The issue of fair representation will take center stage as U.S. congressional districts are reapportioned based on the 2000 Census. Using U.S. history as a guide, the authors develop a theory of fair representation that establishes various principles for translating state populations—or vote totals of parties—into a fair allocation of congressional seats. They conclude that the current apportionment formula cheats the larger states in favor of the smaller, contrary to the intentions of the founding fathers and compromising the Supreme Court’s “one man, one vote” rulings. Balinski and Young interweave the theoretical development with a rich historical account of controversies over representation, and show how many of these principles grew out of political contests in the course of United States history. The result is a work that is at once history, politics, and popular science. The book—updated with data from the 1980 and 1990 Census counts—vividly demonstrates that apportionment deals with the very substance of political power.
Michel L. Balinski is the former director of the Laboratoire d'Econometrie of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, the founding editor of the journal Mathematical Programming. and is a noted authority on mathematical optimization and operations research.


The place to go for super-fast broadband? Rural Oxfordshire, thanks to a company that specialises in getting rural areas online.
If your town or village has been left out of the fibre broadband rollout, then help could be at hand. Residents of Frilford (population 212, according to the 2001 census) and Frilford Heath in Oxfordshire were snubbed, so teamed up with infrastructure specialist Gigaclear.
Gigaclear has begun installing fibre broadband in both communities, and residents should enjoy 1,000Mbps connectivity starting in April. That's right, 1,000Mbps. That's around 10 times as fast as the best offerings from other providers, and the same speed as the highly publicised Google Fiber experiment in Kansas. All in rural Oxfordshire.
Bruce Ballard, managing director of local business Paddock IT Solutions, said, "We use ADSL over copper at the moment but with so much upstream traffic it performs badly. We've also found our existing service provider's attitude to outages unacceptable. Until now, suitable alternatives have been either unavailable in the area or prohibitively expensive."
Locals will have to shell out £195 for the privilege. But it seems a small price to pay for world-quality broadband.
If you fancy getting your community involved with Gigaclear, it needs to comprise at least 400 properties, and 30 per cent of residents have to sign up.
Frilford isn't the only rural area getting super-speed broadband. Recently, the BBC brought us news of Arkholme in Lancashire, where residents took matters into their own hands and installed their own 500Mbps network. Though they had help from B4RN, an organisation set up to help roll out broadband to the rural north. Residents of Arkholme even dug channels across fields and laid the fibre optic cables themselves.
Companies like BT estimate the cost of hooking up one rural home to be around £10,000, while B4RN reckons it can get that down to £1,000.
It just goes to show, if you've been snubbed by the main rollout, all is not lost. Do you live in a rural area? Have you been left wanting when it comes to broadband? Let me know in the comments, or on Facebook.


Police are investigating a scene after an early morning shooting on the city's east side.
GREEN BAY - Police are investigating gunshots that hit a house early Monday morning on the city's east side.
Officers heard gunfire about 12:30 a.m. while patrolling in the area of South Quincy and Crooks streets, a press release from the Green Bay Police Department said.
A bullet hole was found in a home in the 400 block of South Quincy Street. No injuries were reported, police said.
Several people were detained and are being interviewed by detectives. The Green Bay Police Forensics Unit is also investigating.
If anyone has information about this case they are asked to call the Green Bay Police Department at 920-448-3208.


Motorists should expect significant traffic delays through the Easter holiday weekend on northbound Interstate 81 in Frederick County due to emergency bridge work in West Virginia. The right lane of I-81 northbound is expected to be closed 24 hours a day through Wednesday, April 4, about three miles north of the Virginia/West Virginia state line.
As of 4 p.m. Thursday, traffic was backed up about four miles into Frederick County, Virginia. Related congestion is expected on Route 11 in the Winchester area for the duration of the bridge work.
Virginia raffic alerts and traveler information can be obtained by dialing 511. Traffic alerts and traveler information also are available at www.511Virginia.org.


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The hiring comes at a crucial time for the Russia inquiry and the criminal investigation of Michael Cohen.
President Donald Trump’s legal team got a significant boost of big-name talent and criminal-law expertise on Thursday with the addition of Rudy Giuliani and two other former federal prosecutors coming at a critical time for the widespread Russia inquiry and a high-stakes criminal investigation into the president’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
The hiring of the former New York mayor, along with the husband-wife law partners Jane Serene Raskin and Marty Raskin, came just hours after a federal judge raised doubts about the scope of the order used to appoint special counsel Robert Mueller to look into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and shortly before the Justice Department delivered to Congress copies of former FBI Director James Comey’s memos documenting his interactions with the president last year.
The additions also came on the eve of a hearing on Friday in Los Angeles on a bid by the president and Cohen to delay a lawsuit filed by Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress who claims to have had a sexual encounter with Trump about a decade ago.
Giuliani, a longtime friend and outspoken ally of the president’s who was on the short list to be his first secretary of state, is expected to take a lead role as Trump’s personal representative in navigating the Mueller investigation. He replaces John Dowd, the prominent white-collar defense attorney who resigned last month just days after calling for the Russia investigation to be shuttered.
Trump’s legal team has been missing a big-name expert on criminal law since Dowd’s departure. Ty Cobb, a white-collar defense expert, is handling only the official White House response to the Russia investigation. On the personal front, Trump has been leaning on Jay Sekulow and several of his associates from the American Center for Law & Justice. He’s also staying in touch with other longtime lawyers and legal advisers, including Marc Kasowitz and Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News host.
Trump’s legal team also has a New York-focused wing with Joanna Hendon, a former federal prosecutor who with her boutique, Manhattan-based firm, Spears & Imes, has been handling the response to the Cohen investigation, including a legal fight with the Justice Department over materials seized in the FBI’s raid of Cohen’s home, office and hotel room last week related to various matters, including a $130,000 pre-election payment to Daniels.
Giuliani, who was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in the 1980s before being elected as mayor, enters the Trump team with some of his own distinct ties to the Russia case. His former law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani, advised the controversial data-mining outfit Cambridge Analytica on its obligations under U.S. campaign law.
On Thursday evening, the Justice Department delivered to Congress copies of Comey’s memos, detailing his interactions with Trump, a move intended to avert a legal standoff between House Republicans and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The memos are believed to be central to Mueller’s investigation into whether the president or his allies tried to obstruct the FBI investigation of Trump campaign contacts with Russia.
Earlier in the day, during a hearing in one of Mueller’s criminal cases against Paul Manafort, a former Trump campaign chairman, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson questioned whether Rosenstein’s directive appointing Mueller granted him more authority than Justice Department regulations appear to permit. She issued no ruling on the issue of Mueller’s authority, but didn’t seem convinced that the potential overbreadth of Rosenstein’s order had actually resulted in any harm to Manafort.
Giuliani will be taking a leave of absence effective Thursday from Greenberg Traurig, the law firm where he now works, “for an unspecified period of time to handle matters unrelated to the law firm or its clients,” said Richard Rosenbaum, the firm’s executive chairman.
Trump’s struggle finding legal help has been a recurring theme, with several elite attorneys turning down offers because of the president’s temperamental, tweet-first approach and his repeatedly violating his lawyers’ wishes by discussing the case publicly and with his top aides.
“Hard to say how this fundamentally changes any of the current dynamic, but there is certainly a need for legal help,” said Sam Buell, a former federal prosecutor.
Former federal prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg said Giuliani could benefit Trump more on the public relations front, rather than on the nuances of the legal fight.
Giuliani was also a vice chairman of the Trump transition team, whose activities have come under scrutiny by Mueller’s investigators, and he also agreed to serve as a cybersecurity adviser to the Trump administration, although there have been few signs of his involvement on that front.
The former New York mayor has also represented Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian gold trader charged in the U.S. for helping Iran skirt sanctions. Just weeks before Trump’s inauguration, Michael Flynn, then the incoming national security adviser, reportedly included Zarrab in talks with Turkish officials and was seeking her release as part of a larger diplomatic exchange that later came under Mueller’s scrutiny.
Giuliani met with Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, early last year in an effort to resolve the charges against Zarrab. In addition, the law firm Giuliani is now taking leave from, Greenberg Traurig, is a registered lobbyist in the U.S. for the Turkish government.
Flynn’s guilty plea on a false statement charge last December included an admission that in filings with the Justice Department he misrepresented his work for the government of Turkey.


