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1 Violent protests erupt in Milwaukee afterpolice kill armed suspectBy Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Protestersfired gunshots, hurled bricks and set a gas station on fire in the U.S. mid-western city of Milwa... 2016-08-14 08:02 3KBwww.dailymail.co.uk

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2 Milwaukee police in standoff with crowdafter fatal shootingA crowd gathered and at times grew violent Saturday night in aMilwaukee neighborhood where a police officer shot and killed aman after a traffic stop and foot chase earlier in the day2016-08-14 08:12 2KB www.news24.com

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3 Milwaukee officials call for calm after unrestover shootingMILWAUKEE (AP) -- Simmering anger over the fatal shooting of aman by police erupted in violence on Milwaukee's north side, withprotesters skirmishing wit 2016-08-14 12:00 5KB mynorthwest.com

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4 Rio 2016: Eventful Olympic return forMartina HingisMartina Hingis marked her return to the Olympic Games after a 20-year absence by reaching the women’s doubles final in dramaticstyle after an opponent was hit in the eye by the ball2016-08-14 12:00 1015Bytes www.mid-day.com

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5 CPP hits Duterte over Marcos burial plan atLibinganLUCENA CITY -- The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)assailed President Duterte’s “bull-headedness” for allowing theburial of deposed strongman Marcos at the Libingan ng mga2016-08-14 12:00 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net

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6 Rio 2016: Dipa Karmakar could make Indiangymnastics historyIndian gymnast Dipa Karmakar, who has already created history byqualifying for the final round of the individual vault final of artisticgymnastics, will be in line to script a bigger one when shecompetes for a medal at the Rio Olympics today 2016-08-14 10:412KB www.mid-day.com

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7 Imam and his assistant shot dead at NewYork mosqueAn imam and his assistant have been killed after a gunmanopened fire close to a New York mosque. Local residents claimed itwas a targetted shooting and reports said police were invest2016-08-14 08:43 2KB www.independent.ie

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8 Man shot, seriously wounded in MorganParkA man was shot and seriously wounded Saturday night in theMorgan Park neighborhood on the Far South Side.2016-08-14 12:00 870Bytes chicago.suntimes.com

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9 Riolistic medal chancesBoxer Vikas Krishan, tennis mixed doubles pair of Sania Mirza andRohan Bopanna and athlete Lalita Babar’s performances providesome reason to rejoice in an overall dismal week for India at theOlympics in Brazil 2016-08-14 10:22 4KB www.mid-day.com

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10 Rio 2016: Indian eves fail to enter quartersof hockeyIndia’s women’s hockey team was crushed by higher-rankedArgentina 0-5 to suffer fourth consecutive loss in Pool ‘B’ andfailed to advance to the quarter-finals on Saturday 2016-08-14 12:00927Bytes www.mid-day.com

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11 Rio 2016: Russian athletes pass 300 dopingtestsThe Russian national team has so far passed 300 doping testsduring the ongoing Rio Olympics, sports minister Vitaly Mutko hassaid 2016-08-14 12:00 788Bytes www.mid-day.com

12 House panel set to receive admin’s P3.35-Tnat’l budget proposalThe chairman of the appropriations committee in the House ofRepresentatives (HOR) said on Sunday that he is looking forwardto receive the first national budget proposal of the administrationof 2016-08-14 12:00 4KB newsinfo.inquirer.net

13 PH-bound flight diverted to India —passenger goes into laborA Cebu Pacific flight from Dubai to Manila made an unexpectedstop in Hyderabad, India on Sunday morning after a pregnantpassenger went on labor, according to the Manila InternationalAirport 2016-08-14 12:00 1KB newsinfo.inquirer.net

14 Drug suspect killed in Ormoc City buy-bustoperationORMOC CITY -- Another drug personality on the police watch listwas killed in a buy bust operation on Saturday afternoon here.Arvin Guino, 47, was killed after he tried to shoot an2016-08-14 12:00 1KB newsinfo.inquirer.net

15 18,000 dynamites abandoned in Chinese-run mine in MindanaoISULAN, Sultan Kudarat – About 18,000 sticks of dynamite wereseized by police and military authorities from an abandoned miningsite in the hinterlands of Bagumbayan town here on Saturday,police 2016-08-14 12:00 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net

16 20-year-old married woman kidnapped,gang-raped in VasaiA 20-year-old married woman was allegedly kidnapped and laterraped by four men in Waliv, Vasai. After being locked in a room fora week, the survivor escaped and lodged a complaint2016-08-14 12:00 2KB www.mid-day.com

17 Great Britain's cycling couple Trott andJason Kenny score at Rio OlympicsLove can brew anywhere, even on a cycling track. Within theBritish cycling team, a remarkable story unfolds of athletes JasonKenny and Laura Trott, who besides being in a relationship, arealso helping the country win more medals at the ongoing RioOlympics 2016-08-14 12:00 2KB www.mid-day.com

18 Indian boy detained in LahorePakistani authorities detained an Indian boy who reached Lahorewithout travel documents and handed him over to counter-terrorism officials for questioning, police sources said2016-08-14 12:00 1KB www.mid-day.com

19 Route cause: Ottesen & Co taken toathletics stadium instead of swimming poolOrganisers at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio had toscramble on Friday when a bus carrying swimmers to a night’ssession headed off to the wrong venue 2016-08-14 12:00 1KBwww.mid-day.com

20 #WalangPasok: List of class suspensionsfor Monday, August 15Some local governments in Luzon have decided to suspendclasses for Monday, August 15, as monsoon rains continue toaffect Metro Manila and some provinces in Luzon. The Philippine2016-08-14 12:00 1KB newsinfo.inquirer.net

21 Rio 2016: Rafael Nadal strikes doubles goldRafael Nadal won his second Olympic Games gold medal onFriday and took a step closer to a third by reaching the Rio singlessemi-final 2016-08-14 12:00 933Bytes www.mid-day.com

22 Rio 2016: Anthony Ervin is oldest swimchampAmerican veteran Anthony Ervin won surprise gold in the men’s50m freestyle with a timing of 21.40 seconds in Rio on Friday tobecome the oldest swimmer ever to win an Olympic title2016-08-14 12:00 780Bytes www.mid-day.com

23 Katie Ledecky becomes first Olympian toclaim 200m, 400m and 800m goldKatie Ledecky obliterated the field and her own world record inwinning the 800m freestyle at the Rio Olympics on Friday, unitingthe 200m, 400m and 800m titles for the first time since 19682016-08-14 12:00 2KB www.mid-day.com

24 Rio 2016: Usain Bolt cruises in 100m firstroundJamaican sprint star Usain Bolt safely negotiated the first round ofthe Olympic men's 100m yesterday in the first step on his quest foran unprecedented treble 2016-08-14 12:00 1KB www.mid-day.com

25 Tens of Thousands March in Peru AgainstGender ViolenceMore than 50,000 people marched in Peru's capital and eightother cities on Saturday to protest violence against woman andwhat they say is the indifference of the judicial system. Officialssaid the size of the protest against gender violence wasunprecedented in Peru and followed several... 2016-08-14 12:00 2KBabcnews.go.com

26 Rio 2016: Jwala Gutta-Ashwini Ponnappalose final group tieAlready out of medal contention, India’s women's doubles pair ofJwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa suffered their third successiveloss in their final Group A match against Thailand's SupajirakulPuttita and Taerattanachai Sapsiree on Saturday 2016-08-14 12:001KB www.mid-day.com

27 Latest: Woman: Husband in Critical AfterMissouri GunfireThe Latest on the shooting in Joplin, Missouri, that injured fivepeople (all times local): 6:30 p.m. A woman who was in a Joplin,Missouri, church van when it was fired on says the group didn'tknow what was... 2016-08-14 12:00 3KB abcnews.go.com

28 Fidel Castro Thanks Cuba, CriticizesObama, on 90th BirthdayFidel Castro thanked Cubans for their well-wishes on his 90thbirthday and criticized President Barack Obama in a lengthy letterpublished in state media. He appeared but did not speak at a galain his honor broadcast on state television. "I want to express mydeepest gratitude for the... 2016-08-14 12:00 4KB abcnews.go.com

29 Rio 2016: SSP Chawrasia, Anirban Lahiristruggle in Round TwoIndia's SSP Chawrasia and Anirban Lahiri scored even-par 71 andtwo-over 73 to finish tied 30th and joint 51st respectively after thesecond round of the golf tournament at the Olympic Games hereon Friday 2016-08-14 12:00 1KB www.mid-day.com

30 BMC orders inspection of small eateries inall parts of MumbaiSoon after the fire incident, municipal commissioner Ajoy Mehtaordered inspection of small eateries in all parts of the city throughward offices 2016-08-14 11:44 1KB www.mid-day.com

31 New real estate businesses leveragetechnology for successAt her home in Nashua, Stephanie Dolloff shows off the Matterport3D camera that she uses to create immersive experiences for realestate listings... 2016-08-14 11:08 692Bytes www.newhampshire.com

32 All eyes on jockey Trevor PatelJockey Trevor Patel, who had broken his wrist during a fall atBangalore in May, will resume riding today at the Pune racetrack.He will ride two horses--King's Canyon & Courtship--and hisphenomenal fan following will ensure that both of them...2016-08-14 11:28 1KB www.mid-day.com

33 Why “natural wine” tastes so unnaturalSame-sex marriage might be legal, but gaycouples are still considered too “rude”Spraying vines with sulphur ensures a consistent product – butsome critics object. 2016-08-14 11:07 8KB www.newstatesman.com

34 MLB Baseball Box ScoresNEW YORK -- These have not been the best of times for the NewYork Mets, whose defense of the 2015 National... 2016-08-14 11:084KB scoresandstats.newyork.cbslocal.com

35 “Midnight Sun”: a short story by ChigozieObioma Eighties nights: why Stranger Thingshas me hiding behind the sofaNew fiction from the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted novelThe Fishermen. 2016-08-14 11:07 29KB www.newstatesman.com

36 Scottish independence would still promptRBS HQ moveRoyal Bank of Scotland still plans to move its headquarters toEngland should there be a "Yes" vote in any future independencereferendum. 2016-08-14 11:08 2KB www.bbc.co.uk

37 Jeremy Corbyn accuses Tom Watson ofmaking 'nonsense' Trotsky claimsJeremy Corbyn has dismissed claims by his deputy Tom Watsonthat hard left activists are trying to infiltrate the Labour party aheadof the leadership vote. 2016-08-14 11:08 3KB www.bbc.co.uk

38 A Patron Saint for TelevisionMention the phrase “patron saints” and plenty of people, Catholicsand non-Catholics alike, will think it a quaint, outdated customthat... 2016-08-14 11:08 4KB spectator.org

39 Reefer Madness and the ElectionFor the first time since 1988, both major parties’ nominees —Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump — say thatthey have never... 2016-08-14 11:08 4KB spectator.org

40 Georgia Nicols horoscopes for Aug. 14,2016We have the “all clear” today to do business. The Moon is inCapricorn... 2016-08-14 11:18 4KB chicago.suntimes.com

41 Dear Abby: Stop checking facts on yourphoneBrother's girlfriend, an adult in her 40s, insists on interruptingconversations to confirm or dispute what was said. 2016-08-14 11:182KB chicago.suntimes.com

42 Small parties tell DA to join line of politicalsuitorsSmaller opposition parties have told the DA to hold its horses oncoalition talks as they await the ANC national executivecommittee's (NEC's) decision on alliances. 2016-08-14 11:17 4KBwww.timeslive.co.za

43 NBC's Olympics livestreaming surpassesone billion minutesLinear TV viewership may be down for NBC’s coverage of thisyear ’s Olympics, but on Wednesday the network announced thatits livestreaming coverage surpassed one billion minutes – anOlympics record. On Tuesday, with more than a week left,livestreaming numbers surpassed those of the entire 2012 LondonGames. 2016-08-14 11:17 1KB www.thedrum.com

44 Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIn one deadly week in August, heroin overdoses started a year ofstruggle, pain and redemption in Washington County.2016-08-14 11:07 32KB www.post-gazette.com

45 Anthony Weiner Sends FlirtatiousMessages To Republican Activist Posing AsWomanHere is one more reason for Hillary Clinton to short circuit. “CarlosDanger” just re-invented himself as a mongoose. The New YorkPost on Saturday published Anthony Weiner ’s racy direct Twit2016-08-14 11:08 3KB dailycaller.com

46 Soros Groups Get Hacked, Hundreds OfDocuments LeakedHundreds of internal documents from groups run by prominentbillionaire liberal donor George Soro were leaked online Saturdayafter hackers infiltrated the groups. The 2,576 files were releasedby 2016-08-14 11:08 1KB dailycaller.com

47 Fashion police down on Nciza for rowdyshowMafikizolo lead singer Nhlanhla Nciza raised eyebrows atMercedes-Benz Fashion Week Joburg this week as wardrobemalfunctions, dodgy finishes on garments and a cacophony ofdancing models, celebrities and singing left the audience gasping -and not always in a good way. 2016-08-14 11:15 2KBwww.timeslive.co.za

48 Japan boy band SMAP to break upOne of Asia's biggest pop groups, the Japanese boy band SMAP,is to break up after a 25-year career. 2016-08-14 11:07 1KBwww.bbc.co.uk

49 Little drought relief in metro AtlantaRain has improved drought conditions in parts of Georgia, but ithasn’t meant much relief for metro Atlanta. 2016-08-14 11:11907Bytes www.ajc.com

50 Filipina nanny helped raise Singaporegolden boyCoaches, teammates and rivals may have seen the evolution ofJoseph Schooling the swimmer. But very few would have witnessedthe boy-to-man story of Singapore's Olympic champion from2016-08-14 11:01 2KB globalnation.inquirer.net

51 Jewish activists lead global protest inPalestinian village of SussiyaThe “global Shabbat against demolitions” gathered around 300Jews from some five countries to stand in solidarity with thePalestinian villages of Sussiya, Umm el-Kheir, al-Araqib and Ummel-Hiram 2016-08-14 10:54 7KB www.jpost.com

52 Rio 2016: Dutee Chand flops, Anas andAnkit crash outSprinter Dutee Chand (below), who made it to her first Olympicsafter fighting the odds arising out of a ‘gender test’, finished adisappointing seventh in her 100m heats on the opening day ofathletics event 2016-08-14 10:35 1KB www.mid-day.com

53 2k civilians used by ISIS as 'human shields'freedSome 2,000 civilians used by the ISIS as human shields have beenreleased as the jihadists retreated in northern Syria2016-08-14 09:56 1004Bytes www.mid-day.com

54 Chinese foreign minister meets PM,Swaraj; talks NSGWang Yi, Sushma Swaraj discussed regional, bilateral issues2016-08-14 09:51 1KB www.mid-day.com

55 Police foils separatist attempts to marchPolice on Saturday thwarted attempts by separatist leaders MirwaizUmar Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who are under housearrest, to take out processions from their residences to Lal Chowk2016-08-14 09:31 1KB www.mid-day.com

56 30-year-old conned, kidnapped on date inMumbaiPolice suspect that an extortion racket is operating through datingwebsites 2016-08-14 09:29 1KB www.mid-day.com

57 Mumbai boy held for stalking exThe Byculla police has arrested a 20-year-old for stalking andthreatening to kill his ex-girlfriend if she didn't get back with him2016-08-14 09:28 1007Bytes www.mid-day.com

58 Mahad bridge tragedy: Wreckage ofsecond bus foundTwo days after rescue agencies fished out one of the two missingST buses, which fell into a river following a bridge collapse nearMahad in Raigad district, the wreckage of the second bus wasfound on Saturday 2016-08-14 09:26 2KB www.mid-day.com

59 Tweens wake up to stylish Saturday inMumbaiIn a display of the city's obsession with shopping, first fashionenthusiast to make it to H&M's launch had lined up 30 hoursbefore opening time 2016-08-14 09:24 3KB www.mid-day.com

60 10 boys break window, scale wall to escapefrom remand homeIn what could be a scene from The Shawshank Redemption, 10juvenile boys fled from the David Sassoon Industrial School inMahim on Friday night. They snuck out with the help of a makeshiftrope, constructed with the help of wires, cloth and bedspreads2016-08-14 09:18 2KB www.mid-day.com

61 6-year-old beats sister to death as momshops in West FloridaA six-year-old boy beat to death his 13-day-old sister after theirmother left them alone in her van for nearly 40 minutes in westFlorida 2016-08-14 09:17 1KB www.mid-day.com

62 Girlfriend-beating tech mogul gets a year injailIndian-origin entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal violates his 2014probation by assaulting another girlfriend 2016-08-14 09:14 2KBwww.mid-day.com

63 Political activist detained over ThailandblastsA political activist, Prapas Rojanapithak, has been detained inconnection with the string of coordinated blasts that rockedThailand, killing four people, with police indicating that the attackswere an act of 2016-08-14 09:14 1KB www.mid-day.com

64 Mumbai Diary: Sunday DossierThe city — sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce2016-08-14 09:13 4KB www.mid-day.com

65 President's daughter SharmisthaMukherjee faces online harassmentSharmistha Mukherjee calls out cyber stalker in her Facebookpost; will lodge complaint 2016-08-14 09:12 1KB www.mid-day.com

66 Mumbai: Realtor shoots self while showingoff gun to friendA 22-year-old real estate agent from Pratiksha Nagar died after heallegedly misfired a country-made revolver and shot himself whileshowing it off to a friend 2016-08-14 09:11 2KB www.mid-day.com

67 India trounce WI by 237 runs, ensure serieswin by 2-0 marginIndia today produced a splendid performance to clinically decimateWest Indies by 237 runs in the third cricket Test thereby taking anunassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series 2016-08-14 09:05 5KBwww.mid-day.com

68 EXCLUSIVE: Zuma friend's R550m bonanzaMystery surrounds payments in excess of R550 million to a knownANC benefactor and friend of President Jacob Zuma by a tender-rich IT security company. 2016-08-14 09:02 7KB www.news24.com

69 Rio Olympics: Lalita Babar qualifies for3,000 metre Steeplechase finalsLong distance runner Lalita Babar kept India's hopes alive byqualifying for the women's 3,000 metre Steeplechase finals2016-08-14 09:00 6KB www.mid-day.com

70 Cleveland Indians minor leaguer FranciscoMejia's hit streak at 50 after scoring changeCleveland minor leaguer Francisco Mejia's hit streak reached 50games when the official scorer changed a ruling on an error duringClass A Lynchburg's 7-5 loss Saturday night. 2016-08-14 09:00 2KBwww.espn.com

71 'God help us' - Robert De Niro comparesDonald Trump to Travis Bickle from 'Taxi Driver'As endorsements go, it was not particularly flattering.2016-08-14 08:53 4KB www.independent.ie

72 Mumbai: Toddler raped by 24-year-oldneighbour, in critical conditionAmrut Nagar in Ghatkopar went on the boil for almost three hourson Saturday after news spread about a two-and-a-half-year old girlbeing kidnapped and raped by her 24-year-old neighbour2016-08-14 08:52 3KB www.mid-day.com

73 Once homeless, Mumbai heroesrevolutionise shoe industryTwo young men - one who used to be a homeless child, the othera businessman's son - launch a company that wants to ensure noIndian walks barefoot 2016-08-14 08:51 6KB www.mid-day.com

74 Security stepped up around Bethlehem,Nablus holy sites for Tisha Be'avMany worshipers go to ancient holy sites to hold special prayerservices on Tisha Be'av, which commemorates the destruction ofJudaism's two ancient Jewish Temples. 2016-08-14 08:45 1KBwww.jpost.com

75 Dandiya queen Falguni Pathak to sing forRs 1.40 crore, or moreWhile the exact rate for which singer Falguni Pathak decided toperform in Borivali isn't yet known, organising team confirmed thatshe was offered Rs 1.30 crore against the Rs 1.40 crore2016-08-14 08:35 2KB www.mid-day.com

76 Man kills wife over suspected affair,drowns son in nullah in MumbaiThe accused was married thrice and lived with all his wives in thesame house, this Mumbai man blamed his second wife of raisingan illegitimate child 2016-08-14 08:30 2KB www.mid-day.com

77 Rescuers find two Indian fishermen, 10 stillmissingBangladeshi and Indian rescuers pulled two Indian fishermen aliveSunday from the Bay of Bengal one day after their trawlercapsized, but 10 others were stil... 2016-08-14 08:25 1KBwww.dailymail.co.uk

78 Mumbai hotel blaze: What killed thesekids?RTI responses acquired by mid-day reveal conflicting causes forCity Kinara blaze, presented by Fire Brigade, HPCL and PWD;confusion likely to lengthen parents' struggle for justice2016-08-14 08:21 6KB www.mid-day.com

79 Airstrike on Yemen school kills 10 children,wounds dozensYemeni officials and aid workers say an airstrike on a schoolpurportedly carried out by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthirebels in Yemen has killed at least 10 children. 2016-08-14 08:21 1KBwww.news24.com

80 Nigeria wrestles with 'suddenly poor' statusFirst it was falling oil prices that plagued Nigeria, then cameinflation, power shortages, and a humanitarian crisis in the north.2016-08-14 08:12 4KB www.news24.com

81 Brexit could be delayed until late 2019because officials won't be ready to start talks formonths yet, ministers warn senior City figuresPrime Minister Theresa May was expected to invoke article 50 - theformal trigger to start Brexit - in January but may have to postponethe move as her new departments might not be ready in time.2016-08-14 08:01 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

82 Dubai to open Hilton hotel with a rainforestThe Rosemont Hotel & Residences will be home to the MiddleEast's first rainforest - albeit man-made - when it opens in 2018 ina desert city that is famous for mind-boggling extravagance.2016-08-14 08:00 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

83 Broad fined for questioning umpire'sdecision on TwitterLONDON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - England fast bowler Stuart Broadhas been fined 20 percent of his match fee for publicly criticisingan umpiring decision during t... 2016-08-14 07:59 1KBwww.dailymail.co.uk

84 DeAndre Yedlin being targeted by Derbyand Hull as Tottenham right back looks to kick-start his careerTottenham right back DeAndre Yedlin is wanted by Derby Countyand Hull City. The USA international was on loan at Sunderlandlast season and Spurs would be open to selling the 23-year-old.2016-08-14 07:58 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

85 Nineteen killed in clashes in centralDRCongoNineteen people have been killed in clashes between police andmilitia in the centre of the Democratic Republic of Congo,authorities said. The dead included... 2016-08-14 07:54 1KBwww.dailymail.co.uk

86 SARAH OLIVER: These smothering,myopic mummies DON'T know bestIf we vest authority in teachers, then we must respect them.Pictured, Jane Edmands, head of Burton Pidsea Primary Schoolnear Hull, who was cleared of common assault against a smallchild. 2016-08-14 07:50 5KB www.dailymail.co.uk

87 David Gest 'died after suffering a stroke'..as police confirm his 'natural death won't beprobed'The popular entertainer - who passed away in April this year, aged62 - died of a stroke, according to US attorney Edward Bearman,who has been dealing with his estate. 2016-08-14 07:47 5KBwww.dailymail.co.uk

88 Yorkshire ripper Peter Sutcliffe furious asBroadmoor staff seize £5,000 Rolex sent to himby his brotherPeter Sutcliffe, 70, was given the Submariner model by siblingMick. Authorities at the institution in Berkshire were worried abouthim having such an expensive item that could upset other patients.2016-08-14 07:46 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

89 Grand slam in 8th sees Cardinals endCubs' 11-game streakCHICAGO (AP) — St. Louis' Randal Grichuk hit a grand slam tocap a six-run burst in the eighth inning that lifted the Cardinals toan 8-4 win at Chicago on S... 2016-08-14 07:45 5KBwww.dailymail.co.uk

90 Jared Goff of Los Angeles Rams suffersshoulder injury in first seriesRookie Jared Goff banged up his shoulder in his first series as aquarterback for the Rams. He completed just four of nine passesfor 38 yards in the opening half. 2016-08-14 07:40 2KB www.espn.com

91 Pokemon hunt leads to glory for Google-born NianticBorn in Google's shadow, Niantic strode into the spotlight with amobile internet spin on hunting Pokemon but can the obsessionwith the game lead to long-te... 2016-08-14 07:40 5KBwww.dailymail.co.uk

92 Five dead, tens of thousands fleePhilippine floodsFive people have been killed in the Philippines and tens ofthousands have fled from floods caused by days of unrelentingrain, rescuers said Sunday. Civil d... 2016-08-14 07:40 2KBwww.dailymail.co.uk

93 The glamorous side of the Rio Olympics -Aussie athletes unwind off the trackAustralia's Olympians may have been pushing themselves to thelimit on field, track and in the water in Rio, but they've also beenmaking the most of their down time while in Brazil. 2016-08-14 07:392KB www.dailymail.co.uk

94 West Brom close to securing £11.5msigning of Leicester's Jeff SchluppThe 23-year-old was left out of Leicester's side to face Hull City onSaturday and is expected to formalise his move to the Hawthornson Monday. Albion have made three offers for the player.2016-08-14 07:34 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

95 SpaceX lands Falcon 9 rocket after launchSpaceX successfully landed a reusable Falcon 9 rocket on afloating drone ship at sea early Sunday after the vehicle had senta Japanese communications satel... 2016-08-14 07:34 1KBwww.dailymail.co.uk

96 Chandimal century drives Sri Lanka to 299-7Dinesh Chandimal scored a defiant century to power Sri Lanka to299 for seven at lunch on the second day of the third and finalTest against Australia in Col... 2016-08-14 07:30 2KBwww.dailymail.co.uk

97 'I feel like I'm him': Ex On The Beach'sCharlotte Dawson left in tears as she filmedemotional documentary about late comedianfather LesSpeaking to The Sun , the 23-year-old beauty expressed she felther dad was with her before candidly stating 'I feel like I'm him'2016-08-14 07:29 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

98 Health warning over deadly paralysis toxinin Tasmanian shellfishAuthorities are warning people not to eat oysters, mussels,scallops or pipis from the state’s east coast following a toxic algalbloom 2016-08-14 07:26 2KB www.theguardian.com

99 Zoe Buttigieg's tragic last hours: How the11-year-old was 'sexually abused and murderedafter a marathon drinking binge' at her familyhomeBowe Maddigan had spent the night and much of the morningdrinking and smoking with the mother of Zoe Buttigieg in herWangaratta home before he raped and murdered the 11-year-oldgirl. 2016-08-14 07:26 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

100 Borrowed medal? No thanks, Hendersonwins own Olympic goldRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Jeff Henderson had an Olympic goldmedal in his grasp. Just not one he could call his own. With apressure-packed jump on his last try... 2016-08-14 07:24 3KBwww.dailymail.co.uk

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1 Violent protests erupt in Milwaukee after policekill armed suspect (6.60/7)

By Brendan O'BrienMILWAUKEE, Aug 14(Reuters) - Protesters firedgunshots, hurled bricks andset a gas station on fire inthe U. S. mid-western city ofMilwaukee on Saturdaynight, hours after a patrolofficer shot and killed anarmed suspect who tookflight after a traffic stop,authorities said. The 23-year-old suspect, who had a lengthy arrest record, was carrying a stolenhandgun loaded with 23 rounds of ammunition when police pulled over thevehicle for unspecified "suspicious activity," authorities said. A secondsuspect who fled from the vehicle was quickly taken into custody. Astatement by the Milwaukee Police Department did not say whether thesuspect who was killed had fired any shots or pointed the weapon atofficers during the incident. Authorities did not disclose the race or thename of the suspect or the uniformed officer. Later, a crowd of more than100 people in the predominately African-American section of the city wherethe shooting occurred hurled rocks as police officers in riot gear attemptedto disperse the protesters. Authorities said gunshots were fired during thedisturbance. The windows of at least two squad cars were smashed, andone officer sitting inside one of the vehicles was hit in the head with a brick.Protesters set a police car ablaze and fires broke out at gas station, anauto parts store and at least three other businesses, officials and localmedia reported. "Our city is in turmoil tonight," said Alderman AshantiHamilton, president of the Milwaukee Common Council. Mayor Tom Barrettappealed for calm. "This is a neighborhood that has been unfortunatelyaffected by violence in the recent past," Barrett said, referring to a smallerdisturbance a month earlier. "There are a lot of really, really good peoplewho live in this area... and can't stand this violence. " The unrest followspeaceful protests and some violence in U. S. cities over the past two yearsfollowing high-profile killings by law enforcement officers in Baltimore, NewYork and Ferguson, Missouri. Outrage over police violence toward minoritygroups has given rise to the Black Lives Matter movement and touched off

a national debate over the race issue and policing in the United States."This is a warning cry," Milwaukee Alderman Khalif Rainey said. "Blackpeople of Milwaukee are tired. They are tired of living under thisoppression. " As of 1 a.m. Central time (0600 GMT), police said threearrests had been made in connection with the unrest. Shortly after 2 a.m.police said they were restoring order to the area and reducing deployments,but local news footage also showed a liquor store in flames just minutesbefore the release of the statement. The officer involved in the shooting is24 years old and a six-year veteran of the force, police said. He was placedon administrative duty until an investigation and subsequent review by theMilwaukee County District Attorney's Office is complete, a standardpractice after shootings by law enforcement officers. (Additonal reporting byChris Michaud in New York; Writing by Frank McGurty; Editing by AndrewRoche and Richard Balmforth)

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2 Milwaukee police in standoff with crowd after

fatal shooting (5.72/7)

Milwaukee - A crowd of protesters skirmished with policeon Saturday night in a Milwaukee neighborhood where anofficer shot and killed a man after a traffic stop and footchase earlier in the day, setting fire to a police car andtorching a gas station. One officer was hurt by a thrownbrick.

Police said the 23-year-old man was armed with ahandgun, but Assistant Chief Bill Jessup told the Milwaukee JournalSentinel that it wasn't immediately clear whether the man had pointed a gunor fired at the officer. They described the man as a suspect, but didn't saywhat led to the traffic stop.

The races of the man and the officer weren't immediately released.

The Journal Sentinel reported that a crowd of more than 100 peoplegathered in a standoff with 20 to 30 officers, some of whom wore riot gear,several hours after the shooting. Officers got in their cars to leave at onepoint and some in the crowd started smashing a squad car's windows.Another police car was set on fire. The newspaper also reported that one ofits reporters was shoved to the ground and punched.

The Police Department tweeted that one officer was taken to a hospitalafter he was struck by a brick thrown through his squad car window. Police

also tweeted that a gas station had been set on fire. They said firefighterscouldn't extinguish the blaze because gunshots were being fired.

A Milwaukee police spokesman didn't immediately respond to messagesfrom The Associated Press seeking comment.

The shooting that sparked the tensions occurred about 15:30 after officersstopped a car with two people inside.

Police Capt. Mark Stanmeyer said in a news release that the two people inthe car got out and ran and that the officers chased them. He said a manwho was one of the people fleeing was armed with a handgun and was shotby an officer during the pursuit. He said the man died at the scene.

The man's name wasn't immediately released. Stanmeyer said he had anarrest record, and that the handgun he carried had been stolen in a Marchburglary in suburban Waukesha.

The 24-year-old officer who shot the man has been placed onadministrative duty. The officer's name wasn't immediately released. Hehas been with the Milwaukee department six years, three as an officer.

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3 Milwaukee officials call for calm after unrest

over shooting (5.41/7)

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Simmering anger over the fatal shooting of a man by

police erupted in violence on Milwaukee’s north side, withprotesters skirmishing with officers over several hours andsetting fire to at least four businesses in an outburst themayor says was fed by social media.

The uprising that broke out Saturday evening didn’tsubside until after midnight, after Mayor Tom Barrett and other city leadersappeared at a news conference to plead for calm. Police said three peoplewere arrested, and one officer was hurt by a brick thrown into a squad car.

The triggering event came Saturday afternoon, when a man fleeing policeafter a traffic stop was shot and killed. Police said the man was armed, butit wasn’t clear whether he was pointing the gun or aiming it at officers.Barrett said the man was hit twice, in the chest and arm. Neither his racenor the officer’s was immediately released, nor were they identified.

The shooting was being investigated by the state. The officer was wearing abody camera, Barrett said.

The mayor said the uprising was driven by social media messagesinstructing people to congregate in the area.

“We have to have calm,” Barrett said at the news conference. “There are alot of really good people who live in this neighborhood.”

Milwaukee Common Council President Ashanti Hamilton echoed Barrett’splea for help restoring order.

“We understand the frustration people feel with the police communitynationally. … We have to go through the process of finding justice, but wehave to be able to restore order to these neighborhoods,” Hamilton said.“Please participate in restoring order to these neighborhoods.”

Alderman Khalif Rainey, who represents the district where the violenceoccurred, said the city’s black residents are “tired of living under thisoppression.” He said he didn’t justify the violence “but nobody can deny thatthere are racial problems here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that have to berectified.”

Barrett said the 23-year-old man who died was stopped by police for“suspicious activity.” Police said earlier that he was carrying a gun that hadbeen stolen in a March burglary in suburban Waukesha.

“This stop took place because two officers … saw suspicious activity,” themayor said. “There were 23 rounds in that gun that that officer was staringat. I want to make sure we don’t lose any police officers in this community,either.”

As many as 100 protesters massed at 44th Street and Auer Avenue

between 8 and 9 p.m., surging against a line of 20 to 30 officers. TheMilwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that officers got in their cars to leave atone point and some in the crowd started smashing a squad car’s windows.Another police car was set on fire. The newspaper reported that one of itsreporters was shoved to the ground and punched.

Around 11 p.m., police with shields and helmets moved slowly into theintersection, telling a crowd of about 50 people to disperse. Some threwrocks and other debris at police, who held up their shields. People in thecrowd also threw objects at a business a half-block from the intersection. Anearby traffic light was bent over and bus shelters overturned.

