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<p>The latest ad from the Media Fund — the group&#160;headed by former Clinton White House aide Harold Ickes —&#160;shows the White House lawn being given over to corporate logos and a neon sign saying “Corporate Headquarters.”</p>
<p>There’s no question Bush is pro-business, but this ad goes far over the line on several counts. It implies Bush hasn’t acted to protect pensions, fight corporate corruption or provide a “real” prescription drug benefit for retirees, all of which are false. It also implies he personally awarded a contract to Halliburton, which is also false.</p>
<p>It’s hard to cram this much distortion into a mere 30 seconds, but Ickes’ group is up to the task.</p>
<p>Media Fund Ad: “Corporate Headquarters”</p>
<p>Announcer: Instead of protecting pensions, George Bush supported a bill giving Enron huge new tax breaks.</p>
<p>Instead of giving seniors real prescription drug benefits, Bush gave drug companies billions in his Medicare bill.</p>
<p>Instead of fighting corporate corruption, George Bush gave no-bid contracts to Halliburton – a company caught overcharging for fuel and food for our soldiers in Iraq.</p>
<p>The ad says Bush supported tax breaks for Enron “instead of protecting pensions.” That’s wrong.</p>
<p>Bush has taken action to protect pensions, signing legislation in 2002 that made some technical changes to address weaknesses in 401(k) practices that Enron employees blamed for losses in their retirement accounts. Bush also supports additional legislation to allow employees who get company stock as a retirement benefit to sell it and diversify their investments, and to require companies to offer investment&#160; advice to employees from independent outsiders.</p>
<p>As for the&#160;claim that Bush supported “giving Enron huge new tax breaks,” it’s true that Bush supported repeal of the corporate alternative minimum tax in 2002 as part of an economic stimulus package, and that Enron led a group of corporations pushing for repeal. But the really big breaks for Enron were not proposed by&#160;&#160;Bush; they were added by&#160;Republican House Ways and Means chairman Bill Thomas, who proposed&#160;letting&#160;corporations redeem AMT credits built up over many years. That would have given $254 million to Enron, and&#160;also would&#160;have aided several other large corporations. But the whole bill died when the Senate refused to consider it.</p>
<p>The ad gives a seriously distorted picture of the Medicare prescription drug benefit that Bush pushed through Congress last year, falsely stating that the bill gives billions to drug companies “instead of giving seniors real prescription drug benefits.” Democrats may not consider the bill sufficient, but they can’t say that this benefit, now estimated to cost $534 billion over the next 10 years, isn’t “real.”</p>
<p>It is true that Democrats pushed for and failed to get a more generous (and expensive) drug benefit than the one Bush signed into law December 8,&#160;2003. It’s also true that the new law contains no government price controls on pharmaceuticals, prohibits importation of price-controlled drugs from Canada, and forbids the federal government to use bargaining pressure to force price concessions from drug makers, and was endorsed by the pharmaceutical industry’s lobbying arm.</p>
<p>But as we’ve pointed out before,&#160;millions of&#160;seniors will be financially better off when the new law takes effect in 2006. That is particularly true for millions of low-income seniors with few assets, who will be able to get their prescriptions filled for&#160;as little as $1&#160;each&#160;with no premiums or deductibles.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the new law doesn’t pay “billions” directly to the drug companies as the ad implies. In fact, they are payments to subsidize the&#160;cost of offering prescription drug coverage to seniors. It’s true that&#160;drug companies stand to increase their&#160;profits when millions of seniors start buying drugs they previously could not afford. But the ad, according to the&#160;Media Fund’s own&#160;documentation,&#160;is actually referring to&#160;$46 billion that Medicare actuary Richard Foster estimates&#160;will be paid over the next 10 years to “Medicare Advantage” plans. That’s not money that goes to drug companies, it is&#160;payment to HMO’s and insurance companies designed to give seniors subsidized, private-market alternatives to Medicare’s&#160; new drug benefit.</p>
<p>The ad says Bush gave contracts to Halliburton “instead of fighting corporate corruption.” In fact, the Bush administration is doing a fair amount to fight corporate corruption,&#160;convicting or indicting&#160;executives of Enron, Arthur Andersen, Tyco International, Worldcom, Adelphia Communications Corporation, Credit Suisse First Boston, HealthSouth Corporation&#160;and others, including Martha Stewart. The Department of Justice says it has brought charges against 20 executives of Enron alone, and its&#160;Corporate Fraud Task Force says it has won convictions of more than 250 persons to date. Bush also signed the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation in 2002, imposing&#160; stringent new accounting rules in the wake of the Arthur Andersen scandal.</p>
<p>As for Halliburton, it’s true the company is under investigation (by Bush’s Pentagon) for a variety of allegations of possible overcharging&#160;in connection with the Iraq war. And it’s also true that Vice President Richard Cheney once headed the company. But it is false to imply that Bush personally awarded a contract to Halliburton. The “no-bid contract” in question is actually an extension of an earlier contract to support US troops overseas&#160;that Halliburton&#160;won under open bidding.&#160; In fact, the notion that Halliburton benefitted from any cronyism has been poo-poohed by a Harvard University professor, Steven Kelman,&#160;who was administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy in the Clinton administration. “One would be hard-pressed to discover anyone with a working knowledge of how federal contracts are awarded . . .&#160;who doesn’t regard these allegations as being somewhere between highly improbable and utterly absurd,” Kelman wrote in the Washington Post last November.</p>
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<p>“President Acts to Protect Pensions and Retirement Security,”&#160; <a href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021019.html" type="external">Radio Address</a>&#160;by the President to the Nation 19 Oct 2002.</p>
<p>Curt Anderson, “Enron Faces Congressional Tax Probe,” The Associated Press 15 Jan 2002.</p>
<p>Kaiser Family Foundation, “Fact Sheet, The Medicare Prescription Drug Law,” March 2004.</p>
<p>2004&#160;Annual Report&#160;of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, “Table IV.A1.—Estimated Medicare Costs (+) or Savings (–) under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement,and Modernization Act of 2003” 23 March 2004: p157.</p>
<p>George Bush, “ <a href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/07/20020730.html" type="external">President Bush Signs Corporate Corruption Bill</a>”&#160; 30 July 2002.</p>
<p>Steven Kelman, “ <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&amp;contentId=A6691-2003Nov5&amp;notFound=true" type="external">No Cronyism in Iraq</a>,” The Washington Post 6 Nov 2003: A33.</p>
<p>Brooke A. Masters and William Branigin, “Martha Stewart Convicted on All Counts,” The Washington Post 5 March 2004.</p>
<p>David Streitfeld, “Martha Stewart Convicted; An Icon’s Infamy Won’t Be Fleeting,” Los Angeles Times 6 March 2004: A1.</p>
<p>“Prepared Remarks of Attorney General John Ashcroft Indictment of Bernard J. Ebbers &amp; Scott D. Sullivan,” &#160;Department of Justice, 2 March 2004.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/May/04_crm_306.htm" type="external">“Former Enron Assistant Treasurer Lea Fastow Sentenced to 12 Months in Jail,”</a> Department of Justice Press Release, 2 March 2004.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/March/04_crm_127.htm" type="external">“Enron Task Force Director Leslie Caldwell to Step Down, Andrew Weissmann Named Director,”</a> Department of Justice Press Release, 1 March 2004.</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - In a story Dec. 20 about objections to a bill to renew a foreign intelligence collection program, The Associated Press included a quote from Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., that was truncated and didn't make clear his point that the U.S. government should be required to seek warrants if it wants to search for information about Americans.</p>
<p>A clarified version of the story is below.</p>
<p>Senators threaten to block House foreign surveillance bill</p>
<p>Two senators are threatening to oppose and, if necessary, block passage of House legislation to reauthorize a soon-to-expire foreign intelligence collection program</p>
<p>By RICHARD LARDNER</p>
<p>Associated Press</p>
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - Two senators threatened Wednesday to oppose and, if necessary, block passage of House legislation to reauthorize a soon-to-expire foreign intelligence collection program.</p>
<p>The warning comes as Congress is trying to find the best way for ensuring that the program doesn't lapse by year's end. Senate Republican leaders are considering adding a short-term extension to a government spending bill, which would allow Congress to take up revisions to the law early next year instead of hustling a bill through before lawmakers leave town for their holiday break at week's end.</p>
<p>But the House is pressing for fast action on legislation to allow the program to continue for four more years, a move Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., are making clear they'll fight. They have congressional allies such as Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., and are backed by privacy advocates.</p>
<p>The lawmakers are demanding an open debate in Congress early next year that will lead to changes to the law to protect the communications of Americans swept up in electronic dragnets.</p>
<p>"I will actively oppose and filibuster any long-term extension of warrantless searches of American citizens," Paul tweeted. "I'll be right there with you," Wyden tweeted in response.</p>
<p>The surveillance program gives the U.S. government authority to spy on the electronic communications of foreigners located outside the United States. The information yields intelligence that helps prevent terrorist plots, cyberattacks and other threats, according to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials. The Trump administration has pressed for a renewal of the law without changes.</p>
<p>Privacy advocates have pushed back, saying that information about Americans who are communicating with these foreign targets is also being incidentally swept up and needs to be protected.</p>
<p>The House bill made public late Tuesday would extend the program, known as section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, until 2021. The law is set to expire at the end of December.</p>
<p>A report accompanying the bill said the legislation "also makes critical improvements to privacy and civil liberties while resulting in no negative operational impact to United States' surveillance authorities." The bill, the report added, "strikes the appropriate balance between privacy and national security."</p>
<p>But Amash called the House bill "disgraceful" and said he doubted House Republican leaders had the votes needed to pass the legislation.</p>
<p>"So we want to make sure that we are protecting the rights of Americans, that when the government searches for information on Americans, that they get a warrant because under our Constitution that's what's required," Amash said.</p>
<p>Two organizations at opposite ends of the political spectrum, the conservative FreedomWorks and the American Civil Liberties Union, issued statements Wednesday sharply critical of the House legislation.</p>
<p>Adam Brandon, the president of FreedomWorks, said the House bill "is the exact opposite of reform, and is markedly worse than current law." Brandon said the bill would expand "mass, warrantless surveillance" and permit the U.S. government to use "American communications against them in court even when it has nothing to do with national security."</p>
<p>ACLU legislative counsel Neema Singh Guliani said House leaders seem "poised to repeat past mistakes and quickly push for a vote on this hastily drafted legislation without giving members of Congress or the public time to debate the important privacy interests at stake."</p>
<p>The Senate's No. 2 Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, said Tuesday he anticipated the Senate would renew the program for several weeks by adding a provision to a temporary government spending bill. That would give Congress more time to sift through competing bills in the House and Senate to alter and reauthorize the law.</p>
<p>"If I was a betting man, I would say that's the most likely outcome at this moment," Cornyn said. "We need to figure out what we need to do to get this into the new year because we can't afford to go dark. It would be dangerous for the country."</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>Contact Richard Lardner on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/rplardner" type="external">http://twitter.com/rplardner</a></p>
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - In a story Dec. 20 about objections to a bill to renew a foreign intelligence collection program, The Associated Press included a quote from Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., that was truncated and didn't make clear his point that the U.S. government should be required to seek warrants if it wants to search for information about Americans.</p>
<p>A clarified version of the story is below.</p>
<p>Senators threaten to block House foreign surveillance bill</p>
<p>Two senators are threatening to oppose and, if necessary, block passage of House legislation to reauthorize a soon-to-expire foreign intelligence collection program</p>
<p>By RICHARD LARDNER</p>
<p>Associated Press</p>
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - Two senators threatened Wednesday to oppose and, if necessary, block passage of House legislation to reauthorize a soon-to-expire foreign intelligence collection program.</p>
<p>The warning comes as Congress is trying to find the best way for ensuring that the program doesn't lapse by year's end. Senate Republican leaders are considering adding a short-term extension to a government spending bill, which would allow Congress to take up revisions to the law early next year instead of hustling a bill through before lawmakers leave town for their holiday break at week's end.</p>
<p>But the House is pressing for fast action on legislation to allow the program to continue for four more years, a move Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., are making clear they'll fight. They have congressional allies such as Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., and are backed by privacy advocates.</p>
<p>The lawmakers are demanding an open debate in Congress early next year that will lead to changes to the law to protect the communications of Americans swept up in electronic dragnets.</p>
<p>"I will actively oppose and filibuster any long-term extension of warrantless searches of American citizens," Paul tweeted. "I'll be right there with you," Wyden tweeted in response.</p>
<p>The surveillance program gives the U.S. government authority to spy on the electronic communications of foreigners located outside the United States. The information yields intelligence that helps prevent terrorist plots, cyberattacks and other threats, according to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials. The Trump administration has pressed for a renewal of the law without changes.</p>
<p>Privacy advocates have pushed back, saying that information about Americans who are communicating with these foreign targets is also being incidentally swept up and needs to be protected.</p>
<p>The House bill made public late Tuesday would extend the program, known as section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, until 2021. The law is set to expire at the end of December.</p>
<p>A report accompanying the bill said the legislation "also makes critical improvements to privacy and civil liberties while resulting in no negative operational impact to United States' surveillance authorities." The bill, the report added, "strikes the appropriate balance between privacy and national security."</p>
<p>But Amash called the House bill "disgraceful" and said he doubted House Republican leaders had the votes needed to pass the legislation.</p>
<p>"So we want to make sure that we are protecting the rights of Americans, that when the government searches for information on Americans, that they get a warrant because under our Constitution that's what's required," Amash said.</p>
<p>Two organizations at opposite ends of the political spectrum, the conservative FreedomWorks and the American Civil Liberties Union, issued statements Wednesday sharply critical of the House legislation.</p>
<p>Adam Brandon, the president of FreedomWorks, said the House bill "is the exact opposite of reform, and is markedly worse than current law." Brandon said the bill would expand "mass, warrantless surveillance" and permit the U.S. government to use "American communications against them in court even when it has nothing to do with national security."</p>
<p>ACLU legislative counsel Neema Singh Guliani said House leaders seem "poised to repeat past mistakes and quickly push for a vote on this hastily drafted legislation without giving members of Congress or the public time to debate the important privacy interests at stake."</p>
<p>The Senate's No. 2 Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, said Tuesday he anticipated the Senate would renew the program for several weeks by adding a provision to a temporary government spending bill. That would give Congress more time to sift through competing bills in the House and Senate to alter and reauthorize the law.</p>
<p>"If I was a betting man, I would say that's the most likely outcome at this moment," Cornyn said. "We need to figure out what we need to do to get this into the new year because we can't afford to go dark. It would be dangerous for the country."</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>Contact Richard Lardner on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/rplardner" type="external">http://twitter.com/rplardner</a></p>
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surveillance act 2021 law set expire end december report accompanying bill said legislation also makes critical improvements privacy civil liberties resulting negative operational impact united states surveillance authorities bill report added strikes appropriate balance privacy national security amash called house bill disgraceful said doubted house republican leaders votes needed pass legislation want make sure protecting rights americans government searches information americans get warrant constitution thats whats required amash said two organizations opposite ends political spectrum conservative freedomworks american civil liberties union issued statements wednesday sharply critical house legislation adam brandon president freedomworks said house bill exact opposite reform markedly worse current law brandon said bill would expand mass warrantless surveillance permit us government use american communications court even nothing national security aclu legislative counsel neema singh guliani said house leaders seem poised repeat past mistakes quickly push vote hastily drafted legislation without giving members congress public time debate important privacy interests stake senates 2 republican john cornyn texas said tuesday anticipated senate would renew program several weeks adding provision temporary government spending bill would give congress time sift competing bills house senate alter reauthorize law betting man would say thats likely outcome moment cornyn said need figure need get new year cant afford go dark would dangerous country ___ contact richard lardner twitter httptwittercomrplardner washington ap story dec 20 objections bill renew foreign intelligence collection program associated press included quote rep justin amash rmich truncated didnt make clear point us government required seek warrants wants search information americans clarified version story senators threaten block house foreign surveillance bill two senators threatening oppose necessary block passage house legislation reauthorize soontoexpire foreign intelligence collection program richard lardner associated press washington ap two senators threatened wednesday oppose necessary block passage house legislation reauthorize soontoexpire foreign intelligence collection program warning comes congress trying find best way ensuring program doesnt lapse years end senate republican leaders considering adding shortterm extension government spending bill would allow congress take revisions law early next year instead hustling bill lawmakers leave town holiday break weeks end house pressing fast action legislation allow program continue four years move sens rand paul rky ron wyden dore making clear theyll fight congressional allies sens mike lee rutah rep justin amash rmich backed privacy advocates lawmakers demanding open debate congress early next year lead changes law protect communications americans swept electronic dragnets actively oppose filibuster longterm extension warrantless searches american citizens paul tweeted ill right wyden tweeted response surveillance program gives us government authority spy electronic communications foreigners located outside united states information yields intelligence helps prevent terrorist plots cyberattacks threats according us intelligence law enforcement officials trump administration pressed renewal law without changes privacy advocates pushed back saying information americans communicating foreign targets also incidentally swept needs protected house bill made public late tuesday would extend program known section 702 foreign intelligence surveillance act 2021 law set expire end december report accompanying bill said legislation also makes critical improvements privacy civil liberties resulting negative operational impact united states surveillance authorities bill report added strikes appropriate balance privacy national security amash called house bill disgraceful said doubted house republican leaders votes needed pass legislation want make sure protecting rights americans government searches information americans get warrant constitution thats whats required amash said two organizations opposite ends political spectrum conservative freedomworks american civil liberties union issued statements wednesday sharply critical house legislation adam brandon president freedomworks said house bill exact opposite reform markedly worse current law brandon said bill would expand mass warrantless surveillance permit us government use american communications court even nothing national security aclu legislative counsel neema singh guliani said house leaders seem poised repeat past mistakes quickly push vote hastily drafted legislation without giving members congress public time debate important privacy interests stake senates 2 republican john cornyn texas said tuesday anticipated senate would renew program several weeks adding provision temporary government spending bill would give congress time sift competing bills house senate alter reauthorize law betting man would say thats likely outcome moment cornyn said need figure need get new year cant afford go dark would dangerous country ___ contact richard lardner twitter httptwittercomrplardner
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<p>OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Jared Poche’ couldn’t have pitched much better the first three innings for LSU. And then his day, and his team’s, unraveled on what should have been a couple of routine plays.</p>
<p>Poche’s two blown throws to first base let TCU go ahead in the fourth inning, and the lead widened as he struggled again in the fifth. The Tigers never recovered in a 10-3 loss at the College World Series on Sunday.</p>
<p>“It’s amazing. I’ve been in this game a long time, and sometimes you see things you haven’t seen all year, or for years,” LSU coach Paul Mainieri said. “We had a couple misplays there, they got a couple of clutch hits and things spiraled out of control.”</p>
<p>The Tigers (53-11) meet Vanderbilt or Cal State Fullerton in a Bracket 2 elimination game on Tuesday afternoon. The Horned Frogs (50-13) will play a winners’ game against one of those teams.</p>
<p>LSU, in the CWS for the 17th time, showed up as the No. 2 national seed and 5-0 in the NCAA Tournament. Poche’ came in having allowed one run in his previous 16 1/3 innings.</p>
<p>The Tigers cruised along nicely for three innings, with Poche’ (9-2) striking out the side in the first and retiring the next six batters. Then, his stunning meltdown.</p>
<p>In the fourth, Cody Jones hit a chopper back to Poche’ leading off and wound up on third when Poche’ overthrew first baseman Chris Chinea. Then, Jeremie Fagnan sent a comebacker to Poche’, who looked Jones back at third before pulling Chinea off the bag with another high throw, putting runners at the corners. Connor Wanhanen and Dane Steinhagen followed with RBI singles.</p>
<p>“He comes out in the first inning with all the pressure in the world on his shoulders, and he strikes out the side and gets nine up, nine down and should have had 11 up, 11 down,” Mainieri said. “The next two batters hit feeble groundballs right back to him and he didn’t execute the play.”</p>
<p>Poche’ couldn’t explain his struggle to make the routine throw to first.</p>
<p>“I’m not sure why I lobbed it like that,” he said. “If I could do it again, I’d set my feet and hit him in his chest.”</p>
<p>In the fifth, TCU loaded the bases against Poche’ on two walks and a single. Conner Hale booted a grounder at third, allowing one run to score, and Poche’ plunked Fagnan, bringing home another. Connor Wanhanen’s single drove in two more to put the Frogs up 6-1 run and end Poche’s day.</p>
<p>TCU extended its lead to 10-1 in the seventh, batting around against three relievers and scoring four runs, all coming with two outs.</p>
<p>TCU’s Preston Morrison (12-2) won for the first time in nine NCAA Tournament starts, pitching seven dominant innings.</p>
<p>“He’s the best pitcher in the history of the school, bar none, and he’s pitched great in the postseason throughout his entire career,” TCU coach Jim Schlossnagle said. “He hasn’t had a lot to show for it because when you’re in the postseason, you’re facing another great pitcher.”</p>
<p>Morrison, whose 37 career wins are the most of any active Division I pitcher, limited LSU to five hits and one run. He walked none, struck out five and retired the last 12 batters he faced.</p>
<p>“The most important thing for me was getting another step closer to our ultimate goal, the national championship,” Morrison said.</p>
<p>Morrison threw strikes on 63 of his 89 pitches, but Schlossnagle took him out to start the eighth. Brian Howard came on and gave up Jared Foster’s drive into the left-field bullpen. It was the third home run in three CWS games, matching last year’s 16-game total.</p>
<p>OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Jared Poche’ couldn’t have pitched much better the first three innings for LSU. And then his day, and his team’s, unraveled on what should have been a couple of routine plays.</p>
<p>Poche’s two blown throws to first base let TCU go ahead in the fourth inning, and the lead widened as he struggled again in the fifth. The Tigers never recovered in a 10-3 loss at the College World Series on Sunday.</p>
<p>“It’s amazing. I’ve been in this game a long time, and sometimes you see things you haven’t seen all year, or for years,” LSU coach Paul Mainieri said. “We had a couple misplays there, they got a couple of clutch hits and things spiraled out of control.”</p>
<p>The Tigers (53-11) meet Vanderbilt or Cal State Fullerton in a Bracket 2 elimination game on Tuesday afternoon. The Horned Frogs (50-13) will play a winners’ game against one of those teams.</p>
<p>LSU, in the CWS for the 17th time, showed up as the No. 2 national seed and 5-0 in the NCAA Tournament. Poche’ came in having allowed one run in his previous 16 1/3 innings.</p>
<p>The Tigers cruised along nicely for three innings, with Poche’ (9-2) striking out the side in the first and retiring the next six batters. Then, his stunning meltdown.</p>
<p>In the fourth, Cody Jones hit a chopper back to Poche’ leading off and wound up on third when Poche’ overthrew first baseman Chris Chinea. Then, Jeremie Fagnan sent a comebacker to Poche’, who looked Jones back at third before pulling Chinea off the bag with another high throw, putting runners at the corners. Connor Wanhanen and Dane Steinhagen followed with RBI singles.</p>
<p>“He comes out in the first inning with all the pressure in the world on his shoulders, and he strikes out the side and gets nine up, nine down and should have had 11 up, 11 down,” Mainieri said. “The next two batters hit feeble groundballs right back to him and he didn’t execute the play.”</p>
<p>Poche’ couldn’t explain his struggle to make the routine throw to first.</p>
<p>“I’m not sure why I lobbed it like that,” he said. “If I could do it again, I’d set my feet and hit him in his chest.”</p>
<p>In the fifth, TCU loaded the bases against Poche’ on two walks and a single. Conner Hale booted a grounder at third, allowing one run to score, and Poche’ plunked Fagnan, bringing home another. Connor Wanhanen’s single drove in two more to put the Frogs up 6-1 run and end Poche’s day.</p>
<p>TCU extended its lead to 10-1 in the seventh, batting around against three relievers and scoring four runs, all coming with two outs.</p>
<p>TCU’s Preston Morrison (12-2) won for the first time in nine NCAA Tournament starts, pitching seven dominant innings.</p>
<p>“He’s the best pitcher in the history of the school, bar none, and he’s pitched great in the postseason throughout his entire career,” TCU coach Jim Schlossnagle said. “He hasn’t had a lot to show for it because when you’re in the postseason, you’re facing another great pitcher.”</p>
<p>Morrison, whose 37 career wins are the most of any active Division I pitcher, limited LSU to five hits and one run. He walked none, struck out five and retired the last 12 batters he faced.</p>
<p>“The most important thing for me was getting another step closer to our ultimate goal, the national championship,” Morrison said.</p>
<p>Morrison threw strikes on 63 of his 89 pitches, but Schlossnagle took him out to start the eighth. Brian Howard came on and gave up Jared Foster’s drive into the left-field bullpen. It was the third home run in three CWS games, matching last year’s 16-game total.</p>
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omaha neb ap jared poche couldnt pitched much better first three innings lsu day teams unraveled couple routine plays poches two blown throws first base let tcu go ahead fourth inning lead widened struggled fifth tigers never recovered 103 loss college world series sunday amazing ive game long time sometimes see things havent seen year years lsu coach paul mainieri said couple misplays got couple clutch hits things spiraled control tigers 5311 meet vanderbilt cal state fullerton bracket 2 elimination game tuesday afternoon horned frogs 5013 play winners game one teams lsu cws 17th time showed 2 national seed 50 ncaa tournament poche came allowed one run previous 16 13 innings tigers cruised along nicely three innings poche 92 striking side first retiring next six batters stunning meltdown fourth cody jones hit chopper back poche leading wound third poche overthrew first baseman chris chinea jeremie fagnan sent comebacker poche looked jones back third pulling chinea bag another high throw putting runners corners connor wanhanen dane steinhagen followed rbi singles comes first inning pressure world shoulders strikes side gets nine nine 11 11 mainieri said next two batters hit feeble groundballs right back didnt execute play poche couldnt explain struggle make routine throw first im sure lobbed like said could id set feet hit chest fifth tcu loaded bases poche two walks single conner hale booted grounder third allowing one run score poche plunked fagnan bringing home another connor wanhanens single drove two put frogs 61 run end poches day tcu extended lead 101 seventh batting around three relievers scoring four runs coming two outs tcus preston morrison 122 first time nine ncaa tournament starts pitching seven dominant innings hes best pitcher history school bar none hes pitched great postseason throughout entire career tcu coach jim schlossnagle said hasnt lot show youre postseason youre facing another great pitcher morrison whose 37 career wins active division pitcher limited lsu five hits one run walked none struck five retired last 12 batters faced important thing getting another step closer ultimate goal national championship morrison said morrison threw strikes 63 89 pitches schlossnagle took start eighth brian howard came gave jared fosters drive leftfield bullpen third home run three cws games matching last years 16game total omaha neb ap jared poche couldnt pitched much better first three innings lsu day teams unraveled couple routine plays poches two blown throws first base let tcu go ahead fourth inning lead widened struggled fifth tigers never recovered 103 loss college world series sunday amazing ive game long time sometimes see things havent seen year years lsu coach paul mainieri said couple misplays got couple clutch hits things spiraled control tigers 5311 meet vanderbilt cal state fullerton bracket 2 elimination game tuesday afternoon horned frogs 5013 play winners game one teams lsu cws 17th time showed 2 national seed 50 ncaa tournament poche came allowed one run previous 16 13 innings tigers cruised along nicely three innings poche 92 striking side first retiring next six batters stunning meltdown fourth cody jones hit chopper back poche leading wound third poche overthrew first baseman chris chinea jeremie fagnan sent comebacker poche looked jones back third pulling chinea bag another high throw putting runners corners connor wanhanen dane steinhagen followed rbi singles comes first inning pressure world shoulders strikes side gets nine nine 11 11 mainieri said next two batters hit feeble groundballs right back didnt execute play poche couldnt explain struggle make routine throw first im sure lobbed like said could id set feet hit chest fifth tcu loaded bases poche two walks single conner hale booted grounder third allowing one run score poche plunked fagnan bringing home another connor wanhanens single drove two put frogs 61 run end poches day tcu extended lead 101 seventh batting around three relievers scoring four runs coming two outs tcus preston morrison 122 first time nine ncaa tournament starts pitching seven dominant innings hes best pitcher history school bar none hes pitched great postseason throughout entire career tcu coach jim schlossnagle said hasnt lot show youre postseason youre facing another great pitcher morrison whose 37 career wins active division pitcher limited lsu five hits one run walked none struck five retired last 12 batters faced important thing getting another step closer ultimate goal national championship morrison said morrison threw strikes 63 89 pitches schlossnagle took start eighth brian howard came gave jared fosters drive leftfield bullpen third home run three cws games matching last years 16game total
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<p>CHICAGO (AP) — The Toronto Maple Leafs found themselves in yet another tight game. William Nylander found a way to make sure they got two points this time.</p>
<p>Nylander scored on a penalty shot 6 seconds into overtime to lift the Maple Leafs to a 3-2 win over the sagging Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night.</p>
<p>Nylander was awarded the attempt after he broke in alone on Jeff Glass from the opening faceoff in the extra period, but was hooked from behind by Chicago’s Duncan Keith. Nylander scored the game-winner and his 10th goal by faking Glass and then burying a high backhander to send the Blackhawks to their fourth straight defeat.</p>
<p>“I thought I needed to throw a little harder fake on him so he’d bite,” Nylander said. “I went to the backhand on the two previous breakaways. Third time’s the lucky charm.”</p>
<p>Nylander was stopped by Glass with 4:02 left in the third period when he pounced on Jordan Oesterle’s turnover and cut in alone.</p>
<p>“I’ve had breakaways in the previous games and hadn’t scored,” Nylander said. “So it’s nice to score on one.”</p>
<p>Eight of Toronto’s last nine games have been decided by one goal, including three overtime losses and one in regulation. In the Maple Leafs’ 4-2 loss to Colorado on Monday, the Avalanche’s Gabriel Landeskog finished the scoring with a late empty-netter.</p>
<p>“That’s the way it is every night,” said Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock, whose team won for second time in seven games. “I still think we can play way better.”</p>
<p>Toronto’s Nazem Kadri connected for his 15th goal, a power-play score that snapped a seven-game scoring drought and was just his second goal in 20 games. Mitch Marner also scored for the Maple Leafs.</p>
<p>Brent Seabrook and Nick Schmaltz scored power-play goals for Chicago, which snapped an 0-for-16 drought with the man advantage. Schmaltz’s goal, at 7:55 of the third period, tied it at 2.</p>
<p>Seabrook’s first-period score was the Blackhawks’ first power-play goal at home since Dec. 8 against Buffalo, ending a span of 33 failed chances over 10 games.</p>
<p>Chicago coach Joel Quenneville sounded almost more wistful than disappointed about how his team lost this one.</p>
<p>“We had one (a hooking from behind) that was called a two-minute minor,” Quenneville said. “I don’t know what’s more advantageous: a power-play with a 4-on-3 or a penalty shot.”</p>
<p>Toronto’s Frederik Andersen made 34 saves, including some tough chances as Chicago battled for a second straight game following several soft efforts. Glass finished with 33 stops.</p>
<p>Seabrook’s power-play goal opened the scoring 5:29 in. His shot from the top of the right circle deflected off the stick of Toronto’s Leo Komarov and flipped past Andersen.</p>
<p>Marner was credited with tying it 1-all with 3:23 left in the first to cap a scramble in the Chicago zone. After Glass made a couple of tough saves, Jake Gardiner’s shot from the top of the left circle struck Marner in traffic and deflected in.</p>
<p>Andersen came up with the sharper stops in the scoreless second. He made a glove save on Anthony Duclair from the slot at 1:33, then a pair of close-in rapid-fire saves on Patrick Sharp and Ryan Hartman midway through the period.</p>
<p>Kadri put Toronto ahead 2-1 with a power-play goal at 4:58 of the third. He connected from the right edge of the crease when he one-timed in a pinpoint, cross-ice feed from Tyler Bozak.</p>
<p>Schmaltz’s goal 2:57 later tied it at 2 and withstood a video review. From a goalmouth scrum, Schmaltz fired in a loose puck from the right side of the crease and with Andersen down. The puck crossed the goal line just before Chicago’s Artem Anisimov tumbled over the Toronto goalie.</p>
<p>NOTES: Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said Corey Crawford (upper-body) is making progress but can’t predict when his No. 1 goalie will return. Crawford hasn’t been on the ice since being pulled in the first period at New Jersey on Dec. 23, but has resumed working out with the team and may travel with the Blackhawks on a trip following the All-Star break. “When we get him on the ice we’ll learn more,” Quenneville said. “Playing might be a little distant.” ... Maple Leafs D Morgan Rielly missed his third game with an upper-body injury and D Nikita Zaitsev missed his 16th with a lower-body injury. Reilly is expected back after the All-Star break. ... Maple Leafs RW Kasperi Kapanen, recalled from the Toronto Marlies of the AHL on Wednesday was in the lineup, but D Rinat Valiev, recalled from the Marlies on Tuesday, was not. ... Connor Carrick, a 23-year-old native of Orland Park, Illinois, started for the Maple Leafs and skated before a contingent of family and friends.</p>
<p>UP NEXT</p>
<p>Maple Leafs: At the Dallas Stars on Thursday night</p>
<p>Blackhawks: At the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night.</p>
<p>CHICAGO (AP) — The Toronto Maple Leafs found themselves in yet another tight game. William Nylander found a way to make sure they got two points this time.</p>
<p>Nylander scored on a penalty shot 6 seconds into overtime to lift the Maple Leafs to a 3-2 win over the sagging Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night.</p>
<p>Nylander was awarded the attempt after he broke in alone on Jeff Glass from the opening faceoff in the extra period, but was hooked from behind by Chicago’s Duncan Keith. Nylander scored the game-winner and his 10th goal by faking Glass and then burying a high backhander to send the Blackhawks to their fourth straight defeat.</p>
<p>“I thought I needed to throw a little harder fake on him so he’d bite,” Nylander said. “I went to the backhand on the two previous breakaways. Third time’s the lucky charm.”</p>
<p>Nylander was stopped by Glass with 4:02 left in the third period when he pounced on Jordan Oesterle’s turnover and cut in alone.</p>
<p>“I’ve had breakaways in the previous games and hadn’t scored,” Nylander said. “So it’s nice to score on one.”</p>
<p>Eight of Toronto’s last nine games have been decided by one goal, including three overtime losses and one in regulation. In the Maple Leafs’ 4-2 loss to Colorado on Monday, the Avalanche’s Gabriel Landeskog finished the scoring with a late empty-netter.</p>
<p>“That’s the way it is every night,” said Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock, whose team won for second time in seven games. “I still think we can play way better.”</p>
<p>Toronto’s Nazem Kadri connected for his 15th goal, a power-play score that snapped a seven-game scoring drought and was just his second goal in 20 games. Mitch Marner also scored for the Maple Leafs.</p>
<p>Brent Seabrook and Nick Schmaltz scored power-play goals for Chicago, which snapped an 0-for-16 drought with the man advantage. Schmaltz’s goal, at 7:55 of the third period, tied it at 2.</p>
<p>Seabrook’s first-period score was the Blackhawks’ first power-play goal at home since Dec. 8 against Buffalo, ending a span of 33 failed chances over 10 games.</p>
<p>Chicago coach Joel Quenneville sounded almost more wistful than disappointed about how his team lost this one.</p>
<p>“We had one (a hooking from behind) that was called a two-minute minor,” Quenneville said. “I don’t know what’s more advantageous: a power-play with a 4-on-3 or a penalty shot.”</p>
<p>Toronto’s Frederik Andersen made 34 saves, including some tough chances as Chicago battled for a second straight game following several soft efforts. Glass finished with 33 stops.</p>
<p>Seabrook’s power-play goal opened the scoring 5:29 in. His shot from the top of the right circle deflected off the stick of Toronto’s Leo Komarov and flipped past Andersen.</p>
<p>Marner was credited with tying it 1-all with 3:23 left in the first to cap a scramble in the Chicago zone. After Glass made a couple of tough saves, Jake Gardiner’s shot from the top of the left circle struck Marner in traffic and deflected in.</p>
<p>Andersen came up with the sharper stops in the scoreless second. He made a glove save on Anthony Duclair from the slot at 1:33, then a pair of close-in rapid-fire saves on Patrick Sharp and Ryan Hartman midway through the period.</p>
<p>Kadri put Toronto ahead 2-1 with a power-play goal at 4:58 of the third. He connected from the right edge of the crease when he one-timed in a pinpoint, cross-ice feed from Tyler Bozak.</p>
<p>Schmaltz’s goal 2:57 later tied it at 2 and withstood a video review. From a goalmouth scrum, Schmaltz fired in a loose puck from the right side of the crease and with Andersen down. The puck crossed the goal line just before Chicago’s Artem Anisimov tumbled over the Toronto goalie.</p>
<p>NOTES: Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said Corey Crawford (upper-body) is making progress but can’t predict when his No. 1 goalie will return. Crawford hasn’t been on the ice since being pulled in the first period at New Jersey on Dec. 23, but has resumed working out with the team and may travel with the Blackhawks on a trip following the All-Star break. “When we get him on the ice we’ll learn more,” Quenneville said. “Playing might be a little distant.” ... Maple Leafs D Morgan Rielly missed his third game with an upper-body injury and D Nikita Zaitsev missed his 16th with a lower-body injury. Reilly is expected back after the All-Star break. ... Maple Leafs RW Kasperi Kapanen, recalled from the Toronto Marlies of the AHL on Wednesday was in the lineup, but D Rinat Valiev, recalled from the Marlies on Tuesday, was not. ... Connor Carrick, a 23-year-old native of Orland Park, Illinois, started for the Maple Leafs and skated before a contingent of family and friends.</p>
<p>UP NEXT</p>
<p>Maple Leafs: At the Dallas Stars on Thursday night</p>
<p>Blackhawks: At the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night.</p>
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chicago ap toronto maple leafs found yet another tight game william nylander found way make sure got two points time nylander scored penalty shot 6 seconds overtime lift maple leafs 32 win sagging chicago blackhawks wednesday night nylander awarded attempt broke alone jeff glass opening faceoff extra period hooked behind chicagos duncan keith nylander scored gamewinner 10th goal faking glass burying high backhander send blackhawks fourth straight defeat thought needed throw little harder fake hed bite nylander said went backhand two previous breakaways third times lucky charm nylander stopped glass 402 left third period pounced jordan oesterles turnover cut alone ive breakaways previous games hadnt scored nylander said nice score one eight torontos last nine games decided one goal including three overtime losses one regulation maple leafs 42 loss colorado monday avalanches gabriel landeskog finished scoring late emptynetter thats way every night said maple leafs coach mike babcock whose team second time seven games still think play way better torontos nazem kadri connected 15th goal powerplay score snapped sevengame scoring drought second goal 20 games mitch marner also scored maple leafs brent seabrook nick schmaltz scored powerplay goals chicago snapped 0for16 drought man advantage schmaltzs goal 755 third period tied 2 seabrooks firstperiod score blackhawks first powerplay goal home since dec 8 buffalo ending span 33 failed chances 10 games chicago coach joel quenneville sounded almost wistful disappointed team lost one one hooking behind called twominute minor quenneville said dont know whats advantageous powerplay 4on3 penalty shot torontos frederik andersen made 34 saves including tough chances chicago battled second straight game following several soft efforts glass finished 33 stops seabrooks powerplay goal opened scoring 529 shot top right circle deflected stick torontos leo komarov flipped past andersen marner credited tying 1all 323 left first cap scramble chicago zone glass made couple tough saves jake gardiners shot top left circle struck marner traffic deflected andersen came sharper stops scoreless second made glove save anthony duclair slot 133 pair closein rapidfire saves patrick sharp ryan hartman midway period kadri put toronto ahead 21 powerplay goal 458 third connected right edge crease onetimed pinpoint crossice feed tyler bozak schmaltzs goal 257 later tied 2 withstood video review goalmouth scrum schmaltz fired loose puck right side crease andersen puck crossed goal line chicagos artem anisimov tumbled toronto goalie notes blackhawks coach joel quenneville said corey crawford upperbody making progress cant predict 1 goalie return crawford hasnt ice since pulled first period new jersey dec 23 resumed working team may travel blackhawks trip following allstar break get ice well learn quenneville said playing might little distant maple leafs morgan rielly missed third game upperbody injury nikita zaitsev missed 16th lowerbody injury reilly expected back allstar break maple leafs rw kasperi kapanen recalled toronto marlies ahl wednesday lineup rinat valiev recalled marlies tuesday connor carrick 23yearold native orland park illinois started maple leafs skated contingent family friends next maple leafs dallas stars thursday night blackhawks detroit red wings thursday night chicago ap toronto maple leafs found yet another tight game william nylander found way make sure got two points time nylander scored penalty shot 6 seconds overtime lift maple leafs 32 win sagging chicago blackhawks wednesday night nylander awarded attempt broke alone jeff glass opening faceoff extra period hooked behind chicagos duncan keith nylander scored gamewinner 10th goal faking glass burying high backhander send blackhawks fourth straight defeat thought needed throw little harder fake hed bite nylander said went backhand two previous breakaways third times lucky charm nylander stopped glass 402 left third period pounced jordan oesterles turnover cut alone ive breakaways previous games hadnt scored nylander said nice score one eight torontos last nine games decided one goal including three overtime losses one regulation maple leafs 42 loss colorado monday avalanches gabriel landeskog finished scoring late emptynetter thats way every night said maple leafs coach mike babcock whose team second time seven games still think play way better torontos nazem kadri connected 15th goal powerplay score snapped sevengame scoring drought second goal 20 games mitch marner also scored maple leafs brent seabrook nick schmaltz scored powerplay goals chicago snapped 0for16 drought man advantage schmaltzs goal 755 third period tied 2 seabrooks firstperiod score blackhawks first powerplay goal home since dec 8 buffalo ending span 33 failed chances 10 games chicago coach joel quenneville sounded almost wistful disappointed team lost one one hooking behind called twominute minor quenneville said dont know whats advantageous powerplay 4on3 penalty shot torontos frederik andersen made 34 saves including tough chances chicago battled second straight game following several soft efforts glass finished 33 stops seabrooks powerplay goal opened scoring 529 shot top right circle deflected stick torontos leo komarov flipped past andersen marner credited tying 1all 323 left first cap scramble chicago zone glass made couple tough saves jake gardiners shot top left circle struck marner traffic deflected andersen came sharper stops scoreless second made glove save anthony duclair slot 133 pair closein rapidfire saves patrick sharp ryan hartman midway period kadri put toronto ahead 21 powerplay goal 458 third connected right edge crease onetimed pinpoint crossice feed tyler bozak schmaltzs goal 257 later tied 2 withstood video review goalmouth scrum schmaltz fired loose puck right side crease andersen puck crossed goal line chicagos artem anisimov tumbled toronto goalie notes blackhawks coach joel quenneville said corey crawford upperbody making progress cant predict 1 goalie return crawford hasnt ice since pulled first period new jersey dec 23 resumed working team may travel blackhawks trip following allstar break get ice well learn quenneville said playing might little distant maple leafs morgan rielly missed third game upperbody injury nikita zaitsev missed 16th lowerbody injury reilly expected back allstar break maple leafs rw kasperi kapanen recalled toronto marlies ahl wednesday lineup rinat valiev recalled marlies tuesday connor carrick 23yearold native orland park illinois started maple leafs skated contingent family friends next maple leafs dallas stars thursday night blackhawks detroit red wings thursday night
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<p>MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The Latest on Liberia’s election (all times local):</p>
<p>6:00 p.m.</p>
<p>Liberia’s National Election Commission has declared George Weah president-elect and Jewel Howard-Taylor vice president-elect following a Dec. 26 runoff poll.</p>
<p>The commission says their party, the Coalition for Democratic Change, received 61.5 percent of the vote with 732,185 votes, beating Vice President Joseph Boakai’s Unity Party which got 457,579 or 38.5 percent of the votes.</p>
<p>Immediately after NEC chairman Jerome Korkoya read the final results, Weah’s party headquarters erupted into celebration.</p>
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<p>4:30 p.m.</p>
<p>Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated George Weah on his election as Liberia’s next president.</p>
<p>Buhari issued a statement Friday that also commended the Liberian people “on the peaceful conduct of the historic presidential runoff election. ” He called Tuesday’s vote “another plus on Africa’s democratic scoreboard.”</p>
<p>Buhari says Nigeria is ready to work with Liberia on issues of mutual interest and called Weah’s victory “an affirmation of the will of the Liberian people to remain united, peaceful and prosperous.”</p>
<p>He also commended outgoing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for her work in transforming Liberia during her 12 years in office.</p>
<p>Liberia, a nation founded by freed American slaves, is seeing its first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years as Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, steps down.</p>
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<p>3 p.m.</p>
<p>Liberia’s president-elect and ex-soccer star George Weah says he is “honored to join a new generation of heads of state.”</p>
<p>In his first public comments since his rival conceded Friday, Weah tweeted in French in response to congratulations from French President Emmanuel Macron.</p>
<p>Weah adds that “we have a lot to do together to accelerate the building of tomorrow’s Africa.”</p>
<p>The former FIFA World Player of the Year played with AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain, among others.</p>
<p>He is set to take office in January.</p>
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<p>2 p.m.</p>
<p>French President Emmanuel Macron has called Liberia’s president-elect George Weah to congratulate him and invite him to visit.</p>
<p>The French presidency says in a statement that Weah accepted the invitation.</p>
<p>Macron says the former soccer star and FIFA World Player of the Year still has “a special place in the French’s hearts.”</p>
<p>Weah played with AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain, among others.</p>
<p>He will take office in January.</p>
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<p>12:20 p.m.</p>
<p>Liberia’s vice president is congratulating former international soccer star George Weah on winning the West African nation’s presidency.</p>
<p>Joseph Boakai in an address to the nation on Friday is offering to help Weah’s new government if needed.</p>
<p>With more than 98 percent of votes counted late Thursday, Weah had received 61.5 percent of ballots while Boakai received 38.5 percent.</p>
<p>Liberia, a nation founded by freed American slaves, is seeing its first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years as Africa’s first female president, Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, steps aside.</p>
<p>The 51-year-old Weah, a senator who entered politics more than a decade ago, will take over in January.</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>6:45 a.m.</p>
<p>Celebrations have begun in Liberia as former FIFA World Player of the Year George Weah is set to be declared the winner of the West African nation’s presidential election.</p>
<p>With more than 98 percent of votes counted late Thursday, Weah received 61.5 percent of ballots while Vice President Joseph Boakai received 38.5 percent.</p>
<p>Liberia, a nation founded by freed American slaves, is seeing its first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years as Africa’s first female president, Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, steps aside. She led the country from back-to-back civil wars and saw it through a deadly Ebola outbreak.</p>
<p>The 51-year-old Weah, a senator who entered politics after his 2002 retirement, led the first-round election in October but didn’t receive enough votes to win outright.</p>
<p>MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The Latest on Liberia’s election (all times local):</p>
<p>6:00 p.m.</p>
<p>Liberia’s National Election Commission has declared George Weah president-elect and Jewel Howard-Taylor vice president-elect following a Dec. 26 runoff poll.</p>
<p>The commission says their party, the Coalition for Democratic Change, received 61.5 percent of the vote with 732,185 votes, beating Vice President Joseph Boakai’s Unity Party which got 457,579 or 38.5 percent of the votes.</p>
<p>Immediately after NEC chairman Jerome Korkoya read the final results, Weah’s party headquarters erupted into celebration.</p>
<p>____</p>
<p>4:30 p.m.</p>
<p>Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated George Weah on his election as Liberia’s next president.</p>
<p>Buhari issued a statement Friday that also commended the Liberian people “on the peaceful conduct of the historic presidential runoff election. ” He called Tuesday’s vote “another plus on Africa’s democratic scoreboard.”</p>
<p>Buhari says Nigeria is ready to work with Liberia on issues of mutual interest and called Weah’s victory “an affirmation of the will of the Liberian people to remain united, peaceful and prosperous.”</p>
<p>He also commended outgoing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for her work in transforming Liberia during her 12 years in office.</p>
<p>Liberia, a nation founded by freed American slaves, is seeing its first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years as Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, steps down.</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>3 p.m.</p>
<p>Liberia’s president-elect and ex-soccer star George Weah says he is “honored to join a new generation of heads of state.”</p>
<p>In his first public comments since his rival conceded Friday, Weah tweeted in French in response to congratulations from French President Emmanuel Macron.</p>
<p>Weah adds that “we have a lot to do together to accelerate the building of tomorrow’s Africa.”</p>
<p>The former FIFA World Player of the Year played with AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain, among others.</p>
<p>He is set to take office in January.</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>2 p.m.</p>
<p>French President Emmanuel Macron has called Liberia’s president-elect George Weah to congratulate him and invite him to visit.</p>
<p>The French presidency says in a statement that Weah accepted the invitation.</p>
<p>Macron says the former soccer star and FIFA World Player of the Year still has “a special place in the French’s hearts.”</p>
<p>Weah played with AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain, among others.</p>
<p>He will take office in January.</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>12:20 p.m.</p>
<p>Liberia’s vice president is congratulating former international soccer star George Weah on winning the West African nation’s presidency.</p>
<p>Joseph Boakai in an address to the nation on Friday is offering to help Weah’s new government if needed.</p>
<p>With more than 98 percent of votes counted late Thursday, Weah had received 61.5 percent of ballots while Boakai received 38.5 percent.</p>
<p>Liberia, a nation founded by freed American slaves, is seeing its first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years as Africa’s first female president, Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, steps aside.</p>
<p>The 51-year-old Weah, a senator who entered politics more than a decade ago, will take over in January.</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>6:45 a.m.</p>
<p>Celebrations have begun in Liberia as former FIFA World Player of the Year George Weah is set to be declared the winner of the West African nation’s presidential election.</p>
<p>With more than 98 percent of votes counted late Thursday, Weah received 61.5 percent of ballots while Vice President Joseph Boakai received 38.5 percent.</p>
<p>Liberia, a nation founded by freed American slaves, is seeing its first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years as Africa’s first female president, Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, steps aside. She led the country from back-to-back civil wars and saw it through a deadly Ebola outbreak.</p>
<p>The 51-year-old Weah, a senator who entered politics after his 2002 retirement, led the first-round election in October but didn’t receive enough votes to win outright.</p>
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monrovia liberia ap latest liberias election times local 600 pm liberias national election commission declared george weah presidentelect jewel howardtaylor vice presidentelect following dec 26 runoff poll commission says party coalition democratic change received 615 percent vote 732185 votes beating vice president joseph boakais unity party got 457579 385 percent votes immediately nec chairman jerome korkoya read final results weahs party headquarters erupted celebration ____ 430 pm nigerias president muhammadu buhari congratulated george weah election liberias next president buhari issued statement friday also commended liberian people peaceful conduct historic presidential runoff election called tuesdays vote another plus africas democratic scoreboard buhari says nigeria ready work liberia issues mutual interest called weahs victory affirmation liberian people remain united peaceful prosperous also commended outgoing president ellen johnson sirleaf work transforming liberia 12 years office liberia nation founded freed american slaves seeing first democratic transfer power 70 years sirleaf nobel peace prize winner steps ___ 3 pm liberias presidentelect exsoccer star george weah says honored join new generation heads state first public comments since rival conceded friday weah tweeted french response congratulations french president emmanuel macron weah adds lot together accelerate building tomorrows africa former fifa world player year played monaco paris saintgermain among others set take office january ___ 2 pm french president emmanuel macron called liberias presidentelect george weah congratulate invite visit french presidency says statement weah accepted invitation macron says former soccer star fifa world player year still special place frenchs hearts weah played monaco paris saintgermain among others take office january ___ 1220 pm liberias vice president congratulating former international soccer star george weah winning west african nations presidency joseph boakai address nation friday offering help weahs new government needed 98 percent votes counted late thursday weah received 615 percent ballots boakai received 385 percent liberia nation founded freed american slaves seeing first democratic transfer power 70 years africas first female president nobel peace prize winner ellen johnson sirleaf steps aside 51yearold weah senator entered politics decade ago take january ___ 645 celebrations begun liberia former fifa world player year george weah set declared winner west african nations presidential election 98 percent votes counted late thursday weah received 615 percent ballots vice president joseph boakai received 385 percent liberia nation founded freed american slaves seeing first democratic transfer power 70 years africas first female president nobel peace prize winner ellen johnson sirleaf steps aside led country backtoback civil wars saw deadly ebola outbreak 51yearold weah senator entered politics 2002 retirement led firstround election october didnt receive enough votes win outright monrovia liberia ap latest liberias election times local 600 pm liberias national election commission declared george weah presidentelect jewel howardtaylor vice presidentelect following dec 26 runoff poll commission says party coalition democratic change received 615 percent vote 732185 votes beating vice president joseph boakais unity party got 457579 385 percent votes immediately nec chairman jerome korkoya read final results weahs party headquarters erupted celebration ____ 430 pm nigerias president muhammadu buhari congratulated george weah election liberias next president buhari issued statement friday also commended liberian people peaceful conduct historic presidential runoff election called tuesdays vote another plus africas democratic scoreboard buhari says nigeria ready work liberia issues mutual interest called weahs victory affirmation liberian people remain united peaceful prosperous also commended outgoing president ellen johnson sirleaf work transforming liberia 12 years office liberia nation founded freed american slaves seeing first democratic transfer power 70 years sirleaf nobel peace prize winner steps ___ 3 pm liberias presidentelect exsoccer star george weah says honored join new generation heads state first public comments since rival conceded friday weah tweeted french response congratulations french president emmanuel macron weah adds lot together accelerate building tomorrows africa former fifa world player year played monaco paris saintgermain among others set take office january ___ 2 pm french president emmanuel macron called liberias presidentelect george weah congratulate invite visit french presidency says statement weah accepted invitation macron says former soccer star fifa world player year still special place frenchs hearts weah played monaco paris saintgermain among others take office january ___ 1220 pm liberias vice president congratulating former international soccer star george weah winning west african nations presidency joseph boakai address nation friday offering help weahs new government needed 98 percent votes counted late thursday weah received 615 percent ballots boakai received 385 percent liberia nation founded freed american slaves seeing first democratic transfer power 70 years africas first female president nobel peace prize winner ellen johnson sirleaf steps aside 51yearold weah senator entered politics decade ago take january ___ 645 celebrations begun liberia former fifa world player year george weah set declared winner west african nations presidential election 98 percent votes counted late thursday weah received 615 percent ballots vice president joseph boakai received 385 percent liberia nation founded freed american slaves seeing first democratic transfer power 70 years africas first female president nobel peace prize winner ellen johnson sirleaf steps aside led country backtoback civil wars saw deadly ebola 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<p>“We talked about this the other day,” Las Cruces coach Mark Lopez said. “I really don’t care (if people think we’re the favorites), to be honest. They don’t give out anything at the beginning of the season. That word — potential — is kind of dangerous to us. We don’t want to ride that a lot.”</p>
<p>It’s understandable why the Bulldawgs, the state runners-up to Rio Rancho last December, would draw such admiration. Most of their vital skill-position athletes — and quarterback Payton Ball, plus receivers Ivan Molina and Brandon Baeza are among the best at their positions in 6A — return. And Las Cruces goes much deeper than just that trio. Lopez believes running back Chase Chaloupek “is going to make a big splash.”</p>
<p>The offensive line will be entirely new for the Bulldawgs, if there is one question about their preparedness for the 2017 season.</p>
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<p>The pecking order behind the Bulldawgs in District 3-6A could go any number of ways. Mayfield, Oñate and Centennial all were state quarterfinalists last year. The Knights open with a fresh coat of paint under new coach Scott Veliz, who has spent many years coaching in El Paso and one at Midland Lee and has brought the spread offense with him.</p>
<p>He’s going to air it out as the Knights scrap their traditional option.</p>
<p>“These kids didn’t know how to run a spread,” Veliz said with a laugh. Senior quarterback Aaron Sanchez “can really sling it,” Veliz, 45, said. Centennial coach Aaron Ocampo said Oñate’s run-first attack never really suited Sanchez, who is naturally a pocket passer.</p>
<p>“It’s a work in progress,” Veliz said. “Some days we look like Oregon. Next day we look like a local middle school.”</p>
<p>The Knights also have one of the state’s premier players in speedy senior cornerback/slot receiver Monroe Young, a 6-foot-1, 182-pounder who has offers from New Mexico, New Mexico State, UTEP and Air Force, among others.</p>
<p>Of note: this year, Oñate and Centennial fought for inclusion at Aggie Memorial Stadium, and they will meet there on Thursday, Nov. 2, the night before Mayfield-Las Cruces.</p>
<p>Both Centennial and Mayfield suffered huge hits in the backfield during the offseason. For the Trojans, Isaac Vance, now at Kent State, graduated, and QB Torry Locklin transferred to a school in Texas. Like Vance, receiver Gaven Swinson was a senior last season and signed at New Mexico State. “I have no idea how we’re gonna be,” Mayfield coach Mike Bradley said. “You just never know.”</p>
<p>Bradley’s point: In 2005, the Trojans were a lot like this group, he said, with questions abounding. That team went undefeated.</p>
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<p>Last year, Mayfield was a popular pick to contend for a state title, but never made much noise and went out meekly in the quarterfinals. Even up to last week’s scrimmage, Bradley was still trying to sort out his quarterback position.</p>
<p>Centennial also was looking to settle on a starting QB, either Lance Frost or Noah Bartlett, although Ocampo isn’t concerned. “I don’t feel like I need to have someone set (before the opener),” he said.</p>
<p>The Centennial defense is sparked by outside linebackers James Blowers and Josiah Leon.</p>
<p>Also in District 3-6A, Hobbs is looking to improve markedly on a two-win 2016 season, and Carlsbad — which played both Las Cruces and Centennial very tough last year — hopes to find its way back into the playoff hunt.</p>
<p>The Wildcats also have had a QB tossup, between Darian Goins and Brandt Davis. But unlike Ocampo, Fullerton wants to have a clear starter for the opener Friday against Hobbs.</p>
<p>“For me,” he said, “it’s hard to rotate kids.”</p>
<p>The Wildcats will certainly chuck it more than they usually do, but Clovis also has a potentially electrifying transfer from Georgia in senior running back/cornerback Demerious Milton. The 5-foot-8, 175-pound Milton is a shutdown corner, Fullerton said, but when Clovis handed him the ball after getting the pads on recently, “he was pretty amazing,” Fullerton said. “Pretty exciting to see this kid.”</p>
<p>Clovis already has one established runner in senior Seth Lopez. Linebacker Rheal Kuchta and all-state safety Tomas Gallegos (who will miss the start of the year with a fractured foot) help anchor the defense.</p>
<p>CLASS 5A: The state semifinals last year were one half District 5-5A (St. Pius and Los Lunas) and one half District 4-5A (Artesia and Roswell).</p>
<p>Both Bulldogs coach Rex Henderson and Coyotes coach Jeff Lynn realize the potency of their league.</p>
<p>“You don’t want to brag,” Lynn said, “but at the end of the day, the state championship is gonna have to come through our district.”</p>
<p>Artesia fell to St. Pius in the title game last year; the Sartans blew out Roswell in the semifinals.</p>
<p>The Bulldogs almost certainly open as the favorite, both in this district and statewide. They are led by senior quarterback Taylor Null, who threw for 3,250 yards and 42 touchdown passes versus just six interceptions last year.</p>
<p>Three of his prime targets return: Kameron Aguilar (522 receiving yards), 4 TDs, Chaney Hardt (539 yards, 10 TDs) and Tyler Greenwood (nine touchdowns).</p>
<p>“To kind of get that close (to a state title) and come up short, it was frustration for them and also a motivator,” Henderson said. “We’re excited about the group we have back.”</p>
<p>Artesia lost its entire offensive line, but Henderson said that group has progressed nicely in the offseason. The defense returns all four starting linebackers, led by leading tackler Miguel Martinez, a three-year starter.</p>
<p>For Roswell, 1,000-yard rusher Gabe Najar, a senior fullback, returns. The Coyotes are deep at running back, although they hope to be a more efficient passing team this year.</p>
<p>“We’ve got a good nucleus of kids coming back,” Lynn said. Both the Roswell JV and freshman teams were 8-1 last season.</p>
<p>Said Henderson: “Roswell is as talented or more talented than they were a year ago.”</p>
<p>Goddard and Alamogordo were in the playoffs a year ago. Rockets coach Chris White described his team as “average right now,” although they have a dynamic receiver in Diego Miranda. The Tigers, who lost in the quarters last November to Artesia, have a new coach in A.J. Cisco.</p>
<p>ELSEWHERE: Portales (4A) is a defending state champion; Class 2A champion Lordsburg hired Dale Hooper as coach after he spent several years in Alamogordo.</p>
<p>The south also produced state champions last year in Capitan (3A) and Melrose (8-man). San Jon is the defending 6-man champ.</p>
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talked day las cruces coach mark lopez said really dont care people think favorites honest dont give anything beginning season word potential kind dangerous us dont want ride lot understandable bulldawgs state runnersup rio rancho last december would draw admiration vital skillposition athletes quarterback payton ball plus receivers ivan molina brandon baeza among best positions 6a return las cruces goes much deeper trio lopez believes running back chase chaloupek going make big splash offensive line entirely new bulldawgs one question preparedness 2017 season advertisement pecking order behind bulldawgs district 36a could go number ways mayfield oñate centennial state quarterfinalists last year knights open fresh coat paint new coach scott veliz spent many years coaching el paso one midland lee brought spread offense hes going air knights scrap traditional option kids didnt know run spread veliz said laugh senior quarterback aaron sanchez really sling veliz 45 said centennial coach aaron ocampo said oñates runfirst attack never really suited sanchez naturally pocket passer work progress veliz said days look like oregon next day look like local middle school knights also one states premier players speedy senior cornerbackslot receiver monroe young 6foot1 182pounder offers new mexico new mexico state utep air force among others note year oñate centennial fought inclusion aggie memorial stadium meet thursday nov 2 night mayfieldlas cruces centennial mayfield suffered huge hits backfield offseason trojans isaac vance kent state graduated qb torry locklin transferred school texas like vance receiver gaven swinson senior last season signed new mexico state idea gon na mayfield coach mike bradley said never know bradleys point 2005 trojans lot like group said questions abounding team went undefeated advertisement last year mayfield popular pick contend state title never made much noise went meekly quarterfinals even last weeks scrimmage bradley still trying sort quarterback position centennial also looking settle starting qb either lance frost noah bartlett although ocampo isnt concerned dont feel like need someone set opener said centennial defense sparked outside linebackers james blowers josiah leon also district 36a hobbs looking improve markedly twowin 2016 season carlsbad played las cruces centennial tough last year hopes find way back playoff hunt wildcats also qb tossup darian goins brandt davis unlike ocampo fullerton wants clear starter opener friday hobbs said hard rotate kids wildcats certainly chuck usually clovis also potentially electrifying transfer georgia senior running backcornerback demerious milton 5foot8 175pound milton shutdown corner fullerton said clovis handed ball getting pads recently pretty amazing fullerton said pretty exciting see kid clovis already one established runner senior seth lopez linebacker rheal kuchta allstate safety tomas gallegos miss start year fractured foot help anchor defense class 5a state semifinals last year one half district 55a st pius los lunas one half district 45a artesia roswell bulldogs coach rex henderson coyotes coach jeff lynn realize potency league dont want brag lynn said end day state championship gon na come district artesia fell st pius title game last year sartans blew roswell semifinals bulldogs almost certainly open favorite district statewide led senior quarterback taylor null threw 3250 yards 42 touchdown passes versus six interceptions last year three prime targets return kameron aguilar 522 receiving yards 4 tds chaney hardt 539 yards 10 tds tyler greenwood nine touchdowns kind get close state title come short frustration also motivator henderson said excited group back artesia lost entire offensive line henderson said group progressed nicely offseason defense returns four starting linebackers led leading tackler miguel martinez threeyear starter roswell 1000yard rusher gabe najar senior fullback returns coyotes deep running back although hope efficient passing team year weve got good nucleus kids coming back lynn said roswell jv freshman teams 81 last season said henderson roswell talented talented year ago goddard alamogordo playoffs year ago rockets coach chris white described team average right although dynamic receiver diego miranda tigers lost quarters last november artesia new coach aj cisco elsewhere portales 4a defending state champion class 2a champion lordsburg hired dale hooper coach spent several years alamogordo south also produced state champions last year capitan 3a melrose 8man san jon defending 6man champ
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<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) - A hush settled over financial markets on Wednesday as investors waited to hear how often the Federal Reserve might hike U.S. rates this year, while the currencies of exporting nations were rattled by fears of a full-blown trade war.</p> A man looks at an electronic stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan February 9, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
<p>MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was barely changed after four straight days of losses. E-Mini futures for the S&amp;P 500 ESc1 were slightly softer.</p>
<p>Japan's Nikkei <a href="/finance/markets/index?symbol=.N225" type="external">.N225</a> was closed for a local holiday while Australian shares were up 0.4 percent.</p>
<p>Global shares rallied for all of 2017 but have started this year on the back foot, hit by a combination of factors including the risk of faster rate rises in the United States and alarm over protectionism.</p>
<p>“Cracks in the bull case are starting to emerge,” said Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at BofAML, citing the bank’s March fund manager survey.</p>
<p>“The threat of a trade war returns to the top of the list of tail risks most commonly cited by investors, followed by inflation and a slowdown in global growth,” he added.</p>
<p>“Investors have yet to act on these fears, however, as rates and earnings are keeping the bulls bullish.”</p>
<p>U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to unveil up to $60 billion in import duties on Chinese goods by Friday. The move comes after Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum earlier this month.</p>
<p>Investors are worried Trump’s actions could escalate into a full-blown trade war if China and other countries retaliate with similar or harsher measures, threatening global growth.</p>
<p>To add to these concerns, a meeting of finance ministers and central banks of the world’s 20 biggest economies this week failed to diffuse the threat.</p>
<p>The so-called G20 agreed only to stand by an ambiguous declaration on trade from 2017 and “recognized” the need for more “dialogue and actions”.</p> TRADE WAR, FED
<p>The currencies of export-heavy nations such as the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian dollars have been knocked down in recent days.</p>
<p>The Aussie <a href="/finance/currencies/quote?srcCurr=AUD&amp;destCurr=USD" type="external">AUD=D4</a> fell to a three-month trough of $0.7679 overnight while the kiwi dollar <a href="/finance/currencies/quote?srcCurr=NZD&amp;destCurr=USD" type="external">NZD=D4</a> hit the lowest since early January. The Canadian dollar <a href="/finance/currencies/quote?srcCurr=CAD&amp;destCurr=USD" type="external">CAD=D4</a> held at $1.3076 from Monday's low of $1.3124, a level not seen since mid-2017.</p>
<p>The Hong Kong dollar <a href="/finance/currencies/quote?srcCurr=HKD&amp;destCurr=USD" type="external">HKD=</a> eased to a fresh 33-year low of HK$7.8452 to U.S. dollar in early Wednesday trade.</p>
<p>“The last three days has seen the AUD come under pressure as investors have considered Australia’s exposure to Asian markets in general and China in particular,” said Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist at BNY Mellon.</p>
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<p>“The risk would seem to be that deteriorating sentiment towards China and Chinese markets could leave the AUD looking particularly exposed, given the lack of yield support,” he said, with U.S. cash rates likely to rise above Australia’s this week.</p>
<p>The Japanese yen, a perceived safe haven during times of financial stress, has generally risen since the start of the year, although it eased overnight to a one-week low of 106.54 per dollar. <a href="/finance/currencies/quote?srcCurr=JPY&amp;destCurr=USD" type="external">JPY=</a></p>
<p>The greenback gained against a basket of currencies as traders limbered up for the two-day Fed Reserve meeting. .DXY</p>
<p>With a quarter-point hike - its sixth since the Fed began raising interest rates in late 2015 - baked into market prices, major currencies were largely moving in ranges.</p>
<p>Markets have largely priced in three U.S. rate hikes this year, but some analysts suspect the Fed’s ‘dot plot’ of forecasts could shift up to four and spook risk assets.</p>
<p>Among major commodities, oil prices gained as investors remained wary of growing crude supply, although tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran provided some support.</p>
<p>U.S. crude CLcv1 rose 23 cents to $63.77 per barrel. Brent LCOcv1 settled at $67.42.</p>
<p>Spot gold was steady at $1,310 an ounce XAU=.</p>
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<p>LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The suspended chief executive of Cambridge Analytica said in a secretly recorded video broadcast on Tuesday that his UK-based political consultancy’s online campaign played a decisive role in U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory.</p>
<p>CEO Alexander Nix’s comments, which could not be verified, are potentially a further problem for Facebook Inc as it faces lawmakers’ scrutiny in the United States and Europe over Cambridge Analytica’s improper use of 50 million Facebook users’ personal data to target voters.</p>
<p>The social media network’s shares fell for a second day, closing down 2.5 percent, as investors worried that its dealings with Cambridge Analytica might damage its reputation, deter advertisers and invite restrictive regulation. The company has lost $60 billion of its stock market value over the last two days.</p>
<p>Cambridge Analytica’s board of directors suspended Nix on Tuesday, shortly before the second part of British broadcaster Channel 4’s expose of the firm’s methods.</p>
<p>In the program Nix describes questionable practices used to influence foreign elections and said his firm did all the research, analytics and targeting of voters for Trump’s digital and TV campaigns. He also boasts he met Trump when he was the Republican presidential candidate “many times”.</p>
<p>Nix’s comments “do not represent the values or operations of the firm and his suspension reflects the seriousness with which we view this violation,” Cambridge Analytica said in a statement on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Cambridge Analytica has denied all the media claims and said it deleted the data after learning the information did not adhere to data protection rules.</p>
<p>Brad Parscale, the 2016 Trump campaign’s main digital adviser who dealt regularly with Cambridge Analytica, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Nix’s claims.</p>
<p>Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and now senior adviser, oversaw the Trump campaign’s digital operations. One former Trump adviser said Kushner brought Cambridge Analytica into the 2016 campaign effort. Kushner’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p>Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie told the Washington Post on Tuesday that in 2014 conservative strategist Steve Bannon, who would go on to be Trump's White House adviser, oversaw the firm's early efforts to collect Facebook data to build detailed profiles on millions of American voters. ( <a href="http://wapo.st/2HOTQNu" type="external">wapo.st/2HOTQNu</a>)</p>
<p>Bannon approved spending nearly $1 million to acquire data, including Facebook profiles, in 2014, Wylie told the Post. It is unclear whether Bannon knew how Cambridge Analytica was obtaining the Facebook data, the Post reported.</p>
<p>Bannon, who served on Cambridge Analytica’s board, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.</p>
<p>U.S. law bans foreigners from making contributions or spending money on behalf of a U.S. election campaign but it was not illegal for the Trump campaign to retain Cambridge Analytica’s services, according to Bradley Smith, a former Republican member of the U.S. Federal Election Commission.</p>
<p>“The fact that they are a British company doesn’t add anything to the analysis unless they were giving their services away for free or charging below-market rates,” said Smith, now a professor at the Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio.</p> FTC REVIEW, LAWSUIT
<p>U.S. and European lawmakers have demanded an explanation of how Cambridge Analytica gained access to user data in 2014 and why Facebook failed to inform its users, raising broader industry questions about consumer privacy.</p>
<p>Facebook said it had been told by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the leading U.S. consumer regulator, that it would receive a letter this week with questions about the data acquired by Cambridge Analytica. It said it had no indication of a formal investigation.</p> People walk past the building housing the offices of Cambridge Analytica in central London, Britain, March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
<p>“The entire company is outraged we were deceived,” Facebook said in a statement on Tuesday. “We are committed to vigorously enforcing our policies to protect people’s information and will take whatever steps are required to see that this happens.”</p>
<p>The FTC is reviewing whether Facebook violated a 2011 consent decree it reached with the authority over its privacy practices, a person briefed on the matter told Reuters.</p>
<p>If the FTC finds Facebook violated terms of the consent decree, it has the power to fine the company thousands of dollars a day per violation, which could add up to billions of dollars.</p>
<p>Facebook was also hit on Tuesday in a San Francisco court by the first of what could be many lawsuits by shareholders claiming to suffer losses because the company misled them about its ability to protect user data.&#160;The company could also soon face lawsuits on behalf of users whose personal information was exposed.</p>
<p>Facebook and its peers Alphabet Inc’s Google and Twitter already face a backlash from users and lawmakers over their role during the U.S. presidential election by allowing the spread of false information that might have swayed voters toward Trump.</p>
<p>Fear of increased regulation hurt other social media firms on Tuesday. Shares of Snap Inc fell 2.5 percent and Twitter Inc fell more than 10 percent.</p> Slideshow (6 Images) FOREIGN INFLUENCE
<p>U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, called on Tuesday for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in Congress. Congressional staff said the company would brief U.S. Senate and House aides on Wednesday.</p>
<p>A Congressional official said House Intelligence Committee Democrats plan to interview Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Wylie. The committee interviewed Nix by video teleconference, according to the Congressional official, but a transcript of that interview has not yet been made public.</p>
<p>The Senate Intelligence Committee, which is conducting a long-term investigation of alleged Russian interference in U.S. politics and a detailed examination of U.S. election security precautions, would carry out its own inquiry of Cambridge Analytica, a Congressional official with direct knowledge of the investigation said.</p>
<p>The White House said it welcomed inquiries, and that the president believes that Americans’ privacy should be protected.</p> Related Coverage
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<p>In Britain, the Information Commissioner’s Office, an independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, was seeking a warrant from a judge to search the offices of London-based Cambridge Analytica. It was unclear late on Tuesday whether it had obtained it.</p>
<p>Created in 2013, Cambridge Analytica markets itself as a source of consumer research, targeted advertising and other data-related services to both political and corporate clients.</p>
<p>According to the New York Times, it was launched with $15 million in backing from billionaire Republican donor Robert Mercer and a name chosen by Bannon.</p>
<p>Facebook says the data were harvested by a British academic, Aleksandr Kogan, who created an app on the platform that was downloaded by 270,000 people, providing access not only to their own personal data but also data from their friends.</p>
<p>Facebook said Kogan then violated its policies by passing the data to Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has since suspended both the consulting firm and SCL (Strategic Communication Laboratories), a government and military contractor.</p>
<p>Facebook said it had been told that the data were destroyed. Kogan was not immediately reachable for comment.</p>
<p>Reporting by David Ingram in San Francisco, Kate Holton and Paul Sandle in London, David Shepardson, Susan Heavey, Mark Hosenball, Jonathan Landay and Sarah N. Lynch in Washington, Jonathan Stempel in New York; Additional reporting by Munsif Vengattil; Writing by Susan Thomas and Lisa Shumaker; Editing by Nick Zieminski, Bill Rigby and Michael Perry</p> Our Standards:
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<p>(Reuters) - FedEx Corp will screen every package at the Texas facility where a parcel exploded on Tuesday, according to a FedEx manager, describing extraordinary steps the company is taking in response to a series of bombings in the state capital.</p> A FedEx truck is held from entering the scene of a blast at a FedEx facility in Schertz, Texas, U.S., March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Sergio Flores
<p>The package delivery company will also X-ray entire truckloads of parcels at its sorting facility outside Austin, and then divert them elsewhere for sorting and delivery, said the FedEx employee who was not authorized to speak on the record. The source does not work at the sorting facility but was briefed on the situation.</p>
<p>FedEx spokesman Jim McCluskey said he had no immediate comment.</p>
<p>The blast at FedEx on Tuesday was one of five explosions in Texas in the past 18 days. A sixth explosion on Tuesday night did not appear related, authorities said. The five attacks have killed two people, injured others and left hundreds of federal and local investigators scrambling to find the perpetrator and a motive.</p>
<p>Package screening is not routine at the nation’s big delivery companies such as FedEx, United Parcel Service Inc or the U.S. Postal Service. The industry delivers a total of around 40 million parcels in the United States each day, industry experts said. Checking every package on a regular basis would virtually paralyze their operations.</p>
<p>FedEx will carry out the special screenings at the sorting facility in Schertz, Texas where the package exploded, injuring one worker, and at a second location in Austin, where another explosive device was found, the employee said. The second package was turned over to police.</p>
<p>“FedEx in conjunction with the authorities are field X-raying all the packages one at a time,” the employee said. “From then on, we will be doing bulk X-rays of entire trailers.”</p>
<p>Packages will likely be delayed by a day or two at the facility, and FedEx was re-routing all other packages to its hub in Houston to avoid further delays, he said.</p>
<p>FedEx has provided law enforcement with “extensive evidence from our advanced technology security systems designed to protect the safety of our teammates, our customers and the communities we serve,” Chief Executive Officer Fred Smith told analysts on Tuesday after the company reported quarterly financial results.</p>
<p>FedEx will provide authorities with the location where the package was picked up by the driver and the time, the employee said, providing authorities with a wealth of data.</p>
<p>Satish Jindel, a founder of the delivery company that became FedEx Ground and now serves as president of ShipMatrix, which tracks on-time shipments, said it was highly unlikely that the industry would move toward routine screening. Package bombs are rare, he said, making it unrealistic to check every package, every day, considering the enormous cost.</p>
<p>“They don’t, they can’t, and they shouldn’t, and it would be unreasonable and ignorant for this country and for people to expect it,” Jindel said. “It would shut the economy down.”</p>
<p>For now, the industry will likely rely on employees who are trained to flag suspicious packages, Jindel said.</p>
<p>UPS spokesman Glenn Zaccara said the world’s largest package delivery company has security measures in place and was cooperating with law enforcement in their investigation, but declined to comment further.</p>
<p>DHL Worldwide Express said it had “standard” security and screening procedures in place and that its security teams were monitoring the situation in Texas.</p>
<p>The U.S. Postal Service uses technology, targeted screening and employee training to stop suspicious packages, spokesman Dave Partenheimer said.</p>
<p>The FedEx manager with knowledge of the incident said the blast appeared to have been set off by a mechanical arm that diverts packages along a conveyer belt. When the arm came out and hit the package, it exploded on the sorter just as it entered a chute, he said.</p>
<p>“The good thing is it went off when it was going down the chute,” he said. “The chute actually shielded anybody below from the blast.”</p>
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<p>AUSTIN/SCHERTZ, Texas (Reuters) - The series of parcel bombs in Texas that have killed two people and put residents on edge escalated on Tuesday with two more incidents, a bomb that exploded at a FedEx distribution center near San Antonio and one that was discovered before it detonated.</p>
<p>A third explosion Tuesday evening in Austin was not a package bomb and officials said it did not appear to be related to the other incidents.</p>
<p>The latest cluster of booby-trapped packages brought to six the number of explosive devices - five that detonated - that have come under investigation in Texas this month as the work of a possible serial bomber.</p>
<p>Baffled investigators have taken the extraordinary step of making public appeals asking that whoever is responsible to at least come forward with a demand or an explanation.</p>
<p>Early on Tuesday, a package filled with nails and metal shrapnel exploded at about 12:30 a.m. on a conveyer belt at FedEx sorting center in Schertz, near San Antonio, knocking a female employee off her feet, officials said. The package was being sent from Austin to another address in Austin and passed through a sorting center in Schertz, about 65 miles (105 km) away.</p>
<p>Authorities said the worker was treated for her injuries at the scene.</p> Law enforcement personnel are seen gathering evidence outside a FedEx Store which was closed for investigation, in Austin, Texas, U.S., March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Sergio Flores
<p>Later in the morning, authorities were alerted to a suspicious package at a FedEx facility in Austin. Police and federal agents called to the scene found the package contained a bomb and it “was disrupted by law enforcement,” according to a joint statement from Austin police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).</p>
<p>No injuries were reported, the statement said.</p> Slideshow (18 Images)
<p>The three agencies said investigators had determined that the two FedEx bombs “are connected” to the four package explosions that occurred between March 2 and March 18 in Austin, killing two people and injuring four others.</p>
<p>But officials with the ATF said the incident Tuesday evening in south Austin, which seriously injured a man in his 20s, “does not appear to be related” to the previous incidents. Local emergency services officials said the victim is expected to survive.</p> Related Coverage
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<p>Speaking through the media, officials have appealed to the bomber to reveal the motives for the attacks. They have also asked the public for any tips, offering a $115,000 reward.</p>
<p>“Somebody has to know something,” FBI spokeswoman Christina Garza said. “The person behind these explosives, please, we want to know why.”</p>
<p>“This is obviously a very, very sick individual, or maybe individuals,” President Donald Trump told reporters. “These are sick people, and we will get to the bottom of it.”</p>
<p>Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee, Mark Hosenball and Lisa Lambert in Washington, Andrew Hay and Eric Johnson; Writing by Daniel Trotta and Rosalba O'Brien; Editing by Tom Brown and Leslie Adler</p> Our Standards:
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facility parcel exploded tuesday according fedex manager describing extraordinary steps company taking response series bombings state capital fedex truck held entering scene blast fedex facility schertz texas us march 20 2018 reuterssergio flores package delivery company also xray entire truckloads parcels sorting facility outside austin divert elsewhere sorting delivery said fedex employee authorized speak record source work sorting facility briefed situation fedex spokesman jim mccluskey said immediate comment blast fedex tuesday one five explosions texas past 18 days sixth explosion tuesday night appear related authorities said five attacks killed two people injured others left hundreds federal local investigators scrambling find perpetrator motive package screening routine nations big delivery companies fedex united parcel service inc us postal service industry delivers total around 40 million parcels united states day industry experts said checking every package regular basis would virtually paralyze operations fedex carry special screenings sorting facility schertz texas package exploded injuring one worker second location austin another explosive device found employee said second package turned police fedex conjunction authorities field xraying packages one time employee said bulk xrays entire trailers packages likely delayed day two facility fedex rerouting packages hub houston avoid delays said fedex provided law enforcement extensive evidence advanced technology security systems designed protect safety teammates customers communities serve chief executive officer fred smith told analysts tuesday company reported quarterly financial results fedex provide authorities location package picked driver time employee said providing authorities wealth data satish jindel founder delivery company became fedex ground serves president shipmatrix tracks ontime shipments said highly unlikely industry would move toward routine screening package bombs rare said making unrealistic check every package every day considering enormous cost dont cant shouldnt would unreasonable ignorant country people expect jindel said would shut economy industry likely rely employees trained flag suspicious packages jindel said ups spokesman glenn zaccara said worlds largest package delivery company security measures place cooperating law enforcement investigation declined comment dhl worldwide express said standard security screening procedures place security teams monitoring situation texas us postal service uses technology targeted screening employee training stop suspicious packages spokesman dave partenheimer said fedex manager knowledge incident said blast appeared set mechanical arm diverts packages along conveyer belt arm came hit package exploded sorter entered chute said good thing went going chute said chute actually shielded anybody blast reporting eric johnson writing daniel trotta editing frank mcgurty lisa shumaker standards thomson reuters trust principles austinschertz texas reuters series parcel bombs texas killed two people put residents edge escalated tuesday two incidents bomb exploded fedex distribution center near san antonio one discovered detonated third explosion tuesday evening austin package bomb officials said appear related incidents latest cluster boobytrapped packages brought six number explosive devices five detonated come investigation texas month work possible serial bomber baffled investigators taken extraordinary step making public appeals asking whoever responsible least come forward demand explanation early tuesday package filled nails metal shrapnel exploded 1230 conveyer belt fedex sorting center schertz near san antonio knocking female employee feet officials said package sent austin another address austin passed sorting center schertz 65 miles 105 km away authorities said worker treated injuries scene law enforcement personnel seen gathering evidence outside fedex store closed investigation austin texas us march 20 2018 reuterssergio flores later morning authorities alerted suspicious package fedex facility austin police federal agents called scene found package contained bomb disrupted law enforcement according joint statement austin police federal bureau investigation us bureau alcohol tobacco firearms explosives atf injuries reported statement said slideshow 18 images three agencies said investigators determined two fedex bombs connected four package explosions occurred march 2 march 18 austin killing two people injuring four others officials atf said incident tuesday evening south austin seriously injured man 20s appear related previous incidents local emergency services officials said victim expected survive related coverage fedex scan every parcel two texas facilities blast serial bombings put texas capital edge known link terrorism texas bombings white house speaking media officials appealed bomber reveal motives attacks also asked public tips offering 115000 reward 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<p>Freeman uses several approaches to sell her products, believing that staying adaptable and fluid is the best way to do business in 2017.</p>
<p>She gets many of her sales through Amazon, where she sells her Anti-Bug Tonic. But she also sets up a kiosk nearly every day at Kirtland Air Force Base, where she says she is known as The Lotion Lady. She also travels to trade shows where she says she can sometimes nearly sell out.</p>
<p>But her newest approach is direct sales. She sells to “advisers” at wholesale prices, and they turn around and sell the product. The advisers can be individuals or stores, and a kickback to her is not part of the deal.</p>
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<p>For this new approach, she is developing a training program and vetting potential advisers. She has two ready to go in Georgia at the end of the summer and is looking for the right people here in New Mexico.</p>
<p>Her line of lotions and oils, named for her 5-year-old daughter, is her full-time job, and after a lifetime of ups and downs, she is finally exactly where she wants to be.</p>
<p>Freeman is from Georgia and comes from a design background, working for several years as a designer for Dillard’s, a job that sent her all over the world. Eventually, she ended up living in India, where her daughter, Queen Leela, was born. She and her then-husband returned to the United States and settled in Georgia.</p>
<p>“I ended up working part time at a hotel. I was separated from my husband, I had this little one and I just couldn’t sleep,” Freeman said.</p>
<p>It was in those sleepless nights that Leela’s Body Cocktails was born.</p>
<p>“I’d be up late, and I’d just mix these cocktails of lotions and then use them myself and give them to friends,” she said. It wasn’t long before her friends pressured her into starting her business.</p>
<p>Eager to leave Georgia, Freeman and her daughter pointed their wheels west. “The universe just told me to go west, and here I am.”</p>
<p>Freeman is enjoying the hard work and doing what she loves. She has over 50 products for sale and said “about 16” are surefire best-sellers. Her No. 1? The Anti-Bug Tonic, which amuses Freeman because the concern about mosquitoes in New Mexico is nothing compared with what Georgia residents must put up with.</p>
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<p>When brokers Daniel Kearney and Austin Tidwell of AllenSigmon Real Estate Group decided to take on the project of selling the former Y-Mart gas station on Zuni SE, they had no idea it was going to be such a battle.</p>
<p>“Well, we made a database of gas stations around town and started speaking with gas station owners,” Kearney said. “We got a lot of mumbo-jumbo about that location (where Lead and Coal intersect to become Zuni) being cursed, but really they knew the sales numbers for that location and they weren’t very good.”</p>
<p>Kearney and Tidwell quickly realized that they were going to have to change track or abandon the project all together.</p>
<p>“So we started reaching out to other businesses. We did some research and found out how much it would cost to remove the (gas) tanks and adjusted the price,” Kearney said.</p>
<p>Eventually, they were approached by Tim Borror, a local developer from TB Consultants who realized it would be a great location for a gym.</p>
<p>“There really aren’t any other gyms in the area,” Borror said. The Downtown market has a Sports and Wellness and a Simms Gym, and the University area has Johnson Gym, which caters only to students, faculty, staff and alumni of the University of New Mexico.</p>
<p>Borror and the team of Kearney and Tidwell eventually worked out a deal, and Borror decided to bring in Anytime Fitness, a Minnesota-based franchise. “(Anytime Fitness) was a good fit. They are one of the top franchises in the country, and they have a great culture. It was a no-brainer,” Borror said.</p>
<p>He is shooting for an early September opening for what will be a 4,000-square-foot facility and the fifth Anytime Fitness in Albuquerque.</p>
<p>Borror, franchise owner and contractor for the project, is planning on renovating the interior, adding 1,200 square feet and temporarily filling the gas tanks with sand until they can be removed “at a later date.”</p>
<p>The gym will employ four full-time staffers by the end of the year – a manager and three personal trainers.</p>
<p>In other news:</p>
<p>• M’Tucci’s Italian restaurant is expanding and is now the “first New Mexico production facility approved to retail cured meats,” according to a news release. With the approval, M’Tucci’s will look to move an expanded production facility to the east side of Albuquerque. It is still exploring options for a location. The eatery has a restaurant at Coors and Montaño with a market and deli nearby. It also has a restaurant at Unser Pavilion in Rio Rancho.</p>
<p>• Weck’s restaurant opened a new location near Cottonwood Mall, at 10131 Coors NW, on June 19. This is the 10th Weck’s location in Albuquerque and Rio Rancho.</p>
<p>• Rudy’s Country Store and Bar-B-Q opened its third New Mexico location on June 28 in Las Cruces. The Texas-based eatery will be operated by area manager Randy Kenna, who will manage all three locations in the state. Rudy’s operates 34 restaurants in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Colorado.</p>
<p>• Jersey Mike’s Subs will open a new location on Holly NE, according to Josie Capozzi, vice president of franchise relations. This will be the sixth Jersey Mike’s to open in Albuquerque and Rio Rancho. The new location is in the design phase, and permits are still pending. An opening date has not been set.</p>
<p>• Stone Forge Fitness, a locally owned gym at 6100 Jefferson NE, closed its doors Friday after two years. Owner Kirk Kapple, in an emailed statement this month, did not give a reason for the closure but did express gratitude to customers.</p>
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<p>In San Diego, waves swept two women, one fatally, away from shoreline rocks and into the surf. Some 400 miles to the north, the storm took another casualty. This one was a ship, a curious artifact of American history. The swells tore the stern off a crumbling but famous boat, the World War I-era tanker named the S.S. Palo Alto.</p>
<p>Since 1930, the Palo Alto has been a symbol of Santa Cruz County, sitting at the end of a pier that juts from Monterey Bay’s Seacliff Beach. During Saturday’s storm, the waves reached a record height: 34 feet, according to a National Weather Service buoy in the bay, more than a foot taller than the previous record set in 2008. With the tall waves came destruction. The pounding surf snapped a section of the Palo Alto nearest to shore from the rest of the ship.</p>
<p>The boat had an unusual concrete hull as well as an unusual origin story. As World War I progressed, and civilian and military vessels fell by the hundreds to German submarine torpedoes, ship builders worried about a shortage of steel. In 1917, the Emergency Fleet Corporation was formed under President Woodrow Wilson.</p>
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<p>The emergency fleet commissioned an order for 24 new ships built out of ferroconcrete. The material, concrete reinforced with steel, was cheaper to produce than steel and more readily available. It was also capable of producing boats that floated. In fact, the French inventor of ferroconcrete, Joseph-Louis Lambot, had created a concrete dinghy a half-century before; his small boat was displayed at the 1855 World’s Fair.</p>
<p>The Emergency Fleet Corporation’s choice for concrete ships was a move, as described in a 1918 issue of the trade journal Concrete, born out of emergency. The year before, a Norwegian engineer had built a 84-foot-long ship with a concrete hull. But larger tankers like the Palo Alto were yet untested. “Good engineering judgment puts the concrete seagoing ship idea on a sound basis,” noted the journal. “But it hasn’t been proved – that’s all.”</p>
<p>The capabilities of U.S. concrete ships would remain unproven during the war. By the time builders completed all 420 feet of the S.S. Palo Alto, at the Naval Shipyard in Oakland, Calif., World War I was over.</p>
<p>The Palo Alto did not move from Oakland until 1929, according to the California Department of Parks and Recreation. On the ship’s first voyage, it was towed to the Sea Cliff beach, where the Cal-Nevada Company scuttled the boat by opening the valves in its hull. It earned the nickname the Cement Boat, and became a tourist destination.</p>
<p>In 1930, a pier was constructed to link the ship to the beach. The Cal-Nevada Company installed a heated pool – 54 feet long – as well as a casino and a dance floor. The party on board the S.S. Palo Alto lasted for two years, until its prospects were hit by the twin blows of a severe winter storm and the Great Depression.</p>
<p>The state of California purchased the ship, and it became a popular fishing spot. The state closed off public access to the ship 1950, after years of decay. Despite opening for a few years following a restoration attempt in the 1980s, the ship once again became off-limits. The fishing pier was open to foot traffic during summer 2016 but is now closed for repairs, according to the Parks and Recreation Department.</p>
<p>Despite the repeated pummeling, the Cement Boat remained a touchstone. “There are always people who come back here,” after having moved away, John Hibble, director of the local Aptos History Museum, told the Santa Cruz Sentinel in February. “Their parents danced on the ship. Some people were little kids when they actually got to go out on the front part of the ship.”</p>
<p>And yet life did not abandon the S.S. Palo Alto completely. Pelicans and other seabirds perched on the ship’s deck, leaving behind streaks of white on the cracked concrete. In the water below, marine mammals like sea lions hunted sea perch and other fish. These fish, in turn, fed upon the algae and other organisms that grew in the shelter of the artificial reef.</p>
<p>The discovery of dead wildlife tarnished the Cement Boat’s environmental legacy in the mid-2000s. Exposed to nearly a century’s worth of the elements, the ship’s tanks had cracked, leaking fuel oil; the Palo Alto was held responsible for the dozens of birds that subsequently washed up, dead, on nearby beaches.</p>
<p>In 2006, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife conducted a $1.7 million cleanup effort. Workers sucked half-a-thousand gallons of gunk from the ship’s cracked tanks. Inside the ship, they found an additional 200 bird bodies and two dead harbor seals, reported the Monterey County Herald.</p>
<p>In the decade since the environmental cleanup, the ship had crumbled further. Winter 2016 storms shoved the ship to the starboard side, reported the Sentinel, and cracked open its rear half.</p>
<p>This year’s weather caused even more damage. “It’s just an unusual January with this active weather,” said National Weather Service forecaster Drew Peterson, according to the Mercury News. “With the Cement Ship, we’re starting to see the ramifications.”</p>
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<p>On May 4, 1959, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Gene Autry and other musical luminaries sat down to formal dinners and golden statues in Los Angeles and New York simultaneously for the very first Grammy Awards.</p>
<p>"As I recall, no one objected to dressing black-tie back then, though like so much else, that would change eventually," said Christine Farnon, who helped organize the first presentation and became executive vice president of the Recording Academy, in a short history on the Grammy website.</p>
<p>Change Grammy fashion did, evolving slowly over 60 shows into the wildest and wackiest red carpet of the awards season. By 1974, Cher's navel was out, as good a barometer as any.</p>
<p>In the early years, tuxedoes and traditional evening gowns prevailed. David Bowie helped shake things up, simply by being David Bowie, in his orange hair phase. Liberace and Aretha Franklin added sparkle. Bette Midler once wore a .45 record album in her hair. Dolly Parton showed up decades ago in a bright pink pantsuit, before bright pink pantsuits were mild compared to what came later.</p>
<p>In those simpler times, through the '60s and '70s, there was a whole lot of great big hair. There were Nehru collars, Beatles in caps and Isaac Hayes boldly bringing it in huge bedazzled caftans. By the '80s, anything went and there was a glitter glove on one of Michael Jackson's hands.</p>
<p>"When you compare it to other awards shows, you never know what you're going to get at the Grammy Awards," said Nwaka Onwusa, curator of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. "It's great that in music, everyone can be welcome no matter what you're wearing. It doesn't have to be that tuxedo black tie situation all the time. Music has no boundaries and that's the cool thing about it."</p>
<p>A glance at some outrageous fashion moments at the Grammys:</p>
<p>CHER'S BUTTERFLY NIGHT</p>
<p>Before Cher went full-on Bob Mackie showgirl, she popped over to the 1974 Grammys with a huge green and pink crystal butterfly somehow affixed to one side of her head, her signature long, dark hair flowing down her back. Below that outsized sparkly insect was a tiny halter bandeau silk top in white with a matching huge butterfly suspended between her breasts.</p>
<p>The motif was carried over into the waist of her low-hung, swingy bottom half. It was a big bellybutton party. She had a long sheer jacket she sort of used as a shield in photos.</p>
<p>RICK JAMES &amp; GRACE JONES</p>
<p>The year was 1983. That's before Lady Gaga was born. The bad boy of funk, with his long braids — short strands in front — and the outrageous Jones had a really good time together mugging for the cameras at the Grammys.</p>
<p>He was in a shiny long-sleeve textured cardigan held together by a belt, paired with a studded bandanna and joggers. Jones wore an open weave vinyl-like tunic with spaghetti strands that left little to the imagination. On her head was an umbrella-shaped matching hat, on her hands long black gloves.</p>
<p>While we've lost James, Jones is alive today breaking fashion barriers.</p>
<p>MICHAEL JACKSON. PERIOD.</p>
<p>The year: 1984. The win: A record-breaking eight Grammys. The look: Unforgettable.</p>
<p>As the King of Pop amassed his statues throughout the evening, he sparkled in a military-style blue and gold jacket, his one white glove in place. He DID take his trademark shades off after winning No. 7.</p>
<p>When we say the encrusted toggle-closed jacket sparkled, we mean SPARKLED! It had gold epaulets (that also sparkled) and a matching gold sash. Beatles fans, think Sgt. Pepper, only Jackson's version stopped at the waist and was far, far, far more embellished.</p>
<p>Onwusa noted Jackson's "influence on fashion even now," adding: "Artists and designers still look back on Michael Jackson."</p>
<p>CELINE DION'S REAR END</p>
<p>You know how we see a lot of backsides on red carpets these days? Well, Celine did it back in 1993, thank you very much.</p>
<p>Her look was all black lace. It had long bell sleeves on the sheer outer dress and an average plunge to the neck. What it also had was a tiny black thong underneath. Dion showed it off, front and back, with a smile on her face.</p>
<p>She left her hair down and bedroom messy.</p>
<p>JENNIFER LOPEZ DOES NOT-THERE GREEN</p>
<p>In 2000, JLo welcomed the new millennium as a rising star. She showed up at the Grammys in a sheer silk chiffon Versace green dress with a tropical leaf and bamboo motif. The dress was Donatella Versace's debut of sorts after the tragic murder of her brother, Gianni.</p>
<p>To say there was a plunge to the front of this dress is an understatement. It barely had a front at all, relying heavily on adhesive to keep it this side of wardrobe malfunction.</p>
<p>The open front went straight on down to just above the pelvic region, where a large citrine brooch, with help from smaller citrines, provided strategic coverage. It had long sleeves and skimmed the ground with a short train in back.</p>
<p>Before Lopez wore the dress, it was presented on a catwalk. Donatella wore it herself, at the 1999 Met Gala. Spice Girl Geri Halliwell wore it to the NRJ Music Awards in France about a month before Lopez. But Lopez made it her own, and changed the red carpet game as that plunge was copied for years to come.</p>
<p>Word is pictures of the dress were downloaded at such a frenetic pace that Google decided to create its searchable Google Image function.</p>
<p>TONI BRAXTON IN GODDESS WHITE</p>
<p>How does a stunner of a singer follow a stunner of a singer on the Grammys red carpet? In 2001, Braxton pulled a JLo when she wore a white silk jersey Richard Tyler dress, but not just any white dress.</p>
<p>She went all in on the hip-baring in a dress that had no sides, save a crystal-embellished piece of fabric that held the front and the back together. But there was hardly a back or a front to go with the no sides.</p>
<p>The halter front fell open to her navel. She used the ever-valuable double-sided tape to keep the top part in place. She was the talk around the water cooler the next day, especially on this issue: There was a thong involved.</p>
<p>LADY GAGA AS GOOD WITCH</p>
<p>It was at the 52nd Grammys in 2010 that Gaga went Jetsons, hitting the red carpet in a sparkly futuristic lavender dress by Armani Prive with suspended metal hoops encasing her body. She held a huge spiky star for photos. Her wig hair was a bright yellow ombre that appeared attached to the top of the corset-style dress. And Gaga had on those towering high platform shoes she was so fond of.</p>
<p>The skirt of the dress was short-short in the front and stiffly opened to a ground-skimming length in the back, creating an oval shape that went nicely with all those hoops. She had fun striking poses that night, when she later won two awards, for best dance recording and best electronic-dance album.</p>
<p>NICKI MINAJ &amp; THE POPE</p>
<p>In 2012, the singer-rapper walked the red carpet with platinum blonde hair, dressed in a scarlet red Versace cloak and attached hood. She was on the arm of an older dude dressed as the pope, high hat and all. There were ruffles below her high collar, beaded black embellishments and matching satin wrist gloves, lending an air of, what? A nun's habit was mentioned.</p>
<p>A fews days later, Minaj explained her vibe that night, topped off with a performance that involved dancing priests, an exorcism and levitation. She said it was all part of a movie she was writing. OK then.</p>
<p>PHARRELL'S REALLY HIGH HAT</p>
<p>You know who deserved a Grammy in 2014? The Vivienne Westwood Canadian Mountie hat on the head of Pharrell, that's who.</p>
<p>He paired the hat with a shorts suit and was the talk of the internet. The fast food chain Arby's even tweeted at him: "Hey @Pharrell, can we have our hat back? #GRAMMYs," because it was so similar to its logo.</p>
<p>Pharrell ended up selling the hat on eBay for $44,100 to benefit From One Hand To AnOTHER, his charity that helps children learn through technology and the arts.</p>
<p>The buyer? Arby's.</p>
<p>RIHANNA THE CONFECTION</p>
<p>It was ultra-huge. It was bubblegum pink. It was RiRi's 2015 tulle strapless Grammy gown.</p>
<p>The two-tiered dress by Giambattista Valli was dubbed "The Cupcake." There was a girly innocence to it rather than her usual bad-girl edge. Detractors had some fun, likening the look to a cake topper and an ode to Glinda the Good Witch.</p>
<p>Word has it Rihanna found the gown on the internet after it was shown during Paris couture week.</p>
<p>BEYONCE, AN ACTUAL QUEEN</p>
<p>February 2017. Beyonce was expecting her twins. She performed at the Grammys in gold, royal crown and neck collar in place.</p>
<p>Look closely at the body-hugging dress and you'll see an embroidered portrait of Queen Bey herself smack in the center, above the navel.</p>
<p>Peter Dundas designed the gown and others she wore that night. They were his first under his own name after working for the Roberto Cavalli and Emilio Pucci brands.</p>
<p>Dundas told Vogue the dress took one week to embroider with 50 people working on it. Gustav Klimt was an influence, along with Art Deco motifs inspired by Erte. He said the lyrics from Beyonce's "Love Drought" also came into play in the story-driven design. Sun rays symbolized the African goddess Oshun. Dundas added two cherubs on the hips dressed in ivy.</p>
<p>Bey won a Grammy for "Lemonade" that night and extolled the virtues of black beauty in her speech.</p>
<p>On May 4, 1959, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Gene Autry and other musical luminaries sat down to formal dinners and golden statues in Los Angeles and New York simultaneously for the very first Grammy Awards.</p>
<p>"As I recall, no one objected to dressing black-tie back then, though like so much else, that would change eventually," said Christine Farnon, who helped organize the first presentation and became executive vice president of the Recording Academy, in a short history on the Grammy website.</p>
<p>Change Grammy fashion did, evolving slowly over 60 shows into the wildest and wackiest red carpet of the awards season. By 1974, Cher's navel was out, as good a barometer as any.</p>
<p>In the early years, tuxedoes and traditional evening gowns prevailed. David Bowie helped shake things up, simply by being David Bowie, in his orange hair phase. Liberace and Aretha Franklin added sparkle. Bette Midler once wore a .45 record album in her hair. Dolly Parton showed up decades ago in a bright pink pantsuit, before bright pink pantsuits were mild compared to what came later.</p>
<p>In those simpler times, through the '60s and '70s, there was a whole lot of great big hair. There were Nehru collars, Beatles in caps and Isaac Hayes boldly bringing it in huge bedazzled caftans. By the '80s, anything went and there was a glitter glove on one of Michael Jackson's hands.</p>
<p>"When you compare it to other awards shows, you never know what you're going to get at the Grammy Awards," said Nwaka Onwusa, curator of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. "It's great that in music, everyone can be welcome no matter what you're wearing. It doesn't have to be that tuxedo black tie situation all the time. Music has no boundaries and that's the cool thing about it."</p>
<p>A glance at some outrageous fashion moments at the Grammys:</p>
<p>CHER'S BUTTERFLY NIGHT</p>
<p>Before Cher went full-on Bob Mackie showgirl, she popped over to the 1974 Grammys with a huge green and pink crystal butterfly somehow affixed to one side of her head, her signature long, dark hair flowing down her back. Below that outsized sparkly insect was a tiny halter bandeau silk top in white with a matching huge butterfly suspended between her breasts.</p>
<p>The motif was carried over into the waist of her low-hung, swingy bottom half. It was a big bellybutton party. She had a long sheer jacket she sort of used as a shield in photos.</p>
<p>RICK JAMES &amp; GRACE JONES</p>
<p>The year was 1983. That's before Lady Gaga was born. The bad boy of funk, with his long braids — short strands in front — and the outrageous Jones had a really good time together mugging for the cameras at the Grammys.</p>
<p>He was in a shiny long-sleeve textured cardigan held together by a belt, paired with a studded bandanna and joggers. Jones wore an open weave vinyl-like tunic with spaghetti strands that left little to the imagination. On her head was an umbrella-shaped matching hat, on her hands long black gloves.</p>
<p>While we've lost James, Jones is alive today breaking fashion barriers.</p>
<p>MICHAEL JACKSON. PERIOD.</p>
<p>The year: 1984. The win: A record-breaking eight Grammys. The look: Unforgettable.</p>
<p>As the King of Pop amassed his statues throughout the evening, he sparkled in a military-style blue and gold jacket, his one white glove in place. He DID take his trademark shades off after winning No. 7.</p>
<p>When we say the encrusted toggle-closed jacket sparkled, we mean SPARKLED! It had gold epaulets (that also sparkled) and a matching gold sash. Beatles fans, think Sgt. Pepper, only Jackson's version stopped at the waist and was far, far, far more embellished.</p>
<p>Onwusa noted Jackson's "influence on fashion even now," adding: "Artists and designers still look back on Michael Jackson."</p>
<p>CELINE DION'S REAR END</p>
<p>You know how we see a lot of backsides on red carpets these days? Well, Celine did it back in 1993, thank you very much.</p>
<p>Her look was all black lace. It had long bell sleeves on the sheer outer dress and an average plunge to the neck. What it also had was a tiny black thong underneath. Dion showed it off, front and back, with a smile on her face.</p>
<p>She left her hair down and bedroom messy.</p>
<p>JENNIFER LOPEZ DOES NOT-THERE GREEN</p>
<p>In 2000, JLo welcomed the new millennium as a rising star. She showed up at the Grammys in a sheer silk chiffon Versace green dress with a tropical leaf and bamboo motif. The dress was Donatella Versace's debut of sorts after the tragic murder of her brother, Gianni.</p>
<p>To say there was a plunge to the front of this dress is an understatement. It barely had a front at all, relying heavily on adhesive to keep it this side of wardrobe malfunction.</p>
<p>The open front went straight on down to just above the pelvic region, where a large citrine brooch, with help from smaller citrines, provided strategic coverage. It had long sleeves and skimmed the ground with a short train in back.</p>
<p>Before Lopez wore the dress, it was presented on a catwalk. Donatella wore it herself, at the 1999 Met Gala. Spice Girl Geri Halliwell wore it to the NRJ Music Awards in France about a month before Lopez. But Lopez made it her own, and changed the red carpet game as that plunge was copied for years to come.</p>
<p>Word is pictures of the dress were downloaded at such a frenetic pace that Google decided to create its searchable Google Image function.</p>
<p>TONI BRAXTON IN GODDESS WHITE</p>
<p>How does a stunner of a singer follow a stunner of a singer on the Grammys red carpet? In 2001, Braxton pulled a JLo when she wore a white silk jersey Richard Tyler dress, but not just any white dress.</p>
<p>She went all in on the hip-baring in a dress that had no sides, save a crystal-embellished piece of fabric that held the front and the back together. But there was hardly a back or a front to go with the no sides.</p>
<p>The halter front fell open to her navel. She used the ever-valuable double-sided tape to keep the top part in place. She was the talk around the water cooler the next day, especially on this issue: There was a thong involved.</p>
<p>LADY GAGA AS GOOD WITCH</p>
<p>It was at the 52nd Grammys in 2010 that Gaga went Jetsons, hitting the red carpet in a sparkly futuristic lavender dress by Armani Prive with suspended metal hoops encasing her body. She held a huge spiky star for photos. Her wig hair was a bright yellow ombre that appeared attached to the top of the corset-style dress. And Gaga had on those towering high platform shoes she was so fond of.</p>
<p>The skirt of the dress was short-short in the front and stiffly opened to a ground-skimming length in the back, creating an oval shape that went nicely with all those hoops. She had fun striking poses that night, when she later won two awards, for best dance recording and best electronic-dance album.</p>
<p>NICKI MINAJ &amp; THE POPE</p>
<p>In 2012, the singer-rapper walked the red carpet with platinum blonde hair, dressed in a scarlet red Versace cloak and attached hood. She was on the arm of an older dude dressed as the pope, high hat and all. There were ruffles below her high collar, beaded black embellishments and matching satin wrist gloves, lending an air of, what? A nun's habit was mentioned.</p>
<p>A fews days later, Minaj explained her vibe that night, topped off with a performance that involved dancing priests, an exorcism and levitation. She said it was all part of a movie she was writing. OK then.</p>
<p>PHARRELL'S REALLY HIGH HAT</p>
<p>You know who deserved a Grammy in 2014? The Vivienne Westwood Canadian Mountie hat on the head of Pharrell, that's who.</p>
<p>He paired the hat with a shorts suit and was the talk of the internet. The fast food chain Arby's even tweeted at him: "Hey @Pharrell, can we have our hat back? #GRAMMYs," because it was so similar to its logo.</p>
<p>Pharrell ended up selling the hat on eBay for $44,100 to benefit From One Hand To AnOTHER, his charity that helps children learn through technology and the arts.</p>
<p>The buyer? Arby's.</p>
<p>RIHANNA THE CONFECTION</p>
<p>It was ultra-huge. It was bubblegum pink. It was RiRi's 2015 tulle strapless Grammy gown.</p>
<p>The two-tiered dress by Giambattista Valli was dubbed "The Cupcake." There was a girly innocence to it rather than her usual bad-girl edge. Detractors had some fun, likening the look to a cake topper and an ode to Glinda the Good Witch.</p>
<p>Word has it Rihanna found the gown on the internet after it was shown during Paris couture week.</p>
<p>BEYONCE, AN ACTUAL QUEEN</p>
<p>February 2017. Beyonce was expecting her twins. She performed at the Grammys in gold, royal crown and neck collar in place.</p>
<p>Look closely at the body-hugging dress and you'll see an embroidered portrait of Queen Bey herself smack in the center, above the navel.</p>
<p>Peter Dundas designed the gown and others she wore that night. They were his first under his own name after working for the Roberto Cavalli and Emilio Pucci brands.</p>
<p>Dundas told Vogue the dress took one week to embroider with 50 people working on it. Gustav Klimt was an influence, along with Art Deco motifs inspired by Erte. He said the lyrics from Beyonce's "Love Drought" also came into play in the story-driven design. Sun rays symbolized the African goddess Oshun. Dundas added two cherubs on the hips dressed in ivy.</p>
<p>Bey won a Grammy for "Lemonade" that night and extolled the virtues of black beauty in her speech.</p>
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may 4 1959 frank sinatra sammy davis jr gene autry musical luminaries sat formal dinners golden statues los angeles new york simultaneously first grammy awards recall one objected dressing blacktie back though like much else would change eventually said christine farnon helped organize first presentation became executive vice president recording academy short history grammy website change grammy fashion evolving slowly 60 shows wildest wackiest red carpet awards season 1974 chers navel good barometer early years tuxedoes traditional evening gowns prevailed david bowie helped shake things simply david bowie orange hair phase liberace aretha franklin added sparkle bette midler wore 45 record album hair dolly parton showed decades ago bright pink pantsuit bright pink pantsuits mild compared came later simpler times 60s 70s whole lot great big hair nehru collars beatles caps isaac hayes boldly bringing huge bedazzled caftans 80s anything went glitter glove one michael jacksons hands compare awards shows never know youre going get grammy awards said nwaka onwusa curator grammy museum los angeles great music everyone welcome matter youre wearing doesnt tuxedo black tie situation time music boundaries thats cool thing glance outrageous fashion moments grammys chers butterfly night cher went fullon bob mackie showgirl popped 1974 grammys huge green pink crystal butterfly somehow affixed one side head signature long dark hair flowing back outsized sparkly insect tiny halter bandeau silk top white matching huge butterfly suspended breasts motif carried waist lowhung swingy bottom half big bellybutton party long sheer jacket sort used shield photos rick james amp grace jones year 1983 thats lady gaga born bad boy funk long braids short strands front outrageous jones really good time together mugging cameras grammys shiny longsleeve textured cardigan held together belt paired studded bandanna joggers jones wore open weave vinyllike tunic spaghetti strands left little imagination head umbrellashaped matching hat hands long black gloves weve lost james jones alive today breaking fashion barriers michael jackson period year 1984 win recordbreaking eight grammys look unforgettable king pop amassed statues throughout evening sparkled militarystyle blue gold jacket one white glove place take trademark shades winning 7 say encrusted toggleclosed jacket sparkled mean sparkled gold epaulets also sparkled matching gold sash beatles fans think sgt pepper jacksons version stopped waist far far far embellished onwusa noted jacksons influence fashion even adding artists designers still look back michael jackson celine dions rear end know see lot backsides red carpets days well celine back 1993 thank much look black lace long bell sleeves sheer outer dress average plunge neck also tiny black thong underneath dion showed front back smile face left hair bedroom messy jennifer lopez notthere green 2000 jlo welcomed new millennium rising star showed grammys sheer silk chiffon versace green dress tropical leaf bamboo motif dress donatella versaces debut sorts tragic murder brother gianni say plunge front dress understatement barely front relying heavily adhesive keep side wardrobe malfunction open front went straight pelvic region large citrine brooch help smaller citrines provided strategic coverage long sleeves skimmed ground short train back lopez wore dress presented catwalk donatella wore 1999 met gala spice girl geri halliwell wore nrj music awards france month lopez lopez made changed red carpet game plunge copied years come word pictures dress downloaded frenetic pace google decided create searchable google image function toni braxton goddess white stunner singer follow stunner singer grammys red carpet 2001 braxton pulled jlo wore white silk jersey richard tyler dress white dress went hipbaring dress sides save crystalembellished piece fabric held front back together hardly back front go sides halter front fell open navel used evervaluable doublesided tape keep top part place talk around water cooler next day especially issue thong involved lady gaga good witch 52nd grammys 2010 gaga went jetsons hitting red carpet sparkly futuristic lavender dress armani prive suspended metal hoops encasing body held huge spiky star photos wig hair bright yellow ombre appeared attached top corsetstyle dress gaga towering high platform shoes fond skirt dress shortshort front stiffly opened groundskimming length back creating oval shape went nicely hoops fun striking poses night later two awards best dance recording best electronicdance album nicki minaj amp pope 2012 singerrapper walked red carpet platinum blonde hair dressed scarlet red versace cloak attached hood arm older dude dressed pope high hat ruffles high collar beaded black embellishments matching satin wrist gloves lending air nuns habit mentioned fews days later minaj explained vibe night topped performance involved dancing priests exorcism levitation said part movie writing ok pharrells really high hat know deserved grammy 2014 vivienne westwood canadian mountie hat head pharrell thats paired hat shorts suit talk internet fast food chain arbys even tweeted hey pharrell hat back grammys similar logo pharrell ended selling hat ebay 44100 benefit one hand another charity helps children learn technology arts buyer arbys rihanna confection ultrahuge bubblegum pink riris 2015 tulle strapless grammy gown twotiered dress giambattista valli dubbed cupcake girly innocence rather usual badgirl edge detractors fun likening look cake topper ode glinda good witch word rihanna found gown internet shown paris couture week beyonce actual queen february 2017 beyonce expecting twins performed grammys gold royal crown neck collar place look closely bodyhugging dress youll see embroidered portrait queen bey smack center navel peter dundas designed gown others wore night first name working roberto cavalli emilio pucci brands dundas told vogue dress took one week embroider 50 people working gustav klimt influence along art deco motifs inspired erte said lyrics beyonces love drought also came play storydriven design sun rays symbolized african goddess oshun dundas added two cherubs hips dressed ivy bey grammy lemonade night extolled virtues black beauty speech may 4 1959 frank sinatra sammy davis jr gene autry musical luminaries sat formal dinners golden statues los angeles new york simultaneously first grammy awards recall one objected dressing blacktie back though like much else would change eventually said christine farnon helped organize first presentation became executive vice president recording academy short history grammy website change grammy fashion evolving slowly 60 shows wildest wackiest red carpet awards season 1974 chers navel good barometer early years tuxedoes traditional evening gowns prevailed david bowie helped shake things simply david bowie orange hair phase liberace aretha franklin added sparkle bette midler wore 45 record album hair dolly parton showed decades ago bright pink pantsuit bright pink pantsuits mild compared came later simpler times 60s 70s whole lot great big hair nehru collars beatles caps isaac hayes boldly bringing huge bedazzled caftans 80s anything went glitter glove one michael jacksons hands compare awards shows never know youre going get grammy awards said nwaka onwusa curator grammy museum los angeles great music everyone welcome matter youre wearing doesnt tuxedo black tie situation time music boundaries thats cool thing glance outrageous fashion moments grammys chers butterfly night cher went fullon bob mackie showgirl popped 1974 grammys huge green pink crystal butterfly somehow affixed one side head signature long dark hair flowing back outsized sparkly insect tiny halter bandeau silk top white matching huge butterfly suspended breasts motif carried waist lowhung swingy bottom half big bellybutton party long sheer jacket sort used shield photos rick james amp grace jones year 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<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Los Angeles man suspected of making a hoax emergency call that led to the fatal police shooting of a Kansas man told a judge Wednesday he would not fight efforts to send him to Wichita to face charges.</p>
<p>Tyler Barriss, 25, was held without bail after waiving his right to an extradition hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court.</p>
<p>Barriss stood behind a glass wall dressed in black with his hands cuffed at his waist and provided brief answers to a judge's questions, acknowledging he was the wanted man and had voluntarily signed the waiver.</p>
<p>Police have said Andrew Finch, 28, was shot after a prankster called 911 last week with a fake story about a shooting and kidnapping at Finch's Wichita home.</p>
<p>Barriss has been charged in Kansas with making a false alarm, according to court papers. The charge for calling police or a fire department and knowingly giving false information is a low-level felony in Kansas that carries a maximum of 34 months in prison.</p>
<p>Other charges could be filed after Wichita prosecutors review the results of a police investigation.</p>
<p>A more serious potential state charge would be second-degree murder for unintentionally causing a death by reckless actions, said Elizabeth Cateforis, a law professor at the University of Kansas. That can carry a sentence of up to about 20 years.</p>
<p>Another option may be an involuntary manslaughter charge in which a death is caused by a person acting recklessly or in the commission of another felony. That carries a maximum sentence of a little over 10 years.</p>
<p>Barriss has a history of making bogus calls to authorities. He was released from the Los Angeles County jail last year after serving less than half of a two-year and eight month sentence for phoning in two fake bomb threats in 2015 that cleared out the KABC-TV studio in nearby Glendale.</p>
<p>Glendale police who investigated the bomb scare found about 20 other incidents where Barriss had phoned in threats to universities and media outlets around the country, Sgt. Dan Suttles said Wednesday. The FBI assisted those investigations, but deferred to state prosecutors, spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.</p>
<p>In the Wichita case, police have characterized the phony call as a case of "swatting" in which callers try to get a SWAT team to respond to a bogus report.</p>
<p>The caller who phoned Wichita police said in a relatively calm voice that he had shot his father in the head and was holding his mother and a sibling at gunpoint, according to the 911 recording. He said he poured gasoline inside the home and "might just set it on fire."</p>
<p>When Finch came to the door, police said he moved a hand toward his waistband and an officer, fearing he was reaching for a gun, fired a single shot and killed him. Finch was unarmed.</p>
<p>The hoax call reportedly was made after a dispute over a small wager online in a "Call of Duty" online video game tournament, according to Dexerto, a news service focused on gaming.</p>
<p>Finch's mother has said her son wasn't a video game player.</p>
<p>Kansas authorities have to pick up Barriss by Feb. 2, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Deborah Brazil said.</p>
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<p>Hegeman reported from Wichita, Kansas.</p>
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<p>This story has been corrected to reflect that a fugitive charge was filed in Los Angeles court and to identify the Wichita police chief as Gordon Ramsay instead of as Gordon Ramsey.</p>
<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Los Angeles man suspected of making a hoax emergency call that led to the fatal police shooting of a Kansas man told a judge Wednesday he would not fight efforts to send him to Wichita to face charges.</p>
<p>Tyler Barriss, 25, was held without bail after waiving his right to an extradition hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court.</p>
<p>Barriss stood behind a glass wall dressed in black with his hands cuffed at his waist and provided brief answers to a judge's questions, acknowledging he was the wanted man and had voluntarily signed the waiver.</p>
<p>Police have said Andrew Finch, 28, was shot after a prankster called 911 last week with a fake story about a shooting and kidnapping at Finch's Wichita home.</p>
<p>Barriss has been charged in Kansas with making a false alarm, according to court papers. The charge for calling police or a fire department and knowingly giving false information is a low-level felony in Kansas that carries a maximum of 34 months in prison.</p>
<p>Other charges could be filed after Wichita prosecutors review the results of a police investigation.</p>
<p>A more serious potential state charge would be second-degree murder for unintentionally causing a death by reckless actions, said Elizabeth Cateforis, a law professor at the University of Kansas. That can carry a sentence of up to about 20 years.</p>
<p>Another option may be an involuntary manslaughter charge in which a death is caused by a person acting recklessly or in the commission of another felony. That carries a maximum sentence of a little over 10 years.</p>
<p>Barriss has a history of making bogus calls to authorities. He was released from the Los Angeles County jail last year after serving less than half of a two-year and eight month sentence for phoning in two fake bomb threats in 2015 that cleared out the KABC-TV studio in nearby Glendale.</p>
<p>Glendale police who investigated the bomb scare found about 20 other incidents where Barriss had phoned in threats to universities and media outlets around the country, Sgt. Dan Suttles said Wednesday. The FBI assisted those investigations, but deferred to state prosecutors, spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.</p>
<p>In the Wichita case, police have characterized the phony call as a case of "swatting" in which callers try to get a SWAT team to respond to a bogus report.</p>
<p>The caller who phoned Wichita police said in a relatively calm voice that he had shot his father in the head and was holding his mother and a sibling at gunpoint, according to the 911 recording. He said he poured gasoline inside the home and "might just set it on fire."</p>
<p>When Finch came to the door, police said he moved a hand toward his waistband and an officer, fearing he was reaching for a gun, fired a single shot and killed him. Finch was unarmed.</p>
<p>The hoax call reportedly was made after a dispute over a small wager online in a "Call of Duty" online video game tournament, according to Dexerto, a news service focused on gaming.</p>
<p>Finch's mother has said her son wasn't a video game player.</p>
<p>Kansas authorities have to pick up Barriss by Feb. 2, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Deborah Brazil said.</p>
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<p>Hegeman reported from Wichita, Kansas.</p>
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<p>This story has been corrected to reflect that a fugitive charge was filed in Los Angeles court and to identify the Wichita police chief as Gordon Ramsay instead of as Gordon Ramsey.</p>
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los angeles ap los angeles man suspected making hoax emergency call led fatal police shooting kansas man told judge wednesday would fight efforts send wichita face charges tyler barriss 25 held without bail waiving right extradition hearing los angeles superior court barriss stood behind glass wall dressed black hands cuffed waist provided brief answers judges questions acknowledging wanted man voluntarily signed waiver police said andrew finch 28 shot prankster called 911 last week fake story shooting kidnapping finchs wichita home barriss charged kansas making false alarm according court papers charge calling police fire department knowingly giving false information lowlevel felony kansas carries maximum 34 months prison charges could filed wichita prosecutors review results police investigation serious potential state charge would seconddegree murder unintentionally causing death reckless actions said elizabeth cateforis law professor university kansas carry sentence 20 years another option may involuntary manslaughter charge death caused person acting recklessly commission another felony carries maximum sentence little 10 years barriss history making bogus calls authorities released los angeles county jail last year serving less half twoyear eight month sentence phoning two fake bomb threats 2015 cleared kabctv studio nearby glendale glendale police investigated bomb scare found 20 incidents barriss phoned threats universities media outlets around country sgt dan suttles said wednesday fbi assisted investigations deferred state prosecutors spokeswoman laura eimiller said wichita case police characterized phony call case swatting callers try get swat team respond bogus report caller phoned wichita police said relatively calm voice shot father head holding mother sibling gunpoint according 911 recording said poured gasoline inside home might set fire finch came door police said moved hand toward waistband officer fearing reaching gun fired single shot killed finch unarmed hoax call reportedly made dispute small wager online call duty online video game tournament according dexerto news service focused gaming finchs mother said son wasnt video game player kansas authorities pick barriss feb 2 los angeles superior court judge deborah brazil said ___ hegeman reported wichita kansas ___ story corrected reflect fugitive charge filed los angeles court identify wichita police chief gordon ramsay instead gordon ramsey los angeles ap los angeles man suspected making hoax emergency call led fatal police shooting kansas man told judge wednesday would fight efforts send wichita face charges tyler barriss 25 held without bail waiving right extradition hearing los angeles superior court barriss stood behind glass wall dressed black hands cuffed waist provided brief answers judges questions acknowledging wanted man voluntarily signed waiver police said andrew finch 28 shot prankster called 911 last week fake story shooting kidnapping finchs wichita home barriss charged kansas making false alarm according court papers charge calling police fire department knowingly giving false information lowlevel felony kansas carries maximum 34 months prison charges could filed wichita prosecutors review results police investigation serious potential state charge would seconddegree murder unintentionally causing death reckless actions said elizabeth cateforis law professor university kansas carry sentence 20 years another option may involuntary manslaughter charge death caused person acting recklessly commission another felony carries maximum sentence little 10 years barriss history making bogus calls authorities released los angeles county jail last year serving less half twoyear eight month sentence phoning two fake bomb threats 2015 cleared kabctv studio nearby glendale glendale police investigated bomb scare found 20 incidents barriss phoned threats universities media outlets around country sgt dan suttles said wednesday fbi assisted investigations deferred state prosecutors spokeswoman laura eimiller said wichita case police characterized phony call case swatting callers try get swat team respond bogus report caller phoned wichita police said relatively calm voice shot father head holding mother sibling gunpoint according 911 recording said poured gasoline inside home might set fire finch came door police said moved hand toward waistband officer fearing reaching gun fired single shot killed finch unarmed hoax call reportedly made dispute small wager online call duty online video game tournament according dexerto news service focused gaming finchs mother said son wasnt video game player kansas authorities pick barriss feb 2 los angeles superior court judge deborah brazil said ___ hegeman reported wichita kansas ___ story corrected reflect fugitive charge filed los angeles court identify wichita police chief gordon ramsay instead gordon ramsey
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<p>WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the nation’s budget director, Rep. Mick Mulvaney , R-S.C., defended Tuesday his support of cuts to popular entitlement programs that Trump vowed to keep intact and emphasized that he would bring a “fact-based approach” to the role.</p>
<p>In appearances before the Senate budget and homeland security committees, Mulvaney acknowledged that several of his key positions on spending and the national debt directly contracted Trump’s campaign pledges and statements made by some of the president’s top advisers. But Mulvaney presented himself as a “straight shooter” and said he would continue to warn about the growing costs of Social Security and Medicare.</p>
<p>“I have no reason to believe the president has changed his mind” on not touching entitlement programs, Mulvaney said. But, he added, “My job . . . is to be completely and brutally honest with him.”</p>
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<p>Mulvaney would bring a stridently hawkish voice to the Office of Management and Budget. On Tuesday, he said he remains in favor of raising the retirement age for Social Security to 70 but emphasized that he would not reduce benefits for existing recipients. He also reiterated his support for means-testing to qualify for Medicare.</p>
<p>Democratic lawmakers voiced concerns that Mulvaney’s nomination signalled that Trump was backing away from his promise to leave the programs unchanged.</p>
<p>“The idea and opinions of Mr. Mulvaney are way out of touch,” budget committee ranking member Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said. “And more importantly, they are way way out of touch with what President Trump campaigned on.”</p>
<p>During his hearings, Mulvaney confronted recent revelations that he neglected to pay $15,000 in taxes in connection with a household employee. Mulvaney discovered the error during the vetting process following his nomination, drawing sharp rebukes from some Democratic lawmakers. Similar problems plagued several of former President Barack Obama’s nominees, including former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle for head of Health and Human Services.</p>
<p>“We made a mistake in my family,” Mulvaney said Tuesday, adding that he has paid the missing taxes.</p>
<p>On the fiscal front, Mulvaney has challenged the need to raise the national debt ceiling, and on Tuesday, he said that he believed the federal government should consider prioritizing payments if it were in danger of breaching the limit again. In his hearing before the homeland committee, ranking member Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., pointed out that his remarks contradicted testimony from Trump’s nominee to lead the Treasury Department, Steven Mnuchin, who said during his confirmation hearing last week that “there should be no uncertainty that we are paying the billls.”</p>
<p>“What will happen if your views and proposals are adopted wholesale?” McCaskill told Mulvaney. “If that happens, I fear that the American people and the global economy are in for a rude awakening.”</p>
<p>Mulvaney also faced scrutiny from his own party Tuesday. Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona questioned Mulvaney’s support for reductions in defense spending. McCain also called the 2013 government shutdown a “shameful chapter” in history.</p>
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<p>“You’ve spent your entire congressional career pitting the debt against the military,” McCain said. “”I am deeply concerned about your lack of support for our military.”</p>
<p>Elected to Congress during the Tea Party wave of 2010, Mulvaney has become known as one of the most vociferous deficit hawks within House GOP ranks. He was a founding member of the conservative Freedom Caucus and was a key driver of the group’s efforts to oust former House Speaker Rep. John Boehner in 2015. He supported the government shutdown in 2013 amid an impasse over the Affordable Care Act and proved willing to do so again two years later as part of an effort to defund Planned Parenthood.</p>
<p>He is known as an anti-deficit crusader who backs the controversial “penny plan” that would cut 1 percent of federal spending every year for five years. Supporters claim it would eliminate the deficit, but critics say it is a haphazard way of chiseling away at popular entitlement programs.</p>
<p>“He has to tell the president exactly what things cost,” Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas said of Mulvaney on Tuesday. “The president of course sets the agenda, but he deserves a clear-eyed view — not rose-colored glasses.”</p>
<p>Many of Trump’s economic advisers have touted the president’s plans to overhaul the tax code and renegotiate trade agreements, measures that they argue will boost annual economic growth to 4 percent or higher. The White House has also proposed an infrastructure package that could total $1 trillion in public and private financing, through the details of the program remain unclear. Mulvaney, along with other key GOP lawmakers, have opposed infrastructure spending in the recent past.</p>
<p>Trump’s advisers have said relatively little about how they might pay for his agenda – and it could fall to Mulvaney to make sure the numbers add up. Several independent analyses estimate Trump’s tax plan alone, which includes slashing the corporate rate and lowering individual taxes, could reduce federal revenue by trillions of dollars over the next decade.</p>
<p>Asked about whether tax cuts should be allowed to increase the deficit, Mulvaney said that reforming the tax code could generate economic growth.</p>
<p>Trump “should look first and foremost on the effect on the overall economy,” Mulvaney said. “I think the best chance you have to reduce the deficit or balance the budget is to accomplish economic growth.”</p>
<p>Another possible way to balance the books could be to dramatically reduce government spending in other areas. According to the Hill, Trump’s staff is considering cuts to the Energy and Commerce departments, along with the elimination of arts programs such as the National Endowment for the Arts, that could lower spending by as much as $10.5 trillion over the next decade.</p>
<p>Mulvaney said Tuesday he had not seen those proposals.</p>
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washington president donald trumps nominee become nations budget director rep mick mulvaney rsc defended tuesday support cuts popular entitlement programs trump vowed keep intact emphasized would bring factbased approach role appearances senate budget homeland security committees mulvaney acknowledged several key positions spending national debt directly contracted trumps campaign pledges statements made presidents top advisers mulvaney presented straight shooter said would continue warn growing costs social security medicare reason believe president changed mind touching entitlement programs mulvaney said added job completely brutally honest advertisement mulvaney would bring stridently hawkish voice office management budget tuesday said remains favor raising retirement age social security 70 emphasized would reduce benefits existing recipients also reiterated support meanstesting qualify medicare democratic lawmakers voiced concerns mulvaneys nomination signalled trump backing away promise leave programs unchanged idea opinions mr mulvaney way touch budget committee ranking member sen bernie sanders vermont said importantly way way touch president trump campaigned hearings mulvaney confronted recent revelations neglected pay 15000 taxes connection household employee mulvaney discovered error vetting process following nomination drawing sharp rebukes democratic lawmakers similar problems plagued several former president barack obamas nominees including former south dakota sen tom daschle head health human services made mistake family mulvaney said tuesday adding paid missing taxes fiscal front mulvaney challenged need raise national debt ceiling tuesday said believed federal government consider prioritizing payments danger breaching limit hearing homeland committee ranking member sen claire mccaskill dmo pointed remarks contradicted testimony trumps nominee lead treasury department steven mnuchin said confirmation hearing last week uncertainty paying billls happen views proposals adopted wholesale mccaskill told mulvaney happens fear american people global economy rude awakening mulvaney also faced scrutiny party tuesday republican sen john mccain arizona questioned mulvaneys support reductions defense spending mccain also called 2013 government shutdown shameful chapter history advertisement youve spent entire congressional career pitting debt military mccain said deeply concerned lack support military elected congress tea party wave 2010 mulvaney become known one vociferous deficit hawks within house gop ranks founding member conservative freedom caucus key driver groups efforts oust former house speaker rep john boehner 2015 supported government shutdown 2013 amid impasse affordable care act proved willing two years later part effort defund planned parenthood known antideficit crusader backs controversial penny plan would cut 1 percent federal spending every year five years supporters claim would eliminate deficit critics say haphazard way chiseling away popular entitlement programs tell president exactly things cost republican sen tom cotton arkansas said mulvaney tuesday president course sets agenda deserves cleareyed view rosecolored glasses many trumps economic advisers touted presidents plans overhaul tax code renegotiate trade agreements measures argue boost annual economic growth 4 percent higher white house also proposed infrastructure package could total 1 trillion public private financing details program remain unclear mulvaney along key gop lawmakers opposed infrastructure spending recent past trumps advisers said relatively little might pay agenda could fall mulvaney make sure numbers add several independent analyses estimate trumps tax plan alone includes slashing corporate rate lowering individual taxes could reduce federal revenue trillions dollars next decade asked whether tax cuts allowed increase deficit mulvaney said reforming tax code could generate economic growth trump look first foremost effect overall economy mulvaney said think best chance reduce deficit balance budget accomplish economic growth another possible way balance books could dramatically reduce government spending areas according hill trumps staff considering cuts energy commerce departments along elimination arts programs national endowment arts could lower spending much 105 trillion next decade mulvaney said tuesday seen proposals
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<p>RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Newly sworn-in Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s push for stricter gun laws was dealt a swift defeat Monday, with a Republican-led Senate panel blocking legislation to increase background checks and limit guns at public rallies.</p>
<p>The Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted to block legislation that would allow cities and counties to ban firearms at certain public events like the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville last summer in which several participants were heavily armed. The committee also voted against a measure that would mandate background checks on all guns bought at gun shows.</p>
<p>Fights over a gun laws are a perennial issue in Virginia’s General Assembly, with Republicans favoring less restrictions and Democrats favoring additional ones. But this year’s fight comes a few months after a Democratic wave powered by voter dislike of President Donald Trump that saw Northam easily win election and Republicans take heavy losses in the state House. The GOP maintains a slim majority in both chambers.</p>
<p>The legislation’s defeat came just two days after Northam’s inaugural address, where he exhorted lawmakers to pass stricter gun laws.</p>
<p>After the vote, he told a crowd of gun-control advocates who held a rally on Capitol Square that he was “just getting warmed up” and would continue to press the issue forcefully.</p>
<p>“Don’t give up,” Northam said. “Continue your hope.”</p>
<p>Gun-rights advocates held a similar rally earlier in the day, where Republican politicians urged the crowd to mobilize pro-gun voters in coming elections.</p>
<p>“Are you all familiar with the nice little blue wave that just happened in Virginia?” said U.S. Rep. Dave Brat, who is up for re-election this year. “I’m going to vote for the right stuff, but I won’t be voting if you don’t go do your legwork and get us hundreds of friends across the board.”</p>
<p>Monday was so-called “lobby day” when advocates on both sides of the issue turn out in large numbers to press lawmakers to support certain legislation. Some advocates gave emotional, personal appeals.</p>
<p>Cortney Carroll of Richmond gave her first public telling of her experience at the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Carroll told the Senate panel that she was in the crowd when a gunman opened fire on country music concert in Las Vegas last year, giving a gripping account of how she and family members ran and hid to avoid being killed. She testified in favor of a bill that would enact a state ban on bump stocks, a device that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire nearly as fast as automatic ones that the Vegas user used.</p>
<p>“We were untrained in a war zone,” Carroll said. “Do you know what it’s like to live in fear 24/7? Because I do.”</p>
<p>The committee voted to refer the bump stock bill to another committee.</p>
<p>Elizabeth Baran from Maryland described a brutal attack from an abusive ex-boyfriend that left her with permanent brain injuries. She said would have been able to prevent the attack if she’d had a gun.</p>
<p>“I was completely helpless,” Baran said at the gun-rights rally. “I never want anyone to feel what I felt that day.”</p>
<p>RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Newly sworn-in Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s push for stricter gun laws was dealt a swift defeat Monday, with a Republican-led Senate panel blocking legislation to increase background checks and limit guns at public rallies.</p>
<p>The Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted to block legislation that would allow cities and counties to ban firearms at certain public events like the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville last summer in which several participants were heavily armed. The committee also voted against a measure that would mandate background checks on all guns bought at gun shows.</p>
<p>Fights over a gun laws are a perennial issue in Virginia’s General Assembly, with Republicans favoring less restrictions and Democrats favoring additional ones. But this year’s fight comes a few months after a Democratic wave powered by voter dislike of President Donald Trump that saw Northam easily win election and Republicans take heavy losses in the state House. The GOP maintains a slim majority in both chambers.</p>
<p>The legislation’s defeat came just two days after Northam’s inaugural address, where he exhorted lawmakers to pass stricter gun laws.</p>
<p>After the vote, he told a crowd of gun-control advocates who held a rally on Capitol Square that he was “just getting warmed up” and would continue to press the issue forcefully.</p>
<p>“Don’t give up,” Northam said. “Continue your hope.”</p>
<p>Gun-rights advocates held a similar rally earlier in the day, where Republican politicians urged the crowd to mobilize pro-gun voters in coming elections.</p>
<p>“Are you all familiar with the nice little blue wave that just happened in Virginia?” said U.S. Rep. Dave Brat, who is up for re-election this year. “I’m going to vote for the right stuff, but I won’t be voting if you don’t go do your legwork and get us hundreds of friends across the board.”</p>
<p>Monday was so-called “lobby day” when advocates on both sides of the issue turn out in large numbers to press lawmakers to support certain legislation. Some advocates gave emotional, personal appeals.</p>
<p>Cortney Carroll of Richmond gave her first public telling of her experience at the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Carroll told the Senate panel that she was in the crowd when a gunman opened fire on country music concert in Las Vegas last year, giving a gripping account of how she and family members ran and hid to avoid being killed. She testified in favor of a bill that would enact a state ban on bump stocks, a device that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire nearly as fast as automatic ones that the Vegas user used.</p>
<p>“We were untrained in a war zone,” Carroll said. “Do you know what it’s like to live in fear 24/7? Because I do.”</p>
<p>The committee voted to refer the bump stock bill to another committee.</p>
<p>Elizabeth Baran from Maryland described a brutal attack from an abusive ex-boyfriend that left her with permanent brain injuries. She said would have been able to prevent the attack if she’d had a gun.</p>
<p>“I was completely helpless,” Baran said at the gun-rights rally. “I never want anyone to feel what I felt that day.”</p>
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richmond va ap newly swornin virginia gov ralph northams push stricter gun laws dealt swift defeat monday republicanled senate panel blocking legislation increase background checks limit guns public rallies senate courts justice committee voted block legislation would allow cities counties ban firearms certain public events like violent white nationalist rally charlottesville last summer several participants heavily armed committee also voted measure would mandate background checks guns bought gun shows fights gun laws perennial issue virginias general assembly republicans favoring less restrictions democrats favoring additional ones years fight comes months democratic wave powered voter dislike president donald trump saw northam easily win election republicans take heavy losses state house gop maintains slim majority chambers legislations defeat came two days northams inaugural address exhorted lawmakers pass stricter gun laws vote told crowd guncontrol advocates held rally capitol square getting warmed would continue press issue forcefully dont give northam said continue hope gunrights advocates held similar rally earlier day republican politicians urged crowd mobilize progun voters coming elections familiar nice little blue wave happened virginia said us rep dave brat reelection year im going vote right stuff wont voting dont go legwork get us hundreds friends across board monday socalled lobby day advocates sides issue turn large numbers press lawmakers support certain legislation advocates gave emotional personal appeals cortney carroll richmond gave first public telling experience deadliest mass shooting modern us history carroll told senate panel crowd gunman opened fire country music concert las vegas last year giving gripping account family members ran hid avoid killed testified favor bill would enact state ban bump stocks device allows semiautomatic weapons fire nearly fast automatic ones vegas user used untrained war zone carroll said know like live fear 247 committee voted refer bump stock bill another committee elizabeth baran maryland described brutal attack abusive exboyfriend left permanent brain injuries said would able prevent attack shed gun completely helpless baran said gunrights rally never want anyone feel felt day richmond va ap newly swornin virginia gov ralph northams push stricter gun laws dealt swift defeat monday republicanled senate panel blocking legislation increase background checks limit guns public rallies senate courts justice committee voted block legislation would allow cities counties ban firearms certain public events like violent white nationalist rally charlottesville last summer several participants heavily armed committee also voted measure would mandate background checks guns bought gun shows fights gun laws perennial issue virginias general assembly republicans favoring less restrictions democrats favoring additional ones years fight comes months democratic wave powered voter dislike president donald trump saw northam easily win election republicans take heavy losses state house gop maintains slim majority chambers legislations defeat came two days northams inaugural address exhorted lawmakers pass stricter gun laws vote told crowd guncontrol advocates held rally capitol square getting warmed would continue press issue forcefully dont give northam said continue hope gunrights advocates held similar rally earlier day republican politicians urged crowd mobilize progun voters coming elections familiar nice little blue wave happened virginia said us rep dave brat reelection year im going vote right stuff wont voting dont go legwork get us hundreds friends across board monday socalled lobby day advocates sides issue turn large numbers press lawmakers support certain legislation advocates gave emotional personal appeals cortney carroll richmond gave first public telling experience deadliest mass shooting modern us history carroll told senate panel crowd gunman opened fire country music concert las vegas last year giving gripping account family members ran hid avoid killed testified favor bill would enact state ban bump stocks device allows semiautomatic weapons fire nearly fast automatic ones vegas user used untrained war zone carroll said know like live fear 247 committee voted refer bump stock bill another committee elizabeth baran maryland described brutal attack abusive exboyfriend left permanent brain injuries said would able prevent attack shed gun completely helpless baran said gunrights rally never want anyone feel felt day
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<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) — The smartphones and other small machines that used to dominate the annual CES gadget show have been overshadowed in recent years by bigger mobile devices: namely, automobiles.</p>
<p>Auto companies typically save more practical announcements about new cars, trucks and SUVs for the upcoming Detroit auto show. But major automakers like Toyota, Kia, Hyundai and Ford have a noticeable presence at this week's tech showcase in Las Vegas. CES is a chance for carmakers and suppliers of automotive parts and software to display their wilder and far-out ideas.</p>
<p>Among the highlights Monday:</p>
<p>— Toyota says it's developing self-driving mini-buses that can serve as bite-sized stores. These vehicles will drive themselves to places where potential buyers can try on clothes or shoes or pick through flea market items. The project is still in the conceptual stage, with testing expected in the 2020s.</p>
<p>— Automotive supplier Bosch wants to help guide drivers to vacant parking spots in as many as 20 U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Miami and Boston. The company says it will be working with automakers on the initiative but didn't say which ones. As cars drive by, they will automatically recognize and measure gaps between parked cars and transmit that data to a digital map.</p>
<p>In other developments at CES:</p>
<p>— TV manufacturers are showcasing new models — all with <a href="" type="internal">acronyms to set their sets</a> apart. One feature called HDR10+ by Samsung and HDR 10 Pro by LG takes what's known as high dynamic range and adjusts settings for each frame, instead of having levels set for the entire video at once. Meanwhile, quantum-dot technology promises more accurate colors. Samsung calls its version QLED, while Hisense has QDEF.</p>
<p>— As LG unveiled its lineup of smart appliances, executive David VanderWaal quickly lost rapport with his on-stage partner, the cute voice-activated assistant CLOi. After a greeting, CLOi stopped responding while continuing to blink its digital eyes. VanderWaal shrugged it off, saying, "even robots have bad days."</p>
<p>— HTC is upgrading its headsets for exploring virtual worlds. HTC says the new Vive Pro has better resolution and audio and weighs less than its existing VR model. The Taiwanese company hasn't yet revealed cost or shipping dates. There's also a wireless option coming this summer. The Vive competes with Facebook's Oculus among high-end systems, but these haven't been as widely used as smartphone-based headsets such as Samsung's Gear VR and Google's Daydream.</p>
<p>And beyond CES:</p>
<p>— Toy maker VTech has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle charges it violated a law protecting children's privacy. The Federal Trade Commission says VTech collected personal information from children without getting consent from a verified parent and didn't do enough to protect the data it collected. Such toys have become popular, and companies are expected to unveil more toys and other internet-connected gadgets at the CES tech show in Las Vegas this week.</p>
<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) — The smartphones and other small machines that used to dominate the annual CES gadget show have been overshadowed in recent years by bigger mobile devices: namely, automobiles.</p>
<p>Auto companies typically save more practical announcements about new cars, trucks and SUVs for the upcoming Detroit auto show. But major automakers like Toyota, Kia, Hyundai and Ford have a noticeable presence at this week's tech showcase in Las Vegas. CES is a chance for carmakers and suppliers of automotive parts and software to display their wilder and far-out ideas.</p>
<p>Among the highlights Monday:</p>
<p>— Toyota says it's developing self-driving mini-buses that can serve as bite-sized stores. These vehicles will drive themselves to places where potential buyers can try on clothes or shoes or pick through flea market items. The project is still in the conceptual stage, with testing expected in the 2020s.</p>
<p>— Automotive supplier Bosch wants to help guide drivers to vacant parking spots in as many as 20 U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Miami and Boston. The company says it will be working with automakers on the initiative but didn't say which ones. As cars drive by, they will automatically recognize and measure gaps between parked cars and transmit that data to a digital map.</p>
<p>In other developments at CES:</p>
<p>— TV manufacturers are showcasing new models — all with <a href="" type="internal">acronyms to set their sets</a> apart. One feature called HDR10+ by Samsung and HDR 10 Pro by LG takes what's known as high dynamic range and adjusts settings for each frame, instead of having levels set for the entire video at once. Meanwhile, quantum-dot technology promises more accurate colors. Samsung calls its version QLED, while Hisense has QDEF.</p>
<p>— As LG unveiled its lineup of smart appliances, executive David VanderWaal quickly lost rapport with his on-stage partner, the cute voice-activated assistant CLOi. After a greeting, CLOi stopped responding while continuing to blink its digital eyes. VanderWaal shrugged it off, saying, "even robots have bad days."</p>
<p>— HTC is upgrading its headsets for exploring virtual worlds. HTC says the new Vive Pro has better resolution and audio and weighs less than its existing VR model. The Taiwanese company hasn't yet revealed cost or shipping dates. There's also a wireless option coming this summer. The Vive competes with Facebook's Oculus among high-end systems, but these haven't been as widely used as smartphone-based headsets such as Samsung's Gear VR and Google's Daydream.</p>
<p>And beyond CES:</p>
<p>— Toy maker VTech has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle charges it violated a law protecting children's privacy. The Federal Trade Commission says VTech collected personal information from children without getting consent from a verified parent and didn't do enough to protect the data it collected. Such toys have become popular, and companies are expected to unveil more toys and other internet-connected gadgets at the CES tech show in Las Vegas this week.</p>
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las vegas ap smartphones small machines used dominate annual ces gadget show overshadowed recent years bigger mobile devices namely automobiles auto companies typically save practical announcements new cars trucks suvs upcoming detroit auto show major automakers like toyota kia hyundai ford noticeable presence weeks tech showcase las vegas ces chance carmakers suppliers automotive parts software display wilder farout ideas among highlights monday toyota says developing selfdriving minibuses serve bitesized stores vehicles drive places potential buyers try clothes shoes pick flea market items project still conceptual stage testing expected 2020s automotive supplier bosch wants help guide drivers vacant parking spots many 20 us cities including los angeles miami boston company says working automakers initiative didnt say ones cars drive automatically recognize measure gaps parked cars transmit data digital map developments ces tv manufacturers showcasing new models acronyms set sets apart one feature called hdr10 samsung hdr 10 pro lg takes whats known high dynamic range adjusts settings frame instead levels set entire video meanwhile quantumdot technology promises accurate colors samsung calls version qled hisense qdef lg unveiled lineup smart appliances executive david vanderwaal quickly lost rapport onstage partner cute voiceactivated assistant cloi greeting cloi stopped responding continuing blink digital eyes vanderwaal shrugged saying even robots bad days htc upgrading headsets exploring virtual worlds htc says new vive pro better resolution audio weighs less existing vr model taiwanese company hasnt yet revealed cost shipping dates theres also wireless option coming summer vive competes facebooks oculus among highend systems havent widely used smartphonebased headsets samsungs gear vr googles daydream beyond ces toy maker vtech agreed pay 650000 settle charges violated law protecting childrens privacy federal trade commission says vtech collected personal information children without getting consent verified parent didnt enough protect data collected toys become popular companies expected unveil toys internetconnected gadgets ces tech show las vegas week las vegas ap smartphones small machines used dominate annual ces gadget show overshadowed recent years bigger mobile devices namely automobiles auto companies typically save practical announcements new cars trucks suvs upcoming detroit auto show major automakers like toyota kia hyundai ford noticeable presence weeks tech showcase las vegas ces chance carmakers suppliers automotive parts software display wilder farout ideas among highlights monday toyota says developing selfdriving minibuses serve bitesized stores vehicles drive places potential buyers try clothes shoes pick flea market items project still conceptual stage testing expected 2020s automotive supplier bosch wants help guide drivers vacant parking spots many 20 us cities including los angeles miami boston company says working automakers initiative didnt say ones cars drive automatically recognize measure gaps parked cars transmit data digital map developments ces tv manufacturers showcasing new models acronyms set sets apart one feature called hdr10 samsung hdr 10 pro lg takes whats known high dynamic range adjusts settings frame instead levels set entire video meanwhile quantumdot technology promises accurate colors samsung calls version qled hisense qdef lg unveiled lineup smart appliances executive david vanderwaal quickly lost rapport onstage partner cute voiceactivated assistant cloi greeting cloi stopped responding continuing blink digital eyes vanderwaal shrugged saying even robots bad days htc upgrading headsets exploring virtual worlds htc says new vive pro better resolution audio weighs less existing vr model taiwanese company hasnt yet revealed cost shipping dates theres also wireless option coming summer vive competes facebooks oculus among highend systems havent widely used smartphonebased headsets samsungs gear vr googles daydream beyond ces toy maker vtech agreed pay 650000 settle charges violated law protecting childrens privacy federal trade commission says vtech collected personal information children without getting consent verified parent didnt enough protect data collected toys become popular companies expected unveil toys internetconnected gadgets ces tech show las vegas week
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<p>BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is set to demand tech giants like Facebook and Google do more to stop the spread of fake news on their websites by the end of the year to avoid possible regulatory actions, according to a draft document seen by Reuters.</p> Figurines are seen in front of the Facebook logo in this illustration taken March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
<p>The draft document sets out for the first time the measures the EU would like to see the tech giants take within a certain timeline. The companies have come under fire in Europe for not doing enough to remove misleading or illegal content, including incitement to hatred, extremism and the online sale of counterfeit products.</p>
<p>The European Commission plans to draw up a “Code of Practice” by July that will commit online platforms and advertisers to take a number of measures to prevent fake news being both uploaded and disseminated, “with a view to producing measurable effects by the end of 2018”, the draft policy document says.</p>
<p>“Should the results prove unsatisfactory, the Commission may propose further actions, including actions of a regulatory nature, if necessary.”</p>
<p>The measures include improving the scrutiny of advertisement placements, stepping up efforts to close fake accounts, ensuring that fighting disinformation is factored in by design when developing online tools and preventing the unauthorized use of users’ personal data by third parties - a clear reference to the Cambridge Analytica scandal engulfing Facebook.</p>
<p>The revelations that political consultancy Cambridge Analytica - which worked on U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign - improperly accessed the data of up to 87 million Facebook users have hit the social network’s share price and led to 10 hours of questioning for its CEO by U.S. lawmakers.</p>
<p>“So far, platforms have been unable to address the challenge posed by disinformation and some have turned a blind eye to the manipulative use of their infrastructures,” the document says.</p> FILE PHOTO: The Google logo is pictured atop an office building in Irvine, California, U.S. August 7, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Picture
<p>“The gravity of the threat, however, has become increasingly clear as exemplified by the recent revelations about personal data mined from social media used in a electoral context.”</p>
<p>Facebook has stepped up fact-checking in its fight against fake news and is working on making it uneconomical for people to post such content by lowering its ranking and making it less visible.</p>
<p>The world’s largest social network is also working on giving its users more context and background about the content they read on the platform.</p>
<p>Some European countries have already moved to tackle the problem, like Germany which has passed a law requiring social media companies quickly remove hate speech. France is also looking at rules to block fake news.</p>
<p>Facebook disclosed in September that Russians under fake names used the social network to try to influence U.S. voters in the months before and after the 2016 election, writing about inflammatory subjects, setting up events and buying ads.</p>
<p>“Platforms have by and large failed to ensure sufficient transparency on political advertising and sponsored content,” the Commission document - which is due to be published at the end of April - says.</p>
<p>The Commission also wants companies and advertisers to “establish clear marking systems and rules for bots and ensure their activities cannot be confused with human interactions.”</p>
<p>Editing by Alexandra Hudson</p> Our Standards:
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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly condemned as a “witch hunt” a federal probe into possible collusion between Moscow and his presidential campaign, said on Thursday he backed a “cooperative” approach to the investigation.</p> Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs after briefing members of the U.S. Senate on his investigation into potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 21, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
<p>“I have agreed with the historically cooperative, disciplined approach that we have engaged in with Robert Mueller,” Trump said in a Twitter message, referring to the special counsel leading the investigation.</p>
<p>Mueller, appointed by the Justice Department, is investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow.</p>
<p>Russia denies U.S. intelligence agencies’ findings that it interfered in the campaign to try to tilt the vote in Trump’s favor. Trump has denied any collusion and has repeatedly attacked Mueller’s investigation as politically motivated.</p>
<p>Trump’s irritation erupted again this week after an FBI raid targeting his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, which followed a referral by Mueller. This raised concerns among critics and lawmakers, including some in Trump’s own Republican Party, that he might try to have Mueller removed.</p>
<p>The president denied a New York Times report on Tuesday that he had sought to fire Mueller in December. “If I wanted to fire Robert Mueller in December, as reported by the Failing New York Times, I would have fired him,” he said on Twitter early Thursday.</p>
<p>White House lawyers Ty Cobb and Donald McGahn have told Trump that firing Mueller would leave him vulnerable to charges of obstruction of justice, two officials told Reuters on Tuesday. They said he must have “good cause” to order the Justice Department official overseeing the Russia probe, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, to oust Mueller.</p> ADVICE FROM FORMER AIDE
<p>Steve Bannon, a former senior adviser to Trump, has encouraged White House aides to advise Trump to fire Rosenstein, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing unidentified sources. It also said Bannon wanted the White House to stop cooperating with the Mueller investigation and fire Cobb.</p>
<p>Cobb, the lawyer in charge of the White House response to the Russia investigation, has stressed cooperation with Mueller. The White House has said it has turned over tens of thousands of pages of documents to the special counsel’s team.</p>
<p>Trump said in one of his Twitter messages on Thursday that he had full confidence in Cobb.</p>
<p>A bipartisan group of senators put forward legislation on Wednesday to protect Mueller and his investigation, which the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider next week.</p>
<p>“Anyone advising the President - in public or over the airwaves - to fire Bob Mueller does not have the President or the nation’s best interest at heart. Full stop,” Republican Senator Orrin Hatch wrote on Twitter on Thursday.</p>
<p>Reporting by Makini Brice; Writing by Tim Ahmann; Editing by John Stonestreet, Bernadette Baum and Frances Kerry</p> Our Standards:
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<p>BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s commerce ministry said on Thursday trade negotiations with the United States would be impossible as Washington’s attempts at dialogue were not sincere, and vowed to retaliate if U.S. President Donald Trump escalates current tensions.</p>
<p>China President Xi Jinping on Tuesday vowed to open China’s economy further and lower import duties on goods such as cars, boosting hopes for an easing of tensions between both nations. Trump responded via Twitter he was “thankful” for Xi’s remarks on tariffs and access for U.S. automakers, and said both countries would “make great progress together.”</p>
<p>Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng told reporters during a regular briefing, however, that Xi’s remarks had nothing to do with the trade row and should not be mischaracterized as a concession to Washington.</p>
<p>“I hope some people in the U.S do not misjudge the situation,” he said. “If the United States takes any action to escalate the situation, China will not hesitate to fight back.”</p>
<p>The world’s two largest economies have threatened each other with tens of billions of dollars’ worth of tariffs in recent weeks, spurring worries of a full-scale trade war that could damage global growth and roil markets.</p>
<p>Some U.S. officials and analysts have said they believe the dispute could eventually be resolved via dialogue, but Beijing reiterated on Thursday that no formal talks have taken place.</p>
<p>“It is not a matter of whether China is willing to participate in the negotiations. It is about the U.S. not showing sincerity at all,” Gao said.</p> Shipping containers are seen at the port in Shanghai, China April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Aly Song
<p>Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that talks between Beijing and Washington had been positive: “We’re doing really well with China. I think we’re having some great discussions, we’ll see what happens.”</p>
<p>Later, Trump said at a White House event on taxes that China was negotiating “very hard, very long” but he was optimistic about the outcome. “I think it will end up the tariffs off and the barriers down.”</p>
<p>China’s Global Times tabloid wrote in a commentary that Washington could either respond sincerely to China’s determination to conduct interactions showing good will with the U.S. or keep pressuring China with unreasonable demands and escalate trade frictions.</p> Shipping containers are seen at the port in Shanghai, China April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Aly Song
<p>Washington accuses Chinese firms of stealing the trade secrets of U.S. companies and forcing them into joint ventures to acquire their technology - the crux of Trump’s current tariff threats against China. Beijing denies this charge.</p>
<p>Trump on Monday criticized China for maintaining 25 percent import tariffs on autos compared to the 2.5 percent duties of the U.S., calling the relationship “stupid trade.” But Gao said WTO rules do not require equal tariffs and demand for such parity is unreasonable.</p>
<p>He said China would continue to open its markets and implement lower tariffs pledged by Xi as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Reporting by Se Young Lee and Yawen Chen; Additional reporting by Jeff Mason in Washington; Writing by Ryan Woo; Editing by Sam Holmes and Bernadette Baum</p> Our Standards:
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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo promised on Thursday to rebuild the State Department that has been gutted by the departure of senior diplomats and has found itself sidelined in foreign policy decisions under the Trump administration.</p>
<p>A reorganization and hiring freeze initiated by former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has left the rank and file demoralized, with vacancies in most of the jobs that are filled by political appointees.</p>
<p>Pompeo, director of the CIA, said he would work quickly in his new role to fill the gaps.</p>
<p>“This is critical to strengthening the finest diplomatic corps in the world, and America and the world needs us to be that,” he said in his confirmation hearing at the Senate.</p> Related Coverage
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<p>President Donald Trump nominated Pompeo to become the country’s top diplomat on March 13 when he fired Tillerson. Tillerson, a former chief executive of Exxon Mobil( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=XOM.N" type="external">XOM.N</a>), had a rocky relationship with Trump in just over a year in the job.</p>
<p>The start of Pompeo’s hearing was disrupted by half a dozen protesters chanting “No Pompeo, no more war” before they were led out by security officials.</p>
<p>Pompeo appeared emotional at the start of his testimony as he talked about his family and offered personal details about himself, such as his love of meatballs.</p>
<p>Trump developed a warm relationship with Pompeo during White House meetings over the first year of his presidency and believes the former Republican congressman shares more of his world view than Tillerson, who at times disagreed with the president.</p>
<p>“Good luck to Mike Pompeo during his Confirmation Hearing today. He will be a great Secretary of State!” the Republican president said on Twitter.</p>
<p>Senators have said they want to make sure that Pompeo will be able to stand up to Trump, and they pressed him on the issue.</p>
<p>Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said it was fair to question whether his relationship with Trump was “rooted in a candid, healthy and give-and-take dynamic.”</p>
<p>“I know that you have developed a close relationship with the president and I believe that relationship could well serve you if you’re confirmed as secretary of state. However, many strong voices have been terminated or resigned,” Corker said.</p>
<p>Among the first issues Pompeo was pressed on was whether or not Trump had talked to him about the Russia investigation looking into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.</p>
<p>Pompeo acknowledged he had been interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose federal probe includes looking into whether there was collusion with Moscow by Trump campaign aides, but he declined to discuss details.</p> Slideshow (7 Images)
<p>U.S. intelligence agencies concluded last year that Russia interfered in the campaign in hopes of tilting the election in Trump’s favor. Moscow has denied the charge and Trump has denied any collusion by his campaign.</p>
<p>Trump has been accused by Democrats and some of his fellow Republicans of being too soft on Russian President Vladimir Putin, but Pompeo has signaled he will take a tough line on Russia..</p>
<p>Pompeo, who is seen as more of a hard-liner than Tillerson on issues including the nuclear agreement with Iran that he strongly opposed, said he wants to work with U.S. allies to fix the deal.</p>
<p>“I want to fix this deal. That’s the objective,” he said, when pressed on whether the United States should withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers.</p>
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document says results prove unsatisfactory commission may propose actions including actions regulatory nature necessary measures include improving scrutiny advertisement placements stepping efforts close fake accounts ensuring fighting disinformation factored design developing online tools preventing unauthorized use users personal data third parties clear reference cambridge analytica scandal engulfing facebook revelations political consultancy cambridge analytica worked us president donald trumps campaign improperly accessed data 87 million facebook users hit social networks share price led 10 hours questioning ceo us lawmakers far platforms unable address challenge posed disinformation turned blind eye manipulative use infrastructures document says file photo google logo pictured atop office building irvine california us august 7 2017 reutersmike blakefile picture gravity threat however become increasingly clear exemplified recent revelations personal data mined social media used electoral context facebook stepped factchecking fight fake news working making uneconomical people post content lowering ranking making less visible worlds largest social network also working giving users context background content read platform european countries already moved tackle problem like germany passed law requiring social media companies quickly remove hate speech france also looking rules block fake news facebook disclosed september russians fake names used social network try influence us voters months 2016 election writing inflammatory subjects setting events buying ads platforms large failed ensure sufficient transparency political advertising sponsored content commission document due published end april says commission also wants companies advertisers establish clear marking systems rules bots ensure activities confused human interactions editing alexandra hudson standards thomson reuters trust principles washington reuters us president donald trump repeatedly condemned witch hunt federal probe possible collusion moscow presidential campaign said thursday backed cooperative approach investigation special counsel robert mueller departs briefing members us senate investigation potential collusion russia trump campaign capitol hill washington us june 21 2017 reutersjoshua roberts agreed historically cooperative disciplined approach engaged robert mueller trump said twitter message referring special counsel leading investigation mueller appointed justice department investigating alleged russian meddling 2016 election whether trump campaign colluded moscow russia denies us intelligence agencies findings interfered campaign try tilt vote trumps favor trump denied collusion repeatedly attacked muellers investigation politically motivated trumps irritation erupted week fbi raid targeting personal lawyer michael cohen followed referral mueller raised concerns among critics lawmakers including trumps republican party might try mueller removed president denied new york times report tuesday sought fire mueller december wanted fire robert mueller december reported failing new york times would fired said twitter early thursday white house lawyers ty cobb donald mcgahn told trump firing mueller would leave vulnerable charges obstruction justice two officials told reuters tuesday said must good cause order justice department official overseeing russia probe deputy attorney general rod rosenstein oust mueller advice former aide steve bannon former senior adviser trump encouraged white house aides advise trump fire rosenstein washington post reported thursday citing unidentified sources also said bannon wanted white house stop cooperating mueller investigation fire cobb cobb lawyer charge white house response russia investigation stressed cooperation mueller white house said turned tens thousands pages documents special counsels team trump said one twitter messages thursday full confidence cobb bipartisan group senators put forward legislation wednesday protect mueller investigation senate judiciary committee consider next week anyone advising president public airwaves fire bob mueller president nations best interest heart full stop republican senator orrin hatch wrote twitter thursday reporting makini brice writing tim ahmann editing john stonestreet bernadette baum frances kerry standards thomson reuters trust principles beijing reuters chinas commerce ministry said thursday trade negotiations united states would impossible washingtons attempts dialogue sincere vowed retaliate us president donald trump escalates current tensions china president xi jinping tuesday vowed open chinas economy lower import duties goods cars boosting hopes easing tensions nations trump responded via twitter thankful xis remarks tariffs access us automakers said countries would make great progress together commerce ministry spokesman gao feng told reporters regular briefing however xis remarks nothing trade row mischaracterized concession washington hope people us misjudge situation said united states takes action escalate situation china hesitate fight back worlds two largest economies threatened tens billions dollars worth tariffs recent weeks spurring worries fullscale trade war could damage global growth roil markets us officials analysts said believe dispute could eventually resolved via dialogue beijing reiterated thursday formal talks taken place matter whether china willing participate negotiations us showing sincerity gao said shipping containers seen port shanghai china april 10 2018 reutersaly song meanwhile us president donald trump told reporters thursday talks beijing washington positive really well china think great discussions well see happens later trump said white house event taxes china negotiating hard long optimistic outcome think end tariffs barriers chinas global times tabloid wrote commentary washington could either respond sincerely chinas determination conduct interactions showing good us keep pressuring china unreasonable demands escalate trade frictions shipping containers seen port shanghai china april 10 2018 reutersaly song washington accuses chinese firms stealing trade secrets us companies forcing joint ventures acquire technology crux trumps current tariff threats china beijing denies charge trump monday criticized china maintaining 25 percent import tariffs autos compared 25 percent duties us calling relationship stupid trade gao said wto rules require equal tariffs demand parity unreasonable said china would continue open markets implement lower tariffs pledged xi soon possible reporting se young lee yawen chen additional reporting jeff mason washington writing ryan woo editing sam holmes bernadette baum standards thomson reuters trust principles washington reuters us secretary state nominee mike pompeo promised thursday rebuild state department gutted departure senior diplomats found sidelined foreign policy decisions trump administration reorganization hiring freeze initiated former secretary state rex tillerson left rank file demoralized vacancies jobs filled political appointees pompeo director cia said would work quickly new role fill gaps critical strengthening finest diplomatic corps world america world needs us said confirmation hearing senate related coverage us secretary state nominee pompeo confirms special counsel interview pompeo says wants fix iran deal work allies cant fixed president donald trump nominated pompeo become countrys top diplomat march 13 fired tillerson tillerson former chief executive exxon mobil xomn rocky relationship trump year job start pompeos hearing disrupted half dozen protesters chanting pompeo war led security officials pompeo appeared emotional start testimony talked family offered personal details love meatballs trump developed warm relationship pompeo white house meetings first year presidency believes former republican congressman shares world view tillerson times disagreed president good luck mike pompeo confirmation hearing today great secretary state republican president said twitter senators said want make sure pompeo able stand trump pressed issue senator bob corker republican chairman senate foreign relations committee said fair question whether relationship trump rooted candid healthy giveandtake dynamic know developed close relationship president believe relationship could well serve youre confirmed secretary state however many strong voices terminated resigned corker said among first issues pompeo pressed whether trump talked russia investigation looking alleged russian meddling 2016 us presidential election pompeo acknowledged interviewed special counsel robert mueller whose federal probe includes looking whether collusion moscow trump campaign aides declined discuss details slideshow 7 images us intelligence agencies concluded last year russia interfered campaign hopes tilting election trumps favor moscow denied charge trump denied collusion campaign trump accused democrats fellow republicans soft russian president vladimir putin pompeo signaled take tough line russia pompeo seen hardliner tillerson issues including nuclear agreement iran strongly opposed said wants work us allies fix deal want fix deal thats objective said pressed whether united states withdraw 2015 nuclear deal iran six major powers exxon mobil corp 776 xomn new york stock exchange 017 022 xomn denied advocated regime change north korea reporting patricia zengerle lesley wroughton editing frances kerry standards thomson reuters trust principles
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<p>Asian stock markets powered higher Thursday, sweeping aside worries about a flagging global economy after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it would to remain “patient” in its approach to raising interest rates.</p>
<p>KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 surged 2.5 percent to 17,242.33 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 1.1 percent to 22,828.49. Australia’s S&amp;P/ASX 200 rose 1.1 percent to 5,221.80. Markets in Taiwan and Southeast Asia also gained. China’s Shanghai Composite added 0.1 percent to 3,063.01. Seoul’s Kospi was down 0.1 percent at 1,897.91.</p>
<p>FED SPEAK: The world’s most powerful central bank is edging closer to raising interest rates from record lows given a strengthening U.S. economy. But it will be “patient” in deciding when to do so. That was the message sent Wednesday as the Fed ended a meeting amid heightened expectation about a forthcoming rate increase. At a news conference, Chair Janet Yellen said she foresaw no rate hike in the first quarter of 2015.</p>
<p>THE QUOTE: “It was always important for the Fed to get the language right so as not to spook markets at such a fragile time and it seems it has done just that,” said Stan Shamu, market strategist at IG in Melbourne, Australia.</p>
<p>RUBLE RUCTIONS: Russia also remained in focus on concerns about the impact of the recent slide in the ruble. The currency has lost more than 50 percent of its value this year as the oil price slump and Western sanctions over Russia’s actions in Ukraine hit the Russian economy. After falling again Wednesday, the ruble recovered somewhat and was at 60.80 to the dollar.</p>
<p>WALL STREET: Stocks rose as oil prices showed signs of stabilizing from a big slump and the market’s gains were extended after the Fed’s statement. The Standard &amp; Poor’s 500 rose 40.15 points, or 2.04 percent, to close at 2,012.89. That was the biggest gain for the index since October 2013. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 288 points, or 1.7 percent, to 17,356.87. The Nasdaq composite climbed 96.48 points, or 2.1 percent, to 4,644.31.</p>
<p>ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude was up 7 cents at $56.54 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In Wednesday’s Nymex floor trading, it closed up 54 cents to $56.47 a barrel. Oil has been on a wild downhill ride since June when it was over $100 a barrel. Overproduction and weak demand are behind the fall in global oil prices.</p>
<p>CURRENCIES. The euro rose to $1.2343 from the previous day’s closing level of $1.2329. The dollar fell to 118.52 yen from 118.83 yen.</p>
<p>Asian stock markets powered higher Thursday, sweeping aside worries about a flagging global economy after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it would to remain “patient” in its approach to raising interest rates.</p>
<p>KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 surged 2.5 percent to 17,242.33 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 1.1 percent to 22,828.49. Australia’s S&amp;P/ASX 200 rose 1.1 percent to 5,221.80. Markets in Taiwan and Southeast Asia also gained. China’s Shanghai Composite added 0.1 percent to 3,063.01. Seoul’s Kospi was down 0.1 percent at 1,897.91.</p>
<p>FED SPEAK: The world’s most powerful central bank is edging closer to raising interest rates from record lows given a strengthening U.S. economy. But it will be “patient” in deciding when to do so. That was the message sent Wednesday as the Fed ended a meeting amid heightened expectation about a forthcoming rate increase. At a news conference, Chair Janet Yellen said she foresaw no rate hike in the first quarter of 2015.</p>
<p>THE QUOTE: “It was always important for the Fed to get the language right so as not to spook markets at such a fragile time and it seems it has done just that,” said Stan Shamu, market strategist at IG in Melbourne, Australia.</p>
<p>RUBLE RUCTIONS: Russia also remained in focus on concerns about the impact of the recent slide in the ruble. The currency has lost more than 50 percent of its value this year as the oil price slump and Western sanctions over Russia’s actions in Ukraine hit the Russian economy. After falling again Wednesday, the ruble recovered somewhat and was at 60.80 to the dollar.</p>
<p>WALL STREET: Stocks rose as oil prices showed signs of stabilizing from a big slump and the market’s gains were extended after the Fed’s statement. The Standard &amp; Poor’s 500 rose 40.15 points, or 2.04 percent, to close at 2,012.89. That was the biggest gain for the index since October 2013. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 288 points, or 1.7 percent, to 17,356.87. The Nasdaq composite climbed 96.48 points, or 2.1 percent, to 4,644.31.</p>
<p>ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude was up 7 cents at $56.54 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In Wednesday’s Nymex floor trading, it closed up 54 cents to $56.47 a barrel. Oil has been on a wild downhill ride since June when it was over $100 a barrel. Overproduction and weak demand are behind the fall in global oil prices.</p>
<p>CURRENCIES. The euro rose to $1.2343 from the previous day’s closing level of $1.2329. The dollar fell to 118.52 yen from 118.83 yen.</p>
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<p>JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump paid a short visit to Israel’s national Holocaust memorial on Tuesday, calling the Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews “the most savage crime against God and his children” during the most sensitive stop on his two-day visit to Israel.</p>
<p>Trump had come under criticism in some quarters for planning just a brief half-hour stop at Yad Vashem, following a series of missteps by his administration on issues of concern to the Jewish American community — such as inadequately denouncing the anti-Semitic rhetoric of some of his supporters and appearing cavalier at times about the Holocaust.</p>
<p>But Trump pleased his hosts in Israel by taking a strong stand in expressing sympathy for Holocaust victims and support for the Jewish state.</p>
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<p>In a solemn ceremony, Trump rekindled the memorial’s eternal flame and laid a wreath in honor of the 6 million Jews killed. A children’s choir sang and a cantor recited a special prayer for the dead.</p>
<p>In brief comments, Trump called the Holocaust “history’s darkest hour.”</p>
<p>“Millions of wonderful and beautiful lives — men, women and children — were extinguished as part of a systematic attempt to eliminate the Jewish people,” he said. “It is our solemn duty to remember, to mourn, to grieve and to honor every single life that was so cruelly and viciously taken.”</p>
<p>Nearly all foreign leaders make a pilgrimage to Yad Vashem’s vast complex in Jerusalem during official trips to Israel and most visits typically last about an hour and a half and include a tour of the museum. Previous American presidents have had lengthy, emotional visits.</p>
<p>But Trump’s team allotted 30 minutes to Yad Vashem, citing the busy schedule of his 27-hour stay in Israel.</p>
<p>During the ceremony Trump received a gift from Yad Vashem’s chairman, Avner Shalev: an exact replica of the original Holocaust-era personal album that belonged to Ester Goldstein, who was murdered at the age of 16. Ester’s sister Margot Herschenbaum, the sole survivor of her immediate family, sat on a chair nearby.</p>
<p>Afterward, Trump shook the sister’s hand, and she broke down crying.</p>
<p>In an inscription in the memorial’s guest book, he wrote, in all capital letters: “IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE WITH ALL OF MY FRIENDS – SO AMAZING AND WILL NEVER FORGET!” Both Trump and his wife Melania signed the book.</p>
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<p>Looking on, and holding hands, were Trump’s daughter Ivanka, a convert to Judaism, and son-in-law Jared Kushner, whose grandparents were Holocaust survivors.</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Trump for a speech “that in so few words said so much.” He said Israel must be able “to defend itself by itself” and praised Trump’s commitment to Israel’s security.</p>
<p>Yad Vashem played down any controversy over the length of Trump’s visit, saying official visits were “not standardized by protocol” and each was “unique and personalized” depending on the guest. While appreciating Trump finding the time to visit, Yad Vashem said it hoped his next visit would allow also for a tour of the museum.</p>
<p>Former Israeli Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, the chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, said he was inclined to give Trump the benefit of the doubt.</p>
<p>“There were some mishaps at the beginning of the road. There were some statements of his assistants that shouldn’t have been said,” said Lau, who survived the Holocaust as a child. “But altogether we have to give credit. The man has only been at his job for a few months. I tend to give trust and I hope that he will understand us properly.”</p>
<p>Trump has come under fire for appearing to play to Jewish stereotypes during his presidential campaign and for being slow to speak out against anti-Semitism in America. His administration famously refrained from mentioning the murder of Jews in a Holocaust commemoration statement in January, and his spokesman compared Adolf Hitler favorably to Syrian President Bashar Assad last month.</p>
<p>After Sean Spicer told reporters that Adolf Hitler “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons” — a remark that ignored Hitler’s use of gas chambers to exterminate Jews during the Holocaust — Yad Vashem invited Spicer to visit its website to educate himself further.</p>
<p>But recently, Trump has made an effort to change these impressions. Last month, he visited the U.S. Holocaust Museum and described how “six million Jews had been brutally slaughtered” in a proclamation marking the weeklong Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust. He also called the Nazi genocide of Jews “the darkest chapter of human history” in a speech to the World Jewish Congress.</p>
<p>Zohar Segev, a faculty member at the Ruderman program for American Jewish studies at the University of Haifa, said he didn’t think the quick visit was meant to offend but that Trump probably just didn’t properly estimate the sensitivity.</p>
<p>“There is a lack of professionalism of the new administration,” Segev said. “Anyone who understands the significance of the Holocaust in Israel and in America would not make a move like this.”</p>
<p>Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, speculated that the brief visit could represent a 21st century attitude of having enough of the Holocaust. “It’s painful for the older generation to hear, but there is a sense among young people that they have Holocaust overload,” he said.</p>
<p>Sarna said Trump’s upbringing in New York would surely have exposed him to the Holocaust and its impact on Jews. But as president he may not fully comprehend its lessons and how it continues to shape attitudes in Israel and beyond.</p>
<p>“It was just a week ago that we learned about a crematorium in Syria and for those who spend more than 15 minutes at a Holocaust museum that word resonates deeply,” he said. “At the end of the day. Mr. Trump doesn’t much like museums … I think this is a man who is much more interested in the future than in the past.”</p>
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jerusalem president donald trump paid short visit israels national holocaust memorial tuesday calling nazi extermination 6 million jews savage crime god children sensitive stop twoday visit israel trump come criticism quarters planning brief halfhour stop yad vashem following series missteps administration issues concern jewish american community inadequately denouncing antisemitic rhetoric supporters appearing cavalier times holocaust trump pleased hosts israel taking strong stand expressing sympathy holocaust victims support jewish state advertisement solemn ceremony trump rekindled memorials eternal flame laid wreath honor 6 million jews killed childrens choir sang cantor recited special prayer dead brief comments trump called holocaust historys darkest hour millions wonderful beautiful lives men women children extinguished part systematic attempt eliminate jewish people said solemn duty remember mourn grieve honor every single life cruelly viciously taken nearly foreign leaders make pilgrimage yad vashems vast complex jerusalem official trips israel visits typically last hour half include tour museum previous american presidents lengthy emotional visits trumps team allotted 30 minutes yad vashem citing busy schedule 27hour stay israel ceremony trump received gift yad vashems chairman avner shalev exact replica original holocaustera personal album belonged ester goldstein murdered age 16 esters sister margot herschenbaum sole survivor immediate family sat chair nearby afterward trump shook sisters hand broke crying inscription memorials guest book wrote capital letters great honor friends amazing never forget trump wife melania signed book advertisement looking holding hands trumps daughter ivanka convert judaism soninlaw jared kushner whose grandparents holocaust survivors israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu thanked trump speech words said much said israel must able defend praised trumps commitment israels security yad vashem played controversy length trumps visit saying official visits standardized protocol unique personalized depending guest appreciating trump finding time visit yad vashem said hoped next visit would allow also tour museum former israeli chief rabbi yisrael meir lau chairman yad vashem council said inclined give trump benefit doubt mishaps beginning road statements assistants shouldnt said said lau survived holocaust child altogether give credit man job months tend give trust hope understand us properly trump come fire appearing play jewish stereotypes presidential campaign slow speak antisemitism america administration famously refrained mentioning murder jews holocaust commemoration statement january spokesman compared adolf hitler favorably syrian president bashar assad last month sean spicer told reporters adolf hitler didnt even sink using chemical weapons remark ignored hitlers use gas chambers exterminate jews holocaust yad vashem invited spicer visit website educate recently trump made effort change impressions last month visited us holocaust museum described six million jews brutally slaughtered proclamation marking weeklong days remembrance victims holocaust also called nazi genocide jews darkest chapter human history speech world jewish congress zohar segev faculty member ruderman program american jewish studies university haifa said didnt think quick visit meant offend trump probably didnt properly estimate sensitivity lack professionalism new administration segev said anyone understands significance holocaust israel america would make move like jonathan sarna professor american jewish history brandeis university speculated brief visit could represent 21st century attitude enough holocaust painful older generation hear sense among young people holocaust overload said sarna said trumps upbringing new york would surely exposed holocaust impact jews president may fully comprehend lessons continues shape attitudes israel beyond week ago learned crematorium syria spend 15 minutes holocaust museum word resonates deeply said end day mr trump doesnt much like museums think man much interested future past ___ follow aron heller twitter wwwtwittercomaronhellerap
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<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus police officers acted properly when they arrested a man last year wanted on warrants for violent crimes including assaulting an officer, the city said in response to a lawsuit claiming the man's civil rights were violated.</p>
<p>The city also denied allegations that officers tried to block bystanders from filming the September arrest of Timothy Davis in a convenience store.</p>
<p>The city acknowledged remarks by an officer at the scene were "inappropriate" but said the officer wasn't involved in the arrest and added: "Inappropriate comments are not the basis for any state of federal liability."</p>
<p>"I'm going to choke the life out of you," the officer said at one point, referring to how he would have handled the arrest.</p>
<p>Police chief Kimberly Jacobs later said she was appalled by the comments and temporarily pulled the officer from patrol duties.</p>
<p>The city also denied allegations that Davis couldn't breathe, and acknowledged having to use a stun gun to bring Davis under control.</p>
<p>"Officers were required to employ force against Davis in order to secure his arrest," the city said in a Jan. 9 court filing.</p>
<p>Cellphone video of Davis' arrest showed officers struggling to subdue him and eventually punching and kicking him. Afterward, police spokesman Sgt. Dean Worthington said use of force depends on a suspect's behavior and police policy does allow for punching and kicking.</p>
<p>Davis' lawsuit also alleges a lack of police training and supervision when it comes to use of force and says Columbus doesn't punish overly violent officers, instead conducting "sham Internal Affairs investigations," claims denied by the city.</p>
<p>The lawsuit dropped broader allegations that police routinely violate residents' civil rights, and particularly those of black residents, as an earlier version of Davis' lawsuit claimed.</p>
<p>The city's approach to policing and the demands on officers have been subject to debate in recent months.</p>
<p>Columbus saw a record 143 homicides last year. In response, the city announced Wednesday an additional $2 million to pay for 30 more police recruits this year along with neighborhood safety programs.</p>
<p>Last year, Columbus agreed to meet a goal of training one out of every two current officers in how to deal with people having mental health crises by 2020. All recruits already receive such training, called Crisis Intervention Training.</p>
<p>The city also is submitting its training plans for dealing with mentally ill individuals to an international police association for review.</p>
<p>Andrew Ginther, Columbus' Democratic mayor, touched on these issues when he addressed newly graduated officers earlier this month.</p>
<p>"Policing has always been a difficult profession, but these officers are entering it at a time in history, both nationally and locally, when the challenges may be greater than at any other time," Ginther said on Jan. 5.</p>
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<p>Andrew Welsh-Huggins can be reached on Twitter at https://twitter.com/awhcolumbus.</p>
<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus police officers acted properly when they arrested a man last year wanted on warrants for violent crimes including assaulting an officer, the city said in response to a lawsuit claiming the man's civil rights were violated.</p>
<p>The city also denied allegations that officers tried to block bystanders from filming the September arrest of Timothy Davis in a convenience store.</p>
<p>The city acknowledged remarks by an officer at the scene were "inappropriate" but said the officer wasn't involved in the arrest and added: "Inappropriate comments are not the basis for any state of federal liability."</p>
<p>"I'm going to choke the life out of you," the officer said at one point, referring to how he would have handled the arrest.</p>
<p>Police chief Kimberly Jacobs later said she was appalled by the comments and temporarily pulled the officer from patrol duties.</p>
<p>The city also denied allegations that Davis couldn't breathe, and acknowledged having to use a stun gun to bring Davis under control.</p>
<p>"Officers were required to employ force against Davis in order to secure his arrest," the city said in a Jan. 9 court filing.</p>
<p>Cellphone video of Davis' arrest showed officers struggling to subdue him and eventually punching and kicking him. Afterward, police spokesman Sgt. Dean Worthington said use of force depends on a suspect's behavior and police policy does allow for punching and kicking.</p>
<p>Davis' lawsuit also alleges a lack of police training and supervision when it comes to use of force and says Columbus doesn't punish overly violent officers, instead conducting "sham Internal Affairs investigations," claims denied by the city.</p>
<p>The lawsuit dropped broader allegations that police routinely violate residents' civil rights, and particularly those of black residents, as an earlier version of Davis' lawsuit claimed.</p>
<p>The city's approach to policing and the demands on officers have been subject to debate in recent months.</p>
<p>Columbus saw a record 143 homicides last year. In response, the city announced Wednesday an additional $2 million to pay for 30 more police recruits this year along with neighborhood safety programs.</p>
<p>Last year, Columbus agreed to meet a goal of training one out of every two current officers in how to deal with people having mental health crises by 2020. All recruits already receive such training, called Crisis Intervention Training.</p>
<p>The city also is submitting its training plans for dealing with mentally ill individuals to an international police association for review.</p>
<p>Andrew Ginther, Columbus' Democratic mayor, touched on these issues when he addressed newly graduated officers earlier this month.</p>
<p>"Policing has always been a difficult profession, but these officers are entering it at a time in history, both nationally and locally, when the challenges may be greater than at any other time," Ginther said on Jan. 5.</p>
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<p>Andrew Welsh-Huggins can be reached on Twitter at https://twitter.com/awhcolumbus.</p>
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columbus ohio ap columbus police officers acted properly arrested man last year wanted warrants violent crimes including assaulting officer city said response lawsuit claiming mans civil rights violated city also denied allegations officers tried block bystanders filming september arrest timothy davis convenience store city acknowledged remarks officer scene inappropriate said officer wasnt involved arrest added inappropriate comments basis state federal liability im going choke life officer said one point referring would handled arrest police chief kimberly jacobs later said appalled comments temporarily pulled officer patrol duties city also denied allegations davis couldnt breathe acknowledged use stun gun bring davis control officers required employ force davis order secure arrest city said jan 9 court filing cellphone video davis arrest showed officers struggling subdue eventually punching kicking afterward police spokesman sgt dean worthington said use force depends suspects behavior police policy allow punching kicking davis lawsuit also alleges lack police training supervision comes use force says columbus doesnt punish overly violent officers instead conducting sham internal affairs investigations claims denied city lawsuit dropped broader allegations police routinely violate residents civil rights particularly black residents earlier version davis lawsuit claimed citys approach policing demands officers subject debate recent months columbus saw record 143 homicides last year response city announced wednesday additional 2 million pay 30 police recruits year along neighborhood safety programs last year columbus agreed meet goal training one every two current officers deal people mental health crises 2020 recruits already receive training called crisis intervention training city also submitting training plans dealing mentally ill individuals international police association review andrew ginther columbus democratic mayor touched issues addressed newly graduated officers earlier month policing always difficult profession officers entering time history nationally locally challenges may greater time ginther said jan 5 ___ andrew welshhuggins reached twitter httpstwittercomawhcolumbus columbus ohio ap columbus police officers acted properly arrested man last year wanted warrants violent crimes including assaulting officer city said response lawsuit claiming mans civil rights violated city also denied allegations officers tried block bystanders filming september arrest timothy davis convenience store city acknowledged remarks officer scene inappropriate said officer wasnt involved arrest added inappropriate comments basis state federal liability im going choke life officer said one point referring would handled arrest police chief kimberly jacobs later said appalled comments temporarily pulled officer patrol duties city also denied allegations davis couldnt breathe acknowledged use stun gun bring davis control officers required employ force davis order secure arrest city said jan 9 court filing cellphone video davis arrest showed officers struggling subdue eventually punching kicking afterward police spokesman sgt dean worthington said use force depends suspects behavior police policy allow punching kicking davis lawsuit also alleges lack police training supervision comes use force says columbus doesnt punish overly violent officers instead conducting sham internal affairs investigations claims denied city lawsuit dropped broader allegations police routinely violate residents civil rights particularly black residents earlier version davis lawsuit claimed citys approach policing demands officers subject debate recent months columbus saw record 143 homicides last year response city announced wednesday additional 2 million pay 30 police recruits year along neighborhood safety programs last year columbus agreed meet goal training one every two current officers deal people mental health crises 2020 recruits already receive training called crisis intervention training city also submitting training plans dealing mentally ill individuals international police association review andrew ginther columbus democratic mayor touched issues addressed newly graduated officers earlier month policing always difficult profession officers entering time history nationally locally challenges may greater time ginther said jan 5 ___ andrew welshhuggins reached twitter httpstwittercomawhcolumbus
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<p>Jan 17(Reuters) - Baotou Dongbao Bio Tech Co Ltd :</p>
<p>* Says net profit for FY 2017 to up 10.3 percent to 30 percent, or to be 21.2 million yuan to 25 million yuan</p>
<p>* Says FY 2016 net profit was 19.2 million yuan</p>
<p>* Says increased gross margin as main reason for the forecast</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man linked to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, who was said to have praised "violent jihad," was captured in Syria by U.S.-backed forces more than a month ago, the Pentagon said on Thursday.</p>
<p>"We can confirm that Mohammad Haydar Zammar, a Syrian-born German national, was captured more than a month ago by SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) partners as part of their ongoing operations to defeat ISIS inside Syria," Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon said, using an acronym for Islamic State.</p>
<p>The Syrian Democratic Forces are an alliance of militias in northern and eastern Syria.</p>
<p>"We are working with our SDF partners to obtain additional details," Pahon said.</p>
<p>The 9/11 Commission report, a Congressional account on the 2001 attacks, said Zammar was an "outspoken, flamboyant Islamist" who extolled "the virtues of violent jihad."</p>
<p>It said Zammar reportedly had taken credit for influencing Ramzi Binalshibh, who is accused of wiring money to September 11 hijackers and passing information to al Qaeda operatives, and Mohammed Atta, who led the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City.</p>
<p>U.S. officials have said that there are hundreds of foreign fighters and thousands of Syrian Islamic State militants in SDF custody.</p>
<p>Reporting by Idrees Ali</p> Our Standards:
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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, under fire from lawmakers for travel and security expenses, spent about $45,000 in government money to fly five people to Australia to prepare for a planned trip that was later canceled.</p>
<p>Two of his aides and three security agents flew to Australia last August on business-class tickets costing roughly $9,000 each to set up meetings for the EPA administrator.</p>
<p>The purchase of business-class tickets was not a violation of U.S. government policy, which allows federal employees to travel business class on trips lasting 14 hours or more.</p>
<p>But the spending on a five-person "advance" team for the Australia trip, revealed by U.S. officials who spoke to Reuters, comes as Pruitt faces scrutiny over his own frequent first-class travel and spending on such items as a 24-hour security detail.</p>
<p>The White House budget office has said it is investigating whether a $43,000 soundproof phone booth installed for Pruitt in his office at EPA headquarters violated the law.</p>
<p>The Republican-led House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is looking into Pruitt's travel and security arrangements. Pruitt also has drawn criticism over his rental of a room in a Washington condominium owned by an energy lobbyist's wife.</p>
<p>Democrats have pointed to Pruitt's spending to excoriate President Donald Trump over his campaign pledge to "drain the swamp" in Washington. They contend Trump has done the opposite.</p>
<p>In addition to the three security agents, the team that went to Australia to prepare for Pruitt's trip included his advance director, Millan Hupp, and Kevin Chmielewski, his deputy chief of staff at the time. Chmielewski has since left the agency.</p>
<p>Pruitt was scheduled to participate in environment-related meetings with Australian officials on a visit to Sydney and Canberra.</p>
<p>EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox said Pruitt's trip was canceled because of Hurricane Harvey, which caused major flooding and damage in Texas. Pruitt ended up going to Corpus Christi, Texas to assess the agency's relief efforts instead.</p>
<p>"This is not news," Wilcox said, adding that the advance team was "adhering to the federal government's travel policy."</p>
<p>The trip has not been rescheduled. Wilcox said the original itinerary included a meeting with Australia's parliament and "we have been unable to find a time to reschedule this meeting as it must be done when they are in session."</p>
<p>The officials were away for only a few days, flying from Washington to Sydney on Aug. 26 and returning on Aug. 29. An economy class ticket for the trip would have cost about $1,400.</p> ?BY THE BOOK?
