise than I thought we were going to buy or budgeted for,” he said. “But the interest is just so fanatical. We’ve got close to a $100,000 worth of merchandise and we’re really concerned it’s all going to be gone on Saturday night. Everybody and their brother is writing that they want merchandise.” So here are the logos that will go on that merchandise. “My guess is that 80 percent of them have ties to Alabama or Huntsville and the other 20 percent are people who just love merchandise and logos,” Nelson said of the overseas interest in Trash Pandas. The team announced Saturday night that it’s online merchandise store is open at trashpandas.milb.com. You asked for it!!! The online store is LIVE!!! Have at it!!! https://t.co/bZ6gOfiXzn — Rocket City Trash Pandas! (@NBamaBaseball1) October 28, 2018 “Space Black, Rocket Red, Sky Blue and Trashcan Gray make up the club's official colors, paying homage to the region’s space heritage,” the team’s press release said. And always with that Trash Panda – the primary mark featuring the raccoon wearing a garbage can lid as a hat while the can itself has been transformed into a rocket. "Our community is known for engineering, and no creature in our galaxy is as smart, creative, determined and ingenious a problem solver - dedicated to the challenge at hand - as our local raccoons!" Higley wrote in his nickname submission. So you’ll see the raccoon tail flying out the bottom of rockets like a flame. Or secondary marks with a rocket created from an “R” and a “C” from the Rocket City identifier. And while the team will play in Madison but be known as Rocket City, the sleeve patch the team will wear will include the hometown. California-based Brandiose – one of the leading baseball marketing designers – developed the Trash Panda marks. “The Rocket City Trash Pandas launch has received more engagement and more national attention than any launch in Minor League Baseball history,” said Brandiose's Jason Klein said in a team press release. “Fans are going to love seeing the experience come to life over the next year.” Said Nelson, “Brandiose will tell you nobody has ever seen a reaction to a name and a merchandise request like we’re seen. So it’s kind of uncharted waters. We really don’t know what to expect.” ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites.

– Minor league baseball teams occasionally get a little cheeky, but a new Alabama team is seeing merchandise fly out the door after it decided to talk a little trash. Meet the Madison-based Rocket City Trash Pandas, which unveiled their logo on Saturday—a raccoon lifting off in a trash-can like rocket. "The name has gone viral," managing partner Ralph Nelson tells AL.com. "We’ve got close to a $100,000 worth of merchandise and we’re really concerned it’s all going to be gone on Saturday night. Everybody and their brother is writing that they want merchandise." Official team colors are "Space Black, Rocket Red, Sky Blue and Trashcan Gray." A California-based marketing firm helped developed the concept, which the AP notes pays homage to the region's aerospace industry. And trash pandas. Get merchandise here.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.MADISON, Ala. (AP) — A new Alabama minor league baseball team's name is taking off like a rocket after making a big stink. Meet the Madison-based Rocket City Trash Pandas. Al.com reports the team held an event Saturday to unveil their new logo and start merchandise sales. They will begin playing in 2020. "The name has gone viral," said managing partner Ralph Nelson. Nelson told the newspaper they had already received merchandise requests from 30 countries around the world. The team's logo features a racoon lifting off in a trash-can like rocket. A team press release said official team colors included "Space Black, Rocket Red, Sky Blue and Trashcan Gray." A California-based marketing firm helped developed the concept, which pays homage to the region's aerospace industry. And trash pandas. ||||| If you’re looking at the newly-revealed logos for the Rocket City Trash Pandas, you’re looking at them with people from around the world. The new minor league baseball team that will begin play in Madison in 2020 held a shindig Saturday night in Dublin Park in their home city to pull the curtain back on the logos for the team and kick off sales of team merchandise. “This name has gone viral,” Ralph Nelson, the team’s managing partner, told AL.com on Thursday. The bizarre name – which came from a nomination by Matthew Higley of Lacey’s Spring – has captured worldwide attention, Nelson said. “Thirty foreign countries, we have requests for merchandise,” Nelson said. Seriously? “We have people from Japan, Germany, Ireland, England and Italy that would wear it tomorrow if we got it to them,” said Emo Furfori, the team’s community relations director. Nelson said the team has purchased about $100,000 worth of merchandise. “We bought probably three or four times the merchandise than I thought we were going to buy or budgeted for,” he said. “But the interest is just so fanatical. We’ve got close to a $100,000 worth of merchandise and we’re really concerned it’s all going to be gone on Saturday night. Everybody and their brother is writing that they want merchandise.” So here are the logos that will go on that merchandise. “My guess is that 80 percent of them have ties to Alabama or Huntsville and the other 20 percent are people who just love merchandise and logos,” Nelson said of the overseas interest in Trash Pandas. The team announced Saturday night that it’s online merchandise store is open at trashpandas.milb.com. You asked for it!!! The online store is LIVE!!! Have at it!!! https://t.co/bZ6gOfiXzn — Rocket City Trash Pandas! (@NBamaBaseball1) October 28, 2018 “Space Black, Rocket Red, Sky Blue and Trashcan Gray make up the club's official colors, paying homage to the region’s space heritage,” the team’s press release said. And always with that Trash Panda – the primary mark featuring the raccoon wearing a garbage can lid as a hat while the can itself has been transformed into a rocket. "Our community is known for engineering, and no creature in our galaxy is as smart, creative, determined and ingenious a problem solver - dedicated to the challenge at hand - as our local raccoons!" Higley wrote in his nickname submission. So you’ll see the raccoon tail flying out the bottom of rockets like a flame. Or secondary marks with a rocket created from an “R” and a “C” from the Rocket City identifier. And while the team will play in Madison but be known as Rocket City, the sleeve patch the team will wear will include the hometown. California-based Brandiose – one of the leading baseball marketing designers – developed the Trash Panda marks. “The Rocket City Trash Pandas launch has received more engagement and more national attention than any launch in Minor League Baseball history,” said Brandiose's Jason Klein said in a team press release. “Fans are going to love seeing the experience come to life over the next year.” Said Nelson, “Brandiose will tell you nobody has ever seen a reaction to a name and a merchandise request like we’re seen. So it’s kind of uncharted waters. We really don’t know what to expect.” ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites.

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Page 1 of 1 A Houston Police Department spokesman says investigators have not been able to reach the girl's mother, but detectives spoke to the father, who doesn't live at the complex. Shadow Melendez, 6, can only wonder about the 9-year-old neighbor girl whose body was found Monday. A wheel chair is shown at an apartment where where a girl, believed to be about 9 years old, was found dead and wrapped in blankets Monday evening. A distraught Armand Comb is looking for answers on how and why his daughter died. Shadow Melendez, 6, holds a doll outside the apartment complex where a child was found dead at the Happy Home apartments. Melendez said she played with the children and the doll was a toy left behind by one of the three children that lived there. (Johnny Hanson | Houston Chronicle) Alex Mendoza, 19, walks past the Happy Home Apartment complex residence where A girl, believed to be about 9 years old, was found dead and wrapped in blankets Monday evening. A girl, believed to be about 9 years old, was found dead and wrapped in blankets Monday evening in her family's southwest Houston apartment complex, Happy Homes. (Johnny Hanson | Houston Chronicle) A neighbor walks by the residence where a girl believed to be 9 years old was found dead, wrapped in blankets in the kitchen of the home at the Happy Home apartment complex Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Houston. The girl's body was discovered about 5:45 p.m. Monday evening when Houston firefighters were sent to make a welfare check at the apartment in the 10100 block of Club Creek, southeast of Beechnut and the West Sam Houston Parkway. Police said neighbors told investigators they had not seen the girl for months. Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Houston. Shadow Melendez, 6, stands outside the house where Ayahna Comb's body was found June 9 in her mother's refrigerator. The little girl went to the refrigerator in her southwest Houston apartment, in search of a snack - perhaps some fruit or milk. But when the 5-year-old opened the door, she saw the body of her older sister, wrapped in one of her blankets, a child advocate caseworker said in a custody hearing Wednesday. It was the latest, most grisly twist in the case of Ayahna Comb, a 9-year-old with cerebral palsy whose body was found Monday in a refrigerator. The detail elicited gasps and sobs from Ayahna's family members, who were in court seeking custody of the younger girl. The saga began on Monday after police were called to the apartment of 34-year-old Amber Keyes in the Happy Home Apartments in the 10100 block of Club Creek. Keyes lived there with her two daughters. Police said they received a call after a neighbor, who had become concerned after not seeing Ayahna for several months, entered Keyes' apartment and found the girl in her refrigerator, dead and wrapped in blankets. "There were concerns that the child had been in the refrigerator for some time," said Cora Christiaans, from Child Protective Services. The curly-haired girl all but slipped off the face of the earth. In court, authorities said Ayahna hadn't been to school or seen a doctor in two years. Investigators said relatives hadn't seen her since late last year. Keyes told authorities that on Jan. 29, about 3 in the morning, she found Ayahna not breathing, the caseworker said. The mother tried CPR. "She stated that as 6 a.m. approached, … she placed the deceased child in her bed and covered her with a blanket and took her sibling off to school," Christiaans said. "After that, she sat with the deceased child's body for some time, and then decided to clear out a drawer in the refrigerator and place her body in there." First child taken away Keyes had come under CPS scrutiny before. In 2002, agency spokeswoman Estella Olguin said, another case arose involving her then 1-year-old daughter. In that instance, CPS received a report that the man Keyes was dating was abusing the girl, Olguin said Wednesday. "The mom didn't do what she needed to do to demonstrate she would be able to protect her," Olguin said. In 2004, a relative adopted the child and the agency closed the case, she said. "After 2004, we had no further dealings with this mom, and that was prior to Ayahna being born or her 5-year-old sister." Why Keyes placed her daughter in the refrigerator is unclear, but one psychology professor said her previous experience with CPS could have contributed. "The CPS system is one that inspires deep-seated anxiety and fear in parents who have been involved in the system before," said Susan Henney, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Houston-Downtown and a former CPS caseworker. But there are bigger questions, Henney said: "Why didn't anyone notice she was gone? Where did we go wrong?" Medical examiners told CPS that Ayahna's body was emaciated and thin, weighing just 14 pounds when she was found, Christiaans said, under questioning from Danielle Davis, an assistant county attorney. They also said the body was in the beginning stages of decomposition, she said. When Ayahna's sister found the body is unclear. The news left Comb's family distraught. "I've been asking Amber different things about my niece, and all she's been saying is 'She's OK.' It really affected me someone could lie for so long," Ayahna's aunt, Kleyahla Richardson, said Wednesday evening. Keyes was not in court and did not answer calls seeking comment. She voluntarily went to police and gave a statement to investigators Tuesday night, said Kese Smith, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department. Keyes is cooperating with the investigation and has not been charged, he said. "(The detectives) are going to finish their investigation before anyone is charged," he said. Nevertheless, the circumstances surrounding Ayahna's death led CPS to seek custody of her sister. Keyes and the girls' father, Armand Comb, began dating about 10 years ago but split up about six years ago, said Kathy Comb, his mother. Family visits ceased In photos from happier times, the girl could be seen with her relatives in the modified stroller they used to push her around. But shortly after Christmas, Ayahna's mother stopped bringing her to family gatherings, and Christiaans said no one in Comb's family had seen her in five or six months. The younger girl often visited her father's relatives. They saw Ayahna less frequently, one family member said. Kathy Comb, the girl's paternal grandmother, said she was devastated by Ayahna's death. Armand Comb had told reporters he had last seen Ayahna about two months ago. In court, he repeated that assertion, which brought head shakes from several relatives, who said he had suffered a seizure about that time that left him hospitalized for two weeks. "He doesn't know," said Sandra Gill Clark, a family member, explaining that the seizure had left him with memory problems. Comb also told Judge David Farr that he had several arrests for cocaine use and suffered from anxiety and depression. He had hoped that his family could take custody of his younger daughter, but CPS said his criminal background as well as the fact that two people living in his house had criminal backgrounds were reasons it was seeking custody of the child. "All these factors, we do take them into consideration," said Olguin. Another hearing is scheduled for June 19. "CPS is making it seem like we brushed (Ayahna) off," Richardson said Wednesday. "I kept asking about her, but (Amber) always told me she was with a family member." Dale Lezon contributed to this report. ||||| Police investigating death of a child in southwest Houston have finally spoken to the young girl's mother.Ayahna Comb, 9, hadn't been seen in months. It took that long for anyone to look for her.When they did, a family friend found her lifeless body wrapped in a blanket inside the refrigerator at her southwest Houston apartment. The last time her father says he saw her was two months ago."I picked her up, hugged her, talked to her. Then I had to go," said Armand Comb, the girl's father.But he says he thought he had talked to her since then."I'd been on the phone and I was singing her songs and stuff and the whole time she was lying," said Comb.Ayahna had cerebral palsy, and Comb says Ayahna's mother, Amber Keyes, would tell him their daughter was responding with a smile when he was on the phone, but now he doesn't know if he was talking to her at all.The couple also has a 5-year-old daughter who is now in CPS custody. An emergency custody hearing is scheduled for Wednesday to determine a more permanent arrangement. A CPS spokeswoman says the agency has had no previous contact with this family.Keyes voluntarily went and talked to investigators Tuesday. She was then released with no charges.Houston police are awaiting autopsy results to determine how the little girl died.

