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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: OPEC members aren’t likely to reach a supply deal in Algiers next week, but an agreement to boost prices could be drawing closer after Saudi Arabia signaled for the first time in two years that it’s willing to cut production. Saudi Arabia and Iran, whose rivalry thwarted a deal with other major producers in April, didn’t reach agreement after two days of preparatory talks in Vienna, including the Saudi offer to pump less if Iran caps output at current levels, according to two people familiar with the negotiations. While the kingdom doesn’t now anticipate any formal decision on supply will be taken in the Algerian capital, talks will continue and OPEC meets again in two months, said a delegate familiar with its policy. The impasse between the Middle East neighbors dims the prospects that OPEC and Russia will cooperate to curb a global supply glut next week -- already seen as unlikely by market watchers. The delegation from Moscow only intends to join discussions after OPEC members reach a supply agreement between themselves and they could leave before the informal talks scheduled for Sept. 28, three people familiar with the matter said. “It’s difficult to come to the conclusion that a freeze would be credible or doable,” said Ed Morse, head of commodities research at Citigroup Inc. in New York. Saudi Arabia said it would be willing to reduce its output if Iran were to cap production at the current level of about 3.6 million, according to two people familiar with the matter. The kingdom often does curb production at this time of year, as the surge in demand for air conditioning in the hot summer months begins to fade. The kingdom pumped a record 10.7 million barrels a day last month, an increase of 490,000 barrels a day from January, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The Saudis offer to Iran does signal that the kingdom is seeking some kind of deal to reduce the global oil glut after two years of leading OPEC’s strategy of unfettered production to squeeze out high-cost rivals. Oil prices remain below $50 a barrel -- less than half the level of 2014 -- and the International Energy Agency is predicting the surplus could persist for a fourth year into late 2017. The months leading up to the official OPEC ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 30, will allow more time for discussions with other countries, said the person familiar with Saudi policy. The kingdom, the world’s largest crude exporter, wants to see higher prices to encourage essential investment in the energy industry, the person said. The IEA warned this month that oil and gas companies could be on track to cut spending for a third straight year. The last attempt at a deal between OPEC and Russia collapsed in Doha on April 17 when Saudi Arabia’s influential Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman insisted at the last minute that Iran had to participate in a freeze. Iran refused as it was just starting to revive exports following the end of international sanctions. Now that Iran has returned to pre-sanctions production capacity, “the odds are in favor” of some basic agreement, said Helima Croft, chief commodities strategist at RBC Capital Markets LLC in New York. Iran produced 3.62 million barrels a day on average in August, an increase of 820,000 since sanctions were lifted at the start of the year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The Persian Gulf nation has repeatedly said it’s entitled to recover its previous output level of about 4 million barrels a day. Other OPEC members may also be reluctant to freeze at current levels. Iraq will seek to defend a production level of 4.75 million to 5 million barrels a day, Oil Minister Jabbar Al-Luaibi said by e-mail Thursday. That’s as much as 500,000 barrels a day above its output last month, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. “I don’t think they have a consensus yet,” said Chakib Khelil, the former Algerian energy minister and OPEC president, who guided the group to a record output cut in 2008. Still, he’s optimistic the group can agree to at least freeze production “They’re already feeling pain. Why add to the pain when they can avoid it?” <bot>: OPEC members aren’t likely to reach a supply deal in Algiers next week, but an agreement to boost prices could be drawing closer after Saudi Arabia signaled for the first time in two years that it’s willing to cut production. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016092319id_/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-23/opec-deal-still-elusive-even-after-saudis-offer-oil-cuts-to-iran