UNITED NATIONS, Feb 15 2016 (IPS) - Poverty and education gaps have decreased significantly among indigenous communities in Latin America, but many continue to be left out of social gains, according to a new World Bank study released Monday.
In much of the region, indigenous political participation has increased. In Bolivia, indigenous people’s representation in parliament is approximately 30 percent. More countries have also accepted indigenous traditions in electoral processes including Oaxaca, Mexico where 418 out of 570 municipalities are managed according to indigenous customs.
These developments are, in part, due to the creation of international treaties and declarations such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted in 2007.
The study also found that 70 million people were lifted out of poverty, including indigenous peoples in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. Access to primary education was one of the greatest and clearest achievements during the golden decade, the World Bank said. In countries such as Ecuador, Mexico and Nicaragua, the education gap between indigenous and non-indigenous children closed.
Despite progress, indigenous communities continue to be excluded from development.
“Latin America has undergone a profound social transformation that reduced poverty and expanded the middle class, but indigenous peoples benefited less than other Latin Americans,” said World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jorge Familiar.
The report found that though poverty rates have decreased within the indigenous population, the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Latin Americans has either remained stagnant or widened.
In the region, indigenous persons make up 14 percent of the poor and 17 percent of the extremely poor, despite representing less than 8 percent of the population.
Being born to indigenous parents increases the probability of being raised in a poor household regardless of parents’ level of education or the size or location of the household, the report stated.
In Ecuador, the probability of a family to be poor increases by 13 percent if the household is indigenous. The probability of being extremely poor increases by 15.5 percent. Other indicators, including gender and geography, further highlight gaps in indigenous social inclusion.
For instance, in Ecuador, if the same indigenous household is headed by a woman, it is 6 percent more likely to be poor. Indigenous women also have higher levels of illiteracy and school dropout rates across the region.
Along geographical lines, in Peru, an indigenous rural household is 37 percent more likely to be poor than an urban household. But even within urban areas, indigenous families continue to live in poorer living conditions with less sanitation and more disaster-prone households than their non-indigenous urban counterparts.
In the report, the World Bank urged for the multi-faceted inclusion of indigenous communities, especially in light of the newly-adopted Sustainable Development Agenda.
“If indigenous peoples are to assume their role as key actors in the post-2015 agenda, their voices and ideas need to be considered,” said Senior Director for the World Bank’s Social, Urban, Rural & Resilience Global Practice Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include commitments concerning indigenous peoples’ rights to education, land and markets.
The study recommends the effective implementation of national laws to guarantee indigenous political participation; strengthen indigenous communities’ access to education; improve data collection strategies to better implement targeted programs and; include indigenous persons in setting development targets.
“Inclusion of indigenous peoples in development policies and programs is not just about poverty reduction – it is the process of improving the ability and opportunity for them to be active stakeholders in society,” Ijjasz-Vasquez remarked. “Their inclusion is morally right and economically smart for nations,” he concluded.
The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, established in 2002, is set to reconvene in May 2016 to discuss indigenous peoples in relation to conflict, peace and resolution.


A Kassam rocket landed Thursday morning in Sderot. No wounded or damage were reported. Earlier, two Kassams landed in the Negev, causing damage to a kibbutz building.


Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd (centre), with the Job Centre's Carla Passarello, service leader for Cumbria and Lancashire, and Helen Saul, customer service leader for North Lancashire.
Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd visited Lancaster Job Centre this week to talk to work coaches and people receiving Universal Credit.
The MP visited Job Centres in Southport and Preston prior to coming to Lancaster, where she said her role is the “ensure what the government initiatated in being delivered on the ground”.
She said of Universal Credit: “It’s been good overall, and people now get a very personal service.
“People have been engaged and happy to talk to me.
“Universal Credit replaces six seperate benefits, and I think it’s a great system.
“I learned that it’s effective when I spoke to the work coaches, and they tell me how much better it is compared to the previous system.
“I know it faced difficulties initially, the money wasn’t being paid on time, and we’ve acknowledged that it’s been difficult for people to wait.
“We’ve introduced advances, and housing benefit is paid in the middle of the month.
“The reason we are paying Universal Credit at the end of the month is to replicate payments that people would get in work, to get them used to that system.
Ms Rudd also said she had written to Lancaster MP Cat Smith, after Ms Smith said that four in ten constituents visiting her with problems over Universal Credit have threatened suicide.
Ms Rudd said: “It was very upsetting to read what she said. I’ve asked her to give me the details.
“I urge anyone who’s experiencing that to come and meet the work coaches at the Job Centre.
“The people here have a really personal and caring approach to helping people into work.
“I think it’s a mistake for politicians to dwell on this and apportion it to one thing.
Ms Rudd said that “it must be a good thing that we have record levels of employment”, after the government released new data showing 76.1 per cent of people, or 32.39m, now in work.
“There’s some great employers locally and I want people to have fulfilling lives.
I hope that after starting on lower wages, people can start to earn more.
“The majority of new jobs are full time, and only around two per cent are zero hours. But that does serve an important purpose.
“Women returning to work after having children for example need flexibility.
“It can be what people want. This is the type of economy we have now.
The Office for National Statistics say that the number of people in employment in the UK is measured by the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and consists of people aged 16 years and over who did one hour or more of paid work per week and those who had a job that they were temporarily away from (for example, because they were on holiday or off sick).
The largest two categories within employment are employees and self-employed people; in recent years these two categories have accounted for over 99 per cent of all people in employment.


Prices of Treasury securities were narrowly mixed in a session that effectively ended shortly after 1 P.M. yesterday, after a fire in lower Manhattan led to a widespread loss of electrical power.
The fire at the Consolidated Edison power plant just moments after the Treasury had conducted its weekly auction of three-month and six-month bills darkened trading screens and computers.
Had the fire not broken out, the auction would likely have been the highlight of an otherwise quiet summer Monday trading session.
''The market was lucky that the power outage happened on a day when not much was going on,'' said David R. Duerson, manager of government securities trading operations at the Security Pacific National Bank in Los Angeles.
At the auction, bids on the three-month bills produced an average discount rate of 7.41 percent, up from the average rate of 7.23 percent at the sale a week ago.
Six-month bills were sold at an average rate of 7.31 percent, up from an average rate of 7.19 percent a week ago.
Trading in the secondary market for Treasury securities continued on a very limited basis after the fire. It all but ended at 3 P.M., Eastern time, when trading in bond futures contracts close on the Chicago Board of Trade.
''We tried to stay open in some limited capacity until the Board of Trade closed,'' said Bruce R. Lakefield, an executive vice president at Shearson Lehman Government Securities.
By late in the day, the Treasury's 8 3/4 percent 30-year bonds of 2020 were offered at a price of 99 17/32, down 1/32 point, to yield 8.79 percent, unchanged from late Friday.
Among note issues, the 8 3/4 percent 10-year notes were offered at 100 17/ 32, down 6/32, to yield 8.66 percent. And the 8 percent two-year notes were offered at 100 6/32, up 3/32, to yield 7.89 percent.
The prices are quotes from a sampling of dealers by a New Jersey office of Telerate Inc., a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company that provides price information electronically to market participants. The Telerate office was not affected by the power outage.
However, pricing securities was extremely difficult yesterday because three major interdealer brokers, the RMJ Securities Corporation, Fundamental Brokers Inc. and Cantor Fitzgerald & Company, were affected.
At the Chicago Board of Trade, the nearby September bond futures contract closed at 90 23/32, down 5/32 on the day.
''Developments in the Middle East will remain the key theme for some time,'' said Raymond W. Stone, a managing director at Stone & McCarthy Research Associates, a Princeton, N.J. firm that provides research and commentary on developments in the foreign exchange and credit markets.
''But this week all eyes are on the economic data that will be released, beginning with the retail sales report this morning.'' On Thursday reports are due on the Consumer Price Index, industrial production, capacity utilization, housing starts and real earnings.
Mr. Stone and other analysts are projecting that retail sales rose by half a percentage point last month.
A more accurate barometer of consumer sentiment may be announced later in the day, however, when major auto makers are expected to report on how auto sales fared during the first 10 days of August.
''Those numbers will be the first piece of information we will have that bridges the oil price shock,'' Mr. Stone said.
Although the severity of the fire's damage was unknown as market participants went home, many traders said they did not expect that activity would return to normal today. That could create difficulties if unexpected news develops.
''If we come in on Tuesday and the systems are still down, we could have a problem,'' Mr. Duerson said.
Both these issues are dated August 16, 1990. The three-month bills mature Nov. 15, 1990 and the six-month bills, Feb. 14, 1991.


City police are investigating a shooting with injuries reported on North Fulton Avenue on Wednesday night.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — City police are investigating a shooting with injuries reported on North Fulton Avenue Wednesday night.
Evansville Police officers were called to the 1800 block of North Fulton about 8 p.m. Wednesday for a report of shots fired.
They found a man down on the sidewalk bleeding from a gunshot wound.
The 23-year-old man was shot in the thigh, police say, and was taken to the hospital.
A witness said he saw a man wearing all black run from the scene and through a nearby apartment complex. A K-9 unit tried to track the person but was unsuccessful.
Evansville Police have already responded to several shootings in the city this year. Bullet holes were found in a house and car on Keller Street Monday, just a few blocks away from the shooting on North Fulton.
One man was injured in a shooting at the West Side VFW this weekend, where civilians subdued a 70-year-old man accused of trying to shoot several bystanders while looking for a person he had argued with earlier. The man who was shot is expected to survive.
Overall, shots fired reports and shootings were down in 2018 compared to 2017, according to EPD records.
Anyone with information on these or other cases can call Evansville Police Department at 812-436-7979.
More: Vanderburgh County's 2017 murder total was the highest in decades. How did 2018 compare?