<p>Asked about the EPA officials? Australia trip, a White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, did not address whether the travel was appropriate but said Pruitt's overall spending raised questions and "we expect the EPA to answer them."</p>
<p>Larry Noble, former president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws representing government ethics administrators, questioned whether so many staffers were required for the advance team and said Pruitt's credibility on the broader issue of spending taxpayer money was low.</p>
<p>"If he had a reputation for playing it by the book in every other instance, then you might not be concerned," said Noble, senior director and general counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, which advocates government ethics reforms. "But when you see somebody who ... seems to not be that concerned about the way he spends the money, then you question whether this was justified."</p>
<p>Trump has praised Pruitt for doing a "great job" cutting back environmental regulations that the president views as burdensome to businesses.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, 38 Democratic U.S. senators and an independent who votes with them in the 100-seat Senate introduced a resolution urging Pruitt to resign. The Senate is controlled by Pruitt's fellow Republicans, who could defeat the resolution.</p> FILE PHOTO: Scott Pruitt, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, gestures as he testifies to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee oversight hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., January 30, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
<p>More than 130 U.S. lawmakers signed a companion resolution in the House.</p>
<p>Reporting by Jeff Mason; Additional reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Caren Bohan and Will Dunham</p> Our Standards:
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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House national security adviser John Bolton told Russia's ambassador on Thursday that better relations between the two countries required addressing U.S. concerns on election meddling, a chemical attack in Britain, and the situations in Ukraine and Syria, the White House said.</p> National Security Advisor John Bolton arrives to attend a joint press conference held by U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 18, 2018. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
<p>It was the first meeting between Bolton, who started at the White House this month, and Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov, the administration said in a statement.</p>
<p>Bolton told Antonov it was in the interest of both countries to have better relations, but Russia must address allegations that Moscow interfered in the 2016 U.S. election and poisoned a former Russian spy in Britain, the statement said. Moscow has denied both allegations.</p>
<p>The statement said the United States also had concerns about the situations in Ukraine, where Russia backs separatists, and in Syria, where Moscow's military support has tipped the balance in favor of the Damascus government in a seven-year-old civil war.</p>
<p>Reporting by Eric Beech in Washington and Steve Holland in West Palm Beach, Fla.; Editing by Mohammad Zargham and Peter Cooney</p> Our Standards:
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<p>HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's new president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, began his term on Thursday with a promise to defend the socialist revolution led by the Castro brothers since 1959, giving a sober speech that also emphasized the need to modernize the island's economy.</p>
<p>A stalwart of the ruling Communist Party, Diaz-Canel was sworn in to replace Raul Castro by the National Assembly in a carefully managed new chapter for the Caribbean island, aimed at preserving the political system.</p>
<p>"The mandate given by the people to this house is to give continuity to the Cuban revolution in a crucial historic moment," Diaz-Canel, 57, told the assembly in his first speech as president.</p>
<p>He delivered a warm homage to 86-year-old Raul Castro, who took office a decade ago as his brother Fidel Castro's health deteriorated. Fidel Castro died in 2016.</p>
<p>Castro will retain considerable clout as the head of the Communist Party until a congress in 2021. Diaz-Canel, praising the reforms he ushered in as president, said Castro would remain the leader of the revolution and would be involved in major decisions.</p> Related Coverage
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<p>Stepping to the podium for a 90-minute-long parting speech, a relaxed-looking Castro gave the impression he would not quickly fade from sight. He sharply criticized U.S. foreign, trade and immigration policy under President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>"Since the current president arrived in office, there has been a deliberate reversal in the relations between Cuba and the United States, and an aggressive and threatening tone prevails," Castro said.</p>
<p>Thursday's session was held on the 57th anniversary of Cuba's 1961 defeat of a CIA-backed Cuban exile invasion at the Bay of Pigs, a victory that Havana celebrates as a symbol of its resistance to "imperialist" pressure for change from Washington.</p>
<p>In 2014, Castro and former U.S. President Barack Obama reached a landmark agreement to renew diplomatic ties and improve relations between the Cold War foes, a detente that led to a rapid increase in U.S. visits and investment on the island.</p>
<p>There has been a renewed chill under Trump, who put a stop to doing business with some Cuban state-run companies and tightened rules for U.S. visitors. A spate of mystery illnesses among U.S. diplomats in Havana has also undermined trust.</p>
<p>Despite that, Diaz-Canel praised Castro's move to renew relations with the United States. He said there would be no compromise in Cuba's foreign policy but in a repetition of a long-held stance by Havana, he said he would hold dialogue with anybody who treated Cuba as an equal.</p>
<p>"I take that as a signal that the Cuban leadership still sees value in improving relations, even if they have to wait for the next U.S. president," said William LeoGrande, co-author of a book on the secret U.S.-Cuba talks that led to detente.</p>
<p>In Washington, a White House official said the Trump administration had no expectations Cuban people would have any greater freedoms under the new "hand-picked" leader, and had no intention of softening its policy toward the island's government.</p>
<p>Castro spoke highly of Diaz-Canel and gave his blessing to the younger man to take over from him as the powerful head of the Communist Party in three years. He also said the new president could serve two five-year terms, underscoring restrictions Castro imposed on himself after his brother's decades in power.</p> SWEEPING CHANGES NOT EXPECTED
<p>Diaz-Canel's speech set a course for his first term, in which he will have to strike a balance between defending Cuba's socialist system and reforming it enough to satisfy a young generation hungry for better economic conditions.</p>
<p>He confirmed expectations the transition would not herald sweeping changes to one of the world's last state-run economies and one-party systems, promising there would be no return to capitalism.</p>
<p>Diaz-Canel, who has risen the ranks of the Communist Party over three decades, said the new period would also be characterized by "modernization of the economic and social model," without giving details.</p> Newly elected Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel (L) reacts as former Cuban President Raul Castro raises his hand during the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, April 19, 2018. REUTERS/Adalberto Roque/Pool via Reuters
<p>He ended his speech like Fidel Castro used to, punching the air and shouting the revolutionary slogans "motherland or death, socialism or death, we will win."</p>
<p>Of the 604 lawmakers present, 603 voted in favor of making Diaz-Canel president and unanimously for the other mainly middle-aged members of the state council, marking a generational shift from the elderly leaders who fought to topple U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959.</p> ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS
<p>For many Cubans, struggling with economic hardships and frustrated with the government's emphasis on continuity rather than change, the transition was seen as unlikely to bring much beyond the symbolism of a new leader.</p>
<p>"He talked much about the past, nothing about the future and practically nothing about the present," said Monica Rivero, a 29-year old Cuban journalist based in Havana.</p> Slideshow (8 Images)
<p>Cubans hope the next government can breathe life into the Soviet-style centrally planned economy, which has failed to improve much under Castro's limited market reforms. Those reforms have included allowing small businesses from hairdressers to restaurants, and encouraging some foreign investment.</p>
<p>In his speech, Castro reiterated his support for the reforms and for self-employment. He called for more austere government spending and responsibility over the country's debt, but said a plan to unify the nation's two currencies was causing "a headache."</p>
<p>Reporting by Sarah Marsh; Aditional reporting by Marc Frank; Writing by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Frances Kerry</p> Our Standards:
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travel policy trip rescheduled wilcox said original itinerary included meeting australias parliament unable find time reschedule meeting must done session officials away days flying washington sydney aug 26 returning aug 29 economy class ticket trip would cost 1400 book asked epa officials australia trip white house official speaking condition anonymity address whether travel appropriate said pruitts overall spending raised questions expect epa answer larry noble former president council governmental ethics laws representing government ethics administrators questioned whether many staffers required advance team said pruitts credibility broader issue spending taxpayer money low reputation playing book every instance might concerned said noble senior director general counsel campaign legal center advocates government ethics reforms see somebody seems concerned way spends money question whether justified trump praised pruitt great job cutting back environmental regulations president views 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party diazcanel sworn replace raul castro national assembly carefully managed new chapter caribbean island aimed preserving political system mandate given people house give continuity cuban revolution crucial historic moment diazcanel 57 told assembly first speech president delivered warm homage 86yearold raul castro took office decade ago brother fidel castros health deteriorated fidel castro died 2016 castro retain considerable clout head communist party congress 2021 diazcanel praising reforms ushered president said castro would remain leader revolution would involved major decisions related coverage factbox whos top cubas new government stepping podium 90minutelong parting speech relaxedlooking castro gave impression would quickly fade sight sharply criticized us foreign trade immigration policy president donald trump since current president arrived office deliberate reversal relations cuba united states aggressive threatening tone prevails castro said thursdays session held 57th anniversary cubas 1961 defeat ciabacked cuban exile invasion bay pigs victory havana celebrates symbol resistance imperialist pressure change washington 2014 castro former us president barack obama reached landmark agreement renew diplomatic ties improve relations cold war foes detente led rapid increase us visits investment island renewed chill trump put stop business cuban staterun companies tightened rules us visitors spate mystery illnesses among us diplomats havana also undermined trust despite diazcanel praised castros move renew relations united states said would compromise cubas foreign policy repetition longheld stance havana said would hold dialogue anybody treated cuba equal take signal cuban leadership still sees value improving relations even wait next us president said william leogrande coauthor book secret uscuba talks led detente washington white house official said trump administration expectations cuban people would greater freedoms new handpicked leader intention softening policy toward islands government castro spoke highly diazcanel gave blessing younger man take powerful head communist party three years also said new president could serve two fiveyear terms underscoring restrictions castro imposed brothers decades power sweeping changes expected diazcanels speech set course first term strike balance defending cubas socialist system reforming enough satisfy young generation hungry better economic conditions confirmed expectations transition would herald sweeping changes one worlds last staterun economies oneparty systems promising would return capitalism diazcanel risen ranks communist party three decades said new period would also characterized modernization economic social model without giving details newly elected cuban president miguel diazcanel l reacts former cuban president raul castro raises hand national assembly havana cuba april 19 2018 reutersadalberto roquepool via reuters ended speech like fidel castro used punching air shouting 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<p>Head Chef Francisco Aguilar prepares pizza dough at Pizzeria da Lino, which also offers a range of non-pizza Italian entrees. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)</p>
<p>The sign on North Guadalupe Street says "Pizzeria da Lino" and I've passed it a hundred or a thousand times without guessing that Lino's serves more than pizza.</p>
<p>In fact, this small, intimate and cozy place is a trattoria - an informal Italian eatery serving pizza and pasta, certainly, but more besides. It's a wonderfully friendly place and music often comes with dinner. We spent two memorable evenings there recently and will be returning.</p>
<p>Appetizers, or first courses, include a variety of salads and a bruschetta, plus a few more interesting and ambitious selections like thin-sliced beef carpaccio and a mushroom "tower." Secondi include a panoply of pasta, but also cioppino and stuffed lamb. Pizza of course - a dozen choices - just rounds out the menu.</p>
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<p>We started with the bruschetta ($8), tastily garnished with arugula, fresh tomatoes and a dash of chopped onion, laced with fresh basil and garlic, and a very nice balsamic vinegar. It was very good but, if you plan to order pizza also, best skip this option. We expected an underpinning of focaccia, the tender slab-like version of Italian bread. Instead, the base was a pizza dough, crackly and nicely flavored by the smoke of Lino's wood-fired pizza oven.</p>
<p>We also tried the torre di portobello ($11), a delicious surprise. A plump, huge portobello mushroom had been sliced horizontally and stacked with fresh, tender buffalo mozzarella and roasted tomato slices, all nicely tied together with basil pesto. It was a very tasty morsel that easily provided more than a few bites for everybody at our table of four.</p>
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<p>The pizza enthusiast ordered Lino's restrained and delicious simple tomato-sauce pie laced with pepperoni ($11.50). More of that slightly smoky and crunchy crust, a dab of tomato and very high-quality spicy sausage.</p>
<p>Cioppino ($19) was a must-try for another of us and Lino's version didn't disappoint. The broth was a garlicky and light tomato-and-white-wine creation, and absolutely laden with clams, mussels, calamari and shrimp. It more than met expectations and there was enough crusty-but-soft Italian bread to sop up every bit.</p>
<p>The night's special was chicken parmeggiano ($17.85) and my other guest opted for that. It too defied expectations; this dish can be heavy and lackluster, but Lino's serves up a lighter, far more tender version that we all praised.</p>
<p>The chicken breast was succulently tender (not overcooked, in other words). And there was just enough Parmesan cheese to live up to the name, but not so much that the dish was overly rich or cheese-y.</p>
<p>I chose the stuffed lamb ($18) from the regular menu and was very happy. Spinach and bread crumbs were wrapped in generous slice of lamb and braised to perfection. The accompanying gravy was savory. I loved the Parmesan risotto - flavorful enough to stand up to the lamb, rich with cheese. A bowl of that and a salad would make a simple but wonderful supper.</p>
<p>A handful of diced veggies, ranging from eggplant to pepper and zucchini, filled out the plate. And, yes, there was enough of everything left for lunch the next day.</p>
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<p>We were surrounded by take-out containers by the end of the meal but, in the interests of a complete review, we did order dessert ($6.50), although one was all we could manage. That was tiramisu - not the most decadent version of this coffee-and-cake dessert we've had in town, but good nonetheless. Interestingly, on a return visit Christmas Eve, the tiramisu had been jazzed up: more coffee, more chocolate - excellent.</p>
<p>For the record, the waiter suggested cannoli for dessert instead and, when we came back on Christmas Eve, we took him up on the tip. If you don't come from one of the Italian-American capitals in our country (Cincinnati, Columbus, New York and maybe San Francisco), this is not a familiar treat. But Lino's version lived up to the legend: deliciously liquored-up whipped cream, crunchy pastry rolls, a little chocolate.</p>
<p>Pizzeria da Lino serves a range of Italian offerings, along with pizza, and features accordion music Thursday through weekend evenings. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)</p>
<p>By the way, the Christmas Eve special of flatiron steak and roasted garlic mashed potatoes was superb, as was the fettucine Sophia Loren ($13), a menu standard that Lino's claims as its own. Think of it as cioppino with pasta added - a light dried-tomato cream sauce, plenty of shrimp, a little spinach. Perfection! This may become a favorite on our return visits.</p>
<p>Among the best things about Lino's is the trattoria atmosphere, complete with accordion music. Ron Romanovsky holds forth Thursday through the weekend evenings in virtuoso style. From his spangled black Bulgari accordion pours forth an unlikely melange of French favorites like "La vie en rose," some Broadway tunes, American popular classics, and a little Bach and the Beatles thrown in. It's wonderful. Needless to say, on Christmas Eve, we got carols, too, deftly chosen and not too many.</p>
<p>Romanovsky is one excellent reason to visit Lino's; so too is the food. The service is excellent, too; the atmosphere is warmly cozy and the prices are reasonable. No surprise that this place is almost always crowded and enjoys many regulars. We look forward to summer, when Lino's also serves lunch on the patio.</p>
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<p>GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - In recent weeks, Gaza residents have been jolted awake in the dead of night to a raucous mixture of Quranic phrases, Islamic supplications and prayers delivered by loudspeakers to their doorsteps.</p>
<p>The "Grand Fajr Campaign" is the work of fervent religious activists, many affiliated with the ruling Hamas militant movement, seeking to spread the message of Islam in an already deeply conservative society. But not everyone is ready to listen.</p>
<p>The Fajr, or "Dawn," campaign has set off a heated debate over whether it is appropriate to force religion on the masses. One leading religious scholar has even warned that it is un-Islamic to "annoy" people.</p>
<p>Devout Muslims pray five times a day, and activists say they want to make sure that people catch the first and most important of the prayers at their local mosques.</p>
<p>After beginning in several Gaza City neighborhoods, the campaign has spread to areas across the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>The organizers, mostly mosque committees reporting to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Religious Affairs, say they want to see the mosques as full at dawn as at the noon prayer on Friday, the highlight of the Islamic week.</p>
<p>Ahmed Hammad, a volunteer in Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, said it is paying off, increasing the "rows" of worshippers at the local mosque.</p>
<p>"It used to be a row or half a row of worshippers. But today after the campaign, the number has grown to three rows," he said.</p>
<p>The campaign comes at a difficult time for Gaza, where despair is widespread among the 2 million inhabitants after a decade-long Israeli-Egyptian blockade and recent restrictions by the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority to squeeze the territory's Hamas rulers.</p>
<p>Hamas, an Islamic militant group that seeks Israel's destruction, seized control of Gaza from the Palestinian Authority in 2007 after winning legislative elections a year earlier. Israel says the blockade is necessary to prevent the group from building up its military capabilities, while Palestinian President Mahmoud has tried to pressure the group to yield power.</p>
<p>Though Hamas has offered to relinquish power, reconciliation talks with Abbas have stalled as Gaza's battered economy continues to deteriorate. In this difficult decade, the Gaza population has grown increasingly conservative and religious.</p>
<p>"The Fajr prayer is important to raise the morale and spirits in this state of strangulation and constraints," said Abu Aziz al-Waheidi, who oversees the campaign in 22 mosques in Tal al-Hawa.</p>
<p>Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas' supreme leader, has endorsed the effort, with his office distributing pictures showing him and other Hamas officials surrounded by dozens of worshippers after praying at a mosque in the Shati refugee camp, where he lives.</p>
<p>The campaign started last month, shortly after President Donald Trump decided to move the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. The move enraged the Palestinians, who seek east Jerusalem as their future capital. East Jerusalem is home to a hilltop compound revered as Judaism's holiest site and the third-holiest place in Islam.</p>
<p>When the morning prayer patrols began, residents were perplexed by the raucous sound outside their homes. The only time anything similar occurs is during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, when drummers wander through the streets waking people to remind the faithful to eat their pre-dawn meal before starting their daylong fasts.</p>
<p>Dozens of mosques now take part in the daily pre-dawn displays. "This is the word of God. They are people urging to do good and worship," said Saed al-Shurafa, 63, at the mosque.</p>
<p>But opposition has emerged over the forceful tactics, which include the use of powerful car-mounted loudspeakers.</p>
<p>Saed Abu Hasera, another resident, said it is generally a good thing to encourage people to pray. He said he even found the sounds of a recorder played by one activist to be a "beautiful" way to start the day. But he said they sometimes go too far.</p>
<p>"The banging will awaken children and it will cause confusion," he said.</p>
<p>Abdel-Bari Khela, an influential Islamic scholar and a Mufti, issued a ruling highlighting the importance of prayer and going to the mosque at dawn. However, he said it is against Islam's instructions to "annoy" people.</p>
<p>He issued a statement saying that the two traditional calls of prayer issued from the mosque, known as "azans," is the instruction of Islam.</p>
<p>"Replacing them with illegitimate means such as drums, music and loud sound that makes noise is illegal. If it leads to harm like annoying people or disturbing them, this is forbidden," he said.</p>
<p>Emerging in the dark from the Abu Honayfa mosque in Tel al-Hawa on a recent morning, Hamad and a group of young men split into two groups, each carrying a portable loudspeaker. They walked through streets and alleys, with Ahmed calling on people to rise over a microphone, as an Islamic supplication blared from the loudspeaker.</p>
<p>"The sound is not high, not low; it's very light as you see," he insisted. "We only go out half or quarter an hour before the azan. How can this be annoying?!"</p>
<p>GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - In recent weeks, Gaza residents have been jolted awake in the dead of night to a raucous mixture of Quranic phrases, Islamic supplications and prayers delivered by loudspeakers to their doorsteps.</p>
<p>The "Grand Fajr Campaign" is the work of fervent religious activists, many affiliated with the ruling Hamas militant movement, seeking to spread the message of Islam in an already deeply conservative society. But not everyone is ready to listen.</p>
<p>The Fajr, or "Dawn," campaign has set off a heated debate over whether it is appropriate to force religion on the masses. One leading religious scholar has even warned that it is un-Islamic to "annoy" people.</p>
<p>Devout Muslims pray five times a day, and activists say they want to make sure that people catch the first and most important of the prayers at their local mosques.</p>
<p>After beginning in several Gaza City neighborhoods, the campaign has spread to areas across the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>The organizers, mostly mosque committees reporting to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Religious Affairs, say they want to see the mosques as full at dawn as at the noon prayer on Friday, the highlight of the Islamic week.</p>
<p>Ahmed Hammad, a volunteer in Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, said it is paying off, increasing the "rows" of worshippers at the local mosque.</p>
<p>"It used to be a row or half a row of worshippers. But today after the campaign, the number has grown to three rows," he said.</p>
<p>The campaign comes at a difficult time for Gaza, where despair is widespread among the 2 million inhabitants after a decade-long Israeli-Egyptian blockade and recent restrictions by the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority to squeeze the territory's Hamas rulers.</p>
<p>Hamas, an Islamic militant group that seeks Israel's destruction, seized control of Gaza from the Palestinian Authority in 2007 after winning legislative elections a year earlier. Israel says the blockade is necessary to prevent the group from building up its military capabilities, while Palestinian President Mahmoud has tried to pressure the group to yield power.</p>
<p>Though Hamas has offered to relinquish power, reconciliation talks with Abbas have stalled as Gaza's battered economy continues to deteriorate. In this difficult decade, the Gaza population has grown increasingly conservative and religious.</p>
<p>"The Fajr prayer is important to raise the morale and spirits in this state of strangulation and constraints," said Abu Aziz al-Waheidi, who oversees the campaign in 22 mosques in Tal al-Hawa.</p>
<p>Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas' supreme leader, has endorsed the effort, with his office distributing pictures showing him and other Hamas officials surrounded by dozens of worshippers after praying at a mosque in the Shati refugee camp, where he lives.</p>
<p>The campaign started last month, shortly after President Donald Trump decided to move the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. The move enraged the Palestinians, who seek east Jerusalem as their future capital. East Jerusalem is home to a hilltop compound revered as Judaism's holiest site and the third-holiest place in Islam.</p>
<p>When the morning prayer patrols began, residents were perplexed by the raucous sound outside their homes. The only time anything similar occurs is during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, when drummers wander through the streets waking people to remind the faithful to eat their pre-dawn meal before starting their daylong fasts.</p>
<p>Dozens of mosques now take part in the daily pre-dawn displays. "This is the word of God. They are people urging to do good and worship," said Saed al-Shurafa, 63, at the mosque.</p>
<p>But opposition has emerged over the forceful tactics, which include the use of powerful car-mounted loudspeakers.</p>
<p>Saed Abu Hasera, another resident, said it is generally a good thing to encourage people to pray. He said he even found the sounds of a recorder played by one activist to be a "beautiful" way to start the day. But he said they sometimes go too far.</p>
<p>"The banging will awaken children and it will cause confusion," he said.</p>
<p>Abdel-Bari Khela, an influential Islamic scholar and a Mufti, issued a ruling highlighting the importance of prayer and going to the mosque at dawn. However, he said it is against Islam's instructions to "annoy" people.</p>
<p>He issued a statement saying that the two traditional calls of prayer issued from the mosque, known as "azans," is the instruction of Islam.</p>
<p>"Replacing them with illegitimate means such as drums, music and loud sound that makes noise is illegal. If it leads to harm like annoying people or disturbing them, this is forbidden," he said.</p>
<p>Emerging in the dark from the Abu Honayfa mosque in Tel al-Hawa on a recent morning, Hamad and a group of young men split into two groups, each carrying a portable loudspeaker. They walked through streets and alleys, with Ahmed calling on people to rise over a microphone, as an Islamic supplication blared from the loudspeaker.</p>
<p>"The sound is not high, not low; it's very light as you see," he insisted. "We only go out half or quarter an hour before the azan. How can this be annoying?!"</p>
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gaza city gaza strip ap recent weeks gaza residents jolted awake dead night raucous mixture quranic phrases islamic supplications prayers delivered loudspeakers doorsteps grand fajr campaign work fervent religious activists many affiliated ruling hamas militant movement seeking spread message islam already deeply conservative society everyone ready listen fajr dawn campaign set heated debate whether appropriate force religion masses one leading religious scholar even warned unislamic annoy people devout muslims pray five times day activists say want make sure people catch first important prayers local mosques beginning several gaza city neighborhoods campaign spread areas across gaza strip organizers mostly mosque committees reporting hamascontrolled ministry religious affairs say want see mosques full dawn noon prayer friday highlight islamic week ahmed hammad volunteer gaza citys tel alhawa neighborhood said paying increasing rows worshippers local mosque used row half row worshippers today campaign number grown three rows said campaign comes difficult time gaza despair widespread among 2 million inhabitants decadelong israeliegyptian blockade recent restrictions west bankbased palestinian authority squeeze territorys hamas rulers hamas islamic militant group seeks israels destruction seized control gaza palestinian authority 2007 winning legislative elections year earlier israel says blockade necessary prevent group building military capabilities palestinian president mahmoud tried pressure group yield power though hamas offered relinquish power reconciliation talks abbas stalled gazas battered economy continues deteriorate difficult decade gaza population grown increasingly conservative religious fajr prayer important raise morale spirits state strangulation constraints said abu aziz alwaheidi oversees campaign 22 mosques tal alhawa ismail haniyeh hamas supreme leader endorsed effort office distributing pictures showing hamas officials surrounded 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scholar mufti issued ruling highlighting importance prayer going mosque dawn however said islams instructions annoy people issued statement saying two traditional calls prayer issued mosque known azans instruction islam replacing illegitimate means drums music loud sound makes noise illegal leads harm like annoying people disturbing forbidden said emerging dark abu honayfa mosque tel alhawa recent morning hamad group young men split two groups carrying portable loudspeaker walked streets alleys ahmed calling people rise microphone islamic supplication blared loudspeaker sound high low light see insisted go half quarter hour azan annoying gaza city gaza strip ap recent weeks gaza residents jolted awake dead night raucous mixture quranic phrases islamic supplications prayers delivered loudspeakers doorsteps grand fajr campaign work fervent religious activists many affiliated ruling hamas militant movement seeking spread message islam already deeply conservative society everyone ready listen fajr dawn campaign set heated debate whether appropriate force religion masses one leading religious scholar even warned unislamic annoy people devout muslims pray five times day activists say want make sure people catch first important prayers local mosques beginning several gaza city neighborhoods campaign spread areas across gaza strip organizers mostly mosque committees reporting hamascontrolled ministry religious affairs say want see mosques full dawn noon prayer friday highlight islamic week ahmed hammad volunteer gaza citys tel alhawa neighborhood said paying increasing rows worshippers local mosque used row half row worshippers today campaign number grown three rows said campaign comes difficult time gaza despair widespread among 2 million inhabitants decadelong israeliegyptian blockade recent restrictions west bankbased palestinian authority squeeze territorys hamas rulers hamas islamic militant group seeks israels destruction seized control gaza palestinian authority 2007 winning legislative elections year earlier israel says blockade necessary prevent group building military capabilities palestinian president mahmoud tried pressure group yield power though hamas offered relinquish power reconciliation talks abbas stalled gazas battered economy continues deteriorate difficult decade gaza population grown increasingly conservative religious fajr prayer important raise morale spirits state strangulation constraints said abu aziz alwaheidi oversees campaign 22 mosques tal alhawa ismail haniyeh hamas supreme leader endorsed effort office distributing pictures showing hamas officials surrounded dozens worshippers praying mosque shati refugee camp lives campaign started last month shortly president donald trump decided move american embassy israel jerusalem move enraged palestinians seek east jerusalem future capital east jerusalem home hilltop compound revered judaisms holiest site thirdholiest place islam morning prayer patrols began residents perplexed raucous sound outside homes time anything similar occurs ramadan muslim holy month drummers wander streets waking people remind faithful eat predawn meal starting daylong fasts dozens mosques take part daily predawn displays word god people urging good worship said saed alshurafa 63 mosque opposition emerged forceful tactics include use powerful carmounted loudspeakers saed abu hasera another resident said generally good thing encourage people pray said even found sounds recorder played one activist beautiful way start day said sometimes go far banging awaken children cause confusion said abdelbari khela influential islamic scholar mufti issued ruling highlighting importance prayer going mosque dawn however said islams instructions annoy people issued statement saying two traditional calls prayer issued mosque known azans instruction islam replacing illegitimate means drums music loud sound makes noise illegal leads harm like annoying people disturbing forbidden said emerging dark abu honayfa mosque tel alhawa recent morning hamad group young men split two groups carrying portable loudspeaker walked streets alleys ahmed calling people rise microphone islamic supplication blared loudspeaker sound high low light see insisted go half quarter hour azan annoying
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<p>On many high school athletic fields, players also are going pink, incorporating the colored gear into uniforms and sideline gear and apparel. Retailers have responded by pushing the pink gear front and center on store floor space and websites.</p>
<p>But don’t judge the purchase by its color: Aside from specifically licensed merchandise bearing the NFL pink ribbon shield logo, pink gear sales usually do not benefit any breast cancer-affiliated causes. That means much of what is worn at the youth level is a fashion statement more than a philanthropic effort – whether athletes and their parents know it or not.</p>
<p>Student-athletes and their families make most of these pink purchases on their own, coaches and parents said, usually in anticipation of a designated “pink-out” game. It’s an informal but enthusiastic effort, they said, because student-athletes think they are being charitable. Players will purchase a pink towel or athletic tape ahead of a game, and if they cannot, teammates will help them improvise to present a unified look.</p>
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<p>“At the high school level, I don’t think there’s an awareness of it,” said Bill Park, whose son plays football at a school in Fairfax County, Virginia. “It’s certainly not at the forefront of what they talk about.”</p>
<p>While many apparel companies and retailers make donations that benefit cancer-fighting and awareness groups, such contributions are not tied directly to sales of the pink merchandise, a surprise to some athletes.</p>
<p>Running back Joshua Breece of Stone Bridge High School wears a pink Nike camouflage sleeve and pink socks during October football games. His Ashburn, Virginia, school held an in-school fundraiser for breast cancer research organizations the final week of September, and he and his teammates figured some of their purchases for their “pink out” game against West Springfield in West Springfield, Virginia, would go to a good cause.</p>
<p>“I’m glad they do give some money,” Breece said of manufacturers, “but I really thought it was a percentage that goes to it. That’s what I was led to believe from other people.”</p>
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<p>The NFL began its “Crucial Catch” program in October 2009 in partnership with the American Cancer Society. Used pink equipment is auctioned off after games, and the proceeds are donated. Fans also can purchase pink licensed NFL gear, and the league’s proceeds from those sales also go to the ACS.</p>
<p>The league has raised almost $15 million, according to ACS chief development and marketing officer Sharon Byers. The “Crucial Catch” program and the society’s “Making Strides” fundraising walks are the society’s leading sources of revenue for breast cancer. And the attention garnered from the pink equipment showing up on TV every Sunday for a month is near impossible to value, she said. So is the impact of the awareness spread through other levels of football.</p>
<p>Within a week of the NFL’s first pink game in 2009, Anna Isaacson, the league’s senior vice president of social responsibility, saw the look gaining traction. She was driving past a high school football game in Cleveland on a Friday night and saw the bleachers full of pink-clad fans. Cheerleaders waved pink pom-poms on the sidelines. Players had colored their cleats in pink and wore pink tape. Isaacson pulled up to the school and started taking pictures. She said it’s one of her proudest moments working for the NFL.</p>
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<p>Sporting goods manufacturers and retailers have filled the demand for pink gear, though the charitable benefits of such purchases vary.</p>
<p>Dick’s Sporting Goods promises free shipping for 18 categories of “Show Your Support” pink merchandise, but only one category – items bearing the NFL logo – are subject to donations per sale.</p>
<p>Under Armour advertises a product line called “Power in Pink,” which includes items bearing the pink ribbon used to signify breast cancer. Proceeds from those purchases fund a $10 million pledge to Johns Hopkins Hospital Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore to establish the UA Breast Health Innovation Center.</p>
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<p>Other manufacturers and retailers often make large contributions to cancer-fighting and awareness groups. Dick’s, which reported $597 million in profits in the quarter ending in August, donated $50,000 this year to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.</p>
<p>But individual purchases do not benefit any particular charitable organization, and the lump sum gifts are not derived as a portion of sales. A representative of Dick’s declined to explain how those donation decisions were made.</p>
<p>Both companies in written statements said they were “proud” of their affiliation with breast cancer organizations.</p>
<p>“If a company is putting out products that clearly consumers will think are supporting the breast cancer fight, they should make it very obvious that they have skin in the game in terms of the contribution they are making to that cause,” said David Hessekiel, president of Cause Marketing Forum, a company that produces conferences and an online marketplace for business and charity executives.</p>
<p>The issue is transparency, Hessekiel said. Customers deserve to know when their money is going to a charity or a business, especially when merchandise is presented as if it’s part of some larger effort.</p>
<p>“This is where it gets difficult,” he said. “You can’t prosecute someone for making something pink. And nobody owns the pink ribbon.”</p>
<p>This year, the NFL has invited high schools, including Fairfax’s W.T. Woodson, to sign up with “Crucial Catch” and borrow equipment such as goal post pads or pylons for pink-out games. And regardless of who’s directly benefiting from the sales of pink socks, schools often organize fundraisers in conjunction with their “pink out” games. Plus, there’s the “awareness” aspect of the campaign.</p>
<p>“That’s what’s been really incredible to see,” Isaacson said. “That the message could spread through youth football players who are encouraging their moms and grandmothers and the women in their lives to get screened.”</p>
<p>And the colorful campaigns go beyond breast cancer awareness. At Briar Woods High in Ashburn, Virginia, players wore yellow socks and held fundraisers to raise money for a documentary film campaign about children battling cancer. They’ve also sported purple ribbon helmet decals and collected money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund in memory of Coach Charlie Pierce’s wife, who died of complications of diabetes.</p>
<p>Still, when fashion marketing gets conflated with charitable giving, consumers can be left feeling justifiably confused.</p>
<p>“To the extent that it leads to a bump or moves the needle in terms of direct donations, that’s great. It’s all good on some level,” said Charles Lindsey, a professor of marketing at the University at Buffalo. “But when you get down to the nitty-gritty and we’re not just talking about indirect awareness and we talk about how much [money] passes through, it’s like anything in society: We all can improve.”</p>
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many high school athletic fields players also going pink incorporating colored gear uniforms sideline gear apparel retailers responded pushing pink gear front center store floor space websites dont judge purchase color aside specifically licensed merchandise bearing nfl pink ribbon shield logo pink gear sales usually benefit breast canceraffiliated causes means much worn youth level fashion statement philanthropic effort whether athletes parents know studentathletes families make pink purchases coaches parents said usually anticipation designated pinkout game informal enthusiastic effort said studentathletes think charitable players purchase pink towel athletic tape ahead game teammates help improvise present unified look advertisement high school level dont think theres awareness said bill park whose son plays football school fairfax county virginia certainly forefront talk many apparel companies retailers make donations benefit cancerfighting awareness groups contributions tied directly sales pink merchandise surprise athletes running back joshua breece stone bridge high school wears pink nike camouflage sleeve pink socks october football games ashburn virginia school held inschool fundraiser breast cancer research organizations final week september teammates figured purchases pink game west springfield west springfield virginia would go good cause im glad give money breece said manufacturers really thought percentage goes thats led believe people nfl began crucial catch program october 2009 partnership american cancer society used pink equipment auctioned games proceeds donated fans also purchase pink licensed nfl gear leagues proceeds sales also go acs league raised almost 15 million according acs chief development marketing officer sharon byers crucial catch program societys making strides fundraising walks societys leading sources revenue breast cancer attention garnered pink equipment showing tv every sunday month near impossible value said impact awareness spread levels football within week nfls first pink game 2009 anna isaacson leagues senior vice president social responsibility saw look gaining traction driving past high school football game cleveland friday night saw bleachers full pinkclad fans cheerleaders waved pink pompoms sidelines players colored cleats pink wore pink tape isaacson pulled school started taking pictures said one proudest moments working nfl advertisement sporting goods manufacturers retailers filled demand pink gear though charitable benefits purchases vary dicks sporting goods promises free shipping 18 categories show support pink merchandise one category items bearing nfl logo subject donations per sale armour advertises product line called power pink includes items bearing pink ribbon used signify breast cancer proceeds purchases fund 10 million pledge johns hopkins hospital kimmel cancer center baltimore establish ua breast health innovation center manufacturers retailers often make large contributions cancerfighting awareness groups dicks reported 597 million profits quarter ending august donated 50000 year national breast cancer foundation individual purchases benefit particular charitable organization lump sum gifts derived portion sales representative dicks declined explain donation decisions made companies written statements said proud affiliation breast cancer organizations company putting products clearly consumers think supporting breast cancer fight make obvious skin game terms contribution making cause said david hessekiel president cause marketing forum company produces conferences online marketplace business charity executives issue transparency hessekiel said customers deserve know money going charity business especially merchandise presented part larger effort gets difficult said cant prosecute someone making something pink nobody owns pink ribbon year nfl invited high schools including fairfaxs wt woodson sign crucial catch borrow equipment goal post pads pylons pinkout games regardless whos directly benefiting sales pink socks schools often organize fundraisers conjunction pink games plus theres awareness aspect campaign thats whats really incredible see isaacson said message could spread youth football players encouraging moms grandmothers women lives get screened colorful campaigns go beyond breast cancer awareness briar woods high ashburn virginia players wore yellow socks held fundraisers raise money documentary film campaign children battling cancer theyve also sported purple ribbon helmet decals collected money juvenile diabetes research fund memory coach charlie pierces wife died complications diabetes still fashion marketing gets conflated charitable giving consumers left feeling justifiably confused extent leads bump moves needle terms direct donations thats great good level said charles lindsey professor marketing university buffalo get nittygritty talking indirect awareness talk much money passes like anything society improve fbncancerpink
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<p>EL PASO, Texas (AP) — North Carolina State's offense came up big in a Sun Bowl matchup that was supposed to be about defense.</p>
<p>Nyheim Hines had three of North Carolina State's Sun Bowl-record six rushing touchdowns to help the Wolfpack beat Arizona State 52-31 on Friday. Hines' three scoring runs were all from 5 yards.</p>
<p>"It just really goes to show how great our offensive line is," Hines said. "I'll definitely have to treat them when I get back to Raleigh."</p>
<p>Hines was named the game's MVP. He helped the team score on four of five first-half possessions to fuel the rout.</p>
<p>Hines finished with 72 yards on 16 carries for North Carolina State (9-4). The Wolfpack played in their fourth consecutive bowl game and sixth in seven years under coach David Doeren.</p>
<p>"Top 25 (in the College Football Playoff rankings) is the standard we want for this program," Doeren said.</p>
<p>Reggie Gallaspy added 79 yards and two touchdowns on 12 carries for the Wolfpack, Ryan Finley completed 24 of 29 passes for 318 yards and a score, and Stephen Louis had three catches for 115 yards.</p>
<p>Arizona State (7-6) played its final game under fired coach Todd Graham, with former NFL coach Herm Edwards taking over the program. The Sun Devils had four turnovers.</p>
<p>"I don't think we've turned the ball over four times all year," Graham said. "But give them a lot of credit. They're a very good football team. We just couldn't stop them."</p>
<p>Manny Wilkins was 25 of 40 for 352 yards and three touchdowns for the Sun Devils. He also threw three interceptions.</p>
<p>N.C. State played without defensive end Bradley Chubb. Chubb, a projected top-10 pick in the NFL draft, announced before the game that he wouldn't play. It marked the second year in a row that the biggest star at the game didn't play. Last year, Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey skipped it.</p>
<p>THE TAKE AWAY North Carolina State: The team's defensive experience showed. Even without Chubb, the Wolfpack limited ASU to 10 points through three quarters.</p>
<p>Arizona State: Graham called the plays Friday. It wasn't a great showing for him. The offense was unable to run the ball. ASU had 469 yards of offense, but 21 of their points came in the fourth quarter.</p>
<p>CHUBB SITS OUT</p>
<p>N.C. State's Chubb, the ACC Defensive Player of the Year, announced Friday morning he wouldn't play. "I just let them know that the decision I made is not anything about them," Chubb said in a CBS interview. "It's just looking out for myself. They all understood."</p>
<p>AND ANOTHER ONE</p>
<p>Arizona State played without one of its leading tacklers, linebacker Christian Sam, who also sat out to prepare for the draft. Jay Jay Wilson had 13 tackles, but ASU missed Sam. The Sun Devils allowed 491 yards of offense. The Wolfpack ran 73 plays and had a 9:00 edge in time of possession.</p>
<p>RECORDS</p>
<p>The 42 points scored in the fourth quarter set a Sun Bowl record for points in a quarter. The 45 points in the second half tied a game record, and the 83 total points was the second most in game history.</p>
<p>BY THE NUMBERS</p>
<p>N.C. State is 17-13-1 in bowl games and won its first appearance in the Sun Bowl. Hines is the first Wolfpack rusher to have consecutive 1,000-yard seasons since 1977-78. Receiver Kelvin Harmon had four catches for 24 yards, pushing him over 1,000 yards for the season. All-purpose back Jaylen Samuels had seven catches for 46 yards, setting the team record for catches in a career.</p>
<p>Arizona State is 14-15-1 in bowls and 3-2-1 in the Sun Bowl. Running back Demario Richard had 50 yards to become the first ASU runner with multiple 1,000-yard seasons since 1974-75.</p>
<p>UP NEXT</p>
<p>North Carolina State: Even though they will lose nine seniors on defense, the Wolfpack is still a team to watch in the ACC. They'll return nine starters on offense, including quarterback Ryan Finley, running back Nyheim Hines and four of the five starters on the line. The Wolfpack will open next season on Sept. 1 at home against James Madison.</p>
<p>Arizona State: Edwards takes over the program, and he'll have two new coordinators. Defensive coordinator Phil Bennet declined to return next season, and the team hired San Diego State defensive coordinator Danny Gonzales to replace him. ASU already had promoted quarterbacks coach Billy Napier to the role of offensive coordinator, but then Napier left to become the head coach at Louisiana. The team's new offensive coordinator will be Rob Likens, who was the wide receivers coach. The Sun Devils will open the next season at home Sept. 1 against UT-San Antonio.</p>
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<p>EL PASO, Texas (AP) — North Carolina State's offense came up big in a Sun Bowl matchup that was supposed to be about defense.</p>
<p>Nyheim Hines had three of North Carolina State's Sun Bowl-record six rushing touchdowns to help the Wolfpack beat Arizona State 52-31 on Friday. Hines' three scoring runs were all from 5 yards.</p>
<p>"It just really goes to show how great our offensive line is," Hines said. "I'll definitely have to treat them when I get back to Raleigh."</p>
<p>Hines was named the game's MVP. He helped the team score on four of five first-half possessions to fuel the rout.</p>
<p>Hines finished with 72 yards on 16 carries for North Carolina State (9-4). The Wolfpack played in their fourth consecutive bowl game and sixth in seven years under coach David Doeren.</p>
<p>"Top 25 (in the College Football Playoff rankings) is the standard we want for this program," Doeren said.</p>
<p>Reggie Gallaspy added 79 yards and two touchdowns on 12 carries for the Wolfpack, Ryan Finley completed 24 of 29 passes for 318 yards and a score, and Stephen Louis had three catches for 115 yards.</p>
<p>Arizona State (7-6) played its final game under fired coach Todd Graham, with former NFL coach Herm Edwards taking over the program. The Sun Devils had four turnovers.</p>
<p>"I don't think we've turned the ball over four times all year," Graham said. "But give them a lot of credit. They're a very good football team. We just couldn't stop them."</p>
<p>Manny Wilkins was 25 of 40 for 352 yards and three touchdowns for the Sun Devils. He also threw three interceptions.</p>
<p>N.C. State played without defensive end Bradley Chubb. Chubb, a projected top-10 pick in the NFL draft, announced before the game that he wouldn't play. It marked the second year in a row that the biggest star at the game didn't play. Last year, Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey skipped it.</p>
<p>THE TAKE AWAY North Carolina State: The team's defensive experience showed. Even without Chubb, the Wolfpack limited ASU to 10 points through three quarters.</p>
<p>Arizona State: Graham called the plays Friday. It wasn't a great showing for him. The offense was unable to run the ball. ASU had 469 yards of offense, but 21 of their points came in the fourth quarter.</p>
<p>CHUBB SITS OUT</p>
<p>N.C. State's Chubb, the ACC Defensive Player of the Year, announced Friday morning he wouldn't play. "I just let them know that the decision I made is not anything about them," Chubb said in a CBS interview. "It's just looking out for myself. They all understood."</p>
<p>AND ANOTHER ONE</p>
<p>Arizona State played without one of its leading tacklers, linebacker Christian Sam, who also sat out to prepare for the draft. Jay Jay Wilson had 13 tackles, but ASU missed Sam. The Sun Devils allowed 491 yards of offense. The Wolfpack ran 73 plays and had a 9:00 edge in time of possession.</p>
<p>RECORDS</p>
<p>The 42 points scored in the fourth quarter set a Sun Bowl record for points in a quarter. The 45 points in the second half tied a game record, and the 83 total points was the second most in game history.</p>
<p>BY THE NUMBERS</p>
<p>N.C. State is 17-13-1 in bowl games and won its first appearance in the Sun Bowl. Hines is the first Wolfpack rusher to have consecutive 1,000-yard seasons since 1977-78. Receiver Kelvin Harmon had four catches for 24 yards, pushing him over 1,000 yards for the season. All-purpose back Jaylen Samuels had seven catches for 46 yards, setting the team record for catches in a career.</p>
<p>Arizona State is 14-15-1 in bowls and 3-2-1 in the Sun Bowl. Running back Demario Richard had 50 yards to become the first ASU runner with multiple 1,000-yard seasons since 1974-75.</p>
<p>UP NEXT</p>
<p>North Carolina State: Even though they will lose nine seniors on defense, the Wolfpack is still a team to watch in the ACC. They'll return nine starters on offense, including quarterback Ryan Finley, running back Nyheim Hines and four of the five starters on the line. The Wolfpack will open next season on Sept. 1 at home against James Madison.</p>
<p>Arizona State: Edwards takes over the program, and he'll have two new coordinators. Defensive coordinator Phil Bennet declined to return next season, and the team hired San Diego State defensive coordinator Danny Gonzales to replace him. ASU already had promoted quarterbacks coach Billy Napier to the role of offensive coordinator, but then Napier left to become the head coach at Louisiana. The team's new offensive coordinator will be Rob Likens, who was the wide receivers coach. The Sun Devils will open the next season at home Sept. 1 against UT-San Antonio.</p>
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el paso texas ap north carolina states offense came big sun bowl matchup supposed defense nyheim hines three north carolina states sun bowlrecord six rushing touchdowns help wolfpack beat arizona state 5231 friday hines three scoring runs 5 yards really goes show great offensive line hines said ill definitely treat get back raleigh hines named games mvp helped team score four five firsthalf possessions fuel rout hines finished 72 yards 16 carries north carolina state 94 wolfpack played fourth consecutive bowl game sixth seven years coach david doeren top 25 college football playoff rankings standard want program doeren said reggie gallaspy added 79 yards two touchdowns 12 carries wolfpack ryan finley completed 24 29 passes 318 yards score stephen louis three catches 115 yards arizona state 76 played final game fired coach todd graham former nfl coach herm edwards taking program sun devils four turnovers dont think weve turned ball four times year graham said give lot credit theyre good football team couldnt stop manny wilkins 25 40 352 yards three touchdowns sun devils also threw three interceptions nc state played without defensive end bradley chubb chubb projected top10 pick nfl draft announced game wouldnt play marked second year row biggest star game didnt play last year stanford running back christian mccaffrey skipped take away north carolina state teams defensive experience showed even without chubb wolfpack limited asu 10 points three quarters arizona state graham called plays friday wasnt great showing offense unable run ball asu 469 yards offense 21 points came fourth quarter chubb sits nc states chubb acc defensive player year announced friday morning wouldnt play let know decision made anything chubb said cbs interview looking understood another one arizona state played without one leading tacklers linebacker christian sam also sat prepare draft jay jay wilson 13 tackles asu missed sam sun devils allowed 491 yards offense wolfpack ran 73 plays 900 edge time possession records 42 points scored fourth quarter set sun bowl record points quarter 45 points second half tied game record 83 total points second game history numbers nc state 17131 bowl games first appearance sun bowl hines first wolfpack rusher consecutive 1000yard seasons since 197778 receiver kelvin harmon four catches 24 yards pushing 1000 yards season allpurpose back jaylen samuels seven catches 46 yards setting team record catches career arizona state 14151 bowls 321 sun bowl running back demario richard 50 yards become first asu runner multiple 1000yard seasons since 197475 next north carolina state even though lose nine seniors defense wolfpack still team watch acc theyll return nine starters offense including quarterback ryan finley running back nyheim hines four five starters line wolfpack open next season sept 1 home james madison arizona state edwards takes program hell two new coordinators defensive coordinator phil bennet declined return next season team hired san diego state defensive coordinator danny gonzales replace asu already promoted quarterbacks coach billy napier role offensive coordinator napier left become head coach louisiana teams new offensive coordinator rob likens wide receivers coach sun devils open next season home sept 1 utsan antonio ___ ap college football httpcollegefootballaporg httpwwwtwittercomap_top25 el paso texas ap north carolina states offense came big sun bowl matchup supposed defense nyheim hines three north carolina states sun bowlrecord six rushing touchdowns help wolfpack beat arizona state 5231 friday hines three scoring runs 5 yards really goes show great offensive line hines said ill definitely treat get back raleigh hines named games mvp helped team score four five firsthalf possessions fuel rout hines finished 72 yards 16 carries north carolina state 94 wolfpack played fourth consecutive bowl game sixth seven years coach david doeren top 25 college football playoff rankings standard want program doeren said reggie gallaspy added 79 yards two touchdowns 12 carries wolfpack ryan finley completed 24 29 passes 318 yards score stephen louis three catches 115 yards arizona state 76 played final game fired coach todd graham former nfl coach herm edwards taking program sun devils four turnovers dont think weve turned ball four times year graham said give lot credit theyre good football team couldnt stop manny wilkins 25 40 352 yards three touchdowns sun devils also threw three interceptions nc state played without defensive end bradley chubb chubb projected top10 pick nfl draft announced game wouldnt play marked second year row biggest star game didnt play last year stanford running back christian mccaffrey skipped take away north carolina state teams defensive experience showed even without chubb wolfpack limited asu 10 points three quarters arizona state graham called plays friday wasnt great showing offense unable run ball asu 469 yards offense 21 points came fourth quarter chubb sits nc states chubb acc defensive player year announced friday morning wouldnt play let know decision made anything chubb said cbs interview looking understood another one arizona state played without one leading tacklers linebacker christian sam also sat prepare draft jay jay wilson 13 tackles asu missed sam sun devils allowed 491 yards offense wolfpack ran 73 plays 900 edge time possession records 42 points scored fourth quarter set sun bowl record points quarter 45 points second half tied game record 83 total points second game history numbers nc state 17131 bowl games first appearance sun bowl hines first wolfpack rusher consecutive 1000yard seasons since 197778 receiver kelvin harmon four catches 24 yards pushing 1000 yards season allpurpose back jaylen samuels seven catches 46 yards setting team record catches career arizona state 14151 bowls 321 sun bowl running back demario richard 50 yards become first asu runner multiple 1000yard seasons since 197475 next north carolina state even though lose nine seniors defense wolfpack still team watch acc theyll return nine starters offense including quarterback ryan finley running back nyheim hines four five starters line wolfpack open next season sept 1 home james madison arizona state edwards takes program hell two new coordinators defensive coordinator phil bennet declined return next season team hired san diego state defensive coordinator danny gonzales replace asu already promoted quarterbacks coach billy napier role offensive coordinator napier left become head coach louisiana teams new offensive coordinator rob likens wide receivers coach sun devils open next season home sept 1 utsan antonio ___ ap college football httpcollegefootballaporg httpwwwtwittercomap_top25
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<p>NEW YORK (AP) — Congressional Democrats on Wednesday dug in on their threats to reject any government funding bill that isn’t paired with protection for thousands of young immigrants — a hard-line stance celebrated by liberal groups who have shrugged off risks of a government shutdown.</p>
<p>Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said there’s “very, very strong” sentiment among his party’s lawmakers to oppose GOP-drafted legislation that would only keep the government’s doors open for four weeks past a looming Friday deadline. Schumer did not say his caucus was entirely unified, but the rhetoric signaled growing chances that a stop-gap measure could come up short of votes in the Senate and federal agencies could begin closing their doors Friday at midnight.</p>
<p>“The overwhelming number in our caucus have said they don’t like this deal and they believe if we kick the can down the road this time we’ll be back where we started from next time,” Schumer told reporters. “So there’s very, very strong support not to go along with their deal.”</p>
<p>The hardening stance reflects the influence of an emboldened Democratic base clamoring for a showdown with a president many on the left view as racist and untrustworthy. The fight over the fate of the “dreamers” — some 700,000 people who were brought to the U.S. as children and are now here illegally — is increasingly becoming a test of Democrats’ progressive mettle, surpassing health care or taxes as the top year-two priority for the liberal base.</p>
<p>Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division, Edward O’Callaghan, took questions at Wednesday’s press briefing. He supported President Donald Trump’s immigration reforms saying they will improve security and make the US safer. (Jan. 17)</p>
<p>“It needs to be very clear for vulnerable Republicans as well as for Democrats who do not act this week that there will be political consequences,” said Cristina Jimenez of the immigrant activist group United We Dream. “The progressive movement who are going to be the boots on the ground for the Democrats to regain power” in November’s midterm elections, she added, “are going to hold them accountable if they don’t come through.”</p>
<p>On Capitol Hill, Democrats are being urged to let federal funding expire unless Republicans and President Donald Trump agree to extend the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Protesters have rallied at offices of Senate Democrats, threatened primary foes for those who don’t push hard enough for an immigration deal and promised to brand those deemed to have fallen short “the deportation caucus.”</p>
<p>That approach undoubtedly comes with risks for the moderates in the party — senators from states won by Trump such as West Virginia, Montana and Indiana. While the tough talk carries weight in some Democratic circles, it’s far from clear other voters will look kindly on using federal agencies as leverage in the fight over immigration.</p>
<p>Trump has telegraphed how the GOP would attack Democrats should there be a shutdown this weekend.</p>
<p>“The Democrats want to shut down the government over amnesty for all and border security,” Trump tweeted Tuesday. “The biggest loser will be our rapidly rebuilding Military, at a time we need it more than ever.”</p>
<p>On Wednesday, ongoing talks over a deal showed no signs of progress. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and expressed vague optimism about prospects — but attendees said Kelly would not commit to supporting one bipartisan proposal, introduced Tuesday by Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., which would provide protection for immigrants brought into the U.S. as young people and add resources for border security.</p>
<p>Immigration activists have been gearing up for this fight for months.</p>
<p>Clashes over health care and taxes dominated Trump’s initial year in office, even as his administration cracked down on illegal immigration. The administration has given agents leeway to detain and try to deport a wide range of people in the country illegally, from criminals to otherwise law-abiding residents with jobs and U.S.-citizen children.</p>
<p>Those actions did not require congressional approval, and there was limited pressure activists could bring compared to the battle that helped stall repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care law.</p>
<p>That changed in September when Trump announced he’d end, effective March 5, Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which let hundreds of thousands avoid deportation and legally work. Trump tossed the issue to Congress to act before March. That also turned the spotlight on those who have benefited from DACA, men and women who were raised in the United States and are the most sympathetic face of the immigrant rights movement.</p>
<p>The Trump administration was “out in front, advancing their agenda and they were basically getting away with it,” said Frank Sharry of America’s Voice, an immigrant rights group. “Then they picked a fight with well-organized, American kids. They picked the wrong fight and it’s brought attention to all their immigration agenda.”</p>
<p>It was during Oval Office negotiations over a potential DACA replacement last week that, in the course of dismissing one deal negotiated by Senate Democrats and Republicans, Trump used a vulgar word to describe African countries and wondered why the U.S. doesn’t get more immigrants from places like Norway. That stiffened the resolve of liberal groups to push for a DACA deal this week, at the moment they feel Democrats have maximum leverage.</p>
<p>“Everything we’ve seen from this administration has been this effort to remove people of color and streamline the process for white people,” said Angel Padilla of the anti-Trump group Indivisible. “This week is an opportunity for Congress to reject that racism.”</p>
<p>Corey Stewart, a pro-Trump Republican Senate candidate in Virginia, said Trump is picking the right battle.</p>
<p>“It’s a smart fight,” Stewart said. “His biggest promise of the campaign trail was to crack down on illegal immigration and build a border wall. He cannot back down on this.”</p>
<p>Still, Republicans fear they may lose their majority in the House of Representatives, where several of their vulnerable members represent diverse districts and support a DACA deal. Immigration advocates are confident popular opinion is on their side -- people from heads of companies like Amazon, Apple and Starbucks to TV personality Kim Kardashian have urged a deal.</p>
<p>Todd Schulte of FWD.US, which supports increased immigration, also noted that people previously safe under DACA already are losing protections every day. While the program technically doesn’t expire until March 5, roughly 100 immigrants a day who didn’t renew their enrollment in time are losing permission to work and protection from being deported. That number will rise to 1,200 a day after March 5.</p>
<p>NEW YORK (AP) — Congressional Democrats on Wednesday dug in on their threats to reject any government funding bill that isn’t paired with protection for thousands of young immigrants — a hard-line stance celebrated by liberal groups who have shrugged off risks of a government shutdown.</p>
<p>Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said there’s “very, very strong” sentiment among his party’s lawmakers to oppose GOP-drafted legislation that would only keep the government’s doors open for four weeks past a looming Friday deadline. Schumer did not say his caucus was entirely unified, but the rhetoric signaled growing chances that a stop-gap measure could come up short of votes in the Senate and federal agencies could begin closing their doors Friday at midnight.</p>
<p>“The overwhelming number in our caucus have said they don’t like this deal and they believe if we kick the can down the road this time we’ll be back where we started from next time,” Schumer told reporters. “So there’s very, very strong support not to go along with their deal.”</p>
<p>The hardening stance reflects the influence of an emboldened Democratic base clamoring for a showdown with a president many on the left view as racist and untrustworthy. The fight over the fate of the “dreamers” — some 700,000 people who were brought to the U.S. as children and are now here illegally — is increasingly becoming a test of Democrats’ progressive mettle, surpassing health care or taxes as the top year-two priority for the liberal base.</p>
<p>Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division, Edward O’Callaghan, took questions at Wednesday’s press briefing. He supported President Donald Trump’s immigration reforms saying they will improve security and make the US safer. (Jan. 17)</p>
<p>“It needs to be very clear for vulnerable Republicans as well as for Democrats who do not act this week that there will be political consequences,” said Cristina Jimenez of the immigrant activist group United We Dream. “The progressive movement who are going to be the boots on the ground for the Democrats to regain power” in November’s midterm elections, she added, “are going to hold them accountable if they don’t come through.”</p>
<p>On Capitol Hill, Democrats are being urged to let federal funding expire unless Republicans and President Donald Trump agree to extend the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Protesters have rallied at offices of Senate Democrats, threatened primary foes for those who don’t push hard enough for an immigration deal and promised to brand those deemed to have fallen short “the deportation caucus.”</p>
<p>That approach undoubtedly comes with risks for the moderates in the party — senators from states won by Trump such as West Virginia, Montana and Indiana. While the tough talk carries weight in some Democratic circles, it’s far from clear other voters will look kindly on using federal agencies as leverage in the fight over immigration.</p>
<p>Trump has telegraphed how the GOP would attack Democrats should there be a shutdown this weekend.</p>
<p>“The Democrats want to shut down the government over amnesty for all and border security,” Trump tweeted Tuesday. “The biggest loser will be our rapidly rebuilding Military, at a time we need it more than ever.”</p>
<p>On Wednesday, ongoing talks over a deal showed no signs of progress. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and expressed vague optimism about prospects — but attendees said Kelly would not commit to supporting one bipartisan proposal, introduced Tuesday by Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., which would provide protection for immigrants brought into the U.S. as young people and add resources for border security.</p>
<p>Immigration activists have been gearing up for this fight for months.</p>
<p>Clashes over health care and taxes dominated Trump’s initial year in office, even as his administration cracked down on illegal immigration. The administration has given agents leeway to detain and try to deport a wide range of people in the country illegally, from criminals to otherwise law-abiding residents with jobs and U.S.-citizen children.</p>
<p>Those actions did not require congressional approval, and there was limited pressure activists could bring compared to the battle that helped stall repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care law.</p>
<p>That changed in September when Trump announced he’d end, effective March 5, Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which let hundreds of thousands avoid deportation and legally work. Trump tossed the issue to Congress to act before March. That also turned the spotlight on those who have benefited from DACA, men and women who were raised in the United States and are the most sympathetic face of the immigrant rights movement.</p>
<p>The Trump administration was “out in front, advancing their agenda and they were basically getting away with it,” said Frank Sharry of America’s Voice, an immigrant rights group. “Then they picked a fight with well-organized, American kids. They picked the wrong fight and it’s brought attention to all their immigration agenda.”</p>
<p>It was during Oval Office negotiations over a potential DACA replacement last week that, in the course of dismissing one deal negotiated by Senate Democrats and Republicans, Trump used a vulgar word to describe African countries and wondered why the U.S. doesn’t get more immigrants from places like Norway. That stiffened the resolve of liberal groups to push for a DACA deal this week, at the moment they feel Democrats have maximum leverage.</p>
<p>“Everything we’ve seen from this administration has been this effort to remove people of color and streamline the process for white people,” said Angel Padilla of the anti-Trump group Indivisible. “This week is an opportunity for Congress to reject that racism.”</p>
<p>Corey Stewart, a pro-Trump Republican Senate candidate in Virginia, said Trump is picking the right battle.</p>
<p>“It’s a smart fight,” Stewart said. “His biggest promise of the campaign trail was to crack down on illegal immigration and build a border wall. He cannot back down on this.”</p>
<p>Still, Republicans fear they may lose their majority in the House of Representatives, where several of their vulnerable members represent diverse districts and support a DACA deal. Immigration advocates are confident popular opinion is on their side -- people from heads of companies like Amazon, Apple and Starbucks to TV personality Kim Kardashian have urged a deal.</p>
<p>Todd Schulte of FWD.US, which supports increased immigration, also noted that people previously safe under DACA already are losing protections every day. While the program technically doesn’t expire until March 5, roughly 100 immigrants a day who didn’t renew their enrollment in time are losing permission to work and protection from being deported. That number will rise to 1,200 a day after March 5.</p>
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new york ap congressional democrats wednesday dug threats reject government funding bill isnt paired protection thousands young immigrants hardline stance celebrated liberal groups shrugged risks government shutdown top senate democrat chuck schumer said theres strong sentiment among partys lawmakers oppose gopdrafted legislation would keep governments doors open four weeks past looming friday deadline schumer say caucus entirely unified rhetoric signaled growing chances stopgap measure could come short votes senate federal agencies could begin closing doors friday midnight overwhelming number caucus said dont like deal believe kick road time well back started next time schumer told reporters theres strong support go along deal hardening stance reflects influence emboldened democratic base clamoring showdown president many left view racist untrustworthy fight fate dreamers 700000 people brought us children illegally increasingly becoming test democrats progressive mettle surpassing health care taxes top yeartwo priority liberal base assistant attorney general national security division edward ocallaghan took questions wednesdays press briefing supported president donald trumps immigration reforms saying improve security make us safer jan 17 needs clear vulnerable republicans well democrats act week political consequences said cristina jimenez immigrant activist group united dream progressive movement going boots ground democrats regain power novembers midterm elections added going hold accountable dont come capitol hill democrats urged let federal funding expire unless republicans president donald trump agree extend expiring deferred action childhood arrivals program protesters rallied offices senate democrats threatened primary foes dont push hard enough immigration deal promised brand deemed fallen short deportation caucus approach undoubtedly comes risks moderates party senators states trump west virginia montana indiana tough talk carries weight democratic circles far clear voters look kindly using federal agencies leverage fight immigration trump telegraphed gop would attack democrats shutdown weekend democrats want shut government amnesty border security trump tweeted tuesday biggest loser rapidly rebuilding military time need ever wednesday ongoing talks deal showed signs progress white house chief staff john kelly met members congressional hispanic caucus expressed vague optimism prospects attendees said kelly would commit supporting one bipartisan proposal introduced tuesday rep hurd rtexas rep pete aguilar dcalif would provide protection immigrants brought us young people add resources border security immigration activists gearing fight months clashes health care taxes dominated trumps initial year office even administration cracked illegal immigration administration given agents leeway detain try deport wide range people country illegally criminals otherwise lawabiding residents jobs uscitizen children actions require congressional approval limited pressure activists could bring compared battle helped stall repeal president barack obamas health care law changed september trump announced hed end effective march 5 obamas deferred action childhood arrivals let hundreds thousands avoid deportation legally work trump tossed issue congress act march also turned spotlight benefited daca men women raised united states sympathetic face immigrant rights movement trump administration front advancing agenda basically getting away said frank sharry americas voice immigrant rights group picked fight wellorganized american kids picked wrong fight brought attention immigration agenda oval office negotiations potential daca replacement last week course dismissing one deal negotiated senate democrats republicans trump used vulgar word describe african countries wondered us doesnt get immigrants places like norway stiffened resolve liberal groups push daca deal week moment feel democrats maximum leverage everything weve seen administration effort remove people color streamline process white people said angel padilla antitrump group indivisible week opportunity congress reject racism corey stewart protrump republican senate candidate virginia said trump picking right battle smart fight stewart said biggest promise campaign trail crack illegal immigration build border wall back still republicans fear may lose majority house representatives several vulnerable members represent diverse districts support daca deal immigration advocates confident popular opinion side people heads companies like amazon apple starbucks tv personality kim kardashian urged deal todd schulte fwdus supports increased immigration also noted people previously safe daca already losing protections every day program technically doesnt expire march 5 roughly 100 immigrants day didnt renew enrollment time losing permission work protection deported number rise 1200 day march 5 new york ap congressional democrats wednesday dug threats reject government funding bill isnt paired protection thousands young immigrants hardline stance celebrated liberal groups shrugged risks government shutdown top senate democrat chuck schumer said theres strong sentiment among partys lawmakers oppose gopdrafted legislation would keep governments doors open four weeks past looming friday deadline schumer say caucus entirely unified rhetoric signaled growing chances stopgap measure could come short votes senate federal agencies could begin closing doors friday midnight overwhelming number caucus said dont like deal believe kick road time well back started next time schumer told reporters theres strong support go along deal hardening stance reflects influence emboldened democratic base clamoring showdown president many left view racist untrustworthy fight fate dreamers 700000 people brought us children illegally increasingly becoming test democrats progressive mettle surpassing health care taxes top yeartwo priority liberal base assistant attorney general national security division edward ocallaghan took questions wednesdays press briefing supported president donald trumps immigration reforms saying improve security make us safer jan 17 needs clear vulnerable republicans well democrats act week political consequences said cristina jimenez immigrant activist group united dream progressive movement going boots ground democrats regain power novembers midterm elections added going hold accountable dont come capitol hill democrats urged let federal funding expire unless republicans president donald trump agree extend expiring deferred action childhood arrivals program protesters rallied offices senate democrats threatened primary foes dont push hard enough immigration deal promised brand deemed fallen short deportation caucus approach undoubtedly comes risks moderates party senators states trump west virginia montana indiana tough talk carries weight democratic circles far clear voters look kindly using federal agencies leverage fight immigration trump telegraphed gop would attack democrats shutdown weekend democrats want shut government amnesty border security trump tweeted tuesday biggest loser rapidly rebuilding military time need ever wednesday ongoing talks deal showed signs progress white house chief staff john kelly met members congressional hispanic caucus expressed vague optimism prospects attendees said kelly would commit supporting one bipartisan proposal introduced tuesday rep hurd rtexas rep pete aguilar dcalif would provide protection immigrants brought us young people add resources border security immigration activists gearing fight months clashes health care taxes dominated trumps initial year office even administration cracked illegal immigration administration given agents leeway detain try deport wide range people country illegally criminals otherwise lawabiding residents jobs uscitizen children actions require congressional approval limited pressure activists could bring compared battle helped stall repeal president barack obamas health care law changed september trump announced hed end effective march 5 obamas deferred action childhood arrivals let hundreds thousands avoid deportation legally work trump tossed issue congress act march also turned spotlight benefited daca men women raised united states sympathetic face immigrant rights movement trump administration front advancing agenda basically getting away said frank sharry americas voice immigrant rights group picked fight wellorganized american kids picked wrong fight brought attention immigration agenda oval office negotiations potential daca replacement last week course dismissing one deal negotiated senate democrats republicans trump used vulgar word describe african countries wondered us doesnt get immigrants places like norway stiffened resolve liberal groups push daca deal week moment feel democrats maximum leverage everything weve seen administration effort remove people color streamline process white people said angel padilla antitrump group indivisible week opportunity congress reject racism corey stewart protrump republican senate candidate virginia said trump picking right battle smart fight stewart said biggest promise campaign trail crack illegal immigration build border wall back still republicans fear may lose majority house representatives several vulnerable members represent diverse districts support daca deal immigration advocates confident popular opinion side people heads companies like amazon apple starbucks tv personality kim kardashian urged deal todd schulte fwdus supports increased immigration also noted people previously safe daca already losing protections every day program technically doesnt expire march 5 roughly 100 immigrants day didnt renew enrollment time losing permission work protection deported number rise 1200 day march 5
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<p>APD officers stand near a crime scene in Southeast Albuquerque earlier this year. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)</p>
<p>Copyright © 2017 Albuquerque Journal</p>
<p>From Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights to the International District, crime is on people’s minds.</p>
<p>“I see crime in my area every day,” a person who lives in a high-crime area said during a recent focus group about crime in Albuquerque. “I hear police sirens every day … And I hear gunshots every few days.”</p>
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<p>For someone who lives in the Northeast Heights, home and automobile break-ins are the most pressing concern – not SWAT team callouts. Yet that person also says crime “is everywhere.”</p>
<p>According to new research released by the ABQ i-team, nearly all Bernalillo County residents believe crime is a serious problem, but they view crime differently depending on where they live.</p>
<p>However, regardless of where they live, over half say they expect to be a victim of crime in the next year and nearly half report that they’ve been the victim of a property crime in the past three years. Almost a third of respondents have a friend or relative who has been the victim of a violent crime in the past three years.</p>
<p>The research also found that many residents have tough-on-crime attitudes, with a majority saying the justice system is too lenient and allows too many suspects out of jail while awaiting trial.</p>
<p>The ABQ i-team, a group funded with a grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to the city, just completed research focused on resident insights on crime, public safety and the criminal justice system. The new research is based on focus groups and telephone surveys of people who live in what are considered high- and low-crime parts of the city. <a href="https://d3el53au0d7w62.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/28/G_29oct_Victimization.png" type="external" /></p>
<p>“Property crime is clearly on the minds of Albuquerque residents,” said Scott Darnell, the director of the i-team. The results showed that auto theft and home burglaries were the most pressing crimes on people’s minds, regardless of where they lived. The results also showed that most people feel safe in their own homes, most see drugs as an underlying problem and most want suspects held more often pending trial.</p>
<p>The telephone survey was done between July 28 and Aug. 10. There were 403 random Bernalillo County people surveyed and 220 people who live in the Southeast Heights or near San Mateo and Montgomery, which are considered high-crime areas based on previous i-team research. There were also two focus groups, one with residents from the far Northeast Heights and the other with people from high-crime neighborhoods.</p>
<p>Crime victims</p>
<p>The results show that no matter where someone lives, from the nicest to the poorest neighborhoods, nearly half of all people in Bernalillo County said they were a victim of a property crime in the past three years. And most people expect to be victimized in the next year.</p>
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<p>The survey found that 52 percent of all county residents say they are either somewhat likely or very likely to be a victim of a crime in the next year. The percentage ticked up to 58 percent for people in high-crime neighborhoods.</p>
<p>“To me that was one of the most striking things in this survey. To find out that approximately half the people think there is a very or somewhat likely chance that (they) might be a victim of crime,” said Brian Sanderoff, the president of Research &amp; Polling Inc., which conducted the surveys and hosted the focus groups.</p>
<p>Survey results found that 47 percent of people regardless of where they live say they were the victim of a property crime in the past three years.</p>
<p>It also found that 8 percent of those throughout the county had been a victim of violent crime in the past three years, and 28 percent had a friend or family member who was a victim. Those numbers did not change much in the high-crime area, where 10 percent said they had been a violent crime victim and 29 percent had a friend or family member who had been a victim.</p>
<p>However, most felt safe in their homes: 90 percent countywide felt safe during the daytime, while 78 percent in the high-crime area felt safe. During the nighttime, 78 percent countywide felt safe in their homes, and 64 percent of those in the high-crime area felt safe.</p>
<p>While some of the survey results are similar regardless of what part of town people live in, Sanderoff said the research showed that crime affects people’s lives in different ways depending on where they live.</p>
<p>“In the high-crime areas, they are thinking about crime all around them. They hear the sirens, they hear the shootings, they see the needles,” he said. “People in the low-crime areas are more concerned about their car getting broken into.”</p>
<p>Far more people in the high-crime focus group rated the seriousness of crime in their area as a 5 – the highest grade offered. Those in the low-crime group tended to rate it as a 3 or 4.</p>
<p>Attitudes on crime</p>
<p>The research also found that many Albuquerque residents have developed tough-on-crime attitudes. In low-crime areas, 59 percent think that the local criminal justice system is lenient. And 65 percent who live in high-crime neighborhoods share that sentiment.</p>
<p>During the surveys, researchers gave participants scenarios and asked them to pretend to be a judge and decide whether to release someone before trial.</p>
<p>In one scenario, people were told: “A man was just arrested for stealing a car, driving it around town for several days, and selling it for a few hundred dollars.” The scenario didn’t include information about how police determined the person’s guilt.</p>
<p>Of those surveyed, 50 percent of county residents thought the person should be held in jail until trial. Among people who live in high-crime neighborhoods, that number ticked up to 55 percent.</p>
<p>“We found that Bernalillo County residents are pretty strict,” Sanderoff said.</p>
<p>Matthew Coyte, the president of the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, reviewed the language in the scenarios and said it left out crucial information.</p>
<p>“The language does not inform the person making the decision of the importance of following the law. We have learned over centuries that a fair justice system requires the presumption of innocence along with an opportunity for release while waiting for a trial,” he said. “The law only allows for punishment after someone is convicted and not before.”</p>
<p>Using i-team data</p>
<p>The recent study on the community’s attitudes on crime and the local judicial system was one of several research projects the i-team has done. The i-team was created to gain an understanding and find ways to address challenges facing the city. Other studies have determined the parts of the city with the highest crime rates and the criminal backgrounds of people who have been arrested multiple times.</p>
<p>Mayor Richard Berry, who leaves office at the end of next month, said the data show that people throughout the city are fed up with the high crime rates. Crime has been on the increase in Albuquerque since 2010, and it’s the No. 1 concern of local residents, according to Journal polls.</p>
<p>People who participated in focus groups suggested that stopping a “revolving door” and “catch and release” at the jail, hiring more police officers and addressing drug addiction would help reduce crime.</p>
<p>Berry has placed some of the blame on ongoing reforms that have caused the jail population to plummet, meaning more criminal suspects are being released and are on the streets.</p>
<p>Others who work in the criminal justice system have said the increase in crime is a complex issue caused by a variety of factors, including that Albuquerque police are making far fewer arrests than in past years and prosecutors, due in part to new court rules, dismiss a significant number of criminal cases.</p>
<p>The jail’s daily average population was about 2,800 in 2013, and it dropped to about 1,200 this year, according to Bernalillo County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council documents.</p>
<p>County Commissioner Maggie Hart Stebbins, a member of the criminal justice council, reviewed portions of the report and said jail reform isn’t to blame for the spike in crime. And she said it’s been common knowledge prior to the surveys and focus groups that people are concerned about crime.</p>
<p>“It’s simplistic and misleading to make the argument that the spike in crime is due to changes in the criminal justice system. Likely, the crime increase is a response to a combination of factors: fewer police officers on the street, fewer arrests, the opioid epidemic and other factors,” she said in an interview.</p>
<p>“Rather than finger-pointing, our community deserves data-driven, effective responses to crime. Unfortunately, this report doesn’t move us any closer to solutions.”</p>
<p>Berry says there are numerous valuable takeaways from the research. He hopes the next mayor, who takes office Dec. 1, as well as other stakeholders, such as the county and District Attorney’s Office, will use the research as a tool in the fight against crime. Darnell said the group is seeking new grant funding to continue the research.</p>
<p>Conclusions</p>
<p>Here are some results of the ABQ i-team’s report on city residents’ views on crime, based on surveys and focus groups:</p>
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<p>Pressing crime problems</p>
<p>The survey asked respondents to list the most pressing crime problems, then included each respondents’ top three answers. Here are the findings:</p>
<p>Countywide</p>
<p>Auto theft — 37%</p>
<p>Home burglary — 27%</p>
<p>Auto burglary — 14%</p>
<p>Drug abuse — 12%</p>
<p>Home invasion — 11%</p>
<p>Shooting — 10%</p>
<p>Drug dealing — 8%</p>
<p>Murder — 6%</p>
<p>Armed robbery — 6%</p>
<p>In high-crime area</p>
<p>Auto theft — 35%</p>
<p>Home burglary — 32%</p>
<p>Shooting — 14%</p>
<p>Drug abuse — 14%</p>
<p>Auto burglary — 11%</p>
<p>Murder — 8%</p>
<p>Home invasion — 7%</p>
<p>Drug dealing — 7%</p>
<p>Armed robbery — 6%</p>
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apd officers stand near crime scene southeast albuquerque earlier year roberto e rosalesalbuquerque journal copyright 2017 albuquerque journal albuquerques northeast heights international district crime peoples minds see crime area every day person lives highcrime area said recent focus group crime albuquerque hear police sirens every day hear gunshots every days advertisement someone lives northeast heights home automobile breakins pressing concern swat team callouts yet person also says crime everywhere according new research released abq iteam nearly bernalillo county residents believe crime serious problem view crime differently depending live however regardless live half say expect victim crime next year nearly half report theyve victim property crime past three years almost third respondents friend relative victim violent crime past three years research also found many residents toughoncrime attitudes majority saying justice system lenient allows many suspects jail awaiting trial abq iteam group funded grant bloomberg philanthropies city completed research focused resident insights crime public safety criminal justice system new research based focus groups telephone surveys people live considered high lowcrime parts city property crime clearly minds albuquerque residents said scott darnell director iteam results showed auto theft home burglaries pressing crimes peoples minds regardless lived results also showed people feel safe homes see drugs underlying problem want suspects held often pending trial telephone survey done july 28 aug 10 403 random bernalillo county people surveyed 220 people live southeast heights near san mateo montgomery considered highcrime areas based previous iteam research also two focus groups one residents far northeast heights people highcrime neighborhoods crime victims results show matter someone lives nicest poorest neighborhoods nearly half people bernalillo county said victim property crime past three years people expect victimized next year advertisement survey found 52 percent county residents say either somewhat likely likely victim crime next year percentage ticked 58 percent people highcrime neighborhoods one striking things survey find approximately half people think somewhat likely chance might victim crime said brian sanderoff president research amp polling inc conducted surveys hosted focus groups survey results found 47 percent people regardless live say victim property crime past three years also found 8 percent throughout county victim violent crime past three years 28 percent friend family member victim numbers change much highcrime area 10 percent said violent crime victim 29 percent friend family member victim however felt safe homes 90 percent countywide felt safe daytime 78 percent highcrime area felt safe nighttime 78 percent countywide felt safe homes 64 percent highcrime area felt safe survey results similar regardless part town people live sanderoff said research showed crime affects peoples lives different ways depending live highcrime areas thinking crime around hear sirens hear shootings see needles said people lowcrime areas concerned car getting broken far people highcrime focus group rated seriousness crime area 5 highest grade offered lowcrime group tended rate 3 4 attitudes crime research also found many albuquerque residents developed toughoncrime attitudes lowcrime areas 59 percent think local criminal justice system lenient 65 percent live highcrime neighborhoods share sentiment surveys researchers gave participants scenarios asked pretend judge decide whether release someone trial one scenario people told man arrested stealing car driving around town several days selling hundred dollars scenario didnt include information police determined persons guilt surveyed 50 percent county residents thought person held jail trial among people live highcrime neighborhoods number ticked 55 percent found bernalillo county residents pretty strict sanderoff said matthew coyte president new mexico criminal defense lawyers association reviewed language scenarios said left crucial information language inform person making decision importance following law learned centuries fair justice system requires presumption innocence along opportunity release waiting trial said law allows punishment someone convicted using iteam data recent study communitys attitudes crime local judicial system one several research projects iteam done iteam created gain understanding find ways address challenges facing city studies determined parts city highest crime rates criminal backgrounds people arrested multiple times mayor richard berry leaves office end next month said data show people throughout city fed high crime rates crime increase albuquerque since 2010 1 concern local residents according journal polls people participated focus groups suggested stopping revolving door catch release jail hiring police officers addressing drug addiction would help reduce crime berry placed blame ongoing reforms caused jail population plummet meaning criminal suspects released streets others work criminal justice system said increase crime complex issue caused variety factors including albuquerque police making far fewer arrests past years prosecutors due part new court rules dismiss significant number criminal cases jails daily average population 2800 2013 dropped 1200 year according bernalillo county criminal justice coordinating council documents county commissioner maggie hart stebbins member criminal justice council reviewed portions report said jail reform isnt blame spike crime said common knowledge prior surveys focus groups people concerned crime simplistic misleading make argument spike crime due changes criminal justice system likely crime increase response combination factors fewer police officers street fewer arrests opioid epidemic factors said interview rather fingerpointing community deserves datadriven effective responses crime unfortunately report doesnt move us closer solutions berry says numerous valuable takeaways research hopes next mayor takes office dec 1 well stakeholders county district attorneys office use research tool fight crime darnell said group seeking new grant funding continue research conclusions results abq iteams report city residents views crime based surveys focus groups 160 pressing crime problems survey asked respondents list pressing crime problems included respondents top three answers findings countywide auto theft 37 home burglary 27 auto burglary 14 drug abuse 12 home invasion 11 shooting 10 drug dealing 8 murder 6 armed robbery 6 highcrime area auto theft 35 home burglary 32 shooting 14 drug abuse 14 auto burglary 11 murder 8 home invasion 7 drug dealing 7 armed robbery 6
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<p>FILE - This March 2002 file photo shows a deer tick under a microscope in the entomology lab at the University of Rhode Island in South Kingstown, R.I. Far from a summertime nuisance, Lyme Disease is a potentially debilitating disease that has been subject to vigorous medical debate for more than two decades. At issue is both how to test for the tick-borne disease and how to treat it, especially in patients suffering long-term symptoms like fatigue, arthritis and cognitive problems with memory and concentration. (AP Photo/Victoria Arocho, File)</p>
<p>WASHINGTON - Lyme disease conjures memories of checking for ticks at camp and fretting over bug bites after hikes in the woods. But far from a summertime nuisance, Lyme is a potentially debilitating disease - and the subject of a vigorous debate in modern medicine.</p>
<p>Doctors not only debate how to treat the disease, which starts with fever and rash but can develop into long-term problems such as fatigue, arthritis and concentration problems. After decades, they still argue over the standard blood test for Lyme, which is subject to severe limitations. The conflict has given rise to a cottage industry of alternative Lyme physicians, laboratories, medical guidelines, patient groups and even research centers at universities.</p>
<p>Here's a look at the debate surrounding Lyme disease, which infects an estimated 300,000 people in the U.S. annually.</p>
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<p>Q: How does the blood test work?</p>
<p>Lyme disease is caused by a strain of bacteria carried by certain ticks, primarily found in Northeast and Midwestern U.S. and parts of Europe. But the only U.S.-recommended Lyme test doesn't detect the bacteria. Instead, it measures the immune system's response to Lyme in the form of antibodies, proteins that help fight infections. While it's the best approach available, experts acknowledge it is fraught with problems of accuracy and interpretation: The test usually comes back negative even several weeks after infection. Yet the test also can show a positive result years after infection, even after successful antibiotic treatment.</p>
<p>"We don't have a way of telling, once we put you on therapy, how successful that has been," says Dr. John Branda, of Harvard Medical School.</p>
<p>The test's inability to detect early-stage Lyme isn't a problem for patients who display the signature bull's eye rash caused by disease-carrying ticks - guidelines instruct doctors to skip the test and treat those patients with antibiotics. But as many as 30 percent of those infected never get the rash, leaving doctors to diagnose the disease based on symptoms and patients' recollections of possible exposure.</p>
<p>Q: Is there really no other way to test?</p>
<p>A host of independent laboratories, such as Advanced Laboratory Services in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, sell alternative tests claiming to be able to detect the bacteria directly.</p>
<p>But scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been unable to reproduce their results. And a CDC paper published last year suggested the company's findings may have been marred by laboratory contamination.</p>
<p>Mainstream experts say inaccurate alternative Lyme tests lead to over diagnosis and costs hundreds of dollars, since insurance doesn't pay for them. Yet patients request them.</p>
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<p>"Patients are so convinced they have Lyme disease that there's a demand for tests that will prove they have it," says Dr. Paul Lantos, an infectious disease specialist at Duke University Medical Center.</p>
<p>Laboratories that develop alternative tests for Lyme are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, unlike traditional test manufacturers. But last year the FDA said the growing number of so-called "home brew" tests - estimated at 11,000 for all sorts of diseases - demanded closer attention.</p>
<p>"We have concerns that people can be misled and act on information that may or may not have validity," says Katherine Serrano, an FDA deputy division director.</p>
<p>Under a 2014 proposal, FDA would require labs to begin demonstrating the accuracy of their tests, including those for Lyme disease. The proposal has not yet been finalized. Serrano says the FDA would take a risk-based approach to reviewing tests, meaning tests for diseases like cancer would likely come before conditions like Lyme. She estimates it could be more than five years before FDA begins reviewing alternative Lyme tests.</p>
<p>Q. But at least doctors agree on how to treat Lyme, right?</p>
<p>Mainstream medical authorities say bacteria that cause Lyme can be eliminated with 2 to 4 weeks of antibiotics.</p>
<p>But self-described "Lyme literate" physicians recommend a variety of other treatments; a paper published by Lantos and his colleagues in May identifies over 30 advertised online, including lasers, magnets and dietary supplements.</p>
<p>The most popular alternative involves long-term intravenous antibiotics for patients with lingering symptoms - sometimes multiple drugs for years.</p>
<p>At the core of that approach is a controversial concept called chronic Lyme disease. Doctors who diagnose the condition believe patients who have extended symptoms like arthritis and fatigue are still, in fact, infected with Lyme bacteria.</p>
<p>Five studies from the U.S. and Europe failed to show lasting benefits from extended antibiotic therapy. And researchers point to serious potential complications, including allergic reactions, infections and life-threatening diarrhea.</p>
<p>Still, doctors who diagnose chronic Lyme say some patients respond to extended antibiotics. They argue that Lyme cases vary and care must be customized to each patient.</p>
<p>"We're interpreting the literature in a different way that we feel is responsible and helping others," says Dr. Samuel Shor, president elect of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, the leading group for alternative Lyme practitioners.</p>
<p>Q: Many patients diagnosed with chronic Lyme have never had any confirmable signs of the disease - rash or a positive blood test. If their symptoms aren't due to Lyme, what causes them?</p>
<p>Experts do not yet have an answer. They point out that symptoms like arthritis and cognitive problems overlap with other little-understood conditions like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.</p>
<p>"I think there are people who are just desperate for help," said Dr. Paul Auwaerter of Johns Hopkins University. "And doctors who may be well-meaning try and help these people, but they're helping them with a paradigm that is false."</p>
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file march 2002 file photo shows deer tick microscope entomology lab university rhode island south kingstown ri far summertime nuisance lyme disease potentially debilitating disease subject vigorous medical debate two decades issue test tickborne disease treat especially patients suffering longterm symptoms like fatigue arthritis cognitive problems memory concentration ap photovictoria arocho file washington lyme disease conjures memories checking ticks camp fretting bug bites hikes woods far summertime nuisance lyme potentially debilitating disease subject vigorous debate modern medicine doctors debate treat disease starts fever rash develop longterm problems fatigue arthritis concentration problems decades still argue standard blood test lyme subject severe limitations conflict given rise cottage industry alternative lyme physicians laboratories medical guidelines patient groups even research centers universities heres look debate surrounding lyme disease infects estimated 300000 people us annually advertisement q blood test work lyme disease caused strain bacteria carried certain ticks primarily found northeast midwestern us parts europe usrecommended lyme test doesnt detect bacteria instead measures immune systems response lyme form antibodies proteins help fight infections best approach available experts acknowledge fraught problems accuracy interpretation test usually comes back negative even several weeks infection yet test also show positive result years infection even successful antibiotic treatment dont way telling put therapy successful says dr john branda harvard medical school tests inability detect earlystage lyme isnt problem patients display signature bulls eye rash caused diseasecarrying ticks guidelines instruct doctors skip test treat patients antibiotics many 30 percent infected never get rash leaving doctors diagnose disease based symptoms patients recollections possible exposure q really way test host independent laboratories advanced laboratory services sharon hill pennsylvania sell alternative tests claiming able detect bacteria directly scientists centers disease control prevention unable reproduce results cdc paper published last year suggested companys findings may marred laboratory contamination mainstream experts say inaccurate alternative lyme tests lead diagnosis costs hundreds dollars since insurance doesnt pay yet patients request advertisement patients convinced lyme disease theres demand tests prove says dr paul lantos infectious disease specialist duke university medical center laboratories develop alternative tests lyme regulated food drug administration unlike traditional test manufacturers last year fda said growing number socalled home brew tests estimated 11000 sorts diseases demanded closer attention concerns people misled act information may may validity says katherine serrano fda deputy division director 2014 proposal fda would require labs begin demonstrating accuracy tests including lyme disease proposal yet finalized serrano says fda would take riskbased approach reviewing tests meaning tests diseases like cancer would likely come conditions like lyme estimates could five years fda begins reviewing alternative lyme tests q least doctors agree treat lyme right mainstream medical authorities say bacteria cause lyme eliminated 2 4 weeks antibiotics selfdescribed lyme literate physicians recommend variety treatments paper published lantos colleagues may identifies 30 advertised online including lasers magnets dietary supplements popular alternative involves longterm intravenous antibiotics patients lingering symptoms sometimes multiple drugs years core approach controversial concept called chronic lyme disease doctors diagnose condition believe patients extended symptoms like arthritis fatigue still fact infected lyme bacteria five studies us europe failed show lasting benefits extended antibiotic therapy researchers point serious potential complications including allergic reactions infections lifethreatening diarrhea still doctors diagnose chronic lyme say patients respond extended antibiotics argue lyme cases vary care must customized patient interpreting literature different way feel responsible helping others says dr samuel shor president elect international lyme associated diseases society leading group alternative lyme practitioners q many patients diagnosed chronic lyme never confirmable signs disease rash positive blood test symptoms arent due lyme causes experts yet answer point symptoms like arthritis cognitive problems overlap littleunderstood conditions like fibromyalgia chronic fatigue syndrome think people desperate help said dr paul auwaerter johns hopkins university doctors may wellmeaning try help people theyre helping paradigm false
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<p>This image from a State Police cruiser’s dash-cam video shows officer Oliver Wilson running toward and shooting at a car driven by Jeanette Anaya on Nov. 7. Anaya died from two gunshot wounds. A grand jury said the shooting was justified. (Source: State Police)</p>
<p>SANTA FE, N.M. — Dash-cam video released Thursday shows a State Police officer running toward and alongside the car driven by Jeanette Anaya and firing multiple times into the Honda sedan as he screams expletives and for the occupants to get their hands up.</p>
<p>Anaya’s car did back into officer Oliver Wilson’s cruiser, apparently narrowly missing Wilson himself, but the video shows that the Honda was moving away from Wilson as most of his 16 shots were fired. Some of his shots seem to be aimed at the lower portion of the car or a tire.</p>
<p>Anaya, 39, was hit and killed by two of Wilson’s shots, following a vehicle chase that started when Wilson tried to pull her over for a traffic stop after midnight on Nov. 7.</p>
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<p>When the shooting took place, Wilson was outside his patrol car. He had used a bumping maneuver to force her car to stop on Camino Carlos Rey. All within just a few seconds, Wilson gets out of his car, Anaya backs into the cruiser, and Wilson starts shooting at Anaya’s Honda. A passenger in Anaya’s car, Jeremy Munoz, 34, was not injured.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, a Santa Fe County grand jury ruled that Wilson was justified in firing at Anaya and that he will face no criminal charges. Wilson testified he feared for his life when Anaya backed into his police car, according to District Attorney Angela “Spence” Pacheco.</p>
<p>But Tom Clark, attorney for Anaya’s parents, said Thursday that Anaya should have stopped during the car chase but that if Wilson wasn’t wearing a police uniform, he’d be facing a first-degree murder charge now.</p>
<p>Clark said he was “shocked and dismayed” after viewing the video.</p>
<p>“I had no idea it was going to be as bad as it was,” he said. “I didn’t think it would be so dramatic with the officer running alongside shooting point-blank into the car.”</p>
<p>In a tort claim notice of potential litigation Clark has filed, he says Anaya “was pursued, forced off the road, shot and killed by officer Wilson … without probable cause or justification and in violation of Ms. Anaya’s constitutional rights.”</p>
<p>Police reports also released Thursday under Inspection of Public Records requests indicate that Anaya was handcuffed, despite her gunshot wounds to the head and back, as first Wilson and then others performed CPR and chest compressions on her, until an EMT asked that the cuffs be removed.</p>
<p>“The people should be outraged by the way my client died,” Clark told KOAT.</p>
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<p>A State Police spokesman said there would be no comment from the agency, including on whether Wilson has been disciplined in any way over the shooting, because of the potential for litigation in the case.</p>
<p>Chase, shooting on video</p>
<p>The dash-cam video shows no obvious traffic violation or erratic driving by Anaya before Williams tries to pull her over by flashing his cruiser lights. She speeds off on a chase that reaches speeds of up to 87 mph on city streets – speeds are stamped on the video – and she eventually winds through a residential area and over speed humps.</p>
<p>At the conclusion of the pursuit on Camino Carlos Rey, the video shows that Wilson used a low-speed, contact maneuver on Anaya’s 2002 silver Honda Accord, with debris flying off at least one car, to force her to stop.</p>
<p>In an instant, there’s a crash off camera – apparently the sound of the Honda backing into the patrol car – that produces more debris. Shots are fired, and the Honda reappears in the frame, moving left to right with Wilson firing as he runs toward, then alongside, the sedan. The car and officer then leave the video frame.</p>
<p>The State Police reports released Thursday include Wilson’s statement to investigators.</p>
<p>Jeremy Munoz, 34, who was a passenger in a car driven by Jeanette Anaya in November that led a State Police officer on a high-speed chase before Anaya was shot and killed by the officer, is handcuffed shortly after the shooting in this image from police dash-cam video. Munoz was not charged in the case. (Source: State Police)</p>
<p>He said that after the maneuver he used to stop the Honda, he positioned his patrol car behind and “perpendicular” to the Honda. As he approached on foot, “he found himself inadvertently between his unit” and the Honda. He saw the sedan moving toward him in reverse and drew his pistol, “firing four shots simultaneously towards the driver.”</p>
<p>Before firing “he feared being crushed by both vehicles causing great bodily harm or even (his) death.”</p>
<p>The backing up of the Honda – which Pacheco said on Wednesday was confirmed by accident reconstructionists – takes place off-camera.</p>
<p>Wilson said Anaya’s car then started forward as if she were trying to flee. Unsure if his “first four shots had been effective,” he closed in on foot firing at a tire to disable the car.</p>
<p>Wilson used expletives in ordering the occupants out of the car, the video shows. In his statement to investigators, he says “the driver stayed inside the vehicle motionless as the front passenger listened to his verbal commands.”</p>
<p>Anaya told Munoz, the passenger, during the chase that she wouldn’t stop, because she was afraid of being arrested over an outstanding warrant, the reports state. The warrant is from August 7 for failure to appear in Santa Fe Municipal Court on a concealing identify charge that carried a $500 bond.</p>
<p>An investigation has been underway to determine if Wilson properly notified police dispatch of the reason for the pursuit, police have said previously. Santa Fe officers refused to join in the chase, because they couldn’t get a reason, dispatch recordings show.</p>
<p>On the video, Wilson can be heard asking by radio for permission to use a “PIT” or bumping maneuver to stop the Honda. No response granting permission is discernible amid the noise of the chase.</p>
<p>CPR while handcuffed</p>
<p>State Police interviews with Wilson, in the presence of his attorney, and with Munoz indicate that Wilson tried CPR on Anaya immediately after the shooting, before Santa Fe police officers took over performing chest compressions. An EMT arrived and continued CPR after asking that handcuffs be removed from Anaya, the reports state.</p>
<p>Clark, the Anaya family attorney, said handcuffing Anaya after she was shot and dying was “one of the most shocking things about this … it defies reason.”</p>
<p>An analysis released earlier this week by the state Office of the Medical Investigator found that Anaya had 0.08 milligrams per liter of cocaine in her system. The police reports released Thursday don’t provide any information on when or where she might have used cocaine.</p>
<p>Munoz was handcuffed after the shooting, but was eventually taken to the hospital for a checkup. He was never charged.</p>
<p>Wilson, a one and one-half year veteran of the agency, was interviewed by State Police on Nov. 14. He had been on the “graveyard” shift only two weeks at the time of the shooting, the police reports say.</p>
<p>Car ‘wobbles’?</p>
<p>He told investigators he saw Anaya’s car make a right turn from Alta Vista Road onto St. Francis Drive after approaching “the intersection rapidly, and the vehicle made a sudden ‘California stop’ ( a stop and go).” Since the light from his direction was red, he presumed Anaya did have a green light to make the turn.</p>
<p>The dash-cam video shows Anaya’s car slowing to a near-stop before making the right turn. Wilson said most motorists “proceed in one continuous motion.” He said he also “noticed the vehicle had a wobble to it.” No wobble can be discerned in the video, although the recording has difficult-to-decipher “hot” sections from the glare of bright street lights.</p>
<p>Wilson said he believed the car had a mechanical issue or that the driver was impaired due to the stop and go action when he first saw it making the right turn.</p>
<p>When Munoz was interviewed, he told police he had been doing his friend Anaya a favor when he got caught up in the shooting, which forced him to the floorboard to avoid the shots coming from the passenger side of the car, the reports indicate.</p>
<p>Munoz said Anaya knocked on his door at about 12:30 a.m. the night of the shooting, asking for help with a low tire. They drove to the Allsup’s at Baca and Cerrillos to inflate the tire and went to a Taco Bell for food.</p>
<p>As they approached the intersection at Alta Vista and St. Francis, Anaya applied the brakes because the light was red and accelerated when it turned green and turned right onto St. Francis.</p>
<p>Munoz “had no idea” an officer was behind them until the patrol car’s emergency lights were activated. He said he told Anaya to stop several times during the ensuing chase but she refused and told him about her outstanding warrant.</p>
<p>As the chase ended on Camino Carlos Rey, Wilson started yelling commands with his gun drawn and Anaya backed up, missing Wilson but striking his vehicle, said Munoz.</p>
<p>Anaya put the car in drive, and Munoz heard the shots start. “He placed his hands out the window yelling to the officer that she was dead,” a police report states.</p>
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image state police cruisers dashcam video shows officer oliver wilson running toward shooting car driven jeanette anaya nov 7 anaya died two gunshot wounds grand jury said shooting justified source state police santa fe nm dashcam video released thursday shows state police officer running toward alongside car driven jeanette anaya firing multiple times honda sedan screams expletives occupants get hands anayas car back officer oliver wilsons cruiser apparently narrowly missing wilson video shows honda moving away wilson 16 shots fired shots seem aimed lower portion car tire anaya 39 hit killed two wilsons shots following vehicle chase started wilson tried pull traffic stop midnight nov 7 advertisement shooting took place wilson outside patrol car used bumping maneuver force car stop camino carlos rey within seconds wilson gets car anaya backs cruiser wilson starts shooting anayas honda passenger anayas car jeremy munoz 34 injured earlier week santa fe county grand jury ruled wilson justified firing anaya face criminal charges wilson testified feared life anaya backed police car according district attorney angela spence pacheco tom clark attorney anayas parents said thursday anaya stopped car chase wilson wasnt wearing police uniform hed facing firstdegree murder charge clark said shocked dismayed viewing video idea going bad said didnt think would dramatic officer running alongside shooting pointblank car tort claim notice potential litigation clark filed says anaya pursued forced road shot killed officer wilson without probable cause justification violation ms anayas constitutional rights police reports also released thursday inspection public records requests indicate anaya handcuffed despite gunshot wounds head back first wilson others performed cpr chest compressions emt asked cuffs removed people outraged way client died clark told koat advertisement state police spokesman said would comment agency including whether wilson disciplined way shooting potential litigation case chase shooting video dashcam video shows obvious traffic violation erratic driving anaya williams tries pull flashing cruiser lights speeds chase reaches speeds 87 mph city streets speeds stamped video eventually winds residential area speed humps conclusion pursuit camino carlos rey video shows wilson used lowspeed contact maneuver anayas 2002 silver honda accord debris flying least one car force stop instant theres crash camera apparently sound honda backing patrol car produces debris shots fired honda reappears frame moving left right wilson firing runs toward alongside sedan car officer leave video frame state police reports released thursday include wilsons statement investigators jeremy munoz 34 passenger car driven jeanette anaya november led state police officer highspeed chase anaya shot killed officer handcuffed shortly shooting image police dashcam video munoz charged case source state police said maneuver used stop honda positioned patrol car behind perpendicular honda approached foot found inadvertently unit honda saw sedan moving toward reverse drew pistol firing four shots simultaneously towards driver firing feared crushed vehicles causing great bodily harm even death backing honda pacheco said wednesday confirmed accident reconstructionists takes place offcamera wilson said anayas car started forward trying flee unsure first four shots effective closed foot firing tire disable car wilson used expletives ordering occupants car video shows statement investigators says driver stayed inside vehicle motionless front passenger listened verbal commands anaya told munoz passenger chase wouldnt stop afraid arrested outstanding warrant reports state warrant august 7 failure appear santa fe municipal court concealing identify charge carried 500 bond investigation underway determine wilson properly notified police dispatch reason pursuit police said previously santa fe officers refused join chase couldnt get reason dispatch recordings show video wilson heard asking radio permission use pit bumping maneuver stop honda response granting permission discernible amid noise chase cpr handcuffed state police interviews wilson presence attorney munoz indicate wilson tried cpr anaya immediately shooting santa fe police officers took performing chest compressions emt arrived continued cpr asking handcuffs removed anaya reports state clark anaya family attorney said handcuffing anaya shot dying one shocking things defies reason analysis released earlier week state office medical investigator found anaya 008 milligrams per liter cocaine system police reports released thursday dont provide information might used cocaine munoz handcuffed shooting eventually taken hospital checkup never charged wilson one onehalf year veteran agency interviewed state police nov 14 graveyard shift two weeks time shooting police reports say car wobbles told investigators saw anayas car make right turn alta vista road onto st francis drive approaching intersection rapidly vehicle made sudden california stop stop go since light direction red presumed anaya green light make turn dashcam video shows anayas car slowing nearstop making right turn wilson said motorists proceed one continuous motion said also noticed vehicle wobble wobble discerned video although recording difficulttodecipher hot sections glare bright street lights wilson said believed car mechanical issue driver impaired due stop go action first saw making right turn munoz interviewed told police friend anaya favor got caught shooting forced floorboard avoid shots coming passenger side car reports indicate munoz said anaya knocked door 1230 night shooting asking help low tire drove allsups baca cerrillos inflate tire went taco bell food approached intersection alta vista st francis anaya applied brakes light red accelerated turned green turned right onto st francis munoz idea officer behind patrol cars emergency lights activated said told anaya stop several times ensuing chase refused told outstanding warrant chase ended camino carlos rey wilson started yelling commands gun drawn anaya backed missing wilson striking vehicle said munoz anaya put car drive munoz heard shots start placed hands window yelling officer dead police report states
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<p>WASHINGTON – Over two years, 23-year-old Steven Pugh violated almost every condition of his court-ordered probation for carrying a gun in the nation’s capital: He tested positive for PCP, was charged with assault for allegedly dragging his girlfriend across a floor and pleaded guilty to committing a robbery in Maryland. For months, he had disappeared entirely from his probation officer’s radar screen.</p>
<p>Still, his probation was not revoked, sparing him from a year in jail. In August 2015, Pugh was still failing to show up for drug tests and other appointments, but his probation officer did not press for him to be locked up. The next month, a father of three in Southeast was shot and killed. Pugh was arrested fleeing the scene and later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.</p>
<p>A version of Pugh’s case plays out frequently in the District of Columbia. About 150 times a year, the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency loses track of offenders it classifies as high risk, the agency acknowledges. Several hundred additional offenders classified as lower risks also go missing, and scores of them turn up as suspects in new crimes, according to court records.</p>
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<p>But the problem does not stop there.</p>
<p>Unlike supervisory agencies in many states, CSOSA does not notify law enforcement or the public in Washington about missing offenders, even when it believes an offender “has the potential to create a new victim,” as the agency wrote in court records about Pugh. Doing so, it says, would violate federal privacy laws protecting those it calls its “clients” – the absconders.</p>
<p>The District of Columbia is the only jurisdiction in the country where Congress has made supervision of local criminals a federal responsibility. A Washington Post investigation has found that federal control has created layers of bureaucracy that make it difficult to quickly put those who violate the terms of their release back behind bars or to effectively monitor the most dangerous offenders released back into the community.</p>
<p>A review of hundreds of court cases and federal documents, as well as interviews with prosecutors, police, defense attorneys and criminal justice experts, shows that the District’s uniquely constructed criminal justice system often breaks down at the vulnerable point when offenders are leaving jail or prison and returning to the streets.</p>
<p>CSOSA (see-so-sa) does not automatically share details about its offenders’ absences with D.C. police, as many similar state or local agencies do with police in their jurisdictions, criminal justice experts say. And when offenders are caught in a serious violation, the agency has to petition the courts and the U.S. Parole Commission to revoke probation or parole, or to have a warrant issued for their arrest. Then, CSOSA must usually rely on a third federal agency, the U.S. Marshals Service, to get the offender back to the D.C. jail or prison.</p>
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<p>About once a week, a D.C. offender under federal supervision ends up as either a victim or a suspect in a homicide investigation. Last year, nearly one out of four people charged with a killing in Washington was under CSOSA supervision, while one out of five victims also was in its care, according to agency and police data.</p>
<p>Offenders under CSOSA’s supervision were charged with nearly 1,500 crimes of violence in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, according to documents submitted to Congress. In all of 2016, 836 individuals have been convicted of crimes, representing about 5 percent of the total under supervision, the agency said.</p>
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<p>“It’s set up to fail people,” said Philip Fornaci, past director of the D.C. Prisoners’ Project, who now works to find jobs for returning inmates as head of the Employment Justice Center. “If it was actually a system that was geared toward rehabilitation, it wouldn’t be set up like this, and if public safety were a real concern, it wouldn’t be set up like this.”</p>
<p>Nancy Ware, director of CSOSA since 2012, said the agency first tries to give offenders every chance to succeed before it labels someone an absconder, potentially sending an offender back to jail or prison.</p>
<p>“Sometimes a person is in a loss of contact for several days because they have a death in their family, they have some issue with children. There are all kinds of reasons that we lose contact,” she said. “With our population, we want to give them the benefit of the doubt.”</p>
<p>Ware said CSOSA has made strides in coordinating with D.C. police and other law enforcement agencies, including joint home visits to high-risk offenders. She also stressed that the number of CSOSA clients linked to violent crimes in Washington is a small fraction of the roughly 17,000 offenders who cycle through supervision in a given year.</p>
<p>Ware said that the agency conducts a “fatality review” of every killer or victim who was under CSOSA supervision but has not been able to discern a pattern to prevent future violence. She suggested that those who do return to violent crime – especially those who kill – are often beyond the help of any government agency.</p>
<p>“They go into a liquor store or get into an argument with somebody and, you, know, take that person out,” she said. “Or they are in a crap game and get mad at each other, so they have an incident where it escalates to the point of violence.”</p>
<p>“In some cases, it’s people who have had a history with that person and it goes way, way back,” Ware said. “Their pasts may have caught up with them.”</p>
<p>CSOSA did not respond to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Post seeking detailed data on recidivism.</p>
<p>The federal office has almost 900 employees and an annual budget of $182 million.</p>
<p>CSOSA was born almost two decades ago out of a dark moment in the District of Columbia’s history, when the city under then-Mayor Marion Barry was tumbling toward bankruptcy. As a condition of a federal bailout, Congress took control of most of the District’s criminal justice system.</p>
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<p>Because it is a federal agency, CSOSA does not have to report to the mayor or the D.C. Council. It also does not have to answer to the Justice Department. Its director is appointed by the president to a six-year term, and Congress, which has oversight, has not called a hearing on the agency in almost four years.</p>
<p>CSOSA’s unique position constrains its ability to help or monitor offenders. It lacks the resources of a state or local social services agency, such as the ability to provide short-term housing placements or care in long-term mental health facilities for those too unstable to remain in the community. A new report from the nonprofit Council for Court Excellence said that almost half of all offenders returning to D.C. from federal prisons have been diagnosed with a mental health condition.</p>
<p>After 90 days under supervision of CSOSA, the report said, more than 7 in 10 offenders capable of working had no job and nearly a third of those had no stable housing.</p>
<p>Fixing these problems is hard. It took years of lobbying, an act of Congress and the signature of President Barack Obama earlier this year to add two words – “and incentives” – in the agency’s federal charter. That insertion gives CSOSA the latitude to offer offenders not only punishments but rewards for good behavior. The most-discussed incentive was $1.75 in D.C. bus fare to travel to job interviews.</p>
<p>It’s a stark contrast with rapid policy changes underway in states across the political spectrum, from Kansas to North Carolina, where in recent years officials have instituted programs that provide incentives but also, when offenders slip up, almost immediate overnight stays in jail.</p>
<p>In the District of Columbia, court records show, it can take nearly two months for CSOSA officials to get a warrant approved and served.</p>
<p>“It’s really easy to see the next homicide coming, but they don’t connect the dots,” said Nardyne Jefferies, who has been advocating for policy changes in the District since 2010, when her 16-year-old daughter, Brishell, was among four people killed in a drive-by shooting carried out by several repeat offenders, including two under CSOSA supervision.</p>
<p>“Those who monitor these criminals have to do their jobs and be more proactive, because there is a lot of damage and destruction to families they are leaving behind out here,” Jefferies said. “It’s not like we’re flushing goldfish down the toilet – these were human beings. We had fed them and loved them.”</p>
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<p>In court documents, the limited effectiveness of the agency is perhaps best seen in one of the few punishments that it can order: electronic monitoring. Each year, the agency affixes ankle bracelets equipped with Global Positioning System transmitters onto roughly 1,700 repeat, violent or sexual offenders.</p>
<p>Agency documents say the goals of the program are to allow CSOSA to track offenders’ compliance with curfews, and set up restricted areas – around known territories for gang members, or schools and parks for sexual predators.</p>
<p>In recent years, court records show that offenders who tampered with the devices routinely faced little to no jail time, even after disabling them again and again. In 2012, a convicted robber cut off his GPS bracelet and later challenged his conviction for doing so. He argued that it wasn’t a crime because a civilian agency, and not a judge or parole commissioner, had ordered it. The D.C. Court of Appeals sided with the offender, Jeffrey Hunt.</p>
<p>Early this year, CSOSA successfully sought a warrant for 23-year-old Deandre Providence, saying he had repeatedly tampered with his GPS device, including failing to charge it. CSOSA was unable to locate him more than 10 times between December 2015 and February this year, court records show.</p>
<p>Providence, who was on supervised release stemming from a gun charge from 2013, was charged with tampering with a detection device. Prosecutors in March offered him a plea bargain, which he accepted: one night in jail.</p>
<p>Providence has since been arrested on charges of selling synthetic drugs and has been released pending trial. His attorney did not respond to requests for comment.</p>
<p>The agency did not publicly push to close the GPS loophole until September, after The Post reported that a judge allowed a violent offender, Antwon Pitt, to remain free after being found with a substance that appeared to be synthetic marijuanaand a disabled GPS monitoring device. Pitt raped and beat a college professor in her Hill East home days later.</p>
<p>The D.C. mayor and council responded this month, with the support CSOSA, passing emergency legislation designed to make removal of any GPS device a crime.</p>
<p>But CSOSA’s difficulties with electronic monitoring are not solved. It is not uncommon for offenders to commit new armed robberies, carjackings and even homicides while under GPS surveillance, according to a review of more than 200 Superior Court case files. The agency said 72 individuals under GPS monitoring were convicted of new crimes this year, representing about 9 percent of the total convictions for those supervised by CSOSA.</p>
<p>Ware, the CSOSA director, acknowledged that GPS is not a magic bullet: “It’s definitely not a deterrent to crime, and I think that’s the misunderstanding sometimes about GPS,” she said.</p>
<p>Dalonte Weems, now in federal prison in Cumberland, Maryland, is among dozens of offenders who have brazenly – and repeatedly – committed crimes while under CSOSA monitoring.</p>
<p>In the fall of 2013, Weems had a bracelet on when he rang a doorbell and pointed a handgun at the man who answered. Weems, then 20, was under supervision for a previous conviction in his teens, and GPS data later showed Weems leaving his apartment, walking to the victim’s home and then departing. Through GPS, police tracked Weems to his apartment and found a loaded 9 mm handgun in a closet, court records show.</p>
<p>Weems could have been sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison for carrying a firearm without a license, but under the District’s Youth Rehabilitation Act, he was given 20 months with all but 10 months suspended. The law allows young adult offenders younger than 22 to receive shorter sentences for some crimes and have their records sealed from public view.</p>
<p>By April 2015, Weems had twice more been fitted with a GPS device, the last time a month before he committed three armed robberies of taxicab drivers, according to charging documents.</p>
<p>In the last of those robberies, in May, the driver told police that after he arrived at his passenger’s requested destination, he felt the barrel of a gun against the right side of his head. The driver claimed that Weems and another person took $120 from the driver’s pocket as well as his ID badge, cellphone and wallet, documents show.</p>
<p>It is unclear from court records whether Weems was still wearing the GPS device at the time. A cellphone he had when he was arrested had been used to summon two of the taxis, according to court records.</p>
<p>Weems pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery and is scheduled to be released from prison in 2020. Weems declined a request for an interview.</p>
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<p>As Washington’s homicide tally was rising rapidly in the summer of 2015, during Mayor Muriel Bowser’s first year in office, the tone was growing increasingly urgent at monthly closed-door meetings of the city’s local and federal law enforcement agencies.</p>
<p>Kevin Donahue, Bowser’s deputy mayor for public safety, wanted to know whom he could talk to about getting CSOSA to share more information with police. He had attended meetings with officials in Maryland and other states where chiefs of police and corrections were cabinet members, but in the District he was not sure who was ultimately in charge of probation and parole.</p>
<p>“Who is your boss?” Donahue asked, turning to Ware, the director of CSOSA. He expected, perhaps, that she would answer with the name of an assistant attorney general or a high-ranking official in the federal prison system whom he could get on the phone or drive across town to see.</p>
<p>Instead, Ware’s answer floored Donahue. “I report to the president of the United States,” she said.</p>
<p>Ware and Donahue both confirmed the exchange. Ware told The Post: “that doesn’t mean I don’t also report to Congress and I don’t also report to the people of the District of Columbia.”</p>
<p>“I think it illustrates the complexity of the system within which we operate,” Donahue said recently.</p>
<p>By August 2015, nearly half of the suspects that D.C. police were charging in killings were offenders under the supervision of CSOSA or were free pending trial, according to briefing documents prepared for city law enforcement leaders. Bowser’s administration pushed for CSOSA to more aggressively monitor offenders who had been convicted of a violent crime.</p>
<p>Bowser could not change CSOSA’s charter, but she could affect the conditions that D.C. inmates must agree to for release. She introduced a bill to require offenders who had been convicted of a violent felony to submit to random searches of their person and residence by CSOSA.</p>
<p>But the agency lobbied against a more hands-on role. Cedrick Hendricks, a top CSOSA official, testified before the D.C. Council. He read a letter from Ware that called the proposal “problematic” because it would authorize CSOSA officers to seize firearms or other dangerous weapons that they were not trained to handle.</p>
<p>The letter from Ware also warned that the searches would “undermine” the relationships its officers seek to build with clients, to intervene positively in their lives.</p>
<p>“Many of CSOSA’s supervised clients are plagued by limited education, unemployment, unstable housing, frayed family relationships, and, increasingly, mental health needs,” she said. “This proposal would undermine the successes we have realized to date.”</p>
<p>D.C. officials testified that police could not conduct the searches if CSOSA refused to do so because officers need probable cause.</p>
<p>Kenyan McDuffie, chairman of the D.C. Council’s Judiciary Committee, said the proposal was unworkable and killed it.</p>
<p>McDuffie is among CSOSA’s many defenders in the city. He said CSOSA’s lack of transparency can undermine public confidence, but he believes the agency gets an outsize share of the blame for the failures of a confusing and inefficient system.</p>
<p>“They have an impossible job,” McDuffie said. “We need to start by doing a better job rehabilitating those who have been incarcerated before they are put back in the care of CSOSA and back into the community.”</p>
<p>Thomas Williams, who used to be in charge of all 500 probation and parole officers at the agency, said that during his years there that he tried unsuccessfully to get the Federal Bureau of Prisons to more deliberately match inmates with job training programs in prison so they could return with useful skills and ease the job of CSOSA.</p>
<p>“If a person wanted to have skills as an electrician, great, work on that while they’re inside,” Williams said. But years of meetings with federal prison officials, he said, led nowhere.</p>
<p>There are few national standards in parole and probation. Roughly 30 states have a centralized system for supervising former inmates. In the remainder, rules differ from place to place.</p>
<p>If there is one commonality, said Marshall Clement, director of state initiatives at the Council of State Governments’ Justice Center, it is that budget pressures and politics have forced every jurisdiction to search for more effective solutions.</p>
<p>CSOSA, however, operates in a realm unbound from such pressures, its budget requests largely fulfilled by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget and Congress. It is also insulated from the local political pressures that the District’s elected leaders face to keep crime down.</p>
<p>When Congress authorized the creation of CSOSA in 1997, it made the agency an independent entity under the executive branch. The agency promulgated its own rules for dealing with the offenders coming under its supervision. When CSOSA lost contact with an offender, its employees were supposed to immediately begin a search, make phone calls to the offender and send a certified letter to the offender’s last known address.</p>
<p>The agency gave itself 21 days to complete the process – 18 days to hear from the offender, and another three to file a report of the missing with a judge or the parole commission – to start the process of getting a warrant to pick someone up, according to agency policy.</p>
<p>Ware said officers can move more quickly than 21 days, if they determine it is warranted.</p>
<p>But Williams, the former head of probation and parole, said the certified letter process is an embarrassment for the agency. The time frame for getting a warrant, he said, can stretch to 51 days because it can take roughly 30 days to schedule a hearing before a judge.</p>
<p>“The timeline is just too long,” Williams said.</p>
<p>Before working for CSOSA, Williams led Maryland’s statewide parole and probation system. He said CSOSA does as well as or better than Maryland in identifying offenders who pose a risk to the community. But he said the neighboring jurisdictions could not be more different in terms of how quickly they move to get problem offenders off the street.</p>
<p>“If I have a high-risk individual, I could write the warrant, take it to the judge and that same day it could be out for service” in Maryland, he said. “That culture has existed in Maryland for decades, but it does not exist in the District.”</p>
<p>In the case of Steven Pugh, CSOSA did not file its first report to a judge about his behavior until April 2014, after 41 days of near constant probation violations. Pugh was under supervision after firing a gun outside his Southwest apartment and pleading guilty to a charge of carrying a firearm.</p>
<p>A month after Pugh failed drug tests and after three weeks without any contact with him, a CSOSA officer did not list him as being in loss-of-contact status, but instead classified Pugh’s overall adjustment as “unsatisfactory” and recommended that a judge send him to CSOSA’s 30-day mental health and drug assessment center. CSOSA declined to discuss Pugh’s case.</p>
<p>Before he could appear before the judge, Pugh got into a verbal altercation with his girlfriend “about him wanting her to give him money,” according to a police report.</p>
<p>Pugh slapped the woman with an open hand around her face and head, said “F— you, b—-, you work, you get money!,” and dragged her on the floor, cutting her elbow.</p>
<p>He took the woman’s purse and Metro card and her son’s stroller and fled. Pugh was arrested that night and later released.</p>
<p>Two months later, in July 2014, he was picked up on a warrant for a previous robbery conviction in Maryland. Pugh pleaded guilty and served most of the next year in jail in Prince George’s County.</p>
<p>When he returned to the District after serving his time, he was once again put on probation, this time for assaulting his girlfriend. CSOSA recommended that his probation be revoked, but a judge ordered Pugh to undergo a mental health evaluation and drug treatment. He quickly began violating again. Pugh skipped drug tests on “6/2/2015, 6/10/2015, 6/16/2015, 7/14/2015, 7/21/2015, 8/4/2015, 9/1/2015 and 9/15/2015,” according to another CSOSA violation report.</p>
<p>At a court hearing near the end of this period, a CSOSA officer backtracked from the recommendation to have Pugh’s probation revoked. The officer said that while Pugh had missed appointments and walked out of a drug treatment program, he had attended other meetings and passed a urine test for drug use. He was left on probation.</p>
<p>On Sept. 19, police responded to reports of gunfire in southeast Washington and found Marcellus Green with a gunshot wound to the chest. Green’s ex-wife told reporters that he had been talking to the couple’s 11-year-old son when a car drove up and people inside began shooting.</p>
<p>Pugh was caught after a high-speed chase and charged with first-degree murder. He admitted to being the driver and conspiring to shoot someone he had a “beef” with on the block where Green was killed, according to a police affidavit. Pugh agreed to a plea deal for second-degree murder. He is awaiting sentencing.</p>
<p>Pugh’s attorneys declined to comment for this article.</p>
<p>Court records show Pugh was among 149 of the most high-risk offenders who were out of contact at some point last year.</p>
<p>In Maryland and Virginia, where probation and parole officials have some law enforcement powers, the states maintain websites identifying parole or probation absconders.</p>
<p>But CSOSA General Counsel Sheila Stokes said her agency cannot publish or share information in the District that might be considered personal in nature about those it supervises, because CSOSA does not have law enforcement powers and must observe federal privacy laws.</p>
<p>“They have not been convicted of an additional crime,” she said, “so we have to be careful how we characterize individuals in the public.”</p>
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<p>Tjhe Washington Post’s Amy Brittain and Jennifer Jenkins contributed to this report.</p>
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contact several days death family issue children kinds reasons lose contact said population want give benefit doubt ware said csosa made strides coordinating dc police law enforcement agencies including joint home visits highrisk offenders also stressed number csosa clients linked violent crimes washington small fraction roughly 17000 offenders cycle supervision given year ware said agency conducts fatality review every killer victim csosa supervision able discern pattern prevent future violence suggested return violent crime especially kill often beyond help government agency go liquor store get argument somebody know take person said crap game get mad incident escalates point violence cases people history person goes way way back ware said pasts may caught csosa respond freedom information act request filed post seeking detailed data recidivism federal office almost 900 employees annual budget 182 million csosa born almost two decades ago dark moment district columbias history city thenmayor marion barry tumbling toward bankruptcy condition federal bailout congress took control districts criminal justice system federal agency csosa report mayor dc council also answer justice department director appointed president sixyear term congress oversight called hearing agency almost four years csosas unique position constrains ability help monitor offenders lacks resources state local social services agency ability provide shortterm housing placements care longterm mental health facilities unstable remain community new report nonprofit council court excellence said almost half offenders returning dc federal prisons diagnosed mental health condition 90 days supervision csosa report said 7 10 offenders capable working job nearly third stable housing fixing problems hard took years lobbying act congress signature president barack obama earlier year add two words incentives agencys federal charter insertion gives csosa latitude offer offenders punishments rewards good behavior mostdiscussed incentive 175 dc bus fare travel job interviews stark contrast rapid policy changes underway states across political spectrum kansas north carolina recent years officials instituted programs provide incentives also offenders slip almost immediate overnight stays jail district columbia court records show take nearly two months csosa officials get warrant approved served really easy see next homicide coming dont connect dots said nardyne jefferies advocating policy changes district since 2010 16yearold daughter brishell among four people killed driveby shooting carried several repeat offenders including two csosa supervision monitor criminals jobs proactive lot damage destruction families leaving behind jefferies said like flushing goldfish toilet human beings fed loved court documents limited effectiveness agency perhaps best seen one punishments order electronic monitoring year agency affixes ankle bracelets equipped global positioning system transmitters onto roughly 1700 repeat violent sexual offenders agency documents say goals program allow csosa track offenders compliance curfews set restricted areas around known territories gang members schools parks sexual predators recent years court records show offenders tampered devices routinely faced little jail time even disabling 2012 convicted robber cut gps bracelet later challenged conviction argued wasnt crime civilian agency judge parole commissioner ordered dc court appeals sided offender jeffrey hunt early year csosa successfully sought warrant 23yearold deandre providence saying repeatedly tampered gps device including failing charge csosa unable locate 10 times december 2015 february year court records show providence supervised release stemming gun charge 2013 charged tampering detection device prosecutors march offered plea bargain accepted one night jail providence since arrested charges selling synthetic drugs released pending trial attorney respond requests comment agency publicly push close gps loophole september post reported judge allowed violent offender antwon pitt remain free found substance appeared synthetic marijuanaand disabled gps monitoring device pitt raped beat college professor hill east home days later dc mayor council responded month support csosa passing emergency legislation designed make removal gps device crime csosas difficulties electronic monitoring solved uncommon offenders commit new armed robberies carjackings even homicides gps surveillance according review 200 superior court case files agency said 72 individuals gps monitoring convicted new crimes year representing 9 percent total convictions supervised csosa ware csosa director acknowledged gps magic bullet definitely deterrent crime think thats misunderstanding sometimes gps said dalonte weems federal prison cumberland maryland among dozens offenders brazenly repeatedly committed crimes csosa monitoring fall 2013 weems bracelet rang doorbell pointed handgun man answered weems 20 supervision previous conviction teens gps data later showed weems leaving apartment walking victims home departing gps police tracked weems apartment found loaded 9 mm handgun closet court records show weems could sentenced maximum five years prison carrying firearm without license districts youth rehabilitation act given 20 months 10 months suspended law allows young adult offenders younger 22 receive shorter sentences crimes records sealed public view april 2015 weems twice fitted gps device last time month committed three armed robberies taxicab drivers according charging documents last robberies may driver told police arrived passengers requested destination felt barrel gun right side head driver claimed weems another person took 120 drivers pocket well id badge cellphone wallet documents show unclear court records whether weems still wearing gps device time cellphone arrested used summon two taxis according court records weems pleaded guilty two counts robbery scheduled released prison 2020 weems declined request interview washingtons homicide tally rising rapidly summer 2015 mayor muriel bowsers first year office tone growing increasingly urgent monthly closeddoor meetings citys local federal law enforcement agencies kevin donahue bowsers deputy mayor public safety wanted know could talk getting csosa share information police attended meetings officials maryland states chiefs police corrections cabinet members district sure ultimately charge probation parole boss donahue asked turning ware director csosa expected perhaps would answer name assistant attorney general highranking official federal prison system could get phone drive across town see instead wares answer floored donahue report president united states said ware donahue confirmed exchange ware told post doesnt mean dont also report congress dont also report people district columbia think illustrates complexity system within operate donahue said recently august 2015 nearly half suspects dc police charging killings offenders supervision csosa free pending trial according briefing documents prepared city law enforcement leaders bowsers administration pushed csosa aggressively monitor offenders convicted violent crime bowser could change csosas charter could affect conditions dc inmates must agree release introduced bill require offenders convicted violent felony submit random searches person residence csosa agency lobbied handson role cedrick hendricks top csosa official testified dc council read letter ware called proposal problematic would authorize csosa officers seize firearms dangerous weapons trained handle letter ware also warned searches would undermine relationships officers seek build clients intervene positively lives many csosas supervised clients plagued limited education unemployment unstable housing frayed family relationships increasingly mental health needs said proposal would undermine successes realized date dc officials testified police could conduct searches csosa refused officers need probable cause kenyan mcduffie chairman dc councils judiciary committee said proposal unworkable killed mcduffie among csosas many defenders city said csosas lack transparency undermine public confidence believes agency gets outsize share blame failures confusing inefficient system impossible job mcduffie said need start better job rehabilitating incarcerated put back care csosa back community thomas williams used charge 500 probation parole officers agency said years tried unsuccessfully get federal bureau prisons deliberately match inmates job training programs prison could return useful skills ease job csosa person wanted skills electrician great work theyre inside williams said years meetings federal prison officials said led nowhere national standards parole probation roughly 30 states centralized system supervising former inmates remainder rules differ place place one commonality said marshall clement director state initiatives council state governments justice center budget pressures politics forced every jurisdiction search effective solutions csosa however operates realm unbound pressures budget requests largely fulfilled white houses office management budget congress also insulated local political pressures districts elected leaders face keep crime congress authorized creation csosa 1997 made agency independent entity executive branch agency promulgated rules dealing offenders coming supervision csosa lost contact offender employees supposed immediately begin search make phone calls offender send certified letter offenders last known address agency gave 21 days complete process 18 days hear offender another three file report missing judge parole commission start process getting warrant pick someone according agency policy ware said officers move quickly 21 days determine warranted williams former head probation parole said certified letter process embarrassment agency time frame getting warrant said stretch 51 days take roughly 30 days schedule hearing judge timeline long williams said working csosa williams led marylands statewide parole probation system said csosa well better maryland identifying offenders pose risk community said neighboring jurisdictions could different terms quickly move get problem offenders street highrisk individual could write warrant take judge day could service maryland said culture existed maryland decades exist district case steven pugh csosa file first report judge behavior april 2014 41 days near constant probation violations pugh supervision firing gun outside southwest apartment pleading guilty charge carrying firearm month pugh failed drug tests three weeks without contact csosa officer list lossofcontact status instead classified pughs overall adjustment unsatisfactory recommended judge send csosas 30day mental health drug assessment center csosa declined discuss pughs case could appear judge pugh got verbal altercation girlfriend wanting give money according police report pugh slapped woman open hand around face head said f b work get money dragged floor cutting elbow took womans purse metro card sons stroller fled pugh arrested night later released two months later july 2014 picked warrant previous robbery conviction maryland pugh pleaded guilty served next year jail prince georges county returned district serving time put probation time assaulting girlfriend csosa recommended probation revoked judge ordered pugh undergo mental health evaluation drug treatment quickly began violating pugh skipped drug tests 622015 6102015 6162015 7142015 7212015 842015 912015 9152015 according another csosa violation report court hearing near end period csosa officer backtracked recommendation pughs probation revoked officer said pugh missed appointments walked drug treatment program attended meetings passed urine test drug use left probation sept 19 police responded reports gunfire southeast washington found marcellus green gunshot wound chest greens exwife told reporters talking couples 11yearold son car drove people inside began shooting pugh caught highspeed chase charged firstdegree murder admitted driver conspiring shoot someone beef block green killed according police affidavit pugh agreed plea deal seconddegree murder awaiting sentencing pughs attorneys declined comment article court records show pugh among 149 highrisk offenders contact point last year maryland virginia probation parole officials law enforcement powers states maintain websites identifying parole probation absconders csosa general counsel sheila stokes said agency publish share information district might considered personal nature supervises csosa law enforcement powers must observe federal privacy laws convicted additional crime said careful characterize individuals public tjhe washington posts amy brittain jennifer jenkins contributed report offenders1stldwritethru
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<p>Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, backed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wants DeCA's annual appropriation of $1.4 billion cut to $400 million by 2017. Average shopper savings of 30 percent would fall to 10 percent as commissaries become self-supporting like the military exchange systems.</p>
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<p>Beale, who led DeCA from 1992 to 1999 both as an officer and as the agency's first civilian director, said such a deep cut is enormously risky.</p>
<p>"The role of the dice is not just on whether the commissaries will survive, it's whether the entire system can survive," including exchanges and the on-base quality-of-life programs that exchange profits now support.</p>
<p>"I certainly understand the predicament in which our civilian and military leaders find themselves," Beale said to begin our interview. With defense budgets squeezed and automatic cuts threatened if Defense officials don't identify enough cuts on their own, "there are no good choices."</p>
<p>However, Beale said, leaders are mistaken to assume commissaries can be converted into self-supporting stores and still offer discounts that attract enough customers to sustain a low-cost grocery benefit.</p>
<p>"What makes the commissary benefit are the appropriated dollars," Beale said, urging me to underscore the point. "And every dollar you take away from the appropriation is a dollar out of service members' pockets."</p>
<p>Defense officials believe by 2017 they will only need $400 million a year for commissaries, to transport goods to stores overseas and to subsidize stores in remote stateside locations. Otherwise, stores can operate on their own if prices are raised, and average savings lowered, from 30 percent to 10.</p>
<p>What they overlook, Beale said, is how critical robust commissary savings are to exchange operations. Traditionally, 35 to 45 percent of exchange shoppers are enticed to shop on base by commissary savings, where food prices are set at cost plus a five percent surcharge.</p>
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<p>If those prices climb 20 percent to be able to pay staff salaries and other costs, not only would the number of commissary patrons fall sharply but also exchanges would see their businesses plummet, Beale predicted.</p>
<p>BEALE: Robust savings critical to operations</p>
<p>"Can you put commissaries on a cost-recovery basis using a business model like the exchanges and J.C. Penny and Wal-Mmart? In theory yes," Beale said. "In reality the answer probably is no."</p>
<p>The big reason is patrons won't accept it.</p>
<p>"Every dollar you take away from the appropriation has to be paid by someone. That someone, in this case, is the patron," Beale said, "because DeCA has no other way of raising revenue."</p>
<p>Without hefty savings, many retirees, Guard and Reserve personnel and even active duty families living far from base have little incentive to drive past their local supercenters and grocery stores to shop on base.</p>
<p>Another reason the idea is risky, Beale said, is that as food discounts narrow and sales drop, commissary suppliers will raise product prices to try to offset lost profits.</p>
<p>Beale recalled that while he was DeCA director, the agency also was under enormous pressure to reduce its appropriations. That's when it began using a nationwide estimate of average shopper savings to tout the benefit.</p>
<p>"The notion of 30 percent savings on groceries for the military community was a useful sound bite, slogan, bumper sticker and rally cry," he said. But "it has now created a perception of a standard which can be trimmed with minimum consequences."</p>
<p>The 30-percent savings estimate is derived by comparing DeCA's Basic Ordering Agreement price points, as offered by suppliers, with pricing strategies used by grocery chains. But what commissary shoppers actually save varies widely by region based on local food prices, Beale explained.</p>
<p>"For example, in my last year at DeCA when the published national savings exceeded 29 percent, the Southern Region savings were in the low 20's whereas in the Northwest-Pacific region savings were in mid-30's. And so it went across the country," Beale said.</p>
<p>More than half of active duty forces and retired military live between Tidewater, Va., and East Texas, he said, where actual commissary savings are "much lower than the published national average. I have maintained that position personally since I was the director. Publicly, I stuck with the party line. In retrospect, that may have been a mistake."</p>
<p>It means that if commissary prices are allowed to pop by 20 percent over the next three years, shoppers in the south and southeast are likely to see their discounts from shopping on base all but disappeared.</p>
<p>"Basing budget decisions for DeCA, and the welfare of service members, on an average national commissary savings figure is about as useless as trying to calculate an average supplement for basic housing allowances by relying upon a single nationwide figure for cost of housing," Beale said.</p>
<p>And so a figure used for the last 15 to 20 years to help justify the commissary benefit is now used to justify reducing it, he said.</p>
<p>A better figure for leaders to weigh today might be "one quarter of one percent of the defense budget." That's all that's needed, he said, to preserve a benefit the U.S. military has enjoyed, in some form, for the past 189 years.</p>
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one thinks way said louis lindemann time pay gas alone could go local albertsons walmart food store around corner commissary already number items purchase cheaper economy email arrived moments concluded phone interview retired army maj gen richard e beale jr former director defense commissary agency deca believes lindemann correct many retirees reserve guard members even activeduty families would stop shopping base dod allowed slash commissary budgets entire military resale system would risk beale said hagel supports hefty cuts appropriations defense secretary chuck hagel backed joint chiefs staff wants decas annual appropriation 14 billion cut 400 million 2017 average shopper savings 30 percent would fall 10 percent commissaries become selfsupporting like military exchange systems advertisement beale led deca 1992 1999 officer agencys first civilian director said deep cut enormously risky role dice whether commissaries survive whether entire system survive including exchanges onbase qualityoflife programs exchange profits support certainly understand predicament civilian military leaders find beale said begin interview defense budgets squeezed automatic cuts threatened defense officials dont identify enough cuts good choices however beale said leaders mistaken assume commissaries converted selfsupporting stores still offer discounts attract enough customers sustain lowcost grocery benefit makes commissary benefit appropriated dollars beale said urging underscore point every dollar take away appropriation dollar service members pockets defense officials believe 2017 need 400 million year commissaries transport goods stores overseas subsidize stores remote stateside locations otherwise stores operate prices raised average savings lowered 30 percent 10 overlook beale said critical robust commissary savings exchange operations traditionally 35 45 percent exchange shoppers enticed shop base commissary savings food prices set cost plus five percent surcharge advertisement prices climb 20 percent able pay staff salaries costs would number commissary patrons fall sharply also exchanges would see businesses plummet beale predicted beale robust savings critical operations put commissaries costrecovery basis using business model like exchanges jc penny walmmart theory yes beale said reality answer probably big reason patrons wont accept every dollar take away appropriation paid someone someone case patron beale said deca way raising revenue without hefty savings many retirees guard reserve personnel even active duty families living far base little incentive drive past local supercenters grocery stores shop base another reason idea risky beale said food discounts narrow sales drop commissary suppliers raise product prices try offset lost profits beale recalled deca director agency also enormous pressure reduce appropriations thats began using nationwide estimate average shopper savings tout benefit notion 30 percent savings groceries military community useful sound bite slogan bumper sticker rally cry said created perception standard trimmed minimum consequences 30percent savings estimate derived comparing decas basic ordering agreement price points offered suppliers pricing strategies used grocery chains commissary shoppers actually save varies widely region based local food prices beale explained example last year deca published national savings exceeded 29 percent southern region savings low 20s whereas northwestpacific region savings mid30s went across country beale said half active duty forces retired military live tidewater va east texas said actual commissary savings much lower published national average maintained position personally since director publicly stuck party line retrospect may mistake means commissary prices allowed pop 20 percent next three years shoppers south southeast likely see discounts shopping base disappeared basing budget decisions deca welfare service members average national commissary savings figure useless trying calculate average supplement basic housing allowances relying upon single nationwide figure cost housing beale said figure used last 15 20 years help justify commissary benefit used justify reducing said better figure leaders weigh today might one quarter one percent defense budget thats thats needed said preserve benefit us military enjoyed form past 189 years comment write military update po box 231111 centreville va 201201111 email milupdateaolcom twitter military_update 160
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<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama prison system on Thursday asked lawmakers for an additional $80 million over the next two years to boost staffing and comply with a federal court order to improve mental health care to inmates.</p>
<p>Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn told lawmakers during budget hearings that the system needs a $30 million supplement this year and a $50 million increase in 2019.</p>
<p>U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson last year ruled that Alabama's psychiatric care of state inmates is "horrendously inadequate" and ordered the state to improve conditions. Dunn said the state must address the situation or risk federal intervention in the system and Thompson ordering the state what to do.</p>
<p>"We have a ruling from a federal judge that has been very critical of our system and basically said if the state does not address this issue, and address it immediately, then he is going to take other actions," Dunn told reporters after the hearing. "I don't think anybody in the state wants federal intervention."</p>
<p>Most of the requested money would go to a new health care contract, but the state was also seeking $5 million to try to recruit and retain more officers in this fiscal year and $3.6 million to renovations at prisons needed to comply with the order.</p>
<p>For 2019, Dunn said $36 million is for the increased spending in the contract to provide health care to inmates. The other $14 million would go to try to raise the number of correctional officers in state prisons.</p>
<p>The prison chief said officer staffing is about half of what it should be, despite recruitment efforts. He said the system could need as many as 1,000 new corrections officers, although he acknowledged that $14 million would not provide that.</p>
<p>Southern Poverty Law Center attorney Maria Morris, who is representing inmates in the class-action lawsuit that led to the ruling, called the department's request a "good start" but said she is concerned it will not be enough to improve conditions, particularly staffing levels. Thompson found a lack of staff was a significant contributor to the poor conditions.</p>
<p>"The lack of correctional staff is really dire. It's frankly shocking," Morris said.</p>
<p>Alabama inmates sued the state, saying the prison system was failing to provide constitutionally adequate medical and mental health care.</p>
<p>Jamie Wallace, an inmate diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, killed himself 10 days after testifying at the trial that he received sparse treatment despite hearing voices in his head that sometimes told him to kill himself. Wallace was in prison for killing his mother.</p>
<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama prison system on Thursday asked lawmakers for an additional $80 million over the next two years to boost staffing and comply with a federal court order to improve mental health care to inmates.</p>
<p>Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn told lawmakers during budget hearings that the system needs a $30 million supplement this year and a $50 million increase in 2019.</p>
<p>U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson last year ruled that Alabama's psychiatric care of state inmates is "horrendously inadequate" and ordered the state to improve conditions. Dunn said the state must address the situation or risk federal intervention in the system and Thompson ordering the state what to do.</p>
<p>"We have a ruling from a federal judge that has been very critical of our system and basically said if the state does not address this issue, and address it immediately, then he is going to take other actions," Dunn told reporters after the hearing. "I don't think anybody in the state wants federal intervention."</p>
<p>Most of the requested money would go to a new health care contract, but the state was also seeking $5 million to try to recruit and retain more officers in this fiscal year and $3.6 million to renovations at prisons needed to comply with the order.</p>