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Apple is expected to debut a new line of MacBook laptops at some point in the last quarter of the year, with the long-forgotten Macbook Pro expected to finally get an update It's not clear at this stage whether the MacBook Air brand will be discontinued or not, but a new report reveals more details about Apple's rumored 2016 MacBooks. A source with an accurate track record told 9to5Mac that the new MacBook Pro models are coming in the fall, complete with features not seen on a MacBook before, including a Touch ID power button and an OLED touch-sensitive row of function keys. This isn't the first time these features have been mentioned in rumors. A KGI report first suggested the OLED function keys, shown in Martin Hajek's render above, and said the MacBook Pro would come with Touch ID support this year. More recently, code inside macOS indicated that the fingerprint sensor would be supported in future Macs. Previous reports said that Apple's new MacBooks will offer a slimmer, thinner and lighter design, and will include USB-C support and the removable of the iconic MagSafe charging port, in line with what Apple has done with the 12-inch MacBook. A recent leak indicated that up to four USB-C ports would be found on a MacBook Pro. Apple will likely introduce the new MacBook Pro (and Air?) at some point in fall once its macOS Sierra is ready to be released. <bot>: Apple is expected to debut a new line of MacBook laptops at some point in the last quarter of the year, with the long-forgotten Macbook Pro expected to finally get an update <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016080919id_/http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/08/09/macbook-pro-update-will-finally-be-coming-this-fall-report-suggests.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: The Supreme Court on Monday was set to hear arguments on violent rap lyrics posted to Facebook — a case that could redraw the boundaries between protected free speech, criminal threats made over social media and the latitude that is often granted for artistic expression. The case involves Pennsylvania resident Anthony Elonis, who was sentenced to four years in prison for posting explicit rap lyrics in which he threatened to murder his estranged wife, shoot up elementary schools and slit the throat of an FBI agent who was investigating his case. He was convicted in federal court on five counts of transmitting interstate threats — over the Internet, in this case — “to injure the person of another.” “I’m not going to rest until your body is a mess, soaked in blood and dying from all the little cuts. Hurry up and die bitch,” read one chilling post about his now ex-wife, Tara. Since Elonis was convicted, however, his case has bounced around lower courts and rallied free speech advocates, who contend that comments on social media are often hastily made and can easily be taken out of context. Elonis’ lawyers argued that his posts amount to a crude form of artistic expression, that Elonis was merely venting rage about his failing marriage and his recent firing. They noted that the lyrics, posted under the alias “Tone Dougie,” drew frequently from rapper Eminen, who also alludes in songs to killing his ex-wife. Furthermore, they have argued that under the First Amendment, prosecutors need to demonstrate Elonis had a subjective intent to harm any of those targeted by his lyrics or that he meant for his words to terrify his wife. Elonis has said he did not. According to a brief from the American Civil Liberties Union, “A statute that proscribes speech without regard to the speaker’s intended meaning runs the risk of punishing protected First Amendment expression simply because it is crudely or zealously expressed.” The Supreme Court has long held that "true threats" to injure another person are not protected speech under the First Amendment. But the Elonis case may not hinge on Elonis’ intent to carry out the alleged threats, which is a common misconception about the true threat exception to the First Amendment. In an explanation of its landmark 2003 ruling in Virginia v. Black, a case that dealt with the Ku Klux Klan’s burning of crosses to intimidate families, the Supreme Court held that “the speaker need not actually intend to carry out the threat.” Rather, the court said, "a prohibition on true threats ‘protects individuals from the fear of violence’ and ‘from the disruption that fear engenders,’ in addition to protecting people ‘from the possibility that the threatened violence will occur.'" The government has argued that applies to Elonis' lyrics, since Tara Elonis filed a restraining order on the grounds she feared for her life. The appeals court agreed, saying in its decision that the federal statute requires only that a "reasonable person" would feel legitimately threatened by the speech in question. According to Floyd Abrams, a partner of the law firm Cahill Gordon and Reindel and a First Amendment expert, the Supreme Court will tackle the question of whether Tara Elonis' perception that her husband intended harm is enough to warrant a crime, or if demonstrating her husband's threatening state of mind is also necessary. “That’s a hard enough question in general, but the difficulty is augmented by the context of a medium — Facebook — in which people say more outrageous and sometimes offensive things than they might in other contexts,” Abrams said. Writing in The Atlantic, legal scholar Garrett Epps outlined that gray area: “If Elonis had sent the threats to the targets by mail, there would be little doubt of his intent. If he had written them in a diary that was discovered by accident, there’d be little doubt that they were protected. Where do Facebook postings fall?” One possible outcome of the Elonis hearing would be for the Supreme Court to provide similar latitude in assessing potentially threatening language published on one’s personal social media accounts as it has previously done in other contexts. For instance, the Court has historically