The businesses that burned included a BMO Harris bank branch, a BP gasstation, an O’Reilly Auto Parts store and a beauty supply store. Firefightersheld back from the gas station blaze because of gunshots.

Police said the man who was shot had an arrest record. The 24-year-oldofficer who shot the man has been placed on administrative duty. Theofficer has been with the Milwaukee department six years, three as anofficer.

The shooting occurred just a few blocks from two fatal shootings Friday andSaturday, part of a violent stretch in the city in which five people died inshootings during a nine-hour stretch. Assistant Chief Bill Jessup alluded tothe violence in discussing the fatal shooting.

“As everyone knows, this was a very, very violent 24 hours in the city ofMilwaukee,” Jessup told the Journal Sentinel. “Our officers are out heretaking risks on behalf of the community and making split-second decisions.”Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material maynot be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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4 Rio 2016: Eventful Olympic return for Martina

Hingis (2.15/7)

RIO DE JANEIRO: Martina Hingis marked her return to the Olympic Games

after a 20-year absence by reaching the women’s doublesfinal in dramatic style after an opponent was hit in the eyeby the ball.

Hingis and her Swiss compatriot Timea Bacsinszky sawoff Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka of the Czech

Republic 5-7, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 in Friday’s semi-final.

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5 CPP hits Duterte over Marcos burial plan at

Libingan (2.13/7)

LUCENA CITY — TheCommunist Party of thePhilippines (CPP) assailedPresident Duterte’s “bull-headedness” for allowing theburial of deposed strongmanMarcos at the Libingan ngmga Bayani.

“[Duterte] is determined tosquander the historicallessons treasured by theFilipino people. They arebeing politically disarmedfrom preventing the rise to power of future dictators. Many fear this will beself-serving as Mr. Duterte bandies [about] threats to declare martial law ifhe doesn’t get his way in the frenzied ‘war against drugs,’” the CPP said ina statement issued on Saturday.

The burial of the dictator has brought the CPP and the Duterteadministration on a collision course. Duterte had been perceived as friendlyto the CPP after he cited his friendship with its founder, Jose Maria Sison,his college professor.

READ: Duterte to issue safe conduct pass to Joma Sison for peace talks

The President had also reached out to CPP leaders to iron out theresumption of peace negotiations and appointed left-wing leaders to holdpositions in his Cabinet.

READ: Duterte offers key gov’t positions to CPP

Duterte, a friend of the Marcos family, has said he will allow the burial of thedictator in the heroes’ cemetery.

The country’s Chief Executive argued that Marcos deserved to be buried atthe Libingan ng mga Bayani because he was a soldier and a President,

regardless of any misdeeds.

READ: Palace: Duterte firm on Marcos burial at Libingan ng mga Bayani

The CPP condemned the plan of the Duterte administration to give Marcosa hero’s burial.

“By claiming Marcos deserves to be buried with other former soldiers, Duterte is helping perpetuate the historical lies surrounding Marcos’ bogusmedals and phony Maharlika guerrilla unit,” it said.

The CPP said by ordering that Marcos be accorded military honors befittinga former head of state, Duterte is “virtually deleting Marcos’ bloody recordas a military despot and the fascist violence, human rights violation,corruption and economic hardships he made the Filipino people sufferthrough 14 years of dictatorship.”

Giving Marcos a hero’s burial “will complete the Marcoses’ politicalrestoration and will complete the whitewash of all the crimes theyperpetrated against the people,” it said.

READ: Hundreds denounce plan to bury Marcos at Libingan ng Bayani

The CPP said Duterte, by “flaunting” his alliance with the Marcos family, ishelping the “Marcosian scheme to revise history and make the youngergenerations overlook the colossal plunder and sale of the country’spatrimony, his debt-borrowing debt spree, his legacy of gross cronyism, hisfamily’s ostentatious lifestyle built upon the poverty of the people, and hismartial law’s massacre of freedom and democracy.”

The CPP also said the President’s decision to allow Marcos’ burial at theLibingan ng mga Bayani “displays extreme insensitivity to the sensibilitiesof thousands of victims, families and survivors of martial law.”

“He insults the memory of thousands of patriotic Filipinos from all walks oflife who gave up their lives at the prime of their youth to fight for thedictatorship’s overthrow,” the CPP added. JE/rga

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6 Rio 2016: Dipa Karmakar could make Indian

gymnastics history (2.11/7)

Rio De Janeiro: Indiangymnast Dipa Karmakar,who has already createdhistory by qualifying for thefinal round of the individualvault final of artisticgymnastics, will be in line toscript a bigger one when shecompetes for a medal at theRio Olympics today.

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The 23-year-old qualified for the final round in the individual vault final ofartistic gymnastics after finishing eighth in the standings. The Tripuragymnast executed the 'Produnova' in her first attempt on the vault to 15.100with 8.1 for execution and 7.00 for difficulty.

Back home, Tripura is waiting with bated breath for its daughter to appearin the gymnastics vault final. Dipa's family, specially her father DulalKarmakar, mother Gauri Devi and elder sister Puja are performing specialprayers for her victory. “We have no tension, but we are fanatically waiting towatch Dipa's performance on television. Not only are we, our relatives andneighbours are equally enthusiastic and tensed for Dipa,” Dulal Karmakar,a weightlifting coach with the Sports Authority of India said.

Some local clubs and social activists are organising 'yagnas' for Dipa'ssuccess. “We are organising a big yagna here to pray to the almighty sothat Dipa wins a medal for the country.

“If she wins a medal, the entire country would be grateful to her forever,” saidsocial activist Sushanta Chowdhury. In the event today, she will face toughchallenge from the first seven top medal contenders. Brazil's RebecaAndrade and the Russian duo of Seda Tutkhalian and Aliya Mustafina, willgive a tough fight to the Indian

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7 Imam and his assistant shot dead at New York

mosque (1.04/7)

An imam and his assistant have been killed after a gunman opened fireclose to a New York mosque. Local residents claimed it was a targettedshooting and reports said police were investigating it as a possible hatecrime.

The New York Daily Newssaid that gunshots rang outat around 2pm on Saturdaynear the Al-Furqan JameMasjid Mosque in OzonePark, Queens, leaving bothvictims lying on the ground intheir own blood just a blockfrom the mosque. Theidentities of the two victimswere not immediately madepublic. The imam, Maulana Akonjee, 55, and Thara Uddin, 64, were fatallyinjured, police said.

“People being shot in the head in broad daylight is unheard of,” said MillatUddin, a 25-year resident of the neighborhood.

“Killing people brutally, like they’re an animal. We need justice... It seemslike somebody has taken the law into their own hand.”

Tiffany Phillips, a spokeswoman for the New York Police Department,confirmed that two men in their 50’s were shot on a street in the Ozone Parksection of Queens.

One of them was killed and the second was gravely wounded, but MsPhillips declined to provide any more information about their identities.Police have yet to identify a suspect and the motive was still unknown, shetold Reuters. Later, it was reported that the second man had also sucumbedto his injuries.

Donna Jag, 49, heard the shots and thought they were a car backfiring untilshe left her house to find a huge crowd of distraught people on the street.

“It was chaos,” she told the News. “I was nervous. The neighborhood isquiet, but now, it’s kind of scary, right at my doorstep in broad daylight.”

The neighborhood is a mix of residences and businesses, but people ofdifferent faiths have long gotten along peacefully, she said.

“We have Hindus and Muslims here, and we have no problems. This isreally, really shocking,” she said.

Police said they were investigating whether the incident, initially reported asa robbery, was a hate crime. On Saturday evening, the gunman was still atlarge.

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8 Man shot, seriously wounded in Morgan Park

(1.00/7)

A man was shot andseriously wounded Saturdaynight in the Morgan Parkneighborhood on the FarSouth Side.

The 29-year-old was outsideabout 10:30 p.m. in the11300 block of SouthCarpenter when someonewalked up and opened fire,according to ChicagoPolice.

He suffered two gunshot wounds to the shoulder and one under the leftarmpit, police said. The man was taken in serious condition to ChristMedical Center in Oak Lawn.

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9 Riolistic medal chances (1.00/7)

Rio de Janeiro: VikasKrishan gave the saggingIndian hearts a huge fillip ashe won an unanimous pointsdecision against TurkishOnder Sipal and moved intothe quarter-finals.

India’s Vikas Krishan (left)punches Turkey’s Onur Sipalduring the 75kgmiddleweight bout on Friday.Pic/AFP

He is just one bout away from becoming only the third Indian boxer — afterVijender Singh (in 2008) and MC Mary Kom (in 2012) to win an Olympicmedal.

But standing between the 24-year-old Vikas and a medal is one of the mosttalked about youngsters in world boxing, Uzbek Bektemir Melikuziev, who at20, is already a World Championship silver medallist last year in Doha.

A little after the Indian won his fight, Melikuziev also moved into quarterswith a one-sided with over Daniel Lewis of Australia.

Vikas began the bout on an aggressive note and his clean punching againstSipal gave him the ideal start. Using his longer reach and fairly strongdefence, he did take chances for the first two rounds. But as the fight

neared the end, he showed enough acumen and footwork to avoid straypunches as well.

The first round was a 2:1 split but in the favour of the Indian. The second andthird round were more dominated by Vikas and he was awarded thesecond round by unanimous decision. In the third, one of the judgesawarded the round to Sipal but Vikas had done enough to get the decisionin is favour. Apart from Vikas, Manoj Kumar is the other boxer still in thecontest in the men’s 66kg.

Coach Gurbaksh Singh said, "Vikas had a clear edge and he foughtsmartly. It was a good win but the next fight could be tougher. "

Lalita through to final

Rio de Janeiro: Lalita Babar on Saturday qualified for the women’s 3000msteeplechase final after finishing fourth in the qualifying heat 2 with anational record time while compatriot Sudha Singh was eliminated in theOlympic Games here.

India’s Lalita Babar (left) competes in the 3000m steeplechase heat on Saturday. Pic/AP,PTI

Lalita, who had won the bronze medal in the event in the Asian Games inIncheon, South Korea, two years ago, in fact finished with the seventh-besttime in the heats in a new national record of nine minutes, 19.76 seconds.

Lalita clipped nearly seven seconds off the national mark standing in thename of Sudha Singh (9:26.55), clocked in Shanghai in May. The top threein the heats gain automatic qualification while Lalita made the grade as oneof the six fastest from among the rest.

Sania-Rohan make merry on Friday

Rio de Janeiro: Just a single win away from ensuring an Olympic medal,the Indian mixed doubles combination of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopannaare determined to maintain their superb form and ensure a podium finish atthe ongoing Rio Games here.

India’s Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna are ecstatic at Rio on Friday.Pic/PTI

The in-form fourth seeded duo entered the semi-finals by defeating AndyMurray and Heather Watson of Britain 6-4, 6-4 in one hour and sevenminutes at Court 2 of the Olympic Tennis Centre here on Friday.

Sania and Bopanna are expected to face a tough challenge in their nextmatch as they will take on the US team of Venus Williams and Rajeev Ramfor a place in the final.

"We still think we can improve as every round becomes tougher from hereon. We played two amazing champions today and we look forward toplaying champions, whoever it is, tomorrow (Saturday)," Sania said aftertheir match.

"Everyday is a new day. Yes we are confident after beating Andy but in theend we have to forget the emotion what happened and give our best againby staying fresh," she added.

Both Bopanna and Sania opined that their on court co-ordination was alsoa huge advantage.

"Communication is the key in mixed doubles and it was better for me to callearly so that there is no miscommunication with the partner. And that’s theway we played," he said.

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10 Rio 2016: Indian eves fail to enter quarters of

hockey (0.02/7)

Rio de Janeiro: India’s women’s hockey team wascrushed by higher-ranked Argentina 0-5 to suffer fourthconsecutive loss in Pool ‘B’ and failed to advance to thequarter-finals on Saturday.

With this loss, India remained in the sixth spot, while theUnited States, Britain, Australia and Argentina made it to the quarter-finals.

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11 Rio 2016: Russian athletes pass 300 doping

tests (0.01/7)

Rio de Janeiro: The Russian national team has so farpassed 300 doping tests during the ongoing RioOlympics, sports minister Vitaly Mutko has said.

On July 24, IOC decided against imposing a blanket banon all athletes despite allegations of mass doping.

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12 House panel set to receive admin’s P3.35-T

nat’l budget proposalThe chairman of theappropriations committee inthe House ofRepresentatives (HOR)said on Sunday that he islooking forward to receivethe first national budgetproposal of theadministration of PresidentRodrigo Duterte whichamounts to P3.35 trillionpesos.

Davao City 1st district Rep.Karlo Alexei Nograles said

that the General Appropriations Act of 2017 will be submitted to the HORat noon on Monday.

Nograles said that the P3.35 trillion budget, which is 11.6 percenthigher than last year’s P3.002 trillion budget, will help the administrationrealize its dream of eradicating poverty, illegal drugs, and criminality.

READ: DBM to recommend P3.35-T nat’l budget for 2017

“It is a budget for change. It will jumpstart the realization of the President’sdream for our country and for our people. It will fuel the President’s quest todefeat the drug menace and the systemic corruption in our country. It willfinance our government’s war against poverty, crime and corruption,” saidNograles.

The appropriations committee chair vowed for the swift passage of thebudget in the lower house, even if it meant holding marathon hearings.

“We are pressed for time. Kami naman mga Kongresista kung kailangangpagpuyatan, nagpupuyat naman kami. Wala namang problema saovertime, wala naman pong problema kung kailangang pagpuyatan ‘yan;ready naman kami (We in Congress will stay up late if needed. We don’thave a problem with overtime, and we don’t have a problem with staying uplate; we are ready). We’ve always shown to the Filipino people that when

the times call for it, when we need to step up, when we need to workovertime, we do it. Ginagawa naman po namin,” he said.

Should all things run smoothly, Nograles said that they would submit thebudget for preliminary debate by Sept. 19 and pass it on third readingon Sept. 30.

“If all goes well, the House will complete its part on the budget processbefore October. We will then pass it on to the Senate. If there are anydeviations from our version then we go into bicam. After that, we will pass iton to the President who will then sign it into law by December. This will bethe first appropriations measure under the Duterte administration so wereally have to act swiftly and judiciously,” the Davao City representativesaid.

Meanwhile, Senator Ralph Recto urged the Duterte administration toitemize the projects that it aims to fund should Congress grant emergencypowers to the President to solve the Metro Manila’s transportation woes.

“Listing them in the budget is the best response to the Senate challengethat the projects must be ‘FOI-compliant’ and ‘fiscally-responsible,’” Rectosaid in a separate statement on Sunday.

“Itemization also answers the need for the Palace to provide the details ofthe projects that it plans to carry out in a speedy manner that the emergencypowers sought would allow,” Recto added.

The budget and management department has earlier said that the Duterteadministration would prioritize the improvement of the country’sinfrastructure, agricultural modernization and providing social services toFilipinos.

The 2017 budget will represent 20.4 percent of the country’s GrossDomestic Product.

Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno was earlier quoted as saying that thegovernment would earmark P900 billion for infrastructure, P118 billionallotted for the construction of school buildings, and P50 billion for thegovernment’s subsidy for health insurance premium payments for indigentfamilies. JE

2016-08-14 12:00 Aries Joseph newsinfo.inquirer.net

13 PH-bound flight diverted to India — passenger

goes into laborA Cebu Pacific flight from Dubai to Manila made an unexpected stop in

Hyderabad, India onSunday morning after apregnant passenger went onlabor, according to theManila International AirportAuthority.

The MIAA said the divertedflight was supposed to arriveat the Ninoy AquinoInternational Airport at 11:55a.m. “No information yet forthe new estimated time of arrival and details on the passenger,” it added.

In a statement, Cebu Pacific said flight 5J015 was diverted to the RajivGandhi International Airport at 10:33 a.m. Manila time (6:33 a.m. Dubaitime) due to the medical emergency.

“CEB is coordinating with relevant authorities in Hyberabad to ensure thatimmediate medical assistance will be provided for the passenger,” statedthe airline.

“We regret any inconvenience this situation may have caused. We sincerelyhope for our passengers’ understanding as the safety of everyone on boardremains our highest priority,” it said, adding that it will release more updatessoon. JE/rga

2016-08-14 12:00 MJ Uy newsinfo.inquirer.net

14 Drug suspect killed in Ormoc City buy-bust

operationORMOC CITY — Anotherdrug personality on thepolice watch list was killed ina buy bust operation onSaturday afternoon here.

Arvin Guino, 47, was killedafter he tried to shoot anundercover policeman whenhe was noticed that it was anentrapment operation atPurok 8, Barangay Linao,here.

Senior Insp. Joseph Young, police station 3 chief, said Guino ranked third

on their list of drug suspects.

Seized from Guino were P2,000 in marked money, five small sachets ofshabu and a .38 caliber revolver.

Guino was the second drug personality on the watch list killed in a shootoutwith the police this week.

The first was Mario Dumaguit, who topped the drug watch list of the OrmocCity Police Office. He was killed in a shootout last Thursday. JE/rga

2016-08-14 12:00 Robert Dejon newsinfo.inquirer.net

15 18,000 dynamites abandoned in Chinese-run

mine in MindanaoISULAN, Sultan Kudarat –About 18,000 sticks ofdynamite were seized bypolice and militaryauthorities from anabandoned mining site in thehinterlands of Bagumbayantown here on Saturday,police said.

Senior Supt. Raul Supiter,Sultan Kudarat police director, said residents discovered the explosives inan abandoned mining site of Ippo China Mining Company in BarangaySaripinang.

Residents alerted the police of their discovery but authorities are appealingto farmers who reportedly took custody of some of the dynamite.

“I appeal to the farmers to surrender the dynamites in their possession, thisis dangerous,” Supiter told the Inquirer.

“Mere possession of these dynamites is a crime offense and no bail bondrecommended for violators,” he added.

Supiter said about 60 boxes, each containing 300 pieces of explosives,were recovered. Police and bomb experts also found chemicals used formaking explosives in a laboratory.

He said the 57th Infantry Battalion and personnel from the Department ofEnvironment and Natural Resources (DENR) accompanied the police in theretrieval operation.

The Inquirer learned from residents that Korean or Chinese nationals havebeen mining in the upland Sitio Kaloloy for copper and gold.

“We have been hearing blasts up there, there were mining activities in SitioKaloloy, but it seems they have stopped operation the past week,” AndyRoquero, a resident of Barangay Saripinang, told the Inquirer.

He said state of the art mining equipment, dump trucks and excavationequipment were brought there in the past.

Roquero said residents there feared landslides and floods because themining site was located in the upland village.

Mining operations in Sitio Kaloloy started in 2012. /rga

2016-08-14 12:00 Edwin O newsinfo.inquirer.net

16 20-year-old married woman kidnapped, gang-

raped in VasaiA 20-year-old marriedwoman was allegedlykidnapped and later rapedby four men in Waliv, Vasai.After being locked in a roomfor a week, the survivorescaped on Friday andlodged a complaint at thelocal police station. While thepolice have arrested three ofthe accused, one isabsconding.

According to sources, on the afternoon of August 5, the four accused, agedbetween 25 and 30, stormed into the woman's house and gagged her witha handkerchief, after which she fell unconscious. They then took her to alonely spot about half a kilometre from her house and locked her in a room,where she was raped for a week. It was on the eighth day, when thekidnappers were away that she managed to flee and report the matter to thepolice.

The accused reside in the same area as the woman, and work as dailywage workers. During questioning, it emerged that the survivor and two ofthe accused, who were neighbours, used to have frequent quarrels. Thepolice had even registered an NC after the husband and wife filed acomplaint about them recently.

The survivor's husband is also under the scanner of the Waliv police,because after his wife went missing, he did not register a complaint with thepolice. "We have registered a case under section 376(g), 363, 343 and328 for gang-rape and kidnapping. Three of the accused have beenarrested, and we are trying to trace the fourth. Investigations are on," saidpolice sub-inspector, Ranjeet Shirsath.

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17 Great Britain's cycling couple Trott and Jason

Kenny score at Rio OlympicsRio De Janeiro: Love canbrew anywhere, even on acycling track. Within theBritish cycling team, aremarkable story unfolds ofathletes Jason Kenny andLaura Trott, who besidesbeing in a relationship, arealso helping the country winmore medals at the ongoingRio Olympics.

Laura Trott. Pics/GettyImages

What makes Kenny and Trott such extraordinary athletes, is that Rio isunlikely to be the end of their Olympic journey. The couple plan on gettingmarried soon, reports Daily Mail.

Kenny has been in fine form, winning his fourth Olympic gold in the teamsprint event. He is also a favourite to add yet another medal in the individualsprint. By the end of the Games, Kenny could be alongside Sir Chris Hoywith the same tally of six golds and a silver. Greatness is destined forKenny’s fiancée Trott too. She is already on course for gold medal numberthree, with a fourth expected soon. She is regarded as one of the finesttrack riders the world of cycling has ever seen.

Jason Kenny

But Trott, who is just 24, is so good on her bike that it will be a task not tosee her dominate in her track events to come. During the Londonchampionships in March, Trott was so impressive that after her victory thereshe took her total number of titles to seven in a career that now boasts 23major titles in all.

However, in this Olympics she is limited to just two events, putting her at aslight disadvantage compared to her fiancé.

Incidentally, Trott was born a month prematurely with a collapsed lung andwas later diagnosed with asthma. She was recommended by doctors totake up sport in order to regulate her breathing.

Trott first began cycling when her mother Glenda decided to take up thesport to lose weight. Trott and her sister Emma joined their mother whichwas when she first became serious about the sport.

2016-08-14 12:00 By A www.mid-day.com

18 Indian boy detained in Lahore

Islamabad: Pakistani authorities detained an Indian boywho reached Lahore without travel documents andhanded him over to counter-terrorism officials forquestioning, police sources said.

The boy, who gave his name as Mohammed Aslam,reached Lahore from India by Samjhauta Express and was arrested at theLahore railway station, the source told IANS.

Only Indian currency was recovered from Aslam's possession. An officialsaid it was being probed how the boy, whose age was not given, reachedthe Punjab capital despite high security at various posts.

2016-08-14 12:00 By IANS www.mid-day.com

19 Route cause: Ottesen & Co taken to athletics

stadium instead of swimming poolRio de Janeiro: Organisersat the Olympic AquaticsStadium in Rio had toscramble on Friday when abus carrying swimmers to anight’s session headed off tothe wrong venue.

Danish swimmer JeanetteOttesen. Pic/Getty Images

The night’s finals were in fullswing when it was

announced that the women’s 50m freestyle semi-finals would be delayeduntil after the last two medal ceremonies of the night.

British swimmer Fran Halsall told the BBC that she, Jeanette Ottesen andAliaksandra Herasimenia boarded their bus two hours before they weredue to race, but were taken in the opposite direction to the OlympicStadium.

A press operations spokesman later said that because of amiscommunication, a bus carrying some of the swimmers due to competehad headed off to the athletics venue, and had to change course when themistake was realised.

Halsall said her “emotions and adrenaline were all over the place,” but shestill won the first semi-final in 24.41sec, fourth-fastest overall behind the24.28 of Denmark’s Pernille Blume going into Saturday’s final. Ottesenfinished sixth with 24.62 sec.

2016-08-14 12:00 By AFP www.mid-day.com

20 #WalangPasok: List of class suspensions for

Monday, August 15Some local governments inLuzon have decided tosuspend classes forMonday, August 15, asmonsoon rains continue toaffect Metro Manila andsome provinces in Luzon.

The Philippine Atmospheric,Geophysical andAstronomical ServicesAdministration (Pagasa)said that as of 11 a.m.,

moderate to occasional heavy rains will be experienced over Benguet,Bataan, Pampanga, Bulacan, Tarlac, Zambales, Metro Manila and IlocosRegion.

Classes in the following areas have been suspended:

San Mateo, Rizal—All levels (public and private)

Rodriguez, Rizal—All levels (public and private)

Keep visiting this page for updates. AJH/JE/rga

2016-08-14 12:00 newsinfo.inquirer.net

21 Rio 2016: Rafael Nadal strikes doubles gold

Rio de Janeiro: RafaelNadal won his secondOlympic Games gold medalon Friday and took a stepcloser to a third by reachingthe Rio singles semi-final.

Marc Lopez and RafaelNadal after winning thedoubles gold on Friday.Pic/Getty Images

Nadal and longtime friendMarc Lopez defeated Romania’s Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau 6-2, 3-6,4-6 in the men’s doubles title match.

2016-08-14 12:00 By AFP www.mid-day.com

22 Rio 2016: Anthony Ervin is oldest swim champ

Rio de Janeiro: Americanveteran Anthony Ervin wonsurprise gold in the men’s50m freestyle with a timing of21.40 seconds in Rio onFriday to become the oldestswimmer ever to win anOlympic title.

Anthony Ervine

2016-08-14 12:00 By AFP www.mid-day.com

23 Katie Ledecky becomes first Olympian to

claim 200m, 400m and 800m goldRio de Janeiro: Katie Ledecky obliterated the field and her own worldrecord in winning the 800m freestyle at the Rio Olympics on Friday, unitingthe 200m, 400m and 800m titles for the first time since 1968.

Katie Ledecky of UnitedStates celebrates her 800mfreestyle win at the OlympicAquatics Stadium in Rio onFriday. Pic/Getty Images

The 19-year-old American,who also won the 4x200mrelay for four golds overall,touched in 8min 04.79sec,beating the previous recordof 8:06.68 she set in Austin,Texas, on January 17.

It was her 13th world record since her shock 800m freestyle win in Londonfour years ago, and the culmination of the plan she and coach BruceGemmell had worked for ever since that breakout performance.

And as she contemplated her achievement in Rio, the preternaturally poisedteen couldn't hold back her emotions.

“Just kind of the end of a four-year journey,” she said as the tears flowed. “Idon’t know why I’m crying. There were nights I would go to bed and thinkabout this day (and) how much fun I’ve had these past four years, and I’dstart crying in bed. I just wanted to make this meet count.”

Ledecky touched almost half a length in front of her closest rivals — morethan 11 seconds in front of silver medallist Jazz Carlin of Britain's 8:16.17with Boglarka Kapas of Hungary taking bronze in 8:16.37.

“I just wanted to lay it all out there,” Ledecky said. “It was my last swim hereat the Olympics, the pinnacle of our sport, and I have to wait another fouryears to have that moment.”

2016-08-14 12:00 By AFP www.mid-day.com

24 Rio 2016: Usain Bolt cruises in 100m first

roundRIO DE JANEIRO: Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt safely negotiated thefirst round of the Olympic men’s 100m yesterday in the first step on hisquest for an unprecedented treble.

Usain Bolt of Jamaica gestures to the crowd after winning the men’s 100mRound 1 in Rio on Saturday. Pic/Getty Images

Bolt, seeking a third consecutive Olympic title in the blue riband event

clocked 10.07 seconds atthe Olympic stadium.

The 30-year-old world recordholder, greeted with acclaimby the large vociferouscrowd, will also bid to defendhis 200m and 4x100m relaygolds for the third time laterin the week.

Justin Gatlin too romped intothe semi-finals of the 100m

as he warmed up for the latest chapter of his rivalry with Usain Bolt.

The 34-year-old 2004 Olympic champion, the fastest man in the world thisyear, clocked a comfortable 10.01sec to easily win his heat.

Gatlin is aiming to scoe his first victory over Bolt in a major championshiphaving lost to the Jamaican star in the 2012 Olympics and the final of lastyear's World Championships in Beijing. The semi-finals of the 100m takeplace today with the final scheduled for 10.25 local time (0125 GMTtomorrow).

2016-08-14 12:00 By AFP www.mid-day.com

25 Tens of Thousands March in Peru Against

Gender ViolenceMore than 50,000 peoplemarched in Peru's capitaland eight other cities onSaturday to protest violenceagainst woman and whatthey say is the indifference ofthe judicial system.

Officials said the size of theprotest against genderviolence was unprecedentedin Peru and followed several recent high-profile cases in which maleperpetrators were given what women's groups said were too-lenientsentences. The march in Lima ended at the palace of justice.

"Today, the 13th of August, is a historic day for this country because itrepresents a breaking point and the start of a new culture to eradicate themarginalization that women have been suffering, especially with violence,"

said Victor Ticona, president of Peru's judicial system.

Ticona said that a commission of judges would receive representatives ofthe protesters.

Newly inaugurated President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski took part in the marchalong with first lady Nancy Lange.

"What we don't want in Peru is violence against anyone, but especiallyagainst women and children," he said.

Earlier in the day, Kuczynski said his government is "going to ask forfacilities for women to denounce violence because abuse flourishes in anenvironment where complaints cannot be made and the blows areabsorbed in silence — and this is not how it should be. "

Peru's march follows similar protests against gender violence in other LatinAmerican countries, including Argentina and Brazil , held under the slogan#NiUnaMenos — #NotOneLess.

2016-08-14 12:00 By abcnews.go.com

26 Rio 2016: Jwala Gutta-Ashwini Ponnappa lose

final group tieRio de Janeiro: Already out of medal contention, India’swomen’s doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and AshwiniPonnappa suffered their third successive loss in their finalGroup A match against Thailand’s Supajirakul Puttita andTaerattanachai Sapsiree here on Saturday.

Playing their second Olympics after London Games, Jwala and Ashwini lost17-21 15-21 in a women’s doubles match.

2016-08-14 12:00 By PTI www.mid-day.com

27 Latest: Woman: Husband in Critical After

Missouri GunfireThe Latest on the shooting in Joplin, Missouri , that injuredfive people (all times local):

6:30 p.m.

A woman who was in a Joplin, Missouri, church van whenit was fired on says the group didn't know what was happening when thegunfire erupted.

Vicki Eby told KOAM-TV ( http://j.mp/2aUCnoe ) she was in the church vanearly Saturday with her husband Kenneth, who was driving, and two otherpeople.

She said they heard "three pops go off" but that it was so dark "we didn'tknow what was happening. "

She said one of the bullets hit her husband's lung, and that he's hospitalizedin critical condition.

Two other people were also wounded in a pickup truck nearby.

A suspect has been taken into custody, but authorities say formal chargeshaven't been filed.

Police also told AP Radio that the suspect's father called police to reportthe suspect was firing rounds at the family's home.

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1:35 p.m.

Joplin authorities have identified five people wounded in apparently randomshootings as they sat in their vehicles.

Police said in a statement that Kenneth Eby; his wife, Vicki Eby; and HeidiGustin of Joplin's Immanuel Lutheran Church were sitting in a church van ata traffic light when they were shot Saturday.

They were headed to St. Louis for a meeting about the church's ComfortDog ministry. Two dogs were also wounded.

The Joplin Globe reports ( http://j.mp/2beO4t1 ) Kenneth Eby is in criticalbut stable condition. Vicki Eby sustained minor injuries. Gustin has injuriesconsidered serious but not life-threatening.

Two other victims shot separately in their pickup, are identified as DonalPugh, who's in serious but stable condition, and Debbie Pugh, whosustained minor injuries.

A 26-year-old suspect is in custody.

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12 p.m.

Joplin police say a man has been arrested after five people were injured intwo apparently random roadway shootings.

The Joplin Globe reports (http://j.mp/2aU2yez) that police have arrested a

26-year-old man suspected in the early Saturday shootings.

Police said there's no apparent motive for the shooting.

Officers were called to a duplex early Saturday and found no victims.

Police tried to stop a vehicle, the driver of which fired shots at a church vanthat was stopped at a traffic light. Three adults in the van were injured, andtwo are hospitalized with injuries that are not life-threatening.

The suspect is also accused of shooting at a pickup truck and injuring twoadults. The driver is hospitalized, the passenger was released.

Police say the suspect is being held pending formal charges

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Information from: The Joplin (Mo.) Globe, http://www.joplinglobe.com

2016-08-14 12:00 By abcnews.go.com

28 Fidel Castro Thanks Cuba, Criticizes Obama,

on 90th BirthdayFidel Castro thankedCubans for their well-wisheson his 90th birthday andcriticized President BarackObama in a lengthy letterpublished in state media. Heappeared but did not speakat a gala in his honorbroadcast on statetelevision.

"I want to express my deepest gratitude for the shows of respect, greetingsand praise that I've received in recent days, which give me strength toreciprocate with ideas that I will send to party militants and relevantorganizations," he wrote about his birthday on Saturday.

"Modern medical techniques have allowed me to scrutinize the universe,"wrote Castro, who stepped down as Cuba's president 10 years ago aftersuffering a severe gastrointestinal illness.

Just after 6 p.m., he could be seen in footage on state television slowlyapproaching his seat at Havana's Karl Marx theater, clad in a white Pumatracksuit top and green shirt. He sat in what appeared to be a speciallyequipped wheelchair and watched a musical tribute by a children's theater

company, accompanied by footage of highlights from his decades in power.He sat alongside his younger brother, President Raul Castro, and PresidentNicolas Maduro of Venezuela, along with Cuba's highest-ranking militaryand civilian officials.

In his letter, Castro accompanied his thanks with reminiscences about hischildhood and youth in eastern Cuba, describing the geology and plant lifeof the region where he grew up. He touched on his father's death shortlybefore his own victory in overthrowing U. S-backed strongman FulgencioBatista in 1959.

Castro returns at the end to criticize Obama, who appeared to anger therevolutionary leader with a March trip to Cuba in which he called for Cubansto look toward the future. A week after the trip, Castro wrote a sternlyworded letter admonishing Obama to read up on Cuban history, anddeclaring that "we don't need the empire to give us anything. "

In Saturday's letter, he criticizes Obama for not apologizing to the Japanesepeople during a May trip to Hiroshima, describing Obama's speech thereas "lacking stature. "

The Cuban government has taken a relatively low-key approach to Castro'sbirthday, in comparison with the large-scale gatherings that had beenplanned for his 80th. Along with the Saturday evening gala, governmentministries have held small musical performances and photo exhibitions thatpay tribute to the former head of state.