Foxconn has been in the news a lot lately after ten workers at one of its Chinese factories where Apple products are built have killed themselves this year. Some blame harsh working conditions at the plant for the suicides.
Foxconn has given the workers pay raises and opened its typically closed plants up to outside regulators and journalists to prove that working conditions are good. A new rumor is floating around that claims Foxconn is ready to close its Chinese operations and move the plants to other countries.
The rumor points to an unmanned facility in Taiwan and to plants in India. If the rumor proves to be true, as many as 800,000 workers in the Foxconn Chinese plant could be out of a job.


Fatah reveals Hamas smuggling people from Gaza via Egypt to Europe for $2,000 to $3,500 per person; Hamas partially denies.
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction has exposed that Hamas is running a human trafficking network, smuggling Gaza residents to Europe for $2,000 to $3,500 per person.
The charges come following reports that dozens of Palestinian Arabs drowned last week after leaving Gaza for Egypt, where they boarded an ill-fated ship bound for Europe that never reached its goal, reports Kol Yisrael (Israel Radio).
Apparently Hamas used its hundreds of smuggling tunnels into the Sinai Peninsula to funnel the would-be immigrants out of Gaza and into Egypt; while an Egyptian siege limited the usage of those smuggling tunnels, the blockade has been recently eased during the current ceasefire.
Palestinian Arab media sources published the names of roughly 90 Arab residents of Gaza who went missing after trying to immigrate by sea from Egypt to Europe.
In response to the accusations, Hamas said the phenomenon of immigration has always existed, and claimed it arrested several members of the human trafficking network in Gaza.
The revelation of increased mobility between Gaza and Europe comes at a time of heightened concerns that Arab terrorists from the Middle East may be finding their way to western Europe, where they could potentially conduct terror attacks.
Just recently the Israeli National Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Bureau issued a travel warning to western Europe for Israelis, over fears of terror attacks targeting Jewish and Israeli targets.
In particular, there is a fear that western jihadists, most notably the roughly 2,000 Islamic State (ISIS) foreign recruits, may return home to conduct attacks.


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SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday brought back furloughs for thousands of state workers until California passes a budget.
Schwarzenegger released a new executive order requiring state workers to take three unpaid days off per month starting next month. State workers were furloughed a total of 46 days when Schwarzenegger issued a similar order in February 2009, which translated to a pay cut of about 14 percent for workers.
It's unclear how long the latest round of furloughs could last, as Schwarzenegger and lawmakers enter the fifth week of the new fiscal year without a balanced budget.
"Without a budget in place that addresses our $19 billion budget deficit, every day of delay brings California closer to a fiscal meltdown," Schwarzenegger said in a statement. "Our cash situation leaves me no choice but to once again furlough state workers until the Legislature produces a budget I can sign."
It also exempts about 37,000 workers in six unions that recently reached tentative labor agreements with the administration.
The state has about 237,000 workers.
The furlough puts pressure on remaining unions that have not agreed to the governor's demands for pension reforms. Unions have also been fighting the governor's efforts to impose the federal minimum wage while the state operates without a budget.
"To once again force state employees to take unpaid furloughs is just another punitive measure by Gov. Schwarzenegger because he couldn't impose minimum wage," said Patty Velez, president of the California Association of Professional Scientists, which represents 3,000 state employees.
The state Assembly's Republican leader, Martin Garrick, said Democrats who control the Legislature were to blame because they have refused to make cuts that Republicans, including Schwarzenegger, have demanded.
"I believe they've brought it on themselves and their constituents — and mine — that have been furloughed, because they haven't made the reductions," he said in a telephone interview. "The longer we go, the deeper the cuts have to be."
Democrats have vowed to protect education and social service programs, such as CalWORKS, the state's welfare-to-work program. They have proposed delaying corporate tax breaks and a new oil tax.


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Cindy McCain’s use of pain killers in the very early 1990s, following back surgery and two ruptured discks, is an old story with no relevance to the question of whether John McCain should be elected president. Moreover, she has been open about her addiction. Why she should discuss the consequences of the addiction in all their “complexity” — e.g., what happened to the doctor who supplied her with the pain killers — is not clear. The relevance of her “failure” to do so is even less apparent.
Much of what’s taking place in this campaign on both sides is disheartening, and nowhere is this more true than in the news pages of the Washington Post.
The good news is that the Post has only so many spots on its front-page to devote to attacking the Republican ticket and its members’ spouses. If the best it can do is stories about Cindy McCain’s drug addiction in 1991, the Republicans have nothing to fear. The bad news is that if this is the best the MSM can do with the facts, it may resort (as it already has on occasion) to making them up.


Gennady Golovkin will look to prove that he is better than Saul “Canelo” Alvarez when they collide in a rematch on May 5. But if Golovkin really wants to win against his biggest rival, Billy Joe Saunders thinks the hard-hitting champion needs to do it the hard way.
The first fight between Golovkin and Alvarez in September last year ended in a split draw. Most fans and analysts think Golovkin did enough to win the fight, questioning the decision of the judges who called the bout.
Judge Dave Moretti scored the bout 115-113 in favor of Golovkin, while Don Trella had it 114-114. Judge Adalaide Byrd had it 118-110 in favor of Alvarez. Byrd was heavily criticized for her decision, which led to a temporary suspension.
Based on how the first fight was called, Saunders told Fighthub that Golovkin should take his fate out of the hands of the judges. He implied Golovkin has to knockout or at least clearly dominate Alvarez to get the victory. He believes the judges will hand the win to Canelo again if it is a close fight.
It could be a different story, though, if Golovkin’s camp manages to convince Golden Boy Promotion to stage the fight in another city instead of Las Vegas. The T-Mobile Arena, which hosted the first fight, will likely be the venue of the rematch barring any changes.
Canelo’s camp wants the fight in Las Vegas. According to New York Post, it is not a surprising preference for the Mexican boxing superstar because he “enjoyed the benefit of favorable decisions” in Las Vegas before. Alvarez’s last nine fights were also held in Las Vegas.
Tom Loeffler, Golovkin’s promoter, revealed that the fight could be moved to New York. The promoter said that Madison Square Garden is ready to make a strong bid to host the Alvarez-Golovkin rematch. MSG is expected to guarantee better gate attendance than the first showdown.
Golovkin, who holds a 37-0-1 record with 33 knockout victories, has fought six times in New York. Before the controversial fight against Alvarez, the 35-year-old knockout artist scored a unanimous decision win over Daniel Jacobs at Madison Square Garden in March last year.
On the other hand, Alvarez, who owns a 49-1-2 record with 34 knockouts, has never fought in New York before. Golden Boy Promotions and Oscar De La Hoya also view Las Vegas as the most ideal host because of the available facilities and the lack of state tax.


Huawei is an independent company, owned by our employees and not the Chinese government, writes Joy Tan, senior vice president of Huawei USA.
As the global leader in 5G technology, Huawei is 12 to 18 months ahead of our competitors. As of today, Huawei has won 30 5G commercial contracts with more than 40,000 base stations deployed across the world.
Huawei’s secure and affordable technology bridges the digital divide. Here in America, many smaller telecom carriers use Huawei gear to deliver connectivity to underserved communities. The advent of 5G will be critical to the development of advanced technologies, like autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence and smart cities. Blocking an industry leader like Huawei would hurt those providers, weaken competition, slow innovation and threaten job growth.
Politicizing cybersecurity is a losing proposition. Without Huawei, consumers would pay more for lower quality services and technology.
Huawei is driving innovation. Last year, we invested $15 billion in research and development. According to the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization, the company is a top global patent holder with 87,805 patents (11,152 of those in the United States). We will continue this commitment to R&D, pledging more than $100billion over the next five years.
This commitment is resulting in critically acclaimed products like the Mate X, a foldable smartphone, and the equipment that drives high-speed communications like 5G. Huawei purchases more than $10 billion in parts and components in the USA annually.
Huawei is an independent company, owned by our employees and not the Chinese government. We work hard to set the standard for cybersecurity assurance. We believe that rigorous testing of products regardless of vendor will create greater transparency. And we are committed to helping organizations and governments create objective frameworks for determining which products are trustworthy.
As always, Huawei is deeply committed to making the world a better connected and safer place through technological innovations.
Joy Tan is senior vice president of Huawei USA.