ruled that genuinely threatening language can be distinguished from intentional hyperbole in certain political contexts. In Watts v. United States, for example, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction of an anti-war protester who said that if he was drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, “the first man I want to get in my sights is LBJ,” referring to then–U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Still, while Elonis did not post his threats on anyone else’s Facebook walls, he surely knew his posts would be accessible to his ex-wife, co-workers and maybe even schoolchildren (depending on his privacy settings), all of whom were targeted by his lyrical venting. And threats posted to Facebook that are made public can set off panic, regardless of their intent. In one post, Elonis wrote, “Hell hath no fury like a crazy man in a kindergarten class, The only question is … which one” — a comment that authorities might be inclined to take seriously, in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting and a spate of random acts of gun violence at U.S. schools. Epps offered the example of delinquent high-schoolers who phone in a bomb threat to their school. Even if the students have no intent or even capability to procure a bomb, classes would be canceled, students evacuated, emergency services called and children treated for potential psychological trauma. Additionally, future bomb threats may be taken less seriously. “Make it too easy to prove a threat, and government can muzzle those it dislikes; make it too hard, and the rest of us — on the job, on the streets and in our homes — are at the mercy of men like Elonis,” he wrote.   <bot>: Anthony Elonis was convicted for posting rap lyrics threatening to brutally murder his wife, shoot up school <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160725050806id_/http://america.aljazeera.com:80/articles/2014/12/1/facebook-threat-supremecourt.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was too "distraught" to face the media after their Champions League exit against Real Madrid at Old Trafford. Ferguson was visibly enraged after Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir sent off Nani for a high challenge on Real's Alvaro Arbeloa after 56 minutes with United leading through Sergio Ramos's own goal. Real took advantage of the dismissal with quick goals from Luka Modric and Cristiano Ronaldo on his return to Old Trafford to confirm a 2-1 win on the night and 3-2 aggregate victory to reach the last eight. Nani is the fourth Manchester United player to be sent off at Old Trafford in the Champions League after Rafael da Silva, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt United assistant manager Mike Phelan replaced Ferguson at the post-match media conference and said: "It's a distraught dressing room and a distraught manager. That's why I am sitting here now. "I don't think the manager is in any fit state to talk to the referee about the decision. It speaks volumes that I am sitting here now rather than the manager of this fantastic football club." Phelan continued: "We are extremely disappointed and wondering what has happened and why it has happened. "We feel as though we had the tactics right for the game on such a big occasion. We felt we were comfortable at 0-0. It was where we wanted to be, then we scored the goal that put us in a commanding position. "We were in reasonable control and then the game totally changed. The decision was amazing but we had to carry on because it is hard enough playing Real Madrid with 11 men. "Referees are there to make decisions but there is also an element of doing the right thing. All the media and a television audience watching all over the world will have an opinion on the decision but it was a disappointing one and it spoiled the game." <bot>: Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is too "distraught" to face the media after their Champions League exit against Real Madrid. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160817122523id_/http://www.bbc.com:80/sport/football/21679098
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: LAS VEGAS—Sarah Guillot-Guyard lay dying on the floor of a basement inside a darkened Cirque du Soleil theater here, one leg broken and blood pooling under her head. It was June 2013, and the 31-year-old mother of two had fallen 94 feet in front of hundreds of horrified spectators after the wire attached to her safety harness shredded while she performed in the dramatic aerial climax of the company’s most technically challenging... <bot>: The death of a performer on stage, along with hundreds of injuries of other artists, puts in stark relief the question of how much risk is acceptable for the modern, corporate circus. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015042219id_/http://www.wsj.com/articles/injuries-put-safety-in-spotlight-at-cirque-du-soleil-1429723558