Castro last appeared in public in April, closing the twice-a-decadecongress of the Communist Party with a call for Cuba to stick to its socialistideals amid ongoing normalization with the U. S.

The need for closer economic ties with the U. S. has grown more urgent asVenezuela, Castro's greatest ally, tumbles into economic free-fall, cuttingthe flow of subsidized oil that Cuba has depended on the South Americancountry for more than a decade. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Cubansare migrating to the United States, hollowing out the ranks of highlyeducated professionals.

The brightest spot in Cuba's flagging economy has been a post-detentesurge in tourism that is expected to boom when commercial flights to andfrom the United States, Cuba's former longtime enemy, resume on Aug. 31.

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Michael Weissenstein on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mweissenstein

2016-08-14 12:00 By abcnews.go.com

29 Rio 2016: SSP Chawrasia, Anirban Lahiri

struggle in Round TwoRio: India’s SSP Chawrasia and Anirban Lahiri scoredeven-par 71 and two-over 73 to finish tied 30th and joint51st respectively after the second round of the golftournament at the Olympic Games here on Friday.

Chawrasia, who took his two-day total to 142, showedtremendous fighting spirit after a poor start on Friday that saw him get abogey on the second hole and a double bogey on the par-four third hole.

However, he fought his way back by birding the next two holes beforescoring two consecutive birdies on the eighth and ninth to sit on a one-under.

Lahiri struggled throughout the day as he got bogeys on the fourth and fifthholes before birding the sixth. He again bogeyed the seventh and eighthhole to get to three-under.

2016-08-14 12:00 By IANS www.mid-day.com

30 BMC orders inspection of small eateries in all

parts of MumbaiSoon after the fire incident, municipal commissioner AjoyMehta ordered inspection of small eateries in all parts ofthe city through ward offices.

The inspection teams will consist of members of the firebrigade, health and license department officials. The

teams will check if the commercial establishments have fulfilled thepreconditions set by BMC and fire brigade while giving its NOC. They willalso check if any illegal alterations were made or if there was any change ofuse. The drive will start from Monday and grade II and III structures (smallones) will be inspected first. The BMC has set a target of doing 10 per dayfrom every ward.'

Watchdog foundation has found out that the entire statement by BMCcommissioner Ajoy Mehta was nothing more than publicity stunts.According Peminta, "Many eateries are still running their joints in violation ofthe safety norms, endangering hundreds of life. Had the BMCCommissioner taken our plea seriously for implementing therecommendations made in the Kalbadevi fire report, Kinara incident wouldhave been avoided. We are holding the civic commissioner accountable for

his contributory negligence. "

2016-08-14 11:44 By mid www.mid-day.com

31 New real estate businesses leverage

technology for successAt her home in Nashua, Stephanie Dolloff shows off theMatterport 3D camera that she uses to create immersiveexperiences for real estate listings. (ELI OKUN/SUNDAYNEWS CORRESPONDENT)

By ELI OKUN

Sunday News Correspondent

2016-08-14 11:08 By ELI www.newhampshire.com

32 All eyes on jockey Trevor Patel

Pune: Jockey Trevor Patel, who had broken his wristduring a fall at Bangalore in May, will resume riding todayat the Pune racetrack. He will ride two horses--King'sCanyon & Courtship--and his phenomenal fan followingwill ensure that both of them will carry the public purse in

their respective races.

The star jockey, who was under the treatment of Dr Vasudeva of Apollohospital, Bangalore, was going great guns, winning at every racetrack inIndia before getting married to girlfriend Snehal P G on May 11. His lastriding spell on the western India circuit had created a sensation when heequaled jockey Aslam Kader's record of riding six winners at Mahalaxmi onApril 23, the last day of the Mumbai season, even as his arch rival ASandesh walked away with the championship title.

Myrtlewood scares away rivals

The Pesi Shroff-trained four-year-old filly Myrtlewood, runner up of the IndianDerby and winner of three Gr 1 races, which included the Indian 1000Guineas & Oaks at Mahalaxmi, and the Super Mile at Chennai, has scaredaway most of the eligible competition in the Eve Champion Trophy, Gr 3.Only three runners have dared to face her for the 2000m event, which isslated as the feature of Sunday's nine-race card. Jigsaw is expected tofollow her home.

First race at 1.30 pm.

2016-08-14 11:28 By Prakash www.mid-day.com

33 Why “natural wine” tastes so unnatural Same-

sex marriage might be legal, but gay couplesare still considered too “rude”

In February, Dame SallyDavies, the chief medicalofficer for England, made thehorrifying announcement thatshe thinks about cancerwhenever she has a glass ofwine and so should we.Despite all the bad news thathas erupted on to ourscreens and pages since, Ican’t forget this statement,which seems to highlight thecontradictory nature ofhumanity. After all, goodwine has very few drawbacks. Why focus on the main one, thus ruining yourdrink without improving your health? Why not just become teetotal and bedone?

Finding comfort in toxins is a human foible, as is a dislike of moderation. Atits worst, this combination causes addiction. The rest of the time, it causesarguments. Think, for instance, of “natural wine” – a term that should be atautology, given that even Two Buck Chuck is fermented grape juice.Certainly, we are an idealistic species, forever fruitlessly trying to createperfection. We have meddled at points with every step of the winemakingprocess except the weather – and it turns out that our interference isaffecting that, too. Many of us want each bottle of our favourite wine to tasteexactly like the bottle before it, and some producers try very hard to supplythis certainty, as if an agricultural product consumed by creatures whochange and age imperceptibly every moment of their existence could everoffer such reliability. It’s an unreliable world, people: that is why we drink.

It’s also why we use sulphur. The element that Pliny called “nature’s wonder”occurs naturally during fermentation. In addition, most vintners add a smallamount to stabilise their wine and prevent faults.

Isabelle Legeron, a master of wine and natural wine’s most vociferousadvocate, points out that in wine’s infancy, millennia ago, there were nopesticides, cultured yeasts or other such inventions. Back then, wine reallywas natural. Maybe so, but that didn’t stop people adding very dodgy

substances to it, from honey to myrrh to seawater: “In Greece. . . they enliventhe smoothness of their wines with potter’s earth, or marble dust, or salt,”wrote Pliny, which certainly puts a few sulphites in context.

Why is sulphur so demonised? Some people have an unpleasant reactionto it. Lovers of natural wine also claim that wines without it taste better – andmaybe some do, but I have tried others so damaged by oxidation or sundryfaults that they tasted decidedly nasty. Sulphur zaps bacteria, as the ancientGreeks knew. “Bring sulphur, old nurse, that cleanses all pollution,” saidOdysseus, after killing his wife’s suitors. Who can argue with a substancethat neutralises love rivals?

Some natural wines that I drank recently, such as Lo Sfuso di Collina, aCabernet Franc from Veneto, are lovely, though its label did bear the telltalewords “contains sulphites” – a legal requirement for sulphur content over tenmilligrams per litre. Still, before picking that wine, I had sent back anotherthat was just too funky. “Yes, the natural ones take getting used to,” said thewaiter, which is just nonsense. Wine is not medicine or greens: it is, asDame Sally tells us so forcefully, carcinogenic. If there’s no instantgratification, what is the point?

Perhaps our palates will have evolved by the next millennium in favour offunkier wines, because people, like wine, are endlessly perfectible, if neverperfect. Or perhaps the possibility of bacteria or excess oxygen in one’swine will have trumped the certainty of sulphur. Pliny’s mira natura can bedangerous in excess: the great man died from inhaling volcano fumes whenVesuvius exploded in 79AD. But everything is dangerous in excess.Moderation is the answer. Sulphur is not the problem. As usual, we are.

Next week: John Burnside on nature

Who decides what’s rude? On one of those “searingly hot for the UK” daysthe other week, a man with bigger tits than me toplesssly alighted a train,bearing his resplendent bosom to me and the rest of the nearby world. Tobe clear, I’m not body shaming this guy. Seriously – good for him and hisboobs. He seemed happy. I would’ve been happy too if – on anaggressively warm train – I could’ve taken my top off and just sat therelistening to This American Life on my phone, without outraging publicdecency.

It was one of those “why are my nipples rude?” moments that women have.Usually on hot days. Likewise, I often wonder why my dates are ruder thanmy straight friends’ dates. As a lesbian (all good sentences start this way) Ihave rude nipples and I kiss rudely. According, that is, to this esotericCommittee for Rudeness that, I’m guessing, decided that not all nipples orkisses were made equal.

Speaking of rude , this week Delta Airlines has had to ground hundreds offlights because of a system outage. Selectively perhaps, I initially read thisas “system outrage ”. I like the idea of a system outrage. Like, maybe theirsystem was outraged by the lesbian kissing in Todd Haynes’ Carol , acensored version of which is being shown on Delta flights. The ones that arestill… flying, at least. The edited, kiss-free, version of Carol , it appears,meets Delta’s rudeness guidelines. Although same-sex kissing, per se,doesn’t necessarily go against these guidelines. According to a statementby Delta, it’s the nudity in Carol that they object to and their preferred, fullyclothed, version of the film just happens to be particularly puritanical,omitting both sex and kissing. Although comedian and recent Deltapassenger, Cameron Esposito, tweeted that someone sitting next to herwas watching a film with BDSM in it.

The point is though, even if the idea of same-sex marriage is no longer rude(legally speaking, at least) LGBT people are still being told to keep it in thebedroom. “It” includes hand holding, according to this couple whoscandalised a Sainsbury’s security guard. Step outside the context ofmillennia of persecution for a second and this begins to feel utterly arbitrary.Like the Committee for Rudeness is very real, and is a sort of selectivelyprudish Illuminati which has dictated that my boobs will rarely get to see thelight of day.

Whoever decided that rude things are 70 per cent ruder if women do them,and 90 per cent ruder if gay women do them would, in all fairness, have anervous breakdown if they watched Carol. Gay women do so many rudethings in that film. Rudely so. Sure, it’s a mesmerising performance by twowonderfully talented women, but Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara kissing isquite clearly upsetting in-flight viewing. The mere thought of lesbianism ataltitude is probably enough to send someone out there over the edge. Atleast the Committee for Rudeness seem to think so.

Even so, I’d be interested to see how the removal of physical intimacy fromCarol would alter the overall impact of the film. Perhaps it would transform itinto something quite interestingly and accidentally tantalising. More likelythough, it goes from “tale of forbidden love” to “some fifties women hang outfor two hours”. Which is why it would be sensible of Delta not to show Carolat all, rather than opt for a mildly nonsensical edited version thatperpetuates the idea – accidentally or otherwise – that anything lesbian isintrinsically pornographic.

2016-08-14 11:07 Laurie Penny www.newstatesman.com

34 MLB Baseball Box Scores

NEW YORK -- These have not been the best of times for the New York

Mets, whose defense of the 2015 National Leaguepennant has been threatened by a spate of injuries and anextended offensive slump. But the Mets are hoping anunexpected break Saturday night will serve as the catalystfor a return to the playoffs. Neil Walker raced home from

third base on a grounder to second by Wilmer Flores in the 11th inningSaturday night to lift the Mets to a 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres atCiti Field. The win snapped a four-game losing streak for the Mets (58-58),who had just three Opening Day starters in Saturday's lineup. New York isjust 11-20 in the last 31 games, a stretch in which it has scored three runs orfewer 20 times. "This game is not easy right now -- we're grinding away,"Walker said. "Nights like tonight are testaments to the character of theballclub. "Ace right-hander Jacob deGrom tossed seven innings of one-runball, during which he allowed three hits and one walk while striking out ninebefore exiting with a 2-1 lead. But closer Jeurys Familia absorbed his thirdblown save in his last six chances when he gave up a game-tying homer toWil Myers with two outs in the top of the ninth. "When you scratch and clawfor two runs and have the lead in the ninth and (a) solo homer ties it to gointo extra innings, you find yourself shaking your head like 'How did thathappen?'" Walker said. The Mets were asking that about their winning rallytwo innings later. Walker, whose RBI single in the first gave New York a 1-0lead, led off with a single against Brandon Maurer (0-3). One out later,James Loney hit an opposite-field single to left as Walker raced to anunoccupied third base. Two pitches later, Flores hit a broken-bat grounderto second base, where Ryan Schimpf decided to throw home instead oftrying for the double play. "I thought 'Walk' had a great jump from third base,so I thought it was going to be close at the plate," Mets manager TerryCollins said. "But yeah, I actually thought it was going to be a double play."The throw from Schimpf beat Walker to the plate but sailed to the third-base side of catcher Christian Bethancourt as Walker slid home. Floreswas credited with an RBI fielder's choice. "Once I heard the broken bat. Ijust decided to make a decision to come in and make the play at home, andI kind of put myself in a bad position to make the throw," Schimpf said. "Wehad a chance to turn two and I let us down tonight, Just got to learn from itand not let it happen again. "The win snapped a streak of seven straightlosses in one-run games for the Mets, who remained 2 1/2 games behindthe St. Louis Cardinals in the race for the NL's second wild card. "We'velost so many tough games, so many close games," Collins said. "So we'rejust hoping this turns the tide and we start winning some of these gamesand get ourselves on a big roll. "Right-hander Gabriel Ynoa, promoted fromTriple-A Las Vegas earlier in the day, threw a perfect 11th inning to earn thewin in his major league debut. Flores had three hits for the Mets while KellyJohnson had a pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the seventh. Yangervis Solartehomered in the seventh for the Padres (50-66), who received two hits fromAlex Dickerson. "Anytime you lose like that in extra innings on the road is

tough, but I thought we played well," Myers said. "Just kind of came up shortthere. "Padres starter Jarred Cosart allowed one run on three hits and twowalks while striking out two over six innings. NOTES: The Mets activatedINF Jose Reyes from the 15-day disabled list and recalled RHP GabrielYnoa from Triple-A Las Vegas. In corresponding moves, INF Matt Reynoldsand RHP Logan Verrett were optioned to Las Vegas. ... Mets OF YoenisCespedes (right quad) is scheduled to play in rehab games for Class A St.Lucie on Monday and Tuesday before returning to the majors on Friday. ...The Padres purchased the contract of RHP Brandon Morrow from Triple-AEl Paso and optioned LHP Buddy Baumann to the same affiliate. Morrowthrew a perfect eighth inning in his first major league appearance since May2, 2015. To make room for Morrow on the 40-man roster, INF CorySpangenberg (left quadriceps) was transferred to the 60-day disabled list.... LHP Clayton Richard will make his first start for the Padres this seasonon Sunday as San Diego begins employing a six-man rotation during astretch of 16 games in as many days.

2016-08-14 11:08 The Sports scoresandstats.newyork.cbslocal.com

35 “Midnight Sun”: a short story by Chigozie

Obioma Eighties nights: why Stranger Thingshas me hiding behind the sofa

A child does not diebecause its mother’s breastis empty of milk.

Igbo proverb

The man to whom she hadfinally opened her heart,Ikonne, the doctor, nowdominated her thoughts formost of her waking hours.She’d come to agree withmany people – her friendJefa and her mother, mostly– that the way to redeem herself was to find a man who could help herachieve what she essentially needed the most: to forget her dead husbandand son, or, at the very least, to relegate them to such a distance in hermind as to defang the memory of them from continually tormenting her. Forboth of them had become uncontrollable performers who dancedimmemorially on her mind’s stage every night. Ikonne had shown that hewas able to do this. With his wholesome and therapeutic kind of love, he’dbecome the beast that ate the flesh of her recent history and drank its blood.

And whenever she was with him, she felt a wild, outsized peace that oftenwholly overshadowed the memories of her husband and son.

She was thinking of him while gazing at herself in the large mirror of herbathroom when a human sound from somewhere nearby, perhaps a drycough, stirred her, and brought her to stillness. Earlier, she’d slunk to thedoor and listened for her elder son’s snorts, but had heard only his heavybreathing. She’d hoped that Owoh would continue to sleep till she wasgone. There was solace in the closure of his eyes, and in theunconsciousness that attended his sleep. It staved off the unbearable guiltthat gripped her at the throat upon the thought that she was abandoning him.But the guilt which, in the past, would have nailed her like a calendar to awall could not stop her this time. Ikonne had hinted that that night would bespecial, which she had believed to mean that he would propose to her.When Owoh repeated the coughing twice again, and followed it up with agrowl, she glanced at the snakeskin leather wristwatch Ikonne had boughther nearly four months before, picked up her handbag, and fled the house.

The night had come down heavy, leaving only a splinter of light across thehorizon. Agnes flagged down the first vacant taxi that verged to the end ofthe road, and throughout the ride she kept thinking about the sound ofOwoh’s breathing. It had frightened her husband, Nonso, the first time Owohmade it, and reminded him of his own father on his deathbed. And the lastwords he’d said that night, I fear it is close, Agnes , had reached out andclung to her, refusing to let go. She’d crawl out of bed later, go into Owoh’sroom, and find him wide awake, his prominent eyeballs almost radiant in thestark darkness. But it was not Owoh who would die a few days after thatnight, it was Nonso himself and Richard, their other son. They were drivingback from an excursion to Ibadan when a lorry ferrying timber slammed intotheir Mercedes, and killed them both on the spot.

Agnes looked up to see that the driver had begun to back the car out of theshoulder of the road. “Thank you,” she said. She let the phone’s green lightgo off and then looked out the window. Although Nonso had always broughther to this part of Lagos, she could hardly identify most places at night,especially during power outages, when the façades of most buildings wereeither unlit or dimly lit. But as they drove on, slaloming through clotted traffic,she recognised the big pharmacy her husband often went to. A few blocksdown, a clique of bright pole lamps illuminated what she immediatelyrecognised to be the hospital where Owoh had been destroyed.

Nonso and Agnes had taken him for the compulsory child immunisation atthe hospital when he was only four months old in 1990. The nurse on dutyhad become unhinged but had not degenerated to a noticeable level. Thenurse had been told a few days earlier by the army that her husband, anECOMOG soldier, had just been killed in Liberia. As she took little Owoh

into the ward, she’d kept on talking about “strength”. When she entered theclosed door of the ward she looked into Agnes’s face and said, “Don’tworry, I’ll make him stronger.”

Agnes and her husband had barely sat on the metal benches in the waitinglounge when they began hearing noises from the part of the crowdedhospital where the nurse had taken Owoh. One of the nurses had caught thebroken nurse injecting Owoh with multiple intravenous injections till Owoh –having cried himself to exhaustion, even though the nurse had taped hismouth with layers of plaster to silence him – was enveloped in a dubiouscalm. The nurse had, by that time, emptied twenty-two of the small bottles ofthe intravenous substances into him with the same syringe before shestopped, a dozen more unemptied. She’d done it to make him stronger,she’d reiterated again and again as she was taken away, wearing a wrysmile that betrayed the stark fact: that Owoh had been effectively destroyed.For, later, doctors would declare that the overdose of the powerful drugshad not only paralysed Owoh permanently, but caused an irreparableototoxic damage. Agnes and Nonso would pursue healing with tenacity, yetnothing would help. They stopped trying to cure him when, after nearlytwenty hours of marathon medical sessions at the Lagos UniversityTeaching Hospital – one of Nigeria’s best hospitals – the doctors emergedwith the verdict that the overdose had collapsed his bones. They added thathe had been lucky, that he could have easily become a human “eel” – acomplete wreck, with sixty per cent of his organs compromised.

The restaurant was packed full when she got there. Ceiling fans with fancylight bulbs swirled overhead, their rattling sound mixing with music from anearby boom box and the chatter of people seated at the tables. Agnesentered, her body quietening again: a feeling that came upon her every timeshe was on the cusp of meeting a man. Ikonne sat near a big oil-on-canvaspainting of a woman with a calabash. He rose swiftly and hugged her.

“Oh, Agnes. I could have, you know, picked you up.”

Agnes drew a smile from a well that was now almost dry, but which, beforethe many adversities that had befallen her, used to overflow with laughter. Itdidn’t take him long to fall into a deep, passionate discussion on the state ofthe nation. She laughed quietly at how he’d waxed theatrical whencomplaining about the inadequacies of things in Nigeria. When one of theservers brought the menu, Ikonne plunged into the laminated pages. Eventhough they’d been dating for about three months now and had known eachother for a little more than that, he was still often visibly nervous around her.But his shyness was one of the reasons she was drawn to him. Althoughshe perceived that men like him were often sincere in character, he seemedto have cultivated his own character with more delicate care, so that hecame across as graciously pure – unalloyed, even though the version of his

history she knew of was a tainted one. He’d lived for many years in theUnited States, married an American, and fled the country after he lost hisjob due to an exchange with a co-worker, what the Americans deemed“workplace violence”, which got his licence temporarily revoked, and endedhis marriage. With what remained of his once substantial savings, heopened a clinic in Lagos.

He spoke on while they ate the food – fried rice and plantain with chunks ofdeep-fried meat – raging against what he thought had been responsible forthe incessant corruption in Nigeria: successive military rule. He wishedNigeria would some day become like other right-thinking nations and stampout corruption as this present leader, Obasanjo, had been trying to do sincehis election. Agnes was startled when he interrupted his speech, reachedout and held her hand. “I’m in love with you, Agnes,” he said. “I want to marryyou.”

Although she’d been expecting him to say this, Agnes looked up at him and,for a moment, she felt something leave her body. She fell silent, unable –even though she was willing – to speak.

“What, why are you not saying anything?” he said, waited, and repeated it.His hand seemed to move restlessly on the table, touching the cup, withoutlifting it. Then, lifting it to his mouth without sipping from it, he asked againand again if she’d heard him. She nodded. “Then, why, what happened?” hesaid. “Did I offend, darling?”

He took her hands, but she did not stir. When she remained silent, hestarted to apologise. In the unexplainable haze, Agnes did not speak.

“It is too early, I know, too early to ask you this. I’m so sorry, you know? Weshould leave now, you think?”

She nodded, took her bag and they left the restaurant.

****

He did not mention the incident for the next few days when they talked onthe phone. It was Agnes who, having recovered only after feeling guiltyabout her response to his proposal, felt the need to bring it up.

“I’m sorry for the other day,” she said, as softly as she could, setting thewords down on tiptoes so that they accrued a certain heaviness.

“No, no, it was my fault, you know? I just, you know, think —”

She sensed confusion in his delayed response. “No, Ikonne, it wasn’t yourfault. It was mine. You did nothing wrong.”

“Well, it’s OK. Should I pick you up tonight? I miss you.”

They met at a restaurant on Victoria Island beside a massive constructionsite for what the project sign had boasted would be a Trade Centre, both ofthem watching the cranes dipping around and lifting objects with theirmachinery limbs. They were finishing their meal when he asked her againwhat she thought of his proposal. Although she believed she’d considered itduring the intervening days and had carefully prepared her response, shefound herself strangely unable to speak again. Then, fearing she’d beensilent for much longer than she should, she laid down her grievance with theverbal equivalent of an explosion.

“I have told you about him before. I have told you that he is a disabled,crippled

deaf-mute, and everything! You hear that? He is —” She heard the thingsshe’d said as if through the noise of a ricochet, and it silenced her. Shedropped her head, fighting the urge to break down. “Look, if you want me,eh, you must accept and want him, too.”

Of all the men she’d tried to date in the three years since her husband’sdeath, he was the one she’d warmed to the most. Although she haddeveloped feelings for one of them, and had come close to having arelationship with him, he’d bowed out because of Owoh. It had shocked her.After he’d come to her house and had seen Owoh, he’d said he could nottake him in with them. He wanted to have his own children, he’d said, and itwas in their best interest to simply put Owoh away at a care centre ratherthan keep him. The next man she’d dated, a pastor whose wife haddeserted him for a younger man, had, upon seeing Owoh, offered to takehim to a prayer house where he could be healed. This had killed her. Forafter the bones of her hope had been broken in the early days of Owoh’stravails, Agnes had taken him from one church to another until she’d visitedalmost all the miracle-working churches in Lagos. She instantly saw thepastor’s offer as a bad sign. After he left her house, she sent him a textrequesting that he should never contact her again.

Ikonne released his hands from her grip and nodded slowly. “I see what yousay. And, of course – if you marry me, you know? – your son can come livewith me.” He nodded again, and she followed his eyes to a group that hadjust arrived at a table next to theirs, a couple with a child who must havebeen Richard’s age when he died – eight or nine. The child, a very light-skinned girl with a long, rich mass of trailing hair, stuck out her half-greentongue at him and lolled it left and right. As she watched the girl, Agnes felther loss grip like an unseen hand. The sight of living children often causedthis.

Ikonne returned his attention to Agnes with faltering laughter. “I have told youtime and again, darling, that I’m fine with him. Not a big deal, Agnes, you

know?”

She could not go back to eating. The power of her loss had taken rein,turning the food before her into a forbidden thing. She sensed that he mightwant to hold her hand again, so she held her drink. She’d ordered a beer,which she now drank so much and so frequently that it would have surprisedanyone to know that she’d never had a sip before her husband and childdied. She’d drunk so much one night two months earlier that she’d wokenup on the floor of Owoh’s room. She couldn’t remember much, except thatshe’d been out for a full day and realised she hadn’t fed him. She’d returnedto find him asleep, and so had left the food by his side. Owoh had beenseated, and his head – the only thing that seemed to grow with his age –hung limply against his disproportionately sized body. Beside him on theshrunken chaise had sat the plate of food, almost untouched, gathering flies.The toy truck Ikonne had bought him was on the old leather stool near thewall to his right, a cockroach in the blue seat, its antennae curled up againstthe windscreen.

Although she had very little recollection of that night, it haunted her. But mostof all, that incident had opened to her the extent of Owoh’s powerlessness –the sense that he could do nothing without her. He could not even eat foodplaced an inch from his hands. Yet, it occurred to her, as she startedstinging him with angry words that morning, that this same helpless son ofhers had saved her life. Had he not taken ill that week, excreting almosthourly into the plastic bowl she had placed beneath him, she would havetravelled with Nonso and Richard, and would have been killed, too.

She drank more as Ikonne talked about his clinic and the different peoplehe’d met there. He seemed to pause in between deep thoughts, shakehimself, and then dive, birdlike, into another topic. From an indiscerniblepsychological distance, Agnes observed that she was slowly beginningto love him. She imagined him in his hospital gown working through thewound of a twelve-year-old girl who’d stepped on a nail. She imagined himoperating on people who, like her, were all sufferers. Something in thegrace of his hands felt needful to her, as if she herself was one of hispatients. Later, she could not tell why she’d grabbed his hands and heldthem, tightly, asking, in a voice that was barely over a whisper, for him totake her to his home. After they’d driven to his house, and he’d stripped herbare, she knew what she had felt: a desperate need for him.

****

For the following two days, she struggled to keep up with giving care to herson. Twice, after she made him food but could not bring herself to feed him,she left the food on the kitchen table until the pablum went cold andcongealed into a wrinkled goo. To her, Owoh’s room had become arestricted area where she was too afraid to set foot. After preparing his

meal on the second occasion, she went and sat in the garden, which shehad not cultivated in the three years since her second son and husbanddied, except to weed it. She stayed there all morning as the sun rosefiercely. Agnes saw the heat as a reprieve from the harmattan wind, whichhad arrived a few weeks earlier and toughened the air as if the year wasalready dead, its last days like the setting in of rigor mortis.

She sat in the garden after making the food and allowed herself to siftthrough deliberations, weighing what was continuing to haunt her. Sheconvinced herself that she had not intended to hurt Owoh. She was merelytrying to redeem herself, to live again. But the thought continued to tormenther, until, unable to remain in the house in that state or bring herself to feedhim, and unable to fend off the smarting, persistent thought that she wasletting him starve, she went to Jefa’s hair salon at the end of the district.

Jefa’s salon had no power and so they sat on plastic chairs outside. Jefatried to convince her, as she’d always done, that Ikonne was her best shot atsalvation. “You have to save yourself from it,” she said. “You are too young.You’re too beautiful, Aggi.” Her words shook Agnes. And Jefa, who hadalways been the bigger, stronger, louder woman of the two from theirprimary school days, pressed harder. “Yes, he is your son, I know, but really,what can you do? You’re not his chi who let this happen to him. You havedone your best. This is your chance. In fact, see it this way: this is yourchance to have a real child again. Time is running out, don’t you even seeit? You can’t afford to lose this man, this Ikonne – he’s a good man. This isyou trying to live again after your first life died.”

Agnes left Jefa’s salon that evening with her resolve toughened and headedto Ikonne’s house where he took her straight to his bed. She had spent therest of the day away from her house, away from Owoh, fighting as much asshe could to hold off the concerns about not having fed, washed andattended to him, so that they stood waiting behind the bedroom door like araucous crowd of journalists at a celebrity’s gate. But as time passed, theirvoices had become louder, their beckoning fiercer. When she arrived homethat night she found Owoh asleep, his head tilted sideways across hisshoulder, his mouth slightly agape. She searched his face for anythingunusual until she was satisfied that he was merely reposed in a restfulsleep. She made him a pablum while still in her gown, the one Nonso hadbought her from Italy a few months before his death. Sitting on the dining-room chair close to the door of Owoh’s room, she listened above theconstant hum of the refrigerator for any sound of him, until she fell asleep.

When she woke, it was nearly midnight – about three hours after she hadreturned and made the food that had now gone cold. Owoh was still asleepand there had been a power outage. She reached for the kerosene lanternsand lit two of them. She placed one by her door and the other by the dining

table, making sure not to get it even an inch within the threshold of his room.One of the great trials of Owoh’s life had been the impact of light on him.Seven years earlier, after she and Nonso had decided to remove him fromtheir room and put him in his own, at eight years old, he had started makingstrange noises, mostly at dawn. Like a rooster, he’d wake up crying andscreaming as if his spirit, having long suffered, had started to revolt. Agnessoon found out that it was not the light itself that affected him, but the effectof the light. She observed that, whenever lit, the lantern soon becamecovered in a muck of insects. The insects would then spread from the bulband chimney and scatter across the room, crawling and perching all overOwoh, who could only wriggle his unsteady neck in protest and yelphelplessly. Some of the apteral ones would sometimes crawl into his mouthwhile he slept and he would often wake with dead insects in his mouth.Many times, Agnes would first remove dead insects from his mouth beforefeeding him. One night, Nonso had been in the room searching for an oldbriefcase when Owoh, awakened by his father’s presence, began makingan unusual sound and moving his whole body in an attempt to gesture atsomething. Following his suffering son’s eyes, Nonso had realised thatOwoh had been looking at the moon. It was then that he’d had the idea ofthe skylight, and once it was installed, they’d removed the bulb in his roomand stopped allowing any kind of light except that which came from theskylight.

Owoh did not wake up until the following morning. Agnes fed him beforegoing out to work but stayed away all day, so that by nightfall a spell of guilthad clouded her heart. She hadn’t intended to stay out late, but midwaythrough the day it had become suddenly momentous when Ikonne’s brothercalled from the US to announce that his former workplace had decided toreinstate him. The news transformed Ikonne into a bowlful of confetti,floating in the air. He proposed to Agnes again, pleading with her to returnwith him to the US for a new beginning. Agnes said “yes”. They made fiercelove afterwards, the way she couldn’t remember ever experiencing, eventhough it unnerved her.

Later, while Ikonne called his brother back, the feeling that she was torturingher son returned. Wasn’t this why she’d agreed to leave with her new lover?Would they move to a new country with her son, an invalid? Surely not; shewas disposing of her son in order to have a new life. True, Owoh wasperhaps dying; his hands, she’d observed, had felt almost weightless in hergrip that morning. It was immediately clear, as she touched him, that he’demaciated drastically. His collarbones stuck out and when he breatheddeeply – as he often did – his flesh seemed to bloat, then deflate and reveala mere skeleton.

It struck her now that she was killing him – a soft, slight killing. She’d indeedhearkened to the collective voices that had been speaking to her and was

now disposing of him, not by taking him to the specialist’s hospital thatoffered to buy all of his functioning organs for a little over half a million naira,but by her own hand. She was paying him back for saving her life with hisown death. And now, even worse, she’d agreed to move overseas. In thatafflicting moment, all that had been planted into her as firm possibilities nowswerved around and bared their hitherto occluded truths like a set ofstrange teeth: Was Ikonne sincere in saying that he would welcome Owoh?Would he accept to take Owoh to America? Would he not be bothered bythe inconvenience of transporting an invalid? What if she agreed and hetook them there, and then decided that he no longer wanted him – whatwould she do, then?

Even many years later, whenever memories of that evening drop into hermind like fruit from a rattled tree branch, the haste with which she’d rushedout of the house into the noisy night would always stun her. She gentlyclosed the door of the living room so that Ikonne, who was still speaking withhis brother on the phone in the other room, could not hear her. Then she ranup the edge of the street to where a major road tracked back into the town,weeping, until she found a taxi. She sat huddled in it, all to one side, asjaunty Lagos buzzed all around. She closed her eyes until the taxi pulled upoutside the gate of her house, which she and Nonso had bought in their firstyear of marriage. It stood silent, grave-like, and luminescent against themoonlight.

She was surprised that she had not noticed the moon until she got near thehouse. It was almost full, with slight blushes on its bright bulb. It was the kindthat Richard had once called the Midnight Sun. She often recalled the nighthe had first gotten the idea: one of only two times in her memory whenOwoh had made a sound that had come close to decipherable humanspeech. Richard had entered Owoh’s room and found him staring at themoon, which had clothed the room in a bruised turquoise light. Richard hadmoved to the centre of the room and had stood in the brace of the fixedshower of moonlight, his mind trying to make sense of what he was seeinguntil the words formed between his lips: It is like the sun at night. It is the sun,a kind of sun at night. A midnight sun. For the first time in many years, asRichard spoke, Owoh moved his head, which was placed perpetually ontwo pillows while the rest of his body was propped against the wall – aposition in which Agnes often left him after he’d eaten, in order to easedigestion. His face lit, and incurvatures formed around his brows in whatRichard came to understand as Owoh’s own version of a smile. Then hislips began moving as he let out loud, piercing cries. Richard, awed andmoved by this transitory peace on his older brother’s face, had cried forhim.