LeBron James will not play tonight against Golden State in an effort to control “load management,” the Lakers said.
James missed 17 games over five weeks after straining his groin during the Christmas game against Golden State.
Since the Lakers’ next game is not until Tuesday in Indianapolis, it was decided to give the All-Star forward time to rest.
Walton said they planned to play James 32-35 minutes on Thursday but then the game went to overtime.
“There was no taking him out at that point,” Walton said.
Reserve center Tyson Chandler also will not play tonight.


We've already talked about using RSS as a business intelligence tool, but how do you choose the right software to get maximum benefit out of your news reading? With a number of options and myriad features on multiple platforms, it can be a daunting task to even get started.
In this article we'll take a look at some of what you might consider when shopping for a news reader. Do you need cutting edge, up to the second information at your fingertips? You might want to look at "ticker" style applications that scroll new headlines continuously. Or maybe you need to monitor a large number of feeds but are primarily interested in a subset of specific keywords or topics. In that case, you'd want to look for an RSS reader that supports a Smart Folders or Saved Searches feature.
If you need to keep news feeds in sync across multiple platforms, from Mac to Windows or from the web to a desktop or mobile clients, there are solutions out there for you too. Many of these readers also help you share individual articles and posts with your colleagues and collaborators as well. Let's take a look at some of the options available online, on your desktop and on your phone.
The reigning king of online newsreaders is currently Google Reader. One of the advantages of an online RSS reader over a desktop version is accessibility: you can use it from any web browser, even if it's not your primary computer, and all your feeds will be exactly the way you left them. Of course, one of the disadvantages of a web-based newsreader is that you typically need an active internet connection to make use of them, whereas a desktop client can download feed items you can later read offline.
One of the areas Google Reader excels, however, is in its ability to also sync with various desktop and mobile clients. Not only does that give you some measure of offline access to your feeds (as does installing and enabling Google Gears), but it prevents you from having to sort through some of the feeds you've already read elsewhere when you switch from your computer to your phone, or even from web to desktop client. We'll look at some of the desktop and mobile clients Google Reader syncs with in the next two sections.
Another potential option in this category is NetVibes. Though it's officially classified as a Start Page moreso than an RSS reader, it can import and monitor news feeds along with a number of other apps or widgets designed to bring various types of information into one at-a-glance interface. NetVibes offers far more flexibility and customizability than a straight up RSS reader, but the downside is it's not the best solution to monitoring a large volume of feeds. Google also has a similar product dubbed iGoogle worth checking out as well.
If keeping news feeds in sync between a Macintosh and a Windows computer is part of your requirements, you'll want to take a look at two industry-leading news readers on their respective platforms: NetNewsWire and FeedDemon. Both of these readers sync with Google Reader, making cross-platform feed reading a lot more painless. Even if you don't need cross-platform compatibility, both readers are full-featured and worthy contenders for your desktop feed reading needs. Both offer the ability to watch for specific keywords or set up saved searches that automatically bring up important topics in your niche to the forefront of your news reading sessions.
Another worthy option on the Mac is Shrook a free RSS reader that syncs back to the web to keep your feeds in line whether you're reading from your Mac, iPhone, or any computer with an internet connection. On Windows, take a look at the free and open source RSSOwl.
For a news ticker type experience on either the Mac or PC, check out Snackr, an Adobe AIR client that continually scrolls headlines from your feeds across your desktop. This type of news reader can be handy for those who want to be able to see stories at a glance without having to switch back and forth between applications or browser tabs.
On the iPhone, Reeder is a solid mobile client that syncs with Google Reader. Newsstand is another iPhone client that does so, along with the ability to easily export or send stories to a number of external sources like email, Twitter, delicious and more. There's also a special iPhone-formatted version of Google Reader you can simply use in the Safari mobile browser that works quite well.
On the Android platform, FeedR is a great option for reading feeds, with a free demo version and a reasonable $0.99 version that removes certain intermediary dialog boxes. You can import feeds from an OPML file and even cache feeds for offline reading as well. For a solid client that syncs with Google Reader, check out NewsRob.
Palm webOS users might want to see if the iPhone-formatted Google Reader works for your needs; it's not specifically customized for Palm devices yet still tends to work rather well. BlackBerry users can also access Google Reader in the phone browser, or check out FreeRange or Viigo. Windows Mobile users can also use the browser method to access Google Reader, or try the free NewsBreak Lite or YoMoMedia, which syncs with its own web-based feed reading client as well.
Don't hesitate to spend some time shopping around and trying several clients before settling on your feed reader of choice — or even continuing to use more than one at a time. Thanks to the OPML standard, it should be a relatively simple process to export and import your feeds from one client to another. This means that building a master list of news feeds in one client is highly worthwhile, since it can travel with you even if you move to a new RSS reader down the road.


The minor girl was laster sent to Bharosa centre for medical assistance and counselling.
Hyderabad: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her stepfather on multiple occasions, police said.
“We received a complaint on March 25 from a 14-year-old girl stating that she has been raped several times by her stepfather,” Golconda Police said on Tuesday.
A further probe in the matter is underway.


An end to festivities: Candi Staton is one of Triptych’s final guestsNext month’s Triptych Festival will be the eighth and last. There’s an undeniable twinge of loss; since 2001 Triptych has specialised in bringing established pioneers and contemporary adventurers to Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, often for unusual, one-off gigs.Past visitors have included Jimmy Cliff, Phillip Glass, Grace Jones, Aphex Twin, Terry Riley and Ute Lemper, while in 2004 – the year the festival expanded from three to five days – there was even a stop-over by late electronic music grandaddy Dr Robert Moog.By comparison, the 2008 programme is a relatively tame affair. Though the final party at Glasgow’s Arches on Apr 27 is a flurry of big names, some might find the rest of the fest (now scaled back to its original three days) a little flat.That’s not to say there aren’t highlights – there are, including screenings of Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai with a Q & A from Wu-Tang chief RZA, who wrote the score and who also plays in his Bobby Digital guise.More specifically – and unusually for Triptych – there’s no sense of coup, no wow. Many of the most celebrated names are (albeit welcome) returners, such as Southern soul first lady Candi Staton, improv collective The Bays and funk bro Jamie Lidell while perhaps the most notable first timer is David Longstreth’s maverick Dirty Projectors outfit.Tennent’s will soon announce details of a new project, The Tennent’s Mutual , which looks set to involve fans in shaping gigs. For now, let’s wave Triptych a fond adieu.


LOS ANGELES, March 04, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reed’s Inc. (NYSE MKT:REED), the leading maker of craft sodas nationwide announced today that it intends to issue its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2015 on Wednesday, March 23, 2016.
The Company plans to release its earnings results that day at approximately 1:05 pm Pacific Time followed by a management conference call for investors at 1:30 pm Pacific Time.
A replay of the call will be available on the Reed’s website at www.reedsinc.com in the “Investors” section following the earnings call within a day.
Reed's, Inc. makes the top-selling sodas in the natural and specialty foods industry and are sold in over 15,000 natural and mainstream supermarkets nationwide. Reed's products are sold through an additional estimated 40,000 accounts that include specialty gourmet, natural food stores, retail stores, convenience stores and restaurants nationwide and in select international markets. Reed’s has sold over 500 million bottles since inception in June 1989 and is considered the leader of the fast growing craft soda category. Its seven award-winning non-alcoholic Ginger Brews are unique in the beverage industry, being brewed, not manufactured and using fresh ginger, spices and fruits in a brewing process that predates commercial soft drinks. The Company owns the top-selling root beer line in natural foods, the Virgil's Root Beer product line, and a top-selling cola line in natural foods, the China Cola product line. In 2012, the Company launched its Reed's Culture Club Kombucha line of organic live beverages. Other product lines include Reed's Ginger Candies and Reed's Ginger Ice Creams.
For more information about Reed’s, please visit the Company’s website at: http://www.reedsinc.com or call 800-99-REEDS.


Rick Down died at age 68 after a long illness.
He was one of those guys who never quite got over the top in the minor leagues, an outfielder who came up through the Montreal Expos system at a time when they had an impressive stable of major league outfielders that included Hall of Famer Andre Dawson, Ellis Valentine and Warren Cromartie.
Down made it to the Triple-A level before retiring as a player and knocking around the low minors as a coach in the late 1970s. He then spent six seasons coaching at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas under UNLV coaching legend Fred Dallimore.
His big break in professional baseball came when he was hired by the California Angels as a roving hitting instructor. Four years later, the Yankees hired him and he started working his way up the minor league managerial ladder.
Though he had great success leading the Triple-A Columbus Clippers to several International League titles, he never got a chance to manage in the majors. Instead, he spent three seasons as Yankees hitting coach under manager Buck Showalter (1993-95) before moving on to the Orioles.
Down also served as hitting coach for the Dodgers (1999-2000), Red Sox (2001), the Yankees again (2002-2003), and the Mets (2005-2007). His final major league job was as an advance scout for the Giants.
He will be remembered fondly in Baltimore for the two years he spent working under manager Davey Johnson, but he obviously spent much more of his career in pinstripes. The Yankees led the majors in batting average in his first two seasons as hitting coach (1993-94) and he was also hitting coach for two of their nine straight AL East titles from 1998-2006.
“He was knowledgeable, very loyal, a lot of fun to be around,’’ Showalter said. “A lot of people didn’t get that about him. He didn’t take himself too seriously. Players loved him because he didn’t want to do anything but make you better as a hitter.