– The emaciated body of a 9-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has been found stuffed in her mom's refrigerator. Amber Keyes, 34, discovered her daughter Ayahna Comb wasn't breathing in January and "decided to clear out a drawer in the refrigerator and place her body in there," a Child Protective Services rep said at a hearing yesterday, according to the Houston Chronicle. A family friend recently saw the body and alerted police, who found her 14-pound body, "in the beginning stages of decomposition," in a search of the apartment Monday. A grim detail: The girl's 5-year-old sister had apparently discovered the body, wrapped in blankets, earlier while searching for a snack, a child advocate caseworker said. Ayahna's father, Armand Comb, says he saw his daughter two months ago—"I picked her up, hugged her, talked to her," he told KTRK—but family members say he had a seizure around that time that affected his memory. Since that time, he says, he thought he'd continued to speak to his daughter: "I'd been on the phone and I was singing her songs and stuff and the whole time she was lying," he said of Keyes, who claimed at the time that their daughter was smiling on the other end of the line. Keyes is cooperating with the investigation and detectives "are going to finish their investigation before anyone is charged," a police rep says. CPS now has temporary custody of Ayahna's younger sister, and family members are seeking custody.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Page 1 of 1 A Houston Police Department spokesman says investigators have not been able to reach the girl's mother, but detectives spoke to the father, who doesn't live at the complex. Shadow Melendez, 6, can only wonder about the 9-year-old neighbor girl whose body was found Monday. A wheel chair is shown at an apartment where where a girl, believed to be about 9 years old, was found dead and wrapped in blankets Monday evening. A distraught Armand Comb is looking for answers on how and why his daughter died. Shadow Melendez, 6, holds a doll outside the apartment complex where a child was found dead at the Happy Home apartments. Melendez said she played with the children and the doll was a toy left behind by one of the three children that lived there. (Johnny Hanson | Houston Chronicle) Alex Mendoza, 19, walks past the Happy Home Apartment complex residence where A girl, believed to be about 9 years old, was found dead and wrapped in blankets Monday evening. A girl, believed to be about 9 years old, was found dead and wrapped in blankets Monday evening in her family's southwest Houston apartment complex, Happy Homes. (Johnny Hanson | Houston Chronicle) A neighbor walks by the residence where a girl believed to be 9 years old was found dead, wrapped in blankets in the kitchen of the home at the Happy Home apartment complex Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Houston. The girl's body was discovered about 5:45 p.m. Monday evening when Houston firefighters were sent to make a welfare check at the apartment in the 10100 block of Club Creek, southeast of Beechnut and the West Sam Houston Parkway. Police said neighbors told investigators they had not seen the girl for months. Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Houston. Shadow Melendez, 6, stands outside the house where Ayahna Comb's body was found June 9 in her mother's refrigerator. The little girl went to the refrigerator in her southwest Houston apartment, in search of a snack - perhaps some fruit or milk. But when the 5-year-old opened the door, she saw the body of her older sister, wrapped in one of her blankets, a child advocate caseworker said in a custody hearing Wednesday. It was the latest, most grisly twist in the case of Ayahna Comb, a 9-year-old with cerebral palsy whose body was found Monday in a refrigerator. The detail elicited gasps and sobs from Ayahna's family members, who were in court seeking custody of the younger girl. The saga began on Monday after police were called to the apartment of 34-year-old Amber Keyes in the Happy Home Apartments in the 10100 block of Club Creek. Keyes lived there with her two daughters. Police said they received a call after a neighbor, who had become concerned after not seeing Ayahna for several months, entered Keyes' apartment and found the girl in her refrigerator, dead and wrapped in blankets. "There were concerns that the child had been in the refrigerator for some time," said Cora Christiaans, from Child Protective Services. The curly-haired girl all but slipped off the face of the earth. In court, authorities said Ayahna hadn't been to school or seen a doctor in two years. Investigators said relatives hadn't seen her since late last year. Keyes told authorities that on Jan. 29, about 3 in the morning, she found Ayahna not breathing, the caseworker said. The mother tried CPR. "She stated that as 6 a.m. approached, … she placed the deceased child in her bed and covered her with a blanket and took her sibling off to school," Christiaans said. "After that, she sat with the deceased child's body for some time, and then decided to clear out a drawer in the refrigerator and place her body in there." First child taken away Keyes had come under CPS scrutiny before. In 2002, agency spokeswoman Estella Olguin said, another case arose involving her then 1-year-old daughter. In that instance, CPS received a report that the man Keyes was dating was abusing the girl, Olguin said Wednesday. "The mom didn't do what she needed to do to demonstrate she would be able to protect her," Olguin said. In 2004, a relative adopted the child and the agency closed the case, she said. "After 2004, we had no further dealings with this mom, and that was prior to Ayahna being born or her 5-year-old sister." Why Keyes placed her daughter in the refrigerator is unclear, but one psychology professor said her previous experience with CPS could have contributed. "The CPS system is one that inspires deep-seated anxiety and fear in parents who have been involved in the system before," said Susan Henney, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Houston-Downtown and a former CPS caseworker. But there are bigger questions, Henney said: "Why didn't anyone notice she was gone? Where did we go wrong?" Medical examiners told CPS that Ayahna's body was emaciated and thin, weighing just 14 pounds when she was found, Christiaans said, under questioning from Danielle Davis, an assistant county attorney. They also said the body was in the beginning stages of decomposition, she said. When Ayahna's sister found the body is unclear. The news left Comb's family distraught. "I've been asking Amber different things about my niece, and all she's been saying is 'She's OK.' It really affected me someone could lie for so long," Ayahna's aunt, Kleyahla Richardson, said Wednesday evening. Keyes was not in court and did not answer calls seeking comment. She voluntarily went to police and gave a statement to investigators Tuesday night, said Kese Smith, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department. Keyes is cooperating with the investigation and has not been charged, he said. "(The detectives) are going to finish their investigation before anyone is charged," he said. Nevertheless, the circumstances surrounding Ayahna's death led CPS to seek custody of her sister. Keyes and the girls' father, Armand Comb, began dating about 10 years ago but split up about six years ago, said Kathy Comb, his mother. Family visits ceased In photos from happier times, the girl could be seen with her relatives in the modified stroller they used to push her around. But shortly after Christmas, Ayahna's mother stopped bringing her to family gatherings, and Christiaans said no one in Comb's family had seen her in five or six months. The younger girl often visited her father's relatives. They saw Ayahna less frequently, one family member said. Kathy Comb, the girl's paternal grandmother, said she was devastated by Ayahna's death. Armand Comb had told reporters he had last seen Ayahna about two months ago. In court, he repeated that assertion, which brought head shakes from several relatives, who said he had suffered a seizure about that time that left him hospitalized for two weeks. "He doesn't know," said Sandra Gill Clark, a family member, explaining that the seizure had left him with memory problems. Comb also told Judge David Farr that he had several arrests for cocaine use and suffered from anxiety and depression. He had hoped that his family could take custody of his younger daughter, but CPS said his criminal background as well as the fact that two people living in his house had criminal backgrounds were reasons it was seeking custody of the child. "All these factors, we do take them into consideration," said Olguin. Another hearing is scheduled for June 19. "CPS is making it seem like we brushed (Ayahna) off," Richardson said Wednesday. "I kept asking about her, but (Amber) always told me she was with a family member." Dale Lezon contributed to this report. ||||| Police investigating death of a child in southwest Houston have finally spoken to the young girl's mother.Ayahna Comb, 9, hadn't been seen in months. It took that long for anyone to look for her.When they did, a family friend found her lifeless body wrapped in a blanket inside the refrigerator at her southwest Houston apartment. The last time her father says he saw her was two months ago."I picked her up, hugged her, talked to her. Then I had to go," said Armand Comb, the girl's father.But he says he thought he had talked to her since then."I'd been on the phone and I was singing her songs and stuff and the whole time she was lying," said Comb.Ayahna had cerebral palsy, and Comb says Ayahna's mother, Amber Keyes, would tell him their daughter was responding with a smile when he was on the phone, but now he doesn't know if he was talking to her at all.The couple also has a 5-year-old daughter who is now in CPS custody. An emergency custody hearing is scheduled for Wednesday to determine a more permanent arrangement. A CPS spokeswoman says the agency has had no previous contact with this family.Keyes voluntarily went and talked to investigators Tuesday. She was then released with no charges.Houston police are awaiting autopsy results to determine how the little girl died.