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: An American archbishop in Minnesota and a deputy bishop have resigned from the Catholic church just days after their archdiocese in St Paul and Minneapolis was charged by prosecutors with systematically turning a blind eye to sex abuse by a pedophile priest. The resignations were announced by the Vatican in Rome on Monday, as the church said it was moving ahead with a criminal trial against Józef Wesołowski, the Vatican’s former ambassador to the Dominican Republic who was found guilty last year of sex abuse involving young boys in a canonical trial. “This will be a delicate and detailed procedure, requiring the most careful observations and insights from all parties involved in the trial,” the Vatican said in its bulletin. The two sex abuse developments arrived less than a week after Pope Francis approved the creation of a new tribunal that will be devoted to investigating cases in which senior church officials are alleged of covering up or ignoring acts of child abuse by priests. Abuse survivors praised the Vatican tribunal as the most concrete step Pope Francis has taken to institute accountability within the church hierarchy after many allegations of abuse. Pope Francis and his predecessors have faced scrutiny from victims’ advocacy groups for not doing enough to stamp out alleged cover-ups of sexual abuse. While the Minnesota resignations and the Dominican Republican trial are sure to be welcomed as a sign that the church is being more responsive to such allegations, there remain other cases – including claims that Australian Cardinal George Pell sought to silence victims of abuse – that have not been formally addressed. Pell has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and is expected to be called to testify at a commission examining the claims in Australia. The resignations in Minnesota were directly related to criminal and civil charges that were brought on 5 June against the Minnesota archdiocese by Ramsey County attorney John Choi – the first such indictment against an archdiocese to be filed in the US in a decade. Choi has alleged that the archdiocese “time and time again turned a blind eye” to the actions of an abusive priest named Curtis Wehmeyer, who was convicted in 2013 for molesting two boys and is serving a five-year jail sentence. In a statement, Archbishop Nienstedt said he was resigning to give the archdiocese a “new beginning amidst the many challenges we face”. “I leave with a clear conscience knowing that my team and I have put in place solid protocols to ensure the protection of minors and vulnerable adults,” he added. The charges against the archdiocese followed a report by a whistleblower, Jennifer Haselberger, who formerly served as its chancellor for canonical affairs. According to a report in the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, Haselberger approached authorities in 2012 to expose a widespread cover-up. She reported that she had warned Archbishop Nienstedt not to appoint Wehmeyer as a pastor in St Paul and directed him to look into Wehmeyer’s file, which included an evaluation the priest had received at a treatment centre for clergy with sexual disorders. The archdiocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January following a slew of lawsuits. In April, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn, who was convicted three years ago of failing to report a suspected child abuser. On Monday, Vatican said Wesołowski, the former Dominican ambassador for the Vatican, was facing charges of sex abuse of minors during his five-year tenure in the Dominican Republic and, since his arrival in Rome in 2013, possession of child pornography. <bot>: Abuse survivors praised the Vatican’s latest actions as the most concrete steps Pope Francis has taken to institute accountability for sex abuse <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015061519id_/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/15/minnesota-archbishop-and-deputy-resign-after-child-abuse-coverup-charges
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: This undated photo provided to media by Jeff Gillis shows his wife, Sandy Phan-Gillis, who has been arrested in China on charges of spying and stealing state secrets. (Jeff Gillis) A Texas man said early Tuesday that his wife, a Vietnam-born U.S. citizen, had been arrested by China after she had been detained for six months on suspicion of spying for Washington. Jeff Gillis told The New York Times that he heard that his wife, Phan, had been arrested Sunday, just two days before Chinese President Xi Jinping of China was due to arrive for a state visit. Gillis said that he hoped President Obama would use the occasion to press Xi for his wife's release. "I really don’t want to be disruptive. I don’t want to ruin anybody’s party,” Gillis told the Times. “I just want to get my wife back." Phan Phan-Gillis, 55, who goes by the name Sandy, had been held in secret detention for months in the city of Nanning, in southern China, family lawyer Simon Tang told the paper. She was born in Vietnam, but is of ethnic Chinese origin. The Houston Chronicle reported that Phan-Gillis was accompanying a group of city officials on a routine trip to promote increased trade. On March 19, the paper reported, she was stopped at a border crossing between the coastal Chinese city of Zuhai and Macau. "Sandy was nowhere to be found," Houston mayor pro tempore Ed Gonzalez told the paper. "But it was daytime, it was busy, and there was nothing out of the ordinary, so we thought maybe she had gone to the restroom." Gonzalez added that Phan-Gillis called his chief of staff, Houston businessman Vincent Chau, after she was detained and told him she was "taking care of a personal matter." Two days later, when the group