<p>For 2019, Dunn said $36 million is for the increased spending in the contract to provide health care to inmates. The other $14 million would go to try to raise the number of correctional officers in state prisons.</p>
<p>The prison chief said officer staffing is about half of what it should be, despite recruitment efforts. He said the system could need as many as 1,000 new corrections officers, although he acknowledged that $14 million would not provide that.</p>
<p>Southern Poverty Law Center attorney Maria Morris, who is representing inmates in the class-action lawsuit that led to the ruling, called the department's request a "good start" but said she is concerned it will not be enough to improve conditions, particularly staffing levels. Thompson found a lack of staff was a significant contributor to the poor conditions.</p>
<p>"The lack of correctional staff is really dire. It's frankly shocking," Morris said.</p>
<p>Alabama inmates sued the state, saying the prison system was failing to provide constitutionally adequate medical and mental health care.</p>
<p>Jamie Wallace, an inmate diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, killed himself 10 days after testifying at the trial that he received sparse treatment despite hearing voices in his head that sometimes told him to kill himself. Wallace was in prison for killing his mother.</p>
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montgomery ala ap alabama prison system thursday asked lawmakers additional 80 million next two years boost staffing comply federal court order improve mental health care inmates corrections commissioner jeff dunn told lawmakers budget hearings system needs 30 million supplement year 50 million increase 2019 us district judge myron thompson last year ruled alabamas psychiatric care state inmates horrendously inadequate ordered state improve conditions dunn said state must address situation risk federal intervention system thompson ordering state ruling federal judge critical system basically said state address issue address immediately going take actions dunn told reporters hearing dont think anybody state wants federal intervention requested money would go new health care contract state also seeking 5 million try recruit retain officers fiscal year 36 million renovations prisons needed comply order 2019 dunn said 36 million increased spending contract provide health care inmates 14 million would go try raise number correctional officers state prisons prison chief said officer staffing half despite recruitment efforts said system could need many 1000 new corrections officers although acknowledged 14 million would provide southern poverty law center attorney maria morris representing inmates classaction lawsuit led ruling called departments request good start said concerned enough improve conditions particularly staffing levels thompson found lack staff significant contributor poor conditions lack correctional staff really dire frankly shocking morris said alabama inmates sued state saying prison system failing provide constitutionally adequate medical mental health care jamie wallace inmate diagnosed bipolar disorder schizophrenia killed 10 days testifying trial received sparse treatment despite hearing voices head sometimes told kill wallace prison killing mother montgomery ala ap alabama prison system thursday asked lawmakers additional 80 million next two years boost staffing comply federal court order improve mental health care inmates corrections commissioner jeff dunn told lawmakers budget hearings system needs 30 million supplement year 50 million increase 2019 us district judge myron thompson last year ruled alabamas psychiatric care state inmates horrendously inadequate ordered state improve conditions dunn said state must address situation risk federal intervention system thompson ordering state ruling federal judge critical system basically said state address issue address immediately going take actions dunn told reporters hearing dont think anybody state wants federal intervention requested money would go new health care contract state also seeking 5 million try recruit retain officers fiscal year 36 million renovations prisons needed comply order 2019 dunn said 36 million increased spending contract provide health care inmates 14 million would go try raise number correctional officers state prisons prison chief said officer staffing half despite recruitment efforts said system could need many 1000 new corrections officers although acknowledged 14 million would provide southern poverty law center attorney maria morris representing inmates classaction lawsuit led ruling called departments request good start said concerned enough improve conditions particularly staffing levels thompson found lack staff significant contributor poor conditions lack correctional staff really dire frankly shocking morris said alabama inmates sued state saying prison system failing provide constitutionally adequate medical mental health care jamie wallace inmate diagnosed bipolar disorder schizophrenia killed 10 days testifying trial received sparse treatment despite hearing voices head sometimes told kill wallace prison killing mother
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<p>PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers returning to Pierre on Tuesday for the 2018 legislative session will craft the state budget and take up big issues ranging from cracking down on meth dealers to raising legislator pay.</p>
<p>Here’s a look at some of the key political players behind those measures:</p>
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<p>GOV. DENNIS DAUGAARD</p>
<p>South Dakota’s governor since 2011 is entering his final legislative session with lackluster state revenues. He’s proposed a plan that would fill an immediate shortfall this budget year and leave most state workers without raises over the next.</p>
<p>Another proposal from the governor that’s likely to spur debate is a push to extend an expiring law that governs the use of lakes on private land for recreation. The issue has long vexed landowners and outdoor enthusiasts alike.</p>
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<p>HOUSE SPEAKER MARK MICKELSON</p>
<p>The Sioux Falls Republican decided against a bid for governor, but his 2018 legislative agenda shows above-average ambition. Mickelson wants to end collective bargaining at public universities, ask voters to repeal a victims’ rights constitutional amendment and make changes to the state’s ballot question system. The third-term lawmaker is also backing a potentially contentious bid to raise legislator salaries.</p>
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<p>GOP CAUCUS LEADERS</p>
<p>House Majority Leader Lee Qualm, a farmer from Platte, said he’s sponsoring legislation for a proposed $55 million precision agriculture classroom and laboratory project at South Dakota State University that would also include other renovations. Senate Majority Leader Blake Curd was among top lawmakers who announced that all legislators and their staff are expected to attend ethics, professionalism and sexual harassment training later this month.</p>
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<p>SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER BILLIE SUTTON</p>
<p>The gubernatorial hopeful plans to sponsor government transparency legislation in the upcoming session as he runs a campaign billed in part as aimed at fighting corruption. Sutton has served in the Senate since 2011, but term limits prevent him from running for the seat this year. Sutton’s legislative votes are likely to be scrutinized in the governor’s race, and he could carry Democrats’ top bills to help boost his profile.</p>
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<p>ATTORNEY GENERAL MARTY JACKLEY</p>
<p>A Republican candidate for governor, Jackley is taking a tough-on-meth approach to the Legislature this year with legislation to impose harsher penalties for dealing and manufacturing the drug. His agenda also includes a bill that would require companies to inform state residents whose personal information was stolen in a data breach, a potentially popular change among voters.</p>
<p>Jackley and U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem are competing in the Republican primary to succeed Daugaard.</p>
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<p>REPUBLICAN SEN. NEAL TAPIO</p>
<p>The first-term lawmaker is forming an unofficial legislative panel to examine state immigration and refugee resettlement programs and propose legislation. The potentially attention-grabbing commission comes as Tapio, who headed President Donald Trump’s campaign in South Dakota, prepares to run for U.S. House.</p>
<p>He would face Secretary of State Shantel Krebs and Dusty Johnson, a former public utilities commissioner, in the 2018 Republican primary.</p>
<p>PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers returning to Pierre on Tuesday for the 2018 legislative session will craft the state budget and take up big issues ranging from cracking down on meth dealers to raising legislator pay.</p>
<p>Here’s a look at some of the key political players behind those measures:</p>
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<p>GOV. DENNIS DAUGAARD</p>
<p>South Dakota’s governor since 2011 is entering his final legislative session with lackluster state revenues. He’s proposed a plan that would fill an immediate shortfall this budget year and leave most state workers without raises over the next.</p>
<p>Another proposal from the governor that’s likely to spur debate is a push to extend an expiring law that governs the use of lakes on private land for recreation. The issue has long vexed landowners and outdoor enthusiasts alike.</p>
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<p>HOUSE SPEAKER MARK MICKELSON</p>
<p>The Sioux Falls Republican decided against a bid for governor, but his 2018 legislative agenda shows above-average ambition. Mickelson wants to end collective bargaining at public universities, ask voters to repeal a victims’ rights constitutional amendment and make changes to the state’s ballot question system. The third-term lawmaker is also backing a potentially contentious bid to raise legislator salaries.</p>
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<p>GOP CAUCUS LEADERS</p>
<p>House Majority Leader Lee Qualm, a farmer from Platte, said he’s sponsoring legislation for a proposed $55 million precision agriculture classroom and laboratory project at South Dakota State University that would also include other renovations. Senate Majority Leader Blake Curd was among top lawmakers who announced that all legislators and their staff are expected to attend ethics, professionalism and sexual harassment training later this month.</p>
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<p>SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER BILLIE SUTTON</p>
<p>The gubernatorial hopeful plans to sponsor government transparency legislation in the upcoming session as he runs a campaign billed in part as aimed at fighting corruption. Sutton has served in the Senate since 2011, but term limits prevent him from running for the seat this year. Sutton’s legislative votes are likely to be scrutinized in the governor’s race, and he could carry Democrats’ top bills to help boost his profile.</p>
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<p>ATTORNEY GENERAL MARTY JACKLEY</p>
<p>A Republican candidate for governor, Jackley is taking a tough-on-meth approach to the Legislature this year with legislation to impose harsher penalties for dealing and manufacturing the drug. His agenda also includes a bill that would require companies to inform state residents whose personal information was stolen in a data breach, a potentially popular change among voters.</p>
<p>Jackley and U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem are competing in the Republican primary to succeed Daugaard.</p>
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<p>REPUBLICAN SEN. NEAL TAPIO</p>
<p>The first-term lawmaker is forming an unofficial legislative panel to examine state immigration and refugee resettlement programs and propose legislation. The potentially attention-grabbing commission comes as Tapio, who headed President Donald Trump’s campaign in South Dakota, prepares to run for U.S. House.</p>
<p>He would face Secretary of State Shantel Krebs and Dusty Johnson, a former public utilities commissioner, in the 2018 Republican primary.</p>
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pierre sd ap south dakota lawmakers returning pierre tuesday 2018 legislative session craft state budget take big issues ranging cracking meth dealers raising legislator pay heres look key political players behind measures ___ gov dennis daugaard south dakotas governor since 2011 entering final legislative session lackluster state revenues hes proposed plan would fill immediate shortfall budget year leave state workers without raises next another proposal governor thats likely spur debate push extend expiring law governs use lakes private land recreation issue long vexed landowners outdoor enthusiasts alike ___ house speaker mark mickelson sioux falls republican decided bid governor 2018 legislative agenda shows aboveaverage ambition mickelson wants end collective bargaining public universities ask voters repeal victims rights constitutional amendment make changes states ballot question system thirdterm lawmaker also backing potentially contentious bid raise legislator salaries ___ gop caucus leaders house majority leader lee qualm farmer platte said hes sponsoring legislation proposed 55 million precision agriculture classroom laboratory project south dakota state university would also include renovations senate majority leader blake curd among top lawmakers announced legislators staff expected attend ethics professionalism sexual harassment training later month ___ senate democratic leader billie sutton gubernatorial hopeful plans sponsor government transparency legislation upcoming session runs campaign billed part aimed fighting corruption sutton served senate since 2011 term limits prevent running seat year suttons legislative votes likely scrutinized governors race could carry democrats top bills help boost profile ___ attorney general marty jackley republican candidate governor jackley taking toughonmeth approach legislature year legislation impose harsher penalties dealing manufacturing drug agenda also includes bill would require companies inform state residents whose personal information stolen data breach potentially popular change among voters jackley us rep kristi noem competing republican primary succeed daugaard ___ republican sen neal tapio firstterm lawmaker forming unofficial legislative panel examine state immigration refugee resettlement programs propose legislation potentially attentiongrabbing commission comes tapio headed president donald trumps campaign south dakota prepares run us house would face secretary state shantel krebs dusty johnson former public utilities commissioner 2018 republican primary pierre sd ap south dakota lawmakers returning pierre tuesday 2018 legislative session craft state budget take big issues ranging cracking meth dealers raising legislator pay heres look key political players behind measures ___ gov dennis daugaard south dakotas governor since 2011 entering final legislative session lackluster state revenues hes proposed plan would fill immediate shortfall budget year leave state workers without raises next another proposal governor thats likely spur debate push extend expiring law governs use lakes private land recreation issue long vexed landowners outdoor enthusiasts alike ___ house speaker mark mickelson sioux falls republican decided bid governor 2018 legislative agenda shows aboveaverage ambition mickelson wants end collective bargaining public universities ask voters repeal victims rights constitutional amendment make changes states ballot question system thirdterm lawmaker also backing potentially contentious bid raise legislator salaries ___ gop caucus leaders house majority leader lee qualm farmer platte said hes sponsoring legislation proposed 55 million precision agriculture classroom laboratory project south dakota state university would also include renovations senate majority leader blake curd among top lawmakers announced legislators staff expected attend ethics professionalism sexual harassment training later month ___ senate democratic leader billie sutton gubernatorial hopeful plans sponsor government transparency legislation upcoming session runs campaign billed part aimed fighting corruption sutton served senate since 2011 term limits prevent running seat year suttons legislative votes likely scrutinized governors race could carry democrats top bills help boost profile ___ attorney general marty jackley republican candidate governor jackley taking toughonmeth approach legislature year legislation impose harsher penalties dealing manufacturing drug agenda also includes bill would require companies inform state residents whose personal information stolen data breach potentially popular change among voters jackley us rep kristi noem competing republican primary succeed daugaard ___ republican sen neal tapio firstterm lawmaker forming unofficial legislative panel examine state immigration refugee resettlement programs propose legislation potentially attentiongrabbing commission comes tapio headed president donald trumps campaign south dakota prepares run us house would face secretary state shantel krebs dusty johnson former public utilities commissioner 2018 republican primary
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<p>SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Chargers picked linebacker Denzel Perryman of Miami in the second round of the NFL draft Friday, giving them a prototypical thumper against the run.</p>
<p>In the third round, the Chargers took Texas State cornerback Craig Mager. He was the first Bobcat to play in the East-West Shrine Game and made an impression with scouts by doing well covering bigger receivers. He is 5-foot-11, 190 pounds.</p>
<p>"They're both very physical players," coach Mike McCoy said.</p>
<p>While the Chargers could still use a pass rusher, general manager Tom Telesco said Perryman and Mager "fit the characteristics we're looking for. I think they make us a better football team."</p>
<p>Perryman was the leading or second-leading tackler for the Hurricanes all four years at Miami. He's projected as an inside linebacker in San Diego's 3-4 scheme.</p>
<p>He had 110 tackles last season after recording 108 in 2013. He had two sacks and forced three fumbles last year.</p>
<p>Perryman is only six feet tall and said he's played with a chip on his shoulder because many people consider him undersized.</p>
<p>"With my style of play, with my explosiveness, if we meet in the hole, the running back's going backward," he said. "If I get there, it's not going to be pretty."</p>
<p>The selection of Perryman with the 48th pick overall could be a challenge to inside linebacker Donald Butler, who had a subpar 2014 season after signing a long-term deal.</p>
<p>Perryman was a third-team All-America selection.</p>
<p>"When I first started playing football, my dad always taught me, whatever you touch, knock it down. That's always my mindset."</p>
<p>When Perryman was a sophomore, the Hurricanes lost to Notre Dame, whose star linebacker, Manti Te'o, is entering his third season with the Chargers.</p>
<p>"Watching that guy play in college, I know his game," Perryman said. "He has excelled from that point up to now. It's going to be good playing next to another great linebacker."</p>
<p>Earlier Friday, the Chargers introduced their first-round pick, Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon.</p>
<p>"He has a unique style, ability and talent that I think is a great asset for our offense," Telesco said.</p>
<p>"He's one of those players that whether you see him play live or see him on tape and you're taking notes and describing what you're seeing, a lot of times you write, 'wow' on your sheet and underline it. When you write it down three or four times in a game, it usually means you've got a pretty special player on your hands."</p>
<p>Gordon said he met quarterback Philip Rivers and center Chris Watt, although he forgot Watt's name. "I'm bad with names. I better learn that quick," he said.</p>
<p>Gordon said Rivers told him he was "excited to have me here, excited to get me rolling. We've got a good team on our hands and he's looking forward to seeing what I can do."</p>
<p>Gordon described himself as a slasher.</p>
<p>"I feel like I fit well in this offense," he said.</p>
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<p>Follow Bernie Wilson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/berniewilson</p>
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<p>Online: http://pro32.ap.org/poll and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL</p>
<p>SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Chargers picked linebacker Denzel Perryman of Miami in the second round of the NFL draft Friday, giving them a prototypical thumper against the run.</p>
<p>In the third round, the Chargers took Texas State cornerback Craig Mager. He was the first Bobcat to play in the East-West Shrine Game and made an impression with scouts by doing well covering bigger receivers. He is 5-foot-11, 190 pounds.</p>
<p>"They're both very physical players," coach Mike McCoy said.</p>
<p>While the Chargers could still use a pass rusher, general manager Tom Telesco said Perryman and Mager "fit the characteristics we're looking for. I think they make us a better football team."</p>
<p>Perryman was the leading or second-leading tackler for the Hurricanes all four years at Miami. He's projected as an inside linebacker in San Diego's 3-4 scheme.</p>
<p>He had 110 tackles last season after recording 108 in 2013. He had two sacks and forced three fumbles last year.</p>
<p>Perryman is only six feet tall and said he's played with a chip on his shoulder because many people consider him undersized.</p>
<p>"With my style of play, with my explosiveness, if we meet in the hole, the running back's going backward," he said. "If I get there, it's not going to be pretty."</p>
<p>The selection of Perryman with the 48th pick overall could be a challenge to inside linebacker Donald Butler, who had a subpar 2014 season after signing a long-term deal.</p>
<p>Perryman was a third-team All-America selection.</p>
<p>"When I first started playing football, my dad always taught me, whatever you touch, knock it down. That's always my mindset."</p>
<p>When Perryman was a sophomore, the Hurricanes lost to Notre Dame, whose star linebacker, Manti Te'o, is entering his third season with the Chargers.</p>
<p>"Watching that guy play in college, I know his game," Perryman said. "He has excelled from that point up to now. It's going to be good playing next to another great linebacker."</p>
<p>Earlier Friday, the Chargers introduced their first-round pick, Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon.</p>
<p>"He has a unique style, ability and talent that I think is a great asset for our offense," Telesco said.</p>
<p>"He's one of those players that whether you see him play live or see him on tape and you're taking notes and describing what you're seeing, a lot of times you write, 'wow' on your sheet and underline it. When you write it down three or four times in a game, it usually means you've got a pretty special player on your hands."</p>
<p>Gordon said he met quarterback Philip Rivers and center Chris Watt, although he forgot Watt's name. "I'm bad with names. I better learn that quick," he said.</p>
<p>Gordon said Rivers told him he was "excited to have me here, excited to get me rolling. We've got a good team on our hands and he's looking forward to seeing what I can do."</p>
<p>Gordon described himself as a slasher.</p>
<p>"I feel like I fit well in this offense," he said.</p>
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<p>Follow Bernie Wilson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/berniewilson</p>
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san diego ap san diego chargers picked linebacker denzel perryman miami second round nfl draft friday giving prototypical thumper run third round chargers took texas state cornerback craig mager first bobcat play eastwest shrine game made impression scouts well covering bigger receivers 5foot11 190 pounds theyre physical players coach mike mccoy said chargers could still use pass rusher general manager tom telesco said perryman mager fit characteristics looking think make us better football team perryman leading secondleading tackler hurricanes four years miami hes projected inside linebacker san diegos 34 scheme 110 tackles last season recording 108 2013 two sacks forced three fumbles last year perryman six feet tall said hes played chip shoulder many people consider undersized style play explosiveness meet hole running backs going backward said get going pretty selection perryman 48th pick overall could challenge inside linebacker donald butler subpar 2014 season signing longterm deal perryman thirdteam allamerica selection first started playing football dad always taught whatever touch knock thats always mindset perryman sophomore hurricanes lost notre dame whose star linebacker manti teo entering third season chargers watching guy play college know game perryman said excelled point going good playing next another great linebacker earlier friday chargers introduced firstround pick wisconsin running back melvin gordon unique style ability talent think great asset offense telesco said hes one players whether see play live see tape youre taking notes describing youre seeing lot times write wow sheet underline write three four times game usually means youve got pretty special player hands gordon said met quarterback philip rivers center chris watt although forgot watts name im bad names better learn quick said gordon said rivers told excited excited get rolling weve got good team hands hes looking forward seeing gordon described slasher feel like fit well offense said ___ follow bernie wilson twitter httptwittercomberniewilson ___ online httppro32aporgpoll httptwittercomap_nfl san diego ap san diego chargers picked linebacker denzel perryman miami second round nfl draft friday giving prototypical thumper run third round chargers took texas state cornerback craig mager first bobcat play eastwest shrine game made impression scouts well covering bigger receivers 5foot11 190 pounds theyre physical players coach mike mccoy said chargers could still use pass rusher general manager tom telesco said perryman mager fit characteristics looking think make us better football team perryman leading secondleading tackler hurricanes four years miami hes projected inside linebacker san diegos 34 scheme 110 tackles last season recording 108 2013 two sacks forced three fumbles last year perryman six feet tall said hes played chip shoulder many people consider undersized style play explosiveness meet hole running backs going backward said get going pretty selection perryman 48th pick overall could challenge inside linebacker donald butler subpar 2014 season signing longterm deal perryman thirdteam allamerica selection first started playing football dad always taught whatever touch knock thats always mindset perryman sophomore hurricanes lost notre dame whose star linebacker manti teo entering third season chargers watching guy play college know game perryman said excelled point going good playing next another great linebacker earlier friday chargers introduced firstround pick wisconsin running back melvin gordon unique style ability talent think great asset offense telesco said hes one players whether see play live see tape youre taking notes describing youre seeing lot times write wow sheet underline write three four times game usually means youve got pretty special player hands gordon said met quarterback philip rivers center chris watt although forgot watts name im bad names better learn quick said gordon said rivers told excited excited get rolling weve got good team hands hes looking forward seeing gordon described slasher feel like fit well offense said ___ follow bernie wilson twitter httptwittercomberniewilson ___ online httppro32aporgpoll httptwittercomap_nfl
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<p>NEW YORK — Apple is cutting prices on two iPad models and introducing red iPhones, but the company held back on updating its higher-end iPad Pro tablets.</p>
<p>A much-speculated 10.5-inch iPad Pro didn’t materialize, nor did new versions of existing sizes in the Pro lineup, which is aimed at businesses and creative professionals. The new devices are mostly refreshes of existing models. Apple unveiled them through press releases Tuesday rather than a staged event, as it typically does for bigger product releases.</p>
<p>The iPad updates come as the tablet market continues to decline, after a few years of rapid growth. According to IDC, tablet shipments fell 20 percent to 53 million worldwide in the final three months of 2016, compared with the same period in 2015.</p>
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<p>THE NEW LINEUP</p>
<p>The iPad Air 2 is replaced by a new model simply called the iPad. It retains a 9.7-inch screen, but gains a little weight and thickness. The display is brighter and the processor faster. Its price starts at $329 for 32 gigabytes of storage, down from $399. The standard-size iPad is now cheaper than the smaller Mini model.</p>
<p>The 7.9-inch iPad Mini 4 now comes with 128 gigabytes of storage starting at $399, rather than $499 before. Apple is eliminating the 32-gigabyte model, which used to sell for $399. Nothing else is changing.</p>
<p>Apple is also releasing a red edition of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus; for each phone sold, Apple is donating an unspecified amount to HIV and AIDS programs. And Apple is doubling the storage on the smaller iPhone SE while keeping the $399 starting price.</p>
<p>The new iPad Mini 4 is available right away, while the standard-size iPad comes out next week, with orders to begin Friday. The new iPhone SE comes out Friday, while the red iPhones are expected by the end of the month, with advance orders beginning Friday.</p>
<p>THE MISSING DEVICE</p>
<p>IDC analyst Jorge Vela had high hopes for a 10.5-inch iPad. He said such a size might have offered room for a better keyboard, compared with the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, and it wouldn’t have been as bulky as the 12.9-inch version.</p>
<p>And Apple typically sparks consumer interest when it has new sizes and designs, Vela said, as seen by a jump in sales following the introduction of larger iPhones in 2014 (iPhone sales have since dropped.) Vela said a 10.5-inch version might have been enough for existing iPad owners to upgrade.</p>
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<p>A 10.5-inch version may still come this year, closer to the holiday shopping season, along with updates to existing Pro sizes.</p>
<p>Jackdaw Research analyst Jan Dawson said Tuesday’s announcement makes it “even clearer that there are two very distinct iPad tiers now — the iPad Pro and the basic iPads. The iPad Pros will likely continue to get all the best new features, while the basic iPad will get occasional updates and new features a little later than the Pros, lagging a generation or two behind.”</p>
<p>The processor in the new standard-size iPad, for instance, is akin to what’s in the iPhone 6S from 2015. The Mini’s processor is even older.</p>
<p>DOWN BUT NOT OUT</p>
<p>In the last three months of 2016, iPhones generated 10 times the revenue as iPads. Unit sales of iPads fell 19 percent from the previous year. Yet Apple CEO Tim Cook has expressed optimism because many people were buying iPads for the first time, indicating that the market had yet to reach saturation, the point at which everyone who wants a particular product already has one.</p>
<p>Dawson agrees that the number of tablet owners is still growing, even if overall sales are declining because people aren’t upgrading often. He said the new $329 price for the 9.7-inch iPad should help spur sales. New 9.7-inch models have previously cost at least $499.</p>
<p>Far from holding a clearance sale, Vela said Apple is merely taking advantage of lower prices for older components. And Apple might be able to preserve higher profit margins by pushing people into a model with four times the storage, or 128 gigabytes; the extra storage costs Apple far less than the extra $100 that model sells for, Vela said.</p>
<p>CHALLENGERS</p>
<p>Apple remains the market leader, accounting for about a quarter of all tablets shipped in the fourth quarter, according to IDC.</p>
<p>Samsung beat Apple to a tablet announcement by nearly a month, though Samsung’s Android-based Galaxy Tab S3 doesn’t actually start selling until this Friday, for $600.</p>
<p>Vela doesn’t consider it a serious threat to Apple. Even though the Tab S3 is more in line with iPad Pros in quality, Vela said people tend to buy Samsung tablets as media-consumption devices, something they can do with the cheaper iPads.</p>
<p>Samsung also has two Windows 10 tablets coming. Called the Galaxy Book, the Windows devices are more likely to challenge Microsoft’s Surface than iPads. Microsoft is due for a refresh of its Surface Pro tablet, last updated in October 2015.</p>
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<p>AP Technology Writer Mae Anderson contributed to this report.</p>
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new york apple cutting prices two ipad models introducing red iphones company held back updating higherend ipad pro tablets muchspeculated 105inch ipad pro didnt materialize new versions existing sizes pro lineup aimed businesses creative professionals new devices mostly refreshes existing models apple unveiled press releases tuesday rather staged event typically bigger product releases ipad updates come tablet market continues decline years rapid growth according idc tablet shipments fell 20 percent 53 million worldwide final three months 2016 compared period 2015 advertisement new lineup ipad air 2 replaced new model simply called ipad retains 97inch screen gains little weight thickness display brighter processor faster price starts 329 32 gigabytes storage 399 standardsize ipad cheaper smaller mini model 79inch ipad mini 4 comes 128 gigabytes storage starting 399 rather 499 apple eliminating 32gigabyte model used sell 399 nothing else changing apple also releasing red edition iphone 7 7 plus phone sold apple donating unspecified amount hiv aids programs apple doubling storage smaller iphone se keeping 399 starting price new ipad mini 4 available right away standardsize ipad comes next week orders begin friday new iphone se comes friday red iphones expected end month advance orders beginning friday missing device idc analyst jorge vela high hopes 105inch ipad said size might offered room better keyboard compared 97inch ipad pro wouldnt bulky 129inch version apple typically sparks consumer interest new sizes designs vela said seen jump sales following introduction larger iphones 2014 iphone sales since dropped vela said 105inch version might enough existing ipad owners upgrade advertisement 105inch version may still come year closer holiday shopping season along updates existing pro sizes jackdaw research analyst jan dawson said tuesdays announcement makes even clearer two distinct ipad tiers ipad pro basic ipads ipad pros likely continue get best new features basic ipad get occasional updates new features little later pros lagging generation two behind processor new standardsize ipad instance akin whats iphone 6s 2015 minis processor even older last three months 2016 iphones generated 10 times revenue ipads unit sales ipads fell 19 percent previous year yet apple ceo tim cook expressed optimism many people buying ipads first time indicating market yet reach saturation point everyone wants particular product already one dawson agrees number tablet owners still growing even overall sales declining people arent upgrading often said new 329 price 97inch ipad help spur sales new 97inch models previously cost least 499 far holding clearance sale vela said apple merely taking advantage lower prices older components apple might able preserve higher profit margins pushing people model four times storage 128 gigabytes extra storage costs apple far less extra 100 model sells vela said challengers apple remains market leader accounting quarter tablets shipped fourth quarter according idc samsung beat apple tablet announcement nearly month though samsungs androidbased galaxy tab s3 doesnt actually start selling friday 600 vela doesnt consider serious threat apple even though tab s3 line ipad pros quality vela said people tend buy samsung tablets mediaconsumption devices something cheaper ipads samsung also two windows 10 tablets coming called galaxy book windows devices likely challenge microsofts surface ipads microsoft due refresh surface pro tablet last updated october 2015 ___ ap technology writer mae anderson contributed report
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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a bill to renew the National Security Agency’s warrantless internet surveillance program for six years with minimal changes, overcoming objections from civil liberties advocates that it undermined the privacy of Americans.</p> FILE PHOTO: A man is silhouetted near logo of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in this photo illustration taken in Sarajevo March 11, 2015. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo
<p>The legislation, which easily passed the House of Representatives last week, is expected to be signed into law by President Donald Trump by Friday.</p>
<p>Thursday’s 65-34 passage in the Senate was largely a foregone conclusion, after senators earlier this week cleared a 60-vote procedural hurdle, which split party lines and came within one vote of failing.</p> U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) departs the Senate floor after a vote on a bill to renew the National Security Agency's warrantless internet surveillance program, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. January 18, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
<p>Passage of the legislation marked a disappointing end to a years-long effort by a coalition of liberal Democrats and libertarian-leaning Republicans to redefine the scope of U.S. intelligence collection following the 2013 disclosures of classified surveillance secrets by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.</p>
<p>The bill reauthorizes what is known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which gathers information from foreigners overseas but incidentally collects an unknown amount of communications belonging to Americans.</p>
<p>Under Section 702, the NSA is empowered to eavesdrop on vast amounts of digital communications via American companies like Facebook Inc, Verizon Communications Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google.</p> Slideshow (14 Images)
<p>But the program also incidentally scoops up Americans’ communications, including when they communicate with a foreign target living overseas. Intelligence analysts can then search those messages without a warrant.</p>
<p>The White House, U.S. intelligence agencies and congressional Republican leaders said the program is indispensable to national security.</p>
<p>Opponents of the program said it allows the NSA and other intelligence agencies to grab data belonging to Americans in a way that represents an affront to the U.S. Constitution.</p>
<p>The bill passed by Congress does add a narrow warrant requirement for cases where the Federal Bureau of Investigation seeks emails related to an existing criminal investigation that has no relevance to national security. Privacy advocates said that essentially gave more protections to criminal suspects than ordinary Americans caught up in the program’s surveillance.</p>
<p>Reporting by Dustin Volz; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Tom Brown</p> Our Standards:
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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is seeking a temporary restraining order regarding searches of Cohen’s home and office by FBI agents on Monday, a Justice Department spokesman said on Friday.</p> U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen drives after leaving his hotel in New York City, U.S., April 11, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
<p>Such an order would be sought to stop the government from using seized materials, according to a person familiar with the investigation.</p>
<p>A hearing on the searches has been set for 10:30 a.m. (1430 GMT) in a Manhattan federal court, the courthouse said.</p>
<p>When reached by phone, a lawyer for Cohen was not immediately available for a request to comment.</p>
<p>Reporting by Karen Freifeld; Writing by Makini Brice; Editing by Frances Kerry</p> Our Standards:
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<p>(Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers on Thursday questioned whether the head of a Chicago bank was seeking a favor from the incoming Trump administration when he inquired about the confirmation process for a top U.S. Army position before extending $16 million in loans to Trump’s former campaign chairman.</p> Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives at court for a motion hearing in his indictment by special counsel Robert Mueller at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., April 4, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
<p>Lawmakers disclosed the inquiry as part of an ongoing probe into loans from Chicago-based Federal Savings Bank to Paul Manafort in the weeks after Donald Trump’s election victory in November 2016. The investigation is being conducted by ranking Democratic members of the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and a national security subcommittee.</p>
<p>Public records show Federal Savings made two loans to Manafort in December 2016 and January 2017: a $9.5 million mortgage secured by Manafort’s home in the wealthy Hamptons enclave in New York and a $6.5 million loan against a brownstone in Brooklyn.</p>
<p>A string of media reports last year suggested the loans might have been part of a quid pro quo agreement in which Manafort, who was Trump’s campaign chairman until August 2016, would make sure Stephen Calk, chief executive of Federal Savings, was named secretary of the Army.</p>
<p>The lawmakers, Elijah Cummings and Stephen Lynch, said the Department of Defense (DOD) reported to them that Calk had called Army administrative personnel in November 2016 “regarding the confirmation process in general.”</p>
<p>Federal Savings said in a statement that media reports implying Manafort received the loans in exchange for the promise of a position were not true. The bank said it was cooperating with a federal probe overseen by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.</p>
<p>A spokesman for Manafort, who has been indicted by Mueller for tax evasion, money laundering, and other charges, declined to comment. Manafort has denied any wrongdoing and is preparing for trial.</p>
<p>In addition to the phone call, Calk also met with the Army’s chief of staff on Nov. 16, 2016, eight days after the election, at a business gathering in Chicago, according to information provided to Cummings and Lynch by the DOD.</p>
<p>In a letter the Democratic lawmakers asked Calk to hand over all communications with Manafort, former Manafort business partner Rick Gates, and others tied to the Trump campaign, as well as any Manafort related loan documents.</p>
<p>“This new information provided by DOD appears to confirm at least part of the underlying allegation, which is that you were actively inquiring with the Pentagon within days of the presidential election,” Cummings and Lynch wrote in the letter.</p>
<p>Federal Savings has been under scrutiny by Mueller and the subject of subpoenas from federal prosecutors in New York and the Manhattan District Attorney, according to people familiar with the matter.</p>
<p>(This version of the story corrects end of Manafort’s tenure as campaign chair to August 2016 in paragraph 4)</p>
<p>Reporting by Nathan Layne and Karen Freifeld in Washington; Editing by Richard Chang</p> Our Standards:
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<p>OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma’s largest teachers union on Thursday called off a nearly two-week walkout that shut public schools statewide, saying it had secured historic gains in education funding after school budgets were devastated by a decade of cuts.</p>
<p>The move came after the Republican-dominated legislature passed its first major tax hikes in a quarter century that raised about $450 million in revenue for education. Republican leaders said they had no plans to go as high as the $600 million being sought by educators.</p>
<p>“We absolutely have a victory for teachers,” Alicia Priest, president of the Oklahoma Education Association, told a news conference.</p>
<p>“Our members are saying they want to go back to the classroom,” said Priest, whose union has about 40,000 members.</p>
<p>Some major districts have said they will resume classes on Monday.</p>
<p>The strike was part of a wave of actions by teachers in states that have some of the lowest per-student spending in the country. A West Virginia strike ended last month with a pay raise for teachers, and educators in Arizona protested before classes on Wednesday, without skipping work, to seek enhanced education funding.</p>
<p>The Oklahoma walkout began on April 2 and affected about 500,000 of the state’s 700,000 public school students.</p> Protester march during a strike by Oklahoma educators demanding more school funding near the Oklahoma state Capitol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., April 9, 2018. Picture taken on April 9, 2018. REUTERS/Heide Brandes
<p>Opinion surveys showed it had garnered wide support among Oklahoma voters, many of whom had seen firsthand how students at struggling schools had to share outdated and tattered textbooks and sometimes go to a four-day school week to help save districts money.</p>
<p>Oklahoma teachers, who were seeking a $10,000 annual wage hike over three years, will see an average annual pay raise of about $6,100 from the increased funding, lawmakers said.</p>
<p>In May 2017, their annual mean wage was $41,880, among the lowest in the country, compared with neighboring states such as Texas at $57,830 and Kansas at $50,470, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.</p> A protester holds up a sign during a strike by Oklahoma educators demanding more school funding near the Oklahoma state Capitol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., April 9, 2018. Picture taken on April 9, 2018. REUTERS/Heide Brandes
<p>School districts for the most part supported the teacher walk-out. But they began to run out of wiggle room to make up for lost time when the labor action threatened to extend the school year, piling pressure on teachers to return.</p>
<p>Low wages have created an exodus of educators, causing a teacher shortage in Oklahoma. As a result, school districts had to cut curricula and deploy nearly 2,000 emergency-certified instructors as a stop-gap measure.</p>
<p>Reporting by Heide Brandes in Oklahoma City and Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton in Tulsa; Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Bill Tarrant and Sandra Maler</p> Our Standards:
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<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A California technology billionaire said on Thursday that his longtime and perhaps quixotic effort to partition the Golden State into multiple new states could soon be put before voters.</p> Venture capitalist and CAL 3 Chairman Tim Draper speaks during a press conference after announcing he has collected more than 600,000 signatures to put the plan to partition California into three states into the November ballot in San Mateo, California, April 12, 2018. REUTERS/ Stephen Lam
<p>Venture capitalist Tim Draper said he had gathered about 600,000 signatures on a petition to put his proposal to divide California on the November ballot, more than the 366,000 needed to qualify. It is his third attempt to get voters to weigh in on his call to break up the most populous U.S. state.</p>
<p>Draper, who in 2014 and 2016 failed in his efforts to win approval for a ballot initiative to divide the state into six parts, said in a news release Thursday that he planned to file the signatures with election officials next week.</p> Venture capitalist and CAL 3 Chairman Tim Draper speaks during a press conference after announcing he has collected more than 600,000 signatures to put the plan to partition California into three states into the November ballot in San Mateo, California, April 12, 2018. REUTERS/ Stephen Lam
<p>“This is an unprecedented show of support on behalf of every corner of California,” Draper said.</p>
<p>However, it is far from clear that the initiative will make the ballot in November, as the signatures will have to be certified as legitimate and typically many thousands are rejected.</p>
<p>Draper’s plan would divide the state into Northern California, Southern California and California. Los Angeles, home to the state’s storied movie industry, would remain in the new California, but farmland and forested areas, along with San Francisco and the Silicon Valley technology hub, would be separated into the two other states.</p> Slideshow (2 Images)
<p>Draper has said his plan would diminish the power of teachers’ unions and politicians in Sacramento, the state capital.</p>
<p>Steve Maviglio, a Democratic strategist who worked on the campaign to oppose similar measures by Draper in 2014 and 2016, said the effort was a “colossal waste of resources, energy and time.”</p>
<p>“Dividing the state into three random slices doesn’t fix any of our state’s problems,” Maviglio said.</p>
<p>To go into effect, California would first have to certify the signatures that Draper has gathered, and then voters in November would need to pass the measure. After that, the U.S. Congress would have to approve it.</p>
<p>(This version of the story corrects paragraph 2 number of signatures to 366,000 instead of 585,000)</p>
<p>Reporting by Sharon Bernstein; editing by Bill Tarrant and Leslie Adler</p> Our Standards:
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washington reuters us senate thursday passed bill renew national security agencys warrantless internet surveillance program six years minimal changes overcoming objections civil liberties advocates undermined privacy americans file photo man silhouetted near logo us national security agency nsa photo illustration taken sarajevo march 11 2015 reutersdado ruvicfile photo legislation easily passed house representatives last week expected signed law president donald trump friday thursdays 6534 passage senate largely foregone conclusion senators earlier week cleared 60vote procedural hurdle split party lines came within one vote failing us senator richard burr rnc departs senate floor vote bill renew national security agencys warrantless internet surveillance program us capitol washington us january 18 2018 reutersjonathan ernst passage legislation marked disappointing end yearslong effort coalition liberal democrats libertarianleaning republicans redefine scope us intelligence collection following 2013 disclosures classified surveillance secrets former nsa contractor edward snowden bill reauthorizes known section 702 foreign intelligence surveillance act gathers information foreigners overseas incidentally collects unknown amount communications belonging americans section 702 nsa empowered eavesdrop vast amounts digital communications via american companies like facebook inc verizon communications inc alphabet incs google slideshow 14 images program also incidentally scoops americans communications including communicate foreign target living overseas intelligence analysts search messages without warrant white house us intelligence agencies congressional republican leaders said program indispensable national security opponents program said allows nsa intelligence agencies grab data belonging americans way represents affront us constitution bill passed congress add narrow warrant requirement cases federal bureau investigation seeks emails related existing criminal investigation relevance national security privacy advocates said essentially gave protections criminal suspects ordinary americans caught programs surveillance reporting dustin volz editing chizu nomiyama tom brown standards thomson reuters trust principles washington reuters us president donald trumps personal lawyer michael cohen seeking temporary restraining order regarding searches cohens home office fbi agents monday justice department spokesman said friday us president donald trumps personal lawyer michael cohen drives leaving hotel new york city us april 11 2018 reutersbrendan mcdermid order would sought stop government using seized materials according person familiar investigation hearing searches set 1030 1430 gmt manhattan federal court courthouse said reached phone lawyer cohen immediately available request comment reporting karen freifeld writing makini brice editing frances kerry standards thomson reuters trust principles reuters democratic lawmakers thursday questioned whether head chicago bank seeking favor incoming trump administration inquired confirmation process top us army position extending 16 million loans trumps former campaign chairman former trump campaign manager paul manafort arrives court motion hearing indictment special counsel robert mueller us district court washington us april 4 2018 reutersjoshua roberts lawmakers disclosed inquiry part ongoing probe loans chicagobased federal savings bank paul manafort weeks donald trumps election victory november 2016 investigation conducted ranking democratic members us house oversight government reform committee national security subcommittee public records show federal savings made two loans manafort december 2016 january 2017 95 million mortgage secured manaforts home wealthy hamptons enclave new york 65 million loan brownstone brooklyn string media reports last year suggested loans might part quid pro quo agreement manafort trumps campaign chairman august 2016 would make sure stephen calk chief executive federal savings named secretary army lawmakers elijah cummings stephen lynch said department defense dod reported calk called army administrative personnel november 2016 regarding confirmation process general federal savings said statement media reports implying manafort received loans exchange promise position true bank said cooperating federal probe overseen special counsel robert mueller alleged ties trump campaign russia spokesman manafort indicted mueller tax evasion money laundering charges declined comment manafort denied wrongdoing preparing trial addition phone call calk also met armys chief staff nov 16 2016 eight days election business gathering chicago according information provided cummings lynch dod letter democratic lawmakers asked calk hand communications manafort former manafort business partner rick gates others tied trump campaign well manafort related loan documents new information provided dod appears confirm least part underlying allegation actively inquiring pentagon within days presidential election cummings lynch wrote letter federal savings scrutiny mueller subject subpoenas federal prosecutors new york manhattan district attorney according people familiar matter version story corrects end manaforts tenure campaign chair august 2016 paragraph 4 reporting nathan layne karen freifeld washington editing richard chang standards thomson reuters trust principles oklahoma city reuters oklahomas largest teachers union thursday called nearly twoweek walkout shut public schools statewide saying secured historic gains education funding school budgets devastated decade cuts move came republicandominated legislature passed first major tax hikes quarter century raised 450 million revenue education republican leaders said plans go high 600 million sought educators absolutely victory teachers alicia priest president oklahoma education association told news conference members saying want go back classroom said priest whose union 40000 members major districts said resume classes monday strike part wave actions teachers states lowest perstudent spending country west virginia strike ended last month pay raise teachers educators arizona protested classes wednesday without skipping work seek enhanced education funding oklahoma walkout began april 2 affected 500000 states 700000 public school students protester march strike oklahoma educators demanding school funding near oklahoma state capitol oklahoma city oklahoma us april 9 2018 picture taken april 9 2018 reutersheide brandes opinion surveys showed garnered wide support among oklahoma voters many seen firsthand students struggling schools share outdated tattered textbooks sometimes go fourday school week help save districts money oklahoma teachers seeking 10000 annual wage hike three years see average annual pay raise 6100 increased funding lawmakers said may 2017 annual mean wage 41880 among lowest country compared neighboring states texas 57830 kansas 50470 according us bureau labor statistics protester holds sign strike oklahoma educators demanding school funding near oklahoma state capitol oklahoma city oklahoma us april 9 2018 picture taken april 9 2018 reutersheide brandes school districts part supported teacher walkout began run wiggle room make lost time labor action threatened extend school year piling pressure teachers return low wages created exodus educators causing teacher shortage oklahoma result school districts cut curricula deploy nearly 2000 emergencycertified instructors stopgap measure reporting heide brandes oklahoma city lenzy krehbielburton tulsa writing jon herskovitz editing bill tarrant sandra maler standards thomson reuters trust principles sacramento calif reuters california technology billionaire said thursday longtime perhaps quixotic effort partition golden state multiple new states could soon put voters venture capitalist cal 3 chairman tim draper speaks press conference announcing collected 600000 signatures put plan partition california three states november ballot san mateo california april 12 2018 reuters stephen lam venture capitalist tim draper said gathered 600000 signatures petition put proposal divide california november ballot 366000 needed qualify third attempt get voters weigh call break populous us state draper 2014 2016 failed efforts win approval ballot initiative divide state six parts said news release thursday planned file signatures election officials next week venture capitalist cal 3 chairman tim draper speaks press conference announcing collected 600000 signatures put plan partition california three states november ballot san mateo california april 12 2018 reuters stephen lam unprecedented show support behalf every corner california draper said however far clear initiative make ballot november signatures certified legitimate typically many thousands rejected drapers plan would divide state northern california southern california california los angeles home states storied movie industry would remain new california farmland forested areas along san francisco silicon valley technology hub would separated two states slideshow 2 images draper said plan would diminish power teachers unions politicians sacramento state capital steve maviglio democratic strategist worked campaign oppose similar measures draper 2014 2016 said effort colossal waste resources energy time dividing state three random slices doesnt fix states problems maviglio said go effect california would first certify signatures draper gathered voters november would need pass measure us congress would approve version story corrects paragraph 2 number signatures 366000 instead 585000 reporting sharon bernstein editing bill tarrant leslie adler standards thomson reuters trust principles
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<p>A seed packet may be small, but it speaks volumes.</p>
<p>While seed catalogs promote thousands of types of plants, seed packets tell gardeners how to grow one. All the information is printed on the back of a paper pouch slightly larger than the size of your wallet, and at prices that won’t empty it.</p>
<p>Although the cost of seeds has risen over the past few years, they’re still an economical way to garden, said Elsa Sanchez, a commercial vegetable crops specialist at Penn State University Extension.</p>
<p>“The other option would be to buy transplants, which is generally more expensive,” Sanchez said. “You also find a lot more options for types and cultivars when you start from seed.”</p>
<p>Seed packages have been a gardening staple in the United States for well over a century, although their look is frequently changed.</p>
<p>W. Atlee Burpee &amp; Co., for example, has begun shipping re-designed packets for the 2018 growing season.</p>
<p>“We made the picture (of the plant) virtually the entire front of the packet, so there’s a very strong shout-out of what it is,” said Burpee chairman and chief executive officer George Ball. “We have just a few things on the front — the name, price and weight, such as we need to have.</p>
<p>“But turn it over and you’ll see that we’ve amped up the type of gardening information you’re going to get — the what, the how, the where and the when. The most important is the when,” Ball said. “We use USDA (hardiness) zones and maps for that.”</p>
<p>Company founder Washington Atlee Burpee used to call seed packets his “silent salesmen,” Ball said.</p>
<p>“It’s important that the seed packets be seen from 15 feet for in-store sales rather than 15 inches for a catalog. So we go for a more varnished look to make a good first impression,” he said.</p>
<p>The kind of information to expect from these miniature reference guides:</p>
<p>— Days to seed germination and maturity. Expect those to vary somewhat, though, based on sun exposure, soil temperature, fertility and moisture.</p>
<p>— Seed count and packing date. “Seed longevity is dependent on the type of seed and also storage conditions,” Sanchez said, recommending that any leftovers be kept cool and dry until another planting season rolls around. “Over time, viability and germination rates will decline.”</p>
<p>— Plant profile and size: whether it’s a hybrid, open pollinated or an heirloom, an annual, biennial or perennial.</p>
<p>— Planting instructions, including seed spacing and soil depth, light conditions and moisture requirements.</p>
<p>Then there’s the bonus information available through “QR” or quick-response coding, those usually square, artistic designs appearing more frequently on the flip side of seed packets. Download a free QR code reader app into your smart phone or tablet so you can read links and find information online.</p>
<p>“You can use smart phones to scan QR readers for a great many plant-particular details — information that just wouldn’t fit on the back of seed packets,” Sanchez said.</p>
<p>“It is a good idea to hang onto the seed packages after sowing as references for future care and harvesting,” she added.</p>
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<p>Online:</p>
<p>For more about how to read seed packets, see this fact sheet from University of Vermont Extension: <a href="http://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/articles/seedpkt.html" type="external" /> <a href="http://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/articles/seedpkt.html" type="external">http://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/articles/seedpkt.html</a></p>
<p>You can contact Dean Fosdick at [email protected]</p>
<p>A seed packet may be small, but it speaks volumes.</p>
<p>While seed catalogs promote thousands of types of plants, seed packets tell gardeners how to grow one. All the information is printed on the back of a paper pouch slightly larger than the size of your wallet, and at prices that won’t empty it.</p>
<p>Although the cost of seeds has risen over the past few years, they’re still an economical way to garden, said Elsa Sanchez, a commercial vegetable crops specialist at Penn State University Extension.</p>
<p>“The other option would be to buy transplants, which is generally more expensive,” Sanchez said. “You also find a lot more options for types and cultivars when you start from seed.”</p>
<p>Seed packages have been a gardening staple in the United States for well over a century, although their look is frequently changed.</p>
<p>W. Atlee Burpee &amp; Co., for example, has begun shipping re-designed packets for the 2018 growing season.</p>
<p>“We made the picture (of the plant) virtually the entire front of the packet, so there’s a very strong shout-out of what it is,” said Burpee chairman and chief executive officer George Ball. “We have just a few things on the front — the name, price and weight, such as we need to have.</p>
<p>“But turn it over and you’ll see that we’ve amped up the type of gardening information you’re going to get — the what, the how, the where and the when. The most important is the when,” Ball said. “We use USDA (hardiness) zones and maps for that.”</p>
<p>Company founder Washington Atlee Burpee used to call seed packets his “silent salesmen,” Ball said.</p>
<p>“It’s important that the seed packets be seen from 15 feet for in-store sales rather than 15 inches for a catalog. So we go for a more varnished look to make a good first impression,” he said.</p>
<p>The kind of information to expect from these miniature reference guides:</p>
<p>— Days to seed germination and maturity. Expect those to vary somewhat, though, based on sun exposure, soil temperature, fertility and moisture.</p>
<p>— Seed count and packing date. “Seed longevity is dependent on the type of seed and also storage conditions,” Sanchez said, recommending that any leftovers be kept cool and dry until another planting season rolls around. “Over time, viability and germination rates will decline.”</p>
<p>— Plant profile and size: whether it’s a hybrid, open pollinated or an heirloom, an annual, biennial or perennial.</p>
<p>— Planting instructions, including seed spacing and soil depth, light conditions and moisture requirements.</p>
<p>Then there’s the bonus information available through “QR” or quick-response coding, those usually square, artistic designs appearing more frequently on the flip side of seed packets. Download a free QR code reader app into your smart phone or tablet so you can read links and find information online.</p>
<p>“You can use smart phones to scan QR readers for a great many plant-particular details — information that just wouldn’t fit on the back of seed packets,” Sanchez said.</p>
<p>“It is a good idea to hang onto the seed packages after sowing as references for future care and harvesting,” she added.</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>Online:</p>
<p>For more about how to read seed packets, see this fact sheet from University of Vermont Extension: <a href="http://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/articles/seedpkt.html" type="external" /> <a href="http://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/articles/seedpkt.html" type="external">http://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/articles/seedpkt.html</a></p>
<p>You can contact Dean Fosdick at [email protected]</p>
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<p>Releasing a movie amid the cataclysmic clash between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump — one that has dominated news cycles for months and led to debate viewership surpassing 80 million people — poses certain challenges. One of the most noted attendees as the Los Angeles premiere of Disney’s “Doctor Strange” (which bows days before voters make their way to the polls on Nov. 8) wasn’t Benedict Cumberbatch or Rachel McAdams, but Ken Bone, the sweater-wearing debate standout.</p>
<p>The election has consumed just about everything for much of 2016, and its intersections with the movies have been unpredictable and strange. Trump helped fuel the backlash against Paul Feig’s female-led “Ghostbuster” remake, voicing his disgust for the gender switch on Instagram. Johnny Depp earned some of his best reviews in years for his Trump in the surprise FunnyOrDie film “The Art of the Deal: The Movie.” And Mike Judge’s cult 2005 film “Idiocracy” — a futuristic vision of curse-spewing former wrestler president — enjoyed newfound relevance.</p>
<p>The run-up to Election Day has, in the movies, at times felt downright patriotic. Tom Hanks (“Sully”) and Denzel Washington (“The Magnificent Seven”) — arguably America’s most beloved big-screen heroes — have been regulars at the box office, as if their noble, indisputable presences might sooth an anxious and fractured nation. Hanks was back last weekend with the Dan Brown thriller “Inferno” after, as “America’s Dad,” he gave the country a pep talk on “Saturday Night Live.”</p>
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<p>Hollywood, as ever, is mostly banking on escapism ahead of the election. Given how tired many are of wall-to-wall election coverage by now, that may be a safe bet. Marvel’s “Doctor Strange” will hit theaters right before Election Day, and if ever there was a cultural force that politics couldn’t dent, it’s Marvel. The film, which is drawing rave reviews, is expected to be one of the biggest hits of the fall, opening with perhaps $70 million in North America.</p>
<p>And though a movie titled “Trolls” might sound like a fitting film for this campaign season, the 20th Century Fox-DreamWorks Animation release is as far from the political fray as possible. Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick voice the long-haired dolls in the family-friendly release.</p>
<p>“That audience will be about as impervious as any to impact from the election,” says Chris Aronson, domestic distribution chief for 20th Century Fox. “But if ‘Idiocracy’ was a new film and not an old film, I’m pretty sure we’d put it in this window.”</p>
<p>The other pre-election releases are more daringly timed. Before the country votes for the next president, it will cast judgment on Mel Gibson’s comeback. His World War II tale “Hacksaw Ridge,” from Summit Entertainment, is his first directorial effort since 2006’s “Apocalypto.”</p>
<p>Focus Features has promoted “Loving” with the most direct election overtones. The film is writer-director Jeff Nichols’ true-life drama about the Virginia couple whose marriage led to the landmark Supreme Court ruling outlawing a state’s right to ban interracial marriage. Focus has urged moviegoers to “vote Loving” and launched a website to “change the national conversation.”</p>
<p>But capturing the nation’s attention right now isn’t so easy. The presidential race — characterized by constant scandal, radically opposed personalities and a daily stream of polls — has provided more drama than Hollywood could possible concoct.</p>
<p>Whether it’s because people are glued to TV news or due to less appealing movie options, the fall season has been depressed at the box office. Before Tyler Perry’s “Boo! A Madea Halloween” lifted grosses the last two weekends, most of the season’s weekends have been down about 20 percent from the year before.</p>
<p>“I think the election is providing a massive distraction for the movies,” says Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore. “I don’t like to blame outside forces for movies not doing well, but I do think it’s a tough time. The premiere entertainment event right now is the election and it’s very difficult to compete with that.”</p>
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<p>Some films have actively sought to get out of the election spotlight. One producer of a high-profile fall release, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the film’s release strategy, said his movie was schedule early in the season partly to avoid the higher TV commercial rates that jump in October and early November, when political ads swamp the dial.</p>
<p>But there are other films seeking to rile up the electorate, or at least make it think. Filmmaker Ava DuVernay said the October premiere date of her much-lauded Netflix documentary “The 13th,” about the historical, racial roots of criminalization in America, was intentional. Among other things, it analyzes the meaning behind politician promises of “law and order,” as Trump has pledged to defend.</p>
<p>“It being released in an election year was purposeful,” says DuVernay. “If nothing else for the people to voice their opinion through their vote.”</p>
<p>The acclaimed Sandy Hook massacre documentary “Newtown” is a largely apolitical film about how parents of victims have coped, but its message is impossible to divorce from the issue of gun control. This Wednesday, the film will play in 500 theaters nationwide including a live satellite broadcast following the film of a “town-hall discussion” moderated by CNN’s Chris Cuomo.</p>
<p>And what would an election year be without Michael Moore? With no advance notice and finishing the film the morning before it premiere, Moore debuted his own October surprise — the pro-Clinton doc “Trumpland” — two weeks ago. Moore, whose “Fahrenheit 9/11” was a powder keg (and box-office smash) in the 2004 election, has vowed to energize Clinton supporters and get his film — via iTunes and art-house theaters — in front of millions before they vote.</p>
<p>But such outwardly political films long ago became virtually extinct in corporate, risk-adverse Hollywood. The year’s only election-themed wide-release was the horror sequel “The Purge: Election Year.” Political films now mostly find their way through grassroots efforts or digital outlets. Hollywood instead specializes in warm blankets for moviegoers on election overload. Soon after Election Day, J.K. Rowling’s magical world will return in “Fantastic Beasts.”</p>
<p>At the movies, the votes are in for Doctor Strange and Harry Potter, and it’s a landslide.</p>
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<p>Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: <a href="http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP" type="external">http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP</a></p>
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<p>(Reuters) - Celgene Corp will pay $9 billion in cash to buy experimental cancer drugmaker Juno Therapeutics Inc, bulking up its developmental pipeline as it works to reduce reliance on its own cancer treatment Revlimid.</p>
<p>Celgene said on Monday it would pay $87 per share for the roughly 90 percent of Juno it does not already own.</p>
<p>Juno focuses on chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, known as CAR-T, which harnesses the body’s own immune cells to recognize and attack malignant cells. These types of gene therapies have been pegged by many in the pharmaceutical industry as a new frontier in cancer treatment.</p>
<p>Celgene’s bid represents a nearly 29 percent premium to Juno’s closing price of $67.81 on Friday, and the company’s shares were trading just below the bid at $86.12 on Monday morning. Juno’s stock was worth less than $46 as recently as last week, before the Wall Street Journal reported that the two companies were working on a deal.</p>
<p>Celgene has lost nearly 30 percent of its value since October, as investors sold off shares on concerns over patent challenges to its long-time cash cow Revlimid, weak sales of its key psoriasis drug Otezla and the failure of an experimental Crohn’s disease drug that had been touted as a potential blockbuster.</p>
<p>“Celgene is in a desperate situation,” said Brad Loncar, chief executive of Loncar Investments, which runs the Loncar Cancer Immunotherapy ETF. “Their revenue growth is running out of gas and they needed to fix this immediately.”</p>
<p>Shares of Celgene were at $102.61 on Monday.</p>
<p>The two companies have been working together since 2015, when Celgene picked up 9.3 percent of Juno for $93 a share.</p>
<p>Juno is yet to get an approval for a CAR-T drug, unlike its rivals Kite Pharma, bought by Gilead Sciences Inc for nearly $12 billion in 2017, and Novartis AG.</p>
<p>Juno’s closest drug to approval is its JCAR017 treatment for a type of blood cancer. The companies said they expect it to be approved in 2019 and could bring in peak sales of about $3 billion worldwide.</p>
<p>It has had previous setbacks in developing the treatments, and shut down development of one leukemia treatment due to severe neurotoxicity that led to five patient deaths.</p>
<p>Analysts said new treatments from Juno should help diversify Celgene’s revenue base. Revlimid currently accounts for more than 60 percent of its sales.</p>
<p>The deal is the second Celgene Chief Executive Mark Alles has struck in January, after agreeing to pay $1.1 billion - and as much as $7 billion if certain milestones are reached - for privately-held Impact Biomedicines.</p>
<p>The Summit, New Jersey-based company also has partnerships with bluebird bio Inc and Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc, both of which are developing cancer treatments.</p>
<p>Celgene said the latest acquisition is expected to add to its 2020 target net revenue incrementally, but will not affect adjusted earnings forecast of more than $13 per share.</p>
<p>The deal was one of two large biotech deals on Monday morning, as French drugmaker Sanofi also agreed to buy U.S. hemophilia expert Bioverativ for $11.6 billion, its biggest deal for seven years.</p>
<p>J.P. Morgan Securities LLC is the financial adviser for Celgene and Morgan Stanley &amp; Co for Juno.</p>
<p>Proskauer Rose LLP and Hogan Lovells will be the legal counsel for Celgene and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP for Juno.</p>
<p>Reporting by Michael Erman in New York and Tamara Mathias in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by , Manas Mishra and Akankshita Mukhopadhyay in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur and Andrew Hay</p> Our Standards:
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<p>(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc’s experimental drug to treat a rare and fatal disease linked to heart failure reduced deaths and need for hospitalizations in a late-stage study.</p> FILE PHOTO: A company logo is seen at a Pfizer office in Dublin, Ireland November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
<p>The company’s clinical study investigated the efficacy, safety and tolerability of an oral dose of tafamidis capsules compared with a placebo in 441 patients.</p>
<p>Pfizer said tafamidis met the main goal of statistically significant reduction in deaths and frequency of cardiovascular-related hospitalizations compared with a placebo at 30 months. The data also showed that tafamidis was generally well tolerated by the enrolled patients.</p>
<p>Tafamidis was being tested for the treatment of transthyretin cardiomyopathy, a condition that results from deposits of transthyretin protein in the heart, which leads to eventual heart failure.</p>
<p>Brokerage SunTrust Robinson Humphrey said it expects tafamidis global sales of $130 million in 2022.</p>
<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted tafamidis a ‘fast track’ designation in June last year. The designation aims to facilitate the development and expedite the review process for certain drugs and vaccines for serious conditions.</p>
<p>Currently, there are no approved medications in the United States for the treatment of transthyretin cardiomyopathy.</p>
<p>However, Stifel analyst Stephen Wiley noted that the data could be a negative for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Ionis Pharma, whose shares were down in regular trading.</p>
<p>Alnylam and Ionis are developing drugs for the treatment of hereditary TTR amyloidosis, also caused by a buildup of transthyretin protein in the body.</p>
<p>Some investors could look at Pfizer’s data as providing validation for both the companies’ drugs, Wiley said, adding that he believed the data could potentially complicate product labeling for both the drugs.</p>
<p>Alnylam closed down 8.3 percent at $119.1, while Ionis closed at $44.08, down 4 percent.</p>
<p>Reporting by Anuron Kumar Mitra, Akankshita Mukhopadhyay and Manas Mishra in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta</p> Our Standards:
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<p>BOSTON (Reuters) - Impax Laboratories Inc has agreed to pay $20 million to consumers and insurers to resolve claims that the drugmaker entered an anticompetitive deal to delay launching a generic, cheaper version of acne medication Solodyn.</p>
<p>The accord, disclosed in papers filed in federal court in Boston, brought to an end a rare trial in a class action lawsuit involving an alleged “pay-for-delay” patent litigation settlement between a brand-name drugmaker and a generic company.</p>
<p>Such settlements occur when a brand-name drugmaker pays a generic rival to delay releasing a cheaper version of its product in exchange for resolving court challenges to patents covering the treatment.</p>
<p>According to the plaintiffs, Impax in 2008 settled a lawsuit it filed challenging a weak patent Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp held for Solodyn by agreeing to delay releasing its generic version until 2011.</p>
<p>In exchange, Impax received $40 million, allowing Medicis to maintain its Solodyn monopoly longer, the plaintiffs allege. But for that settlement, Impax would have launched its generic version “at-risk” while the litigation continued, they say.</p>
<p>Hayward, California-based Impax denied that there was any such arrangement to delay competition.[nL1N1QU1FY]</p>
<p>Thursday’s settlement came in the third week of the trial and after the plaintiffs finished presenting their evidence against Impax, which in October agreed to combine with Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC.</p>
<p>“It’s a fair result,” Douglas Baldridge, a lawyer for Impax, said outside of court.</p>
<p>The deal marked the final settlement in the litigation. Impax previously agreed to pay $35 million to resolve class action claims brought on behalf of direct purchasers of Solodyn such as retailers.[nL1N1QS06H]</p>
<p>Mid-trial, Impax on Sunday settled lawsuits by retail pharmacy operators including CVS Health Corp, Rite Aid Corp, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc, Kroger Co, Albertsons Companies Inc and HEB Grocery Company LP. Terms were not disclosed.</p>
<p>Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc, which acquired Medicis in 2012, said in February it would pay $58 million to resolve related claims.</p>
<p>Jurors had been asked only to determine liability because damages would have been determined at a later trial.</p>
<p>Lawyers for the consumers and insurers had alleged that because of the “pay-for-delay” settlement, they were overcharged by up to $790.3 million, according to an October court ruling.</p>
<p>“The fact that the case was presented to you had a lot to do with this case settling,” U.S. District Judge Denise Casper told jurors before excusing them on Thursday morning.</p>
<p>The case is In re Solodyn (Minocycline Hydrochloride) Antitrust Litigation, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, No. 14-md-02503.</p>
<p>Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by David Gregorio; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, David Gregorio and Susan Thomas</p> Our Standards:
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<p>(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday expanded the use of Amgen Inc’s leukemia drug Blincyto to include patients who are in remission but still have residual signs of the disease.</p> FILE PHOTO: A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland August 14, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Reed/File Photo
<p>The drug, part of a class known as bispecific antibodies, is already approved for patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) whose cancer has returned after treatment or did not respond to previous treatment, such as chemotherapy.</p>
<p>The expanded approval is for patients with “minimal residual disease,” meaning the presence of cancer cells below a level that can be seen under a microscope. Such patients, who can now be identified with new molecular testing, still have an increased risk of relapse.&#160;</p>
<p>The FDA approval marks the first time molecular tests are being used to identify patients for early intervention in order to prevent cancer from reappearing, said Gregory Friberg, head of oncology global development at Amgen.</p>
<p>In studies, four out of five patients with residual ALL showed no signs of the disease after a single cycle of Blincyto, he said. The drug can cause serious side effects including a potentially life-threatening inflammatory condition called cytokine release syndrome.</p>
<p>An estimated 5,960 Americans will be diagnosed with ALL this year, and around 1,470 will die from the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute.</p>
<p>Amgen’s sales of Blincyto, which has an average wholesale price near $173,000, totaled $175 million last year.</p>
<p>Reporting by Deena Beasley; editing by Bernadette Baum and Susan Thomas</p> Our Standards:
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<p>(Reuters) - Arkansas’ attorney general on Thursday joined the widening mass of litigation against opioid manufacturers, accusing three drugmakers of promoting addictive painkillers in ways that falsely denied or trivialized their risks.</p> A Johnson &amp; Johnson building is shown in Irvine, California, U.S., January 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake
<p>Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed a lawsuit in state court in Little Rock accusing Purdue Pharma LP, Johnson &amp; Johnson and Endo International Plc of engaging in misleading marketing practices.</p>
<p>The case made Arkansas at least the 17th U.S. state to sue manufacturers of prescription opiods amid a nationwide epidemic of addiction to the painkillers.</p>
<p>The lawsuit contended the drugmakers spent millions of dollars on promotional activities that downplayed the risks of addiction associated with opioids while falsely touting the benefits of using the drugs to treat chronic pain.</p>
<p>“The reckless actions of these opioid manufacturers have wreaked havoc upon Arkansas and her citizens for far too long,” Rutledge said in a statement.</p>
<p>Purdue, the manufacturer of OxyContin, denied the allegations in a statement while saying it is “deeply troubled by the prescription and illicit opioid abuse crisis.”</p>
<p>Johnson &amp; Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals unit - which manufactures drugs including the opioid Duragesic, a form of fentanyl - called its marketing activities “appropriate and responsible.” Endo did not respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p>Prescription opioids are intended to treat pain, but the outbreak of addiction to the drugs has led to a tsunami of lawsuits by cities and counties. The lawsuits have sought to recoup damages from drugmakers for their role in the epidemic.</p>
<p>Opioids were involved in more than 42,000 overdose deaths in 2016, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</p>
<p>At least 433 lawsuits are consolidated before U.S. District Judge Dan Polster in Cleveland, who has been pushing for a quick settlement and has invited state attorneys general with cases and probes not before him to participate in the talks.</p>
<p>Plaintiffs’ lawyers pursuing the case have generally not quantified the potential costs involved in the cases but have compared them with litigation by states against the tobacco industry that led to 1998’s $246 billion settlement.</p>
<p>The U.S. Justice Department in a March 1 filing sought 30 days to evaluate participating in the litigation, citing the “substantial costs that the federal government has borne as a result of the opioid epidemic.”</p>
<p>Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; editing by Jonathan Oatis</p> Our Standards:
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reuters celgene corp pay 9 billion cash buy experimental cancer drugmaker juno therapeutics inc bulking developmental pipeline works reduce reliance cancer treatment revlimid celgene said monday would pay 87 per share roughly 90 percent juno already juno focuses chimeric antigen receptor tcell therapy known cart harnesses bodys immune cells recognize attack malignant cells types gene therapies pegged many pharmaceutical industry new frontier cancer treatment celgenes bid represents nearly 29 percent premium junos closing price 6781 friday companys shares trading bid 8612 monday morning junos stock worth less 46 recently last week wall street journal reported two companies working deal celgene lost nearly 30 percent value since october investors sold shares concerns patent challenges longtime cash cow revlimid weak sales key psoriasis drug otezla failure experimental crohns disease drug touted potential blockbuster celgene desperate situation said brad loncar chief executive loncar 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pay 58 million resolve related claims jurors asked determine liability damages would determined later trial lawyers consumers insurers alleged payfordelay settlement overcharged 7903 million according october court ruling fact case presented lot case settling us district judge denise casper told jurors excusing thursday morning case solodyn minocycline hydrochloride antitrust litigation us district court district massachusetts 14md02503 reporting nate raymond boston editing david gregorio editing chizu nomiyama david gregorio susan thomas standards thomson reuters trust principles reuters us food drug administration thursday expanded use amgen incs leukemia drug blincyto include patients remission still residual signs disease file photo view shows us food drug administration fda headquarters silver spring maryland august 14 2012 reutersjason reedfile photo drug part class known bispecific antibodies already approved patients acute lymphoblastic leukemia whose cancer returned treatment 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<p>"Obama Phones" and Taxes</p>
<p>In reference to the "Obama phone" or whenever it started (during President Clinton’s term), isn’t the universal service fee a "tax" that we wind up paying anyway because the government requires the "fee" from the phone companies [" <a href="" type="internal">The Obama Phone?</a>," Oct. 29]? So isn’t it just semantics — that it really is taxpayers’ money under another name that pays for these "free" phones?</p>
<p>Bob Abt Myrtle Beach, S.C.</p>
<p>FactCheck.org responds: The SafeLink program started when President George Bush, not President Bill&#160;Clinton, was in office. Phone companies are required to contribute to the Universal Service Fund, which provides grants to SafeLink and programs like it, but the companies aren’t required to collect the money from customers through a universal service fee, <a href="http://www.fcc.gov.akadns.net/cgb/phonebills/samplePhonebill.html#Universal%20Connectivity%20Fee%20(Universal%20Service%20Fund),%20Federal:" type="external">according to the FCC</a>. Many phone carriers do so.</p>
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<p>A tax by any other name is still a tax. It is not a voluntary contribution made by the phone companies, nor is the charge to us “taxpayers” in any way voluntary. These subsidized services are paid for by a tax paid by everyone who pays for their phone service. While it is true that Obama has nothing to do with it, it is disingenuous at best to claim it is not taxpayer funded.</p>
<p>Gary Feld West Redding, Conn.</p>
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<p>Cap and trade vs. the Status Quo</p>
<p>In your Oct. 27 assessment of the cap-and-trade component of the House energy bill [" <a href="" type="internal">Cap-and-trade: ‘Green Jobs’ or Job Killer?</a>"], you discussed the findings of several government and independent studies regarding cap and trade’s effect on total employment. Your point was clear: Under almost any economic scenario, cap and trade will hurt total employment. I contend, however, that this is a very myopic view. Although the [Congressional Budget Office] admits that doing nothing to curb our carbon footprint will result in “potentially serious and costly impacts,” this critical factor received only a token comment at the end of your report. So, when are you going to start including the worst-case do-nothing scenario in your assessments? Cap and trade may cause the loss of 2.3 million jobs by the year 2030 as the EIA reports, but doing nothing will likely result in the loss of millions more, not to mention untold economic and social devastation. You’re not helping matters by glossing over this vital consideration.</p>
<p>Bill Loyd Pleasant View, Tenn.</p>
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<p>In your article on cap and trade … did you analyze the effect of a cleaner environment on the economy? I didn’t see any reference to the indirect benefits of cap and trade, only the indirect negative effects. Suppose we lose 500,000 jobs but employees take fewer sick days making them more productive, wouldn’t that mean lower costs for industry and higher profits for shareholders? If companies are more profitable aren’t they more likely to expand? If the air is cleaner will trees grow faster therefore benefiting the logging industry? Just curious.</p>
<p>Andrew Winford Fresno, Calif.</p>
<p>FactCheck.org responds: As we said in the article, "None of these economic projections attempt to assess the effects of climate change on jobs or the economy.&#160;But CBO says it expects there will be major economic consequences should Congress do nothing to control carbon emissions." The CBO&#160;report doesn’t have specific findings on the dollar cost of doing nothing.</p>
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<p>Abortion Coverage Debate Continues</p>
<p>First, you guys are fabulous! I have referred a number of acquaintances to your website for verification/explanation after receiving their histrionic, political emails. While I do not know for sure if they used your site, it has certainly cut down on the outlandishly junk emails sent to me. For this, I thank you greatly.</p>
<p>Second, I am the editor of our parish (Catholic) bulletin, and am getting phone calls stating that the Catholic bishops oppose the current health care bill as proposed by Harry Reid. A flyer from the <a href="http://www.wsccb.org/healthcare" type="external">Catholic Bishops website</a> states, "Americans would be forced to subsidize abortions through their taxes and health insurance premiums." Is this true for the latest bill? I have read your factcheck statements (which are so informational), but did not see any reference to the most recent bill soon to be voted on. Could you address this question so those of us serious about health care reform have some answers?</p>
<p>Camilla Hartman Wichita, Kan.</p>
<p>FactCheck.org responds:&#160;Thanks for the kind words. Our <a href="" type="internal">earlier article</a> on the abortion and health care legislation debate is still relevant. The <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&amp;docid=f:h3962ih.txt.pdf" type="external">most recent House legislation</a> stipulates that abortion coverage may not be part of the required minimum coverage package for health insurance providers, but it also doesn’t bar the coverage of abortion by those insurers. There’s a difference between "cover" and "pay for," however, and the bill blocks the use of public funds to pay for abortions. (Public funds would include federal subsidies to help those below a certain income level buy insurance.) The exception is the so-called "public option," which would have to pay for abortions that would be covered under current Medicaid rules, that is, in cases of rape, incest or risk to the life of the mother. Anti-abortion groups have protested the bill’s language, saying it’s meaningless to attempt to separate any federal subsidies from private money used to buy coverage. &#160;</p>
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week readers sent us comments cap trade obama phones insurance coverage abortions factcheck mailbag feature email receive readers send comments editorfactcheckorg letters may edited length obama phones taxes reference obama phone whenever started president clintons term isnt universal service fee tax wind paying anyway government requires fee phone companies obama phone oct 29 isnt semantics really taxpayers money another name pays free phones bob abt myrtle beach sc factcheckorg responds safelink program started president george bush president bill160clinton office phone companies required contribute universal service fund provides grants safelink programs like companies arent required collect money customers universal service fee according fcc many phone carriers 160 tax name still tax voluntary contribution made phone companies charge us taxpayers way voluntary subsidized services paid tax paid everyone pays phone service true obama nothing disingenuous best claim taxpayer funded gary feld west redding conn cap trade vs status quo oct 27 assessment capandtrade component house energy bill capandtrade green jobs job killer discussed findings several government independent studies regarding cap trades effect total employment point clear almost economic scenario cap trade hurt total employment contend however myopic view although congressional budget office admits nothing curb carbon footprint result potentially serious costly impacts critical factor received token comment end report going start including worstcase donothing scenario assessments cap trade may cause loss 23 million jobs year 2030 eia reports nothing likely result loss millions mention untold economic social devastation youre helping matters glossing vital consideration bill loyd pleasant view tenn 160 article cap trade analyze effect cleaner environment economy didnt see reference indirect benefits cap trade indirect negative effects suppose lose 500000 jobs employees take fewer sick days making productive wouldnt mean lower costs industry higher profits shareholders companies profitable arent likely expand air cleaner trees grow faster therefore benefiting logging industry curious andrew winford fresno calif factcheckorg responds said article none economic projections attempt assess effects climate change jobs economy160but cbo says expects major economic consequences congress nothing control carbon emissions cbo160report doesnt specific findings dollar cost nothing abortion coverage debate continues first guys fabulous referred number acquaintances website verificationexplanation receiving histrionic political emails know sure used site certainly cut outlandishly junk emails sent thank greatly second editor parish catholic bulletin getting phone calls stating catholic bishops oppose current health care bill proposed harry reid flyer catholic bishops website states americans would forced subsidize abortions taxes health insurance premiums true latest bill read factcheck statements informational see reference recent bill soon voted could address question us serious health care reform answers camilla hartman wichita kan factcheckorg responds160thanks kind words earlier article abortion health care legislation debate still relevant recent house legislation stipulates abortion coverage may part required minimum coverage package health insurance providers also doesnt bar coverage abortion insurers theres difference cover pay however bill blocks use public funds pay abortions public funds would include federal subsidies help certain income level buy insurance exception socalled public option would pay abortions would covered current medicaid rules cases rape incest risk life mother antiabortion groups protested bills language saying meaningless attempt separate federal subsidies private money used buy coverage 160 high praise honestly best source information explanations simple easy understand considering followed greatful dead around 3 years amazing feat pat dooley nashville tenn160
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<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Latest on the conviction of former Penn State president Graham Spanier (all times local):</p>
<p>9:20 p.m.</p>
<p>The former FBI director who conducted a report on Penn State’s handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal says the conviction of a former president “completely confirms” his findings.</p>
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<p>Graham Spanier was convicted Friday of one misdemeanor count of child endangerment but acquitted of conspiracy and a second count of child endangerment.</p>
<p>Former vice president Gary Schultz and former athletic director Tim Curley pleaded guilty last week to misdemeanor child endangerment and testified for the prosecution.</p>
<p>Former FBI director Louis Freeh concluded in his report that the three men and Joe Paterno hushed up the allegations against Sandusky for fear of bad publicity.</p>
<p>Freeh says in a statement Friday that instead of acting like leaders, the men “stood by silently and left an unknown number of child victims on their own.”</p>
<p>Freeh’s lawyer Robert Heim confirmed late Friday that the emailed statement was from Freeh.</p>
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<p>6:10 p.m.</p>
<p>Penn State is calling the conviction of its former president and guilty pleas by two other former top administrators a “profound failure of leadership.”</p>
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<p>Graham Spanier was convicted Friday of one misdemeanor count of child endangerment but acquitted of conspiracy and a second count of child endangerment.</p>
<p>The university says in a statement that the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal has caused it to strengthen accountability and fight against child abuse.</p>
<p>Former vice president Gary Schultz and former athletic director Tim Curley pleaded guilty last week to misdemeanor child endangerment and testified for the prosecution.</p>
<p>Penn State’s statement says the verdict and pleas indicate the three fell short of the school’s standards for leadership.</p>
<p>The university’s statement says the school’s foremost thoughts are with Sandusky’s victims.</p>
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<p>A prosecutor says jurors who found former Penn State president Graham Spanier (SPAN’-yur) guilty of child endangerment “kept the focus successfully on children.”</p>
<p>Spanier was convicted Friday of one misdemeanor count of child endangerment but acquitted of conspiracy and a second count of child endangerment.</p>
<p>The trial centered on how Spanier and two other university leaders handled a report by graduate assistant Mike McQueary that he saw retired assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually molesting a boy in a shower in 2001.</p>
<p>The two other university leaders pleaded guilty last week to one misdemeanor count of child endangerment.</p>
<p>The charge carries a maximum five-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine. Spanier’s lawyer said they will appeal.</p>
<p>Prosecutor Laura Ditka says Spanier “was convicted for all the children who came to Penn State after what Mike McQueary saw that night.”</p>
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<p>4:20 p.m.</p>
<p>Former Penn State president Graham Spanier (SPAN’-yur) has been found guilty of one count of child endangerment over his handling of a child sex abuse complaint against retired assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.</p>
<p>Jurors on Friday acquitted the 68-year-old Spanier of the other two counts he faced: conspiracy and another count of child endangerment</p>
<p>The verdict comes more than five years after Sandusky was first charged with sexually abusing children.</p>
<p>An investigator told jurors in Spanier’s case that four of the eight young men who testified during Sandusky’s trial that he had abused them were abused after a 2001 report that Sandusky had abused a boy in a team shower.</p>
<p>Two of Spanier’s former lieutenants who also dealt with complaints about Sandusky pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and testified against Spanier.</p>
<p>Sandusky was convicted and is serving decades in prison.</p>
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<p>12:35 p.m.</p>
<p>Jurors deliberating in the child endangerment trial of former Penn State president Graham Spanier (SPAN’-yur) have asked to rehear excerpts from the transcript of testimony.</p>
<p>The panel on Friday reheard the testimony of Jack Raykovitz, who headed the charity for at-risk children founded by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.</p>
<p>Raykovitz said then-athletic director Tim Curley told him a 2001 complaint about Sandusky showering with a boy was investigated and no wrongdoing was found, but Sandusky was told he couldn’t bring children to university athletic facilities any longer.</p>
<p>Spanier is accused of one count of conspiracy and two counts of child endangerment, all felonies, for his handling of the complaint. Curley pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and testified for the prosecution.</p>
<p>Jurors have deliberated about nine hours so far.</p>
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<p>10:35 a.m.</p>
<p>Jurors have resumed deliberations in the child endangerment trial of former Penn State president Graham Spanier (SPAN’-yur).</p>
<p>The panel deliberated for six hours Thursday without reaching a verdict but did ask the judge for a couple of legal clarifications.</p>
<p>Spanier is accused of conspiracy and two counts of endangerment for his handling of complaints about former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky more than 15 years ago.</p>
<p>The 68-year-old Spanier was forced out as university president in 2011 shortly after Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing children. Sandusky is now serving a decadeslong prison sentence.</p>
<p>Spanier didn’t testify in his own defense. Two of his former top lieutenants within the university administration took plea deals to a misdemeanor and testified for the prosecution.</p>
<p>The trial is being held in Harrisburg.</p>
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harrisburg pa latest conviction former penn state president graham spanier times local 920 pm former fbi director conducted report penn states handling jerry sandusky child molestation scandal says conviction former president completely confirms findings advertisement graham spanier convicted friday one misdemeanor count child endangerment acquitted conspiracy second count child endangerment former vice president gary schultz former athletic director tim curley pleaded guilty last week misdemeanor child endangerment testified prosecution former fbi director louis freeh concluded report three men joe paterno hushed allegations sandusky fear bad publicity freeh says statement friday instead acting like leaders men stood silently left unknown number child victims freehs lawyer robert heim confirmed late friday emailed statement freeh ___ 610 pm penn state calling conviction former president guilty pleas two former top administrators profound failure leadership advertisement graham spanier convicted friday one misdemeanor count child endangerment acquitted conspiracy second count child endangerment university says statement jerry sandusky child molestation scandal caused strengthen accountability fight child abuse former vice president gary schultz former athletic director tim curley pleaded guilty last week misdemeanor child endangerment testified prosecution penn states statement says verdict pleas indicate three fell short schools standards leadership universitys statement says schools foremost thoughts sanduskys victims ___ 5 pm prosecutor says jurors found former penn state president graham spanier spanyur guilty child endangerment kept focus successfully children spanier convicted friday one misdemeanor count child endangerment acquitted conspiracy second count child endangerment trial centered spanier two university leaders handled report graduate assistant mike mcqueary saw retired assistant football coach jerry sandusky sexually molesting boy shower 2001 two university leaders pleaded guilty last week one misdemeanor count child endangerment charge carries maximum fiveyear prison sentence 10000 fine spaniers lawyer said appeal prosecutor laura ditka says spanier convicted children came penn state mike mcqueary saw night ___ 420 pm former penn state president graham spanier spanyur found guilty one count child endangerment handling child sex abuse complaint retired assistant football coach jerry sandusky jurors friday acquitted 68yearold spanier two counts faced conspiracy another count child endangerment verdict comes five years sandusky first charged sexually abusing children investigator told jurors spaniers case four eight young men testified sanduskys trial abused abused 2001 report sandusky abused boy team shower two spaniers former lieutenants also dealt complaints sandusky pleaded guilty misdemeanor charge testified spanier sandusky convicted serving decades prison ___ 1235 pm jurors deliberating child endangerment trial former penn state president graham spanier spanyur asked rehear excerpts transcript testimony panel friday reheard testimony jack raykovitz headed charity atrisk children founded former assistant football coach jerry sandusky raykovitz said thenathletic director tim curley told 2001 complaint sandusky showering boy investigated wrongdoing found sandusky told couldnt bring children university athletic facilities longer spanier accused one count conspiracy two counts child endangerment felonies handling complaint curley pleaded guilty misdemeanor charge testified prosecution jurors deliberated nine hours far ___ 1035 jurors resumed deliberations child endangerment trial former penn state president graham spanier spanyur panel deliberated six hours thursday without reaching verdict ask judge couple legal clarifications spanier accused conspiracy two counts endangerment handling complaints former assistant football coach jerry sandusky 15 years ago 68yearold spanier forced university president 2011 shortly sandusky charged sexually abusing children sandusky serving decadeslong prison sentence spanier didnt testify defense two former top lieutenants within university administration took plea deals misdemeanor testified prosecution trial held harrisburg
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<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri delayed paying income tax refunds last year largely because it was short on cash, state Auditor Nicole Galloway said Monday.</p>
<p>Galloway, a Democrat, released an audit of the state's management of taxpayer refunds despite what she called unprecedented attempts by the administration of Republican Gov. Eric Greitens to obstruct it. The governor's office called the audit a politically motivated "cheap ploy."</p>
<p>The state was late in issuing refunds to at least 555,000 individual taxpayers last fiscal year, according to Galloway. On nearly 155,000 of those refunds, the state was so late that it paid more than $420,000 in interest.</p>
<p>That's up from the roughly 485,000 refunds issued past the 45-day deadline in the previous fiscal year, when Democrat Jay Nixon was still governor. Those delayed payments included 83,000 that cost the state $306,000 in interest, the audit said.</p>
<p>Galloway's office contrasted the recent delays to the 2008 fiscal year, when the state paid out 80 percent of refunds by mid-April. State law has required interest payments if refunds are not issued within 45 days of filing since 2015. Before that the state had 90 days to issue refunds without owing interest.</p>
<p>"It is a challenge that has spanned two administrations," Galloway said at a news conference in Jefferson City. "Until the state's cash flow problems are addressed and individual taxpaying Missourians are paid first, it will continue to be a challenge."</p>
<p>Galloway said Greitens, who was elected in November 2016, went to "extraordinary lengths" to disrupt the audit. She cited delays in responses and communication, a refusal by administration officials to discuss the audit and even a refusal to confirm that all relevant information was provided.</p>
<p>"My conclusion is that the administration didn't want Missourians to know why their tax refunds were late," Galloway said.</p>
<p>Parker Briden, spokesman for Greitens, said in an email that the administration provided "everything that the Auditor was entitled to." He called the audit "another cheap ploy from a Democrat who is desperate for headlines" and accused Galloway of ignoring the issue of late refund payments until Nixon left office.</p>
<p>"We're changing many flawed practices from the past, and this is one of them," Briden said.</p>
<p>Between fiscal years 2012 and 2015 under Nixon, the state each year owed fewer than 1,000 taxpayers interest for late refunds, according to data from Galloway's office. The amount of interest paid ranged from a low of about $10,000 in fiscal year 2013 to a high of more than $120,000 in 2014.</p>
<p>At one point during the 2017 tax season, the Department of Revenue had $200 million worth of refunds processed and ready to be paid, but the Office of Administration directed that they be withheld to meet other spending priorities, Galloway said.</p>
<p>The audit also found that the Department of Revenue prioritized paying larger refunds first to avoid owing higher interest.</p>
<p>The audit has been the source of a months-long political skirmish pitting Galloway against a conservative nonprofit.</p>
<p>Kansas City-based Missouri Alliance for Freedom has claimed Galloway violated Missouri's open records law, known as the Sunshine Law, by refusing to comply with its request for documents related to the audit. The Alliance also filed a complaint with Republican Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley in December, alleging Galloway failed to turn over text messages from her state-issued phone.</p>
<p>Alliance president Kristen Blanchard Ansley said in a December statement that her organization was acting as a "watchdog for the people of Missouri."</p>
<p>Galloway called the legal action an effort to intimidate her.</p>
<p>"My expectation truly is that I will continue to be attacked by the governor, his dark money groups, secret donors and the governor's law firm," Galloway said.</p>
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<p>Associated Press writer Summer Ballentine in Jefferson City contributed to this report.</p>
<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri delayed paying income tax refunds last year largely because it was short on cash, state Auditor Nicole Galloway said Monday.</p>
<p>Galloway, a Democrat, released an audit of the state's management of taxpayer refunds despite what she called unprecedented attempts by the administration of Republican Gov. Eric Greitens to obstruct it. The governor's office called the audit a politically motivated "cheap ploy."</p>
<p>The state was late in issuing refunds to at least 555,000 individual taxpayers last fiscal year, according to Galloway. On nearly 155,000 of those refunds, the state was so late that it paid more than $420,000 in interest.</p>
<p>That's up from the roughly 485,000 refunds issued past the 45-day deadline in the previous fiscal year, when Democrat Jay Nixon was still governor. Those delayed payments included 83,000 that cost the state $306,000 in interest, the audit said.</p>
<p>Galloway's office contrasted the recent delays to the 2008 fiscal year, when the state paid out 80 percent of refunds by mid-April. State law has required interest payments if refunds are not issued within 45 days of filing since 2015. Before that the state had 90 days to issue refunds without owing interest.</p>
<p>"It is a challenge that has spanned two administrations," Galloway said at a news conference in Jefferson City. "Until the state's cash flow problems are addressed and individual taxpaying Missourians are paid first, it will continue to be a challenge."</p>
<p>Galloway said Greitens, who was elected in November 2016, went to "extraordinary lengths" to disrupt the audit. She cited delays in responses and communication, a refusal by administration officials to discuss the audit and even a refusal to confirm that all relevant information was provided.</p>
<p>"My conclusion is that the administration didn't want Missourians to know why their tax refunds were late," Galloway said.</p>
<p>Parker Briden, spokesman for Greitens, said in an email that the administration provided "everything that the Auditor was entitled to." He called the audit "another cheap ploy from a Democrat who is desperate for headlines" and accused Galloway of ignoring the issue of late refund payments until Nixon left office.</p>
<p>"We're changing many flawed practices from the past, and this is one of them," Briden said.</p>
<p>Between fiscal years 2012 and 2015 under Nixon, the state each year owed fewer than 1,000 taxpayers interest for late refunds, according to data from Galloway's office. The amount of interest paid ranged from a low of about $10,000 in fiscal year 2013 to a high of more than $120,000 in 2014.</p>
<p>At one point during the 2017 tax season, the Department of Revenue had $200 million worth of refunds processed and ready to be paid, but the Office of Administration directed that they be withheld to meet other spending priorities, Galloway said.</p>
<p>The audit also found that the Department of Revenue prioritized paying larger refunds first to avoid owing higher interest.</p>
<p>The audit has been the source of a months-long political skirmish pitting Galloway against a conservative nonprofit.</p>
<p>Kansas City-based Missouri Alliance for Freedom has claimed Galloway violated Missouri's open records law, known as the Sunshine Law, by refusing to comply with its request for documents related to the audit. The Alliance also filed a complaint with Republican Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley in December, alleging Galloway failed to turn over text messages from her state-issued phone.</p>
<p>Alliance president Kristen Blanchard Ansley said in a December statement that her organization was acting as a "watchdog for the people of Missouri."</p>
<p>Galloway called the legal action an effort to intimidate her.</p>
<p>"My expectation truly is that I will continue to be attacked by the governor, his dark money groups, secret donors and the governor's law firm," Galloway said.</p>
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<p>Associated Press writer Summer Ballentine in Jefferson City contributed to this report.</p>
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st louis ap missouri delayed paying income tax refunds last year largely short cash state auditor nicole galloway said monday galloway democrat released audit states management taxpayer refunds despite called unprecedented attempts administration republican gov eric greitens obstruct governors office called audit politically motivated cheap ploy state late issuing refunds least 555000 individual taxpayers last fiscal year according galloway nearly 155000 refunds state late paid 420000 interest thats roughly 485000 refunds issued past 45day deadline previous fiscal year democrat jay nixon still governor delayed payments included 83000 cost state 306000 interest audit said galloways office contrasted recent delays 2008 fiscal year state paid 80 percent refunds midapril state law required interest payments refunds issued within 45 days filing since 2015 state 90 days issue refunds without owing interest challenge spanned two administrations galloway said news conference jefferson city states cash flow problems addressed individual taxpaying missourians paid first continue challenge galloway said greitens elected november 2016 went extraordinary lengths disrupt audit cited delays responses communication refusal administration officials discuss audit even refusal confirm relevant information provided conclusion administration didnt want missourians know tax refunds late galloway said parker briden spokesman greitens said email administration provided everything auditor entitled called audit another cheap ploy democrat desperate headlines accused galloway ignoring issue late refund payments nixon left office changing many flawed practices past one briden said fiscal years 2012 2015 nixon state year owed fewer 1000 taxpayers interest late refunds according data galloways office amount interest paid ranged low 10000 fiscal year 2013 high 120000 2014 one point 2017 tax season department revenue 200 million worth refunds processed ready paid office administration directed withheld meet spending priorities galloway said audit also found department revenue prioritized paying larger refunds first avoid owing higher interest audit source monthslong political skirmish pitting galloway conservative nonprofit kansas citybased missouri alliance freedom claimed galloway violated missouris open records law known sunshine law refusing comply request documents related audit alliance also filed complaint republican missouri attorney general josh hawley december alleging galloway failed turn text messages stateissued phone alliance president kristen blanchard ansley said december statement organization acting watchdog people missouri galloway called legal action effort intimidate expectation truly continue attacked governor dark money groups secret donors governors law firm galloway said ___ associated press writer summer ballentine jefferson city contributed report st louis ap missouri delayed paying income tax refunds last year largely short cash state auditor nicole galloway said monday galloway democrat released audit states management taxpayer refunds despite called unprecedented attempts administration republican gov eric greitens obstruct governors office called audit politically motivated cheap ploy state late issuing refunds least 555000 individual taxpayers last fiscal year according galloway nearly 155000 refunds state late paid 420000 interest thats roughly 485000 refunds issued past 45day deadline previous fiscal year democrat jay nixon still governor delayed payments included 83000 cost state 306000 interest audit said galloways office contrasted recent delays 2008 fiscal year state paid 80 percent refunds midapril state law required interest payments refunds issued within 45 days filing since 2015 state 90 days issue refunds without owing interest challenge spanned two administrations galloway said news conference jefferson city states cash flow problems addressed individual taxpaying missourians paid first continue challenge galloway said greitens elected november 2016 went extraordinary lengths disrupt audit cited delays responses communication refusal administration officials discuss audit even refusal confirm relevant information provided conclusion administration didnt want missourians know tax refunds late galloway said parker briden spokesman greitens said email administration provided everything auditor entitled called audit another cheap ploy democrat desperate headlines accused galloway ignoring issue late refund payments nixon left office changing many flawed practices past one briden said fiscal years 2012 2015 nixon state year owed fewer 1000 taxpayers interest late refunds according data galloways office amount interest paid ranged low 10000 fiscal year 2013 high 120000 2014 one point 2017 tax season department revenue 200 million worth refunds processed ready paid office administration directed withheld meet spending priorities galloway said audit also found department revenue prioritized paying larger refunds first avoid owing higher interest audit source monthslong political skirmish pitting galloway conservative nonprofit kansas citybased missouri alliance freedom claimed galloway violated missouris open records law known sunshine law refusing comply request documents related audit alliance also filed complaint republican missouri attorney general josh hawley december alleging galloway failed turn text messages stateissued phone alliance president kristen blanchard ansley said december statement organization acting watchdog people missouri galloway called legal action effort intimidate expectation truly continue attacked governor dark money groups secret donors governors law firm galloway said ___ associated press writer summer ballentine jefferson city contributed report
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<p>* INDEPENDENT BANK CORP SAYS QTRLY EARNINGS PER SHARE $0.80 - SEC FILING</p>
<p>* INDEPENDENT BANK CORP -QTRLY NET INTEREST INCOME INCREASED 1.1% TO $67.8 MILLION COMPARED TO $67.1 MILLION IN PRIOR QUARTER</p>
<p>* INDEPENDENT BANK CORP - AS A RESULT OF REDUCTION IN CORPORATE FEDERAL TAX RATE INCLUDED IN TAX ACT, EXPECTS OVERALL TAX RATE FOR 2018 OF ABOUT 23% Source text: ( <a href="http://bit.ly/2DOuOgS" type="external">bit.ly/2DOuOgS</a>) Further company coverage:</p> Our Standards:
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<p>MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers said on Friday they had drafted legislation in response to new U.S. sanctions that proposes banning imports of a raft of U.S. goods and services to Russia, and restricting economic ties.</p> Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, visits the historical Space Pavilion opened after a renovation at the the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNH) on the Cosmonautics Day in Moscow, Russia April 12, 2018. Maxim Shipenkov/Pool via REUTERS
<p>The draft law is to be discussed in the lower house of parliament next week. It proposes restricting imports of U.S.-made software and farm goods, U.S. medicines that can be sourced elsewhere, and tobacco and alcohol.</p> Related Coverage
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<p>Russian lawmakers also said they proposed a ban on cooperation with the United States on atomic power, rocket engines and aircraft making. The draft proposes barring U.S. firms from taking part in Russian privatization deals.</p>
<p>The proposed measures are in retaliation for the White House last week imposing the toughest set of sanctions on Russia since Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region, which dragged relations to their lowest point since the Cold War.</p>
<p>The draft legislation was presented to reporters by deputy speakers of the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, which is dominated by Kremlin loyalists.</p>
<p>Neither the Kremlin nor the Russian government has said if they back the measures, and it was not clear if it would become law in its current form.</p>
<p>On occasion, the Kremlin uses parliament to send assertive messages to foreign powers, but that does not always translate into specific action.</p>
<p>Russia imported $12.5 billion worth of U.S. products in 2017, according to official Russian customs data. That included aircraft, machinery, pharmaceutical and chemical products.</p>
<p>Western companies, including Ford Motor Co, PepsiCo Inc and Coca-Cola’s bottler Coca-Cola HBC, have also invested billions of dollars since the fall of the Soviet Union to set up local production in Russia.</p>
<p>In 2014, Russia banned a wide range of food imports from Western countries in retaliation for international sanctions over the conflict in Ukraine.</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Donald Trump and his national security aides on Thursday discussed U.S. options on Syria, where he has threatened missile strikes in response to a suspected poison gas attack, as a Russian envoy voiced fears of wider conflict between Washington and Moscow.</p>
<p>Worries about a confrontation between Russia, Syria’s big ally, and the West have been running high since Trump said on Wednesday that missiles “will be coming” in response to the attack in the Syrian town of Douma on April 7, and lambasted Moscow for standing by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.</p>
<p>Trump tempered those remarks on Thursday and even as he consulted allies such and Britain and France, who could join in any U.S.-led strikes on Syria, there were signs of efforts to prevent the crisis from spiraling out of control.</p>
<p>“Never said when an attack on Syria would take place. Could be very soon or not so soon at all!” Trump wrote on Twitter, raising the prospect that an attack might not be as imminent as he seemed to suggest the day before.</p>
<p>Trump met his national security team on the situation in Syria later in the day and “no final decision has been made,” the White House said in a statement.</p>
<p>“We are continuing to assess intelligence and are engaged in conversations with our partners and allies,” it said.</p> Related Coverage
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<p>That did not necessarily signal, however, that Trump was cooling to the idea of military action, especially given the high stakes in Syria. U.S. officials noted that Washington was still assessing intelligence and coordinating allies.</p>
<p>For graphic on overview of chemical warfare click <a href="" type="internal">here</a></p>
<p>Trump spoke to British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday and the two leaders talked about the “need for a joint response to Syria’s use of chemical weapons,” the White House said.</p>
<p>May’s office said they agreed on the need to deter Assad’s government from further such attacks.</p>
<p>Trump was also due to speak with French President Emmanuel Macron, who said France had proof the Syrian government carried out the attack near Damascus, which aid groups have said killed dozens of people, and will decide whether to strike back when all the necessary information has been gathered.</p>
<p>“We have proof that last week ... chemical weapons were used, at least with chlorine, and that they were used by the regime of Bashar al-Assad,” Macron said, without offering details of any evidence.</p>
<p>Two U.S. officials familiar with an investigation of samples from Douma and the symptoms of victims said initial indications that a mix of weaponized chlorine gas and sarin were used in the attack appeared to be correct. But U.S. intelligence agencies have not completed their assessment or reached a final conclusion, the officials said.</p>
<p>Russia, Syria and its other main backer, Iran, have said reports of the Douma attack were fabricated by rebels and rescue workers and have accused the United States of seeking to use it as a pretext to attack the Syrian government.</p>
<p>Russia said it deployed military police in Douma on Thursday after the town was taken over by government forces.</p>
<p>“They are the guarantors of law and order in the town,” RIA news agency quoted Russia’s defense ministry as saying.</p>
<p>There were signs of a global effort to head off a direct confrontation between Russia and the West. The Kremlin said a crisis communications link with the United States, created to avoid an accidental clash over Syria, was in use.</p> FEARS OF WAR
<p>Vassily Nebenzia, Moscow’s ambassador to the United Nations, said he “cannot exclude” war between the United States and Russia and urged Washington and its allies to refrain from military action against Syria.</p>
<p>“The immediate priority is to avert the danger of war,” he told reporters. “We hope there will be no point of no return,” the envoy said.</p>
<p>A team of experts from the global chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, was traveling to Syria and will start its investigations on Saturday, the Netherlands-based agency said.</p>
<p>It was not clear whether Trump and U.S. allies would wait for the results of the investigation before deciding on a strike.</p> U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with governors and members of Congress at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
<p>U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told Congress he believed there was a chemical attack in Syria, but added a short while later that the United States had not made any decision to launch military action. He also suggested he was examining ways to prevent any strikes from triggering a broader conflict.</p>
<p>“I don’t want to talk about a specific attack that is not yet in the offing ... This would be pre-decisional,” Mattis told the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee.</p>
<p>Moscow is estimated to have dozens of aircraft at its Hmeymim air base in Syria including fighters and bombers, as well as 10 to 15 warships and support vessels in the Mediterranean.</p>
<p>The Syrian government and Russian forces in Syria possess truck-mounted surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery weapons systems.</p>
<p>Nervous world stock markets showed signs of recovery after Trump’s signal that military strikes might not be imminent.</p>
<p>Britain’s May won backing from her senior ministers to take unspecified action with the United States and France to deter further use of chemical weapons by Syria.</p> Slideshow (3 Images)
<p>May had recalled the ministers from their Easter holiday for the meeting to discuss Britain’s response to what she has cast as a barbaric attack that cannot go unchallenged.</p>
<p>Russian ships had left the Tartus naval base in Syria, Interfax news agency quoted a Russian lawmaker as saying. Vladimir Shamanov, who chairs the defense committee of the lower house, said the vessels had departed the base for their own safety, which was “normal practice” when there were threats of attack.</p>
<p>Any U.S. strike would probably involve the Navy, given the risk to aircraft from Russian and Syrian air defenses. A U.S. guided-missile destroyer, the USS Donald Cook, is in the Mediterranean. Last year, the United States carried out strikes from two Navy destroyers against a Syrian air base after another deadly toxic gas attack on a rebel-controlled area.</p>
<p>Reporting by Jeff Mason in Washington and Michelle Nichols at the United Nations; Additional reporting by Angus McDowall in Beirut, William James, Guy Faulconbridge and David Milliken in London, Andrew Osborn, Maria Kiselyova and Jack Stubbs in Moscow, John Irish in Paris, Graham Fahy in Dublin and John Walcott, Phil Stewart, Matt Spetalnick and Idrees Ali in Washington; Writing by Alistair Bell and Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Will Dunham and Peter Cooney</p> Our Standards:
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<p>PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The United States embassy in Cambodia has fired 32 people after they were allegedly caught sharing pornographic material in a non-official chat group, several sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.</p> People walk along a street near the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 13, 2018. REUTERS/Samrang Pring
<p>Four sources told Reuters that pornographic videos and photographs, including some featuring people under the age of 18, were shared in a Facebook Messenger chat group.</p>
<p>Some of the images were seen by the wife of an embassy worker who reported the incident to an official at the embassy. The matter was then forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the sources said.</p>
<p>“They had their identification cards taken and some of their phones checked,” a former U.S. embassy staff member told Reuters on condition of anonymity.</p>
<p>He said the 32 embassy workers included Cambodians and Cambodian-Americans. Many were guards and some were clerical staff. There were no diplomats among them, they said.</p>
<p>Two of the sources, both of whom work at the embassy, confirmed the dismissals.</p>
<p>The dismissals come at a time of tension between Cambodia and the United States over U.S. criticism of a crackdown on dissent by long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen, and his anger over what he says have been U.S. efforts to undermine his rule.</p>
<p>The United States has denied interfering in Cambodian politics. The Cambodian government has not commented on the dismissals.</p>
<p>Cambodia, still emerging from decades of conflict and poverty, has been notorious for child prostitution, and several foreigners have been convicted and jailed for child abuse in recent years.</p>
<p>Child rape continued to be a serious problem in Cambodia, the U.S. State Department said in a 2016 report.</p> A man holds a Cambodian flag opposite the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 13, 2018. REUTERS/Samrang Pring
<p>An embassy spokesman said he could not comment and referred queries to the State Department. The State Department declined to comment when contacted by Reuters.</p>
<p>“These records are confidential,” a State Department official told Reuters on Friday.</p>
<p>“I am not sure that’s really something we would have comment on,” he said.</p>
<p>Reuters could not contact any of the workers who had been fired. The FBI could not be reached for comment and Cambodian police spokesman Kirth Chantharith also could not be reached for comment.</p>
<p>It was not immediately possible to get a figure for the number of people employed at the embassy, which is housed in a purpose-built, city-center compound.</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States would only join the Trans Pacific Partnership, a multinational trade deal his administration walked away from last year, if it offered “substantially better” terms than those provided under previous negotiations.</p>
<p>His comments, made on Twitter late Thursday, came only hours after he had unexpectedly indicated the United States might rejoin the landmark pact, and amid heightened volatility in financial markets as Washington locked horns with China in a bitter trade dispute.</p>
<p>Trump had told Republican senators earlier in the day that he had asked United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow to re-open negotiations.</p>
<p>In his Twitter post, which came during Asian trading hours, Trump said the United States would “only join TPP if the deal were substantially better than the deal offered to Pres. Obama. We already have BILATERAL deals with six of the eleven nations in TPP, and are working to make a deal with the biggest of those nations, Japan, who has hit us hard on trade for years!”</p>
<p>Policymakers in the Asia-Pacific region on Friday responded to the possibility of the U.S. rejoining the trade deal with scepticism.</p>
<p>“If it’s true, I would welcome it,” Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso told reporters after a cabinet meeting on Friday and before Trump’s tweet. Aso added that the facts needed to be verified.</p>
<p>Trump “is a person who could change temperamentally, so he may say something different the next day”, Aso said.</p>
<p>Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, commenting after Trump’s tweet, said it would be “great” to have the U.S. back in the pact though doubted it would happen.</p>
<p>“We’re certainly not counting on it,” Turnbull told reporters in Adelaide in South Australia.</p>
<p>The TPP, which now comprises 11 nations, was designed to cut trade barriers in some of the fastest-growing economies of the Asia-Pacific region and to counter China’s rising economic and diplomatic clout.</p>
<p>Trump, who opposed multilateral trade pacts in his election campaign in 2016 and criticized the TPP as a “horrible deal”, pulled the U.S. out of the pact in early 2017. He argued bilateral deals offered better terms for U.S. businesses and workers, and signaled an intention to raise trade barriers.</p>
<p>But Trump is struggling to get support from other countries for his recent threat to impose import tariffs on China and the U.S. farm lobby is arguing that retaliation by China would hit American agricultural exports.</p>
<p>Trade experts believe Trump is probably trying to placate his political base in the wake of criticism over the U.S.-China China tariff standoff.</p>
<p>“Well I think you have to take it seriously but I think there is an enormous chance that this is simply posturing or a tactical decision taken to placate concerned governors and senators from agricultural states that could be affected by China imposing tariffs,” said Charles Finny, a Wellington-based trade consultant and a former New Zealand government trade negotiator.</p>
<p>“I think it’s very important for people to realize, particularly given this most recent tweet, if there is a negotiation it will not be an easy one. It will take a long time and also there is huge risk around ratification.”</p> NEW PROCESS
<p>Even before Trump’s official withdrawal last year, U.S. participation in the pact was seen as increasingly unlikely due to opposition in the U.S. Congress.</p>
<p>The United States entered TPP negotiations in 2008. In 2016, then President Barack Obama’s administration abandoned attempts to push the pact through Congress.</p>
<p>The other 11 countries forged ahead with their own agreement without U.S. participation, and in the process eliminated chapters on investment, government procurement and intellectual property that were key planks of Washington’s demands.</p>
<p>New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, noting the progress made by the 11 countries after Trump abandoned the deal, also flagged challenges to the Untied States rejoining the pact.</p>
<p>“If the United States, it turns out, do genuinely wish to rejoin, that triggers a whole new process,” she told reporters in Auckland.</p>
<p>“There would be another process and so, at this stage we are talking hypotheticals.”</p> FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump holds up the executive order on withdrawal from the Trans Pacific Partnership after signing it in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington January 23, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
<p>The 11-member pact includes Mexico and Canada, which are in the process of re-negotiating the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement with the United States.</p>
<p>A Canadian government official said on Thursday there had not been any formal outreach from the United States about the pact.</p>
<p>Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Trump next week. Japan, a close U.S. ally, is a member of the TPP.</p>
<p>Reporting by David Chance, Patricia Zengerle and David Brunnstrom in WASHINGTON, David Ljunggren in OTTAWA, Tetsushi Kajimoto in TOKYO and Charlotte Greenfield in WELLINGTON, Brendan O'Brien in MILWAUKEE; Writing by Shri Navaratnam; Editing by Sam Holmes</p> Our Standards:
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anonymity said 32 embassy workers included cambodians cambodianamericans many guards clerical staff diplomats among said two sources work embassy confirmed dismissals dismissals come time tension cambodia united states us criticism crackdown dissent longserving prime minister hun sen anger says us efforts undermine rule united states denied interfering cambodian politics cambodian government commented dismissals cambodia still emerging decades conflict poverty notorious child prostitution several foreigners convicted jailed child abuse recent years child rape continued serious problem cambodia us state department said 2016 report man holds cambodian flag opposite us embassy phnom penh cambodia april 13 2018 reuterssamrang pring embassy spokesman said could comment referred queries state department state department declined comment contacted reuters records confidential state department official told reuters friday sure thats really something would comment said reuters could contact 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join tpp deal substantially better deal offered pres obama already bilateral deals six eleven nations tpp working make deal biggest nations japan hit us hard trade years policymakers asiapacific region friday responded possibility us rejoining trade deal scepticism true would welcome japanese finance minister taro aso told reporters cabinet meeting friday trumps tweet aso added facts needed verified trump person could change temperamentally may say something different next day aso said australian prime minister malcolm turnbull commenting trumps tweet said would great us back pact though doubted would happen certainly counting turnbull told reporters adelaide south australia tpp comprises 11 nations designed cut trade barriers fastestgrowing economies asiapacific region counter chinas rising economic diplomatic clout trump opposed multilateral trade pacts election campaign 2016 criticized tpp horrible deal pulled us pact early 2017 argued bilateral deals offered better terms us businesses workers signaled intention raise trade barriers trump struggling get support countries recent threat impose import tariffs china us farm lobby arguing retaliation china would hit american agricultural exports trade experts believe trump probably trying placate political base wake criticism uschina china tariff standoff well think take seriously think enormous chance simply posturing tactical decision taken placate concerned governors senators agricultural states could affected china imposing tariffs said charles finny wellingtonbased trade consultant former new zealand government trade negotiator think important people realize particularly given recent tweet negotiation easy one take long time also huge risk around ratification new process even trumps official withdrawal last year us participation pact seen increasingly unlikely due opposition us congress united states entered tpp negotiations 2008 2016 president barack obamas administration abandoned attempts push pact congress 11 countries forged ahead agreement without us participation process eliminated chapters investment government procurement intellectual property key planks washingtons demands new zealand prime minister jacinda ardern noting progress made 11 countries trump abandoned deal also flagged challenges untied states rejoining pact united states turns genuinely wish rejoin triggers whole new process told reporters auckland would another process stage talking hypotheticals file photo us president donald trump holds executive order withdrawal trans pacific partnership signing oval office white house washington january 23 2017 reuterskevin lamarque 11member pact includes mexico canada process renegotiating terms north american free trade agreement united states canadian government official said thursday formal outreach united states pact japanese prime minister shinzo abe meet trump next week japan close us ally member tpp reporting david chance patricia zengerle david brunnstrom 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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Striving to fulfill a campaign promise, the Trump administration moved Thursday to facilitate the interstate sale of health insurance policies that cost less but may not cover as much.</p>
<p>The proposed regulation from the Labor Department would provide more health insurance options for self-employed people and small businesses, but its success depends on buy-in from insurers, state regulators, plan sponsors and consumers themselves. Some groups already have concerns.</p>
<p>Don’t look for revolutionary changes, said analyst Elizabeth Carpenter of the health industry consultancy Avalere Health. “The impact on the markets and on consumers really may depend on whether it is easy enough for the groups potentially affected to take advantage of the rule,” she said.</p>
<p>No sweeping consequences are seen for the more than 170 million Americans with employer-sponsored coverage, or the nearly 30 million still uninsured.</p>
<p>The complex proposal aims to deliver on President Donald Trump’s long-standing pledge to increase competition and lower costs by promoting the sale of health plans across state lines. Unable to repeal the Obama-era Affordable Care Act, the administration is pursuing regulations to change the marketplace.</p>
<p>The new rule would make it easier for groups, or associations, to sponsor health plans that don’t have to meet all consumer protection and benefit requirements of the Obama law. Those requirements improve coverage, but also raise premiums.</p>
<p>Insurance industry groups are skeptical of Trump’s idea, saying it could undermine the current state markets. Patient groups are concerned about losing protections. Some state regulators object to federal interference.</p>
<p>In a recent interview, Trump predicted big changes would result from the combination of this expected proposal, known as “association health plans,” and the GOP’s recent repeal of the ACA’s requirement that most people get health insurance or risk fines.</p>
<p>“So now I have associations,” Trump told The New York Times last week. “I have private insurance companies coming and will sell private health care plans to people through associations. That’s gonna be millions and millions of people. People have no idea how big that is. And by the way, and for that, we’ve ended ‘across state lines.’ So we have competition.”</p>
<p>Trump appeared to be referring to current obstacles that deter an insurer in one state from marketing to customers in another state. Some of those barriers have to do with state regulations that differ in the kinds of benefits that insurers must cover. For example, one state may require robust coverage for children with autism, while another may not.</p>
<p>Under the administration’s proposal, health plans sponsored by associations would gain enhanced status under a federal law that generally exempts large employer plans from state regulation. Experts are poring over the proposal to determine precisely to what degree such exemptions would apply to the new plans.</p>
<p>The Labor Department said the proposal could benefit up to 11 million people who are self-employed or work for small businesses, and lack employer coverage. Association plans, called “Small Business Health Plans” in the proposal, would be open to small employers and sole proprietors and their families.</p>
<p>The plans could be organized along the lines of an industry, enabling them to market anywhere in the country. Or they could be set up to serve communities, including major metro areas that span several states, such as the tri-state New York-New Jersey-Connecticut area.</p>
<p>The department said such plans would not be able to charge individuals higher premiums because of health issues or turn down applicants with medical problems.</p>
<p>“The Affordable Care Act’s ending of discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions has become almost sacrosanct,” said Larry Levitt of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.</p>
<p>However, the regulations allow higher premiums based on age, gender and other factors, said legal analyst Timothy Jost. Interested parties have 60 days to comment.</p>
<p>The main insurance industry groups, along with organizations representing patients and consumers, worry that the administration’s approach could siphon healthy people away from the health law’s insurance markets, creating a spiral of rising premiums for people who need comprehensive benefits.</p>
<p>“We are concerned that this could create or expand alternative, parallel markets for health coverage, which would lead to higher premiums for consumers, particularly those with pre-existing conditions,” according to a letter last month to state regulators, signed by America’s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.</p>
<p>Even before Thursday’s development, Pennsylvania’s acting insurance commissioner, Jessica Altman, had her own concerns. “Generally speaking, these types of plans are exempt from state law and outside my jurisdiction,” the Democratic appointee said in an interview. “That means any issues that consumers have, I won’t be able to help them. More and more people would fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government, and I think state regulators would say we really do it better.”</p>
<p>The administration plan won accolades from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., long an advocate of association health plans. But groups on the political left denounced it as another attempt to sabotage former President Barack Obama’s health law.</p>
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<p>Associated Press Health Writer Tom Murphy contributed to this report.</p>
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Striving to fulfill a campaign promise, the Trump administration moved Thursday to facilitate the interstate sale of health insurance policies that cost less but may not cover as much.</p>
<p>The proposed regulation from the Labor Department would provide more health insurance options for self-employed people and small businesses, but its success depends on buy-in from insurers, state regulators, plan sponsors and consumers themselves. Some groups already have concerns.</p>
<p>Don’t look for revolutionary changes, said analyst Elizabeth Carpenter of the health industry consultancy Avalere Health. “The impact on the markets and on consumers really may depend on whether it is easy enough for the groups potentially affected to take advantage of the rule,” she said.</p>
<p>No sweeping consequences are seen for the more than 170 million Americans with employer-sponsored coverage, or the nearly 30 million still uninsured.</p>
<p>The complex proposal aims to deliver on President Donald Trump’s long-standing pledge to increase competition and lower costs by promoting the sale of health plans across state lines. Unable to repeal the Obama-era Affordable Care Act, the administration is pursuing regulations to change the marketplace.</p>
<p>The new rule would make it easier for groups, or associations, to sponsor health plans that don’t have to meet all consumer protection and benefit requirements of the Obama law. Those requirements improve coverage, but also raise premiums.</p>
<p>Insurance industry groups are skeptical of Trump’s idea, saying it could undermine the current state markets. Patient groups are concerned about losing protections. Some state regulators object to federal interference.</p>
<p>In a recent interview, Trump predicted big changes would result from the combination of this expected proposal, known as “association health plans,” and the GOP’s recent repeal of the ACA’s requirement that most people get health insurance or risk fines.</p>
<p>“So now I have associations,” Trump told The New York Times last week. “I have private insurance companies coming and will sell private health care plans to people through associations. That’s gonna be millions and millions of people. People have no idea how big that is. And by the way, and for that, we’ve ended ‘across state lines.’ So we have competition.”</p>
<p>Trump appeared to be referring to current obstacles that deter an insurer in one state from marketing to customers in another state. Some of those barriers have to do with state regulations that differ in the kinds of benefits that insurers must cover. For example, one state may require robust coverage for children with autism, while another may not.</p>
<p>Under the administration’s proposal, health plans sponsored by associations would gain enhanced status under a federal law that generally exempts large employer plans from state regulation. Experts are poring over the proposal to determine precisely to what degree such exemptions would apply to the new plans.</p>
<p>The Labor Department said the proposal could benefit up to 11 million people who are self-employed or work for small businesses, and lack employer coverage. Association plans, called “Small Business Health Plans” in the proposal, would be open to small employers and sole proprietors and their families.</p>
<p>The plans could be organized along the lines of an industry, enabling them to market anywhere in the country. Or they could be set up to serve communities, including major metro areas that span several states, such as the tri-state New York-New Jersey-Connecticut area.</p>
<p>The department said such plans would not be able to charge individuals higher premiums because of health issues or turn down applicants with medical problems.</p>
<p>“The Affordable Care Act’s ending of discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions has become almost sacrosanct,” said Larry Levitt of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.</p>
<p>However, the regulations allow higher premiums based on age, gender and other factors, said legal analyst Timothy Jost. Interested parties have 60 days to comment.</p>
<p>The main insurance industry groups, along with organizations representing patients and consumers, worry that the administration’s approach could siphon healthy people away from the health law’s insurance markets, creating a spiral of rising premiums for people who need comprehensive benefits.</p>
<p>“We are concerned that this could create or expand alternative, parallel markets for health coverage, which would lead to higher premiums for consumers, particularly those with pre-existing conditions,” according to a letter last month to state regulators, signed by America’s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.</p>
<p>Even before Thursday’s development, Pennsylvania’s acting insurance commissioner, Jessica Altman, had her own concerns. “Generally speaking, these types of plans are exempt from state law and outside my jurisdiction,” the Democratic appointee said in an interview. “That means any issues that consumers have, I won’t be able to help them. More and more people would fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government, and I think state regulators would say we really do it better.”</p>
<p>The administration plan won accolades from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., long an advocate of association health plans. But groups on the political left denounced it as another attempt to sabotage former President Barack Obama’s health law.</p>
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<p>Associated Press Health Writer Tom Murphy contributed to this report.</p>
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washington ap striving fulfill campaign promise trump administration moved thursday facilitate interstate sale health insurance policies cost less may cover much proposed regulation labor department would provide health insurance options selfemployed people small businesses success depends buyin insurers state regulators plan sponsors consumers groups already concerns dont look revolutionary changes said analyst elizabeth carpenter health industry consultancy avalere health impact markets consumers really may depend whether easy enough groups potentially affected take advantage rule said sweeping consequences seen 170 million americans employersponsored coverage nearly 30 million still uninsured complex proposal aims deliver president donald trumps longstanding pledge increase competition lower costs promoting sale health plans across state lines unable repeal obamaera affordable care act administration pursuing regulations change marketplace new rule would make easier groups 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administrations proposal health plans sponsored associations would gain enhanced status federal law generally exempts large employer plans state regulation experts poring proposal determine precisely degree exemptions would apply new plans labor department said proposal could benefit 11 million people selfemployed work small businesses lack employer coverage association plans called small business health plans proposal would open small employers sole proprietors families plans could organized along lines industry enabling market anywhere country could set serve communities including major metro areas span several states tristate new yorknew jerseyconnecticut area department said plans would able charge individuals higher premiums health issues turn applicants medical problems affordable care acts ending discrimination people preexisting conditions become almost sacrosanct said larry levitt nonpartisan kaiser family foundation however regulations allow higher premiums based age gender factors said legal analyst timothy jost interested parties 60 days comment main insurance industry groups along organizations representing patients consumers worry administrations approach could siphon healthy people away health laws insurance markets creating spiral rising premiums people need comprehensive benefits concerned could create expand alternative parallel markets health coverage would lead higher premiums consumers particularly preexisting conditions according letter last month state regulators signed americas health insurance plans blue cross blue shield association even thursdays development pennsylvanias acting insurance commissioner jessica altman concerns generally speaking types plans exempt state law outside jurisdiction democratic appointee said interview means issues consumers wont able help people would fall jurisdiction federal government think state regulators would say really better administration plan accolades sen rand paul rky long advocate association health plans groups political left denounced another attempt sabotage former president barack obamas health law __ associated press health writer tom murphy contributed report washington ap striving fulfill campaign promise trump administration moved thursday facilitate interstate sale health insurance policies cost less may cover much proposed regulation labor department would provide health insurance options selfemployed people small businesses success depends buyin insurers state regulators plan sponsors consumers groups already concerns dont look revolutionary changes said analyst elizabeth carpenter health industry consultancy avalere health impact markets consumers really may depend whether easy enough groups potentially affected take advantage rule said sweeping consequences seen 170 million americans employersponsored coverage nearly 30 million still uninsured complex proposal aims deliver president donald trumps longstanding pledge increase competition lower costs promoting sale health plans across state lines unable repeal obamaera affordable care act administration pursuing regulations change marketplace new rule would make easier groups associations sponsor health plans dont meet consumer protection benefit requirements obama law requirements improve coverage also raise premiums insurance industry groups skeptical trumps idea saying could undermine current state markets patient groups concerned losing protections state regulators object federal interference recent interview trump predicted big changes would result combination expected proposal known association health plans gops recent repeal acas requirement people get health insurance risk fines associations trump told new york times last week private insurance companies coming sell private health care plans people associations thats gon na millions millions people people idea big way weve ended across state lines competition trump appeared referring current obstacles deter insurer one state marketing customers another state barriers state regulations differ kinds benefits insurers must cover example one state may require robust coverage children autism another may administrations proposal health plans sponsored associations would gain enhanced status federal law generally exempts large employer plans state regulation experts poring proposal determine precisely degree exemptions would apply new plans labor department said proposal could benefit 11 million people selfemployed work small businesses lack employer coverage association plans called small business health plans proposal would open small employers sole proprietors families plans could organized along lines industry enabling market anywhere country could set serve communities including major metro areas span several states tristate new yorknew jerseyconnecticut area department said plans would able charge individuals higher premiums health issues turn applicants medical problems affordable care acts ending discrimination people preexisting conditions become almost sacrosanct said larry levitt nonpartisan kaiser family foundation however regulations allow higher premiums based age gender factors said legal analyst timothy jost interested parties 60 days comment main insurance industry groups along organizations representing patients consumers worry administrations approach could siphon healthy people away health laws insurance markets creating spiral rising premiums people need comprehensive benefits concerned could create expand alternative parallel markets health coverage would lead higher premiums consumers particularly preexisting conditions according letter last month state regulators signed americas health insurance plans blue cross blue shield association even thursdays development pennsylvanias acting insurance commissioner jessica altman concerns generally speaking types plans exempt state law outside jurisdiction democratic appointee said interview means issues consumers wont able help people would fall jurisdiction federal government think state regulators would say really better administration plan accolades sen rand paul rky long advocate association health plans groups political left denounced another attempt sabotage former president barack obamas health law __ associated press health writer tom murphy contributed report
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<p>It addresses some of the gripes people have had with Windows 8, the dramatically different operating system that attempts to bridge the divide between tablets and PCs.</p>
<p>Windows 8.1 still features the dual worlds that Windows 8 created when it came out last October. On one hand, it features a touch-enabled tile interface resembling what’s found in tablet computers. On the other, there’s the old desktop mode where the keyboard and mouse still reign. The update adds some new finger- and gesture-friendly shortcuts for touch-based apps, while restoring some respect for the desktop mode that a billion PC users have become accustomed to.</p>
<p>The release comes as sales of traditional desktop and laptop computers continue to decline because consumers are spending money instead on the latest smartphones and tablets. It also comes at a time of transition for Microsoft as the Redmond, Wash., company focuses on devices and services, not just software. Earlier this month, Microsoft struck a deal to acquire Nokia’s phone business and patent rights for more than $7 billion. Microsoft is also searching for a new CEO to replace Steven A. Ballmer, who announced last month that he plans to retire within the next year.</p>
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<p>The Window 8.1 update is free for current owners of Windows 8. It’s available starting at 7 a.m. Thursday in New York, which corresponds to the start of Friday in New Zealand. Simply go to the Windows Store app to find it. It may take a few hours for updates to reach everyone. Computers with Windows 8.1 already installed will go on sale Friday local time. That’s also when people will be able to buy stand-alone copies of Windows 8.1.</p>
<p>The changes range from the cosmetic to improved functionality:</p>
<p>RESTORING RESPECT FOR THE DESKTOP</p>
<p>START ME UP – The Start button is back in desktop mode, although not the way it was before Windows 8 came along. In Windows 7 and before, a click on Start would have brought up programs and important folders in a list. Now, one tap on Start flips you back to the new tile interface, where you can click or tap tiles to open programs. A long press brings up crucial settings such as the Control Panel.</p>
<p>BOOT TO DESKTOP – You can now start up the machine in desktop mode, bypassing the tiles for a short time. That removes some of the headache for companies that want to use Windows 8 but don’t want to buy a touch-screen monitor for every employee.</p>
<p>TOUCH AND GESTURE UPDATES</p>
<p>ONSCREEN KEYBOARD SWIPES – The onscreen keyboard now includes the ability to type numbers or punctuation marks by swiping up or away from certain keys on the standard “QWERTY” layout, eliminating the need to toggle between numeric and alphabetic layouts. You can also select from suggested words mid-stream using side swipes and taps on the virtual spacebar.</p>
<p>GESTURE-ENABLED APPS – You can now wave in the air in front of the front-facing camera to get a response. For example, in the new app Bing Food &amp; Drink, a right-to-left wave in “Hands Free Mode” flips through pages of a recipe.</p>
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<p>QUICKER TILE ORGANIZING – You can tap and hold Windows tiles with your finger to move them. Another couple taps will allow you to resize them in one of four sizes. In the previous version, you had to go back to the mouse or touchpad and right-click on tiles to do this, and you were limited to two sizes.</p>
<p>EASIER APPS ACCESS – Finding all your apps takes just a swipe up on your start screen, as long as you don’t do it from beyond the bottom edge. Before, you had to swipe up from the bottom edge, then tap on the All Apps button.</p>
<p>SMALL CONVENIENCES</p>
<p>AUTOMATIC UPDATES – Apps update in the background, replacing the constant reminders to go to the Windows Store to update the apps yourself.</p>
<p>SMALLER TABLETS – Windows 8.1 now has a home screen that looks good in portrait mode on screens measuring 7 inches to 8 inches diagonally.</p>
<p>LOCK SCREEN ACCESS – You can now answer Skype calls or take photos from the lock screen without having to log in. Just swipe down. You can also set other apps like Twitter to send notifications when the screen is locked.</p>
<p>FUNCTIONAL CHANGES</p>
<p>BETTER MULTITASKING – In Windows 8.1, you can run up to four apps at once side by side, double the previous amount, though you need a large, high-resolution monitor to do so (On its own, Microsoft’s Surface tablets are not big enough for more than two). You can resize panes using a slider that moves side to side, instead of being limited to one larger window and one slender one. This is still not as capable as Windows 7 or in desktop mode, where you can open dozens of items in windows that can be resized both horizontally and diagonally. And many app makers have yet to adapt, meaning some apps still appear as a thin sliver, even if you want them to take up half the screen.</p>
<p>GLOBAL SEARCH – Typing while on the tile-based start screen will pull up multiple search results – if applicable – from your computer, the Web and the Windows app store. If you’re searching for a musician, you’ll see a list of popular songs you can play using Xbox Music, and if it’s someone famous (like President Barack Obama) you’ll see biographical details, videos and other information. Before, you had to choose where to search: in apps, settings, computer file or on the Internet.</p>
<p>EMAIL UPDATE – The standard-issue Mail app now has a “power pane” on left-hand side with folders for updates from social networks like Facebook, messages from favorite contacts and newsletters. Some of these features work only with Microsoft accounts such as Hotmail and Outlook.com, though. A new “sweep” command deletes multiple messages with a couple taps.</p>
<p>BETTER BROWSING – No longer are you limited to 10 open tabs in the tile version of Internet Explorer. Before, Web pages automatically closed without prompts when you try to open more. You can open as many as you want now. Better yet, you can have two different websites displayed side by side, the way you’ve long been able to before Windows 8 came along.</p>
<p>FUN STUFF</p>
<p>XBOX MUSIC REFRESH – The music streaming app now optimizes playback over discovery with a layout that has more lists and smaller photos. It also adds the ability to create playlists from any website with a couple taps. When on a website featuring artists, swipe in from the right edge and tap the Share button followed by the Music button. It will create a song playlist based on those artists, which you can then stream for free.</p>
<p>PICTURE EDITING – A picture editor with pre-set effects comes with the update, allowing for photo touchups, cropping, contrast changes and other features.</p>
<p>XBOX ONE INTEGRATION – You can pick up where you left off if you start playing a video purchased on Xbox Video on a tablet and then watch the rest on Microsoft’s upcoming game console, Xbox One.</p>
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addresses gripes people windows 8 dramatically different operating system attempts bridge divide tablets pcs windows 81 still features dual worlds windows 8 created came last october one hand features touchenabled tile interface resembling whats found tablet computers theres old desktop mode keyboard mouse still reign update adds new finger gesturefriendly shortcuts touchbased apps restoring respect desktop mode billion pc users become accustomed release comes sales traditional desktop laptop computers continue decline consumers spending money instead latest smartphones tablets also comes time transition microsoft redmond wash company focuses devices services software earlier month microsoft struck deal acquire nokias phone business patent rights 7 billion microsoft also searching new ceo replace steven ballmer announced last month plans retire within next year advertisement window 81 update free current owners windows 8 available starting 7 thursday new york corresponds start friday new zealand simply go windows store app find may take hours updates reach everyone computers windows 81 already installed go sale friday local time thats also people able buy standalone copies windows 81 changes range cosmetic improved functionality restoring respect desktop start start button back desktop mode although way windows 8 came along windows 7 click start would brought programs important folders list one tap start flips back new tile interface click tap tiles open programs long press brings crucial settings control panel boot desktop start machine desktop mode bypassing tiles short time removes headache companies want use windows 8 dont want buy touchscreen monitor every employee touch gesture updates onscreen keyboard swipes onscreen keyboard includes ability type numbers punctuation marks swiping away certain keys standard qwerty layout eliminating need toggle numeric alphabetic layouts also select suggested words midstream using side swipes taps virtual spacebar gestureenabled apps wave air front frontfacing camera get response example new app bing food amp drink righttoleft wave hands free mode flips pages recipe advertisement quicker tile organizing tap hold windows tiles finger move another couple taps allow resize one four sizes previous version go back mouse touchpad rightclick tiles limited two sizes easier apps access finding apps takes swipe start screen long dont beyond bottom edge swipe bottom edge tap apps button small conveniences automatic updates apps update background replacing constant reminders go windows store update apps smaller tablets windows 81 home screen looks good portrait mode screens measuring 7 inches 8 inches diagonally lock screen access answer skype calls take photos lock screen without log swipe also set apps like twitter send notifications screen locked functional changes better multitasking windows 81 run four apps side side double previous amount though need large highresolution monitor microsofts surface tablets big enough two resize panes using slider moves side side instead limited one larger window one slender one still capable windows 7 desktop mode open dozens items windows resized horizontally diagonally many app makers yet adapt meaning apps still appear thin sliver even want take half screen global search typing tilebased start screen pull multiple search results applicable computer web windows app store youre searching musician youll see list popular songs play using xbox music someone famous like president barack obama youll see biographical details videos information choose search apps settings computer file internet email update standardissue mail app power pane lefthand side folders updates social networks like facebook messages favorite contacts newsletters features work microsoft accounts hotmail outlookcom though new sweep command deletes multiple messages couple taps better browsing longer limited 10 open tabs tile version internet explorer web pages automatically closed without prompts try open open many want better yet two different websites displayed side side way youve long able windows 8 came along fun stuff xbox music refresh music streaming app optimizes playback discovery layout lists smaller photos also adds ability create playlists website couple taps website featuring artists swipe right edge tap share button followed music button create song playlist based artists stream free picture editing picture editor preset effects comes update allowing photo touchups cropping contrast changes features xbox one integration pick left start playing video purchased xbox video tablet watch rest microsofts upcoming game console xbox one follow ryan nakashima twitter httpstwittercomrnakashi online microsoft windows site httpwindowsmicrosoftcom
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<p>Following up anonymous tips, carefully cultivating sources, sifting through mountains of paper, mastering arcane scientific and technical detail. And finally, turning complex subjects into compelling stories that touch readers' nerves. With these techniques, reporters have produced some of the country's best investigative journalism. Diana Henriques of The New York Times, who won the annual $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, discussed the problems and rewards of doing in-depth stories in a bottom-line age with five award finalists March 23 in Cambridge, Mass. "You must keep your promises." Henriques's series&#160;-- which started with an anonymous tip -- detailed how misleading insurance policies and loans cheat soldiers and their families. To do it, she had to penetrate what she called Planet Military --– an isolated world filled with hostility to the media, especially The Times, rank and protocol, and fragmented enforcement and records systems.She cultivated relationships with military lawyers and judges, combed court records and kept a straight face ("just let them talk") as insurance salespeople bragged about using retired officers to induce enlisted personnel to buy their dubious products. While she favors a federal shield law, Henriques said it wouldn't affect her own reporting, "You must keep your promises" to confidential sources, she declared. Legal protection won't change your behavior, just the consequences. She added, however, that she "no longer so glibly" offers informants off-the-record status.Paul Donsky and Ken Foskett's Atlanta Journal-Constitution series "Wired for Waste" detailed how schools mismanaged nearly $ 73 million from a national program designed to give poor children Internet access. It too started with an anonymous tip&#160;-- a vague message about computer wiring."We didn't have a clue" about Internet technology and no computer records, said Donsky. So he and Foskett plowed through paper work, including 5,000 pages of public documents obtained through the state's Open Records law. Pushing the law to get records of companies who did business with the schools, they discovered some juicy tidbits, such as plasma television sets and football stadium upgrades bought with money meant to help low-income students.Cultivating Relationships "In all reporting," Foskett noted, cultivating personal relationships with sources is "very, very important. I worked hard to know the three main record keepers." One of these kept a "job security" file of damaging material she could use against her bosses if she had to defend herself. "You have to give (that) to me," Foskett said. With another source, he said he "pushed considerably" to scan records in an empty room.Atlantic Monthly national correspondent James Fallows also found himself in an empty room, in which a source left him a voluminous Future of Iraq report that helped him&#160;trace the origins and consequences of America's difficulties in occupied Iraq.For the Iraq article, he found it "amazingly easy" to contact military and intelligence sources with extensive experience in other occupied countries. He "networked, kept in touch and penetrated the vast cornucopia" of military experts.In uncovering loopholes in the pharmaceutical industry that perpetuate the problem of methamphetamine abuse, Oregonian reporters Steve Suo and Erin Hoover Barnett faced the unusual task of having to come up with their own scientific thesis and then find a victim that readers could root for.With few experts to quote, Suo had to do his own analysis of meth use and "sell" it to think tanks. He found that even the Drug Enforcement Administration didn't know that certain regulations, if enforced, had helped ease the epidemic.Meanwhile, Barnett had to make sure readers saw the "tragedy" that profits and politics got in the way of a solution. "I needed to make a public policy story into a human story to bring it home."Through a probation officer, she thought she'd found it&#160;-- a mother who'd licked her addiction. When that woman relapsed, Barnett started talking with her l3-year-old daughter, "a young woman readers could cheer for."Her close relationship with the girl created another problem: "dealing with the vulnerability of the subject. I worried about how to protect her while telling an unflinching story."Following Tips Seattle Times reporters Ken Armstrong, Florangela Davila and Justin Mayo faced the similar challenge of how to humanize a story about a system -- how public defenders' crushing caseloads and financial conflicts shortchanged vulnerable clients.After a couple of tips got them started on the story, the team had to build its own database and follow paper trails. Early on, they "Be prepared to change your mind at every stage and be perpetually surprised. Be willing to examine your premises."were concerned about how much impact the series would have. Their editors encouraged them to "go ahead and give voice to the voiceless."Their stark descriptions of people sucked into and betrayed by the legal system and of such outrages as a lawyer who judged his own case turned out to have an impact: disbarments, a class action lawsuit and a possible federal takeover of the state's public defender system.&#160;What's a "good television story?" Certainly not injured workers. But Dallas's WFAA-TV Dallas reporter Brett Shipp said that unlike many other local stations, "We can explore stories that matter." Shipp said his "preconceived notion" was that insurance claimants tended to be "non-injured slackers." But he and Mark Smith developed expertise in the complicated subject of medical compensation, and finally turned their cameras on a roomful of sufferers unjustly denied benefits.Flooded with phone and e-mail messages from people never compensated for legitimate injuries, they&#160;kept reporting because, in Smith's words, "we knew we hit a nerve." NBC's chief diplomatic correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, who received a Goldsmith career award for excellence in journalism, had this comment on pre-conceived notions: Abandon them.Mitchell said what she called the "tragedy" of CBS's reliance on possibly false documents relating to George W. Bush's Air Force reserve service underscores the importance to go into every story with an open mind. "Be prepared to change your mind at every stage and be perpetually surprised. Be willing to examine" your premises.</p>