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(CNN) The United States and Russia have announced a plan to bring about a ceasefire in Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry said. "Today we are announcing an arrangement that we think has the capability of sticking, but it's dependent on people's choices," Kerry said Friday in Geneva, Switzerland, appearing alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Kerry said the pact calls for the Syrian government and the opposition to respect a nationwide ceasefire scheduled to take effect at sundown Monday. The Syrian regime announced its support of the ceasefire deal Saturday, according to the state-run al-Ikhbariya TV. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov unveil the new plan Friday. Kerry said the accord would prevent Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's air force from flying combat missions anywhere the opposition is present, calling this provision the "bedrock of the agreement." He labeled the Syrian air force the "main driver of civilian casualties" and migrant flows "That should put an end to the barrel bombs, an end to the indiscriminate bombing of civilian neighborhoods," Kerry said. In February, a cessation of hostilities negotiated between Kerry and Lavrov fell apart within weeks, and efforts to reach a political settlement in the war-torn country have been on the verge of collapse. Airstrikes in Idlib Airstrikes still went on Saturday in the city of Idlib, with at least 24 people killed, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights. The Syria Civil Defense, a volunteer search and rescue group, tweeted a dramatic image of airstrike victims in the city that's about 35 miles southwest of the besieged Aleppo After #Syriaceasefire deal announced to start on Monday, Regime air strike in Idlib city kills 30. RESTRAINT PLEASE pic.twitter.com/ymqai0SPAW — The White Helmets (@SyriaCivilDef) September 10, 2016 Kerry and Lavrov said Friday that once the cessation of hostilities holds for seven days, their countries would begin working on military coordination in an effort to target one-time al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, previously known as al Nusra Front. "Going after Nusra is not a concession to anybody; it is profoundly in the interest of the United States to target al Qaeda," Kerry said, saying the group was planning attacks both in and outside of Syria, including ones directed at the United States. "If groups within the legitimate opposition want to retain their legitimacy, they need to distance themselves in every way possible from Nusra and Daesh," Kerry added, referring to ISIS. A Syrian man carries a wounded child in eastern Aleppo in August. Kerry said this cooperation would entail "some sharing of information" with Russia pertaining to the delineation of the various groups on the battlefield. After the seven-day cessation of hostilities and delivery of aid, "US and Russian experts will work together to defeat Daesh and Nusra," Kerry said. Kerry also said the accord would allow for humanitarian access to parts of Syria such as Aleppo caught in the crossfire and provide for the creation of a demilitarized areas around that northern city. The secretary reiterated several times the deal was dependent on the adherence of all parties, both regime and opposition. Citing private sources for al-Ikhbariya TV, Assad's government said "all hostilities in Aleppo will be halted for humanitarian reasons" and that one of the purposes of the deal is to find political solutions to the conflict. It said a US-Russian coordination center will be created to target ISIS and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham with warplanes and high-precision weaponry. World leaders welcome deal JUST WATCHED Ceasefire talks held as violence rocks Syria Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Ceasefire talks held as violence rocks Syria 02:35 Syria's opposition favors the new deal "if it is going to be enforced," Bassma Kodmani, a member of the High Negotiations Committee, said in a statement Saturday. "When the cessation of hostilities was installed in February, the opposition -- 100 groups -- respected it. It was violated by the regime," Kodmani said. "So a return to a cessation of hostilities has been our demand." The United Nations also welcomed the deal, saying Saturday that it expected all parties to facilitate in the delivery of humanitarian aid to besieged areas. Foreign ministers in Turkey, Germany and the UK all greeted Friday's announcement. Months of effort JUST WATCHED The last 'True American' in Damascus Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH The last 'True American' in Damascus 02:04 The landmark agreement comes after months of unsuccessful efforts to reach a ceasefire between Assad's government and moderate rebels that would expand humanitarian access for hundreds of thousands of Syrians, efforts met by public skepticism from both the White House and the Pentagon. Officials involved in the negotiations had been less than optimistic about a possible agreement in the latest round of talks in Geneva, with one senior official traveling with Kerry saying, "We are going to try, but our patience is not infinite." But during Friday's drawn-out press conference, a lighthearted moment occurred when the Russian minister orchestrated the delivery of pizzas and two bottles of Russian vodka to the reporters, saying, "The pizza was from the US delegation, the vodka was from the Russian delegation." Greater cooperation between US, Russia The new US-Russia strategy hinges on deeper cooperation between the US and Russian military against extremist groups operating in Syria, particularly ISIS and the former al Nusra. The two sides are also holding talks on coordinating more closely the air operations they are both conducting in Syria. But the United States has resisted coming to an agreement due to Russian and Syrian regime actions against civilians in Aleppo. Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die Two children walk past a "White Helmet" soon after an airstrike hits the Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo. Hide Caption 1 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die Members of the "White Helmets" civil defense volunteers carry the body of a man killed in a Russian airstrike in Andan town in the countryside north of of Aleppo. Hide Caption 2 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die Buses piled one on top of the other offer some protection from enemy fire. Hide Caption 3 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die Keeping the lights on: The electricity "operations room" in a neighborhood of rebel-held Aleppo. Hide Caption 4 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die Two men and their donkey navigate the bombed alleyways of Almarja district in eastern Aleppo. Hide Caption 5 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die A mother watches over her children as they return from school; the massive sheet hanging in the street is to deter government snipers. Hide Caption 6 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die A street that is monitored by regime snipers. Hide Caption 7 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die A stall holder waits for customers; there are reports of some hoarding of rice and flour as the regime's siege tightens. Hide Caption 8 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die A street market in Aleppo that is still open despite constant airstrikes -- and the huge slab of concrete hanging over it. Hide Caption 9 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die There is still fresh produce in the market stalls but it is more difficult to bring into the city, and much more expensive than even a few weeks ago. Hide Caption 10 of 10 The United States wants a nationwide ceasefire in Syria between the regime and the rebels to create the conditions for UN-led political talks to end the five-year civil war . The US-backed moderate opposition has refused to resume the UN-led talks unless a cessation of hostilities take hold and the regime and Russia end the siege and bombing of Aleppo. "The opposition tells us they want to reach a deal with the Russians if in fact it would stop some of the worst forms of violence against the Syrian people," a second senior administration official said. JUST WATCHED This is Aleppo Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH This is Aleppo 00:46 Staffan de Mistura, the UN special envoy for Syria, appeared with Kerry and Lavrov after the announcement to signal the United Nations backed the new agreement. Earlier Friday, he said an agreement would make a major difference in terms of the cessation of hostilities and have a big impact on the delivery of humanitarian aid. Both President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Ash Carter have had tough words for Russia in recent days, dimming the prospect of a deal on a ceasefire and closer military cooperation. The United States and Russia are both ostensibly fighting ISIS in Syria, but Washington has charged that Russia has mostly focused on bombing groups opposing Assad, a close ally. The United States supports some of those opposition groups. Obama has questioned whether a deal was possible given the "gaps of trust" between the two countries after meeting Monday in China with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20. President Barack Obama meets Russian President Vladimir Putin this week on the sidelines of the G20. The decision to deepen cooperation with Moscow was already controversial, given the Obama administration's public criticism of Russia's role in Syria. Democratic Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, said Friday he didn't trust Russia on a deal such as this. "I think it's good and I applaud Secretary Kerry because I think the effort needs to be made. The only way to stop the carnage in Syria is to get some sensible transition away from Assad, and the Russians are key to that," Smith told Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "The Situation Room." "I think in the meantime if we can get humanitarian aid to some of these places that are suffering, I mean that's a win, but at the end of the day, Syria will not make a successful transition to a reasonable government until Assad agrees to leave." ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption John Kerry: "If this arrangement holds then we will see a significant reduction in violence across Syria" Russia and the US have agreed to co-ordinate air strikes against Islamist militants in Syria, part of a detailed agreement to reduce the violence there. The plan will begin with a "cessation of hostilities" from sunset on Monday. Syrian forces will end combat missions in specified opposition-held areas. Russia and the US will then establish a joint centre to combat jihadist groups, including so-called Islamic State (IS). A Syrian opposition coalition has cautiously welcomed the agreement. "We hope this will be the beginning of the end of the civilians' ordeal," said Bassma Kodmani, a spokeswoman for the High Negotiations Committee. "We welcome the deal if it is going to be enforced." In other reaction: Turkey welcomed the plan, and said aid needed to reach those in need "from the first day" EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini urged the UN to "prepare a proposal for political transition" in Syria British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urged Russia to "use all its influence" to ensure the Syrian government "delivers on its obligations" Aid access The announcement follows talks in Geneva between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov. The plan would need both the Assad government and opposition "to meet their obligations", Mr Kerry said. The opposition had indicated it was prepared to comply with the plan, he said, provided the Syrian government "shows it is serious". Mr Lavrov said Russia had informed the Syrian government about the arrangements and the Syrian government was "ready to fulfil them". Mr Kerry said the cessation of hostilities also involved humanitarian access to besieged areas, including Aleppo. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Aleppo: Key battleground in Syria's civil war Seven days after the start of the cessation of hostilities, Russia and the US will establish a "joint implementation centre" to fight IS and another main group, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham. Jabhat Fateh al-Sham used to be known as the Nusra Front but changed its name in June and announced it was cutting ties with al-Qaeda. Mr Lavrov said the joint implementation centre would allow Russian and US forces to "separate the terrorists from the moderate opposition". "We have agreed on the areas where such co-ordinated strikes would be taking place, and in those areas, on neutral agreement shared by the Syrian government as well, only the Russian and US air force will be functional," he said. But Mr Lavrov added that "the Syrian air force will be functional in other areas, outside those that we have singled out for Russian-American military co-operation". Layers of conflict Image copyright AP By Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East Editor, Damascus Getting a deal was an achievement, given the sour atmosphere between Moscow and Washington. It offers some fragile hope about stopping the slaughter. But there is scepticism about its chances. That is because a lot is going to have to go right, quite quickly, if the agreement is to work. One necessity is President Assad's consent. A week-long ceasefire might be possible, but a political deal to end the war is still out of sight. The Assad regime's survival depends on the Russians, so he will listen to them. But with Russia's help, the Assad regime is looking more robust. So it is hard to see why the president, or his Russian allies, would want him to go. The war in Syria is made up of layers of conflict, which connect up to regional and global rivalries. That makes it very hard to calm, let alone end. Mr Lavrov and Mr Kerry stressed that the plan could pave the way for a political transition. "The plan is more prescriptive and far-reaching than any proposal to date and, if implemented by all sides, could allow political negotiations to take place on Syria's future," Mr Kerry said. The United Nations envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, welcomed the agreement and said the UN would exert all efforts to deliver humanitarian aid. 'Apex of horror' Fighting has recently escalated between Syria's army and rebels in eastern Aleppo, where 250,000 people live. On Sunday, Syrian government forces were reported to have recaptured parts of Aleppo which were lost to rebels last month, placing rebel-held districts in the city's east once again under siege. Mr de Mistura warned earlier on Friday that food and water shortages made the situation in Aleppo even more serious, and that fuel supplies could run out within days. UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien told the BBC conditions in Aleppo had become appalling: "Eastern Aleppo is at the apex of horror, where any one of us, if we were there, would find life barely possible, let alone tolerable." The US and Russia support opposite sides in the conflict that began in 2011: Washington backs a coalition of rebel groups it describes as moderate, while Moscow is seen as a key ally of President Assad.

– Russia and the US announced plans for a ceasefire in the five-year Syrian civil war Friday, CNN reports. Under the agreement—which both the Syrian government and opposition groups have tentatively agreed to—calls for an end to hostilities starting at sundown on Monday. Secretary of State John Kerry says the "bedrock of the agreement" is the government's cessation of air force missions in any areas occupied by rebel groups. "That should put an end to...the indiscriminate bombing of civilian neighborhoods," Kerry says. According to the AP, Kerry calls the ceasefire a possible "turning point" in the war that has killed more than 500,000 people. The announcement came after "intensive" talks in Geneva, the BBC reports. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave journalists waiting for the end of 13 hours of negotiations pizza "from the US delegation" and vodka "from the Russian delegation." The ceasefire will allow the UN to deliver humanitarian aid to hard-hit areas, including Aleppo, where nearly 700 civilians—160 of them children—have been killed in the past 40 days. If the ceasefire lasts a week, the US and Russia will start planning joint military operations against al Qaeda and ISIS fighters in Syria. But such ceasefire agreements have failed in the past. "We think [the arrangement] has the capability of sticking, but it's dependent on people's choices," Kerry says. "It is an opportunity and not more than that."