Now, although her hands trembled while she typed the message to Ikonne,she felt wholly relieved after it was delivered. Her words had been strong,

firm and resolute: there would be no going back. He was not to stay back onaccount of her, no. He must return to the States and his family, reclaim whatwas his, and live his life. Her own life was here.

She put the phone in her bag and stood still to watch the moon. It lightenedher, relieving the burden she’d carried for many weeks. She found her son’sroom full of moonlight, all the glory of the midnight sun showering – in ascreen of sharp grey – through the skylight. She found Owoh seated in hispart of the world, in that decaying chair in which he was confined, staring atit with a kind of silence that only he, a small man of sorrow, possessed.

“The Fishermen” by Chigozie Obioma is published in both hardback andpaperback by One, an imprint of Pushkin Press

I come a little late to the Netflix series Stranger Things. But then, what doesthat even mean? The days of missing stuff are long gone. All eight episodesof Stranger Things are there on your laptop, and will be for ever more. Youcould watch them now, in the dog days of summer, or you could save themfor when the nights draw in. Either way, you’re in for a supersonic treat.

Stranger Things is a coming-of-age sci-fi series – in essence, it’s come outthe way ET might have done if Spielberg had wanted to terrify the pants offus – written and directed by the Duffer brothers Matt and Ross, who madethe 2015 thriller Hidden. I didn’t know anything about the Duffers before Iwatched their first outing for Netflix, and I still don’t know much, save thatthey were born in 1984, so they were only six at the close of the decade inwhich Stranger Things is set. Crikey. What fanboys they must be: RobReiner on their laptops, Giorgio Moroder on their iPods, Stephen King (onold-school paper) in their manbags. I’m guessing that, when they’re stuck inthe edit suite, their drug of choice is cherry-flavoured Pez.

Their show is set in Indiana in 1983 and almost every scene is a homage: toReiner, to King and to many others (the soundtrack is the work of an Austin,Texas synth band called Survive, but boy does it whiff of John “ Halloween ”Carpenter). The story begins in the basement of the Wheeler house, wherethe 12-year-old Mike (Finn Wolfhard) is playing Dungeons & Dragons withhis three closest mates. For a few moments, we see their fierce involvementin the game – kids, this was the rabbit hole down which geeks used to slipbefore the internet – and then the spell is broken. Mike’s mum calls time,and his friends, Dustin, Lucas and Will, must head out into the night.

On his way home, Will takes a short cut past a secret government facility runby a scientist played by Matthew Modine (even the casting is retro: WinonaRyder stars as Will’s mum, Joyce), and disappears. He has been taken, itwould appear, by a monster, an escapee from the lab. And then all sorts ofthings happen, almost all of which are creepy and hide-behind-the-sofaexciting. Not that the Duffers needed to do much to keep me onside. I was

lost from the moment the boys set out on their bikes, pedalling frantically,their journey down suburban wooded lanes lit as much by boyishexuberance as by their headlamps. Miniature detectives. Having been one,once – I was forever fingerprinting my father – I find them impossible toresist on screen.

Ah, the Eighties. Unlike the Sixties, the whole point seems to be toremember them, though surely how you do depends on your background:someone who attended a northern comprehensive, say, will likely feel ratherdifferently about the age of snooker and shoulders pads from a person whowas at a private school in the south. I’m not certain where the fortysomethingDominic Sandbrook spent his formative years, but his take on the decadein his latest documentary series is nothing if not upbeat – and no wonder,given that among the booty his family bagged early on were an AustinMetro, a VCR and, for little Dominic, a BBC computer. Meanwhile, I hadonly to get on the bus (2p a ride, in our magnificent Socialist Republic) tofeel as if I was stuck in the video for the Specials’ “Ghost Town”.

In the first film, Sandbrook posited, somewhat weirdly, that it’s more usefulto see the Eighties in terms of Delia Smith than Margaret Thatcher. In thesecond, still encased in his does-my-bum-look-big-in-this? parka, hetheorised that the miners’ strike is more interestingly viewed not as astruggle between Arthur Scargill and the then prime minister, but as aninternal war between the miners, who functioned as a microcosm of society.Those who went on strike in, say, South Yorkshire were collectivists whocared not at all for white goods, while the refuseniks of Nottinghamshirewere all about family, aspiration and, perhaps, VCRs and Austin Metros.Hmm. I, for one, don’t really buy it, though I like the series soundtrack. ToniBasil, Blancmange, the minor hits of Tears for Fears: the Duffer brotherswould love it to pieces.

2016-08-14 11:07 Laurie Penny www.newstatesman.com

36 Scottish independence would still prompt RBS

HQ moveRoyal Bank of Scotland still plans to move its headquarters out of Scotlandshould there be a "Yes" vote in any future independence referendum.

Chief executive Ross McEwan, however, stressed that such a move wouldnot lead to major job losses in Scotland.

Warnings about a possible move of RBS headquarters featured heavily inthe campaign ahead of the September 2014 independence vote.

Mr McEwan said the bank's position had not changed, despite the Brexit

vote.

In the EU referendum 62% ofScottish voters wanted toretain membership while theUK as a whole voted by 52%to 48% to leave.

First Minister NicolaSturgeon has promised toexplore all options to retainScotland's links with Europe

but has said a second independence referendum is now "highly likely".

Shortly before the first independence vote in 2014, RBS confirmed it haddrawn up contingency plans to "re-domicile" the bank's holding company toEngland.

In a BBC interview, Mr McEwan was asked if that position remained thesame now that the UK had voted to leave the EU.

He said: "We'd have to make the same moves I suspect because the RoyalBank of Scotland, being domiciled in Scotland, would just be too big for theeconomy, even in the shape that we're building.

"That's around the plaque, it's not about where our people are because wehave a very big business up here in Scotland.

"I've got 12,000 people who serve both the Scottish people and we also runour retail business from up here along with a lot of our technology.

"Two years ago when we had the Scottish referendum, I made it very clearwe'd have the people in the right place, that moving the plaque didn't makeany difference to them. I think that would be the same. I think for any country,they just need to remain very competitive so businesses like ourselves wantto operate in those countries. "

Asked what he would say to Nicola Sturgeon if she wanted his views on theeconomic impact of a second independence vote, he replied: "Just takeaccount of uncertainty - that's what you're seeing after Brexit.

"It's uncertainty that slows markets down. Make sure the long game's worthit. But that's going to be up to the people of Scotland. "

2016-08-14 11:08 www.bbc.co.uk

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37 Jeremy Corbyn accuses Tom Watson ofmaking 'nonsense' Trotsky claims

Jeremy Corbyn hasdismissed claims by hisdeputy that hard left activistsare trying to infiltrate theLabour party ahead of theleadership vote.

Mr Corbyn said TomWatson's suggestion that"Trotsky entryists" aremanipulating young partymembers to boost his support were "nonsense".

But Mr Watson responded saying there was "clear and incontrovertibleevidence" to back his claims.

The Labour leader is embroiled in a contest with challenger Owen Smith.

In an interview with the Observer , Mr Corbyn said: "I just ask Tom to do themaths - 300,000 people have joined the Labour party.

"At no stage in anyone's most vivid imagination are there 300,000 sectarianextremists at large in the country who have suddenly descended on theLabour party. Sorry Tom, it is nonsense - I think he knows it's nonsense. "

Mr Watson said he believed the "overwhelming majority" of new membersjoined the Labour Party because they want to build a "fairer and more equalsociety".

But he said: "There is clear and incontrovertible evidence that a small groupof Trotskyite activists have taken leading roles in the Labour Party or areseeking to do so.

"They are also explicitly targeting Young Labour and Labour student clubswith the aim of recruiting new members. That is beyond dispute. We can'tdeal with this problem until we acknowledge it exists. "

BBC political correspondent Carole Walker said "the open row" betweenthe Labour leader and his deputy "is a further sign of deep divisions withinthe party".

There has been Labour in-fighting over the massive influx of new membersthat have signed up to the party since Mr Corbyn became leader lastSeptember.

Mr Watson told the Guardian earlier this week that Labour was being

infiltrated by "Trotsky entryists" who had "come back" to bolster Mr Corbyn.

The Labour leader's campaign team hit back accusing Mr Watson of"peddling baseless conspiracy theories" but the deputy leader then wrote aletter to Mr Corbyn urging him to take action against infiltrators.

Trotskyism has its origins in early 20th Century Russian politics and thepath pursued by one of the founders of the Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky.

Trotsky was the head of the Red Army and a key player in the violentrevolution that toppled the Russian tsar and established the world's firstsocialist state.

But he split with the other revolutionary leaders Lenin and Stalin, whobelieved they could create a socialist society in their own country without aworld revolution.

Trotsky believed his country could achieve socialism only if the workingclasses around the world rose up as one to overthrow the ruling classes -the doctrine of "international socialism".

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In his Observer interview Mr Corbyn also refused to express full confidencein the party's general secretary Ian McNichol who was a key figure in recentlegal action which stopped 130,000 of the new members from voting in theleadership contest.

Mr Corbyn said Mr McNichol would face questions over the events of thelast few months.

"People joined the Labour party in order to take part in the party and werespecifically told that they were able to vote in the leadership election andthat was decided by the high court that they could," he said.

"The appeal court has said they can't and I would imagine that those whobrought the case will be considering whether or not to take it to the supremecourt... I think that people should have the right to take part and that is surelywhat democracy is about. "

2016-08-14 11:08 www.bbc.co.uk

38 A Patron Saint for Television

Mention the phrase “patron saints” and plenty of people, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, will think it a quaint, outdated custom that assigns aheavenly protector to keep an eye on barrel-stave makers and ward offViking invasions. In fact, patron saints keep up with the times.

Back in the early 1990s, when the Internet was becomingpopular, a group of Catholic webmasters adopted St.Isidore of Seville as patron of the web — they tookIsidore’s 30-volume encyclopedia on just about everytopic as the world’s first database. Typically, as in the

case of St. Isidore and the Internet, it’s the folks in the pews who associatea particular saint with a cause, or an ailment, or a profession, butsometimes the pope weighs in and formally names a patron saint. Forexample, Pope John Paul II appointed St. Francis of Assisi the patron of theenvironmental movement (an easy call if ever there was one). And so wecome to another patron saint named by a pope.

During the pontificate of Pope Pius XII, a group of astronomers came to theVatican for a private meeting with the Holy Father. As they gathered in theaudience chamber, they expected the pope would deliver a brief,conventional speech on some religious topic. Instead, Pius XII surprised hisvisitors by launching into a discussion of sun spots.

This example is not out of the ordinary. Consult any listing of Pius XII’sspeeches and you’ll find him addressing a host of specialized, non-religioussubjects.

As a man who made it a hobby to keep up with the latest developments inthe sciences, Pope Pius was fascinated by the emergence of television asthe hot, new communications medium of the 1950s. The possibilities of thenew technology impressed him, so much so that in 1958 he gave televisionits own patron saint: he chose St. Clare of Assisi, whose feast day was twodays ago, August 11. At first glance it is hard to see any link between TVand a 13th-century cloistered nun, but stayed tuned.

St. Clare is best known as St. Francis of Assisi’s closest colleague. In1212, when she was 19 years old, Clare ran away from home in the tobecome the first female member of Francis’ religious community. But beingthe first Franciscan nun is not what made Clare exceptional; rather, it washer unswerving commitment to St. Francis’ ideal of Christ-like poverty.

Francis wanted the members of his order to be as poor and humble asJesus Christ had been when He was personally present on earth. But whatwas appealing in theory could be difficult to put into practice. Within Francis’own lifetime some Franciscans who found the rule of poverty too hard toneddown their founder’s ideal and began to acquire real estate.

But not Clare and her nuns. Yes, they had a convent, but they refused to ownanything that would generate income; they relied entirely on the good will ofdonors for their support. Two popes thought Clare was taking St. Francis’notion of perfection too literally, but she would not back down. For 41 yearsClare clung to her principles, and she won — although only at the last

minute. In 1253, as she lay on her deathbed, Pope Innocent IV traveled toAssisi to see Clare for the last time, and he brought a gift: a papaldocument that gave formal approval to Clare’s rule.

None of this is remotely related to television, of course, but Pius XII knewwhat he was doing. He recalled an episode from St. Clare’s life that onecould say prefigured TV. A witness at Clare’s canonization proceedingstestified that one Christmas Eve St. Clare was so ill she could not leave herbed to attend Midnight Mass. After all the nuns had gone, Clare sighed andsaid, “See Lord, I am left here alone with You.” At that moment God grantedClare a vision in which she saw and heard the Mass as clearly as if she hadbeen present in the convent chapel. Pope Pius interpreted this vision as akind of miraculous simulcast, and named St. Clare the patron of television. IfPius were alive today, he’d expand Clare’s patronage to include cable.

Thomas J. Craughwell is the author of This Saint Will Change Your Life andSaints Behaving Badly.

2016-08-14 11:08 Thomas J spectator.org

39 Reefer Madness and the Election

For the first time since 1988, both major parties’nominees — Democrat Hillary Clinton and RepublicanDonald Trump — say that they have never smoked orexperimented with marijuana (without inhaling).

President Obama has been open about having usedmarijuana and other drugs in his youth, yet his administration has takeninsufficient steps to inject some sanity into the federal government’sapproach to marijuana policy. In 2008, the Obama campaign talked aboutkeeping federal prosecutors from going after medical marijuanadispensaries in states that have legalized medical use such as California.To the contrary, in his first term especially, Obama’s Department of Justicewas merciless on medical marijuana providers, as well as users. If youhoped for big change, get over it. Wednesday, the Drug EnforcementAdministration announced it would not change marijuana’s classificationfrom the Schedule I drug status it has held since 1970.

Drug Enforcement Administration acting head Chuck Rosenberg explainedin a letter that the administration will expand research into marijuana’smedicinal benefits, but marijuana will remain a Schedule I drug because it“has no currently accepted medical use in treatment” in the United States, isnot safe for use under medical supervision, and has a high abuse potential.

Rosenberg understands it makes little sense to many Americans thatmarijuana should share the same schedule as heroin. (And, I would add,

there have been no known human lethal overdoses from marijuana. Theharm from marijuana is less dramatic, but real; chronic usage among teensand young adults can reduce the chances that they will marry, have children,or graduate from college.) “It is best not to think of drug scheduling as anescalating ‘danger’ scale,” Rosenberg wrote, and better to focus onmedical and scientific evidence.

Here’s the problem: There is no evidence that the DEA recognizes. Fordecades, the government effectively prohibited large-scale studies ofmarijuana’s medicinal properties. That hasn’t stopped Americans fromfinding out for themselves. “Talk to some patients,” countered MarijuanaMajority founder Tom Angell. “My mom has MS. It has medical value,believe me.”

Californians legalized medical marijuana in 1996. Since then, many of ushave seen friends with cancer overcome nausea and diminished appetitebecause they had access to marijuana. Acquaintances credit marijuanawith controlling their epileptic seizures. I’ve heard from many medicalmarijuana users who believe weed enabled them to use fewer opioids andother potentially lethal pain medications. It’s amazing the DEA can arguethat marijuana is not safe under medical supervision when there have beenno marijuana lethal overdoses, but opioid overdoses are the leading causeof accidental deaths in America.

Three years ago, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported on marijuana’s efficacyin controlling neuropathic pain for some patients and helping children whosuffered from constant seizures. If Washington politicians truly cared abouthelping people in need, then the Democrat in the White House and theRepublicans in Congress would have enacted legislation like theCompassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States Actright then and there.

In saying he has to follow the legal criteria for Schedule I, Rosenberg isignoring the gulf between legal requirements and reality. He says there is nocurrently accepted medical use in treatment, yet the government has barelyresearched medical use. Nobody believes what the DEA says, said Angell.

I don’t think prohibition works, and I expect to vote for the California ballotmeasure to legalize recreational adult use in November. Still, I readilyacknowledge that people of goodwill can stand on either side of this issue.

When it comes to medical use, however, the federal government should getout of the way and let people decide what works for them and the peoplethey love. And, really, how can drug warriors who want to make it harder toprescribe opioids also want to make pain-alleviating medical marijuana off-limits? There is only one reason to cling to the status quo — willfulinstitutional blindness. The worst part is, Obama knows better.

2016-08-14 11:08 Debra J spectator.org

40 Georgia Nicols horoscopes for Aug. 14, 2016

We have the “all clear” today todo business. The Moon is inCapricorn.

It’s important to know that youare highly visible today whetheryou intend to be or not. In fact,people might learn privatedetails about your personal life.Quite likely, you won’t mindbecause you feel relaxed andeasygoing with everyone. (Donot expect too much from co-workers.)

Because your appreciation ofbeauty is heightened today, give yourself a chance to see and enjoybeautiful places: museums, art galleries, pristine parks and universitycampuses. Romantic love might disillusion you today but only if you expectwhat is unrealistic.

This is a lovely day to entertain at home because relationships with familymembers will be warm and friendly. However, stay realistic because that’sthe best way to be. Don’t expect others to deliver more than they can(keeping in mind that even your in-laws are just frail mortals).

Because you want to get along with others today, especially siblings,neighbors and relatives, you are willing to cut someone some slack.Naturally, if anyone takes advantage of you or disappoints you, it will hurt.The key is to have realistic expectations of others.

Be careful with financial matters today because you might spend too muchmoney in an extravagant way. Your desire to please others is a wonderfulthing, but don’t go into debt! If shopping, be careful about large gesturesthat will empty your wallet. (You know who you are.)

It’s a cruel truth that unexpressed expectations lead to disappointment. Afterall, others cannot read our minds. Nevertheless, we hope that loved onesand close friends will do so! This is why we are let down and disappointedwhen life is left up to guesswork and unspoken expectations.

Something hidden or behind the scenes might cast a shadow on eventstoday. Perhaps you’re waiting for someone to come forth with something

but nothing happens? Perhaps you want someone to show their true love?Or at least, pick you up on time.

Don’t expect too much from friends and members of groups today. If youcan do this, this is a good day to schmooze with others. Nevertheless,because feelings of idealism are high, this can lead to disappointmentbecause nobody’s perfect.

You might think you are the favored one with a boss, parent or someonespecial. Today, this hope might be dashed or shaken up. The key is not toexpect the impossible from others, especially someone in authority who isbusy with others as well.

Avoid controversial subjects today because you might be disillusioned ifsomeone close to you disagrees with your values. Instead, enjoy the beautyof gorgeous architectural buildings, parks and galleries because yourappreciation of beauty is heightened today. These things will delight you.

Others are generous to you now, which is a good thing. However, todaythere is some kind of confusion regarding your expectations. You mightexpect more than someone is prepared to deliver? Naturally, this will lead todisappointment. Make sure everyone is on the same page.

Don’t fall into martyr trap and make sacrifices for others because you thinkit’s a noble thing to do. And don’t let anyone do this for you today, either.This kind of manipulation is a guilt trip. Instead, be honest and genuine andhope for the best. (Forgive your enemies but never forget their names.)

The Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson (1950) shares your birthday today.You are friendly, enthusiast and warm of heart. You are charismaticbecause of your charm, your generous sprit and your fast, insightful mind.This year you will be a student and a teacher. You will be excited as youstart to see the fruits of your efforts for the past six years. Expect your well-earned rewards soon!

2016-08-14 11:18 Georgia Nicols chicago.suntimes.com

41 Dear Abby: Stop checking facts on your

phoneShe’s my brother’s girlfriend, “Marla,” and she’s not a teenager. She’s in herlate 40s.

I consider it rude. She invariably interjects a comment to confirm or disputewhatever has been said by saying, “Well, according to …”

That said, because you don’t trust your brother or his lady friend, then it is

only logical that you wouldavoid them as much aspossible.

Last year, I gave her somesimple coloring books andcrayons, and she did enjoythat, but she has told me sheis kind of tired of coloring.She has adamantly insistedshe doesn’t want crosswordsor word search books.

She should not beencouraged to spend all of her time at home. A senior center can help togive her structure and physical and mental stimulation. In her generation,connection with peers is important because it provides debate andsocialization.

As to what she should be doing at home besides filling in the pages ofcoloring books, consider activities she did in the past such as knitting,chess, and watching sports or soap operas if she enjoys them.

If you would rather not submerge yourself in the blood and tears, you havemy permission not to watch. Instead, make sure to schedule activities thatbring you pleasure and joy for balance — i.e. ones that involve music,exercise, friends or the outdoors.

For everything you need to know about wedding planning, order “How toHave a Lovely Wedding.” Send your name and mailing address, plus checkor money order for $7 (U. S. funds), to: Dear Abby, Wedding Booklet, P. O.Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling areincluded in the price.)

2016-08-14 11:18 Abigail Van chicago.suntimes.com

42 Small parties tell DA to join line of political

suitorsPolitical parties have been locked in closed-door negotiations on how toform coalition administrations in municipalities where there were no outrightwinners after last week's local government elections.

The Protea Hotel in Midrand has served as the meeting place for severalcoalition discussions.

ANC Gauteng chairman Paul Mashatile and secretary-general Gwede

Mantashe held a privatemeeting described as "talksabout talks" with EFF leaderJulius Malema at the hotellast Sunday.

Floyd Shivambu, Malema'sdeputy, confirmed that theparty's decision on coalitionswould be taken by its centralcommand team at a meetingscheduled for tomorrow.

The EFF is the kingmaker inthese negotiations as it holds the balance of power in most hung councils,particularly in major metros such as Johannesburg and Tshwane.

DA leader Mmusi Maimane had approached several opposition partiesincluding Bantu Holomisa's UDM, COPE, the IFP and the AfricanIndependent Congress.

Holomisa, the go-to person on negotiations between the ANC and thesmaller parties, said they told Maimane to await the conclusion of the NEC's meeting before entering into formal talks.

"The DA came. We told them that some of us are talking to the ANC and wecan't commit ourselves yet until we hear from their NEC meeting. The DAmust understand that this is not a simple process," said Holomisa.

AIC leader Mandla Galo said he, too, was waiting to hear from the ANC firstbefore he could entertain the DA.

Galo said his party wanted feedback from the ANC about the AIC'sdemands, especially that of moving Matatiele, the small opposition party'sstronghold, back to KwaZulu-Natal from the Eastern Cape.

"The ANC has asked for a meeting with us - and we will only engage withthe DA after we have heard what the ANC has to offer regarding ourdemands," said Galo.

The delays have forced the DA to abandon its planned first council meetingin Nelson Mandela Bay after it became clear the party was struggling tosecure enough support to push through the election of Athol Trollip asmayor.

The DA won the most votes in Nelson Mandela Bay but does not haveenough seats to govern on its own. The small parties fear the DA wil use thecoalition arrangement to swallow them as it did with Patricia de Lille's

Independent Democrats.

But the ACDP and the FF PLUS have committed to working with otherparties to squeeze the ANC out of power.

The ANC is expected to announce its formal plans tomorrow.

The Sunday Times can report that last Sunday, Mantashe and othermembers of the ANC's top six met President Jacob Zuma in Pretoria,where the secretary-general told the party head that they had started talkswith the EFF and Zuma gave them his blessing despite earlier reservations.The "premier league", an ANC faction, is said to be strongly opposed to acoalition with the EFF.

Mantashe is leading the ANC's negotiations team, with deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte, treasurer-general Zweli Mkhize, Minister in thePresidency Jeff Radebe and Deputy Co-operative Governance MinisterAndries Nel.

Mashatile also met Malema separately at a follow-up meeting on Tuesdaywhen the EFF leader set eight conditions on which the two parties couldform coalitions.

Malema is demanding the ANC remove Zuma and Deputy President CyrilRamaphosa before the EFF can swing it back into power in Tshwane andJohannesburg.

Spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said the EFF would be guided by two basicprinciples in arriving at a decision.

"Everything agreed to would have to better the lives of the black poor andthe EFF would not give up its identity," said Ndlozi.

Ndlozi has indicated that, depending on the benefits to the black poor, theEFF would prefer to work with the opposition rather than the ANC.

DA sources confirmed that negotiations between the two parties werefruitful. A key sticking point is the EFF seemingly loath to govern with theDA.

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2016-08-14 11:17 THANDUXOLO JIKA www.timeslive.co.za

43 NBC's Olympics livestreaming surpasses one

billion minutes

Linear TV viewership may be down for NBC’s coverage of this year’sOlympics, but onWednesday the networkannounced that itslivestreaming coveragesurpassed one billionminutes – an Olympicsrecord. On Tuesday, withmore than a week left,livestreaming numberssurpassed those of the entire 2012 London Games.

Some viewers have been critical of NBC’s decision to delay coverage ofkey events in order to save them for primetime, but the network has easilybeen beating CBS, ABC, and FOX each night, and more, NBC has also forthe first time been leveraging others in its family of networks for primetimecoverage.

These other networks – from Bravo to USA Network to CNBC – haveresulted in a seven per cent boost in primetime viewership

2016-08-14 11:17 www.thedrum.com

44 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Some were saved, somewere not, in one deadlyAugust in WashingtonCounty

J essica Neal walks throughthe doors of her old highschool gym wearing a black“Fight Against Heroin” T-shirt. She tries to calm hernerves. Eight years is a long

time to be away.

“I get goosebumps being back in here,” she says.

Jessica has lived a few lives since then. The teenager who playedbasketball on this same parquet floor for Washington High's Lady Prexiesand wanted to make her parents proud is gone. Her classmates would notbelieve what she’s been up to since graduation, unless they happened toread about it in the newspaper last August, or hear about it on Facebook.

“How many people remember the young lady who overdosed in Walgreens

last year?” M. J. Markley, the organizer of this May event, asks the 40 or sopeople in the audience. “Remember seeing that story in the news, in thepaper? And, you know, thinking, who is this girl?

“Jessica is that girl.”

Jessica is 27 years old. She is the mother of 3-year-old Julianna, whofollows her around and has now licked all of the pink icing off her doughnut.Julianna has been through a lot, but she seems happy. She tends to worrywhen she loses sight of her mother.

Julianna was there, sitting in her stroller, when Jessica collapsed on thefloor of a Walgreens bathroom stall because she injected too much of alethal batch of heroin.

All around Washington County, you can still feel the reverberations fromAugust 2015, when nearly 40 people overdosed in the span of a week fromheroin laced with the almighty opioid fentanyl, when first responders armedwith a nasal spray antidote called Narcan held families’ futures throughoutthe Mon Valley in their hands.

In seven days, six would die -- three from the fentanyl batch and three fromunrelated opioid overdoses. Those who survived were the lucky ones.

Using 911 dispatch records, the Post-Gazette identified four of theapproximately 30 survivors. The overdoses of Jessica Neal, Melanie,Brenda and David were set apart by 36 hours stretching from the night ofAug. 16, 2015, to the morning of Aug. 18. For all practical purposes, eachof them died, and strangers with syringes arrived to bring them back.

“Hi everyone. I am Jess, and I am an addict.”

Melanie, 20, handed the end of her teenage years to heroin and became acriminal.

Brenda, 50, felt alone in this world after a great loss and used drugs toescape it.

David, 43, yearned for the love of his wife and children but also couldn’t sayno to the needy pangs in his stomach.

Melanie, Brenda and David requested that their last names not be used, outof fear that an addict’s stigma would follow them forever. They had beengiven a second chance at life, but what were they going to do with it?

All four survivors followed during the past year by the Post-Gazette sharedtwo things very much in common: They say they were led to heroin throughthe use of painkillers prescribed by doctors, and they never imagined theywould stick a needle into their arm.

Because of her public embarrassment, Jessica Neal doesn’t have theoption of protecting her identity. She now lives with the shame that anymother would feel. It has taken her nearly nine months, but she is ready toopen the wound, potential judgment be damned.

Jessica takes the microphone. The lone person stirring in the oldgymnasium is blonde and blue-eyed Julianna, who is being corralled by hergreat grandma.

“Hi everyone. I am Jess, and I am an addict.”

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The lost ones

Six months to the day of her brother’s death, Valerie Mack picks up thephone and hears the news she’s been waiting on.

“Oh my God! Thank God!” she screams. “They indicted somebody!”

Valerie hadn't heard much from the police since Aug. 16, 2015, when theytook the leftover heroin from Sammy Mack’s Washington bedroom.

Sammy, 50, had only started using a few months prior, after he had gottenaddicted to prescription painkillers while recovering from a motorcycleaccident, Valerie says. She felt he was coming out of his funk — he had justgotten a new painting job — but then he crossed paths with the heroinlabeled “Made in Colombia.” Sammy came home, went upstairs, locked thedoor and never awoke.

“Are they going to try him for murder?” Valerie asks the caller.

Down at the courthouse, U. S. Attorney David Hickton and WashingtonCounty District Attorney Gene Vittone are announcing an indictment againstRonald McMillian for his role in the distribution of the deadly heroin thatshook awake this sleepy rural county that stretches southwest of Pittsburghto the West Virginia border. He was not charged with murder.

Even in February, the dark cloud of August casts a long shadow. Vittonevividly remembers that Sunday afternoon he spent out campaigning at theWashington County Fair. Unbeknownst to him, as he mingled with voters inthe summer sun, hundreds of stamp bags of heroin laced with fentanyl — anopioid 100 times more powerful than morphine — were seductively snakingtheir way through the county’s green hills.

Vittone was about to be put to the test. Two months before, in June 2015,he had made the controversial decision to approve the use of Narcan byfirst responders. The less empathetic and more Darwinian of hisconstituents railed against the use of Narcan, saying that he was allowing

cops to play God and to slow the methodical drum of natural selection.

But Vittone, who worked for many years as an emergency medicaltechnician before he entered the practice of law, had chosen to gamble onthe good inherent in all of us, that a person’s life was always worth saving nomatter how desperate it had become.

In the months since Vittone’s decision, Washington County had introduceda new statistic into the ledger: The save.

The ones who didn’t wake up after using the fentanyl-laced heroin wereoften those new to the drug, who hadn’t built a tolerance.

On this day in February, with the cameras turned on to trumpet this firstindictment related to the August overdoses, Vittone would declare proudlythat 36 saves had been made by the use of Narcan, compared to 33fatalities since August.

No, not everybody could be saved. And, as tragedy would have it, the oneswho didn’t wake up after using the fentanyl-laced heroin were often thosenew to the drug, who hadn’t built a tolerance. Sammy Mack was, and sowere the other two who died that week, 35-year-old Tony Terrant and 21-year-old Brooks Watkins.

When the autopsy came in on Brooks, he showed just one other faint markon his arm, which likely meant that the young man was no addict. Not yet,anyway.

When notified of McMillan’s indictment, Brooks’ parents, John and AmyWatkins, take little consolation. It doesn’t help to lessen the hurt in the houseon the hill in Monongahela, where a boy once dreamed of being a baseballstar and a mother can’t bring herself to enter the quiet bedroom where heleft her.

Saving David

The first responders at the car wash in Washington weren’t surprised to seethe two men laying lifeless in a Lexus, one with a second bag of heroinalready loaded up and a needle in his arm.

“It seemed to me that, after it became news that everyone knew we weregiving Narcan, they would be going to a public place, where if they OD’d,someone would be coming to help,” said Alan, a first responder who arrivedon the scene around 1 p.m. on Aug. 17.

They had learned to apply the Narcan by putting the syringe up a dummy’snostril, but now David and his friend were depending on them.

David had just gotten out of rehab. He was hoping to win his family back.

That morning, he recalled later, marked 28 days clean, and, when he wentto get the heroin they were calling “fire,” he was only planning to make somefast cash by selling it to clear up some debts. But then David figured, hey,why not? He could go to his Narcotics Anonymous meeting high and no onewould notice.

As it turned out, Alan would not have to make his first Narcan save.Paramedics quickly came and sprayed the antidote.

“I died,” David would say. “I was unresponsive. They had to Narcan metwice. It scared me.”

David’s was the first save Alan had witnessed, the first of many he’d see inthe coming year.

“I’d like to tell you that I think they’re all going to be revived and they’re goingto go get clean and not do it again,” said Alan, who did not want his lastname used to protect his identity in the field. “But from what I’ve seen, it justseems like they keep doing it. It’s almost like we’re enabling them tocontinue doing it. Other times, you see someone come out of it and theycompletely change.”

No wakeup call

David fidgets. He checks his phone often. He doesn’t have a job, but thatdoesn’t mean he isn't busy. It’s late afternoon, and he’ll need another fix toget him through the day and protect him from the horror of heroinwithdrawal.

David considers himself a maintenance user. He needs about 10 bags perday to function. That will run him near $100. So, he hustles. He drives otheraddicts around. He’s always on call.

He wishes he didn’t crave it. He wishes being a husband and a father wasenough.

“Once you’ve become an addict, regular life is just too boring,” David says.“The all-powerful opiate is heroin. It’s the perfect drug. The euphoria, it givesyou energy, it takes the pain away. If you don’t share needles, and you don’toverdose, it’s perfect.”

Of course, David did overdose. Yet, the shock didn’t send him back torehab. He has taken time out of his schedule to provide some context, toshow that he isn’t just some junkie.

David’s whole life, he has been enticed by adrenaline. In high school, hewas an expert mogul and aerial skier with the dream of going to theOlympics. But he partied too much on the weekends and had so manyabsences from high school that he didn’t graduate. College probably wasn’t

for him anyway.

He became an alcoholic, but stopped drinking cold turkey a decade ago.He became addicted to cocaine, but licked that five years ago. He feltstrong again. Four years ago, at age 39, he says an emergency roomdoctor prescribed him 160 Vicodin 750 milligram pills without asking if hehad a history of addiction. Once the pills ran out, David needed somethingfor his pain, and heroin was much cheaper.