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following anonymous tips carefully cultivating sources sifting mountains paper mastering arcane scientific technical detail finally turning complex subjects compelling stories touch readers nerves techniques reporters produced countrys best investigative journalism diana henriques new york times annual 25000 goldsmith prize investigative reporting harvards john f kennedy school government discussed problems rewards indepth stories bottomline age five award finalists march 23 cambridge mass must keep promises henriquess series160 started anonymous tip detailed misleading insurance policies loans cheat soldiers families penetrate called planet military isolated world filled hostility media especially times rank protocol fragmented enforcement records systemsshe cultivated relationships military lawyers judges combed court records kept straight face let talk insurance salespeople bragged using retired officers induce enlisted personnel buy dubious products favors federal shield law henriques said wouldnt affect reporting must keep promises confidential sources declared legal protection wont change behavior consequences added however longer glibly offers informants offtherecord statuspaul donsky ken fosketts atlanta journalconstitution series wired waste detailed schools mismanaged nearly 73 million national program designed give poor children internet access started anonymous tip160 vague message computer wiringwe didnt clue internet technology computer records said donsky foskett plowed paper work including 5000 pages public documents obtained states open records law pushing law get records companies business schools discovered juicy tidbits plasma television sets football stadium upgrades bought money meant help lowincome studentscultivating relationships reporting foskett noted cultivating personal relationships sources important worked hard know three main record keepers one kept job security file damaging material could use bosses defend give foskett said another source said pushed considerably scan records empty roomatlantic monthly national correspondent james fallows also found empty room source left voluminous future iraq report helped him160trace origins consequences americas difficulties occupied iraqfor iraq article found amazingly easy contact military intelligence sources extensive experience occupied countries networked kept touch penetrated vast cornucopia military expertsin uncovering loopholes pharmaceutical industry perpetuate problem methamphetamine abuse oregonian reporters steve suo erin hoover barnett faced unusual task come scientific thesis find victim readers could root forwith experts quote suo analysis meth use sell think tanks found even drug enforcement administration didnt know certain regulations enforced helped ease epidemicmeanwhile barnett make sure readers saw tragedy profits politics got way solution needed make public policy story human story bring homethrough probation officer thought shed found it160 mother whod licked addiction woman relapsed barnett started talking l3yearold daughter young woman readers could cheer forher close relationship girl created another problem dealing vulnerability subject worried protect telling unflinching storyfollowing tips seattle times reporters ken armstrong florangela davila justin mayo faced similar challenge humanize story system public defenders crushing caseloads financial conflicts shortchanged vulnerable clientsafter couple tips got started story team build database follow paper trails early prepared change mind every stage perpetually surprised willing examine premiseswere concerned much impact series would editors encouraged go ahead give voice voicelesstheir stark descriptions people sucked betrayed legal system outrages lawyer judged case turned impact disbarments class action lawsuit possible federal takeover states public defender system160whats good television story certainly injured workers dallass wfaatv dallas reporter brett shipp said unlike many local stations explore stories matter shipp said preconceived notion insurance claimants tended noninjured slackers mark smith developed expertise complicated subject medical compensation finally turned cameras roomful sufferers unjustly denied benefitsflooded phone email messages people never compensated legitimate injuries they160kept reporting smiths words knew hit nerve nbcs chief diplomatic correspondent andrea mitchell received goldsmith career award excellence journalism comment preconceived notions abandon themmitchell said called tragedy cbss reliance possibly false documents relating george w bushs air force reserve service underscores importance go every story open mind prepared change mind every stage perpetually surprised willing examine premises
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<p>Alorah Plont with her brothers and sisters. The blended family came together after their parents married two years ago. (Courtesy of Angela Strong)</p>
<p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Alorah Judith Plont came screaming into the world 12 years ago, her mother likes to say, and kept right on screaming through four months of a very stubborn bout of colic.</p>
<p>And then she stopped screaming and started smiling.</p>
<p>She hasn’t stopped smiling. But she has stopped breathing, or nearly so, several times over the years.</p>
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<p>Trips to the emergency room, stays in the hospital, nebulizers, surgical masks, an avoidance of cats and so many different medications that the pharmacist knows the family by name became part of Alorah’s routine.</p>
<p>Doctors called her illness reactive airway disease at first. Then asthma of a very brittle, very persistent, very serious nature. Then – well, no one seems to know for sure what Alorah has.</p>
<p>Imagine hurting when you breathe, fighting to inhale.</p>
<p>Alorah Plont, pictured with mom Angela Strong, takes steroids as part of her treatment for a yet undiagnosed illness. The steroids give her a bloated look and stretch marks, but that doesn’t phase Alorah. “I could be dead,” she says. (Courtesy of Angela Strong)</p>
<p>And yet Alorah has kept on smiling, kept on moving and growing and breathing as best she can. The active toddler too busy for naps became the active schoolkid, playing on volleyball teams, playing saxophone in the Jefferson Middle School band, playing with her five brothers and sisters in a blended family that had come together as warmly as milk and honey.</p>
<p>Most children grow out of asthma. Their airways expand, their lungs strengthen. Alorah’s condition, though, has become worse.</p>
<p>At times, it seems as if the air around her has been sucked away, like the oxygen she breathes has turned to mud.</p>
<p>“She is like a fish out of water sometimes,” said her mother, Angela Strong. “Her lungs just shut down.”</p>
<p>Alorah went from just flaring up during repeated upper respiratory tract infections to flaring up when the temperatures dropped, when the temperatures rose, when she moved too much, did too much.</p>
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<p>Last semester, she was forced to finish sixth grade at home out of fear of her catching viruses and bacteria at school and of her not having the endurance to last a whole day.</p>
<p>She earned all A’s.</p>
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<p>Click here to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kissmyassthma" type="external">follow Alorah’s story</a>.</p>
<p>She will be in seventh grade this year. But she will likely be relegated to home schooling again come August. She is too sick, too weak, too vulnerable to the agents in the air.</p>
<p>“The misery she has endured just breaks my heart,” Strong said.</p>
<p>But Alorah endures with grace.</p>
<p>“I’m doing great,” Alorah tells me as we sit one recent warm morning outside the family’s Northeast Heights duplex. A smile spreads across her gentle moon face, bloated from the steroids she takes, the medication swelling her body so quickly that she is covered in stretch marks.</p>
<p>“It doesn’t bother me,” she said. “I could be dead.”</p>
<p>That, of course, is her family’s biggest fear.</p>
<p>“Every time she gets sick and we end up at the ER is just terrifying,” her mother said.</p>
<p>Mom Angela Strong cradles daughter Alorah Plont after the girl collapsed from breathing issues in April. Visits to the emergency room and hospital stays have become the norm for Alorah. (Courtesy of Angela Strong)</p>
<p>Last spring marked a critical period in which Alorah’s lungs could not function without medical intervention. Strong, a nursing student who works nights in an assisted living center, believes Alorah’s body compensated for as long as it could but has worn itself out.</p>
<p>Local doctors are dumbfounded, unable to help the girl with the smile and the strawberry blond curls to breathe easy. In New Mexico, there are no teams of pediatric pulmonologists, no specialized hospitals capable of dealing with Alorah’s confusing condition.</p>
<p>After months of pleading, researching and arguing, Angela and husband, Nathan Strong, a service writer with a local car dealership, were able to get Alorah in to see the doctors at the Breathing Institute at the Children’s Hospital Colorado in Colorado Springs.</p>
<p>The Strongs have faith that the institute’s team of specialists will figure out whatever is causing Alorah’s illness and treat it.</p>
<p>“At this point, it is life or death,” Angela Strong said. “Without a clear diagnosis, we can’t properly treat her.”</p>
<p>So they hold their breath.</p>
<p>Angela and Nathan Strong dated in high school – he dumped her, Angela reminds him. They married other people, raised three children apiece, divorced, then found each other again two years ago. Their reconstituted family is an active one, involved in the Thunderbird Little League, ballooning and biking.</p>
<p>For now, though, it is all about Alorah.</p>
<p>Every month, one parent accompanies Alorah to her doctor visits in Colorado. The other children make videos to send her while she is away.</p>
<p>Alorah Plont, with mom Angela Strong, in earlier days could ride bikes, play volleyball, play in her middle school band and play with her family, but her asthma-like illness has made it hard for her to breathe enough to participate anymore. (Courtesy of Angela Strong)</p>
<p>Money and time are tight. The family struggles, crammed into half a duplex where bunk beds for the boys take up space in the living room. Their Ford Excursion, the only vehicle they own that will make the Colorado trips, is 14 years old.</p>
<p>Still, they get by.</p>
<p>The Strongs have a motto: “Survive, thrive, adapt, overcome – and kick butt.”</p>
<p>They have a special one for Alorah: “Kiss my assthma.”</p>
<p>Alorah said she dreams of that, of living like she used to, running, biking, hanging out with friends, not having to keep checking her oxygen saturation numbers and heart rate throughout the night.</p>
<p>But she does not cry. She does not whine. She does not scream.</p>
<p>“I write down my feelings in my journal,” she said. “Sometimes I am sad.”</p>
<p>Mostly, though, she keeps smiling. And hopefully, happily, she keeps breathing.</p>
<p>UpFront is a daily front-page news and opinion column. Comment directly to Joline at 823-3603, <a href="" type="internal">[email protected]</a> or follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/jolinegkg" type="external">@jolinegkg</a>. Go to <a href="" type="internal">ABQjournal.com/letters/new</a> to submit a letter to the editor.</p>
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alorah plont brothers sisters blended family came together parents married two years ago courtesy angela strong albuquerque nm alorah judith plont came screaming world 12 years ago mother likes say kept right screaming four months stubborn bout colic stopped screaming started smiling hasnt stopped smiling stopped breathing nearly several times years advertisement trips emergency room stays hospital nebulizers surgical masks avoidance cats many different medications pharmacist knows family name became part alorahs routine doctors called illness reactive airway disease first asthma brittle persistent serious nature well one seems know sure alorah imagine hurting breathe fighting inhale alorah plont pictured mom angela strong takes steroids part treatment yet undiagnosed illness steroids give bloated look stretch marks doesnt phase alorah could dead says courtesy angela strong yet alorah kept smiling kept moving growing breathing best active toddler busy naps became active schoolkid playing volleyball teams playing saxophone jefferson middle school band playing five brothers sisters blended family come together warmly milk honey children grow asthma airways expand lungs strengthen alorahs condition though become worse times seems air around sucked away like oxygen breathes turned mud like fish water sometimes said mother angela strong lungs shut alorah went flaring repeated upper respiratory tract infections flaring temperatures dropped temperatures rose moved much much advertisement last semester forced finish sixth grade home fear catching viruses bacteria school endurance last whole day earned click follow alorahs story seventh grade year likely relegated home schooling come august sick weak vulnerable agents air misery endured breaks heart strong said alorah endures grace im great alorah tells sit one recent warm morning outside familys northeast heights duplex smile spreads across gentle moon face bloated steroids takes medication swelling body quickly covered stretch marks doesnt bother said could dead course familys biggest fear every time gets sick end er terrifying mother said mom angela strong cradles daughter alorah plont girl collapsed breathing issues april visits emergency room hospital stays become norm alorah courtesy angela strong last spring marked critical period alorahs lungs could function without medical intervention strong nursing student works nights assisted living center believes alorahs body compensated long could worn local doctors dumbfounded unable help girl smile strawberry blond curls breathe easy new mexico teams pediatric pulmonologists specialized hospitals capable dealing alorahs confusing condition months pleading researching arguing angela husband nathan strong service writer local car dealership able get alorah see doctors breathing institute childrens hospital colorado colorado springs strongs faith institutes team specialists figure whatever causing alorahs illness treat point life death angela strong said without clear diagnosis cant properly treat hold breath angela nathan strong dated high school dumped angela reminds married people raised three children apiece divorced found two years ago reconstituted family active one involved thunderbird little league ballooning biking though alorah every month one parent accompanies alorah doctor visits colorado children make videos send away alorah plont mom angela strong earlier days could ride bikes play volleyball play middle school band play family asthmalike illness made hard breathe enough participate anymore courtesy angela strong money time tight family struggles crammed half duplex bunk beds boys take space living room ford excursion vehicle make colorado trips 14 years old still get strongs motto survive thrive adapt overcome kick butt special one alorah kiss assthma alorah said dreams living like used running biking hanging friends keep checking oxygen saturation numbers heart rate throughout night cry whine scream write feelings journal said sometimes sad mostly though keeps smiling hopefully happily keeps breathing upfront daily frontpage news opinion column comment directly joline 8233603 jkruegerabqjournalcom follow twitter jolinegkg go abqjournalcomlettersnew submit letter editor
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<p>BEIJING (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday he hopes to forge a partnership with China on climate, security and other issues during a visit to expand European ties with Beijing.</p>
<p>The trip comes as Britain’s impending departure from the EU and the more inward-looking policies of U.S. President Donald Trump have raised the prospect of a possible realignment of global influence. China and France have promoted themselves as leaders on global warming after Trump pulled out of the Paris climate agreement.</p>
<p>“I hope to strengthen our mutual trust during this visit and to use the five years of my term in office to promote Franco-Chinese relations and European-Chinese relations,” said Macron, standing with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, ahead of a meeting at a government guesthouse. Macron said he wanted to “strengthen collective security” and promote joint efforts to fight climate change.</p>
<p>Xi welcomed Macron in unusually effusive language. He noted France was the first Western country to form diplomatic ties with the Communist Beijing government and recalled that then-President Charles de Gaulle and Chinese leader Mao Zedong met in 1964.</p>
<p>“China and France are both great countries with splendid histories and the exchange and influence between us has deep historical significance for the world,” Xi said.</p>
<p>During their meeting, Macron and Xi discussed climate change, Chinese-French relations and Xi’s “Belt and Road Initiative” to build railways and other infrastructure across Asia and Europe, state television reported. The French leader said ahead of the meeting he wanted to talk about North Korea and fighting terrorist financing, but there was no immediate word on whether those were discussed.</p>
<p>Despite their public warmth, Macron’s visit is overshadowed by mounting trade tensions.</p>
<p>Britain’s departure from the EU will deprive Beijing of a prominent ally in opposing demands for tougher European anti-dumping measures against low-cost Chinese products.</p>
<p>Other EU members including France and Germany are pressing Beijing to give their companies reciprocity, or the same access to its state-dominated economy that Chinese companies enjoy abroad.</p>
<p>Macron, traveling with a French business delegation, wants to secure deals his government hopes will produce greater access to China’s growing market.</p>
<p>The two governments are expected to announce a Franco-Chinese investment fund of more than 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion).</p>
<p>China is France’s biggest Asian trading partner but the French side reported a 30 billion euro ($36 billion) trade deficit last year.</p>
<p>Earlier Monday, Macron began his visit in the western city of Xi’an, where he said he would propose to Xi a joint “year of ecological transition” to mobilize their governments and companies.</p>
<p>“I will ask President Xi to take a new step in our French-Chinese relationship, to engage in a climate battle,” Macron said in a speech.</p>
<p>Macron said France could help, especially in Africa, with “Belt and Road,” Xi’s signature foreign initiative.</p>
<p>“France has the experience of unilateral imperialism in Africa, which sometimes led to the worst,” he said. “And today, with the new Silk Road being created, I think that the partnership between France and China can avoid repeating these mistakes.”</p>
<p>The French Development Agency and the state-run China Development Bank are to sign a cooperation agreement for co-financing of projects to fight climate change in Africa.</p>
<p>British Prime Minister Theresa May is to visit Beijing this month as part of her government’s effort to nurture a new global role following its departure from the EU in 2019.</p>
<p>That comes after a British-Chinese economic dialogue in December at which the two sides pledged to promote London as a center for transactions in China’s yuan currency.</p>
<p>Also this week, a former British prime minister, David Cameron, is scheduled to meet Chinese leaders as head of a 750 million pound ($1 billion) fund to invest in railways, ports and other facilities between China and Britain.</p>
<p>BEIJING (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday he hopes to forge a partnership with China on climate, security and other issues during a visit to expand European ties with Beijing.</p>
<p>The trip comes as Britain’s impending departure from the EU and the more inward-looking policies of U.S. President Donald Trump have raised the prospect of a possible realignment of global influence. China and France have promoted themselves as leaders on global warming after Trump pulled out of the Paris climate agreement.</p>
<p>“I hope to strengthen our mutual trust during this visit and to use the five years of my term in office to promote Franco-Chinese relations and European-Chinese relations,” said Macron, standing with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, ahead of a meeting at a government guesthouse. Macron said he wanted to “strengthen collective security” and promote joint efforts to fight climate change.</p>
<p>Xi welcomed Macron in unusually effusive language. He noted France was the first Western country to form diplomatic ties with the Communist Beijing government and recalled that then-President Charles de Gaulle and Chinese leader Mao Zedong met in 1964.</p>
<p>“China and France are both great countries with splendid histories and the exchange and influence between us has deep historical significance for the world,” Xi said.</p>
<p>During their meeting, Macron and Xi discussed climate change, Chinese-French relations and Xi’s “Belt and Road Initiative” to build railways and other infrastructure across Asia and Europe, state television reported. The French leader said ahead of the meeting he wanted to talk about North Korea and fighting terrorist financing, but there was no immediate word on whether those were discussed.</p>
<p>Despite their public warmth, Macron’s visit is overshadowed by mounting trade tensions.</p>
<p>Britain’s departure from the EU will deprive Beijing of a prominent ally in opposing demands for tougher European anti-dumping measures against low-cost Chinese products.</p>
<p>Other EU members including France and Germany are pressing Beijing to give their companies reciprocity, or the same access to its state-dominated economy that Chinese companies enjoy abroad.</p>
<p>Macron, traveling with a French business delegation, wants to secure deals his government hopes will produce greater access to China’s growing market.</p>
<p>The two governments are expected to announce a Franco-Chinese investment fund of more than 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion).</p>
<p>China is France’s biggest Asian trading partner but the French side reported a 30 billion euro ($36 billion) trade deficit last year.</p>
<p>Earlier Monday, Macron began his visit in the western city of Xi’an, where he said he would propose to Xi a joint “year of ecological transition” to mobilize their governments and companies.</p>
<p>“I will ask President Xi to take a new step in our French-Chinese relationship, to engage in a climate battle,” Macron said in a speech.</p>
<p>Macron said France could help, especially in Africa, with “Belt and Road,” Xi’s signature foreign initiative.</p>
<p>“France has the experience of unilateral imperialism in Africa, which sometimes led to the worst,” he said. “And today, with the new Silk Road being created, I think that the partnership between France and China can avoid repeating these mistakes.”</p>
<p>The French Development Agency and the state-run China Development Bank are to sign a cooperation agreement for co-financing of projects to fight climate change in Africa.</p>
<p>British Prime Minister Theresa May is to visit Beijing this month as part of her government’s effort to nurture a new global role following its departure from the EU in 2019.</p>
<p>That comes after a British-Chinese economic dialogue in December at which the two sides pledged to promote London as a center for transactions in China’s yuan currency.</p>
<p>Also this week, a former British prime minister, David Cameron, is scheduled to meet Chinese leaders as head of a 750 million pound ($1 billion) fund to invest in railways, ports and other facilities between China and Britain.</p>
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beijing ap french president emmanuel macron said monday hopes forge partnership china climate security issues visit expand european ties beijing trip comes britains impending departure eu inwardlooking policies us president donald trump raised prospect possible realignment global influence china france promoted leaders global warming trump pulled paris climate agreement hope strengthen mutual trust visit use five years term office promote francochinese relations europeanchinese relations said macron standing chinese counterpart xi jinping ahead meeting government guesthouse macron said wanted strengthen collective security promote joint efforts fight climate change xi welcomed macron unusually effusive language noted france first western country form diplomatic ties communist beijing government recalled thenpresident charles de gaulle chinese leader mao zedong met 1964 china france great countries splendid histories exchange influence us deep historical significance world xi said meeting macron xi discussed climate change chinesefrench relations xis belt road initiative build railways infrastructure across asia europe state television reported french leader said ahead meeting wanted talk north korea fighting terrorist financing immediate word whether discussed despite public warmth macrons visit overshadowed mounting trade tensions britains departure eu deprive beijing prominent ally opposing demands tougher european antidumping measures lowcost chinese products eu members including france germany pressing beijing give companies reciprocity access statedominated economy chinese companies enjoy abroad macron traveling french business delegation wants secure deals government hopes produce greater access chinas growing market two governments expected announce francochinese investment fund 1 billion euros 12 billion china frances biggest asian trading partner french side reported 30 billion euro 36 billion trade deficit last year earlier monday macron began visit western city xian said would propose xi joint year ecological transition mobilize governments companies ask president xi take new step frenchchinese relationship engage climate battle macron said speech macron said france could help especially africa belt road xis signature foreign initiative france experience unilateral imperialism africa sometimes led worst said today new silk road created think partnership france china avoid repeating mistakes french development agency staterun china development bank sign cooperation agreement cofinancing projects fight climate change africa british prime minister theresa may visit beijing month part governments effort nurture new global role following departure eu 2019 comes britishchinese economic dialogue december two sides pledged promote london center transactions chinas yuan currency also week former british prime minister david cameron scheduled meet chinese leaders head 750 million pound 1 billion fund invest railways ports facilities china britain beijing ap french president emmanuel macron said monday hopes forge partnership china climate security issues visit expand european ties beijing trip comes britains impending departure eu inwardlooking policies us president donald trump raised prospect possible realignment global influence china france promoted leaders global warming trump pulled paris climate agreement hope strengthen mutual trust visit use five years term office promote francochinese relations europeanchinese relations said macron standing chinese counterpart xi jinping ahead meeting government guesthouse macron said wanted strengthen collective security promote joint efforts fight climate change xi welcomed macron unusually effusive language noted france first western country form diplomatic ties communist beijing government recalled thenpresident charles de gaulle chinese leader mao zedong met 1964 china france great countries splendid histories exchange influence us deep historical significance world xi said meeting macron xi discussed climate change chinesefrench relations xis belt road initiative build railways infrastructure across asia europe state television reported french leader said ahead meeting wanted talk north korea fighting terrorist financing immediate word whether discussed despite public warmth macrons visit overshadowed mounting trade tensions britains departure eu deprive beijing prominent ally opposing demands tougher european antidumping measures lowcost chinese products eu members including france germany pressing beijing give companies reciprocity access statedominated economy chinese companies enjoy abroad macron traveling french business delegation wants secure deals government hopes produce greater access chinas growing market two governments expected announce francochinese investment fund 1 billion euros 12 billion china frances biggest asian trading partner french side reported 30 billion euro 36 billion trade deficit last year earlier monday macron began visit western city xian said would propose xi joint year ecological transition mobilize governments companies ask president xi take new step frenchchinese relationship engage climate battle macron said speech macron said france could help especially africa belt road xis signature foreign initiative france experience unilateral imperialism africa sometimes led worst said today new silk road created think partnership france china avoid repeating mistakes french development agency staterun china development bank sign cooperation agreement cofinancing projects fight climate change africa british prime minister theresa may visit beijing month part governments effort nurture new global role following departure eu 2019 comes britishchinese economic dialogue december two sides pledged promote london center transactions chinas yuan currency also week former british prime minister david cameron scheduled meet chinese leaders head 750 million pound 1 billion fund invest railways ports facilities 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<p>Every NFL season offers much to marvel at or laugh about, and plenty of chances to shake our heads in befuddled wonderment.</p>
<p>That final description certainly fits the mind-numbing off-field news that plagued the league this year, beginning in the preseason with the Ray Rice case. For anyone who hasn’t had enough of that stuff, look elsewhere.</p>
<p>These offbeat awards will recognize the good, bad and ugly on the field.</p>
<p>BEST GAME: Green Bay 26, New England 21, in a possible Super Bowl preview. Aaron Rodgers outdueled Tom Brady, although the difference might have been the Packers’ defense. On the Patriots’ final series, rookie safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix blanketed Rob Gronkowski on a deep pass on second down. Brady was sacked on third down, Stephen Gostkowski missed a 47-yard field goal, and the host Packers ran out the clock.</p>
<p>Runner-up: San Diego 38, San Francisco 35. In Week 16, the Chargers rallied from a 21-point hole in the second half. Philip Rivers hit Malcom Floyd for an 11-yard TD to tie it, and Nick Novak kicked a 40-yard field goal in overtime after a Niners fumble.</p>
<p>WORST GAME: Atlanta 56, Tampa Bay 14. A nationally televised Thursday night debacle in September, the worst performance by the Buccaneers, which is saying something considering they are 2-13 now. The Falcons led 35-0 before the Buccaneers picked up a first down. Atlanta’s offensive starters left after Steven Jackson’s 3-yard touchdown run made it 49-0 before the midway point of the third quarter.</p>
<p>Runner-up: Jets 16, Titans 11. The only such final score in NFL history. Hopefully the “action” from this game will quickly be forgotten.</p>
<p>BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR: It didn’t win the game, and wound up being not particularly impactful in the grand scheme for his team. Yet Odell Beckham Jr.’s phenomenal three-fingered touchdown catch while falling backward into the end zone against Dallas can’t be topped.</p>
<p>“When I’m standing on the sidelines, I’m rooting for him all the way,” coach Tom Coughlin said. “When I get to Monday, sometimes I run it back an extra time.”</p>
<p>Runners-up: This one did win a game. Vikings rookie LB Anthony Barr chased down Bucs TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins, stripped the ball and took it 27 yards for a touchdown in overtime and a 19-13 victory.</p>
<p>And “Beast Mode 2,” Marshawn Lynch’s sensational 79-yard touchdown run for Seattle against Arizona in Week 16.</p>
<p>WORST PLAY OF THE YEAR: Figures it would be the Raiders. WR James Jones fumbled twice on one play vs. Houston. He lost the ball, picked it up and started running again, only to be stripped a second time and the Texans recovered.</p>
<p>Runner-up: A tie between Chicago DE LaMarr Houston and Detroit LB Stephen Tulloch. Each tore an ACL on sack celebrations.</p>
<p>BIGGEST SURPRISE (PLAYER): The Ravens were in a dire situation after Rice’s suspension and injuries/mediocre play by his replacement, Bernard Pierce. In stepped a true journeyman, Justin Forsett, and he’s been magical, juicing up the Baltimore offense with a combination of the steady and the spectacular.</p>
<p>Runner-up: Detroit safety Glover Quin, like Forsett a former Texan, and like Forsett, a journeyman who has found a home, solidifying the Lions secondary.</p>
<p>BIGGEST SURPRISE (TEAM): Only because they were expected to head directly south from their recent string of 8-8 finishes, it has to be the Cowboys. Rather than plummet despite an undertalented defense and questionable coaching, Dallas has surged to the NFC East title, possibly a first-round playoff bye.</p>
<p>Runner-up: Buffalo. No, the Bills won’t snap their league-high streak of non-playoff seasons, now at 15. But they won’t have a losing record, either, and made their future look brighter for once.</p>
<p>BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT (PLAYER): Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, although we very much want to give him some slack. Griffin still doesn’t appear fully recovered from his knee woes, and other injuries have slowed him. That said, RG3 struggles with too many fundamentals, including footwork — odd for a guy with Olympic running skills.</p>
<p>Runner-up: Saints safety Jairus Byrd, their top offseason signing, had no interceptions through four games and then went on injured reserve (knee).</p>
<p>BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT (TEAM): Da Bears. Dysfunctional as they come, the Bears were the fashionable pick as a rising team this season. Instead, they flopped so badly a total housecleaning could be in order.</p>
<p>Runner-up: San Francisco, which because of front-office discord is about to lose the best coach it has had since Bill Walsh.</p>
<p>BEST PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER (TV): Mike Tirico, ESPN. We should just rename this award for the top, by far, play-by-play guy on TV, regardless of the sport. Tirico especially shines on the NFL, where his understanding of the game and, especially, its nuances and rules — from the obvious to the obscure — serves the viewer. So does his brutal honesty, something rare among NFL broadcasters.</p>
<p>Runner-up: Kevin Harlan, CBS. Also give a listen to him on Westwood One’s radiocasts of national games. He’s so descriptive you feel as if you are in the stadium.</p>
<p>BEST ANALYST (TV): Rich Gannon, CBS. Want to know how and why something happened? Gannon provides it.</p>
<p>Who messed up and who performed above and beyond? Gannon provides it.</p>
<p>Some humor? That, too.</p>
<p>And he works Sunday games with Harlan — a duo worthy of being the network’s top team.</p>
<p>Runner-up: Now that both of them are willing to criticize when it’s called for, Jon Gruden (ESPN) and Troy Aikman (Fox) deserve recognition for their strong work.</p>
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<p>Every NFL season offers much to marvel at or laugh about, and plenty of chances to shake our heads in befuddled wonderment.</p>
<p>That final description certainly fits the mind-numbing off-field news that plagued the league this year, beginning in the preseason with the Ray Rice case. For anyone who hasn’t had enough of that stuff, look elsewhere.</p>
<p>These offbeat awards will recognize the good, bad and ugly on the field.</p>
<p>BEST GAME: Green Bay 26, New England 21, in a possible Super Bowl preview. Aaron Rodgers outdueled Tom Brady, although the difference might have been the Packers’ defense. On the Patriots’ final series, rookie safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix blanketed Rob Gronkowski on a deep pass on second down. Brady was sacked on third down, Stephen Gostkowski missed a 47-yard field goal, and the host Packers ran out the clock.</p>
<p>Runner-up: San Diego 38, San Francisco 35. In Week 16, the Chargers rallied from a 21-point hole in the second half. Philip Rivers hit Malcom Floyd for an 11-yard TD to tie it, and Nick Novak kicked a 40-yard field goal in overtime after a Niners fumble.</p>
<p>WORST GAME: Atlanta 56, Tampa Bay 14. A nationally televised Thursday night debacle in September, the worst performance by the Buccaneers, which is saying something considering they are 2-13 now. The Falcons led 35-0 before the Buccaneers picked up a first down. Atlanta’s offensive starters left after Steven Jackson’s 3-yard touchdown run made it 49-0 before the midway point of the third quarter.</p>
<p>Runner-up: Jets 16, Titans 11. The only such final score in NFL history. Hopefully the “action” from this game will quickly be forgotten.</p>
<p>BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR: It didn’t win the game, and wound up being not particularly impactful in the grand scheme for his team. Yet Odell Beckham Jr.’s phenomenal three-fingered touchdown catch while falling backward into the end zone against Dallas can’t be topped.</p>
<p>“When I’m standing on the sidelines, I’m rooting for him all the way,” coach Tom Coughlin said. “When I get to Monday, sometimes I run it back an extra time.”</p>
<p>Runners-up: This one did win a game. Vikings rookie LB Anthony Barr chased down Bucs TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins, stripped the ball and took it 27 yards for a touchdown in overtime and a 19-13 victory.</p>
<p>And “Beast Mode 2,” Marshawn Lynch’s sensational 79-yard touchdown run for Seattle against Arizona in Week 16.</p>
<p>WORST PLAY OF THE YEAR: Figures it would be the Raiders. WR James Jones fumbled twice on one play vs. Houston. He lost the ball, picked it up and started running again, only to be stripped a second time and the Texans recovered.</p>
<p>Runner-up: A tie between Chicago DE LaMarr Houston and Detroit LB Stephen Tulloch. Each tore an ACL on sack celebrations.</p>
<p>BIGGEST SURPRISE (PLAYER): The Ravens were in a dire situation after Rice’s suspension and injuries/mediocre play by his replacement, Bernard Pierce. In stepped a true journeyman, Justin Forsett, and he’s been magical, juicing up the Baltimore offense with a combination of the steady and the spectacular.</p>
<p>Runner-up: Detroit safety Glover Quin, like Forsett a former Texan, and like Forsett, a journeyman who has found a home, solidifying the Lions secondary.</p>
<p>BIGGEST SURPRISE (TEAM): Only because they were expected to head directly south from their recent string of 8-8 finishes, it has to be the Cowboys. Rather than plummet despite an undertalented defense and questionable coaching, Dallas has surged to the NFC East title, possibly a first-round playoff bye.</p>
<p>Runner-up: Buffalo. No, the Bills won’t snap their league-high streak of non-playoff seasons, now at 15. But they won’t have a losing record, either, and made their future look brighter for once.</p>
<p>BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT (PLAYER): Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, although we very much want to give him some slack. Griffin still doesn’t appear fully recovered from his knee woes, and other injuries have slowed him. That said, RG3 struggles with too many fundamentals, including footwork — odd for a guy with Olympic running skills.</p>
<p>Runner-up: Saints safety Jairus Byrd, their top offseason signing, had no interceptions through four games and then went on injured reserve (knee).</p>
<p>BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT (TEAM): Da Bears. Dysfunctional as they come, the Bears were the fashionable pick as a rising team this season. Instead, they flopped so badly a total housecleaning could be in order.</p>
<p>Runner-up: San Francisco, which because of front-office discord is about to lose the best coach it has had since Bill Walsh.</p>
<p>BEST PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER (TV): Mike Tirico, ESPN. We should just rename this award for the top, by far, play-by-play guy on TV, regardless of the sport. Tirico especially shines on the NFL, where his understanding of the game and, especially, its nuances and rules — from the obvious to the obscure — serves the viewer. So does his brutal honesty, something rare among NFL broadcasters.</p>
<p>Runner-up: Kevin Harlan, CBS. Also give a listen to him on Westwood One’s radiocasts of national games. He’s so descriptive you feel as if you are in the stadium.</p>
<p>BEST ANALYST (TV): Rich Gannon, CBS. Want to know how and why something happened? Gannon provides it.</p>
<p>Who messed up and who performed above and beyond? Gannon provides it.</p>
<p>Some humor? That, too.</p>
<p>And he works Sunday games with Harlan — a duo worthy of being the network’s top team.</p>
<p>Runner-up: Now that both of them are willing to criticize when it’s called for, Jon Gruden (ESPN) and Troy Aikman (Fox) deserve recognition for their strong work.</p>
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atlantas offensive starters left steven jacksons 3yard touchdown run made 490 midway point third quarter runnerup jets 16 titans 11 final score nfl history hopefully action game quickly forgotten best play year didnt win game wound particularly impactful grand scheme team yet odell beckham jrs phenomenal threefingered touchdown catch falling backward end zone dallas cant topped im standing sidelines im rooting way coach tom coughlin said get monday sometimes run back extra time runnersup one win game vikings rookie lb anthony barr chased bucs te austin seferianjenkins stripped ball took 27 yards touchdown overtime 1913 victory beast mode 2 marshawn lynchs sensational 79yard touchdown run seattle arizona week 16 worst play year figures would raiders wr james jones fumbled twice one play vs houston lost ball picked started running stripped second time texans recovered runnerup tie chicago de lamarr houston detroit lb stephen tulloch tore acl sack celebrations biggest surprise player ravens dire situation rices suspension injuriesmediocre play replacement bernard pierce stepped true journeyman justin forsett hes magical juicing baltimore offense combination steady spectacular runnerup detroit safety glover quin like forsett former texan like forsett journeyman found home solidifying lions secondary biggest surprise team expected head directly south recent string 88 finishes cowboys rather plummet despite undertalented defense questionable coaching dallas surged nfc east title possibly firstround playoff bye runnerup buffalo bills wont snap leaguehigh streak nonplayoff seasons 15 wont losing record either made future look brighter biggest disappointment player redskins quarterback robert griffin iii although much want give slack griffin still doesnt appear fully recovered knee woes injuries slowed said rg3 struggles many fundamentals including footwork odd guy olympic running skills runnerup saints safety jairus byrd top offseason signing interceptions four games went injured reserve knee biggest disappointment team da bears dysfunctional come bears fashionable pick rising team season instead flopped badly total housecleaning could order runnerup san francisco frontoffice discord lose best coach since bill walsh best playbyplay announcer tv mike tirico espn rename award top far playbyplay guy tv regardless sport tirico especially shines nfl understanding game especially nuances rules obvious obscure serves viewer brutal honesty something rare among nfl broadcasters runnerup kevin harlan cbs also give listen westwood ones radiocasts national games hes descriptive feel stadium best analyst tv rich gannon cbs want know something happened gannon provides messed performed beyond gannon provides humor works sunday games harlan duo worthy networks top team runnerup willing criticize called jon gruden espn troy aikman fox deserve recognition strong work ___ online httppro32aporgpoll httptwittercomap_nfl every nfl season offers much marvel laugh plenty chances shake heads befuddled wonderment final description certainly fits mindnumbing offfield news plagued league year beginning preseason ray rice case anyone hasnt enough stuff look elsewhere offbeat awards recognize good bad ugly field best game green bay 26 new england 21 possible super bowl preview aaron rodgers outdueled tom brady although difference might packers defense patriots final series rookie safety ha ha clintondix blanketed rob gronkowski deep pass second brady sacked third stephen gostkowski missed 47yard field goal host packers ran clock runnerup san diego 38 san francisco 35 week 16 chargers rallied 21point hole second half philip rivers hit malcom floyd 11yard td tie nick novak kicked 40yard field goal overtime niners fumble worst game atlanta 56 tampa bay 14 nationally televised thursday night debacle september worst performance buccaneers saying something considering 213 falcons led 350 buccaneers picked first atlantas offensive starters left steven jacksons 3yard touchdown run made 490 midway point third quarter runnerup jets 16 titans 11 final score nfl history hopefully action game quickly forgotten best play year didnt win game wound particularly impactful grand scheme team yet odell beckham jrs phenomenal threefingered touchdown catch falling backward end zone dallas cant topped im standing sidelines im rooting way coach tom coughlin said get monday sometimes run back extra time runnersup one win game vikings rookie lb anthony barr chased bucs te austin seferianjenkins stripped ball took 27 yards touchdown overtime 1913 victory beast mode 2 marshawn lynchs sensational 79yard touchdown run seattle arizona week 16 worst play year figures would raiders wr james jones fumbled twice one play vs houston lost ball picked started running stripped second time texans recovered runnerup tie chicago de lamarr houston detroit lb stephen tulloch tore acl sack celebrations biggest surprise player ravens dire situation rices suspension injuriesmediocre play replacement bernard pierce stepped true journeyman justin forsett hes magical juicing baltimore offense combination steady spectacular runnerup detroit safety glover quin like forsett former texan like forsett journeyman found home solidifying lions secondary biggest surprise team expected head directly south recent string 88 finishes cowboys rather plummet despite undertalented defense questionable coaching dallas surged nfc east title possibly firstround playoff bye runnerup buffalo bills wont snap leaguehigh streak nonplayoff seasons 15 wont losing record either made future look brighter biggest disappointment player redskins quarterback robert griffin iii although much want give slack griffin still doesnt appear fully recovered knee woes injuries slowed said rg3 struggles many fundamentals including footwork odd guy olympic running skills runnerup saints safety jairus byrd top offseason signing interceptions four games went injured reserve knee biggest disappointment team da bears dysfunctional come bears fashionable pick rising team season instead flopped badly total housecleaning could order runnerup san francisco frontoffice discord lose best coach since bill walsh best playbyplay announcer tv mike tirico espn rename award top far playbyplay guy tv regardless sport tirico especially shines nfl understanding game especially nuances rules obvious obscure serves viewer brutal honesty something rare among nfl broadcasters runnerup kevin harlan cbs also give listen westwood ones radiocasts national games hes descriptive feel stadium best analyst tv rich gannon cbs want know something happened gannon provides messed performed beyond gannon provides humor works sunday games harlan duo worthy networks top team runnerup willing criticize called jon gruden espn troy aikman fox deserve recognition strong work ___ online httppro32aporgpoll httptwittercomap_nfl
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<p>Most married couples with three or more children would also pay higher taxes, an analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center found. And while middle-class families as a whole would receive tax cuts of about 2 percent, they’d be dwarfed by the windfalls averaging 13.5 percent for America’s richest 1 percent.</p>
<p>Trump’s campaign rhetoric had promoted the benefits of his proposals for middle-income Americans.</p>
<p>“The largest tax reductions are for the middle class,” said Trump’s “Contract With the American Voter,” released last month.</p>
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<p>The tax hikes that would hit single parents and large families would result from Trump’s plan to eliminate the personal exemption and the head-of-household filing status. These features of the tax code have enabled many Americans to reduce their taxable income.</p>
<p>His other proposed tax changes would benefit middle- and lower-income Americans. But they wouldn’t be enough to offset those modifications.</p>
<p>“If you’re a low- or moderate-income single parent, you’re going to get hurt,” said Bob Williams, a fellow at the Tax Policy Center.</p>
<p>Unlike Trump’s polarizing proposals on immigration and trade, his tax plan is in line with traditional Republican policy. His steep tax cuts in many ways resemble those carried out by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, and the Republican-run Congress is expected to welcome them.</p>
<p>During the campaign, Trump said his tax cuts — for individuals and companies — would energize the economy by boosting business investment in factories and equipment, while leaving consumers with more cash to spend. His proposals, he contended, would help create 25 million jobs over the next decade.</p>
<p>But Lily Batchelder, a visiting fellow at the Tax Policy Center and former deputy director of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council, estimates that roughly 7.9 million families with children would pay higher taxes under his proposals. About 5.8 million are led by single parents. An additional 2.1 million are married couples.</p>
<p>Other analysts, including economists at the conservative Tax Foundation and right-of-center American Enterprise Institute, have agreed with Batchelder’s conclusions.</p>
<p>Here’s what her analysis finds:</p>
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<p>Right now, a single parent with $75,000 in income and two children can claim a head of household deduction of $9,300, plus three personal exemptions. Those steps would reduce the household’s taxable income by $21,450, to $53,550.</p>
<p>Trump’s plan would more than double the standard deduction to $15,000. But that change would be outweighed by his elimination of personal exemptions and head-of-household status. So the family’s taxable income would be $60,000, and their tax bill would be $2,440 more than it is now.</p>
<p>A married couple with four children and income of $50,000 would absorb a tax increase of $1,090 because of their loss of personal exemptions.</p>
<p>Trump’s advisers deny that he will raise taxes on middle-income Americans. Stephen Miller, his top policy adviser, said Trump would provide tax-free child care savings accounts and other provisions to enable some families to reduce taxes.</p>
<p>But Batchelder’s analysis found that those provisions wouldn’t be enough to offset the plan’s other elements that would increase taxes for some middle income households.</p>
<p>More broadly, Miller said Trump would instruct Congress to avoid raising taxes on those families.</p>
<p>“We will cut taxes massively for the middle class and working class,” Miller said.</p>
<p>Kelly Rodriguez, 47, who lives in Tampa, Florida, voted for Trump and is a single mother who claims two of her four children as dependents. (Her ex-husband claims the other two.) She made roughly $90,000 last year, including alimony payments. Her taxes would likely rise under Trump’s plan, according to Batchelder’s analysis.</p>
<p>“I would want him to explain that to me,” she said. “Taxes have to make sense to the people paying them.”</p>
<p>Still, Trump’s plan will likely evolve during congressional negotiations before it becomes law.</p>
<p>“This is not anywhere close to a final plan,” Williams said.</p>
<p>Kyle Pomerlau, director of federal projects at the conservative Tax Foundation, noted that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s own tax-cut proposal is similar to Trump’s but wouldn’t raise taxes on single-parent families. In theory, the two plans could be melded, and Trump’s elimination of the head of household status could be dropped.</p>
<p>But leaving the head of household filing status and personal exemptions intact would lower tax revenue by $2.1 trillion over the next decade, the Tax Policy Center says.</p>
<p>All independent analyses show most of the benefit of Trump’s plan flowing to the wealthiest Americans. Nearly half of Trump’s tax cuts would go to the top 1 percent of earners, the Tax Policy Center found. Less than a quarter of the cuts would benefit the bottom 80 percent.</p>
<p>Trump proposes to reduce the number of tax brackets from seven to three, with rates of 12 percent, 25 percent and 33 percent. That would slash the top rate from the current 39.6 percent. He would repeal the estate tax, which affects only about 0.2 percent of estates — those worth above $5.45 million.</p>
<p>For middle-income earners as a whole, the Trump proposals would cut taxes, even taking into account the increases on single-parent families. Those earning nearly $50,000 to about $83,000 — the middle one-fifth — would receive an average cut of $1,010, according to the Tax Policy Center. That would lift their after-tax incomes 1.8 percent.</p>
<p>By contrast, the wealthiest 1 percent — those earning over $700,000 — would enjoy a tax cut averaging nearly $215,000, boosting their after-tax incomes 13.5 percent. And the richest 0.1 percent — those making above $3.7 million — would receive a bonanza: An average tax cut exceeding $1 million.</p>
<p>“Trump’s campaign rhetoric may have been populist, but his tax plan isn’t,” Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the policy center, wrote on its website.</p>
<p>His tax proposals suggest what may be a challenge for Trump’s administration: Providing his middle- and working-class supporters with tangible signs of economic progress. Middle-income Americans already pay a relatively modest share of federal income taxes compared with the wealthy. That limits the scope of what tax cuts could do for them.</p>
<p>“The thing that he needs to worry about is making life better for his supporters, and that involves more than tax cuts,” Williams said.</p>
<p>Middle class finances have also been squeezed by high and rising costs for health care, higher education and housing, noted Joseph Cohen, a sociologist at Queens College in New York City.</p>
<p>“We’ve been cutting taxes since Reagan, and things have been getting worse for the middle class since Reagan,” he said.</p>
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<p>Contact Chris Rugaber on Twitter at <a href="http://Twitter.com/ChrisRugaber" type="external">http://Twitter.com/ChrisRugaber</a></p>
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married couples three children would also pay higher taxes analysis nonpartisan tax policy center found middleclass families whole would receive tax cuts 2 percent theyd dwarfed windfalls averaging 135 percent americas richest 1 percent trumps campaign rhetoric promoted benefits proposals middleincome americans largest tax reductions middle class said trumps contract american voter released last month advertisement tax hikes would hit single parents large families would result trumps plan eliminate personal exemption headofhousehold filing status features tax code enabled many americans reduce taxable income proposed tax changes would benefit middle lowerincome americans wouldnt enough offset modifications youre low moderateincome single parent youre going get hurt said bob williams fellow tax policy center unlike trumps polarizing proposals immigration trade tax plan line traditional republican policy steep tax cuts many ways resemble carried presidents ronald reagan george w bush republicanrun congress expected welcome campaign trump said tax cuts individuals companies would energize economy boosting business investment factories equipment leaving consumers cash spend proposals contended would help create 25 million jobs next decade lily batchelder visiting fellow tax policy center former deputy director president barack obamas national economic council estimates roughly 79 million families children would pay higher taxes proposals 58 million led single parents additional 21 million married couples analysts including economists conservative tax foundation rightofcenter american enterprise institute agreed batchelders conclusions heres analysis finds advertisement right single parent 75000 income two children claim head household deduction 9300 plus three personal exemptions steps would reduce households taxable income 21450 53550 trumps plan would double standard deduction 15000 change would outweighed elimination personal exemptions headofhousehold status familys taxable income would 60000 tax bill would 2440 married couple four children income 50000 would absorb tax increase 1090 loss personal exemptions trumps advisers deny raise taxes middleincome americans stephen miller top policy adviser said trump would provide taxfree child care savings accounts provisions enable families reduce taxes batchelders analysis found provisions wouldnt enough offset plans elements would increase taxes middle income households broadly miller said trump would instruct congress avoid raising taxes families cut taxes massively middle class working class miller said kelly rodriguez 47 lives tampa florida voted trump single mother claims two four children dependents exhusband claims two made roughly 90000 last year including alimony payments taxes would likely rise trumps plan according batchelders analysis would want explain said taxes make sense people paying still trumps plan likely evolve congressional negotiations becomes law anywhere close final plan williams said kyle pomerlau director federal projects conservative tax foundation noted house speaker paul ryans taxcut proposal similar trumps wouldnt raise taxes singleparent families theory two plans could melded trumps elimination head household status could dropped leaving head household filing status personal exemptions intact would lower tax revenue 21 trillion next decade tax policy center says independent analyses show benefit trumps plan flowing wealthiest americans nearly half trumps tax cuts would go top 1 percent earners tax policy center found less quarter cuts would benefit bottom 80 percent trump proposes reduce number tax brackets seven three rates 12 percent 25 percent 33 percent would slash top rate current 396 percent would repeal estate tax affects 02 percent estates worth 545 million middleincome earners whole trump proposals would cut taxes even taking account increases singleparent families earning nearly 50000 83000 middle onefifth would receive average cut 1010 according tax policy center would lift aftertax incomes 18 percent contrast wealthiest 1 percent earning 700000 would enjoy tax cut averaging nearly 215000 boosting aftertax incomes 135 percent richest 01 percent making 37 million would receive bonanza average tax cut exceeding 1 million trumps campaign rhetoric may populist tax plan isnt howard gleckman senior fellow policy center wrote website tax proposals suggest may challenge trumps administration providing middle workingclass supporters tangible signs economic progress middleincome americans already pay relatively modest share federal income taxes compared wealthy limits scope tax cuts could thing needs worry making life better supporters involves tax cuts williams said middle class finances also squeezed high rising costs health care higher education housing noted joseph cohen sociologist queens college new york city weve cutting taxes since reagan things getting worse middle class since reagan said ___ contact chris 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<p>In 2018, you may resolve to <a href="https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/how-to-save-money/" type="external">save more</a> , spend less or <a href="https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/finance/how-to-build-a-budget/" type="external">budget better</a> . Whatever your money goal, the one common key to your success is shopping smart. That means knowing the best time to buy just about anything.</p>
<p>To help you out, we've created a purchase calendar to help you plan your shopping for the year.</p>
<p>JANUARY</p>
<p>With a fresh page on the calendar comes a fresh start for sales. These products are discounted in <a href="https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/shopping/buy-skip-january/" type="external">January</a> :</p>
<p>—BEDDING AND LINENS. Department stores hold bedding and linen "white sales" in January with deep discounts on sheets and towels.</p>
<p>—FITNESS EQUIPMENT. Retailers know you want to get in shape. Expect fitness equipment and apparel sales to abound at sporting goods stores.</p>
<p>—TVS AND ELECTRONICS. Just before the Super Bowl, retailers normally discount their selections of HDTVs and other home-theater essentials.</p>
<p>FEBRUARY</p>
<p>It's the month of love and gift-giving, but February might be a better time to buy major items for yourself than trinkets for your loved one. Options include:</p>
<p>—TVS. TV sales spill over from January into February. Aside from Black Friday, this is one of the prime times to buy a new TV.</p>
<p>—WINTER PRODUCTS. With winter winding down, stores will be looking to unload their inventories of cold-weather products. Look for sales on apparel and winter sporting accessories.</p>
<p>—HOME GOODS. Presidents Day is Feb. 19 this year. Expect retailers to have home and apparel sales on that Monday and the weekend preceding the holiday.</p>
<p>MARCH</p>
<p>There aren't any major shopping holidays in March, but that doesn't mean sales are lacking. Look for sales on these products:</p>
<p>—GOLF CLUBS. Expect to find discounts on golf clubs in preparation for summer. Whenever consumer demand is down, prices usually are, too.</p>
<p>—GRILLS. Buy your summer grilling necessities in March to avoid the spike in prices that will come when summer arrives.</p>
<p>—ST. PATRICK'S DAY ESSENTIALS. St. Patrick's Day is March 17. Around that time, online retailers and department stores usually discount their selection of green-themed clothing, party supplies and jewelry.</p>
<p>APRIL</p>
<p>April has its fair share of spring deals and discounts, including:</p>
<p>—VACUUMS. Buying a vacuum isn't the most exciting purchase, but it'll be less painful if you take advantage of a spring cleaning sale. Look for these at department stores as well as manufacturers like Dyson.</p>
<p>—JEWELRY. The general rule is to avoid buying jewelry close to major holidays. Try to get a good deal when jewelers have a slower period and may be more motivated to make sales.</p>
<p>—FREEBIES. Year after year, retailers and restaurants try to lighten the burden of tax day with discounts and freebies. Keep an eye out for these around mid-April. Tax day this year is April 17.</p>
<p>MAY</p>
<p>April showers bring May flowers — and sales blossom then, too. Here's a look at some products to consider buying this month:</p>
<p>—SPRING CLEANING NECESSITIES. Before summer arrives, act on spring cleaning discounts on vacuums and mops.</p>
<p>—SMALL KITCHEN APPLIANCES. Use May discounts as a perfect opportunity to buy small kitchen appliances, such as coffee makers and blenders. These products normally are included in Memorial Day sales.</p>
<p>—FURNITURE. Three of the biggest blowout shopping days are Black Friday, Labor Day and Memorial Day. This year, Memorial Day is May 28. Look for plenty of furniture and home-decor discounts from big-box stores.</p>
<p>JUNE</p>
<p>June may be one of the shorter months of the year, but its supply of shopping events isn't lacking. Smart purchases include these products:</p>
<p>—LINGERIE. Stock up on undergarments in June. That's when Victoria's Secret has been known to host its famed Semi-Annual Sale. The sale usually occurs in December also.</p>
<p>—GYM MEMBERSHIPS. Consider buying a gym membership during the summer, and don't forget to negotiate to get the best possible deal. Gyms may be more eager for sign-ups at this time.</p>
<p>—GIFTS FOR DAD. You don't have to buy dad's gift at full price. Expect Father's Day deals this month, especially the closer you get to the holiday on June 17.</p>
<p>JULY</p>
<p>The temperature usually rises in July, but the prices of certain products drop. Consider buying these items this month:</p>
<p>—APPAREL. If you don't want to wait for end-of-summer sales, buy clothes in midsummer. You'll likely find a better price than you would at the start of the season.</p>
<p>—PATRIOTIC ITEMS. Retailers like a reason to celebrate. In the days leading up to the Fourth of July, there is usually an abundance of sales on red, white and blue products (and products that are all three colors), as well as on sporting goods, jewelry and furniture.</p>
<p>—PERSONAL ELECTRONICS. Black Friday is a big deal day that falls in November, but many retailers have begun hosting Black Friday in July sales, including Best Buy and Amazon. Expect discounts in nearly every product category.</p>
<p>AUGUST</p>
<p>Close out summer by buying summer products? That's right. Look for end-of-season clearance sales in August:</p>
<p>—BACK-TO-SCHOOL SUPPLIES. The start of school marks the need to buy small items such as pencils and expensive ones like laptops. Generally, the closer to the start of the school year you buy, the better your chances of getting a good price.</p>
<p>—LAWN MOWERS. Ride out the end of summer with a big deal on lawn mowers and other seasonal outdoor equipment.</p>
<p>—SWIMSUITS. There may not be many swimming days left by the time August rolls around, but that's exactly why swimsuit clearance sales will crest. Buy your swimsuits now to stock up for next year.</p>
<p>SEPTEMBER</p>
<p>With deals on items as varied as electronics and back-to-school supplies, September is a surprising month for good buys. Pick up reasonable prices in these departments:</p>
<p>—MATTRESSES. Year after year, September is the time for mattress sales. Expect these from department stores and mattress centers, usually as a part of Labor Day deals.</p>
<p>—IPHONES. Apple has been known to announce its new iPhone installments at the company's annual keynote in September. Usually, the unveiling is followed by a drop in prices on the current phones in anticipation of the new models.</p>
<p>—APPLIANCES. This year, Labor Day falls on Sept. 3. Expect a series of blowout deals in the week leading up to the holiday, including promotions on appliances big and small.</p>
<p>OCTOBER</p>
<p>Don't let the cost of shopping spook you during the Halloween season. There will be plenty of deals on these product categories in October:</p>
<p>—OUTDOOR FURNITURE. People generally spend less time outdoors when the temperature drops. Expect deals on patio furniture and outdoor living products when summer ends.</p>
<p>—JEANS. Fall inventory arrives in stores in August and September, but you'll pay top dollar unless you wait a few weeks. October is a great time to buy a new pair of jeans.</p>
<p>—CANDY. The closer you get to Oct. 31, the better your chance at snagging a discounted bag of candy for your trick-or-treaters.</p>
<p>NOVEMBER</p>
<p>November is the month for Black Friday sales, which means some of the most popular tech products fall to their lowest prices:</p>
<p>—TABLETS AND LAPTOPS. Electronics take center stage during Black Friday sales. Look for discounts on smartphones and activity trackers, too.</p>
<p>—GAMING SYSTEMS. Black Friday is the best time to buy a discounted gaming console or gaming system bundle like Xbox or PlayStation.</p>
<p>—HOME APPLIANCES. Reserve your major home appliance purchase — refrigerator, washer, dryer, dishwasher, etc. — for Black Friday deals. Often, sales on these can be found throughout the month.</p>
<p>DECEMBER</p>
<p>The end of the year is just the beginning for discounts in some product categories. Look for sale prices on these products in December:</p>
<p>—TOYS. Since toys are a popular Christmas gift, stores generally host big toy sales as the holiday season draws to a close.</p>
<p>—CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS. Beginning the day after Christmas, shop sales for deep discounts — often upward of 50 percent — on decorations, wrapping paper, ornaments, artificial trees and similar seasonal fixings.</p>
<p>—CARS. The end of December is an ideal time to buy a car. That's when dealerships are looking to meet end-of-year sales quotas.</p>
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<p>This article originally appeared on the personal finance website <a href="https://nerd.me/homehttps:/nerd.me/home" type="external">NerdWallet</a> . Courtney Jespersen is a writer at NerdWallet. Email: <a href="[email protected]" type="external">[email protected]</a> . Twitter: @courtneynerd.</p>
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<p>In 2018, you may resolve to <a href="https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/how-to-save-money/" type="external">save more</a> , spend less or <a href="https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/finance/how-to-build-a-budget/" type="external">budget better</a> . Whatever your money goal, the one common key to your success is shopping smart. That means knowing the best time to buy just about anything.</p>
<p>To help you out, we've created a purchase calendar to help you plan your shopping for the year.</p>
<p>JANUARY</p>
<p>With a fresh page on the calendar comes a fresh start for sales. These products are discounted in <a href="https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/shopping/buy-skip-january/" type="external">January</a> :</p>
<p>—BEDDING AND LINENS. Department stores hold bedding and linen "white sales" in January with deep discounts on sheets and towels.</p>
<p>—FITNESS EQUIPMENT. Retailers know you want to get in shape. Expect fitness equipment and apparel sales to abound at sporting goods stores.</p>
<p>—TVS AND ELECTRONICS. Just before the Super Bowl, retailers normally discount their selections of HDTVs and other home-theater essentials.</p>
<p>FEBRUARY</p>
<p>It's the month of love and gift-giving, but February might be a better time to buy major items for yourself than trinkets for your loved one. Options include:</p>
<p>—TVS. TV sales spill over from January into February. Aside from Black Friday, this is one of the prime times to buy a new TV.</p>
<p>—WINTER PRODUCTS. With winter winding down, stores will be looking to unload their inventories of cold-weather products. Look for sales on apparel and winter sporting accessories.</p>
<p>—HOME GOODS. Presidents Day is Feb. 19 this year. Expect retailers to have home and apparel sales on that Monday and the weekend preceding the holiday.</p>
<p>MARCH</p>
<p>There aren't any major shopping holidays in March, but that doesn't mean sales are lacking. Look for sales on these products:</p>
<p>—GOLF CLUBS. Expect to find discounts on golf clubs in preparation for summer. Whenever consumer demand is down, prices usually are, too.</p>
<p>—GRILLS. Buy your summer grilling necessities in March to avoid the spike in prices that will come when summer arrives.</p>
<p>—ST. PATRICK'S DAY ESSENTIALS. St. Patrick's Day is March 17. Around that time, online retailers and department stores usually discount their selection of green-themed clothing, party supplies and jewelry.</p>
<p>APRIL</p>
<p>April has its fair share of spring deals and discounts, including:</p>
<p>—VACUUMS. Buying a vacuum isn't the most exciting purchase, but it'll be less painful if you take advantage of a spring cleaning sale. Look for these at department stores as well as manufacturers like Dyson.</p>
<p>—JEWELRY. The general rule is to avoid buying jewelry close to major holidays. Try to get a good deal when jewelers have a slower period and may be more motivated to make sales.</p>
<p>—FREEBIES. Year after year, retailers and restaurants try to lighten the burden of tax day with discounts and freebies. Keep an eye out for these around mid-April. Tax day this year is April 17.</p>
<p>MAY</p>
<p>April showers bring May flowers — and sales blossom then, too. Here's a look at some products to consider buying this month:</p>
<p>—SPRING CLEANING NECESSITIES. Before summer arrives, act on spring cleaning discounts on vacuums and mops.</p>
<p>—SMALL KITCHEN APPLIANCES. Use May discounts as a perfect opportunity to buy small kitchen appliances, such as coffee makers and blenders. These products normally are included in Memorial Day sales.</p>
<p>—FURNITURE. Three of the biggest blowout shopping days are Black Friday, Labor Day and Memorial Day. This year, Memorial Day is May 28. Look for plenty of furniture and home-decor discounts from big-box stores.</p>
<p>JUNE</p>
<p>June may be one of the shorter months of the year, but its supply of shopping events isn't lacking. Smart purchases include these products:</p>
<p>—LINGERIE. Stock up on undergarments in June. That's when Victoria's Secret has been known to host its famed Semi-Annual Sale. The sale usually occurs in December also.</p>
<p>—GYM MEMBERSHIPS. Consider buying a gym membership during the summer, and don't forget to negotiate to get the best possible deal. Gyms may be more eager for sign-ups at this time.</p>
<p>—GIFTS FOR DAD. You don't have to buy dad's gift at full price. Expect Father's Day deals this month, especially the closer you get to the holiday on June 17.</p>
<p>JULY</p>
<p>The temperature usually rises in July, but the prices of certain products drop. Consider buying these items this month:</p>
<p>—APPAREL. If you don't want to wait for end-of-summer sales, buy clothes in midsummer. You'll likely find a better price than you would at the start of the season.</p>
<p>—PATRIOTIC ITEMS. Retailers like a reason to celebrate. In the days leading up to the Fourth of July, there is usually an abundance of sales on red, white and blue products (and products that are all three colors), as well as on sporting goods, jewelry and furniture.</p>
<p>—PERSONAL ELECTRONICS. Black Friday is a big deal day that falls in November, but many retailers have begun hosting Black Friday in July sales, including Best Buy and Amazon. Expect discounts in nearly every product category.</p>
<p>AUGUST</p>
<p>Close out summer by buying summer products? That's right. Look for end-of-season clearance sales in August:</p>
<p>—BACK-TO-SCHOOL SUPPLIES. The start of school marks the need to buy small items such as pencils and expensive ones like laptops. Generally, the closer to the start of the school year you buy, the better your chances of getting a good price.</p>
<p>—LAWN MOWERS. Ride out the end of summer with a big deal on lawn mowers and other seasonal outdoor equipment.</p>
<p>—SWIMSUITS. There may not be many swimming days left by the time August rolls around, but that's exactly why swimsuit clearance sales will crest. Buy your swimsuits now to stock up for next year.</p>
<p>SEPTEMBER</p>
<p>With deals on items as varied as electronics and back-to-school supplies, September is a surprising month for good buys. Pick up reasonable prices in these departments:</p>
<p>—MATTRESSES. Year after year, September is the time for mattress sales. Expect these from department stores and mattress centers, usually as a part of Labor Day deals.</p>
<p>—IPHONES. Apple has been known to announce its new iPhone installments at the company's annual keynote in September. Usually, the unveiling is followed by a drop in prices on the current phones in anticipation of the new models.</p>
<p>—APPLIANCES. This year, Labor Day falls on Sept. 3. Expect a series of blowout deals in the week leading up to the holiday, including promotions on appliances big and small.</p>
<p>OCTOBER</p>
<p>Don't let the cost of shopping spook you during the Halloween season. There will be plenty of deals on these product categories in October:</p>
<p>—OUTDOOR FURNITURE. People generally spend less time outdoors when the temperature drops. Expect deals on patio furniture and outdoor living products when summer ends.</p>
<p>—JEANS. Fall inventory arrives in stores in August and September, but you'll pay top dollar unless you wait a few weeks. October is a great time to buy a new pair of jeans.</p>
<p>—CANDY. The closer you get to Oct. 31, the better your chance at snagging a discounted bag of candy for your trick-or-treaters.</p>
<p>NOVEMBER</p>
<p>November is the month for Black Friday sales, which means some of the most popular tech products fall to their lowest prices:</p>
<p>—TABLETS AND LAPTOPS. Electronics take center stage during Black Friday sales. Look for discounts on smartphones and activity trackers, too.</p>
<p>—GAMING SYSTEMS. Black Friday is the best time to buy a discounted gaming console or gaming system bundle like Xbox or PlayStation.</p>
<p>—HOME APPLIANCES. Reserve your major home appliance purchase — refrigerator, washer, dryer, dishwasher, etc. — for Black Friday deals. Often, sales on these can be found throughout the month.</p>
<p>DECEMBER</p>
<p>The end of the year is just the beginning for discounts in some product categories. Look for sale prices on these products in December:</p>
<p>—TOYS. Since toys are a popular Christmas gift, stores generally host big toy sales as the holiday season draws to a close.</p>
<p>—CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS. Beginning the day after Christmas, shop sales for deep discounts — often upward of 50 percent — on decorations, wrapping paper, ornaments, artificial trees and similar seasonal fixings.</p>
<p>—CARS. The end of December is an ideal time to buy a car. That's when dealerships are looking to meet end-of-year sales quotas.</p>
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<p>This article originally appeared on the personal finance website <a href="https://nerd.me/homehttps:/nerd.me/home" type="external">NerdWallet</a> . Courtney Jespersen is a writer at NerdWallet. Email: <a href="[email protected]" type="external">[email protected]</a> . Twitter: @courtneynerd.</p>
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black friday sales means popular tech products fall lowest prices tablets laptops electronics take center stage black friday sales look discounts smartphones activity trackers gaming systems black friday best time buy discounted gaming console gaming system bundle like xbox playstation home appliances reserve major home appliance purchase refrigerator washer dryer dishwasher etc black friday deals often sales found throughout month december end year beginning discounts product categories look sale prices products december toys since toys popular christmas gift stores generally host big toy sales holiday season draws close christmas decorations beginning day christmas shop sales deep discounts often upward 50 percent decorations wrapping paper ornaments artificial trees similar seasonal fixings cars end december ideal time buy car thats dealerships looking meet endofyear sales quotas _____ article originally appeared personal finance website nerdwallet courtney jespersen writer nerdwallet email courtneynerdwalletcom twitter courtneynerd related links nerdwallet save money daily monthly long term httpswwwnerdwalletcombloghowtosavemoneyutm_campaignct_prodamputm_sourceapamputm_mediummpsyn nerdwallet create budget httpswwwnerdwalletcomblogfinancehowtobuildabudgetutm_campaignct_prodamputm_sourceapamputm_mediummpsyn nerdwallet buy skip january httpswwwnerdwalletcomblogshoppingbuyskipjanuaryutm_campaignct_prodamputm_sourceapamputm_mediummpsyn 2018 may resolve save spend less budget better whatever money goal one common key success shopping smart means knowing best time buy anything help weve created purchase calendar help plan shopping year january fresh page calendar comes fresh start sales products discounted january bedding linens department stores hold bedding linen white sales january deep discounts sheets towels fitness equipment retailers know want get shape expect fitness equipment apparel sales abound sporting goods stores tvs electronics super bowl retailers normally discount selections hdtvs hometheater essentials february month love giftgiving february might better time buy major items trinkets loved one options include tvs tv sales spill january february aside black friday one prime times buy new tv winter products winter winding stores looking unload inventories coldweather products look sales apparel winter sporting accessories home goods presidents day feb 19 year expect retailers home apparel sales monday weekend preceding holiday march arent major shopping holidays march doesnt mean sales lacking look sales products golf clubs expect find discounts golf clubs preparation summer whenever consumer demand prices usually grills buy summer grilling necessities march avoid spike prices come summer arrives st patricks day essentials st patricks day march 17 around time online retailers department stores usually discount selection greenthemed clothing party supplies jewelry april april fair share spring deals discounts including vacuums buying vacuum isnt exciting purchase itll less painful take advantage spring cleaning sale look department stores well manufacturers like dyson jewelry general rule avoid buying jewelry close major holidays try get good deal jewelers slower period may motivated make sales freebies year year retailers restaurants try lighten burden tax day discounts freebies keep eye around midapril tax day year april 17 may april showers bring may flowers sales blossom heres look products consider buying month spring cleaning necessities summer arrives act spring cleaning discounts vacuums mops small kitchen appliances use may discounts perfect opportunity buy small kitchen appliances coffee makers blenders products normally included memorial day sales furniture three biggest blowout shopping days black friday labor day memorial day year memorial day may 28 look plenty furniture homedecor discounts bigbox stores june june may one shorter months year supply shopping events isnt lacking smart purchases include products lingerie stock undergarments june thats victorias secret known host famed semiannual sale sale usually occurs december also gym memberships consider buying gym membership summer dont forget negotiate get best possible deal gyms may eager signups time gifts dad dont buy dads gift full price expect fathers day deals month especially closer get holiday june 17 july temperature usually rises july prices certain products drop consider buying items month apparel dont want wait endofsummer sales buy clothes midsummer youll likely find better price would start season patriotic items retailers like reason celebrate days leading fourth july usually abundance sales red white blue products products three colors well sporting goods jewelry furniture personal electronics black friday big deal day falls november many retailers begun hosting black friday july sales including best buy amazon expect discounts nearly every product category august close summer buying summer products thats right look endofseason clearance sales august backtoschool supplies start school marks need buy small items pencils expensive ones like laptops generally closer start school year buy better chances getting good price lawn mowers ride end summer big deal lawn mowers seasonal outdoor equipment swimsuits may many swimming days left time august rolls around thats exactly swimsuit clearance sales crest buy swimsuits stock next year september deals items varied electronics backtoschool supplies september surprising month good buys pick reasonable prices departments mattresses year year september time mattress sales expect department stores mattress centers usually part labor day deals iphones apple known announce new iphone installments companys annual keynote september usually unveiling followed drop prices current phones anticipation new models appliances year labor day falls sept 3 expect series blowout deals week leading holiday including promotions appliances big small october dont let cost shopping spook halloween season plenty deals product categories october outdoor furniture people generally spend less time outdoors temperature drops expect deals patio furniture outdoor living products summer ends jeans fall inventory arrives stores august september youll pay top dollar unless wait weeks october great time buy new pair jeans candy closer get oct 31 better chance snagging discounted bag candy trickortreaters november november month black friday sales means popular tech products fall lowest prices tablets laptops electronics take center stage black friday sales look discounts smartphones activity trackers gaming systems black friday best time buy discounted gaming console gaming system bundle like xbox playstation home appliances reserve major home appliance purchase refrigerator washer dryer dishwasher etc black friday deals often sales found throughout month december end year beginning discounts product categories look sale prices products december toys since toys popular christmas gift stores generally host big toy sales holiday season draws close christmas decorations beginning day christmas shop sales deep discounts often upward 50 percent decorations wrapping paper ornaments artificial trees similar seasonal fixings cars end december ideal time buy car thats dealerships looking meet endofyear sales quotas _____ article originally appeared personal finance website nerdwallet courtney jespersen writer nerdwallet email courtneynerdwalletcom twitter courtneynerd related links nerdwallet save money daily monthly long term httpswwwnerdwalletcombloghowtosavemoneyutm_campaignct_prodamputm_sourceapamputm_mediummpsyn nerdwallet create budget httpswwwnerdwalletcomblogfinancehowtobuildabudgetutm_campaignct_prodamputm_sourceapamputm_mediummpsyn nerdwallet buy skip january httpswwwnerdwalletcomblogshoppingbuyskipjanuaryutm_campaignct_prodamputm_sourceapamputm_mediummpsyn
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<p>SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Pope Francis met on Tuesday with survivors of priests who sexually abused them, wept with them and apologized for the "irreparable damage" they suffered, his spokesman said.</p>
<p>The pontiff also acknowledged the "pain" of priests who have been held collectively responsible for the crimes of a few, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke told reporters at the end of the day.</p>
<p>Francis dove head-first into Chile's sex abuse scandal on his first full day in Santiago that came amid unprecedented opposition to his visit: Three more churches were torched overnight, including one burned to the ground in the southern Araucania region where Francis celebrates Mass on Wednesday. Police used tear gas and water cannons to break up an anti-pope protest outside Francis' big open-air Mass in the capital, Santiago.</p>
<p>Despite the incidents, huge numbers of Chileans turned out to see the pope, including an estimated 400,000 for his Mass, and he brought some inmates to tears with an emotional visit to a women's prison.</p>
<p>But his meeting with abuse survivors and comments in his first speech of the day were what many Chileans, incensed by years of abuse scandal and cover-up, were waiting for.</p>
<p>Burke said Francis met with a small group of abuse victims after lunch, listening to their stories and praying with them. The spokesman gave no details, other than to say the pope "listened to them, prayed with them and wept with them."</p>
<p>Earlier in the day, Francis told Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, lawmakers, judges and other authorities that he felt "bound to express my pain and shame" that some of Chile's clergy had sexually abused children in their care.</p>
<p>"I am one with my brother bishops, for it is right to ask forgiveness and make every effort to support the victims, even as we commit ourselves to ensuring that such things do not happen again," the pope said.</p>
<p>Francis did not refer by name to Chile's most notorious pedophile priest, the Rev. Fernando Karadima, who in 2011 was barred from all pastoral duties and sanctioned by the Vatican to a lifetime of "penance and prayer" for sexually molesting minors. Nor did he refer to the fact that the emeritus archbishop of Santiago, a top papal adviser, has acknowledged he knew of complaints against Karadima but didn't remove him from ministry.</p>
<p>Karadima had been a politically connected, charismatic and powerful priest who ministered to a wealthy Santiago community and produced dozens of priestly vocations and five bishops. Victims went public with their accusations in 2010 after complaining for years to church authorities that Karadima had kissed and fondled them when they were teenagers.</p>
<p>While the cover-up continued to roil the church, many Chileans are still furious over Francis' subsequent decision in 2015 to appoint a Karadima protege as bishop of the southern city of Osorno. Bishop Juan Barros has denied knowing about Karadima's abuse but many Chileans don't believe him, and his appointment has badly split the diocese.</p>
<p>Francis referred again to the scandal later in the day, but this time his words were directed at the hundreds of priests gathered in Santiago's cathedral who have seen their influence and moral authority plummet as a result of the Karadima case and cover-up.</p>
<p>Francis told them that the scandal had not only caused pain in the victims, but in the broader church community and among anyone who wears a clerical collar.</p>
<p>He said he knew the pain of priests and nuns "who after working so hard, have seen the harm that has led to suspicion and questioning; in some or many of you this has been a source of doubt, fear or lack of confidence." He said some priests had even been insulted in the subway or walking on the street, and that by wearing clerical attire they had "paid a heavy price." But he urged them to press on.</p>
<p>It was similar to the message that Francis delivered to American bishops in 2015 — one that infuriated sex abuse survivors who accused the pope of drawing a moral equivalency between the lifelong trauma endured by people who were raped as children, and the pain of clergymen who were now looked upon with suspicion.</p>
<p>"Sex abuse is Pope Francis' weakest spot in terms of his credibility," said Massimo Faggioli, a Vatican expert and theology professor at Villanova University in Philadelphia. "It is surprising that the pope and his entourage don't understand that they need to be more forthcoming on this issue."</p>
<p>Anne Barrett Doyle of the online abuse database, BishopAccountability.org, praised Francis for opening his visit with the apology, but said Chileans expect him to take action against complicit church leaders.</p>
<p>"This is a crucial opportunity for Francis. With luck, he will not make the mistake of his brother bishops in underestimating the savviness and moral outrage of the Chilean people," said Barrett Doyle, who last week released research showing nearly 80 Chilean priests have been credibly accused or convicted of abuse.</p>
<p>The Karadima scandal and long cover-up has caused a crisis for the church in Chile, with a recent Latinbarometro survey saying the case was responsible for a significant drop in the number of Chileans who call themselves Catholic, as well as a fall in confidence in the church as an institution.</p>
<p>That distrust extends to Francis, who is making his first visit as pope to the country of 17 million people. The Argentine pope is nearly a native son, having studied in Chile during his Jesuit novitiate and he knows the country well. But Chileans gave him the lowest approval rating among the 18 Latin American nations in the survey.</p>
<p>"People are leaving the church because they don't find a protective space there," said Juan Carlos Claret, spokesman for a group of church members in Osorno that has opposed Barros' appointment as bishop. "The pastors are eating the flock."</p>
<p>For his part, Barros, who concelebrated Tuesday's open-air Mass with Francis and other bishops, repeated his assertion that he knew nothing of Karadima's crimes.</p>
<p>"Many lies have been made about me," he said.</p>
<p>At a protest near the site of the Santiago Mass, police fired tear gas and water cannons before detaining several dozen demonstrators, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene. Protesters carried signs with messages reading "Burn, pope!" and "We don't care about the pope!"</p>
<p>Other groups also called for demonstrations against the pontiff.</p>
<p>Victor Hugo Robles, an activist in Chile's lesbian and gay community, said the Vatican tries to paint an image of the pope as being close to the people, particularly those with the most needs.</p>
<p>"We are the ones who need help," said Robles. "Gay people, people living with AIDS. When it comes to those things, the church has an attitude of intolerance, of disgust."</p>
<p>Still, many were excited to see the pope and expressed appreciation for his apology for sex abuse.</p>
<p>"When people make a mistake it's necessary that they ask for forgiveness," said Monica Reyes, a nursing assistant who attended the pope's speech at the presidential palace.</p>
<p>The pope will try to inject new energy into the church during his visit, which includes sessions with migrants, members of Chile's Mapuche indigenous group and victims of the 1973-1990 military dictatorship.</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>Associated Press writers Eva Vergara and Patricia Luna and AP video journalist Paul Byrne contributed to this report.</p>
<p>SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Pope Francis met on Tuesday with survivors of priests who sexually abused them, wept with them and apologized for the "irreparable damage" they suffered, his spokesman said.</p>
<p>The pontiff also acknowledged the "pain" of priests who have been held collectively responsible for the crimes of a few, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke told reporters at the end of the day.</p>
<p>Francis dove head-first into Chile's sex abuse scandal on his first full day in Santiago that came amid unprecedented opposition to his visit: Three more churches were torched overnight, including one burned to the ground in the southern Araucania region where Francis celebrates Mass on Wednesday. Police used tear gas and water cannons to break up an anti-pope protest outside Francis' big open-air Mass in the capital, Santiago.</p>
<p>Despite the incidents, huge numbers of Chileans turned out to see the pope, including an estimated 400,000 for his Mass, and he brought some inmates to tears with an emotional visit to a women's prison.</p>
<p>But his meeting with abuse survivors and comments in his first speech of the day were what many Chileans, incensed by years of abuse scandal and cover-up, were waiting for.</p>
<p>Burke said Francis met with a small group of abuse victims after lunch, listening to their stories and praying with them. The spokesman gave no details, other than to say the pope "listened to them, prayed with them and wept with them."</p>
<p>Earlier in the day, Francis told Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, lawmakers, judges and other authorities that he felt "bound to express my pain and shame" that some of Chile's clergy had sexually abused children in their care.</p>
<p>"I am one with my brother bishops, for it is right to ask forgiveness and make every effort to support the victims, even as we commit ourselves to ensuring that such things do not happen again," the pope said.</p>
<p>Francis did not refer by name to Chile's most notorious pedophile priest, the Rev. Fernando Karadima, who in 2011 was barred from all pastoral duties and sanctioned by the Vatican to a lifetime of "penance and prayer" for sexually molesting minors. Nor did he refer to the fact that the emeritus archbishop of Santiago, a top papal adviser, has acknowledged he knew of complaints against Karadima but didn't remove him from ministry.</p>
<p>Karadima had been a politically connected, charismatic and powerful priest who ministered to a wealthy Santiago community and produced dozens of priestly vocations and five bishops. Victims went public with their accusations in 2010 after complaining for years to church authorities that Karadima had kissed and fondled them when they were teenagers.</p>
<p>While the cover-up continued to roil the church, many Chileans are still furious over Francis' subsequent decision in 2015 to appoint a Karadima protege as bishop of the southern city of Osorno. Bishop Juan Barros has denied knowing about Karadima's abuse but many Chileans don't believe him, and his appointment has badly split the diocese.</p>
<p>Francis referred again to the scandal later in the day, but this time his words were directed at the hundreds of priests gathered in Santiago's cathedral who have seen their influence and moral authority plummet as a result of the Karadima case and cover-up.</p>
<p>Francis told them that the scandal had not only caused pain in the victims, but in the broader church community and among anyone who wears a clerical collar.</p>
<p>He said he knew the pain of priests and nuns "who after working so hard, have seen the harm that has led to suspicion and questioning; in some or many of you this has been a source of doubt, fear or lack of confidence." He said some priests had even been insulted in the subway or walking on the street, and that by wearing clerical attire they had "paid a heavy price." But he urged them to press on.</p>
<p>It was similar to the message that Francis delivered to American bishops in 2015 — one that infuriated sex abuse survivors who accused the pope of drawing a moral equivalency between the lifelong trauma endured by people who were raped as children, and the pain of clergymen who were now looked upon with suspicion.</p>
<p>"Sex abuse is Pope Francis' weakest spot in terms of his credibility," said Massimo Faggioli, a Vatican expert and theology professor at Villanova University in Philadelphia. "It is surprising that the pope and his entourage don't understand that they need to be more forthcoming on this issue."</p>
<p>Anne Barrett Doyle of the online abuse database, BishopAccountability.org, praised Francis for opening his visit with the apology, but said Chileans expect him to take action against complicit church leaders.</p>
<p>"This is a crucial opportunity for Francis. With luck, he will not make the mistake of his brother bishops in underestimating the savviness and moral outrage of the Chilean people," said Barrett Doyle, who last week released research showing nearly 80 Chilean priests have been credibly accused or convicted of abuse.</p>
<p>The Karadima scandal and long cover-up has caused a crisis for the church in Chile, with a recent Latinbarometro survey saying the case was responsible for a significant drop in the number of Chileans who call themselves Catholic, as well as a fall in confidence in the church as an institution.</p>
<p>That distrust extends to Francis, who is making his first visit as pope to the country of 17 million people. The Argentine pope is nearly a native son, having studied in Chile during his Jesuit novitiate and he knows the country well. But Chileans gave him the lowest approval rating among the 18 Latin American nations in the survey.</p>
<p>"People are leaving the church because they don't find a protective space there," said Juan Carlos Claret, spokesman for a group of church members in Osorno that has opposed Barros' appointment as bishop. "The pastors are eating the flock."</p>
<p>For his part, Barros, who concelebrated Tuesday's open-air Mass with Francis and other bishops, repeated his assertion that he knew nothing of Karadima's crimes.</p>
<p>"Many lies have been made about me," he said.</p>
<p>At a protest near the site of the Santiago Mass, police fired tear gas and water cannons before detaining several dozen demonstrators, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene. Protesters carried signs with messages reading "Burn, pope!" and "We don't care about the pope!"</p>
<p>Other groups also called for demonstrations against the pontiff.</p>
<p>Victor Hugo Robles, an activist in Chile's lesbian and gay community, said the Vatican tries to paint an image of the pope as being close to the people, particularly those with the most needs.</p>
<p>"We are the ones who need help," said Robles. "Gay people, people living with AIDS. When it comes to those things, the church has an attitude of intolerance, of disgust."</p>
<p>Still, many were excited to see the pope and expressed appreciation for his apology for sex abuse.</p>
<p>"When people make a mistake it's necessary that they ask for forgiveness," said Monica Reyes, a nursing assistant who attended the pope's speech at the presidential palace.</p>
<p>The pope will try to inject new energy into the church during his visit, which includes sessions with migrants, members of Chile's Mapuche indigenous group and victims of the 1973-1990 military dictatorship.</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>Associated Press writers Eva Vergara and Patricia Luna and AP video journalist Paul Byrne contributed to this report.</p>
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francis told chilean president michelle bachelet lawmakers judges authorities felt bound express pain shame chiles clergy sexually abused children care one brother bishops right ask forgiveness make every effort support victims even commit ensuring things happen pope said francis refer name chiles notorious pedophile priest rev fernando karadima 2011 barred pastoral duties sanctioned vatican lifetime penance prayer sexually molesting minors refer fact emeritus archbishop santiago top papal adviser acknowledged knew complaints karadima didnt remove ministry karadima politically connected charismatic powerful priest ministered wealthy santiago community produced dozens priestly vocations five bishops victims went public accusations 2010 complaining years church authorities karadima kissed fondled teenagers coverup continued roil church many chileans still furious francis subsequent decision 2015 appoint karadima protege bishop southern city osorno bishop juan barros denied knowing karadimas abuse many chileans dont believe appointment badly split diocese francis referred scandal later day time words directed hundreds priests gathered santiagos cathedral seen influence moral authority plummet result karadima case coverup francis told scandal caused pain victims broader church community among anyone wears clerical collar said knew pain priests nuns working hard seen harm led suspicion questioning many source doubt fear lack confidence said priests even insulted subway walking street wearing clerical attire paid heavy price urged press similar message francis delivered american bishops 2015 one infuriated sex abuse survivors accused pope drawing moral equivalency lifelong trauma endured people raped children pain clergymen looked upon suspicion sex abuse pope francis weakest spot terms credibility said massimo faggioli vatican expert theology professor villanova university philadelphia surprising pope entourage dont understand need forthcoming issue anne barrett doyle online abuse database bishopaccountabilityorg praised francis opening visit apology said chileans expect take action complicit church leaders crucial opportunity francis luck make mistake brother bishops underestimating savviness moral outrage chilean people said barrett doyle last week released research showing nearly 80 chilean priests credibly accused convicted abuse karadima scandal long coverup caused crisis church chile recent latinbarometro survey saying case responsible significant drop number chileans call catholic well fall confidence church institution distrust extends francis making first visit pope country 17 million people argentine pope nearly native son studied chile jesuit novitiate knows country well chileans gave lowest approval rating among 18 latin american nations survey people leaving church dont find protective space said juan carlos claret spokesman group church members osorno opposed barros appointment bishop pastors eating flock part barros concelebrated tuesdays openair mass francis bishops repeated assertion knew nothing karadimas crimes many lies made said protest near site santiago mass police fired tear gas water cannons detaining several dozen demonstrators according associated press photographer scene protesters carried signs messages reading burn pope dont care pope groups also called demonstrations pontiff victor hugo robles activist chiles lesbian gay community said vatican tries paint image pope close people particularly needs ones need help said robles gay people people living aids comes things church attitude intolerance disgust still many excited see pope expressed appreciation apology sex abuse people make mistake necessary ask forgiveness said monica reyes nursing assistant attended popes speech presidential palace pope try inject new energy church visit includes sessions migrants members chiles mapuche indigenous group victims 19731990 military dictatorship ___ associated press writers eva vergara patricia luna ap video journalist paul byrne contributed report santiago chile ap pope francis met tuesday survivors priests sexually abused wept apologized irreparable damage suffered spokesman said pontiff also acknowledged pain priests held collectively responsible crimes vatican spokesman greg burke told reporters end day francis dove headfirst chiles sex abuse scandal first full day santiago came amid unprecedented opposition visit three churches torched overnight including one burned ground southern araucania region francis celebrates mass wednesday police used tear gas water cannons break antipope protest outside francis big openair mass capital santiago despite incidents huge numbers chileans turned see pope including estimated 400000 mass brought inmates tears emotional visit womens prison meeting abuse survivors comments first speech day many chileans incensed years abuse scandal coverup waiting burke said francis met small group abuse victims lunch listening stories praying spokesman gave details say pope listened prayed wept earlier day francis told chilean president michelle bachelet lawmakers judges authorities felt bound express pain shame chiles clergy sexually abused children care one brother bishops right ask forgiveness make every effort support victims even commit ensuring things happen pope said francis refer name chiles notorious pedophile priest rev fernando karadima 2011 barred pastoral duties sanctioned vatican lifetime penance prayer sexually molesting minors refer fact emeritus archbishop santiago top papal adviser acknowledged knew complaints karadima didnt remove ministry karadima politically connected charismatic powerful priest ministered wealthy santiago community produced dozens priestly vocations five bishops victims went public accusations 2010 complaining years church authorities karadima kissed fondled teenagers coverup continued roil church many chileans still furious francis subsequent decision 2015 appoint karadima protege bishop southern city osorno bishop juan barros denied knowing karadimas abuse many chileans dont believe appointment badly split diocese francis referred scandal later day time words directed hundreds priests gathered santiagos cathedral seen influence moral authority plummet result karadima case coverup francis told scandal caused pain victims broader church community among anyone wears clerical collar said knew pain priests nuns working hard seen harm led suspicion questioning many source doubt fear lack confidence said priests even insulted subway walking street wearing clerical attire paid heavy price urged press similar message francis delivered american bishops 2015 one infuriated sex abuse survivors accused pope drawing moral equivalency lifelong trauma endured people raped children pain clergymen looked upon suspicion sex abuse pope francis weakest spot terms credibility said massimo faggioli vatican expert theology professor villanova university philadelphia surprising pope entourage dont understand need forthcoming issue anne barrett doyle online abuse database bishopaccountabilityorg praised francis opening visit apology said chileans expect take action complicit church leaders crucial opportunity francis luck make mistake brother bishops underestimating savviness moral outrage chilean people said barrett doyle last week released research showing nearly 80 chilean priests credibly accused convicted abuse karadima scandal long coverup caused crisis church chile recent latinbarometro survey saying case responsible significant drop number chileans call catholic well fall confidence church institution distrust extends francis making first visit pope country 17 million people argentine pope nearly native son studied chile jesuit novitiate knows country well chileans gave lowest approval rating among 18 latin american nations survey people leaving church dont find protective space said juan carlos claret spokesman group church members osorno opposed barros appointment bishop pastors eating flock part barros concelebrated tuesdays openair mass francis bishops repeated assertion knew nothing karadimas crimes many lies made said protest near site santiago mass police fired tear gas water cannons detaining several dozen demonstrators according associated press photographer scene protesters carried signs messages reading burn pope dont care pope groups also called demonstrations pontiff victor hugo robles activist chiles lesbian gay community said vatican tries paint image pope close people particularly needs ones need help said robles gay people people living aids comes things church attitude intolerance disgust still many excited see pope expressed appreciation apology sex abuse people make mistake necessary ask forgiveness said monica reyes nursing assistant attended popes speech presidential palace pope try inject new energy church visit includes sessions migrants members chiles mapuche indigenous group victims 19731990 military dictatorship ___ associated press writers eva vergara patricia luna ap video journalist paul byrne contributed report
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<p>New research shows that the public views political fact-checking journalism — the sort of thing we do here — far more favorably than it does most politicians.</p>
<p>Fact-checking is also a measurably effective tool for correcting political misinformation regardless of whether or not a ratings scale is used,&#160;the research shows. Fact-checking increases the audiences’ political knowledge, and it is growing at a dramatic rate.</p>
<p>But the research also shows Republicans view it less favorably than do Democrats. And it found that, overall, those with less education and knowledge viewed fact-checking less favorably than did those with more education and knowledge.</p>
<p>The new findings come from three studies, conducted by scholars at six universities, which were <a href="http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/fact-checking-project/new-research-on-political-fact-checking-growing-and-influential-but-partisanship-is-a-factor/" type="external">published today by the “Fact-Checking Project” of the American Press Institute</a>, the nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational affiliate of the Newspaper Association of America.</p>
<p>84 Percent Favorability</p>
<p>One of the studies said, “More than eight in ten Americans (84%) say they have a favorable view of fact-checking, including 36% who say they have a ‘very favorable’ view.” That <a href="http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Estimating-Fact-Checkings-Effect.pdf" type="external">came from a paper</a> co-authored by <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/" type="external">Brendan Nyhan</a>, a political scientist at Dartmouth College, and <a href="http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/politics/staff/reifler/" type="external">Jason Reifler</a>, a political scientist at the University of Exeter in England.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the study reported that the more people know about fact-checking the more they like it. The study found fact-checking is viewed favorably by 94 percent of polling respondents who said they were familiar with it, and by 73 percent who said they weren’t familiar with it.</p>
<p>That’s far higher than the ratings the public gives to its political leaders. <a href="http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/obama-favorable-rating" type="external">President Obama</a>, for example, currently averages only a 48 percent favorable rating in polls from 68 different polling organizations tracked by the Huffington Post “Pollster” website.</p>
<p>Other well-known politicians do no better. The <a href="http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster#favorability-ratings" type="external">Pollster national averages</a> are 23 percent for House Speaker John Boehner, 22 percent for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, 29 percent for Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi and 22 percent for Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid.</p>
<p>The highest favorable ratings for any of the leading presidential prospects are 48 percent for Democrat Hillary Clinton, and 35 percent for Republican Sen. Rand Paul.</p>
<p>‘Strikingly’ Effective at Informing</p>
<p>The same study also found that fact-checking is effective at increasing the audiences’ knowledge. During the weeks leading up to the 2014 elections, the authors exposed one group of randomly selected subjects to actual articles from our friends at PolitiFact.com, while another group was given “placebo” news releases on non-political subjects, such as one on coverage of New York Bridal Fashion Week by TheKnot.com.</p>
<p>Weeks later, after the election, members of&#160; both groups were asked a series of questions to test their political knowledge. Those who had read the PolitiFact articles did significantly better (25 percent correct answers) than those who had not (16 percent correct answers).</p>
<p>“Considering the difficulty of the questions we administered and the delay between viewing the fact-checks and being asked questions about them, these findings are strikingly large,” the authors wrote.</p>
<p>‘Partisan Divide’</p>
<p>The authors also found that fact-checking is “viewed more favorably by Democrats than Republicans, particularly among those with high political knowledge at the conclusion of a political campaign.”</p>
<p>The authors also found that “people who are less informed, educated, and politically knowledgeable have less positive views of the [fact-checking] format.”</p>
<p>Both findings were what the researchers had expected to find. They cited a general distrust of “liberal media” among those who identify themselves as conservatives or Republicans, for example.</p>
<p>But they concluded that “Fact-checkers need to determine how to better attract interest from less knowledgeable and informed voters,” and also how to “minimize the partisan divide on the merits of fact-checking, which could undermine the perceived neutrality of the format and the credibility of its practitioners’ conclusions.”</p>
<p>&#160;Rapid Growth</p>
<p>A second study found that <a href="http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/The-Growth-of-Fact-Checking.pdf" type="external">fact-checking stories increased by 300 percent</a> in the four years between the 2008 presidential election year and 2012.</p>
<p>The stories counted included actual fact-checks, and other reports that cited the results of fact-checks. That study was co-authored by <a href="https://journalism.wisc.edu/sjmc_profile/lucas-graves/" type="external">Lucas Graves</a>, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and by Nyhan and Reifler.</p>
<p>“Though dedicated, full-time fact checkers remain relatively rare, almost every major national newsroom has embraced the genre in some way,” the authors wrote. And besides those national news outlets, “scores of smaller news outlets at the state and local level offer fact-checks during elections or around major political events like the State of the Union Address.”</p>
<p>The authors concluded that “the fact-checking movement in journalism has much potential yet to be realized” despite its recent surge in growth. And to that end, their study further probed how even more news organizations might be persuaded to undertake fact-checking.</p>
<p>Their conclusion: Just stressing its popularity with readers and viewers is less effective than appealing to journalists’ sense of professionalism. “While audience demand is an important part of the business case for the practice, newsrooms appear to respond most to messages emphasizing how fact-checking is consistent with the best practices and highest aspirations of their field,” the authors stated.</p>
<p>To Rate, Or Not To Rate?</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/The-Effectiveness-of-Rating-Scales.pdf" type="external">third study</a> examined a question often discussed in the fact-checking community: Is it more effective to use a rigid rating scale such as PolitiFact’s Truth-O-Meter or the Washington Post Fact Checker’s “Pinocchio” awards, or to dissect political statements in the way we at FactCheck.org do, relying only on written analysis without such a rating scale?</p>
<p>The conclusion: “[B]oth formats proved equally effective in challenging political misinformation.” But this study also found that when given a choice, 56 percent of readers said they preferred to see articles that include a rating scale.</p>
<p>(Sorry, readers, we won’t be adopting a rating scale. We consider them inherently subjective, and find that many political claims don’t fit neatly into inflexible categories. For more, see our 2012 article, “ <a href="" type="internal">Firefighters, Fact-Checking and American Journalism.</a>“)</p>
<p>This third study was conducted by <a href="http://www.rider.edu/faculty/michelle-amazeen" type="external">Michelle A. Amazeen</a>, an assistant professor in the Department of Marketing, Advertising and Legal Studies at Rider University, with Graves, Emily Thorson of George Washington University, and Ashley Muddiman of the University of Wyoming.</p>
<p>— Brooks Jackson</p>
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new research shows public views political factchecking journalism sort thing far favorably politicians factchecking also measurably effective tool correcting political misinformation regardless whether ratings scale used160the research shows factchecking increases audiences political knowledge growing dramatic rate research also shows republicans view less favorably democrats found overall less education knowledge viewed factchecking less favorably education knowledge new findings come three studies conducted scholars six universities published today factchecking project american press institute nonpartisan nonprofit research educational affiliate newspaper association america 84 percent favorability one studies said eight ten americans 84 say favorable view factchecking including 36 say favorable view came paper coauthored brendan nyhan political scientist dartmouth college jason reifler political scientist university exeter england furthermore study reported people know factchecking like study found factchecking viewed favorably 94 percent polling respondents said familiar 73 percent said werent familiar thats far higher ratings public gives political leaders president obama example currently averages 48 percent favorable rating polls 68 different polling organizations tracked huffington post pollster website wellknown politicians better pollster national averages 23 percent house speaker john boehner 22 percent senate majority leader mitch mcconnell 29 percent democratic house leader nancy pelosi 22 percent democratic senate leader harry reid highest favorable ratings leading presidential prospects 48 percent democrat hillary clinton 35 percent republican sen rand paul strikingly effective informing study also found factchecking effective increasing audiences knowledge weeks leading 2014 elections authors exposed one group randomly selected subjects actual articles friends politifactcom another group given placebo news releases nonpolitical subjects one coverage new york bridal fashion week theknotcom weeks later election members of160 groups asked series questions test political knowledge read politifact articles significantly better 25 percent correct answers 16 percent correct answers considering difficulty questions administered delay viewing factchecks asked questions findings strikingly large authors wrote partisan divide authors also found factchecking viewed favorably democrats republicans particularly among high political knowledge conclusion political campaign authors also found people less informed educated politically knowledgeable less positive views factchecking format findings researchers expected find cited general distrust liberal media among identify conservatives republicans example concluded factcheckers need determine better attract interest less knowledgeable informed voters also minimize partisan divide merits factchecking could undermine perceived neutrality format credibility practitioners conclusions 160rapid growth second study found factchecking stories increased 300 percent four years 2008 presidential election year 2012 stories counted included actual factchecks reports cited results factchecks study coauthored lucas graves assistant professor school journalism mass communication university wisconsinmadison nyhan reifler though dedicated fulltime fact checkers remain relatively rare almost every major national newsroom embraced genre way authors wrote besides national news outlets scores smaller news outlets state local level offer factchecks elections around major political events like state union address authors concluded factchecking movement journalism much potential yet realized despite recent surge growth end study probed even news organizations might persuaded undertake factchecking conclusion stressing popularity readers viewers less effective appealing journalists sense professionalism audience demand important part business case practice newsrooms appear respond messages emphasizing factchecking consistent best practices highest aspirations field authors stated rate rate third study examined question often discussed factchecking community effective use rigid rating scale politifacts truthometer washington post fact checkers pinocchio awards dissect political statements way factcheckorg relying written analysis without rating scale conclusion formats proved equally effective challenging political misinformation study also found given choice 56 percent readers said preferred see articles include rating scale sorry readers wont adopting rating scale consider inherently subjective find many political claims dont fit neatly inflexible categories see 2012 article firefighters factchecking american journalism third study conducted michelle amazeen assistant professor department marketing advertising legal studies rider university graves emily thorson george washington university ashley muddiman university wyoming brooks jackson
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<p>Or so new results from a mobile application carried by drivers on their smartphones over millions of miles between April 2016 and March 2017 suggest.</p>
<p>The differences in regional and even state-by-state driving habits cast new light on recent statistics that show the most dramatic two-year increase in road-related fatalities in decades, and add fuel to the debate over the effect state laws and enforcement play in making travel on streets and highways less dangerous.</p>
<p>Everquote, an online insurance marketplace, drew its conclusions on regional driving habits from information gathered during 2.7 million car trips over 230 million miles by users of its Everdrive app, for customers who want to gauge and improve their safety habits. The app uses smartphone components to detect speeding, as well as signs of distraction such as phone use and sudden stops, turns and acceleration, said CEO Seth Birnbaum.</p>
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<p>Birnbaum said he suspects Everdrive users are safer than average, because downloading the app shows an interest in safe driving habits. That even those people speed on 36 percent of their trips and use phones on 38 percent of them is a sign that “we have even further to go as a nation in addressing these issues than we thought,” he said.</p>
<p>Almost everyone breaks the rules sometimes, even when they know an app is recording what they do. But some do it more than others.</p>
<p>Mississippi drivers use their phones, either for talking or texting, on almost half their trips. Drivers from Rhode Island, Connecticut, Hawaii and New Hampshire break the speed limit by 10 mph or more on more than half their trips. California and New Jersey drivers stop short the most, and also do the most risky accelerating. West Virginia and North Carolina drivers make the most abrupt turns.</p>
<p>Some of the differences may be explained by state laws. Few Southern states, for example, have blanket laws that ban the use of cellphones while driving, according to an assessment of state laws this month by the National Conference of State Legislatures. Lower speed limits in the Northeast may make it easier to get caught speeding.</p>
<p>In its March report on a projected record 11 percent increase in pedestrian fatalities for 2016, the Governors Highway Safety Association pointed to an increase in driving after the recession, as well as more distractions from growing cellphone use by drivers and pedestrians, as the likely causes.</p>
<p>Local driving habits and even engineering can make a difference in safety, some traffic analysts say. States that developed after World War II are more dangerous to pedestrians because roads were often built for the convenience of drivers, said Peter Norton, a technology historian at the University of Virginia.</p>
<p>That could help explain why Florida has a high rate of pedestrian fatalities. Florida drivers also seem to be a talkative bunch when behind the wheel, which can be distracting. They rank second on Everquote’s list of states with the largest proportion of drivers using phones while driving. Florida also has a high share of elderly drivers — 22 percent are 65 and over, second only to West Virginia, according to national figures.</p>
<p>“Florida is a state built around driving, which means pedestrians are unexpected intruders from an alien planet,” Norton said. “In places where roads are older than cars — especially the Northeast and the Midwest — driving hasn’t taken over to the same degree. You expect people on sidewalks and crossings more, and walkers have better and safer conditions.”</p>
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<p>Beyond Florida and Mississippi, drivers in the Southern states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina and Tennessee also use their phones more on the road than do drivers in other parts of the nation — on 41 to 44 percent of their trips, according to the Everquote data.</p>
<p>Like cities in Florida, many in the South are surrounded by suburban sprawl. And Norton said long commutes from the exurbs can tend to force people to do more in their cars.</p>
<p>“When you design worlds around driving, where you can’t do anything without driving, you’re implicitly telling people that they have to do everything in the car — eat, groom themselves, cancel appointments,” he said.</p>
<p>The Midwest may appear to be a safer place to be on the road because populations there are older, which means they may be more experienced drivers and less likely to be cellphone-dependent, Norton said.</p>
<p>And in big, wide-open spaces where speed limits are high and drivers few and far between, there appears to be less speeding. Montana drivers, for instance, had the lowest rates for speeding at 17 percent, followed by Alaska and North Dakota at 20 percent. Montana and North Dakota drivers also had the lowest rates for abruptly braking and speeding up.</p>
<p>Hard braking — one sign of distracted driving — is highest in California and New Jersey, two states known for traffic-clogged roads. There, drivers displayed hard braking in about two out of five trips. Yet abrupt turns — another possible sign of inattention — were most common in rural West Virginia (26 percent) and North Carolina (20 percent).</p>
<p>West Virginia banned all use of hand-held cellphones while driving in 2012, and the state credited a drop in fatalities in subsequent years to it. North Carolina, however, has no blanket ban.</p>
<p>There are indications that increased regulation may play a role in diminishing some bad driving habits.</p>
<p>Vermont had the lowest rate of cellphone use on the road at 27 percent. Dick Mazza, Democratic chairman of the state Senate’s transportation committee, said that’s no accident. The state banned all hand-held cellphone use while driving in 2014, and has since extended it to cars stopped at lights. It’s also increased fines for using phones in roadwork zones.</p>
<p>“We even put police officers up on snow plows so they can look down and see who’s got phones on their laps out of view,” Mazza said. “It got to be a very serious problem in our small state, and we’re putting a big emphasis on it.” Still, fatalities are up in the state as nearly everywhere else, albeit slightly.</p>
<p>In contrast, state police in Mississippi have complained that anti-texting laws in their state lack teeth. The state has no ban on talking on the phone while driving, except for school bus drivers.</p>
<p>Kansas, one of several states that launched a crackdown on speeding in late 2016, had the largest drop in speeding rates, down from 27 to 23 percent of trips from 2017 to 2016, according to Everquote’s findings. But Everquote also warns that its 2016 data may not be comparable to the newest data because fewer people were using the app then.</p>
<p>Not everyone agrees that distraction from new technology is to blame for the recent spike in road-related deaths. Russ Rader, spokesman for the industry-funded Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, said other factors are more likely to blame.</p>
<p>“Other things are happening that make driving riskier,” Rader said. “Teens, the riskiest drivers, are coming back into the driving force, and many states are raising speed limits. Study after study shows that increased speeds make crashes more likely, and the crashes that happen are more severe.”</p>
<p>The biggest regional factor, Rader said, is that rural roads are deadlier because they’re often two lanes and have high speed limits.</p>
<p>The auto group AAA says there is a “do as I say, not as I do” culture among many drivers when it comes to risky behavior.</p>
<p>A survey from AAA released in February said most drivers see texting on the road as completely unacceptable, and support laws against the practice. Yet, a third admitted to typing a text or email while driving in the last month. Similarly, many drivers admit to speeding although they consider it unacceptable.</p>
<p>One in three respondents told AAA they use cellphones regularly when behind the wheel, and almost half said they had exceeded the speed limit by more than 10 mph in the last month.</p>
<p>The Governors Highway Safety Association said through its communications director Kara Macek that states need more regulation and policing for all unsafe behavior.</p>
<p>“We’ve got to get these laws on the books and we’ve got to get the police on the street enforcing them,” Macek said. “These things only stop when people know they’re going to get caught.”</p>
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new results mobile application carried drivers smartphones millions miles april 2016 march 2017 suggest differences regional even statebystate driving habits cast new light recent statistics show dramatic twoyear increase roadrelated fatalities decades add fuel debate effect state laws enforcement play making travel streets highways less dangerous everquote online insurance marketplace drew conclusions regional driving habits information gathered 27 million car trips 230 million miles users everdrive app customers want gauge improve safety habits app uses smartphone components detect speeding well signs distraction phone use sudden stops turns acceleration said ceo seth birnbaum advertisement birnbaum said suspects everdrive users safer average downloading app shows interest safe driving habits even people speed 36 percent trips use phones 38 percent sign even go nation addressing issues thought said almost everyone breaks rules sometimes even know app recording others mississippi drivers use phones either talking texting almost half trips drivers rhode island connecticut hawaii new hampshire break speed limit 10 mph half trips california new jersey drivers stop short also risky accelerating west virginia north carolina drivers make abrupt turns differences may explained state laws southern states example blanket laws ban use cellphones driving according assessment state laws month national conference state legislatures lower speed limits northeast may make easier get caught speeding march report projected record 11 percent increase pedestrian fatalities 2016 governors highway safety association pointed increase driving recession well distractions growing cellphone use drivers pedestrians likely causes local driving habits even engineering make difference safety traffic analysts say states developed world war ii dangerous pedestrians roads often built convenience drivers said peter norton technology historian university virginia could help explain florida high rate pedestrian fatalities florida drivers also seem talkative bunch behind wheel distracting rank second everquotes list states largest proportion drivers using phones driving florida also high share elderly drivers 22 percent 65 second west virginia according national figures florida state built around driving means pedestrians unexpected intruders alien planet norton said places roads older cars especially northeast midwest driving hasnt taken degree expect people sidewalks crossings walkers better safer conditions advertisement beyond florida mississippi drivers southern states alabama georgia louisiana south carolina tennessee also use phones road drivers parts nation 41 44 percent trips according everquote data like cities florida many south surrounded suburban sprawl norton said long commutes exurbs tend force people cars design worlds around driving cant anything without driving youre implicitly telling people everything car eat groom cancel appointments said midwest may appear safer place road populations older means may experienced drivers less likely cellphonedependent norton said big wideopen spaces speed limits high drivers far appears less speeding montana drivers instance lowest rates speeding 17 percent followed alaska north dakota 20 percent montana north dakota drivers also lowest rates abruptly braking speeding hard braking one sign distracted driving highest california new jersey two states known trafficclogged roads drivers displayed hard braking two five trips yet abrupt turns another possible sign inattention common rural west virginia 26 percent north carolina 20 percent west virginia banned use handheld cellphones driving 2012 state credited drop fatalities subsequent years north carolina however blanket ban indications increased regulation may play role diminishing bad driving habits vermont lowest rate cellphone use road 27 percent dick mazza democratic chairman state senates transportation committee said thats accident state banned handheld cellphone use driving 2014 since extended cars stopped lights also increased fines using phones roadwork zones even put police officers snow plows look see whos got phones laps view mazza said got serious problem small state putting big emphasis still fatalities state nearly everywhere else albeit slightly contrast state police mississippi complained antitexting laws state lack teeth state ban talking phone driving except school bus drivers kansas one several states launched crackdown speeding late 2016 largest drop speeding rates 27 23 percent trips 2017 2016 according everquotes findings everquote also warns 2016 data may comparable newest data fewer people using app everyone agrees distraction new technology blame recent spike roadrelated deaths russ rader spokesman industryfunded insurance institute highway safety said factors likely blame things happening make driving riskier rader said teens riskiest drivers coming back driving force many states raising speed limits study study shows increased speeds make crashes likely crashes happen severe biggest regional factor rader said rural roads deadlier theyre often two lanes high speed limits auto group aaa says say culture among many drivers comes risky behavior survey aaa released february said drivers see texting road completely unacceptable support laws practice yet third admitted typing text email driving last month similarly many drivers admit speeding although consider unacceptable one three respondents told aaa use cellphones regularly behind wheel almost half said exceeded speed limit 10 mph last month governors highway safety association said communications director kara macek states need regulation policing unsafe behavior weve got get laws books weve got get police street enforcing macek said things stop people know theyre going get caught 160
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<p>ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Oakland offensive coordinator Greg Olson was quite clear about what the top priority will be for coach Jon Gruden’s new staff with the Raiders.</p>
<p>Everything from the smallest details like how practice is conducted to bigger decisions about personnel and scheme will be made with the thought of how it will help Derek Carr develop into a top-flight NFL quarterback.</p>
<p>“We grow as Derek Carr grows,” Olson said Wednesday. “We drafted this guy to be that franchise quarterback. We feel like he has the potential to be that guy that can be here and play for 10 more years. It’s up to us to try and get that out of him. We’ll do everything in our power to make sure that that happens, from practice to offseason programs, to what we’re doing defensively in practice, all those things will be designed to help Derek’s growth.”</p>
<p>Carr showed steady improvement from his spotty play as a rookie in 2014 when Olson served his first stint as offensive coordinator in Oakland to a breakthrough 2016 season under Bill Musgrave that garnered him MVP support and helped him earn a $125 million, five-year contract extension.</p>
<p>That steady ascension hit a speed bump last season as Carr played under his third coordinator in four years after Todd Downing replaced the fired Musgrave. Carr matched his career high with 13 interceptions and recorded his worst totals in yards, touchdowns and passer rating since his rookie year.</p>
<p>“This guy has to get some continuity,” Olson said. “The fact that they signed Jon Gruden to a 10-year contract, that’s going to provide that stability that he needs and the continuity that he’s going to need. He’s going to be in a system now. He’s going to be coached by a head coach that’s going to be the play-caller. He’s completely hands on with the quarterback position, and that’s the first time Derek will have, first time he’s going to have an offensive head coach that has a quarterback background and will be hands on with him on a day-to-day basis. I just see that growth curve skyrocketing because of that.”</p>
<p>Olson and new defensive coordinator Paul Guenther spoke to the media for the first time since officially joining Gruden’s staff last week. Both coaches have ties to Gruden, with Olson having worked as Gruden’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in Tampa Bay in 2008 and Guenther considering Gruden’s younger brother, Jay, one of his closest friends after spending three years together as assistants in Cincinnati.</p>
<p>The two coordinators had talked to Jon Gruden over the years about the possibility of being on his staff if Gruden ever decided to return to coaching and leaped at the chance soon after Gruden returned to the Raiders.</p>
<p>“Cincinnati made a strong push to keep me there, but the opportunity to come out here with Jon and start this thing from the ground up was way too intriguing,” Guenther said. “I just looked at it as an opportunity I couldn’t refuse.”</p>
<p>Guenther will be tasked with rebuilding a defense that struggled the past two seasons, leading to the midseason firing of coordinator Ken Norton Jr. The Raiders improved a bit in the final six games under John Pagano but didn’t make nearly enough impactful plays despite the presence of 2016 AP Defensive Player of the Year Khalil Mack.</p>
<p>The Raiders lacked enough consistent pass rushers and the secondary got picked apart at times with rookies Gareon Conley and Obi Melifonwu missing almost the entire season with injuries.</p>
<p>Guenther called Conley his “favorite” cornerback in last year’s draft and believes the pieces are in place starting with Mack to build a capable defense.</p>
<p>“Having a talent like that and ability of a guy like that, certainly you want to make it the centerpiece of the defense,” he said. “We have to continue to develop our younger players to bring those guys up to speed and add people as we go through the draft and free agency. He’s a guy that you can really build a foundation through and around. He’s an exciting guy to be able to coach for sure.”</p>
<p>NOTES: Guenther called NaVorro Bowman a “prototypical” middle linebacker and hopes he doesn’t leave in free agency. ... Olson was noncommittal about the status of RB Marshawn Lynch, saying he would be doing him a “disservice” by evaluating his play in 2017 before taking a more thorough look at the film.</p>
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<p>ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Oakland offensive coordinator Greg Olson was quite clear about what the top priority will be for coach Jon Gruden’s new staff with the Raiders.</p>
<p>Everything from the smallest details like how practice is conducted to bigger decisions about personnel and scheme will be made with the thought of how it will help Derek Carr develop into a top-flight NFL quarterback.</p>
<p>“We grow as Derek Carr grows,” Olson said Wednesday. “We drafted this guy to be that franchise quarterback. We feel like he has the potential to be that guy that can be here and play for 10 more years. It’s up to us to try and get that out of him. We’ll do everything in our power to make sure that that happens, from practice to offseason programs, to what we’re doing defensively in practice, all those things will be designed to help Derek’s growth.”</p>
<p>Carr showed steady improvement from his spotty play as a rookie in 2014 when Olson served his first stint as offensive coordinator in Oakland to a breakthrough 2016 season under Bill Musgrave that garnered him MVP support and helped him earn a $125 million, five-year contract extension.</p>
<p>That steady ascension hit a speed bump last season as Carr played under his third coordinator in four years after Todd Downing replaced the fired Musgrave. Carr matched his career high with 13 interceptions and recorded his worst totals in yards, touchdowns and passer rating since his rookie year.</p>
<p>“This guy has to get some continuity,” Olson said. “The fact that they signed Jon Gruden to a 10-year contract, that’s going to provide that stability that he needs and the continuity that he’s going to need. He’s going to be in a system now. He’s going to be coached by a head coach that’s going to be the play-caller. He’s completely hands on with the quarterback position, and that’s the first time Derek will have, first time he’s going to have an offensive head coach that has a quarterback background and will be hands on with him on a day-to-day basis. I just see that growth curve skyrocketing because of that.”</p>
<p>Olson and new defensive coordinator Paul Guenther spoke to the media for the first time since officially joining Gruden’s staff last week. Both coaches have ties to Gruden, with Olson having worked as Gruden’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in Tampa Bay in 2008 and Guenther considering Gruden’s younger brother, Jay, one of his closest friends after spending three years together as assistants in Cincinnati.</p>
<p>The two coordinators had talked to Jon Gruden over the years about the possibility of being on his staff if Gruden ever decided to return to coaching and leaped at the chance soon after Gruden returned to the Raiders.</p>
<p>“Cincinnati made a strong push to keep me there, but the opportunity to come out here with Jon and start this thing from the ground up was way too intriguing,” Guenther said. “I just looked at it as an opportunity I couldn’t refuse.”</p>
<p>Guenther will be tasked with rebuilding a defense that struggled the past two seasons, leading to the midseason firing of coordinator Ken Norton Jr. The Raiders improved a bit in the final six games under John Pagano but didn’t make nearly enough impactful plays despite the presence of 2016 AP Defensive Player of the Year Khalil Mack.</p>
<p>The Raiders lacked enough consistent pass rushers and the secondary got picked apart at times with rookies Gareon Conley and Obi Melifonwu missing almost the entire season with injuries.</p>
<p>Guenther called Conley his “favorite” cornerback in last year’s draft and believes the pieces are in place starting with Mack to build a capable defense.</p>
<p>“Having a talent like that and ability of a guy like that, certainly you want to make it the centerpiece of the defense,” he said. “We have to continue to develop our younger players to bring those guys up to speed and add people as we go through the draft and free agency. He’s a guy that you can really build a foundation through and around. He’s an exciting guy to be able to coach for sure.”</p>
<p>NOTES: Guenther called NaVorro Bowman a “prototypical” middle linebacker and hopes he doesn’t leave in free agency. ... Olson was noncommittal about the status of RB Marshawn Lynch, saying he would be doing him a “disservice” by evaluating his play in 2017 before taking a more thorough look at the film.</p>
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said fact signed jon gruden 10year contract thats going provide stability needs continuity hes going need hes going system hes going coached head coach thats going playcaller hes completely hands quarterback position thats first time derek first time hes going offensive head coach quarterback background hands daytoday basis see growth curve skyrocketing olson new defensive coordinator paul guenther spoke media first time since officially joining grudens staff last week coaches ties gruden olson worked grudens offensive coordinator quarterbacks coach tampa bay 2008 guenther considering grudens younger brother jay one closest friends spending three years together assistants cincinnati two coordinators talked jon gruden years possibility staff gruden ever decided return coaching leaped chance soon gruden returned raiders cincinnati made strong push keep opportunity come jon start thing ground way intriguing guenther said looked opportunity couldnt refuse guenther tasked rebuilding defense struggled past two seasons leading midseason firing coordinator ken norton jr raiders improved bit final six games john pagano didnt make nearly enough impactful plays despite presence 2016 ap defensive player year khalil mack raiders lacked enough consistent pass rushers secondary got picked apart times rookies gareon conley obi melifonwu missing almost entire season injuries guenther called conley favorite cornerback last years draft believes pieces place starting mack build capable defense talent like ability guy like certainly want make centerpiece defense said continue develop younger players bring guys speed add people go draft free agency hes guy really build foundation around hes exciting guy able coach sure notes guenther called navorro bowman prototypical middle linebacker hopes doesnt leave free agency olson noncommittal status rb marshawn lynch saying would disservice evaluating play 2017 taking thorough look film ___ ap nfl wwwpro32aporg wwwtwittercomap_nfl alameda calif ap oakland offensive coordinator greg olson quite clear top priority coach jon grudens new staff raiders everything smallest details like practice conducted bigger decisions personnel scheme made thought help derek carr develop topflight nfl quarterback grow derek carr grows olson said wednesday drafted guy franchise quarterback feel like potential guy play 10 years us try get well everything power make sure happens practice offseason programs defensively practice things designed help dereks growth carr showed steady improvement spotty play rookie 2014 olson served first stint offensive coordinator oakland breakthrough 2016 season bill musgrave garnered mvp support helped earn 125 million fiveyear contract extension steady ascension hit speed bump last season carr played third coordinator four years todd downing replaced fired musgrave carr matched career high 13 interceptions recorded worst totals yards touchdowns passer rating since rookie year guy get continuity olson said fact signed jon gruden 10year contract thats going provide stability needs continuity hes going need hes going system hes going coached head coach thats going playcaller hes completely hands quarterback position thats first time derek first time hes going offensive head coach quarterback background hands daytoday basis see growth curve skyrocketing olson new defensive coordinator paul guenther spoke media first time since officially joining grudens staff last week coaches ties gruden olson worked grudens offensive coordinator quarterbacks coach tampa bay 2008 guenther considering grudens younger brother jay one closest friends spending three years together assistants cincinnati two coordinators talked jon gruden years possibility staff gruden ever decided return coaching leaped chance soon gruden returned raiders cincinnati made strong push keep opportunity come jon start thing ground way intriguing guenther said looked opportunity couldnt refuse guenther tasked rebuilding defense struggled past two seasons leading midseason firing coordinator ken norton jr raiders improved bit final six games john pagano didnt make nearly enough impactful plays despite presence 2016 ap defensive player year khalil mack raiders lacked enough consistent pass rushers secondary got picked apart times rookies gareon conley obi melifonwu missing almost entire season injuries guenther called conley favorite cornerback last years draft believes pieces place starting mack build capable defense talent like ability guy like certainly want make centerpiece defense said continue develop younger players bring guys speed add people go draft free agency hes guy really build foundation around hes exciting guy able coach sure notes guenther called navorro bowman prototypical middle linebacker hopes doesnt leave free agency olson noncommittal status rb marshawn lynch saying would disservice evaluating play 2017 taking thorough look film ___ ap nfl wwwpro32aporg wwwtwittercomap_nfl
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<p>IRVING, Texas (AP) — Tony Romo just had to get out of the way for the Dallas Cowboys to win for the first time this season.</p>
<p>His three interceptions played a big role in a season-opening loss to San Francisco, and the difference a week later at Tennessee was the rushing attack led by DeMarco Murray.</p>
<p>Romo has been called a lot of things in eight years as the starting quarterback in Dallas. Game manager isn’t one of them.</p>
<p>Now that he’s coming off back surgery and has the league’s leading rusher through two weeks behind him, a “complementary” role — coach Jason Garrett’s word after beating the Titans — seems more realistic than ever heading into Sunday’s game at St. Louis (1-1).</p>
<p>“I’m all for going out and having games like we just had and playing the way Seattle has the last few years and just having those style of games,” said Romo, who threw for 176 yards and a touchdown without an interception in the 26-10 win over the Titans last weekend. “It makes everyone’s job easier.”</p>
<p>Owner Jerry Jones, who gave Romo the franchise’s first $100 million contract last year, is fine with it, too.</p>
<p>“I’m probably the one that’s standing right behind Tony and saying, ’Yes, we like seeing that,’” Jones said on his radio show. “All of it works together. So the way we played Romo the other day fits me just fine and fits him just fine. It’s called winning, and that’s what we’re here for.”</p>
<p>But there is one potentially unsettling question for Jones and the Cowboys (1-1) — whether a reduced role will be required to help Romo deal with a back that needed surgery to repair a herniated disk. Eight months earlier, he had a cyst removed from his back.</p>
<p>The 34-year-old Romo has said that he’s 100 percent, that he’s throwing the ball better than ever, that he feels his best years are ahead of him.</p>
<p>Really, he says just about anything he can think of to reassure the masses that he’s the same quarterback who already has the franchise record for touchdown passes and should pass Troy Aikman in career yards this year.</p>
<p>His teammates do the same thing. Safety Barry Church said on a radio show this week that Romo’s back was so good that he could “hit him with a chair and he’d be fine.”</p>
<p>But here’s the reality. He took frequent days off during training camp, and finally sat out a regular-season practice for the first time Wednesday with what Garrett said was stiffness. Romo just called it a routine day off, like the ones in California.</p>
<p>“I’m sure it’ll happen throughout the rest of the season,” said Romo, who returned to practice Thursday. “It’s just obviously more talked about because of having surgery on the back. It’s a very violent, physical game, and you throw the ball a lot and you do all these things. Sometimes it’s just that tightness stuff comes up. I’ll be fine.”</p>
<p>Romo stumbled out of the pocket on one play early against the Titans, and threw a wobbly pass into the ground. But he also had a strong throw on the run to Dez Bryant to convert a third-and-15 on a third-quarter touchdown drive that answered Tennessee’s best challenge.</p>
<p>“The more he plays coming back off this injury, I anticipate that continuing to get better and better,” Garrett said. “We saw some good examples of that and maybe some examples where he wasn’t quite himself.”</p>
<p>But Garrett isn’t ready to relegate Romo to the front of the bus — as in the bus driver.</p>
<p>“He understands what the point of emphasis has been for our team,” said Garrett, who was Romo’s offensive coordinator for six seasons before giving up the role last season. “We want to be a balanced offense. Use a lot of different people to attack a lot of different ways. Tony has been a part of that. And he’s been part of games where we have run the ball really successfully.”</p>
<p>NOTES: LB Rolando McClain (groin) missed practice for the second straight day, increasing the chance that the Cowboys will be without their top two middle linebackers against the Rams. Justin Durant also is out with a groin injury. ... WR Dez Bryant returned to practice but said he didn’t participate in contact drills.</p>
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<p>IRVING, Texas (AP) — Tony Romo just had to get out of the way for the Dallas Cowboys to win for the first time this season.</p>
<p>His three interceptions played a big role in a season-opening loss to San Francisco, and the difference a week later at Tennessee was the rushing attack led by DeMarco Murray.</p>
<p>Romo has been called a lot of things in eight years as the starting quarterback in Dallas. Game manager isn’t one of them.</p>
<p>Now that he’s coming off back surgery and has the league’s leading rusher through two weeks behind him, a “complementary” role — coach Jason Garrett’s word after beating the Titans — seems more realistic than ever heading into Sunday’s game at St. Louis (1-1).</p>
<p>“I’m all for going out and having games like we just had and playing the way Seattle has the last few years and just having those style of games,” said Romo, who threw for 176 yards and a touchdown without an interception in the 26-10 win over the Titans last weekend. “It makes everyone’s job easier.”</p>
<p>Owner Jerry Jones, who gave Romo the franchise’s first $100 million contract last year, is fine with it, too.</p>
<p>“I’m probably the one that’s standing right behind Tony and saying, ’Yes, we like seeing that,’” Jones said on his radio show. “All of it works together. So the way we played Romo the other day fits me just fine and fits him just fine. It’s called winning, and that’s what we’re here for.”</p>
<p>But there is one potentially unsettling question for Jones and the Cowboys (1-1) — whether a reduced role will be required to help Romo deal with a back that needed surgery to repair a herniated disk. Eight months earlier, he had a cyst removed from his back.</p>
<p>The 34-year-old Romo has said that he’s 100 percent, that he’s throwing the ball better than ever, that he feels his best years are ahead of him.</p>
<p>Really, he says just about anything he can think of to reassure the masses that he’s the same quarterback who already has the franchise record for touchdown passes and should pass Troy Aikman in career yards this year.</p>
<p>His teammates do the same thing. Safety Barry Church said on a radio show this week that Romo’s back was so good that he could “hit him with a chair and he’d be fine.”</p>
<p>But here’s the reality. He took frequent days off during training camp, and finally sat out a regular-season practice for the first time Wednesday with what Garrett said was stiffness. Romo just called it a routine day off, like the ones in California.</p>
<p>“I’m sure it’ll happen throughout the rest of the season,” said Romo, who returned to practice Thursday. “It’s just obviously more talked about because of having surgery on the back. It’s a very violent, physical game, and you throw the ball a lot and you do all these things. Sometimes it’s just that tightness stuff comes up. I’ll be fine.”</p>
<p>Romo stumbled out of the pocket on one play early against the Titans, and threw a wobbly pass into the ground. But he also had a strong throw on the run to Dez Bryant to convert a third-and-15 on a third-quarter touchdown drive that answered Tennessee’s best challenge.</p>
<p>“The more he plays coming back off this injury, I anticipate that continuing to get better and better,” Garrett said. “We saw some good examples of that and maybe some examples where he wasn’t quite himself.”</p>
<p>But Garrett isn’t ready to relegate Romo to the front of the bus — as in the bus driver.</p>
<p>“He understands what the point of emphasis has been for our team,” said Garrett, who was Romo’s offensive coordinator for six seasons before giving up the role last season. “We want to be a balanced offense. Use a lot of different people to attack a lot of different ways. Tony has been a part of that. And he’s been part of games where we have run the ball really successfully.”</p>
<p>NOTES: LB Rolando McClain (groin) missed practice for the second straight day, increasing the chance that the Cowboys will be without their top two middle linebackers against the Rams. Justin Durant also is out with a groin injury. ... WR Dez Bryant returned to practice but said he didn’t participate in contact drills.</p>
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needed surgery repair herniated disk eight months earlier cyst removed back 34yearold romo said hes 100 percent hes throwing ball better ever feels best years ahead really says anything think reassure masses hes quarterback already franchise record touchdown passes pass troy aikman career yards year teammates thing safety barry church said radio show week romos back good could hit chair hed fine heres reality took frequent days training camp finally sat regularseason practice first time wednesday garrett said stiffness romo called routine day like ones california im sure itll happen throughout rest season said romo returned practice thursday obviously talked surgery back violent physical game throw ball lot things sometimes tightness stuff comes ill fine romo stumbled pocket one play early titans threw wobbly pass ground also strong throw run dez bryant convert thirdand15 thirdquarter touchdown drive answered tennessees best challenge plays coming back injury anticipate continuing get better better garrett said saw good examples maybe examples wasnt quite garrett isnt ready relegate romo front bus bus driver understands point emphasis team said garrett romos offensive coordinator six seasons giving role last season want balanced offense use lot different people attack lot different ways tony part hes part games run ball really successfully notes lb rolando mcclain groin missed practice second straight day increasing chance cowboys without top two middle linebackers rams justin durant also groin injury wr dez bryant returned practice said didnt participate contact drills ___ online ap nfl website wwwpro32aporg httptwittercomap_nfl ___ follow schuyler dixon twitter httpstwittercomapschuyler irving texas ap tony romo get way dallas cowboys win first time season three interceptions played big role seasonopening loss san francisco difference week later tennessee rushing attack led demarco murray romo called lot things eight years starting quarterback dallas game manager isnt one hes coming back surgery leagues leading rusher two weeks behind complementary role coach jason garretts word beating titans seems realistic ever heading sundays game st louis 11 im going games like playing way seattle last years style games said romo threw 176 yards touchdown without interception 2610 win titans last weekend makes everyones job easier owner jerry jones gave romo franchises first 100 million contract last year fine im probably one thats standing right behind tony saying yes like seeing jones said radio show works together way played romo day fits fine fits fine called winning thats one potentially unsettling question jones cowboys 11 whether reduced role required help romo deal back needed surgery repair herniated disk eight months earlier cyst removed back 34yearold romo said hes 100 percent hes throwing ball better ever feels best years ahead really says anything think reassure masses hes quarterback already franchise record touchdown passes pass troy aikman career yards year teammates thing safety barry church said radio show week romos back good could hit chair hed fine heres reality took frequent days training camp finally sat regularseason practice first time wednesday garrett said stiffness romo called routine day like ones california im sure itll happen throughout rest season said romo returned practice thursday obviously talked surgery back violent physical game throw ball lot things sometimes tightness stuff comes ill fine romo stumbled pocket one play early titans threw wobbly pass ground also strong throw run dez bryant convert thirdand15 thirdquarter touchdown drive answered tennessees best challenge plays coming back injury anticipate continuing get better better garrett said saw good examples maybe examples wasnt quite garrett isnt ready relegate romo front bus bus driver understands point emphasis team said garrett romos offensive coordinator six seasons giving role last season want balanced offense use lot different people attack lot different ways tony part hes part games run ball really successfully notes lb rolando mcclain groin missed practice second straight day increasing chance cowboys without top two middle linebackers rams justin durant also groin injury wr dez bryant returned practice said didnt participate contact drills ___ online ap nfl website wwwpro32aporg httptwittercomap_nfl ___ follow schuyler dixon twitter httpstwittercomapschuyler
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<p>SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Seattle Seahawks, meet Chris Borland and Carlos Hyde. Aaron Lynch and Marcus Martin.</p>
<p>Those are just a few of the new faces on the San Francisco 49ers since Seattle last saw them in the NFC championship game in January, an impressive list of talented rookies called into action right away. Many have been by necessity, given the loss of star linebacker Patrick Willis and the long recovery of NaVorro Bowman since his devastating left knee injury in that six-point loss at Seattle.</p>
<p>There's Bruce Ellington and Dontae Johnson, too.</p>
<p>"I wouldn't consider any of our rookies rookies anymore at this point," coach Jim Harbaugh said.</p>
<p>Running back Hyde has been quite a complement to Frank Gore. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll considers them a dynamic 1-2 punch that his team must contend with Thursday night in a key matchup of 7-4 NFC powers.</p>
<p>"It's definitely been exciting to see your fellow rookies also coming in and contributing right away and helping this team out in a huge way," Hyde said. "I don't think too often you see that many rookies coming into a team and contributing right away. Especially a team like the San Francisco 49ers, a team that's already established in the league."</p>
<p>Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio figures these guys feed off each other. They're all proud of one another's accomplishments and contributions.</p>
<p>"I think any time a guy sees a guy that he can relate to go in and have success, why not me?" Fangio said.</p>
<p>Behind the scenes, they are a support network, too. The rookies meet as a group each Tuesday to discuss anything that comes to mind and receive guidance and support from football to life off the field, including the importance of making good decisions. It's part of "rookie success" that comes under the NFL Engagement program committed to "Prep. Life. Next" and getting the total NFL experience with wellness in all aspects.</p>
<p>This draft class considers itself a close-knit unit, with those Tuesday sessions only adding to that bond.</p>
<p>"Their performance is definitely on them. They're just doing a phenomenal job for us," said former 49ers linebacker Keena Turner, the team's vice president of football affairs who oversees the engagement program. "We have a very good locker room, and that's important."</p>
<p>Borland understands the stakes the rest of the way, beginning with Thursday's Thanksgiving showdown at Levi's Stadium.</p>
<p>"It's very important for a chance to make the playoffs," he said. "I haven't been a part of it, I haven't done anything or made any plays on the field against these guys but I do understand the magnitude of the rivalry and how good of a team Seattle is."</p>
<p>Borland, who has started the last five games playing in place of the injured Willis, had 48 tackles in a recent three-game stretch and another eight in Sunday's 17-13 home win against the Redskins. The third-round draft pick out of Wisconsin intercepted two passes by Giants quarterback Eli Manning in a victory at New York on Nov. 16 and received NFC Defensive Player of the Week honors along with his second straight Defensive Rookie of the Week.</p>
<p>Hyde, a second-rounder from Ohio State, ran for a go-ahead 4-yard touchdown with 2:59 remaining Sunday in San Francisco's third straight win.</p>
<p>"We have a number of guys who had to step in right away, get tossed in the fire," veteran wide receiver Anquan Boldin said. "You look at a guy like Borland, 'You gotta go,' there's no, 'We'll wait and get him ready.' It's, 'You have to go now.' All those guys who have been in that position have stepped up to the challenge, played extremely well."</p>
<p>For Fangio, seeing so many first-year players in big roles is still an adjustment from what he has long known.</p>
<p>"You've got to remember when you're talking to me you're going back to 1986," Fangio said. "Rookies usually had to wait their time."</p>
<p>Carroll is preparing for the new additions to what has emerged as a heated rivalry. He knows a little bit about new center Martin, a third-round draft pick out of Carroll's former school, USC.</p>
<p>"They've really shown that they fit. Chris has done a great job fitting in when they really needed somebody to come through," Carroll said. "He's been very versatile and he's tough as nails. That's a lot to do in a short amount of time. We thought Carlos was really a big-time player, not surprised at all that he's been so effective."</p>
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<p>SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Seattle Seahawks, meet Chris Borland and Carlos Hyde. Aaron Lynch and Marcus Martin.</p>
<p>Those are just a few of the new faces on the San Francisco 49ers since Seattle last saw them in the NFC championship game in January, an impressive list of talented rookies called into action right away. Many have been by necessity, given the loss of star linebacker Patrick Willis and the long recovery of NaVorro Bowman since his devastating left knee injury in that six-point loss at Seattle.</p>
<p>There's Bruce Ellington and Dontae Johnson, too.</p>
<p>"I wouldn't consider any of our rookies rookies anymore at this point," coach Jim Harbaugh said.</p>
<p>Running back Hyde has been quite a complement to Frank Gore. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll considers them a dynamic 1-2 punch that his team must contend with Thursday night in a key matchup of 7-4 NFC powers.</p>
<p>"It's definitely been exciting to see your fellow rookies also coming in and contributing right away and helping this team out in a huge way," Hyde said. "I don't think too often you see that many rookies coming into a team and contributing right away. Especially a team like the San Francisco 49ers, a team that's already established in the league."</p>
<p>Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio figures these guys feed off each other. They're all proud of one another's accomplishments and contributions.</p>
<p>"I think any time a guy sees a guy that he can relate to go in and have success, why not me?" Fangio said.</p>
<p>Behind the scenes, they are a support network, too. The rookies meet as a group each Tuesday to discuss anything that comes to mind and receive guidance and support from football to life off the field, including the importance of making good decisions. It's part of "rookie success" that comes under the NFL Engagement program committed to "Prep. Life. Next" and getting the total NFL experience with wellness in all aspects.</p>
<p>This draft class considers itself a close-knit unit, with those Tuesday sessions only adding to that bond.</p>
<p>"Their performance is definitely on them. They're just doing a phenomenal job for us," said former 49ers linebacker Keena Turner, the team's vice president of football affairs who oversees the engagement program. "We have a very good locker room, and that's important."</p>
<p>Borland understands the stakes the rest of the way, beginning with Thursday's Thanksgiving showdown at Levi's Stadium.</p>
<p>"It's very important for a chance to make the playoffs," he said. "I haven't been a part of it, I haven't done anything or made any plays on the field against these guys but I do understand the magnitude of the rivalry and how good of a team Seattle is."</p>
<p>Borland, who has started the last five games playing in place of the injured Willis, had 48 tackles in a recent three-game stretch and another eight in Sunday's 17-13 home win against the Redskins. The third-round draft pick out of Wisconsin intercepted two passes by Giants quarterback Eli Manning in a victory at New York on Nov. 16 and received NFC Defensive Player of the Week honors along with his second straight Defensive Rookie of the Week.</p>
<p>Hyde, a second-rounder from Ohio State, ran for a go-ahead 4-yard touchdown with 2:59 remaining Sunday in San Francisco's third straight win.</p>
<p>"We have a number of guys who had to step in right away, get tossed in the fire," veteran wide receiver Anquan Boldin said. "You look at a guy like Borland, 'You gotta go,' there's no, 'We'll wait and get him ready.' It's, 'You have to go now.' All those guys who have been in that position have stepped up to the challenge, played extremely well."</p>
<p>For Fangio, seeing so many first-year players in big roles is still an adjustment from what he has long known.</p>
<p>"You've got to remember when you're talking to me you're going back to 1986," Fangio said. "Rookies usually had to wait their time."</p>
<p>Carroll is preparing for the new additions to what has emerged as a heated rivalry. He knows a little bit about new center Martin, a third-round draft pick out of Carroll's former school, USC.</p>
<p>"They've really shown that they fit. Chris has done a great job fitting in when they really needed somebody to come through," Carroll said. "He's been very versatile and he's tough as nails. That's a lot to do in a short amount of time. We thought Carlos was really a big-time player, not surprised at all that he's been so effective."</p>
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santa clara calif ap seattle seahawks meet chris borland carlos hyde aaron lynch marcus martin new faces san francisco 49ers since seattle last saw nfc championship game january impressive list talented rookies called action right away many necessity given loss star linebacker patrick willis long recovery navorro bowman since devastating left knee injury sixpoint loss seattle theres bruce ellington dontae johnson wouldnt consider rookies rookies anymore point coach jim harbaugh said running back hyde quite complement frank gore seahawks coach pete carroll considers dynamic 12 punch team must contend thursday night key matchup 74 nfc powers definitely exciting see fellow rookies also coming contributing right away helping team huge way hyde said dont think often see many rookies coming team contributing right away especially team like san francisco 49ers team thats already established league defensive coordinator vic fangio figures guys feed theyre proud one anothers accomplishments contributions think time guy sees guy relate go success fangio said behind scenes support network rookies meet group tuesday discuss anything comes mind receive guidance support football life field including importance making good decisions part rookie success comes nfl engagement program committed prep life next getting total nfl experience wellness aspects draft class considers closeknit unit tuesday sessions adding bond performance definitely theyre phenomenal job us said former 49ers linebacker keena turner teams vice president football affairs oversees engagement program good locker room thats important borland understands stakes rest way beginning thursdays thanksgiving showdown levis stadium important chance make playoffs said havent part havent done anything made plays field guys understand magnitude rivalry good team seattle borland started last five games playing place injured willis 48 tackles recent threegame stretch another eight sundays 1713 home win redskins thirdround draft pick wisconsin intercepted two passes giants quarterback eli manning victory new york nov 16 received nfc defensive player week honors along second straight defensive rookie week hyde secondrounder ohio state ran goahead 4yard touchdown 259 remaining sunday san franciscos third straight win number guys step right away get tossed fire veteran wide receiver anquan boldin said look guy like borland got ta go theres well wait get ready go guys position stepped challenge played extremely well fangio seeing many firstyear players big roles still adjustment long known youve got remember youre talking youre going back 1986 fangio said rookies usually wait time carroll preparing new additions emerged heated rivalry knows little bit new center martin thirdround draft pick carrolls former school usc theyve really shown fit chris done great job fitting really needed somebody come carroll said hes versatile hes tough nails thats lot short amount time thought carlos really bigtime player surprised hes effective ___ ap nfl website wwwpro32aporg wwwtwittercomap_nfl santa clara calif ap seattle seahawks meet chris borland carlos hyde aaron lynch marcus martin new faces san francisco 49ers since seattle last saw nfc championship game january impressive list talented rookies called action right away many necessity given loss star linebacker patrick willis long recovery navorro bowman since devastating left knee injury sixpoint loss seattle theres bruce ellington dontae johnson wouldnt consider rookies rookies anymore point coach jim harbaugh said running back hyde quite complement frank gore seahawks coach pete carroll considers dynamic 12 punch team must contend thursday night key matchup 74 nfc powers definitely exciting see fellow rookies also coming contributing right away helping team huge way hyde said dont think often see many rookies coming team contributing right away especially team like san francisco 49ers team thats already established league defensive coordinator vic fangio figures guys feed theyre proud one anothers accomplishments contributions think time guy sees guy relate go success fangio said behind scenes support network rookies meet group tuesday discuss anything comes mind receive guidance support football life field including importance making good decisions part rookie success comes nfl engagement program committed prep life next getting total nfl experience wellness aspects draft class considers closeknit unit tuesday sessions adding bond performance definitely theyre phenomenal job us said former 49ers linebacker keena turner teams vice president football affairs oversees engagement program good locker room thats important borland understands stakes rest way beginning thursdays thanksgiving showdown levis stadium important chance make playoffs said havent part havent done anything made plays field guys understand magnitude rivalry good team seattle borland started last five games playing place injured willis 48 tackles recent threegame stretch another eight sundays 1713 home win redskins thirdround draft pick wisconsin intercepted two passes giants quarterback eli manning victory new york nov 16 received nfc defensive player week honors along second straight defensive rookie week hyde secondrounder ohio state ran goahead 4yard touchdown 259 remaining sunday san franciscos third straight win number guys step right away get tossed fire veteran wide receiver anquan boldin said look guy like borland got ta go theres well wait get ready go guys position stepped challenge played extremely well fangio seeing many firstyear players big roles still adjustment long known youve got remember youre talking youre going back 1986 fangio said rookies usually wait time carroll preparing new additions emerged heated rivalry knows little bit new center martin thirdround draft pick carrolls former school usc theyve really shown fit chris done great job fitting really needed somebody come carroll said hes versatile hes tough nails thats lot short amount time thought carlos really bigtime player surprised hes effective ___ ap nfl website wwwpro32aporg wwwtwittercomap_nfl
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<p>HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Guam's attorney general and governor are at odds over whether same-sex couples should be allowed to wed, a change that would make it the first U.S. territory to allow gay marriage.</p>
<p>The territory's top law enforcement officer directed officials Wednesday to begin processing marriage license applications from same-sex couples. But the governor said he wanted to study the issue further, and the public health director said he wouldn't accept the applications.</p>
<p>Here's the latest on gay marriage in Guam:</p>
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<p>IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL OR NOT?</p>
<p>The U.S. District Court of Guam falls under the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which has ruled in favor of gay marriage.</p>
<p>Guam Attorney General Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson said in her directive that the public health department should process marriage license applications from gay couples based on the 9th Circuit's decision in October finding state bans on gay marriage unconstitutional.</p>
<p>But acting Public Health Director Leo Casil said his office won't accept applications from same-sex couples "until further notice," the Pacific Daily News newspaper on Guam reported.</p>
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<p>WHERE DOES THE GOVERNOR STAND?</p>
<p>Gov. Eddie Calvo said he respects the attorney general's view but noted that the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld state bans on same-sex marriages. The 6th Circuit covers Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, while Guam falls under the 9th Circuit.</p>