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.(CNN) The United States and Russia have announced a plan to bring about a ceasefire in Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry said. "Today we are announcing an arrangement that we think has the capability of sticking, but it's dependent on people's choices," Kerry said Friday in Geneva, Switzerland, appearing alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Kerry said the pact calls for the Syrian government and the opposition to respect a nationwide ceasefire scheduled to take effect at sundown Monday. The Syrian regime announced its support of the ceasefire deal Saturday, according to the state-run al-Ikhbariya TV. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov unveil the new plan Friday. Kerry said the accord would prevent Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's air force from flying combat missions anywhere the opposition is present, calling this provision the "bedrock of the agreement." He labeled the Syrian air force the "main driver of civilian casualties" and migrant flows "That should put an end to the barrel bombs, an end to the indiscriminate bombing of civilian neighborhoods," Kerry said. In February, a cessation of hostilities negotiated between Kerry and Lavrov fell apart within weeks, and efforts to reach a political settlement in the war-torn country have been on the verge of collapse. Airstrikes in Idlib Airstrikes still went on Saturday in the city of Idlib, with at least 24 people killed, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights. The Syria Civil Defense, a volunteer search and rescue group, tweeted a dramatic image of airstrike victims in the city that's about 35 miles southwest of the besieged Aleppo After #Syriaceasefire deal announced to start on Monday, Regime air strike in Idlib city kills 30. RESTRAINT PLEASE pic.twitter.com/ymqai0SPAW — The White Helmets (@SyriaCivilDef) September 10, 2016 Kerry and Lavrov said Friday that once the cessation of hostilities holds for seven days, their countries would begin working on military coordination in an effort to target one-time al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, previously known as al Nusra Front. "Going after Nusra is not a concession to anybody; it is profoundly in the interest of the United States to target al Qaeda," Kerry said, saying the group was planning attacks both in and outside of Syria, including ones directed at the United States. "If groups within the legitimate opposition want to retain their legitimacy, they need to distance themselves in every way possible from Nusra and Daesh," Kerry added, referring to ISIS. A Syrian man carries a wounded child in eastern Aleppo in August. Kerry said this cooperation would entail "some sharing of information" with Russia pertaining to the delineation of the various groups on the battlefield. After the seven-day cessation of hostilities and delivery of aid, "US and Russian experts will work together to defeat Daesh and Nusra," Kerry said. Kerry also said the accord would allow for humanitarian access to parts of Syria such as Aleppo caught in the crossfire and provide for the creation of a demilitarized areas around that northern city. The secretary reiterated several times the deal was dependent on the adherence of all parties, both regime and opposition. Citing private sources for al-Ikhbariya TV, Assad's government said "all hostilities in Aleppo will be halted for humanitarian reasons" and that one of the purposes of the deal is to find political solutions to the conflict. It said a US-Russian coordination center will be created to target ISIS and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham with warplanes and high-precision weaponry. World leaders welcome deal JUST WATCHED Ceasefire talks held as violence rocks Syria Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Ceasefire talks held as violence rocks Syria 02:35 Syria's opposition favors the new deal "if it is going to be enforced," Bassma Kodmani, a member of the High Negotiations Committee, said in a statement Saturday. "When the cessation of hostilities was installed in February, the opposition -- 100 groups -- respected it. It was violated by the regime," Kodmani said. "So a return to a cessation of hostilities has been our demand." The United Nations also welcomed the deal, saying Saturday that it expected all parties to facilitate in the delivery of humanitarian aid to besieged areas. Foreign ministers in Turkey, Germany and the UK all greeted Friday's announcement. Months of effort JUST WATCHED The last 'True American' in Damascus Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH The last 'True American' in Damascus 02:04 The landmark agreement comes after months of unsuccessful efforts to reach a ceasefire between Assad's government and moderate rebels that would expand humanitarian access for hundreds of thousands of Syrians, efforts met by public skepticism from both the White House and the Pentagon. Officials involved in the negotiations had been less than optimistic about a possible agreement in the latest round of talks in Geneva, with one senior official traveling with Kerry saying, "We are going to try, but our patience is not infinite." But during Friday's drawn-out press conference, a lighthearted moment occurred when the Russian minister orchestrated the delivery of pizzas and two bottles of Russian vodka to the reporters, saying, "The pizza was from the US delegation, the vodka was from the Russian delegation." Greater cooperation between US, Russia The new US-Russia strategy hinges on deeper cooperation between the US and Russian military against extremist groups operating in Syria, particularly ISIS and the former al Nusra. The two sides are also holding talks on coordinating more closely the air operations they are both conducting in Syria. But the United States has resisted coming to an agreement due to Russian and Syrian regime actions against civilians in Aleppo. Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die Two children walk past a "White Helmet" soon after an airstrike hits the Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo. Hide Caption 1 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die Members of the "White Helmets" civil defense volunteers carry the body of a man killed in a Russian airstrike in Andan town in the countryside north of of Aleppo. Hide Caption 2 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die Buses piled one on top of the other offer some protection from enemy fire. Hide Caption 3 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die Keeping the lights on: The electricity "operations room" in a neighborhood of rebel-held Aleppo. Hide Caption 4 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die Two men and their donkey navigate the bombed alleyways of Almarja district in eastern Aleppo. Hide Caption 5 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die A mother watches over her children as they return from school; the massive sheet hanging in the street is to deter government snipers. Hide Caption 6 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die A street that is monitored by regime snipers. Hide Caption 7 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die A stall holder waits for customers; there are reports of some hoarding of rice and flour as the regime's siege tightens. Hide Caption 8 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die A street market in Aleppo that is still open despite constant airstrikes -- and the huge slab of concrete hanging over it. Hide Caption 9 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die There is still fresh produce in the market stalls but it is more difficult to bring into the city, and much more expensive than even a few weeks ago. Hide Caption 10 of 10 The United States wants a nationwide ceasefire in Syria between the regime and the rebels to create the conditions for UN-led political talks to end the five-year civil war . The US-backed moderate opposition has refused to resume the UN-led talks unless a cessation of hostilities take hold and the regime and Russia end the siege and bombing of Aleppo. "The opposition tells us they want to reach a deal with the Russians if in fact it would stop some of the worst forms of violence against the Syrian people," a second senior administration official said. JUST WATCHED This is Aleppo Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH This is Aleppo 00:46 Staffan de Mistura, the UN special envoy for Syria, appeared with Kerry and Lavrov after the announcement to signal the United Nations backed the new agreement. Earlier Friday, he said an agreement would make a major difference in terms of the cessation of hostilities and have a big impact on the delivery of humanitarian aid. Both President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Ash Carter have had tough words for Russia in recent days, dimming the prospect of a deal on a ceasefire and closer military cooperation. The United States and Russia are both ostensibly fighting ISIS in Syria, but Washington has charged that Russia has mostly focused on bombing groups opposing Assad, a close ally. The United States supports some of those opposition groups. Obama has questioned whether a deal was possible given the "gaps of trust" between the two countries after meeting Monday in China with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20. President Barack Obama meets Russian President Vladimir Putin this week on the sidelines of the G20. The decision to deepen cooperation with Moscow was already controversial, given the Obama administration's public criticism of Russia's role in Syria. Democratic Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, said Friday he didn't trust Russia on a deal such as this. "I think it's good and I applaud Secretary Kerry because I think the effort needs to be made. The only way to stop the carnage in Syria is to get some sensible transition away from Assad, and the Russians are key to that," Smith told Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "The Situation Room." "I think in the meantime if we can get humanitarian aid to some of these places that are suffering, I mean that's a win, but at the end of the day, Syria will not make a successful transition to a reasonable government until Assad agrees to leave." ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption John Kerry: "If this arrangement holds then we will see a significant reduction in violence across Syria" Russia and the US have agreed to co-ordinate air strikes against Islamist militants in Syria, part of a detailed agreement to reduce the violence there. The plan will begin with a "cessation of hostilities" from sunset on Monday. Syrian forces will end combat missions in specified opposition-held areas. Russia and the US will then establish a joint centre to combat jihadist groups, including so-called Islamic State (IS). A Syrian opposition coalition has cautiously welcomed the agreement. "We hope this will be the beginning of the end of the civilians' ordeal," said Bassma Kodmani, a spokeswoman for the High Negotiations Committee. "We welcome the deal if it is going to be enforced." In other reaction: Turkey welcomed the plan, and said aid needed to reach those in need "from the first day" EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini urged the UN to "prepare a proposal for political transition" in Syria British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urged Russia to "use all its influence" to ensure the Syrian government "delivers on its obligations" Aid access The announcement follows talks in Geneva between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov. The plan would need both the Assad government and opposition "to meet their obligations", Mr Kerry said. The opposition had indicated it was prepared to comply with the plan, he said, provided the Syrian government "shows it is serious". Mr Lavrov said Russia had informed the Syrian government about the arrangements and the Syrian government was "ready to fulfil them". Mr Kerry said the cessation of hostilities also involved humanitarian access to besieged areas, including Aleppo. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Aleppo: Key battleground in Syria's civil war Seven days after the start of the cessation of hostilities, Russia and the US will establish a "joint implementation centre" to fight IS and another main group, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham. Jabhat Fateh al-Sham used to be known as the Nusra Front but changed its name in June and announced it was cutting ties with al-Qaeda. Mr Lavrov said the joint implementation centre would allow Russian and US forces to "separate the terrorists from the moderate opposition". "We have agreed on the areas where such co-ordinated strikes would be taking place, and in those areas, on neutral agreement shared by the Syrian government as well, only the Russian and US air force will be functional," he said. But Mr Lavrov added that "the Syrian air force will be functional in other areas, outside those that we have singled out for Russian-American military co-operation". Layers of conflict Image copyright AP By Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East Editor, Damascus Getting a deal was an achievement, given the sour atmosphere between Moscow and Washington. It offers some fragile hope about stopping the slaughter. But there is scepticism about its chances. That is because a lot is going to have to go right, quite quickly, if the agreement is to work. One necessity is President Assad's consent. A week-long ceasefire might be possible, but a political deal to end the war is still out of sight. The Assad regime's survival depends on the Russians, so he will listen to them. But with Russia's help, the Assad regime is looking more robust. So it is hard to see why the president, or his Russian allies, would want him to go. The war in Syria is made up of layers of conflict, which connect up to regional and global rivalries. That makes it very hard to calm, let alone end. Mr Lavrov and Mr Kerry stressed that the plan could pave the way for a political transition. "The plan is more prescriptive and far-reaching than any proposal to date and, if implemented by all sides, could allow political negotiations to take place on Syria's future," Mr Kerry said. The United Nations envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, welcomed the agreement and said the UN would exert all efforts to deliver humanitarian aid. 'Apex of horror' Fighting has recently escalated between Syria's army and rebels in eastern Aleppo, where 250,000 people live. On Sunday, Syrian government forces were reported to have recaptured parts of Aleppo which were lost to rebels last month, placing rebel-held districts in the city's east once again under siege. Mr de Mistura warned earlier on Friday that food and water shortages made the situation in Aleppo even more serious, and that fuel supplies could run out within days. UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien told the BBC conditions in Aleppo had become appalling: "Eastern Aleppo is at the apex of horror, where any one of us, if we were there, would find life barely possible, let alone tolerable." The US and Russia support opposite sides in the conflict that began in 2011: Washington backs a coalition of rebel groups it describes as moderate, while Moscow is seen as a key ally of President Assad.