“Once you’ve become an addict, regular life is just too boring.”

As he tells his story at the Washington Starbucks, his friend, Frank, sits byhis side. If David ever needs a reminder of the craziness of life on heroin, allhe has to do is look at Frank, who recently lost an eye to addiction andwhose face is covered in red scars. Frank overdosed, fell and hit his head,bled, and was then attacked by a friend’s Rottweiler.

“I want to be clean,” says Frank, who is currently on a Suboxone plan to getthere. “I want to wake up normal. I got mauled, and then six months later, I’musing again. You would have thought I would have learned my lesson, butthat’s how strong it was.”

For Frank, it started six years ago when he was prescribed painkillers aftera dirt bike accident.

Frank was a welder, and David was a contractor. It didn’t have to be likethis.

“I’m numbing my feelings,” David says, “so that I don’t care.”

David’s phone rings. He thanks you for your time, but he has to go.

Saving Melanie

The contents of the creamy brown heroin were no mystery to Melanie. Sheknew that the “Made in Colombia” stamp bags she and her boyfriendbought had been cut with fentanyl, and, to her, that only made it moredesirable.

Melanie understood how dealers thought because she was one. The chaosof August simply came down to some cruel math: Fentanyl is cheaper thanheroin, yet immensely more powerful. So addicts would pay more for aproduct that costs less to make.

With this stuff, she only used half a bag. She still overdosed.

To the heartless supplier, it didn’t matter that fentanyl was deadly and couldkill a loyal customer.

“They were so strong, and when you tell other addicts how strong they are,

they want it automatically,” Melanie would say.

Usually, Melanie would use five to 10 bags at a time. With this stuff, she onlyused half a bag.

She still overdosed.

Her boyfriend took her to the bathroom, laid her on the floor and threw wateron her face. Before the paramedics arrived, Melanie came back. She toldthem that she didn’t need to go to the hospital. They told her the policewould be on their way.

Melanie wasn’t going to hang around for that. There were warrants out forher arrest because she had been caught with drug paraphernalia. She raninto the woods behind her mother’s trailer and hid until it was safe.

Rite of passage

Melanie adjusts the mirror of the blue SUV and moves the driver’s seatforward. She hits the gas a little too hard and giggles.

“Lead foot!” her godmother, Lynette, jokes.

Will today finally be the day Melanie, now 20, gets her drivers license? Shehas already passed the written part. Now she pulls into the front of the linefor her driving test and waits.

The instructor approaches. He sees a small, blue-eyed girl with her hair andmakeup all done up for her picture. She wears strategically ripped jeansand hot pink nail polish. Looking at Melanie, there is no way anybody couldimagine the depths of hell that she used to call home.

“I was someone who looked at someone who uses as ‘Oh, you’re a junkie.Just quit. You have a choice,’ ” Melanie says. “I didn’t know anything aboutit. I was never around any drugs. I hadn’t even heard of heroin.”

At 17, Melanie attended vocational-technical school and worked at a fastfood joint. She had played soccer in high school, but had to stop because ofher knee. She went to see an orthopedic doctor, who recommendedsurgery to repair a genetic condition. He prescribed her Percocet. Fornearly a year, she said, all she had to do was ask, and he’d leave aprescription with his nurses. She didn’t even have to see him.

The day Melanie turned 18, she moved in with her boyfriend, whointroduced her to heroin.

“Just once is all it takes,” she says. “And actually, when I started doingheroin, I hated it. I’d puke, my stomach would hurt, but I’d keep doing it. Idon’t know why.

“After a month, it’s a physical thing. I had to have it to get up and function. Iwouldn’t even open the door in the morning until I was high.”

Melanie lived in Washington County’s alternate universe where the onlything that mattered was the next fix. For a while, she and her boyfriendworked doing construction for a man who built his business model aroundemploying addicts and paying them exclusively in drugs. They would get inon the action, too, selling enough heroin so that they could always be highand still have money left over to stay in cheap motel rooms, buy cigarettesand pay for the rental car.

“I wouldn’t even open the door in the morning until I was high.”

“It was constant, all day long,” she says. “We robbed a couple houses. Weused to carry guns. I did some dumb stuff, but at the time, you don’t care.”

The overdose didn’t exactly scare her straight. Her mother and sister turnedher in to police, and she spent a month in jail, which was the best thing thatcould have happened. She had no choice but to fight through 10 days ofintense withdrawal. When she came out of it, she realized she actually had achance to beat her addiction and return to the mainstream.

Melanie hasn’t used since August. She’s gotten a job. She’s getting herGED. She’s a part of her family again. She’s … Melanie.

“When I got out of jail, what I wanted the most was a chocolate milk shake,”says Melanie, who has added 30 pounds of healthy weight.

Melanie has learned to appreciate boredom — and to exist with pain. Herother knee is acting up, but she can’t take that risk of surgery.

The driver’s license is an important step. Her mother has promised to gether a car, because Melanie earned back her trust.

Now, the instructor has taken his seat. Melanie drives to the back parkinglot, where her first challenge is to parallel park. The only problem is she hadnot attempted the maneuver from this angle, with the driver reversing towardthe passenger side.

She inches the car back, turns into the spot but cuts it directly into a cone.She flunks.

“Well, I’ve got to reschedule now,” she says, getting out of the car. Shefeigns a laugh.

“It’s the first time, babe. It happens,” Lynette says.

“I didn’t practice going that way,” Melanie says.

“I was like … STOP!” Lynette says. “You almost had it.”

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Saving Jessica

Jessica had never overdosed. In the addict community, that was a source ofgreat pride.

The night of Aug. 16, she saw her brother’s girlfriend overdose from the“Made in Colombia” stamp bag that was making its way through town. Still,Jessica wanted some. She felt immune. The next day, with $10 to hername, she bought two bags.

“Be careful,” the woman who sold it to her said.

“I will,” Jessica said. “That doesn’t happen to me.”

Jessica took her 2-year-old daughter, Julianna, with her to a bathroom stallat Walgreens and began to shoot up. Jessica went blank until she wasbeing picked up off the floor by a first responder who had revived her withNarcan.

“The first thing on my mind was, ‘Where is my kid?’ ” Jessica said. “Youbecome very aggressive once you’re hit with Narcan. I was freaking out.They had to restrain me.”

In the ambulance, Jessica was told that Child and Youth Services was onthe way. But, Jessica said, she would later find out that a friend of Julianna’sfather had heard the toddler crying in the bathroom and opened the stalldoor. She had recognized Julianna and called the man, who arrived atWalgreens shortly before CYS. A stroke of luck had kept Julianna with herfamily, but Jessica would still be charged with child endangerment.

The next day, Jessica returned home from the hospital. A friend stopped bywith unwelcome news.

“I’m just warning you now,” she said. “Your name is all over Facebook.”

Clean living

You can find Jessica Neal sitting in the front pew of Judge John DiSalle’scourtroom, drinking a Pepsi as she waits for her name to be called.

Every few weeks here at treatment court, Jessica updates the judge on herprogress. Listening to others’ struggles to stay clean can serve asinspiration for her to rise above temptation.

The first man to speak has had a relapse.

“You were doing so well,” Judge DiSalle says. “This shouldn’t have

happened at your stage. You have to have resolve.”

The next man up failed a screen for alcohol and is claiming he used toomuch VapoRub.

“It will be much easier if you come clean on this,” the judge says. “You’re notshowing sincerity.”

Then, a woman in cuffs and an orange jumpsuit has been caught trying tofalsify a drug test because she used heroin.

“I need these spots for people who truly want to be in recovery,” he says.“This is your last chance.”

Jessica tells DiSalle that she remains clean, having not used since Aug. 17,2015.

Jessica sees her daughter often and is hoping to move soon into a three-quarter way house where Julianna can live with her. She goes to a dailyNarcotics Anonymous meeting, has a sponsor and has established arelationship with her higher power. DiSalle is pleased.

The system has worked for Jessica. In jail, she spent 10 days in medicallockdown due to an abscess.

“That’s where the obsession got lifted,” Jessica says. “I started praying,reading the Bible, did a lot of thinking in there.”

If Jessica wanted CYS to back off and let her be a mother to Julianna again,she would have to prove that she wanted recovery. The county’s chief adultprobation officer, John Moschetta, recommended her for treatment court,which is reserved for those with serious addiction issues.

“I’m thinking, ‘This is going to save my life. I can’t do this anymore,’ ”Jessica says.

Through her soul searching, Jessica has realized that she had been using— first opioids prescribed by doctors and later heroin — to fill an emotionalvoid and numb the sadness that befell her when her mother became sickwith Lou Gehrig’s disease.

“You use this substance, you feel like you matter,” Jessica says. “It took allmy worries away. You don’t care about your family. You don't care aboutyour kids. You don’t care about anything. Your job. Your car. I’ve lost threecars due to my engine blowing up because I didn’t change the oil. I wasrenting my vehicle out to drug dealers. You don’t care. I’m not sick for theday. That’s all that matters.

“When I overdosed, that was a big wakeup call to me.”

Judge DiSalle hears more sad stories than happy ones, and he likes thedirection that Jessica is heading.

“Keep up the good work,” he says.

Saving Brenda

On the night of Aug. 16, eight overdose calls came into dispatch in the spanof 70 minutes. Donnie, a concerned citizen, listened to his police scanner athis Washington home, as he often did to stay informed.

“I don’t know what’s wrong with this town,” he thought.

Donnie mostly worried for his 50-year-old wife, Brenda. She had been cleanfor more than a month and had just driven to the corner store to buycigarettes. What state would she be in when she returned?

At the 7-Eleven, Brenda ran into a familiar face that triggered a familiarfeeling.

“I almost died. My first thought was, ‘How could I do this to myself?’”

In July, she had gone to rehab and received a Vivitrol shot to help prevent arelapse, but she had moved back her August appointment for the monthlyshot (which works like Suboxone) to go on vacation. Her chemical defensesweakened, she was now confronted with a demon disguised as an oldfriend offering her two bags for 10 bucks.

“Being clean so long, I thought, ‘It’s going to be a good high,’ ” she said.

Now Donnie stood on their front porch, watching as his wife drove her Jeeppast their driveway and hit a neighbor’s parked car. His fears wereconfirmed. He dialed 911, and soon an ambulance arrived. Brenda’s eyeswere rolling back in her head. The paramedics gave her Narcan. She cameto before the trip to the hospital.

The next morning, when she awoke at home, she felt numb.

It was not a good high.

“I almost died,” she said. “My first thought was, ‘How could I do this tomyself?’ ”

Managing pain

Brenda and Donnie keep their house dark. She doesn’t get out much duringthe long winter, partly because she doesn’t like the cold, and partly becauseshe can’t move very easily with her back problems.

With Donnie working a 9-to-5 she lives each day here with no company but

her physical and emotional pain. In mid-March of this year, all she can do iscry as she talks about the events that brought her to the brink of death.

This is how it had been since 2011. When her sister died of kidney cancer,she felt she had nothing to live for, despite having two children and fivegrandchildren. Then her best friend passed away from lupus, and her niecedied from a heroin overdose.

“God started plucking all these people out of my life,” she says.

In the vast void, Brenda latched onto the sweet sensation she got when shewould drink down the painkillers prescribed to her by doctors. The highwould wash over her, and, inside the opioid’s protective cocoon, she couldforget.

Before long, Brenda was selling her pills — which can go for about a dollarper milligram on the street — to fund a heroin addiction she masterfully hidfrom her husband.

Her two sons suspected what was going on with their mother, but theoverdose broke down her wall of secrecy.

“I thought, ‘I’m going to put all these people through this,’ ” Brenda says, thetears flowing. “I had already lost probably a good bit of respect from mykids. I want them to be able to trust me again. I mean, I don’t know how toshow them …”

The only way, of course, is to get clean and to stay clean. In November, shehadn’t used since the overdose, but she went to the hospital complaining ofa toothache. Donnie says the hospital doctor prescribed her 10 Vicodin anda prescription signed by her neurosurgeon gave her 40 more. She saysnobody asked if she had a history of addiction.

“They’re basically like legal drug dealers,” Brenda says.

On this day, Brenda says she hasn’t used in 39 days. She hasn’t beengoing to NA meetings. The weather, you know. Until it warms up, she willstay inside and continue counting the days, with each one a bigger victorythan the one before it.

A failed save

It was a classic summer Saturday. John and Amy Watkins watched theiryoungest son, Jake, play soccer for Charleroi High in the morning. Theiroldest son, Brooks, said he would join them in the afternoon to go to hisaunt’s house.

When they returned home from the soccer game, Amy yelled up to Brooks.No answer. She didn’t think anything of it — they were always trying to give

their 21-year-old his space — and took the dog outside.

Soon, Amy would hear Brooks’ phone ringing continuously. Jake told herthat he was probably sleeping. She yelled again that it was time for him tostart getting ready. No answer.

Amy walked up the stairs and peeked in his bedroom. She didn’t see him.She checked the bathroom. Nothing. This time, she entered the bedroomand circled the bed.

“And there he was, on his knees, like he was just going to jump up andsurprise me,” Amy would say. “And I shook him and shook him and, when Ipulled him back onto me, that’s when I saw the syringe and the spoon.”

She screamed for John. He ran up to the room where he had installedbaseball- and football-themed wallpaper and put up the sign that said“Watkins Field,” the room where Brooks would stargaze from his telescopeand imagine the big world outside of Monongahela. Brooks was going to gosee it — he had just decided to join the Navy.

Now he laid on the floor, his lips blue. He was cold. John tried to breathewarmth back into him.

“Having to give your son CPR when you know it’s not going to work… it’shaunting,” John would say.

When the paramedics arrived, it was too late. Brooks Watkins was dead,and the scariest thing was, his parents never even knew he had a problem.

Brooks’ mystery

John and Amy Watkins need there to be a heaven. Just the other day inchurch, the sermon made Amy feel like they’re going to see Brooks again.

“I am working on believing,” John says. “Maybe the saddest thing would beif that were the last time we ever see him.”

They do a lot of thinking, mostly in the past. You know that Harry Chapinsong, “Cat’s In the Cradle”? The lyrics stick with John.

I don’t know when, but we’ll get together then

You know we’ll have a good time then

At a Pirates game last fall, John caught himself having a conversation withthe empty seat next to him.

“One of the most difficult things is getting older without him,” John says. “Iwill never forget him, but I have difficulty thinking of being an old fart and stillthinking about what happened. As they say, whatever he struggled with is

over for him. But it’s a struggle that we have as long as we live.”

“The old thought of what an addict is, under the bridge, down and out, that’snot Brooks. It’s starting to be in any given social strata. It doesn’tdiscriminate.”

They don’t know what Brooks’ struggle was. They’ve spent the past yeardesperately trying to figure it out, to understand where they failed so thatthey can move on and give Jake the best of what they have left. There havebeen few satisfactory answers.

Was it pills? Brooks, a star catcher on the Charleroi baseball team, had ahigh tolerance for pain. They remember him having surgery to repair a tornlabrum his senior year, and, while he took some painkillers, they recallBrooks saying he didn’t want anymore after just a day. At 19, he had hiswisdom teeth out. Amy took a video of him in a loopy state from themorphine saying he had taken something that made him feel “real good,”which made his mom laugh. But they have no evidence that Brooks everabused pills.

So, they play detective, putting every little thing under the microscope. Thefew months before Aug. 22, 2015, he was mostly himself. He interacted withthe whole family on their annual trip to the Outer Banks, N. C. He woreshorts and sandals and T-shirts, so he wasn’t hiding any needle marks. Hehadn’t lost any noticeable weight. He was playing for a competitive softballteam with friends.

Still, looking back, they realize he had begun to tell them small lies. Hewould ask Amy for money more often. She wondered if he had an onlinegambling problem. The one time she pressed him on the issue of drugs, heresponded that he wasn’t using anything and she could drug test him. Shechose to trust him.

On the morning he died, Brooks called his mother’s cell phone around11:45 a.m. She was at Jake’s soccer game, and she had mistakenly left herphone in the car. That missed call will be ringing in her heart forever.

John and Amy Watkin discuss the death of their son, Brooks. (MichaelHenninger/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

“You may think it’s not to going to happen to you, but you’re better off to besafe than sorry,” says Amy, who has told her family’s story at several publicforums. “I struggle with the feeling I let him down, because I should haveknown more. But we weren’t brought up around people that had any form ofaddiction.”

Brooks’ parents and grandparents all went to college, but they simply didn’tgain enough education during the last decade about opioids and heroin.

John’s father, John Sr., was the president of California (Pa.) University. Heand Brooks started their own club, reading the same books and tradingnotes.

“The old thought of what an addict is, under the bridge, down and out, that’snot Brooks,” the younger John Watkins says. “It’s starting to be in any givensocial strata. It doesn’t discriminate.”

John and Amy don’t believe their son was an addict, but they can’t deny thathe may have been headed down that path. Someone actually had the nerveto tell them that they had been spared the pain of watching your loved onespiral away.

“We would have done anything to save him,” John says.

“I think he could have overcome this,” Amy says.

They don’t take any chances with Jake, who just graduated high school.They drug test him.

This summer, they decided that they had OK to go on a family vacation. Butit wouldn’t be the Outer Banks, where they’d been so many times withBrooks. They opted for the beaches of Sand Bridge, Va., where JohnWatkins would ask the extended family to honor Brooks’ memory one lasttime. Each person walked to the edge of the Atlantic, said something toBrooks and dropped a flower into the surf.

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Two directions

These four who lived don’t have anything promised to them.

In the middle of another hot summer, David is still out there hustling andhoping someday he will have enough of a reason to slow down. Brenda’shusband, Donnie, recently found his wife passed out in the morning withheroin lying next to the bed. She had been clean for 120 days.

This ongoing dance between temptation and desperation is the daily realitytoday for Washington County — and for the many other rural counties ofAppalachia. Despite the consistent effort by Washington County districtattorney Gene Vittone and the county’s public safety team, there is no end insight.

In February, there was another outbreak of fentanyl-laced heroin, and, whileVittone felt they were much more prepared the second time, they could notprevent the deadly toxin from hitting the street.

“We have to realize that addiction is a medical condition and treat it as

such.”

As of July 19, county 911 dispatch records show that there have been morethan 340 overdoses reported since Aug. 1, 2015, resulting in 63 fatalitiesand 65 saves.

“I do not believe we’ve seen the peak of it yet,” says Washington Countycoroner Tim Warco. “The numbers that we’re having … putting people in jailis not helping. We have to realize that addiction is a medical condition andtreat it as such.”

Melanie and Jessica needed incarceration to get clean. For them, nearly ayear later, recovery is fragile but ongoing.

2016-08-14 11:07 www.post-gazette.com

45 Anthony Weiner Sends Flirtatious Messages

To Republican Activist Posing As WomanHere is one more reason forHillary Clinton to short circuit.“Carlos Danger” just re-invented himself as amongoose.

The New York Post onSaturday published AnthonyWeiner’s racy direct Twittermessages to a male college Republican leader who catfished him from thegirlie handle “Nikki.”

Weiner, at a Los Angeles hotel last month for an appearance on “Real TimeWith Bill Maher,” playfully described himself as a “mongoose,” joked abouthis “staff” and even gave “Nikki” his personal cell phone number so “she”could locate him.

“Text and I’ll hit that location button thing,” the husband of Clinton’s top-aidesays hopefully.

But his virtual heartthrob was actually the male head of a school’sRepublican club who borrowed a female friend’s Twitter account to entrapWeiner.

In one message Weiner suggested to “Nikki” he is just wearing a towel.

“I moved the tv so I could hear/see it while in the shower. I dropped it.Neighbor complained. Me Towel. Tv. Floor. And now concierge on the way.”“She” responds, “Come out with just the towel on when he/she knocks,

would pretty much = a tip for the concierge.”

Weiner first plays coy. “This is definitely a porn set up.”

But he then said hopefully, maybe the the concierge is “wearing strappyblack heels and just left work to come welcome me to LA.”

In the exchange, Weiner joking refers to himself as a “mongoose” and evensends “Nikki” one.

Just Friday Page Six reported claims by Weiner’s ex-online honey SydneyLeathers that he was sexting a woman who sought her advice. But Weinertold Post reporter Mara Siegler that he knew “Nikki” was setting him up.

He called the July 27 exchanges, “a playful joust with an obvious catfish,”and, with the kind of insouciance people use to feign innocence, said, “I canconfirm that I am indeed deceptively strong like a mongoose.”

Weiner sent over 60 texts to Nikki, according to exchanges the Postpublished online.

Indeed, after Weiner sent “Nikki” his number but “she” cuts the conversationhome, claiming to need to get home to “her” roommates. The ex-congressman sounded disappointed after hearing the excuse.

“Btw, thanks for your help with wardrobe. Sheesh.”

“Nikki” told the Post that he enticed Weiner into direct messaging himsimply by re-tweeting and comment on one of his posts.

“The amount of effort this took was the most alarming thing given hishistory,” he said. “I was trying to think how to get him to say somethingstupid without making it so obvious.”

Brian Fallon, press secretary for the Clinton campaign, did not immediatelyrespond to a tweet Saturday night asking if he thought Weiner’s defensethat he was deliberately toying with a “catfish” is transphobic.

2016-08-14 11:08 Investigative Journalist dailycaller.com

46 Soros Groups Get Hacked, Hundreds Of

Documents LeakedHundreds of internal documents from groups run by prominent billionaireliberal donor George Soro were leaked online Saturday after hackersinfiltrated the groups.

The 2,576 files were released by DCLeaks, a website which claims to be

“launched by the Americanhacktivists who respect andappreciate freedom ofspeech, human rights andgovernment of the people.”

The documents are frommultiple departments ofSoros’ organizations. Soros’

the Open Society Foundations seems to be the group with the mostdocuments in the leak. Files come from sections representing almost allgeographical regions in the world, “the President’s Office”, and somethingnamed SOUK.

There are documents dating from at least 2008 to 2016. In June, the OpenSociety Foundations also had several documents leaked by DCLeaks.Bloomberg reported that the foundation notified the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation to the hacking.

Documents in the leak range from research papers such as “SOMALIS INEUROPEAN CITIES PORTFOLIO REVIEW” to specific financials of grants.DCLeaks previously released emails from Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove,the supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe. The emails showedBreedlove upset with Obama’s reluctance to address Russian aggression.

DCLeaks has been alleged to be a Russian-backed source.

2016-08-14 11:08 dailycaller.com

47 Fashion police down on Nciza for rowdy show

The 20-minute show onThursday to launch her NNVintage line started withKhanyi Mbau performing hersong Shake in an umbrellatop and underwear, followedby actress Jessica Nkosi,TV personality Luthando"LootLove" Shosha, BigBrother Mzansistar BabalwaMneno and Idols SA judgeSomizi Mhlongo, amongothers.

Nciza said she had wanted to move away from the stiff and serious rampshowcase to a more vibrant African show.

"I am an entertainer and a designer, which is what I wanted to showcasethrough my show.

"I chose all sorts of shaped celebrities because I wanted to show support toother female celebrities, since it's Women's Month, while also showing mypotential buyers that you don't have to be a skinny person to wear NNVintage," she said.

But there were a few glitches. One model was left exposed when her blacktop snapped as she walked the ramp, leaving her breasts in full view of thecameras and guests. Gasps turned into a cheer of encouragement whenshe appeared to be unfazed.

A commentator on SABC show Trendz , Leroy Marc, said he felt Ncizashould have done better as it wasn't her first fashion show.

"It was a good show, but there were so many elements that left medisturbed. Had the models not been dancing and moving about as much asthey were, those garments could have survived the runaway.

"Her use of pear-plum has been done to death and is not flattering to theAfrican [figure]," he said.

Another model stepped on her long mesh skirt and the audience watched indismay as it slowly ripped.

"Getting on stage anything can happen, unfortunately. That is life but I amglad the model handled it really well," said Nciza.

But designer Gavin Rajah said local fashion shows left much to be desired."There is a huge discussion in the fashion industry at the moment, wheremany are asking if shows are targeted for a fashion audience or are put onfor entertainment. "

2016-08-14 11:15 GABI MBELE www.timeslive.co.za

48 Japan boy band SMAP to break up

One of Asia's biggest pop groups, SMAP, is to break up at the end of theyear after a 25-year career.

The Japanese boy band, which sold 35m records up to last year, willdisband on 31 December, its management agency said on Sunday.

Rumours of a split had been rife since the turn of the year, but had allpreviously been denied.

Its five members, who are aged between 39 and 43, are now expected to

pursue solo careers.

The band, formed in 1988,has built up a huge fanbasein Japan and throughoutAsia with membersappearing frequently in films,soap operas, andcommercials.

Members of SMAP, whichstands for "Sports Music

Assemble People", have also appeared on cookery shows and Japanesecoverage of the Rio Olympics.

Their popularity has even made them ambassadors for diplomatic relationsbetween Japan, China and South Korea.

In 2011, they were the first Japanese pop group to visit China in a decade,amid a row between the countries over disputed territory. Their Beijingconcert was attended by 40,000 people.

A statement by the group's managers Johnny and Associates said theywere "truly and deeply pained and sorry" to not be able to take part in 25thanniversary celebrations.

2016-08-14 11:07 www.bbc.co.uk

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50 Filipina nanny helped raise Singapore golden

boy

Coaches, teammates and rivals may have seen the evolution of JosephSchooling the swimmer.

But very few would havewitnessed the boy-to-manstory of Singapore’s Olympicchampion from diapers tothe Mizuno trunks who wentprospecting in Rio deJaneiro and struck gold.

Ms Yolanda Pascual, or“Auntie Yolly”, is Schooling’s

loyal domestic helper who has seen him through his formative years toadulthood, although in her loving eyes he is always her “waterboy”.

In a Sunday Times phone interview yesterday, she said: “I’ve alwaysbelieved in him. I was watching and shouting for him. I cannot express howhappy I am… I was jumping and crying after he won.”

Still working for the Schooling household after 19 years, the pair havealways been close. The 21-year-old Olympic gold medallist has even calledher a “second mum” in a YouTube video made by Singtel, where he showedhis appreciation for her support.

She said: “When I miss him, I read our messages (on the phone). He’s likemy own son.”

The Filipina started working for Schooling’s family in 1997. She recalled:“He was playful like all boys, but (has) always been loving and caring and avery good boy. He never shouts at me or anybody.”

The 56-year-old has a file filled with newspaper clippings of him. She said:“He’ll always say ‘I want to be No. 1′. I remember once we were watching(Michael) Phelps on TV, he told me he wanted to be there and be like him,and I knew he could do it. He has a very strong will; if he wants something,he’ll get it.”

But he never quite had a normal childhood – a sacrifice he made to get intothe record books. “When friends asked (him) to go out, he usually couldn’tbecause he had practice early the next day,” said Ms Pascual, who ismarried with two daughters.

When he experienced lows, she would always be there, behind the scenes,to pick him up. She said: “He told me when he was very tired, and I’d givehim a massage. Even now, when he comes back, he still asks formassages and he’s still like the young boy he was before he left.”

2016-08-14 11:01 The Straits globalnation.inquirer.net

51 Jewish activists lead global protest in

Palestinian village of SussiyaAs around 30 mostlyAmerican and Israeli-American Jews brought inthe Shabbat with Hebrewprayers, a strong windcarried the muezzin’sevening call for prayer fromthe nearby Palestinian city ofYatta, interweaving theJewish and Islamicmelodies.

This group of Jewishactivists was spendingShabbat evening in the Palestinian village of Sussiya as part of a “globalShabbat against demolitions,” which gathered around 300 Jews from somefive countries to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian villages of Sussiya,Umm el-Kheir, al-Araqib and Umm el-Hiran. These villages are illegal underIsraeli law as they were built without permits, and Sussiya is slated fordemolition by the government.

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Over the weekend, activists from Israel, the UK and the US hosted Shabbatdinners in more than 10 cities and five countries, including: New York,London, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Belgium, and Australia; and protested in frontof the Israeli Embassy in London and consulate in New York.

The global protest is coordinated by All That’s Left, an anti-occupationcollective of Diaspora Jews in partnership with the Center for JewishNonviolence and T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.

The ground zero for this movement of mostly young Jews standing withPalestinians is in Sussiya – the heart of the conflict over housing demolition.Here overlooking the South Hebron Hills, young Jews have assembled withPalestinian residents and activists to oppose Israeli policies head-on.

“We are speaking for a growing portion of the Jewish community thatrealizes the situation is unsustainable and we need to work withPalestinians to build a common future,” stated Erez Bleicher, an organizerwith All That’s Left.

With a population of only 400, the Palestinian village of Sussiya hasgarnered international attention as it faces a demolition order from thegovernment. A dialogue was established last year between Sussiyaresidents and the Civil Administration for the West Bank to see whether thetwo parties could come to an agreement.

The negotiations, however, were halted as Defense Minister AvigdorLiberman considers the government’s stance on Sussiya. The High Court ofJustice has ordered Liberman to submit his position on the demolition ofSussiya by August 15.

But other organizations like Regavim, an NGO aligned with the settlermovement, holds the position that the land was used only for grazing sheep,and shepherds in Yatta would occasionally sleep there.

A few weeks ago, Regavim’s international director, Josh Hasten,commented on the situation. “The Palestinians have no legal or historicalclaim to this land. They have been squatting illegally in the area for the past15+ years,” he said. “We call upon the Supreme Court to enforce itsdecision against illegal construction carried out in deliberate violation ofexplicit court orders.”

For these Jewish activists, many of them coming from a background ofinvolvement in Jewish summer camps and with Jewish institutions, themainstream Jewish community has turned a blind eye toward some Israelipolicies which they consider unjust. Thus, they are seeking to harness theirinterpretations of Jewish ethics and morality toward solidarity withPalestinian issues.

Sussiya is located right next to a Jewish settlement of the same name,situated in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills.

“I know that tonight in the [Jewish] settlement of Sussiya, they are singingthe same prayers as we are, but they have a different interpretation,” saidFrima Bubis, a participant on the trip whose friend attended high school inthe settlement.

“I know that the heart that mourns for Gush Katif is the same heart that canmourn Palestinian suffering,” she said.

Bubis served in the IDF in the Civil Administration of Nablus, and wasraised in a Conservative family with a strong connection to her Jewishidentity.

While her current activism has given her a “different relationship with Israel,”it has nevertheless strengthened her connection with Israel and her Jewishidentity. “I think that having to constantly insist on our connection to Israeland our legitimacy as Jews has actually strengthened my connection,” she

said. Bubis also works for the controversial group, Breaking the Silence.

According to a statement by All That’s Left, the purpose of the Shabbatprotests is to “say emphatically that forced displacements, dislocation, anddemolition do not represent our values... As members of a people who haveexperienced expulsion, persecution, and dispossession, we stand with allPalestinian communities facing eviction.”

In Sussiya the residents clearly appreciate the presence and impact of theJewish activists.

Nassar Nawaja, a resident and field researcher for B’Tselem was happythat Jewish activists were supporting the village in its dispute with the Israeligovernment. “It is extremely important that Jewish people tell our messageto the world,” he stated.

Fatimah Nawaja, the head of the South Hebron Hills Rural Women’sAssociation, which is based in Sussiya, told The Jerusalem Post that thepresence of Jewish activists “feels very special.” She thanked the activistsfor their visit and said “it is good for Jews to stand behind us innonviolence.”

The Shabbat against demolitions campaign comes as Israel is facingincreasing pushback from the United States and some American-Jewishorganizations protesting a possible Israeli demolition of Sussiya.

A diplomatic source told the Post’s Tovah Lazaroff last week thatdemolishing the village would be “crossing a redline.”

A letter from the president of the Union of Reform Judaism, Rabbi RickJacobs to Ambassador Ron Dermer urges Israel to preserve the village,while a recent J Street petition asking US Secretary of State John Kerry to“stop the demolition of Sussiya” has received thousands of signatures,according to J Street.

“We urge you to share with [Liberman] our strong support for a solution tothis impasse that recognizes the interests of Sussiya residents and doesnot lead to the community’s destruction,” the Union for Reform Judaismletter read.

While the small village has gained a lot of international attention, theactivists hope that their distinctly Jewish voices will help the Palestinianvillage in its dialogue with the government to resolve the dispute.

“I think it will contribute to a larger effort pressuring the US and governmentsin Europe and Australia to pressure Israel to not to go forward with thesedemolitions,” said Bleicher. “This global Shabbat against demolition is onerepresentation of a Jewish mass movement that is emerging.”

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2016-08-14 10:54 Eliyahu Kamisher www.jpost.com

52 Rio 2016: Dutee Chand flops, Anas and Ankit

crash outRio de Janeiro: SprinterDutee Chand (below), whomade it to her first Olympicsafter fighting the odds arisingout of a ‘gender test’,finished a disappointingseventh in her 100m heatson the opening day ofathletics event.

Dutee Chand

She clocked 11.69secs.

Men’s quarter-miler Muhammad Anas also crashed out at the heats whilelong jumper Ankit Sharma failed to advance to the final round to pile on theIndian misery.

2016-08-14 10:35 By PTI www.mid-day.com

53 2k civilians used by ISIS as 'human shields'

freedBeirut: Some 2,000 civilians used by the ISIS as humanshields have been released as the jihadists retreated innorthern Syria.

A source from Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), whichpushed ISIS out of the city of Manbij this week with the aidof US-led air strikes, said some of the civilians were able to escape while"others were freed".

The SDF, an Arab-Kurdish alliance, launched an assault in May on Manbij,a key jihadist supply route.

2016-08-14 09:56 By Agencies www.mid-day.com

54 Chinese foreign minister meets PM, Swaraj;

talks NSGNew Delhi: Chinese ForeignMinister Wang Yi onSaturday called on PrimeMinister Narendra Modi andheld talks with hiscounterpart Sushma Swarajduring which India's bid formembership to the NSG isunderstood to have figuredamong other regional andbilateral issues.