Richard Erwin Alary passed away peacefully on January 12, 2019, at Valley View Hospital from complications of a fall and heart failure. He was born on January 5, 1950, in Arkansas. Richard grew up in Thousand Oaks, California, and moved to Glenwood Springs in 1979. Shortly thereafter, he met the love of his life, Evelyn Maddalone, who he has now been reunited with, and raised her daughter as his own.
After graduation Richard was drafted into the Army and was honorably discharged in 1973. He then went on to receive his refrigeration and heating certificate. Richard worked at the Garfield County Courthouse for 37 years, retiring in 2015. He loved to hunt, fish, collect antiques, and books. He was a man of little words but the strongest and most humble man his family has ever met. Richard has lovingly been described as a gentle giant. Words do not describe how much he was loved and how much he will be missed. We take solace that he is dancing with Evelyn now.
Richard is survived by his daughter, Nissa Maddalone, granddaughter, Sophia Taylor, his “son” Joseph Bianco and “daughter” Teresa Bianco, their daughters, Carrie, Cindy and Katie and their families. He is also survived by his sister, Michelle Zuniga (Sergio), brothers Kirby Alary (Michael) and Vern Alary (Robin), sister-in-law, Terri Bengtson (Stan), and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his love, Evelyn Maddalone, his mother, Jewell Alary, his father, Al Alary and his brother Mel Alary.
A celebration of life will be held at Farnum Holt on February 16, 2019, at 10 a.m., and a reception will follow; location will be announced at a later date. A Richard Alary memorial account will be opened at the Bank of Colorado for any donations. Condolences can be sent to Joe Bianco at 6070 County Road 214, New Castle, CO 81647.


A Prescription Advantage scam warning has been released by the Senior Center and SHINE. Central Massachusetts seniors have reported callers asking for donations under the guise that Prescription Advantage is running out of money. Prescription Advantage is a state program that is prohibited by law from fundraising. Seniors are advised not to release personal information to callers.


I was a career woman working for a big company in Makati. It was the most enjoyable time of my life, as I was earning a good salary and prospects of my promotion to an executive position were almost certain. The problem began when our father had a stroke and was bed-ridden. My sister and brother called me to come home immediately as he needed vital care.
I took a leave from my work and came to Bacolod to take care of our father. He had been very lonely since our mother died, and his stroke only made things worse for him. He had to be fed and cared for like a baby. We tried to get caregivers to take care of him but they didn’t stay long as he was very difficult. I was the only one who could manage him. After a while our office asked when I could report back to work. I asked my siblings to take over the care of our father but they refused, saying they had their own families to care for. There was no other recourse but for me to resign.
I lost a lot of weight as I had to lift my father whenever he needed to go to the bathroom. I couldn’t eat properly during mealtimes as he kept calling for me. At night I couldn’t sleep as he was restless and needed my presence. This went on for more than a year. My siblings visited only on weekends and they didn’t stay long. My father told me he had kept money in his bank account and he gave me his ATM so I could withdraw his money. The amount was quite big – one hundred twenty-eight thousand pesos. My father said it was for me because I took care of him.
When our father died, my siblings immediately inquired about what he left behind. My sister knew about our father’s money and they began asking for it. I told them it was for me because I took care of our father. They got mad and insisted that they should have equal share. This has created a family feud. Should I give them what they ask for? I gave up so much just to care for him.
It would have been better if your father left a Last Will and Testament stating that he left you the money in the bank. This is important for families to avoid any feud about the deceased’s estate. But since your father had no Last Will, you could consult a lawyer to protect your interest. Do this as soon as possible before your ungrateful siblings insist on getting the money your father left you.


NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Rangers at all 56 state parks in Tennessee are offering free guided hikes later this month.
Tennessee State Parks said in a news release Monday that free hikes are scheduled for March 23. That’s a Saturday.
The hikes are supposed to range from easy to adventurous. They include the spring wildflower hike at Norris Dam State Park and the “hike in the moonlight” at David Crockett State Park.
The news release says hikers are urged to prepare for the weather, have sturdy footwear, and bring water and snacks. A hiking stick might be a good idea.
Interested hikers can check the Tennessee State Parks website for locations.


Foursquare has raised over $240 million. Here's what the startup's investor pitch deck looked like before it raised any money at all.
Foursquare employees holding up badges you can earn on the app.
When Foursquare launched in 2009, it was a startup sensation. The check-in game app has grown and changed a lot over the past decade. Now Foursquare is mostly a location data company that lots of enterprises use.
The company has gone on to raise over $240 million from investors and its valuation has soared.
Cofounder Dennis Crowley shared Foursquare's first-ever pitch deck, just before investors really started showing interest in the company.
It's clear from the early presentation that Crowley had a vision and a plan to execute, complete with lots of features that could create a highly engaged audience and future revenue streams.
When Foursquare launched, it quickly became one of the biggest, buzziest startups.
The company, which started as a a location-based check-in game for users, has gone on to raise over $240 million from investors, including from prominent venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital.
What did Foursquare look like before it raised any money at all?
According to the company's earliest investor pitch deck, which cofounder Dennis Crowley sent to Business Insider back in 2011, the app was a self-proclaimed "part friend-finder, part social city-guide, part social-game."
Crowley shared Foursquare's original pitch deck from July 6, 2009, three months after Foursquare's famous SXSW and two months before he says funding talks "really kicked up."
"Decks don't have to be super formal," Crowley told Business Insider back then. "It's okay to stray from the 'business school 10-slide pitch deck template."
A version of this story was first published in 2011.
Foursquare's initial logo looked a lot different than the pink logo it has now.
Cofounder Dennis Crowley's deck opened with a vision slide about what he was building. He described Foursquare then as "part friend-finder, part social city-guide, part social-game."
Foursquare was thinking about mobile apps before mobile apps were really a thing. iPhones back in 2009 were a lot different than today.
Crowley described his vision for "checking-in" to a location. This was a brand new concept then that has since been adapted by other social companies including Facebook.
The check-in Crowley was building would be gamified to get users hooked.
"Mayors" were also a new concept Crowley introduced in the pitch deck. A mayor — someone with the most check-ins at a location — would be something for users to strive for to keep them hooked and engaged.
Crowley's initial pitch deck had a lot of ways to make his app "sticky" for users, including a leaderboard where users could see how they ranked and unlock digital badges for accomplishments on the app.
Like Yelp, Foursquare would also provide helpful tips for users as they explored their cities.
Tips would also be part of a recommendation engine on the app.
The badges don't look so dissimilar from Snapchat's "trophy case" for users now.
Crowley thought Foursquare would generate most of its revenue from lead generation. It turns out most of their revenue is generated through enterprise deals and its powerful location data.
Virtual payments could be a second revenue stream for the company, Crowley thought back then.
Even then, Foursquare was a data-focused company.
Foursquare quickly rolled out in 20 US cities with its sights set on many more. Venture capitalists were intrigued, and thanks to Crowley's vision and attention to engagement opportunities, the company soon became one of the hottest startup investments of its time.


A MELBOURNE woman is lucky to be alive after a huge overhead sign fell on top of her car while she was driving along Tullamarine Freeway.
The woman, 53, suffered a neck and hand injury after the sign smashed onto the front of her car near Essendon Airport at 5.30pm on Tuesday.
Images from the scene shows a blue car crushed by the sign, with its windscreen shattered and glass strewn across the road. No other cars were hit.
The woman was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital and is in a stable condition.
The incident closed the inbound exit from the Tullamarine Freeway to Bulla Road and Bell Street for number of hours but the area has since been reopened.
Highway Patrol officer Jason Lane told the ABC that it is "highly unusual" for something like this to happen.
"I haven't come across it before," he said.
It is believed wind was not a factor in bringing the sign down.


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Ruf Automobile GmbH, a German automotive company that has been tuning Porsches for a long time, will make an electric version of the Porsche 911 called the eRUF Model A.
Under the hood, a 150kW (201hp) brushless three phase A/C electric motor that can generate an impressive 480 lb.-ft. of torque and a lithium-ion iron-phosphate battery pack made of 96 160Ah Axeon cells and a sophisticated monitoring system to make sure it doesn't overheat. Read on for more details and photos.
It accelerates from zero to 100 kph in less than seven seconds and has a top speed of 225 kph (140 mph). Estimated range per charge is 250 kilometers to 320 kilometers (155-199 miles), depending on performance level, using a 50.72 kWh lithium-ion iron-phosphate pack from Axeon plc.
But the battery pack could be replaced as new technology comes out. In its press release, RUF says: "The generation of batteries available from Axeon represents by no means the end of the developmental curve. Current performance improvements in battery technology indicate that end of this improvement spiral is nowhere near. "
The eRUF Porsche also features regenerative braking.