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Gangland serial slayer James "Whitey" Bulger is back on the move. The 89-year-old notorious South Boston mob boss convicted of being complicit in 11 murders in Massachusetts, Florida and Oklahoma has been relocated again by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to its high-security penitentiary USP Hazelton in West Virginia, according to the BOP's inmate locator. The facility houses 1,277 maximum-security inmates and is located in Bruceton Mills. It is unclear why Bulger, who is serving life, is suddenly being moved around. Though his health issues have been well documented, Hazelton is not a federal medical center for inmates requiring long-term care. The Herald reported last week he had been relocated from a penitentiary in Florida to one in Oklahoma, which often serves as a temporary stop for inmates in transit. Bulger's dark life story has inspired several films, including "The Departed," which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2006. He was convicted in U.S. District Court in South Boston in 2013. He and girlfriend Catherine Greig were captured in 2011 while living in Santa Monica, Calif. Greig, 67, remains incarcerated at a federal women's prison in Minnesota. She is scheduled to be released on Sept. 29, 2020. Greig pleaded guilty in 2012 to identity fraud and harboring the fugitive Bulger. She pleaded guilty to criminal contempt in 2016 for refusing to cooperate with authorities against him. Greig is serving an eight-year sentence. ||||| FILE - These 1980s FBI handout file photos show Massachusetts mobster James "Whitey" Bulger. Officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Bulger died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, in a West Virginia prison... (Associated Press) FILE - These 1980s FBI handout file photos show Massachusetts mobster James "Whitey" Bulger. Officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Bulger died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, in a West Virginia prison after being sentenced in 2013 in Boston to spend the rest of his life in prison. (FBI via AP, File) (Associated Press) BOSTON (AP) — James "Whitey" Bulger, the murderous Boston gangster who benefited from a corrupt relationship with the FBI before spending 16 years as one of America's most wanted men, died in federal prison. He was 89. Bulger was found unresponsive Tuesday morning at the U.S. penitentiary in West Virginia where he'd just been transferred, and a medical examiner declared him dead shortly afterward, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Authorities did not immediately release a cause of death but said the FBI was notified and is investigating. Bulger, the model for Jack Nicholson's ruthless crime boss in the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie, "The Departed," led a largely Irish mob that ran loan-sharking, gambling and drug rackets. He also was an FBI informant who ratted on the New England mob, his gang's main rival, in an era when bringing down the Mafia was a top national priority for the FBI. Bulger fled Boston in late 1994 after his FBI handler, John Connolly Jr., warned him he was about to be indicted. With a $2 million reward on his head, Bulger became one of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" criminals, with a place just below Osama bin Laden. When the extent of his crimes and the FBI's role in overlooking them became public in the late 1990s, Bulger became a source of embarrassment for the FBI. During the years he was a fugitive, the FBI battled a public perception that it had not tried very hard to find him. After more than 16 years on the run, Bulger was captured at age 81 in Santa Monica, California, where he had been living in a rent-controlled apartment near the beach with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig. In 2013, he was convicted in the slayings, as well as extortion, and money-laundering after a sensational racketeering trial that included graphic testimony from three former Bulger cohorts: a hit man, a protege and a partner. He was sentenced nearly five years ago to two consecutive life sentences plus five years. Bulger had just been moved to USP Hazelton, a high-security prison with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. He had been in a prison in Florida before a stopover at a transfer facility in Oklahoma City. Federal Bureau of Prisons officials and his attorney had declined to comment on why he was being moved. Bulger, nicknamed "Whitey" for his bright platinum hair, grew up in a gritty South Boston housing project and became known as one of the most ruthless gangsters in Boston. His younger brother, William Bulger, became one of the most powerful politicians in Massachusetts, leading the state Senate for 17 years. In working-class "Southie," Jim Bulger was known for helping old ladies across the street and giving turkey dinners to his neighbors at Thanksgiving. He had a kind of Robin Hood-like image among some locals, but authorities said he would put a bullet in the brain of anyone who he even suspected of double-crossing him. "You could go back in the annals of criminal history and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone as diabolical as Bulger," said Tom Duffy, a retired state police major who investigated Bulger. "Killing people was his first option. They don't get any colder than him," Duffy said after Bulger was finally captured in June 2011. Bulger was accused of strangling Debra Davis, the 26-year-old girlfriend of his partner, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, and Deborah Hussey, also 26, the daughter of Flemmi's common-law wife. In both cases, Bulger insisted on pulling out the women's teeth so they would be difficult to identify, Flemmi testified. During a search of his Santa Monica apartment, agents found over $800,000 in cash and more than 30 guns, many hidden in holes in the walls. A property manager at the building said Bulger and Greig, who used the names Charles and Carol Gasko, had lived there for 15 years and always paid the rent-controlled rate of $1,145 a month in cash. They were caught days after the FBI began a new publicity campaign focusing on Greig. The daytime TV announcements showed photos of Greig and noted that she was known to frequent beauty salons and have her teeth cleaned once a month. A woman from Iceland who knew Bulger and Greig in Santa Monica saw a report on CNN about the latest publicity campaign and called in the tip that led agents to them. The Boston Globe identified the tipster as a former Miss Iceland, a former actress who starred in Noxzema shaving cream commercials in the 1970s. Bulger, a physical fitness buff, had been taken to a Boston hospital from his jail cell at least three times, complaining of chest pains, since being brought back to Boston to stand trial. ___ Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report. ||||| Within hours of his arrival at a federal prison in West Virginia, gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was beaten to death by inmates Tuesday in an attack that marks the final, brutal chapter in the life of one of Boston’s most notorious villains. Two inmates were under investigation in the attack, including Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 51, a West Springfield Mafia hit man serving a life sentence for the 2003 slaying of the leader of the Genovese crime family in Springfield, according to several people briefed on the attack. The men were captured on video surveillance entering Bulger’s cell around 6 a.m., according to one of the people. It was about two hours later that Bulger was found beaten, with his eyes nearly gouged out, the people said. Advertisement Bulger, 89, was convicted in 2013 of participating in 11 slayings while running a sprawling criminal organization in Boston from the 1970s through the 1990s. Get Metro Headlines in your inbox: The 10 top local news stories from metro Boston and around New England delivered daily. Sign Up Thank you for signing up! Sign up for more newsletters here Authorities provided few details about the killing or why Bulger, who was serving a life sentence, had been transferred to the US Penitentiary Hazelton, just weeks after a Washington, D.C., congresswoman had called for an investigation into conditions at the prison, where two other inmates had been killed this year. Hazelton is a high-security prison in Bruceton Mills, W.Va., near the Maryland border, where tall brown grass grows by the side of the road. On Tuesday night, six officers, all of whom wore helmets and bulletproof vests, stood in front of two barriers that blocked off the meandering road toward the facility. In a statement, the US Bureau of Prisons said Bulger was found unresponsive at the prison at 8:20 Tuesday morning. “Life-saving measures were initiated immediately by responding staff. Mr. Bulger was subsequently pronounced dead by the Preston County medical examiner,” the agency said. No staff or other inmates were injured. Advertisement Bulger had a long history as an FBI informant who provided information about his Mafia rivals to help protect his own violent criminal enterprise. To many, the circumstances of his death raised suspicions. “Obviously it is very strange he got moved from one federal prison to another and ends up dead 24 hours after arriving there,” said Michael Von Zamft, a prosecutor in the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office and part of the team that sent Bulger’s FBI handler to prison for murder. He said federal authorities’ investigation into Bulger’s death will need to determine “whether this just happens to be a coincidence or there is something more.” As of late Tuesday, no charges had been announced in the attack. Geas and the other inmate had been placed in lockdown pending the investigation, according to a person familiar with the investigation. Bulger had been sent to the West Virginia facility after a quick stop at an Oklahoma City transfer site. Before that, he had been incarcerated at a Florida prison for several years. His health had been declining, prompting speculation that he was going to be moved to a federal medical facility, according to a person familiar with his situation. Advertisement Instead, he was sent to USP Hazelton. “He was sentenced to life in prison, but as a result of decisions by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, that sentence has been changed to the death penalty,” J.W. Carney Jr., Bulger’s defense lawyer in his federal trial, said in a statement. Brian T. Kelly, a former federal prosecutor who was part of the team that prosecuted Bulger, said Bulger “lived a violent life and it’s not surprising that he would ultimately meet a violent death.” “Prison is a violent place and informants are not too popular, so these things can obviously happen if proper precautions aren’t taken,” he said. “To suggest it’s a conspiracy of some sort by the government is preposterous. He was in prison for seven years and this would be one slow-moving conspiracy.” Relatives of Bulger’s victims expressed little sympathy for the mobster, and some said it was just that Bulger died a violent death. “There’s one less scumbag on this earth,” said Patricia Donahue, whose husband, Michael, was gunned down by Bulger along the Boston waterfront in 1982 while giving a ride home to the gangster’s intended target, Brian Halloran. “They say you die the way you live, you know?” Donahue said. “I’m glad that he’s dead, and I’m glad that he died the way he did.” Bulger was being held in the general population housing unit of the prison, according to the head of the union who represents workers at the prison. Billy St. Croix, whose sister was killed by Bulger and St. Croix’s father Stephen Flemmi, said he was surprised that authorities would place Bulger in the general population at a prison where Mafia members and associates were incarcerated. “He obviously made a lot of enemies,” he said. “I get it, but it doesn’t give me or my family any comfort. It doesn’t bring my sister back.” St. Croix said he and his mother felt sorry for Bulger’s family. “I take no pleasure in his death. None.” The prison has come under scrutiny in recent months. An inmate was killed in a fight in September, and another inmate was killed in a fight in April, according to the Associated Press. Richard Heldreth, president of Local 420 of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents union workers at the prison, said the prison usually averages one murder a year, but problems have been getting worse. “This facility is severely understaffed,” he said. Earlier this month, District of Columbia Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton called for Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz to investigate “the alleged appalling conditions inmates are facing” at the prison. “Serious allegations have been raised concerning brutal treatment of inmates housed in the Special Housing Unit,” Norton wrote in a letter to Horowitz. “Based on the evidence presented to my office, I believe that the federal employees serving in this facility have likely received inadequate training, are under-supported, and are being compelled to perform duties outside the scope of their positions and their training, which is leading to these horrific and entirely unacceptable outcomes.” After a federal jury convicted Bulger in 2013, he was sent to a high-security penitentiary in Arizona but soon ran into trouble because of an inappropriate relationship with a female psychologist who was counseling him. In 2014, he was transferred to US Penitentiary Coleman II in Sumterville, Fla. He remained there until last week, when the recent transfers began. It’s unclear why he was moved. One person familiar with the situation said Bulger’s health had declined, but another said he had also had disciplinary problems in Florida. The West Virginia prison is not a medical facility. Bulger fled Boston just before his January 1995 racketeering indictment and was a fixture on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list until his capture in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011. He and his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, had spent 16 years, passing themselves off as a retired couple, living in a rent-controlled apartment blocks from the beach. Enrique Sanchez, who was maintenance supervisor at the Princess Eugenia complex where Bulger lived, said he was saddened by the news of Bulger’s death. “I feel bad,” said Sanchez, now 70, in Spanish. “I’m going to remember him as a friend because that’s what he always was to me. Everyone is going to remember him according to the experiences they had with him. Those he [hurt] will be happy. But he was always good with me.” Sanchez said he last heard from Bulger when Bulger wrote to him from prison in Arizona, saying he had been stabbed by other inmates, Sanchez said. “ ‘I have to defend myself or they’ll kill me,’ ” Sanchez recalled Bulger writing. “I told him to take care of himself because there is not a lack of people who want to kill you.” Sanchez said he tried writing him several times after that but the letters always came back. On Tuesday, Sanchez learned from his son that Bulger had died. “This closes the chapter,” Sanchez said. “It’s the end of the novel.” Brian MacQuarrie, Maria Cramer, John R. Ellement, Travis Andersen, Emily Sweeney, Matt Rocheleau, Martin Finucane and Jess Bidgood of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Shelley Murphy can be reached at shelley.murphy@globe.com . Follow her on Twitter @shelleymurph . Kevin Cullen can be reached at kevin.cullen@globe.com ||||| BOSTON (CBS/AP) — Notorious Boston mobster Whitey Bulger was killed in a West Virginia prison Tuesday, sources told WBZ-TV I-Team chief correspondent Cheryl Fiandaca. He was 89 years old. Read: Whitey Bulger Timeline: A Life Of Crime Bulger had just been moved to USP Hazelton, a high-security prison with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp in Bruceton Mills. The FBI is investigating the death and law enforcement sources tell CBS News that it appears Bulger was severely beaten by one or more of his fellow inmates shortly after his arrival at the federal prison in West Virginia on Monday. In a statement Tuesday afternoon, the prison would only say Bulger was “found unresponsive” at 8:20 a.m. and that “life-saving measures were initiated immediately by responding staff.” He was pronounced dead by the local medical examiner. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation was notified and an investigation has been initiated. No staff or other inmates were injured, and at no time was the public in danger,” the statement read. According to the Boston Globe, a “fellow inmate with Mafia ties” was being investigated for Bulger’s death. U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling said his office had received word of Bulger’s death and “our thoughts are with his victims and their families.” Bulger had recently been moved from a prison in Florida to a transfer facility in Oklahoma City. Bureau of Prisons officials and his attorney declined last week to comment on why he was being moved. Bulger was serving a life sentence after being convicted in 2013 of a litany of crimes, including participating in 11 murders. “I’d like to open up a champagne bottle and celebrate,” Patricia Donahue told WBZ-TV Tuesday. Bulger was convicted of killing her husband Michael in 1982. #WhiteyBulger and his thugs ruthlessly lured my dad’s friend Eddie Connors to a phone booth and shot him because he refused to pay protection money for his bar. Justice has been done, a little late IMO. — Priscilla Pilon (@PriscillaPilon) October 30, 2018 He was one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives for 16 years until his 2011 arrest in Santa Monica, California. Attorney J.W. Carney Jr. said he was proud to represent Bulger in his 2013 trial. “He was sentenced to life in prison, but as a result of decisions made by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, that sentence has been changed to the death penalty,” Carney said in a statement. Bulger was born in South Boston during the Depression and got the nickname “Whitey” growing up for his blonde hair. A high school dropout, Bulger began a life of crime that eventually led to prison stays at Alcatraz and Leavenworth. But Whitey made it back to Boston where he slowly resumed a career in crime that led him to Somerville’s Winter Hill Gang, a rag-tag band of thieves that dabbled in stolen goods, bookmaking, extortion and drugs. Photos: Bulger Through The Years Bulger would eventually become an informant for the FBI, something he always denied, giving up information on his so-called friends that put them in jail while Whitey rose in the ranks of Boston’s organized crime. Even the city’s most powerful crime family, the Angiulos, would go to prison, based on information Bulger gave to the FBI. Watch: Whitey Bulger Obituary FBI agents overseeing Bulger as an informant later testified that Bulger could commit any crime, except murder, in exchange for information. With that, it’s believed Bulger made millions of dollars selling drugs and extorting drug dealers, all while staying out of jail while he ratted out other mobsters to his FBI handlers. But by 1995, even Bulger’s friends in high places couldn’t keep him from an indictment – this time for obstruction of justice, racketeering, drug dealing and extortion. On the eve of the indictment, Bulger was tipped off by his FBI handler John Connolly. Read: Keller: Whitey Bulger Poisoned Every Life He Touched He went on the run with his girlfriend Catherine Greig, ending up in Santa Monica, California. While he was on the run, Bulger was indicted for more than a dozen murders that prosecutors say happened during his reign of terror in Boston. Investigators say Bulger stashed millions in bank accounts around the country before he fled. During 16 years on the run, Bulger was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. He was finally captured in June 2011 in Santa Monica, Calif., where he had been living in a rent-controlled apartment near the beach with Greig. She was sentenced to eight years in prison for helping Bulger evade the law. She is currently being held in Minnesota and is due to be released in 2020. “I think that at the end of the day the truth and justice caught up with him,” said Carmen Ortiz, former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. “I hope this is the end of a really sad chapter in Boston’s history.” (© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

– Boston mobster Whitey Bulger has been found dead in prison at age 89. How he died remains unclear, but both the Boston Herald and Boston's WBZ report that he "was killed" shortly after being transferred to a prison in West Virginia. The Boston Globe spoke with three sources who said an inmate with links to the Mafia is being looked at for the murder. The official word is this: "The US Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of West Virginia and the FBI will be conducting an investigation into the death of James Bulger. No other information will be released at this time." Bulger had previously been imprisoned in Florida, and it was unclear why he'd been moved. Bulger, who was serving a life sentence, spent 16 years on the lam as a fugitive before his capture in 2011; the AP notes he appeared on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" criminals list just below Osama bin Laden. "My memory of him is anybody, good or bad, who had anything to do with him got hurt," a widow whose husband was murdered by Bulger's gang tells the Herald. "But he's a legend. Like Al Capone and Billy the Kid. He will always be remembered but in a bad way." Bulger gained notoriety leading the Winter Hill Gang, and his life of crime inspired movies including The Departed, an Oscar winner in 2006. (Bulger's girlfriend remains locked up.)

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.Gangland serial slayer James "Whitey" Bulger is back on the move. The 89-year-old notorious South Boston mob boss convicted of being complicit in 11 murders in Massachusetts, Florida and Oklahoma has been relocated again by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to its high-security penitentiary USP Hazelton in West Virginia, according to the BOP's inmate locator. The facility houses 1,277 maximum-security inmates and is located in Bruceton Mills. It is unclear why Bulger, who is serving life, is suddenly being moved around. Though his health issues have been well documented, Hazelton is not a federal medical center for inmates requiring long-term care. The Herald reported last week he had been relocated from a penitentiary in Florida to one in Oklahoma, which often serves as a temporary stop for inmates in transit. Bulger's dark life story has inspired several films, including "The Departed," which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2006. He was convicted in U.S. District Court in South Boston in 2013. He and girlfriend Catherine Greig were captured in 2011 while living in Santa Monica, Calif. Greig, 67, remains incarcerated at a federal women's prison in Minnesota. She is scheduled to be released on Sept. 29, 2020. Greig pleaded guilty in 2012 to identity fraud and harboring the fugitive Bulger. She pleaded guilty to criminal contempt in 2016 for refusing to cooperate with authorities against him. Greig is serving an eight-year sentence. ||||| FILE - These 1980s FBI handout file photos show Massachusetts mobster James "Whitey" Bulger. Officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Bulger died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, in a West Virginia prison... (Associated Press) FILE - These 1980s FBI handout file photos show Massachusetts mobster James "Whitey" Bulger. Officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Bulger died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, in a West Virginia prison after being sentenced in 2013 in Boston to spend the rest of his life in prison. (FBI via AP, File) (Associated Press) BOSTON (AP) — James "Whitey" Bulger, the murderous Boston gangster who benefited from a corrupt relationship with the FBI before spending 16 years as one of America's most wanted men, died in federal prison. He was 89. Bulger was found unresponsive Tuesday morning at the U.S. penitentiary in West Virginia where he'd just been transferred, and a medical examiner declared him dead shortly afterward, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Authorities did not immediately release a cause of death but said the FBI was notified and is investigating. Bulger, the model for Jack Nicholson's ruthless crime boss in the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie, "The Departed," led a largely Irish mob that ran loan-sharking, gambling and drug rackets. He also was an FBI informant who ratted on the New England mob, his gang's main rival, in an era when bringing down the Mafia was a top national priority for the FBI. Bulger fled Boston in late 1994 after his FBI handler, John Connolly Jr., warned him he was about to be indicted. With a $2 million reward on his head, Bulger became one of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" criminals, with a place just below Osama bin Laden. When the extent of his crimes and the FBI's role in overlooking them became public in the late 1990s, Bulger became a source of embarrassment for the FBI. During the years he was a fugitive, the FBI battled a public perception that it had not tried very hard to find him. After more than 16 years on the run, Bulger was captured at age 81 in Santa Monica, California, where he had been living in a rent-controlled apartment near the beach with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig. In 2013, he was convicted in the slayings, as well as extortion, and money-laundering after a sensational racketeering trial that included graphic testimony from three former Bulger cohorts: a hit man, a protege and a partner. He was sentenced nearly five years ago to two consecutive life sentences plus five years. Bulger had just been moved to USP Hazelton, a high-security prison with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. He had been in a prison in Florida before a stopover at a transfer facility in Oklahoma City. Federal Bureau of Prisons officials and his attorney had declined to comment on why he was being moved. Bulger, nicknamed "Whitey" for his bright platinum hair, grew up in a gritty South Boston housing project and became known as one of the most ruthless gangsters in Boston. His younger brother, William Bulger, became one of the most powerful politicians in Massachusetts, leading the state Senate for 17 years. In working-class "Southie," Jim Bulger was known for helping old ladies across the street and giving turkey dinners to his neighbors at Thanksgiving. He had a kind of Robin Hood-like image among some locals, but authorities said he would put a bullet in the brain of anyone who he even suspected of double-crossing him. "You could go back in the annals of criminal history and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone as diabolical as Bulger," said Tom Duffy, a retired state police major who investigated Bulger. "Killing people was his first option. They don't get any colder than him," Duffy said after Bulger was finally captured in June 2011. Bulger was accused of strangling Debra Davis, the 26-year-old girlfriend of his partner, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, and Deborah Hussey, also 26, the daughter of Flemmi's common-law wife. In both cases, Bulger insisted on pulling out the women's teeth so they would be difficult to identify, Flemmi testified. During a search of his Santa Monica apartment, agents found over $800,000 in cash and more than 30 guns, many hidden in holes in the walls. A property manager at the building said Bulger and Greig, who used the names Charles and Carol Gasko, had lived there for 15 years and always paid the rent-controlled rate of $1,145 a month in cash. They were caught days after the FBI began a new publicity campaign focusing on Greig. The daytime TV announcements showed photos of Greig and noted that she was known to frequent beauty salons and have her teeth cleaned once a month. A woman from Iceland who knew Bulger and Greig in Santa Monica saw a report on CNN about the latest publicity campaign and called in the tip that led agents to them. The Boston Globe identified the tipster as a former Miss Iceland, a former actress who starred in Noxzema shaving cream commercials in the 1970s. Bulger, a physical fitness buff, had been taken to a Boston hospital from his jail cell at least three times, complaining of chest pains, since being brought back to Boston to stand trial. ___ Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report. ||||| Within hours of his arrival at a federal prison in West Virginia, gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was beaten to death by inmates Tuesday in an attack that marks the final, brutal chapter in the life of one of Boston’s most notorious villains. Two inmates were under investigation in the attack, including Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 51, a West Springfield Mafia hit man serving a life sentence for the 2003 slaying of the leader of the Genovese crime family in Springfield, according to several people briefed on the attack. The men were captured on video surveillance entering Bulger’s cell around 6 a.m., according to one of the people. It was about two hours later that Bulger was found beaten, with his eyes nearly gouged out, the people said. Advertisement Bulger, 89, was convicted in 2013 of participating in 11 slayings while running a sprawling criminal organization in Boston from the 1970s through the 1990s. Get Metro Headlines in your inbox: The 10 top local news stories from metro Boston and around New England delivered daily. Sign Up Thank you for signing up! Sign up for more newsletters here Authorities provided few details about the killing or why Bulger, who was serving a life sentence, had been transferred to the US Penitentiary Hazelton, just weeks after a Washington, D.C., congresswoman had called for an investigation into conditions at the prison, where two other inmates had been killed this year. Hazelton is a high-security prison in Bruceton Mills, W.Va., near the Maryland border, where tall brown grass grows by the side of the road. On Tuesday night, six officers, all of whom wore helmets and bulletproof vests, stood in front of two barriers that blocked off the meandering road toward the facility. In a statement, the US Bureau of Prisons said Bulger was found unresponsive at the prison at 8:20 Tuesday morning. “Life-saving measures were initiated immediately by responding staff. Mr. Bulger was subsequently pronounced dead by the Preston County