External Affairs MinisterSushma Swaraj welcomes her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in New Delhion Saturday. Pic/PTI

Wang and Swaraj also discussed issues relating to the annual BRICSsummit which will be hosted by India in Goa in October.

"Discussing issues of mutual importance. EAM @SushmaSwaraj meetswith her counterpart Chinese FM Wang Yi in New Delhi," External AffairsMinistry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted, along with a photograph ofthe meeting of the two foreign ministers.

Wang had arrived in Goa on Friday on a three-day visit to India. He had metGoa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar and discussed about preparationsfor the BRICS summit. The Chinese Foreign Minister arrived here last night.He called on Modi first and then held talks with Swaraj.

China had stalled India's bid for membership to the Nuclear SuppliersGroup (NSG) at the plenary meeting of the 48-nation grouping in June ongrounds that it was not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

2016-08-14 09:51 By Agencies www.mid-day.com

55 Police foils separatist attempts to march

Srinagar: Police on Saturday thwarted attempts byseparatist leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed AliShah Geelani, who are under house arrest, to take outprocessions from their residences to Lal Chowk.

In the first instance, Mirwaiz, the chairman of moderate

Hurriyat Conference, came out from his Nigeen residence, located on theoutskirts of Srinagar, this afternoon. He was immediately detained by thepolice and taken to Nigeen police station, officials said.

Separately, Geelani, who heads the hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference,also tried to take out a march from his Hyderpora residence on Srinagar-Airport road. However, the police stopped the octogenarian leader,following which he along with his supporters staged a sit-in on link road.

2016-08-14 09:31 By Agencies www.mid-day.com

56 30-year-old conned, kidnapped on date in

MumbaiA resident of Malad could not have guessed what lay onthe other side of his new virtual friendship.

On July 29, the 30-year-old victim became friends withSahil, alias Jack, on Planet Romeo. Police sources saythe two exchanged phone numbers and began chatting

regularly. As they had become good friends, the victim asked Jack to meethim at his residence on August 2.

While Jack kept the date, minutes into their meeting, the doorbell rang. Anunknown person, claiming to be a police official from the Chembur policestation, forced his way into the house. He said they were violating laws withtheir homosexual acts, and forced them into an autorickshaw claiming thathe was taking them to the police station.

When the autorickshaw was on its way through the Powai end of AareyColony, it became clear that Jack and the other man, who had posed as acop, were working hand in glove.

They demanded Rs 50,000 from the victim. When the victim responded thathe didn't have much money to part with, the kidnappers stopped at an ATMnear Powai's L&T Company, where they forced him to withdraw R25,000.Once the accused had the cash in hand, they fled in the same auto.

The victim has registered a complaint at the Kurar police station. InspectorLT Vhanmane said, “We are investigating the case. It seems like a racket ofharassers who cheat people by making friends through various socialnetworking sites.”

2016-08-14 09:29 By Samiullah www.mid-day.com

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57 Mumbai boy held for stalking exThe Byculla police has arrested a 20-year-old for stalkingand threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend if she didn't getback with him.

The BMM student met Viraj Pednekar through aFacebook friend last year, and their relationship lasted forabout 10 months.

After their break-up in May, Pednekar would threaten to send their personalselfies to her parents if she refused to him. After the family lodged acomplaint with the police, he was booked and arrested.

2016-08-14 09:28 By A www.mid-day.com

58 Mahad bridge tragedy: Wreckage of second

bus foundTwo days after rescueagencies fished out one ofthe two missing ST buses,which fell into a riverfollowing a bridge collapsenear Mahad in Raigaddistrict, the wreckage of thesecond bus was found onSaturday.

The Jaigad-Borivli bus wasfished out from the river onSaturday night

The Jaigad-Borivli bus, which was located 200 metres from the first ST bus,was dragged ashore with the help of cranes late in the night. While theNational Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Coastal Guard and Navy arecarrying out rescue operations together, Sushma Satpute, sub-divisionalofficer (Mahad), said it was the Navy commanders who found both themissing buses.

Shirish Pavle, lieutenant commandant, Navy, said though both the buseswere located just around 200 metres from each other, search operationstook time because they could enter the river only when the water levelsweren't too high. "To avoid the heavy flow of water, we carried out searchoperations at 5 am," he said. He added that since the river was muddy, thevisibility in the water was poor, making it impossible for divers to find thebus.

"We traced the bus at 10 am on Saturday, but our divers had to go insideand confirm if it was the same missing vehicle," Pavle said. The craneswere brought to the site early evening. According to officials, mud from thewater had seeped into the bus, causing the heavy vehicle to sink furtherbelow, delaying rescue work.

2016-08-14 09:26 By Faisal www.mid-day.com

59 Tweens wake up to stylish Saturday in Mumbai

It was a regular Saturdaymorning at Lower Parel'sPhoenix Mills, as we absent-mindedly tugged at the gateof the Palladium side of themall, without realising that itdoesn't open until 11 am.Finding it locked, wefollowed the sound of an MCwho was at it making non-stop announcements.

(From left) The first, secondand third visitors to the store

As we approached the scene of the buzz, we noticed that the courtyard ofthe mall looked quite unlike its calm exterior. There were hordes of womendressed in high heels and sunglasses, crop tops and ripped denims,patiently waiting, in a scene that reminded us of the unending queues at theShirdi temple in Nashik. Red barricades marked the winding boundariesthat led to the mall's latest entrant, the H&M store. Around 1500 shopaholicsstood outside the door (some squatted on the floor) of the outlet.

"People have been here since last night! " we heard a tween say, as sheplonked her sunglasses on her head. A volunteer, however, confirmed thatthe first shopper in the queue had lined up 30 hours before the opening andreceived a gift card of Rs 10,000, while the next two fashionistas in linereceived gift cards worth Rs 7,000 and Rs 5,000 respectively. The stores'sfirst few customers happened to be boys, and the fourth one was a girl whowe were told was furious at her loss. We decided to brave the lines just tofigure out what the fuss was all about.

Customers cheer at the store opening

Just ahead of us, a pre-schooler complained to a yummy mummy about theweather. She was promptly pacified with a 'another five minutes' promise

(we were in the queue for about half-an-hour after that). At 11 am sharp, theMC did a dramatic countdown, the DJ played Maroon 5's, Moves likeJagger and many members of the crowd couldn't help but acknowledge thesong as they bobbed heads and shook their shoulders to the groovy sound.

As the line started to move forward volunteers handed out bottles of mineralwater to the crowd. It felt as if we were part of a retail marathon. There wasmayhem inside the store as well. Getting anywhere close to a trial roomseemed impossible. The collection, as is the case with those in other Indianmetros, was nowhere close to the spunky lines we've seen in internationalshopping pit stops like London.

The 31,000 sq ft H&M store, marked a late debut in Mumbai after makingits presence felt in Delhi and Mohali. As we got away from the maddeningcrowd, we walked past an empty line of stores including Zara, Burberry anda few others. It was just another day at the office for Mumbai's shopaholics.

2016-08-14 09:24 By Suprita www.mid-day.com

60 10 boys break window, scale wall to escape

from remand homeIn what could be a scene from The ShawshankRedemption, 10 juvenile boys fled from the DavidSassoon Industrial School in Mahim on Friday night. Theysnuck out with the help of a makeshift rope, constructedwith the help of wires, cloth and bedspreads.

Of the 10 boys who fled, four had come from the Yerwada juvenile home onJuly 23 while the others were from Mumbai. Officials from the remand home,which houses a total of 131 boys, filed a formal complaint with the ShivajiPark police on Saturday morning, and claimed that the boys had plotted theescape.

An officer from the Shivaji Park police station said, "The boys usually stayedin groups of ten in each room and had been planning their escape bycollecting ropes and cloth. " A source from the remand home said that theboys were kept in the second floor of the home and they broke the iron rodsof the window one by one over time.

"They jumped out of the window, and then scaled the walls of the remandhome, with the help of a rope they had made," the source added. Theremand home's boundary walls are about 18 feet high.

The four escapees who had been transferred from Yerwada have a historyof breaking out of correctional homes. They had earlier fled from a home inNashik. They were caught and shifted to Yerwada, before being sent to the

school in Mahim.

"The remand home officials lodged a complaint saying that they found theboys missing during the night attendance. We have registered a missingcomplaint and have formed several teams to search for the boys," saidGangadhar Sonawane, senior police inspector of Shivaji Park policestation.

2016-08-14 09:18 By Vinay www.mid-day.com

61 6-year-old beats sister to death as mom shops

in West FloridaMiami: A six-year-old boybeat to death his 13-day-oldsister after their mother leftthem alone in her van fornearly 40 minutes in westFlorida.

Kathleen Steele

The mother, Kathleen MarieSteele (62), appeared incourt on Friday and wascharged with aggravatedmanslaughter and neglect in the infant's death.

Pinellas County sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Steele took her children —Frankie (6), Philip (3) and 13-day-old Kathleen — in a mini-van whilerunning errands. She left them inside, with the windows and doors closed.After the baby began to cry, Frankie picked her up and "began flipping her,multiple times back and forth, dropping her around the floor, slamming herhead against the ceiling, striking her in the face and causing severetrauma".

When Steele returned, her son told her what happened but she decided tocontinue with her errands, not returning home until two hours later. By then,the baby was blue. Steele told a neighbour, who called 911. The baby waspronounced dead at a clinic. Steele had appeared on a TV show, 'I'mPregnant and 55 years old'.

2016-08-14 09:17 By Agencies www.mid-day.com

62 Girlfriend-beating tech mogul gets a year in jail

San Fransisco: Indian-origin Silicon Valley mogul Gurbaksh Chahal, whosold his startup for $300million at the age of 25 andappeared on 'The OprahWinfrey Show' as a highlyeligible bachelor, has beensentenced to a year in jail forviolating his probation in adomestic violence case.

Gurbaksh Chahal has beengiven time to appeal theruling. Pic/PTI

But, Chahal (34) will not immediately begin serving the sentence becauseSan Francisco Superior Court Judge Tracie Brown cited questions aboutthe evidence while giving him time to appeal her ruling.

Brown determined last month that Chahal had violated the probationordered after he pleaded guilty in 2014 to misdemeanour charges of batteryand domestic violence battery.

Prosecutors said surveillance footage from his San Francisco penthouseshowed him punching and kicking his girlfriend 117 times and trying tosmother her with a pillow.

Video of violence finally made admissible

Chahal entered his plea to the reduced charges after the woman stoppedcooperating with authorities and a judge said the video could not be usedas evidence because it had been improperly obtained. He was accused ofviolating his probation by kicking another girlfriend, who also didn'tcooperate with prosecutors.

Brown allowed the penthouse video to be admitted as evidence in theprobation hearing, and she reviewed it privately before issuing her rulinglast month.

USD 300mn

The deal for the sale of Chahal's digital advertising company, Blue Lithium,to Yahoo in 2007

117

No. of times he was shown beating up his girlfriend in a video obtained in2013

2016-08-14 09:14 By Agencies www.mid-day.com

63 Political activist detained over Thailand blasts

Bangkok: A political activist,Prapas Rojanapithak, hasbeen detained in connectionwith the string of coordinatedblasts that rocked Thailand,killing four people, withpolice indicating that theattacks were an act of "localsabotage".

On alert: A Thai policemansearches a visitor's bag atthe Erawan Shrine inBangkok yesterday. Pic/AFP

There were unconfirmed reports on Friday that two suspects had beendetained for questioning following the spate of low intensity bomb blaststhat killed four people and injured 35, including at least 10 foreigners, in fivesouthern provinces — Hua Hin, Phuket, Phangnga, Trang and Surat Thani.

However, the only detention that has been confirmed by police is that of a67-year-old political activist and former Consti-tution writer in the southernprovince of Trang.

2016-08-14 09:14 By Agencies www.mid-day.com

64 Mumbai Diary: Sunday Dossier

When Greig grovelled at theOval

One of the mostcontroversial statements incricket was made 40 yearsago. Before his home Testseries against Clive Lloyd'sWest Indies, Englandcaptain Tony Greig let it ripin a television interview evenas the apartheid regimecontinued in South Africa:

"I'm not really quite sure that they [West Indies] are as good as everyonethink they are. If they are down, they grovel and I intend, with the help of

Closey [recalled England batsman Brian Close] and a few others, to makethem grovel. "

England's captain Tony Greig (left) is bowled for 1 in the second innings byWest Indies' Michael Holding at The Oval in London during the 1976 Testseries. Pic/Getty Images

The Little Oxford English Dictionary defines 'grovel' as: 1. Crouch or crawlon the ground. 2. Act very humbly towards someone to make them forgiveyou or treat you favourably. West Indies were not the No 1 Test team in theworld then. Australia were. But Lloyd's side had beaten India at home(1975-76) and away (1974-75). They had won the inaugural World Cup inthe 1975 English summer as well. The late Greig seemed unconvincedthough.

The comment incensed the Caribbean tourists. Poor Close, who Greig hadnamed in his comment, nearly got killed by the ferocious Michael Holding,but the most unplayable deliveries were reserved for Greig. Viv Richards,who plundered 829 runs at 118.43 in four Tests, said even if the fastbowlers were exhausted they got revitalised when they got asked to bowl atGreig.

On August 14, 1976, Greig, in a way, apologised for the comment bygrovelling on his hands and knees in front of West Indian spectators at TheOval. West Indies played brilliant all-round cricket to win 3-0, but no one cansay they were not fuelled by Greig's 'grovel' comment. Some West Indiansforgave Greig, but we can't say they forgot.

An ode to a sister's love

Everyone's favourite poet, Prasoon Joshi, has penned a poem for RakshaBandhan, one that expresses gratitude to his sisters for not just beingsisters but mothers too. "I have two sisters — Kaumudi and Maulshree —and though they are younger to me, I have been been witness to a display ofmature emotions," he told this diarist.

Prasoon Joshi

He wants that people will read it and realise that "It's the best relationship inthe world," he said. Here's a sampler: "Behen aksar tumse badi hoti hai;Usse maloom hota hai tum der raat lautoge; Tabhi chupke se darwazakhula chhod deti hai"

The elusive Mr Adiga

There's some good news for Aravind Adiga fans. The Man Booker Prizewinning author is coming out with another novel, Selection Day, after fiveyears. And this time, it's about cricket. With all the media frenzy surrounding

the book, this diarist thought a chat with Adiga would be timely.

Aravind Adiga

Turns out, Adiga doesn't want to talk. And we've heard, he has alsoinformed his publishers, HarperCollins India, against entertaining interviewrequests. The man lets his work do the talking. Sorry, fans. We tried!

The art of the gift

This month end, gallerist Dr Arshiya Lokhandwala will unveil a project thatshe has been engaged with for over a decade. Titled Given Time: The Gift& Its Offerings, the exhibition, which will open at Lower Parel's GalleryOdyssey, will unpack ideas based on philosopher Jacques Derrida'stheories.

Dr Arshiya Lokhandwala

Lokhandwala says, "This exhibition has been on my backburner for over 10years and excited that it's finally taking in my home city. "

Meet Hansal Mehta, the chef

Hansal Mehta might be known for his stark, socio-political films, like Aligarhand Shahid, but he's an equally passionate chef. The 48-year-old hascollaborated with food startup, EatwithIndia, as creative director and boardmember.

Hansal Mehta

"I've always been a foodie. When we launched Khana Khazana, the ideawas to bring new recipes to Indian homes. But, in today's highly socialmedia-tised age, we wish to bring chefs to Indian homes," says Mehta, whodiscovered celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor in the 90s.

The start-up will have expert chefs prepare multi-course dinners, offerindividuals the chance to dine with professional chefs and opportunities forculinary travel. "Food is all about sharing and socialising. So, I'll make surepeople get a chance to experience my cooking as well. I make great NalliNihari," he smiles.

2016-08-14 09:13 By SMD www.mid-day.com

65 President's daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee

faces online harassmentNew Delhi: Sharmistha Mukherjee, Delhi Congress spokesperson and thedaughter of President Pranab Mukherjee, claimed on Saturday that a man

harassed her by sendinglewd messages and put upscreenshots of the texts onher Facebook page.

Sharmistha Mukherjee

"The person is completelyunknown to me and he sentme dirty sexual messageslast night. I first thought ofignoring him and blockinghim but then (I) thought mysilence will encourage him to find other victims," she said, identifying theman as Partha Mandal.

The Congress leader said she would lodge a complaint with the cyber cellof Delhi Police. In her Facebook post, she said, "I strongly feel such ppl shdbe publicly exposed & humiliated. I'm posting screenshots of his profile &messages he sent me. I'm also tagging him. Pls share this post & tag thisrat as a msg that these pervert acts will not be taken lightly (sic). "

"Police might have thousands of such cases with them. I will fight as anordinary woman and do not require any preferential treatment as a daughterof the President of India. The police must work all such cases with equaldiligence," she said.

2016-08-14 09:12 By Agencies www.mid-day.com

66 Mumbai: Realtor shoots self while showing off

gun to friendA 22-year-old real estateagent from Pratiksha Nagardied after he allegedlymisfired a country-maderevolver and shot himselfwhile showing it off to afriend. The police detainedthe friend, but let him off laterin the day.

Police officials questionMangal Singh's neighboursin Adarsh Chawl in Pratiksha

Nagar. Pic/Atul Kamble

Mangal Singh, a resident of Adarsh Chawl, Pratiksha Nagar, on Saturdayinvited a friend and colleague, Dinesh Namgude, home. After Namgudearrived at 11 am, Singh told him that he had recently bought a country-maderevolver and offered to show it to him.

As he went on to demonstrate how the revolver worked, he allegedlymisfired and shot himself in the chest. Namgude rushed him to SionHospital. He was later shifted to JJ Hospital, owing to the seriousness of hisinjury, but was declared dead there.

The police detained Nam-gude and recorded his statement, but gave him aclean chit and let him off. According to a police source, rushing Singh to thehospital, instead of fleeing the spot, had tilted the scales heavily inNamgude's favour.

The police have seized the revolver, and is investigating where Singhbought it from and for what reason. They are also ascertaining if he had anycriminal antecedents.

Sunil Kadam, inspector, Wadala TT police station, said, "Since Namgudewas given a clean chit, we have filed a case against Singh under Section304A (causing death by negligence) of the IPC. We are investigatingSingh's background. "

According to the police, Singh's brother is lodged at the Taloja jail in amurder case. Singh is survived by his wife, who is in Uttar Pradesh.

2016-08-14 09:11 By Santosh www.mid-day.com

67 India trounce WI by 237 runs, ensure series

win by 2-0 marginGros Islet (St Lucia): Indiatoday produced a splendidperformance to clinicallydecimate West Indies by237 runs in the third cricketTest thereby taking anunassailable 2-0 lead in thefour-match series.

India's captain Virat Kohli,left, shows the wicket as heleaves the field withwicketkeeper WriddhimanSaha, right, and Shikhar Dhawan after defeating West Indies for 237 runs

during day five of their third cricket Test match at the Daren Sammy CricketGround in Gros Islet, St. Lucia. Pic/AFP

Having lost an entire day, it was a superb effort by the bowling unit that sawthem bundle out West Indies for 108 in 47.3 overs while chasing a stiffvictory target of 346 in 87 overs.

Incidentally, this is the first time in over six decades that India has won morethan one Test match in the Caribbean islands. The previous three seriesvictories -- 1971, 2006 and 2011 has been by an identical 1-0 margin.

If Bhuvneshwar Kumar was the hero in the first innigs, Mohammed Shami(3/15 in 11 overs) and Ishant Sharma (2/30 in 7 overs) did the maximumdamage in the second innings.

Bhuvneshwar (1/13), Ravichandran Ashwin (1/28) and Ravindra Jadeja(2/20) also complemented the two pacers as none of the batsmen saveDarren Bravo (59) showed any stomach for fight.

The historic moment came when Shanon Gabriel (11)'s slog was easilypouched by Bhuvneshwar at deep mid-wicket off Jadeja's bowling. SkipperVirat Kohli was visibly ecstatic but there wasn't any over-the-topcelebrations.

Earlier, India batted for seven overs in the morning declaring their secondinnings at 217 for seven with Ajinkya Rahane remaining unbeaten on 78 off116 balls.

India bowled 20 overs before lunch in which they reduced West Indies to 53for 3. In the post lunch session, the home team lost 7 more wickets for 55runs.

Bravo and Roston Chase (10) looked to bat for time and resurrect theinnings from a precarious 53/3 in the post lunch session.

They faced a testing spell from Ishant and Bhuvneshwar who were using the20-over-old ball well enough. The former was pitching the ball up a lot morethan he has done in this series and found instant result, as one swung insharply in the 26th over, and knocked back Chase's stumps, bowling himthrough the gate.

When spinners came into the attack, Jermaine Blackwood (1) was stumpedoff Jadeja as keeper Wriddhiman Saha did some excellent work.

Shane Dowrich (5) then played out 8 overs with Bravo, though only adding16 runs for the 6th wicket. It allowed Bravo enough breathing space tocomplete his 15th Test fifty off 73 balls, but it was never going to be enough.Shami then came back to bowl another brilliant spell to go with his pre-lunchone, and had the keeper-batsman caught at second slip.

Ashwin completed the all-round display from the bowlers, as first, he ran outJason Holder (1) who was in a terrible mix-up with Bravo going for a non-existent run, and then Alzarri Joseph was caught in the 43rd over.

In between Shami bounced out Bravo yet again, the ball lobbing to RohitSharma at short leg, the fielder having spent the entire day chatting with theleft-hander.

In the morning, the visitors had declared their second innings at 217/7d (48overs) as the hosts struggled in front of a 346-run target with 87 overs tobat. Kumar and Shami had started off proceedings, and the duo was righton the money with the new ball. While the former tied down the batsmen withsome tight swing, the latter used pace to force them back.

It resulted in a double success in the space of four balls, as Shami hadLeon Johnson (0) caught at forward short leg, with Rohit Sharma completinga good anticipatory catch in the 4th over. Four deliveries later, Kumartrapped Kraigg Brathwaite leg before even as the ball stayed low just a bit.

Marlon Samuels (12) then resisted for a short while and saw off the twobowlers, but he found Ishant Sharma (1-17) tough to handle as well. Heplayed an uncharacteristic stroke to an incoming delivery and was bowled.

This was after India had declared their innings closed after 40 minutes ofplay in the morning session. Starting from the overnight 157/3, RohitSharma (41 1 four, 3 sixes) came out looking for quick runs but got a poorleg before decision from umpire Nigel Llong ended the former's stay afteronly two balls.

There was a thick inside edge, which the umpire failed to detect, and itwasn't his only howler as Wriddhiman Saha (14) was adjudged caughtbehind off a massive no-ball. Llong didn't even bother to go upstairs to thethird umpire and the keeper-batsman was given his marching orders.

Miguel Cummins (6/48) benefitted on both occasions, and then picked uphis maiden five-wicket haul in Test cricket when Jadeja (16) was caught atdeep cover going for a big shot. Ashwin (1) then became his 6th dismissaland the last batsman out for India, as skipper Virat Kohli decided that it wastime to bowl.

2016-08-14 09:05 By PTI www.mid-day.com

68 EXCLUSIVE: Zuma friend's R550m bonanza

Johannesburg - Mystery surrounds payments in excess of R550 million to aknown ANC benefactor and friend of President Jacob Zuma by a tender-rich IT security company.

News24 can reveal that SiyangenaTechnologies, a Pretoria-based companythat won disputed contracts from thePassenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa)worth R4 billion, paid large sums of moneyto companies directly linked toChockalingam (Roy) Moodley.

He is a well-known Durban businessmanand public friend of Zuma and the rulingparty. Three independent sources haveconfirmed the payments.

Siyangena is co-owned by soccer bossMario Ferreira, whose relationship withMoodley seems to involve more than just

business; they are co-owners of local race horses One Man's Dream and HiSocieti.

These developments follow a criminal complaint lodged against Siyangenaby private forensic investigator Paul O'Sullivan in 2015. O'Sullivan saysauthorities have not informed him of any progress in their investigation.

O'Sullivan says the investigation into Prasa's contractors should determinewhether any payments to individuals like Moodley were corrupt.

Moodley did not responded to News24's queries about the payments hiscompanies received.

The security tycoon often appears in public with Zuma. He was previouslyward chairperson for the ANC's Umhlanga branch in KwaZulu-Natal.

In 2014, Zuma attended Moodley's birthday party in Durban. He made aspeech in which he referred to Moodley's contribution to the ANC's electioncampaign during that year's national and provincial elections.

Moodley's millions

In November last year, Prasa, under the leadership of board chairpersonPopo Molefe, approached the High Court in Pretoria to have Siyangena'scontracts set aside. The company clinched tenders in 2011 and 2014 toinstall security cameras, access gates and other security equipment atPrasa’s train stations across the country.

In her report on Prasa's financial management under former CEO LuckyMontana, which was released last year, Public Protector Thuli Madonselafound that the first contract awarded to Siyangena was improperly extendedbeyond the original scope of the tender.

The payments from Siyangena to Moodley are the third example of large,unexplained payments Prasa contractors made to individuals closely linkedto Zuma and his family.

Rapport newspaper revealed in January that Angolan businesswomanMaria da Cruz Gomes received payments totaling about R40 million fromSwifambo Rail Leasing, the company that supplied Prasa with thecontroversial Afro4000 locomotives.

Da Cruz Gomes has described Zuma as her friend and he has visited her ather Johannesburg home on several occasions in recent years.

Swifambo paid another R40 million to George Sabelo, a lawyer andbusiness partner of Zuma's eldest son, Edward.

But the latest payments to Moodley's companies eclipse the above-mentioned payments and include:

Moodley and Zuma

Moodley's ties to the Zuma family have made headlines over the years. In2010, Zuma famously won R15 000 at the Durban July horse race and waspictured flaunting the cash alongside Moodley. The two were again picturedtogether at this year's Durban July (see picture).

In Zuma's speech at Moodley's birthday party in 2014, the president praisedMoodley's support of the ANC.

"There is a particular organisation that Moodley votes for to keep thecountry fixed," Zuma was quoted as saying. "You're a friend, comrade. Wehave something to do with you during elections which we have discussedwith you," Zuma added.

Shortly after Moodley's birthday party, EFF leader Julius Malema told hissupporters at a manifesto launch in Limpopo, that one of Moodley’scompanies bankrolled Zuma after he was fired as South Africa's deputypresident in 2005.

Malema maintained Zuma remained on Moodley's payroll for four monthsinto his presidency in 2009.

"Zuma didn't declare that salary when he became state president," The Starnewspaper quoted Malema as saying.

In 2012, the Sunday Times reported that the High Court in Durban hadgranted a local wedding planner permission to attach Edward Zuma’sassets after he failed to settle his wedding bill. It then turned out that a luxuryvehicle found at Zuma's house in Durban was Moodley’s.

Siyangena responds

Gert van der Merwe, Siyangena's lawyer, who also represents the Guptafamily, neither confirmed nor denied that his client had made the paymentsto Hail Way Trading and Royal Security. He questioned how News24 hadobtained the information. He demanded to be told who News24's sourceswere before responding to each query, including whether Siyangena'spayments to Hail Way Trading and Royal Security related to the Prasasecurity contracts.

"What was of grave concern when I read your queries was the fact that itseems as if reference is made to information obtained from bankstatements belonging to my client. You refer to payments and even the factthat these payments allegedly followed payments received from Prasa,"Van Der Merwe stated in an email.

"Whilst I therefore invite you to disclose the nature and extent of the sourceof information (in order to ensure that it was not obtained illegally) I recordthat my firm instruction is that your adverse assumptions are incorrect andwhen afforded the appropriate opportunity, I will address you on each andevery query. My client’s business (and its relationship with its strategicpartners) is sound and this can be confirmed if duly investigated," he wrote.

In a second e-mail, Van Der Merwe again failed to confirm or deny whetherSiyangena had paid Moodley's companies, and if it had, why.

"Despite my client’s legitimate concerns regarding unauthorized access toits bank account and a reasonable request to be advised on thecircumstances surrounding your enquiry, you replied that you found 'beyondreasonable doubt' that certain payments were made and that 'it is up to myclient to respond'.

"My client will not be held hostage pursuant to your bullying tactics and I willadvise them on the appropriate steps to be taken in order to ensure thattheir rights are protected, the detail you will be advised of by the relevantauthority.

"Your efforts to force a blindfolded response are unfortunate. The generalpublic should be made aware of the true and relevant facts, not only thoseyou hope would support your predetermined views. All my client’s rightsremain reserved," he concluded.

News24 made several attempts to obtain Moodley's comment. He did notrespond to calls to his cellphone or to text messages.

2016-08-14 09:02 www.news24.com

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69 Rio Olympics: Lalita Babar qualifies for 3,000metre Steeplechase finals

Rio de Janeiro: Longdistance runner Lalita Babarkept India's hopes alive byqualifying for the women's3,000 metre Steeplechasefinals while rower DattuBhokanal topped the Final Cto finish 13th overall inanother dismal day whichsaw the women's hockeyteam's quarter-final dreamsdashed by Argentina.

Kenya's Beatrice Chepkoech, right, and India's Lalita Babar, center,competes in a women's 3000-meter steeplechase heat during the athleticscompetitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Riode Janeiro. Pic/AFP

Two more Indian runners -- Sudha Singh and Nirmala Sheoran -- alongwiththe women's badminton doubles duo of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappaand shooters Gurpreet Singh and Mairaj Ahmad Khan also flunked to addto India's misery at the 31st Olympic Games here on Saturday.

Later in the day, the Indian duo of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna wentdown fighting in the semi-finals of the mixed doubles tennis event to the USteam of Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram.

The Indians won the first set quite comfortably before squandering the leadand going down 6-2, 2-6, 3-10 in one hour and 17 minutes at the OlympicTennis Centre.

Sania and Bopanna will now have to contest the play-off for the bronzemedal.

The golfers also could not provide any cheer as S. S. P. Chawrasia andAnirban Lahiri finished tied 22nd and joint 57th after posting two-under 69and four-over 75 respectively in the third round.

Chawrasia, who took his three-day total to two-under 211, was looking setfor a top-15 finish but two closing bogeys forced him to settle for a 69.

Lahiri continued his struggle and posted 75 -- his worst score in threerounds. His 54-hole total stands at nine-over 222.

Disappointed Indian fans can however, take solace from Lalita's

performance, who shattered the national record in the women's 3,000 metreSteeplechase to qualify for the final round.

She finished fourth fastest, clocking 9 minutes 19.76 seconds in the Round1 Heat 2 at the Olympic Stadium to end overall seventh among the 15qualifiers.

She qualified as a lucky loser, managing to squeeze in among the next topeight fastest outside the top two of each heat who qualified directly.

Lalita also became the first Indian woman to qualify for an individualOlympic track event final since P. T. Usha did so in 400m hurdles in the1984 Games. She had finished fourth in the final.

The performance by the 2015 Asian Championship gold medallist was allthe more praiseworthy as she had suffered a fall early in the race beforeputting in a stupendous effort to position herself in the leading group andeven wresting the lead at one stage.

But Sudha failed to qualify for the final round after finishing a distant 30th inthe overall rankings. She clocked 9 minutes 43.29 seconds in Round 1 Heat3.

In women's 400 metre, Nirmala Sheoran finished overall 44th among 57athletes to crash out.

The Haryana athlete clocked 53.03 seconds in the Round 1 Heat 1 event atthe Olympic Stadium, to be placed sixth among seven athletes in her heat.

Rower Dattu also impressed one and all by finishing on top of Final C inmen's single sculls. He finished 13th overall.

Already out of medal contention, Dattu topped the final ranking race in6:54.96 minutes, which was best timing among the four races heparticipated in the Games.

But it was the performance of the women's hockey team, which concededfive goals in a single quarter to further douse the spirits.

A higher-ranked Argentina thrashed the Indians 5-0 as Sushila Chanu'sside suffered its fourth consecutive loss in Pool B to end their chances of aquarter-final berth.

In the must-win game for both the teams, Argentina sealed the match in thesecond quarter which yielded them five goals in a mesmerising display ofattacking hockey.

Martina Cavallero (16th and 29th minutes), Maria Granatto (23rd), CarlaRebecchi (26th) and Agustina Albertarrio (27th) scored for the world No.2

side.

With this loss, India remained in the sixth spot, while the United States,Britain, Australia and Argentina made it to the quarters.

Shooters continued their dismal show in Rio, as Gurpreet failed to qualifyfor the finals of men's 25 metre Rapid Fire Pistol qualifying event whileMairaj crashed out of men's Skeet qualification round after a shoot-off forthe final two spots.

Gurpreet finished seventh, just outside the six qualifying spots, with acumulative 581 points with 24 inner 10s at the Olympic Shooting Centre.

Gurpreet, who was ranked 10th, scored 289 points with 10 inner 10s afterthe first qualifying stage. He scored 292 points in the second stage.

In Skeet, Mairaj shot a total of 121 along with four other shooters, requiringa shoot-off for the final two spots to reach the semi-finals at the OlympicShooting Centre.

The 40-year-old found himself out of the race after managing to shoot a +3to drop to the ninth place.

Shuttlers Jwala and Ashwini added insult to injury after losing theirinconsequential Group A match against Puttita Supajirakul and SapsireeTaerattanachai of Thailand to bow out of the Olympic Games.

Already out of the quarter-final race, Jwala and Ashwini lost 17-21, 15-21against Puttita and Sapsiree.

With this loss, the Indian pair ended the Group A campaign with threeconsecutive losses. The Thai pair managed a win but it was not enough totake them through.