Nicole and Michael Bailey of Delaware; a son, Caleb Bailey; born June 10 at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Stacey Johnson and Jeremy Albaugh of Delaware; a daughter, Adalynn Albaugh; born June 4 at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Jessica and Kacy Boyd of Delaware; a son, Jaxon Boyd; born June 8 at Grady Memorial Hospital.


Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. appointed Orlando D. Ashford as senior vice president of human resources.
Ashford, whose appointment is effective Sept. 22, will work closely with key executives of MMC’s operating companies to examine compensation, diversity and inclusion, talent management and leadership development.
recently group director of human resources for Eurasia and Africa. He joined Coca-Cola in 2005 as vice president of corporate center human resources and cultural transformation. In that role, he led the company’s global culture transformation, capability building and organizational development efforts. Je also reorganized and rebuilt its corporate center human resources team and headed company-wide cultural change efforts.
Prior to Coca-Cola, Ashford held positions with Motorola, the Delta Consulting Group (subsequently Mercer Delta Consulting), Ameritech and Andersen Consulting.
Source: Marsh & McLennan Cos.


Judy Dew, left, and Penny Wombles of Clarksville United Methodist Church serve a bowl of homemade chicken noodle to Sherry McCarty during the congregation’s annual Eagle Days soup luncheon Saturday, Jan. 26. Chili, hot dogs and homemade desserts also were served. Proceeds will be used to help complete the final phase of the 111-year-old church building’s Save Our Stained Glass Windows campaign. Since 2014, more than $60,000 has been raised and windows on three sides of the sanctuary have been restored.


FBI Director Christopher Wray said he was as angry as he’s been in “a long, long time” over the government shutdown, now into its fifth week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — FBI Director Christopher Wray said he was as angry as he’s been in “a long, long time” over the government shutdown, now into its fifth week.
Wray made the comments to FBI workers in a video message posted to the FBI’s website. It is unclear if the message was intentionally posted, but Wray’s comments imply it was not meant to be public.
“In this polarized environment, even seemingly straightforward statements can be hijacked by one side or the other,” Wray said.
About 35,000 agents, analysts and staff aren’t being paid during the government shutdown, as President Donald Trump and congress fight over appropriations and funding for a proposed border wall.
The video was posted to the FBI’s website on Jan. 24.
A CNN story dated Jan. 10 said Wray thanked employees for their continued work in a video message, but cited an FBI agent. The FBI did not respond to CNN's request for comment for the Jan. 10 story.
The FBI National Press Office had no comment on the video.
In the posted video message, Wray said they’ve been working on finding a way to make a one-time payment to employees to bridge the gap until the government reopens.
Wray doesn’t blame anybody for the shutdown, but thanks his employees for their hard work while it continues.


Cuba on Wednesday selected 57-year-old First Vice President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez as sole candidate to succeed Raul Castro as president of Cuba, the centerpiece of an effort to ensure that the country’s single-party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it.
The virtually certain unanimous approval of the National Assembly will install someone from outside the Castro family in the country’s highest government office for the first time in nearly six decades.
The 86-year-old Castro will remain head of the Communist Party, designated by the constitution as “the superior guiding force of society and the state.” As a result, Castro is almost certain to remain the most powerful person in Cuba for the time being. His departure from the presidency is nonetheless a symbolically charged moment for a country accustomed to 60 years of absolute rule first by revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and, for the last decade, his younger brother.
Nominated as new first vice president was Salvador Valdes Mesa, a 72-year-old Afro-Cuban former union official who has held a long series of high posts in the Cuban government. The government’s official Candidacy Commission also nominated another five vice presidents of the Council of State, Cuba’s highest government body. Only one of the five, 85-year-old Ramiro Valdez, was among the revolutionaries who fought with the Castros in the eastern Sierra Maestra mountains.
Facing biological reality, Raul Castro is working to ensure a smooth transition from him and his small group of former guerrillas to a new generation that can maintain the government’s grip on power in the face of economic stagnation, an aging population and waning revolutionary fervor among Cuban youth attuned more to global consumer culture than the anti-capitalist, nationalist messaging of the state-run media.
That media went into overdrive Wednesday with a single message: Cuba’s system is continuing in the face of change. Commentators on state television and online offered lengthy explanations of why Cuba’s single-party politics and socialist economy are superior to multi-party democracy and free markets, and assured Cubans that no fundamental changes were occurring, despite some new faces at the top.
Most Cubans know their first vice president as an unremarkable speaker who initially assumed a public profile so low it was virtually nonexistent. Until March, Diaz-Canel had said nothing to the Cuban people about the type of president he would be. The white-haired, generally unsmiling Diaz-Canel had been seen at greatest length in a leaked video of a Communist Party meeting where he somberly pledged to shutter some independent media and labeled some European embassies as outposts of foreign subversion.
Castro entered the National Assembly just after 9 a.m. accompanied by a broadly smiling Diaz-Canel.
The 604 assembly members were sworn in — a 605th was absent — then voted for the president and vice president of the legislative body itself. The result of the votes for president and vice presidents and other national leaders is expected to be officially announced Thursday, the anniversary of the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion defeated by Cuban forces in 1961.
As in Cuba’s legislative elections, all of the leaders being voted in on Wednesday are selected by a government-appointed commission. Ballots offer only the option of approving or disapproving the official candidate. Candidates generally receive more than 90 percent of the votes in their favor.
Fidel Castro was prime minister and president from 1959 until he fell ill in 2006. Although Osvaldo Dorticos was president of Cuba during Fidel Castro’s time as prime minister, he was considered a figurehead beside the man who led Cuba’s revolution, forged its single-party socialist system and ruled by fiat.


Since joining UGA as the director of the Institute of Gerontology, Toni Miles has decided to steer the institute to looking at how geriatric patients affect the broader society and what can be done to improve that aspect of public health.
Led by Toni P. Miles, professor of epidemiology and director of the Institute of Gerontology in the College of Public Health, the research looked at how survivors responded to spouse, parent, sibling or child loss.
A report of any loss resulted in a 20 to 30 percent increased risk of health care use, she said. The risk for baby boomers six or more years past the loss was even greater. Compared to respondents without spousal or parental death, these grievers had a 75 to 95 percent increased risk of health care use.
The research was published in the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and is part of a larger Mortality Project being conducted by the university. Through the Mortality Project, UGA researchers study how loss affects a survivor’s health. Along with research on loss and health care use, the Mortality Project has helped pastors improve their practices for grieving families with training available from the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, http://www.acpe.edu.
Using data from the Health and Retirement Survey, Miles’s current study focuses on a cohort of baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, who had likely experienced the death of a family member.
Some grievers also depended on the family member for health insurance and find themselves without the same coverage after the person dies. In those cases, survivors have a greater chance of hospitalization since they often delay medical treatment.
The research also identified strategies to help survivors. Engaging in physical activity can help lower a person’s risk of hospitalization by as much as 50 percent.
“Walking at an easy pace can help newly grieving persons diminish their risk for illness after loss,” Miles notes.
The study co-authors include Cherie Simpson of the University of Texas and Joseph C. Allegra, Amara Ezeamama, Kerstin Gerst-Emerson and Jennifer Elkins of UGA.
The journal article is available online at http://ajh.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/09/24/1049909114552125.full.pdf+html.