<p>Calvo also said the U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear oral arguments on gay marriage. He suggested Guam lawmakers could pass a law allowing gay marriage, or voters could do so in a referendum, "if it is the will of the people of Guam to make same-sex marriage legal."</p>
<p>Guam Legislature Vice Speaker BJ Cruz said Calvo "has never been in favor of same-gender marriage." Cruz said the governor would "veto whatever bill we pass."</p>
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<p>WHO ARE THE KEY FIGURES?</p>
<p>Guam's attorney general is elected, not appointed by the governor. Barrett-Anderson previously served in the Guam Legislature and was a Superior Court judge in Guam for 14 years.</p>
<p>Calvo, the governor, was elected in 2010. The former business executive has served five terms in the Guam Senate. His official biography said, "He is a man of deep faith, guided more by Christian values than any rule of politics." He attends Mass at a Roman Catholic church in the territory's capital.</p>
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<p>HOW IS GUAM DIFFERENT FROM ALABAMA?</p>
<p>The case has echoes of the situation in Alabama. A federal judge ordered an Alabama probate judge to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but the state Supreme Court told all probate judges to refuse to give out the licenses. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to settle the issue later this year. Guam's case is different in that no judge has weighed in.</p>
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<p>OTHER U.S. TERRITORIES</p>
<p>If Guam allows gay marriage, it would be the first U.S. territory to do so. A lawsuit challenging a Puerto Rico law defining marriage as between a man and a woman has been put on hold pending a ruling by the Supreme Court. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston said Tuesday that it will await that decision before scheduling oral arguments in the Puerto Rico case.</p>
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<p>NEXT STEPS</p>
<p>A lesbian couple will move forward with their lawsuit given the resistance to the attorney general's directive by the governor and health department, their lawyer said.</p>
<p>Loretta M. Pangelinan and Kathleen M. Aguero sued Monday in U.S. District Court in Guam after their marriage application was refused last week. The couple, both 28, say they are challenging "the discriminatory denial of their freedom to marry" in Guam.</p>
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<p>McAvoy reported from Honolulu.</p>
<p>HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Guam's attorney general and governor are at odds over whether same-sex couples should be allowed to wed, a change that would make it the first U.S. territory to allow gay marriage.</p>
<p>The territory's top law enforcement officer directed officials Wednesday to begin processing marriage license applications from same-sex couples. But the governor said he wanted to study the issue further, and the public health director said he wouldn't accept the applications.</p>
<p>Here's the latest on gay marriage in Guam:</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL OR NOT?</p>
<p>The U.S. District Court of Guam falls under the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which has ruled in favor of gay marriage.</p>
<p>Guam Attorney General Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson said in her directive that the public health department should process marriage license applications from gay couples based on the 9th Circuit's decision in October finding state bans on gay marriage unconstitutional.</p>
<p>But acting Public Health Director Leo Casil said his office won't accept applications from same-sex couples "until further notice," the Pacific Daily News newspaper on Guam reported.</p>
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<p>WHERE DOES THE GOVERNOR STAND?</p>
<p>Gov. Eddie Calvo said he respects the attorney general's view but noted that the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld state bans on same-sex marriages. The 6th Circuit covers Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, while Guam falls under the 9th Circuit.</p>
<p>Calvo also said the U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear oral arguments on gay marriage. He suggested Guam lawmakers could pass a law allowing gay marriage, or voters could do so in a referendum, "if it is the will of the people of Guam to make same-sex marriage legal."</p>
<p>Guam Legislature Vice Speaker BJ Cruz said Calvo "has never been in favor of same-gender marriage." Cruz said the governor would "veto whatever bill we pass."</p>
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<p>WHO ARE THE KEY FIGURES?</p>
<p>Guam's attorney general is elected, not appointed by the governor. Barrett-Anderson previously served in the Guam Legislature and was a Superior Court judge in Guam for 14 years.</p>
<p>Calvo, the governor, was elected in 2010. The former business executive has served five terms in the Guam Senate. His official biography said, "He is a man of deep faith, guided more by Christian values than any rule of politics." He attends Mass at a Roman Catholic church in the territory's capital.</p>
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<p>HOW IS GUAM DIFFERENT FROM ALABAMA?</p>
<p>The case has echoes of the situation in Alabama. A federal judge ordered an Alabama probate judge to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but the state Supreme Court told all probate judges to refuse to give out the licenses. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to settle the issue later this year. Guam's case is different in that no judge has weighed in.</p>
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<p>OTHER U.S. TERRITORIES</p>
<p>If Guam allows gay marriage, it would be the first U.S. territory to do so. A lawsuit challenging a Puerto Rico law defining marriage as between a man and a woman has been put on hold pending a ruling by the Supreme Court. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston said Tuesday that it will await that decision before scheduling oral arguments in the Puerto Rico case.</p>
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<p>NEXT STEPS</p>
<p>A lesbian couple will move forward with their lawsuit given the resistance to the attorney general's directive by the governor and health department, their lawyer said.</p>
<p>Loretta M. Pangelinan and Kathleen M. Aguero sued Monday in U.S. District Court in Guam after their marriage application was refused last week. The couple, both 28, say they are challenging "the discriminatory denial of their freedom to marry" in Guam.</p>
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<p>McAvoy reported from Honolulu.</p>
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hagatna guam ap guams attorney general governor odds whether samesex couples allowed wed change would make first us territory allow gay marriage territorys top law enforcement officer directed officials wednesday begin processing marriage license applications samesex couples governor said wanted study issue public health director said wouldnt accept applications heres latest gay marriage guam ___ gay marriage legal us district court guam falls 9th us circuit court appeals san francisco ruled favor gay marriage guam attorney general elizabeth barrettanderson said directive public health department process marriage license applications gay couples based 9th circuits decision october finding state bans gay marriage unconstitutional acting public health director leo casil said office wont accept applications samesex couples notice pacific daily news newspaper guam reported ____ governor stand gov eddie calvo said respects attorney generals view noted 6th us circuit court appeals upheld state bans samesex marriages 6th circuit covers kentucky michigan ohio tennessee guam falls 9th circuit calvo also said us supreme court soon hear oral arguments gay marriage suggested guam lawmakers could pass law allowing gay marriage voters could referendum people guam make samesex marriage legal guam legislature vice speaker bj cruz said calvo never favor samegender marriage cruz said governor would veto whatever bill pass ____ key figures guams attorney general elected appointed governor barrettanderson previously served guam legislature superior court judge guam 14 years calvo governor elected 2010 former business executive served five terms guam senate official biography said man deep faith guided christian values rule politics attends mass roman catholic church territorys capital ___ guam different alabama case echoes situation alabama federal judge ordered alabama probate judge issue marriage licenses samesex couples state supreme court told probate judges refuse give licenses us supreme court expected settle issue later year guams case different judge weighed ___ us territories guam allows gay marriage would first us territory lawsuit challenging puerto rico law defining marriage man woman put hold pending ruling supreme court 1st us circuit court appeals boston said tuesday await decision scheduling oral arguments puerto rico case ___ next steps lesbian couple move forward lawsuit given resistance attorney generals directive governor health department lawyer said loretta pangelinan kathleen aguero sued monday us district court guam marriage application refused last week couple 28 say challenging discriminatory denial freedom marry guam ___ mcavoy reported honolulu hagatna guam ap guams attorney general governor odds whether samesex couples allowed wed change would make first us territory allow gay marriage territorys top law enforcement officer directed officials wednesday begin processing marriage license applications samesex couples governor said wanted study issue public health director said wouldnt accept applications heres latest gay marriage guam ___ gay marriage legal us district court guam falls 9th us circuit court appeals san francisco ruled favor gay marriage guam attorney general elizabeth barrettanderson said directive public health department process marriage license applications gay couples based 9th circuits decision october finding state bans gay marriage unconstitutional acting public health director leo casil said office wont accept applications samesex couples notice pacific daily news newspaper guam reported ____ governor stand gov eddie calvo said respects attorney generals view noted 6th us circuit court appeals upheld state bans samesex marriages 6th circuit covers kentucky michigan ohio tennessee guam falls 9th circuit calvo also said us supreme court soon hear oral arguments gay marriage suggested guam lawmakers could pass law allowing gay marriage voters could referendum people guam make samesex marriage legal guam legislature vice speaker bj cruz said calvo never favor samegender marriage cruz said governor would veto whatever bill pass ____ key figures guams attorney general elected appointed governor barrettanderson previously served guam legislature superior court judge guam 14 years calvo governor elected 2010 former business executive served five terms guam senate official biography said man deep faith guided christian values rule politics attends mass roman catholic church territorys capital ___ guam different alabama case echoes situation alabama federal judge ordered alabama probate judge issue marriage licenses samesex couples state supreme court told probate judges refuse give licenses us supreme court expected settle issue later year guams case different judge weighed ___ us territories guam allows gay marriage would first us territory lawsuit challenging puerto rico law defining marriage man woman put hold pending ruling supreme court 1st us circuit court appeals boston said tuesday await decision scheduling oral arguments puerto rico case ___ next steps lesbian couple move forward lawsuit given resistance attorney generals directive governor health department lawyer said loretta pangelinan kathleen aguero sued monday us district court guam marriage application refused last week couple 28 say challenging discriminatory denial freedom marry guam ___ mcavoy reported honolulu
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<p>This undated photo released by Google shows a contact lens Google is testing to explore tear glucose. After years of scalding soldering hair-thin wires to miniaturize electronics, Brian Otis, Google X project lead, has burned his fingertips so often that he can no longer feel the tiny chips he made from scratch in Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters, a small price to pay for what he says is the smallest wireless glucose sensor that has ever been made. (AP Photo/Google)</p>
<p>MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Brian Otis gingerly holds what looks like a typical contact lens on his index finger.</p>
<p>Look closer. Sandwiched in this lens are two twinkling glitter-specks loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturized transistors. It’s ringed with a hair-thin antenna.</p>
<p>Together these remarkable miniature electronics can monitor glucose levels in tears of diabetics and then wirelessly transmit them to a handheld device.</p>
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<p>“It doesn’t look like much, but it was a crazy amount of work to get everything so very small,” he said before the project was unveiled Thursday.</p>
<p>During years of soldering hair-thin wires to miniaturize electronics, Otis burned his fingertips so often that he can no longer feel the tiny chips he made from scratch in Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters, a small price to pay for what he says is the smallest wireless glucose sensor ever made.</p>
<p>Just 35 miles away in the beach town of Santa Cruz, high school soccer coach and university senior Michael Vahradian, 21, has his own set of fingertip callouses, his from pricking himself up to 10 times a day for the past 17 years to draw blood for his glucose meter. A cellphone-sized pump on his hip that attaches to a flexible tube implanted in his stomach shoots rapid-acting insulin into his body around the clock.</p>
<p>“I remember at first it was really hard to make the needle sticks a habit because it hurt so much,” he said. “And there are still times I don’t want to do it — it hurts and it’s inconvenient. When I’m hanging out with friends, heading down to the beach to body-surf or going to lunch, I have to hold everyone up to take my blood sugar.”</p>
<p>The idea that all of that monitoring could be going on passively, through a contact lens, is especially promising for the world’s 382 million diabetics who need insulin and keep a close watch on their blood sugar.</p>
<p>The prototype, which Google says will take at least five years to reach consumers, is one of several medical devices being designed by companies to make glucose monitoring for diabetic patients more convenient and less invasive than traditional finger pricks.</p>
<p>The contact lenses were developed during the past 18 months in the clandestine Google X lab that also came up with a driverless car, Google’s Web-surfing eyeglasses and Project Loon, a network of large balloons designed to beam the Internet to unwired places.</p>
<p>But research on the contact lenses began several years earlier at the University of Washington, where scientists worked under National Science Foundation funding. Until Thursday, when Google shared information about the project with The Associated Press, the work had been kept under wraps.</p>
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<p>“You can take it to a certain level in an academic setting, but at Google we were given the latitude to invest in this project,” Otis said. “The beautiful thing is we’re leveraging all of the innovation in the semiconductor industry that was aimed at making cellphones smaller and more powerful.”</p>
<p>American Diabetes Association board chair Dwight Holing said he’s gratified that creative scientists are searching for solutions for people with diabetes but warned that the device must provide accurate and timely information.</p>
<p>“People with diabetes base very important health care decisions on the data we get from our monitors,” he said.</p>
<p>Other non-needle glucose monitoring systems are also in the works, including a similar contact lens by Netherlands-based NovioSense, a minuscule, flexible spring that is tucked under an eyelid. Israel-based OrSense has already tested a thumb cuff, and there have been early designs for tattoos and saliva sensors.</p>
<p>A wristwatch monitor was approved by the FDA in 2001, but patients said the low level electric currents pulling fluid from their skin was painful, and it was buggy.</p>
<p>“There are a lot of people who have big promises,” said Dr. Christopher Wilson, CEO of NovioSense. “It’s just a question of who gets to market with something that really works first.”</p>
<p>Palo Alto Medical Foundation endocrinologist Dr. Larry Levin said it was remarkable and important that a tech firm like Google is getting into the medical field and that he’d like to be able to offer his patients a pain-free alternative from either pricking their fingers or living with a thick needle embedded in their stomach for constant monitoring.</p>
<p>“Google, they’re innovative, they are up on new technologies, and also we have to be honest here, the driving force is money,” he said.</p>
<p>Worldwide, the glucose-monitoring devices market is expected to be more than $16 billion by the end of this year, according to analysts at Renub Research.</p>
<p>The Google team built the wireless chips in clean rooms and used advanced engineering to get integrated circuits and a glucose sensor into such a small space.</p>
<p>Researchers also had to build in a system to pull energy from incoming radio frequency waves to power the device enough to collect and transmit one glucose reading per second. The embedded electronics in the lens don’t obscure vision because they lie outside the eye’s pupil and iris.</p>
<p>Google is now looking for partners with experience bringing similar products to market. Google officials declined to say how many people worked on the project or how much the firm has invested in it.</p>
<p>Dr. David Klonoff, medical director of the diabetes research institute at Mills-Peninsula Health Services in San Mateo, worked with Google to see whether glucose is present in tears and whether the amount of glucose is proportional to the amount of glucose in blood. He’s still analyzing but optimistic about his findings and warns there are many potential pitfalls.</p>
<p>“Already this has some breakthrough technologies, but this is a moonshot, there are so many challenges,” he said.</p>
<p>One is figuring out how to correlate glucose levels in tears as compared with blood. And what happens on windy days, while chopping onions or during very sad movies? As with any medical device, it would need to be tested and proved accurate, safe, and at least as good as other types of glucose sensors available now to win FDA approval.</p>
<p>Karen Rose Tank, who left her career as an economist to be a health and wellness coach after her Type 1 diabetes diagnosis 18 years ago, also is encouraged that new glucose monitoring methods may be on the horizon.</p>
<p>“It’s really exciting that some of the big tech companies are getting into this market,” she said. “They bring so much ingenuity; they’re able to look outside the box.”</p>
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<p>(Reuters) - Oxygen supply device maker Inogen Inc said on Friday it was notifying 30,000 existing and former customers following a data breach that led to improper access of personal details of some rental clients.</p>
<p>The company, which makes portable devices that supply oxygen to patients with breathing difficulties and lung diseases, said some non-public financial information was also leaked after an employee’s email account was compromised.</p>
<p>The unauthorized access appeared to have occurred between Jan. 2 and March 14 and involved rental customers’ personal information such as names, contact details, Medicare identification numbers and insurance policy information.</p>
<p>However the affected data did not include payment card information or medical records, the company said in a filing <a href="https://bit.ly/2GUP8xE." type="external">bit.ly/2GUP8xE.</a></p>
<p>Inogen said it has hired a forensic firm to investigate and will provide credit monitoring and an insurance reimbursement policy to assist affected customers.</p>
<p>The company said its insurance policy may not be adequate to protect against all costs arising from the incident.</p>
<p>Inogen’s shares have risen about 81 percent over the past year and on Thursday closed at their highest level since the company went public in 2014.</p>
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<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is investigating the methods partner KPMG uses to crack down on the illegal use of its software in India, after a complaint from a senior member of the country’s ruling political party, documents seen by Reuters showed.</p> FILE PHOTO: An advertisement is played on a set of large screens at the Microsoft office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
<p>India is one of the U.S. technology firm’s biggest markets in Asia, yet over half of all software installed on computers in the country is unlicensed, advocacy group Business Software Alliance said in 2016.</p>
<p>A pirated compact disc of Microsoft’s Windows 10 can be bought for around $2 in New Delhi, compared with $130 needed to buy the operating system from Microsoft’s online portal.</p>
<p>To ensure compliance, Microsoft runs a global “software asset management” (SAM) program under which it partners global consultants, such as KPMG in India, which seek permission from business owners to check for the use of unlicensed software.</p>
<p>Last month, Vinit Goenka, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and technology adviser to the government, complained to both companies that a KPMG employee “barged in” to his Mumbai recruitment firm without an appointment to check its software, according to emails reviewed by Reuters.</p>
<p>Rajiv Sodhi, a senior Microsoft India executive, told Goenka in a March 20 email that the company was looking at the issue with “utmost seriousness”.</p>
<p>“We are also getting an assessment agency to carry out an audit of the process delivery at KPMG to identify and correct gaps, if any,” Sodhi wrote in the email reviewed by Reuters.</p>
<p>Sodhi did not respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p>Microsoft told Reuters its SAM program is run as per global standards, while KPMG said it follows “appropriate procedures agreed in our engagement with clients”. Both declined to comment on the alleged incident and probe.</p>
<p>The employee, who identified himself in the emails as Srijesh, declined to comment.</p> A pirated copy of Windows 10 is on display for sale at a market in New Delhi, India, April 5, 2018. REUTERS/Saumya Khandelwal
<p>Goenka confirmed the incident and complaint, telling Reuters the handful of computers at his company, Ratein Infotech, used genuine software. He said he planned to file a police complaint against both companies.</p>
<p>Ratein Infotech last month received a letter from the U.S. software firm saying it needed help in “interpreting licensing policies of Microsoft”, the emails showed. The issue escalated when the KPMG employee entered Ratien’s office on March 15.</p>
<p>Microsoft and KPMG apologized and the employee, Srijesh, resigned, the e-mails showed.</p>
<p>“This is part of my regular job, that I do on a daily basis as directed by KPMG and Microsoft,” Srijesh wrote in an apology email to Goenka, seen by Reuters.</p>
<p>Goenka is a former employee of International Business Machines Corp and advises government committees on information technology initiatives.</p>
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<p>MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines’ privacy watchdog said on Friday it has started investigating Facebook Inc ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=FB.O" type="external">FB.O</a>) over a data breach involving British firm Cambridge Analytica that affected more than a million Filipino users of social media.</p> FILE PHOTO: Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Facebook logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File photo
<p>The move follows a decision by European Union privacy watchdogs to look deeper into the harvesting of personal data from social networks for economic or political purposes.</p>
<p>Outside the United States, the Philippines had the largest amount of user data acquired by Cambridge Analytica, with 1.17 million accounts in the country affected, the National Privacy Commission (NPC) said last week.</p>
<p>In a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, dated April 11, the NPC said it would look into how Facebook shares personal data of Filipino users with third parties, and demand concrete action to protect their data privacy rights.</p>
<p>“We are launching an investigation into Facebook to determine whether there is unauthorized processing of personal data of Filipinos, and other possible violations of the Data Privacy Act,” it said in the letter, made available to the media on Friday.</p>
<p>A Facebook spokesperson said the company is committed to protecting people’s information and is engaged with the Philippines’ privacy watchdog.</p>
<p>“We’ve recently made significant updates to make our&#160;privacy tools easier to find,&#160;restrict data access on Facebook, and&#160;make our terms and data policy clearer,” Facebook said.</p>
<p>Recent research has shown Filipinos to be among the most active social media users in the world, spending on average more than four hours a day on platforms like Facebook.</p>
<p>Facebook has admitted that personal data of nearly 87 million users was improperly accessed by Cambridge Analytica, which has counted U.S. President Donald Trump’s election campaign among its clients.</p>
<p>A Hong Kong newspaper has said several people involved in President Rodrigo Duterte’s 2016 election campaign had met in 2015 with Alexander Nix, the now-suspended chief executive of Cambridge Analytica.</p>
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<p>Those officials said the meeting with Nix was during a lunch break at an information technology seminar in Manila and there has been no contact since.</p>
<p>The president’s spokesman said on Tuesday that Duterte’s election campaign did not rely on information bought from anybody, nor did it hire Cambridge Analytica’s services.</p>
<p>Duterte, a former mayor from outside of the sphere of national politics, successfully tapped Filipinos’ insatiable appetite for social media to help him win a 2016 election by a huge margin.</p>
<p>His office uses social media with gusto, courting popular bloggers, in some cases hiring them, to promote Duterte and discredit his opponents, and amplifying the message through “shares” and “likes”.</p>
<p>Duterte, however, has said he does not need social media, and on Friday denied any links to Cambridge Analytica.</p>
<p>“Why will I pay those Cambridge fools to work on my campaign? I could have lost with that,” Duterte told reporters.</p>
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<p>(Reuters) - A U.S. judge in Philadelphia has ruled that limousine drivers for Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] are independent contractors and not the company’s employees under federal law, the first ruling of its kind on a crucial issue for the ride-hailing company.</p> The logo of Uber is pictured during the presentation of their new security measures in Mexico City, Mexico April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Ginnette Riquelme
<p>U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson on Wednesday said San Francisco-based Uber does not exert enough control over drivers for its limo service, UberBLACK, to be considered their employer under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The drivers work when they want to and are free to nap, run personal errands, or smoke cigarettes in between rides, Baylson said.</p>
<p>The legal classification of workers has been a major issue for “gig economy” companies that rely on independent contractors. Uber, in particular, has been hit with dozens of lawsuits in recent years claiming that its drivers are employees and are entitled to minimum wage, overtime, and other legal protections not afforded to contractors.</p>
<p>An Uber spokeswoman said the company is pleased with the decision.</p>
<p>Jeremy Abay, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said he would appeal the ruling to the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The 3rd Circuit would be the first federal appeals court to consider whether Uber drivers are properly classified as independent contractors.</p>
<p>Many of the cases filed against Uber have been sent to arbitration, but the plaintiffs in the Philadelphia case were among a small minority of drivers who had opted not to sign arbitration agreements with the company.</p>
<p>Last year, a state appeals court in Florida said Uber’s drivers were not its employees under Florida law. But state agencies in California and New York have said that they are under those states’ laws.</p>
<p>Baylson in Wednesday’s ruling said he was the first judge to rule on the classification of Uber drivers under federal law. His ruling comes about two months after a federal judge in San Francisco said that food delivery workers for Grubhub Inc were not the company’s employees.</p>
<p>The Grubhub case was the first of its kind against a so-called gig economy company to go to trial.</p>
<p>The Philadelphia lawsuit was filed in February 2016. The plaintiffs said Uber failed to pay them minimum wage and overtime in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which only applies to employees. The plaintiffs were seeking to represent all drivers in Philadelphia for Uber’s limousine service, UberBLACK.</p>
<p>The case is Razak v. Uber Technologies Inc, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, No. 2:16-cv-00573.</p>
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jan 18 reuters whatsapp whatsapp says launching whatsapp business freetodownload android app small businesses blog whatsapp says whatsapp business available google play indonesia italy mexico uk us app rolling around world coming weeks source text bitly2dquan1 company coverage standards thomson reuters trust principles reuters oxygen supply device maker inogen inc said friday notifying 30000 existing former customers following data breach led improper access personal details rental clients company makes portable devices supply oxygen patients breathing difficulties lung diseases said nonpublic financial information also leaked employees email account compromised unauthorized access appeared occurred jan 2 march 14 involved rental customers personal information names contact details medicare identification numbers insurance policy information however affected data include payment card information medical records company said filing bitly2gup8xe inogen said hired forensic firm 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microsofts online portal ensure compliance microsoft runs global software asset management sam program partners global consultants kpmg india seek permission business owners check use unlicensed software last month vinit goenka member bharatiya janata party bjp technology adviser government complained companies kpmg employee barged mumbai recruitment firm without appointment check software according emails reviewed reuters rajiv sodhi senior microsoft india executive told goenka march 20 email company looking issue utmost seriousness also getting assessment agency carry audit process delivery kpmg identify correct gaps sodhi wrote email reviewed reuters sodhi respond request comment microsoft told reuters sam program run per global standards kpmg said follows appropriate procedures agreed engagement clients declined comment alleged incident probe employee identified emails srijesh declined comment pirated copy windows 10 display sale market new delhi india april 5 2018 reuterssaumya 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mobile users seen next screen projection facebook logo picture illustration taken march 28 2018 reutersdado ruvicillustrationfile photo move follows decision european union privacy watchdogs look deeper harvesting personal data social networks economic political purposes outside united states philippines largest amount user data acquired cambridge analytica 117 million accounts country affected national privacy commission npc said last week letter facebook founder mark zuckerberg dated april 11 npc said would look facebook shares personal data filipino users third parties demand concrete action protect data privacy rights launching investigation facebook determine whether unauthorized processing personal data filipinos possible violations data privacy act said letter made available media friday facebook spokesperson said company committed protecting peoples information engaged philippines privacy watchdog weve recently made significant updates make our160privacy tools easier find160restrict data access facebook and160make terms data policy clearer facebook said recent research shown filipinos among active social media users world spending average four hours day platforms like facebook facebook admitted personal data nearly 87 million users improperly accessed cambridge analytica counted us president donald trumps election campaign among clients hong kong newspaper said several people involved president rodrigo dutertes 2016 election campaign met 2015 alexander nix nowsuspended chief executive cambridge analytica facebook inc 16452 fbo nasdaq 065 040 fbo officials said meeting nix lunch break information technology seminar manila contact since presidents spokesman said tuesday dutertes election campaign rely information bought anybody hire cambridge analyticas services duterte former mayor outside sphere national politics successfully tapped filipinos insatiable appetite social media help win 2016 election huge margin office uses social media gusto courting popular bloggers cases hiring promote duterte discredit opponents amplifying message shares likes duterte however said need social media friday denied links cambridge analytica pay cambridge fools work campaign could lost duterte told reporters reporting neil jerome morales editing martin petty eric meijer standards thomson reuters trust principles reuters us judge philadelphia ruled limousine drivers uber technologies inc uberul independent contractors companys employees federal law first ruling kind crucial issue ridehailing company logo uber pictured presentation new security measures mexico city mexico april 10 2018 reutersginnette riquelme us district judge michael baylson wednesday said san franciscobased uber exert enough control drivers limo service uberblack considered employer federal fair labor standards act drivers work want free nap run personal errands smoke cigarettes rides baylson said legal classification workers major issue gig economy companies rely independent 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<p>BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The world’s financial leaders reaffirmed on Tuesday their commitment to fight protectionism and said there was need for “further dialogue and actions” on trade, just days before U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs are to enter into force.</p>
<p>Finance ministers and central bankers of the world’s 20 biggest economies, the G20, have been discussing the risk to global economic growth posed by a potential trade war caused by the U.S. tariffs and looming trade sanctions on China.</p>
<p>“International trade and investment are important engines of growth, productivity, innovation, job creation and development,” the G20 financial leaders said in the final communique from the two-day meeting.</p>
<p>“We reaffirm the conclusions of our Leaders on trade at the Hamburg Summit and recognize the need for further dialogue and actions. We are working to strengthen contribution of trade to our economies.”</p>
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<p>(Reuters) - A student who shot and critically wounded two fellow students at a Maryland high school on Tuesday morning, died after exchanging gunfire with a campus security officer, the county sheriff said.</p> Law enforcement motorcade is seen near the Great Mills High School following a shooting on Tuesday morning in St. Mary's County, Maryland, U.S., March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Sait Serkan Gurbuz
<p>The school day had barely begun when the student, who has not been identified, shot a male student and a female student at Great Mills High School in St. Mary’s County before the campus security officer intervened, county Sheriff Timothy Cameron told a news conference.</p>
<p>“Our school resource officer who was stationed inside the school was alerted to the event and the shots being fired,” Cameron said. “He pursued the shooter, engaged the shooter; during that engagement he fired a round at the shooter. Simultaneously, the shooter fired a round as well.”</p>
<p>The officer was not harmed, the sheriff said.</p>
<p>The latest in a long string of deadly shootings at U.S. schools and universities took place a little more than a month after 17 students and educators were shot dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.</p>
<p>That attack sparked a new student movement against gun violence, including a national school walkout last week that Great Mills students participated in. It occurred just days before a planned Saturday march in Washington calling for new restrictions on guns.</p>
<p>Parkland students and Great Mills students exchanged supportive messages on Twitter following Tuesday’s shooting.</p>
<p>“We are here for you, students of Great Mills, together we can stop this from ever happening again,” Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Stoneman Douglas High School who survived last month’s rampage, wrote on Twitter.</p>
<p>A 14-year-old male student, whom the sheriff had earlier said was in critical condition, was in good condition after treatment at MedStar St Mary’s Hospital, according to hospital officials. A 16-year-old female student, who also had been in critical condition, was stabilized and transferred to another hospital, they said.</p> Emergency personnel and law enforcement officers stand outside Great Mills High School following a shooting on Tuesday morning in St. Mary's County, Maryland, U.S., March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Sait Serkan Gurbuz
<p>The shooter used a handgun in the attack, the sheriff said. He was confirmed deceased at 10:41 a.m. ET after being taken to a hospital.</p>
<p>Cameron said investigators would determine whether the shooter died of a wound from the school resource officer’s gun or in some other way.</p>
<p>The public school’s roughly 1,600 students were later escorted off campus by police, classroom by classroom, to reunite with their parents at another high school.</p> Slideshow (5 Images)
<p>Police investigated rumors that someone was threatening to shoot people at the school last month, BayNet, a Maryland news outlet, reported on Feb. 21. The threats were unsubstantiated, but security was increased at the school, the principal said, according to BayNet.</p>
<p>It was unclear whether those rumors had any connection with Tuesday’s violence.</p>
<p>“I’m not aware of anything, but again we’re gonna go back and come through that as well as anybody involved (and) their social media posts,” Cameron said in response to questions about the report.</p>
<p>An armed school resource officer had also been on the campus of Stoneman Douglas at the time of the shooting there, and came under criticism for failing to stop the gunman, who was armed with an AR-15 assault-style rifle. The officer, who resigned, said he had not been sure where the gunfire was coming from.</p>
<p>U.S. President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association have proposed arming teachers to combat the threat of school shootings, while gun safety advocates have demanded a ban on semiautomatic rifles, among other laws.</p>
<p>The Maryland school is in Great Mills, a community about 70 miles (110 km) south of Washington.</p>
<p>“You never think it’ll be your school and then it is,” Mollie Davis, who identified herself as a student at the school, wrote on Twitter. “Great Mills is a wonderful school and somewhere I am proud to go. Why us?”</p>
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<p>AUSTIN/SCHERTZ, Texas (Reuters) - A package bomb blew up at a FedEx distribution center near San Antonio on Tuesday, hastening investigators to seek the public’s help in determining if there is any link to four homemade bombs that have rocked the state capital of Austin this month.</p>
<p>Hundreds of federal investigators joined local authorities in probing the bombings, which the White House said do not appear to be linked to terrorism.</p>
<p>The latest blast knocked a female employee off her feet, police said. The package, filled with nails and metal shrapnel, exploded shortly after midnight local time at the FedEx Corp sorting facility in Schertz, Texas, about 65 miles south of Austin, the San Antonio Fire Department said on Twitter.</p>
<p>Investigators were also examining a second suspicious package at the same facility, San Antonio Police Chief Bill McManus told reporters.</p>
<p>“There was one other package that we believe was also loaded with an explosive device that they are looking at right now,” McManus told reporters in Schertz, about 20 miles northeast of San Antonio.</p>
<p>In Sunset Valley, a town within Austin, police surrounded a FedEx store on suspicion it was linked to the Schertz bombing.</p>
<p>“The FBI is currently investigating a confirmed link between packages involved in the Austin bombing investigation and a mail delivery office in Sunset Valley. It appears that the source of the suspect packages was a private package delivery office in Sunset Valley,” Sunset Valley police said in a statement.</p> Crime scene tape blocks off an area designated for the media at the scene of a blast at a FedEx facility in Schertz, Texas, U.S., March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Sergio Flores
<p>Even with the apparent Austin link, it remained unknown whether the latest incident was the work of what Austin police said could be a serial bomber who is responsible for the four earlier devices that killed two people and injured four others.</p>
<p>The blast at the FedEx facility in Schertz was the fifth in the state in the last 18 days and the first involving a commercial parcel service.</p>
<p>“We are committed to bringing perpetrators of these heinous acts to justice. There is no apparent nexus to terrorism at this time,” White House spokesman Sarah Sanders said in a Twitter post.</p> Slideshow (13 Images)
<p>Investigators were trying to come up with a theory or intelligence regarding the motive for the bombings or identity of the bomber or bombers, a U.S. security official and a law enforcement official told Reuters.</p>
<p>The FBI was investigating the FedEx package explosion as if there were a connection to the Austin bombings, the law enforcement official said. Both sources declined to be identified.</p> Related Coverage
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<p>Federal authorities at the scene offered few details, telling reporters their probe was in the early stages and that the building would be secured before investigators could gather evidence.</p>
<p>Authorities offered a $115,000 reward to anyone providing information leading the arrest or conviction of the culprit, and public urged the bomber to communicate with them to explain the motivation for the attacks.</p>
<p>We need the public’s help right now,” said James Smith, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s San Antonio office.</p>
<p>Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee and Mark Hosenball and Lisa Lambert in Washington; Writing by Scott Malone and Daniel Trotta; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Jeffrey Benkoe</p> Our Standards:
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<p>(Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=CRM.N" type="external">CRM.N</a>) is in advanced discussions to acquire U.S. software maker MuleSoft Inc ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=MULE.N" type="external">MULE.N</a>), people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, as it looks to expand its offerings beyond customer relationship management software.</p> FILE PHOTO - The Salesforce logo is pictured on a building in San Francisco, California, U.S. October 12, 2016. REUTERS/Lily Jamali/File Photo
<p>The acquisition, which could be worth more $6 billion, would be Salesforce’s biggest ever deal, illustrating Chief Executive Marc Benioff’s push to supplement the company’s cloud-based portfolio with new technology.</p>
<p>A deal could be announced as soon as this week, the sources said, cautioning that negotiations had not been finalized and that an agreement was not certain.</p>
<p>The sources asked not to be identified because the negotiations are confidential. Salesforce and MuleSoft declined to comment.</p>
<p>MuleSoft shares jumped more than 20 percent to $39.88 after Reuters reported the talks, giving the company a market value of $5.3 billion. Salesforce shares were up 0.3 percent at $125.31.</p>
<p>Based in San Francisco, MuleSoft makes software that automatically integrates disparate data, devices and applications to help companies’ networks run faster. It could help Salesforce win business from customers which are not yet ready to transition their systems to the cloud.</p>
<p>Buying MuleSoft would help Salesforce build a larger enterprise apps ecosystem around its own products, Barclays Plc ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=BARC.L" type="external">BARC.L</a>) analysts wrote in a research note, adding that MuleSoft could command a premium given its rapid growth and good fit.</p>
<a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=CRM.N" type="external">Salesforce.com Inc</a> 125.5 CRM.N New York Stock Exchange +0.52 (+0.42%) CRM.N MULE.N BARC.L KO.N MCD.N
<p>Salesforce Ventures, the company’s venture capital arm, led a $128 million funding round in MuleSoft in 2015.</p>
<p>MuleSoft has more than 1,000 customers, including Coca-Cola Co ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=KO.N" type="external">KO.N</a>), McDonald’s Corp ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=MCD.N" type="external">MCD.N</a>), Spotify and Unilever ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=ULVR.L" type="external">ULVR.L</a>). It went public about a year ago.</p>
<p>Salesforce holds more than 18 percent of the global customer relationship management software market, followed by Oracle Corp ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=ORCL.N" type="external">ORCL.N</a>) with 9.4 percent, according to 2016 figures provided by research firm IDC.</p>
<p>Alphabet Inc’s ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=GOOGL.O" type="external">GOOGL.O</a>) Google acquired a competitor of MuleSoft called Apigee Corp in a $625 million deal in 2016.</p>
<p>Reporting by Liana B. Baker and Greg Roumeliotis in New York; Additional reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Bill Rigby</p> Our Standards:
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tuesday morning died exchanging gunfire campus security officer county sheriff said law enforcement motorcade seen near great mills high school following shooting tuesday morning st marys county maryland us march 20 2018 reuterssait serkan gurbuz school day barely begun student identified shot male student female student great mills high school st marys county campus security officer intervened county sheriff timothy cameron told news conference school resource officer stationed inside school alerted event shots fired cameron said pursued shooter engaged shooter engagement fired round shooter simultaneously shooter fired round well officer harmed sheriff said latest long string deadly shootings us schools universities took place little month 17 students educators shot dead marjory stoneman douglas high school parkland florida attack sparked new student movement gun violence including national school walkout last week great mills students participated occurred days planned saturday march washington calling new restrictions guns parkland students great mills students exchanged supportive messages twitter following tuesdays shooting students great mills together stop ever happening emma gonzalez senior stoneman douglas high school survived last months rampage wrote twitter 14yearold male student sheriff earlier said critical condition good condition treatment medstar st marys hospital according hospital officials 16yearold female student also critical condition stabilized transferred another hospital said emergency personnel law enforcement officers stand outside great mills high school following shooting tuesday morning st marys county maryland us march 20 2018 reuterssait serkan gurbuz shooter used handgun attack sheriff said confirmed deceased 1041 et taken hospital cameron said investigators would determine whether shooter died wound school resource officers gun way public schools roughly 1600 students later escorted campus police classroom classroom reunite parents another high school slideshow 5 images police investigated rumors someone threatening shoot people school last month baynet maryland news outlet reported feb 21 threats unsubstantiated security increased school principal said according baynet unclear whether rumors connection tuesdays violence im aware anything gon na go back come well anybody involved social media posts cameron said response questions report armed school resource officer also campus stoneman douglas time shooting came criticism failing stop gunman armed ar15 assaultstyle rifle officer resigned said sure gunfire coming us president donald trump national rifle association proposed arming teachers combat threat school shootings gun safety advocates demanded ban semiautomatic rifles among laws maryland school great mills community 70 miles 110 km south washington never think itll school mollie davis identified student school wrote twitter great mills wonderful school somewhere proud go us reporting jonathan allen 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schertz bombing fbi currently investigating confirmed link packages involved austin bombing investigation mail delivery office sunset valley appears source suspect packages private package delivery office sunset valley sunset valley police said statement crime scene tape blocks area designated media scene blast fedex facility schertz texas us march 20 2018 reuterssergio flores even apparent austin link remained unknown whether latest incident work austin police said could serial bomber responsible four earlier devices killed two people injured four others blast fedex facility schertz fifth state last 18 days first involving commercial parcel service committed bringing perpetrators heinous acts justice apparent nexus terrorism time white house spokesman sarah sanders said twitter post slideshow 13 images investigators trying come theory intelligence regarding motive bombings identity bomber bombers us security official law enforcement official told reuters fbi investigating fedex 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<p>BENSON, Vt. (AP) — Millie Coursey is eating lunch at the breakfast bar in her daughter’s kitchen. She polishes off a yogurt mixed with trazodone — an anti-anxiety medication — and moves on to a small container of spaghetti with tomato sauce.</p>
<p>Coursey, 90, has Alzheimer’s disease. Her daughter, Lauren Mohan, said Coursey receives trazodone three times a day.</p>
<p>“It keeps her at a nice even keel,” Mohan said. “When it starts to wear down, you notice it. Her personality is angry. She’s a little grumpy today.”</p>
<p>Two years ago, Mohan quit her job at The Lodge at Otter Creek, a senior living community in Middlebury, in anticipation of taking care of her mother full-time at home. She gave up a salary of $46,000 annually.</p>
<p>There are an estimated 30,000 Vermonters providing unpaid care to loved ones with Alzheimer’s and dementia.</p>
<p>Mohan was resident service director at Otter Creek for five years. She previously worked at Middlebury College for 13 years, and together with her husband, owned a convenience store in Forest Dale after leaving Middlebury College. Mohan has worked all her life but felt she had to give up her career for her mother.</p>
<p>“I wanted to do it,” she said. “It was something that in my heart I felt was the right thing to do.”</p>
<p>After leaving The Lodge at Otter Creek, Mohan went to work full time for a small telephone company in nearby Shoreham called OTT Communications, making $13 per hour. Mohan took a three-month family medical leave from the job to get her mother settled into her house in Benson.</p>
<p>“After I got my mom here I realized there was no way I could go back full time because of her needs,” Mohan said. “I ended up asking if I could come back part time until the situation possibly changed, and they flatly refused me.”</p>
<p>Respondents said their supervisors were often unsympathetic when it came to balancing work and caregiving. Others cited a stigma associated with the topic, leaving many feeling uncomfortable discussing the issue with employers.</p>
<p>Mohan said she has had a couple of offers for part-time jobs but didn’t feel she could accept them.</p>
<p>“It’s just too much to juggle the job with the caregiving part,” Mohan said. “I think it would have been too stressful for mom and myself to try to balance the job and visiting nurses. We chose not to do it, so we’re cutting back and riding it out.”</p>
<p>The Home Instead study found many women feel forced to give up their careers, often around the age of 50, to care for an aging parent. Mohan is 58.</p>
<p>The study also showed that women are twice as likely as men to spend more than 30 hours a week on caregiving. Home Instead Inc. surveyed 1,001 working female caregivers, aged 45-60, in the United States and Canada in March, 2017.</p>
<p>According to the Society for Human Resource Management, working female caregivers average nearly double the amount of time caring for aging loved ones, compared to male counterparts — 9.1 hours a week vs. 5.7 hours.</p>
<p>Mohan talked to her husband about quitting her job after her mother spent a month in a nursing home while Mohan and her sisters tried to figure out how to deal with the disease that had changed their mother’s life.</p>
<p>“It was like a revelation,” Mohan remembered. “I said, ‘This has got to happen. I want to quit my job. I want her here. This is going to be my life for a while. There’s no other choices. Are you OK with us doing this?’”</p>
<p>Mohan’s husband said he was, if that’s what she wanted.</p>
<p>“He’s been a saint, even though I get angry with him sometimes,” Mohan said. “He’s been very supportive. I couldn’t do this without him.”</p>
<p>Coursey has a small, sun-filled room just off the living room in Mohan’s modest home. On the walls of Coursey’s room are photos of her and her husband, and another of her and her sister when they were little girls in the 1930s.</p>
<p>“We had to hang up the pictures because she will take clothes or a plastic bag, gather her photos and put them in there, ready to go home,” Mohan said. “That breaks my heart, but I don’t take it personally.”</p>
<p>The first step Mohan and her sisters had to take, once it became apparent their mother was suffering from dementia, was to go to court to have her declared incompetent.</p>
<p>Physically, Coursey is in excellent shape for a 90-year-old, Mohan says. Mohan has to keep the doors locked.</p>
<p>“Her dementia is so severe she has what’s called a wandering risk, which means she has to be in a locked facility, because she will wander off and get lost,” Mohan said.</p>
<p>“She wants to run away, no matter where she is,” she said. “We’re kind of shut-ins. I take her out every day to go for walks around the yard.”</p>
<p>Coursey tried to climb a wooden fence and escape during her brief stay at a nursing home. Mohan says her mother has a “violent nature” without medication.</p>
<p>“It’s all part of the dementia,” she said. “It’s a terrible disease.”</p>
<p>Mohan butters a piece of bread and slides it toward her mother, who has finished her spaghetti. Coursey pushes the bread away.</p>
<p>Coursey sits silently, munching on a star-shaped cookie. Mohan says her mother often calls her the “boss,” in what is probably not a term of endearment.</p>
<p>The mother she knew is gone, Mohan said, but every once in a while, there are glimpses. Like after Mohan had been shoveling snow and came back inside for a break.</p>
<p>Mohan’s mother came up to her and put her hands on her cold, red cheeks.</p>
<p>“She said, ’Oh thank you, you did such a good job,’” Mohan remembered. “I’m like, ’Who’s this woman?’” Mohan remembered, laughing. “Those are the kinds of things you let go of. You have to recognize who she is now. She’s a different person now.”</p>
<p>Mohan and her husband had planned to sell their house in Benson and move to Bristol to be near their daughter and grandchildren. They also wanted to buy a home with two bathrooms to better accommodate Coursey’s needs. Their house was still on the market last month but the prospects of moving are dim.</p>
<p>“Unfortunately there’s a possibility we’re going to take it off this month, just because the dynamics of having my mom here has affected our income,” Mohan said. “We’re having a tough time trying to obtain a loan for a new home.”</p>
<p>The bank can only take her husband’s income into account for a loan, Mohan said, and the amount they could get would not buy a “large enough, nice enough house.”</p>
<p>Mohan has not looked into whether any assistance is available from the state, but she said her sister, who is her mother’s guardian, is paying her the same wage she was making at OTT Communications — $13 per hour — for a 40-hour week as a caregiver. The money is coming for their mother’s estate.</p>
<p>“So we’re managing to squeak by,” Mohan said. “We’re not destitute. I know how to manage money. It’s tight, but you do what you have to do.”</p>
<p>Mohan and her husband have also had to put off travel plans. But she said she has no regrets. Especially when she sees her mother smile.</p>
<p>“Doing something right, you know, that feels right, and just knowing that she’s safe,” Mohan said. “Knowing just in my heart this is what I’m supposed to be doing, and that I’m doing right by her. Knowing that I won’t regret it.”</p>
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<p>BENSON, Vt. (AP) — Millie Coursey is eating lunch at the breakfast bar in her daughter’s kitchen. She polishes off a yogurt mixed with trazodone — an anti-anxiety medication — and moves on to a small container of spaghetti with tomato sauce.</p>
<p>Coursey, 90, has Alzheimer’s disease. Her daughter, Lauren Mohan, said Coursey receives trazodone three times a day.</p>
<p>“It keeps her at a nice even keel,” Mohan said. “When it starts to wear down, you notice it. Her personality is angry. She’s a little grumpy today.”</p>
<p>Two years ago, Mohan quit her job at The Lodge at Otter Creek, a senior living community in Middlebury, in anticipation of taking care of her mother full-time at home. She gave up a salary of $46,000 annually.</p>
<p>There are an estimated 30,000 Vermonters providing unpaid care to loved ones with Alzheimer’s and dementia.</p>
<p>Mohan was resident service director at Otter Creek for five years. She previously worked at Middlebury College for 13 years, and together with her husband, owned a convenience store in Forest Dale after leaving Middlebury College. Mohan has worked all her life but felt she had to give up her career for her mother.</p>
<p>“I wanted to do it,” she said. “It was something that in my heart I felt was the right thing to do.”</p>
<p>After leaving The Lodge at Otter Creek, Mohan went to work full time for a small telephone company in nearby Shoreham called OTT Communications, making $13 per hour. Mohan took a three-month family medical leave from the job to get her mother settled into her house in Benson.</p>
<p>“After I got my mom here I realized there was no way I could go back full time because of her needs,” Mohan said. “I ended up asking if I could come back part time until the situation possibly changed, and they flatly refused me.”</p>
<p>Respondents said their supervisors were often unsympathetic when it came to balancing work and caregiving. Others cited a stigma associated with the topic, leaving many feeling uncomfortable discussing the issue with employers.</p>
<p>Mohan said she has had a couple of offers for part-time jobs but didn’t feel she could accept them.</p>
<p>“It’s just too much to juggle the job with the caregiving part,” Mohan said. “I think it would have been too stressful for mom and myself to try to balance the job and visiting nurses. We chose not to do it, so we’re cutting back and riding it out.”</p>
<p>The Home Instead study found many women feel forced to give up their careers, often around the age of 50, to care for an aging parent. Mohan is 58.</p>
<p>The study also showed that women are twice as likely as men to spend more than 30 hours a week on caregiving. Home Instead Inc. surveyed 1,001 working female caregivers, aged 45-60, in the United States and Canada in March, 2017.</p>
<p>According to the Society for Human Resource Management, working female caregivers average nearly double the amount of time caring for aging loved ones, compared to male counterparts — 9.1 hours a week vs. 5.7 hours.</p>
<p>Mohan talked to her husband about quitting her job after her mother spent a month in a nursing home while Mohan and her sisters tried to figure out how to deal with the disease that had changed their mother’s life.</p>
<p>“It was like a revelation,” Mohan remembered. “I said, ‘This has got to happen. I want to quit my job. I want her here. This is going to be my life for a while. There’s no other choices. Are you OK with us doing this?’”</p>
<p>Mohan’s husband said he was, if that’s what she wanted.</p>
<p>“He’s been a saint, even though I get angry with him sometimes,” Mohan said. “He’s been very supportive. I couldn’t do this without him.”</p>
<p>Coursey has a small, sun-filled room just off the living room in Mohan’s modest home. On the walls of Coursey’s room are photos of her and her husband, and another of her and her sister when they were little girls in the 1930s.</p>
<p>“We had to hang up the pictures because she will take clothes or a plastic bag, gather her photos and put them in there, ready to go home,” Mohan said. “That breaks my heart, but I don’t take it personally.”</p>
<p>The first step Mohan and her sisters had to take, once it became apparent their mother was suffering from dementia, was to go to court to have her declared incompetent.</p>
<p>Physically, Coursey is in excellent shape for a 90-year-old, Mohan says. Mohan has to keep the doors locked.</p>
<p>“Her dementia is so severe she has what’s called a wandering risk, which means she has to be in a locked facility, because she will wander off and get lost,” Mohan said.</p>
<p>“She wants to run away, no matter where she is,” she said. “We’re kind of shut-ins. I take her out every day to go for walks around the yard.”</p>
<p>Coursey tried to climb a wooden fence and escape during her brief stay at a nursing home. Mohan says her mother has a “violent nature” without medication.</p>
<p>“It’s all part of the dementia,” she said. “It’s a terrible disease.”</p>
<p>Mohan butters a piece of bread and slides it toward her mother, who has finished her spaghetti. Coursey pushes the bread away.</p>
<p>Coursey sits silently, munching on a star-shaped cookie. Mohan says her mother often calls her the “boss,” in what is probably not a term of endearment.</p>
<p>The mother she knew is gone, Mohan said, but every once in a while, there are glimpses. Like after Mohan had been shoveling snow and came back inside for a break.</p>
<p>Mohan’s mother came up to her and put her hands on her cold, red cheeks.</p>
<p>“She said, ’Oh thank you, you did such a good job,’” Mohan remembered. “I’m like, ’Who’s this woman?’” Mohan remembered, laughing. “Those are the kinds of things you let go of. You have to recognize who she is now. She’s a different person now.”</p>
<p>Mohan and her husband had planned to sell their house in Benson and move to Bristol to be near their daughter and grandchildren. They also wanted to buy a home with two bathrooms to better accommodate Coursey’s needs. Their house was still on the market last month but the prospects of moving are dim.</p>
<p>“Unfortunately there’s a possibility we’re going to take it off this month, just because the dynamics of having my mom here has affected our income,” Mohan said. “We’re having a tough time trying to obtain a loan for a new home.”</p>
<p>The bank can only take her husband’s income into account for a loan, Mohan said, and the amount they could get would not buy a “large enough, nice enough house.”</p>
<p>Mohan has not looked into whether any assistance is available from the state, but she said her sister, who is her mother’s guardian, is paying her the same wage she was making at OTT Communications — $13 per hour — for a 40-hour week as a caregiver. The money is coming for their mother’s estate.</p>
<p>“So we’re managing to squeak by,” Mohan said. “We’re not destitute. I know how to manage money. It’s tight, but you do what you have to do.”</p>
<p>Mohan and her husband have also had to put off travel plans. But she said she has no regrets. Especially when she sees her mother smile.</p>
<p>“Doing something right, you know, that feels right, and just knowing that she’s safe,” Mohan said. “Knowing just in my heart this is what I’m supposed to be doing, and that I’m doing right by her. Knowing that I won’t regret it.”</p>
<p>___</p>
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benson vt ap millie coursey eating lunch breakfast bar daughters kitchen polishes yogurt mixed trazodone antianxiety medication moves small container spaghetti tomato sauce coursey 90 alzheimers disease daughter lauren mohan said coursey receives trazodone three times day keeps nice even keel mohan said starts wear notice personality angry shes little grumpy today two years ago mohan quit job lodge otter creek senior living community middlebury anticipation taking care mother fulltime home gave salary 46000 annually estimated 30000 vermonters providing unpaid care loved ones alzheimers dementia mohan resident service director otter creek five years previously worked middlebury college 13 years together husband owned convenience store forest dale leaving middlebury college mohan worked life felt give career mother wanted said something heart felt right thing leaving lodge otter creek mohan went work full time small telephone company nearby shoreham called ott communications making 13 per hour mohan took threemonth family medical leave job get mother settled house benson got mom realized way could go back full time needs mohan said ended asking could come back part time situation possibly changed flatly refused respondents said supervisors often unsympathetic came balancing work caregiving others cited stigma associated topic leaving many feeling uncomfortable discussing issue employers mohan said couple offers parttime jobs didnt feel could accept much juggle job caregiving part mohan said think would stressful mom try balance job visiting nurses chose cutting back riding home instead study found many women feel forced give careers often around age 50 care aging parent mohan 58 study also showed women twice likely men spend 30 hours week caregiving home instead inc surveyed 1001 working female caregivers aged 4560 united states canada march 2017 according society human resource management working female caregivers average nearly double amount time caring aging loved ones compared male counterparts 91 hours week vs 57 hours mohan talked husband quitting job mother spent month nursing home mohan sisters tried figure deal disease changed mothers life like revelation mohan remembered said got happen want quit job want going life theres choices ok us mohans husband said thats wanted hes saint even though get angry sometimes mohan said hes supportive couldnt without coursey small sunfilled room living room mohans modest home walls courseys room photos husband another sister little girls 1930s hang pictures take clothes plastic bag gather photos put ready go home mohan said breaks heart dont take personally first step mohan sisters take became apparent mother suffering dementia go court declared incompetent physically coursey excellent shape 90yearold mohan says mohan keep doors locked dementia severe whats called wandering risk means locked facility wander get lost mohan said wants run away matter said kind shutins take every day go walks around yard coursey tried climb wooden fence escape brief stay nursing home mohan says mother violent nature without medication part dementia said terrible disease mohan butters piece bread slides toward mother finished spaghetti coursey pushes bread away coursey sits silently munching starshaped cookie mohan says mother often calls boss probably term endearment mother knew gone mohan said every glimpses like mohan shoveling snow came back inside break mohans mother came put hands cold red cheeks said oh thank good job mohan remembered im like whos woman mohan remembered laughing kinds things let go recognize shes different person mohan husband planned sell house benson move bristol near daughter grandchildren also wanted buy home two bathrooms better accommodate courseys needs house still market last month prospects moving dim unfortunately theres possibility going take month dynamics mom affected income mohan said tough time trying obtain loan new home bank take husbands income account loan mohan said amount could get would buy large enough nice enough house mohan looked whether assistance available state said sister mothers guardian paying wage making ott communications 13 per hour 40hour week caregiver money coming mothers estate managing squeak mohan said destitute know manage money tight mohan husband also put travel plans said regrets especially sees mother smile something right know feels right knowing shes safe mohan said knowing heart im supposed im right knowing wont regret ___ online httpbfpnews2csq9mj benson vt ap millie coursey eating lunch breakfast bar daughters kitchen polishes yogurt mixed trazodone antianxiety medication moves small container spaghetti tomato sauce coursey 90 alzheimers disease daughter lauren mohan said coursey receives trazodone three times day keeps nice even keel mohan said starts wear notice personality angry shes little grumpy today two years ago mohan quit job lodge otter creek senior living community middlebury anticipation taking care mother fulltime home gave salary 46000 annually estimated 30000 vermonters providing unpaid care loved ones alzheimers dementia mohan resident service director otter creek five years previously worked middlebury college 13 years together husband owned convenience store forest dale leaving middlebury college mohan worked life felt give career mother wanted said something heart felt right thing leaving lodge otter creek mohan went work full time small telephone company nearby shoreham called ott communications making 13 per hour mohan took threemonth family medical leave job get mother settled house benson got mom realized way could go back full time needs mohan said ended asking could come back part time situation possibly changed flatly refused respondents said supervisors often unsympathetic came balancing work caregiving others cited stigma associated topic leaving many feeling uncomfortable discussing issue employers mohan said couple offers parttime jobs didnt feel could accept much juggle job caregiving part mohan said think would stressful mom try balance job visiting nurses chose cutting back riding home instead study found many women feel forced give careers often around age 50 care aging parent mohan 58 study also showed women twice likely men spend 30 hours week caregiving home instead inc surveyed 1001 working female caregivers aged 4560 united states canada march 2017 according society human resource management working female caregivers average nearly double amount time caring aging loved ones compared male counterparts 91 hours week vs 57 hours mohan talked husband quitting job mother spent month nursing home mohan sisters tried figure deal disease changed mothers life like revelation mohan remembered said got happen want quit job want going life theres choices ok us mohans husband said thats wanted hes saint even though get angry sometimes mohan said hes supportive couldnt without coursey small sunfilled room living room mohans modest home walls courseys room photos husband another sister little girls 1930s hang pictures take clothes plastic bag gather photos put ready go home mohan said breaks heart dont take personally first step mohan sisters take became apparent mother suffering dementia go court declared incompetent physically coursey excellent shape 90yearold mohan says mohan keep doors locked dementia severe whats called wandering risk means locked facility wander get lost mohan said wants run away matter said kind shutins take every day go walks around yard coursey tried climb wooden fence escape brief stay nursing home mohan says mother violent nature without medication part dementia said terrible disease mohan butters piece bread slides toward mother finished spaghetti coursey pushes bread away coursey sits silently munching starshaped cookie mohan says mother often calls boss probably term endearment mother knew gone mohan said every glimpses like mohan shoveling snow came back inside break mohans mother came put hands cold red cheeks said oh thank good job mohan remembered im like whos woman mohan remembered laughing kinds things let go recognize shes different person mohan husband planned sell house benson move bristol near daughter grandchildren also wanted buy home two bathrooms better accommodate courseys needs house still market last month prospects moving dim unfortunately theres possibility going take month dynamics mom affected income mohan said tough time trying obtain loan new home bank take husbands income account loan mohan said amount could get would buy large enough nice enough house mohan looked whether assistance available state said sister mothers guardian paying wage making ott communications 13 per hour 40hour week caregiver money coming mothers estate managing squeak mohan said destitute know manage money tight mohan husband also put travel plans said regrets especially sees mother smile something right know feels right knowing shes safe mohan said knowing heart im 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<p>SEOUL, South Korea — The rival Koreas moved toward easing their bitter animosity Tuesday during rare talks, with North Korea agreeing to take part in next month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea. The countries also agreed to hold more discussions on reducing tension along their border and to reopen a military hotline.</p>
<p>The first meeting of its kind between the nations in about two years was arranged after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made an abrupt push for improved ties with South Korea following a year of escalating tensions with the outside world over his expanding nuclear and missile programs. Critics say Kim may be trying to divide Seoul and Washington in a bid to weaken international pressure and sanctions on the North.</p>
<p>In comments that appeared to back up those critical views, chief North Korean delegate Ri Son Gwon said his country’s nuclear weapons are aimed at the United States, not South Korea. He made the comments while complaining about what he called inaccurate South Korean media reports that he said Tuesday’s talks dealt with North Korea’s nuclear disarmament.</p>
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<p>“All our state-of-the-art strategic weapons like atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs and intercontinental ballistic rockets are completely targeting the United States. They are not targeting our compatriots” in the South, Ri said, according to media footage from the border village of Panmunjom, where the talks were held.</p>
<p>Despite Ri’s comments, the agreements were still seen to be a positive move. Chief South Korean delegate Cho Myoung-gyon described the accords as a “first step toward the development of South-North relations” when he briefed reporters about the meeting.</p>
<p>Ri read what he called a joint statement after the talks, under which the two Koreas agreed to “actively cooperate” in the Olympics to “enhance the prestige of the Korean people.”</p>
<p>He said North Korea will send a delegation of officials, athletes, cheerleaders and journalists to the Feb. 9-25 games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.</p>
<p>South Korea will provide necessary services to the North Korean delegation, Ri said, adding that the two countries will hold follow-up working-level talks on Olympic cooperation.</p>
<p>“I see North Korea’s participation in the Pyeongchang Games will provide us with a chance to reduce tension on the Korean Peninsula,” said Cho, whose official title is unification minister.</p>
<p>U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert welcomed the inter-Korean meeting which she said was “aimed at ensuring a safe, secure and successful” Olympics. The U.S. said it was consulting with South Korean officials to ensure that North Korea’s participation in the games does not violate U.N. sanctions imposed over its nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>North Korea’s participation in the Winter Olympics won’t affect U.S. participation in the games, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, adding that the decision presents North Korea with an opportunity to see the value of ending its isolation from the rest of the world.</p>
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<p>North Korea is not a winter sports power, and two of its figure skaters, Ryom Tae Ok and Kim Ju Sik, earlier became the only North Korean athletes to qualify for the games before the North missed a confirmation deadline. The International Olympic Committee said Monday it has “kept the door open” for North Korea to take part in the games.</p>
<p>Sports ties between the two countries mirror their rocky political relationship.</p>
<p>During an earlier era of inter-Korean detente, athletes from the North and South paraded together at international sports events such as the Olympics and fielded a unified Korean team. The government of current South Korean President Moon Jae-in had wanted the two Koreas to agree to similar reconciliatory steps in Pyeongchang.</p>
<p>North Korea boycotted the 1986 Asian Games and the 1988 Summer Olympics, both held in Seoul, amid Cold War rivalry. One year before the 1988 Games, a South Korean passenger plane exploded, killing all 115 people aboard, and a captured North Korean agent told South Korean investigators that she bombed the jetliner at the order of North Korean leaders who wanted to disrupt the Seoul Olympics.</p>
<p>In another key accord Tuesday, North Korea also agreed to hold military talks aimed at reducing animosity along the border and to restore a military hotline communication channel with South Korea, according to Cho.</p>
<p>The restoration of the hotline was the second such move in a week. All major inter-Korean communication channels had been shut down over the North’s nuclear program in recent years. But North Korea reopened one channel last week as signs emerged of improving ties.</p>
<p>Cho said South Korea also called for talks at an early date to discuss denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula to promote peace. He said the two Koreas would continue high-level talks but didn’t give a date for the next meeting.</p>
<p>Earlier Tuesday, South Korean officials said they also suggested resuming temporary reunions of families separated by war, but the joint statement didn’t mention this.</p>
<p>The countries have a long history of failing to follow through with rapprochement accords. In 2015, negotiators met for nearly 40 hours before announcing a deal to pull back from a military standoff caused by land mine blasts that maimed two South Korean soldiers. But animosities flared again several months later after the North’s fourth nuclear test.</p>
<p>The meeting’s venue, Panmunjom, is the only place on the border where North and South Korean soldiers are just meters (feet) away from each other. In November, a North Korean soldier defected to the South across Panmunjom amid gunfire from his comrades. He was hit five times but survived.</p>
<p>An agreement on the North’s Olympic participation had been widely expected before the talks, but the Koreas appeared to remain sharply at odds over how to improve their overall ties.</p>
<p>North Korea was expected to demand rewards in return for South Korea’s proposal of family reunions, such as a halt to South Korean propaganda broadcasts and a scaling back or halting of military drills with the U.S., observers say. But it wasn’t known if the North made such a demand.</p>
<p>Suspension of the military drills would be unacceptable for Seoul because it would seriously undermine its alliance with its chief ally, the United States, which wants to put more pressure on North Korea. The North views the drills as a rehearsal for an invasion.</p>
<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday expressed hope for progress from the talks and said he was open to talking with Kim himself. But U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley later said Washington isn’t changing its conditions on talks with North Korea, saying Kim first needs to stop weapons testing for a “significant amount of time.”</p>
<p>In his New Year’s Day address, Kim said he was willing to send a delegation to the Pyeongchang Games. He urged Seoul to halt the military drills with the U.S. and said he has a “nuclear button” to launch missiles at any target in the United States. Moon welcomed Kim’s outreach and proposed the talks at Panmunjom.</p>
<p>Trump and Kim traded bellicose rhetoric and crude insults last year, as North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear detonation and three tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles.</p>
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seoul south korea rival koreas moved toward easing bitter animosity tuesday rare talks north korea agreeing take part next months winter olympics south korea countries also agreed hold discussions reducing tension along border reopen military hotline first meeting kind nations two years arranged north korean leader kim jong un made abrupt push improved ties south korea following year escalating tensions outside world expanding nuclear missile programs critics say kim may trying divide seoul washington bid weaken international pressure sanctions north comments appeared back critical views chief north korean delegate ri son gwon said countrys nuclear weapons aimed united states south korea made comments complaining called inaccurate south korean media reports said tuesdays talks dealt north koreas nuclear disarmament advertisement stateoftheart strategic weapons like atomic bombs hydrogen bombs intercontinental ballistic rockets completely targeting united states targeting compatriots south ri said according media footage border village panmunjom talks held despite ris comments agreements still seen positive move chief south korean delegate cho myounggyon described accords first step toward development southnorth relations briefed reporters meeting ri read called joint statement talks two koreas agreed actively cooperate olympics enhance prestige korean people said north korea send delegation officials athletes cheerleaders journalists feb 925 games pyeongchang south korea south korea provide necessary services north korean delegation ri said adding two countries hold followup workinglevel talks olympic cooperation see north koreas participation pyeongchang games provide us chance reduce tension korean peninsula said cho whose official title unification minister us state department spokeswoman heather nauert welcomed interkorean meeting said aimed ensuring safe secure successful olympics us said consulting south korean officials ensure north koreas participation games violate un sanctions imposed nuclear weapons north koreas participation winter olympics wont affect us participation games white house spokeswoman sarah huckabee sanders said adding decision presents north korea opportunity see value ending isolation rest world advertisement north korea winter sports power two figure skaters ryom tae ok kim ju sik earlier became north korean athletes qualify games north missed confirmation deadline international olympic committee said monday kept door open north korea take part games sports ties two countries mirror rocky political relationship earlier era interkorean detente athletes north south paraded together international sports events olympics fielded unified korean team government current south korean president moon jaein wanted two koreas agree similar reconciliatory steps pyeongchang north korea boycotted 1986 asian games 1988 summer olympics held seoul amid cold war rivalry one year 1988 games south korean passenger plane exploded killing 115 people aboard captured north korean agent told south korean investigators bombed jetliner order north korean leaders wanted disrupt seoul olympics another key accord tuesday north korea also agreed hold military talks aimed reducing animosity along border restore military hotline communication channel south korea according cho restoration hotline second move week major interkorean communication channels shut norths nuclear program recent years north korea reopened one channel last week signs emerged improving ties cho said south korea also called talks early date discuss denuclearization korean peninsula promote peace said two koreas would continue highlevel talks didnt give date next meeting earlier tuesday south korean officials said also suggested resuming temporary reunions families separated war joint statement didnt mention countries long history failing follow rapprochement accords 2015 negotiators met nearly 40 hours announcing deal pull back military standoff caused land mine blasts maimed two south korean soldiers animosities flared several months later norths fourth nuclear test meetings venue panmunjom place border north south korean soldiers meters feet away november north korean soldier defected south across panmunjom amid gunfire comrades hit five times survived agreement norths olympic participation widely expected talks koreas appeared remain sharply odds improve overall ties north korea expected demand rewards return south koreas proposal family reunions halt south korean propaganda broadcasts scaling back halting military drills us observers say wasnt known north made demand suspension military drills would unacceptable seoul would seriously undermine alliance chief ally united states wants put pressure north korea north views drills rehearsal invasion us president donald trump saturday expressed hope progress talks said open talking kim un ambassador nikki haley later said washington isnt changing conditions talks north korea saying kim first needs stop weapons testing significant amount time new years day address kim said willing send delegation pyeongchang games urged seoul halt military drills us said nuclear button launch missiles target united states moon welcomed kims outreach proposed talks panmunjom trump kim traded bellicose rhetoric crude insults last year north korea conducted sixth powerful nuclear detonation three tests intercontinental ballistic missiles
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<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Poised in the pocket, and precise with every throw. He even bounced back from a vicious hit.</p>
<p>Brian Hoyer was so good Sunday he impressed coach Bill O’Brien, something that hasn’t been easy for either of Houston’s quarterbacks this season.</p>
<p>Hoyer threw three touchdown passes on third down, two to rising star DeAndre Hopkins, and the Texans beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 31-20.</p>
<p>Hoyer regained the starting job last week against Indianapolis and looked every bit deserving of O’Brien’s decision against Jacksonville (1-5), which lost its fourth in a row and raised more questions about coach Gus Bradley’s job security.</p>
<p>“He went in there and managed the game well,” O’Brien said of Hoyer. “He has a good calmness about him right now. He is confident, and I am proud of the way he played.”</p>
<p>The Texans (2-4) started emptying the stadium midway through the fourth quarter after Andre Hal returned an interception 41 yards for a touchdown and a 31-14 lead. It was the sixth pick-six thrown by Blake Bortles in 19 career starts.</p>
<p>“It’s the same old things that are holding us back,” Bortles said.</p>
<p>Hoyer and Hopkins pretty much had the game in hand well before Bortles’ most costly throw.</p>
<p>Hoyer was at his best on the game’s most important down, connecting with Arian Foster on third-and-goal from the 7 and then hooking up with Hopkins for two more third-down scores.</p>
<p>After getting leveled by a late hit and leaving for one play, Hoyer returned and found Hopkins in the back of the end zone. Hopkins bobbled the ball briefly before securing it. Hopkins ran by Davon House for a 26-yarder on the next possession, but his best catch may have been a one-hander that he secured against his helmet down the sideline.</p>
<p>“When you have a guy like that who wants the ball, who wants it in crunch time and who has the ability to go out and do it, it’s fun to have him on your team,” Hoyer said.</p>
<p>Hoyer completed 24 of 36 passes for 293 yards. Hopkins, shadowed by House all over the field, finished with 10 receptions for 148 yards. Foster was mostly held in check, running 18 times for 53 yards.</p>
<p>The only negative for Houston was injuries. Cornerback Kareem Jackson departed with a left ankle injury. And backup safety Lonnie Ballentine injured his left knee after making contact with Jaguars receiver Allen Robinson in the fourth quarter. Trainers rushed to put Ballentine’s leg in an air cast before carting him off the field.</p>
<p>Robinson was helped off, too. He limped to the locker room with a bruised left leg and was using a crutch after the game.</p>
<p>Robinson caught six passes for 86 yards and a touchdown before the injury.</p>
<p>Bortles completed 30 of 53 passes for 331 yards, with three touchdowns and three interceptions. The first pick came near the goal line at the end of the first half. Jacksonville could have tied the game at 10 heading into the locker room, but Hal stepped in front of Bortles’ low throw to Julius Thomas.</p>
<p>Bradley dropped to 8-30 in three seasons.</p>
<p>“These are hard because I think they’re teaching us what it takes to be a consistent team and we’re not there yet or a team that can win right now at this point,” Bradley said. “Our team is going to learn from this and we’ll grow.”</p>
<p>Thomas, Robinson and Allen Hurns had touchdown receptions for Jacksonville, which had little success running the ball without rookie T.J. Yeldon.</p>
<p>The Jaguars lost for the eighth time in 10 games against their AFC South rival.</p>
<p>“The crazy thing is we’re 1-5, but we’re not a 1-5 team,” Jaguars running back Denard Robinson said.</p>
<p>NOTES: Houston now heads to Miami next week with a chance to sweep three games against Sunshine State teams. The Texans’ first win came against Tampa Bay last month. ... The Texans finished with three turnovers after having an NFL-low two in their first five games. ... Jaguars DT Sen’Derrick Marks made his season debut, but wasn’t much of a factor. ... Thomas finished with seven catches for 78 yards. ... Jaguars S Johnathan Cyprien surely will get fined for his late hit on Hoyer.</p>
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<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Poised in the pocket, and precise with every throw. He even bounced back from a vicious hit.</p>
<p>Brian Hoyer was so good Sunday he impressed coach Bill O’Brien, something that hasn’t been easy for either of Houston’s quarterbacks this season.</p>
<p>Hoyer threw three touchdown passes on third down, two to rising star DeAndre Hopkins, and the Texans beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 31-20.</p>
<p>Hoyer regained the starting job last week against Indianapolis and looked every bit deserving of O’Brien’s decision against Jacksonville (1-5), which lost its fourth in a row and raised more questions about coach Gus Bradley’s job security.</p>
<p>“He went in there and managed the game well,” O’Brien said of Hoyer. “He has a good calmness about him right now. He is confident, and I am proud of the way he played.”</p>
<p>The Texans (2-4) started emptying the stadium midway through the fourth quarter after Andre Hal returned an interception 41 yards for a touchdown and a 31-14 lead. It was the sixth pick-six thrown by Blake Bortles in 19 career starts.</p>
<p>“It’s the same old things that are holding us back,” Bortles said.</p>
<p>Hoyer and Hopkins pretty much had the game in hand well before Bortles’ most costly throw.</p>
<p>Hoyer was at his best on the game’s most important down, connecting with Arian Foster on third-and-goal from the 7 and then hooking up with Hopkins for two more third-down scores.</p>
<p>After getting leveled by a late hit and leaving for one play, Hoyer returned and found Hopkins in the back of the end zone. Hopkins bobbled the ball briefly before securing it. Hopkins ran by Davon House for a 26-yarder on the next possession, but his best catch may have been a one-hander that he secured against his helmet down the sideline.</p>
<p>“When you have a guy like that who wants the ball, who wants it in crunch time and who has the ability to go out and do it, it’s fun to have him on your team,” Hoyer said.</p>
<p>Hoyer completed 24 of 36 passes for 293 yards. Hopkins, shadowed by House all over the field, finished with 10 receptions for 148 yards. Foster was mostly held in check, running 18 times for 53 yards.</p>
<p>The only negative for Houston was injuries. Cornerback Kareem Jackson departed with a left ankle injury. And backup safety Lonnie Ballentine injured his left knee after making contact with Jaguars receiver Allen Robinson in the fourth quarter. Trainers rushed to put Ballentine’s leg in an air cast before carting him off the field.</p>
<p>Robinson was helped off, too. He limped to the locker room with a bruised left leg and was using a crutch after the game.</p>
<p>Robinson caught six passes for 86 yards and a touchdown before the injury.</p>
<p>Bortles completed 30 of 53 passes for 331 yards, with three touchdowns and three interceptions. The first pick came near the goal line at the end of the first half. Jacksonville could have tied the game at 10 heading into the locker room, but Hal stepped in front of Bortles’ low throw to Julius Thomas.</p>
<p>Bradley dropped to 8-30 in three seasons.</p>
<p>“These are hard because I think they’re teaching us what it takes to be a consistent team and we’re not there yet or a team that can win right now at this point,” Bradley said. “Our team is going to learn from this and we’ll grow.”</p>
<p>Thomas, Robinson and Allen Hurns had touchdown receptions for Jacksonville, which had little success running the ball without rookie T.J. Yeldon.</p>
<p>The Jaguars lost for the eighth time in 10 games against their AFC South rival.</p>
<p>“The crazy thing is we’re 1-5, but we’re not a 1-5 team,” Jaguars running back Denard Robinson said.</p>
<p>NOTES: Houston now heads to Miami next week with a chance to sweep three games against Sunshine State teams. The Texans’ first win came against Tampa Bay last month. ... The Texans finished with three turnovers after having an NFL-low two in their first five games. ... Jaguars DT Sen’Derrick Marks made his season debut, but wasn’t much of a factor. ... Thomas finished with seven catches for 78 yards. ... Jaguars S Johnathan Cyprien surely will get fined for his late hit on Hoyer.</p>
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found hopkins back end zone hopkins bobbled ball briefly securing hopkins ran davon house 26yarder next possession best catch may onehander secured helmet sideline guy like wants ball wants crunch time ability go fun team hoyer said hoyer completed 24 36 passes 293 yards hopkins shadowed house field finished 10 receptions 148 yards foster mostly held check running 18 times 53 yards negative houston injuries cornerback kareem jackson departed left ankle injury backup safety lonnie ballentine injured left knee making contact jaguars receiver allen robinson fourth quarter trainers rushed put ballentines leg air cast carting field robinson helped limped locker room bruised left leg using crutch game robinson caught six passes 86 yards touchdown injury bortles completed 30 53 passes 331 yards three touchdowns three interceptions first pick came near goal line end first half jacksonville could tied game 10 heading locker room hal stepped front bortles low throw julius thomas bradley dropped 830 three seasons hard think theyre teaching us takes consistent team yet team win right point bradley said team going learn well grow thomas robinson allen hurns touchdown receptions jacksonville little success running ball without rookie tj yeldon jaguars lost eighth time 10 games afc south rival crazy thing 15 15 team jaguars running back denard robinson said notes houston heads miami next week chance sweep three games sunshine state teams texans first win came tampa bay last month texans finished three turnovers nfllow two first five games jaguars dt senderrick marks made season debut wasnt much factor thomas finished seven catches 78 yards jaguars johnathan cyprien surely get fined late hit hoyer ___ ap nfl website wwwpro32aporg wwwtwittercomap_nfl jacksonville fla ap poised pocket precise every throw even bounced back vicious hit brian hoyer good sunday impressed coach bill obrien something hasnt easy either houstons quarterbacks season hoyer threw three touchdown passes third two rising star deandre hopkins texans beat jacksonville jaguars 3120 hoyer regained starting job last week indianapolis looked every bit deserving obriens decision jacksonville 15 lost fourth row raised questions coach gus bradleys job security went managed game well obrien said hoyer good calmness right confident proud way played texans 24 started emptying stadium midway fourth quarter andre hal returned interception 41 yards touchdown 3114 lead sixth picksix thrown blake bortles 19 career starts old things holding us back bortles said hoyer hopkins pretty much game hand well bortles costly throw hoyer best games important connecting arian foster thirdandgoal 7 hooking hopkins two thirddown scores getting leveled late hit leaving one play hoyer returned found hopkins back end zone hopkins bobbled ball briefly securing hopkins ran davon house 26yarder next possession best catch may onehander secured helmet sideline guy like wants ball wants crunch time ability go fun team hoyer said hoyer completed 24 36 passes 293 yards hopkins shadowed house field finished 10 receptions 148 yards foster mostly held check running 18 times 53 yards negative houston injuries cornerback kareem jackson departed left ankle injury backup safety lonnie ballentine injured left knee making contact jaguars receiver allen robinson fourth quarter trainers rushed put ballentines leg air cast carting field robinson helped limped locker room bruised left leg using crutch game robinson caught six passes 86 yards touchdown injury bortles completed 30 53 passes 331 yards three touchdowns three interceptions first pick came near goal line end first half jacksonville could tied game 10 heading locker room hal stepped front bortles low throw julius thomas bradley dropped 830 three seasons hard think theyre teaching us takes consistent team yet team win right point bradley said team going learn well grow thomas robinson allen hurns touchdown receptions jacksonville little success running ball without rookie tj yeldon jaguars lost eighth time 10 games afc south rival crazy thing 15 15 team jaguars running back denard robinson said notes houston heads miami next week chance sweep three games sunshine state teams texans first win came tampa bay last month texans finished three turnovers nfllow two first five games jaguars dt senderrick marks made season debut wasnt much factor thomas finished seven catches 78 yards jaguars johnathan cyprien surely get fined late hit hoyer ___ ap nfl website wwwpro32aporg wwwtwittercomap_nfl
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<p>MOSCOW (AP) — From a Western perspective, Vladimir Putin's days as president of Russia should be numbered: The ruble has lost more than half its value, the economy is in crisis and his aggression in Ukraine has turned the country into an international pariah.</p>
<p>And yet most Russians see Putin not as the cause, but as the solution.</p>
<p>The situation as seen from a Russian point of view is starkly different from that painted in the West, and it is driven largely by state television's carefully constructed version of reality and the Kremlin's methodical dismantling of every credible political alternative.</p>
<p>An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released Thursday found that 81 percent of Russians still support him, hours before Putin vowed in a live news conference to fix Russia's economic woes within two years, voiced confidence the plummeting ruble will recover soon and promised to diversify Russia's economy.</p>
<p>But the poll also showed that confidence in the economy is slipping. This is particularly true in Moscow, where people have become accustomed to imported goods and foreign travel, now once again off-limits for many because of the fall of the ruble and Western sanctions over Ukraine.</p>
<p>The poll was conducted between Nov. 22 and Dec. 7, when the ruble was steadily declining. But this week's catastrophic collapse is likely to have a much greater effect on consumer prices and the standard of living.</p>
<p>For Putin, the question is whether he will be able to convince Russians to tighten their belts, and not just for a few months but possibly for years to come.</p>
<p>"The Russian people have a sense that they are under sanctions, they are a fortress under siege," said Maria Lipman, an independent analyst. "This kind of mentality is disseminated consistently and steadily by Russian television: Who else is there to rely on except Putin? Putin is seen as the savior of the nation, and I think he sees himself in this fashion."</p>
<p>Putin addressed his countrymen's concerns over three hours at Thursday's news conference, sending a message that he's in charge and all will be fine.</p>
<p>An advertisement before the news conference showed Putin surrounded by Sochi Olympic athletes, petting a baby tiger and greeting cosmonauts. "We are absolutely capable of doing everything ourselves," he promises the audience.</p>
<p>How Russians view Putin is associated with how they get their news, the poll showed. Those who identified state television as their main source of news are more likely to approve of Putin (84 percent) than those who have other sources (73 percent), while those who tune into the news often also have a more favorable opinion of him.</p>
<p>After becoming president in 2000, Putin benefited from high prices for oil, the mainstay of Russia's economy. In the past decade, Russians saw their living standards rise faster than at any other point in modern history, transforming many average citizens into car owners and globe-trotters for the first time ever.</p>
<p>The suppression of opposition politicians and independent media, widely criticized by outside observers, was tacitly accepted by many as a compromise worth making for economic stability after the roller coaster years of the 1990s.</p>
<p>"I very much support Putin — who else is there to support?" said Valentina Roshupkina, a 79-year-old resident of Gryaz, a town several hours' drive south of Moscow. "The country is moving in the right direction, I believe, because he lifted up the army, he made the government stronger. People started to be a little bit afraid of us."</p>
<p>Poll respondents were asked whether they would be willing to speak with an AP reporter, and Roshupkina was among the many who agreed.</p>
<p>With the Russian economy buffeted by Western sanctions and the fall in oil prices, Putin has relied even more on his image as a tough leader capable of standing up to the West. He appears to be betting that this will help him weather the economic storm.</p>
<p>So far he's been right: The presidency and the military are the country's most trusted institutions, according to the poll, with three out of four Russians saying they trust the presidency and two out of three expressing faith in the military.</p>
<p>"We've revived the army and that's very important," said Ivan Savenko, a 50-year-old driver in the southern city of Stavropol who also took part in the poll. "For us, the most important thing is the army and then everything else. It's important for us that our country is a power. If we are not a power, we do not exist."</p>
<p>Of those surveyed, 81 percent said they strongly or somewhat approve of the way Putin is handling his job, a dramatic increase of more than 20 percentage points from an AP-GfK poll conducted in 2012.</p>
<p>While Russia has become more authoritarian under Putin, the support for him appears genuine. The significant fluctuation in Putin's ratings in recent years also indicates that Russians feel able to respond freely in anonymous surveys about their views on the president. The 81 percent approval rating is only slightly higher statistically than the 74 percent measured during the same time period by the Levada Center, Russia's most respected independent pollster.</p>
<p>Many analysts question, however, whether the high ratings have any significance, given the Kremlin's control over information.</p>
<p>"There is a total, effective, monopolistic propaganda campaign, and if there is an information monopoly, how can you talk about ratings?" said Georgy Satarov, a former Kremlin adviser who heads a research institute that studies corruption.</p>
<p>"The thing you have to pay attention to is not the fact that 80 percent support him, but that despite that information monopoly 15 percent don't support him," he said.</p>
<p>Support for Putin soared after he moved to seize the Russian-speaking Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March.</p>
<p>"A source of pride for the overwhelming majority of Russians is the victory of World War II, but that was already 70 years ago," Lipman said. "(In Crimea) Putin gave the sense that we are victorious and triumphant and resurgent today."</p>
<p>The Russia-backed separatists who took up arms against government troops in eastern Ukraine also have been portrayed as heroes on state television. Of the Russians polled, 69 percent said that many or some parts of Ukraine rightfully belong to Russia.</p>
<p>But some, like 37-year-old librarian Yelena Shevilyova, said that although she approves of Putin, she believes Russia's involvement in Ukraine may have come at too high a cost.</p>
<p>"I think we lost a lot in our lives because of this," said Shevilyova, another poll participant, referring to Crimea.</p>
<p>"I think that it is right to bring all of these (Russian-speaking regions) back, but we need everything to be good here too. ... You can't have everything at once," she said, speaking from the far northern region of Perm.</p>
<p>Growing worries about a worsening economy and the impact of sanctions are more keenly felt in major cities. In Moscow, more than 6 in 10 said they had been negatively affected by the sanctions and most said their family's finances were worse than three years ago. Less than half felt that way elsewhere.</p>
<p>"I am afraid that Russia isn't going anywhere," said Dmitry Uryupin, 48, a sound director in a small production firm in Moscow who was among those surveyed. "It's unlikely that wages will be raised. In fact, it's quite likely the opposite will happen, unemployment will rise and it will all affect the most economically insecure people as well as us, the creative class."</p>
<p>After Putin was inaugurated for a third term in 2012 after a wave of protests in Moscow driven by the creative class, he clamped down even harder on the opposition and focused on his core electorate: people in the provinces and those more dependent on the state for their income.</p>
<p>The disgruntled in Moscow have proved easy to discredit in the eyes of what is known as the Putin majority: "Look at these poor Muscovites. ... Oh my God, they complain because they cannot go to Italy on vacation and they can no longer afford to buy Parmesan cheese!" Lipman said.</p>
<p>Whether discontent not just with the economy but with Putin's leadership will grow, Lipman said, depends on "how badly this will hurt, and for how long."</p>
<p>The AP-NORC Center poll of Russia was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago with fieldwork for the in-person survey by GfK Russia from Nov. 22-Dec. 7. It is based on 2,008 in-person interviews with a nationally representative random sample of Russians age 18 and older.</p>
<p>Funding for the survey came from NORC at the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Results for all adults have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.</p>
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<p>Online:</p>
<p>AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research: <a href="http://www.apnorc.org" type="external">http://www.apnorc.org</a></p>
<p>MOSCOW (AP) — From a Western perspective, Vladimir Putin's days as president of Russia should be numbered: The ruble has lost more than half its value, the economy is in crisis and his aggression in Ukraine has turned the country into an international pariah.</p>
<p>And yet most Russians see Putin not as the cause, but as the solution.</p>
<p>The situation as seen from a Russian point of view is starkly different from that painted in the West, and it is driven largely by state television's carefully constructed version of reality and the Kremlin's methodical dismantling of every credible political alternative.</p>
<p>An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released Thursday found that 81 percent of Russians still support him, hours before Putin vowed in a live news conference to fix Russia's economic woes within two years, voiced confidence the plummeting ruble will recover soon and promised to diversify Russia's economy.</p>
<p>But the poll also showed that confidence in the economy is slipping. This is particularly true in Moscow, where people have become accustomed to imported goods and foreign travel, now once again off-limits for many because of the fall of the ruble and Western sanctions over Ukraine.</p>
<p>The poll was conducted between Nov. 22 and Dec. 7, when the ruble was steadily declining. But this week's catastrophic collapse is likely to have a much greater effect on consumer prices and the standard of living.</p>
<p>For Putin, the question is whether he will be able to convince Russians to tighten their belts, and not just for a few months but possibly for years to come.</p>
<p>"The Russian people have a sense that they are under sanctions, they are a fortress under siege," said Maria Lipman, an independent analyst. "This kind of mentality is disseminated consistently and steadily by Russian television: Who else is there to rely on except Putin? Putin is seen as the savior of the nation, and I think he sees himself in this fashion."</p>
<p>Putin addressed his countrymen's concerns over three hours at Thursday's news conference, sending a message that he's in charge and all will be fine.</p>
<p>An advertisement before the news conference showed Putin surrounded by Sochi Olympic athletes, petting a baby tiger and greeting cosmonauts. "We are absolutely capable of doing everything ourselves," he promises the audience.</p>
<p>How Russians view Putin is associated with how they get their news, the poll showed. Those who identified state television as their main source of news are more likely to approve of Putin (84 percent) than those who have other sources (73 percent), while those who tune into the news often also have a more favorable opinion of him.</p>
<p>After becoming president in 2000, Putin benefited from high prices for oil, the mainstay of Russia's economy. In the past decade, Russians saw their living standards rise faster than at any other point in modern history, transforming many average citizens into car owners and globe-trotters for the first time ever.</p>
<p>The suppression of opposition politicians and independent media, widely criticized by outside observers, was tacitly accepted by many as a compromise worth making for economic stability after the roller coaster years of the 1990s.</p>
<p>"I very much support Putin — who else is there to support?" said Valentina Roshupkina, a 79-year-old resident of Gryaz, a town several hours' drive south of Moscow. "The country is moving in the right direction, I believe, because he lifted up the army, he made the government stronger. People started to be a little bit afraid of us."</p>
<p>Poll respondents were asked whether they would be willing to speak with an AP reporter, and Roshupkina was among the many who agreed.</p>
<p>With the Russian economy buffeted by Western sanctions and the fall in oil prices, Putin has relied even more on his image as a tough leader capable of standing up to the West. He appears to be betting that this will help him weather the economic storm.</p>
<p>So far he's been right: The presidency and the military are the country's most trusted institutions, according to the poll, with three out of four Russians saying they trust the presidency and two out of three expressing faith in the military.</p>
<p>"We've revived the army and that's very important," said Ivan Savenko, a 50-year-old driver in the southern city of Stavropol who also took part in the poll. "For us, the most important thing is the army and then everything else. It's important for us that our country is a power. If we are not a power, we do not exist."</p>
<p>Of those surveyed, 81 percent said they strongly or somewhat approve of the way Putin is handling his job, a dramatic increase of more than 20 percentage points from an AP-GfK poll conducted in 2012.</p>
<p>While Russia has become more authoritarian under Putin, the support for him appears genuine. The significant fluctuation in Putin's ratings in recent years also indicates that Russians feel able to respond freely in anonymous surveys about their views on the president. The 81 percent approval rating is only slightly higher statistically than the 74 percent measured during the same time period by the Levada Center, Russia's most respected independent pollster.</p>
<p>Many analysts question, however, whether the high ratings have any significance, given the Kremlin's control over information.</p>
<p>"There is a total, effective, monopolistic propaganda campaign, and if there is an information monopoly, how can you talk about ratings?" said Georgy Satarov, a former Kremlin adviser who heads a research institute that studies corruption.</p>
<p>"The thing you have to pay attention to is not the fact that 80 percent support him, but that despite that information monopoly 15 percent don't support him," he said.</p>
<p>Support for Putin soared after he moved to seize the Russian-speaking Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March.</p>
<p>"A source of pride for the overwhelming majority of Russians is the victory of World War II, but that was already 70 years ago," Lipman said. "(In Crimea) Putin gave the sense that we are victorious and triumphant and resurgent today."</p>
<p>The Russia-backed separatists who took up arms against government troops in eastern Ukraine also have been portrayed as heroes on state television. Of the Russians polled, 69 percent said that many or some parts of Ukraine rightfully belong to Russia.</p>
<p>But some, like 37-year-old librarian Yelena Shevilyova, said that although she approves of Putin, she believes Russia's involvement in Ukraine may have come at too high a cost.</p>
<p>"I think we lost a lot in our lives because of this," said Shevilyova, another poll participant, referring to Crimea.</p>
<p>"I think that it is right to bring all of these (Russian-speaking regions) back, but we need everything to be good here too. ... You can't have everything at once," she said, speaking from the far northern region of Perm.</p>
<p>Growing worries about a worsening economy and the impact of sanctions are more keenly felt in major cities. In Moscow, more than 6 in 10 said they had been negatively affected by the sanctions and most said their family's finances were worse than three years ago. Less than half felt that way elsewhere.</p>
<p>"I am afraid that Russia isn't going anywhere," said Dmitry Uryupin, 48, a sound director in a small production firm in Moscow who was among those surveyed. "It's unlikely that wages will be raised. In fact, it's quite likely the opposite will happen, unemployment will rise and it will all affect the most economically insecure people as well as us, the creative class."</p>
<p>After Putin was inaugurated for a third term in 2012 after a wave of protests in Moscow driven by the creative class, he clamped down even harder on the opposition and focused on his core electorate: people in the provinces and those more dependent on the state for their income.</p>
<p>The disgruntled in Moscow have proved easy to discredit in the eyes of what is known as the Putin majority: "Look at these poor Muscovites. ... Oh my God, they complain because they cannot go to Italy on vacation and they can no longer afford to buy Parmesan cheese!" Lipman said.</p>
<p>Whether discontent not just with the economy but with Putin's leadership will grow, Lipman said, depends on "how badly this will hurt, and for how long."</p>
<p>The AP-NORC Center poll of Russia was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago with fieldwork for the in-person survey by GfK Russia from Nov. 22-Dec. 7. It is based on 2,008 in-person interviews with a nationally representative random sample of Russians age 18 and older.</p>
<p>Funding for the survey came from NORC at the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Results for all adults have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>Online:</p>
<p>AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research: <a href="http://www.apnorc.org" type="external">http://www.apnorc.org</a></p>
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moscow ap western perspective vladimir putins days president russia numbered ruble lost half value economy crisis aggression ukraine turned country international pariah yet russians see putin cause solution situation seen russian point view starkly different painted west driven largely state televisions carefully constructed version reality kremlins methodical dismantling every credible political alternative associated pressnorc center public affairs research poll released thursday found 81 percent russians still support hours putin vowed live news conference fix russias economic woes within two years voiced confidence plummeting ruble recover soon promised diversify russias economy poll also showed confidence economy slipping particularly true moscow people become accustomed imported goods foreign travel offlimits many fall ruble western sanctions ukraine poll conducted nov 22 dec 7 ruble steadily declining weeks catastrophic collapse likely much greater effect consumer prices standard living putin question whether able convince russians tighten belts months possibly years come russian people sense sanctions fortress siege said maria lipman independent analyst kind mentality disseminated consistently steadily russian television else rely except putin putin seen savior nation think sees fashion putin addressed countrymens concerns three hours thursdays news conference sending message hes charge fine advertisement news conference showed putin surrounded sochi olympic athletes petting baby tiger greeting cosmonauts absolutely capable everything promises audience russians view putin associated get news poll showed identified state television main source news likely approve putin 84 percent sources 73 percent tune news often also favorable opinion becoming president 2000 putin benefited high prices oil mainstay russias economy past decade russians saw living standards rise faster point modern history transforming many average citizens car owners globetrotters first time ever suppression opposition politicians independent media widely criticized outside observers tacitly accepted many compromise worth making economic stability roller coaster years 1990s much support putin else support said valentina roshupkina 79yearold resident gryaz town several hours drive south moscow country moving right direction believe lifted army made government stronger people started little bit afraid us poll respondents asked whether would willing speak ap reporter roshupkina among many agreed russian economy buffeted western sanctions fall oil prices putin relied even image tough leader capable standing west appears betting help weather economic storm far hes right presidency military countrys trusted institutions according poll three four russians saying trust presidency two three expressing faith military weve revived army thats important said ivan savenko 50yearold driver southern city stavropol also took part poll us important thing army everything else important us country power power exist surveyed 81 percent said strongly somewhat approve way putin handling job dramatic increase 20 percentage points apgfk poll conducted 2012 russia become authoritarian putin support appears genuine significant fluctuation putins ratings recent years also indicates russians feel able respond freely anonymous surveys views president 81 percent approval rating slightly higher statistically 74 percent measured time period levada center russias respected independent pollster many analysts question however whether high ratings significance given kremlins control information total effective monopolistic propaganda campaign information monopoly talk ratings said georgy satarov former kremlin adviser heads research institute studies corruption thing pay attention fact 80 percent support despite information monopoly 15 percent dont support said support putin soared moved seize russianspeaking crimean peninsula ukraine march source pride overwhelming majority russians victory world war ii already 70 years ago lipman said crimea putin gave sense victorious triumphant resurgent today russiabacked separatists took arms government troops eastern ukraine also portrayed heroes state television russians polled 69 percent said many parts ukraine rightfully belong russia like 37yearold librarian yelena shevilyova said although approves putin believes russias involvement ukraine may come high cost think lost lot lives said shevilyova another poll participant referring crimea think right bring russianspeaking regions back need everything good cant everything said speaking far northern region perm growing worries worsening economy impact sanctions keenly felt major cities moscow 6 10 said negatively affected sanctions said familys finances worse three years ago less half felt way elsewhere afraid russia isnt going anywhere said dmitry uryupin 48 sound director small production firm moscow among surveyed unlikely wages raised fact quite likely opposite happen unemployment rise affect economically insecure people well us creative class putin inaugurated third term 2012 wave protests moscow driven creative class clamped even harder opposition focused core electorate people provinces dependent state income disgruntled moscow proved easy discredit eyes known putin majority look poor muscovites oh god complain go italy vacation longer afford buy parmesan cheese lipman said whether discontent economy putins leadership grow lipman said depends badly hurt long apnorc center poll russia conducted norc university chicago fieldwork inperson survey gfk russia nov 22dec 7 based 2008 inperson interviews nationally representative random sample russians age 18 older funding survey came norc university chicago results adults margin sampling error plus minus 24 percentage points ___ online apnorc center public affairs research httpwwwapnorcorg moscow ap western perspective vladimir putins days president russia numbered ruble lost half value economy crisis aggression ukraine turned country international pariah yet russians see putin cause solution situation seen russian point view starkly different painted west driven largely state televisions carefully constructed version reality kremlins methodical dismantling every credible political alternative associated pressnorc center public affairs research poll released thursday found 81 percent russians still support hours putin vowed live news conference fix russias economic woes within two years voiced confidence plummeting ruble recover soon promised diversify russias economy poll also showed confidence economy slipping particularly true moscow people become accustomed imported goods foreign travel offlimits many fall ruble western sanctions ukraine poll conducted nov 22 dec 7 ruble steadily declining weeks catastrophic collapse likely much greater effect consumer prices standard living putin question whether able convince russians tighten belts months possibly years come russian people sense sanctions fortress siege said maria lipman independent analyst kind mentality disseminated consistently steadily russian television else rely except putin putin seen savior nation think sees fashion putin addressed countrymens concerns three hours thursdays news conference sending message hes charge fine advertisement news conference showed putin surrounded sochi olympic athletes petting baby tiger greeting cosmonauts absolutely capable everything promises audience russians view putin associated get news poll showed identified state television main source news likely approve putin 84 percent sources 73 percent tune news often also favorable opinion becoming president 2000 putin benefited high prices oil mainstay russias economy past decade russians saw living standards rise faster point modern history transforming many average citizens car owners globetrotters first time ever suppression opposition politicians independent media widely criticized outside observers tacitly accepted many compromise worth making economic stability roller coaster years 1990s much support putin else support said valentina roshupkina 79yearold resident gryaz town several hours drive south moscow country moving right direction believe lifted army made government stronger people started little bit afraid us poll respondents asked whether would willing speak ap reporter roshupkina among many agreed russian economy buffeted western sanctions fall oil prices putin relied even image tough leader capable standing west appears betting help weather economic storm far hes right presidency military countrys trusted institutions according poll three four russians saying trust presidency two three expressing faith military weve revived army thats important said ivan savenko 50yearold driver southern city stavropol also took part poll us important thing army everything else important us country power power exist surveyed 81 percent said strongly somewhat approve way putin handling job dramatic increase 20 percentage points apgfk poll conducted 2012 russia become authoritarian putin support appears genuine significant fluctuation putins ratings recent years also indicates russians feel able respond freely anonymous surveys views president 81 percent approval rating slightly higher statistically 74 percent measured time period levada center russias respected independent pollster many analysts question however whether high ratings significance given kremlins control information total effective monopolistic propaganda campaign information monopoly talk ratings said georgy satarov former kremlin adviser heads research institute studies corruption thing pay attention fact 80 percent support despite information monopoly 15 percent dont support said support putin soared moved seize russianspeaking crimean peninsula ukraine march source pride overwhelming majority russians victory world war ii already 70 years ago lipman said crimea putin gave sense victorious triumphant resurgent today russiabacked separatists took arms government troops eastern ukraine also portrayed heroes state television russians polled 69 percent said many parts ukraine rightfully belong russia like 37yearold librarian yelena shevilyova said although approves putin believes russias involvement ukraine may come high cost think lost lot lives said shevilyova another poll participant referring crimea think right bring russianspeaking regions back need everything good cant everything said speaking far northern region perm growing worries worsening economy impact sanctions keenly felt major cities moscow 6 10 said negatively affected sanctions said familys finances worse three years ago less half felt way elsewhere afraid russia isnt going anywhere said dmitry uryupin 48 sound director small production firm moscow among surveyed unlikely wages raised fact quite likely opposite happen unemployment rise affect economically insecure people well us creative class putin inaugurated third term 2012 wave protests moscow driven creative class clamped even harder opposition focused core electorate people provinces dependent state income disgruntled moscow proved easy discredit eyes known putin majority look poor muscovites oh god complain go italy vacation longer afford buy parmesan cheese lipman said whether discontent economy putins leadership grow lipman said depends badly hurt long apnorc center poll russia conducted norc university chicago fieldwork inperson survey gfk russia nov 22dec 7 based 2008 inperson interviews nationally representative random sample russians age 18 older funding survey came norc university chicago results adults margin sampling error plus minus 24 percentage points ___ online apnorc center public affairs research httpwwwapnorcorg
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<p>We’ve all heard about how the Declaration of Independence was penned on hemp paper and how our founding fathers grew the stuff like it was, well, a weed. Their reasons for growing it were sensible enough: hemp offered unparalleled capital potential as a cash crop with its seemingly limitless industrial applications, not to mention its nutritional properties. A couple of centuries and a failed Drug War later, a California state senator is making an effort to revive some of the common sense found in this earlier, agrarian era.</p>
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<p>On Tuesday, the California State Senate passed SB 676, Sen. Mark Leno’s (San Francisco) bill, that would effectively legalize the production of hemp in the state for industrial purposes. Two prior attempts by the senator to regulate hemp production were vetoed by former Governor Schwarzenegger.</p>
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<p>This measure would redefine “marijuana” to exclude industrial hemp. The new definition for hemp would include non-psychoactive fiber or oilseed crops with no more than 0.3 percent of THC. Crops would have to undergo testing to certify that their THC content was within the legal limit, mimicking established protocol in Canada.</p>
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<p>So why is Sen. Leno so bent on legalizing hemp? He expounds on the “golden opportunity” hemp offers California in a recent blog post:</p>
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<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; “If you like shopping at your local natural foods or specialty grocery store, you’ve probably noticed the growing popularity of hemp as an ingredient in food and skin care products. Hemp seed, which is high in protein and essential fatty acids, is found in everything from bread, energy bars and waffles to coffee and protein powder. Thanks to its natural antioxidants and moisturizing oil, hemp is also a common ingredient in soaps, shampoos and lotions. Perhaps your favorite T-shirt is even made of hemp, which is an excellent alternative to cotton.”</p>
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<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; “Even though most of these consumer products are created by California companies, our farmers are prohibited from growing industrial hemp. Instead of buying hemp from local farmers, local manufacturers are importing thousands of dollars of hemp seed, oil and fiber from growers overseas.”</p>
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<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; “California farmers are missing out on a golden opportunity to tap into the growing industrial hemp products business of food, clothing, shelter, paper and fuel, which would greatly benefit our state’s economy and family farmers. Industrial hemp is a perfect, environmentally sustainable crop for our state. It requires little or no pesticides and herbicides and produces two to four times more fiber than an acre of timber. Hemp grows quickly, can be harvested every 90 days and is a great rotational crop, especially for organic farmers.”</p>
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<p>The therapeutic properties of hemp oil alone should be enough to draw serious attention to the issue of hemp legalization. Dr. Udo Erasmus, in his book Fats that Heal – Fats that Kill, writes:</p>
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<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; “Hemp seed oil may be nature’s most perfectly balanced oil. It contains an ideal 3:1 ratio of omega-6’s [linoleic acid] to omega-3’s [alpha-linolenic acid] for long-term use, and provides the omega-6 derivative gamma-linolenic acid (GLA).”</p>
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<p>(On a side note, this author is enjoying a glass of “hemp milk” as he writes this article).</p>
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<p>Of course, SB 676 faces an uphill legislative battle. Besides the undeserved social stigma carried by the psychedelically- handicapped crop and the powerful lobby opposing it from various industries including lumber, paper, textile, construction material and oil producers, legalized hemp would stand as an enemy within the gates for an unexpected rival: medicinal marijuana. According to Dale Gieringer, state coordinator of Cal NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), windblown pollen from cannabis plants (this includes hemp) can travel as far as 100 miles. Outdoor sinsemilla crops would be at constant risk of being fertilized – and thus spoiled – by nearby industrial hemp because SB 676 places no restrictions on where hemp can be grown.</p>
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<p>There is a further problem, critics say. Hemp would remain a schedule I substance under federal laws.</p>
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<p>In actuality, the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 (CSA) explicitly excludes all hemp-derived products (sterilized hempseed, hempseed oil and hempseed cake) from the definition of “marijuana”. This means, technically, that hemp is a federally unregulated crop. The rub is that the DEA has arbitrarily interpreted the CSA to read that “any substance containing any amount of THC [is] a Schedule I controlled substance even if [it] is made from hemp.” But hey, these rules haven’t exactly thwarted California’s thriving marijuana industry.</p>
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<p>Senate Bill 676 still has to be approved by the Assembly and signed by Governor Jerry Brown before it can become California law. The full text of the bill can be found <a href="http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0651-0700/sb_676_bill_20110218_introduced.html" type="external">here</a>.</p>
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<p>*Editor’s note: since the time this story was published Leno’s bill has been amended into a five county pilot program that limits and clearly outlines where industrial hemp cultivation will occur. This article has been edited to correct a factual error.</p>
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weve heard declaration independence penned hemp paper founding fathers grew stuff like well weed reasons growing sensible enough hemp offered unparalleled capital potential cash crop seemingly limitless industrial applications mention nutritional properties couple centuries failed drug war later california state senator making effort revive common sense found earlier agrarian era 160 tuesday california state senate passed sb 676 sen mark lenos san francisco bill would effectively legalize production hemp state industrial purposes two prior attempts senator regulate hemp production vetoed former governor schwarzenegger 160 measure would redefine marijuana exclude industrial hemp new definition hemp would include nonpsychoactive fiber oilseed crops 03 percent thc crops would undergo testing certify thc content within legal limit mimicking established protocol canada 160 sen leno bent legalizing hemp expounds golden opportunity hemp offers california recent blog post 160 160160160160 like shopping local natural foods specialty grocery store youve probably noticed growing popularity hemp ingredient food skin care products hemp seed high protein essential fatty acids found everything bread energy bars waffles coffee protein powder thanks natural antioxidants moisturizing oil hemp also common ingredient soaps shampoos lotions perhaps favorite tshirt even made hemp excellent alternative cotton 160 160160160160 even though consumer products created california companies farmers prohibited growing industrial hemp instead buying hemp local farmers local manufacturers importing thousands dollars hemp seed oil fiber growers overseas 160 160160160160 california farmers missing golden opportunity tap growing industrial hemp products business food clothing shelter paper fuel would greatly benefit states economy family farmers industrial hemp perfect environmentally sustainable crop state requires little pesticides herbicides produces two four times fiber acre timber hemp grows quickly harvested every 90 days great rotational crop especially organic farmers 160 therapeutic properties hemp oil alone enough draw serious attention issue hemp legalization dr udo erasmus book fats heal fats kill writes 160 160160160160 hemp seed oil may natures perfectly balanced oil contains ideal 31 ratio omega6s linoleic acid omega3s alphalinolenic acid longterm use provides omega6 derivative gammalinolenic acid gla 160 side note author enjoying glass hemp milk writes article 160 course sb 676 faces uphill legislative battle besides undeserved social stigma carried psychedelically handicapped crop powerful lobby opposing various industries including lumber paper textile construction material oil producers legalized hemp would stand enemy within gates unexpected rival medicinal marijuana according dale gieringer state coordinator cal norml national organization reform marijuana laws windblown pollen cannabis plants includes hemp travel far 100 miles outdoor sinsemilla crops would constant risk fertilized thus spoiled nearby industrial hemp sb 676 places restrictions hemp grown 160 problem critics say hemp would remain schedule substance federal laws 160 actuality controlled substances act 1970 csa explicitly excludes hempderived products sterilized hempseed hempseed oil hempseed cake definition marijuana means technically hemp federally unregulated crop rub dea arbitrarily interpreted csa read substance containing amount thc schedule controlled substance even made hemp hey rules havent exactly thwarted californias thriving marijuana industry 160 senate bill 676 still approved assembly signed governor jerry brown become california law full text bill found 160 editors note since time story published lenos bill amended five county pilot program limits clearly outlines industrial hemp cultivation occur article edited correct factual error
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<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ governor said Friday that he sees no reason for anything beyond a routine review of the state’s execution procedures after a condemned inmate lurched and convulsed 20 times during a lethal injection that involved a controversial sedative.</p>
<p>Attorneys for Kenneth Williams called for a full investigation after Williams became the fourth convicted killer executed in Arkansas in eight days as the state sought to carry out as many lethal injections as possible before its supply of midazolam expires.</p>
<p>“I think it’s totally unjustified,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson told reporters when asked about the possibility of an independent probe. “You don’t call for an independent investigation unless there’s some reason for it. Last night, one of the goals was there not be any indications of pain by the inmate, and that’s what I believe is the case.”</p>
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<p>A federal judge on Friday granted a request from Williams’ attorneys to preserve evidence from the dead inmate’s body, ordering the state to collect blood and tissue samples as well as request an autopsy from the state medical examiner.</p>
<p>Hutchinson said Williams’ execution will be reviewed by the Department of Correction, which is typical any time an inmate is put to death. He said a written report would not be issued.</p>
<p>The governor said he does not think Arkansas needs to change its execution protocol, citing court rulings that have upheld the use of midazolam, which has also been used in flawed executions in other states. But he has not ordered prison officials to find a replacement for Arkansas’ supply of the drug, which expires Sunday.</p>
<p>An Associated Press reporter who witnessed the execution said that about three minutes in, Williams’ body jerked 15 times in quick succession, lurching violently against the leather restraint across his chest. Then the rate slowed for a final five movements.</p>
<p>Hutchinson said Arkansas Department of Correction Director Wendy Kelley described Williams’ movement as “coughing without noise,” though media witnesses described hearing sounds from the inmate.</p>
<p>Williams’ attorneys released a statement calling the witness accounts “horrifying.” The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas also called for an investigation, arguing that the state may have violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. In a statement Friday, the organization’s executive director, Rita Sklar, said the governor had “ignored the dangers … all to beat the expiration date on a failed drug.”</p>
<p>Arkansas had planned eight executions over an 11-day period, the most ambitious schedule since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. But courts issued stays for four of the inmates. The four lethal injections that were carried out included Monday’s first double execution in the U.S. since 2000.</p>
<p>Williams read a prepared final statement and also spoke in tongues, the unintelligible speech used in some religions. But his prayer faded off as the midazolam took effect.</p>
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<p>The inmate breathed heavily through his nose until just after three minutes into his execution, when his chest leaped forward in a series of what seemed like involuntary movements. His right hand never clenched, and his face remained what one media witness called “serene.”</p>
<p>After the jerking, Williams breathed through his mouth and moaned or groaned once — during a consciousness check — until falling still seven minutes after the lethal injection.</p>
<p>In a log of Williams’ final hours that the state filed in federal court Friday, prison officials said it took 17 minutes to connect the inmate’s IV lines. The log said Williams’ hands remained relaxed and he did not grimace or show distress on his face during the movement. The state’s court filing also included affidavits from two witnesses who said they did not see any signs of pain or suffering.</p>
<p>“I saw an efficient, effective execution process,” state Sen. Trent Garner said.</p>
<p>Williams was sentenced to death for killing a former deputy warden, Cecil Boren, after he escaped from prison in 1999. At the time of his escape in a 500-gallon barrel of hog slop, Williams was less than three weeks into a life term for the death of a college cheerleader.</p>
<p>A doctor who has been described by inmates’ attorneys as an expert on the potential dangers of midazolam said Williams’ movements raised concerns.</p>
<p>“It was either a seizure that was predictable based upon Mr. Williams’ co-existing medical conditions or partial paralysis in an execution where the protocol itself was not followed,” said Dr. Joel Zivot, an associate professor of anesthesiology and surgery at Emory University. “Or, more to the point, even if the protocol was followed, the protocol was fundamentally flawed.”</p>
<p>Williams’ lawyers had said he had sickle-cell trait, lupus and brain damage, and argued that the combined maladies could subject him to an exceptionally painful execution in violation of the Constitution.</p>
<p>The state argued in a court filing Friday that there’s no proof that Williams suffered.</p>
<p>“The drugs worked as intended and planned,” the court filing said.</p>
<p>Some concerns had been raised about Monday’s execution of Jack Jones, whose mouth moved after attorneys said he should have been unconscious, though a federal judge determined it did not appear to be “torturous and inhumane.”</p>
<p>All of the Arkansas inmates — including Williams — died within 20 minutes, a contrast from troubled midazolam-related executions in other states that took from 43 minutes to two hours. Witnesses to those lengthier executions also described hearing inmates breathe heavily, snore or snort or seeing them struggle against their restraints.</p>
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<p>Associated Press writers Claudia Lauer in Dallas and Jill Bleed contributed to this report.</p>
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little rock ark arkansas governor said friday sees reason anything beyond routine review states execution procedures condemned inmate lurched convulsed 20 times lethal injection involved controversial sedative attorneys kenneth williams called full investigation williams became fourth convicted killer executed arkansas eight days state sought carry many lethal injections possible supply midazolam expires think totally unjustified gov asa hutchinson told reporters asked possibility independent probe dont call independent investigation unless theres reason last night one goals indications pain inmate thats believe case advertisement federal judge friday granted request williams attorneys preserve evidence dead inmates body ordering state collect blood tissue samples well request autopsy state medical examiner hutchinson said williams execution reviewed department correction typical time inmate put death said written report would issued governor said think arkansas needs change execution protocol citing court rulings upheld use midazolam also used flawed executions states ordered prison officials find replacement arkansas supply drug expires sunday associated press reporter witnessed execution said three minutes williams body jerked 15 times quick succession lurching violently leather restraint across chest rate slowed final five movements hutchinson said arkansas department correction director wendy kelley described williams movement coughing without noise though media witnesses described hearing sounds inmate williams attorneys released statement calling witness accounts horrifying american civil liberties union arkansas also called investigation arguing state may violated eighth amendments prohibition cruel unusual punishment statement friday organizations executive director rita sklar said governor ignored dangers beat expiration date failed drug arkansas planned eight executions 11day period ambitious schedule since us supreme court reinstated death penalty 1976 courts issued stays four inmates four lethal injections carried included mondays first double execution us since 2000 williams read prepared final statement also spoke tongues unintelligible speech used religions prayer faded midazolam took effect advertisement inmate breathed heavily nose three minutes execution chest leaped forward series seemed like involuntary movements right hand never clenched face remained one media witness called serene jerking williams breathed mouth moaned groaned consciousness check falling still seven minutes lethal injection log williams final hours state filed federal court friday prison officials said took 17 minutes connect inmates iv lines log said williams hands remained relaxed grimace show distress face movement states court filing also included affidavits two witnesses said see signs pain suffering saw efficient effective execution process state sen trent garner said williams sentenced death killing former deputy warden cecil boren escaped prison 1999 time escape 500gallon barrel hog slop williams less three weeks life term death college cheerleader doctor described inmates attorneys expert potential dangers midazolam said williams movements raised concerns either seizure predictable based upon mr williams coexisting medical conditions partial paralysis execution protocol followed said dr joel zivot associate professor anesthesiology surgery emory university point even protocol followed protocol fundamentally flawed williams lawyers said sicklecell trait lupus brain damage argued combined maladies could subject exceptionally painful execution violation constitution state argued court filing friday theres proof williams suffered drugs worked intended planned court filing said concerns raised mondays execution jack jones whose mouth moved attorneys said unconscious though federal judge determined appear torturous inhumane arkansas inmates including williams died within 20 minutes contrast troubled midazolamrelated executions states took 43 minutes two hours witnesses lengthier executions also described hearing inmates breathe heavily snore snort seeing struggle restraints ___ associated press writers claudia lauer dallas jill bleed contributed report ___ follow kelly p kissel wwwtwittercomkisselap andrew demillo twitter wwwtwittercomademillo
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<p>One of the final debates before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses contained old and new claims alike:</p>
<p>Seven GOP candidates <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/14/6th-republican-debate-transcript-annotated-who-said-what-and-what-it-meant/" type="external">met on the main stage on Jan. 14</a>: businessman Donald Trump, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Sen. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Ted Cruz, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.&#160;The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/14/transcript-fox-business-undercard-republican-debate/" type="external">earlier undercard debate</a> included former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, businesswoman Carly Fiorina and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. The debate&#160;aired on&#160;Fox Business Network&#160;and was held in North Charleston, South Carolina.</p>
<p>Asked about Trump questioning whether Cruz qualifies as a “natural born citizen” eligible to serve as president, Cruz said “the facts and the law here are really quite clear: under longstanding U.S. law, the child of a U.S. citizen born abroad is a natural-born citizen.”</p>
<p>When <a href="" type="internal">we wrote</a> about the issue in March, we&#160;concluded that the legal consensus was on Cruz’s side. But the issue isn’t as settled as Cruz makes out.&#160;The Constitution does not define “natural born,” and the Supreme Court has not ruled on its precise meaning. And there are at least some constitutional scholars who believe Cruz is ineligible.</p>
<p>Trump said he is convinced that if Cruz wins the Republican nomination, “I already know the Democrats are going to be bringing a suit. You have a big lawsuit over your head while you’re running. And if you become the nominee, who the hell knows if you can even serve in office? So you should go out, get a declaratory judgment, let the courts decide.”</p>
<p>Cruz’s birth certificate shows he <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20130818-born-in-canada-ted-cruz-became-a-citizen-of-that-country-as-well-as-u.s..ece" type="external">was born in Calgary, Alberta,</a> on Dec. 22, 1970,&#160;to an American mother and Cuban father.&#160;Cruz, who <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/ted-cruz-birth-certificate-95668.html" type="external">came to the U.S.</a> at age 4, is a <a href="http://travel.state.gov/content/travel/english/legal-considerations/us-citizenship-laws-policies/citizenship-child-born-abroad.html" type="external">citizen by birth</a> because his mother was a U.S. citizen when he was born. But the&#160; <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CDOC-110hdoc50/pdf/CDOC-110hdoc50.pdf" type="external">U.S. Constitution</a> requires a president to be not just a citizen, but a “natural born Citizen.”</p>
<p>Article II, Section 1:&#160;No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.</p>
<p>In 2013, Sarah Helene Duggin, a Catholic University law professor, <a href="http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/10/is-ted-cruz-a-natural-born-citizen-eligible-to-serve-as-president/" type="external">wrote:</a>&#160;“There is a strong argument that anyone who acquires United States citizenship at birth, whether by virtue of the 14th Amendment or by operation of federal statute, qualifies as natural born.”</p>
<p>The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service <a href="http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42097.pdf" type="external">reached a similar conclusion</a> in 2011.</p>
<p>CRS, Nov. 14, 2011: The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term “natural born” citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship “by birth” or “at birth,” either by being born “in” the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship “at birth.” Such term, however, would not include a person who was not a U.S. citizen by birth or at birth, and who was thus born an “alien” required to go through the legal process of “naturalization” to become a U.S. citizen.</p>
<p>And Neal Katyal and Paul Clement, two former U.S. solicitors general, <a href="//harvardlawrevi.w.org/2015/03/on-the-meaning-of-natural-born-citizen/" type="external">writing for the Harvard Law Review</a>, said that Cruz qualifies as a “natural born Citizen.”</p>
<p>But there are other legal scholars who disagree.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, the Washington Post published <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ted-cruz-is-not-eligible-to-be-president/2016/01/12/1484a7d0-b7af-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html" type="external">an opinion piece</a> by&#160;Mary Brigid McManamon, a constitutional law professor at Widener University’s Delaware Law School, in which she made the argument that Cruz is not eligible to be president.</p>
<p>McManamon, Jan. 12: Cruz is, of course, a U.S. citizen. As he was born in Canada, he is not natural-born. His mother, however, is an American, and Congress has provided by statute for the naturalization of children born abroad to citizens. …&#160;But Article&#160;II of the Constitution expressly adopts the legal status of the natural-born citizen and requires that a president possess that status. However we feel about allowing naturalized immigrants to reach for the stars, the Constitution must be amended before one of them can attain the office of president. Congress simply does not have the power to convert someone born outside the United States into a natural-born citizen. …</p>
<p>When discussing the meaning of a constitutional term, it is important to go beyond secondary sources and look to the law itself. And on this issue, the law is clear: The framers of the Constitution required the president of the United States to be born in the United States.</p>
<p>During the debate, Trump repeatedly referred to another legal scholar, Laurence Tribe,&#160;a constitutional law professor at Harvard who once had Cruz as a student.</p>
<p>In an opinion piece penned for the Boston Globe on Jan. 11, Tribe&#160; <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/01/11/through-ted-cruz-constitutional-looking-glass/zvKE6qpF31q2RsvPO9nGoK/story.html" type="external">opined</a> that while “no real court is likely to keep Cruz off the ballot, much less remove him from the White House if he were to win,” the kind of “originalist” judges that Cruz has said he would appoint to the Supreme Court are the very ones most likely to conclude he is ineligible.</p>
<p>Tribe, Jan. 11: People are entitled to their own opinions about what the definition ought to be. But the kind of judge Cruz says he admires and would appoint to the Supreme Court is an “originalist,” one who claims to be bound by the narrowly historical meaning of the Constitution’s terms at the time of their adoption. To his kind of judge, Cruz ironically wouldn’t be eligible, because the legal principles that prevailed in the 1780s and ’90s required that someone actually be born on US soil to be a “natural born” citizen. Even having two US parents wouldn’t suffice. And having just an American mother, as Cruz did, would have been insufficient at a time that made patrilineal descent decisive. …</p>
<p>On the other hand, the kind of judge I admire and Cruz abhors is a “living constitutionalist,” one who believes that the Constitution’s meaning evolves with the perceived needs of the time and longstanding practice. To that kind of judge, Cruz would be eligible to serve because it no longer makes sense to be bound by the narrow historical definition that would disqualify him.</p>
<p>Cruz described Tribe as “a&#160;left-wing judicial activist, Harvard Law professor who was Al Gore’s lawyer in Bush versus Gore. He’s a major Hillary Clinton supporter.”&#160;Tribe once argued on Al Gore’s behalf at the Supreme Court about the results of the 2000 presidential election. According to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/14/politics/larry-tribe-donald-trump-ted-cruz-gop-debate/" type="external">CNN</a>, Tribe is “certainly a voice in liberal politics, though not — at least not yet — a formal backer of Clinton.”</p>
<p>But Tribe didn’t say he thinks Cruz is ineligible, only that he thinks Cruz is “a fair weather originalist” when it comes to interpreting the Constitution’s definition of “natural born.”</p>
<p>Cruz said that “under longstanding U.S. law, the child of a U.S. citizen born abroad is a natural-born citizen.” Ultimately, the issue might have to go to the Supreme Court. As we wrote in March, even Duggin, who <a href="http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/10/is-ted-cruz-a-natural-born-citizen-eligible-to-serve-as-president/" type="external">wrote in her 2013 article</a> that “[a] scholarly consensus is emerging … that anyone who acquires citizenship at birth is natural born for purposes of Article II,” acknowledged that the issue may not be settled.</p>
<p>“In the absence of a definitive Supreme Court ruling — or a constitutional amendment — the parameters of the clause remain uncertain,” she wrote.</p>
<p>Rubio and Cruz tangled on the Texan’s tax plan, which relies on a 16 percent tax to be paid by businesses. Rubio said Cruz was proposing a “value-added tax” or VAT, of the kind Ronald Reagan opposed.</p>
<p>Rubio: Ronald Reagan opposed the value tax because he said it was a way to blindfold the people, so the true cost of government was not there for them.</p>
<p>Cruz responded by denying that he was proposing a VAT:</p>
<p>Cruz: [T]he business flat tax in my proposal is not a VAT. A VAT&#160;is imposed as a sales tax when you buy a good.</p>
<p>As a practical matter, we find Rubio was correct, and Cruz misled when he denied that his proposal amounted to a VAT.</p>
<p>Don’t take our word for it. The nonpartisan, business-funded Tax Foundation has described the Cruz proposal as a “ <a href="http://taxfoundation.org/article/details-and-analysis-senator-ted-cruz-s-tax-plan" type="external">subtraction method value-added tax</a>,” and the conservative National Review also <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/426283/cruz-tax-plan-ramesh-ponnuru" type="external">describes it as a VAT</a>, period.</p>
<p>What Cruz proposes is to eliminate both the corporate income tax (which falls on net profits) and the payroll tax, substituting a 16 percent tax on businesses “on revenues minus expenses such as equipment, computers, and other business investments.” Not mentioned is that the Cruz tax would fall on what businesses pay their employees, and would tend to be passed along and paid by consumers in the form of higher prices.</p>
<p>Cruz prefers to call his plan a “ <a href="https://www.tedcruz.org/tax_plan/" type="external">Business Flat Tax,</a>” but as the Tax Foundation’s analysis stated, “its base is identical in economic terms to that of the credit-invoice VAT seen in many OECD countries [except that] it is calculated from corporate accounts, not on individual transactions.”</p>
<p>The Tax Foundation said its computer model predicts that the Cruz plan would boost economic growth and wages over the long term. But some conservatives worry that voters won’t know how much they are paying.</p>
<p>“It is the hidden nature of this tax that has traditionally worried conservatives,” the National Review wrote in <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429664/ted-cruz-tax-plan-income-tax-business-tax-transparency" type="external">a Jan. 13 editorial</a>. “Most people would not know what their wages would have bought them if this tax were lower, or if it did not exist.” It was that criticism that Rubio echoed in his debate remarks.</p>
<p>Cruz also exaggerated when he claimed that his tax plan had been called “the best” by Reagan’s “chief economic adviser.”</p>
<p>Cruz: I would note that Art Laffer, Ronald Reagan’s chief economic adviser, has written publicly, that my simple flat tax is the best tax plan of any of the individuals on this stage.</p>
<p>It’s true that economist Arthur Laffer coauthored a Nov. 20 <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-brain-trust/112015-781892-paul-and-cruz-flat-tax-proposals-best-candidate-tax-plans.htm?ref=SeeAlso" type="external">Investor’s Business Daily article</a> naming the tax plans of Cruz — and&#160;the flat-tax plan offered by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul — as the “best tax proposals.” Since Paul was excluded from the Fox Business News debate, he wasn’t on the stage when Cruz made his claim. So Cruz is technically accurate on that score.</p>
<p>However, Laffer was never Reagan’s “chief” economic adviser, nor was he even a member of Reagan’s White House Council of Economic Advisers. Laffer was instead one of a dozen members of an “Economic Policy Advisory Board” that <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=43243&amp;st=advisory+board&amp;st1=" type="external">Reagan named soon after taking office</a>, and which was directed to meet “every 3 or 4 months.”</p>
<p>And by the way, even the Laffer article flatly called the Cruz plan a value-added tax, referring to “the Cruz and Paul VATs .”</p>
<p>Christie repeated the claim that he “didn’t support [Supreme Court Justice] Sonia Sotomayor.” During the confirmation process in 2009, Christie said he wouldn’t have nominated Sotomayor but that “I support her confirmation.” And he urged the Senate to confirm her.</p>
<p>Rubio brought up the subject, saying that Christie had supported Sotomayor’s appointment. This is the second time Christie denied supporting her&#160;this week: <a href="" type="internal">As we wrote</a>, he said on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” that he&#160;“didn’t voice support for Sonia Sotomayor.”</p>
<p>His statement in 2009 — when he was a candidate for governor in New Jersey — might have had a caveat, but it certainly was support.&#160;The website PolitickerNJ <a href="http://politickernj.com/2009/07/christie-backs-sotomayor-for-supreme-court/" type="external">carried Christie’s statement at the time</a>, which said, “After watching and listening to Judge Sotomayor’s performance at the confirmation hearings this week, I am confident that she is qualified for the position of Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. … While Judge Sotomayor would not have been my choice, President Obama has used his opportunity to fill a seat on the Supreme Court by choosing a nominee who has more than proven her capability, competence and ability.&#160;I support her appointment to the Supreme Court and urge the Senate to keep politics out of the process and confirm her nomination.”</p>
<p>Christie and Rubio also disagreed over whether Christie&#160;had ever given a donation to Planned Parenthood. We can’t say whether Christie did or didn’t.&#160;Christie was quoted in the&#160;Newark Star-Ledger&#160;in 1994 as saying he did support the nonprofit “privately with my personal contribution.” He now says he was misquoted.</p>
<p>The 1994 story was written by Brian T. Murray, who is currently the governor’s spokesman. At the time, Christie was a candidate for a county freeholder seat and said he was opposed to restoring funding to Planned Parenthood. “I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations,” he was quoted as saying.</p>
<p>Christie’s campaign&#160;told us there is no record of such a donation,&#160;but there wouldn’t be one, since nonprofits are not required to disclose donations.</p>
<p>He <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/01/12/a-one-on-one-with-chris-christie-about-his-rivals-his-record-and-more/?postshare=3951452627568296&amp;tid=ss_mail" type="external">told</a> the Washington Post on Jan. 12 that he was “convinced” the 22-year-old comment “was a misquote.”</p>
<p>Cruz said that the Senate immigration bill that Rubio cosponsored “expanded Barack Obama’s power to let in Syrian refugees … without mandating meaningful background checks.” The bill, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/744/actions" type="external">S. 744</a>, would have made it easier for members of certain groups designated by the president to qualify as refugees, but they would still be subject to the same required screening process as other refugees before they could come to the U.S.</p>
<p>Cruz: It is also the case that that Rubio-Schumer amnesty bill, one of the things it did is it expanded Barack Obama’s power to let in Syrian refugees. It enabled him — the president to certify them en masse without mandating meaningful background checks.</p>
<p>The bill, which was also cosponsored by Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, did not specifically mention refugees from Syria. <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/744/text#toc-ida6f98ab3-f2b6-4a17-8825-f32c1424bdeb" type="external">Section 3403</a> authorized the president to declare certain groups with common characteristics as refugees for special humanitarian purposes. In order to qualify for refugee status, individuals would only have to prove that they were&#160;a member of the refugee group designated by the president.</p>
<p>That differs from <a href="http://www.uscis.gov/iframe/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-29/0-0-0-101/0-0-0-195.html" type="external">current law</a>, which says that individuals applying to come to the U.S. as refugees must demonstrate that they can’t or won’t return to their home country because of “persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”</p>
<p>So, in theory, the president could declare Syrians as a special group eligible for admission to the U.S. as refugees.</p>
<p>However, they would still have to undergo the same security screening process as all other individuals applying to come to the U.S. as refugees. That includes a background check, whether Cruz thinks it is “meaningful” or not.</p>
<p>“Even if they somehow were found to fit the criteria as laid out (including having a specific vulnerability, justified in the national interest, etc.) and be designated as a group, they would still need to go through all of the same security vetting as other refugees,” said&#160; <a href="http://lirs.org/our-work/about-us/staff/" type="external">Joanne Kelsey</a>, assistant director for advocacy with the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, in an email to FactCheck.org.</p>
<p>Rubio revived an attack line from the last Republican debate, claiming that Cruz flipped positions on his support for legalization of immigrants currently living in the U.S. illegally. But as <a href="" type="internal">w</a> <a href="" type="internal">e wrote before</a>, whether that’s true depends on whether one&#160;believes Cruz was bluffing back in 2013 when he proposed an amendment that would have allowed legalization.</p>
<p>Rubio addressed Cruz during the most recent debate saying, “You used to support legalizing people that were here illegally, now you say you’re against it.”</p>
<p>During <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/15/who-said-what-and-what-it-meant-the-fifth-gop-debate-annotated/" type="external">the December debate</a>, Cruz said unequivocally, “I have never supported legalization, and I do not intend to support legalization.”</p>
<p>But Rubio contends that he did&#160;in the midst of a contentious Senate battle over comprehensive immigration legislation back in 2013.</p>
<p>In 2013, Cruz offered an amendment to a Senate immigration bill that would have stripped out a proposal for a path to citizenship for those currently in the country illegally. But Cruz’s amendment would have purposefully left intact the bill’s provisions to provide legal status for them. Numerous media outlets described Cruz’s plan as a compromise “middle road” in the immigration debate that he hoped might be palatable to enough legislators in both houses of Congress to actually pass.</p>
<p>Cruz publicly opposed&#160; <a href="https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/744" type="external">S. 744</a>, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, because it provided a “path to citizenship” for those currently in the country illegally. Cruz labeled it an “amnesty” bill, and he criticized Rubio for cosponsoring it.</p>
<p>Although Cruz made <a href="" type="internal">numerous statements</a> at the time in support of his amendment, Cruz’s campaign told us the amendment was a ploy to expose the real motivations of the bill’s supporters. While those supporters claimed the bill’s aim was to allow 11 million immigrants in the country illegally to come out of the shadows, the Cruz campaign says Cruz was convinced the actual intent was to provide citizenship to those immigrants so they could become future voters. So, the campaign says, Cruz offered the amendment, knowing it would not pass, to show the real priority of supporters. Even if the amendment had been accepted, Cruz still would not have supported the bill, the campaign says, because he opposes legalization.</p>
<p>As we said in December, we’ll leave it up to readers to decide if Cruz once supported legalization as a political compromise, and now disavows it, or if he was merely employing a legislative ploy to expose the motivations of his opponents.</p>
<p>Christie was wrong when he claimed “we double tax” U.S. companies with overseas operations.&#160;The fact is, the U.S. tax code provides a foreign tax credit to avoid exactly what Christie claimed is happening.</p>
<p>Christie:&#160;They pay tax once overseas. They don’t want to pay 35 percent tax on the way back.</p>
<p>The U.S. statutory corporate tax rate is 35 percent, as Christie said. And the U.S. has what is known as a “worldwide approach,” which as <a href="https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/43764_MultinationalTaxes_rev02-28-2013..pdf" type="external">explained by the Congressional Budget Office,</a> taxes all income “regardless of where that income is earned.” But, as the CBO says, the U.S. typically provides a foreign tax credit “to avoid taxing income twice.”</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.irs.gov/uac/Form-1118,-Foreign-Tax-Credit%E2%80%94Corporations" type="external">foreign tax credit</a>&#160;is subtracted from taxes that would otherwise be owed, on line 5a of the <a href="http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1120.pdf" type="external">corporate tax return form 1120</a>. IRS instructions define taxes eligible for a credit as those “paid or accrued during the tax year to any foreign country or U.S. possession.”</p>
<p>“This results in their paying tax at the US rate, not double taxation,” <a href="http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/author/erictoder/" type="external">Eric Toder</a>, a co-director of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center who was the director of research at the IRS from 2001 to 2004, told us when we first <a href="" type="internal">wrote about this</a> in June.</p>
<p>Christie, Rubio and Kasich all said that the U.S. has the highest corporate or business tax rate in the world. The highest statutory tax rate among industrialized nations, yes. But perhaps not the highest marginal effective tax rate, according to one analysis.</p>
<p>Kasich: If you cut taxes for corporations, and you cut taxes for individuals, you’re going to make things move, particularly the corporate tax, which is the highest, of course, in the — in the world.</p>
<p>Christie: If you reform the corporate tax system in this country, which, as was mentioned before, is the highest rate in the world.</p>
<p>Rubio: It begins with tax reform. Let’s not have the most expensive business tax rate in the world. Let’s allow companies to immediately expense.</p>
<p>Neither Christie, Kasich or Rubio specified which corporate tax rate they were talking about. There are different measurements.</p>
<p>The U.S. has the highest statutory rate, 39.1 percent, among the 34 industrialized nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, <a href="http://taxfoundation.org/article/us-corporate-taxation-prime-reform" type="external">according to the nonpartisan, pro-business Tax Foundation</a>.</p>
<p>The nonpartisan <a href="http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/key-elements/business/statutory.cfm" type="external">Tax Policy Center defines</a> the statutory rate as the “rate that is imposed on taxable income of corporations, which is equal to corporate receipts less deductions for labor costs, materials, and depreciation of capital assets.”</p>
<p>Chad (40 percent) and the&#160;United Arab Emirates (55 percent), two non-OECD member nations, actually have higher rates than the U.S.,&#160; <a href="http://taxfoundation.org/article/corporate-income-tax-rates-around-world-2014" type="external">according to the Tax Foundation</a>.</p>
<p>But the <a href="http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/key-elements/business/statutory.cfm" type="external">Tax Policy Center says</a>&#160;that the marginal effective tax rate,&#160;which assesses how much the corporate tax reduces the rate of return on new investment, “is consequently the best measure of how taxes affect a firm’s incentive to invest.”</p>
<p>And the U.S. marginal effective tax rate is 35.3 percent, <a href="http://taxfoundation.org/article/us-corporate-taxation-prime-reform" type="external">according to the most recent Tax Foundation analysis</a>. That is second to France’s rate of 36 percent, among OECD nations. And it puts the U.S. in sixth&#160;place, behind Argentina (43.5 percent), Chad (37.2 percent), Uzbekistan (37.1 percent), Colombia (36.6 percent) and France, among 95 nations reviewed for the Tax Foundation study.</p>
<p>In the earlier debate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum claimed that the U.S. has lost 2 million manufacturing jobs under President Obama. That’s way off. The net loss of manufacturing jobs, as of December, was 230,000.</p>
<p>Santorum twice used the 2 million figure, including a second time when challenged by debate moderator Sandra Smith.</p>
<p>Smith: Sen. Santorum, I want to stay with you on this, moving to jobs and the economy. In his State of the Union address the other night, President Obama touted his record on jobs, citing more than 14 million new jobs and boasted of nearly 900,000 manufacturing jobs added in the past six years.&#160;Do you dispute his track record of creating jobs?</p>
<p>Santorum: Well, the numbers just don’t add up. I mean, they have not added manufacturing jobs. Manufacturing jobs have been lost in this country, 2 million of them. The bottom line is that this president has done more to take jobs away from the hard-working people who are struggling the most.</p>
<p>As <a href="" type="internal">we said in our story on Obama’s State of the Union address</a>, Obama was largely correct in saying the U.S. has created nearly 900,000 jobs in the last six years. But that ignores the earlier job losses during his time in office. There has been&#160;a net loss of 230,000 over the entire seven years of his presidency,&#160;dropping from 12,561,000 jobs in January 2009 to 12,331,000 in December 2015, <a href="http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES3000000001" type="external">according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>.</p>
<p>But Santorum’s numbers don’t add up at all.</p>
<p>At its lowest point, the number of manufacturing jobs under Obama stood at 11,453,000 in February 2010 — 1.1 million off the peak in January 2009. That’s nearly half&#160;as many as Santorum claimed and most — but not all — of those jobs have been recovered.</p>
<p>Also in the undercard debate, Fiorina criticized the Obama administration’s response to the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi that resulted in four deaths, including that of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.</p>
<p>“[W]hen you do not say the United States of America will retaliate for that attack, terrorists assume it’s open season,” Fiorina said.</p>
<p>The fact is, the president repeatedly vowed to bring the killers to justice in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/12/remarks-president-deaths-us-embassy-staff-libya" type="external">Rose Garden speech</a> on the morning after the Sept. 11, 2012, attack.</p>
<p>“And make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people,” Obama said at one point.</p>
<p>Later in his speech, he also said: “We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.”</p>
<p>Similarly, that same day, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton <a href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/20092013clinton/rm/2012/09/197654.htm" type="external">spoke</a>at the State Department and vowed that the U.S. would not “rest&#160;until those responsible for these attacks are found and brought to justice.”</p>
<p>Two days later, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/14/remarks-president-transfer-remains-ceremony-benghazi-victims" type="external">Obama spoke</a> at a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base when the remains of the Benghazi victims were returned to the U.S. In that speech, Obama said: “To you — their families and colleagues — to all Americans, know this: Their sacrifice will never be forgotten. We will bring to justice those who took them from us.”</p>
<p>— by Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley and D’Angelo Gore</p>
<p>Correction, Jan. 15:&#160;We originally said that this was the final debate before&#160;the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, but there is another one <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/21/fox-news-to-host-last-gop-debate-before-iowa-caucuses.html" type="external">on Jan. 28</a>.</p>