At the tennis courts, Sania and Bopanna imposed their domination in theearly stages before Venus and Ram staged a superb comeback.

Bopanna stood out with his excellent returns and pinpoint placements at thenet. Sania also played well with some intelligent service and good returns.

Venus and Ram took their time to settle and find their groove. They weresomewhat subdued in the opening set and were totally outplayed by theIndians.

But a fired up Ram led the US comeback in the second set.

2016-08-14 09:00 By IANS www.mid-day.com

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70 Cleveland Indians minor leaguer FranciscoMejia's hit streak at 50 after scoring change

LYNCHBURG, Va. -- Cleveland Indians minor leaguerFrancisco Mejia's hit streak reached 50 games -- morethan an hour after the game ended.

Mejia's streak survived when the official scorer changed aruling on an error from the third inning of Class A

Lynchburg's 7-5 loss Saturday night in the Carolina League.

Mejia chopped a grounder down the line, and Winston-Salem thirdbaseman Gerson Montilla missed trying to backhand it and got a two-baseerror. The scorer changed the play to a double hours later, after reviewingvideo and conferring with the teams.

"After reviewing additional data and watching video of the play, the officialscorer decided to rule Mejia's batted ball in the third inning a double," theHillcats said in a statement. "The video review showed that the ball wasstruck far enough away from the backhand of the third baseman and hit withenough force and topspin to prevent Montilla from making the play withordinary effort. Based on this, the official scorer changed the error to a hit. "

The 20-year-old switch-hitting catcher was 0-for-4 when he drew a full-countwalk with two outs in the ninth and the Hillcats trailing 5-4, which appearedto end his streak. Lynchburg lost in 10 innings without Mejia batting again.

Mejia's string is the longest by a catcher in pro ball, surpassing HarryChozen's 49-game streak in the Southern Association in 1954. Theprofessional hit streak record is 69 games by Joe Wilhoit of the WesternLeague in 1919.

2016-08-14 09:00 Doug Padilla www.espn.com

71 'God help us' - Robert De Niro compares

Donald Trump to Travis Bickle from 'TaxiDriver'

As endorsements go, it was not particularly flattering.

Robert de Niro, star of the 1976 movie Taxi Driver, has said Donald Trumpreminds him of the iconic film’s mentally disturbed main character, TravisBickle. “God help us,” De Niro said on Saturday at the 22nd Sarajevo FilmFestival, when asked what he thought of Mr Trump’s candidacy.

Yet the actor is just one of many to have spoken out after a week in whichthe Republican candidate’s campaign lurched into even more uncharted

territory and sought to evenquestion the very legitimacyof the election itself.

The week began with MrTrump suggesting thatpeople could shoot his rivalHillary Clinton (somethingthat earned his campaign avisit from the SecretService), saw him claimPresident Barack Obama was the founder of Isis, and concluded with himspeaking in Pennsylvania where he said the only way he could lose thefiercely-contested state was if the Democrats cheated.

“We’re going to watch Pennsylvania. Go down to certain areas and watchand study and make sure other people don’t come in and vote five times,”he said at a rally in Altoona.

“If you do that, we’re not going to lose. The only way we can lose, in myopinion - I really mean this, Pennsylvania - is if cheating goes on.”

The comments have created fresh concern among some about the directionMr Trump’s campaign is taking, as did his announcement that he wants torecruit election observers to ensure the process is not rigged. Politico saidthe New York tycoon’s move was unprecedented in a US election.

Mr Trump also took another chance to attack the media, something he hasdone so in vitriolic terms. “I tell you, the lowest,” he said. “They are thelowest form of humanity.”

The comments led Mr Obama’s former campaign manager, David Axelrod,to comment: “Basic rule of presidential politics: The candidate who blameshis problems on the news media is generally losing.”

An average of national polls collated by Real Clear Politics places MsClinton anywhere up to ten points ahead Mr Trump. Pennsylvania is alwaysone of the battleground states in a general election, and it will be where hehopes his appeal to working class white voters could defeat his Democraticrival.

Ms Clinton’s lead in the polls in the state is currently more than solid. AQuinnipiac survey of likely voters released this week found her leading 52 to42. Both campaigns are pouring considerable resources into the state.

Yet Mr Trump has insisted he can win there, as long as the election is fair.

“She can’t beat what’s happening here. The only way they can beat it in my

opinion, and I mean this 100 percent, if in certain sections of the state theycheat,” he said.

In comments that echoed, and went further than, his statements last week inOhio that he’s “afraid the election is going to be rigged”, he claimed thatRepublican leaders in the state were “very concerned” about the possibilityof cheating.,

“We have to call up law enforcement, and we have to have the sheriffs andthe police chiefs and everybody watching,” he said.

This is not the first time that Mr Trump has raised the issue of potential forfraud in Pennsylvania, one of 20 states that has no ID requirement forpolling places and which Mr Obama won in 2008 and 2012. He said MrObama’s result was proof of fraud, something that sparked backlash onsocial media from election inspectors involved in the process whodismissed the tycoon’s claims.

A comprehensive study of in-person voter fraud between 2000-2014,conducted by Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt, found 31 incidentsnationally out of more than 1 billion ballots cast.

Yet on Saturday, Mr Trump’s spokesperson insisted the concerns weregenuine.

“There is no evidence because the election hasn’t occurred yet,”spokeswoman Katrina Pierson told CNN. “This is not far-fetched. Electionfraud has been a concern for a very long time.”

According to the Associated Press, in Sarajevo, De Niro could only shakehis head about the way the way the media had treated the New Yorkmagnate’s campaign.

Only now, he said, were they starting to say: “Come on Donald, this isridiculous, this is nuts, this is insane.”

2016-08-14 08:53 www.independent.ie

72 Mumbai: Toddler raped by 24-year-old

neighbour, in critical conditionAmrut Nagar in Ghatkopar went on the boil for almost three hours onSaturday after news spread about a two-and-a-half-year old girl beingkidnapped and raped by her 24-year-old neighbour at Ramnagar in thesame suburb.

The 24-year-old accused was beaten up by residents when they found himwith the child. Pic/Rajesh Gupta

Around 150 people blockedstreets and forced shops todown shutters in protestagainst the heinous assault.The child has been admittedto Rajawadi Hospital inGhatkopar and her conditionis said to be critical. Thecrowd dispersed only aftersenior police officersaccepted their applicationasking for the strictest

punishment for the rapist.

According to the Parksite Police, the accused kidnapped the toddler onFriday night when she was eating dinner with her mother on the staircase oftheir house. The mother had gone into the kitchen to bring more rice for thechild and returned to find her missing. She immediately raised an alarm andstarted searching for her daughter. Several others joined in the search.

When residents reached Khandoba Tekdi, which is about 500 metres fromher house, they found the child on the ground crying bitterly and bleedingfrom her private parts. "It was a good thing that the residents managed toreach the spot around 10.30 pm. If they had waited until morning, anythingcould have happened. We will now make a strong case against theaccused," Chougule said.

Shops in Ghatkopar remained shut for a couple of hours on Saturday toprotest against the rape of a 2-year-old that took place in Vikhroli.Pic/Prabhanjan Dhanu

The 24-year-old was with the child when they found her and the residentsstarted beating him up. He initially told them that his friend had raped thechild and he was only pacifying her. "We took the accused into custody andwhen we questioned him, he admitted to the crime," said PrakashChougule, inspector of Parksite police station.

The police said the accused used to work in a medical shop as a deliveryboy, but had recently become jobless. The girl is the only child of herparents. The accused was taken to the Bhoiwada holiday court, whichgranted him police custody till August 16. He has been booked undersection 363 kidnapping, 376 (2) rape by known person and varioussections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).

2016-08-14 08:52 By Santosh www.mid-day.com

73 Once homeless, Mumbai heroes revolutionise

shoe industryRamesh Dhami's life seemsscripted from a Bollywoodfilm. Starting out homelessand hungry, being found by aGood Samaritan,befriending a rich boy andchancing upon an idea thatis both conscionable andprofitable, Dhami has comea long way.

At the GreenSole factory atMahape, a worker sortsthrough a pile of old footwear

Dhami (22), who is today the co-founder of GreenSole, a social enterprisethat recycles discarded shoes, refurbishes them and makes comfortablefootwear for the underprivileged, was born as Prachinti in a small village inPittoragarh, Uttarakhand. The youngest in his family, he ran away when hewas just 10 because of trouble at home.

For two years, he travelled across northern India and survived doing oddjobs.

Coming to the city of dreams

He came to Mumbai when he turned 12 in 2006, with the dream ofbecoming an actor. He says, "I would roam from one place to another as thepolice would not let me sleep. I then got a job at a hotel in Ghatkopar. "

Another worker puts new soles on old footwear for better use

"But, I had worked for just 10 days when the Mumbai floods happed and thehotel had to be shut down. The owner gave me R1,000 and told me toleave," said Dhami.

Dhami says, "I lived on the footpaths in and around Mumbai Central and didodd jobs. Many times, I was so hungry, I committed petty crimes and alsodid drugs. I did not want to do these things, but I had no choice," he said.

One day, Sachin, a worker from the NGO Saathi, which works with streetkids and runaway kids, found Dhami near Mumbai Central and invited himto the shelter. "Sachin told me he would give me a place to stay and food toeat and also educate me and make me self-reliant. I did not believe him at

all, but went along out of curiosity. " At Saathi, Dhami met others like himand realised he was not alone.

Old shoes refurbished by GreenSole

"At Saathi, they taught me to read and write and I also learnt to make paperbags. Apart from that, the organisation encouraged me to take up asporting activity such as running or adventure sports. They were getting theboys professionally trained in adventure sports and mountaineering. I triedeverything, but decided I preferred running," Dhami says.

Marathon man

In 2008, Dhami ran his first half marathon in 1 hour 31 minutes. Thereafter,he participated in competitive long-distance running events and startedwinning cash prizes. In 2012, at Priyadarshini Park in Napean Sea Road,where he practised, Dhami met Shriyans Bhandari. Bhandari came from abusiness family in Rajasthan and was in Mumbai pursuing his Bachelor ofManagement Studies at Jai Hind College. "I used to meet Shriyans almostevery day while practising at the park and we started running together. Wesoon became good friends. "

Ramesh Dhami and Shriyansh Bhandari

It was during this time that Dhami hit upon his great idea quite by chance."My shoes would wear off within 4 to 6 months. Once, I had bought anexpensive pair of running shoes and those too tore in two months. While thesoles of the shoes were intact, the upper portion would tear. I just could notdiscard them, and began to think of what I could do with the soles. I boughtsome glue and took the soles and some tyre rubber and fashioned a pair ofslippers out of them. Shriyans saw the slippers and liked them very much. "

A great idea

The duo then began to think of what they could do with this idea. Havinghimself grown up with no shoes, Dhami decided he would provide footwearfor as many of India's underprivileged as possible.

Bhandari, with his business management and entrepreneurial leadershipskills, and Dhami, with his idea of making refurbished shoes fromdiscarded shoes, set up a full-fledged social enterprise, GreenSole in July2015. They funded this with the cash rewards they got from participating inbusiness competitions. Within a few months of establishing the start-up,they had provided footwear to 10,000 people in need across villages ofIndia.

This year they expect to provide footwear to more than 50,000 people inneed. GreenSole also retails online through its website. They offer various

schemes for buying and donating. The company also allows individualbuyers or those keen on reusing their old shoes can order from GreenSole'swebsite — www.greensole.in

"If you give us an old pair of shoes, we can give you a new pair for R199-R1,499, depending on the design," Bhandari says. Those wishing to donateto the needy can buy a pair for R199. The price includes transportation toremote donation sites

The social enterprise has tie-ups with educational institutions, companieslike Rolls Royce, JLL, Tata Power, GOQii — the health and lifestyle Start-up, DTDC, Sports Authority of India, Maharashtra Police and even localsports clubs. "They collect discarded shoes and send them to us. We thensend them to our workshop in Navi Mumbai to refurbish and make newfootwear," says Bhandari.

Patented designs

GreenSole has received two industrial design patents for their footwear."Our focus will, however, be on providing footwear for the needy," Dhamisays. Dhami is clear what he wants to do in the future. "I want to work withunderprivileged children. I feel sad when I think about my past. If Saathi hadnot found me, I am not sure where I would be today. " Dhami is alreadycounselling some young, runaway boys and helping them find a purpose inlife. Dhami is also focusing on working in villages.

As for GreenSole, Bhandari and Dhami want it to be a cottage industry thatemploys as many people as possible to make footwear and eventuallyeliminate the problem of having to walk bare feet.

2016-08-14 08:51 By Anusha www.mid-day.com

74 Security stepped up around Bethlehem,

Nablus holy sites for Tisha Be'avIn preparation for Tisha Be'av prayer services, the IDF and other securityforces deployed increased forces in sensitive parts of the West Bank.Security was stepped up at Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and historic partsof the Sebastia Village near Nablus.

Many worshipers go to ancient holy sites to hold special prayer services onTisha Be'av, which commemorates the destruction of Judaism's two ancientJewish Temples.

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Security has been especially tight at Rachel's Tomb since a pipe bomb was

discovered and disarmednearby on August 7.

The IDF also arrested twowanted Palestinians residingin the Gush Etzion bloc of theWest Bank overnightbetween Saturday andSunday. At the El Aruvrefugee camp, Israeli forcesarrested a man suspected ofinvolvement in nationalist-motivated terror and publicdisorder and in Beit Ula they

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2016-08-14 08:45 YONAH JEREMY www.jpost.com

75 Dandiya queen Falguni Pathak to sing for Rs

1.40 crore, or moreWhile the exact rate forwhich singer Falguni Pathakdecided to perform inBorivali isn't yet known,sources from the organisingteam confirmed to mid-daythat Pathak was offered Rs1.30 crore against the Rs1.40 crore she haddemanded and then theycompromised with a thirdamount. However, they didn'tdisclose the figure.

Falguni Pathak

What's interesting this year is that all the three large Navratris celebrationsin Mumbai will be held in Borivali with Pathak and Preeti-Pinky as the mainperformers. One of the organisers said as this is election time, festivals willbe used to attract voters.

Pankaj Kotecha, of Kora Kendra, claims that this year, most of the Dandiya

Mandals have come to Borivali because of the elections. "The BMCelections are close this year and hence many dandiya events are beingorganised only in Borivali in order to target the vote bank," he said.

However, he claims this will allow people more options and once again, thewhole focus has turned to the western suburbs. Last year, Falguni hadperformed in Ghatkopar.

Shivanand Shetty, local Congress corporator, who is one of the organisersassociated with Falguni's event, said, "I am not aware about the moneypaid to Falguni, as I am taking care of the ground and other issues. "

The highest Falguni had drawn was R2 crore, in 2013. Falguni didn'trespond to mid-day's calls and messages.

2016-08-14 08:35 By Varun www.mid-day.com

76 Man kills wife over suspected affair, drowns

son in nullah in MumbaiThe police on Friday nightarrested a 35-year-old man,who killed his second wifealong with his two-year-oldchild, because he suspectedher of having an illicit affair.After committing themurders, the accused hadapproached the police to filea missing complaint.However, the crime onlycame to light when the policerecovered the wife's body on

Friday.

Victim: Parvati Dhangar and Accused: Laxman Dhangar

The accused, identified as Laxman Dhangar, worked as a daily wagelabourer and had been married thrice. During investigation, the police learntthat Dhangar lived with all his three wives in the Juhu Galli area. The victim,Parvati (35), was his second wife, whom he'd married six years ago. Thecouple had a two-year-old son Akhil. While the entire family lived under thesame roof, Dhangar and Parvati would fight often because he suspectedthat she'd had an affair and that Akhil was not his child.

On August 6, following another argument, Dhangar strangulated Parvati and

dumped her body at the Wireless Compound say cops. After committingthe crime, he allegedly took his child, who was asleep at home and dumpedhim in a nullah in Juhu. Two days later, he approached the DN Nagar policeto file a missing complaint. While the Juhu police found Akhil's body in thenullah on August 8 and was investigating the case, Parvati's decomposedbody was found in Wireless Compound late on Friday afternoon.

According to Dhanaji Nalavde, police inspector of DN Nagar police,Dhangar was summoned to the station. After cross-questioning, the policemanaged to blow the lid off Dhangar, who confessed to the crime. He hasbeen arrested Dhangar under Sections 302 and 201 of the IPC for murderand giving false information.

2016-08-14 08:30 By Samiullah www.mid-day.com

77 Rescuers find two Indian fishermen, 10 still

missingBangladeshi and Indianrescuers pulled two Indianfishermen alive Sunday fromthe Bay of Bengal one dayafter their trawler capsized,but 10 others were stillmissing, officials said. Fivebodies have also beenrecovered, as naval andcoast guard rescuers searchan area just south of thehuge Sundarbans mangroveforest that straddles both countries. "So far two fishermen were rescuedalive and we recovered five bodies," Tapushi Rabeya, a Bangladeshdefence ministry spokesperson, told AFP. The trawler sent out a distresssignal in rough seas on Saturday, some 40 nautical miles (70 kilometres)south of Hiron Point, a docking station in the Sundarbans. Rescuers havelocated the sunken boat but efforts to find the fishermen were beinghampered by continuing bad weather. Two Bangladesh naval ships, threecoast guard speedboats and a maritime patrol plane have been deployedin the search. "Indian coastguards and patrol aircraft have also joined us inthe rescue mission," a senior naval officer told AFP. "The sunken vesselhas been located and the Bangladeshi and Indian rescue teams were tryingto salvage it. But the rescue efforts have been hampered by very roughseas," he said. The Sundarbans is the world's largest mangrove forest andthe Hiron docking station is popular with both fishermen and tourists.

2016-08-14 08:25 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

78 Mumbai hotel blaze: What killed these kids?

Ten months after a blaze thatstarted on the mezzaninefloor of Kurla's City Kinararestaurant, killing eightpersons, seven of whomwere teenaged students atthe nearby Don BoscoCollege, an Andheri-basedlawyer/activist says thatVinoba Bhave Police Stationhave conducted a shoddyinvestigation.

Bernadette D'Souza and Erwin D'Souza

Soon after the fire Godfrey Pimenta (who is close to the family of one of thedeceased) had filed a series of RTI applications with the various agenciesinvolved — HPCL, BMC, Mumbai FIre department, PWD etc (copies withmid-day). He now says that their responses are contradictory in nature andshow that the cops haven't conducted a detailed investigation enough toallow the prosecution to nail the owner of City Kinara Sudesh Hegde, andtenant Sharad Tripathi.

A case against the two has been lodged under sections 285 (negligentconduct with respect to fire), 304 (culpable homicide not amounting tomurder) and 34 (common intention) of IPC. A charge sheet was filed at theMetropolitan Magistrate Court by the cops in January this year.

(From left) Friends Sharjeel Shaikh, Brian Fernando, Sajid Chowdhari andAkash Thapar

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Pimenta says that according to the cops, Tripathi had secured a fire NOCfor the restaurant. However, the Mumbai Fire Brigade in its RTI responsesaid this was not the case. The charge sheet, Pimenta adds, says that thehotel managed to get shops and establishments and health licence withouta mandatory fire NOC from the local 'L' ward office.

The irony is that the local ward office, instead of cancelling the licence onaccount of the fire and subsequent revelations of illegal construction insidethe restaurant, said in its RTI response that the licence was cancelled onaccount of the hotel being found shut in January 2016, when an inspection

was done.

Taha Shaikh

That the restaurant's mezzanine floor (where the fire started) was illegal, asper BMC's Development Control Regulation, should have been used onlyfor storing inventory and not converted into a dining area, raises concernsthat the officials at the local ward office had connived with the hotelier. "Whywas this not probed? " Pimenta asked.

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The second lapse is the fire reports submitted by three different agencies(Fire Brigade, HPCL and PWD). While the Fire Department claims that thefire was caused by leaked and accumulated LPG gas from a defectivemain valve /regulator assembly of an LPG gas cylinder when it came incontact with an unknown spark, HPCL has a contrary statement. HPCL'sreport stated that the fire was not due to gas leakage as there was noleakage and it might be due to short circuit. The PWD's report remainedinconclusive. The PWD stated that the cause of fire could not beascertained as the entire mezzanine floor was gutted in the fire.

(middle) Jacqueline D'Souza, mother of Erwin D'Souza, at his funeral onOctober 17, 2016

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Police investigation revealed that every alternate day, cylinders weresupplied to the said hotel by M/s Laxmi Gas Agency an HPCL authoriseddealer in Kurla (E). However, in its RTI response, HPCL has said therestaurant was neither its customer nor was it a registered customer of thesaid agency. Interestingly, the over 500-page charge sheet doesn't mentionany action by either the cops or HPCL against the said LPG dealer forblack marketing cylinders, even after a recommendation by the MumbaiFire brigade.

A video from the CCTV placed on the mezzanine floor of City Kinara, whichwas gutted in the fire. Besides the seven students. Arvind Kanojia (32), acivil engineer with M/s Sterling Engineering company, was also killed

Pimenta asks that if Kinara was not an HPCL customer, why were the oilcompany officials allowed to inspect the site and even submit a report."Moreover, a two-page note in which HPCL highlighted six points whichsaid there was no gas leakage and that the fire could be a result of shortcircuit has been admitted and made part of the charge sheet, therebybenefiting the accused," Pimenta says.

Now, Pimenta and the families of the eight who died in the fire have

approached the State Lokayukta demanding a reinvestigation into the fire.Pimenta's NGO, the Watchdog Foundation has now demanded a CBIprobe into the case.

The cops say

A senior police officer who supervised the probe, on condition of anonymity,said, "We have submitted a fool-proof charge sheet. What is being referredhere by the activist are expert opinions, which they will discuss in courtduring the trial. The fire department report is conclusive, which clearly statesthat there was a gas leak and the ignition (through a short circuit) mighthave cause the fire. The hotelier's actions are a fit case for a trial undersection 304 of the IPC and we have booked him under other relevantsections. "

Jacinta D'Souza (48), mother of Bernadette Savio D'Souza said , "It isunfortunate that the police have done a shoddy investigation in our kids'death. They, instead of ascertaining the exact reason for fire, havesubmitted an incomplete and inconclusive charge sheet which will onlybenefit the accused to go Scott free and the trial is yet to begin. We wantLokayukta to intervene and give justice to us. "

2016-08-14 08:21 By Vinod www.mid-day.com

79 Airstrike on Yemen school kills 10 children,

wounds dozensSana’a - Yemeni officials and aid workerssay an airstrike on a school purportedlycarried out by the Saudi-led coalitionfighting Houthi rebels in Yemen has killedat least 10 children and wounded dozensmore.

The Islamic school says in a statement thatthe Saturday strike in Saada, deep in theHouthis' northern heartland, was part ofraids that have resumed against the rebelsafter peace talks collapsed earlier thismonth.

Aid group Doctors Without Borderscondemned the attack on social media,saying that all 10 killed and 28 injured were between 8 and 15 years old.The school has released some of the names of those killed.

The conflict in Yemen pits the internationally-recognised government

backed by the Saudi-led coalition against the Shi’ite rebels, who capturedthe capital in September 2014.

2016-08-14 08:21 www.news24.com

80 Nigeria wrestles with 'suddenly poor' status

Lago - First it was falling oil prices thatplagued Nigeria, then came inflation,power shortages, and a humanitarian crisisin the north.

"Suddenly, we're a poor country," NigerianPresident Muhammadu Buhari said onThursday in Abuja, the nation's capital.

"Before we came to office, petroleum soldfor about $100 per barrel. Then it crashedto $37, and now oscillates between $40and $45 per barrel. "

By the end of the month it's likely Nigeriawill officially enter a recession.

Adding insult to injury, this week the International Monetary Fund said thatSouth Africa overtook Nigeria as Africa's biggest economy in dollar terms -a result of the anaemic naira.

"Both countries are experiencing difficulties, but Nigeria is taking a moreslower pace to recover. I don't think Nigeria can regain its position anytimesoon," Manji Cheto, Sub-Saharan Africa analyst at London-based TeneoHoldings, told AFP.

That's because Nigeria's problems, a result of decades ofmismanagement, have no easy fix.

Just a few months ago, Nigeria was the number one oil exporter on thecontinent.

Not anymore. According to figures released Friday by OPEC, Nigeria isnow producing just 1.5 million barrels per day, compared with Angola whichis pumping out 1.7 million.

Militant attacks on oil infrastructure in the increasingly volatile southernswamplands are to blame.

The Niger Delta Avengers, a new armed group fighting for politicalautonomy and a bigger cut of oil revenues, have been bombing pipelines

since the beginning of 2016.

They have vowed not to stop until their demands are met.

Not fit

Today Nigeria is an economic heavyweight on the back foot, with itseconomy not fit enough to survive this round of blows exposing its structuralissues.

Now the country is literally sinking into darkness.

Electricity production, which already was faltering before the crisis, barelyreached 2500mW for its 170 million inhabitants, according to local reports,thanks to oil militants sabotaging the lines that fuel the gas-poweredstations.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, tried to reassure the representatives of theLagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Thursday, promising that"great" effort is being put into improving non-oil revenues.

In the streets of Lagos, posters on the street remind people that not payingtaxes is a crime.

Nigeria loses too much to corruption, with Oxfam, an organisation focussedon ending global poverty, reporting that Nigeria loses the equivalent of 12per cent of its GDP in illicit channels - the largest share of any Africancountry.

In his speech, Osinbajo reiterated his commitment to diversifying Nigeria'scrude-addicted economy with a focus on agriculture to avoid costly imports.

Another solution is looking to private business.

Aliko Dangote, the richest man in Africa, is building a gigantic refineryproject that could inject the economy with much-needed energy, accordingto BMI Research.

"We expect that the development of a massive refinery by the DangoteGroup will lead to a sharp improvement in the current account deficit from2018 onwards," the consultancy said in an August note.

Restoring credibility

Still, Dangote has to convince wary investors to back his project.

Last week, the Transnational Corp. of Nigeria, a giant company whoseinterests range from agriculture to energy, said it hadn't attracted enoughfunding and was consequently suspending plans to build one of the largestpower plants in the country (1 000 MW).

"The priority now is to restore credibility," Cheto said, explaining that Buharineeds to implement his economic policies with some more urgency.

"When it takes one year to implement what you said, don't expectconfidence from the investors. "

While Nigeria will still be an economic powerhouse for years to come, in theforeseeable future its once-skyrocketing growth will be subdued.

As one IMF analyst put it in July: "Nigeria is in a particularly difficult situation."

2016-08-14 08:12 www.news24.com

81 Brexit could be delayed until late 2019

because officials won't be ready to start talksfor months yet, ministers warn senior Cityfigures

Ministers have warned thatBritain could remain in theEuropean Union until the endof 2019 - a delay which islikely to infuriate millions ofLeave voters who wanted asmooth and quick Brexit.More than half of Britain, 52per cent, voted to leave theEU on June 23 but thedecision to begin keynegotiations to exit might bedelayed as Prime Minister Theresa May's new departments might not beready in time. Mrs May, 59, was expected to invoke article 50 - the formaltrigger to start the move towards the EU exit - in a five months' time inJanuary. But the former Home Secretary might have to postpone the movedue to a number of reasons which could halt the process. City sources toldthe Sunday Times that her new Brexit and international trade departmentsare behind schedule and might not be ready for January. Meanwhile,elections are to be held Germany and France later next year and one citysource told the newspaper: 'You can't negotiate when you don't know whoyou're negotiating with'. This means that Britain may not start the formal two-year process to leave the EU until France has voted in May or until theGerman election has concluded next September. But one City source toldthe newspaper that their new Whitehall departments are 'chaotic' as theyare being built from scratch. And it seems the pair are understaffed as

Davis has only recruited less than half of the 250 workers he needs.Meanwhile, Fox has less than 100 trade policy experts - far short of thefigure of 1,000 he is looking to bring on board. One source said thatministers believe the article 50 trigger could now take place in autumn 2017- meaning it won't be until 2019 when Britain finally leaves the EU. Theyadded that the ministers 'don't even know the right questions to ask whenthey finally begin bargaining with Europe'. If the UK leaves the EU in late2019 it will be almost one year later than predicted. It is thought Britainwants to launch preparatory talks with EU leaders in a bid to understand thekey issues, but a senior government insider told the paper that there wasuncertainty about the discussions. They said: 'I'm not sure they are going tobe ready. There is an issue about these preliminary talks.' A No 10spokesman said: 'The prime minister has been clear that a top priority forthis government is to deliver the decision of the British people to leave theEU and to make a success of Brexit. 'The PM has set out the government'sposition on article 50 and has established a new department dedicated totaking forward the negotiations.'

2016-08-14 08:01 Abe Hawken www.dailymail.co.uk

82 Dubai to open Hilton hotel with a rainforest

Dubai is already famous forthe world’s tallest building,massive artificial islands andmind-boggling extravagance,but it will soon be home toanother spectacular claim tofame. The world's first hotelwith its own rainforest isscheduled to open in thedesert city in 2018 -complete with an artificialbeach, splash pool and trees

that spray mist. With a reported build cost of £230million, the RosemontHotel & Residences is the latest example of over-the-top luxury in theemirate, which has fast become a go-to destination for holidaymakers anda major hub for air travel between the West and Asia. Renderings of thefive-star hotel and apartment project, which will be operated by the Hiltonbrand Curio, offer a glimpse into what the 75,000-square foot, man-madejungle will look like when it opens to visitors. It will be located inside a five-storey podium at the base of two 47-storey towers, and filled with exoticplants to make for a unique guest experience. The attraction will cater tofamilies thanks to its artificial beach and pool, and is said to be the firstrainforest in the Middle East. The hotel will have 450 guest rooms and

suites in a tower that will also have a lobby on the 26th floor, an upper-floorpool that extends over the edge of the building, fine dining, VIP lounge, spaand meeting rooms. Other family-friendly amenities include an adventureplay area for children, a bowling alley and trampoline park. Located on athree-acre site, the project, owned by Royal International, also calls for 280private residences in a serviced apartment tower with shops and places tosocialise. The hotel and apartment towers were designed by ZASArchitects, which has offices in Canada and the United Arab Emirates.

2016-08-14 08:00 Chris Kitching www.dailymail.co.uk

83 Broad fined for questioning umpire's decision

on TwitterLONDON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - England fast bowler StuartBroad has been fined 20 percent of his match fee forpublicly criticising an umpiring decision during theongoing fourth test against Pakistan, the InternationalCricket Council (ICC) said on Sunday. Broad tweeted hisfrustration regarding the controversial dismissal of Alex Hales on the firstday of the test at The Oval after the England opener was given out caught byYasir Shah off Mohammad Amir. Hales was earlier fined 15 percent of hismatch fee for showing dissent to the television umpire, who upheld Shah'scatch at midwicket though the batsman believed the ball had touched theground before carrying to the fielder. Broad had admitted his offence andaccepted the fine proposed by match referee Richie Richardson and therewas no need for a formal hearing, the governing body ICC said in astatement. "One of the most fundamental principles of the sport is to alwaysaccept and respect an umpire's decision," former West Indies captainRichardson said. "In this case, Stuart ignored this golden rule and madeinappropriate comments in regard to the umpires' decision. " Pakistan gointo Sunday's final day of the test in a strong position to level the series at 2-2. (Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai; Editing by Clare Fallon)

2016-08-14 07:59 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

84 DeAndre Yedlin being targeted by Derby and

Hull as Tottenham right back looks to kick-start his career

Tottenham right back DeAndre Yedlin is wanted by Derby County and HullCity. The USA international was on loan at Sunderland last season andTottenham would be open to selling the 23-year-old. Derby and Hull haveboth made offers in the region of £3.5million and Yedlin is keen to move on

and kickstart his career. Hemade 25 appearances forSunderland last season andwas also used a right-sidedmidfielder to maximise hispace. Yedlin has 39 caps forUSA, beginning hisinternational career in afriendly with South Korea inFebruary 2014. Spursbought the American fromSeattle Sounders in August

2014 but he stayed in MLS for a further season.

2016-08-14 07:58 Simon Jones www.dailymail.co.uk

85 Nineteen killed in clashes in central DRCongo

Nineteen people have beenkilled in clashes betweenpolice and militia in thecentre of the DemocraticRepublic of Congo,authorities said. The deadincluded the leader of themilitia group, KamwinaNsapu, the governor ofKasai-Central province, AlexKande, told public televisionlate on Saturday. He saidNsapu was among eight militia members killed in the fighting in the town ofTshimbulu on Friday. Eleven policemen also died, Kande said. In recentweeks Nsapu has resolved to "rid Kasai-Central of the security forces, whohave carried out all kinds of harassment against the population," the UN-backed Radio Okapi said, quoting local sources. Kande said four otherpolicemen were missing and about 40 militia members were capturedincluding 17 children aged between five and 12. Police also seizedweapons and ammunition. He said the fighting erupted "following anintervention by security forces who sought to protect and safeguard thepeaceful citizens of Tshimbulu, before being "dangerously attacked byterrorists of leader Kamwina Nsapu".