Many poor rice farmers across the country are giving up farming because it fetches them too little money and turning to other livelihoods.
Farmers in the northern provinces of Thanh Hoa and Hai Duong, who were allocated paddy fields more than 30 years ago for a small annual fee, are returning or just abandoning them.
Official figures show that 42,785 families left their fields (6,882 hectares) untouched this year, leaving them covered in weeds for children to use as football pitches or people to graze their cattle, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. Another 3,407 families have returned 433 hectares.
Most said that the income from growing rice has shrunk, with some saying that a few hundred square meters of land only provides them VND50,000-80,000 (US$2.37-3.79) a month on average, enough for two bowls of pho in a city.
Le Thi Thoi of Thanh Hoa has recently sought to return her 3,500 square meters of rice field. Her family got 5,000 square meters and gave some to her two married daughters.
She had asked to bequeath the land to her children but none of them were prepared to take it.
"In the beginning the land allowed us to feed the six people in the family and send the children to school.
"But now I have to return it since the income from growing rice is very low," she told Tuoi Tre.
But the cost is increasing, she said, estimating that the cost of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides for 100 sq.m -- besides ploughing and harvesting -- is VND300,000. But it only yields 60 kilograms of rice which fetches VND360,000.
Thoi has switched to making dry pancakes, earning more than VND1 million a month, while some have switched to their traditional blacksmith's job to earn VND3-4 million.
Many garment companies have also opened in Hau Loc District and employed nearly 1,000 locals.
Many farmers in Hai Duong Province have asked to return their fields, even promising they would never ask for any benefits relating to them if policies change in future.
Local officials said it is "painful" to see farmers give up rice fields.
The area being abandoned is increasing crop by crop, and authorities have no plans to utilize them, they said.
Pham Xuan Truong, vice chairman of Van To commune in Tu Ky District, said new policies have been drafted to encourage farmers, like waiving the annual fee and providing seed and cash subsidies worth VND500,000 per hectare.
Nguyen Ninh Hoat, a local, said the problem is that farmers have no hope left. Thousands of people in the district made a living from rice farming but no one has become rich from it, he said.
"Planting rice gives a person VND10,000 a day. How can you live on that?
Young people are not interested in it, and most now work for companies and factories in urban areas.
Another local, Pham Thi Nguyet, 50, has been collecting water chestnuts for extra income besides farming her 3,600 sq.m paddy field.
She only works half the field, growing just enough rice for her family.
The indifference towards rice farming is also growing in the Mekong Delta, the country's biggest rice producer, where farmers rent out their fields or convert them into fish ponds or orchards.
"It does not fetch enough for a living, so we have to quit," local Le Van Ngon said.
He himself made regular losses since rice prices have been fluctuating in recent years.
So he sold a part of it and kept a small area to create a fish pond.
Tri Ton District has 43,000 hectares of rice fields but only 60 percent of the fields are planted.
The fields are rented out to people with deeper pockets who both grow crops and raise livestock and fish.
Bui Van Nam, who rents Tinh's and others' fields, said his family makes profits thanks to the large area it has.
The cost of farming is increasing and farmers hardly make profits from fields of less than two hectares, he said.
"You need at least four hectares, and your own machinery to make profits,"he said.
Officials in Hai Duong and Thanh Hoa are also creating large fields by adding together smaller ones to achieve economies of scale.
The large fields are given to the farmers who stay, especially those having equipment at their disposal.
The model has also attracted some businesses.
Nguyen Viet Ban, vice chairman of Hai Duong's Thanh Mien District, said the district has created around 2,000 hectares of large fields, and some of them have made profits for the last two crops.
Tien Nong Agriculture JSC in Thanh Hoa has taken over 30 hectares of rice fields abandoned by farmers.


Fifty three tea factories are facing the prospects of having their licences revoked in the near future, after getting caught adulterating tea during a regulatory survey, the Sri Lanka Tea Board said yesterday.
“The survey results were very bad. We found 53 factories, as of today, adding substances to the tea and I plan to cancel the licences of those factories. They shouldn’t be allowed to be in the tea business,” Sri Lanka Tea Board Chairman Rohan Pethiyagoda told Mirror Business.
He said that 80 factories, which were suspected of adulterating tea, were surveyed but stressed that it was not a random sample and therefore, the results were not a representation of the total factory population.
Pethiyagoda said that the factories were found to have added sugar and glucose to their tea produce.
Adding sugar to tea during the manufacturing process gives out a more appealing colour to a brewed cup of tea but such adulterated tea becomes more susceptible to fungi, which may release potentially carcinogenic toxins, especially when stored at warehouses in humid conditions prevalent in areas such as Colombo, while the tea awaiting auctioning or export.
While some industry sources said that much worse substances are added to tea in some cases to get a particular flavour or aroma, Pethiyagoda said of the factories surveyed, only glucose and sugar were detected.
“I don’t believe they are using any other chemicals,” he said.
Pethiyagoda said that the Tea Board would not be taking any risk on the quality of Ceylon Tea.
“We are taking this very seriously because the Tea Board is responsible for ensuring the quality of tea worldwide and our international buyers have an expectation that the Tea Board will not allow factories to do anything improper; when I find someone doing something improper, my reaction is to shut them,” he said.
He added that he is unwilling to identify the errant tea factories at the moment, since they have been given a short period of time to present a defence on why their licences shouldn’t be cancelled.
“If anybody doesn’t have a defence, they will be put out of business because we don’t need criminals in this industry. They bring the entire industry down,” Pethiyagoda said.
Mirror Business learns that many of the tea factories found adulterating tea were in the low country areas.
Pethiyagoda, earlier this year had stated that most of the tea factories suspected of adulterating tea had political connections and had utilized these connections in the past to revive their businesses, after being slapped with temporary closures.
He had also said that he had no qualms about closing down as many as “a couple of hundred” tea factories out of the 700 in operation, as it would lead to a richer tea industry.
Speaking to Mirror Business yesterday, Sri Lanka Tea Factory Owners’ Association Chairman Harith Ranasinghe said that around 90 percent of the tea factories in Sri Lanka are running under capacity and therefore, the remaining factories would be able to handle the share of production, which was held by the 53 factories, if all of their licences are cancelled.
He called on tea factories to manufacture high-quality tea.
“Foreign buyers are very much concerned about the quality of tea they buy. Foreign buyers and the locals who are purchasing for international markets are trusting (sic) the auction and buying and therefore, it is our obligation to provide good quality tea,” he said.
The Tea Exporters’ Association (TEA) commended the Sri Lanka Tea Board for its actions, which would increase the confidence of Ceylon Tea in the international market.
“It sends the right message if the people who did wrong get punished. We were consulted and we all agreed on it,” TEA Chairman Jayantha Karunaratne said.
Tea is Sri Lanka’s second largest merchandise export, earning US $ 1.5 billion in foreign exchange in 2017, compared to US $ 1.3 billion in 2016.
The Sri Lanka Tea Board has until the end of this month to comply with the residue levels for tea exports to Japan.
“We have an understanding that by the end of March we should have our tea exported to Japan conform to the standards,” Pethiyagoda said, after returning from Japan.
He had visited the East Asian nation to discuss with the Japanese authorities on the recent changes to the chemical residue limits in the produce shipped to Japan.
Pethiyagoda said that the changes, which took place last October, were routine.
Since then, there have been detections of excess chemical residue in Ceylon Tea shipped to Japan. Pethiyagoda said of particular concern was the level of residue of the chemical MCPA.
“One of the common chemicals we use in the tea industry (MCPA) is now used more and more because of the absence of glyphosate. Glyphosate is the world’s safest weedicide and we have banned it. As a result of that, we are using less safe weedicides,” he said.
Japan has stricter residue limits for MCPA.
According to the official government statistics, Japan was Sri Lanka’s ninth largest tea export market, accounting for 7.9 million kilogrammes of tea worth Rs.6.9 billion in 2017, up from 7.8 kilogrammes worth Rs.6.2 billion in 2016.
Based on volume, the Japanese exports amounted to 2.74 percent of Sri Lanka’s total tea exports in 2017.
Sri Lanka tea exports have been facing headwinds as of late, with a temporary ban on Ceylon Tea by Russia last December after a beetle specimen was detected in a tea shipment.


''Acquiescent non-volunteer'' is a new semantic vehicle by which Britain and Hong Kong hope to transport unwanted boat people in the Asian colony back to Vietnam and out of their consciences.
This bit of doublespeak grew out of an agreement last month in which Britain, Hong Kong and Vietnam urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to return Vietnamese classified as non-refugees who, though not volunteers, would not resist repatriation. About 50,000 Vietnamese are in Hong Kong camps; a large percentage are believed to be economic migrants, not political refugees.
Last December, 51 who did not want to go back-''non-voluntary acquiescers'' or, perhaps, ''unavailing voluntary demurrers''-were put on a plane for Hanoi anyway. This caused an international furor, sensitizing officials to the limits they dare not exceed.
But because the frustration and impatience with this problem persist, the impulse is to push against those limits toward the realm of weasel words.
The hard truth is that a great many boat people probably will have to be deported, a prospect that becomes less distasteful as Vietnam re-enters the community of nations as a member in good standing.
Not only do phony terms not soften that truth, but they insult the humanity of their users and the people to whom they are applied. ''Acquiescent non-volunteer'' deserves mandatory non-consent.