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one final debates feb 1 iowa caucuses contained old new claims alike seven gop candidates met main stage jan 14 businessman donald trump retired neurosurgeon ben carson sen marco rubio former florida gov jeb bush sen ted cruz ohio gov john kasich new jersey gov chris christie160the earlier undercard debate included former pennsylvania sen rick santorum businesswoman carly fiorina former arkansas gov mike huckabee debate160aired on160fox business network160and held north charleston south carolina asked trump questioning whether cruz qualifies natural born citizen eligible serve president cruz said facts law really quite clear longstanding us law child us citizen born abroad naturalborn citizen wrote issue march we160concluded legal consensus cruzs side issue isnt settled cruz makes out160the constitution define natural born supreme court ruled precise meaning least constitutional scholars believe cruz ineligible trump said convinced cruz wins republican nomination already know democrats going bringing suit big lawsuit head youre running become nominee hell knows even serve office go get declaratory judgment let courts decide cruzs birth certificate shows born calgary alberta dec 22 1970160to american mother cuban father160cruz came us age 4 citizen birth mother us citizen born the160 us constitution requires president citizen natural born citizen article ii section 1160no person except natural born citizen citizen united states time adoption constitution shall eligible office president neither shall person eligible office shall attained age thirty five years fourteen years resident within united states 2013 sarah helene duggin catholic university law professor wrote160there strong argument anyone acquires united states citizenship birth whether virtue 14th amendment operation federal statute qualifies natural born nonpartisan congressional research service reached similar conclusion 2011 crs nov 14 2011 weight legal historical authority indicates term natural born citizen would mean person entitled us citizenship birth birth either born united states jurisdiction even born alien parents born abroad us citizenparents born situations meeting legal requirements us citizenship birth term however would include person us citizen birth birth thus born alien required go legal process naturalization become us citizen neal katyal paul clement two former us solicitors general writing harvard law review said cruz qualifies natural born citizen legal scholars disagree earlier week washington post published opinion piece by160mary brigid mcmanamon constitutional law professor widener universitys delaware law school made argument cruz eligible president mcmanamon jan 12 cruz course us citizen born canada naturalborn mother however american congress provided statute naturalization children born abroad citizens 160but article160ii constitution expressly adopts legal status naturalborn citizen requires president possess status however feel allowing naturalized immigrants reach stars constitution must amended one attain office president congress simply power convert someone born outside united states naturalborn citizen discussing meaning constitutional term important go beyond secondary sources look law issue law clear framers constitution required president united states born united states debate trump repeatedly referred another legal scholar laurence tribe160a constitutional law professor harvard cruz student opinion piece penned boston globe jan 11 tribe160 opined real court likely keep cruz ballot much less remove white house win kind originalist judges cruz said would appoint supreme court ones likely conclude ineligible tribe jan 11 people entitled opinions definition ought kind judge cruz says admires would appoint supreme court originalist one claims bound narrowly historical meaning constitutions terms time adoption kind judge cruz ironically wouldnt eligible legal principles prevailed 1780s 90s required someone actually born us soil natural born citizen even two us parents wouldnt suffice american mother cruz would insufficient time made patrilineal descent decisive hand kind judge admire cruz abhors living constitutionalist one believes constitutions meaning evolves perceived needs time longstanding practice kind judge cruz would eligible serve longer makes sense bound narrow historical definition would disqualify cruz described tribe a160leftwing judicial activist harvard law professor al gores lawyer bush versus gore hes major hillary clinton supporter160tribe argued al gores behalf supreme court results 2000 presidential election according cnn tribe certainly voice liberal politics though least yet formal backer clinton tribe didnt say thinks cruz ineligible thinks cruz fair weather originalist comes interpreting constitutions definition natural born cruz said longstanding us law child us citizen born abroad naturalborn citizen ultimately issue might go supreme court wrote march even duggin wrote 2013 article scholarly consensus emerging anyone acquires citizenship birth natural born purposes article ii acknowledged issue may settled absence definitive supreme court ruling constitutional amendment parameters clause remain uncertain wrote rubio cruz tangled texans tax plan relies 16 percent tax paid businesses rubio said cruz proposing valueadded tax vat kind ronald reagan opposed rubio ronald reagan opposed value tax said way blindfold people true cost government cruz responded denying proposing vat cruz business flat tax proposal vat vat160is imposed sales tax buy good practical matter find rubio correct cruz misled denied proposal amounted vat dont take word nonpartisan businessfunded tax foundation described cruz proposal subtraction method valueadded tax conservative national review also describes vat period cruz proposes eliminate corporate income tax falls net profits payroll tax substituting 16 percent tax businesses revenues minus expenses equipment computers business investments mentioned cruz tax would fall businesses pay employees would tend passed along paid consumers form higher prices cruz prefers call plan business flat tax tax foundations analysis stated base identical economic terms creditinvoice vat seen many oecd countries except calculated corporate accounts individual transactions tax foundation said computer model predicts cruz plan would boost economic growth wages long term conservatives worry voters wont know much paying hidden nature tax traditionally worried conservatives national review wrote jan 13 editorial people would know wages would bought tax lower exist criticism rubio echoed debate remarks cruz also exaggerated claimed tax plan called best reagans chief economic adviser cruz would note art laffer ronald reagans chief economic adviser written publicly simple flat tax best tax plan individuals stage true economist arthur laffer coauthored nov 20 investors business daily article naming tax plans cruz and160the flattax plan offered kentucky sen rand paul best tax proposals since paul excluded fox business news debate wasnt stage cruz made claim cruz technically accurate score however laffer never reagans chief economic adviser even member reagans white house council economic advisers laffer instead one dozen members economic policy advisory board reagan named soon taking office directed meet every 3 4 months way even laffer article flatly called cruz plan valueadded tax referring cruz paul vats christie repeated claim didnt support supreme court justice sonia sotomayor confirmation process 2009 christie said wouldnt nominated sotomayor support confirmation urged senate confirm rubio brought subject saying christie supported sotomayors appointment second time christie denied supporting her160this week wrote said sundays face nation he160didnt voice support sonia sotomayor statement 2009 candidate governor new jersey might caveat certainly support160the website politickernj carried christies statement time said watching listening judge sotomayors performance confirmation hearings week confident qualified position associate justice us supreme court judge sotomayor would choice president obama used opportunity fill seat supreme court choosing nominee proven capability competence ability160i support appointment supreme court urge senate keep politics process confirm nomination christie rubio also disagreed whether christie160had ever given donation planned parenthood cant say whether christie didnt160christie quoted the160newark starledger160in 1994 saying support nonprofit privately personal contribution says misquoted 1994 story written brian murray currently governors spokesman time christie candidate county freeholder seat said opposed restoring funding planned parenthood support planned parenthood privately personal contribution goal agency find private donations quoted saying christies campaign160told us record donation160but wouldnt one since nonprofits required disclose donations told washington post jan 12 convinced 22yearold comment misquote cruz said senate immigration bill rubio cosponsored expanded barack obamas power let syrian refugees without mandating meaningful background checks bill 744 would made easier members certain groups designated president qualify refugees would still subject required screening process refugees could come us cruz also case rubioschumer amnesty bill one things expanded barack obamas power let syrian refugees enabled president certify en masse without mandating meaningful background checks bill also cosponsored democratic sen chuck schumer specifically mention refugees syria section 3403 authorized president declare certain groups common characteristics refugees special humanitarian purposes order qualify refugee status individuals would prove were160a member refugee group designated president differs current law says individuals applying come us refugees must demonstrate cant wont return home country persecution wellfounded fear persecution account race religion nationality membership particular social group political opinion theory president could declare syrians special group eligible admission us refugees however would still undergo security screening process individuals applying come us refugees includes background check whether cruz thinks meaningful even somehow found fit criteria laid including specific vulnerability justified national interest etc designated group would still need go security vetting refugees said160 joanne kelsey assistant director advocacy lutheran immigration refugee service email factcheckorg rubio revived attack line last republican debate claiming cruz flipped positions support legalization immigrants currently living us illegally w e wrote whether thats true depends whether one160believes cruz bluffing back 2013 proposed amendment would allowed legalization rubio addressed cruz recent debate saying used support legalizing people illegally say youre december debate cruz said unequivocally never supported legalization intend support legalization rubio contends did160in midst contentious senate battle comprehensive immigration legislation back 2013 2013 cruz offered amendment senate immigration bill would stripped proposal path citizenship currently country illegally cruzs amendment would purposefully left intact bills provisions provide legal status numerous media outlets described cruzs plan compromise middle road immigration debate hoped might palatable enough legislators houses congress actually pass cruz publicly opposed160 744 border security economic opportunity immigration modernization act provided path citizenship currently country illegally cruz labeled amnesty bill criticized rubio cosponsoring although cruz made numerous statements time support amendment cruzs campaign told us amendment ploy expose real motivations bills supporters supporters claimed bills aim allow 11 million immigrants country illegally come shadows cruz campaign says cruz convinced actual intent provide citizenship immigrants could become future voters campaign says cruz offered amendment knowing would pass show real priority supporters even amendment accepted cruz still would supported bill campaign says opposes legalization said december well leave readers decide cruz supported legalization political compromise disavows merely employing legislative ploy expose motivations opponents christie wrong claimed double tax us companies overseas operations160the fact us tax code provides foreign tax credit avoid exactly christie claimed happening christie160they pay tax overseas dont want pay 35 percent tax way back us statutory corporate tax rate 35 percent christie said us known worldwide approach explained congressional budget office taxes income regardless income earned cbo says us typically provides foreign tax credit avoid taxing income twice foreign tax credit160is subtracted taxes would otherwise owed line 5a corporate tax return form 1120 irs instructions define taxes eligible credit paid accrued tax year foreign country us possession results paying tax us rate double taxation eric toder codirector nonpartisan tax policy center director research irs 2001 2004 told us first wrote june christie rubio kasich said us highest corporate business tax rate world highest statutory tax rate among industrialized nations yes perhaps highest marginal effective tax rate according one analysis kasich cut taxes corporations cut taxes individuals youre going make things move particularly corporate tax highest course world christie reform corporate tax system country mentioned highest rate world rubio begins tax reform lets expensive business tax rate world lets allow companies immediately expense neither christie kasich rubio specified corporate tax rate talking different measurements us highest statutory rate 391 percent among 34 industrialized nations organisation economic cooperation development according nonpartisan probusiness tax foundation nonpartisan tax policy center defines statutory rate rate imposed taxable income corporations equal corporate receipts less deductions labor costs materials depreciation capital assets chad 40 percent the160united arab emirates 55 percent two nonoecd member nations actually higher rates us160 according tax foundation tax policy center says160that marginal effective tax rate160which assesses much corporate tax reduces rate return new investment consequently best measure taxes affect firms incentive invest us marginal effective tax rate 353 percent according recent tax foundation analysis second frances rate 36 percent among oecd nations puts us sixth160place behind argentina 435 percent chad 372 percent uzbekistan 371 percent colombia 366 percent france among 95 nations reviewed tax foundation study earlier debate former pennsylvania sen rick santorum claimed us lost 2 million manufacturing jobs president obama thats way net loss manufacturing jobs december 230000 santorum twice used 2 million figure including second time challenged debate moderator sandra smith smith sen santorum want stay moving jobs economy state union address night president obama touted record jobs citing 14 million new jobs boasted nearly 900000 manufacturing jobs added past six years160do dispute track record creating jobs santorum well numbers dont add mean added manufacturing jobs manufacturing jobs lost country 2 million bottom line president done take jobs away hardworking people struggling said story obamas state union address obama largely correct saying us created nearly 900000 jobs last six years ignores earlier job losses time office been160a net loss 230000 entire seven years presidency160dropping 12561000 jobs january 2009 12331000 december 2015 according bureau labor statistics santorums numbers dont add lowest point number manufacturing jobs obama stood 11453000 february 2010 11 million peak january 2009 thats nearly half160as many santorum claimed jobs recovered also undercard debate fiorina criticized obama administrations response attacks us diplomatic facility benghazi resulted four deaths including us ambassador christopher stevens say united states america retaliate attack terrorists assume open season fiorina said fact president repeatedly vowed bring killers justice rose garden speech morning sept 11 2012 attack make mistake work libyan government bring justice killers attacked people obama said one point later speech also said waver commitment see justice done terrible act make mistake justice done similarly day secretary state hillary clinton spokeat state department vowed us would rest160until responsible attacks found brought justice two days later obama spoke ceremony andrews air force base remains benghazi victims returned us speech obama said families colleagues americans know sacrifice never forgotten bring justice took us eugene kiely brooks jackson lori robertson robert farley dangelo gore correction jan 15160we originally said 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<p>STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scandinavian airline SAS is in talks with Airbus about buying A320neo jets for its short-haul fleet and expects to agree a deal this spring after ending negotiations with rival planemaker Boeing, its finance chief said.</p>
<p>Goran Jansson also told Reuters in an interview that SAS was in talks with Japanese investors about a so-called Japanese operating lease with call option (JOLCO) to fund the planes.</p>
<p>JOLCO is a niche aircraft financing structure already used by SAS where an airline leases planes from a Japanese investor and has a buyout option.</p>
<p>Jansson, who will take on a new role at the airline in March with a focus on strategy, said in December that SAS needed to invest in 40-50 new aircraft, in addition to planes already on order, and was looking into how to finance that.</p>
<p>Airbus’s 2017 list price for an A320neo is $108 million.</p>
<p>SAS, which is part-owned by Sweden, Norway and Denmark, is in the midst of renewing an elderly and fuel-intensive fleet in the face of cut-price competition from the likes of Norwegian Air Shuttle and Ryanair.</p>
<p>After years of restructuring, long-struggling SAS is back in the black. New efforts to stay competitive include setting up, for the first time, bases outside Scandinavia to cut staff costs.</p>
<p>Jansson said the key would now be to intensify the development of services within SAS’s Eurobonus loyalty scheme, such as credit card reward programs and partnerships with hotels and event organizers, in order to boost turnover.</p>
<p>“There are areas where we feel that we today make far from enough use of our bookings and customer base,” he said.</p>
<p>The aim is to entice business travelers to also choose SAS for leisure travel - a market segment that unlike business travel is growing and that SAS wants a larger chunk of.</p>
<p>“We need to a greater extent to get our business travelers to also do their leisure travel with us,” Jansson said. “We believe Eurobonus is the key to success here.”</p>
<p>The European airline sector has seen consolidation in recent years with most recently Lufthansa and easyJet scooping up assets in Air Berlin which like Alitalia [CAITLA.UL] has entered administration.</p>
<p>SAS’s restructuring, and Sweden’s and Norway’s sale last year of part of their stakes in a first step toward planned exits from their longstanding holdings, could make the airline a more attractive takeover candidate.</p>
<p>In 2016, two sources told Reuters that Lufthansa had been in talks with the owners of SAS which could lead to Lufthansa taking a stake in SAS or some other kind of partnership.</p>
<p>Reporting by Anna Ringstrom; Editing by Niklas Pollard, Mark Potter and Adrian Croft</p> Our Standards:
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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twelve U.S. senators on Thursday asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Sinclair Broadcasting Group ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=SBGI.O" type="external">SBGI.O</a>) for “deliberately distorting news” and asked the commission to pause its ongoing review of the company’s proposed $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media Co ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=TRCO.N" type="external">TRCO.N</a>).</p> The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) logo is seen before the FCC Net Neutrality hearing in Washington February 26, 2015. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
<p>Sinclair, which is already the largest U.S. broadcaststation owner, announced plans in May 2017 to acquire Tribune’s 42 TV stations in 33 markets, extending its reach to 72 percent of American households.</p>
<p>In a letter, the senators, 11 Democrats and independent Bernie Sanders, expressed concern about local news anchors at Sinclair-owned stations around the country being forced to read company-mandated scripts. The scripts criticized “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country” and have drawn fire.</p>
<p>“We are concerned that Sinclair is engaged in a systematic news distortion operation that seeks to undermine freedom of the press and the robust localism and diversity of viewpoint that is the foundation of our national broadcasting laws,” the senators wrote. They added that it “may have violated the FCC’s longstanding policy against broadcast licensees deliberately distorting news by staging, slanting, or falsifying information.”</p>
<p>In a letter to senators on Thursday reviewed by Reuters, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai rejected their request, saying the agency does not have authority to revoke a license based on the content of a particular newscast. Pai made similar comments last year when President Donald Trump suggested NBC’s licenses could be challenged over its news reporting.</p>
<p>“I can hardly think of an action more chilling of free speech than the federal government investigating a broadcast station because of disagreement with its news coverage or promotion of that coverage,” Pai wrote.</p>
<p>After the scripts drew significant public attention, Trump tweeted on April 2 in defense of Sinclair: “Sinclair is far superior to CNN and even more Fake NBC.”</p>
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<p>In February, Representative Frank Pallone, a Democrat, said the FCC’s inspector general was investigating whether Pai was biased in Sinclair’s favor.</p>
<p>Pallone in November asked the inspector general to investigate, citing a string of FCC decisions he said benefited Sinclair and a media report that Trump’s election campaign struck a deal with Sinclair for favorable coverage.</p>
<p>Pai has repeatedly denied he has taken actions aimed at benefiting a single company and Sinclair has denied improper conduct.</p>
<p>Sinclair declined to comment on the senators’ letter, signed by the 11 Democrats, including Senators Maria Cantwell, Tom Udall, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Richard Blumenthal, as well as Sanders.</p>
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<p>LONDON (Reuters) - Rolls-Royce ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=RR.L" type="external">RR.L</a>) requires more money and more inspections to fix problems with Trent 1000 engines on Boeing ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=BA.N" type="external">BA.N</a>) 787 Dreamliner planes, leading to further disruption for airlines and testing relations between Rolls and its customers.</p> FILE PHOTO: A view of one of two Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engines of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner during a media tour of the aircraft ahead of the Singapore Airshow in Singapore February 12, 2012. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo
<p>Problems with engine turbine blades wearing out sooner than expected have hampered a restructuring program prompted by the engineering company’s declining older engine program and plunging demand for oil equipment.</p>
<p>It said on Friday that more regular inspections are required and would lead “to higher than previously guided cash costs being incurred during 2018”.</p>
<p>“We sincerely regret the disruption this will cause to our customers,” CEO Warren East said in a statement.</p>
<p>Airlines have already been forced to alter schedules or lease other aircraft, but the latest issues could be more far-reaching.</p> Related Coverage
<a href="/article/us-rolls-royce-hldg-engines-regulators/regulators-eye-new-measures-after-rolls-royce-trent-1000-glitches-source-idUSKBN1HK1PZ" type="external">Regulators eye new measures after Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 glitches: source</a>
<p>The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to reduce the amount of time the affected planes can fly on a single engine after a failure of the other. The time limit would drop as low as 140 minutes, compared with the current window of 330 minutes, a source familiar with the plans said.</p>
<p>This effectively curtails operations across oceans or remote areas.</p>
<p>The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will also order increased inspections of affected engines in line with actions outlined by Rolls-Royce. Currently inspections must be carried out after every 200 flight cycles.</p>
<p>The two advisories are due to be issued on Friday, the source said.</p>
<p>Rolls said it would reprioritize spending to mitigate the costs and kept its 2018 free cash flow guidance unchanged at about 450 million pounds ($643 million), give or take 100 million pounds.</p>
<p>Shares in Rolls, one of the biggest names in British manufacturing, were down 1.3 percent by 1251 GMT.</p>
<p>It announced the need for stepped up inspections after liaising with authorities over a separate issue with the compressor on Trent 1000 Package C series engines. Rolls said there were 380 such engines in service.</p>
<p>Boeing said that about 25 percent of the Dreamliners flying were powered by the engine and it was deploying support teams to help to manage service disruptions.</p>
<p>General Electric ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=GE.N" type="external">GE.N</a>) engines used on some Boeing 787 Dreamliners are not affected.</p> ENGINE SHORTAGES
<p>The need to inspect and repair Trent 1000 engines has led to an industry-wide shortage.</p>
<p>CEO East said Rolls was working with Boeing and airlines to minimize the disruption.</p>
<p>“Our team of technical experts and service engineers is working around the clock to ensure we return them to full service as soon as possible,” he said.</p>
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<p>Norwegian Air, which has the engines in 15 of its 27 Boeing 787s, said it hopes to have inspected all of its engines before May 26 and that it had already found one problem that required an engine to be replaced.</p>
<p>“It’s disappointing and frustrating that our new aircraft don’t work the way they are supposed to,” spokesman Lasse Sandaker-Nilsen said, adding that it had canceled a flight from Paris to New York next week as a result.</p>
<p>“We have an ongoing dialogue with both Boeing and Rolls-Royce and we have been told this problem has their full attention.”</p>
<p>Virgin Atlantic [VA.UL] has up to four 787s grounded at any one time while it sources replacement engines with Rolls and has also leased three Airbus A330-200s to help to cover its flying program.</p>
<p>A Virgin spokeswoman said it had been aware of the increased inspections announced on Friday and that the cover it had in place would be sufficient.</p>
<p>British Airways ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=ICAG.L" type="external">ICAG.L</a>), Japan’s ANA ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=9202.T" type="external">9202.T</a>), Air New Zealand ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=AIR.NZ" type="external">AIR.NZ</a>) and Thai Airways, which also use Trent 1000 engines, were not available for immediate comment.</p>
<p>Scoot, a budget carrier owned by Singapore Airlines ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=SIAL.SI" type="external">SIAL.SI</a>), said it expected some impact on operations.</p>
<p>In December the EASA ordered airlines to replace some Trent 1000 engines.</p>
<p>In March, Rolls said the cash hit from the problem should peak at 340 million pounds in 2018 before falling in 2019.</p>
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<p>LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s biggest carmaker Jaguar Land Rover ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=TAMO.NS" type="external">TAMO.NS</a>) will cut around 1,000 jobs and production at two of its English factories due to a fall in sales caused by uncertainty around Brexit and confusion over diesel policy, a source told Reuters.</p> FILE PHOTO: New Land Rover cars are seen in a parking lot at the Jaguar Land Rover plant at Halewood in Liverpool, northern England, September 12 , 2016. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo
<p>Output will be cut at its central English Solihull and Castle Bromwich plants, affecting some 1,000 agency workers, the source said.</p>
<p>A spokesman at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) declined to comment on the number of jobs which would be lost but the firm said it would be making changes to its output plans.</p>
<p>“In light of the continuing headwinds impacting the car industry, we are making some adjustments to our production schedules and the level of agency staff,” the company said in a statement.</p>
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<p>It is not renewing the contracts of a number of agency staff at the Solihull site and would be informing staff on Monday of its plans for the 2018-19 financial year.</p>
<p>In January, the firm said it would temporarily reduce production at its other British plant of Halewood later this year in response to weakening demand due to Brexit and tax hikes on diesel cars but did not detail any job losses.</p>
<p>Jaguar sales are down 26 percent so far this year whilst Land Rover demand dropped 20 percent in its home market as buyers shun diesel, concerned over planned tax rises and possible bans and restrictions in several countries.</p>
<p>“It’s been obvious to everyone that sales have been dropping,” the source said.</p>
<p>British new car registrations have been falling for a year which the car industry body has partly blamed on weakening consumer confidence in the wake of the Brexit vote, after record demand in 2015 and 2016.</p>
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<p>(Reuters) - Tesla Inc ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=TSLA.O" type="external">TSLA.O</a>) will be profitable in the third and fourth quarters of this year and will not have to raise any money from investors, billionaire Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Friday, driving shares in the electric carmaker up to 3 percent higher.</p> FILE PHOTO: A Tesla dealership is seen in West Drayton, just outside London, Britain, February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo
<p>Tesla has already sought this month to play down Wall Street speculation that it would need to return to capital markets this year to raise more funds as it ramps up production of the Model 3 sedan seen as crucial to its long-term profitability.</p>
<p>The car maker, which has consistently fallen short of promised targets on production and is fighting bad publicity over a crash of a car using its Autopilot system, said 10 days ago it would have positive cash flow from the third quarter.</p>
<p>Musk went slightly further in a tweeted response to a story <a href="https://www.economist.com/news/business/21739981-road-ahead-elon-musks-car-company-looking-more-perilous-tesla-heading-cash?fsrc=scn" type="external">here</a>/tw/te/bl/ed/teslaisheadingforacashcrunchthenextcircleofhell in The Economist which cited estimates Tesla would need $2.5 billion to $3 billion this year in additional funding.</p>
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<p>"The Economist used to be boring, but smart with a wicked dry wit. Now it's just boring (sigh). Tesla will be profitable &amp; cash flow+ in Q3 &amp; Q4, so obv no need to raise money," Musk wrote <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/984705630106673152." type="external">here</a></p>
<p>Tesla shares, which have gained nearly 10 percent since disclosing the Model 3 production numbers on April 3, gained as much as 3.2 percent in premarket trade on Friday. They were up around 2 percent soon after the opening bell on Wall Street.</p>
<p>Wall Street brokerage Jefferies, which provided the funding estimate cited by The Economist, said in a note last week it expects refinancing risk to remain high for the Silicon Valley venture until it can consistently produce 10,000 Model 3s a week.</p>
<p>The company again missed its own 2,500 target for weekly production at the end of the first quarter, and analysts and fund managers doubt Tesla’s ability to keep production growing to a promised 5,000 Model 3s per week in three months time.</p>
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credit card reward programs partnerships hotels event organizers order boost turnover areas feel today make far enough use bookings customer base said aim entice business travelers also choose sas leisure travel market segment unlike business travel growing sas wants larger chunk need greater extent get business travelers also leisure travel us jansson said believe eurobonus key success european airline sector seen consolidation recent years recently lufthansa easyjet scooping assets air berlin like alitalia caitlaul entered administration sass restructuring swedens norways sale last year part stakes first step toward planned exits longstanding holdings could make airline attractive takeover candidate 2016 two sources told reuters lufthansa talks owners sas could lead lufthansa taking stake sas kind partnership reporting anna ringstrom editing niklas pollard mark potter adrian croft standards thomson reuters trust principles washington reuters twelve us senators thursday asked federal communications commission investigate sinclair broadcasting group sbgio deliberately distorting news asked commission pause ongoing review companys proposed 39 billion acquisition tribune media co trcon federal communications commission fcc logo seen fcc net neutrality hearing washington february 26 2015 reutersyuri gripas sinclair already largest us broadcaststation owner announced plans may 2017 acquire tribunes 42 tv stations 33 markets extending reach 72 percent american households letter senators 11 democrats independent bernie sanders expressed concern local news anchors sinclairowned stations around country forced read companymandated scripts scripts criticized troubling trend irresponsible one sided news stories plaguing country drawn fire concerned sinclair engaged systematic news distortion operation seeks undermine freedom press robust localism diversity viewpoint foundation national broadcasting laws senators wrote added may violated fccs longstanding policy broadcast licensees deliberately distorting news staging slanting falsifying information letter senators thursday reviewed reuters fcc chairman ajit pai rejected request saying agency authority revoke license based content particular newscast pai made similar comments last year president donald trump suggested nbcs licenses could challenged news reporting hardly think action chilling free speech federal government investigating broadcast station disagreement news coverage promotion coverage pai wrote scripts drew significant public attention trump tweeted april 2 defense sinclair sinclair far superior cnn even fake nbc sinclair broadcast group inc 293 sbgio nasdaq 020 068 sbgio trcon february representative frank pallone democrat said fccs inspector general investigating whether pai biased sinclairs favor pallone november asked inspector general investigate citing string fcc decisions said benefited sinclair media report trumps election campaign struck deal sinclair favorable coverage pai repeatedly denied taken actions aimed benefiting single company sinclair denied improper conduct sinclair declined comment senators letter signed 11 democrats including senators maria cantwell tom udall elizabeth warren cory booker richard blumenthal well sanders reporting david shepardson editing dan grebler standards thomson reuters trust principles london reuters rollsroyce rrl requires money inspections fix problems trent 1000 engines boeing ban 787 dreamliner planes leading disruption airlines testing relations rolls customers file photo view one two rolls royce trent 1000 engines boeing 787 dreamliner media tour aircraft ahead singapore airshow singapore february 12 2012 reutersedgar sufile photo problems engine turbine blades wearing sooner expected hampered restructuring program prompted engineering companys declining older engine program plunging demand oil equipment said friday regular inspections required would lead higher previously guided cash costs incurred 2018 sincerely regret disruption cause customers ceo warren east said statement airlines already forced alter schedules lease aircraft latest issues could farreaching related coverage regulators eye new measures rollsroyce trent 1000 glitches source us federal aviation administration faa plans reduce amount time affected planes fly single engine failure time limit would drop low 140 minutes compared current window 330 minutes source familiar plans said effectively curtails operations across oceans remote areas european aviation safety agency easa also order increased inspections affected engines line actions outlined rollsroyce currently inspections must carried every 200 flight cycles two advisories due issued friday source said rolls said would reprioritize spending mitigate costs kept 2018 free cash flow guidance unchanged 450 million pounds 643 million give take 100 million pounds shares rolls one biggest names british manufacturing 13 percent 1251 gmt announced need stepped inspections liaising authorities separate issue compressor trent 1000 package c series engines rolls said 380 engines service boeing said 25 percent dreamliners flying powered engine deploying support teams help manage service disruptions general electric gen engines used boeing 787 dreamliners affected engine shortages need inspect repair trent 1000 engines led industrywide shortage ceo east said rolls working boeing airlines minimize disruption team technical experts service engineers working around clock ensure return full service soon possible said rollsroyce holdings plc 8668 rrl london stock exchange 1440 163 rrl ban gen icagl 9202t norwegian air engines 15 27 boeing 787s said hopes inspected engines may 26 already found one problem required engine replaced disappointing frustrating new aircraft dont work way supposed spokesman lasse sandakernilsen said adding canceled flight paris new york next week result ongoing dialogue boeing rollsroyce told problem full attention virgin atlantic vaul four 787s grounded one time sources replacement engines rolls also leased three airbus a330200s help cover flying program virgin spokeswoman said aware increased inspections announced friday cover place would sufficient british airways icagl japans ana 9202t air new zealand airnz thai airways also use trent 1000 engines available immediate comment scoot budget carrier owned singapore airlines sialsi said expected impact operations december easa ordered airlines replace trent 1000 engines march rolls said cash hit problem peak 340 million pounds 2018 falling 2019 additional reporting tim hepher joachim dagenborg victoria bryan jamie freed editing david goodman jason neely standards thomson reuters trust principles london reuters britains biggest carmaker jaguar land rover tamons cut around 1000 jobs production two english factories due fall sales caused uncertainty around brexit confusion diesel policy source told reuters file photo new land rover cars seen parking lot jaguar land rover plant halewood liverpool northern england september 12 2016 reutersphil noblefile photo output cut central english solihull castle bromwich plants affecting 1000 agency workers source said spokesman jaguar land rover jlr declined comment number jobs would lost firm said would making changes output plans light continuing headwinds impacting car industry making adjustments production schedules level agency staff company said statement tata motors ltd 35705 tamons national stock exchange india 135 038 tamons renewing contracts number agency staff solihull site would informing staff monday plans 201819 financial year january firm said would temporarily reduce production british plant halewood later year response weakening demand due brexit tax hikes diesel cars detail job losses jaguar sales 26 percent far year whilst land rover demand dropped 20 percent home market buyers shun diesel concerned planned tax rises possible bans restrictions several countries obvious everyone sales dropping source said british new car registrations falling year car industry body partly blamed weakening consumer confidence wake brexit vote record demand 2015 2016 editing stephen addison standards thomson reuters trust principles reuters tesla inc tslao profitable third fourth quarters year raise money investors billionaire chief executive elon musk said friday driving shares electric carmaker 3 percent higher file photo tesla dealership seen west drayton outside london britain february 7 2018 reutershannah mckayfile photo tesla already sought month play wall street speculation would need return capital markets year raise funds ramps production model 3 sedan seen crucial longterm profitability car maker consistently fallen short promised targets production fighting bad publicity crash car using autopilot system said 10 days ago would positive cash flow third quarter musk went slightly tweeted response story heretwtebledteslaisheadingforacashcrunchthenextcircleofhell economist cited estimates tesla would need 25 billion 3 billion year additional funding tesla inc 300726 tslao nasdaq 665 226 tslao economist used boring smart wicked dry wit boring sigh tesla profitable amp cash flow q3 amp q4 obv need raise money musk wrote tesla shares gained nearly 10 percent since disclosing model 3 production numbers april 3 gained much 32 percent premarket trade friday around 2 percent soon opening bell wall street wall street brokerage jefferies provided funding estimate cited economist said note last week expects refinancing risk remain high silicon valley venture consistently produce 10000 model 3s week company missed 2500 target weekly production end first quarter analysts fund managers doubt teslas ability keep production growing promised 5000 model 3s per week three months time reporting sonam rai bengaluru editing patrick graham standards thomson reuters trust principles
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<p>A man walks past remains of the Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse, with luminous white balloons installed along the former route of the wall in Berlin on Friday. They are part of the Lichtgrenze 2014 (lightborder 2014) project for the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9. (AP Photo/dpa, Stephanie Pilic)</p>
<p>KLEINMACHNOW, Germany – The graying activist pulls up to the scant and rusted remains of the Berlin Wall’s Checkpoint Bravo on a trendy electric bike, and says that when looking back over the 25 years since the wall fell, it’s important to keep perspective.</p>
<p>Klaus-Jurgen Warnick, 62, was here on Nov. 9, 1989, when East German guards, unsure how to deal with the thousands turning up at heavily controlled checkpoints, decided that letting people pass was a better option than opening fire.</p>
<p>The world changed that day. The German nation, long separated between East and West, started its road to reunification and the transformation began from a bipolar world where nuclear war seemed a real threat to one led by a single superpower.</p>
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<p>But Warnick wants to make sure it’s understood that as the communists of the East massed to pass into the capitalist West, they weren’t trying to change the world. Most just wanted to peek at a forbidden land. They had dreams that life could, and should, be a little better. The grandiose narratives came later.</p>
<p>“I have friends from the old East who today can only remember that back then, they lived in a paradise, where everything was perfect inside the wall,” he said. “I also have friends from the old West who are certain that in the old days, those of us in the East walked the streets with bloody knives clenched in our teeth, spoiling for a fight, and the fall of the wall saved us. Neither view is true.”</p>
<p>Warnick is still uncertain how to judge the change that came. “To be honest, if asked today, 25 years after this moment that was going to transform our lives and fulfill our dreams, I could not truthfully say whether we’re better off or not,” he said. “It’s a matter of perspective.”</p>
<p>Klaus-Juergen Warnick, 62, stands next to a memorial that used to boast the first Soviet tank to make it to Berlin in World War II, but today it displays an old Soviet-era snowplow, a remnant of a post-reunification swords-to-plowshares program. (Claudia Himmelreich/McClatchy DC/MCT)</p>
<p>Today, Ossies, as residents in the former East are called, suffer from higher unemployment and are paid less than their countrymen in the former West. Those who’ve retired find their pensions are significantly lower. Ossies also have far less in savings and assets.</p>
<p>Those economic realities in turn depress the former East further, leading to flight to the West. That means the East is graying faster and has fewer children.</p>
<p>Even the soccer teams are inferior; not a single professional team from the former East is in Germany’s top league, and this summer’s World Cup-winning team contained just one Ossie player.</p>
<p>The inequalities between East and West, 25 years later, are no place better on display than in this town on the Berlin outskirts. This is the origin of what Germans call Kleinmachnow Syndrome – the term used to describe how Ossies suffered after reunification.</p>
<p>Kleinmachnow Syndrome is the result of a simple ideological difference between capitalism and socialism: property ownership. In the West, it was sacrosanct. The East didn’t believe in it. As a result, when the country became one again, many East Germans lost the homes they’d lived in, many for decades, to West Germans, who had fled or abandoned them, depending on your perspective, but were able to reclaim them when Germany was unified.</p>
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<p>Eight thousand of Kleinmachnow’s 11,000 residents were forced to leave their homes after reunification. Nationwide, about 4 million of East Germany’s 17 million people were displaced.</p>
<p>The effects, and even some legal cases, continue today. Because they had no property, Ossies have had less security, less wealth, less ability to borrow and less ability to invest than their Western compatriots. That made them poorer – and likely to remain so.</p>
<p>In the four years between the opening of the wall and reunification, Warnick, a radio engineer turned politician, headed committees to deal with the conflict. He managed to save his home but, for the most part, his efforts to allow East Germans to keep what had become their homes failed.</p>
<p>The tale of inequality began when communism took more and more control of East Germany in the 1950s. Many preferred the idea of living under American, British or French authority, or simply preferred capitalism, and they moved out in droves.</p>
<p>In some cases, they made plans to care for their homes or gardens. More often, they did not. They simply left. In post-World War II Germany, property values were low enough that starting over was the easier option.</p>
<p>The East German government didn’t have the money to maintain the mass of homes it then had title to, so it started assigning houses to those who stayed in the East. With a housing shortage, it urged people to build homes on garden plots when possible. While it didn’t allow property ownership, the government offered 99-year leases.</p>
<p>In 1969, Warnick got such a lease on a garden patch. The only structure on the land was a Nazi-era prefab cottage that hadn’t been lived in or tended to since it had been left behind in 1948. “It looked like a scrap heap. I used it for firewood,” he said.</p>
<p>“I remember the first time the former owner from West Germany showed up,” he said. It was a sunny afternoon in April 1990. The kids were growing and, needing more room, Warnick had just gotten the permits to add a second story to his house. “I was shoveling gravel for the cement. He was nice, for a while. Then he noted that I didn’t have to leave right away, I could have six months to find someplace else.”</p>
<p>Warnick won the right to stay, after paying about $180,000 to the previous owner and lawyers. It was worth it, in the end, to have the home he built. And to be able to dream about his great-grandchildren someday staring up at the trees he had planted.</p>
<p>“I spent years kicking myself for not changing the land records, but we were naive,” he said. “We’d never heard of a land registry. It was a nation with no concept of land ownership. And who believes that their nation, their way of life, will collapse?”</p>
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man walks past remains berlin wall bernauer strasse luminous white balloons installed along former route wall berlin friday part lichtgrenze 2014 lightborder 2014 project 25th anniversary fall berlin wall nov 9 ap photodpa stephanie pilic kleinmachnow germany graying activist pulls scant rusted remains berlin walls checkpoint bravo trendy electric bike says looking back 25 years since wall fell important keep perspective klausjurgen warnick 62 nov 9 1989 east german guards unsure deal thousands turning heavily controlled checkpoints decided letting people pass better option opening fire world changed day german nation long separated east west started road reunification transformation began bipolar world nuclear war seemed real threat one led single superpower advertisement warnick wants make sure understood communists east massed pass capitalist west werent trying change world wanted peek forbidden land dreams life could little better grandiose narratives came later friends old east today remember back lived paradise everything perfect inside wall said also friends old west certain old days us east walked streets bloody knives clenched teeth spoiling fight fall wall saved us neither view true warnick still uncertain judge change came honest asked today 25 years moment going transform lives fulfill dreams could truthfully say whether better said matter perspective klausjuergen warnick 62 stands next memorial used boast first soviet tank make berlin world war ii today displays old sovietera snowplow remnant postreunification swordstoplowshares program claudia himmelreichmcclatchy dcmct today ossies residents former east called suffer higher unemployment paid less countrymen former west whove retired find pensions significantly lower ossies also far less savings assets economic realities turn depress former east leading flight west means east graying faster fewer children even soccer teams inferior single professional team former east germanys top league summers world cupwinning team contained one ossie player inequalities east west 25 years later place better display town berlin outskirts origin germans call kleinmachnow syndrome term used describe ossies suffered reunification kleinmachnow syndrome result simple ideological difference capitalism socialism property ownership west sacrosanct east didnt believe result country became one many east germans lost homes theyd lived many decades west germans fled abandoned depending perspective able reclaim germany unified advertisement eight thousand kleinmachnows 11000 residents forced leave homes reunification nationwide 4 million east germanys 17 million people displaced effects even legal cases continue today property ossies less security less wealth less ability borrow less ability invest western compatriots made poorer likely remain four years opening wall reunification warnick radio engineer turned politician headed committees deal conflict managed save home part efforts allow east germans keep become homes failed tale inequality began communism took control east germany 1950s many preferred idea living american british french authority simply preferred capitalism moved droves cases made plans care homes gardens often simply left postworld war ii germany property values low enough starting easier option east german government didnt money maintain mass homes title started assigning houses stayed east housing shortage urged people build homes garden plots possible didnt allow property ownership government offered 99year leases 1969 warnick got lease garden patch structure land naziera prefab cottage hadnt lived tended since left behind 1948 looked like scrap heap used firewood said remember first time former owner west germany showed said sunny afternoon april 1990 kids growing needing room warnick gotten permits add second story house shoveling gravel cement nice noted didnt leave right away could six months find someplace else warnick right stay paying 180000 previous owner lawyers worth end home built able dream greatgrandchildren someday staring trees planted spent years kicking changing land records naive said wed never heard land registry nation concept land ownership believes nation way life collapse
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<p>DALLAS — The NAACP is warning African-Americans that if they fly on American Airlines, they may face discrimination or even safety issues.</p>
<p>American’s CEO said Wednesday that he was disappointed by the announcement and that American wants to discuss the matter with the civil rights group.</p>
<p>The NAACP said that for several months it has watched a pattern of disturbing incidents reported by African-American passengers. Among them were separate cases in which an NAACP official and another civil rights activist were kicked off flights.</p>
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<p>In an interview with The Associated Press, new NAACP President Derrick Johnson said they are not boycotting American Airlines, but the sheer number of events made them feel like they had to issue a warning.</p>
<p>“We’re not telling people not to fly on American,” he said. “We’re just saying to individuals that here is an advisory note. We have picked up a pattern of a certain behavior of this corporation and until further notice be on alert.”</p>
<p>American Airlines issued a statement saying that it serves customers of all backgrounds and itself has a diverse group of employees.</p>
<p>In a memo to employees, CEO Doug Parker said American endorses the NAACP’s mission statement against racial discrimination.</p>
<p>“We do not and will not tolerate discrimination of any kind,” Parker wrote. “We have reached out to the NAACP and are eager to meet with them to listen to their issues and concerns.”</p>
<p>The NAACP highlighted four recent incidents in which African-American passengers said they were treated in a discriminatory way.</p>
<p>One involved the head of the North Carolina NAACP, the Rev. William Barber, who sued American after the airline summoned a police officer to remove him from a flight last year.</p>
<p>Barber said he had asked a flight attendant to tell two white passengers behind him to quiet down, but she was dismissive. After one of the white men said loudly that he didn’t like “those people” and mocked him, Barber said he stood and turned to ask the man to stop talking about him.</p>
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<p>Barber dropped his lawsuit against American in June.</p>
<p>An incident last week involved Tamika Mallory, an organizer of the Women’s March on Washington in January. Mallory had changed her seat at an airport kiosk, only to be told at the gate that the seat had been assigned to another customer.</p>
<p>Mallory said she was treated disrespectfully by the gate agent — another African-American woman — and was outraged when a white male pilot asked if she could control herself while on the flight.</p>
<p>After being told she was being kicked off the plane, Mallory called the pilot a racist in a profanity-laced exchange. She took a later flight home to New York on American, then held a press conference two days later and threatened to take legal action against the airline.</p>
<p>The NAACP called its warning a “travel advisory,” and it’s only the second time it has issued one. The first was against Missouri, which the organization announced in August after citing reports that African-Americans were more likely than whites to be stopped by law enforcement officers there, as well as other current and past racial issues in the state.</p>
<p>Derek Klaus, spokesman for Visit KC, Kansas City’s convention and visitors bureau, said the region has not seen any substantial meeting or convention cancellations as a result of the advisory. But he said in an email that Kansas City has been removed from consideration for at least four future meetings.</p>
<p>“Where we’re noticing an impact is in the prospecting for future business, though we maintain that Kansas City is welcoming and inclusive destination,” Klaus said.</p>
<p>The travel advisory is part of a new, more aggressive stance for the civil rights organization, which is in the midst of reimagining itself following the rise of groups like Black Lives Matter, which have been drawing the attention of young millennials. The group ousted its previous president, Cornell William Brooks, earlier this year and hired Johnson, the vice chair of NAACP’s board of directors, as its new president on Saturday.</p>
<p>While the strategy itself is new, the NAACP has employed full boycotts in the past, including most recently in North Carolina where the organization is currently urging religious conferences, athletic events and musicians to avoid the state as part of a national boycott protesting the state’s conservative policies including a law limiting LGBT protections.</p>
<p>This followed a 15-year economic boycott of South Carolina over the flying of the Confederate battle flag on Statehouse grounds. That boycott ended with the flag’s removal in 2015 after a white nationalist killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.</p>
<p>Johnson would not say whether his organization would issue more travel advisories in the future.</p>
<p>“Our goal is to advise or warn people when we identify a pattern,” Johnson said. “It is not based on an individual incident. It is truly based on what the potential is when you have a state like Missouri that created public policy that we see as adverse to African-Americans or companies that create an atmosphere that could be adverse.”</p>
<p>The advisory against American comes on top of several complaints of racial discrimination lodged against airlines in recent years, particularly by Muslims, some of whom have said they were booted off flights just because other passengers felt uncomfortable around them.</p>
<p>Last year, a college student said he was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight and subjected to additional questioning by security officers after another passenger overheard him speaking in Arabic before takeoff. Last month, an art instructor forcibly removed from another Southwest flight said she was targeted because she is Muslim; the airline said she had claimed a life-threatening allergy to two dogs that were on the plane, but it quickly apologized for the way the situation was handled.</p>
<p>Airline officials are uncomfortable discussing complaints of bias, even when they believe they are unfounded. American took its time before issuing a cautious, restrained response to the NAACP charge.</p>
<p>Bruce Rubin, a Miami public relations professional experienced in crisis reaction, praised American’s response, including the invitation to NAACP leadership to talk. He said it was wiser than being confrontational.</p>
<p>The goal is “to tamp down the story instead of feeding it,” Rubin said. “There aren’t very many options when the race card gets tossed at you.”</p>
<p>American, based in Fort Worth, Texas, is the world’s largest airline. The NAACP describes itself as the nation’s oldest and largest nonpartisan civil rights organization.</p>
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<p>Holland reported from Washington, D.C. Jim Salter in St. Louis contributed to this report.</p>
<p>David Koenig can be reached at <a href="http://twitter.com/airlinewriter" type="external">http://twitter.com/airlinewriter</a></p>
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dallas naacp warning africanamericans fly american airlines may face discrimination even safety issues americans ceo said wednesday disappointed announcement american wants discuss matter civil rights group naacp said several months watched pattern disturbing incidents reported africanamerican passengers among separate cases naacp official another civil rights activist kicked flights advertisement interview associated press new naacp president derrick johnson said boycotting american airlines sheer number events made feel like issue warning telling people fly american said saying individuals advisory note picked pattern certain behavior corporation notice alert american airlines issued statement saying serves customers backgrounds diverse group employees memo employees ceo doug parker said american endorses naacps mission statement racial discrimination tolerate discrimination kind parker wrote reached naacp eager meet listen issues concerns naacp highlighted four recent incidents africanamerican passengers said treated discriminatory way one involved head north carolina naacp rev william barber sued american airline summoned police officer remove flight last year barber said asked flight attendant tell two white passengers behind quiet dismissive one white men said loudly didnt like people mocked barber said stood turned ask man stop talking advertisement barber dropped lawsuit american june incident last week involved tamika mallory organizer womens march washington january mallory changed seat airport kiosk told gate seat assigned another customer mallory said treated disrespectfully gate agent another africanamerican woman outraged white male pilot asked could control flight told kicked plane mallory called pilot racist profanitylaced exchange took later flight home new york american held press conference two days later threatened take legal action airline naacp called warning travel advisory second time issued one first missouri organization announced august citing reports africanamericans likely whites stopped law enforcement officers well current past racial issues state derek klaus spokesman visit kc kansas citys convention visitors bureau said region seen substantial meeting convention cancellations result advisory said email kansas city removed consideration least four future meetings noticing impact prospecting future business though maintain kansas city welcoming inclusive destination klaus said travel advisory part new aggressive stance civil rights organization midst reimagining following rise groups like black lives matter drawing attention young millennials group ousted previous president cornell william brooks earlier year hired johnson vice chair naacps board directors new president saturday strategy new naacp employed full boycotts past including recently north carolina organization currently urging religious conferences athletic events musicians avoid state part national boycott protesting states conservative policies including law limiting lgbt protections followed 15year economic boycott south carolina flying confederate battle flag statehouse grounds boycott ended flags removal 2015 white nationalist killed nine black churchgoers charleston south carolina johnson would say whether organization would issue travel advisories future goal advise warn people identify pattern johnson said based individual incident truly based potential state like missouri created public policy see adverse africanamericans companies create atmosphere could adverse advisory american comes top several complaints racial discrimination lodged airlines recent years particularly muslims said booted flights passengers felt uncomfortable around last year college student said kicked southwest airlines flight subjected additional questioning security officers another passenger overheard speaking arabic takeoff last month art instructor forcibly removed another southwest flight said targeted muslim airline said claimed lifethreatening allergy two dogs plane quickly apologized way situation handled airline officials uncomfortable discussing complaints bias even believe unfounded american took time issuing cautious restrained response naacp charge bruce rubin miami public relations professional experienced crisis reaction praised americans response including invitation naacp leadership talk said wiser confrontational goal tamp story instead feeding rubin said arent many options race card gets tossed american based fort worth texas worlds largest airline naacp describes nations oldest largest nonpartisan civil rights organization ___ holland reported washington dc jim salter st louis contributed report david koenig reached httptwittercomairlinewriter
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<p>COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Victor Ulloa scored the tying goal on a long-distance shot and FC Dallas held on for a 1-1 draw with the Colorado Rapids on Saturday night in a matchup of the top two teams in the overall MLS standings.</p>
<p>FC Dallas (12-6-5) maintained its three-point lead over Colorado (10-2-8) in the Supporters' Shield race, while the Rapids stayed undefeated at home at 8-0-3.</p>
<p>Ulloa gathered a deflected clearance in an open space about 30 yards from goal and drilled a right-footed shot that curled away from goalkeeper Tim Howard and into the upper right corner of the goal.</p>
<p>Marlon Hairston opened the scoring for Colorado in the 44th minute when he blocked Atiba Harris' clearance attempt and followed the deflection into the 18-yard box for the finish.</p>
<p>The start of the game was delayed nearly an hour because of lightning.</p>
<p>TORONTO FC 4, D.C. UNITED 1</p>
<p>TORONTO (AP) — Sebastian Giovinco scored three goals and added an assist to break out of an eight-game scoring drought in Toronto FC's victory over D.C. United.</p>
<p>The Italian star put in a show in front of 26,349 fans on a steamy night at BMO Field. Two goals came on free kicks 18 minutes apart in the first half, with the third coming in second-half stoppage time as he poked home Mark Bloom's cross to up his goals total to 11 this season.</p>
<p>Giovinco had not scored in league play in more than two months — 70 days to be exact — since scoring twice in a 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Whitecaps on May 14.</p>
<p>Marky Delgado also scored for Toronto (6-7-6)</p>
<p>Jeffrey scored for D.C. United (5-7-7).</p>
<p>IMPACT 5. UNION 1</p>
<p>MONTREAL (AP) — Didier Drogba broke out with a hat trick to lead the Montreal Impact to a 5-1 victory over the Philadelphia Union on Saturday night.</p>
<p>The 38-year-old Ivorian striker hadn't scored since May 28. He returned last week after missing three games with a thigh injury.</p>
<p>Ignacio Piatti returned after sitting out a one-game suspension to score a goal and add two assists. Recent signing Matteo Mancuso, who went in for Drogba in the 79th minute, added his first MLS goal.</p>
<p>Montreal improved to 7-5-8.</p>
<p>Chris Pontius scored for Philadelphia (8-7-6).</p>
<p>GALAXY 2, TIMBERS 1</p>
<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Robbie Keane and Gyasi Zardes scored in the opening 11 minutes and Los Angeles eat Portland to snap the Timbers' nine-game undefeated streak.</p>
<p>The Galaxy (3-8) have won fourth straight victory in Major League Soccer play.</p>
<p>Zarek Valentin scored for Portland (7-7-8). The Timbers were stung when they lost veteran defender Nat Borchers to what appeared to be a left ankle injury late in the first half. Borchers was a key piece to the Timbers' team that won the MLS Cup last season.</p>
<p>The Timbers were already without defender Liam Ridgewell, who has a strained right calf and will also miss the MLS All-Star Game against Arsenal next week in San Jose.</p>
<p>ORLANDO CITY 2, CREW 2, TIE</p>
<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Kevin Molino scored in the 65th minute and assisted on Cyle Larin's goal in the 70th to help Orlando City tie Columbus.</p>
<p>Orlando City (4-5-11) pulled within one when Kaka's corner resulted in a loose ball scramble in front of the goal that Molino finally punched it in. Five minutes later, Molino's wide cross found Larin for a header from the top of the 6-yard box.</p>
<p>Tony Tchani and Ola Kamara had first-half goals for Columbus (3-7-10).</p>
<p>REVOLUTION 1, FIRE 0</p>
<p>FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Je-Vaughn Watson scored on a header in the 85th minute to lift New England past Chicago.</p>
<p>Bobby Shuttleworth earned his fifth shutout of the season for New England (6-7-6).</p>
<p>Chicago dropped to 4-10-5.</p>
<p>WHITECAPS 0, DYNAMO 0, TIE</p>
<p>HOUSTON (AP) — Vancouver's David Ousted and Houston's Joe Willis had four saves each in the scoreless draw.</p>
<p>The Dynamo's best chance came in the 71st minute when Boniek Garcia's left-footed shot crashed the inside of the left post, bounced along the goal line but went out past the other post. Vancouver's Erik Hurtado found the back of the net in the 84th minute, but the goal was disallowed because of a hand ball.</p>
<p>The Whitecaps are 8-8-6, and the Dynamo 4-9-7.</p>
<p>COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Victor Ulloa scored the tying goal on a long-distance shot and FC Dallas held on for a 1-1 draw with the Colorado Rapids on Saturday night in a matchup of the top two teams in the overall MLS standings.</p>
<p>FC Dallas (12-6-5) maintained its three-point lead over Colorado (10-2-8) in the Supporters' Shield race, while the Rapids stayed undefeated at home at 8-0-3.</p>
<p>Ulloa gathered a deflected clearance in an open space about 30 yards from goal and drilled a right-footed shot that curled away from goalkeeper Tim Howard and into the upper right corner of the goal.</p>
<p>Marlon Hairston opened the scoring for Colorado in the 44th minute when he blocked Atiba Harris' clearance attempt and followed the deflection into the 18-yard box for the finish.</p>
<p>The start of the game was delayed nearly an hour because of lightning.</p>
<p>TORONTO FC 4, D.C. UNITED 1</p>
<p>TORONTO (AP) — Sebastian Giovinco scored three goals and added an assist to break out of an eight-game scoring drought in Toronto FC's victory over D.C. United.</p>
<p>The Italian star put in a show in front of 26,349 fans on a steamy night at BMO Field. Two goals came on free kicks 18 minutes apart in the first half, with the third coming in second-half stoppage time as he poked home Mark Bloom's cross to up his goals total to 11 this season.</p>
<p>Giovinco had not scored in league play in more than two months — 70 days to be exact — since scoring twice in a 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Whitecaps on May 14.</p>
<p>Marky Delgado also scored for Toronto (6-7-6)</p>
<p>Jeffrey scored for D.C. United (5-7-7).</p>
<p>IMPACT 5. UNION 1</p>
<p>MONTREAL (AP) — Didier Drogba broke out with a hat trick to lead the Montreal Impact to a 5-1 victory over the Philadelphia Union on Saturday night.</p>
<p>The 38-year-old Ivorian striker hadn't scored since May 28. He returned last week after missing three games with a thigh injury.</p>
<p>Ignacio Piatti returned after sitting out a one-game suspension to score a goal and add two assists. Recent signing Matteo Mancuso, who went in for Drogba in the 79th minute, added his first MLS goal.</p>
<p>Montreal improved to 7-5-8.</p>
<p>Chris Pontius scored for Philadelphia (8-7-6).</p>
<p>GALAXY 2, TIMBERS 1</p>
<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Robbie Keane and Gyasi Zardes scored in the opening 11 minutes and Los Angeles eat Portland to snap the Timbers' nine-game undefeated streak.</p>
<p>The Galaxy (3-8) have won fourth straight victory in Major League Soccer play.</p>
<p>Zarek Valentin scored for Portland (7-7-8). The Timbers were stung when they lost veteran defender Nat Borchers to what appeared to be a left ankle injury late in the first half. Borchers was a key piece to the Timbers' team that won the MLS Cup last season.</p>
<p>The Timbers were already without defender Liam Ridgewell, who has a strained right calf and will also miss the MLS All-Star Game against Arsenal next week in San Jose.</p>
<p>ORLANDO CITY 2, CREW 2, TIE</p>
<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Kevin Molino scored in the 65th minute and assisted on Cyle Larin's goal in the 70th to help Orlando City tie Columbus.</p>
<p>Orlando City (4-5-11) pulled within one when Kaka's corner resulted in a loose ball scramble in front of the goal that Molino finally punched it in. Five minutes later, Molino's wide cross found Larin for a header from the top of the 6-yard box.</p>
<p>Tony Tchani and Ola Kamara had first-half goals for Columbus (3-7-10).</p>
<p>REVOLUTION 1, FIRE 0</p>
<p>FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Je-Vaughn Watson scored on a header in the 85th minute to lift New England past Chicago.</p>
<p>Bobby Shuttleworth earned his fifth shutout of the season for New England (6-7-6).</p>
<p>Chicago dropped to 4-10-5.</p>
<p>WHITECAPS 0, DYNAMO 0, TIE</p>
<p>HOUSTON (AP) — Vancouver's David Ousted and Houston's Joe Willis had four saves each in the scoreless draw.</p>
<p>The Dynamo's best chance came in the 71st minute when Boniek Garcia's left-footed shot crashed the inside of the left post, bounced along the goal line but went out past the other post. Vancouver's Erik Hurtado found the back of the net in the 84th minute, but the goal was disallowed because of a hand ball.</p>
<p>The Whitecaps are 8-8-6, and the Dynamo 4-9-7.</p>
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commerce city colo ap victor ulloa scored tying goal longdistance shot fc dallas held 11 draw colorado rapids saturday night matchup top two teams overall mls standings fc dallas 1265 maintained threepoint lead colorado 1028 supporters shield race rapids stayed undefeated home 803 ulloa gathered deflected clearance open space 30 yards goal drilled rightfooted shot curled away goalkeeper tim howard upper right corner goal marlon hairston opened scoring colorado 44th minute blocked atiba harris clearance attempt followed deflection 18yard box finish start game delayed nearly hour lightning toronto fc 4 dc united 1 toronto ap sebastian giovinco scored three goals added assist break eightgame scoring drought toronto fcs victory dc united italian star put show front 26349 fans steamy night bmo field two goals came free kicks 18 minutes apart first half third coming secondhalf stoppage time poked home mark blooms cross goals total 11 season giovinco scored league play two months 70 days exact since scoring twice 43 loss vancouver whitecaps may 14 marky delgado also scored toronto 676 jeffrey scored dc united 577 impact 5 union 1 montreal ap didier drogba broke hat trick lead montreal impact 51 victory philadelphia union saturday night 38yearold ivorian striker hadnt scored since may 28 returned last week missing three games thigh injury ignacio piatti returned sitting onegame suspension score goal add two assists recent signing matteo mancuso went drogba 79th minute added first mls goal montreal improved 758 chris pontius scored philadelphia 876 galaxy 2 timbers 1 portland ore ap robbie keane gyasi zardes scored opening 11 minutes los angeles eat portland snap timbers ninegame undefeated streak galaxy 38 fourth straight victory major league soccer play zarek valentin scored portland 778 timbers stung lost veteran defender nat borchers appeared left ankle injury late first half borchers key piece timbers team mls cup last season timbers already without defender liam ridgewell strained right calf also miss mls allstar game arsenal next week san jose orlando city 2 crew 2 tie columbus ohio ap kevin molino scored 65th minute assisted cyle larins goal 70th help orlando city tie columbus orlando city 4511 pulled within one kakas corner resulted loose ball scramble front goal molino finally punched five minutes later molinos wide cross found larin header top 6yard box tony tchani ola kamara firsthalf goals columbus 3710 revolution 1 fire 0 foxborough mass ap jevaughn watson scored header 85th minute lift new england past chicago bobby shuttleworth earned fifth shutout season new england 676 chicago dropped 4105 whitecaps 0 dynamo 0 tie houston ap vancouvers david ousted houstons joe willis four saves scoreless draw dynamos best chance came 71st minute boniek garcias leftfooted shot crashed inside left post bounced along goal line went past post vancouvers erik hurtado found back net 84th minute goal disallowed hand ball whitecaps 886 dynamo 497 commerce city colo ap victor ulloa scored tying goal longdistance shot fc dallas held 11 draw colorado rapids saturday night matchup top two teams overall mls standings fc dallas 1265 maintained threepoint lead colorado 1028 supporters shield race rapids stayed undefeated home 803 ulloa gathered deflected clearance open space 30 yards goal drilled rightfooted shot curled away goalkeeper tim howard upper right corner goal marlon hairston opened scoring colorado 44th minute blocked atiba harris clearance attempt followed deflection 18yard box finish start game delayed nearly hour lightning toronto fc 4 dc united 1 toronto ap sebastian giovinco scored three goals added assist break eightgame scoring drought toronto fcs victory dc united italian star put show front 26349 fans steamy night bmo field two goals came free kicks 18 minutes apart first half third coming secondhalf stoppage time poked home mark blooms cross goals total 11 season giovinco scored league play two months 70 days exact since scoring twice 43 loss vancouver whitecaps may 14 marky delgado also scored toronto 676 jeffrey scored dc united 577 impact 5 union 1 montreal ap didier drogba broke hat trick lead montreal impact 51 victory philadelphia union saturday night 38yearold ivorian striker hadnt scored since may 28 returned last week missing three games thigh injury ignacio piatti returned sitting onegame suspension score goal add two assists recent signing matteo mancuso went drogba 79th minute added first mls goal montreal improved 758 chris pontius scored philadelphia 876 galaxy 2 timbers 1 portland ore ap robbie keane gyasi zardes scored opening 11 minutes los angeles eat portland snap timbers ninegame undefeated streak galaxy 38 fourth straight victory major league soccer play zarek valentin scored portland 778 timbers stung lost veteran defender nat borchers appeared left ankle injury late first half borchers key piece timbers team mls cup last season timbers already without defender liam ridgewell strained right calf also miss mls allstar game arsenal next week san jose orlando city 2 crew 2 tie columbus ohio ap kevin molino scored 65th minute assisted cyle larins goal 70th help orlando city tie columbus orlando city 4511 pulled within one kakas corner resulted loose ball scramble front goal molino finally punched five minutes later molinos wide cross found larin header top 6yard box tony tchani ola kamara firsthalf goals columbus 3710 revolution 1 fire 0 foxborough mass ap jevaughn watson scored header 85th minute lift new england past chicago bobby shuttleworth earned fifth shutout season new england 676 chicago dropped 4105 whitecaps 0 dynamo 0 tie houston ap vancouvers david ousted houstons joe willis four saves scoreless draw dynamos best chance came 71st minute boniek garcias leftfooted shot crashed inside left post bounced along goal line went past post vancouvers erik hurtado found back net 84th minute goal disallowed hand ball whitecaps 886 dynamo 497
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<p>CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Every evening this time of year, just before dusk, big black vultures appear one by one low in the sky over Virginia Webb's home.</p>
<p>Their broad wings spread wide, gathering the air in the fading light, as they glide-land silently in a cluster of tall white pines lining the edge of her front yard. Soon several scores of birds fill the brown branches, like hunched-back undertakers watchfully waiting to exploit any tragedy below.</p>
<p>"I have counted 400 before in those trees," said Webb, a cheerful 78-year-old lady with casually wavy white hair. "They get in the branches and spread their wings out.</p>
<p>"It's not fun," she added.</p>
<p>For the past 10 years or so this scene has played out nightly during the colder months of the year, usually from mid-October to mid-April.</p>
<p>Uninvited and unwanted invaders, a large number of vultures have selected Webb's trees outside her Charles Town home as their roosting spot for the winter. Usually about five to 15 birds linger year round.</p>
<p>"It's like they're guarding the property or something," Webb said. "I haven't heard any sound from them."</p>
<p>Two kinds of vultures are roosting in her trees. One is the more familiar turkey vulture with a wrinkly, gobbler-looking red balding head. The other is the more aggressive black vulture, with a gray wrinkly head and gray wing tips.</p>
<p>More black vultures than turkey ones roost at Webb's longtime residence.</p>
<p>"The black vultures will come down on the ground," she said. "They throw up balls of fur and stuff like that and you can see them down there picking like a flock of chickens around."</p>
<p>Webb said vultures, with wingspans as wide as six feet, prefer to roost in tall trees where the wind currents can provide generous lift dynamics for easy soaring takeoffs.</p>
<p>"And that's why they've picked these trees," she said with a slight nod to her front yard.</p>
<p>"I expect they're 90-feet tall," she said of the now-a-bit-scraggly, mature white pines. "They've been here a long time."</p>
<p>The vultures started coming to her property about the same time officials at the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park began an effort to scare a group of vultures away from there, Webb said.</p>
<p>For years, she has been searching for ways to persuade the birds to gather elsewhere. She and her late husband, David, talked to various city and state officials about the problem for years.</p>
<p>It's expensive, too. Various times the birds have pecked at the shingles and ridge vent on her roof, causing a few leaks that required professional repairs.</p>
<p>Standard homeowner policies don't cover any vulture vandalism, she said.</p>
<p>"They still peck at the roof," she added.</p>
<p>Webb has tried different things to persuade the birds to leave, and nothing has worked so far. She remembers trying to douse the birds with her grandson's plastic toy pump-action water gun. The water-gun spraying hasn't really done much to deter the birds, she said.</p>
<p>"As soon as I spray the water they all take off," she explained. "Well, then they come back the next evening, or a day or two later."</p>
<p>One time years ago a West Virginia Division of Natural Resources official hung a vulture carcass up in a tree in her yard to scare away the living loitering ones. The wildlife official sounded confident the gruesome ploy would work, Webb said. The carcass dangled there for several weeks.</p>
<p>"The vultures would fly over and they would look at it and go on up in the trees," she recalled with a laugh. "It didn't do a thing."</p>
<p>Webb said she would be glad for a mill or lumber company to clear away the pine trees in exchange for the wood. The birds are damaging the trees, stripping the bark off them, she notes.</p>
<p>"I don't know what the answer is," she said. "The only thing I know is to get rid of the source with the trees-cut the trees down."</p>
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<p>Information from: The Journal, <a href="http://journal-news.net/" type="external">http://journal-news.net/</a></p>
<p>CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Every evening this time of year, just before dusk, big black vultures appear one by one low in the sky over Virginia Webb's home.</p>
<p>Their broad wings spread wide, gathering the air in the fading light, as they glide-land silently in a cluster of tall white pines lining the edge of her front yard. Soon several scores of birds fill the brown branches, like hunched-back undertakers watchfully waiting to exploit any tragedy below.</p>
<p>"I have counted 400 before in those trees," said Webb, a cheerful 78-year-old lady with casually wavy white hair. "They get in the branches and spread their wings out.</p>
<p>"It's not fun," she added.</p>
<p>For the past 10 years or so this scene has played out nightly during the colder months of the year, usually from mid-October to mid-April.</p>
<p>Uninvited and unwanted invaders, a large number of vultures have selected Webb's trees outside her Charles Town home as their roosting spot for the winter. Usually about five to 15 birds linger year round.</p>
<p>"It's like they're guarding the property or something," Webb said. "I haven't heard any sound from them."</p>
<p>Two kinds of vultures are roosting in her trees. One is the more familiar turkey vulture with a wrinkly, gobbler-looking red balding head. The other is the more aggressive black vulture, with a gray wrinkly head and gray wing tips.</p>
<p>More black vultures than turkey ones roost at Webb's longtime residence.</p>
<p>"The black vultures will come down on the ground," she said. "They throw up balls of fur and stuff like that and you can see them down there picking like a flock of chickens around."</p>
<p>Webb said vultures, with wingspans as wide as six feet, prefer to roost in tall trees where the wind currents can provide generous lift dynamics for easy soaring takeoffs.</p>
<p>"And that's why they've picked these trees," she said with a slight nod to her front yard.</p>
<p>"I expect they're 90-feet tall," she said of the now-a-bit-scraggly, mature white pines. "They've been here a long time."</p>
<p>The vultures started coming to her property about the same time officials at the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park began an effort to scare a group of vultures away from there, Webb said.</p>
<p>For years, she has been searching for ways to persuade the birds to gather elsewhere. She and her late husband, David, talked to various city and state officials about the problem for years.</p>
<p>It's expensive, too. Various times the birds have pecked at the shingles and ridge vent on her roof, causing a few leaks that required professional repairs.</p>
<p>Standard homeowner policies don't cover any vulture vandalism, she said.</p>
<p>"They still peck at the roof," she added.</p>
<p>Webb has tried different things to persuade the birds to leave, and nothing has worked so far. She remembers trying to douse the birds with her grandson's plastic toy pump-action water gun. The water-gun spraying hasn't really done much to deter the birds, she said.</p>
<p>"As soon as I spray the water they all take off," she explained. "Well, then they come back the next evening, or a day or two later."</p>
<p>One time years ago a West Virginia Division of Natural Resources official hung a vulture carcass up in a tree in her yard to scare away the living loitering ones. The wildlife official sounded confident the gruesome ploy would work, Webb said. The carcass dangled there for several weeks.</p>
<p>"The vultures would fly over and they would look at it and go on up in the trees," she recalled with a laugh. "It didn't do a thing."</p>
<p>Webb said she would be glad for a mill or lumber company to clear away the pine trees in exchange for the wood. The birds are damaging the trees, stripping the bark off them, she notes.</p>
<p>"I don't know what the answer is," she said. "The only thing I know is to get rid of the source with the trees-cut the trees down."</p>
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<p>Information from: The Journal, <a href="http://journal-news.net/" type="external">http://journal-news.net/</a></p>
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charles town wva ap every evening time year dusk big black vultures appear one one low sky virginia webbs home broad wings spread wide gathering air fading light glideland silently cluster tall white pines lining edge front yard soon several scores birds fill brown branches like hunchedback undertakers watchfully waiting exploit tragedy counted 400 trees said webb cheerful 78yearold lady casually wavy white hair get branches spread wings fun added past 10 years scene played nightly colder months year usually midoctober midapril uninvited unwanted invaders large number vultures selected webbs trees outside charles town home roosting spot winter usually five 15 birds linger year round like theyre guarding property something webb said havent heard sound two kinds vultures roosting trees one familiar turkey vulture wrinkly gobblerlooking red balding head aggressive black vulture gray wrinkly head gray wing tips black vultures turkey ones roost webbs longtime residence black vultures come ground said throw balls fur stuff like see picking like flock chickens around webb said vultures wingspans wide six feet prefer roost tall trees wind currents provide generous lift dynamics easy soaring takeoffs thats theyve picked trees said slight nod front yard expect theyre 90feet tall said nowabitscraggly mature white pines theyve long time vultures started coming property time officials harpers ferry national historical park began effort scare group vultures away webb said years searching ways persuade birds gather elsewhere late husband david talked various city state officials problem years expensive various times birds pecked shingles ridge vent roof causing leaks required professional repairs standard homeowner policies dont cover vulture vandalism said still peck roof added webb tried different things persuade birds leave nothing worked far remembers trying douse birds grandsons plastic toy pumpaction water gun watergun spraying hasnt really done much deter birds said soon spray water take explained well come back next evening day two later one time years ago west virginia division natural resources official hung vulture carcass tree yard scare away living loitering ones wildlife official sounded confident gruesome ploy would work webb said carcass dangled several weeks vultures would fly would look go trees recalled laugh didnt thing webb said would glad mill lumber company clear away pine trees exchange wood birds damaging trees stripping bark notes dont know answer said thing know get rid source treescut trees ___ information journal httpjournalnewsnet charles town wva ap every evening time year dusk big black vultures appear one one low sky virginia webbs home broad wings spread wide gathering air fading light glideland silently cluster tall white pines lining edge front yard soon several scores birds fill brown branches like hunchedback undertakers watchfully waiting exploit tragedy counted 400 trees said webb cheerful 78yearold lady casually wavy white hair get branches spread wings fun added past 10 years scene played nightly colder months year usually midoctober midapril uninvited unwanted invaders large number vultures selected webbs trees outside charles town home roosting spot winter usually five 15 birds linger year round like theyre guarding property something webb said havent heard sound two kinds vultures roosting trees one familiar turkey vulture wrinkly gobblerlooking red balding head aggressive black vulture gray wrinkly head gray wing tips black vultures turkey ones roost webbs longtime residence black vultures come ground said throw balls fur stuff like see picking like flock chickens around webb said vultures wingspans wide six feet prefer roost tall trees wind currents provide generous lift dynamics easy soaring takeoffs thats theyve picked trees said slight nod front yard expect theyre 90feet tall said nowabitscraggly mature white pines theyve long time vultures started coming property time officials harpers ferry national historical park began effort scare group vultures away webb said years searching ways persuade birds gather elsewhere late husband david talked various city state officials problem years expensive various times birds pecked shingles ridge vent roof causing leaks required professional repairs standard homeowner policies dont cover vulture vandalism said still peck roof added webb tried different things persuade birds leave nothing worked far remembers trying douse birds grandsons plastic toy pumpaction water gun watergun spraying hasnt really done much deter birds said soon spray water take explained well come back next evening day two later one time years ago west virginia division natural resources official hung vulture carcass tree yard scare away living loitering ones wildlife official sounded confident gruesome ploy would work webb said carcass dangled several weeks vultures would fly would look go trees recalled laugh didnt thing webb said would glad mill lumber company clear away pine trees exchange wood birds damaging trees stripping bark notes dont know answer said thing know get rid source treescut trees ___ information journal httpjournalnewsnet
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<p>Federal law says crime victims have a right to “reasonable and timely notice” of any public court proceedings involving the crime.</p>
<p>Paul Donisthorpe</p>
<p>But Paul Donisthorpe’s sudden plea bargain Monday in a high-profile $4 million trust fund embezzlement scheme caught victims by surprise.</p>
<p>Armando Ramirez, of Santa Teresa, helps support his brother Omar Ramirez, who lost nearly $1 million in a trust account managed by Donisthorpe that was supposed to pay for a lifetime of expenses from a traumatic brain injury.</p>
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<p>Ramirez told the Journal on Tuesday his family had no notice of Monday’s federal court hearing during which Donisthorpe, the former CEO of Desert State Life Management, was charged and then immediately pleaded guilty.</p>
<p>“You were the first to tell us,” Ramirez told the Journal.</p>
<p>While acknowledging federal law affords rights to crime victims, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Albuquerque said the lack of notice in this case was in accordance with Justice Department guidelines.</p>
<p>In the span of 41 minutes, Donisthorpe appeared before U.S. Magistrate Laura Fashing on Monday morning and pleaded guilty to a criminal information that was filed for the first time during the hearing, court records show.</p>
<p>The U.S. Attorney’s Office wouldn’t comment on the prior negotiations that led to Donisthorpe’s decision to plead guilty to wire fraud and money laundering.</p>
<p>Monday marked the first time Donisthorpe, 62, had appeared at a court hearing related to Desert State after months of speculation as to his whereabouts and his mental and physical condition.</p>
<p>The hearing was not listed on the court’s public online calendar. Twenty minutes after his plea, the U.S. Attorney’s office sent out a “media advisory” about a “significant law enforcement announcement” that would occur at 2 p.m. Monday. The advisory made no mention of Donisthorpe or Desert State. At the event, federal and state law enforcement officials announced the plea agreement but wouldn’t respond to questions.</p>
<p>Although Donisthorpe pleaded guilty to two counts, state financial regulators have identified about 40 victims whose trusts or savings accounts were raided during the decadelong scheme. Some who are developmentally disabled were the intended beneficiaries of special needs trusts established by relatives or others for their future care.</p>
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<p>Donisthorpe, a former investment banker who was convicted of vehicular homicide in 1991, faces up to 12 years in federal prison on the federal charges. He was ordered to pay $4.8 million in restitution, although state officials report that his company’s bank account is virtually empty.</p>
<p>Crime victim’s rights</p>
<p>Under 18 U.S. Code 3771, Crime Victims’ Rights, “the court shall make every effort to permit the fullest attendance possible by the victim and shall consider reasonable alternatives to the exclusion of the victim from the criminal proceeding.”</p>
<p>Victims have the right to “reasonable, accurate and timely notice of any public court proceeding, … involving the crime,” the law also states.</p>
<p>Victims, by law, have the right to be reasonably heard at any public proceedings in the district court involving release, plea, sentencing or any parole proceedings, and the right to be informed in a timely manner of any plea bargain agreement.</p>
<p>Donna Burk, whose 96-year-old mother lost about $32,000 in the embezzlement scheme told the Journal on Tuesday she never received advance notice of the plea hearing.</p>
<p>“We were never notified,” said Burk, who added that she learned about the hearing from an Albuquerque television reporter.</p>
<p>“The U.S. Attorney’s Office has never given me the time of day,” Burk said.</p>
<p>Burk added that she has no confidence she will be formally notified before Donisthorpe returns to court for sentencing. No hearing date has been set for the sentencing, according to court records.</p>
<p>U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Elizabeth Martinez told the Journal in an email that the Department of Justice “shall make its best efforts to ensure that crime victims are notified of, and accorded, their rights.” But she said that under a Justice Department guideline, those rights don’t attach until criminal proceedings “are initiated by complaint, information or indictment.”</p>
<p>“Under these Guidelines, the rights of the victims in the Desert State case took effect when the Information charging the defendant was filed in court during the Nov. 27, 2017 plea hearing,” she told the Journal in an email.</p>
<p>Requiring notice to victims before any case was filed in court would violate other Department of Justice rules, including those which prohibit making public statements about pending investigations or releasing information that is not in the public record, she added.</p>
<p>“The Department of Justice has an obligation to balance its duty to give reasonable notice to victims against its duty to provide due process to defendants, in this case as in all cases.”</p>
<p>She added that Donisthorpe’s sentencing hearing “will take place with ample public notice, just like a regular case. Victims will receive notice of the sentencing hearing as required by the Victims’ Rights Act.”</p>
<p>Donisthorpe condition</p>
<p>A “plea minute sheet” shows that during the hearing, Donisthorpe indicated he understood the terms of the agreement. He also was questioned about his age, education and physical and mental condition, but the plea sheet doesn’t say how he responded.</p>
<p>His health became an issue last spring when state financial regulators were trying to obtain access to Desert State’s financial records for what was supposed to be a routine financial exam of the nonprofit trust company.</p>
<p>Four days before regulators planned an onsite visit of Desert State’s office in Albuquerque, Donisthorpe’s then-wife Liane Kerr informed the state Financial Institutions Division that her husband had a stroke and possible brain damage and was in the hospital.</p>
<p>State court records show about a month later, in March, a Desert State board member and one-time friend of the couple told state regulators that Donisthorpe “had recently attempted to commit suicide by overdosing on prescription medicine.”</p>
<p>The board member, Helen Bennett, added that she “believed the reported suicide attempt caused some form of damage to the brain that resulted in Mr. Donisthorpe lacking the mental ability to function as a board member,” according to an affidavit filed by acting financial institutions director Chris Moya.</p>
<p>Kevin Graham, senior enforcement counsel for the state financial institutions division, told the Journal that he and Moya attended the plea hearing on Monday. Both men have been assisting in the federal criminal investigation.</p>
<p>“The judge (Fashing) asked if there were any conditions that prevented him from understanding (the plea) and he said no. He was very alert,” Graham said.</p>
<p>“We saw no evidence (of any impairment or brain damage). He seemed completely able to walk around the courtroom, and was competent enough to answer questions.”</p>
<p>Liane Kerr, a criminal defense attorney, filed for divorce shortly after the state financial investigation of Desert State began. The couple had lived in a North Valley home, ownership of which Kerr received in the divorce that was finalized in June.</p>
<p>Donisthorpe, a former CPA who served as deputy State Fair manager, and briefly served on the state Commission of Higher Education under Gov. Bill Richardson, reportedly was living in Bloomfield, where his family is from. He comes from a political family. His mother, retired Republican state Sen. Christine Donisthorpe, died last summer. His brother, Republican pollster Bruce Donisthorpe died in 2016.</p>
<p>Released without bond</p>
<p>At the conclusion of his court appearance on Monday, Paul Donisthorpe was released without bond under the supervision of the U.S. Pretrial/Probation Services. Magistrate Fashing ordered him to participate in mental health assessment/counseling as directed, and he is barred from opening new or additional lines of credit.</p>
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federal law says crime victims right reasonable timely notice public court proceedings involving crime paul donisthorpe paul donisthorpes sudden plea bargain monday highprofile 4 million trust fund embezzlement scheme caught victims surprise armando ramirez santa teresa helps support brother omar ramirez lost nearly 1 million trust account managed donisthorpe supposed pay lifetime expenses traumatic brain injury advertisement ramirez told journal tuesday family notice mondays federal court hearing donisthorpe former ceo desert state life management charged immediately pleaded guilty first tell us ramirez told journal acknowledging federal law affords rights crime victims spokeswoman us attorneys office albuquerque said lack notice case accordance justice department guidelines span 41 minutes donisthorpe appeared us magistrate laura fashing monday morning pleaded guilty criminal information filed first time hearing court records show us attorneys office wouldnt comment prior negotiations led donisthorpes decision plead guilty wire fraud money laundering monday marked first time donisthorpe 62 appeared court hearing related desert state months speculation whereabouts mental physical condition hearing listed courts public online calendar twenty minutes plea us attorneys office sent media advisory significant law enforcement announcement would occur 2 pm monday advisory made mention donisthorpe desert state event federal state law enforcement officials announced plea agreement wouldnt respond questions although donisthorpe pleaded guilty two counts state financial regulators identified 40 victims whose trusts savings accounts raided decadelong scheme developmentally disabled intended beneficiaries special needs trusts established relatives others future care advertisement donisthorpe former investment banker convicted vehicular homicide 1991 faces 12 years federal prison federal charges ordered pay 48 million restitution although state officials report companys bank account virtually empty crime victims rights 18 us code 3771 crime victims rights court shall make every effort permit fullest attendance possible victim shall consider reasonable alternatives exclusion victim criminal proceeding victims right reasonable accurate timely notice public court proceeding involving crime law also states victims law right reasonably heard public proceedings district court involving release plea sentencing parole proceedings right informed timely manner plea bargain agreement donna burk whose 96yearold mother lost 32000 embezzlement scheme told journal tuesday never received advance notice plea hearing never notified said burk added learned hearing albuquerque television reporter us attorneys office never given time day burk said burk added confidence formally notified donisthorpe returns court sentencing hearing date set sentencing according court records us attorneys office spokeswoman elizabeth martinez told journal email department justice shall make best efforts ensure crime victims notified accorded rights said justice department guideline rights dont attach criminal proceedings initiated complaint information indictment guidelines rights victims desert state case took effect information charging defendant filed court nov 27 2017 plea hearing told journal email requiring notice victims case filed court would violate department justice rules including prohibit making public statements pending investigations releasing information public record added department justice obligation balance duty give reasonable notice victims duty provide due process defendants case cases added donisthorpes sentencing hearing take place ample public notice like regular case victims receive notice sentencing hearing required victims rights act donisthorpe condition plea minute sheet shows hearing donisthorpe indicated understood terms agreement also questioned age education physical mental condition plea sheet doesnt say responded health became issue last spring state financial regulators trying obtain access desert states financial records supposed routine financial exam nonprofit trust company four days regulators planned onsite visit desert states office albuquerque donisthorpes thenwife liane kerr informed state financial institutions division husband stroke possible brain damage hospital state court records show month later march desert state board member onetime friend couple told state regulators donisthorpe recently attempted commit suicide overdosing prescription medicine board member helen bennett added believed reported suicide attempt caused form damage brain resulted mr donisthorpe lacking mental ability function board member according affidavit filed acting financial institutions director chris moya kevin graham senior enforcement counsel state financial institutions division told journal moya attended plea hearing monday men assisting federal criminal investigation judge fashing asked conditions prevented understanding plea said alert graham said saw evidence impairment brain damage seemed completely able walk around courtroom competent enough answer questions liane kerr criminal defense attorney filed divorce shortly state financial investigation desert state began couple lived north valley home ownership kerr received divorce finalized june donisthorpe former cpa served deputy state fair manager briefly served state commission higher education gov bill richardson reportedly living bloomfield family comes political family mother retired republican state sen christine donisthorpe died last summer brother republican pollster bruce donisthorpe died 2016 released without bond conclusion court appearance monday paul donisthorpe released without bond supervision us pretrialprobation services magistrate fashing ordered participate mental health assessmentcounseling directed barred opening new additional lines credit
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<p>Pete Lukes, pictured, and his wife, Maggie, opened Piattini this month. The California Culinary Institute graduate closed his Terra Bistro earlier this year to focus on Piattini. (Marla Brose/Albuquerque Journal)</p>
<p>Terra, take two?</p>
<p>Not exactly.</p>
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<p>Chef Pete Lukes - who just closed Terra Bistro after a 16-year-run in the North Valley - is doing something slightly different at Piattini, the new restaurant he and his wife Maggie opened this month at 1403 Girard NE.</p>
<p>The menu is bigger, but the plates are smaller. There is more space but a less formal ambiance. The name is new, and the neighborhood is, too.</p>
<p>But the food? Terra fans should recognize quite a bit of it.</p>
<p>"We were an Italian restaurant (at Terra), and we went to small-plate Italian format," Lukes says. "But about 80 percent of the menu came with us, just scaled it down a bit."</p>
<p>Lukes says he went with a small-plates concept to inspire communal dining and allow patrons to try multiple dishes in one sitting. Customers could craft a meal of parmesan fries ($5), calamari ($12) and fettuccine alfredo ($11). Groups might graze on lemon-pesto chicken wings ($7), grilled asparagus with prosciutto di Parma ($10), house-made meatballs ($10) and the penne primavera ($12).</p>
<p>Piattini is a 105-seat, small-plate Italian restaurant owned by chef Pete Lukes and his wife, Maggie. (Marla Brose/Albuquerque Journal)</p>
<p>Piattini also does 11-inch Neapolitan-style pizzas, and they are an early fan favorite.</p>
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<p>"We import our flour from Italy, which makes a big, big difference in the crust quality," Lukes says.</p>
<p>Most dishes fall into the $5-$13 range, though there are some more expensive and substantial choices dubbed "large plates." (Example: The "Agnello" featuring grilled lamb loin chops with a fig-mint tapenade, feta, aged balsamic and two sides for $28).</p>
<p>Lukes, raised mostly in Albuquerque, attended the University of New Mexico, where he studied economics and finance. He later attended the California Culinary Academy and spent more than a decade working in the San Francisco area for the likes of Hubert Keller, an accomplished chef known to TV audiences for his work on the "Top Chef" cooking shows.</p>
<p>Lukes opened Terra in 1998 but closed it earlier this year to focus on Piattini, which - with as many as 105 seats - is about twice the size of Terra.</p>
<p>He says the Indian School/Girard area is ideal given the population density, UNM-bound traffic and sophisticated customer base.</p>
<p>"It is the best location in the city for a restaurant," he says.</p>
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<p>Piattini's 4,000-square-foot building previously housed a grocery store, but Maggie Lukes says the exterior reminded her of a 1930s diner.</p>
<p>An intern architect and a licensed interior designer who recently left Studio Southwest Architects to help manage Piattini, Maggie Lukes says that diner look inspired certain design elements at Piattini, like the counter seating facing the open kitchen and the stripe of red, neonesque lighting that wraps around the building.</p>
<p>But the overall aesthetic is more contemporary. A striking burst of bright green upholstery on the banquette seating offsets the darker, woody hues used elsewhere.</p>
<p>"We just wanted it comfortable - comfortable but upscale," Maggie Lukes says.</p>
<p>Pete Lukes says he wanted a place that anyone "in any attire" would feel welcome.</p>
<p>Piattini launched with dinner-only hours but is debuting its lunch menu - adapted from the dinner menu but with several sandwich and "big salad" options - this week.</p>
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<p>Piattini is now open at 11 a.m. through dinner Tuesday through Sunday. Monday is dinner only, 5-9 p.m. The phone number is 792-1700.</p>
<p>Pendleton moves across town</p>
<p>Albuquerque's Pendleton shop has a new home.</p>
<p>Pendleton Woolen Mills has moved its Albuquerque store to 8000 Paseo del Norte NE. Clerk Nancy Platt is shown in the new 3,300-square-foot location. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)</p>
<p>Pendleton recently swapped its store at 1100 San Mateo NE for a new location at Paseo del Norte and Wyoming. The move consolidated what was two stores into a single, 3,300-square-foot space.</p>
<p>Pendleton had been at the San Mateo/Lomas intersection since 1994 but was one of few remaining tenants in the shopping center now anchored by Ace Hardware.</p>
<p>By moving, Pendleton joins a center with tenants that include Flying Star, Lilly Barrack, Simply Amish and Vintage 423 restaurant.</p>
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<p>"Relocating the store to The Shops at Paseo retail area provided a beautiful space, with the opportunity to showcase the Pendleton brand in a lifestyle presentation," Robin Crowell, the company's director of stores, said in an email. "The new Pendleton location is in a fast-growing market, and the store has great visibility to consumers."</p>
<p>The new space - decorated with gray and white paint and industrial looking OSB board - provides a simple canvas for the brightly colored merchandise.</p>
<p>Pendleton Woolen Mills' calling card may be blankets, but the Portland, Ore.-based company also offers a wide range of clothing for men and women.</p>
<p>And, no, it's not all wool-based sweaters and jackets. The selection also includes denim, shorts, cotton T-shirts and accessories such as belts and hats.</p>
<p>The new store is split loosely between men's and women's apparel, with colorful blankets hung and stacked throughout.</p>
<p>Pendleton is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday (extended until 7 p.m. on Thursday) and from noon-5 p.m. on Sunday.</p>
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<p>The address is 8000 Paseo del Norte NE. The phone number is 255-6444.</p>
<p>Satellite shelving franchise plans</p>
<p>Satellite Coffee franchises were supposed to start cropping up this year in Albuquerque and beyond, but that is no longer likely to happen.</p>
<p>Jean Bernstein, CEO of Satellite and its sister company Flying Star, said last summer she expected as many as 20 franchise caf's to open by the end of 2015.</p>
<p>But she said last week that she isn't currently working in that direction.</p>
<p>"I've put (franchising) on hold for a little bit. I still have all of the pieces in place, but it turns out it's quite a bit of work, even greater work that we anticipated," she says.</p>
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<p>Bernstein says she's instead devoting her energy to the 17 existing Flying Star and Satellite locations and couldn't say for sure when she might resume the franchising plan. But, she notes, the work done toward creating a Satellite franchise model should still come into play.</p>
<p>"All the processes and branding work and everything that we did for the franchise is being implemented in terms of improvements here," she says. "We've learned a lot more. We've done a lot of refreshing on the brand. Little by little, you'll see all of that happen here."</p>
<p>There also are some changes afoot at Flying Star, most recently the removal of the magazines.</p>
<p>Bernstein says more customers are tuned into the Internet, so she "reluctantly" let the magazines go. She's working with Penny Design remodeling plans that will supplant the racks with more space for seating.</p>
<p>True Value expands</p>
<p>Looking for some hardware in the Heights?</p>
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<p>The owners of Albuquerque's Lomas Boulevard True Value store recently opened a second location at the Promenade Shopping Center at Eubank and Spain.</p>
<p>Heights True Value - a franchise owned by Arizona-based JNG Holdings LLC - stocks hardware and other home-repair and improvement items such as plumbing and electrical supplies, lawn and garden equipment and paint.</p>
<p>Co-owner Jim Capin says his company was looking for a second Albuquerque location and felt the far Northeast Heights area was lacking a "neighborhood hardware store."</p>
<p>Promenade owner Jan Wilson says True Value took over about 15,000 square feet of the 33,000 square feet vacated by Charter Bank several years ago. Baila Dance and Fitness Studio and Enhanced Wellness each joined the center in 2013, absorbing the rest.</p>
<p>With expansions by existing tenants Eye Associates of New Mexico and All World Travel, every space at the center is now full, Wilson says.</p>
<p>And that's not all!</p>
<p>Check out <a href="" type="internal">my blog</a>&#160; for news about Boxing Bear, the new brewery/winery/home brew shop planned for the old Elliott's restaurant space at 10200 Corrales Rd. NW and for more about The Vortex Theatre's plans to turn the old Langell's Art Supply store into a new theater.</p>
<p>If you have retail news to share, contact me at <a href="" type="internal">[email protected]</a> or 823-3864. For more regular updates on Albuquerque shopping and restaurant news, visit my blog at abqjournal.com or follow @ abqdyer on Twitter.</p>
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piattini also 11inch neapolitanstyle pizzas early fan favorite advertisement import flour italy makes big big difference crust quality lukes says dishes fall 513 range though expensive substantial choices dubbed large plates example agnello featuring grilled lamb loin chops figmint tapenade feta aged balsamic two sides 28 lukes raised mostly albuquerque attended university new mexico studied economics finance later attended california culinary academy spent decade working san francisco area likes hubert keller accomplished chef known tv audiences work top chef cooking shows lukes opened terra 1998 closed earlier year focus piattini many 105 seats twice size terra says indian schoolgirard area ideal given population density unmbound traffic sophisticated customer base best location city restaurant says advertisement piattinis 4000squarefoot building previously housed grocery store maggie lukes says exterior reminded 1930s diner intern architect licensed interior designer recently left studio southwest architects help manage piattini maggie lukes says diner look inspired certain design elements piattini like counter seating facing open kitchen stripe red neonesque lighting wraps around building overall aesthetic contemporary striking burst bright green upholstery banquette seating offsets darker woody hues used elsewhere wanted comfortable comfortable upscale maggie lukes says pete lukes says wanted place anyone attire would feel welcome piattini launched dinneronly hours debuting lunch menu adapted dinner menu several sandwich big salad options week advertisement piattini open 11 dinner tuesday sunday monday dinner 59 pm phone number 7921700 pendleton moves across town albuquerques pendleton shop new home pendleton woolen mills moved albuquerque store 8000 paseo del norte ne clerk nancy platt shown new 3300squarefoot location adolphe pierrelouisalbuquerque journal pendleton recently swapped store 1100 san mateo ne new location paseo del norte wyoming move consolidated two stores single 3300squarefoot space pendleton san mateolomas intersection since 1994 one remaining tenants shopping center anchored ace hardware moving pendleton joins center tenants include flying star lilly barrack simply amish vintage 423 restaurant advertisement relocating store shops paseo retail area provided beautiful space opportunity showcase pendleton brand lifestyle presentation robin crowell companys director stores said email new pendleton location fastgrowing market store great visibility consumers new space decorated gray white paint industrial looking osb board provides simple canvas brightly colored merchandise pendleton woolen mills calling card may blankets portland orebased company also offers wide range clothing men women woolbased sweaters jackets selection also includes denim shorts cotton tshirts accessories belts hats new store split loosely mens womens apparel colorful blankets hung stacked throughout pendleton open 10 am6 pm monday saturday extended 7 pm thursday noon5 pm sunday advertisement address 8000 paseo del norte ne phone number 2556444 satellite shelving franchise plans satellite coffee franchises supposed start cropping year albuquerque beyond longer likely happen jean bernstein ceo satellite sister company flying star said last summer expected many 20 franchise cafs open end 2015 said last week isnt currently working direction ive put franchising hold little bit still pieces place turns quite bit work even greater work anticipated says advertisement bernstein says shes instead devoting energy 17 existing flying star satellite locations couldnt say sure might resume franchising plan notes work done toward creating satellite franchise model still come play processes branding work everything franchise implemented terms improvements says weve learned lot weve done lot refreshing brand little little youll see happen also changes afoot flying star recently removal magazines bernstein says customers tuned internet reluctantly let magazines go shes working penny design remodeling plans supplant racks space seating true value expands looking hardware heights advertisement owners albuquerques lomas boulevard true value store recently opened second location promenade shopping center eubank spain heights true value franchise owned arizonabased jng holdings llc stocks hardware homerepair improvement items plumbing electrical supplies lawn garden equipment paint coowner jim capin says company looking second albuquerque location felt far northeast heights area lacking neighborhood hardware store promenade owner jan wilson says true value took 15000 square feet 33000 square feet vacated charter bank several years ago baila dance fitness studio enhanced wellness joined center 2013 absorbing rest expansions existing tenants eye associates new mexico world travel every space center full wilson says thats check blog160 news boxing bear new brewerywineryhome brew shop planned old elliotts restaurant space 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<p>The gains brought the Standard &amp; Poor's 500 index nearly back to breakeven for the year following steep declines in August and September. Industrials stocks were among the index's biggest gainers.</p>
<p>The rally followed a batch of encouraging earnings from McDonald's, eBay and other companies. Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon also delivered better-than-expected results shortly after the close of regular trading.</p>
<p>News that the European Central Bank could consider expanding its stimulus program in December also helped rally the market. Such a move could help stimulate spending in the region, a plus for U.S. companies struggling with declining overseas revenue, said Bob Doll, chief equity strategist at Nuveen Asset Management.</p>
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<p>"We've had some pretty good earnings in a season that so far has been mixed," Doll said. "Then you layer some chatter out from the ECB, and all the uncertainty and skepticism and negativism, and the mass amount of cash on the sidelines, and it doesn't take much to get a rally going."</p>
<p>The Dow climbed 320.55 points, or 1.9 percent, to 17,489.16. The S&amp;P 500 index rose 33.57 points, or 1.7 percent, to 2,052.51. The last time the Dow and S&amp;P 500 delivered bigger single-day gains was Oct. 5.</p>
<p>The Nasdaq added 79.93 points, or 1.7 percent, to 4,920.05.</p>
<p>A surge in European stocks set the stage for the three major U.S. stock indexes to go higher early on Thursday.</p>
<p>Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, signaled that the bank could boost monetary stimulus at its meeting in December. That raised expectations that the ECB might extend its $1.2 trillion bond purchase program. Draghi also said that the ECB was also considering other measures, such as further cutting one of its key interest rates.</p>
<p>"The market was in a tight trading range leading up to today's move to the upside, waiting for a catalyst in essence to push the market in one direction or the other," said Quincy Krosby, a market strategist at Prudential Financial. "And you can see clearly that the Draghi comments were very positively received by the market."</p>
<p>Beyond that, investors pored over the latest slate of company earnings, which helped put them in a buying mood.</p>
<p>Traders bid up eBay, which reported earnings late Wednesday that came in well ahead of what analysts were expecting. The e-commerce company jumped $3.37, or 13.9 percent, to $27.58.</p>
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<p>McDonald's climbed 8.1 percent after the world's largest burger chain handily beat Wall Street estimates and said its sales increased in the third quarter. McDonald's shares added $8.33 to $110.87.</p>
<p>Texas Instruments' earnings also beat projections. The company also gave an upbeat outlook for the current quarter. The stock vaulted $6.19, or 11.9 percent, to $58.09.</p>
<p>Some companies turned in disappointing results, which sent their share prices tumbling.</p>
<p>Homebuilder PulteGroup fell $1.29, or 6.6 percent, to $18.16. American Express slid 5.2 percent a day after the credit card issuer reported a 16 percent drop in profits and cut its full-year forecast. The stock lost $4.01 to $72.50.</p>
<p>U.S. companies have been struggling to drum up sales overseas amid a stronger dollar, which makes their products less competitive, and decreased demand due to a sluggish global economy.</p>
<p>All told, about 148 companies in the S&amp;P 500 index have reported third-quarter earnings so far. Some 68 percent of those have reported results that beat Wall Street's expectations. That's better than the historic average of 66 percent, according to S&amp;P Capital IQ.</p>
<p>Nine of the 10 sectors in the S&amp;P 500 index rose, led by industrials, up 2.8 percent. The sector is down 2.7 percent this year. Health care stocks fell 0.5 percent. The sector, which was among the biggest risers in the index for much of the year, is down 0.9 percent.</p>
<p>Among the hardest-hit health care stocks Thursday were Tenet Healthcare and Universal Health Services. Tenet slumped $6.57, or 18.9 percent, to $28.23, while Universal Health slid $13.74, or 11 percent, to $111.73.</p>
<p>Germany's DAX rose 2.5 percent, while the CAC-40 in France rose 2.3 percent. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares gained 0.4 percent.</p>
<p>In China, the Shanghai Composite Index finished up 1.4 percent following a 3 percent slide Wednesday. Elsewhere in Asia stock markets closed mostly lower. Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 0.6 percent and South Korea's Kospi dropped 1 percent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.6 percent.</p>
<p>In energy futures trading, benchmark U.S. crude rose 18 cents to $45.38 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, used to price international oils, added 23 cents to $48.08 a barrel in London.</p>
<p>Wholesale gasoline rose 2.6 cents to close at $1.307 a gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while heating oil rose 1.5 cents to $1.465 a gallon. Natural gas fell 1.8 cents to close at $2.386 per 1,000 cubic feet.</p>
<p>Precious and industrial metals futures were mixed. Gold fell $1 to $1,166.10 an ounce, silver rose 13 cents to $15.84 an ounce and copper gained 2 cents to $2.38 a pound.</p>
<p>U.S. government bond prices rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.02 percent from 2.03 percent the day before. The euro fell to $1.1109 while the dollar rose to 120.72 yen.</p>
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gains brought standard amp poors 500 index nearly back breakeven year following steep declines august september industrials stocks among indexs biggest gainers rally followed batch encouraging earnings mcdonalds ebay companies alphabet microsoft amazon also delivered betterthanexpected results shortly close regular trading news european central bank could consider expanding stimulus program december also helped rally market move could help stimulate spending region plus us companies struggling declining overseas revenue said bob doll chief equity strategist nuveen asset management advertisement weve pretty good earnings season far mixed doll said layer chatter ecb uncertainty skepticism negativism mass amount cash sidelines doesnt take much get rally going dow climbed 32055 points 19 percent 1748916 sampp 500 index rose 3357 points 17 percent 205251 last time dow sampp 500 delivered bigger singleday gains oct 5 nasdaq added 7993 points 17 percent 492005 surge european stocks set stage three major us stock indexes go higher early thursday mario draghi head european central bank signaled bank could boost monetary stimulus meeting december raised expectations ecb might extend 12 trillion bond purchase program draghi also said ecb also considering measures cutting one key interest rates market tight trading range leading todays move upside waiting catalyst essence push market one direction said quincy krosby market strategist prudential financial see clearly draghi comments positively received market beyond investors pored latest slate company earnings helped put buying mood traders bid ebay reported earnings late wednesday came well ahead analysts expecting ecommerce company jumped 337 139 percent 2758 advertisement mcdonalds climbed 81 percent worlds largest burger chain handily beat wall street estimates said sales increased third quarter mcdonalds shares added 833 11087 texas instruments earnings also beat projections company also gave upbeat outlook current quarter stock vaulted 619 119 percent 5809 companies turned disappointing results sent share prices tumbling homebuilder pultegroup fell 129 66 percent 1816 american express slid 52 percent day credit card issuer reported 16 percent drop profits cut fullyear forecast stock lost 401 7250 us companies struggling drum sales overseas amid stronger dollar makes products less competitive decreased demand due sluggish global economy told 148 companies sampp 500 index reported thirdquarter earnings far 68 percent reported results beat wall streets expectations thats better historic average 66 percent according sampp capital iq nine 10 sectors sampp 500 index rose led industrials 28 percent sector 27 percent year health care stocks fell 05 percent sector among biggest risers index much year 09 percent among hardesthit health care stocks thursday tenet healthcare universal health services tenet slumped 657 189 percent 2823 universal health slid 1374 11 percent 11173 germanys dax rose 25 percent cac40 france rose 23 percent ftse 100 index leading british shares gained 04 percent china shanghai composite index finished 14 percent following 3 percent slide wednesday elsewhere asia stock markets closed mostly lower japans nikkei 225 fell 06 percent south koreas kospi dropped 1 percent hong kongs hang seng fell 06 percent energy futures trading benchmark us crude rose 18 cents 4538 barrel new york mercantile exchange brent crude used price international oils added 23 cents 4808 barrel london wholesale gasoline rose 26 cents close 1307 gallon new york mercantile exchange heating oil rose 15 cents 1465 gallon natural gas fell 18 cents close 2386 per 1000 cubic feet precious industrial metals futures mixed gold fell 1 116610 ounce silver rose 13 cents 1584 ounce copper gained 2 cents 238 pound us government bond prices rose yield 10year treasury note fell 202 percent 203 percent day euro fell 11109 dollar rose 12072 yen
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<p>Jan 18 (Reuters) - Guangdong Hybribio Biotech Co Ltd</p>
<p>* Says it will fully buy Kunming-based 70 percent owned medical examination firm and Taiyuan-based 85 percent owned medical examination firm for 2.3 million yuan in total</p>
<p>Source text in Chinese: <a href="https://goo.gl/HbkVbv" type="external">goo.gl/HbkVbv</a></p>
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<p>FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=DBKGn.DE" type="external">DBKGn.DE</a>) has been asked by European Central Bank supervisors to calculate the potential costs of winding down its investment banking operations, a source told Reuters on Sunday.</p> FILE PHOTO: A statue is pictured next to the logo of Germany's Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany September 30, 2016. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Photo
<p>Germany's biggest lender has been calculating the financial effects of a potential move to quit investment banking for some time, and the move is not related to the switch in Deutsche Bank's top management position last Sunday when retail banking expert Christian Sewing was appointed to replace chief executive John Cryan.</p>
<a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=DBKGn.DE" type="external">Deutsche Bank AG</a> 11.7 DBKGn.DE Xetra +0.03 (+0.27%) DBKGn.DE
<p>The point of the exercise is to estimate how the value of Deutsche Bank's capital market and derivatives business would develop if the bank was to exit abruptly from new business, the source said on condition he not be named because the matter is confidential.</p>
<p>Deutsche Bank said it "routinely" calculates the consequences of an orderly winding-down of positions in trading books for regulators. The ECB declined comment.</p>
<p>Germany's daily newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung was first to report on Deutsche Bank's explorations induced by the ECB, saying other lenders are to face similar requests at a later stage.</p>
<p>Deutsche Bank is already in the middle of a global review of the investment bank, known internally as Project Colombo, to determine the way forward as revenues shrink and clients and staff leave.</p>
<p>Reporting by Hans Seidenstuecker, additional reporting by Frank Siebelt. Writing by Andreas Cremer, editing by Kathrin Jones and David Evans</p> Our Standards:
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<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc bought Clarity Money, a personal finance startup, to bolster its Marcus online lending business, it said Sunday.</p> A Goldman Sachs sign is displayed inside the company's post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., April 18, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
<p>Buying Clarity Money, a free app that helps consumers manage their personal finances, is expected to add over 1 million customers to the financial service firm's Marcus business. Marcus offers tools to help customers save and borrow. Clarity Money will be re-branded as Marcus by Goldman Sachs over time, the company said.</p>
<p>Terms were not disclosed.</p>
<p>Goldman launched Marcus in October 2016 as a way to court Main Street borrowers saddled with credit card debt. It offers loans from $3,500 to $40,000 and targets credit card borrowers who can benefit from consolidating debt into a single loan with a lower interest rate.</p>
<p>GS Bank, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, is making the acquisition. Clarity Money CEO Adam Dell will join Goldman Sachs as a partner.</p>
<p>(This version of the story corrects in paragraph 4 to say that Marcus offers loans up to $40,000, not $30,000)</p>
<p>Reporting By Jessica Resnick-Ault; Editing by Nick Zieminski</p> Our Standards:
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<p>LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gold and oil traded slightly lower as markets opened for the first time since Western powers launched a missile attack on Syria, but equities are unlikely to experience big losses unless the West strikes again or Russia retaliates.</p> FILE PHOTO: A Syrian firefighter is seen inside the destroyed Scientific Research Centre in Damascus, Syria April 14, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
<p>"The news flow is actually better than what it looked like at one point during last week, as the strike was surgical, followed by a pullback. Reports show a lot of care was taken not to hit Russian targets, which is a good sign and the market should take heart from that," said Salman Ahmed, chief investment strategist at Lombard Odier investment managers in London, speaking before trading resumed.</p>
<p>Spot gold and major crude benchmarks eased slightly, as the market reacted to the military actions over the weekend. Treasuries also weakened, while equities rose.</p>
<p>Gold has benefited in recent days as a safe-haven asset amid a U.S.-China trade dispute and the escalating conflict in Syria, which also pushed oil above $70 a barrel because of concerns about a spike in Middle Eastern tensions.</p>
<p>"It ended up being a very measured attack," said John Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital Management in New York. "The greater fears of the oil market of this spilling into a greater conflict that could involve Iran and Saudi Arabia has not and will not come to pass."</p>
<p>World stocks wobbled last week but still ended with the best weekly gain in over a month, as investors await potentially healthy U.S. company earnings.</p>
<p>Despite heightened geopolitical risks, the impact on so-called safe-haven assets has been short-lived and modest. While the yen rose initially on fears of a Syrian strike, it ended near seven-week lows to the dollar last week.</p>
<p>On Saturday, U.S., French and British missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria's chemical weapons program in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack a week ago, although the assault appeared unlikely to halt Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's progress in the seven-year-old civil war.</p> ADVERTISING
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<p>(For map of Syrian strikes, see <a href="https://tmsnrt.rs/2EKgAMN" type="external">tmsnrt.rs/2EKgAMN</a>)</p>
<p>The bombing, denounced by Damascus and its allies as an illegal act of aggression, was the biggest intervention by Western countries against Assad and his powerful ally Russia.</p>
<p>But the three countries said the strikes were limited to Syria's chemical weapons capabilities and not aimed at toppling Assad or intervening in the civil war.</p>
<p>Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at Think Markets, said gold was poised to gain on Monday but the rally would not be very steep: "The focus will be on the counter-reaction from Russia."</p>
<p>Gold, often used as a store of value in times of political and economic uncertainty, could rally toward $1,400 per ounce after two consecutive weeks of gains.</p> FILE PHOTO: Syrians wave Iranian, Russian and Syrian flags during a protest against U.S.-led air strikes in Damascus, Syria April 14, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
<p>"If we do break above $1,365, that next week we would be very bullish," said Aslam.</p>
<p>Tokyo will be the first major market to open on Monday and the yen will likely strengthen to the dollar, but not beyond 106.50, said Itsuo Toshima, market analyst at Toshima &amp; Associates, adding that he did not expect stocks traders to make sharp moves.</p>
<p>"The first attack was within expectations and was already priced in the market. ... However, if there is a second round of strikes, that is not in line with expectations. So that should prompt a sharp risk-off move in markets," he added.</p>
<p>Frank Benzimra, head of global markets for Asia Pacific at Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking, said stocks would plunge only in case of new strikes by Western powers.</p>
<p>In case of such an escalation, oil would rally further, the yen would spike and Japan's domestic defensive stocks would outperform international stocks.</p>
<p>"For the stress on Asia equity markets to be sustainable, we would need to have oil prices spiking to such a level that fundamental concerns, i.e. higher inflation and risks on growth, return to the market," he said.</p>
<p>Amrita Sen from Energy Aspects said that despite Middle Eastern tensions and looming new U.S. sanctions on Iran, oil had outperformed most expectations this year and may have rallied too far too fast.</p>
<p>"We are likely to get a sell-off this week as the extent of the Syrian strikes have been muted and, in general, calmer nerves prevail in Washington," she said.</p>
<p>Oil traders had locked in long positions ahead of the weekend, in anticipation of potential strikes, sending both West Texas Intermediate CLc1 and global benchmark Brent LCOc1 crude futures to their highest since 2014.</p>
<p>Reporting by Jan Harvey in London and Jessica Resnick-Ault in New York; Additional reporting by Vidya Ranganathan, Sujata Rao and Dmitry Zhdannikov; Editing by David Evans and Peter Cooney</p> Our Standards:
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<p>LONDON (Reuters) - Oil fell nearly 2 percent on Monday after U.S. drilling activity rose and fears waned about escalating tensions in the Middle East following air strikes on Syria over the weekend.</p> FILE PHOTO: Oil pumping facilities are seen at Venezuela's western Maracaibo lake in Venezuela, November 5, 2007. REUTERS/Isaac Urrutia/File Photo
<p>The United States, France and Britain launched 105 missiles on Saturday, targeting what they said were three chemical weapons facilities in Syria in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack on April 7.</p>
<p>The oil price had risen nearly 10 percent in the run-up to the strikes, as investors bulked up on assets, such as gold or U.S. Treasuries, that can shield against geopolitical risks.</p>
<p>By 0851 GMT on Monday, Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 slipped $1.34 to $71.24 a barrel, while U.S. crude futures CLc1 were down $1.16 at $66.23 a barrel.</p>
<p>"As far as developments in Syria are concerned, the market has had a sigh of relief in the sense that there is no escalation, either diplomatically, or on the ground, following the intervention by the U.S., France and the UK," said BNP Paribas global head of commodity market strategy Harry Tchilinguirian.</p>
<p>"As a macro asset-allocator, if you want to hedge your portfolio against geopolitical risk, your prime candidate is oil, especially if that risk is in the Middle East."</p>
<p>Although Syria itself is not a significant oil producer, the wider Middle East is the world's most important crude exporter and tension in the region tends to put oil markets on edge.</p>
<p>"Investors continued to worry about the impact of a wider conflict in the Middle East," ANZ bank said.</p> ADVERTISING
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<p>Fund managers hold more Brent futures and options than at any time since records began in 2011, according to data from the InterContinental Exchange.</p>
<p>Investors have added to their bullish positions in Brent, which now equal nearly 640 million barrels of oil, in nine out of the last 10 months, in part thanks to the premium of the front-month futures contract over those for delivery at a later date, known as "backwardation".</p>
<p>Backwardation makes it profitable to retain a bullish position in oil futures.</p>
<p>Aside from a flurry of profit-taking after the air strikes, oil also came under some pressure from another rise in U.S. drilling activity.</p>
<p>U.S. energy companies added seven rigs in the week to April 13, bringing the total to 815, the highest since March 2015, and nearly 20 percent higher than a year ago, services firm Baker Hughes said on Friday.</p>
<p>Despite this, Brent is still up more than 16 percent from its 2018 low in February.</p>
<p>Additional reporting by Henning Gloystein and Roslan Khasawneh in Singapore; Editing by Edmund Blair</p> Our Standards:
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jan 18 reuters guangdong hybribio biotech co ltd says fully buy kunmingbased 70 percent owned medical examination firm taiyuanbased 85 percent owned medical examination firm 23 million yuan total source text chinese googlhbkvbv company coverage beijing headline news standards thomson reuters trust principles frankfurt reuters deutsche bank dbkgnde asked european central bank supervisors calculate potential costs winding investment banking operations source told reuters sunday file photo statue pictured next logo germanys deutsche bank frankfurt germany september 30 2016 reuterskai pfaffenbachfile photo germanys biggest lender calculating financial effects potential move quit investment banking time move related switch deutsche banks top management position last sunday retail banking expert christian sewing appointed replace chief executive john cryan deutsche bank ag 117 dbkgnde xetra 003 027 dbkgnde point exercise estimate value deutsche banks capital market derivatives business would develop bank exit abruptly new business source said condition named matter confidential deutsche bank said routinely calculates consequences orderly windingdown positions trading books regulators ecb declined comment germanys daily newspaper sueddeutsche zeitung first report deutsche banks explorations induced ecb saying lenders face similar requests later stage deutsche bank already middle global review investment bank known internally project colombo determine way forward revenues shrink clients staff leave reporting hans seidenstuecker additional reporting frank siebelt writing andreas cremer editing kathrin jones david evans standards thomson reuters trust principles new york reuters goldman sachs group inc bought clarity money personal finance startup bolster marcus online lending business said sunday goldman sachs sign displayed inside companys post floor new york stock exchange nyse new york us april 18 2017 reutersbrendan mcdermid buying clarity money free app helps consumers manage personal finances expected add 1 million customers financial service firms marcus business marcus offers tools help customers save borrow clarity money rebranded marcus goldman sachs time company said terms disclosed goldman launched marcus october 2016 way court main street borrowers saddled credit card debt offers loans 3500 40000 targets credit card borrowers benefit consolidating debt single loan lower interest rate gs bank subsidiary goldman sachs making acquisition clarity money ceo adam dell join goldman sachs partner version story corrects paragraph 4 say marcus offers loans 40000 30000 reporting jessica resnickault editing nick zieminski standards thomson reuters trust principles londonnew york reuters gold oil traded slightly lower markets opened first time since western powers launched missile attack syria equities unlikely experience big losses unless west strikes russia retaliates file photo syrian firefighter seen inside destroyed scientific research centre damascus syria april 14 2018 reutersomar sanadiki news flow actually better looked like one point last week strike surgical followed pullback reports show lot care taken hit russian targets good sign market take heart said salman ahmed chief investment strategist lombard odier investment managers london speaking trading resumed spot gold major crude benchmarks eased slightly market reacted military actions weekend treasuries also weakened equities rose gold benefited recent days safehaven asset amid uschina trade dispute escalating conflict syria also pushed oil 70 barrel concerns spike middle eastern tensions ended measured attack said john kilduff partner capital management new york greater fears oil market spilling greater conflict could involve iran saudi arabia come pass world stocks wobbled last week still ended best weekly gain month investors await potentially healthy us company earnings despite heightened geopolitical risks impact socalled safehaven assets shortlived modest yen rose initially fears syrian strike ended near sevenweek lows dollar last week saturday us french british missile attacks struck heart syrias chemical weapons program retaliation suspected poison gas attack week ago although assault appeared unlikely halt syrian president bashar alassads progress sevenyearold civil war advertising inread invented teads advertising inread invented teads map syrian strikes see tmsnrtrs2ekgamn bombing denounced damascus allies illegal act aggression biggest intervention western countries assad powerful ally russia three countries said strikes limited syrias chemical weapons capabilities aimed toppling assad intervening civil war naeem aslam chief market analyst think markets said gold poised gain monday rally would steep focus counterreaction russia gold often used store value times political economic uncertainty could rally toward 1400 per ounce two consecutive weeks gains file photo syrians wave iranian russian syrian flags protest usled air strikes damascus syria april 14 2018 reutersomar sanadiki break 1365 next week would bullish said aslam tokyo first major market open monday yen likely strengthen dollar beyond 10650 said itsuo toshima market analyst toshima amp associates adding expect stocks traders make sharp moves first attack within expectations already priced market however second round strikes line expectations prompt sharp riskoff move markets added frank benzimra head global markets asia pacific societe generale corporate investment banking said stocks would plunge case new strikes western powers case escalation oil would rally yen would spike japans domestic defensive stocks would outperform international stocks stress asia equity markets sustainable would need oil prices spiking level fundamental concerns ie higher inflation risks growth return market said amrita sen energy aspects said despite middle eastern tensions looming new us sanctions iran oil outperformed expectations year may rallied far fast likely get selloff week extent syrian strikes muted general calmer nerves prevail washington said oil traders locked long positions ahead weekend anticipation potential strikes sending west texas intermediate clc1 global benchmark brent lcoc1 crude futures highest since 2014 reporting jan harvey london jessica resnickault new york additional reporting vidya ranganathan sujata rao dmitry zhdannikov editing david evans peter cooney standards thomson reuters trust principles london reuters oil fell nearly 2 percent monday us drilling activity rose fears waned escalating tensions middle east following air strikes syria weekend file photo oil pumping facilities seen venezuelas western maracaibo lake venezuela november 5 2007 reutersisaac urrutiafile photo united states france britain launched 105 missiles saturday targeting said three chemical weapons facilities syria retaliation suspected poison gas attack april 7 oil price risen nearly 10 percent runup strikes investors bulked assets gold us treasuries shield geopolitical risks 0851 gmt monday brent crude oil futures lcoc1 slipped 134 7124 barrel us crude futures clc1 116 6623 barrel far developments syria concerned market sigh relief sense escalation either diplomatically ground following intervention us france uk said bnp paribas global head commodity market strategy harry tchilinguirian macro assetallocator want hedge portfolio geopolitical risk prime candidate oil especially risk middle east although syria significant oil producer wider middle east worlds important crude exporter tension region tends put oil markets edge investors continued worry impact wider conflict middle east anz bank said advertising inread invented teads advertising inread invented teads fund managers hold brent futures options time since records began 2011 according data intercontinental exchange investors added bullish positions brent equal nearly 640 million barrels oil nine last 10 months part thanks premium frontmonth futures contract delivery later date known backwardation backwardation makes profitable retain bullish position oil futures aside flurry profittaking air strikes oil also came pressure another rise us drilling activity us energy companies added seven rigs week april 13 bringing total 815 highest since march 2015 nearly 20 percent higher year ago services firm baker hughes said friday despite brent still 16 percent 2018 low february additional reporting henning gloystein roslan khasawneh singapore editing edmund blair standards thomson reuters trust principles
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<p>They used security badge access records to track the reporter’s comings and goings from the State Department, according to a newly obtained court affidavit. They traced the timing of his calls with a State Department security adviser suspected of sharing the classified report. They obtained a search warrant for the reporter’s personal emails.</p>
<p>The case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, the government adviser, and James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, bears striking similarities to a sweeping leaks investigation disclosed last week in which federal investigators obtained records over two months of more than 20 telephone lines assigned to The Associated Press.</p>
<p>At a time when President Barack Obama’s administration is under renewed scrutiny for an unprecedented number of leak investigations, the Kim case provides a rare glimpse into the inner workings of one such probe.</p>
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<p>Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist – and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010. The case also raises new concerns among critics of government secrecy about the possible stifling effect of these investigations on a critical element of press freedom: the exchange of information between reporters and their sources.</p>
<p>“Search warrants like these have a severe chilling effect on the free flow of important information to the public,” said First Amendment lawyer Charles Tobin, who has represented The Associated Press, but not in the current case. “That’s a very dangerous road to go down.”</p>
<p>Obama last week defended the Justice Department’s handling of the investigation involving the AP, which is focused on who leaked information to the news organization about a foiled plot involving the al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen. AP executives and First Amendment watchdogs have criticized the Justice Department in part for the broad scope of the phone records it secretly subpoenaed from AP offices in Washington, Hartford, Conn., and New York.</p>
<p>“The latest events show an expansion of this law enforcement technique,” said attorney Abbe Lowell, who is defending Kim on federal charges filed in 2010 that he disclosed national defense information. A trial is tentatively scheduled for 2014. “Individual reporters or small time periods have turned into 20 (telephone) lines and months of records with no obvious attempt to be targeted or narrow.”</p>
<p>The president said press freedoms must be balanced against the protection of U.S. personnel overseas. According to the office of Ronald Machen, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, its prosecutors followed federal regulations by first seeking the information through other means before subpoenaing media phone records. Machen’s office is investigating both the Kim and AP cases. The Justice Department said in a statement that in both cases it had abided by “all applicable laws, regulations, and longstanding Department of Justice policies intended to safeguard the First Amendment interests of the press in reporting the news and the public in receiving it.”</p>
<p>The Obama administration has pursued more such cases than all previous administrations combined, including one against a former CIA official charged with leaking U.S. intelligence on Iran and another against a former FBI contract linguist who pleaded guilty to leaking to a blogger.</p>
<p>The Kim case began in June 2009, when Rosen reported that U.S. intelligence officials were warning that North Korea was likely to respond to United Nations sanctions with more nuclear tests. The CIA had learned the information, Rosen wrote, from sources inside North Korea.</p>
<p>The story was published online the same day that a top-secret report was made available to a small circle within the intelligence community – including Kim, who at the time was a State Department arms expert with security clearance.</p>
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<p>FBI investigators used the security-badge data, phone records and email exchanges to build a case that Kim shared the report with Rosen soon after receiving it, court records show.</p>
<p>In the documents, FBI agent Reginald Reyes described in detail how Kim and Rosen moved in and out of the State Department headquarters at 2201 C St. NW a few hours before the story was published on June 11, 2009.</p>
<p>“Mr. Kim departed DoS at or around 12:02 p.m. followed shortly thereafter by the reporter at or around 12:03 p.m.,” Reyes wrote. Next, the agent said, “Mr. Kim returned to DoS at or around 12:26 p.m. followed shortly thereafter by the reporter at or around 12:30 p.m.”</p>
<p>The activity, Reyes wrote in an affidavit, suggested a “face-to-face” meeting between the two men. “Within a few hours after those nearly simultaneous exits and entries at DoS, the June 2009 article was published on the Internet,” he wrote.</p>
<p>The court documents don’t name Rosen, but his identity was confirmed by several officials and he is the author of the article at the center of the investigation. Rosen and a spokeswoman for Fox News did not return phone and email messages seeking comment.</p>
<p>Reyes wrote that there was evidence Rosen had broken the law, “at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator.” That fact distinguishes his case from the probe of the AP, in which the news organization is not the likely target.</p>
<p>Using italics for emphasis, Reyes explained how Rosen allegedly used a “covert communications plan” and quoted from an email exchange between Rosen and Kim that seems to describe a secret system for passing along information.</p>
<p>In the exchange, Rosen used the alias “Leo” to address Kim and called himself “Alex,” an apparent reference to Alexander Butterfield, the man best known for running the secret recording system in the Nixon White House, according to the affidavit.</p>
<p>Rosen instructed Kim to send him coded signals on his Google account, according to a quote from his email in the affidavit: “One asterisk means to contact them, or that previously suggested plans for communication are to proceed as agreed; two asterisks means the opposite.”</p>
<p>He also wrote, according to the affidavit: “What I am interested in, as you might expect, is breaking news ahead of my competitors” including “what intelligence is picking up.” And: “I’d love to see some internal State Department analyses.”</p>
<p>Court documents show abundant evidence gathered from Kim’s office computer and phone records, but investigators said they needed to go a step further to build their case, seizing two days’ worth of Rosen’s personal emails – and all of his email exchanges with Kim.</p>
<p>Privacy protections limit searching or seizing a reporter’s work, but not when there is evidence that the journalist broke the law against unauthorized leaks. A federal judge signed off on the search warrant – agreeing that there was probable cause that Rosen was a co-conspirator.</p>
<p>Machen’s office said in a statement that it is limited in commenting on an open case, but that the government “exhausted all reasonable non-media alternatives for collecting the evidence” before seeking a search warrant.</p>
<p>However, it remains an open question whether it’s ever illegal, given the First Amendment’s protection of press freedom, for a reporter to solicit information. No reporter, including Rosen, has been prosecuted for doing so.</p>
<p>In the hours before Rosen’s story was published, Kim was one of more than 95 people who saw the intelligence report through a classified database, according to court documents.</p>
<p>Kim’s phone records showed that seven calls lasting from 18 seconds to more than 11 minutes were placed between Kim’s desk telephone and Rosen’s cellphone and desk phone at the State Department, according to the court documents. Investigators pulled at least two months of phone records from Kim’s desk and found 36 calls with numbers associated with Rosen.</p>
<p>Investigators also scrutinized computer records and found that someone who had logged in with Kim’s user profile viewed the classified report “at or around” the same time two calls were placed from his desk phone to Rosen, according to the documents.</p>
<p>Two months later on an August evening, diplomatic security secretly entered Kim’s office and found a copy of Rosen’s article next to his computer. Kim, who worked in a secure facility, was subject to daily office inspections. The Fox News article was also in “plain view” during follow-up visits in late September.</p>
<p>Kim initially told the FBI in an interview that month that he had met the reporter in March but had not had contact since. Later, Kim admitted to additional contacts, according to the affidavit.</p>
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used security badge access records track reporters comings goings state department according newly obtained court affidavit traced timing calls state department security adviser suspected sharing classified report obtained search warrant reporters personal emails case stephen jinwoo kim government adviser james rosen chief washington correspondent fox news bears striking similarities sweeping leaks investigation disclosed last week federal investigators obtained records two months 20 telephone lines assigned associated press time president barack obamas administration renewed scrutiny unprecedented number leak investigations kim case provides rare glimpse inner workings one probe advertisement court documents kim case reveal deeply investigators explored private communications working journalist raise question often journalists investigated closely rosen 2010 case also raises new concerns among critics government secrecy possible stifling effect investigations critical element press freedom exchange information reporters sources search warrants like severe chilling effect free flow important information public said first amendment lawyer charles tobin represented associated press current case thats dangerous road go obama last week defended justice departments handling investigation involving ap focused leaked information news organization foiled plot involving alqaida affiliate yemen ap executives first amendment watchdogs criticized justice department part broad scope phone records secretly subpoenaed ap offices washington hartford conn new york latest events show expansion law enforcement technique said attorney abbe lowell defending kim federal charges filed 2010 disclosed national defense information trial tentatively scheduled 2014 individual reporters small time periods turned 20 telephone lines months records obvious attempt targeted narrow president said press freedoms must balanced protection us personnel overseas according office ronald machen us attorney district columbia prosecutors followed federal regulations first seeking information means subpoenaing media phone records machens office investigating kim ap cases justice department said statement cases abided applicable laws regulations longstanding department justice policies intended safeguard first amendment interests press reporting news public receiving obama administration pursued cases previous administrations combined including one former cia official charged leaking us intelligence iran another former fbi contract linguist pleaded guilty leaking blogger kim case began june 2009 rosen reported us intelligence officials warning north korea likely respond united nations sanctions nuclear tests cia learned information rosen wrote sources inside north korea story published online day topsecret report made available small circle within intelligence community including kim time state department arms expert security clearance advertisement fbi investigators used securitybadge data phone records email exchanges build case kim shared report rosen soon receiving court records show documents fbi agent reginald reyes described detail kim rosen moved state department headquarters 2201 c st nw hours story published june 11 2009 mr kim departed dos around 1202 pm followed shortly thereafter reporter around 1203 pm reyes wrote next agent said mr kim returned dos around 1226 pm followed shortly thereafter reporter around 1230 pm activity reyes wrote affidavit suggested facetoface meeting two men within hours nearly simultaneous exits entries dos june 2009 article published internet wrote court documents dont name rosen identity confirmed several officials author article center investigation rosen spokeswoman fox news return phone email messages seeking comment reyes wrote evidence rosen broken law least either aider abettor andor coconspirator fact distinguishes case probe ap news organization likely target using italics emphasis reyes explained rosen allegedly used covert communications plan quoted email exchange rosen kim seems describe secret system passing along information exchange rosen used alias leo address kim called alex apparent reference alexander butterfield man best known running secret recording system nixon white house according affidavit rosen instructed kim send coded signals google account according quote email affidavit one asterisk means contact previously suggested plans communication proceed agreed two asterisks means opposite also wrote according affidavit interested might expect breaking news ahead competitors including intelligence picking id love see internal state department analyses court documents show abundant evidence gathered kims office computer phone records investigators said needed go step build case seizing two days worth rosens personal emails email exchanges kim privacy protections limit searching seizing reporters work evidence journalist broke law unauthorized leaks federal judge signed search warrant agreeing probable cause rosen coconspirator machens office said statement limited commenting open case government exhausted reasonable nonmedia alternatives collecting evidence seeking search warrant however remains open question whether ever illegal given first amendments protection press freedom reporter solicit information reporter including rosen prosecuted hours rosens story published kim one 95 people saw intelligence report classified database according court documents kims phone records showed seven calls lasting 18 seconds 11 minutes placed kims desk telephone rosens cellphone desk phone state department according court documents investigators pulled least two months phone records kims desk found 36 calls numbers associated rosen investigators also scrutinized computer records found someone logged kims user profile viewed classified report around time two calls placed desk phone rosen according documents two months later august evening diplomatic security 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<p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As more people opt to continue working past the age at which they are eligible for Medicare, a new report draws attention to dilemmas they face in choosing coverage.</p>
<p>The report, released in November by the nonprofit Medicare Rights Center, shows how those who delay enrolling in parts of Medicare because they are covered by an employer plan or other health insurance, can face gaps in coverage and/or costly penalties.</p>
<p>“Our piece of advice is: Don’t make a decision alone. You should definitely reach out to a counselor, your local Social Security office, a state help line or our help line to discuss your particular situation, so you don’t make a mistake,” said Stacy Sanders, federal policy director at the Medicare Rights Center.</p>
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<p>Retirees who are collecting Social Security are automatically enrolled in Medicare Parts A and B when they turn 65.</p>
<p>People who continue working past their 65th birthday must actively enroll in Medicare. You will not get a reminder that you are due to enroll.</p>
<p>You have a seven-month period for initial enrollment that covers the three months before you turn 65, the month of your 65th birthday and the three months following that date.</p>
<p>Those who continue working beyond 65 and have employer-provided coverage, also will be able to sign up during a “special enrollment period” within eight months after they retire.</p>
<p>“The complexity is that you’re being thrown all these choices,” says PNM retiree Lynne Andreone. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)</p>
<p>Even for those who don’t face penalties, the process can be confusing.</p>
<p>“It’s a very complicated decision-making process, because there are a lot of different options out there,” said Lynne Andreone who retired from Public Service Company of New Mexico a couple of years ago.</p>
<p>As long as you have worked for at least 10 years, Medicare Part A, which covers hospital care, skilled nursing facility care, hospice and home health services, is premium-free and there is no penalty for delaying enrollment past age 65.</p>
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<p>However, there is a monthly premium for Medicare Part B, which covers costs like lab tests, doctor visits, wheelchairs and ambulance services.</p>
<p>Because of that cost, currently about $105 a month, many Medicare-eligible people who are still working or who have retiree health coverage delay enrolling in Part B – a decision that can have dire consequences, according to the report.</p>
<p>Penalties are also a risk if an individual delays enrolling in Medicare Part D, which covers prescription drug costs.</p>
<p>The penalties are intended to encourage people newly eligible for Medicare to enroll in the program so that a younger, healthier population balances out the risk pool, the report said.</p>
<p>The penalty for not enrolling in Part B during initial enrollment or within eight months of retirement accrues at 10 percent of the current Part B premium for every year the person could have been, but was not enrolled in, Part B.</p>
<p>The report gives an example of a woman who turned 65 in 2007 but delayed signing up for Part B until 2013. Her premium was 60 percent higher than it otherwise would have been if she hadn’t delayed.</p>
<p>Andreone retired from PNM and started receiving Social Security before she turned 65. She was automatically enrolled in Medicare Parts A and B. PNM also offered supplemental coverage for retirees that would pick up most of the costs not covered by Medicare. Andreone said it was hard to figure out the best combination.</p>
<p>“The complexity is that you’re being thrown all these choices,” she said.</p>
<p>Sanders said it’s critical that people understand the rules governing coordination of benefits between Medicare and your employer or retiree health coverage and the periods when they can enroll. It typically takes a few months after enrollment for coverage to kick in.</p>
<p>Medicare rules say if you are working for a company with more than 20 employees and are covered by the company’s health plan, that insurance is considered primary coverage, or the first insurance to be billed when you incur medical costs. Medicare is the secondary provider.</p>
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<p>If you work for a company with fewer than 20 employees, Medicare is the primary coverage and the employer plan is secondary. The same applies to those who have retiree health benefits or COBRA coverage for workers who lose access to an employer-sponsored plan.</p>
<p>The report cites the case of a man who declined Part B because he had coverage through a retiree plan offered by his former employer. When he had a health problem and ran up large bills, he found the retiree plan was considered secondary coverage and he had no insurance for the lion’s share of the costs.</p>
<p>Those eligible for Medicare can also buy coverage through Medicare Advantage plans offered by private insurers, said Jim Decker, director of sales for Medicare and individual plans for Presbyterian Health Plan.</p>
<p>He said Medicare Advantage plans offer Parts A and B coverage and most have coverage for prescription drugs. Decker called it a “one-stop shop” option.</p>
<p>“Most people who are still working would not choose a Medicare Advantage plan until they retire since it would likely provide duplicative coverage,” said Katherine Fitzpatrick of the Medicare Rights Center.</p>
<p>She said you can switch into or out of a Medicare Advantage plan once a year during the Medicare open enrollment period in the fall. You will not incur penalties for enrolling or not enrolling in a Medicare Advantage plan, Fitzpatrick said.</p>
<p>Enrollment deadlines also play a critical role in coverage. Sanders advises people to start researching Medicare options at least six months before they turn 65.</p>
<p>Sanders and the other authors of the report predict the number of people faced with complex Medicare choices will increase.</p>
<p>They cite a 2010 study by the Pew Research Center that said beginning on Jan. 1, 2011 10,000 Baby Boomers would turn 65 every day. A study by the Urban Institute projects that workers 55 years and older will represent 25 percent of the labor force by 2019.</p>
<p>Where to get help</p>
<p>“It’s a combination of a growing aging population and a population that’s working longer,” Sanders said, “More people are turning 65 and not collecting Social Security benefits. So fewer people are auto-enrolled in Medicare and have to make a choice,” she said.</p>
<p>“I think a lot of people don’t quite understand the choices,” said Gino Rinaldi, cabinet secretary for the state Aging and Long-Term Services Department.</p>
<p>His department runs the State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) which helps answer all health insurance questions, including Medicare and Medicaid.</p>
<p>Rinaldi said his department gets several calls a year from people who are shocked when they are hit by penalties.</p>
<p>His advice is, take preventive action.</p>
<p>“The moral of the story is you need to sign up before you lose that opportunity,” Rinaldi said.</p>
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russ ballalbuquerque journal albuquerque nm people opt continue working past age eligible medicare new report draws attention dilemmas face choosing coverage report released november nonprofit medicare rights center shows delay enrolling parts medicare covered employer plan health insurance face gaps coverage andor costly penalties piece advice dont make decision alone definitely reach counselor local social security office state help line help line discuss particular situation dont make mistake said stacy sanders federal policy director medicare rights center advertisement retirees collecting social security automatically enrolled medicare parts b turn 65 people continue working past 65th birthday must actively enroll medicare get reminder due enroll sevenmonth period initial enrollment covers three months turn 65 month 65th birthday three months following date continue working beyond 65 employerprovided coverage also able sign special enrollment period within eight months retire complexity youre thrown choices says pnm retiree lynne andreone adolphe pierrelouisalbuquerque journal even dont face penalties process confusing complicated decisionmaking process lot different options said lynne andreone retired public service company new mexico couple years ago long worked least 10 years medicare part covers hospital care skilled nursing facility care hospice home health services premiumfree penalty delaying enrollment past age 65 tips making medicare choices advertisement however monthly premium medicare part b covers costs like lab tests doctor visits wheelchairs ambulance services cost currently 105 month many medicareeligible people still working retiree health coverage delay enrolling part b decision dire consequences according report penalties also risk individual delays enrolling medicare part covers prescription drug costs penalties intended encourage people newly eligible medicare enroll program younger healthier population balances risk pool report said penalty enrolling part b initial enrollment within eight months retirement accrues 10 percent current part b premium every year person could enrolled part b report gives example woman turned 65 2007 delayed signing part b 2013 premium 60 percent higher otherwise would hadnt delayed andreone retired pnm started receiving social security turned 65 automatically enrolled medicare parts b pnm also offered supplemental coverage retirees would pick costs covered medicare andreone said hard figure best combination complexity youre thrown choices said sanders said critical people understand rules governing coordination benefits medicare employer retiree health coverage periods enroll typically takes months enrollment coverage kick medicare rules say working company 20 employees covered companys health plan insurance considered primary coverage first insurance billed incur medical costs medicare secondary provider medicare enrollment work company fewer 20 employees medicare primary coverage employer plan secondary applies retiree health benefits cobra coverage workers lose access employersponsored plan report cites case man declined part b coverage retiree plan offered former employer health problem ran large bills found retiree plan considered secondary coverage insurance lions share costs eligible medicare also buy coverage medicare advantage plans offered private insurers said jim decker director sales medicare individual plans presbyterian health plan said medicare advantage plans offer parts b coverage coverage prescription drugs decker called onestop shop option people still working would choose medicare advantage plan retire since would likely provide duplicative coverage said katherine fitzpatrick medicare rights center said switch medicare advantage plan year medicare open enrollment period fall incur penalties enrolling enrolling medicare advantage plan fitzpatrick said enrollment deadlines also play critical role coverage sanders advises people start researching medicare options least six months turn 65 sanders authors report predict number people faced complex medicare choices increase cite 2010 study pew research center said beginning jan 1 2011 10000 baby boomers would turn 65 every day study urban institute projects workers 55 years older represent 25 percent labor force 2019 get help combination growing aging population population thats working longer sanders said people turning 65 collecting social security benefits fewer people autoenrolled medicare make choice said think lot people dont quite understand choices said gino rinaldi cabinet secretary state aging longterm services department department runs state health insurance assistance program ship helps answer health insurance questions including medicare medicaid rinaldi said department gets several calls year people shocked hit penalties advice take preventive action moral story need sign lose opportunity rinaldi said
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Five officers involved in two Navy ship collisions last year that killed a total of 17 sailors are being charged with negligent homicide, the Navy said Tuesday.</p>
<p>A Navy spokesman, Capt. Greg Hicks, said the charges, which also include dereliction of duty and endangering a ship, will be presented to what the military calls an Article 32 hearing to determine whether the accused are taken to trial in a court-martial.</p>
<p>The disciplinary actions were decided by Adm. Frank Caldwell and are the latest in a series of moves the Navy has made in the aftermath of the deadly collisions, which investigators concluded were avoidable. It fired several top leaders, including the commander of the 7th Fleet, Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, and several other senior commanders in the Pacific.</p>
<p>The Navy has been reeling from tough questions arising from the two collisions. The destroyer USS Fitzgerald struck a commercial ship off the waters of Japan in June, killing seven U.S. sailors. The destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker in coastal waters off Singapore in August, killing 10 U.S. sailors.</p>
<p>The Navy said it is filing at least three charges against four officers of the Fitzgerald, including the commanding officer, who was Cmdr. Bryce Benson at the time. Benson suffered a head injury in the collision and was airlifted to the U.S. Naval Hospital at Yokosuka, Japan. A Navy investigation found that Benson left the ship's bridge before the collision. Also facing charges are two lieutenants and one lieutenant junior grade, whose names were not disclosed. The Navy said all four face criminal charges, including negligent homicide, dereliction of duty and endangering a ship.</p>
<p>Fewer officers from the McCain are being charged. The Navy said the ship's commander at the time, Cmdr. Alfredo J. Sanchez, is being charged with negligent homicide, dereliction of duty and endangering a ship. A chief petty officer, whose name was not disclosed, faces a charge of dereliction of duty.</p>
<p>In a statement, Hicks said the announcement of charges Tuesday is "not intended to and does not reflect a determination of guilt or innocence related to any offenses. All individuals alleged to have committed misconduct are entitled to a presumption of innocence."</p>
<p>Hicks said that in addition to the criminal charges, additional administrative actions are being taken against unidentified members of both crews, including non-judicial punishment for four from the Fitzgerald and four from the McCain.</p>
<p>As a result of the two deadly accidents, at least eight top Navy officers, including the 7th Fleet commander, were fired from their jobs last year, and a number of other sailors received reprimands or other punishment that was not publicly released. Among the senior officers relieved of duty, in addition to Aucoin, were Rear Adm. Charles Williams and Capt. Jeffrey Bennett. Williams was the commander of Task Force 70, which includes the aircraft carriers, destroyers and cruisers in the 7th Fleet, and Bennett was commander of the destroyer squadron.</p>
<p>In a report released last November, the Navy concluded that the two crashes, as well as a third collision in May and a ship grounding, were all avoidable, and resulted from widespread failures by the crews and commanders who didn't quickly recognize and respond to unfolding emergencies.</p>
<p>A second report called for about 60 recommended changes to address the problems. They ranged from improved training on seamanship, navigation and the use of ship equipment to more basic changes to improve sleep and stress management for sailors.</p>
<p>The extensive training and leadership failures prompted the top Navy officer, Adm. John Richardson, to order all naval commanders around the world to review their staffs and ships to see if they had similar problems.</p>
<p>The Navy's investigation of the two collisions found that in addition to bad judgment, the crews were not adequately prepared.</p>
<p>"In the Navy, the responsibility of the Commanding Officer for his or her ship is absolute," it said. "Many of the decisions made that led to this incident were the result of poor judgment and decision making of the Commanding Officer. That said, no single person bears full responsibility for this incident. The crew was unprepared for the situation in which they found themselves through a lack of preparation, ineffective command and control, and deficiencies in training and preparations for navigation."</p>
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Five officers involved in two Navy ship collisions last year that killed a total of 17 sailors are being charged with negligent homicide, the Navy said Tuesday.</p>
<p>A Navy spokesman, Capt. Greg Hicks, said the charges, which also include dereliction of duty and endangering a ship, will be presented to what the military calls an Article 32 hearing to determine whether the accused are taken to trial in a court-martial.</p>
<p>The disciplinary actions were decided by Adm. Frank Caldwell and are the latest in a series of moves the Navy has made in the aftermath of the deadly collisions, which investigators concluded were avoidable. It fired several top leaders, including the commander of the 7th Fleet, Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, and several other senior commanders in the Pacific.</p>
<p>The Navy has been reeling from tough questions arising from the two collisions. The destroyer USS Fitzgerald struck a commercial ship off the waters of Japan in June, killing seven U.S. sailors. The destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker in coastal waters off Singapore in August, killing 10 U.S. sailors.</p>
<p>The Navy said it is filing at least three charges against four officers of the Fitzgerald, including the commanding officer, who was Cmdr. Bryce Benson at the time. Benson suffered a head injury in the collision and was airlifted to the U.S. Naval Hospital at Yokosuka, Japan. A Navy investigation found that Benson left the ship's bridge before the collision. Also facing charges are two lieutenants and one lieutenant junior grade, whose names were not disclosed. The Navy said all four face criminal charges, including negligent homicide, dereliction of duty and endangering a ship.</p>