2016-08-14 07:54 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

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86 SARAH OLIVER: These smothering, myopicmummies DON'T know best

Miss Sharples, she wascalled. She already seemedas old as a fossil by the timeI met her, wore tweed skirtsand stout brown shoes, andhad a crinkly face, like awalnut. She always, alwayssmelled of Woodbines. Thefag I mean, not the flower.She taught history withoutany idea that she wouldbecome part of ours. For

Miss Sharples was the stern one we still remember. Not a terrifying MissTrunchbull who roasted children’s backsides with a belt or birch, but ateacher whose natural authority, as understood by her, and her pupils – andby extension our parents – was complete. I was reflecting on this becausethe authority of another teacher respected by generations of pupils hastaken a clattering in court this past week. Jane Edmands, headmistress ofBurton Pidsea Primary School near Hull, was accused of common assaultafter leading a weeping three-year-old boy who wanted to stay with hismother from cloakroom to classroom. Hands up class, who’s ever done the‘Be firm, don’t fuss’ routine on a howling child to get them to do somethingthey don’t want to do, but have to. Right. All of you. Me too. Since for ever.Here the mother said the head grabbed her son’s wrist and dragged himaway, his feet almost off the floor, making him cry hysterically. She calledthe council which, given that it was a safeguarding issue, called in thepolice. They prosecuted, her barrister tells me, without taking any pre-charge advice from the Crown Prosecution Service. It was left to Hullmagistrates last Wednesday to clear Mrs Edmands of using excessiveforce. They took less than 30 minutes after hearing ‘inconsistent anduncertain’ evidence against her, with the mother admitting she hadn’tactually seen Mrs Edmands manhandle her son – she’d ‘assumed’ it hadhappened because his jumper was tugged up. Not so much a legal case astrial by partisan parenting opinion, then. Although she has been cleared,Mrs Edmands remains suspended and will do until East Riding of YorkshireCouncil concludes the professional standards inquiry it had no choice but tolaunch. No 30-year career tarnished like this can ever be buffed to itsprevious polish. All the joyous little things which are the calendar of theschool year – the assemblies, egg-and-spoon races and nativity plays – willnow always come second to the day she was wrongly accused of commonassault on a small child. She will never escape the ignominy. Stop just for asecond and imagine you were her, a woman believed to have hurt a three-

year-old so badly the police had to be called. Now imagine that you were ateacher – and that helping schoolchildren be the best that they can be wasyour vocation, your livelihood, your pleasure and your pride. All mums areenthusiastic advocates for their children, Mother Nature sees to that. But ifwe vest authority in teachers, then we must respect them. Yes, there aresome bad ones but they are mostly a beloved species for a reason, whichis that many of them are good and some are wonderful. On the other side ofthe classroom door, we mums can be myopic in comparison. I am not thefirst to say that our understanding of boundaries and discipline and ‘the stuffthat just has to be done to ensure you grow up properly’ (like dealing withvery normal separation anxiety) has been bent out of shape by the need tohave children who like us, rather than respect us. That’s how when someonein authority tells a screaming three-year-old, ‘actually I’m the one in chargehere’, they can find themselves accused of common assault. Love andkindness and time are the cornerstones of raising children but you can’t justnourish, you have to rule too. Both at home and in class. The age of thedunce’s cap is long gone. Let’s offer one anyway to the mum who has doneso much damage to Mrs Edmands, and by extension, the wider teachingprofession. Her wailing three-year-old would have dried his eyes and beenbuilding the Millennium Falcon out of an egg carton and foil with his chumsbefore she’d even got back out into the playground. Still, you’re never tooold to learn, eh? Justin Trudeau, the young and handsome Canadian PM,has joined Vladimir Putin in the very small club of world leaders who lookgood topless. We know this because he’s been snapped minus his shirttwice in the past fortnight. I can’t work out if this makes him cool andrelevant or too slimy even for politics, but clearly there can be no informeddecision until I’ve seen him in a pair of shorts. He’s going to have to dosomething to upstage Prince William when he takes the family to Canadanext month, so hopefully we won’t have long to wait. Carol's fab tips as Icount down to 50 Carol Vorderman, the new ambassador for a websiteaimed at fiftysomething women, looks sublime as she tells us this is the agewhen we can achieve all our outstanding ambitions. As I head for my own50th, I only have one, which is to be able to play ZZ Top’s La Grange on mydrums. I’m just praying that – cut from a different, less glamorous cloth toVorders – I don’t start growing a ZZ Top beard as well. Friends visited lastweek bringing their new labrador pup Piper, who came with a rucksack ofdog baby bits. The most fabulous had been sent by some furry godparentsin America: a roll of poo bags from dumpsfortrump.org with The Donald’sface on the front. Currently $9 for three rolls. Gets my vote.

2016-08-14 07:50 Sarah Oliver www.dailymail.co.uk

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87 David Gest 'died after suffering a stroke'.. aspolice confirm his 'natural death won't beprobed'

David Gest reportedly diedafter suffering a stroke. Thepopular entertainer - whopassed away in April thisyear, aged 62 - died of astroke, according to USattorney Edward Bearman,who has been dealing withhis estate. Edward told TheSun on Sunday newspaper:'I've been told David diedfrom a stroke.' Scroll downfor video David was found dead in his hotel room on April 12, with policesaying his death was being treated as 'non suspicious'. According to TheSun Scotland Yard confirmed there would be no investigation into Gest’sdeath in his room at London’s Four Seasons Hotel. A subsequent post-mortem said David died of 'natural causes'. Gary Veazey, the executor ofDavid's will, has confirmed the reason for his passing, saying: 'He died of astroke.' In May, David's bodyguard, Imad Handi, claimed to have heard thestar suffer a fatal heart attack during their last phone conversation - fourdays before his body was found. Imad - who was friends with David for 16years - said he received a silent phone call, which he believes was theentertainer trying to ask for urgent help, in the days before his body wasfound. He explained: 'I answered the phone and was like, 'Hello, hello,hello?', and I heard something smash on the floor. 'Part of me froze and thenthe phone went dead. Knowing David and his OCD I thought, 'He's droppedsomething on the floor, he's going to hang up and clean it up. He'll call meback'. Unfortunately he didn't call me back. 'I did try and call that eveningand on Saturday and there was no answer. I believe he passed away on theFriday.' The ashes of David were scattered in a small ceremony in York.Tourist attraction Clifford's Tower was closed for a day to allow the serviceto take place in private, with 20 close friends and family members inattendance, including David's sister Barbara Gerber, who gave a reading.The small ceremony comes after a funeral was held for the US star on April29 at Golders Green crematorium in London, which was attended by a largenumber of his UK celebrity friends. According to friends he was planning tomove to York in the weeks before his death, a city he previously said he'dlike to die in. After a pastor led a short service on the turret, the ashes weretipped to the grass below as guests released white doves and balloonsfrom the tourist attraction which overlooks the flat to which David had movedall his possessions the weekend before he died. Imad explained: 'He said

that in his estate if he passed away he just wanted somewhere nice in York.We decided it was a peaceful place.' A spokesman for English Heritage,custodians of the tower, added: 'We were approached by David Gest'sfamily who asked if they could scatter his ashes from the top of Clifford'sTower in a small, private memorial. 'As he was an adopted son of York, wethought it an appropriate thing to do for his family.' The Celebrity Big Brotherstar previously said of York: 'I've lived in New York, Beverly Hills, I still haveproperty in Hawaii, I lived in Claridge's for two years. But here it's sospecial. 'When you have the Minster, all other churches fade by comparison.It has an elite beauty and the people are so special. I think I'd like to diehere.' With the scattering of his ashes, it had been revealed that David'srequest for his favourite sandwich shop to be his resting place was thestar's final joke. During his frequent visits to York, Gest had been a regularat York Hog Roast, now called the York Roast Company, where he liked toeat standing up at the counter at the smaller of the two shops in Stonegate.Twelve days before his death, he said in a BBC interview that he wanted hisashes scattered outside the shop. Thinking that was what he would havewanted, David's pal and York Roast boss Wayne Chadwick had beenwaiting to receive the remains. Following the funeral at Golders Green, hogroast boss Mr Chadwick planned to install the ashes in a disused part of theshop with a fireplace where the scattering could take place rather than out inthe street. But Mr Chadwick said he had not been told about the ceremonyand had assumed the scattering would take place at the shop. 'On the otherhand, David always was a bit of a joker. It was an interview he gave on theBBC which started all this off so I don't know exactly what was in the will,' hesaid. 'I had been asking what was going to happen but was told thedecision was going to be taken by the estate. 'I am a bit disappointed. Butwe don't have any rights over what was to happen to the ashes and if hisinner circle wanted to scatter them without any publicity I can understandthat. 'There were practical difficulties in disposing of the ashes in a land-locked shop so from a respect point of view I wanted to leave the finaldecision to David's friends and family.'

2016-08-14 07:47 Jessica Rach www.dailymail.co.uk

88 Yorkshire ripper Peter Sutcliffe furious as

Broadmoor staff seize £5,000 Rolex sent tohim by his brother

'Sutcliffe moaned he wasn't allowed the Rolex and was furious when he sawa member of staff had one,' a source told The Sun. The source added: 'Hesaid that was unfair and breached his rights... But the fact that he was evensent it shows the kind of life he has been enjoying.' The price of a RolexSubmariner can range from £3,950 to £13,950, according to the website

Watch Finder. Sutcliffe wasjailed in 1981 for 20 lifeterms for butchering 13women and trying to killseven others. His victims'families have welcomed thedecision to put Sutcliffe backin jail. Neil Jackson, 58, theson of his second victimEmily Jackson, 42, who waskilled in 1976, said earlier:'I'm glad he is finally losing

his cushy lifestyle, but it's not a moment too soon. 'He gets better fed inBroadmoor than I do and I work six days a week. 'Life has been far tooeasy for him up to now but he is in for a rude awakening.' Denise Long, 58,whose mother Maureen suffered devastating injuries when Sutcliffeattacked her with a hammer in 1977, said: ‘He should have been hanged. 'Idon’t believe he was ever ill – he was just pure evil. He knew exactly what hewas doing. 'He should never have been in Broadmoor and I am pleasedand think it’s right he suffers in prison. 'I try not to talk about it because it stillupsets me. He left the scars on my mum and she couldn’t get over it. Younever forget. 'He shouldn’t have had the cushy life he has had in hospital allthese years. It’s scandalous the taxpayer has been paying for this.' It costs£300,000 a year to keep him in Broadmoor, with a TV in his room and otherprivileges, compared with £50,000 for a place in a high-security prison.

2016-08-14 07:46 Harvey Day www.dailymail.co.uk

89 Grand slam in 8th sees Cardinals end Cubs'

11-game streakCHICAGO (AP) — St. Louis'Randal Grichuk hit a grandslam to cap a six-run burst inthe eighth inning that liftedthe Cardinals to an 8-4 winat Chicago on Saturday,ending the Cubs' 11-gamewinning streak. The resulttrimmed the gap betweenthe National League Centraldivision's top teams to a stillyawning 13 games, and awildcard playoff berth still appears to be the limit of St. Louis' ambitions. It'smuch closer in the NL West, where San Francisco retained its one-game

lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers by winning an interleague clash withBaltimore. That loss dropped the Orioles out of the American League Eastlead, slipping behind Toronto which beat Houston. Detroit ended a five-game losing sequence and boosted its wildcard hopes with a shutoutvictory over AL West leader Texas. St. Louis took control at Wrigley Fieldwith two outs in the eighth. After a run-scoring wild pitch and a bases-loaded walk, Grichuk connected for his four-run shot to put the Cardinals incommand. Brandon Moss and Jedd Gyorko also hit homers for St. Louis.Cardinals starter Luke Weaver got through four innings in his major leaguedebut, giving up two runs. San Francisco ace Madison Bumgarner snappeda five-start winless rut with seven scoreless innings to steer the Giants to a6-2 victory over Baltimore. Bumgarner had lost five of his previous sevendecisions but was back to his best form, striking out eight. Denard Spansparked the Giants with two-run singles in the second and sixth innings.Both came with two outs. Toronto capitalized on the Orioles' defeat andreturned to the top of the division with a 4-2 win against Houston. RussellMartin hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the sixth inning while AaronSanchez survived a shaky first inning to pitch seven frames. Detroit's MattBoyd pitched seven scoreless innings while opposing starter Cole Hamelshad a rare bad day as the Tigers defeated Texas 2-0. Boyd limited theRangers to two hits in his longest start this season and has won his pastfour decisions. Hamels allowed a career-worst 14 hits, and was lucky to getaway with only conceding two runs, as the Tigers stranded 11 runners onbase, seven in scoring position. Four of the hits against him were by CaseyMcGehee. The Los Angeles Dodgers kept up their dogged pursuit of SanFrancisco by beating Pittsburgh 8-4. Joc Pederson produced a two-runhomer and had three hits for the Dodgers, who accumulated 17 hits in all asthey came from 3-1 down by scoring in each of the first six innings. LosAngeles was in control despite losing starting pitcher Brandon McCarthy toa right hip injury in the second inning. Chicago's Dioner Navarro scored thego-ahead run on a strikeout, capping a bizarre eighth-inning comeback thatled the White Sox to an 8-7 victory at Miami. The White Sox blew an early 4-0 lead and trailed 7-6 to start the eighth. They rallied against Marlins pitcherKyle Barraclough with the help of a walk, two wild pitches and JustinMorneau's double. After Morneau tied it, the Sox had runners at the cornerswith two out. Melky Cabrera took a weak swing at a 2-2 pitch in the dirt, butthe ball skipped away from catcher J. T. Realmuto, allowing Cabrera toreach first base while Navarro came home from third for what proved thewinning run. Cleveland rookie Mike Clevinger held the Los Angeles Angelshitless for the first five innings to set up a 5-1 win. Clevinger allowed one hitin his 91 pitches against the team that drafted him in 2011 but traded himthree years later. The Angels have lost nine in a row; their worst losingsequence for 17 years. Seattle's Robinson Cano and Nelson Cruz homeredas the Mariners edged Oakland 4-3 to notch their seventh win in eightgames. Cruz hit his 29th home run of the season leading off the fourth

inning. Seth Smith singled in the go-ahead run with two outs in the fifth, andCano hit the next pitch over the center-field wall for his 26th homer.Washington's Daniel Murphy hit a two-run homer and drove in four runs topower the Nationals to a 7-6 win against Atlanta. Philadelphia's MaikelFranco hit a three-run homer, then was in the middle of a testy exchangethat led to the benches clearing and a pair of ejections as the Philliesdowned Colorado 6-3. Boston's Brock Holt hit a two-run homer and SandyLeon had a solo shot as the Red Sox won 6-3 against Arizona. New York'sWilmer Flores drove in the winning run when San Diego's rookie secondbaseman Ryan Schimpf made a wild throw to home plate in the 11th inning,giving the Mets a 3-2 win over the Padres. The Mets' crosstown rivals, theNew York Yankees, also won as Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge became thefirst teammates to hit home runs in the first at-bats of their major leaguedebuts in the same game, sparking the Yankees past Tampa Bay 8-4.Minnesota's Brian Dozier hit his 25th home run of the season and the 100thof his career, leading the Twins past Kansas City 5-3. Cincinnati's EugenioSuarez hit a three-run home run during an eight-run sixth inning thatpowered the Reds to an 11-5 win at Milwaukee.

2016-08-14 07:45 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

90 Jared Goff of Los Angeles Rams suffers

shoulder injury in first seriesLOS ANGELES -- Rams quarterback Jared Goff 's NFLdebut was cut a bit short Saturday night, when head coachJeff Fisher sat him after only two series.

Fisher said he planned to play Goff throughout the thirdquarter against the Dallas Cowboys in the teams'

preseason opener, but when he learned at the half that the rookiequarterback had a sore non-throwing shoulder after taking a hit in thesecond quarter, Fisher decided to sit him.

"At halftime, he was getting stiff, and I didn't want to mess around with it,"Fisher said.

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Both Fisher and Goff said the injury was not serious.

"I'm fine," Goff said. "I've played through much worse. "

Goff, the No.1 overall pick in April's draft, completed just four of nine passesfor 38 yards in the Rams' 28-24 win. Two passes were dropped. He alsothrew an interception.

Goff was banged up when hit by Dallas linebacker Derek Akunne in his firstseries.

"He got hit, and the ball floated," Fisher said. "He understands that. "

Fisher said he expects the rookie to be able to practice this week. TheRams host the Chiefs next Saturday.

"He was fine," Fisher said. "Nothing was too big for him. He was at ease. Itwas fun. "

Goff did return for a second series and might have thrown his firsttouchdown pass, if rookie receiver Pharoh Cooper had not dropped theball.

"It would have been great, but I have a lot of football ahead of me," Goffsaid. "Hopefully next week I can have a little more production. "

2016-08-14 07:40 Steve Dilbeck www.espn.com

91 Pokemon hunt leads to glory for Google-born

NianticBorn in Google's shadow,Niantic strode into thespotlight with a mobileinternet spin on huntingPokemon but can theobsession with the gamelead to long-term financialsuccess? Niantic founderand chief executive JohnHanke has told a story ofnaming the company after awhaling ship abandoned inSan Francisco Harbor by crew members who rushed off to seek fortunesduring the famed Gold Rush. The ship was run aground and converted intoa store. The notion of such long-forgotten wrecks prompted Hanke six yearsago to use the name Niantic to christen a quest to combine gaming, mobilemapping and augmented reality to playfully reveal virtual things hidden in thereal world. Niantic was a side-project for Hanke at Google, which hadbought the entrepreneur's startup Keyhole in 2004 and turned it into the free

mapping service Google Earth. Hanke spent years as a top executive in aGoogle "geo" division producing widely used services such as Maps andStreet View. The gamer wanted to go beyond helping people navigate andhave fun with the ability for mobile devices to detect people's locations. Theentrepreneur toyed with the idea of launching a new startup, but insteadkept Niantic anchored in the Silicon Valley technology powerhouse."Staying at Google gave us the advantage of being able to tap into the datawe have at (mapping division) Geo and the infrastructure of Google," Hankewas quoted as saying in a 2012 Inc. magazine article. - Portals to Pokemon- The Niantic project fielded its first offering in 2011 in the form of a mobileapplication called Fieldtrip that served up information about wheresmartphone users were or nearby places of interest. The following year,Niantic launched a game called "Ingress," seen as a predecessor to"Pokemon Go. " Ingress, which has been downloaded more than 15 milliontimes, also uses real world surroundings as the game board. Instead oftrying to catch cartoon monsters such as iconic Pikachu by targeting themwith "Pokeballs", Ingress players battle for control of virtual portals. EarlyIngress fans submitted pictures of places as possible portals complete withsatellite position metadata, essentially crowdsourcing a rich geo-locationdatabase that was put to use in Pokemon Go. When Google underwent acorporate restructuring last year to divvy its endeavors into arms of afreshly-created parent company called Alphabet, Niantic went independent.Google did invest in Niantic, as did Nintendo and The Pokemon Company.Niantic claims from 50 to 100 employees. The private company does notmake its financial information public but some analysts value it at more that$3 billion. To justify such a valuation, Niantic will have to prove thatPokemon Go is a lasting and profitable, not just another passing fling fornotoriously fickle mobile game players. Pokemon Go has shown it canmake money. Industry tracker Sensor Tower estimated that Pokemon Gogenerated more than $200 million in revenue during the month after itsrelease in early July. The game is free, but players can buy virtual suppliessuch as PokeBalls and lures to attract Pokemon. Cafes, pubs, restaurantsand other venues have taken to buying lures that tempt players to linger, andhopefully spend money, while waiting to catch Pokemon. - Sponsors -During a recent Venture Beat technology conference, Hanke said that thegame was designed from the outset for in-app purchases, and that revenuecould also be made from sponsorships along the lines of what was done inIngress. Ingress has portals hosted in commercial spots such as shoppingcenters, and Pokemon Go launched in Japan with fast food giantMcDonald's sponsoring in-game locations. "We are talking to a bunch ofother businesses that want to take advantage of that model for PokemonGo in other parts of the world," Hanke said at the conference. "It'spromising. " A strong selling point for Pokemon Go sponsorships is thatthey get people swarming to places in a way that typical advertising doesnot. The power of Pokemon Go has, to some, become a bane. Parks and

other public venues ripe with PokeStops or "gyms" where cartoon creaturesbattle are at times over run with players. Authorities have taken to warningPokemon Go players against venturing where it is dangerous, illegal, inpoor taste, or they are simply not wanted. The game and its creator arealready in the sites of lawyers intent on suing to hold them accountable fortrespassing or injuries involving players. The Washington-based ElectronicPrivacy Information Center has called for US regulators to investigatewhether Niantic is collecting too much information about players and theirwhereabouts.

2016-08-14 07:40 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

92 Five dead, tens of thousands flee Philippine

floodsFive people have been killedin the Philippines and tens ofthousands have fled fromfloods caused by days ofunrelenting rain, rescuerssaid Sunday. Civil defenceofficials warned residents ofManila and nearby provincesto expect more heavyseasonal rain over thecoming days as more than24,000 people sought refuge

in schools and government buildings. "We are expecting more low-lyingareas to experience flooding," National Disaster Risk Reduction andManagement Council spokeswoman Romina Marasigan told AFP. "Thosewho are already in evacuation centres should stay there until the weatherimproves," she added. Those evacuated include nearly 9,000 Manilaresidents displaced by flooding from the Marikina River on Saturday. Thecouncil said three Manila slum residents were crushed to death Saturday bywalls that collapsed in the floods. A man drowned crossing a swift-flowingriver on the central island of Panay on Wednesday, it said, while theauthorities retrieved a body from a Manila canal on Friday -- the cause ofdeath is under investigation. A fisherman went missing at sea off the centralisland of Marinduque on Monday, while a man was injured by falling rocks ata highway east of Manila on Friday, it said. In all, more than 70,000 peoplehave had their houses swamped by floodwaters, the council said, thoughthe majority of residents have remained at home. The western section of thePhilippines has been swamped by heavy rain over the past week, forcingthe cancellation of some domestic commercial flights and the suspension ofclasses.

2016-08-14 07:40 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

93 The glamorous side of the Rio Olympics -

Aussie athletes unwind off the trackThey might be in Rio to pushtheir bodies to the limits, butAustralia's Olympians havebeen letting their hair down,too. Snaps show even oursporting stars take a chanceto relax in between theirstrenuous training andcompetitive schedule everynow and then. CharlotteCaslick, one of the country'sgold medal-winning women'ssevens team, took to social media to share a picture of a social volleyballmatch against the Dutch women's hockey team. In the lead-up to thegames, she shared a snap from a coastal resort in Brazil. Australian beachvolleyballer Mariafe Artacho del Solar has shown she knows how to makethe most of her spare time, sharing seaside snaps and pictures next to theOlympic rings monument. In other pics, she can be seen enjoying some ofthe local sights around Rio de Janeiro. Fellow beach volleyballer TaliquaClancy shared a courtside picture with rugby player Nick Cummins - who'snickname is 'The Honey Badger'. Jenneke showed she can mix businessand fun, posing for a cheeky selfie with fellow athlete Ella Nelson while stillat the running track. Nelson, a 200 metre sprinter, revealed her love forcoffee in pictures in the lead-up to Rio and at the Olympics. Photos postedto Instagram showed her relaxing with cups of coffee in casual attire and inAustralian Olympic team kit. In another shot, she is seen relaxing poolside,looking laid back in a swim suit - a far cry from sweating it up on the runningtrack. Swimmer Kotuku Ngatawi shared some down-time snaps from theOlympic village where she appeared to be enjoying her time in Rio. Thewomen's soccer team showed their lighter side too, posing for some funsnaps together and at beaches - which seemed to be a popular spot forathletes with some time up their sleeve. Women's sevens player Ellie Greenwas among those who headed for the beach as well. And despite beingstarstruck, team mate Chloe Dalton managed to get a picture of herself withtennis player Rafael Nadal.

2016-08-14 07:39 Leith Huffadine www.dailymail.co.uk

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94 West Brom close to securing £11.5m signingof Leicester's Jeff Schlupp

West Brom are closing in onthe £11.5million signing ofLeicester City utility playerJeff Schlupp. The 23-year-old was left out of Leicester'sside to face Hull City onSaturday and is expected toformalise his move to theHawthorns on Monday.Albion have made threeoffers for the 23-year-old withthe latest offer revised to

include more of the fee up front. Schlupp, who can play at left-back or leftwing played 24 times for Leicester last season. A single goal from SalomonRondon was enough to secure the Baggies three points on the opening dayof the season, but Tony Pulis is still keen to add options to his squad. So farthis summer, West Brom have only added Matt Phillips to their squad, a£5.5million addition from QPR.

2016-08-14 07:34 Simon Jones www.dailymail.co.uk

95 SpaceX lands Falcon 9 rocket after launch

SpaceX successfully landeda reusable Falcon 9 rocketon a floating drone ship atsea early Sunday after thevehicle had sent a Japanesecommunications satellite intoorbit. The California-basedcompany's launch andlanding was part of itsongoing effort to re-usecostly rocket parts instead ofjettisoning them into theocean. The white rocket launched under a dark night sky from CapeCanaveral, Florida at 1:26 am (0526 GMT). The landing on the Of Course IStill Love You drone ship was especially challenging because the JCSAT-16 satellite had to be carried into geostationary transfer orbit, or GTO, ahighly elliptical orbit. "The first-stage will be subject to extreme velocitiesand re-entry heating, making a successful landing challenging," SpaceExploration Technologies Corporation, known as SpaceX, had said prior to

the mission. SpaceX mission control erupted in cheers as live videofootage showed the successful landing of the first stage of the rocket. Thecommunications satellite will help provide more stable satellite services forvideo distribution and data transfer communications in Asia, Russia,Oceania, Middle East and North America.

2016-08-14 07:34 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

96 Chandimal century drives Sri Lanka to 299-7

Dinesh Chandimal scored adefiant century to power SriLanka to 299 for seven atlunch on the second day ofthe third and final Testagainst Australia in Colomboon Sunday. Chandimal'sovernight partnerDhananjaya de Silvaadvanced from 116 to 129before falling in the first hour,but not before the pair had

rescued the innings with a 211-run partnership for the sixth wicket aftercoming together with Sri Lanka at 26 for five. Chandimal, scoring hisseventh Test ton, remained unbeaten on 105 at the break with strongsupport from Rangana Herath on 14. Chandimal and de Silva started thesecond day cautiously, playing out three straight maiden overs, but soongained momentum after hitting a couple of boundaries. Off-spinner NathanLyon finally provided the breakthrough by claiming de Silva, who had scoredhis maiden Test century on the opening day. Lyon, rewarded for hispersistence, pitched the ball outside the off-stump, with de Silva nicking theball to Shaun Marsh at short leg. The 24-year-old, playing in only his thirdTest for Sri Lanka, was given a loud ovation by the home crowd as he leftthe Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) ground. An undeterred Chandimalcontinued to frustrate the Australian bowlers with some aggressivestrokeplay. The wicketkeeper-batsman's signalled his intent with a six offLyon on a reverse sweep and he continued to score regular boundaries.Chandimal, whose 300-ball stay was laced with nine fours and a six,punched the air in celebration after reaching his century off Lyon. Howeversoon after, Chandimal survived a dropped chance at first slip by Australiaskipper Steven Smith with left-arm spinner Jon Holland the unlucky bowler.Australian pace spearhead Mitchell Starc and Lyon, who wreaked havoc inSri Lanka's top order on Saturday, have taken three wickets each.

2016-08-14 07:30 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

97 'I feel like I'm him': Ex On The Beach's

Charlotte Dawson left in tears as she filmedemotional documentary about late comedianfather Les

Before Ex on the Beach Ifilmed an ITV programmeabout my dad – LesDawson. I filmed a showabout that so that’s comingout at Christmas... 'It’s veryemotional. I find letters fromhim that I’ve not seen beforeand find different videos andvoice recordings of him.'There’s a couple of letters tome and I find out quite a bitabout him. It’s very, very emotional and I absolutely cried my eyes out filmingit. But I feel like he’s with me anyway – I feel like I’m him.' The reality tellystar is set to join her siblings, Stuart, Julie and Pam, on the documentary –despite the fact she has only spoken to her brothers and sisters on rareoccasions since their dad passed away in June 1993. Reports havesurfaced claiming Charlotte enjoyed a dalliance with Geordie ShoreLothario Gary Beadle - making for dramatic viewing.

2016-08-14 07:29 Ciara Farmer www.dailymail.co.uk

98 Health warning over deadly paralysis toxin in

Tasmanian shellfishHealth authorities arewarning people not to eatwild shellfish from the eastcoast of Tasmania due to therisk of potentially fatalparalytic poisoning.

Blooms of toxin-producingalgae off the east coast,including in waters aroundHobart, mean there are high

levels of toxins in the shellfish.

“Shellfish feed on algae and concentrate the toxin – this makes themdangerous to eat and may cause serious and even fatal illness,” the state’sacting director of public health, Dr Mark Veitch, said in a statement onSunday.

“The large scale of this algal bloom and the high levels of toxin in testedshellfish mean the risk of shellfish poisoning from eating shellfish collectedfrom the wild is very real.”

Two types of shellfish toxin have been detected: one causes paralysis whilethe other causes diarrhoea.

People are being warned off wild oysters, mussels, clams, pipis andscallops from anywhere along the east coast.

Cooking the shellfish does not destroy the toxins.

Many commercial harvesting sites have been closed due to the algalblooms.

Three people were poisoned in Tasmania by toxic mussels in October2015, with two admitted to hospital.

Symptoms of paralytic shellfish poisoning included tingling and pins andneedles around the mouth and face, hands, and feet.

People may also experience unsteadiness and blurred vision; or havedifficulty swallowing, talking and breathing.

2016-08-14 07:26 Australian Associated www.theguardian.com

99 Zoe Buttigieg's tragic last hours: How the 11-

year-old was 'sexually abused and murderedafter a marathon drinking binge' at her familyhome

A man raped and murdered 11-year-old Zoe Buttigieg after spending hoursdrinking bourbon and smoking cannabis with her mother at a 'rowdy party'at her home. Bowe Maddigan, 30, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court ofVictoria on Friday to indecently assaulting and murdering 11-year-old ZoeButtigieg. Scroll down for video The court also heard Maddigan vanishedbetween 4am and 5am, after vomiting in the backyard of the Wangarattahouse in north-east Victoria. Ms Saunders went to bed about 7am onOctober 25, and woke four hours later to find her daughter had beenmurdered in her bed. Ms Saunders had met Maddigan a week prior througha mutual friend. The 30-year-old man had only been released from prison aweek earlier. In May he pleaded not guilty to the attack in north-east Victoria

but he changed his plea toguilty on Friday, the HeraldSun reported. Police foundMaddigan barefoot andwalking along the HumeHighway in a paranoid anderratic state. When policefound him, he was notwearing any shoes and wasdressed only in cargo shortsand a singlet. Ms Saunderssaid in court last year thatMaddigan was extremely talkative earlier in the night. 'He was full of storiesand he was just rambling and rambling and you couldn't get a word in…Hewas very attention seeking,' she said. Ms Saunders moved into the housewith Zoe between three and four years ago. She has since receivedpsychological counselling. 'We don't know how she is, we haven't heardanything since it happened,' a close friend of Ms Saunders said at the time. 'This is a very tight little street.' One neighbour who lives off Inchbold Streetsaid ice had made huge inroads into the suburb known as 'Wang'. 'You'dhave a couple of users on just about every street, ' the neighbour, who didn'twant to be named, said. One 30-year resident of the street where Zoe lived,Heather Mann, said the area attracted some dangerous characters and thatshe had been threatened with assault recently. 'It's required interventionorders,' she said. 'Alcohol and ice and the two together are a problemhere.' Maddigan is next set to appear at his sentencing hearing onNovember 11 at the Supreme Court of Victoria in Wangaratta.

2016-08-14 07:26 Hannah Moore www.dailymail.co.uk

100 Borrowed medal? No thanks, Henderson wins

own Olympic goldRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) —Jeff Henderson had anOlympic gold medal in hisgrasp. Just not one he couldcall his own. With apressure-packed jump on hislast try of the night, theAmerican long jumperchanged all that. He won hisown gold medal in Rio deJaneiro on Saturday and

returned the one he carried for motivation to its rightful owner. And now bothHenderson and his coach, 1984 triple jump champ Al Joyner, really havesomething to celebrate. "He said, 'I want you to give me back my goldmedal and keep your gold medal,'" Henderson recounted. "I gave it backbefore I went out there. I knew I was going to win. " He was clutch on his lastattempt. It's becoming an American trend. The night before, Michelle Carterwon the shot put on her final attempt. Henderson rocked back and forthbefore starting down the runway. He flew into the air and when he landed inthe sand, he instantly knew that was good enough for gold. His jump of 8.38meters surpassed South Africa's Luvo Manyonga, who finished with silver.Defending champion Greg Rutherford of Britain was left with the bronze. "Icame here to win," Rutherford said. "I'm going away disappointed. " Justimagine how Jarrion Lawson feels. The American had the last jump of theevening and thought his was well out there — maybe even gold-medalworthy — but he dragged his left hand in the sand before landing. That wasthe spot to where officials measured. He finished in fourth place. "I still thinkI had it. Maybe I hit my hand, maybe I didn't," said Lawson, who was an All-American at the University of Arkansas. "Just can't argue with technology."But I think that was a No. 1 jump. " History will reflect Henderson as thewinner, though. He said Joyner had used a similar ploy as motivation before— with his late wife, Florence Griffith-Joyner. It certainly got Henderson'sattention. "He's always like, 'You're a champion. Believe in yourself,'"explained the 27-year-old Henderson, who's from McAlmont, Arkansas."The last jump I was just like, 'OK, just keep everything the same, don'tchange nothing.' "I knew it was the winning jump after I saw it. " How's thisfor a little more history: Henderson captured gold medal No. 999 for theUnited States in the Summer Olympics. He was about 30 minutes shy ofwinning the magical 1,000th, but it went to the women's 4x100-metermedley relay swim team. "Feels amazing," Henderson said. "To be in thatgroup and that category is awesome. To have that, 999, I didn't know that. Itfeels like I'm in a dream, honestly. " Still think the long jump is boring, CarlLewis? The track icon recently took issue with his former event and the lackof more star power. Henderson has no issues with Lewis' sentiment.Although, he will give his good friend some good-natured ribbing. "I knowCarl Lewis, he's biting his tongue right now," Henderson said. "I havenothing against Carl. Wait to see what he says after this. "

2016-08-14 07:24 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

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