Ivanka Trump was seen catching up with her friends Hugh Jackman and Wendi Deng Murdoch while in New York City on Monday evening.
The 36-year-old first daughter donned a $1,850 sleeveless cream dress from Proenza Schouler, and a pair of black slingback heels for her night out in the Big Apple.
Ivanka gave Hugh, 49, and his wife, Deborra-lee Furness, 62, a hug and a kiss as she walked out of their Greenwich Village apartment building with a friend.
Ivanka Trump enjoyed a glamorous evening in her hometown of New York City-- schmoozing with Hollywood celebrities and looking every bit the starlet herself.
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Hugh and Deborra-lee had their dogs with them, and Ivanka bent down to pat one of the pooches on the head a she made her way out of the building.
The actor and first daughter have been pals for years; in 2015, Hugh posted an image of Ivanka on his Twitter account, referring to her as his 'lovely friend'.
Ivanka wore minimal make-up for the outing, and her long blonde hair was parted in the middle and loose around her shoulders.
The mother-of-three topped off her look with a pin on the bodice of her dress, a gold bracelet, and a red string tied around her left wrist.
Ivanka carried a black handbag as she and her friend made their way to the SUV waiting outside the apartment building.
After the first daughter got into her vehicle, Hugh and Deborra-lee took their dogs outside while chatting with friends who were also leaving the building.
Wendi, 49, trailed out behind them, and Deborra-lee waved at her to say hello; after Wendi had caught up with them, Deborra-lee threw her arm around her before she got into her own car.
The businesswoman donned a ruffled blazer, skinny pants, and black wedge mules for the evening out.
Hugh and Deborra-lee were dressed more casually to walk their pets. Hugh had on a dark button-down top and dark pants, while his wife opted for a black tunic and loose-fitting black pants.
The next day, Ivanka was seen leaving the side entrance of her New York City apartment to evade the photographers waiting outside her door.
The White House senior adviser, who was born and raised in Manhattan, looked chic in a black hooded jacket, black skinny pants, and knee-high black boots.
She wore aviator sunglasses and added a pop of color to her look by sporting a red lip.
Ivanka was seen getting inside an SUV parked in front of her apartment as she made her way to Oon Arvelo Salon and then Oscar Blandi Salon.
The first daughter has been a longtime client of stylist Peter Oon, and she has been getting her hair dyed by Kyle White, lead colorist at Oscar Blandi, for the past couple of years.
Although it is unclear who did what, Ivanka likely spent a good portion of the day getting her hair done; she did, however, find time to pay tribute to designer Kate Spade, who committed suicide, and was found on Tuesday morning.
Off to work: While Ivanka was in the Big Apple on Tuesday, her husband, Jared Kushner, was seen leaving their Washington, D.C. apartment around 7:30 a.m.
While she was in her old stomping ground, her 37-year-old husband, Jared Kushner, was seen leaving their Washington, D.C. home at about 7:30 a.m. as he made his wy to work.
It's unclear when she arrived in New York City, but the getaway comes on the heels of her family trip to Camp David.
Ivanka, Jared, and her siblings Donald Jr. and Tiffany traveled to the president's retreat in Maryland with their father, President Donald Trump, on Friday.
The first daughter looked incredibly chic in her safari-inspired outfit when she headed to Camp David, but her belted wide-leg trousers were so long they were dragging on the grass.
Family affair: Ivanka and Jared were joined by her half-sister, Tiffany, and her older brother, Donald Trump Jr.
She was wearing a classic white blouse tucked into a pair of $1,490 Oscar de la Renta high-waisted pants when she boarded Marine One with her family in the afternoon.
Standing just an inch shy of six feet, Ivanka is far from short, but her designer pants appeared to be a few inches too long — even with her sky-high heels.
Photos of Ivanka walking across the South Lawn of the White House on Friday with her husband, Jared, show her long pants dragging across the grass as she made her way to Marine One.
It's likely that her heels were sinking into the ground during the walk across the lawn, and while she ended up walking on her trousers, she didn't seem to be worried about grass stains or tripping on her hem.
Ivanka was smiling brightly while walking hand-in-hand with Jared as they boarded the helicopter together.


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THERESA May awarded her controversial civil service Brexit guru Oliver Robbins an“unbelievable” £20,000 performance related bonus last year.
Downing Street defended the lump sum saying it had been subject to a “robust process” by an independent committee, but admitted the PM had signed off the perk on top of his £110,000 salary.
The unelected mandarin has spearheaded Mrs May’s softer Brexit stance - to the fury of Brexiteers.
Last night Tory MP Conor Burns said it was “unbelievable”, while Andrew Bridgen said it should have been paid by Brussels.
He hit out: "Given the complete capitulation of the UK's negotiating position overseen by Olly Robbins, I think it should be the EU paying his bonus, not the UK taxpayer."
Details of the controversial payment were snuck out as Westminster winded down for the long summer holidays - on a day nicknamed “take out the trash Thursday” as Whitehall departments try to bury bad news.


A researcher claims he's decoded 10 possible words in the famously unreadable Voynich manuscript, which has eluded interpretation for a century.
The book's 250 vellum pages are filled with writings in an unknown alphabet and elaborate drawings depicting a range of subjects from female nudes to medicinal herbs to Zodiac symbols. The medieval text was discovered by an antique book dealer in 1912, and it has been rather stingy in giving up its secrets ever since.
"I hit on the idea of identifying proper names in the text, following historic approaches which successfully deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs and other mystery scripts, and I then used those names to work out part of the script," Bax said in a statement.
"The manuscript has a lot of illustrations of stars and plants," Bax added. "I was able to identify some of these, with their names, by looking at mediaeval herbal manuscripts in Arabic and other languages, and I then made a start on a decoding, with some exciting results."
The Voynich manuscipt now sits in a rare books library at Yale University. Carbon dating proved that it dates back to the 15th century, and researchers believe it was written in Central Europe. While some scholars have written it off as a Renaissance-era hoax full of nonsense text, others say the pattern of the letters and words suggest the book was written in a real language or at least an invented cipher. A recent statistical study published in the journal PLOS ONE found that "Voynichese" adheres to linguistic rules.
Bax notes that the manuscript is still a long way from being understood, and that he is coming forward with what he's found thus far in the hopes that other linguists will work with him to crack the code. For now, he thinks the book is "probably a treatise on nature, perhaps in a Near Eastern or Asian language."
Bax has explained his ideas in a manuscript and in a YouTube video on his website.


Did You Know You Should Have Been Cutting Grapes Like This the Whole Time?
We all know we're are supposed to slice grapes before giving them to young children to prevent possible choking. But what if your little one somehow snags a whole one without you realizing? Or what if you've been cutting them — but just the wrong way?
Sophie Jackson found out in the most frightening way possible when her 2-year-old son, Jake, put a few grapes in his mouth and immediately started choking. In her Facebook post detailing the events, she chronicles the steps she took — some incorrect, according to the American Red Cross — that thankfully led to the boy's recovery.
She said she immediately put him over her knee and hit his back several times, and when that didn't work, she put her fingers down his throat. The Red Cross, however, advises that such "back blows" be done in conjunction with abdominal thrusts. Smacking the back alone could move the food into a more dangerous position and make the child stop breathing, as can rooting around in the child's mouth.
Despite not knowing the proper CPR protocol, Sophie — like any mom in such a position — was doing her best and certainly wasn't ready to give up.
I knew I needed to ring an ambulance. Mark got Jake and started hitting Jake's back while he was still unable to breathe while I rang an ambulance. Ellie was crying saying, "He's going to die, Mum, I don't know what to do." Jake was blue and purple and stopped struggling. He wet himself, then my mum forced her fingers down Jake's throat and managed to pop a grape while Mark was still hitting Jake's back. My mom's fingernail popping the grape made the smallest amount for room in Jake's airways, which enabled him to finally have the strength to retch hard and bring out the grape followed by blood and mucous. Jake could finally breathe.
Turns out, the grapes lodged in Jake's mouth were whole, but Sophie soon learned that even if she'd cut them as she always did — width-wise — he still could have choked. Turns out, grapes should be cut length-wise so they can more easily pass through smaller throats.
Jake is at home and doing well and Sophie's message is simple: "I really hope this encourages people to look into children's first aid and always cut grapes. . . . If he ever decides to eat grapes I will always cut them as shown."


Legendary former Smiths frontman Morrissey was in California this week to watch the L.A. Galaxy soccer team route Club Tijuana in a pre-season friendly.
But the singer made the news after a visit to the the locker room afterward to have his photo taken with equally beloved Irish striker Robbie Keane.
According to Extramustard, the 53-year-old singer-songwriter, who was raised in Manchester by his Irish parents, wrote about his meeting with the Irish soccer player on the fan site True To You where he revealed that his father's cousin was Keane's grandfather, making the pair distant relatives.
Wrote Morrissey: 'It was a joyous head-storm to attend LA Galaxy -v- Club Tijuana last night and to see captain Robbie Keane score in the fourth minute. Why, exactly?
'Well, family tree aficionados will be aware that Robbie and I share the same Irish blood; his late grandfather (Thomas Nolan) being my own father’s cousin. In filial terms the Irish blood, English heart genetic between Robbie and I is evident – his chin is my chin, my chin is his.
Keane, a Dublin native, is also highly successful in his field and has reportedly just signed a multi-year contract extension with the Galaxy after helping lead the team to back-to-back MLS championships.