<p>Fewer officers from the McCain are being charged. The Navy said the ship's commander at the time, Cmdr. Alfredo J. Sanchez, is being charged with negligent homicide, dereliction of duty and endangering a ship. A chief petty officer, whose name was not disclosed, faces a charge of dereliction of duty.</p>
<p>In a statement, Hicks said the announcement of charges Tuesday is "not intended to and does not reflect a determination of guilt or innocence related to any offenses. All individuals alleged to have committed misconduct are entitled to a presumption of innocence."</p>
<p>Hicks said that in addition to the criminal charges, additional administrative actions are being taken against unidentified members of both crews, including non-judicial punishment for four from the Fitzgerald and four from the McCain.</p>
<p>As a result of the two deadly accidents, at least eight top Navy officers, including the 7th Fleet commander, were fired from their jobs last year, and a number of other sailors received reprimands or other punishment that was not publicly released. Among the senior officers relieved of duty, in addition to Aucoin, were Rear Adm. Charles Williams and Capt. Jeffrey Bennett. Williams was the commander of Task Force 70, which includes the aircraft carriers, destroyers and cruisers in the 7th Fleet, and Bennett was commander of the destroyer squadron.</p>
<p>In a report released last November, the Navy concluded that the two crashes, as well as a third collision in May and a ship grounding, were all avoidable, and resulted from widespread failures by the crews and commanders who didn't quickly recognize and respond to unfolding emergencies.</p>
<p>A second report called for about 60 recommended changes to address the problems. They ranged from improved training on seamanship, navigation and the use of ship equipment to more basic changes to improve sleep and stress management for sailors.</p>
<p>The extensive training and leadership failures prompted the top Navy officer, Adm. John Richardson, to order all naval commanders around the world to review their staffs and ships to see if they had similar problems.</p>
<p>The Navy's investigation of the two collisions found that in addition to bad judgment, the crews were not adequately prepared.</p>
<p>"In the Navy, the responsibility of the Commanding Officer for his or her ship is absolute," it said. "Many of the decisions made that led to this incident were the result of poor judgment and decision making of the Commanding Officer. That said, no single person bears full responsibility for this incident. The crew was unprepared for the situation in which they found themselves through a lack of preparation, ineffective command and control, and deficiencies in training and preparations for navigation."</p>
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washington ap five officers involved two navy ship collisions last year killed total 17 sailors charged negligent homicide navy said tuesday navy spokesman capt greg hicks said charges also include dereliction duty endangering ship presented military calls article 32 hearing determine whether accused taken trial courtmartial disciplinary actions decided adm frank caldwell latest series moves navy made aftermath deadly collisions investigators concluded avoidable fired several top leaders including commander 7th fleet vice adm joseph aucoin several senior commanders pacific navy reeling tough questions arising two collisions destroyer uss fitzgerald struck commercial ship waters japan june killing seven us sailors destroyer uss john mccain collided oil tanker coastal waters singapore august killing 10 us sailors navy said filing least three charges four officers fitzgerald including commanding officer cmdr bryce benson time benson suffered head injury collision airlifted us naval hospital yokosuka japan navy investigation found benson left ships bridge collision also facing charges two lieutenants one lieutenant junior grade whose names disclosed navy said four face criminal charges including negligent homicide dereliction duty endangering ship fewer officers mccain charged navy said ships commander time cmdr alfredo j sanchez charged negligent homicide dereliction duty endangering ship chief petty officer whose name disclosed faces charge dereliction duty statement hicks said announcement charges tuesday intended reflect determination guilt innocence related offenses individuals alleged committed misconduct entitled presumption innocence hicks said addition criminal charges additional administrative actions taken unidentified members crews including nonjudicial punishment four fitzgerald four mccain result two deadly accidents least eight top navy officers including 7th fleet commander fired jobs last year number sailors received reprimands punishment publicly released among senior officers relieved duty addition aucoin rear adm charles williams capt jeffrey bennett williams commander task force 70 includes aircraft carriers destroyers cruisers 7th fleet bennett commander destroyer squadron report released last november navy concluded two crashes well third collision may ship grounding avoidable resulted widespread failures crews commanders didnt quickly recognize respond unfolding emergencies second report called 60 recommended changes address problems ranged improved training seamanship navigation use ship equipment basic changes improve sleep stress management sailors extensive training leadership failures prompted top navy officer adm john richardson order naval commanders around world review staffs ships see similar problems navys investigation two collisions found addition bad judgment crews adequately prepared navy responsibility commanding officer ship absolute said many decisions made led incident result poor judgment decision making commanding officer said single person bears full responsibility incident crew unprepared situation found lack preparation ineffective command control deficiencies training preparations navigation washington ap five officers involved two navy ship collisions last year killed total 17 sailors charged negligent homicide navy said tuesday navy spokesman capt greg hicks said charges also include dereliction duty endangering ship presented military calls article 32 hearing determine whether accused taken trial courtmartial disciplinary actions decided adm frank caldwell latest series moves navy made aftermath deadly collisions investigators concluded avoidable fired several top leaders including commander 7th fleet vice adm joseph aucoin several senior commanders pacific navy reeling tough questions arising two collisions destroyer uss fitzgerald struck commercial ship waters japan june killing seven us sailors destroyer uss john mccain collided oil tanker coastal waters singapore august killing 10 us sailors navy said filing least three charges four officers fitzgerald including commanding officer cmdr bryce benson time benson suffered head injury collision airlifted us naval hospital yokosuka japan navy investigation found benson left ships bridge collision also facing charges two lieutenants one lieutenant junior grade whose names disclosed navy said four face criminal charges including negligent homicide dereliction duty endangering ship fewer officers mccain charged navy said ships commander time cmdr alfredo j sanchez charged negligent homicide dereliction duty endangering ship chief petty officer whose name disclosed faces charge dereliction duty statement hicks said announcement charges tuesday intended reflect determination guilt innocence related offenses individuals alleged committed misconduct entitled presumption innocence hicks said addition criminal charges additional administrative actions taken unidentified members crews including nonjudicial punishment four fitzgerald four mccain result two deadly accidents least eight top navy officers including 7th fleet commander fired jobs last year number sailors received reprimands punishment publicly released among senior officers relieved duty addition aucoin rear adm charles williams capt jeffrey bennett williams commander task force 70 includes aircraft carriers destroyers cruisers 7th fleet bennett commander destroyer squadron report released last november navy concluded two crashes well third collision may ship grounding avoidable resulted widespread failures crews commanders didnt quickly recognize respond unfolding emergencies second report called 60 recommended changes address problems ranged improved training seamanship navigation use ship equipment basic changes improve sleep stress management sailors extensive training leadership failures prompted top navy officer adm john richardson order naval commanders around world review staffs ships see similar problems navys investigation two collisions found addition bad judgment crews adequately prepared navy responsibility commanding officer ship absolute said many decisions made led incident result poor judgment decision making commanding officer said single person bears full responsibility incident crew unprepared situation found lack preparation ineffective command control deficiencies training preparations navigation
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<p>The frustrated federal judge overseeing the Albuquerque Police Department’s reform efforts said he was “tired of the toxicity” as he struck down the city’s recent accusation that the court-appointed monitor is biased against it.</p>
<p>From the bench and in a strong 17-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Robert Brack on Thursday made his most critical statements yet on the city’s role in the three-year reform effort.</p>
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<p>“Let’s hit the reset button,” he said.</p>
<p>The city of Albuquerque earlier this month filed a motion asking for Brack to hold a hearing to determine whether independent monitor James Ginger is biased against the police department.</p>
<p>Brack in his order denying the motion found the “manner in which the City framed” a March 18, 2016, meeting that was video recorded by a senior police commander “comes dangerously close to obstruction of this reform process.”</p>
<p>He ruled that allegations of bias against the department on Ginger’s part were “insufficient to disqualify Dr. Ginger.”</p>
<p>Brack also found that the decision to secretly record Ginger “in order to blindside him later is unacceptable.” He also ordered any other secret recordings of other meetings to be turned over to the court for review.</p>
<p>Brack said he hoped that no one missed the irony that during the secret recording, Ginger was upset about being “blindsided” by city officials who were critical of him during a City Council meeting.</p>
<p>“And at the same time he is being secretly recorded so he could be blindsided later,” Brack said from the bench.</p>
<p>Ginger periodically writes reports outlining Albuquerque Police Department’s progress with reforms. His reports to Brack have been increasingly critical of APD’s efforts, which he oversees for the court based on an agreement between the Department of Justice and the city after a DOJ investigation found APD had a practice and pattern of using excessive force.</p>
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<p>The effort was projected to last four to six years, but Ginger reported that there’s much work left for the police department, which is about to undergo a change in leadership.</p>
<p>Mayor-elect Tim Keller takes office Dec. 1 and Police Chief Gorden Eden is retiring at the end of the month.</p>
<p>In accusing Ginger of bias, the city referred to two specific instances: a recording Assistant Police Chief Robert Huntsman made in March 2016 during a meeting with Ginger. Ginger didn’t know he was being recorded. The city also referred to a recent conversation between an unnamed police employee and a member of the monitoring team, who reportedly said Ginger had an “ax to grind” against the city, according to a sworn affidavit from Eden.</p>
<p>At the end of a daylong court hearing about the monitor’s sixth report and other pending matters, Brack announced that he was denying the city’s motion for a hearing on Ginger’s bias, and that the order was being filed at that time. He added that Huntsman “wasn’t justified” to make the recording and, in doing so, violated the terms of the settlement between the city and the DOJ, which says that officers can only use cameras to make recordings for official law enforcement purposes.</p>
<p>During the meeting that Huntsman recorded, Ginger expressed frustration with City Attorney Jessica Hernandez’s recent appearance before the City Council, where she answered questions about the police reform process at length and at times said she disagreed with the monitor’s findings.</p>
<p>“It’s fine. I can play the game, Jessica. I know how, and we can play it,” Ginger said, according to the recording.</p>
<p>Huntsman then interjected that the reform effort was not a “game to me,” and added that he was concerned for his police department and his community.</p>
<p>“Noble sentiment, chief, one that we all share,” Brack said to Huntsman in court. “But the fact is, you knew you were being recorded when you said it.”</p>
<p>The judge said Ginger’s reference to a game clearly didn’t mean that he wasn’t taking the reform project seriously.</p>
<p>“Ask Alex Bregman is he was serious during Game 7 of the World Series,” Brack said, a reference to the baseball star from Albuquerque.</p>
<p>Brack also took issue with what he said was the city’s effort to manipulate the video before releasing it to the public. A segment of Huntsman’s video that the city provided the Journal was 14 minutes long. The Journal edited the clip down to nine minutes of conversation that was relevant to the city’s motion and posted it to its website.</p>
<p>The city had compared Ginger to a special master and argued that he had to act according to federal rules for judges. Brack disagreed, saying Ginger’s position was as a monitor and his job was to “assess and report.”</p>
<p>Brack continued from the bench to dress down city officials’ recent attempts to undermine the monitor. In addition to the recent motion, several city councilors recently called for Ginger’s billing practices to be audited.</p>
<p>“These games aren’t acceptable,” Brack said. “They are letting a lot of folks down. The officers …. and the citizens deserve better.”</p>
<p>Brack gave little weight to the recent telephone conversation the city referred to, in which someone reportedly said that Ginger had an “ax to grind.”</p>
<p>“A remark, speculating about the monitor’s state of mind, from an unidentified member of the monitoring team to an unidentified staff for APD, as related to APD management, has less than zero evidentiary value,” Brack wrote in his order.</p>
<p>City Attorney Jessica Hernandez said the city filed the motion in good faith.</p>
<p>“The city believed that comment rose to a level of concern that warranted bringing it to the Court’s attention,” she said in a statement after the hearing.</p>
<p>Throughout Thursday’s hearing, the city’s motion against Ginger and the recording that Huntsman made were brought up by many advocates of police reform.</p>
<p>Peter Cubra, an attorney who represents people with a mental illness at the county jail, suggested that the judge grant the city its request for a hearing, but allow the DOJ and other lawyers involved in their case to get to call their own witnesses to try to find out how Albuquerque police have fought reforms.</p>
<p>“The city’s asked for it, let’s give them what they want,” he said. “Let’s see who’s up to what.”</p>
<p>Peter Simonson, the executive director for the ACLU in New Mexico, said such a hearing would only be an attempt to distract the monitor.</p>
<p>“It’s this administration’s parting shot at someone who is holding them accountable,” he said.</p>
<p>Journal staff writer Mike Gallagher contributed to this report.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/364653905/Judge-Brack-s-order-on-the-federal-monitor-s-neutrality#from_embed" type="external">Judge Brack’s order on the federal monitor’s neutrality</a> by <a href="https://www.scribd.com/publisher/5325918/Albuquerque-Journal#from_embed" type="external">Albuquerque Journal</a> on Scribd</p>
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us district judge robert brack copyright 2017 albuquerque journal frustrated federal judge overseeing albuquerque police departments reform efforts said tired toxicity struck citys recent accusation courtappointed monitor biased bench strong 17page ruling us district judge robert brack thursday made critical statements yet citys role threeyear reform effort advertisement lets hit reset button said city albuquerque earlier month filed motion asking brack hold hearing determine whether independent monitor james ginger biased police department brack order denying motion found manner city framed march 18 2016 meeting video recorded senior police commander comes dangerously close obstruction reform process ruled allegations bias department gingers part insufficient disqualify dr ginger brack also found decision secretly record ginger order blindside later unacceptable also ordered secret recordings meetings turned court review brack said hoped one missed irony secret recording ginger upset blindsided city officials critical city council meeting time secretly recorded could blindsided later brack said bench ginger periodically writes reports outlining albuquerque police departments progress reforms reports brack increasingly critical apds efforts oversees court based agreement department justice city doj investigation found apd practice pattern using excessive force advertisement effort projected last four six years ginger reported theres much work left police department undergo change leadership mayorelect tim keller takes office dec 1 police chief gorden eden retiring end month accusing ginger bias city referred two specific instances recording assistant police chief robert huntsman made march 2016 meeting ginger ginger didnt know recorded city also referred recent conversation unnamed police employee member monitoring team reportedly said ginger ax grind city according sworn affidavit eden end daylong court hearing monitors sixth report pending matters brack announced denying citys motion hearing gingers bias order filed time added huntsman wasnt justified make recording violated terms settlement city doj says officers use cameras make recordings official law enforcement purposes meeting huntsman recorded ginger expressed frustration city attorney jessica hernandezs recent appearance city council answered questions police reform process length times said disagreed monitors findings fine play game jessica know play ginger said according recording huntsman interjected reform effort game added concerned police department community noble sentiment chief one share brack said huntsman court fact knew recorded said judge said gingers reference game clearly didnt mean wasnt taking reform project seriously ask alex bregman serious game 7 world series brack said reference baseball star albuquerque brack also took issue said citys effort manipulate video releasing public segment huntsmans video city provided journal 14 minutes long journal edited clip nine minutes conversation relevant citys motion posted website city compared ginger special master argued act according federal rules judges brack disagreed saying gingers position monitor job assess report brack continued bench dress city officials recent attempts undermine monitor addition recent motion several city councilors recently called gingers billing practices audited games arent acceptable brack said letting lot folks officers citizens deserve better brack gave little weight recent telephone conversation city referred someone reportedly said ginger ax grind remark speculating monitors state mind unidentified member monitoring team unidentified staff apd related apd management less zero evidentiary value brack wrote order city attorney jessica hernandez said city filed motion good faith city believed comment rose level concern warranted bringing courts attention said statement hearing throughout thursdays hearing citys motion ginger recording huntsman made brought many advocates police reform peter cubra attorney represents people mental illness county jail suggested judge grant city request hearing allow doj lawyers involved case get call witnesses try find albuquerque police fought reforms citys asked lets give want said lets see whos peter simonson executive director aclu new mexico said hearing would attempt distract monitor administrations parting shot someone holding accountable said journal staff writer mike gallagher contributed report judge bracks order federal monitors neutrality albuquerque journal scribd
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<p>KLOSTER BANZ, Germany, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The German state of Bavaria could sell its 1.44 percent stake in energy firm E.ON to fund the development of new housing, its finance minister Markus Soeder said on Thursday.</p>
<p>A sale of the stake, worth 285 million euros ($349 million) based on E.ON’s current market capitalisation, has not yet been decided, he added. ($1 = 0.8171 euros) (Reporting by Joern Poltz; Writing by Christoph Steitz; Editing by Maria Sheahan)</p> Our Standards:
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<p>PRAGUE (Reuters) - Milos Forman, the Czech-born movie director who found fame in Hollywood with the Oscar-winning classics “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus,” has died at the age of 86.</p>
<p>Forman passed away on Friday in the United States, where he lived, after a short illness, his wife, Martina, told Czech news agency CTK on Saturday.</p>
<p>“His departure was calm and he was surrounded the whole time by his family and his closest friends,” she said.</p>
<p>Forman was born in the Czech town of Caslav on Feb. 18, 1932. He moved to the United States after the Communist crackdown on the “Prague Spring” uprising in 1968 and became a U.S. citizen in the 1970s.</p>
<p>“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” in which a psychiatric institution becomes a microcosm of the contemporary world, and “Amadeus,” the life of 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the eyes of his rival Antonio Salieri, earned 13 Oscars between them, including those for best director to Forman.</p>
<p>His other notable work included the rock musical “Hair” in 1979, “Ragtime” in 1981 and “The People vs Larry Flynt” in 1996, which was nominated for an Academy Award that year.</p>
<p>Jim Carrey, star of Forman’s 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic “Man on the Moon”, said on Twitter: “Another great one passes through the doorway. Milos Foreman. What a force. A lovely man. I’m glad we got to play together. It was a monumental experience.”</p>
<p>Larry Karaszewski, the co-writer for “Man on the Moon” and “The People vs Larry Flynt”, called Forman a master filmmaker.</p>
<p>“No one better at capturing small unrepeatable moments of human behavior,” he said on Twitter. “Milos loved life. I will miss his laughter.”</p> FILE PHOTO: Czech director Milos Forman talks after being presented with the 'Giraldillo' award for his life-long career achievements at Sevilla Festival Film in Seville, Spain November 6, 2004. REUTERS/Marcelo Del Pozo/File photo NEW WAVE
<p>Before emigrating, Forman studied at the Prague Film Academy (FAMU) and was a leading figure of the Czechoslovak New Wave film movement, along with directors Ivan Passer, Vera Chytilova and others.</p>
<p>He was raised an orphan after both his parents died in concentration camps during World War Two.</p>
<p>His films, such as 1964’s “Black Peter” and the 1967 communist satire “The Fireman’s Ball”, were banned for a time in the former Czechoslovakia.</p>
<p>When Soviet tanks rumbled into Prague in August 1968, Forman was in Paris for negotiations on his first American production and was fired by his Czech studio, leading him to emigrate. The film Taking Off - a look at youth protest movements - found critical acclaim but little financial success</p> Slideshow (4 Images)
<p>He remained connected to his birth country, filming Amadeus there.</p>
<p>Married three times, Forman met his third wife Martina - a writer three decades his junior - in Prague in the 1990s. He was father to two sets of twin boys, with his second and third wives.</p>
<p>Jan Hrebejk, a leading Czech film director and a friend and former classmate of Forman’s wife Martina, told Reuters the director was a gifted storyteller and a great person.</p>
<p>“In his films you can see the author,” he said. “When you watch them it’s as if that person is speaking to you, as the maker; not many people can do that.”</p>
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<p>PARIS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned of a humanitarian disaster in the rebel-controlled Syrian city of Idlib, which could be a next target of the Syrian army.</p> FILE PHOTO - People inspect the damage at a site hit by airstrikes in the rebel-held city of Idlib, Syria February 7, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah
<p>The northwestern Idlib region remains the largest populated area of Syria in the hands of insurgents fighting the Damascus government. In recent years, tens of thousands of fighters and civilians have fled there from parts of the country which the army has recaptured with the help of Russia and Iran.</p>
<p>Le Drian said Idlib now has some 2 million inhabitants, including hundreds of thousands of Syrians evacuated from rebel-held cities taken back by the Syrian regime.</p>
<p>“There is a risk of a new humanitarian disaster. Idlib’s fate must be settled by a political process, which includes disarming the militias,” Le Drian said in an interview with French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche.</p>
<p>Some insurgent officials have said they feared an onslaught against Idlib, which a senior Iranian official has indicated could be the next target.</p>
<p>He added that France would also keep a close eye on the situation in northeastern Syria, which was freed from Islamic State with French help.</p>
<p>“Let’s not forget that our principal enemy remains Islamic State, as well as other terrorist groups which are currently regrouping in the east of the country,” Le Drian said.</p>
<p>The insurgents controlling Idlib include both jihadist factions and nationalist FSA rebels. The dominant force there is Hayat Tahrir al Sham, an Islamist alliance spearheaded by the former al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.</p>
<p>Le Drian also said Russia was denying reality in Syria and that its protection of Bashar al-Assad could not be justified.</p>
<p>“There is a denial of reality, and he have seen this several times. Already in 2013 and then again in 2017 the Russians denied that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons,” he said.</p>
<p>He said that at the time verification mechanisms already put in place by the United Nations had placed responsibility on the regime.</p>
<p>“It is no wonder that Russia voted against the renewal of this mechanism last autumn,” he said, adding that when France proposed last week to put in place a comparable mechanism, Russia had vetoed it.</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Western powers said on Saturday their missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria’s chemical weapons program, but the restrained assault appeared unlikely to halt Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s progress in the 7-year-old civil war.</p>
<p>The United States, France and Britain launched 105 missiles overnight in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack in Syria a week ago, targeting what the Pentagon said were three chemical weapons facilities, including a research and development center in Damascus’ Barzeh district and two installations near Homs.</p>
<p>The bombing was the biggest intervention by Western countries against Assad and his superpower ally Russia, but the three countries said the strikes were limited to Syria’s chemical weapons capabilities and not aimed at toppling Assad or intervening in the civil war.</p>
<p>The air attack, denounced by Damascus and its allies as an illegal act of aggression, was unlikely to alter the course of a multisided war that has killed at least half a million people.</p>
<p>U.S. President Donald Trump called the operation a success.</p>
<p>He proclaimed on Twitter: “Mission accomplished,” echoing former President George W. Bush, whose use of the same phrase in 2003 to describe the U.S. invasion of Iraq was widely ridiculed as violence there dragged on for years.</p>
<p>“We believe that by hitting Barzeh in particular we’ve attacked the heart of the Syrian chemicals weapon program,” U.S. Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie said at the Pentagon.</p>
<p>However, McKenzie acknowledged elements of the program remain and he could not guarantee that Syria would be unable to conduct a chemical attack in the future.</p> Related Coverage
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<p>The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that Trump told her that if Syria uses poisonous gas again, “The United States is locked and loaded.”</p>
<p>The Western countries said the strikes were aimed at preventing more Syrian chemical weapons attacks after a suspected poison gas attack in Douma on April 7 killed up to 75 people. They blame Assad’s government for the attack.</p>
<p>In Washington, a senior administration official said on Saturday that “while the available information is much greater on the chlorine use, we do have significant information that also points to sarin use” in the attack.</p>
<p>Speaking at a summit in Peru, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence seemed less sure of the use of sarin, saying that Washington may well determine that it was used along with chlorine.</p> ASSAD ‘RESILIENCE’
<p>Ten hours after the missiles hit, smoke was still rising from the remains of five destroyed buildings of the Syrian Scientific Research Center in Barzeh, where a Syrian employee said medical components were developed.</p>
<p>There were no immediate reports of casualties.</p>
<p>Syria released video of the wreckage of a bombed-out research lab, but also of Assad arriving at work as usual, with the caption “Morning of resilience”.</p>
<p>Late on Saturday Syria time, a large explosion was heard in a Syrian government-controlled area in a rural region south of Aleppo, according to the Britain-based war monitor The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Observatory said the cause of the explosion was unknown, as well as its target.</p>
<p>Russian and Iranian military help over the past three years has allowed Assad to crush the rebel threat to topple him.</p>
<p>The United States, Britain and France have all participated in the Syrian conflict for years, arming rebels, bombing Islamic State fighters and deploying troops on the ground to fight that group. But they have refrained from targeting Assad’s government, apart from a volley of U.S. missiles last year.</p>
<p>Although the Western countries have all said for seven years that Assad must leave power, they held back in the past from striking his government, lacking a wider strategy to defeat him.</p>
<p>Syria and its allies also made clear that they considered the attack a one-off, unlikely to do meaningful harm to Assad.</p>
<p>A senior official in a regional alliance that backs Damascus told Reuters the sites that were targeted had been evacuated days ago thanks to a warning from Russia.</p>
<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the strikes were “unacceptable and lawless.”</p>
<p>Syrian state media called them a “flagrant violation of international law,” while Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called it a crime and the Western leaders criminals.</p>
<p>Russia had promised to respond to any attack on its ally, but the Pentagon said no Russian air defense systems were used. Syria fired 40 unguided surface-to-air missiles - but only after the Western strikes had ended, the Pentagon said.</p>
<p>“We are confident that all of our missiles reached their targets,” McKenzie said.</p>
<p>British Prime Minister Theresa May described the strike as “limited and targeted,” with no intention of toppling Assad or intervening more widely in the war.</p>
<p>Washington described the strike targets as a center near Damascus for the research, development, production and testing of chemical and biological weapons; a chemical weapons storage site near the city of Homs; and another site near Homs that stored chemical weapons equipment and housed a command post.</p>
<p>The Pentagon said there had been chemical weapons agents at one of the targets, and that the strikes had significantly crippled Syria’s ability to produce such weapons.</p>
<p>Trump spoke to May and French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss results of the strikes, the leaders’ offices said.</p> A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer, deployed to Al Udeid Air Base, launches a strike as part of the multinational response to Syria's use of chemical weapons is seen in this image from Al Udeid Air Base, Doha, Qatar released on April 14, 2018. U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS
<p>U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged all Security Council members to exercise restraint and avoid escalation in Syria, but said allegations of chemical weapons use demand an investigation.</p> WEAPONS INSPECTIONS
<p>Inspectors from the global chemical weapons watchdog OPCW were due to try to visit Douma on Saturday to inspect the site of the suspected gas attack. Moscow condemned the Western states for refusing to wait for their findings.</p>
<p>Russia, whose relations with the West have deteriorated to levels of Cold War-era hostility, has denied any gas attack took place in Douma and even accused Britain of staging it to whip up anti-Russian hysteria.</p>
<p>The Western countries took precautions to avoid unexpected conflict with Russia. French Defence Minister Florence Parly said Russians was warned beforehand to avert conflict.</p>
<p>Dmitry Belik, a Russian member of parliament who was in Damascus and witnessed the strikes, told Reuters: “The attack was more of a psychological nature rather than practical. Luckily there are no substantial losses or damages.”</p>
<p>In Douma, site of the suspected gas attack, the last buses were due on Saturday to transport out rebels and their families who agreed to surrender the town, state TV reported. That effectively ends all resistance in the suburbs of Damascus known as eastern Ghouta, marking one of the biggest victories for Assad’s government of the war.</p>
<p>The Western assault involved more missiles than a U.S. attack last year but struck targets limited to Syria’s chemical weapons facilities. The U.S. intervention last year had effectively no impact on the war.</p> Slideshow (18 Images)
<p>Syria agreed in 2013 to give up its chemical weapons after a nerve gas attack killed hundreds of people in Douma. Damascus is still permitted to have chlorine for civilian use, although its use as a weapon is banned. Allegations of Assad’s chlorine use have been frequent during the war although, unlike nerve agents, chlorine did not produce mass casualties as seen last week.</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Twitter praised Western air strikes against the Syrian government on Saturday as “perfectly executed”, and added “Mission Accomplished”.</p>
<p>“A perfectly executed strike last night. Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine Military. Could not have had a better result. Mission Accomplished!” Trump said in a Twitter post.</p>
<p>Trump’s message echoed the words of a banner that hung behind former President George W. Bush when he gave a speech in 2003 from the USS Abraham Lincoln, during the Iraq War.</p>
<p>That visual dogged Bush’s presidency as the war dragged out, with worsening American casualties, for the remainder of his two terms in office.</p> U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement about Syria at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
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airstrikes rebelheld city idlib syria february 7 2017 reutersammar abdullah northwestern idlib region remains largest populated area syria hands insurgents fighting damascus government recent years tens thousands fighters civilians fled parts country army recaptured help russia iran le drian said idlib 2 million inhabitants including hundreds thousands syrians evacuated rebelheld cities taken back syrian regime risk new humanitarian disaster idlibs fate must settled political process includes disarming militias le drian said interview french weekly le journal du dimanche insurgent officials said feared onslaught idlib senior iranian official indicated could next target added france would also keep close eye situation northeastern syria freed islamic state french help lets forget principal enemy remains islamic state well terrorist groups currently regrouping east country le drian said insurgents controlling idlib include jihadist factions nationalist fsa rebels dominant force hayat tahrir al sham islamist alliance spearheaded former alqaeda affiliate syria le drian also said russia denying reality syria protection bashar alassad could justified denial reality seen several times already 2013 2017 russians denied syrian regime used chemical weapons said said time verification mechanisms already put place united nations placed responsibility regime wonder russia voted renewal mechanism last autumn said adding france proposed last week put place comparable mechanism russia vetoed reporting geert de clercqd editing jonathan oatis standards thomson reuters trust principles washingtonbeirut reuters western powers said saturday missile attacks struck heart syrias chemical weapons program restrained assault appeared unlikely halt syrian president bashar alassads progress 7yearold civil war united states france britain launched 105 missiles overnight retaliation suspected poison gas attack syria week ago targeting pentagon said three chemical weapons facilities including research development center damascus barzeh district two installations near homs bombing biggest intervention western countries assad superpower ally russia three countries said strikes limited syrias chemical weapons capabilities aimed toppling assad intervening civil war air attack denounced damascus allies illegal act aggression unlikely alter course multisided war killed least half million people us president donald trump called operation success proclaimed twitter mission accomplished echoing former president george w bush whose use phrase 2003 describe us invasion iraq widely ridiculed violence dragged years believe hitting barzeh particular weve attacked heart syrian chemicals weapon program us lieutenant general kenneth mckenzie said pentagon however mckenzie acknowledged elements program remain could guarantee syria would unable conduct chemical attack future related coverage trump mission accomplished perfectly executed syria strike france warns humanitarian disaster syrian city idlib russia fails un bid condemn usled strikes syria us ambassador united nations nikki haley said emergency meeting un security council trump told syria uses poisonous gas united states locked loaded western countries said strikes aimed preventing syrian chemical weapons attacks suspected poison gas attack douma april 7 killed 75 people blame assads government attack washington senior administration official said saturday available information much greater chlorine use significant information also points sarin use attack speaking summit peru us vice president mike pence seemed less sure use sarin saying washington may well determine used along chlorine assad resilience ten hours missiles hit smoke still rising remains five destroyed buildings syrian scientific research center barzeh syrian employee said medical components developed immediate reports casualties syria released video wreckage bombedout research lab also assad arriving work usual caption morning resilience late saturday syria time large explosion heard syrian governmentcontrolled area rural region south aleppo according britainbased war monitor syrian observatory human rights observatory said cause explosion unknown well target russian iranian military help past three years allowed assad crush rebel threat topple united states britain france participated syrian conflict years arming rebels bombing islamic state fighters deploying troops ground fight group refrained targeting assads government apart volley us missiles last year although western countries said seven years assad must leave power held back past striking government lacking wider strategy defeat syria allies also made clear considered attack oneoff unlikely meaningful harm assad senior official regional alliance backs damascus told reuters sites targeted evacuated days ago thanks warning russia russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said strikes unacceptable lawless syrian state media called flagrant violation international law iranian supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei called crime western leaders criminals russia promised respond attack ally pentagon said russian air defense systems used syria fired 40 unguided surfacetoair missiles western strikes ended pentagon said confident missiles reached targets mckenzie said british prime minister theresa may described strike limited targeted intention toppling assad intervening widely war washington described strike targets center near damascus research development production testing chemical biological weapons chemical weapons storage site near city homs another site near homs stored chemical weapons equipment housed command post pentagon said chemical weapons agents one targets strikes significantly crippled syrias ability produce weapons trump spoke may french president emmanuel macron discuss results strikes leaders offices said us air force b1b lancer deployed al udeid air base launches strike part multinational response syrias use chemical weapons seen image al udeid air base doha qatar released april 14 2018 us air forcehandout via reuters un secretarygeneral antonio guterres urged security council members exercise restraint avoid escalation syria said allegations chemical weapons use demand investigation weapons inspections inspectors global chemical weapons watchdog opcw due try visit douma saturday inspect site suspected gas attack moscow condemned western states refusing wait findings russia whose relations west deteriorated levels cold warera hostility denied gas attack took place douma even accused britain staging whip antirussian hysteria western countries took precautions avoid unexpected conflict russia french defence minister florence parly said russians warned beforehand avert conflict dmitry belik russian member parliament damascus witnessed strikes told reuters attack psychological nature rather practical luckily substantial losses damages douma site suspected gas attack last buses due saturday transport rebels families agreed surrender town state tv reported effectively ends resistance suburbs damascus known eastern ghouta marking one biggest victories assads government war western assault involved missiles us attack last year struck targets limited syrias chemical weapons facilities us intervention last year effectively impact war slideshow 18 images syria agreed 2013 give chemical weapons nerve gas attack killed hundreds people douma damascus still permitted chlorine civilian use although use weapon banned allegations assads chlorine use frequent war although unlike nerve agents chlorine produce mass casualties seen last week reporting phil stewart tom perry additional reporting jeff mason steve holland idrees ali yara bayoumy matt spetalnick joel schectman washington michelle nichols new york samia nakhoul tom perry laila bassam ellen francis angus mcdowall beirut kinda makieh barzeh michael holden guy faulconbridge london jeanbaptiste vey geert de clerq matthias blamont paris polina ivanova moscow writing doina chiacu editing yara bayoumy alistair bell jonathan oatis standards thomson reuters trust principles washington reuters us president donald trump twitter praised western air strikes syrian government saturday perfectly executed added mission accomplished perfectly executed strike last night thank france united kingdom wisdom power fine military could better result mission accomplished trump said twitter post trumps message echoed words banner hung behind former president george w bush gave speech 2003 uss abraham lincoln iraq war visual dogged bushs presidency war dragged worsening american casualties remainder two terms office us president donald trump makes statement syria white house washington us april 13 2018 reutersyuri gripas version story refiles fix typographical error paragraph 3 reporting doina chiacu joel schectman editing jason neely david gregorio standards thomson reuters trust principles
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<p>This week, readers sent us comments on the flu vaccine, fabricated Limbaugh quotes and FactCheck fact-checking. In the FactCheck Mailbag we feature some of the e-mail we receive.</p>
<p>Readers can send comments to <a href="javascript:location.href='mailto:'+String.fromCharCode(101,100,105,116,111,114,64,102,97,99,116,99,104,101,99,107,46,111,114,103)+'?'" type="external">[email protected]</a>. Letters may be edited for length.</p>
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<p>Flu Rumors</p>
<p>Thank you, thank you for the article dispelling all those crazy notions about H1N1 vaccine [" <a href="" type="internal">Inoculation Misinformation</a>," Oct. 19]! Now I’ll have a great, comprehensive reference to give to my patients who express doubts about getting the shot. Not long ago I had a patient who refused the seasonal flu shot because his mother died after getting it. It turned out she was 90, and the flu shot in question was administered 2 years before her death!</p>
<p>Janis Eiler, MD Cincinnati, Ohio</p>
<p>I, for one belong to those "wacky" people who will not be vaccinated and never was, nor my kids nor my grandkids. We have serious informations on the negative effects of vaccination and I traveled around the world and refuse to believe what your, so called authorities, which for the most part are backed up by the pharmaceutical companies.</p>
<p>Denise Mayer Quebec, Canada</p>
<p>What are the facts about the danger of a person receiving the nasal spray form of the swine flu vaccine then "shedding" the virus and possibly infecting others, especially the young, elderly or immune compromised?</p>
<p>Also, does having a "reaction" to the vaccine, as described by the CDC, of sore throat, fever, etc, mean that you have a mild case of the flu and could be contagious?</p>
<p>Sarah Malarkey Portland, Ore.</p>
<p>FactCheck.org responds: The CDC <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/nasalspray_qa.htm" type="external">reports</a>: "The current estimated risk of getting infected with vaccine virus after close contact with a person vaccinated with the nasal-spray flu vaccine is low (0.6%-2.4%)." The CDC does recommend getting the shot instead of the spray if you will be in contact with severely immunocompromised people within the week. The attenuated viruses in the vaccine aren’t strong enough to infect your lungs, so the vaccine can’t actually give you flu. Fever is not usually a side effect of the vaccine.</p>
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<p>Ragging On Rush</p>
<p>I would love it if you would look into whether the many recent quotes from people about what they say Rush Limbaugh said in the past are accurate. He says they are not and I’ve got to believe that his comments are well documented and that audio is even available. I’m so glad you’re around because the truth really does matter. Even on cases like this which involve private citizens (vs. politicians). After all we’re all private citizens&#160;– shouldn’t we make our decisions and opinions based on true facts?</p>
<p>Jennifer Zylko Uniontown, Ohio</p>
<p>FactCheck.org responds: Rush Limbaugh, shall we say, does not have the most subtle approach to racial issues. But the quote being bandied about where he says that slavery "had its merits"&#160;is by all appearances fabricated, lifted from an unsupported Wikiquote citation. There’s <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100013647/the-rush-limbaugh-media-lynch-mob/" type="external">no evidence</a> that he really said such a thing. CNN’s Rick Sanchez, who used the quote, <a href="http://www.rbr.com/media-news/17831.html" type="external">issued a retraction</a>, saying that he "should not have reported it."</p>
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<p>Care Vs. Coverage</p>
<p>In reference to " <a href="" type="internal">Obama’s Health Care Speech</a>" [Sept. 10], you said Obama was correct when he said his plan wouldn’t insure illegal immigrants and that the House bill expressly forbids giving subsidies to those in this country illegally. As I understand the Constitution, anybody in this country is provided rights under the Constitution whether they are legal or illegal and a hospital emergency room can not turn them away by law. Now this wouldn’t "insure" those illegal immigrants, but they could get medical services at the taxpayer’s expense. So haven’t you "clouded" the subject by not being clear about having "insured" illegals, although they still get medical services at cost to the American taxpayer? Are we being sneaky by the words we are using when the illegal still get the health services at taxpayer expense? Obama is a constitutional lawyer and should know this.</p>
<p>Bob Bryan McCormick, S.C.</p>
<p>FactCheck.org responds: Getting emergency care is not the same as getting insurance. As you point out, uninsured people of all citizenships can get emergency care under current law — that’s not an effect of proposed health care legislation. The legislation would not change that, but it would also not provide undocumented immigrants with taxpayer-funded subsidies with which to purchase insurance. We answered a similar question in our <a href="" type="internal">Sept. 9-Sept.14 Mailbag</a>.</p>
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<p>Waste Not,&#160;Want Not</p>
<p>I’m no economist but it seems like old fashioned common sense that if we are going to expand coverage, our national health care costs will rise accordingly. UNLESS we incorporate into any bill cost and waste cutting measures in all areas of the health care industry – insurance, pharmaceuticals, tort reform, record-keeping etc. Republicans scream about costs and deficits, but refuse any cost cutting in the corporate plutocracy.</p>
<p>M-L Reifschneider Raleigh, N.C.</p>
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<p>Quid Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?</p>
<p>This may sound funny to you but does your fact-checking get checked as well? I feel I have to check just about everything I hear or see on the Internet, news, e-mails, and even just normal conversations. There is so much, I mean, so much misinformation out here that it’s almost impossible to know what is really true. I trusted "the system" since I went into the Air Force in 1968 until just a short time ago. I feel let down and just want the truth.</p>
<p>Joe Wentz North Port, Fla.</p>
<p>FactCheck.org responds: All of our articles are fact-checked before being published. That doesn’t mean we’ve never gotten something wrong and made a correction or update, but we check what we write. If you want more cross-checking, you can look at our articles next to the work of other fact-checking groups like <a href="http://www.politifact.com/" type="external">Politifact</a> — you’ll find we generally agree.</p>
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week readers sent us comments flu vaccine fabricated limbaugh quotes factcheck factchecking factcheck mailbag feature email receive readers send comments editorfactcheckorg letters may edited length flu rumors thank thank article dispelling crazy notions h1n1 vaccine inoculation misinformation oct 19 ill great comprehensive reference give patients express doubts getting shot long ago patient refused seasonal flu shot mother died getting turned 90 flu shot question administered 2 years death janis eiler md cincinnati ohio one belong wacky people vaccinated never kids grandkids serious informations negative effects vaccination traveled around world refuse believe called authorities part backed pharmaceutical companies denise mayer quebec canada facts danger person receiving nasal spray form swine flu vaccine shedding virus possibly infecting others especially young elderly immune compromised also reaction vaccine described cdc sore throat fever etc mean mild case flu could contagious sarah malarkey portland ore factcheckorg responds cdc reports current estimated risk getting infected vaccine virus close contact person vaccinated nasalspray flu vaccine low 0624 cdc recommend getting shot instead spray contact severely immunocompromised people within week attenuated viruses vaccine arent strong enough infect lungs vaccine cant actually give flu fever usually side effect vaccine 160 ragging rush would love would look whether many recent quotes people say rush limbaugh said past accurate says ive got believe comments well documented audio even available im glad youre around truth really matter even cases like involve private citizens vs politicians private citizens160 shouldnt make decisions opinions based true facts jennifer zylko uniontown ohio factcheckorg responds rush limbaugh shall say subtle approach racial issues quote bandied says slavery merits160is appearances fabricated lifted unsupported wikiquote citation theres evidence really said thing cnns rick sanchez used quote issued retraction saying reported 160 care vs coverage reference obamas health care speech sept 10 said obama correct said plan wouldnt insure illegal immigrants house bill expressly forbids giving subsidies country illegally understand constitution anybody country provided rights constitution whether legal illegal hospital emergency room turn away law wouldnt insure illegal immigrants could get medical services taxpayers expense havent clouded subject clear insured illegals although still get medical services cost american taxpayer sneaky words using illegal still get health services taxpayer expense obama constitutional lawyer know bob bryan mccormick sc factcheckorg responds getting emergency care getting insurance point uninsured people citizenships get emergency care current law thats effect proposed health care legislation legislation would change would also provide undocumented immigrants taxpayerfunded subsidies purchase insurance answered similar question sept 9sept14 mailbag 160 waste not160want im economist seems like old fashioned common sense going expand coverage national health care costs rise accordingly unless incorporate bill cost waste cutting measures areas health care industry insurance pharmaceuticals tort reform recordkeeping etc republicans scream costs deficits refuse cost cutting corporate plutocracy ml reifschneider raleigh nc 160 quid custodiet ipsos custodes may sound funny factchecking get checked well feel check everything hear see internet news emails even normal conversations much mean much misinformation almost impossible know really true trusted system since went air force 1968 short time ago feel let want truth joe wentz north port fla factcheckorg responds articles factchecked published doesnt mean weve never gotten something wrong made correction update check write want crosschecking look articles next work factchecking groups like politifact youll find generally agree
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<p>The President misled voters and reporters in a March 20 speech when he claimed that Kerry “voted over 350 times for higher taxes on the American people” during his 20-year Senate career. Bush spoke of “yes” votes for “tax increases.”</p>
<p>But in fact, Kerry has not voted 350 times for tax increases, something Bush campaign officials have falsely accused Kerry of on several occasions. On close examination, the Bush campaign’s list of Kerry’s votes for “higher taxes” is padded. It includes votes Kerry cast to leave taxes unchanged (when Republicans proposed cuts), and even votes in favor of&#160;alternative Democratic tax cuts that Bush aides characterized as “watered down.”</p>
<p>To be sure, Kerry has&#160;cast votes&#160;to increase taxes, and he’s clearly on record favoring raising taxes on persons making over $200,000 a year, if he’s elected. It’s a major difference between the two candidates. But Bush aides have been falsely accusing Kerry for weeks of casting far more votes for tax increases than is the case. And now the President himself has joined in the misleading attack.</p>
<p>Bush’s campaign manager Ken Mehlman told CNN’s Judy Woodruff on March 12 that “Senator Kerry . . . supported 350 tax increases over the course of his career.” And again on March 16 Mehlman told CNN’s Candy Crowley: “This is a senator who has voted 350 times to raise taxes during the course of his career.” Commerce Secretary Don Evans also said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on March 10 that Kerry “has voted to increase taxes some 350 times.” And both Fox News and MSNBC quoted Bush’s campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt as saying March 11: “John Kerry has voted for higher taxes 350 times and his numbers for new spending don’t add up.”</p>
<p>The President chose his words somewhat more carefully than did his aides, but still clearly conveyed the idea that Kerry had voted 350 times to raise taxes above current levels. Here’s what he&#160;said a political rally in Florida March 20:</p>
<p>Bush:&#160;Senator Kerry is one of the main opponents of tax relief in the United States Congress. However, when tax increases are proposed, it’s a lot easier to get a “yes” vote out of him. Over the years, he’s voted over 350 times for higher taxes on the American people —</p>
<p>Audience:&#160;Booo!</p>
<p>So it was no surprise when several news organizations quoted President Bush as saying&#160;just what his campaign spokesman and his&#160;campaign manager had been saying.</p>
<p>The Associated Press said&#160;Bush depicted Kerry “as a serial tax-raiser who has voted for tax increases 350 times.”&#160;United Press International said Bush “accused Kerry of voting over the past 20 years for tax increasing legislation some 350 times.” The New York Times reported: “Mr. Bush said Mr. Kerry had voted 350 times to raise taxes in his nearly two decades in the Senate,” and The Palm Beach Post said: “The President accused the Massachusetts senator of voting to raise taxes more than 350 times.”</p>
<p>So reporters were misled, as were probably many ordinary voters who listened to the President’s speech.&#160;In fact,&#160;even the President’s own campaign organization now admits Kerry didn’t vote for tax increases 350 times, or anything close to it.</p>
<p>When pressed for a list of Kerry’s 350 votes, the Bush campaign quickly supplied FactCheck.org with one <a href="http://factcheck.bootnetworks.com/UploadedFiles/Bush-Cheney%20List%20of%20Kerry%20Tax%20Votes.pdf" type="external">document</a>listing 352 votes and a <a href="http://factcheck.bootnetworks.com/UploadedFiles/Bush-Cheney%20list%20of%20additional%20Kerry%20Tax%20Votes.pdf" type="external">second</a>listing an additional 27 votes. But a campaign official&#160;cautioned: “It is important to note that these are votes for higher taxes, not necessarily tax increases, meaning it includes votes against tax cuts.”&#160;(Emphasis added by FactCheck.org). In other words, what the campaign’s manager and chief spokesman had been saying was wrong. And even the President’s phrasing — saying Kerry voted for “higher taxes” 350 times — is not only misleading but actually misled several news professionals. It’s simply untrue that Kerry voted for tax increases 350 times.</p>
<p>The Bush lists of 379&#160;votes is padded with scores of votes Kerry cast&#160;against tax decreases (which would leave taxes unchanged, not higher), votes to reduce the size of proposed tax cuts (which would leave taxes lower, though not as much lower as proposed), and “votes for watered-down, Democrat ‘tax cut’ substitutes” (which often proposed to distribute the benefits of tax cuts farther down the income scale than Republican proposals). Thus the Bush campaign counts some votes for tax cuts as votes for “higher taxes.”</p>
<p>Among the votes the Bush campaign documents count as votes for “higher taxes” are the following:</p>
<p>None of these votes would have resulted in a tax increase, and most of the votes on the Bush lists are like that.&#160;Whether they would have resulted in “higher taxes” depends: higher than what? Bush campaign officials argue that in each of the votes they list, Kerry was presented with alternatives and chose the higher of the two. Perhaps the President should have said Kerry voted 350 times for “higher taxes&#160;than&#160;Republicans prefer.”</p>
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<p><a href="" type="internal">View Bush-Cheney ’04 document listing 352 votes on taxes.</a></p>
<p><a href="" type="internal">View Bush-Cheney ’04 document listing 27 additional Kerry tax votes.</a></p>
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<p>George W. Bush “President Bush Energizes Florida Supporters at First Rally of the 2004 Campaign” Transcript of&#160; Campaign Speech at Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida 20 March 2004.</p>
<p>Nancy Benac, “Bush, at 1st Voter Rally, Carps at Kerry” Associated Press 21 March 2004.</p>
<p>Richard W. Stevenson, “At Rally in Vital State, Bush Attacks Kerry on Economy,” The New York Times 21 March 2004: A18.</p>
<p>Brian E. Crowley, “Bush Brings it On: Thousands Cheer Views on Taxes, Security, Iraq,” Palm Beach Post 21 March 2004: A1.</p>
<p>Richard Tomkins, “Bush Rallies Florida Supporters,” United Press International 20 March 2004.</p>
<p>Mike Allen, “Bush Turns to Fla. To Set Aggressive Pace; Rally Kicks Off Intensive Grass-Roots Campaign,” Washington Post 21 March 2004: A5.</p>
<p>Ken Mehlman, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/12/ip.00.html" type="external">interview, Judy Woodruff’s Inside Politics, Cable News Network 12 March 2004.</a></p>
<p>Ken Mehlman, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/16/ip.00.html" type="external">interview</a>, Judy Woodruff’s Inside Politics, Cable News Network, 16 March 2004.</p>
<p>Don Evans,&#160; <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/10/wbr.00.html" type="external">interview</a>, CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports, Cable News Network, 10 March 2004.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,113882,00.html" type="external">Kerry Comment Riles Bush Campaign</a>, Fox News 11 March 2004.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4497642/default.htm" type="external">Bush, Kerry Trade Jabs on Economy</a>, MSNBC.com 11 March 2004.</p>
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president misled voters reporters march 20 speech claimed kerry voted 350 times higher taxes american people 20year senate career bush spoke yes votes tax increases fact kerry voted 350 times tax increases something bush campaign officials falsely accused kerry several occasions close examination bush campaigns list kerrys votes higher taxes padded includes votes kerry cast leave taxes unchanged republicans proposed cuts even votes favor of160alternative democratic tax cuts bush aides characterized watered sure kerry has160cast votes160to increase taxes hes clearly record favoring raising taxes persons making 200000 year hes elected major difference two candidates bush aides falsely accusing kerry weeks casting far votes tax increases case president joined misleading attack bushs campaign manager ken mehlman told cnns judy woodruff march 12 senator kerry supported 350 tax increases course career march 16 mehlman told cnns candy crowley senator voted 350 times raise taxes course career commerce secretary evans also said interview cnns wolf blitzer march 10 kerry voted increase taxes 350 times fox news msnbc quoted bushs campaign spokesman steve schmidt saying march 11 john kerry voted higher taxes 350 times numbers new spending dont add president chose words somewhat carefully aides still clearly conveyed idea kerry voted 350 times raise taxes current levels heres he160said political rally florida march 20 bush160senator kerry one main opponents tax relief united states congress however tax increases proposed lot easier get yes vote years hes voted 350 times higher taxes american people audience160booo surprise several news organizations quoted president bush saying160just campaign spokesman his160campaign manager saying associated press said160bush depicted kerry serial taxraiser voted tax increases 350 times160united press international said bush accused kerry voting past 20 years tax increasing legislation 350 times new york times reported mr bush said mr kerry voted 350 times raise taxes nearly two decades senate palm beach post said president accused massachusetts senator voting raise taxes 350 times reporters misled probably many ordinary voters listened presidents speech160in fact160even presidents campaign organization admits kerry didnt vote tax increases 350 times anything close pressed list kerrys 350 votes bush campaign quickly supplied factcheckorg one documentlisting 352 votes secondlisting additional 27 votes campaign official160cautioned important note votes higher taxes necessarily tax increases meaning includes votes tax cuts160emphasis added factcheckorg words campaigns manager chief spokesman saying wrong even presidents phrasing saying kerry voted higher taxes 350 times misleading actually misled several news professionals simply untrue kerry voted tax increases 350 times bush lists 379160votes padded scores votes kerry cast160against tax decreases would leave taxes unchanged higher votes reduce size proposed tax cuts would leave taxes lower though much lower proposed votes watereddown democrat tax cut substitutes often proposed distribute benefits tax cuts farther income scale republican proposals thus bush campaign counts votes tax cuts votes higher taxes among votes bush campaign documents count votes higher taxes following none votes would resulted tax increase votes bush lists like that160whether would resulted higher taxes depends higher bush campaign officials argue votes list kerry presented alternatives chose higher two perhaps president said kerry voted 350 times higher taxes160than160republicans prefer 160 view bushcheney 04 document listing 352 votes taxes view bushcheney 04 document listing 27 additional kerry tax votes 160 george w bush president bush energizes florida supporters first rally 2004 campaign transcript of160 campaign speech orange county convention center orlando florida 20 march 2004 nancy benac bush 1st voter rally carps kerry associated press 21 march 2004 richard w stevenson rally vital state bush attacks kerry economy new york times 21 march 2004 a18 brian e crowley bush brings thousands cheer views taxes security iraq palm beach post 21 march 2004 a1 richard tomkins bush rallies florida supporters united press international 20 march 2004 mike allen bush turns fla set aggressive pace rally kicks intensive grassroots campaign washington post 21 march 2004 a5 ken mehlman interview judy woodruffs inside politics cable news network 12 march 2004 ken mehlman interview judy woodruffs inside politics cable news network 16 march 2004 evans160 interview cnn wolf blitzer reports cable news network 10 march 2004 kerry comment riles bush campaign fox news 11 march 2004 bush kerry trade jabs economy msnbccom 11 march 2004
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<p>WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law a steep tariff on imported solar panels on Tuesday, a move billed as a way to protect American jobs but which the solar industry said would lead to thousands of layoffs and raise consumer prices.</p>
<p>The 30 percent tariff on solar panels is among the first unilateral trade restrictions imposed by the administration as part of a broader protectionist agenda to help U.S. manufacturers, but which has alarmed Asian trading partners that produce lower cost goods. The administration also introduced a tariff on imported washing machines.</p>
<p>“You’re going to have people getting jobs again and we’re going to make our own product again. It’s been a long time,” Trump said as he signed the order.</p>
<p>But the solar industry countered that the move will raise the cost of installing panels, quash billions of dollars of investment, and kill tens of thousands of jobs, raising questions about whether Trump’s move will backfire by triggering mass layoffs.</p>
<p>“We are not happy with this decision,” said Abigail Ross Hopper, president of the U.S. Solar Energy Industries Association, on a conference call with reporters on Tuesday. “It’s just basic economics - if you raise the price of a product it’s going to decrease demand for that product.”</p>
<p>The leading solar trade group predicted that the tariffs could cut forecasted solar installations this year by nearly 20 percent, to 9 gigawatts from 11 gigawatts, and lead to the loss of 23,000 jobs in the United States, the world’s fourth-largest solar market after China, Japan and Germany.</p>
<p>Research firm Wood Mackenzie estimated that over the next five years the tariffs would reduce U.S. solar installation growth by 10 to 15 percent.</p>
<p>The U.S. solar industry employs more than 260,000 workers - about five times more than the coal industry - with the vast majority involved in installation rather than panel manufacturing.</p>
<p>U.S. Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, a big solar power producing state, said in a Twitter post that the tariffs amount to “nothing more than a tax on consumers.”</p>
<p>The main beneficiaries include U.S.-based solar manufacturers Suniva and SolarWorld - both controlled by foreign parent companies. They petitioned for the trade relief arguing they could not compete with the cheap imports that have caused panel prices to fall more than 30 percent since 2016 and asked for the equivalent of a 50 percent tariff.</p>
<p>Suniva on Monday said the tariffs were “necessary,” while SolarWorld said it was “hopeful they will be enough.”</p>
<p>Bankrupt Suniva is majority-owned by Hong Kong-based Shunfeng International Clean Energy, and SolarWorld is the U.S. arm of Germany’s SolarWorld AG.</p> U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, holds up a directive to impose tariffs on imported washing machines after signing it in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 23, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
<p>Shunfeng rose 2.6 percent after the announcement and SolarWorld was up 22 percent.</p>
<p>Other U.S. solar stocks were mixed. SunPower Corp, which manufactures panels in Asia, was down more than 6 percent and residential installer SunRun Inc. was up about 6 percent. The tariffs were broadly in line with investor expectations, creating some relief in the market, analysts said.</p>
<p>Both SunPower and Sunrun said they disagreed with the decision to impose tariffs.</p> Slideshow (7 Images) WINNERS AND LOSERS
<p>Research firm CFRA said it expects the tariffs to increase solar system prices by about $0.10 per watt. It reckons First Solar, a U.S. company with offshore panel manufacturing whose technology is not included in the tariff, would be the biggest beneficiary, while China manufacturers such as JinkoSolar would be the biggest losers.</p>
<p>Globally, solar capacity soared to almost 400 GW last year from under 10 GW in 2007, according to the International Renewable Energy Administration.</p>
<p>China, the world’s biggest solar panel producer, branded the move an “overreaction” that would harm the global trade environment for affected products.</p>
<p>“The U.S.’s decision ... is an abuse of trade remedy measures, and China expresses strong dissatisfaction regarding this,” Wang Hejun, the head of the commerce ministry’s Trade Remedy and Investigation Bureau, said in a statement on its microblog.</p> Related Coverage
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<p>“China will work with other WTO members to resolutely defend its legitimate interests in response to the erroneous U.S. decision.”</p>
<p>South Korea’s trade minister Kim Hyun-chong said the new U.S. tariffs violated World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.</p>
<p>“The United States has opted for measures that put political considerations ahead of international standards,” Kim told a meeting of industry officials. “The government will actively respond to the spread of protectionist measures to defend national interests.”</p>
<p>Trump dismissed the prospect of a trade war and said during the signing that “a lot of manufacturers” will come to the United States to build solar plants.</p>
<p>CFRA analyst Angelo Zino said he expected any added manufacturing jobs would be “minimal” given the 18 months to two years it takes to build and ramp up a new production facility and the industry’s shift toward automation.</p>
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<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices climbed to their highest level in three weeks on Tuesday as tension in the Middle East and the possibility of further falls in Venezuelan output helped offset the impact of growing U.S. crude production.</p> FILE PHOTO: A motorist holds a fuel pump at a Gulf petrol station in London April 18, 2006. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File Photo
<p>Brent crude LCOc1 futures for May delivery rose $1.37 to $67.42 a barrel, a 2.07 percent gain. The global benchmark rose to $67.88 during the session, its highest level since late February.</p>
<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 futures for April delivery rose $1.34 to settle at $63.40 a barrel, a 2.2 percent gain. WTI traded between $62.08 and $63.81.</p>
<p>The more active May U.S. crude futures CLc2 rose $1.41 to settle at $63.54 a barrel.</p>
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<p>Prices extended gains in post-settlement trading after data from the American Petroleum Institute showed a surprise draw in U.S. crude inventories.</p>
<p>Stocks fell 2.7 million barrels in the week ended March 16 to 425.3 million barrels, according to the API, compared with analysts’ expectations for an increase of 2.6 million barrels. Government inventory data is due on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT).</p>
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<p>Geopolitical risks were top of mind on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia called the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers a “flawed agreement” on Monday, on the eve of a meeting between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Trump has threatened to withdraw the United States from the accord between Tehran and six world powers, raising the prospect of new sanctions that could hurt Iran’s oil industry.</p>
<p>“There’s an expectation that (Trump and Prince Mohammed) are going to take a harder line on Iran, and that’s bringing prices up,” said Phil Flynn, a senior energy analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago.</p>
<p>Worries about falling production in Venezuela, whose output has been halved since 2005 to below 2 million barrels per day (bpd) PRODN-VE due to the country’s economic crisis, also supported oil markets.</p>
<p>The International Energy Agency said last week Venezuela was “vulnerable to an accelerated decline” and that the Latin American country could trigger a renewed drawdown in stocks.</p>
<p>However, increased output in the United States, Canada and Brazil has capped oil price gains. U.S. crude oil production C-OUT-T-EIA has risen more than a fifth since mid-2016, to 10.38 million bpd.</p>
<p>The ramped-up production threatens to undermine cuts made by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in an effort to draw down a global supply glut.</p>
<p>(GRAPHIC: U.S. vs Venezuela oil production since 2005 - <a href="http://reut.rs/2FWXdBH" type="external">reut.rs/2FWXdBH</a>)</p>
<p>Appetite for U.S. crude is adding to the headache facing OPEC. A widening discount of WTI to Brent crude makes it more attractive for foreign refiners to process U.S. oil. Brent is the benchmark for several Middle East and other global crudes.</p>
<p>The premium of Brent crude to WTI WTCLc1-LCOc1 rose above $4 a barrel on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Gasoline futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange RBc1 rose 2.1 percent on Tuesday to settle at $1.9659 a gallon, the highest level since August 2017.</p>
<p>Data from market intelligence firm Genscape showed gasoline inventories in the New York Harbor region fell by about 1.1 million barrels last week, traders who saw the data said.</p>
<p>Heating oil futures HOc1 rose 2.2 percent to finish at $1.9495 a gallon, their highest settle since late February.</p>
<p>Additional reporting by Amanda Cooper in London and Henning Gloystein in Singapore; Editing by Marguerita Choy and Leslie Adler</p> Our Standards:
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<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks dropped on Monday, with the S&amp;P and Nasdaq suffering their worst day in just over five weeks, as concerns over increased regulation for large tech companies was spearheaded by a plunge in Facebook shares.</p>
<p>Facebook shares tumbled 6.8 percent as Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg faced calls from both U.S. and European lawmakers to explain how a consultancy that worked on President Donald Trump’s election campaign gained access to data on 50 million Facebook users.</p>
<p>The stock had its worst day since March 2014 and was down 10.8 percent from its closing record hit on Feb. 1, to put the stock squarely in correction territory, a drop of 10 percent from its high.</p>
<p>Facebook’s plunge weighed heavily on the S&amp;P technology sector, down 2.11 percent, as well as the Nasdaq, off more than 2 percent. Both indexes had their worst daily performance since Feb. 8.</p>
<p>Other major companies with large tech businesses also dropped as recent concerns over regulation in the arena increased. Apple lost 1.53 percent while Alphabet fell 3 percent and Microsoft declined 1.8 percent.</p>
<p>“What’s chilling to an investor is whether Facebook will be able to get advertisers to pay for the rich data they pay for today,” said Kim Forrest, Senior Portfolio manager, Fort Pitt Capital, Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>“Investors are not only concerned about losing advertising dollars. They’re also concerned these companies might come under relatively heavy regulation.”</p>
<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 335.6 points, or 1.35 percent, to close at 24,610.91, the S&amp;P 500 lost 39.09 points, or 1.42 percent, to 2,712.92 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 137.74 points, or 1.84 percent, to 7,344.24.</p> FILE PHOTO: The sun rises behind the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park before the company's IPO launch, May 18, 2012. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach/File Photo
<p>The S&amp;P once again fell below its 50-day moving average, seen as a technical support level, for the first time since early March. The Nasdaq came about 2 points from its 50-day before paring losses.</p>
<p>Investors were also cautious ahead of a two-day monetary policy meeting at the U.S. Federal Reserve starting on Tuesday.</p> Slideshow (8 Images)
<p>The market believes the Fed is set to raise interest rates on Wednesday as Thomson Reuters data shows traders expect a quarter-percentage-point hike to be a certainty. Investors are now grappling with the question of whether an improving economy could lead to more hikes than anticipated.</p>
<p>“Some of the more salient questions investors have is, has the tone of the Fed, which this time last year was certainly more skewed towards being dovish, has it now extended to becoming more hawkish?” said Eric Freedman, chief investment officer for U.S. Bank Wealth Management in Minneapolis.</p>
<p>Industrials fell 0.82 percent against the backdrop of worries about a global trade war, which are set to dominate a two-day G20 meeting in Argentina.</p> Related Coverage
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<p>Selling was broad, with each of the 11 major S&amp;P sectors in the red. The CBOE Volatility index touched a high of 21.87 in one of its sharpest gains since the market sell-off in February.</p>
<p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 3.71-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.68-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p>
<p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 6.9 billion shares, compared to the 7.2 billion average over the last 20 trading days.</p>
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<p>(Reuters) - Toys ‘R’ Us said at a bankruptcy court hearing on Tuesday that it was working hard to maximize payments to suppliers and lenders, as it starts to shutter 735 big-box toy stores across the United States.</p> FILE PHOTO - People pass by Toys R Us store at Times Square in New York, U.S., March 9, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
<p>More than 50 suppliers, including Barbie maker Mattel ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=MAT.O" type="external">MAT.O</a>) and Lego, have objected in some form to the proceedings by the storied toy retailer to liquidate its U.S. business, putting 30,000 jobs at risk.</p>
<p>Toys ‘R’ Us had been trying to reorganize under U.S. Chapter 11 but last week said those efforts had failed and it was quickly running out of cash. It is also winding down its U.K business, but is looking for a buyer for operations in Canada, Europe and Asia.</p>
<p>Some trade vendors are demanding the company return any unpaid inventory rather than selling it and using going out of business sales to pay secured lenders and bankruptcy lawyers, at their cost, court papers showed.</p>
<p>“We’re making every effort to make sure (trade vendors) will be paid in full,” Lazard’s David Kurtz, who is advising Toys ‘R’ Us, testified at a hearing at U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond, Virginia.</p>
<p>The company is seeking approval for a March 26 deadline for bids for each of its foreign businesses, minus U.K., followed by an auction on March 29.</p>
<p>It is also seeking approval for a series of U.S. liquidation procedures including a halt to more than $450 million in supplier payments as part of a plan that experts told Reuters could cause many small toy makers to disappear.</p>
<p>Toys ‘R’ Us was the last remaining specialty toy retailer in the United States. Hundreds of companies relied on its big-box stores as a showcase for both innovative toys as well as classics.</p>
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<p>Under trade agreements, vendors were required to ship goods to Toys ‘R’ Us on unsecured trade credit.</p>
<p>In a court filing, Lego said any “wind-down must be implemented in a manner that is fair and equitable to all” of the company’s creditors.</p>
<p>The U.S. Trustee, a bankruptcy watchdog, has also objected, saying that while it is “resigned” to the company’s future, it is concerned about certain of the procedures and relief proposed as part of the liquidation.</p>
<p>Toys ‘R’ Us financial advisor Bill Kosturos of Alvarez &amp; Marsal was also testifying at the hearing before U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Keith Phillips, which could run into Wednesday.</p>
<p>Reporting by Tracy Rucinski; Editing by David Gregorio</p> Our Standards:
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<p>(Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=CRM.N" type="external">CRM.N</a>) said on Tuesday it would buy U.S. software maker MuleSoft Inc ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=MULE.N" type="external">MULE.N</a>) for about $5.90 billion in a cash-and-stock deal, illustrating CEO Marc Benioff’s push to bolster the company’s cloud-based portfolio with new technology.</p> FILE PHOTO - The Salesforce logo is pictured on a building in San Francisco, California, U.S. October 12, 2016. REUTERS/Lily Jamali
<p>MuleSoft shareholders would get $36 in cash and 0.0711 of a Salesforce share, or $44.89 per share, representing a premium of 36 percent to Mulesoft’s Monday close.</p>
<p>MuleSoft shares were up 5 percent in extended trading after rising 27 percent during the day. Salesforce shares were down more than 2 percent after the bell.</p>
<p>Including debt, the deal was valued at $6.5 billion, the companies said in a joint statement.</p>
<p>“It is really a natural fit for Salesforce to own Mule,” Steve Koenig, analyst at Wedbush Securities said.</p>
<p>“Salesforce usually helps customers move to the cloud and digitally transform their business that often starts with CRM, so having Mule helps eliminate friction as customers transform their business and to provide a more complete solution,” he said.</p>
<p>MuleSoft listed on the New York Stock Exchange on March 17 last year at $17 apiece. It closed up 40 percent on the first day of trading, giving it a market value of nearly $3 billion.</p>
<p>Salesforce Ventures, the company’s venture capital arm, led a $128 million funding round in MuleSoft in 2015.</p>
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<p>Salesforce holds more than 18 percent of the global customer relationship management software market, followed by Oracle Corp ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=ORCL.N" type="external">ORCL.N</a>) with 9.4 percent, according to 2016 figures provided by research firm IDC.</p>
<p>MuleSoft makes software that provides enterprises with tools to automatically integrate various applications, devices and disparate data to help businesses networks run faster. It counts Coca-Cola Co ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=KO.N" type="external">KO.N</a>), McDonald’s Corp ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=MCD.N" type="external">MCD.N</a>), Salesforce and Spotify ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=SPOT.N" type="external">SPOT.N</a>) among its customers.</p>
<p>Reuters had reported about the deal earlier on Tuesday.</p>
<p>BofA Merrill Lynch is Salesforce’s financial adviser and Goldman Sachs advised MuleSoft.</p>
<p>Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta</p> Our Standards:
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could cut forecasted solar installations year nearly 20 percent 9 gigawatts 11 gigawatts lead loss 23000 jobs united states worlds fourthlargest solar market china japan germany research firm wood mackenzie estimated next five years tariffs would reduce us solar installation growth 10 15 percent us solar industry employs 260000 workers five times coal industry vast majority involved installation rather panel manufacturing us republican senator john mccain arizona big solar power producing state said twitter post tariffs amount nothing tax consumers main beneficiaries include usbased solar manufacturers suniva solarworld controlled foreign parent companies petitioned trade relief arguing could compete cheap imports caused panel prices fall 30 percent since 2016 asked equivalent 50 percent tariff suniva monday said tariffs necessary solarworld said hopeful enough bankrupt suniva majorityowned hong kongbased shunfeng international clean energy solarworld us arm germanys solarworld ag us 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would harm global trade environment affected products uss decision abuse trade remedy measures china expresses strong dissatisfaction regarding wang hejun head commerce ministrys trade remedy investigation bureau said statement microblog related coverage factbox trump administration prepares raft trade decisions qampa winners losers trumps solar panel tariff fine print trump solar tariff holds good news tesla china work wto members resolutely defend legitimate interests response erroneous us decision south koreas trade minister kim hyunchong said new us tariffs violated world trade organization wto rules united states opted measures put political considerations ahead international standards kim told meeting industry officials government actively respond spread protectionist measures defend national interests trump dismissed prospect trade war said signing lot manufacturers come united states build solar plants cfra analyst angelo zino said expected added manufacturing jobs would minimal given 18 months two years takes build ramp new production facility industrys shift toward automation reporting nichola groom editing susan thomas standards thomson reuters trust principles new york reuters oil prices climbed highest level three weeks tuesday tension middle east possibility falls venezuelan output helped offset impact growing us crude production file photo motorist holds fuel pump gulf petrol station london april 18 2006 reutersluke macgregorfile photo brent crude lcoc1 futures may delivery rose 137 6742 barrel 207 percent gain global benchmark rose 6788 session highest level since late february us west texas intermediate wti crude clc1 futures april delivery rose 134 settle 6340 barrel 22 percent gain wti traded 6208 6381 active may us crude futures clc2 rose 141 settle 6354 barrel graphic russia vs saudi vs us oil production reutrs2g7ak80 prices extended gains postsettlement trading data american petroleum institute showed surprise draw us crude inventories stocks fell 27 million barrels week ended march 16 4253 million barrels according api compared analysts expectations increase 26 million barrels government inventory data due wednesday 1030 edt 1430 gmt graphic world oil supply demand balance reutrs2fixgvp geopolitical risks top mind tuesday saudi arabia called 2015 nuclear deal iran world powers flawed agreement monday eve meeting crown prince mohammed bin salman us president donald trump trump threatened withdraw united states accord tehran six world powers raising prospect new sanctions could hurt irans oil industry theres expectation trump prince mohammed going take harder line iran thats bringing prices said phil flynn senior energy analyst price futures group chicago worries falling production venezuela whose output halved since 2005 2 million barrels per day bpd prodnve due countrys economic crisis also supported oil markets international energy agency said last week venezuela vulnerable accelerated decline latin american country could trigger renewed drawdown stocks however increased output united states canada brazil capped oil price gains us crude oil production coutteia risen fifth since mid2016 1038 million bpd rampedup production threatens undermine cuts made organization petroleum exporting countries effort draw global supply glut graphic us vs venezuela oil production since 2005 reutrs2fwxdbh appetite us crude adding headache facing opec widening discount wti brent crude makes attractive foreign refiners process us oil brent benchmark several middle east global crudes premium brent crude wti wtclc1lcoc1 rose 4 barrel tuesday gasoline futures new york mercantile exchange rbc1 rose 21 percent tuesday settle 19659 gallon highest level since august 2017 data market intelligence firm genscape showed gasoline inventories new york harbor region fell 11 million barrels last week traders saw data said heating oil futures hoc1 rose 22 percent finish 19495 gallon highest settle since late february additional reporting amanda cooper london henning gloystein singapore editing marguerita choy leslie adler standards thomson reuters trust principles new york reuters us stocks dropped monday sampp nasdaq suffering worst day five weeks concerns increased regulation large tech companies spearheaded plunge facebook shares facebook shares tumbled 68 percent chief executive mark zuckerberg faced calls us european lawmakers explain consultancy worked president donald trumps election campaign gained access data 50 million facebook users stock worst day since march 2014 108 percent closing record hit feb 1 put stock squarely correction territory drop 10 percent high facebooks plunge weighed heavily sampp technology sector 211 percent well nasdaq 2 percent indexes worst daily performance since feb 8 major companies large tech businesses also dropped recent concerns regulation arena increased apple lost 153 percent alphabet fell 3 percent microsoft declined 18 percent whats chilling investor whether facebook able get advertisers pay rich data pay today said kim forrest senior portfolio manager fort pitt capital pittsburgh investors concerned losing advertising dollars theyre also concerned companies might come relatively heavy regulation dow jones industrial average fell 3356 points 135 percent close 2461091 sampp 500 lost 3909 points 142 percent 271292 nasdaq composite dropped 13774 points 184 percent 734424 file photo sun rises behind entrance sign facebook headquarters menlo park companys ipo launch may 18 2012 reutersbeck diefenbachfile photo sampp fell 50day moving average seen technical support level first time since early march nasdaq came 2 points 50day paring losses investors also cautious ahead twoday monetary policy meeting us federal reserve starting tuesday slideshow 8 images market believes fed set raise interest rates wednesday thomson reuters data shows traders expect quarterpercentagepoint hike certainty investors grappling question whether improving economy could lead hikes anticipated salient questions investors tone fed time last year certainly skewed towards dovish extended becoming hawkish said eric freedman chief investment officer us bank wealth management minneapolis industrials fell 082 percent backdrop worries global trade war set dominate twoday g20 meeting argentina related coverage analyst view tech sector selloff leads wall street sharply lower selling broad 11 major sampp sectors red cboe volatility index touched high 2187 one sharpest gains since market selloff february declining issues outnumbered advancing ones nyse 371to1 ratio nasdaq 268to1 ratio favored decliners volume us exchanges 69 billion shares compared 72 billion average last 20 trading days additional reporting sinead carew editing nick zieminski james dalgleish standards thomson reuters trust principles reuters toys r us said bankruptcy court hearing tuesday working hard maximize payments suppliers lenders starts shutter 735 bigbox toy stores across united states file photo people pass toys r us store times square new york us march 9 2018 reuterseduardo munozfile photo 50 suppliers including barbie maker mattel mato lego objected form proceedings storied toy retailer liquidate us business putting 30000 jobs risk toys r us trying reorganize us chapter 11 last week said efforts failed quickly running cash also winding uk business looking buyer operations canada europe asia trade vendors demanding company return unpaid inventory rather selling using going business sales pay secured lenders bankruptcy lawyers cost court papers showed making every effort make sure trade vendors paid full lazards david kurtz advising toys r us testified hearing us bankruptcy court richmond virginia company seeking approval march 26 deadline bids foreign businesses minus uk followed auction march 29 also seeking approval series us liquidation procedures including halt 450 million supplier payments part plan experts told reuters could cause many small toy makers disappear toys r us last remaining specialty toy retailer united states hundreds companies relied bigbox stores showcase innovative toys well classics mattel inc 1297 mato nasdaq 025 189 mato trade agreements vendors required ship goods toys r us unsecured trade credit court filing lego said winddown must implemented manner fair equitable companys creditors us trustee bankruptcy watchdog also objected saying resigned companys future concerned certain procedures relief proposed part liquidation toys r us financial advisor bill kosturos alvarez amp marsal also testifying hearing us bankruptcy judge keith phillips could run wednesday reporting tracy rucinski editing david gregorio standards thomson reuters trust principles reuters salesforcecom inc crmn said tuesday would buy us software maker mulesoft inc mulen 590 billion cashandstock deal illustrating ceo marc benioffs push bolster companys cloudbased portfolio new technology file photo salesforce logo pictured building san francisco california us october 12 2016 reuterslily jamali mulesoft shareholders would get 36 cash 00711 salesforce share 4489 per share representing premium 36 percent mulesofts monday close mulesoft shares 5 percent extended trading rising 27 percent day salesforce shares 2 percent bell including debt deal valued 65 billion companies said joint statement really natural fit salesforce mule steve koenig analyst wedbush securities said salesforce usually helps customers move cloud digitally transform business often starts crm mule helps eliminate friction customers transform business provide complete solution said mulesoft listed new york stock exchange march 17 last year 17 apiece closed 40 percent first day trading giving market value nearly 3 billion salesforce ventures companys venture capital arm led 128 million funding round mulesoft 2015 salesforcecom inc 12512 crmn new york stock exchange 014 011 crmn mulen orcln kon mcdn salesforce holds 18 percent global customer relationship management software market followed oracle corp orcln 94 percent according 2016 figures provided research firm idc mulesoft makes software provides enterprises tools automatically integrate various applications devices disparate data help businesses networks run faster counts cocacola co kon mcdonalds corp mcdn salesforce spotify spotn among customers reuters reported deal earlier tuesday bofa merrill lynch salesforces financial adviser goldman sachs advised mulesoft reporting supantha mukherjee bengaluru editing shounak dasgupta standards thomson reuters trust principles
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<p>presents the free workshop Certifications for Federal Government Contracts from 1-4 p.m. on Wednesday at the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce, 1309 4th SW. To register or for additional information, call Jonnie Loadwick at 505-935-7827 or visit <a href="http://www.nmptap.org" type="external">www.nmptap.org</a>.</p>
<p>The State Bar of New Mexico presents two free events on Wednesday. They are:</p>
<p>Civil Legal Fair for residents of Albuquerque and the surrounding area from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. in the 3rd floor conference room at the 2nd Judicial District Court, 400 Lomas NW. Attorneys will be on hand to provide free consultations on a first-come, first-served basis for clients facing civil legal issues, except for family law cases. Types of cases handled include foreclosure, landlord/tenant, kinship/guardianship, immigration, public benefits, bankruptcy, wills/probate, power of attorney, unemployment and creditor/debtor. Attendees should bring all related paperwork with them to the clinic. For more information, call 505-797-6040.</p>
<p>Divorce Options Workshop from 6-8 p.m. at the State Bar of New Mexico, 5121 Masthead NE. The workshop includes a presentation by a volunteer attorney, materials on divorce, and an open question-and-answer period. Call 505-797-6003 for more information.</p>
<p>ActionCoach presents the business re-education workshop Market Your Business to Higher Profits from 8:15-10 a.m. on Wednesday at 4801 Lang NE, Suite 210. For reservations or additional information, call 505-933-6003 or email [email protected].</p>
<p>The Spirit of New Mexico Awards Luncheon will be held from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Isleta Resort and Casino, 11000 Broadway SE. The Spirit of New Mexico Awards were created by the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce and the Albuquerque Journal in 2009 to recognize individuals who have improved the lives of other New Mexicans and whose personal stories were featured in the pages of the newspaper. The keynote speaker will be Gov. Susana Martinez . Admission is $40 for chamber members and $50 for others: reservations are required by Tuesday. For reservations or additional information, visit <a href="http://www.abqchamber.com" type="external">www.abqchamber.com</a> or call 505-764-3731.</p>
<p>The National Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE), Chapter 80, meets at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Palo Duro Senior Center, 5221 Palo Duro NE. All current and retired federal employees are invited. The meeting includes a potluck. For additional information, call 505-349-4129.</p>
<p>Women Entrepreneurs (WE) presents its annual Holiday Social from 5:30-8 p.m. on Dec. 8 at the MCM Elegante Hotel, 2020 Menaul NE. The cost is $20 and includes dinner: reservations are required by Sunday. To register, visit <a href="http://www.wenm.org" type="external">www.wenm.org</a> or call Laura Hand at 505-265-8273.</p>
<p>Georgette "Jette" Lombardo has opened Pawsitive Training ABQ, an in-home dog-training company in Albuquerque. Lombardo helps clients with foundation skills; pre-adoption consulting to help people find the right dog for their lifestyle; and then post-adoption skills. She is a Karen Pryor Academy-certified partner, and a trainer for Jack and Rascals on Albuquerque's West Side. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.pawsitivetrainingabq.com" type="external">www.pawsitivetrainingabq.com</a> or call 505-553-5300 .</p>
<p>Jude Gleason, CFP, AIF, has been promoted by the Bank of Albuquerque to vice president and senior financial consultant. Gleason joined the bank in August 2015 and also previously worked as the chief investment officer at REDW Stanley Financial Advisors LLC. He has a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's degree in business administration, both from the University of Phoenix.</p>
<p>Lorraine Ell has joined the financial advisory firm Better Money Decisions as chief executive officer (CEO). Ell has extensive experience as an investment professional, having been an adviser with firms including Drexel, Burnham and Lambert and J.W. Charles. She also ran her own registered investment advisory (RIA) firm, and has owned and managed several businesses internationally. Ell is a past chair of the Albuquerque Committee on Foreign Relations and currently sits on the group's board. She has a bachelor's degree in linguistics and a master's degree in leadership from Michigan State University.</p>
<p>First National Rio Grande has hired two new executives. They are:</p>
<p>James Kitzmiller, vice president and senior retail operations officer. Kitzmiller has 30 years' experience in retail banking operations and procedures.</p>
<p>Kristin Paulson, CPA, vice president and audit manager. Paulson has 10 years' experience as a certified public accountant.</p>
<p>Mandi Kane, APR, has joined the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program (ASYP) as executive director. Kane previously worked in public relations for over 10 years, mostly in the nonprofit sector. She has the Accredited in Public Relations (APR) designation from the Universal Accreditation Board and is a past president of the New Mexico chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Kane has a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communications from the University of New Mexico.</p>
<p>Stephanie Armitage has joined New Mexico State University's (NMSU) College of Engineering as an assistant dean of development and alumni. Armitage previously worked as a branch manager for First National Rio Grande Bank and also worked as a coalition coordinator for the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico. She has a bachelor's degree in business administration from NMSU and is currently working toward an MBA from NMSU.</p>
<p>Lorin Saavedra has joined Southwest Capital Ban k as vice president of internal audit for the bank's main Albuquerque location. Saavedra has experience in accounting, finance, human resources and auditing, and previously worked as director of finance and human resources at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque. She has a bachelor's degree in accountancy from New Mexico State University.</p>
<p>Taylor Lieuwen has joined NM Divorce &amp; Custody Law LLC as an associate attorney. Lieuwen previously worked as an attorney with HSD's Child Support Enforcement Division. He has a law degree from UNM and was admitted to the bar in September 2014.</p>
<p>Khosrow Shotorbani, president and CEO of TriCore Reference Laboratories, was named the 2015 recipient of the G2 Intelligence Laboratory Leadership Award for Distinguished Service . Shotorbani received the award at the 33rd annual Lab Institute in Washington, D.C., sponsored by G2 Intelligence. He was honored in recognition of his extraordinary commitment to the advancement of laboratory medicine and the role it can play across the healthcare industry.</p>
<p>The 2015 Nursing Excellence Awards have announced the winners of the 2015 Legends of Nursing Awards and the 2015 Friend of Nursing Award . They are</p>
<p>2015 Legends of Nursing are Leah L. Albers, CNM, DrPH, and Carol Eye Moye . Albers is a professor emerita of the UNM College of Nursing and originally joined the faculty in 1991. Moye worked in nursing for 42 years, retiring in 2014.</p>
<p>The 2015 Friend of Nursing award went to Joseph P. Sanchez, program operations director at the UNM College of Nursing.</p>
<p>Accounting &amp; Consulting Group LLP has changed its name to RPC CPAs + Consultants LLP . The accounting firm has offices in Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Carlsbad, Clovis, Hobbs, Roswell, Lubbock and El Paso.</p>
<p>Rebecca McKernan, CNS, an advanced practice nurse and program manager at the UNM Center for Development and Disability, has been appointed to the board of directors for the Adelante Development Center . McKernan, a clinical nurse specialist, has a master's degree in nursing.</p>
<p>(Awarded Nov. 26)</p>
<p>Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, has been assigned a patent ( 9,192,618 ) developed by two co-inventors for a "method of treating constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome." The co-inventors are Mark Pimentel, Los Angeles, and Henry C. Lin, Albuquerque. (Filed Dec. 9, 2014)</p>
<p>AMO Wavefront Sciences, Santa Ana, Calif., has been assigned a patent ( 9,195,009 ) developed by Devon E. Reid, Albuquerque, for a "microfluidic optical switching device and method." (Filed June 12, 2014)</p>
<p>Stainless Motors, Rio Rancho, has been assigned a patent ( 9,197,109 ) developed by two co-inventors for an "electric motor configured for facilitated washability." The co-inventors are John Christen Oleson, Placitas, and Andrew David Cook, Albuquerque. (Filed March 8, 2012)</p>
<p>Sandia, Albuquerque, has been assigned a patent ( 9,196,788 ) developed by three co-inventors for a "high-extraction efficiency ultraviolet light-emitting diode." The co-inventors are Jonathan Wierer, Albuquerque, Ines Montano, Albuquerque, and Andrew A. Allerman, Tijeras. (Filed Sept. 8, 2014)</p>
<p>Lumidigm, Albuquerque, has been assigned a patent ( 9,195,870 ) developed by Robert K. Rowe, Corrales, for a "copy-resistant symbol having a substrate and a machine-readable symbol instantiated on the substrate." (Filed Sept. 20, 2011)</p>
<p>Dise Technologies, Albuquerque, has been assigned a patent ( 9,195,756 ) developed by two co-inventors for "building a master topical index of information." The co-inventors are Arvind Raichur, Albuquerque, and Becky D. Raichur, Albuquerque. (Filed Nov. 3, 2009)</p>
<p>STC.UNM, Albuquerque, Sandia, Albuquerque, and ABQMR, Albuquerque, have been assigned a patent ( 9,194,921 ) developed by three co-inventors for a "biological detector and method." The co-inventors are Laurel Sillerud, Albuquerque, Todd M. Alam, Cedar Crest, and Andrew F. McDowell, Albuquerque. (Filed Dec. 17, 2012)</p>
<p>Sandia, Albuquerque, has been assigned a patent ( 9,194,805 ) developed by four co-inventors for "trace detection of analytes using portable raman systems." The co-inventors are M. Kathleen Alam, Cedar Crest, Peter J. Hotchkiss, Albuquerque, Laura E. Martin, Edgewood, and David Alexander Jones, Sandia Park, N.M. (Filed Aug. 27, 2014)</p>
<p>STC.UNM, Albuquerque, has been assigned a patent ( 9,192,306 ) developed by Jingkuang Chen, Albuquerque, for "photoacoustic imaging devices and methods of imaging." (Filed Sept. 9, 2013)</p>
<p>NASA has been assigned a patent ( 9,194,977 ) developed by six co-inventors for "active response gravity offload and method." The co-inventors are Larry K. Dungan, League City, Texas, Paul S. Valle, Seabrook, Texas, Derek R. Bankieris, League City, Texas, Asher P. Lieberman, Las Cruces, Lee Redden, Palo Alto, Calif., and Cecil Shy, Houston. (Filed July 26, 2013)</p>
<p>(Announced Nov. 20)</p>
<p>R&amp;M Government Services Inc., Las Cruces, won a $55,824 federal contract from the Defense Logistics Agency, Columbus, Ohio, for solenoid valves.</p>
<p>(Announced Nov. 21)</p>
<p>Fireproofing Products Inc., Albuquerque, won a $40,896 sole source federal contract from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs, Albuquerque, for soil growing media for tree seedlings.</p>
<p>(Announced Nov. 25)</p>
<p>Counseling World LLC, Albuquerque, won an $890,956 federal contract from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Prisons for community-based outpatient substance-abuse and mental-health services in Albuquerque.</p>
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holiday social 5308 pm dec 8 mcm elegante hotel 2020 menaul ne cost 20 includes dinner reservations required sunday register visit wwwwenmorg call laura hand 5052658273 georgette jette lombardo opened pawsitive training abq inhome dogtraining company albuquerque lombardo helps clients foundation skills preadoption consulting help people find right dog lifestyle postadoption skills karen pryor academycertified partner trainer jack rascals albuquerques west side information visit wwwpawsitivetrainingabqcom call 5055535300 jude gleason cfp aif promoted bank albuquerque vice president senior financial consultant gleason joined bank august 2015 also previously worked chief investment officer redw stanley financial advisors llc bachelors degree business administration masters degree business administration university phoenix lorraine ell joined financial advisory firm better money decisions chief executive officer ceo ell extensive experience investment professional adviser firms including drexel burnham lambert jw charles also ran registered investment advisory ria firm owned managed several businesses internationally ell past chair albuquerque committee foreign relations currently sits groups board bachelors degree linguistics masters degree leadership michigan state university first national rio grande hired two new executives james kitzmiller vice president senior retail operations officer kitzmiller 30 years experience retail banking operations procedures kristin paulson cpa vice president audit manager paulson 10 years experience certified public accountant mandi kane apr joined albuquerque youth symphony program asyp executive director kane previously worked public relations 10 years mostly nonprofit sector accredited public relations apr designation universal accreditation board past president new mexico chapter public relations society america prsa kane bachelors degree journalism mass communications university new mexico stephanie armitage joined new mexico state universitys nmsu college engineering assistant dean development alumni armitage previously worked branch manager first national rio grande bank also worked coalition coordinator community foundation southern new mexico bachelors degree business administration nmsu currently working toward mba nmsu lorin saavedra joined southwest capital ban k vice president internal audit banks main albuquerque location saavedra experience accounting finance human resources auditing previously worked director finance human resources hyatt regency albuquerque bachelors degree accountancy new mexico state university taylor lieuwen joined nm divorce amp custody law llc associate attorney lieuwen previously worked attorney hsds child support enforcement division law degree unm admitted bar september 2014 khosrow shotorbani president ceo tricore reference laboratories named 2015 recipient g2 intelligence laboratory leadership award distinguished service shotorbani received award 33rd annual lab institute washington dc sponsored g2 intelligence honored recognition extraordinary commitment advancement laboratory medicine role play across healthcare industry 2015 nursing excellence awards announced winners 2015 legends nursing awards 2015 friend nursing award 2015 legends nursing leah l albers cnm drph carol eye moye albers professor emerita unm college nursing originally joined faculty 1991 moye worked nursing 42 years retiring 2014 2015 friend nursing award went joseph p sanchez program operations director unm college nursing accounting amp consulting group llp changed name rpc cpas consultants llp accounting firm offices albuquerque alamogordo carlsbad clovis hobbs roswell lubbock el paso rebecca mckernan cns advanced practice nurse program manager unm center development disability appointed board directors adelante development center mckernan clinical nurse specialist masters degree nursing awarded nov 26 cedarssinai medical center los angeles assigned patent 9192618 developed two coinventors method treating constipationpredominant irritable bowel syndrome coinventors mark pimentel los angeles henry c lin albuquerque filed dec 9 2014 amo wavefront sciences santa ana calif assigned patent 9195009 developed devon e reid albuquerque microfluidic optical switching device method filed june 12 2014 stainless motors rio rancho assigned patent 9197109 developed two coinventors electric motor configured facilitated washability coinventors john christen oleson placitas andrew david cook albuquerque filed march 8 2012 sandia albuquerque assigned patent 9196788 developed three coinventors highextraction efficiency ultraviolet lightemitting diode coinventors jonathan wierer albuquerque ines montano albuquerque andrew allerman tijeras filed sept 8 2014 lumidigm albuquerque assigned patent 9195870 developed robert k rowe corrales copyresistant symbol substrate machinereadable symbol instantiated substrate filed sept 20 2011 dise technologies albuquerque assigned patent 9195756 developed two coinventors building master topical index information coinventors arvind raichur albuquerque becky raichur albuquerque filed nov 3 2009 stcunm albuquerque sandia albuquerque abqmr albuquerque assigned patent 9194921 developed three coinventors biological detector method coinventors laurel sillerud albuquerque todd alam cedar crest andrew f mcdowell albuquerque filed dec 17 2012 sandia albuquerque assigned patent 9194805 developed four coinventors trace detection analytes using portable raman systems coinventors kathleen alam cedar crest peter j hotchkiss albuquerque laura e martin edgewood david alexander jones sandia park nm filed aug 27 2014 stcunm albuquerque assigned patent 9192306 developed jingkuang chen albuquerque photoacoustic imaging devices methods imaging filed sept 9 2013 nasa assigned patent 9194977 developed six coinventors active response gravity offload method coinventors larry k dungan league city texas paul valle seabrook texas derek r bankieris league city texas asher p lieberman las cruces lee redden palo alto calif cecil shy houston filed july 26 2013 announced nov 20 rampm government services inc las cruces 55824 federal contract defense logistics agency columbus ohio solenoid valves announced nov 21 fireproofing products inc albuquerque 40896 sole source federal contract us department interiors bureau indian affairs albuquerque soil growing media tree seedlings announced nov 25 counseling world llc albuquerque 890956 federal contract us department justices bureau prisons communitybased outpatient substanceabuse mentalhealth services albuquerque 160
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<p>NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon's second home could be in an already tech-heavy city, such as Boston, New York or Austin, Texas. Or it could be in the Midwest, say, Indianapolis or Columbus, Ohio. Or the company could go outside the U.S. altogether and set up shop in Toronto.</p>
<p>Those six locations, as well as 14 others, made it onto Amazon's not-so-short shortlist Thursday of places under consideration for the online retailing giant's second headquarters.</p>
<p>The 20 picks, narrowed down from 238 proposals, are concentrated mostly in the East and the Midwest and include several of the biggest metro areas in the country, such as Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles, the only West Coast city on the list.</p>
<p>The Seattle-based company set off fierce competition last fall when it announced that it was looking for a second home, promising 50,000 jobs and construction spending of more than $5 billion. Many cities drew up elaborate presentations that included rich financial incentives.</p>
<p>The list of finalists highlights a key challenge facing the U.S. economy: Jobs and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few large metro areas, mostly on the East and West Coasts and a few places in between, such as Texas.</p>
<p>Nearly all the cities on Amazon's list already have growing economies, low unemployment and highly educated populations.</p>
<p>"Amazon has picked a bunch of winners," said Richard Florida, an economic development expert and professor at the University of Toronto who helped develop that city's bid. "It really reflects winner-take-all urbanism."</p>
<p>Among those that didn't make the cut were Detroit, a disappointment for those excited about progress since the city came out of bankruptcy, and Memphis, Tennessee, where the mayor said the city gave it its "best shot." San Diego also failed to advance.</p>
<p>"Getting from 238 to 20 was very tough," said Holly Sullivan, who oversees Amazon's public policy. "All the proposals showed tremendous enthusiasm and creativity."</p>
<p>Amazon said it will make a final selection sometime this year.</p>
<p>Besides Austin, another Texas city made the cut: Dallas. In the South, Miami and Atlanta are being considered.</p>
<p>Officials in cities that made the shortlist took the opportunity to further tout their locations, with Philadelphia's mayor noting "all that Philadelphia has to offer" and officials in and around Pittsburgh citing the region's "world-class talent pool" and other advantages.</p>
<p>Other contenders among the 20 include Denver; Montgomery County, Maryland; Nashville, Tennessee; Newark, New Jersey; Northern Virginia; and Raleigh, North Carolina.</p>
<p>"It's a long list for a shortlist," said Jed Kolko, chief economist at job site Indeed.</p>
<p>He said Amazon may use the list to pit the locations against each other and get better tax breaks or other incentives. Two metro areas, New York and Washington, have more than one location on the list, increasing the competition there, he said.</p>
<p>"It's hard to say whether all these places are in play or Amazon wanted to encourage continued competition," Kolko said.</p>
<p>Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether locations would be able to change their proposals or offer better incentives, but said in a statement that it will "work with each of the candidate locations to dive deeper into their proposals."</p>
<p>State and local governments played up the amenities they think make their locations the best choice. Some pulled off stunts to stand out, such as New York, which lit the Empire State Building in Amazon orange.</p>
<p>Some gimmicks didn't work: Tucson, Arizona, which sent a 21-foot cactus to Seattle, did not make the list. Neither did Birmingham, Alabama, which installed giant replicas of Amazon's Dash buttons.</p>
<p>The company had stipulated that it wanted to be near a metropolitan area with more than 1 million people, and nearly all of those on the shortlist have a metro population of at least double that.</p>
<p>Amazon also wanted to be able to attract top technical talent; be within 45 minutes of an international airport; have direct access to mass transit; and be able to expand the headquarters to as much as 8 million square feet in the next decade.</p>
<p>But Amazon also made it very clear it wanted tax breaks, grants and any other incentives.</p>
<p>Boston's offer includes $75 million for affordable housing for Amazon employees and others. Before leaving office Tuesday, Gov. Chris Christie approved a measure to allow New Jersey to offer up to $5 billion to Amazon. Newark is also proposing $2 billion in tax breaks.</p>
<p>But many of the state and local governments competing for the headquarters have refused to disclose the financial incentives they offered. Of the 20 finalists, 13, including New York, Chicago and Miami, declined requests from The Associated Press to release their applications. Toronto's mayor said Thursday that the city offered no financial incentives to woo Amazon.</p>
<p>Several said they don't want their competitors to know what they're offering, a stance that open-government advocates criticized.</p>
<p>Amazon plans to remain in its sprawling Seattle headquarters, and the second home base will be "a full equal" to it, founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has said.</p>
<p>The extra space will give the rapidly growing company room to spread out. It had nearly 542,000 employees at the end of September, a 77 percent jump from the year before. Some of that growth came from Amazon's nearly $14 billion acquisition last year of the Whole Foods grocery chain and its 89,000 employees.</p>
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<p>Associated Press writers Josh Cornfield in Philadelphia, Matt O'Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, and Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report. Rugaber contributed from Washington.</p>
<p>NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon's second home could be in an already tech-heavy city, such as Boston, New York or Austin, Texas. Or it could be in the Midwest, say, Indianapolis or Columbus, Ohio. Or the company could go outside the U.S. altogether and set up shop in Toronto.</p>
<p>Those six locations, as well as 14 others, made it onto Amazon's not-so-short shortlist Thursday of places under consideration for the online retailing giant's second headquarters.</p>
<p>The 20 picks, narrowed down from 238 proposals, are concentrated mostly in the East and the Midwest and include several of the biggest metro areas in the country, such as Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles, the only West Coast city on the list.</p>
<p>The Seattle-based company set off fierce competition last fall when it announced that it was looking for a second home, promising 50,000 jobs and construction spending of more than $5 billion. Many cities drew up elaborate presentations that included rich financial incentives.</p>
<p>The list of finalists highlights a key challenge facing the U.S. economy: Jobs and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few large metro areas, mostly on the East and West Coasts and a few places in between, such as Texas.</p>
<p>Nearly all the cities on Amazon's list already have growing economies, low unemployment and highly educated populations.</p>
<p>"Amazon has picked a bunch of winners," said Richard Florida, an economic development expert and professor at the University of Toronto who helped develop that city's bid. "It really reflects winner-take-all urbanism."</p>
<p>Among those that didn't make the cut were Detroit, a disappointment for those excited about progress since the city came out of bankruptcy, and Memphis, Tennessee, where the mayor said the city gave it its "best shot." San Diego also failed to advance.</p>
<p>"Getting from 238 to 20 was very tough," said Holly Sullivan, who oversees Amazon's public policy. "All the proposals showed tremendous enthusiasm and creativity."</p>
<p>Amazon said it will make a final selection sometime this year.</p>
<p>Besides Austin, another Texas city made the cut: Dallas. In the South, Miami and Atlanta are being considered.</p>
<p>Officials in cities that made the shortlist took the opportunity to further tout their locations, with Philadelphia's mayor noting "all that Philadelphia has to offer" and officials in and around Pittsburgh citing the region's "world-class talent pool" and other advantages.</p>
<p>Other contenders among the 20 include Denver; Montgomery County, Maryland; Nashville, Tennessee; Newark, New Jersey; Northern Virginia; and Raleigh, North Carolina.</p>
<p>"It's a long list for a shortlist," said Jed Kolko, chief economist at job site Indeed.</p>
<p>He said Amazon may use the list to pit the locations against each other and get better tax breaks or other incentives. Two metro areas, New York and Washington, have more than one location on the list, increasing the competition there, he said.</p>
<p>"It's hard to say whether all these places are in play or Amazon wanted to encourage continued competition," Kolko said.</p>
<p>Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether locations would be able to change their proposals or offer better incentives, but said in a statement that it will "work with each of the candidate locations to dive deeper into their proposals."</p>
<p>State and local governments played up the amenities they think make their locations the best choice. Some pulled off stunts to stand out, such as New York, which lit the Empire State Building in Amazon orange.</p>
<p>Some gimmicks didn't work: Tucson, Arizona, which sent a 21-foot cactus to Seattle, did not make the list. Neither did Birmingham, Alabama, which installed giant replicas of Amazon's Dash buttons.</p>
<p>The company had stipulated that it wanted to be near a metropolitan area with more than 1 million people, and nearly all of those on the shortlist have a metro population of at least double that.</p>
<p>Amazon also wanted to be able to attract top technical talent; be within 45 minutes of an international airport; have direct access to mass transit; and be able to expand the headquarters to as much as 8 million square feet in the next decade.</p>
<p>But Amazon also made it very clear it wanted tax breaks, grants and any other incentives.</p>
<p>Boston's offer includes $75 million for affordable housing for Amazon employees and others. Before leaving office Tuesday, Gov. Chris Christie approved a measure to allow New Jersey to offer up to $5 billion to Amazon. Newark is also proposing $2 billion in tax breaks.</p>
<p>But many of the state and local governments competing for the headquarters have refused to disclose the financial incentives they offered. Of the 20 finalists, 13, including New York, Chicago and Miami, declined requests from The Associated Press to release their applications. Toronto's mayor said Thursday that the city offered no financial incentives to woo Amazon.</p>
<p>Several said they don't want their competitors to know what they're offering, a stance that open-government advocates criticized.</p>
<p>Amazon plans to remain in its sprawling Seattle headquarters, and the second home base will be "a full equal" to it, founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has said.</p>
<p>The extra space will give the rapidly growing company room to spread out. It had nearly 542,000 employees at the end of September, a 77 percent jump from the year before. Some of that growth came from Amazon's nearly $14 billion acquisition last year of the Whole Foods grocery chain and its 89,000 employees.</p>
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<p>Associated Press writers Josh Cornfield in Philadelphia, Matt O'Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, and Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report. Rugaber contributed from Washington.</p>
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new york ap amazons second home could already techheavy city boston new york austin texas could midwest say indianapolis columbus ohio company could go outside us altogether set shop toronto six locations well 14 others made onto amazons notsoshort shortlist thursday places consideration online retailing giants second headquarters 20 picks narrowed 238 proposals concentrated mostly east midwest include several biggest metro areas country chicago washington los angeles west coast city list seattlebased company set fierce competition last fall announced looking second home promising 50000 jobs construction spending 5 billion many cities drew elaborate presentations included rich financial incentives list finalists highlights key challenge facing us economy jobs economic growth increasingly concentrated large metro areas mostly east west coasts places texas nearly cities amazons list already growing economies low unemployment highly educated populations amazon picked bunch winners said richard florida economic development expert professor university toronto helped develop citys bid really reflects winnertakeall urbanism among didnt make cut detroit disappointment excited progress since city came bankruptcy memphis tennessee mayor said city gave best shot san diego also failed advance getting 238 20 tough said holly sullivan oversees amazons public policy proposals showed tremendous enthusiasm creativity amazon said make final selection sometime year besides austin another texas city made cut dallas south miami atlanta considered officials cities made shortlist took opportunity tout locations philadelphias mayor noting philadelphia offer officials around pittsburgh citing regions worldclass talent pool advantages contenders among 20 include denver montgomery county maryland nashville tennessee newark new jersey northern virginia raleigh north carolina long list shortlist said jed kolko chief economist job site indeed said amazon may use list pit locations get better tax breaks incentives two metro areas new york washington one location list increasing competition said hard say whether places play amazon wanted encourage continued competition kolko said amazon immediately respond request comment whether locations would able change proposals offer better incentives said statement work candidate locations dive deeper proposals state local governments played amenities think make locations best choice pulled stunts stand new york lit empire state building amazon orange gimmicks didnt work tucson arizona sent 21foot cactus seattle make list neither birmingham alabama installed giant replicas amazons dash buttons company stipulated wanted near metropolitan area 1 million people nearly shortlist metro population least double amazon also wanted able attract top technical talent within 45 minutes international airport direct access mass transit able expand headquarters much 8 million square feet next decade amazon also made clear wanted tax breaks grants incentives bostons offer includes 75 million affordable housing amazon employees others leaving office tuesday gov chris christie approved measure allow new jersey offer 5 billion amazon newark also proposing 2 billion tax breaks many state local governments competing headquarters refused disclose financial incentives offered 20 finalists 13 including new york chicago miami declined requests associated press release applications torontos mayor said thursday city offered financial incentives woo amazon several said dont want competitors know theyre offering stance opengovernment advocates criticized amazon plans remain sprawling seattle headquarters second home base full equal founder ceo jeff bezos said extra space give rapidly growing company room spread nearly 542000 employees end september 77 percent jump year growth came amazons nearly 14 billion acquisition last year whole foods grocery chain 89000 employees ____ associated press writers josh cornfield philadelphia matt obrien providence rhode island rob gillies toronto contributed report rugaber contributed washington new york ap amazons second home could already techheavy city boston new york austin texas could midwest say indianapolis columbus ohio company could go outside us altogether set shop toronto six locations well 14 others made onto amazons notsoshort shortlist thursday places consideration online retailing giants second headquarters 20 picks narrowed 238 proposals concentrated mostly east midwest include several biggest metro areas country chicago washington los angeles west coast city list seattlebased company set fierce competition last fall announced looking second home promising 50000 jobs construction spending 5 billion many cities drew elaborate presentations included rich financial incentives list finalists highlights key challenge facing us economy jobs economic growth increasingly concentrated large metro areas mostly east west coasts places texas nearly cities amazons list already growing economies low unemployment highly educated populations amazon picked bunch winners said richard florida economic development expert professor university toronto helped develop citys bid really reflects winnertakeall urbanism among didnt make cut detroit disappointment excited progress since city came bankruptcy memphis tennessee mayor said city gave best shot san diego also failed advance getting 238 20 tough said holly sullivan oversees amazons public policy proposals showed tremendous enthusiasm creativity amazon said make final selection sometime year besides austin another texas city made cut dallas south miami atlanta considered officials cities made shortlist took opportunity tout locations philadelphias mayor noting philadelphia offer officials around pittsburgh citing regions worldclass talent pool advantages contenders among 20 include denver montgomery county maryland nashville tennessee newark new jersey northern virginia raleigh north carolina long list shortlist said jed kolko chief economist job site indeed said amazon may use list pit locations get better tax breaks incentives two metro areas new york washington one location list increasing competition said hard say whether places play amazon wanted encourage continued competition kolko said amazon immediately respond request comment whether locations would able change proposals offer better incentives said statement work candidate locations dive deeper proposals state local governments played amenities think make locations best choice pulled stunts stand new york lit empire state building amazon orange gimmicks didnt work tucson arizona sent 21foot cactus seattle make list neither birmingham alabama installed giant replicas amazons dash buttons company stipulated wanted near metropolitan area 1 million people nearly shortlist metro population least double amazon also wanted able attract top technical talent within 45 minutes international airport direct access mass transit able expand headquarters much 8 million square feet next decade amazon also made clear wanted tax breaks grants incentives bostons offer includes 75 million affordable housing amazon employees others leaving office tuesday gov chris christie approved measure allow new jersey offer 5 billion amazon newark also proposing 2 billion tax breaks many state local governments competing headquarters refused disclose financial incentives offered 20 finalists 13 including new york chicago miami declined requests associated press release applications torontos mayor said thursday city offered financial incentives woo amazon several said dont want competitors know theyre offering stance opengovernment advocates criticized amazon plans remain sprawling seattle headquarters second home base full equal founder ceo jeff bezos said extra space give rapidly growing company room spread nearly 542000 employees end september 77 percent jump year growth came amazons nearly 14 billion acquisition last year whole foods grocery chain 89000 employees ____ associated press writers josh cornfield philadelphia matt obrien providence rhode island rob gillies toronto contributed report rugaber contributed washington
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<p>Incorporating most of a compromise plan the New Mexico Environment Department submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency in October, the settlement calls for closing of two of the plant’s four coal-fired units by Dec. 31, 2017, and replacing them with a 150- to 200-megawatt natural gas powered unit.</p>
<p>The two remaining units would be equipped with state-proposed selective non- catalytic reduction pollution controls — much less expensive than EPA’s original technology — and permitted to operate indefinitely, which could be decades.</p>
<p>The deal should mean cleaner air without as big an increase in electricity rates the utility claimed would have followed the EPA plan.</p>
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<p>State and PNM officials singled out the support of Gov. Susana Martinez, who requested a 90-day administrative stay of the EPA rule last spring to see if an alternative haze plan could be worked out.</p>
<p>“All along, my goal has been to strike the right balance between the environmental and economic impacts of energy production in the Four Corners,” the governor said in a statement.</p>
<p>The Sierra Club said the settlement “underscores broadening support” for a move away from coal, but called on the state to go beyond relying on natural gas as a replacement and take advantage of the state’s renewable energy resources.</p>
<p>“The EPA is looking forward toward moving forward on this,” said EPA District 6 Administrator Ron Curry in teleconference call. “This is the culmination of a lot of effort by a lot of people in New Mexico, Dallas and Washington.”</p>
<p>PNM, 46 percent owner of the 1,743-megawatt plant, estimates its share of the capital costs under the settlement would be $400 million to $430 million. It says ratepayers would not see an immediate effect on their bills.</p>
<p>In addition, PNM agreed to no layoffs due to the units’ closures and will provide more than $1 million for job retraining and economic development in the Four Corners area.</p>
<p>The settlement differs substantially from a federal implementation plan for combatting regional haze in an EPA rule issued in August 2011. The EPA gave the nine owners of San Juan five years to install selective catalytic reduction on each of the plant’s four units — at an estimated cost of $824 million to $910 million.</p>
<p>“This agreement reflects a compromise,” Environment Department Secretary David Martin said of the settlement, which followed months of negotiation between his department, the EPA and PNM.</p>
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<p>“All people are not comfortable with all aspects of it, that’s the nature of a compromise.”</p>
<p>Martin said while the plan addresses regional haze, “there are significant other environmental benefits to this alternate plan. There are significant reductions in SO2 sulfur dioxide, reductions in carbon and reductions in particulates and … a significant reduction in water usage.”</p>
<p>The state had argued SCR would have a major impact on ratepayers with barely perceptible visibility improvements over SNCR. In June 2011, it submitted its own haze plan calling for SNCR on the four units, at an estimated cost of $77 million. EPA did not approve the cheaper technology.</p>
<p>During the stay, the Environment Department assembled a working group of stakeholders and held a series of public meetings. Although it was unable to reach a consensus, it submitted a alternative in October to the EPA, which later extended the stay.</p>
<p>The state’s original proposal called for closing units 1 and 2. The settlement calls for closing units 2 and 3. Martin said unit 3 is larger than unit 1 and closing it will provide more environmental benefits. That particular change spurred on the settlement talks, according to Curry, who was Martin’s predecessor under Gov. Bill Richardson.</p>
<p>PNM estimates that under the settlement, nitrous oxide and sulfur dioxide emission would be cut by than more than 60 percent. Other emissions such as particulate matter and volatile organic compounds would also be sharply cut, it said.</p>
<p>PNM senior vice president of public policy Ron Darnell said the settlement “actually pushes out the need for rate relief (for the company) because of the changes in the capital expenditures.</p>
<p>“We’re looking at recovery for the alternative plan in sort of the 2018 time frame as opposed to the 2016 time frame that would have been required with the (federal plan),” he said. He said the company has not determined how the settlement costs would “float into rates,” but estimated ratepayers could see a $67 to $70 a year impact on their bills initially. PNM said detailed replacement power plans would be finalized separately from the haze agreement, but believes there are adequate power alternatives to ensure reliability. Ron Talbot, senior vice president and chief operating officer, said the plant’s other owners endorsed the plan this week.</p>
<p>“This agreement is a significant milestone in our efforts to implement an alternative compliance plan that reduce the costs impact to our customers and has broad environmental impacts,” PNM Resources president and CEO Pat Vincent-Collawn said in a statement.</p>
<p>“Reaction in the environmental community — where there was considerable support for the EPA plan — was generally positive.</p>
<p>Mariel Nanasi, executive director of the New Energy Economy, said the settlement would result in the “greatest environmental improvement in New Mexico’s history.”</p>
<p>“This transition from coal is the smartest financial path forward and is aligned with ratepayers,” Nanasi said. ‘We need to be rapidly prioritizing our investments in solar and wind, given New Mexico’s abundant resources.”</p>
<p>While approving of the move away from coal, Nellis Kennedy-Howard, Beyond Coal Campaign representative for the Sierra Club, said natural gas has its own environmental shortfalls and was disappointed the settlement doesn’t mention renewable energy. — This article appeared on page A1 of the Albuquerque Journal</p>
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incorporating compromise plan new mexico environment department submitted environmental protection agency october settlement calls closing two plants four coalfired units dec 31 2017 replacing 150 200megawatt natural gas powered unit two remaining units would equipped stateproposed selective non catalytic reduction pollution controls much less expensive epas original technology permitted operate indefinitely could decades deal mean cleaner air without big increase electricity rates utility claimed would followed epa plan advertisement state pnm officials singled support gov susana martinez requested 90day administrative stay epa rule last spring see alternative haze plan could worked along goal strike right balance environmental economic impacts energy production four corners governor said statement sierra club said settlement underscores broadening support move away coal called state go beyond relying natural gas replacement take advantage states renewable energy resources epa looking forward toward moving forward said epa district 6 administrator ron curry teleconference call culmination lot effort lot people new mexico dallas washington pnm 46 percent owner 1743megawatt plant estimates share capital costs settlement would 400 million 430 million says ratepayers would see immediate effect bills addition pnm agreed layoffs due units closures provide 1 million job retraining economic development four corners area settlement differs substantially federal implementation plan combatting regional haze epa rule issued august 2011 epa gave nine owners san juan five years install selective catalytic reduction plants four units estimated cost 824 million 910 million agreement reflects compromise environment department secretary david martin said settlement followed months negotiation department epa pnm advertisement people comfortable aspects thats nature compromise martin said plan addresses regional haze significant environmental benefits alternate plan significant reductions so2 sulfur dioxide reductions carbon reductions particulates significant reduction water usage state argued scr would major impact ratepayers barely perceptible visibility improvements sncr june 2011 submitted haze plan calling sncr four units estimated cost 77 million epa approve cheaper technology stay environment department assembled working group stakeholders held series public meetings although unable reach consensus submitted alternative october epa later extended stay states original proposal called closing units 1 2 settlement calls closing units 2 3 martin said unit 3 larger unit 1 closing provide environmental benefits particular change spurred settlement talks according curry martins predecessor gov bill richardson pnm estimates settlement nitrous oxide sulfur dioxide emission would cut 60 percent emissions particulate matter volatile organic compounds would also sharply cut said pnm senior vice president public policy ron darnell said settlement actually pushes need rate relief company changes capital expenditures looking recovery alternative plan sort 2018 time frame opposed 2016 time frame would required federal plan said said company determined settlement costs would float rates estimated ratepayers could see 67 70 year impact bills initially pnm said detailed replacement power plans would finalized separately haze agreement believes adequate power alternatives ensure reliability ron talbot senior vice president chief operating officer said plants owners endorsed plan week agreement significant milestone efforts implement alternative compliance plan reduce costs impact customers broad environmental impacts pnm resources president ceo pat vincentcollawn said statement reaction environmental community considerable support epa plan generally positive mariel nanasi executive director new energy economy said settlement would result greatest environmental improvement new mexicos history transition coal smartest financial path forward aligned ratepayers nanasi said need rapidly prioritizing investments solar wind given new mexicos abundant resources approving move away coal nellis kennedyhoward beyond coal campaign representative sierra club said natural gas environmental shortfalls disappointed settlement doesnt mention renewable energy article appeared page a1 albuquerque journal
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<p>Stocks were solidly higher throughout the day and jumped an hour before the close of trading. Coca-Cola and Pfizer both gained 2.5 percent. Investors have mostly avoided consumer goods makers and health companies in recent weeks. Instead they’ve bought banks and machinery companies, which could benefit more from a faster-growing economy.</p>
<p>“What we’re seeing today is investors who are fearful they’ll be left behind,” said Kate Warne, investment strategist for Edward Jones. “So it may not be surprising that they’re buying less aggressive stocks and sectors.”</p>
<p>The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 142.04 points, or 0.7 percent, to 19,756.85. The Standard &amp; Poor’s 500 index rose 13.34 points, or 0.6 percent, to 2,259.53. The Nasdaq composite gained 27.14 points, or 0.5 percent, to 5,444.50. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks edged up 1.71 points, or 0.1 percent, to 1,388.07.</p>
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<p>The S&amp;P 500’s six-day winning streak is its longest in two and a half years.</p>
<p>Among household goods companies, PepsiCo gained $1.42, or 1.4 percent, to $103.57. Energy drink maker Monster Beverage also rose, as did drugstore chains CVS and Walgreens.</p>
<p>Coca-Cola climbed as investors reacted positively to the company’s CEO transition plans. Coke said Muhtar Kent will give up his CEO title in May, and Chief Operating Officer James Quincey, a 20-year veteran of the company, will become CEO.</p>
<p>Drug companies bounced back from their recent losses. Those stocks, especially biotechnology companies, were hit hard this week after President-elect Donald Trump said he wants to reduce drug prices. Bristol-Myers Squibb gained $1.81, or 3.3 percent, to $57.04 and Botox maker Allergan rose $3.78, or 2 percent, to $192.25.</p>
<p>Overall, health care companies are nearly flat since Nov. 8.</p>
<p>Technology stocks rose for the sixth consecutive day and completed their best week in a year. They’ve slightly lagged the market since Election Day. Chipmaker Broadcom rose $8.38, or 4.9 percent, to $179.09 after reporting earnings that were far above expectations. The company also doubled its quarterly dividend. Apple gained $1.83, or 1.6 percent, to $113.95. Google parent Alphabet reversed its post-election losses and picked up $14.28, or 1.8 percent, to $809.45.</p>
<p>U.S. government bond prices slipped again. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note inched up to 2.47 percent, its highest in about 18 months, from 2.41 percent late Thursday. That yield is used to set interest rates on many kinds of loans including mortgages.</p>
<p>Next week the Federal Reserve will meet for the last time in 2016. Investors expect the central bank to raise its key interest rate, and Wall Street will look for clues about the Fed’s plans for future interest rates.</p>
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<p>“They’re hoping that the Fed continues with the current message: that they’ll be patient, that they’re watching the economy, and that they see the risks as balanced,” said Warne.</p>
<p>Banks made small gains. The S&amp;P 500 financial index has climbed 18.5 percent since Nov. 9, twice as much as any other sector. The S&amp;P 500 overall is up 3.1 percent. Banks are trading at their highest prices since early 2008.</p>
<p>Benchmark U.S. crude oil jumped 66 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $51.50 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, the international standard, added 44 cents to $54.33 a barrel in London.</p>
<p>Gold lost $10.50 to $1,161.90 an ounce. Silver fell 13 cents to $16.97 an ounce. Copper picked up 2 cents to $2.65 per pound. Gold reached a 10-month low Friday, and that helped pull mining companies lower. Basic materials makers also struggled.</p>
<p>In other energy trading, wholesale gasoline was little changed at $1.51 a gallon. Heating oil picked up 1 cent to $1.64 a gallon. Natural gas gained 5 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $3.75.</p>
<p>European stocks had an even stronger week than their U.S. counterparts after the European Central Bank said it will spend another $579 billion to stimulate the economy by buying bonds, but said it will buy slightly smaller amounts of bonds each month. It said the danger of deflation, which damages growth, had passed.</p>
<p>The blue-chip Euro Stoxx 50 jumped 6 percent for the week. Germany’s DAX rose 0.2 percent Friday and finished the week up 6.6 percent. The CAC 40 in France rose 0.6 percent and the British FTSE 100 added 0.3 percent.</p>
<p>The dollar jumped to 115.23 yen from 114.07 yen. The euro fell to $1.0551 from $1.0613.</p>
<p>Japan’s Nikkei 225 gained 1.2 percent as the yen fell. The weaker yen is good news for Japanese exporters. Among other Asian indexes, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell 0.4 percent.</p>
<p>South Korea’s Kospi index slid 0.3 percent after legislators voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye over a corruption scandal. She has denied allegations she colluded with a confidante who extorted companies and manipulated state affairs. South Korea’s prime minister will lead the country until a high court rules if Park must resign.</p>
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<p>AP Markets Writer Marley Jay can be reached at <a href="http://twitter.com/MarleyJayAP" type="external">http://twitter.com/MarleyJayAP</a> His work can be found at <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/journalist/marley-jay" type="external">http://bigstory.ap.org/journalist/marley-jay</a></p>
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stocks solidly higher throughout day jumped hour close trading cocacola pfizer gained 25 percent investors mostly avoided consumer goods makers health companies recent weeks instead theyve bought banks machinery companies could benefit fastergrowing economy seeing today investors fearful theyll left behind said kate warne investment strategist edward jones may surprising theyre buying less aggressive stocks sectors dow jones industrial average climbed 14204 points 07 percent 1975685 standard amp poors 500 index rose 1334 points 06 percent 225953 nasdaq composite gained 2714 points 05 percent 544450 russell 2000 index smallercompany stocks edged 171 points 01 percent 138807 advertisement sampp 500s sixday winning streak longest two half years among household goods companies pepsico gained 142 14 percent 10357 energy drink maker monster beverage also rose drugstore chains cvs walgreens cocacola climbed investors reacted positively companys ceo transition plans coke said muhtar kent give ceo title may chief operating officer james quincey 20year veteran company become ceo drug companies bounced back recent losses stocks especially biotechnology companies hit hard week presidentelect donald trump said wants reduce drug prices bristolmyers squibb gained 181 33 percent 5704 botox maker allergan rose 378 2 percent 19225 overall health care companies nearly flat since nov 8 technology stocks rose sixth consecutive day completed best week year theyve slightly lagged market since election day chipmaker broadcom rose 838 49 percent 17909 reporting earnings far expectations company also doubled quarterly dividend apple gained 183 16 percent 11395 google parent alphabet reversed postelection losses picked 1428 18 percent 80945 us government bond prices slipped yield 10year treasury note inched 247 percent highest 18 months 241 percent late thursday yield used set interest rates many kinds loans including mortgages next week federal reserve meet last time 2016 investors expect central bank raise key interest rate wall street look clues feds plans future interest rates advertisement theyre hoping fed continues current message theyll patient theyre watching economy see risks balanced said warne banks made small gains sampp 500 financial index climbed 185 percent since nov 9 twice much sector sampp 500 overall 31 percent banks trading highest prices since early 2008 benchmark us crude oil jumped 66 cents 13 percent 5150 barrel new york brent crude international standard added 44 cents 5433 barrel london gold lost 1050 116190 ounce silver fell 13 cents 1697 ounce copper picked 2 cents 265 per pound gold reached 10month low friday helped pull mining companies lower basic materials makers also struggled energy trading wholesale gasoline little changed 151 gallon heating oil picked 1 cent 164 gallon natural gas gained 5 cents 14 percent 375 european stocks even stronger week us counterparts european central bank said spend another 579 billion stimulate economy buying bonds said buy slightly smaller amounts bonds month said danger deflation damages growth passed bluechip euro stoxx 50 jumped 6 percent week germanys dax rose 02 percent friday finished week 66 percent cac 40 france rose 06 percent british ftse 100 added 03 percent dollar jumped 11523 yen 11407 yen euro fell 10551 10613 japans nikkei 225 gained 12 percent yen fell weaker yen good news japanese exporters among asian indexes hong kongs hang seng index fell 04 percent south koreas kospi index slid 03 percent legislators voted impeach president park geunhye corruption scandal denied allegations colluded confidante extorted companies manipulated state affairs south koreas prime minister lead country high court rules park must resign ___ ap markets writer marley jay reached httptwittercommarleyjayap work found httpbigstoryaporgjournalistmarleyjay
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<p>* SAYS UNIT SIGNS AGREEMENT TO BUY 2.0 BILLION SHARES IN CHINA REGENERATIVE MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL, OR 11.4 PERCENT STAKE, FOR HK$360 MILLION ($46.05 million) Source text in Chinese: <a href="http://bit.ly/2Dze5gs" type="external">bit.ly/2Dze5gs</a> Further company coverage: ($1 = 7.8170 Hong Kong dollars) (Reporting by Hong Kong newsroom)</p> Our Standards:
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<p>WASHINGTON/OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has bashed international efforts to combat climate change and questioned the scientific consensus that global warming is dangerous and driven by human consumption of fossil fuels.</p> U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with the news media before boarding Marine One helicopter to depart for travel to California via Joint Base Andrews from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 13, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis
<p>But there is a disconnect between what Trump says at home and what his government does abroad. While attention has been focused on Trump’s rhetoric, State Department envoys, federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight climate change, according to U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.</p>
<p>“We really don’t detect any change with the Americans,” said one of the officials, Aleksi Härkönen of Finland, who chairs the eight-nation Arctic Council’s key group of senior officials, who are charged with protecting a region warming faster than any other on Earth.</p>
<p>Over the past year, the United States has helped draft the rulebook for implementing the Paris climate accord, signed international memoranda calling for global action to fight climate change, boosted funding for overseas clean energy projects, and contributed to global research on the dangers and causes of the Earth’s warming.</p>
<p>While the United States’ participation in international forums – including the Paris accord and the Arctic Council - has been reported, its continued, broad and constructive support for climate change efforts in these gatherings has not.</p>
<p>This business-as-usual approach has surprised some of America’s foreign partners, along with some of Trump’s allies, who had expected the new administration to match its rhetoric with an obstructionist approach to combating climate change.</p>
<p>“I am concerned that much of our climate policy remains on autopilot,” complained Trump’s former energy adviser Myron Ebell, now a research director at the right-leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute, who said it reflects a failure by the administration to fill key positions and replace staffers who oppose the president’s agenda.</p>
<p>The U.S. efforts abroad to tackle climate change have been counter-balanced by Trump’s aggressive push at home to increase production of the fossil fuels scientists blame for global warming. He has also ordered a wide-ranging rollback of Obama-era climate regulations and appointed a self-described climate skeptic, Scott Pruitt, as the nation’s chief environmental regulator.</p>
<p>And to be sure, none of the U.S. dealings in international climate efforts since last year have committed the United States to any emissions cuts that would undermine Trump’s domestic energy agenda.</p>
<p>The State Department – which handles the bulk of U.S. climate policy abroad - told Reuters it was still developing its global warming policy under Trump.</p>
<p>“The State Department is working with the White House and the interagency to further develop our approach to international climate change diplomacy,” State Department spokesman Ambrose Sayles said in a statement before Trump sacked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday.</p>
<p>“In the meantime, we will continue to participate ... to ensure a level playing field that benefits and protects U.S. interests, and to keep all options open for the President,” Sayles said.</p>
<p>Tillerson’s departure leaves a question mark over the future of U.S. climate policy abroad. Tillerson was in favor of the Paris accord, while his successor, Mike Pompeo, has expressed doubts about the science of climate change. Climate advocates say they hope Pompeo will be too distracted by tensions with Iran and North Korea to change the State Department’s approach to climate change.</p>
<p>White House spokeswoman Kelly Love declined to comment.</p> ROLLBACK AT HOME, RULEBOOK ABROAD
<p>Trump announced last year that he was withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement&#160;to fight global warming, raising concerns among other parties to the deal that Washington might attempt to torpedo the accord or disengage from it completely.</p>
<p>That hasn’t happened. Washington sent a 40-strong delegation to talks in Bonn in November to help draft a new rulebook that will provide rules of the road for the 200 participating nations. It was a smaller delegation than Washington had sent to past meetings, but it still won praise from fellow delegates for its work.</p>
<p>For example, Andrew Rakestraw – a climate negotiator for the State Department since 2013 - co-chaired discussions on how to ensure that the pledges by signatories are comparable and use the same accounting standards - a point seen as critical to the success of the accord.</p>
<p>Nazhat Shameem Khan, chief negotiator for Fiji, which presided over the talks, said the United States delegation was “constructive and helpful.”&#160; The U.N.’s climate chief, Patricia Espinosa, also called the U.S. role constructive.&#160;</p>
<p>Thomas Shannon, the State Department’s chief climate negotiator in Bonn, did not respond to requests for comment. Rakestraw also did not respond to calls and emails requesting comment.</p>
<p>A U.S. source familiar with the U.S. position at the talks, who asked not to be named, said that U.S. delegates in Bonn were pushing an agenda that resembled those of past administrations – stressing that emerging economies like China follow the same rules as developed nations and meet international standards for monitoring and reporting emissions.</p>
<p>There was one jarring note: Washington sponsored a side event to promote “clean coal.” Some other delegates said they were unhappy with this, as they wanted the talks to focus on renewable energies.</p>
<p>Under the details of the accord, the United States cannot formally withdraw until 2020.</p> ARCTIC MELTING AND SOLAR POWER
<p>The State Department’s delegations to the Arctic Council are also continuing their work in much the same way they did under President Barack Obama - acknowledging that warming is real and should be countered in planning everything from new shipping routes to the protection of indigenous peoples.</p>
<p>Some U.S. agencies are also still bolstering international efforts to fight climate change.</p>
<p>The Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which seeks to advance U.S. policy by financing foreign business ventures, doubled its support for solar projects in 2017 under a climate-friendly policy last updated by the Obama administration.</p>
<p>And NASA, the U.S. space agency, continues to research climate change, publish climate change data, and contribute to international reports, spokesman Stephen Cole said.</p>
<p>Both OPIC and NASA are independent of the State Department, so would not be under Pompeo’s sway.</p> ‘NO CHALLENGE’
<p>Scientists representing the United States in international research say they have also been unfettered by the Trump administration, despite concerns early in the Trump presidency that the White House would seek to silence them or restrict their work.</p>
<p>“There has been no pressure on U.S. authors,” said one U.S. scientist, who is now helping to write a United Nations report that will call for coal to be “phased out rapidly” to limit global warming -&#160; a direct clash with Trump’s pro-coal agenda.</p>
<p>The scientist asked not to be named because the draft report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), due to be released in October, is confidential.</p>
<p>“Our U.S. colleagues know that climate change is not a hoax,” said one of the non-U.S. authors of the same report, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.</p>
<p>Christopher Field, a professor of environmental studies at Stanford University who co-chaired a 2014 IPCC report on the impacts of climate change,&#160;agreed:&#160;“I’ve not seen any indication that the climate denialism from Trump and other members of the administration has had any influence ... on the alignment of the U.S. scientific community with the scientific consensus around the world.”</p>
<p>Still, scientists worry that while the Trump administration is not interfering with their research it is ignoring it.</p>
<p>The Trump administration made no move to block an assessment by 300 experts last year that outlined the threats and causes of warming in&#160;the United States and concluded there is “no convincing alternative explanation” for climate change than human activity.</p>
<p>“But then they haven’t acknowledged the findings, nor changed their climate science denying stance,” said the U.S. scientist involved in drafting the U.N. coal report.</p>
<p>Additional reporting by Valerie Volcovici in Washington and Nichola Groom in Los Angeles; Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Ross Colvin</p> Our Standards:
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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are preparing to sanction Wells Fargo for receiving commissions on auto insurance policies it helped force on more than half a million drivers, people with direct knowledge of the probes told Reuters.</p> FILE PHOTO: A Wells Fargo branch is seen in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, U.S. February 10, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo
<p>In July, Wells Fargo blamed a third-party vendor for wrongly layering insurance policies on its auto borrowers. Wells Fargo did not explain that it received payouts when those policies were written.</p>
<p>The fact that Wells Fargo stood to profit from the insurance program will form the backbone of fresh sanctions against the bank, said people with knowledge of the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly.</p>
<p>Those penalties would be the latest in a long-running scandal over how the nation’s third-largest lender treated its customers.</p>
<p>The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Wells Fargo’s primary regulator, is asking the bank which executives knew about the payments and whether they should have been stopped sooner, said the sources.</p>
<p>Wells Fargo does not comment on regulatory matters, Wells Fargo spokeswoman Catherine Pulley said. The bank received commissions from insurance partners in a program ended in 2013, she said.</p>
<p>“We are sorry for any harm caused and are focused on the important work to complete our remediation process,” said Pulley.</p>
<p>Wells Fargo’s auto insurance woes stem from a policy drivers must carry when they borrow money to buy a new car. It pays out to the bank when a car is stolen or destroyed.</p>
<p>Wells Fargo required drivers to carry their own policies, but had a right to “force-place” a policy on borrowers who let insurance lapse. Insurers working for Wells Fargo pushed policies onto 570,000 customers who already had coverage and then delivered profits for the bank.</p>
<p>Wells is investigating auto insurance abuses back to 2005 and estimates it will need to refund $145 million to borrowers, and adjust account balances by another $37 million, according to securities filings. That is up from its initial cost estimate of $80 million.</p>
<p>In September 2016, the OCC joined other regulators in ordering Wells Fargo to pay $190 million after its employees created phony customer accounts to artificially boost sales figures. That settlement launched more than a year of official scrutiny and revelations of other customer abuses.</p>
<p>A top regulator for personal finance, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), was ready to sue Wells Fargo over improper mortgage fees last year but the agency’s current chief put the lawsuit on hold, Reuters previously reported.</p>
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<p>A settlement over auto insurance abuse would likely be another joint action among regulators, said people familiar with the probe. The CFPB’s mortgage case could be folded into that joint action and the resolution will likely involve financial penalties though the amount has not been settled, they said.</p>
<p>The OCC does not comment on supervisory matters, spokesman Bryan Hubbard said. A CFPB official declined to comment for this story.</p>
<p>In explaining the problems with auto insurance last year, Wells blamed the issue on an unnamed third-party vendor that mistakenly believed those borrowers’ insurance had lapsed.</p>
<p>“We had a vendor that was providing insurance,” Chief Executive Officer Tim Sloan told investors in September. “We should have caught that and we should have dealt with it.”</p>
<p>National General, an insurance company, has monitored the “force-placed” coverage for Wells Fargo since 2015, the bank has said. Previously, the program was run by companies including QBE Insurance Group Ltd, Bank of America Corp ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=BAC.N" type="external">BAC.N</a>) and defunct Countrywide Financial.</p>
<p>In 2014, Wells Fargo agreed to pay mortgage borrowers who were wrongly pushed into extra flood and wind protection. QBE Insurance managed the bank’s force-placed insurance program at the time and was part of the settlement.</p>
<p>Reporting By Patrick Rucker; Editing by Lauren Tara LaCapra and Clive McKeef</p> Our Standards:
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<p>(Reuters) - Toys ‘R’ Us Inc, the iconic U.S. toy retailer, is shuttering all its U.S. stores after failing to find a buyer or reach a restructuring deal with creditors to push its indebted business out of bankruptcy, the company said on Thursday.</p>
<p>Toys ‘R’ Us is seeking approval to implement the liquidation of inventory in its 735 U.S. stores.</p>
<p>The closure of Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us is a blow to generations of consumers and hundreds of toy makers that sold their products at the chain’s 885 U.S. locations, including Barbie maker Mattel Inc, board game company Hasbro Inc and other large vendors like Lego.</p>
<p>The company also said it is in discussions with some interested parties for a deal to combine up to 200 of its top performing U.S. stores with its Canadian operations.</p> Slideshow (3 Images)
<p>The company will pursue a going concern reorganization and a sale process for its Canadian and international operations in Asia and Central Europe, including Germany, Austria and Switzerland.</p>
<p>“We no longer have the financial support to continue the company’s U.S. operations. We are therefore implementing an orderly process to shutter our U.S. operations,” Toys ‘R’ Us Chief Executive Dave Brandon said.</p>
<p>Wayne, New Jersey-based Toys ‘R’ Us, with roughly 33,000 full and part time U.S. employees, was already in the process of closing one fifth of its stores as part of an attempt to emerge from one of the largest ever bankruptcies by a speciality retailer.</p>
<p>Efforts collapsed this month after lenders decided, absent a clear reorganization plan, they could recover more in a liquidation, closing stores and raising money from merchandise sales, sources with knowledge of the matter said.</p>
<p>Reporting by Tracy Rucinski in Chicago and Abinaya Vijayaraghavan in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty</p> Our Standards:
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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved spending more money on metal detectors, locks and other school security measures on Wednesday, but took no steps to tighten gun control laws a month after a Florida high school shooting that killed 17 people.</p>
<p>While students marched nationwide for change on one of America’s most vexing social issues, lawmakers voted 407-10 for legislation to spend $50 million to $75 million per year from 2019 through 2028 on school security and safety training.</p>
<p>No parallel measure was pending in the Senate, where a somewhat more ambitious bill was being debated, but prospects for meaningful gun control reforms in Congress remained remote in the face of stiff resistance from gun industry lobbyists.</p>
<p>“This bill, on its own, is not the kind of meaningful congressional action needed to address this crisis of gun violence,” Representative Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 House Democrat, said in a statement.</p>
<p>“This must be a first step and it must be followed by a serious effort to pass legislation that expands background checks and bans military-style assault weapons,” he said.</p>
<p>It was not yet clear when the Senate would take up the House bill, which would not become law without Senate approval.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump applauded the House bill, the White House said, though it falls far short of broader gun control legislation he talked about shortly after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.</p>
<p>The measure would not allow any of the funding to be used for arming teachers or other school personnel. The White House said the bill would be improved by lifting that restriction.</p> People supporting gun control attend a hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing about legislative proposals to improve school safety in the wake of the mass shooting at the high school in Parkland, Florida, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 14, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
<p>Since the Parkland massacre, student protesters have successfully lobbied for tighter gun controls in Florida. Hundreds of them gathered outside the Capitol to urge Congress to take action on placing new limits on firearms and gun sales.</p>
<p>In the Senate is a bill to strengthen existing background checks of gun purchasers. It enjoys broad bipartisan support but has not been scheduled for debate.</p> Slideshow (5 Images)
<p>Congressional aides said discussions were underway about folding the school safety and background check bills into a government funding bill that lawmakers want to pass by March 23.</p>
<p>Eleven organizations, including some gun control and law enforcement groups, wrote to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer urging passage this month of the background checks bill.</p>
<p>Since the Florida shooting, the Republican-led Congress and the Trump administration have considered measures to curb gun violence while trying to avoid crossing the powerful National Rifle Association lobby group, or threatening the right to bear arms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment.</p>
<p>Neither the House nor Senate bills address many of the gun control initiatives backed by students, teachers and families of shooting victims at the Florida school.</p>
<p>In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Katherine Posada, a teacher at the school, recounted the horror she experienced the day of the shooting and urged Congress to ban assault-style weapons like the AR-15 rifle used by Nikolas Cruz, who has been charged in the murders.</p>
<p>“Some of the victims were shot through doors, or even through walls – a knife can’t do that,” Posada said. “How many innocent lives could have been saved if these weapons of war weren’t so readily available?”</p>
<p>Reporting by Richard Cowan, Lisa Lambert, David Alexander and Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Tom Brown</p> Our Standards:
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<p>The Capital is mirrored in the Capital Reflecting Pool on Capitol Hill in Washington early Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama’s health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — First slowed, then stalled by political gridlock, the vast machinery of government clanged into partial shutdown mode on Tuesday and President Barack Obama warned the longer it goes “the more families will be hurt.” Republicans said it was his fault, not theirs.</p>
<p>Ominously, there were suggestions from leaders in both parties that the shutdown, heading for its second day, could last for weeks and grow to encompass a possible default by the Treasury if Congress fails to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. The two issues are “now all together,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.</p>
<p>Speaking at the White House, the president accused Republicans of causing the first partial closure in 17 years as part of a non-stop “ideological crusade” to wipe out his signature health care law.</p>
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<p>House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, gave as good as he got. “The president isn’t telling the whole story,’ he said in an opinion article posted on the USA Today website. “The fact is that Washington Democrats have slammed the door on reopening the government by refusing to engage in bipartisan talks.”</p>
<p>Both houses of Congress met in a Capitol closed to regular public tours, part of the impact of a partial shutdown that sent ripples of disruption outward — from museums and memorials in Washington to Yellowstone and other national parks and to tax auditors and federal offices serving Americans coast to coast.</p>
<p>Officials said roughly 800,000 federal employees would be affected by the shutdown after a half-day on the job Tuesday to fill out time cards, put new messages on their voice mail and similar chores.</p>
<p>Among those workers were some at the National Institute of Health’s famed hospital of last resort, where officials said no new patients would be admitted for the duration of the shutdown. Dr. Francis Collins, agency director, estimated that each week the shutdown lasts will force the facility to turn away about 200 patients, 30 of them children, who want to enroll in studies of experimental treatments. Patients already at the hospital are permitted to stay.</p>
<p>Late Tuesday, House Republicans sought swift passage of legislation aimed at reopening small slices of the federal establishment. The bills covered the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Park Service and a portion of the Washington, D.C., government funded with local tax revenue.</p>
<p>Democrats in Congress announced their opposition and the White House threatened to veto the measures, saying Republicans shouldn’t be permitted to choose which agencies should open and which remain shut. That drew a jab from Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner, who said Obama “can’t continue to complain about the impact of the government shutdown on veterans, visitors at National Parks, and D.C. while vetoing bills to help them.”</p>
<p>Several House Democrats used the occasion to seek a vote on a standalone spending bill, a measure that Rep. Elizabeth Esty of Connecticut said would “end the tea party shutdown.” The requests were ruled out of order.</p>
<p>Ironically, a major expansion of the health care law — the very event Republicans had hoped to prevent — was unaffected as consumers flocked for the first time Tuesday to websites to shop for coverage sold by private companies.</p>
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<p>The talk of joining the current fight — the Republicans are trying to sidetrack the health care law by holding up funding for the fiscal year that began at midnight Monday — to a dispute involving the national debt limit suggested the shutdown could go on for some time.</p>
<p>The administration says the ceiling must be raised by mid-month, and Republicans have long vowed to seek cuts in spending at the same time, a condition Obama has rejected.</p>
<p>In Washington, some Republicans conceded privately they might bear the brunt of any public anger over the shutdown — and seemed resigned to an eventual surrender in their latest bruising struggle with Obama.</p>
<p>Democrats have “all the leverage and we’ve got none,” said Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia.</p>
<p>Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said sardonically his party was following a “Ted Cruz-lemmings strategy” — a reference to the senator who is a prime proponent of action against the health care overhaul — and Rep. Scott Rigell of Virginia said it was time to pass legislation reopening the government without any health care impediments. “The shutdown is hurting my district — including the military and the hard-working men and women who have been furloughed due to the defense sequester,” he said.</p>
<p>But that was far from the majority view among House Republicans, where tea party-aligned lawmakers prevailed more than a week ago on a reluctant leadership to link federal funding legislation to “Obamacare.” In fact, some conservatives fretted the GOP had already given in too much.</p>
<p>Gone is the Republican demand for a full defunding of the health care law as the price for essential federal funding. Gone, too, are the demands for a one-year delay in the law, a permanent repeal of a medical device tax and a provision making it harder for women to obtain contraceptive coverage.</p>
<p>In place of those items, Republicans now seek a one-year-delay in the requirement for individuals to purchase insurance, and they want a separate provision that would dramatically raise the cost of health care for the president, vice president, members of Congress and thousands of aides.</p>
<p>Boehner has declined to say whether he would permit a vote on a stand-alone spending bill to reopen the government, stripped of health care provisions, though Democrats and Obama continued to call on him to do so. “He’s afraid it will pass,” said Durbin.</p>
<p>Sen. Cruz, R-Texas, the most prominent advocate of the “Defund Obamacare” movement, said the Senate should follow the House’s lead and quickly reopen programs for veterans and the parks. Asked why it was appropriate to do so without demanding changes in the health care law, he offered no answer.</p>
<p>“None of us want to be in a shutdown. And we’re here to say to the Senate Democrats, ‘Come and talk to us,'” said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., as GOP lawmakers called for negotiations with the Senate on a compromise.</p>