medical examiner,” the agency said. No staff or other inmates were injured. Advertisement Bulger had a long history as an FBI informant who provided information about his Mafia rivals to help protect his own violent criminal enterprise. To many, the circumstances of his death raised suspicions. “Obviously it is very strange he got moved from one federal prison to another and ends up dead 24 hours after arriving there,” said Michael Von Zamft, a prosecutor in the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office and part of the team that sent Bulger’s FBI handler to prison for murder. He said federal authorities’ investigation into Bulger’s death will need to determine “whether this just happens to be a coincidence or there is something more.” As of late Tuesday, no charges had been announced in the attack. Geas and the other inmate had been placed in lockdown pending the investigation, according to a person familiar with the investigation. Bulger had been sent to the West Virginia facility after a quick stop at an Oklahoma City transfer site. Before that, he had been incarcerated at a Florida prison for several years. His health had been declining, prompting speculation that he was going to be moved to a federal medical facility, according to a person familiar with his situation. Advertisement Instead, he was sent to USP Hazelton. “He was sentenced to life in prison, but as a result of decisions by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, that sentence has been changed to the death penalty,” J.W. Carney Jr., Bulger’s defense lawyer in his federal trial, said in a statement. Brian T. Kelly, a former federal prosecutor who was part of the team that prosecuted Bulger, said Bulger “lived a violent life and it’s not surprising that he would ultimately meet a violent death.” “Prison is a violent place and informants are not too popular, so these things can obviously happen if proper precautions aren’t taken,” he said. “To suggest it’s a conspiracy of some sort by the government is preposterous. He was in prison for seven years and this would be one slow-moving conspiracy.” Relatives of Bulger’s victims expressed little sympathy for the mobster, and some said it was just that Bulger died a violent death. “There’s one less scumbag on this earth,” said Patricia Donahue, whose husband, Michael, was gunned down by Bulger along the Boston waterfront in 1982 while giving a ride home to the gangster’s intended target, Brian Halloran. “They say you die the way you live, you know?” Donahue said. “I’m glad that he’s dead, and I’m glad that he died the way he did.” Bulger was being held in the general population housing unit of the prison, according to the head of the union who represents workers at the prison. Billy St. Croix, whose sister was killed by Bulger and St. Croix’s father Stephen Flemmi, said he was surprised that authorities would place Bulger in the general population at a prison where Mafia members and associates were incarcerated. “He obviously made a lot of enemies,” he said. “I get it, but it doesn’t give me or my family any comfort. It doesn’t bring my sister back.” St. Croix said he and his mother felt sorry for Bulger’s family. “I take no pleasure in his death. None.” The prison has come under scrutiny in recent months. An inmate was killed in a fight in September, and another inmate was killed in a fight in April, according to the Associated Press. Richard Heldreth, president of Local 420 of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents union workers at the prison, said the prison usually averages one murder a year, but problems have been getting worse. “This facility is severely understaffed,” he said. Earlier this month, District of Columbia Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton called for Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz to investigate “the alleged appalling conditions inmates are facing” at the prison. “Serious allegations have been raised concerning brutal treatment of inmates housed in the Special Housing Unit,” Norton wrote in a letter to Horowitz. “Based on the evidence presented to my office, I believe that the federal employees serving in this facility have likely received inadequate training, are under-supported, and are being compelled to perform duties outside the scope of their positions and their training, which is leading to these horrific and entirely unacceptable outcomes.” After a federal jury convicted Bulger in 2013, he was sent to a high-security penitentiary in Arizona but soon ran into trouble because of an inappropriate relationship with a female psychologist who was counseling him. In 2014, he was transferred to US Penitentiary Coleman II in Sumterville, Fla. He remained there until last week, when the recent transfers began. It’s unclear why he was moved. One person familiar with the situation said Bulger’s health had declined, but another said he had also had disciplinary problems in Florida. The West Virginia prison is not a medical facility. Bulger fled Boston just before his January 1995 racketeering indictment and was a fixture on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list until his capture in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011. He and his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, had spent 16 years, passing themselves off as a retired couple, living in a rent-controlled apartment blocks from the beach. Enrique Sanchez, who was maintenance supervisor at the Princess Eugenia complex where Bulger lived, said he was saddened by the news of Bulger’s death. “I feel bad,” said Sanchez, now 70, in Spanish. “I’m going to remember him as a friend because that’s what he always was to me. Everyone is going to remember him according to the experiences they had with him. Those he [hurt] will be happy. But he was always good with me.” Sanchez said he last heard from Bulger when Bulger wrote to him from prison in Arizona, saying he had been stabbed by other inmates, Sanchez said. “ ‘I have to defend myself or they’ll kill me,’ ” Sanchez recalled Bulger writing. “I told him to take care of himself because there is not a lack of people who want to kill you.” Sanchez said he tried writing him several times after that but the letters always came back. On Tuesday, Sanchez learned from his son that Bulger had died. “This closes the chapter,” Sanchez said. “It’s the end of the novel.” Brian MacQuarrie, Maria Cramer, John R. Ellement, Travis Andersen, Emily Sweeney, Matt Rocheleau, Martin Finucane and Jess Bidgood of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Shelley Murphy can be reached at shelley.murphy@globe.com . Follow her on Twitter @shelleymurph . Kevin Cullen can be reached at kevin.cullen@globe.com ||||| BOSTON (CBS/AP) — Notorious Boston mobster Whitey Bulger was killed in a West Virginia prison Tuesday, sources told WBZ-TV I-Team chief correspondent Cheryl Fiandaca. He was 89 years old. Read: Whitey Bulger Timeline: A Life Of Crime Bulger had just been moved to USP Hazelton, a high-security prison with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp in Bruceton Mills. The FBI is investigating the death and law enforcement sources tell CBS News that it appears Bulger was severely beaten by one or more of his fellow inmates shortly after his arrival at the federal prison in West Virginia on Monday. In a statement Tuesday afternoon, the prison would only say Bulger was “found unresponsive” at 8:20 a.m. and that “life-saving measures were initiated immediately by responding staff.” He was pronounced dead by the local medical examiner. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation was notified and an investigation has been initiated. No staff or other inmates were injured, and at no time was the public in danger,” the statement read. According to the Boston Globe, a “fellow inmate with Mafia ties” was being investigated for Bulger’s death. U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling said his office had received word of Bulger’s death and “our thoughts are with his victims and their families.” Bulger had recently been moved from a prison in Florida to a transfer facility in Oklahoma City. Bureau of Prisons officials and his attorney declined last week to comment on why he was being moved. Bulger was serving a life sentence after being convicted in 2013 of a litany of crimes, including participating in 11 murders. “I’d like to open up a champagne bottle and celebrate,” Patricia Donahue told WBZ-TV Tuesday. Bulger was convicted of killing her husband Michael in 1982. #WhiteyBulger and his thugs ruthlessly lured my dad’s friend Eddie Connors to a phone booth and shot him because he refused to pay protection money for his bar. Justice has been done, a little late IMO. — Priscilla Pilon (@PriscillaPilon) October 30, 2018 He was one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives for 16 years until his 2011 arrest in Santa Monica, California. Attorney J.W. Carney Jr. said he was proud to represent Bulger in his 2013 trial. “He was sentenced to life in prison, but as a result of decisions made by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, that sentence has been changed to the death penalty,” Carney said in a statement. Bulger was born in South Boston during the Depression and got the nickname “Whitey” growing up for his blonde hair. A high school dropout, Bulger began a life of crime that eventually led to prison stays at Alcatraz and Leavenworth. But Whitey made it back to Boston where he slowly resumed a career in crime that led him to Somerville’s Winter Hill Gang, a rag-tag band of thieves that dabbled in stolen goods, bookmaking, extortion and drugs. Photos: Bulger Through The Years Bulger would eventually become an informant for the FBI, something he always denied, giving up information on his so-called friends that put them in jail while Whitey rose in the ranks of Boston’s organized crime. Even the city’s most powerful crime family, the Angiulos, would go to prison, based on information Bulger gave to the FBI. Watch: Whitey Bulger Obituary FBI agents overseeing Bulger as an informant later testified that Bulger could commit any crime, except murder, in exchange for information. With that, it’s believed Bulger made millions of dollars selling drugs and extorting drug dealers, all while staying out of jail while he ratted out other mobsters to his FBI handlers. But by 1995, even Bulger’s friends in high places couldn’t keep him from an indictment – this time for obstruction of justice, racketeering, drug dealing and extortion. On the eve of the indictment, Bulger was tipped off by his FBI handler John Connolly. Read: Keller: Whitey Bulger Poisoned Every Life He Touched He went on the run with his girlfriend Catherine Greig, ending up in Santa Monica, California. While he was on the run, Bulger was indicted for more than a dozen murders that prosecutors say happened during his reign of terror in Boston. Investigators say Bulger stashed millions in bank accounts around the country before he fled. During 16 years on the run, Bulger was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. He was finally captured in June 2011 in Santa Monica, Calif., where he had been living in a rent-controlled apartment near the beach with Greig. She was sentenced to eight years in prison for helping Bulger evade the law. She is currently being held in Minnesota and is due to be released in 2020. “I think that at the end of the day the truth and justice caught up with him,” said Carmen Ortiz, former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. “I hope this is the end of a really sad chapter in Boston’s history.” (© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) So, North Korea's Internet went down. What is it like anyway? For most North Koreans, it's nonexistent. There are only 1,024 known IP addresses in the entire country. The Internet is typically reserved for government officials, a few foreign ambassadors and outside assistance groups, according to a North Korean defector-turned-journalist. By comparison, the United States has 1.5 billion IP addresses. It's important to note that it's not one IP address per device, so there could be thousands of devices hooked up to the Internet in North Korea. Still, it has one of the smallest Internet presences in the world. All sorts of devices are hooked up to the Internet there, however. There are a few Sony PlayStations and XBoxes, and some of those ubiquitous voice-over-IP office phones, too. Researchers have even spotted a MacBook -- one single Macbook -- connected to the world-facing Internet. Companies like Apple (AAPL, Tech30), Sony (SNE) and Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) aren't permitted to sell to North Korea, so these devices are probably bought by third parties, said HP security research director Ted Ross. Still despite these details, little is known about all the devices in North Korea connected to the Internet. The country is notoriously secretive and isolated. What we know is that Internet access there is small and tightly controlled. Some clues are offered by security researchers at HP (HPQ, Tech30). Others come from an anonymous person who claims to have mapped some of North Korea's computer network and provided unique data to prove it. Nearly all of the country's Internet traffic is routed through China. Firms that monitor that traffic say it is comparable to only about 1,000 high-speed homes in the United States. All of it went offline Monday in a mysterious blackout. Matthew Prince, president of CloudFlare, which monitors Internet traffic worldwide, said three scenarios are likely. Either the North Korean government pulled the plug (like Syria did in 2012). Or its main Chinese telecom provider turned it off. Or a few computer-savvy misfits overloaded North Korea's tiny Internet "tube" with garbage traffic, a relatively simple tactic known as a Distributed Denial of Service attack. "It's as if North Korea got erased from the global map of the Internet," Prince said. Whereas the real Internet is reserved for a select and trusted few, everyone else in North Korea gets access to a national, walled-off intranet, a "pseudo Internet," available for public use called Kwangmyong. That tiny network has maybe 5,500 websites at most, so users only see what the North Korean government wants them to see. And yes, they get their own computer operating system. It's called Red Star. Related: North Korea's attack should scare every company Related: Sony doesn't know how but says 'The Interview' will be shown Related: BitTorrent to release 'The Interview'? ||||| Image copyright EPA Image caption When it reappeared, the main North Korean news website said Kim Jong-un had been visiting a catfish farm Internet services have been restored in North Korea after an almost unprecedented internet outage following a cyber security row with the US. Though there has been no comment from the authorities in Pyongyang, South Korean officials and US experts reported the restoration. Some analysts say the country's web access was cut entirely for a time. China meanwhile has denounced reports suggesting it was responsible for the North Korean online shutdown. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that such reports were "speculative" and had "no basis in reality". "These reports themselves are extremely irresponsible, unprofessional and misleading," she added. China's permanent representative to the United Nations has called for all sides to avoid an escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula after the UN Security Council put the North's human rights record on its agenda. Analysis: Stephen Evans, BBC News, Seoul Image copyright AP There is a paradox. North Korea is highly "teched up" but is denied the world wide web. Many people have smart phones, for example, but they cannot access the web with them. The authorities take great pains to prevent citizens from accessing the internet. Recently, embassies in Pyongyang were told they could not have wifi networks within the building. It transpired that demand for neighbouring property had risen because residents there could get access to the embassies' wifi. What North Korea does have is an intranet, its own internal internet with a lot of state-controlled news websites disseminating the party line, but also a cookery website. Ordinary North Koreans are unlikely to notice the absence of the internet because they were denied it anyway. But they might notice the disappearance of their own online newspapers and sources of news. And also the cookery website. 'Proportional response' South Korean officials say the websites of the North Korean Central News Agency and the Rodong Sinmun newspaper - the main official news outlets - were up and running on Tuesday after earlier being shut down. Among the stories online were posts glorifying the ruling Kim family, including an article about North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visiting a catfish farm. The US earlier said it would launch a proportional response to a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures, which made a comedy about Kim Jong-un. Officials would not comment on any US involvement in the current outages. The BBC's Stephen Evans in Seoul says that the attack on the North's internet may have been meant as a message to Kim Jong-un that his country was vulnerable. Image copyright AFP Image caption Ordinary North Koreans are unlikely to have noticed the outage as few of them have access to the internet Internet services were partially restored after nine hours and 31 minutes of disruption, cyber security firm Dyn Research says. While most mainstream North Korean websites are back online, the recovery initially appeared to be partial and potentially unstable with some websites still inaccessible. Analysts had said technical problems or a cyber-attack could be to blame. Doug Madory of Dyn Research said they had seen a progressive degradation of North Korea's connectivity to the outside world until the point at which they were totally offline. Arbor Networks, an internet technology service, said it had detected denial-of-service attacks against North Korea's infrastructure beginning on Saturday. Only a small proportion of people have access to the internet in North Korea, one of the world's most secretive countries. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Matthew Prince from CloudFlare, on the size and scope of North Korea's internet network Vulnerable connection North Korea's internet is handled by state-run company Star Joint Ventures, which in turn is routed through Chinese telecommunications firm China Unicom. Dyn's chief scientist, James Cowie, told the BBC that if it were indeed an attack, "it would not take a tremendous effort to carry out". "It is one connection across the border... to overload the routing infrastructure would probably not require the efforts of a nation-state, it could be just one dedicated person," he added. Last week, the US government said an FBI investigation had shown that North Korea was behind a hacking attack on Sony, which led to unreleased films and private emails being leaked online. North Korea denied being responsible but praised the attack. It had for months condemned a Sony comedy, The Interview, which depicts the assassination of the North Korean leader. Sony eventually cancelled the cinema release of the film. Mr Obama had said that the US would respond to the attack on Sony "in a place and time and manner that we choose". Image copyright Getty Images Image caption China and Russia voted against discussing human rights at the meeting, but were overruled by other members The internet disruption came as the UN Security Council discussed North Korea's human rights for the first time, despite opposition from China and Russia. US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power dismissed North Korea's demand to launch a joint investigation with the US into the attack on Sony. She said threats to retaliate if the US refused was "the kind of behaviour we have come to expect from a regime that threatened to take 'merciless countermeasures' against the US over a Hollywood comedy". North Korea has "no qualms about holding tens of thousands of people in harrowing gulags," she added. North Korean diplomat Kim Song said a decision on how to respond to the Security Council's move would be made in Pyongyang. "We totally reject the decision to bring DPRK [North Korea's] human rights record to the UN Security Council," he told Reuters.

– After a mysterious outage that analysts believe lasted for around nine hours, Internet service has been at least partially restored for the handful of North Koreans who were allowed to get online in the first place. Experts say they've detected denial-of-service attacks on the country's Internet, but while some suspect it could be US retaliation for the Sony hack, North Korea's network is so small that attacking it would be relatively easy. "To overload the routing infrastructure would probably not require the efforts of a nation-state, it could be just one dedicated person," the chief scientist at Dyn Research tells the BBC. The company says it could have been a simple router problem, although the outage didn't seem to follow that pattern. Just how small is North Korea's Internet? It has just 1,024 known IP addresses, according to CNN—compared to more than a million times as many in the US—and a defector says use of the Internet is reserved mainly for select government officials and some foreign ambassadors. Researchers have detected a variety of devices hooked up to the Internet in North Korea, including PlayStations, Xboxes, and a solitary MacBook. But while the regime strives to keep ordinary citizens off the wider Internet, they are allowed to access a tightly controlled national intranet called Kwangmyong, which has around 5,000 websites consisting largely of technical information and state propaganda.

You are a helpful assistant named xDAN-Agent,excellent in reading and summary. Heres the context you need to read and summary.NEW YORK (CNNMoney) So, North Korea's Internet went down. What is it like anyway? For most North Koreans, it's nonexistent. There are only 1,024 known IP addresses in the entire country. The Internet is typically reserved for government officials, a few foreign ambassadors and outside assistance groups, according to a North Korean defector-turned-journalist. By comparison, the United States has 1.5 billion IP addresses. It's important to note that it's not one IP address per device, so there could be thousands of devices hooked up to the Internet in North Korea. Still, it has one of the smallest Internet presences in the world. All sorts of devices are hooked up to the Internet there, however. There are a few Sony PlayStations and XBoxes, and some of those ubiquitous voice-over-IP office phones, too. Researchers have even spotted a MacBook -- one single Macbook -- connected to the world-facing Internet. Companies like Apple (AAPL, Tech30), Sony (SNE) and Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) aren't permitted to sell to North Korea, so these devices are probably bought by third parties, said HP security research director Ted Ross. Still despite these details, little is known about all the devices in North Korea connected to the Internet. The country is notoriously secretive and isolated. What we know is that Internet access there is small and tightly controlled. Some clues are offered by security researchers at HP (HPQ, Tech30). Others come from an anonymous person who claims to have mapped some of North Korea's computer network and provided unique data to prove it. Nearly all of the country's Internet traffic is routed through China. Firms that monitor that traffic say it is comparable to only about 1,000 high-speed homes in the United States. All of it went offline Monday in a mysterious blackout. Matthew Prince, president of CloudFlare, which monitors Internet traffic worldwide, said three scenarios are likely. Either the North Korean government pulled the plug (like Syria did in 2012). Or its main Chinese telecom provider turned it off. Or a few computer-savvy misfits overloaded North Korea's tiny Internet "tube" with garbage traffic, a relatively simple tactic known as a Distributed Denial of Service attack. "It's as if North Korea got erased from the global map of the Internet," Prince said. Whereas the real Internet is reserved for a select and trusted few, everyone else in North Korea gets access to a national, walled-off intranet, a "pseudo Internet," available for public use called Kwangmyong. That tiny network has maybe 5,500 websites at most, so users only see what the North Korean government wants them to see. And yes, they get their own computer operating system. It's called Red Star. Related: North Korea's attack should scare every company Related: Sony doesn't know how but says 'The Interview' will be shown Related: BitTorrent to release 'The Interview'? ||||| Image copyright EPA Image caption When it reappeared, the main North Korean news website said Kim Jong-un had been visiting a catfish farm Internet services have been restored in North Korea after an almost unprecedented internet outage following a cyber security row with the US. Though there has been no comment from the authorities in Pyongyang, South Korean officials and US experts reported the restoration. Some analysts say the country's web access was cut entirely for a time. China meanwhile has denounced reports suggesting it was responsible for the North Korean online shutdown. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that such reports were "speculative" and had "no basis in reality". "These reports themselves are extremely irresponsible, unprofessional and misleading," she added. China's permanent representative to the United Nations has called for all sides to avoid an escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula after the UN Security Council put the North's human rights record on its agenda. Analysis: Stephen Evans, BBC News, Seoul Image copyright AP There is a paradox. North Korea is highly "teched up" but is denied the world wide web. Many people have smart phones, for example, but they cannot access the web with them. The authorities take great pains to prevent citizens from accessing the internet. Recently, embassies in Pyongyang were told they could not have wifi networks within the building. It transpired that demand for neighbouring property had risen because residents there could get access to the embassies' wifi. What North Korea does have is an intranet, its own internal internet with a lot of state-controlled news websites disseminating the party line, but also a cookery website. Ordinary North Koreans are unlikely to notice the absence of the internet because they were denied it anyway. But they might notice the disappearance of their own online newspapers and sources of news. And also the cookery website. 'Proportional response' South Korean officials say the websites of the North Korean Central News Agency and the Rodong Sinmun newspaper - the main official news outlets - were up and running on Tuesday after earlier being shut down. Among the stories online were posts glorifying the ruling Kim family, including an article about North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visiting a catfish farm. The US earlier said it would launch a proportional response to a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures, which made a comedy about Kim Jong-un. Officials would not comment on any US involvement in the current outages. The BBC's Stephen Evans in Seoul says that the attack on the North's internet may have been meant as a message to Kim Jong-un that his country was vulnerable. Image copyright AFP Image caption Ordinary North Koreans are unlikely to have noticed the outage as few of them have access to the internet Internet services were partially restored after nine hours and 31 minutes of disruption, cyber security firm Dyn Research says. While most mainstream North Korean websites are back online, the recovery initially appeared to be partial and potentially unstable with some websites still inaccessible. Analysts had said technical problems or a cyber-attack could be to blame. Doug Madory of Dyn Research said they had seen a progressive degradation of North Korea's connectivity to the outside world until the point at which they were totally offline. Arbor Networks, an internet technology service, said it had detected denial-of-service attacks against North Korea's infrastructure beginning on Saturday. Only a small proportion of people have access to the internet in North Korea, one of the world's most secretive countries. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Matthew Prince from CloudFlare, on the size and scope of North Korea's internet network Vulnerable connection North Korea's internet is handled by state-run company Star Joint Ventures, which in turn is routed through Chinese telecommunications firm China Unicom. Dyn's chief scientist, James Cowie, told the BBC that if it were indeed an attack, "it would not take a tremendous effort to carry out". "It is one connection across the border... to overload the routing infrastructure would probably not require the efforts of a nation-state, it could be just one dedicated person," he added. Last week, the US government said an FBI investigation had shown that North Korea was behind a hacking attack on Sony, which led to unreleased films and private emails being leaked online. North Korea denied being responsible but praised the attack. It had for months condemned a Sony comedy, The Interview, which depicts the assassination of the North Korean leader. Sony eventually cancelled the cinema release of the film. Mr Obama had said that the US would respond to the attack on Sony "in a place and time and manner that we choose". Image copyright Getty Images Image caption China and Russia voted against discussing human rights at the meeting, but were overruled by other members The internet disruption came as the UN Security Council discussed North Korea's human rights for the first time, despite opposition from China and Russia. US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power dismissed North Korea's demand to launch a joint investigation with the US into the attack on Sony. She said threats to retaliate if the US refused was "the kind of behaviour we have come to expect from a regime that threatened to take 'merciless countermeasures' against the US over a Hollywood comedy". North Korea has "no qualms about holding tens of thousands of people in harrowing gulags," she added. North Korean diplomat Kim Song said a decision on how to respond to the Security Council's move would be made in Pyongyang. "We totally reject the decision to bring DPRK [North Korea's] human rights record to the UN Security Council," he told Reuters.

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