<p>It was an offer that Senate Democrats chose to refuse, saying there was nothing to negotiate until Republicans agreed to reopen the federal establishment.</p>
<p>“The government is closed because of the irrationality of what’s going on on the other side of the Capitol,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.</p>
<p>In addition to “closed” signs and barricades springing up at the Lincoln Memorial and other tourist attractions, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency were virtually shuttered, and Obama said veterans centers would be shut down.</p>
<p>Government workers classified as essential, such as air traffic controllers, Border Patrol agents and most food inspectors, remained on the job.</p>
<p>So, too, members of the military, whose pay was exempted from the shutdown in separate legislation Obama signed late Monday. Employees whose work is financed through fees, including those who issue passports and visas, also continued to work. The self-funded Postal Service remained in operation, and officials said the government will continue to pay Social Security benefits and Medicare and Medicaid fees to doctors on time.</p>
<p>At the White House, aides discussed whether Obama should change plans for a trip to Asia scheduled to begin Saturday.</p>
<p>In Congress, some aides were furloughed and others said they were working without pay. Democratic Sen. Tom Carper sent an email to his Delaware constituents telling them not to expect responses to their emails and phone calls.</p>
<p>Lawmakers and the president were still getting paid, however, at a rate totaling more than $250,000 per day for all of them.</p>
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<p>Associated Press writers Lauran Neergaard, Alan Fram, Josh Lederman, Nedra Pickler, Seth Borenstein and Andrew Taylor contributed to this report.</p>
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long vowed seek cuts spending time condition obama rejected washington republicans conceded privately might bear brunt public anger shutdown seemed resigned eventual surrender latest bruising struggle obama democrats leverage weve got none said sen saxby chambliss georgia rep devin nunes rcalif said sardonically party following ted cruzlemmings strategy reference senator prime proponent action health care overhaul rep scott rigell virginia said time pass legislation reopening government without health care impediments shutdown hurting district including military hardworking men women furloughed due defense sequester said far majority view among house republicans tea partyaligned lawmakers prevailed week ago reluctant leadership link federal funding legislation obamacare fact conservatives fretted gop already given much gone republican demand full defunding health care law price essential federal funding gone demands oneyear delay law permanent repeal medical device tax provision making harder women obtain contraceptive coverage place items republicans seek oneyeardelay requirement individuals purchase insurance want separate provision would dramatically raise cost health care president vice president members congress thousands aides boehner declined say whether would permit vote standalone spending bill reopen government stripped health care provisions though democrats obama continued call hes afraid pass said durbin sen cruz rtexas prominent advocate defund obamacare movement said senate follow houses lead quickly reopen programs veterans parks asked appropriate without demanding changes health care law offered answer none us want shutdown say senate democrats come talk us said house majority leader eric cantor rva gop lawmakers called negotiations senate compromise offer senate democrats chose refuse saying nothing negotiate republicans agreed reopen federal establishment government closed irrationality whats going side capitol said senate majority leader harry reid addition closed signs barricades springing lincoln memorial tourist attractions nasa environmental protection agency virtually shuttered obama said veterans centers would shut government workers classified essential air traffic controllers border patrol agents food inspectors remained job members military whose pay exempted shutdown separate legislation obama signed late monday employees whose work financed fees including issue passports visas also continued work selffunded postal service remained operation officials said government continue pay social security benefits medicare medicaid fees doctors time white house aides discussed whether obama change plans trip asia scheduled begin saturday congress aides furloughed others said working without pay democratic sen tom carper sent email delaware constituents telling expect responses emails phone calls lawmakers president still getting paid however rate totaling 250000 per day ___ associated press writers lauran neergaard alan fram 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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — With Russia in mind, the Trump administration is aiming to develop new nuclear firepower that it says will make it easier to deter threats to European allies.</p>
<p>The plan, not yet approved by President Donald Trump, is intended to make nuclear conflict less likely. Critics argue it would do the opposite.</p>
<p>The proposal is spelled out in a policy document, known officially as a "nuclear posture review," that puts the U.S. in a generally more aggressive nuclear stance. It is the first review of its kind since 2010 and is among several studies of security strategy undertaken since Trump took office.</p>
<p>In many ways it reaffirms the nuclear policy of President Barack Obama, including his commitment to replace all key elements of the nuclear arsenal with new, more modern weapons over the coming two decades.</p>
<p>It says the U.S. will adhere to existing arms control agreements, while expressing doubt about prospects for any new such pacts. The Trump nuclear doctrine is expected to be published in early February, followed by a related policy on the role and development of U.S. defenses against ballistic missiles.</p>
<p>Where the Trump doctrine splits from Obama's approach is in ending his push to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. defense policy. Like Obama, Trump would consider using nuclear weapons only in "extreme circumstances," while maintaining a degree of ambiguity about what that means. But Trump sees a fuller deterrent role for these weapons, as reflected in the plan to develop new capabilities to counter Russia in Europe.</p>
<p>The Huffington Post published online a draft of the nuclear policy report Thursday, and The Associated Press independently obtained a copy Friday. Asked for comment, the Pentagon called it a "pre-decisional," unfinished document yet to be reviewed and approved by Trump, who ordered it a year ago.</p>
<p>Russia, and to a degree China, are outlined as nuclear policy problems that demand a tougher approach.</p>
<p>The administration's view is that Russian policies and actions are fraught with potential for miscalculation leading to an uncontrolled escalation of conflict in Europe. It specifically points to a Russian doctrine known as "escalate to de-escalate," in which Moscow would use or threaten to use smaller-yield nuclear weapons in a limited, conventional conflict in Europe in the belief that doing so would compel the U.S. and NATO to back down.</p>
<p>The administration proposes a two-step solution.</p>
<p>First, it would modify "a small number" of existing long-range ballistic missiles carried by Trident strategic submarines to fit them with smaller-yield nuclear warheads.</p>
<p>Secondly, "in the longer term," it would develop a nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile — re-establishing a weapon that existed during the Cold War but was retired in 2011 by the Obama administration.</p>
<p>Together, these steps are meant to further dissuade "regional aggression," which means giving Russia greater pause in using limited nuclear strikes.</p>
<p>Interest in the condition and role of U.S. nuclear weapons has grown as North Korea develops its own nuclear arsenal it says is aimed at the U.S.</p>
<p>The Trump administration views the North Korean threats, along with what it sees as provocative nuclear rhetoric from Russia, as evidence that security conditions no longer support the idea that the U.S. can rely less on nuclear weapons or further limit their role in national defense.</p>
<p>The nuclear report also makes rare mention of a newer Russian weapon: a nuclear-armed drone torpedo that could travel undersea to far-off targets.</p>
<p>Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weapons specialist at the Federation of American Scientists, questions whether the administration is overstating the Russian threat and responding with the right solution. But he said it is clear that Moscow has raised fears in the West by its aggression in Ukraine.</p>
<p>"Clearly, the Russia situation is much more of a direct confrontational situation," he said. "The gloves are off."</p>
<p>Bruce Blair, a former nuclear missile launch officer who co-founded Global Zero, which advocates the elimination of nuclear weapons, called the report "basically a status quo document" except for the plan to develop new nuclear options for countering Russia. He worries these could lead the U.S. into "blundering into a nuclear war with Russia." Blair based his comments partly on knowledge of the report's content before it appeared online.</p>
<p>"The Pentagon's underlying motivation," Blair said, "is fear of Russia's new option for striking U.S. and Western European civilian infrastructure — financial, energy, transportation and communications — with cyber and conventional forces."</p>
<p>Moscow developed this doctrine in recent years to exploit vulnerabilities in vital Western infrastructure, such as communications networks, he said. This falls into a category of threat the Trump administration calls "non-nuclear strategic," meaning it could inflict unacceptably high numbers of casualties or costs.</p>
<p>Authors of the Trump nuclear doctrine argue that adding new U.S. nuclear capabilities to deter Russia in Europe will lessen, not increase, the risk of war. They worry the nuclear-capable aircraft that are currently the only Europe-based nuclear force to counter Russia have become less credible, in part because they may be vulnerable to Russian air defenses. Thus, the focus on adding sea-launched U.S. nuclear weapons to the mix.</p>
<p>"This is not intended to, nor does it, enable 'nuclear war-fighting,'" the draft report said. Instead, the goal is to make nuclear conflict less likely by ensuring that "potential adversaries" see no possible advantage in escalating a conventional conflict to the nuclear level.</p>
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — With Russia in mind, the Trump administration is aiming to develop new nuclear firepower that it says will make it easier to deter threats to European allies.</p>
<p>The plan, not yet approved by President Donald Trump, is intended to make nuclear conflict less likely. Critics argue it would do the opposite.</p>
<p>The proposal is spelled out in a policy document, known officially as a "nuclear posture review," that puts the U.S. in a generally more aggressive nuclear stance. It is the first review of its kind since 2010 and is among several studies of security strategy undertaken since Trump took office.</p>
<p>In many ways it reaffirms the nuclear policy of President Barack Obama, including his commitment to replace all key elements of the nuclear arsenal with new, more modern weapons over the coming two decades.</p>
<p>It says the U.S. will adhere to existing arms control agreements, while expressing doubt about prospects for any new such pacts. The Trump nuclear doctrine is expected to be published in early February, followed by a related policy on the role and development of U.S. defenses against ballistic missiles.</p>
<p>Where the Trump doctrine splits from Obama's approach is in ending his push to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. defense policy. Like Obama, Trump would consider using nuclear weapons only in "extreme circumstances," while maintaining a degree of ambiguity about what that means. But Trump sees a fuller deterrent role for these weapons, as reflected in the plan to develop new capabilities to counter Russia in Europe.</p>
<p>The Huffington Post published online a draft of the nuclear policy report Thursday, and The Associated Press independently obtained a copy Friday. Asked for comment, the Pentagon called it a "pre-decisional," unfinished document yet to be reviewed and approved by Trump, who ordered it a year ago.</p>
<p>Russia, and to a degree China, are outlined as nuclear policy problems that demand a tougher approach.</p>
<p>The administration's view is that Russian policies and actions are fraught with potential for miscalculation leading to an uncontrolled escalation of conflict in Europe. It specifically points to a Russian doctrine known as "escalate to de-escalate," in which Moscow would use or threaten to use smaller-yield nuclear weapons in a limited, conventional conflict in Europe in the belief that doing so would compel the U.S. and NATO to back down.</p>
<p>The administration proposes a two-step solution.</p>
<p>First, it would modify "a small number" of existing long-range ballistic missiles carried by Trident strategic submarines to fit them with smaller-yield nuclear warheads.</p>
<p>Secondly, "in the longer term," it would develop a nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile — re-establishing a weapon that existed during the Cold War but was retired in 2011 by the Obama administration.</p>
<p>Together, these steps are meant to further dissuade "regional aggression," which means giving Russia greater pause in using limited nuclear strikes.</p>
<p>Interest in the condition and role of U.S. nuclear weapons has grown as North Korea develops its own nuclear arsenal it says is aimed at the U.S.</p>
<p>The Trump administration views the North Korean threats, along with what it sees as provocative nuclear rhetoric from Russia, as evidence that security conditions no longer support the idea that the U.S. can rely less on nuclear weapons or further limit their role in national defense.</p>
<p>The nuclear report also makes rare mention of a newer Russian weapon: a nuclear-armed drone torpedo that could travel undersea to far-off targets.</p>
<p>Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weapons specialist at the Federation of American Scientists, questions whether the administration is overstating the Russian threat and responding with the right solution. But he said it is clear that Moscow has raised fears in the West by its aggression in Ukraine.</p>
<p>"Clearly, the Russia situation is much more of a direct confrontational situation," he said. "The gloves are off."</p>
<p>Bruce Blair, a former nuclear missile launch officer who co-founded Global Zero, which advocates the elimination of nuclear weapons, called the report "basically a status quo document" except for the plan to develop new nuclear options for countering Russia. He worries these could lead the U.S. into "blundering into a nuclear war with Russia." Blair based his comments partly on knowledge of the report's content before it appeared online.</p>
<p>"The Pentagon's underlying motivation," Blair said, "is fear of Russia's new option for striking U.S. and Western European civilian infrastructure — financial, energy, transportation and communications — with cyber and conventional forces."</p>
<p>Moscow developed this doctrine in recent years to exploit vulnerabilities in vital Western infrastructure, such as communications networks, he said. This falls into a category of threat the Trump administration calls "non-nuclear strategic," meaning it could inflict unacceptably high numbers of casualties or costs.</p>
<p>Authors of the Trump nuclear doctrine argue that adding new U.S. nuclear capabilities to deter Russia in Europe will lessen, not increase, the risk of war. They worry the nuclear-capable aircraft that are currently the only Europe-based nuclear force to counter Russia have become less credible, in part because they may be vulnerable to Russian air defenses. Thus, the focus on adding sea-launched U.S. nuclear weapons to the mix.</p>
<p>"This is not intended to, nor does it, enable 'nuclear war-fighting,'" the draft report said. Instead, the goal is to make nuclear conflict less likely by ensuring that "potential adversaries" see no possible advantage in escalating a conventional conflict to the nuclear level.</p>
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<p>By&#160; <a href="/meg" type="external">Meghan Martin</a></p>
<p>In a hurricane, preparation can only go so far.</p>
<p>When the plans had been exhausted and the contingencies multiplied as Hurricane Wilma barreled through its coverage area, the Naples Daily News was forced to adopt H.G. Wells’ ultimatum: adapt or perish.</p>
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<p>The paper's staff chose the former.</p>
<p>“We had some problems," publisher John Fish said by phone Wednesday,&#160;"but I think the thing I’m most proud of is that we have not missed the printing of any edition of any of our products.” Those products -- the Naples Daily News, Bonita Daily News, Marco Island Eagle, Collier Citizen and Bonita Banner – were all printed, on time, from the presses at the&#160;paper's headquarters, just outside of downtown Naples.</p>
<p>The Naples Daily News staff had evacuated northeast to Alico Arena, on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University, by mid-day Sunday. A few hung on until just before midnight, but by the time Wilma hit Naples Monday morning, reporters and editors had hunkered down, waiting out the storm dispersed in shelters and homes across the region.</p>
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<p>While the wind and rain lashing around them made much reporting nearly impossible, the news staffs of the Naples Daily News and its sister paper, the Bonita Daily News, turned to the Web. They sent weather and power updates to the papers’ Web staff, headquartered at Alico. Some blogged as they reported, from shelters, a fire station, and the Collier County emergency operations center. Others e-mailed dispatches for as long as they had power, and phoned them in when that failed.</p>
<p>The Web staff, too, despite its detailed preparations before the storm, battled power outages and lost Internet connections at the arena. So did much of the audience for the paper's journalism, of course, rendering the staff's work largely unviewable in the immediate aftermath of the storm.</p>
<p>“You can tell by looking at the Web site when we lost power,” new media director Rob Curley said after the storm. “The last stamp of the reporters’ timeline – that’s when all the reporters had officially lost all means of communication. That was literally when everything went dead. And our game plan was to keep [updating] until everything went dead.”</p>
<p>After the storm, reporters and visual journalists scattered throughout Collier and Lee counties, often in two-person teams, to cover the destruction Wilma had left in its path. And by 1 p.m., six-and-a-half hours after it was reported that Wilma made landfall a few miles south of Naples, the Naples Daily News’ operations had moved back to the paper’s headquarters on Central Avenue in Naples.</p>
<p>Despite the severity of the hurricane, the building was left largely unscathed, publisher Fish said – and never lost power. It helps that the paper shares a power grid with the local hospital. Water, however, was a different story.</p>
<p>“It’s something I never had given much thought to, and you don’t realize how important water is to an operation like this until you don’t have it,” Fish said. “You don’t often think about losing water.”&#160;Wilma had ripped a number of trees out of the softened ground, Fish said, and with them, some of the city’s water lines. Fish said he’d never considered the importance of water to a printing operation, but soon realized that without it, the press’s inking system would be rendered inoperable.</p>
<p>That’s when they turned to a well that Fish said had been dug in 1992 at the back of the paper's property. He said he wasn't certain of the original purpose of the well, but when it came time on Monday to roll the presses for the 130,000-curliation paper, the immediate why became perfectly clear.&#160;</p>
<p>“It’s definitely come in handy,” he said. “Without that well, we would never have been printing here the last couple days.”</p>
<p>But even with the staff reporting and the presses rolling, an essential element was missing, Fish said: carriers.</p>
<p>“Tuesday’s paper was a real challenge,” he said. “We had a lot of carriers who did not show up. Basically, we spent most of the day getting the paper out to everyone. We had about two dozen staffers volunteer yesterday morning to help with single-copy runs.”</p>
<p>Delivering the paper to as much of the community as possible became a priority, Fish said. Staff volunteers, many of whom, on a normal day, powered the advertising and business sides of the paper, went from being advertising specialists and accountants to impromptu newspaper hawkers. They spread throughout the papers’ circulation area, stopping at street corners and National Guard water distribution centers, as residents lined up to trade their quarters for news of Wilma’s aftermath.</p>
<p>It was the first time in its history that the Daily News used hawkers to sell its papers, Fish said. And it suggested a sales tactic the paper may employ even when the sun is shining.</p>
<p>“It’s been so successful that I think our circulation director would like to make it a permanent addition,” he said. “And I think a lot of our staffers have really enjoyed being a part of the circulation of the newspaper… The thing that most impressed our folks, I think, was that everyone was ecstatic to get the newspaper. I think that made them feel pretty good.”</p>
<p>The hawkers dispersed around Collier and Lee counties served a dual purpose for the Daily News readers. Before they left with their bundles of newspapers, they armed themselves with cameras. Some brought their own digital or 35mm cameras from home. Fish gave the others single-use disposables to capture the hurricane’s effects in as many neighborhoods as they could access.</p>
<p>“Almost all the reporters tried to go out with someone from the visual side,” Fish said. “And all the folks that we sent out yesterday, all over the place, … all those folks we gave cameras to. So we got photos back from 30 staffers and&#160; <a href="http://www.bonitanews.com/photos/galleries/sets/hurricane_wilma_2005/" type="external">we posted those online</a> last night. We covered the community through photos and our circulation efforts.”</p>
<p>What we needed was tonnage of photos. -- new media director Rob CurleyThe photographs were posted to&#160; <a href="http://www.bonitanews.com/hurricane/wilma/" type="external">the storm edition of the papers’ Web sites</a> – a combined effort, to which visitors of both BonitaNews.com and NaplesNews.com were redirected. Many of them can be found on the “Hurricane Wilma’s Aftermath” section, which features an interactive map, utilities updates and other information, region-specific photos and news.</p>
<p>“What we needed was tonnage of photos,” new media director Curley said. “And [the photography department’s] certainly not equipped to do that. To have the ad staff going out and shooting these photos showed the wiliness that John Fish was willing to employ. We’re tying it all together [with photos from the paper’s news photographers and other photo services], because we think, in the eyes of the reader, they don’t care where the photo of their neighborhood came from, they just want to see what happened.”&#160;</p>
<p>We’re all still now pretty much in survival mode here. -- publisher John FishWhile they were able to meet some of their challenges with creativity, Fish said, solutions for others were slower in coming. Coordination among the paper’s bureaus and across its media could have been smoother and more communicative, he said. Paper-wide debriefings are planned for the upcoming week, but for now, Fish said the staff will continue to focus on immediate storm coverage.</p>
<p>“We’re all still now pretty much in survival mode here. What energy people have left after more than a week of this, we need to keep focused on the current job to be done,” he said. “Right now, just about all our efforts are on the hurricane… My belief is, when you have the really big story, everything goes toward that story.”</p>
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by160 meghan martin hurricane preparation go far plans exhausted contingencies multiplied hurricane wilma barreled coverage area naples daily news forced adopt hg wells ultimatum adapt perish papers staff chose former problems publisher john fish said phone wednesday160but think thing im proud missed printing edition products products naples daily news bonita daily news marco island eagle collier citizen bonita banner printed time presses the160papers headquarters outside downtown naples naples daily news staff evacuated northeast alico arena campus florida gulf coast university midday sunday hung midnight time wilma hit naples monday morning reporters editors hunkered waiting storm dispersed shelters homes across region wind rain lashing around made much reporting nearly impossible news staffs naples daily news sister paper bonita daily news turned web sent weather power updates papers web staff headquartered alico blogged reported shelters fire station collier county emergency operations center others emailed dispatches long power phoned failed web staff despite detailed preparations storm battled power outages lost internet connections arena much audience papers journalism course rendering staffs work largely unviewable immediate aftermath storm tell looking web site lost power new media director rob curley said storm last stamp reporters timeline thats reporters officially lost means communication literally everything went dead game plan keep updating everything went dead storm reporters visual journalists scattered throughout collier lee counties often twoperson teams cover destruction wilma left path 1 pm sixandahalf hours reported wilma made landfall miles south naples naples daily news operations moved back papers headquarters central avenue naples despite severity hurricane building left largely unscathed publisher fish said never lost power helps paper shares power grid local hospital water however different story something never given much thought dont realize important water operation like dont fish said dont often think losing water160wilma ripped number trees softened ground fish said citys water lines fish said hed never considered importance water printing operation soon realized without presss inking system would rendered inoperable thats turned well fish said dug 1992 back papers property said wasnt certain original purpose well came time monday roll presses 130000curliation paper immediate became perfectly clear160 definitely come handy said without well would never printing last couple days even staff reporting presses rolling essential element missing fish said carriers tuesdays paper real challenge said lot carriers show basically spent day getting paper everyone two dozen staffers volunteer yesterday morning help singlecopy runs delivering paper much community possible became priority fish said staff volunteers many normal day powered advertising business sides paper went advertising specialists accountants impromptu newspaper hawkers spread throughout papers circulation area stopping street corners national guard water distribution centers residents lined trade quarters news wilmas aftermath first time history daily news used hawkers sell papers fish said suggested sales tactic paper may employ even sun shining successful think circulation director would like make permanent addition said think lot staffers really enjoyed part circulation newspaper thing impressed folks think everyone ecstatic get newspaper think made feel pretty good hawkers dispersed around collier lee counties served dual purpose daily news readers left bundles newspapers armed cameras brought digital 35mm cameras home fish gave others singleuse disposables capture hurricanes effects many neighborhoods could access almost reporters tried go someone visual side fish said folks sent yesterday place folks gave cameras got photos back 30 staffers and160 posted online last night covered community photos circulation efforts needed tonnage photos new media director rob curleythe photographs posted to160 storm edition papers web sites combined effort visitors bonitanewscom naplesnewscom redirected many found hurricane wilmas aftermath section features interactive map utilities updates information regionspecific photos news needed tonnage photos new media director curley said photography departments certainly equipped ad staff going shooting photos showed wiliness john fish willing employ tying together photos papers news photographers photo services think eyes reader dont care photo neighborhood came want see happened160 still pretty much survival mode publisher john fishwhile able meet challenges creativity fish said solutions others slower coming coordination among papers bureaus across media could smoother communicative said paperwide debriefings planned upcoming week fish said staff continue focus immediate storm coverage still pretty much survival mode energy people left week need keep focused current job done said right efforts hurricane belief really big story everything goes toward story
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<p>CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Every year, 12 million or so turkey hatchlings arrive in South Carolina, bound for hundreds of farms in the Pee Dee and the Upstate where they will be raised for months.</p>
<p>By one estimate, the turkeys — mostly males, known as toms — will be worth more than $400 million a year once they've all grown up. They'll easily be the state's second-largest farm product, far bigger than iconic crops like peaches, cotton or tobacco. Only chickens will contribute more to the state's agriculture sector.</p>
<p>But the enormous size of the turkey industry here has little to do with the state's farming traditions. South Carolina hardly has a long heritage as a poultry-producing state. The grains the birds eat aren't grown here, either.</p>
<p>The prominence of turkeys in the Palmetto State economy owes instead to the forces of logistics plied by one of the world's largest food producers. The emergence of South Carolina's turkey supply chain is akin to the growth of auto parts manufacturing that followed BMW's factory in Spartanburg and the aerospace work that followed Boeing's arrival in North Charleston.</p>
<p>The kernel of the turkey industry is a household name, too: Oscar Mayer.</p>
<p>That's because most of the turkey sold under the Oscar Mayer name passes through a factory in Newberry: Bologna, bacon and franks. Cold cuts with applewood, honey and mesquite flavoring.</p>
<p>The operation processes millions of turkeys a year, though its parent company, Kraft Heinz, won't say how much food it produces each year. It's one of three Oscar Mayer turkey plants in the nation, and the company said Newberry's is the largest.</p>
<p>The plant, which is nearly 50 years old, is a force in the state's agriculture sector. It buys the overwhelming majority of South Carolina's turkeys, and it has spurred the industry's expansion here.</p>
<p>In fact, Ron Prestage, who runs the state's largest turkey company, said his firm wouldn't be here without it. Cassatt-based Prestage Farms of South Carolina oversees 578 turkey houses in eight counties, mostly around its headquarters near Camden.</p>
<p>Prestage Farms, which is a major player in North Carolina's poultry business, started raising birds in the Pee Dee in the mid-1990s at Oscar Mayer's request. The company wanted more turkeys to be produced near its factory, and two decades later, Prestage said it accounts for 70 percent of the plant's supply.</p>
<p>These days, Prestage sells 6.5 million birds a year spread out between more than 100 farmers, who raise them under contract.</p>
<p>Yet not a single one will be served for Thanksgiving dinner, Prestage said. Neither will the South Carolina-raised birds owned by his primary competitor, North Carolina-based Circle S Ranch, he said. Circle S didn't respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p>The business of growing hens — the stars of Thanksgiving dinner — belongs to states like Minnesota and North Carolina, Arkansas and Missouri. In South Carolina, commercial production focuses on toms, male turkeys that grow too big to fit in a conventional oven.</p>
<p>And anyway, every bird Prestage and Circle S raise in the state is sent straight to Oscar Mayer.</p>
<p>The cluster of turkey farms near Oscar Mayer's factory resembles other industry groups that have emerged in South Carolina.</p>
<p>BMW's arrival in the Upstate helped develop a constellation of suppliers making parts in the Palmetto State, an ecosystem that will be bolstered by the Mercedes-Benz Vans and Volvo factories under construction near Charleston. Boeing's plant in North Charleston is beginning to form a network of companies making pieces of planes in South Carolina.</p>
<p>Companies like BMW and Boeing are sought after because it takes a sophisticated supply chain to build cars and planes. Growing turkeys isn't so different.</p>
<p>For Prestage's firm, the process begins in North Carolina, where breeders use artificial insemination to fertilize hundreds of thousands of eggs each week.</p>
<p>Eggs are incubated near Fayetteville, N.C., and baby turkeys, which are called poults, are shipped away once they hatch a few weeks later. Males are pulled aside and sent to South Carolina.</p>
<p>On the farm, they live on top of wood shavings shredded at a factory Prestage Farms owns. Every day, they eat feed produced at a company-owned mill in Cassatt. Their food arrives on trucks it maintains, too. A team of veterinarians stops by at least once a week.</p>
<p>"You have some cluster effects like ... with Boeing or BMW, but it's just sort of below the radar," said Hugh Weathers, South Carolina's agriculture commissioner. "Until you get out into rural South Carolina, you just don't quite notice it."</p>
<p>The top-to-bottom business model is common in poultry production. Companies like Prestage Farms typically own the birds from when they hatch until they're processed, even though they're raised on independent farms.</p>
<p>That model — and the supply chain it requires — helps explain how the South became a dominant player in the poultry business, said Tom Vukina, an agricultural economist at North Carolina State University. It began with mills that sold feed to farmers on credit and later decided to take a more active role in the business by providing feed for free — and owning the birds outright.</p>
<p>The all-encompassing corporate structure would later become the backbone of the industry worldwide, and its gravitational pull helped form clusters of poultry production. The largest runs in a long belt from Arkansas to North Carolina.</p>
<p>The South's prominence is "really kind of puzzling," Vukina said: Most of the grain chickens and turkeys eat comes on rail cars from the Midwest. New England has a longer tradition of raising birds.</p>
<p>But the region does have lots of open space, and it's closer to big markets on the East Coast, teeming with millions of consumers who might buy a pack of sliced turkey.</p>
<p>South Carolina's turkey industry has been relatively steady since Prestage Farms set up shop in the mid-'90s. After a few years of expansion, the state's output has been essentially flat.</p>
<p>The state produces 12 million birds a year, according to the most recent federal data, and it's been holding at that level since 2008.</p>
<p>The lack of growth owes partly to what the state produces: Consumers' appetite for packaged meats like sausage and bologna has cooled off over the last few years, according to the market researcher Euromonitor.</p>
<p>Processed poultry is no different, its research shows. After retreating the last two years, it has slimmed down to a $5.6 billion-a-year industry. But there are hopeful signs in the poultry business, Prestage said. Ground turkey has taken off recently, and exports of dark meat are growing.</p>
<p>That's helped boost the dollar value of the state's turkey output. Boyd Parr, the director of Clemson Livestock Poultry Health, said the industry is worth somewhere between $376 million and $406 million in South Carolina, depending on whose estimate you trust.</p>
<p>"We don't have as many turkey processing facilities in the state," said Weathers, the agriculture commissioner. "Were we to get that changed through our economic-development efforts, you would see substantial growth."</p>
<p>And that might happen, he said.</p>
<p>South Carolina is in talks with another poultry processor considering opening a plant here. Weathers said the company, which he declined to name, wants to know whether the state can raise more birds, including turkeys.</p>
<p>If those plans materialize, he said, it would set up somewhere near Charleston, in another area without much of a history of poultry farming.</p>
<p>And the state would set out to build a turkey supply chain from scratch, all over again.</p>
<p>CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Every year, 12 million or so turkey hatchlings arrive in South Carolina, bound for hundreds of farms in the Pee Dee and the Upstate where they will be raised for months.</p>
<p>By one estimate, the turkeys — mostly males, known as toms — will be worth more than $400 million a year once they've all grown up. They'll easily be the state's second-largest farm product, far bigger than iconic crops like peaches, cotton or tobacco. Only chickens will contribute more to the state's agriculture sector.</p>
<p>But the enormous size of the turkey industry here has little to do with the state's farming traditions. South Carolina hardly has a long heritage as a poultry-producing state. The grains the birds eat aren't grown here, either.</p>
<p>The prominence of turkeys in the Palmetto State economy owes instead to the forces of logistics plied by one of the world's largest food producers. The emergence of South Carolina's turkey supply chain is akin to the growth of auto parts manufacturing that followed BMW's factory in Spartanburg and the aerospace work that followed Boeing's arrival in North Charleston.</p>
<p>The kernel of the turkey industry is a household name, too: Oscar Mayer.</p>
<p>That's because most of the turkey sold under the Oscar Mayer name passes through a factory in Newberry: Bologna, bacon and franks. Cold cuts with applewood, honey and mesquite flavoring.</p>
<p>The operation processes millions of turkeys a year, though its parent company, Kraft Heinz, won't say how much food it produces each year. It's one of three Oscar Mayer turkey plants in the nation, and the company said Newberry's is the largest.</p>
<p>The plant, which is nearly 50 years old, is a force in the state's agriculture sector. It buys the overwhelming majority of South Carolina's turkeys, and it has spurred the industry's expansion here.</p>
<p>In fact, Ron Prestage, who runs the state's largest turkey company, said his firm wouldn't be here without it. Cassatt-based Prestage Farms of South Carolina oversees 578 turkey houses in eight counties, mostly around its headquarters near Camden.</p>
<p>Prestage Farms, which is a major player in North Carolina's poultry business, started raising birds in the Pee Dee in the mid-1990s at Oscar Mayer's request. The company wanted more turkeys to be produced near its factory, and two decades later, Prestage said it accounts for 70 percent of the plant's supply.</p>
<p>These days, Prestage sells 6.5 million birds a year spread out between more than 100 farmers, who raise them under contract.</p>
<p>Yet not a single one will be served for Thanksgiving dinner, Prestage said. Neither will the South Carolina-raised birds owned by his primary competitor, North Carolina-based Circle S Ranch, he said. Circle S didn't respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p>The business of growing hens — the stars of Thanksgiving dinner — belongs to states like Minnesota and North Carolina, Arkansas and Missouri. In South Carolina, commercial production focuses on toms, male turkeys that grow too big to fit in a conventional oven.</p>
<p>And anyway, every bird Prestage and Circle S raise in the state is sent straight to Oscar Mayer.</p>
<p>The cluster of turkey farms near Oscar Mayer's factory resembles other industry groups that have emerged in South Carolina.</p>
<p>BMW's arrival in the Upstate helped develop a constellation of suppliers making parts in the Palmetto State, an ecosystem that will be bolstered by the Mercedes-Benz Vans and Volvo factories under construction near Charleston. Boeing's plant in North Charleston is beginning to form a network of companies making pieces of planes in South Carolina.</p>
<p>Companies like BMW and Boeing are sought after because it takes a sophisticated supply chain to build cars and planes. Growing turkeys isn't so different.</p>
<p>For Prestage's firm, the process begins in North Carolina, where breeders use artificial insemination to fertilize hundreds of thousands of eggs each week.</p>
<p>Eggs are incubated near Fayetteville, N.C., and baby turkeys, which are called poults, are shipped away once they hatch a few weeks later. Males are pulled aside and sent to South Carolina.</p>
<p>On the farm, they live on top of wood shavings shredded at a factory Prestage Farms owns. Every day, they eat feed produced at a company-owned mill in Cassatt. Their food arrives on trucks it maintains, too. A team of veterinarians stops by at least once a week.</p>
<p>"You have some cluster effects like ... with Boeing or BMW, but it's just sort of below the radar," said Hugh Weathers, South Carolina's agriculture commissioner. "Until you get out into rural South Carolina, you just don't quite notice it."</p>
<p>The top-to-bottom business model is common in poultry production. Companies like Prestage Farms typically own the birds from when they hatch until they're processed, even though they're raised on independent farms.</p>
<p>That model — and the supply chain it requires — helps explain how the South became a dominant player in the poultry business, said Tom Vukina, an agricultural economist at North Carolina State University. It began with mills that sold feed to farmers on credit and later decided to take a more active role in the business by providing feed for free — and owning the birds outright.</p>
<p>The all-encompassing corporate structure would later become the backbone of the industry worldwide, and its gravitational pull helped form clusters of poultry production. The largest runs in a long belt from Arkansas to North Carolina.</p>
<p>The South's prominence is "really kind of puzzling," Vukina said: Most of the grain chickens and turkeys eat comes on rail cars from the Midwest. New England has a longer tradition of raising birds.</p>
<p>But the region does have lots of open space, and it's closer to big markets on the East Coast, teeming with millions of consumers who might buy a pack of sliced turkey.</p>
<p>South Carolina's turkey industry has been relatively steady since Prestage Farms set up shop in the mid-'90s. After a few years of expansion, the state's output has been essentially flat.</p>
<p>The state produces 12 million birds a year, according to the most recent federal data, and it's been holding at that level since 2008.</p>
<p>The lack of growth owes partly to what the state produces: Consumers' appetite for packaged meats like sausage and bologna has cooled off over the last few years, according to the market researcher Euromonitor.</p>
<p>Processed poultry is no different, its research shows. After retreating the last two years, it has slimmed down to a $5.6 billion-a-year industry. But there are hopeful signs in the poultry business, Prestage said. Ground turkey has taken off recently, and exports of dark meat are growing.</p>
<p>That's helped boost the dollar value of the state's turkey output. Boyd Parr, the director of Clemson Livestock Poultry Health, said the industry is worth somewhere between $376 million and $406 million in South Carolina, depending on whose estimate you trust.</p>
<p>"We don't have as many turkey processing facilities in the state," said Weathers, the agriculture commissioner. "Were we to get that changed through our economic-development efforts, you would see substantial growth."</p>
<p>And that might happen, he said.</p>
<p>South Carolina is in talks with another poultry processor considering opening a plant here. Weathers said the company, which he declined to name, wants to know whether the state can raise more birds, including turkeys.</p>
<p>If those plans materialize, he said, it would set up somewhere near Charleston, in another area without much of a history of poultry farming.</p>
<p>And the state would set out to build a turkey supply chain from scratch, all over again.</p>
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charleston sc ap every year 12 million turkey hatchlings arrive south carolina bound hundreds farms pee dee upstate raised months one estimate turkeys mostly males known toms worth 400 million year theyve grown theyll easily states secondlargest farm product far bigger iconic crops like peaches cotton tobacco chickens contribute states agriculture sector enormous size turkey industry little states farming traditions south carolina hardly long heritage poultryproducing state grains birds eat arent grown either prominence turkeys palmetto state economy owes instead forces logistics plied one worlds largest food producers emergence south carolinas turkey supply chain akin growth auto parts manufacturing followed bmws factory spartanburg aerospace work followed boeings arrival north charleston kernel turkey industry household name oscar mayer thats turkey sold oscar mayer name passes factory newberry bologna bacon franks cold cuts applewood honey mesquite flavoring operation processes millions turkeys year though parent company kraft heinz wont say much food produces year one three oscar mayer turkey plants nation company said newberrys largest plant nearly 50 years old force states agriculture sector buys overwhelming majority south carolinas turkeys spurred industrys expansion fact ron prestage runs states largest turkey company said firm wouldnt without cassattbased prestage farms south carolina oversees 578 turkey houses eight counties mostly around headquarters near camden prestage farms major player north carolinas poultry business started raising birds pee dee mid1990s oscar mayers request company wanted turkeys produced near factory two decades later prestage said accounts 70 percent plants supply days prestage sells 65 million birds year spread 100 farmers raise contract yet single one served thanksgiving dinner prestage said neither south carolinaraised birds owned primary competitor north carolinabased circle ranch said circle didnt respond request 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sent south carolina farm live top wood shavings shredded factory prestage farms owns every day eat feed produced companyowned mill cassatt food arrives trucks maintains team veterinarians stops least week cluster effects like boeing bmw sort radar said hugh weathers south carolinas agriculture commissioner get rural south carolina dont quite notice toptobottom business model common poultry production companies like prestage farms typically birds hatch theyre processed even though theyre raised independent farms model supply chain requires helps explain south became dominant player poultry business said tom vukina agricultural economist north carolina state university began mills sold feed farmers credit later decided take active role business providing feed free owning birds outright allencompassing corporate structure would later become backbone industry worldwide gravitational pull helped form clusters poultry production largest runs long belt arkansas north carolina souths prominence really kind puzzling vukina said grain chickens turkeys eat comes rail cars midwest new england longer tradition raising birds region lots open space closer big markets east coast teeming millions consumers might buy pack sliced turkey south carolinas turkey industry relatively steady since prestage farms set shop mid90s years expansion states output essentially flat state produces 12 million birds year according recent federal data holding level since 2008 lack growth owes partly state produces consumers appetite packaged meats like sausage bologna cooled last years according market researcher euromonitor processed poultry different research shows retreating last two years slimmed 56 billionayear industry hopeful signs poultry business prestage said ground turkey taken recently exports dark meat growing thats helped boost dollar value states turkey output boyd parr director clemson livestock poultry health said industry worth somewhere 376 million 406 million south carolina depending whose estimate trust dont many turkey processing facilities state said weathers agriculture commissioner get changed economicdevelopment efforts would see substantial growth might happen said south carolina talks another poultry processor considering opening plant weathers said company declined name wants know whether state raise birds including turkeys plans materialize said would set somewhere near charleston another area without much history poultry farming state would set build turkey supply chain scratch charleston sc ap every year 12 million turkey hatchlings arrive south carolina bound hundreds farms pee dee upstate raised months one estimate turkeys mostly males known toms worth 400 million year theyve grown theyll easily states secondlargest farm product far bigger iconic crops like peaches cotton tobacco chickens contribute states agriculture sector enormous size turkey industry little states farming traditions south carolina hardly long heritage poultryproducing state grains birds eat arent grown either prominence turkeys palmetto state economy owes instead forces logistics plied one worlds largest food producers emergence south carolinas turkey supply chain akin growth auto parts manufacturing followed bmws factory spartanburg aerospace work followed boeings arrival north charleston kernel turkey industry household name oscar mayer thats turkey sold oscar mayer name passes factory newberry bologna bacon franks cold cuts applewood honey mesquite flavoring operation processes millions turkeys year though parent company kraft heinz wont say much food produces year one three oscar mayer turkey plants nation company said newberrys largest plant nearly 50 years old force states agriculture sector buys overwhelming majority south carolinas turkeys spurred industrys expansion fact ron prestage runs states largest turkey company said firm wouldnt without cassattbased prestage farms south carolina oversees 578 turkey houses eight counties mostly around headquarters near camden prestage farms major player north carolinas poultry business started raising birds pee dee mid1990s oscar mayers request company wanted turkeys produced near factory two decades later prestage said accounts 70 percent plants supply days prestage sells 65 million birds year spread 100 farmers raise contract yet single one served thanksgiving dinner prestage said neither south carolinaraised birds owned primary competitor north carolinabased circle ranch said circle didnt respond request comment business growing hens stars thanksgiving dinner belongs states like minnesota north carolina arkansas missouri south carolina commercial production focuses toms male turkeys grow big fit conventional oven anyway every bird prestage circle raise state sent straight oscar mayer cluster turkey farms near oscar mayers factory resembles industry groups emerged south carolina bmws arrival upstate helped develop constellation suppliers making parts palmetto state ecosystem bolstered mercedesbenz vans volvo factories construction near charleston boeings plant north charleston beginning form network companies making pieces planes south carolina companies like bmw boeing sought takes sophisticated supply chain build cars planes growing turkeys isnt different prestages firm process begins north carolina breeders use artificial insemination fertilize hundreds thousands eggs week eggs incubated near fayetteville nc baby turkeys called poults shipped away hatch weeks later males pulled aside sent south carolina farm live top wood shavings shredded factory prestage farms owns every day eat feed produced companyowned mill cassatt food arrives trucks maintains team veterinarians stops least week cluster effects like boeing bmw sort radar said hugh weathers south carolinas agriculture commissioner get rural south carolina dont quite notice toptobottom business model common poultry production companies like prestage farms typically birds hatch theyre processed even though theyre raised independent farms model supply chain requires helps explain south became dominant player poultry business said tom vukina agricultural economist north carolina state university began mills sold feed farmers credit later decided take active role business providing feed free owning birds outright allencompassing corporate structure would later become backbone industry worldwide gravitational pull helped form clusters poultry production largest runs long belt arkansas north carolina souths prominence really kind puzzling vukina said grain chickens turkeys eat comes rail cars midwest new england longer tradition raising birds region lots open space closer big markets east coast teeming millions consumers might buy pack sliced turkey south carolinas turkey industry relatively steady since prestage farms set shop mid90s years expansion states output essentially flat state produces 12 million birds year according recent federal data holding level since 2008 lack growth owes partly state produces consumers appetite packaged meats like sausage bologna cooled last years according market researcher euromonitor processed poultry different research shows retreating last two years slimmed 56 billionayear industry hopeful signs poultry business prestage said ground turkey taken recently exports dark meat growing thats helped boost dollar value states turkey output boyd parr director clemson livestock poultry health said industry worth somewhere 376 million 406 million south carolina depending whose estimate trust dont many turkey processing facilities state said weathers agriculture commissioner get changed economicdevelopment efforts would see substantial growth might happen said south carolina talks another poultry processor considering opening plant weathers said company declined name wants know whether state raise birds including turkeys plans materialize said would set somewhere near charleston another area without much history poultry farming state 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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s use of the terms “fake news” and “enemy of the people” is “shameful” and reminiscent of words infamously used by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to describe his enemies, Republican Sen. Jeff Flake said Wednesday.</p>
<p>In a speech on the Senate floor, Flake, of Arizona, called Trump’s repeated attacks on the media “repulsive” and said Trump “has it precisely backward.” Despotism is the enemy of the people, while a free press is the despot’s enemy and a guardian of democracy, Flake said.</p>
<p>Flake, a frequent Trump critic who is retiring this year, said that when Trump calls news stories he doesn’t like “fake news,” he “should be the figure of suspicion, not the press.”</p>
<p>White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called Flake’s criticism hypocritical, “considering he’s the one that was recently defending an actually oppressive regime” during a visit to Cuba.</p>
<p>“He’s not criticizing the president because he’s against oppression,” Sanders said of Flake. “He’s criticizing the president because he has terrible poll numbers. And he is, I think, looking for some attention. I think it’s unfortunate.”</p>
<p>The White House provides access to the news media every day, Sanders said, noting that she was answering questions at a daily briefing. Trump routinely answers reporters’ questions, she added.</p>
<p>Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona strongly denounced President Donald Trump’s attacks on the free press, saying they are reminiscent of words infamously used by Russian dictator Josef Stalin to describe his enemies. (Jan. 17)</p>
<p>“To act as if we’re anything but open to that back-and-forth exchange is utterly ridiculous,” she said.</p>
<p>Flake has said he is not comparing Trump to Stalin, who was responsible for the deaths of millions, but said Trump’s use of a term favored by Stalin, “enemy of the people,” is chilling.</p>
<p>“This alone should be a source of great shame for us in this body, especially for those of us in the president’s party,’” Flake said.</p>
<p>Arizona’s other Republican senator, John McCain, also decried Trump’s use of the term “fake news” and said Trump was encouraging autocrats around the world “to silence reporters, undermine political opponents, stave off media scrutiny and mislead citizens.”</p>
<p>In an opinion column in The Washington Post, McCain said Trump’s attempts to undermine the free press “make it more difficult to hold repressive governments accountable.” Constant cries of “fake news” undercut legitimate reporting and “strip activists of one of their most powerful tools of dissent,” McCain wrote.</p>
<p>Trump’s first year in office “was a year which saw the truth — objective, empirical, evidence-based truth — more battered and abused than any other in the history of our country, at the hands of the most powerful figure in our government,” Flake said, referring to the president.</p>
<p>In a direct attack on Trump, Flake said the impulses underlying Trump’s attacks “are not benign. They have the effect of eroding trust in our vital institutions and conditioning the public to no longer trust them. The destructive effect of this kind of behavior on our democracy cannot be overstated.”</p>
<p>Trump’s use of the term “fake news” has encouraged authoritarian leaders around the world, who now routinely dismiss criticism as “fake news,” Flake and McCain said, citing comments by Syrian President Bashar Assad, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, among others.</p>
<p>As a Republican, Flake said he is ashamed of Trump and said politicians in both parties must stand up to his attacks.</p>
<p>“No longer can we compound attacks on truth with our silent acquiescence. No longer can we turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to these assaults on our institutions,” Flake said.</p>
<p>Flake also denounced Trump’s frequent claim that investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election are a “hoax” and said ignoring or denying the truth about Russia’s actions leaves the U.S. vulnerable to future attacks.</p>
<p>“We know that the attacks orchestrated by the Russian government during the election were real and constitute a grave threat to both American sovereignty and to our national security,” Flake said, yet Trump has done little or nothing to investigate the Russians or defend America against future attacks.</p>
<p>A president, such as Trump, who cannot take criticism, “who must constantly deflect and distort and distract — who must find someone else to blame — is charting a very dangerous path,” Flake said. “And a Congress that fails to act as a check on the president adds to the danger.”</p>
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<p>Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this story.</p>
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s use of the terms “fake news” and “enemy of the people” is “shameful” and reminiscent of words infamously used by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to describe his enemies, Republican Sen. Jeff Flake said Wednesday.</p>
<p>In a speech on the Senate floor, Flake, of Arizona, called Trump’s repeated attacks on the media “repulsive” and said Trump “has it precisely backward.” Despotism is the enemy of the people, while a free press is the despot’s enemy and a guardian of democracy, Flake said.</p>
<p>Flake, a frequent Trump critic who is retiring this year, said that when Trump calls news stories he doesn’t like “fake news,” he “should be the figure of suspicion, not the press.”</p>
<p>White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called Flake’s criticism hypocritical, “considering he’s the one that was recently defending an actually oppressive regime” during a visit to Cuba.</p>
<p>“He’s not criticizing the president because he’s against oppression,” Sanders said of Flake. “He’s criticizing the president because he has terrible poll numbers. And he is, I think, looking for some attention. I think it’s unfortunate.”</p>
<p>The White House provides access to the news media every day, Sanders said, noting that she was answering questions at a daily briefing. Trump routinely answers reporters’ questions, she added.</p>
<p>Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona strongly denounced President Donald Trump’s attacks on the free press, saying they are reminiscent of words infamously used by Russian dictator Josef Stalin to describe his enemies. (Jan. 17)</p>
<p>“To act as if we’re anything but open to that back-and-forth exchange is utterly ridiculous,” she said.</p>
<p>Flake has said he is not comparing Trump to Stalin, who was responsible for the deaths of millions, but said Trump’s use of a term favored by Stalin, “enemy of the people,” is chilling.</p>
<p>“This alone should be a source of great shame for us in this body, especially for those of us in the president’s party,’” Flake said.</p>
<p>Arizona’s other Republican senator, John McCain, also decried Trump’s use of the term “fake news” and said Trump was encouraging autocrats around the world “to silence reporters, undermine political opponents, stave off media scrutiny and mislead citizens.”</p>
<p>In an opinion column in The Washington Post, McCain said Trump’s attempts to undermine the free press “make it more difficult to hold repressive governments accountable.” Constant cries of “fake news” undercut legitimate reporting and “strip activists of one of their most powerful tools of dissent,” McCain wrote.</p>
<p>Trump’s first year in office “was a year which saw the truth — objective, empirical, evidence-based truth — more battered and abused than any other in the history of our country, at the hands of the most powerful figure in our government,” Flake said, referring to the president.</p>
<p>In a direct attack on Trump, Flake said the impulses underlying Trump’s attacks “are not benign. They have the effect of eroding trust in our vital institutions and conditioning the public to no longer trust them. The destructive effect of this kind of behavior on our democracy cannot be overstated.”</p>
<p>Trump’s use of the term “fake news” has encouraged authoritarian leaders around the world, who now routinely dismiss criticism as “fake news,” Flake and McCain said, citing comments by Syrian President Bashar Assad, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, among others.</p>
<p>As a Republican, Flake said he is ashamed of Trump and said politicians in both parties must stand up to his attacks.</p>
<p>“No longer can we compound attacks on truth with our silent acquiescence. No longer can we turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to these assaults on our institutions,” Flake said.</p>
<p>Flake also denounced Trump’s frequent claim that investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election are a “hoax” and said ignoring or denying the truth about Russia’s actions leaves the U.S. vulnerable to future attacks.</p>
<p>“We know that the attacks orchestrated by the Russian government during the election were real and constitute a grave threat to both American sovereignty and to our national security,” Flake said, yet Trump has done little or nothing to investigate the Russians or defend America against future attacks.</p>
<p>A president, such as Trump, who cannot take criticism, “who must constantly deflect and distort and distract — who must find someone else to blame — is charting a very dangerous path,” Flake said. “And a Congress that fails to act as a check on the president adds to the danger.”</p>
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<p>Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this story.</p>
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washington ap president donald trumps use terms fake news enemy people shameful reminiscent words infamously used soviet dictator josef stalin describe enemies republican sen jeff flake said wednesday speech senate floor flake arizona called trumps repeated attacks media repulsive said trump precisely backward despotism enemy people free press despots enemy guardian democracy flake said flake frequent trump critic retiring year said trump calls news stories doesnt like fake news figure suspicion press white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders called flakes criticism hypocritical considering hes one recently defending actually oppressive regime visit cuba hes criticizing president hes oppression sanders said flake hes criticizing president terrible poll numbers think looking attention think unfortunate white house provides access news media every day sanders said noting answering questions daily briefing trump routinely answers reporters questions added republican sen jeff flake arizona strongly denounced president donald trumps attacks free press saying reminiscent words infamously used russian dictator josef stalin describe enemies jan 17 act anything open backandforth exchange utterly ridiculous said flake said comparing trump stalin responsible deaths millions said trumps use term favored stalin enemy people chilling alone source great shame us body especially us presidents party flake said arizonas republican senator john mccain also decried trumps use term fake news said trump encouraging autocrats around world silence reporters undermine political opponents stave media scrutiny mislead citizens opinion column washington post mccain said trumps attempts undermine free press make difficult hold repressive governments accountable constant cries fake news undercut legitimate reporting strip activists one powerful tools dissent mccain wrote trumps first year office year saw truth objective empirical evidencebased truth battered abused history country hands powerful figure government flake said referring president direct attack trump flake said impulses underlying trumps attacks benign effect eroding trust vital institutions conditioning public longer trust destructive effect kind behavior democracy overstated trumps use term fake news encouraged authoritarian leaders around world routinely dismiss criticism fake news flake mccain said citing comments syrian president bashar assad philippines president rodrigo duterte venezuelan president nicolas maduro among others republican flake said ashamed trump said politicians parties must stand attacks longer compound attacks truth silent acquiescence longer turn blind eye deaf ear assaults institutions flake said flake also denounced trumps frequent claim investigations russias interference 2016 election hoax said ignoring denying truth russias actions leaves us vulnerable future attacks know attacks orchestrated russian government election real constitute grave threat american sovereignty national security flake said yet trump done little nothing investigate russians defend america future attacks president trump take criticism must constantly deflect distort distract must find someone else blame charting dangerous path flake said congress fails act check president adds danger ___ associated press writer darlene superville contributed story washington ap president donald trumps use terms fake news enemy people shameful reminiscent words infamously used soviet dictator josef stalin describe enemies republican sen jeff flake said wednesday speech senate floor flake arizona called trumps repeated attacks media repulsive said trump precisely backward despotism enemy people free press despots enemy guardian democracy flake said flake frequent trump critic retiring year said trump calls news stories doesnt like fake news figure suspicion press white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders called flakes criticism hypocritical considering hes one recently defending actually oppressive regime visit cuba hes criticizing president hes oppression sanders said flake hes criticizing president terrible poll numbers think looking attention think unfortunate white house provides access news media every day sanders said noting answering questions daily briefing trump routinely answers reporters questions added republican sen jeff flake arizona strongly denounced president donald trumps attacks free press saying reminiscent words infamously used russian dictator josef stalin describe enemies jan 17 act anything open backandforth exchange utterly ridiculous said flake said comparing trump stalin responsible deaths millions said trumps use term favored stalin enemy people chilling alone source great shame us body especially us presidents party flake said arizonas republican senator john mccain also decried trumps use term fake news said trump encouraging autocrats around world silence reporters undermine political opponents stave media scrutiny mislead citizens opinion column washington post mccain said trumps attempts undermine free press make difficult hold repressive governments accountable constant cries fake news undercut legitimate reporting strip activists one powerful tools dissent mccain wrote trumps first year office year saw truth objective empirical evidencebased truth battered abused history country hands powerful figure government flake said referring president direct attack trump flake said impulses underlying trumps attacks benign effect eroding trust vital institutions conditioning public longer trust destructive effect kind behavior democracy overstated trumps use term fake news encouraged authoritarian leaders around world routinely dismiss criticism fake news flake mccain said citing comments syrian president bashar assad philippines president rodrigo duterte venezuelan president nicolas maduro among others republican flake said ashamed trump said politicians parties must stand attacks longer compound attacks truth silent acquiescence longer turn blind eye deaf ear assaults institutions flake said flake also denounced trumps frequent claim investigations russias interference 2016 election hoax said ignoring denying truth russias actions leaves us vulnerable future attacks know attacks orchestrated russian government election real constitute grave threat american sovereignty national security flake said yet trump done little nothing investigate russians defend america future attacks president trump take criticism must constantly deflect distort distract must find someone else blame charting dangerous path flake said congress fails act check president adds danger ___ associated press writer darlene superville contributed story
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<p>This mother is not alone in her frustration. Parenting young children can be challenging, and each stage includes new sources of stress. When tantrums are frequent and stress levels are high, parents feel angry and overwhelmed. Sometimes they reach for negative discipline strategies because those are the only ones they can access in the heat of the moment. The problem with this is that not only do strategies such as spanking and harsh discipline fail to correct the behavior in question, they can also cause significant harm to the child who is on the receiving end.</p>
<p>A study published in the Journal of Family Psychology in April looked at five decades of research on spanking and found that the more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and engage in antisocial behavior and aggression. These kids are also more likely to have mental health problems and cognitive difficulties. The results are clear: Spanking is all harm and no good.</p>
<p>Sadly, though, the release of this study reignited the age-old debate on spanking. Statements such as “I was spanked and I turned out fine” (often with an “lol” tacked on for good measure) fill the comment sections on any publication that dares to discuss the matter.</p>
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<p>When parents ask me about spanking and the effectiveness of alternatives, they often make that exact statement. When we dig a little deeper into the subject matter, though, I find that the real issue is that parents feel that taking a hard line against spanking feels like a betrayal of their own parents. They feel like doing things differently sends the message that they weren’t happy as kids. Sometimes they even admit that the threat of spanking overwhelmed them with fear as children and they hope that the simple act of threatening their kids will be enough to scare them into compliance. Often they tell me that they want to change the way they parent their children but they don’t know where to begin.</p>
<p>It’s difficult to reboot your parenting style when you’re stuck in a cycle, even if that cycle is negatively charged and frequently results in tears and stress. Rebecca Eanes, author of “Positive Parenting: An Essential Guide,” urges parents to remain calm when children are acting out. “Meeting a child’s aggression with equal grown-up aggression only adds fuel to the fire,” explains Eanes. “To extinguish aggressive behavior, meet it with calmness and compassion. Being calm isn’t passive; it’s mature. We must be it to teach it.”</p>
<p>Young children act out when they’re upset. Sadness, fear, powerlessness, isolation, loneliness and frustration can all trigger negative behaviors as children seek to connect with their parents. The issue with this is that parents often view these negative emotions, such as frustration, as problems that need to be fixed, instead of cries for help from the child.</p>
<p>According to Deborah MacNamara, author of “Rest, Play, Grow,” frustration sets off alarms for parents because it tends to present as loud and heated behavior. MacNamara cautions that we shouldn’t attempt to squash a child’s frustration, though, because it is an important emotion. “Frustration is what mobilizes us to work hard at getting what we want or to change the things that don’t work for us,” she says.</p>
<p>Instead of handing out every consequence available when a child acts out, parents should help the child work through their emotions and find a better solution. But how can parents remain calm and focused when kids are yelling, screaming, hitting, kicking and otherwise pushing every button at once? It’s no easy task, but with patience and practice, it can be done.</p>
<p>Here are some ways parents can keep their cool when dealing with a child’s big emotions.</p>
<p>– Harness the breathing room. “There is a space between every action and reaction,” says Eanes. “When you harness that space and consciously expand it, you can use that ‘breathing room’ to put out the fuse.” It can be difficult to find that space when your child triggers all of your anger points at once, I know, but taking a moment to breathe before you respond to your child can help you remain calm in the moment.</p>
<p>Many adults struggle to master the art of deep breathing. In this hurried world, we move from task to task without taking the time to slow down and work through our stress. The best time to practice deep breathing is when you’re calm and happy. If you master deep breathing techniques when you’re calm, you’ll be better able to access them when you’re upset. Try the Stop, Breathe &amp; Think app to get started.</p>
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<p>– Tap into compassion. Eanes recommends shifting your focus from what your child is doing wrong to what your child actually needs. Self-talk might feel silly at first, but it is an effective technique that helps people overcome the negative thoughts that sometimes cloud our judgment.</p>
<p>Try these statements when your child acts up:</p>
<p>We are okay; this is not an emergency.</p>
<p>I am capable of handling this.</p>
<p>I can remain calm.</p>
<p>My child needs me right now.</p>
<p>This is just one moment.</p>
<p>– Set clear limits. Children are hard-wired to test limits – it’s how they figure out the world around them. They are also easily confused by mixed messages. If we set a limit one day but let it go the next only to bring it back another day, children aren’t sure what to do. Too many limits can lead to risk-averse kids who never stray beyond their comfort zones, but too few can lead to internal chaos.</p>
<p>As much as children test limits and push back on boundaries, they also crave them. Knowing the expectations helps them distinguish right from wrong, make decisions on their own and work toward independence.</p>
<p>Setting clear limits and boundaries is as important for parents as it is for kids. With age-appropriate limits and boundaries in place, children and parents will spend less time guessing and more time connecting. This results in positive communication and families that thrive together.</p>
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<p>Katie Hurley is a child and adolescent psychotherapist and parenting educator in Los Angeles, and the author of “The Happy Kid Handbook: How to Raise Joyful Children in a Stressful World.” You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, Practical Parenting.</p>
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<p>BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s Muslim community has been once again thrust into the spotlight as the death penalty trial of convicted marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev nears its conclusion amid rising concerns of terrorist recruitment in America.</p>
<p>Newspaper op-eds, advertisements and social media posts have highlighted connections between Boston-area mosques and terrorists and suspected terrorists, despite efforts locally to denounce them.</p>
<p>Tsarnaev, who grew up in nearby Cambridge, occasionally prayed at the neighborhood mosque with his now-dead older brother and accomplice, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.</p>
<p>Boston is also one of three cities - along with Los Angeles and Minneapolis - where the Obama administration is piloting a controversial new program to tackle extremist group recruitment before it takes root.</p>
<p>Muslim worshippers expressed frustration this week that the local community continues to be painted with the same broad brush.</p>
<p>“Blaming an entire mosque just based on a couple of radical people that don’t represent them really is unfair,” said Rania Masri, of Quincy, just before Friday’s prayer service at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, a towering brick mosque in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood. “This isn’t a small, tight-knit community. It represents so many different cultures and people from all around the world. The mosque, as an entity, can’t represent all of them.”</p>
<p>Local opponents and national pundits, though, continue to fault the broader community.</p>
<p>In February, Americans for Peace and Tolerance, a Boston-based nonprofit group, took out a large ad in The Washington Times featuring pictures of the Tsarnaev brothers and other terrorists or suspected terrorists with alleged ties to the Islamic Society of Boston and other area mosques.</p>
<p>The ad asked: “Why is Boston a hub for violent extremism?”</p>
<p>Earlier this month, the author and former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali made similar connections in a Boston Globe op-ed.</p>
<p>In a statement, Americans for Peace and Tolerance said it is concerned that the Islamic Society of Boston’s teachings are radicalizing Boston’s historically moderate Muslim community.</p>
<p>“As our advertisement describes, over the past decade, 12 of the ISB’s leaders or worshippers have been either killed, are in jail, or are fugitives because of their role in Islamic terrorist activity,” the group said.</p>
<p>Maaria Assami, of Burlington, complained that churches and other religious institutions where other terrorists may have worshipped don’t receive the same sort of scrutiny. “Islam has always been the cliché bad guy,” she said. “So even if (Tsarnaev) had just passed by the mosque, it would have still been all our fault.”</p>
<p>Local Muslim leaders acknowledge it’s been challenging to fight back against detractors.</p>
<p>“We need to get better at becoming louder and saying ‘Hey, that’s not us.’ We’re your neighbors, your co-workers,” Nichole Mossalam, of the Islamic Society of Boston’s affiliated mosque in Cambridge, said recently.</p>
<p>The intense coverage of the Tsarnaev trial and the second anniversary of the April 15 attack, which killed three people and injured hundreds more, has provided an opportunity to reinforce that message.</p>
<p>Before Friday prayers, the Boston mosque held an open house with the theme “Still Boston Strong.” Some 50 officials representing the U.S. Department of Justice, the F.B.I., Boston Police, politicians, and other religious and civic groups attended.</p>
<p>“We just really wanted to open up the doors and showcase who we are and the spirit of Boston Strong that exists here in Boston and how we really have stuck together,” explained Yusufi Vali, the mosque’s executive director.</p>
<p>Worshippers, a number of whom weren’t aware of the open house, applauded the effort.</p>
<p>“People are afraid of the unknown, and the propaganda they get is all so negative,” said Haseeb Hosein, of Boston. “If they would stop and look, we’re just like Jews, Christian or any God-fearing people. We don’t condone violence.”</p>
<p>Most said anti-Muslim backlash has been minimal. A few recalled a February incident in nearby Revere, where threatening, anti-Muslim notes were scattered near a subway station, prompting law enforcement and faith leaders to condemn the actions in a community forum.</p>
<p>“The majority of Bostonians know better,” says Shannon Erwin, co-founder of the Muslim Justice League, a local activist group. “Most have stood with us as Muslims and Bostonians and recognized that’s those things are one and the same.”</p>
<p>Christian and Jewish leaders have also come to the defense of the Islamic Society of Boston, which has borne the brunt of anti-Muslim scrutiny.</p>
<p>“This is a good, civic-minded community that’s engaged in Boston,” said Rev. Burns Stanfield, president of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization said at Friday’s open house. “What’s being spread is, frankly, just wrong.”</p>
<p>But the unwelcome attention is not expected to diminish anytime soon: next week, Tsarnaev’s lawyers begin their arguments for sparing the 21 year old ethnic Chechen from death.</p>
<p>Among their potential witnesses is Ismail Fenni, the acting imam at the Islamic Society of Boston’s Cambridge mosque.</p>
<p>BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s Muslim community has been once again thrust into the spotlight as the death penalty trial of convicted marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev nears its conclusion amid rising concerns of terrorist recruitment in America.</p>
<p>Newspaper op-eds, advertisements and social media posts have highlighted connections between Boston-area mosques and terrorists and suspected terrorists, despite efforts locally to denounce them.</p>
<p>Tsarnaev, who grew up in nearby Cambridge, occasionally prayed at the neighborhood mosque with his now-dead older brother and accomplice, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.</p>
<p>Boston is also one of three cities - along with Los Angeles and Minneapolis - where the Obama administration is piloting a controversial new program to tackle extremist group recruitment before it takes root.</p>
<p>Muslim worshippers expressed frustration this week that the local community continues to be painted with the same broad brush.</p>
<p>“Blaming an entire mosque just based on a couple of radical people that don’t represent them really is unfair,” said Rania Masri, of Quincy, just before Friday’s prayer service at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, a towering brick mosque in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood. “This isn’t a small, tight-knit community. It represents so many different cultures and people from all around the world. The mosque, as an entity, can’t represent all of them.”</p>
<p>Local opponents and national pundits, though, continue to fault the broader community.</p>
<p>In February, Americans for Peace and Tolerance, a Boston-based nonprofit group, took out a large ad in The Washington Times featuring pictures of the Tsarnaev brothers and other terrorists or suspected terrorists with alleged ties to the Islamic Society of Boston and other area mosques.</p>
<p>The ad asked: “Why is Boston a hub for violent extremism?”</p>
<p>Earlier this month, the author and former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali made similar connections in a Boston Globe op-ed.</p>
<p>In a statement, Americans for Peace and Tolerance said it is concerned that the Islamic Society of Boston’s teachings are radicalizing Boston’s historically moderate Muslim community.</p>
<p>“As our advertisement describes, over the past decade, 12 of the ISB’s leaders or worshippers have been either killed, are in jail, or are fugitives because of their role in Islamic terrorist activity,” the group said.</p>
<p>Maaria Assami, of Burlington, complained that churches and other religious institutions where other terrorists may have worshipped don’t receive the same sort of scrutiny. “Islam has always been the cliché bad guy,” she said. “So even if (Tsarnaev) had just passed by the mosque, it would have still been all our fault.”</p>
<p>Local Muslim leaders acknowledge it’s been challenging to fight back against detractors.</p>
<p>“We need to get better at becoming louder and saying ‘Hey, that’s not us.’ We’re your neighbors, your co-workers,” Nichole Mossalam, of the Islamic Society of Boston’s affiliated mosque in Cambridge, said recently.</p>
<p>The intense coverage of the Tsarnaev trial and the second anniversary of the April 15 attack, which killed three people and injured hundreds more, has provided an opportunity to reinforce that message.</p>
<p>Before Friday prayers, the Boston mosque held an open house with the theme “Still Boston Strong.” Some 50 officials representing the U.S. Department of Justice, the F.B.I., Boston Police, politicians, and other religious and civic groups attended.</p>
<p>“We just really wanted to open up the doors and showcase who we are and the spirit of Boston Strong that exists here in Boston and how we really have stuck together,” explained Yusufi Vali, the mosque’s executive director.</p>
<p>Worshippers, a number of whom weren’t aware of the open house, applauded the effort.</p>
<p>“People are afraid of the unknown, and the propaganda they get is all so negative,” said Haseeb Hosein, of Boston. “If they would stop and look, we’re just like Jews, Christian or any God-fearing people. We don’t condone violence.”</p>
<p>Most said anti-Muslim backlash has been minimal. A few recalled a February incident in nearby Revere, where threatening, anti-Muslim notes were scattered near a subway station, prompting law enforcement and faith leaders to condemn the actions in a community forum.</p>
<p>“The majority of Bostonians know better,” says Shannon Erwin, co-founder of the Muslim Justice League, a local activist group. “Most have stood with us as Muslims and Bostonians and recognized that’s those things are one and the same.”</p>
<p>Christian and Jewish leaders have also come to the defense of the Islamic Society of Boston, which has borne the brunt of anti-Muslim scrutiny.</p>
<p>“This is a good, civic-minded community that’s engaged in Boston,” said Rev. Burns Stanfield, president of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization said at Friday’s open house. “What’s being spread is, frankly, just wrong.”</p>
<p>But the unwelcome attention is not expected to diminish anytime soon: next week, Tsarnaev’s lawyers begin their arguments for sparing the 21 year old ethnic Chechen from death.</p>
<p>Among their potential witnesses is Ismail Fenni, the acting imam at the Islamic Society of Boston’s Cambridge mosque.</p>
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back detractors need get better becoming louder saying hey thats us neighbors coworkers nichole mossalam islamic society bostons affiliated mosque cambridge said recently intense coverage tsarnaev trial second anniversary april 15 attack killed three people injured hundreds provided opportunity reinforce message friday prayers boston mosque held open house theme still boston strong 50 officials representing us department justice fbi boston police politicians religious civic groups attended really wanted open doors showcase spirit boston strong exists boston really stuck together explained yusufi vali mosques executive director worshippers number werent aware open house applauded effort people afraid unknown propaganda get negative said haseeb hosein boston would stop look like jews christian godfearing people dont condone violence said antimuslim backlash minimal recalled february incident nearby revere threatening antimuslim notes scattered near subway station prompting law enforcement faith leaders condemn actions community forum majority bostonians know better says shannon erwin cofounder muslim justice league local activist group stood us muslims bostonians recognized thats things one christian jewish leaders also come defense islamic society boston borne brunt antimuslim scrutiny good civicminded community thats engaged boston said rev burns stanfield president greater boston interfaith organization said fridays open house whats spread frankly wrong unwelcome attention expected diminish anytime soon next week tsarnaevs lawyers begin arguments sparing 21 year old ethnic chechen death among potential witnesses ismail fenni acting imam islamic society bostons cambridge mosque boston ap bostons muslim community thrust spotlight death penalty trial convicted marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev nears conclusion amid rising concerns terrorist recruitment america newspaper opeds advertisements social media posts highlighted connections bostonarea mosques terrorists suspected terrorists despite efforts locally denounce tsarnaev grew nearby cambridge occasionally prayed neighborhood mosque nowdead older brother accomplice tamerlan tsarnaev boston also one three cities along los angeles minneapolis obama administration piloting controversial new program tackle extremist group recruitment takes root muslim worshippers expressed frustration week local community continues painted broad brush blaming entire mosque based couple radical people dont represent really unfair said rania masri quincy fridays prayer service islamic society boston cultural center towering brick mosque citys roxbury neighborhood isnt small tightknit community represents many different cultures people around world mosque entity cant represent local opponents national pundits though continue fault broader community february americans peace tolerance bostonbased nonprofit group took large ad washington times featuring pictures tsarnaev brothers terrorists suspected terrorists alleged ties islamic society boston area mosques ad asked boston hub violent extremism earlier month author former muslim ayaan hirsi ali made similar connections boston globe oped statement americans peace tolerance said concerned islamic society bostons teachings radicalizing bostons historically moderate muslim community advertisement describes past decade 12 isbs leaders worshippers either killed jail fugitives role islamic terrorist activity group said maaria assami burlington complained churches religious institutions terrorists may worshipped dont receive sort scrutiny islam always cliché bad guy said even tsarnaev passed mosque would still fault local muslim leaders acknowledge challenging fight back detractors need get better becoming louder saying hey thats us neighbors coworkers nichole mossalam islamic society bostons affiliated mosque cambridge said recently intense coverage tsarnaev trial second anniversary april 15 attack killed three people injured hundreds provided opportunity reinforce message friday prayers boston mosque held open house theme still boston strong 50 officials representing us department justice fbi boston police politicians religious civic groups attended really wanted open doors showcase spirit boston strong exists boston really stuck together explained yusufi vali mosques executive director worshippers number werent aware open house applauded effort people afraid unknown propaganda get negative said haseeb hosein boston would stop look like jews christian godfearing people dont condone violence said antimuslim backlash minimal recalled february incident nearby revere threatening antimuslim notes scattered near subway station prompting law enforcement faith leaders condemn actions community forum majority bostonians know better says shannon erwin cofounder muslim justice league local activist group stood us muslims bostonians recognized thats things one christian jewish leaders also come defense islamic society boston borne brunt antimuslim scrutiny good civicminded community thats engaged boston said rev burns stanfield president greater boston interfaith organization said fridays open house whats spread frankly wrong unwelcome attention expected diminish anytime soon next week tsarnaevs lawyers begin arguments sparing 21 year old ethnic chechen death among potential witnesses ismail fenni acting imam islamic society bostons cambridge mosque
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<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dollar rout intensified on Wednesday after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said a lower greenback was “good for us” - though a weaker U.S. currency may not prove a long-term economic boost.</p> A teller counts U.S. dollars at a money changer in Jakarta, Indonesia May 18, 2015. REUTERS/Nyimas Laula
<p>It was a highly unusual remark for a Treasury secretary, as it is seen as a break from previous White House administrations’ public stance for a stronger U.S. currency, even as they wrangled with trade partners to open up their local markets to U.S. companies.</p>
<p>“Treasury secretaries in the past have always spoken in favour of a stronger dollar, not a weaker dollar,” said Sireen Harajli, currency strategist at Mizuho in New York.</p>
<p>Yet, while a weaker dollar is seen helping American exporters to compete abroad, it may undermine the greenback’s status as the world’s top reserve currency and fan concerns about a protectionist trade agenda espoused by U.S. President Donald Trump, who is set to speak in Davos on Friday. On Tuesday, Trump signed into law a steep tariff on import solar panels and washing machines to counter lower-cost products from China and other Asian producers.</p>
<p>A weaker dollar could also have repercussions on stocks, corporate bonds and other risky investments.</p>
<p>“If the dollar slide were to accelerate, then foreign capital flows could decline rapidly, which would cause a sudden rise in interest rates which could shock markets and lead to unintended declines in risk assets like stocks which could damage growth,” said Guggenheimer Partners’ global chief investment officer Scott Minerd in New York.</p>
<p>In another unusual move, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross later attempted to dial back Mnuchin’s remark, telling CNBC television that the Treasury secretary was “not advocating for a weaker dollar.”</p>
<p>But Ross failed to push back dollar bears.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, the index that tracks the dollar against a basket of currencies on a trade-weighted basis =USD fell 0.8 percent to 89.153, the lowest since December 2014.</p>
<p>The euro <a href="/finance/currencies/quote?srcCurr=EUR&amp;destCurr=USD" type="external">EUR=</a> advanced to a three-year high of $1.2415 per euro on Wednesday, Reuters data showed.</p>
<p>The currency of the world's biggest economy also tumbled to a four-month low of 108.97 Japanese yen <a href="/finance/currencies/quote?srcCurr=JPY&amp;destCurr=USD" type="external">JPY=</a> and a two-plus year trough <a href="/finance/currencies/quote?srcCurr=CNY&amp;destCurr=USD" type="external">CNY=</a> at 6.3646 Chinese yuan per dollar.</p> SKITTISH DOLLAR
<p>Prior to Mnuchin’s comment in Davos, the dollar had fallen on speculation about overseas central banks moving away from the extraordinary measures they adopted to combat the global credit crisis in 2008 and the global recession that followed.</p>
<p>Futures markets signalled speculators last week built the most bearish positioning against the dollar since mid-October.</p>
<p>Analysts in a Reuters poll published on Jan. 5 anticipated a tough 2018 for the dollar coming off its worst annual performance in 14 years when it lost 10 percent.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, the Bank of Japan signalled it would stick with its easy policy stance as inflation remains below its 2-percent goal.</p>
<p>European Central Bank policy-makers will meet on Thursday where traders will look for clues on whether the ECB will pave the way to not renew its 2.55 trillion euro ($3.16 trillion) bond purchase programme when it expires in September.</p>
<p>The euro’s year-long rise, some analysts say, would offer ECB officials a reason not to change its course.</p>
<p>“The strength of the euro is not something the ECB wants to exacerbate with the euro knocking on $1.24,” said Omer Esiner, chief market strategist with Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington.</p>
<p>Some analysts said the dollar selloff is overdone as the economy remains firm footing and the Federal Reserve is expected to raise rates further in 2018.</p>
<p>Moreover, U.S. yields remain low enough that the greenback remains an attractive currency to fund “carry trades,” or bets on buying higher returning assets such as emerging market bonds with money raised by selling dollars.</p> DOLLAR’S STATUS
<p>In addition to anxiety about trade friction, Mnuchin’s dollar remark fuelled further questions about the dollar’s status among foreign central banks and sovereign wealth funds as the world’s top reserve currency.</p>
<p>A severe deterioration in the greenback can end up hurting the U.S. economy by ballooning the trade deficit as a result of higher import costs. It might also spur foreigners to pull money out of the country if a further weakness in the dollar sours investing in the United States.</p>
<p>In November, China and Japan, the two largest foreign U.S. creditors, scaled back their holdings of U.S. Treasuries.</p>
<p>Last month, the International Monetary Fund said the dollar’s share of global currency reserves shrank in the third quarter of 2017 to 63.5 percent, its smallest since mid-2014.</p>
<p>Despite these developments and possibly more protectionist rhetoric from the White House, the dollar should remain on its perch as the No. 1 reserve currency.</p>
<p>“I don’t think this will deteriorate the view of the dollar as a reserve currency of that world. That will be radical change,” said Lennon Sweeting, chief market strategist at XE in Toronto.</p>
<p>Additional reporting by Karen Brettell, Saqib Iqbal Ahmed, Jennifer Ablan; editing by Diane Craft</p> Our Standards:
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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retailers and shoemakers continued to sound alarms on Monday about their concerns that President Donald Trump’s plan to impose sweeping tariffs on imported goods from China will result in higher consumer prices.</p>
<p>Several large U.S. retail companies, including Wal-Mart Inc, Target Corp, Best Buy Co Inc and Macy’s Inc, on Monday sent President Donald Trump a letter urging him not to impose massive tariffs on goods imported from China.</p>
<p>In a separate letter to Trump on Monday, 82 shoe companies, including Nike Inc, Genesco, Payless ShoeSource Inc, Under Armour, Shoe Carnival Inc and Weyco Group echoed those concerns.</p>
<p>The Trump administration is said to be preparing tariffs against Chinese information technology, telecommunications and consumer products in an attempt to force changes in Beijing’s intellectual property and investment practices. Washington could impose more than $60 billion in tariffs on goods ranging from electronics to apparel, footwear and toys.</p>
<p>“Applying any additional broad-based tariff ... would punish American working families with higher prices on household basics like clothing, shoes, electronics, and home goods,” the retailers said.</p>
<p>The footwear companies argued that shoes already are subject to hefty tariffs.</p>
<p>“Adding even more tariffs on top of this heavy burden would mean higher costs for footwear consumers and fewer U.S. jobs,” the letter stated. “Given the price sensitivity of our products, any additional increases in our costs would strike right at the heart of our ability to keep product competitively priced for our consumers.”</p>
<p>A so-called Section 301 action would allow Trump to impose unilateral tariffs on China in response to a conclusion by the U.S. government that the Chinese had violated intellectual property rules. The tariffs would not need approval from Congress.</p> FILE PHOTO - A Chinese national flag is seen at a port in Beihai, Guangxi province, China June 17, 2017. Picture taken June 17, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer
<p>The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the letter.</p>
<p>The letter is the latest example of the growing division between the Trump administration and many in the business community over trade policy. On Sunday, a group of trade associations that represent most of the United States’ large businesses sent a letter echoing concerns about the economic ramifications of tariffs.</p> Slideshow (4 Images)
<p>Trade associations publicly pushing back include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Retail Federation and the Information Technology Industry Council.</p>
<p>Sandy Kennedy, president of the Retail Industry Leaders Association, which organized Monday’s letter, argued that tariffs would eliminate any benefit the recent tax overhaul provided the economy.</p>
<p>“This is not American industries crying wolf,” she said in a statement.</p>
<p>The letter was signed by 24 companies, which also included Abercrombie &amp; Fitch Co, American Eagle Outfitters Inc, Big Lots Inc, Chico’s FAS Inc, Columbia Sportswear Co, Costco Wholesale Corp, Dollar Tree Inc, Gap Inc, Havertys Furniture Cos Inc, J.C. Penney Co Inc, Jo-Ann Stores Llc, Kohl’s Corp, Ikea North America Services Llc, Levi Strauss &amp; Co, Qurate Retail Group, Sears Holdings Corp, The Michaels Companies Inc, VF Corp, and Wolverine World Wide Inc.</p>
<p>The letter asked the administration to work with companies to find a solution.</p>
<p>“As you continue to investigate harmful technology and intellectual property practices, we ask that any remedy carefully consider the impact on consumer prices,” the letter stated.</p>
<p>Reporting by Ginger Gibson; Editing by Jonathan Oatis and Cynthia Osterman</p> Our Standards:
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<p>NEW YORK, 2018 - U.S. stocks joined a broad decline in global equity markets on Monday as traders turned cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting this week and amid continuing concerns about the threat of a global trade war.</p> Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell in New York, U.S., March 19, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
<p>At the same time, shares of Facebook Inc ( <a href="/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=FB.O" type="external">FB.O</a>) shed nearly 7 percent after reports that a political consultancy that worked on U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign gained inappropriate access to data on 50 million of the social network’s users. That decline dragged other technology stocks, which have led the market higher over the last two years.</p>
<p>“If they start to decay, then it may leave investors wondering what’s left to become the new leader to resume the bulls’ advance,” said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia.</p>
<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average <a href="/finance/markets/index?symbol=.DJI" type="external">.DJI</a> fell as much as 425 during the session and ended won 335.60 points, or 1.35 percent, at 24,610.91. The S&amp;P 500 <a href="/finance/markets/index?symbol=.SPX" type="external">.SPX</a> index lost 39.09 points, or 1.42 percent, to 2,712.92 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite <a href="/finance/markets/index?symbol=.IXIC" type="external">.IXIC</a> index dropped 155.07 points, or 1.8 percent, to 7,334.24.</p>
<p>MSCI’s main 47-country world stock index fell 1.1 percent in afternoon trading after European stocks dipped and benchmark U.S. indexes declined. Global equities are on their worst run since November.</p> EYES ON CENTRAL BANKS
<p>The drop in European and U.S. indexes came as central banks appeared to be preparing for more rate hikes. A Reuters report that the European Central Bank expects a rate hike by mid-2019 started helping the euro recover from a difficult morning against the dollar.</p>
<p>Wall Street is looking toward the Fed’s two-day policy meeting, which concludes on Wednesday, with 104 analysts polled by Reuters expecting the central bank will raise rates 25 basis points to a range of 1.50 percent to 1.75 percent.</p>
<p>Yields in benchmark 10-year Treasuries held steady, reflecting investor rate hike expectations.</p> FILE PHOTO: The seal for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is on display in Washington, DC, U.S., June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
<p>After the meeting, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will hold a his first press conference as the central bank’s new chief.</p>
<p>Analysts at JPMorgan see a risk the Fed might not only add one more rate rise for this year but for 2019 as well.</p>
<p>“The worst case is the ‘18 and ‘19 dots both move up - the Fed is currently guiding to five hikes in ‘18 and ‘19 combined, but under this scenario that would shift to seven hikes,” they warned in a note to clients.</p>
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<p>“Stocks would probably tolerate one net dot increase over ‘18 and ‘19, but a bump in both years could create problems.”</p>
<p>The dollar index .DXY fell 0.4 percent, with the euro <a href="/finance/currencies/quote?srcCurr=EUR&amp;destCurr=USD" type="external">EUR=</a> up 0.39 percent to $1.2335</p>
<p>Any nod to four hikes would normally be considered as bullish for the U.S. dollar, yet the currency has shown scant overall correlation to interest rates in recent months.</p>
<p>Dealers cite concerns about the U.S. budget and current account deficits, chaos in the White House, better growth in overseas markets, particularly Europe, and the risk of a U.S.-led trade war.</p>
<p>Fears of a global trade war triggered by Trump’s imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports cast a cloud over a two-day G20 meeting in Buenos Aires this week.</p>
<p>The prospect of higher U.S. interest rates weighed on non-yielding gold XAU=, which touched its lowest in more than two weeks but turned positive in later trade, up 0.3 percent at $1,317.49 per ounce by 1:33 p.m. EST (1733 GMT).</p>
<p>Oil prices eased after ending last week with a solid bounce. U.S. crude CLcv1 fell 0.5 percent to settle at $62.06 per barrel and Brent LCOcv1 settled at $66.05, down 0.24 percent on the day.</p>
<p>Reporting by David Randall; Editing by David Gregorio and Cynthia Osterman</p> Our Standards:
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<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. film and TV studio The Weinstein Company, whose ex-Chairman Harvey Weinstein has been accused of sexual harassment and assault, said on Monday it filed for bankruptcy and was ending all non-disclosure agreements that may have silenced some women.</p>
<p>The Weinstein Company filed for bankruptcy in the Delaware court, listing $500 million to $1 billion in liabilities and $500 million to $1 billion in assets, and said it struck a deal with an affiliate of private equity firm Lantern Capital Partners to acquire its assets. <a href="http://bit.ly/2prGdNm" type="external">bit.ly/2prGdNm</a></p>
<p>The bankruptcy comes after the studio spent months looking for a buyer or investor. The company inked a deal with an investor group led by former Obama administration official Maria Contreras-Sweet, but the group terminated its offer earlier this month after seeing that the company had more liabilities than previously disclosed.</p>
<p>The Weinstein Company said in a statement it entered into a “stalking horse” agreement with a Lantern Capital affiliate, that would purchase substantially all of the assets of the company.</p>
<p>The offer from Lantern will set the floor for higher and better bidders in a court-supervised auction.</p>
<p>Lions Gate Entertainment Corp had made an earlier offer for some of the company’s assets, as had Qatar-owned film company Miramax, which was founded by Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein. Both could be among potential bidders in the auction.</p> FILE PHOTO - Harvey Weinstein speaks at the UBS 40th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference in New York, December 5, 2012. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
<p>More than 70 women accused the company’s co-founder, Harvey Weinstein, who was one of Hollywood’s most influential men, of sexual misconduct, including rape. Weinstein has denied having non-consensual sex with anyone.</p>
<p>“Since October, it has been reported that Harvey Weinstein used non-disclosure agreements as a secret weapon to silence his accusers. Effective immediately, those ‘agreements’ end,” the company said in an emailed statement.</p>
<p>Movie producer Killer Content also said bankruptcy would be the best option for the company, and that it may be interested in the studio’s assets in a bankruptcy auction.</p>
<p>In February, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued The Weinstein Company, Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein, alleging that Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed employees and the company failed to respond. Bob Weinstein co-founded the company and is the co-chairman.</p>
<p>“This is a watershed moment for efforts to address the corrosive effects of sexual misconduct in the workplace,” Schneiderman said in a statement after the company’s announcement on Monday.</p>
<p>Launched in October 2005, the studio produced and distributed critically acclaimed hits including “The King’s Speech” and “Silver Linings Playbook,” as well as TV series such as long-running fashion reality competition “Project Runway.”</p>
<p>Reporting by Jessica DiNapoli in New York and Ismail Shakil in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Gopakumar Warrier</p> Our Standards:
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<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks dropped on Monday, with the S&amp;P and Nasdaq suffering their worst day in just over five weeks, as concerns over increased regulation for large tech companies was spearheaded by a plunge in Facebook shares.</p>
<p>Facebook shares tumbled 6.8 percent as Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg faced calls from both U.S. and European lawmakers to explain how a consultancy that worked on President Donald Trump’s election campaign gained access to data on 50 million Facebook users.</p>
<p>The stock had its worst day since March 2014 and was down 10.8 percent from its closing record hit on Feb. 1, to put the stock squarely in correction territory, a drop of 10 percent from its high.</p>
<p>Facebook’s plunge weighed heavily on the S&amp;P technology sector, down 2.11 percent, as well as the Nasdaq, off more than 2 percent. Both indexes had their worst daily performance since Feb. 8.</p>
<p>Other major companies with large tech businesses also dropped as recent concerns over regulation in the arena increased. Apple lost 1.53 percent while Alphabet fell 3 percent and Microsoft declined 1.8 percent.</p>
<p>“What’s chilling to an investor is whether Facebook will be able to get advertisers to pay for the rich data they pay for today,” said Kim Forrest, Senior Portfolio manager, Fort Pitt Capital, Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>“Investors are not only concerned about losing advertising dollars. They’re also concerned these companies might come under relatively heavy regulation.”</p>
<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 335.6 points, or 1.35 percent, to close at 24,610.91, the S&amp;P 500 lost 39.09 points, or 1.42 percent, to 2,712.92 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 137.74 points, or 1.84 percent, to 7,344.24.</p> FILE PHOTO: The sun rises behind the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park before the company's IPO launch, May 18, 2012. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach/File Photo
<p>The S&amp;P once again fell below its 50-day moving average, seen as a technical support level, for the first time since early March. The Nasdaq came about 2 points from its 50-day before paring losses.</p>
<p>Investors were also cautious ahead of a two-day monetary policy meeting at the U.S. Federal Reserve starting on Tuesday.</p> Slideshow (8 Images)
<p>The market believes the Fed is set to raise interest rates on Wednesday as Thomson Reuters data shows traders expect a quarter-percentage-point hike to be a certainty. Investors are now grappling with the question of whether an improving economy could lead to more hikes than anticipated.</p>
<p>“Some of the more salient questions investors have is, has the tone of the Fed, which this time last year was certainly more skewed towards being dovish, has it now extended to becoming more hawkish?” said Eric Freedman, chief investment officer for U.S. Bank Wealth Management in Minneapolis.</p>
<p>Industrials fell 0.82 percent against the backdrop of worries about a global trade war, which are set to dominate a two-day G20 meeting in Argentina.</p> Related Coverage
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<p>Selling was broad, with each of the 11 major S&amp;P sectors in the red. The CBOE Volatility index touched a high of 21.87 in one of its sharpest gains since the market sell-off in February.</p>
<p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 3.71-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.68-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p>
<p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 6.9 billion shares, compared to the 7.2 billion average over the last 20 trading days.</p>
<p>Additional reporting by Sinead Carew; Editing by Nick Zieminski and James Dalgleish</p> Our Standards:
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investments dollar slide accelerate foreign capital flows could decline rapidly would cause sudden rise interest rates could shock markets lead unintended declines risk assets like stocks could damage growth said guggenheimer partners global chief investment officer scott minerd new york another unusual move commerce secretary wilbur ross later attempted dial back mnuchins remark telling cnbc television treasury secretary advocating weaker dollar ross failed push back dollar bears wednesday index tracks dollar basket currencies tradeweighted basis usd fell 08 percent 89153 lowest since december 2014 euro eur advanced threeyear high 12415 per euro wednesday reuters data showed currency worlds biggest economy also tumbled fourmonth low 10897 japanese yen jpy twoplus year trough cny 63646 chinese yuan per dollar skittish dollar prior mnuchins comment davos dollar fallen speculation overseas central banks moving away extraordinary measures adopted combat global credit crisis 2008 global recession followed futures markets signalled speculators last week built bearish positioning dollar since midoctober analysts reuters poll published jan 5 anticipated tough 2018 dollar coming worst annual performance 14 years lost 10 percent tuesday bank japan signalled would stick easy policy stance inflation remains 2percent goal european central bank policymakers meet thursday traders look clues whether ecb pave way renew 255 trillion euro 316 trillion bond purchase programme expires september euros yearlong rise analysts say would offer ecb officials reason change course strength euro something ecb wants exacerbate euro knocking 124 said omer esiner chief market strategist commonwealth foreign exchange washington analysts said dollar selloff overdone economy remains firm footing federal reserve expected raise rates 2018 moreover us yields remain low enough greenback remains attractive currency fund carry trades bets buying higher returning assets emerging market bonds money raised selling dollars dollars status addition anxiety trade friction mnuchins dollar remark fuelled questions dollars status among foreign central banks sovereign wealth funds worlds top reserve currency severe deterioration greenback end hurting us economy ballooning trade deficit result higher import costs might also spur foreigners pull money country weakness dollar sours investing united states november china japan two largest foreign us creditors scaled back holdings us treasuries last month international monetary fund said dollars share global currency reserves shrank third quarter 2017 635 percent smallest since mid2014 despite developments possibly protectionist rhetoric white house dollar remain perch 1 reserve currency dont think deteriorate view dollar reserve currency world radical change said lennon sweeting chief market strategist xe toronto additional reporting karen brettell saqib iqbal ahmed jennifer ablan editing diane craft standards thomson reuters trust principles washington reuters retailers shoemakers continued sound alarms monday concerns president donald trumps plan impose sweeping tariffs imported goods china result higher consumer prices several large us retail companies including walmart inc target corp best buy co inc macys inc monday sent president donald trump letter urging impose massive tariffs goods imported china separate letter trump monday 82 shoe companies including nike inc genesco payless shoesource inc armour shoe carnival inc weyco group echoed concerns trump administration said preparing tariffs chinese information technology telecommunications consumer products attempt force changes beijings intellectual property investment practices washington could impose 60 billion tariffs goods ranging electronics apparel footwear toys applying additional broadbased tariff would punish american working families higher prices household basics like clothing shoes electronics home goods retailers said footwear companies argued shoes already subject hefty tariffs adding even tariffs top heavy burden would mean higher costs footwear consumers fewer us jobs letter stated given price sensitivity products additional increases costs would strike right heart ability keep product competitively priced consumers socalled section 301 action would allow trump impose unilateral tariffs china response conclusion us government chinese violated intellectual property rules tariffs would need approval congress file photo chinese national flag seen port beihai guangxi province china june 17 2017 picture taken june 17 2017 reutersstringer white house respond request comment letter letter latest example growing division trump administration many business community trade policy sunday group trade associations represent united states large businesses sent letter echoing concerns economic ramifications tariffs slideshow 4 images trade associations publicly pushing back include us chamber commerce national retail federation information technology industry council sandy kennedy president retail industry leaders association organized mondays letter argued tariffs would eliminate benefit recent tax overhaul provided economy american industries crying wolf said statement letter signed 24 companies also included abercrombie amp fitch co american eagle outfitters inc big lots inc chicos fas inc columbia sportswear co costco wholesale corp dollar tree inc gap inc havertys furniture cos inc jc penney co inc joann stores llc kohls corp ikea north america services llc levi strauss amp co qurate retail group sears holdings corp michaels companies inc vf corp wolverine world wide inc letter asked administration work companies find solution continue investigate harmful technology intellectual property practices ask remedy carefully consider impact consumer prices letter stated reporting ginger gibson editing jonathan oatis cynthia osterman standards thomson reuters trust principles new york 2018 us stocks joined broad decline global equity markets monday traders turned cautious ahead federal reserves policy meeting week amid continuing concerns threat global trade war traders work floor new york stock exchange shortly opening bell new york us march 19 2018 reuterslucas jackson time shares facebook inc fbo shed nearly 7 percent reports political consultancy worked us president donald trumps 2016 campaign gained inappropriate access data 50 million social networks users decline dragged technology stocks led market higher last two years start decay may leave investors wondering whats left become new leader resume bulls advance said mark luschini chief investment strategist janney montgomery scott philadelphia dow jones industrial average dji fell much 425 session ended 33560 points 135 percent 2461091 sampp 500 spx index lost 3909 points 142 percent 271292 techheavy nasdaq composite ixic index dropped 15507 points 18 percent 733424 mscis main 47country world stock index fell 11 percent afternoon trading european stocks dipped benchmark us indexes declined global equities worst run since november eyes central banks drop european us indexes came central banks appeared preparing rate hikes reuters report european central bank expects rate hike mid2019 started helping euro recover difficult morning dollar wall street looking toward feds twoday policy meeting concludes wednesday 104 analysts polled reuters expecting central bank raise rates 25 basis points range 150 percent 175 percent yields benchmark 10year treasuries held steady reflecting investor rate hike expectations file photo seal board governors federal reserve system display washington dc us june 14 2017 reutersjoshua robertsfile photo meeting fed chairman jerome powell hold first press conference central banks new chief analysts jpmorgan see risk fed might add one rate rise year 2019 well worst case 18 19 dots move fed currently guiding five hikes 18 19 combined scenario would shift seven hikes warned note clients facebook inc 16761 fbo nasdaq 495 287 fbo dji spx ixic stocks would probably tolerate one net dot increase 18 19 bump years could create problems dollar index dxy fell 04 percent euro eur 039 percent 12335 nod four hikes would normally considered bullish us dollar yet currency shown scant overall correlation interest rates recent months dealers cite concerns us budget current account deficits chaos white house better growth overseas markets particularly europe risk usled trade war fears global trade war triggered trumps imposition tariffs steel aluminum imports cast cloud twoday g20 meeting buenos aires week prospect higher us interest rates weighed nonyielding gold xau touched lowest two weeks turned positive later trade 03 percent 131749 per ounce 133 pm est 1733 gmt oil prices eased ending last week solid bounce us crude clcv1 fell 05 percent settle 6206 per barrel brent lcocv1 settled 6605 024 percent day reporting david randall editing david gregorio cynthia osterman standards thomson reuters trust principles new york reuters us film tv studio weinstein company whose exchairman harvey weinstein accused sexual harassment assault said monday filed bankruptcy ending nondisclosure agreements may silenced women weinstein company filed bankruptcy delaware court listing 500 million 1 billion liabilities 500 million 1 billion assets said struck deal affiliate private equity firm lantern capital partners acquire assets bitly2prgdnm bankruptcy comes studio spent months looking buyer investor company inked deal investor group led former obama administration official maria contrerassweet group terminated offer earlier month seeing company liabilities previously disclosed weinstein company said statement entered stalking horse agreement lantern capital affiliate would purchase substantially assets company offer lantern set floor higher better bidders courtsupervised auction lions gate entertainment corp made earlier offer companys assets qatarowned film company miramax founded harvey weinstein brother bob weinstein could among potential bidders auction file photo harvey weinstein speaks ubs 40th annual global media communications conference new york december 5 2012 reuterscarlo allegri 70 women accused companys cofounder harvey weinstein one hollywoods influential men sexual misconduct including rape weinstein denied nonconsensual sex anyone since october reported harvey weinstein used nondisclosure agreements secret weapon silence accusers effective immediately agreements end company said emailed statement movie producer killer content also said bankruptcy would best option company may interested studios assets bankruptcy auction february new york attorney general eric schneiderman sued weinstein company harvey weinstein brother bob weinstein alleging harvey weinstein sexually harassed employees company failed respond bob weinstein cofounded company cochairman watershed moment efforts address corrosive effects sexual misconduct workplace schneiderman said statement companys announcement monday launched october 2005 studio produced distributed critically acclaimed hits including kings speech silver linings playbook well tv series longrunning fashion reality competition project runway reporting jessica dinapoli new york ismail shakil bengaluru editing lisa shumaker gopakumar warrier standards thomson reuters trust principles new york reuters us stocks dropped monday sampp nasdaq suffering worst day five weeks concerns increased regulation large tech companies spearheaded plunge facebook shares facebook shares tumbled 68 percent chief executive mark zuckerberg faced calls us european lawmakers explain consultancy worked president donald trumps election campaign gained access data 50 million facebook users stock worst day since march 2014 108 percent closing record hit feb 1 put stock squarely correction territory drop 10 percent high facebooks plunge weighed heavily sampp technology sector 211 percent well nasdaq 2 percent indexes worst daily performance since feb 8 major companies large tech businesses also dropped recent concerns regulation arena increased apple lost 153 percent alphabet fell 3 percent microsoft declined 18 percent whats chilling investor whether facebook able get advertisers pay rich data pay today said kim forrest senior portfolio manager fort pitt capital pittsburgh investors concerned losing advertising dollars theyre also concerned companies might come relatively heavy regulation dow jones industrial average fell 3356 points 135 percent close 2461091 sampp 500 lost 3909 points 142 percent 271292 nasdaq composite dropped 13774 points 184 percent 734424 file photo sun rises behind entrance sign facebook headquarters menlo park companys ipo launch may 18 2012 reutersbeck diefenbachfile photo sampp fell 50day moving average seen technical support level first time since early march nasdaq came 2 points 50day paring losses investors also cautious ahead twoday monetary policy meeting us federal reserve starting tuesday slideshow 8 images market believes fed set raise interest rates wednesday thomson reuters data shows traders expect quarterpercentagepoint hike certainty investors grappling question whether improving economy could lead hikes anticipated salient questions investors tone fed time last year certainly skewed towards dovish extended becoming hawkish said eric freedman chief investment officer us bank wealth management minneapolis industrials fell 082 percent backdrop worries global trade war set dominate twoday g20 meeting argentina related coverage analyst view tech sector selloff leads wall street sharply lower selling broad 11 major sampp sectors red cboe volatility index touched high 2187 one sharpest gains since market selloff february declining issues outnumbered advancing ones nyse 371to1 ratio nasdaq 268to1 ratio favored decliners volume us exchanges 69 billion shares compared 72 billion average last 20 trading days additional reporting sinead carew editing 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<p>Participants in the Leadership New Mexico Core Program get a briefing on the Union Pacific operations at Santa Teresa. (Andres Leighton/for the Albuquerque Journal)</p>
<p>New Mexicans about the state's differing realities across geography, cultures and economies.</p>
<p>"We live in such a large state, but I think Leadership New Mexico has made it shrink for people," said Patty Komko, the program's president. "It's not so far to drive from Farmington to Carlsbad to do business. You break that mental barrier of distance. That is one of the things we have been able to do."</p>
<p>Rex Corbin of the 58th Operations Group at Kirtland Air Force Base, left, Ireke Cooper, president of Cooper Fire Protection Services, center, and Jay Laughlin, head of operations and chief nuclear officer at URENCO USA, attend a Leadership New Mexico tour of the War Eagles Museum in Santa Teresa in January.</p>
<p>The program's more than 800 graduates from 54 communities have come from the private and public sectors. They have gone back to their hometowns with a fresh appreciation for New Mexico's potential and they have gone on to do business with each other, and share leadership roles in boardrooms and government, Komko said.</p>
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<p>"It doesn't matter whether you are from Silver City or Carlsbad or Clovis or Cimarron," she said. "We all want the same thing. We all want a good education system; we all want jobs; we want our children to stay in the communities they grew up in. If you can break down those false barriers and let people get to know each other as people, then you will really, truly have progress."</p>
<p>This year's core class takes 39 participants to six New Mexico communities, from Santa Fe and Los Alamos to Las Cruces, Hobbs, Farmington and Taos, to tackle themes including health care, economic development, education, environment, government, crime and justice.</p>
<p>Leadership New Mexico has become a cornerstone for leadership trainings in the public and private sectors. Companies and institutions such as U.S. Bank and University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque sponsor participants from their organizations nearly every year.</p>
<p>"It is a tremendous opportunity to share and network with movers and shakers from around the state," said Paul DiPaola, president of U.S. Bank in Albuquerque and chairman of the Leadership New Mexico board. "It has created quite a connection and quite an alumni of people who, after having been through the class, encourage others to participate."</p>
<p>"Knowledge is power in a sense," he said. "So it doesn't matter if you are talking about economic development or water issues, if they have attended (the program), then they have been educated on some of the challenges and they are better prepared to play a role in the solutions. They can pitch in and move the state forward."</p>
<p>At a recent two-day session in Las Cruces, Leadership New Mexico participants got a closer look at the U.S.-Mexico border to learn about international commerce and immigration issues. They visited the Santa Teresa port of entry and also got a rare tour of the sprawling new Union Pacific intermodal hub nearby.</p>
<p>After a detailed presentation on how Union Pacific moves its 4,000-7,000-foot trains in and out of the facility for refueling, cargo changes and staff shifts, Jay Laughlin, chief nuclear officer at Eunice-based URENCO USA, said he was surprised by what he saw.</p>
<p>"There are a lot of things going on here," he said. "There are pretty exciting opportunities tied to the border."</p>
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<p>"I had never been to the UP yard or that whole Santa Teresa area," said Krishna Reddy, vice president of special projects at the Albuquerque office of Jaynes Corp., a construction firm. "I was just struck by the enormous potential in that little area for cross-border commerce and trade. And I was also struck by how much (more) is happening just east of us in Texas. What is it New Mexico can do?"</p>
<p>Reddy says he has high hopes that his Leadership New Mexico experience won't be "a yearlong networking session before we go back to our daily lives."</p>
<p>"There is a great bunch of people in my class - the 20th class - I hope we all stay in touch," he said. "I hope we pick certain issues facing our state and in smaller groups, or as a group in general, we find ways to stay engaged with each other and come up with solutions to some of these issues."</p>
<p>Mr. Russell Allen - Core 2008</p>
<p>Vice President of Operations</p>
<p>Allen Theatres Inc.</p>
<p>Las Cruces</p>
<p>Mr. George Anderson - Connect 2012</p>
<p>Project Executive</p>
<p>HB Construction of Albuquerque Inc.</p>
<p>Albuquerque</p>
<p>Past Chairman of the Board</p>
<p>Mr. John Brown - Core 2010</p>
<p>President &amp; Chief Executive Officer</p>
<p>Silent Falcon UAS Technologies</p>
<p>Albuquerque</p>
<p>Chairman of the Board</p>
<p>Mr. Paul DiPaola - Core 2000</p>
<p>President</p>
<p>U.S. Bank</p>
<p>Albuquerque</p>
<p>Core Curriculum Committee Chair</p>
<p>Ms. DeAnn Eaton - Core 2014</p>
<p>Chief Executive Officer</p>
<p>Haverland Carter Lifestyle Group</p>
<p>Albuquerque</p>
<p>Mr. Kendal Giles - Core 2015</p>
<p>Principal and Vice President</p>
<p>Dekker/Perich/Sabatini</p>
<p>Albuquerque</p>
<p>Mr. Steve Griego - Core 2010</p>
<p>President &amp; Chief Executive Officer</p>
<p>DMC Logistics</p>
<p>Albuquerque</p>
<p>Chairman of the Board-Elect</p>
<p>Fundraising Committee Chair</p>
<p>Mr. Jim Haynes - Core 2007</p>
<p>Partner</p>
<p>Pulakos CPAs</p>
<p>Albuquerque</p>
<p>Ms. Trudy Healy - Core 2006</p>
<p>Co-Owner</p>
<p>The Rancho Milagro Collection and</p>
<p>Urraca Valley Cattle Co.</p>
<p>Taos</p>
<p>Ms. Shelly Herbst - Core 2013</p>
<p>President &amp; Chief Executive Officer</p>
<p>Marron &amp; Associates</p>
<p>Albuquerque</p>
<p>Ms. Debra Hicks - Core 2009</p>
<p>President &amp; Chief Executive Officer</p>
<p>Pettigrew &amp; Associates</p>
<p>Hobbs</p>
<p>Ms. Marianne Hill - Core 2012</p>
<p>Deputy General Counsel</p>
<p>Sandia National Laboratories</p>
<p>Albuquerque</p>
<p>Mr. Shad James - Core 2013</p>
<p>President &amp; Chief Operating Officer</p>
<p>Jaynes Corp.</p>
<p>Albuquerque</p>
<p>Ms. Patty Komko</p>
<p>President</p>
<p>Leadership New Mexico</p>
<p>Albuquerque</p>
<p>Mr. Joe Lujan - Core 2004</p>
<p>President of Commercial Lines</p>
<p>HUB International Insurance Services Inc.</p>
<p>Albuquerque</p>
<p>Mr. Chris McCall - LGLP 2015</p>
<p>Chief of Police</p>
<p>City of Hobbs</p>
<p>Hobbs</p>
<p>Alumni Committee Chairman</p>
<p>Mr. Paul Mondragon - Core 2009</p>
<p>Senior Vice President and Relationship Manager</p>
<p>BBVA Compass</p>
<p>Albuquerque</p>
<p>Mr. Brent Moore - Core 2011</p>
<p>Attorney &amp; Shareholder</p>
<p>Montgomery &amp; Andrews, P.A.</p>
<p>Santa Fe</p>
<p>Connect Curriculum Committee Chair</p>
<p>Ms. Amanda Pierce - Connect 2013</p>
<p>Vice President/Branch Manager</p>
<p>Los Alamos National Bank</p>
<p>Santa Fe</p>
<p>Ms. Betty Read Young - Core 2008</p>
<p>Chief Financial Officer</p>
<p>Read &amp; Stevens Inc.</p>
<p>Roswell</p>
<p>Dr. John Russell - Core 2013</p>
<p>Chairman of Surgery</p>
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<p>The decision added to the national confusion over same-sex marriage, as the judge said a county clerk can continue giving marriage licenses to gay couples despite what the state’s attorney general calls “legal chaos” as the issue makes its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.</p>
<p>An hour after the ruling, Denver’s clerk said she would join her counterpart in the liberal college town of Boulder in providing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Pueblo County’s clerk said he will begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses Friday morning.</p>
<p>Couples began trickling into Denver City Hall to tie the knot Thursday afternoon.</p>
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<p>Anna and Fran Simon rushed to city hall with their 7-year-old son, Jeremy, to wed. “We feel like this marriage license is valid, and that’s how were going to act,” said Fran Simon, 45.</p>
<p>Surrounded by reporters and TV cameras, Anna Simon, 44, added: “Every little girl dreams of getting married. I didn’t imagine it would be quite like this.”</p>
<p>District Judge Andrew Hartman’s decision said the Boulder County clerk can ignore a federal stay on a ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, which found states cannot set gender requirements for marriage.</p>
<p>The judge said gay marriage is still technically illegal in Colorado but Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall’s behavior was not harming anyone.</p>
<p>“She is apparently taking the position posited by St. Augustine and followed notably by Martin Luther King Jr. that ‘an unjust law is not law at all,'” Hartman wrote.</p>
<p>However, he warned that the licenses could still be invalid if a court later finds Hall lacked the authority to issue them.</p>
<p>Hartman also noted that every judge who has considered a gay marriage ban in the past year — including one in Colorado the previous afternoon — has found it unconstitutional. He said Colorado’s prohibition is “hanging on by a thread.”</p>
<p>Denver Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson described the news as “awesome.”</p>
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<p>“Finally, we can give out marriage licenses to all loving couples,” she said.</p>
<p>Samantha Getman, 33, and Victoria Quintana, 23, were first to receive a license in the state’s largest city.</p>
<p>“We wanted to come down and get it before someone started taking it away from us again,” Getman said shortly after 2 p.m., as she held up her paperwork in front of a bank of TV cameras.</p>
<p>In Boulder County, Hall has issued more than 100 same-sex marriage licenses since the 10th Circuit’s June 25 ruling. Republican state Attorney General John Suthers sued Hall, the only Colorado clerk who had defied the federal stay.</p>
<p>Hall argued that despite the stay, Colorado’s gay-marriage ban violates the U.S. Constitution.</p>
<p>Suthers said Hall’s behavior was causing “legal chaos” while the issue works its way through the courts. In a statement Thursday, Suthers said the issue “cries out for resolution by the state’s highest court.”</p>
<p>Nancy Leong, a University of Denver law professor, said Hartman’s ruling effectively allows government officials to sometimes disobey state law if they believe it violates the nation’s founding principles.</p>
<p>“I read his opinion to say a certain level of what we may call civil disobedience is permissible under the U.S. Constitution,” Leong said.</p>
<p>She said that, in the abstract, it seemed unlikely a judge would permit a government official to do something contrary to state law. But things play out differently in the notoriously liberal city known as “The Berkeley of the Rockies.”</p>
<p>“It’s Boulder,” Leong said.</p>
<p>Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper appointed Hartman to the bench last year.</p>
<p>The decision from a three-judge 10th Circuit panel found states cannot deprive people of the fundamental right to marry simply because they choose partners of the same sex.</p>
<p>The ruling became law in the six states covered by the 10th Circuit: Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming. However, the panel immediately put the decision on hold pending an appeal.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, the Utah attorney general’s office announced it will challenge the panel’s ruling directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, meaning the nation’s highest court will have at least one same-sex marriage case on its plate when it returns in October.</p>
<p>There is no guarantee the high court will take the case, but situations like the one in Colorado add to the pressure for a final, definitive ruling on gay marriage in the U.S.</p>
<p>Same-sex marriage is legal in 19 states and the District of Columbia, but it’s in legal limbo in much of the rest of the nation. Seemingly every week, a new gay marriage ban gets struck down. Sometimes marriages start immediately; other times the rulings are put on hold and nothing happens.</p>
<p>In Colorado, District Judge C. Scott Crabtree on Wednesday became the 16th judge to strike down a state’s gay marriage ban in the past year, but he also put his decision on hold pending an appeal.</p>
<p>Crabtree wrote that the provisions in Colorado law clearly violate the state and U.S. constitutions. His ruling will be appealed by Suthers’ office, which defended the ban.</p>
<p>But in a statement Thursday, the governor made clear he didn’t want Suthers to appeal that ruling. Hickenlooper said he is “a strong advocate for marriage equality.”</p>
<p>“The decision on marriage by Judge Crabtree puts Colorado on the right side of history,” he said. “I have urged the attorney general not to appeal Judge Crabtree’s ruling.”</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Americans galvanized by last month’s Florida school massacre rallied in cities across the country on Saturday to demand tighter gun laws.</p>
<p>Carrying signs with slogans such as “If they choose guns over our kids, vote them out,” protesters in Washington jammed Pennsylvania Avenue as students from the Parkland, Florida, high school where 17 people were shot to death called on lawmakers and President Donald Trump to confront the issue.</p>
<p>The massive March For Our Lives rallies, some led by student survivors from Parkland, aim to break legislative gridlock that has long stymied efforts to increase restrictions on firearms sales in a nation where mass shootings like the one on Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have become frighteningly common.</p>
<p>“Politicians: either represent the people or get out. Stand with us or beware, the voters are coming,” Cameron Kasky, a 17-year-old junior at the high school, told the crowd.</p>
<p>Another Parkland survivor, David Hogg, said it was a new day. “You can hear the people in power shaking,” he said to loud applause.</p>
<p>“We’re going to make sure the best people get in our elections to run not as politicians, but as Americans. Because this - this - is not cutting it,” he said, pointing at the white-domed Capitol. “We can and we will change the world!”</p>
<p>Youthful marchers filled streets in cities nationwide including Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, San Diego and St. Louis.</p>
<p>More than 800 demonstrations were scheduled in the United States and abroad, according to coordinators, with events as far afield as London, Mauritius and Stockholm.</p>
<p>Underlining sharp differences among the American public over the issue, counter-demonstrators and supporters of gun rights were also in evidence in many cities.</p>
<p>“Guns don’t kill people. People kill people,” said Connor Humphrey, 16, of San Luis Obispo, California, who was visiting Washington with his family for spring break.</p>
<p>Humphrey, wearing a red “Make America Great Again” sweatshirt, said he owns guns for target shooting and hunting and uses them responsibly. His school had a lockdown exercise last week.</p>
<p>“I think teachers should have guns,” he said, echoing a proposal made by Trump after the Parkland killings.</p>
<p>Organizers of the anti-gun rallies want Congress, many of whose members are up for re-election in November, to ban the sale of assault weapons like the one used in the Florida rampage and to tighten background checks for gun buyers.</p>
<p>On the other side of the debate, gun rights advocates cite constitutional guarantees of the right to bear arms.</p>
<p>“All they’re doing is asking the government to take their liberty away from them without due process,” Brandon Howard, a 42-year-old Trump supporter, said of the protesters in the capital. He had a sign saying: “Keep your hands off my guns.”</p> Protesters hold photos of victims of school shootings during a "March For Our Lives" demonstration demanding gun control in New York City, U.S. March 24, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
<p>In New York, a handful of counter-demonstrators waved placards with messages such as “Keep America Armed” and “Re-elect Trump 2020.”</p> ‘THIS IS THE NORM FOR US’
<p>Among those marching nearby next to Central Park was pop star Paul McCartney, who said he had a personal stake in the gun control debate.</p>
<p>“One of my best friends was shot not far from here,” he told CNN, referring to Beatles bandmate John Lennon, who was gunned down near the park in 1980.</p>
<p>Taking aim at the National Rifle Association gun lobby, teenagers chanted, “Hey, hey, NRA, how many kids have you killed today?”</p> Slideshow (30 Images)
<p>So overcome with emotion was one of the Parkland students who was shot and survived, Samantha Fuentes, that she vomited on stage during her speech.</p>
<p>“I just threw up on international television and it feels great,” she said to loud cheers afterward.</p>
<p>The young U.S. organizers have won kudos and cash from dozens of celebrities, with singers Demi Lovato and Ariana Grande, as well as “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, among those performing in Washington.</p>
<p>Actor George Clooney and his human rights attorney wife, Amal, donated $500,000 and said they would be at the Washington rally.</p>
<p>Democrats and nonpartisan groups hope to register at least 25,000 first-time voters at the rallies, potentially a boost for Democrats, who generally favor stricter gun controls.</p>
<p>On Friday, Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill that includes modest improvements to background checks for gun sales and grants to help schools prevent gun violence.</p>
<p>White House deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters said the administration applauded “the many courageous young Americans” exercising their free-speech rights on Saturday.</p>
<p>“Keeping our children safe is a top priority of the president’s,” said Walters, noting that on Friday the Justice Department proposed rule changes that would effectively ban “bump stock” devices that let semi-automatic weapons fire like a machine gun.</p>
<p>Former President Barack Obama said on Twitter that he and his wife Michelle were inspired by all the young people who made the marches happen.</p>
<p>“Keep at it. You’re leading us forward. Nothing can stand in the way of millions of voices calling for change,” Obama said.</p>
<p>Reporting by Ian Simpson, Lacey Johnson, Katanga Johnson and Lauren Young in Washington, Alice Popovici in New York, Phoenix Tso in Los Angeles, Zachary Fagenson in Parkland, Robert Chiarito in Chicago, and Jim Oliphant in West Palm Beach; Editing by Daniel Wallis and James Dalgleish</p> Our Standards:
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<p>BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels began pulling out of several towns in their former enclave of eastern Ghouta on Saturday, surrendering them to the government and leaving the besieged city of Douma as their last bastion there.</p> Syrian army soldiers fire tracer bullets into the air to celebrate their victory outside Harasta in eastern Ghouta, in Damascus, Syria March 23, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
<p>It comes after a month-long assault that devastated the already battered eastern Ghouta, an area of farmland and towns that was one of the first centers of the uprising in 2011 and the last major rebel stronghold near the capital Damascus.</p>
<p>Ten buses carrying fighters along with their families and other civilians started to leave the enclave after dark, the vanguard of a convoy heading into exile in northwestern Syria.</p>
<p>It follows the departure of thousands of others on Friday from the town of Harasta in a similar deal for insurgents to depart with light weapons in return for giving up their territory.</p>
<p>The buses queued at a crossing point before moving into the enclave along a road on the former front lines that had been cleared of barricades, debris and unexploded ordnance.</p> Related Coverage
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<p>Some captives held by the insurgents were released and state television showed them leaving in a minibus.</p>
<p>The army was advancing into towns the rebels had retreated from in preparation for their exit, state television said. It broadcast pictures of the massive trenches and other fortifications the rebels were leaving behind.</p>
<p>It means only Douma is left of the opposition’s eastern Ghouta enclave which a month ago the United Nations said was home to 400,000 people.</p>
<p>The army offensive to capture it, heralded by one of the heaviest bombardments in the seven-year conflict with warplanes, helicopters and artillery, has killed more than 1,600 people, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor.</p>
<p>Residents and rights groups have accused the government of using weapons that kill indiscriminately - inaccurate barrel bombs dropped from helicopters, chlorine gas and incendiary material that sets raging fires.</p>
<p>Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his close ally Russia, which has helped his air campaign, have denied using all those weapons and say their offensive was needed to end the rule of Islamist militants over civilians.</p> Buses are seen entering into rebels Harasta area in eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria March 23, 2018. REUTERS/ Omar Sanadiki EVACUATION
<p>About 7,000 people - fighters along with family members and other civilians who do not wish to come back under Assad’s rule - were to leave the towns of Zamalka, Arbin, Ein Terma and Jobar starting on Saturday, rebels and state media said.</p>
<p>They will go to Idlib province in the northwest - the destination for many such “evacuations” after sieges and ground offensives forced numerous rebel enclaves to surrender in the past two years.</p> Slideshow (2 Images)
<p>It will not mean an end to their experience of war. Syrian military and Russian air raids on Idlib have increased in the past week, killing dozens of people.</p>
<p>Idlib is also unsettled by fighting between the rebel groups. On Saturday, an explosion at a headquarters for al Qaeda’s former affiliate killed at least seven people and injured 25 others.</p>
<p>The Britain-based Observatory said there were also negotiations with the Jaish al-Islam rebel group that controls Douma to release prisoners.</p>
<p>Russia will guarantee that civilians who remain in the areas recaptured by Assad will not be prosecuted, rebels said on Friday. However, rights groups have said some men were forcibly conscripted after fleeing the fighting.</p>
<p>Wael Alwan, spokesman for the Failaq al-Rahman group that was dominant in Zamalka, Arbin, Ein Terma and Jobar, was quoted by al-Hadath television on Saturday as saying he did not trust Russia’s guarantees.</p>
<p>A Russian military webcam at the al-Wafideen crossing point near Douma showed small groups of civilians continuing to flee the danger of further bombardment into government territory, carrying children and sacks of belongings.</p>
<p>Russia’s military said more than 105,000 people had left eastern Ghouta, including over 700 on Saturday.</p>
<p>Tens of thousands have fled their homes in the past week as the bombardment of Douma intensified and refugees from other parts of Ghouta found the basement bomb shelters too full to take them.</p>
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<p>PARIS (Reuters) - France will pay a national tribute to a security officer who died from gunshot wounds after voluntarily taking the place of a female hostage during a supermarket siege by an Islamist militant, President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday.</p>
<p>Arnaud Beltrame, 44, a gendarme who once served in Iraq, had been raced to hospital fighting for his life after being shot by the gunman during the siege at the Super U store in the southwestern town of Trebes near the Pyrenees mountains.</p>
<p>His actions were described as heroic by politicians across the political spectrum.</p>
<p>“He fell as a hero, giving up his life to halt the murderous outfit of a jihadist terrorist,” Macron said in a statement shortly before dawn on Saturday.</p>
<p>Macron said France would organize a national tribute in Beltrame’s honor, the president’s office announced after he met with members of the government and officials involved in the attack investigation. It gave no further details.</p>
<p>The attacker was identified by authorities as Redouane Lakdim, a 25-year-old Moroccan-born French national from the city of Carcassonne, not far from Trebes, the tranquil town of about 5,000 people where he struck on Friday.</p>
<p>Lakdim was known to authorities for drug-dealing and other petty crimes, but had also been under surveillance by security services in 2016-2017 for links to the radical Salafist movement, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said on Friday.</p>
<p>The attacker’s rampage began when he shot the occupant of a car he stole and fired on a group of police joggers, wounding one. He then headed to a supermarket where he killed two people, an employee and a client, bringing Friday’s toll to three dead and 16 injured, according to a government readout.</p>
<p>Beltrame’s death took the number killed to four.</p>
<p>He was part of a team of gendarmes who were among the first to arrive at the supermarket scene. Most of the people in the shop escaped after hiding in a cold storage room and then fleeing through an emergency exit.</p>
<p>He offered to trade places with a hostage the attacker was still holding, whereafter he took her place and left his mobile phone on a table, line open. When shots rang out, elite police stormed the building to kill the assailant. Police sources said Beltrame was shot three times.</p>
<p>Politicians from the left and right called Beltrame a “hero” on Twitter, including opposition leader Laurent Wauquiez, far-right National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen and Olivier Faure, set to become the next Socialist party head.</p>
<p>#ArnaudBeltrame was a trending topic on the social network where people expressed their respect and gratitude for the officer, and thoughts for his wife. Several cities, the National Assembly and police stations lowered their flags in his honor.</p>
<p>The Grand Mosque of Paris, the largest in the country, said the Muslim community joined in mourning for a man who had “fallen heroically under the bullets of the terrorist Redouane Lakdim in the exercise of his mission”.</p> Flowers and messages in tribute to victim are seen in front of the Gendarmerie of Carcassonne, the day after a hostage situation in Trebes, France March 24, 2018. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
<p>British Prime Minister Theresa May hailed Beltrame’s courage and sacrifice on Twitter, saying they would never be forgotten.</p> ARRESTS AND SEARCHES
<p>The Islamic State militant group on Friday claimed responsibility for the attack.</p>
<p>Several hundred investigators devoted to the inquiry were still checking the claim on Saturday and looking into possible complicity the “terrorist” could have benefited from to carry out his attacks, the president’s office said.</p>
<p>Police arrested two people as part of the investigation - on Friday a woman connected to Lakdim, and overnight a 17-year-old male said to be one of his friends, judicial sources said.</p> Slideshow (6 Images)
<p>Searches at the attacker’s home showed notes referring to Islamic State that appeared to be a will, as well as a phone and a computer, judicial sources said.</p>
<p>Investigators also found three improvised explosive devices, a 7.65-millimetre handgun and a hunting knife in the supermarket, a source said.</p>
<p>U.S. President Donald Trump condemned “the violent actions of the attacker and anyone who would provide him support”.</p>
<p>“We are with you @EmmanuelMacron!” he added on Twitter.</p>
<p>More than 240 people have been killed in France in attacks since 2015 by assailants who either pledged allegiance to Islamic State or were inspired by the ultra-hardline group.</p>
<p>France is part of a group of countries whose warplanes have been bombing Islamic State strongholds in Iraq and Syria, where in recent months IS has lost much of a self-proclaimed “caliphate” of territory it seized in 2014.</p>
<p>One multiple attack by Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in Paris in November 2015 while another killed close to 90 when a man ran a truck into partying crowds in the Riviera seaside city of Nice in July 2016.</p>
<p>Beltrame was a qualified parachutist who served in Iraq in 2005. He also worked as part of the elite Republican Guard that protects the presidential Elysee Place offices and residence in Paris, Macron said.</p>
<p>Friday’s assault was the first deadly Islamist attack in France since October 2017, when a man stabbed two young women to death in the port city of Marseille before soldiers killed him.</p>
<p>Several attacks over the past year or more have targeted police and soldiers deployed in big numbers to protect civilians and patrol sensitive spots such as airports and train stations.</p>
<p>Additional reporting by Emmanuel Jarry; Editing by Mark Heinrich, Helen Popper and Dale Hudson</p> Our Standards:
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thomson reuters trust principles washington reuters hundreds thousands americans galvanized last months florida school massacre rallied cities across country saturday demand tighter gun laws carrying signs slogans choose guns kids vote protesters washington jammed pennsylvania avenue students parkland florida high school 17 people shot death called lawmakers president donald trump confront issue massive march lives rallies led student survivors parkland aim break legislative gridlock long stymied efforts increase restrictions firearms sales nation mass shootings like one feb 14 marjory stoneman douglas high school become frighteningly common politicians either represent people get stand us beware voters coming cameron kasky 17yearold junior high school told crowd another parkland survivor david hogg said new day hear people power shaking said loud applause going make sure best people get elections run politicians americans cutting said pointing whitedomed capitol change world youthful marchers filled streets cities nationwide including atlanta baltimore boston chicago los angeles miami minneapolis new york san diego st louis 800 demonstrations scheduled united states abroad according coordinators events far afield london mauritius stockholm underlining sharp differences among american public issue counterdemonstrators supporters gun rights also evidence many cities guns dont kill people people kill people said connor humphrey 16 san luis obispo california visiting washington family spring break humphrey wearing red make america great sweatshirt said owns guns target shooting hunting uses responsibly school lockdown exercise last week think teachers guns said echoing proposal made trump parkland killings organizers antigun rallies want congress many whose members reelection november ban sale assault weapons like one used florida rampage tighten background checks gun buyers side debate gun rights advocates cite constitutional guarantees right bear arms theyre asking government take liberty away without due process brandon howard 42yearold trump supporter said protesters capital sign saying keep hands guns protesters hold photos victims school shootings march lives demonstration demanding gun control new york city us march 24 2018 reutersshannon stapleton new york handful counterdemonstrators waved placards messages keep america armed reelect trump 2020 norm us among marching nearby next central park pop star paul mccartney said personal stake gun control debate one best friends shot far told cnn referring beatles bandmate john lennon gunned near park 1980 taking aim national rifle association gun lobby teenagers chanted hey hey nra many kids killed today slideshow 30 images overcome emotion one parkland students shot survived samantha fuentes vomited stage speech threw international television feels great said loud cheers afterward young us organizers kudos cash dozens celebrities singers demi lovato ariana grande well hamilton creator linmanuel miranda among performing washington actor george clooney human rights attorney wife amal donated 500000 said would washington rally democrats nonpartisan groups hope register least 25000 firsttime voters rallies potentially boost democrats generally favor stricter gun controls friday trump signed 13 trillion spending bill includes modest improvements background checks gun sales grants help schools prevent gun violence white house deputy press secretary lindsay walters said administration applauded many courageous young americans exercising freespeech rights saturday keeping children safe top priority presidents said walters noting friday justice department proposed rule changes would effectively ban bump stock devices let semiautomatic weapons fire like machine gun former president barack obama said twitter wife michelle inspired young people made marches happen keep youre leading us forward nothing stand way millions voices calling change obama said reporting ian simpson lacey johnson katanga johnson lauren young washington alice popovici new york phoenix tso los angeles zachary fagenson parkland robert chiarito chicago jim oliphant west palm beach editing daniel wallis james dalgleish standards thomson reuters trust principles beirut reuters syrian rebels began pulling several towns former enclave eastern ghouta saturday surrendering government leaving besieged city douma last bastion syrian army soldiers fire tracer bullets air celebrate victory outside harasta eastern ghouta damascus syria march 23 2018 reutersomar sanadiki comes monthlong assault devastated already battered eastern ghouta area farmland towns one first centers uprising 2011 last major rebel stronghold near capital damascus ten buses carrying fighters along families civilians started leave enclave dark vanguard convoy heading exile northwestern syria follows departure thousands others friday town harasta similar deal insurgents depart light weapons return giving territory buses queued crossing point moving enclave along road former front lines cleared barricades debris unexploded ordnance related coverage russia says 105000 civilians left syrias eastern ghouta ria captives held insurgents released state television showed leaving minibus army advancing towns rebels retreated preparation exit state television said broadcast pictures massive trenches fortifications rebels leaving behind means douma left oppositions eastern ghouta enclave month ago united nations said home 400000 people army offensive capture heralded one heaviest bombardments sevenyear conflict warplanes helicopters artillery killed 1600 people said syrian observatory human rights war monitor residents rights groups accused government using weapons kill indiscriminately inaccurate barrel bombs dropped helicopters chlorine gas incendiary material sets raging fires syrian president bashar alassad close ally russia helped air campaign denied using weapons say offensive needed end rule islamist militants civilians buses seen entering rebels harasta area eastern ghouta damascus syria march 23 2018 reuters omar sanadiki evacuation 7000 people fighters along family members civilians wish come back assads rule leave towns zamalka arbin ein terma jobar starting saturday rebels state media said go idlib province northwest destination many evacuations sieges ground offensives forced numerous rebel enclaves surrender past two years slideshow 2 images mean end experience war syrian military russian air raids idlib increased past week killing dozens people idlib also unsettled fighting rebel groups saturday explosion headquarters al qaedas former affiliate killed least seven people injured 25 others britainbased observatory said also negotiations jaish alislam rebel group controls douma release prisoners russia guarantee civilians remain areas recaptured assad prosecuted rebels said friday however rights groups said men forcibly conscripted fleeing fighting wael alwan spokesman failaq alrahman group dominant zamalka arbin ein terma jobar quoted alhadath television saturday saying trust russias guarantees russian military webcam alwafideen crossing point near douma showed small groups civilians continuing flee danger bombardment government territory carrying children sacks belongings russias military said 105000 people left eastern ghouta including 700 saturday tens thousands fled homes past week bombardment douma intensified refugees parts ghouta found basement bomb shelters full take reporting angus mcdowall editing mark heinrich dale hudson standards thomson reuters trust principles paris reuters france pay national tribute security officer died gunshot wounds voluntarily taking place female hostage supermarket siege islamist militant president emmanuel macron said saturday arnaud beltrame 44 gendarme served iraq raced hospital fighting life shot gunman siege super u store southwestern town trebes near pyrenees mountains actions described heroic politicians across political spectrum fell hero giving life halt murderous outfit jihadist terrorist macron said statement shortly dawn saturday macron said france would organize national tribute beltrames honor presidents office announced met members government officials involved attack investigation gave details attacker identified authorities redouane lakdim 25yearold moroccanborn french national city carcassonne far trebes tranquil town 5000 people struck friday lakdim known authorities drugdealing petty crimes also surveillance security services 20162017 links radical salafist movement paris prosecutor francois molins said friday attackers rampage began shot occupant car stole fired group police joggers wounding one headed supermarket killed two people employee client bringing fridays toll three dead 16 injured according government readout beltrames death took number killed four part team gendarmes among first arrive supermarket scene people shop escaped hiding cold storage room fleeing emergency exit offered trade places hostage attacker still holding whereafter took place left mobile phone table line open shots rang elite police stormed building kill assailant police sources said beltrame shot three times politicians left right called beltrame hero twitter including opposition leader laurent wauquiez farright national rally party leader marine le pen olivier faure set become next socialist party head arnaudbeltrame trending topic social network people expressed respect gratitude officer thoughts wife several cities national assembly police stations lowered flags honor grand mosque paris largest country said muslim community joined mourning man fallen heroically bullets terrorist redouane lakdim exercise mission flowers messages tribute victim seen front gendarmerie carcassonne day hostage situation trebes france march 24 2018 reutersregis duvignau british prime minister theresa may hailed beltrames courage sacrifice twitter saying would never forgotten arrests searches islamic state militant group friday claimed responsibility attack several hundred investigators devoted inquiry still checking claim saturday looking possible complicity terrorist could benefited carry attacks presidents office said police arrested two people part investigation friday woman connected lakdim overnight 17yearold male said one friends judicial sources said slideshow 6 images searches attackers home showed notes referring islamic state appeared well phone computer judicial sources said investigators also found three improvised explosive devices 765millimetre handgun hunting knife supermarket source said us president donald trump condemned violent actions attacker anyone would provide support emmanuelmacron added twitter 240 people killed france attacks since 2015 assailants either pledged allegiance islamic state inspired ultrahardline group france part group countries whose warplanes bombing islamic state strongholds iraq syria recent months lost much selfproclaimed caliphate territory seized 2014 one multiple attack islamist gunmen suicide bombers killed 130 people paris november 2015 another killed close 90 man ran truck partying crowds riviera seaside city nice july 2016 beltrame qualified parachutist served iraq 2005 also worked part elite republican guard protects presidential elysee place offices residence paris macron said fridays assault first deadly islamist attack france since october 2017 man stabbed two young women death port city marseille soldiers killed several attacks past year targeted police soldiers deployed big numbers protect civilians patrol sensitive spots airports train stations additional reporting emmanuel jarry editing mark heinrich helen popper dale hudson standards thomson reuters trust principles
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<p>UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday that the Trump administration’s policy in Afghanistan is working, saying talks between the government and Taliban extremists, and a peace process, are closer than ever before.</p>
<p>She called a weekend trip to Afghanistan by the U.N. Security Council “great” because “we could see dramatic changes in terms of what the U.S. policy has been doing.”</p>
<p>President Donald Trump’s plan for Afghanistan aims at ending America’s longest war and eliminating a rising extremist threat in the country.</p>
<p>It involves shifting away from a “time-based” approach to fighting the war to instead put emphasis on linking U.S. assistance to concrete results and cooperation from the Afghan government. It includes sending up to 3,900 more U.S. troops on top of the 8,400 Americans that former President Barack Obama left in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>“The U.S. policy on Afghanistan is working,” Haley said. “We are seeing that we are closer to talks with the Taliban and the peace process than we’ve seen before. ... And I think we really are going to work toward a peace process with the goal being that we do not want Afghanistan to be a safe haven for terrorism anymore.”</p>
<p>Kazakhstan’s U.N. Ambassador Kairat Umarov, the current council president who led the trip, said members were concerned “with the persistence of insecurity, especially with the intensification of terrorist activities in the north and east of Afghanistan and the regrouping of foreign terrorist fighters coming out of Syria and Iraq in Afghanistan.”</p>
<p>He said the council urged the intensification of peace and reconciliation efforts, “knowing that the military solution cannot be sufficient without the political process.”</p>
<p>Umarov said members also stressed the importance of sticking to the electoral calendar which calls for elections for parliament and district officials this year and president next year.</p>
<p>Haley called elections “the biggest importance for the U.S.”</p>
<p>“We along with the council reiterated the point that they need to be free and fair elections, but they also need to include every ethnic community so that it is inclusive and moves forward to being something that represents the people,” Haley said.</p>
<p>The council visit followed the Trump administration’s announcement this month that it was suspending military aid to Pakistan until it takes decisive action against militants.</p>
<p>In August, the U.S. infuriated Pakistan by accusing it of providing a haven for extremist groups that carry out attacks in neighboring Afghanistan. Pakistan repeatedly has said it is acting against Taliban insurgents and members of the Haqqani militant group.</p>
<p>Umarov said in response to a question on the impact of the U.S. action that “this was also a part of discussions” during the council trip.</p>
<p>But he stressed that the discussions “were more on the positive side,” stressing that the Afghan government said it is ready to negotiate and work with regional partners on a host of issues.</p>
<p>“So the message of the Afghan government was very reassuring from the point of view of continuing efforts to find the peaceful resolution to all the outstanding issues,” Umarov said.</p>
<p>Haley didn’t comment on the Pakistan aid cut, but said earlier that the Afghan government asked “for consensus on international pressure to get Pakistan to change its behavior.”</p>
<p>“They continue to make 10 steps forward, and with Pakistan they feel like they continue to take steps backward,” she said. “And they said that as long as they’re supporting terrorism in Pakistan the Afghan community is continuing to feel that it is not safe.”</p>
<p>UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday that the Trump administration’s policy in Afghanistan is working, saying talks between the government and Taliban extremists, and a peace process, are closer than ever before.</p>
<p>She called a weekend trip to Afghanistan by the U.N. Security Council “great” because “we could see dramatic changes in terms of what the U.S. policy has been doing.”</p>
<p>President Donald Trump’s plan for Afghanistan aims at ending America’s longest war and eliminating a rising extremist threat in the country.</p>
<p>It involves shifting away from a “time-based” approach to fighting the war to instead put emphasis on linking U.S. assistance to concrete results and cooperation from the Afghan government. It includes sending up to 3,900 more U.S. troops on top of the 8,400 Americans that former President Barack Obama left in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>“The U.S. policy on Afghanistan is working,” Haley said. “We are seeing that we are closer to talks with the Taliban and the peace process than we’ve seen before. ... And I think we really are going to work toward a peace process with the goal being that we do not want Afghanistan to be a safe haven for terrorism anymore.”</p>
<p>Kazakhstan’s U.N. Ambassador Kairat Umarov, the current council president who led the trip, said members were concerned “with the persistence of insecurity, especially with the intensification of terrorist activities in the north and east of Afghanistan and the regrouping of foreign terrorist fighters coming out of Syria and Iraq in Afghanistan.”</p>
<p>He said the council urged the intensification of peace and reconciliation efforts, “knowing that the military solution cannot be sufficient without the political process.”</p>
<p>Umarov said members also stressed the importance of sticking to the electoral calendar which calls for elections for parliament and district officials this year and president next year.</p>
<p>Haley called elections “the biggest importance for the U.S.”</p>
<p>“We along with the council reiterated the point that they need to be free and fair elections, but they also need to include every ethnic community so that it is inclusive and moves forward to being something that represents the people,” Haley said.</p>
<p>The council visit followed the Trump administration’s announcement this month that it was suspending military aid to Pakistan until it takes decisive action against militants.</p>
<p>In August, the U.S. infuriated Pakistan by accusing it of providing a haven for extremist groups that carry out attacks in neighboring Afghanistan. Pakistan repeatedly has said it is acting against Taliban insurgents and members of the Haqqani militant group.</p>
<p>Umarov said in response to a question on the impact of the U.S. action that “this was also a part of discussions” during the council trip.</p>
<p>But he stressed that the discussions “were more on the positive side,” stressing that the Afghan government said it is ready to negotiate and work with regional partners on a host of issues.</p>
<p>“So the message of the Afghan government was very reassuring from the point of view of continuing efforts to find the peaceful resolution to all the outstanding issues,” Umarov said.</p>
<p>Haley didn’t comment on the Pakistan aid cut, but said earlier that the Afghan government asked “for consensus on international pressure to get Pakistan to change its behavior.”</p>
<p>“They continue to make 10 steps forward, and with Pakistan they feel like they continue to take steps backward,” she said. “And they said that as long as they’re supporting terrorism in Pakistan the Afghan community is continuing to feel that it is not safe.”</p>
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united nations ap us ambassador nikki haley said wednesday trump administrations policy afghanistan working saying talks government taliban extremists peace process closer ever called weekend trip afghanistan un security council great could see dramatic changes terms us policy president donald trumps plan afghanistan aims ending americas longest war eliminating rising extremist threat country involves shifting away timebased approach fighting war instead put emphasis linking us assistance concrete results cooperation afghan government includes sending 3900 us troops top 8400 americans former president barack obama left afghanistan us policy afghanistan working haley said seeing closer talks taliban peace process weve seen think really going work toward peace process goal want afghanistan safe terrorism anymore kazakhstans un ambassador kairat umarov current council president led trip said members concerned persistence insecurity especially intensification terrorist activities north east afghanistan regrouping foreign terrorist fighters coming syria iraq afghanistan said council urged intensification peace reconciliation efforts knowing military solution sufficient without political process umarov said members also stressed importance sticking electoral calendar calls elections parliament district officials year president next year haley called elections biggest importance us along council reiterated point need free fair elections also need include every ethnic community inclusive moves forward something represents people haley said council visit followed trump administrations announcement month suspending military aid pakistan takes decisive action militants august us infuriated pakistan accusing providing extremist groups carry attacks neighboring afghanistan pakistan repeatedly said acting taliban insurgents members haqqani militant group umarov said response question impact us action also part discussions council trip stressed discussions positive side stressing afghan government said ready negotiate work regional partners host issues message afghan government reassuring point view continuing efforts find peaceful resolution outstanding issues umarov said haley didnt comment pakistan aid cut said earlier afghan government asked consensus international pressure get pakistan change behavior continue make 10 steps forward pakistan feel like continue take steps backward said said long theyre supporting terrorism pakistan afghan community continuing feel safe united nations ap us ambassador nikki haley said wednesday trump administrations policy afghanistan working saying talks government taliban extremists peace process closer ever called weekend trip afghanistan un security council great could see dramatic changes terms us policy president donald trumps plan afghanistan aims ending americas longest war eliminating rising extremist threat country involves shifting away timebased approach fighting war instead put emphasis linking us assistance concrete results cooperation afghan government includes sending 3900 us troops top 8400 americans former president barack obama left afghanistan us policy afghanistan working haley said seeing closer talks taliban peace process weve seen think really going work toward peace process goal want afghanistan safe terrorism anymore kazakhstans un ambassador kairat umarov current council president led trip said members concerned persistence insecurity especially intensification terrorist activities north east afghanistan regrouping foreign terrorist fighters coming syria iraq afghanistan said council urged intensification peace reconciliation efforts knowing military solution sufficient without political process umarov said members also stressed importance sticking electoral calendar calls elections parliament district officials year president next year haley called elections biggest importance us along council reiterated point need free fair elections also need include every ethnic community inclusive moves forward something represents people haley said council visit followed trump administrations announcement month suspending military aid pakistan takes decisive action militants august us infuriated pakistan accusing providing extremist groups carry attacks neighboring afghanistan pakistan repeatedly said acting taliban insurgents members haqqani militant group umarov said response question impact us action also part discussions council trip stressed discussions positive side stressing afghan government said ready negotiate work regional partners host issues message afghan government reassuring point view continuing efforts find peaceful resolution outstanding issues umarov said haley didnt comment pakistan aid cut said earlier afghan government asked consensus international pressure get pakistan change behavior continue make 10 steps forward pakistan feel like continue take steps backward said said long theyre supporting terrorism pakistan afghan community continuing feel safe
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