was due to fly back to Houston, Phan-Gillis sent Chau a text message saying she was handling a personal matter and would see them back in Houston. Jeff Gillis told the Chronicle that his wife owned a communications firm that does consulting for U.S. and Chinese businesses. He said it was not unusual for his wife to extend her business trips at the last minute, but he grew concerned when she had not returned to the U.S. by March 31. Gillis told the Chronicle that when he contacted the U.S. Consulate in China, he was told that officials had been notified that Sandy Phan-Gillis had been accused of spying and stealing state secrets. He has retained two lawyers, one in the U.S. and one in China. Gillis says his wife receives monthly consular visits, but is not allowed to speak to anyone else. "I still don't understand what is going on," Gillis told the Chronicle. "She has done so much for U.S. China relations, it astounds me to think that China would act this way to a really good friend." Public records show that in addition to her consulting job, Sandy Phan-Gillis is president of the Houston Shenzhen Sister City Association, which works to promotes business ties between the two cities. In that role, she has helped arrange visits business, cultural and sports delegations from both cities. China has a broad definition of what constitutes a state secret and U.S. nationals often run afoul of the law. In April, American geologist Xue Feng was released from prison and deported to America after being held for seven years. Click for more from the Houston Chronicle. <bot>: A Texas man said early Tuesday that his wife, a Vietnam-born U.S. citizen, had been arrested by China after she had been detained for six months on suspicion of spying for Washington. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015092219id_/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/09/22/american-woman-held-in-china-for-six-months-on-spying-suspicion-husband-says/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Alberta Wright, the owner of Jezebel, which brought soul food with panache to Manhattan’s theater district and helped make sophisticated variations of Southern dishes a culinary trend, died on Friday in the Bronx. She was 84. The cause was heart failure, her son Ronald said. Jezebel, which opened in 1983 on Ninth Avenue and 45th Street, was a precursor of today’s upscale soul-food restaurants, like Marcus Samuelsson’s Red Rooster in Harlem. Mr. Samuelsson called Ms. Wright a “trailblazer” and an “inspiration” in a telephone interview on Friday. “When you ate with Alberta, you were her friend,” he said, adding: “You come into her living room and she’ll take care of you. She’ll remember what you had, where you like to sit. It’s the core of what a restaurateur should be.” Jezebel’s menu drew on Ms. Wright’s experience growing up in South Carolina, north of Charleston; the décor harked back to her years selling vintage clothing from her successful boutique, also named Jezebel, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. “Palms and assorted foliage sway under the breeze of big room fans; lacy, multicolored shawls hang from ceiling pipes; eccentric old lamps flicker in every corner; antique furniture mixes with white wicker chairs and porch swings suspended from the ceiling,” Bryan Miller wrote in a review in The New York Times in 1987. “Add to this potpourri Oriental rugs, vintage posters, lace-covered tables and crystal chandeliers and you have one of the most intriguing settings in New York.” Jezebel offered traditional dishes like garlic shrimp, she-crab soup and three varieties of chicken — fried, honey-fried and with waffles. A 1992 review in The Times, also by Mr. Miller, described Jezebel’s offerings as “the best soul food south of 110th Street (maybe above, too).” Ms. Wright tried opening a branch of her restaurant in Paris and worked with investors like Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, Charles Oakley, Julius Erving and her son Michael Wright, the stage and film actor, to open another on the Upper West Side, but both efforts fizzled. Ms. Wright closed Jezebel in 2007. Piece of Chicken, a dollar-an-item takeout business that she ran from Jezebel’s kitchen window, stayed open for a while longer. Alberta Wright was born on June 13, 1931, in Pineville, S.C. Her parents, Annie and Edmond Wright, were sharecroppers. She learned to cook by watching her mother. “My mother worked as a domestic for wealthy white folks,” Ms. Wright said. “I’d go through the back to the kitchen — we couldn’t go through the front — to where my mother was working, and she’d slip me a muffin.” Ms. Wright gave birth to twins, Ronald and Donald, as a teenager and moved to New York. The twins stayed behind with different families, and after Ms. Wright had saved up enough money working as a waitress, she brought them to New York. She worked at an aircraft plant, a camera company and a dress shop and became deeply involved in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. She told The Times that she once served chili to Malcolm X and was a regular at West African diplomatic parties, where she learned of new foods and spices that she later used in her kitchen. In addition to her sons Ronald, Donald and Michael, Ms. Wright is survived by a sister, Gladys Jenkins; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. <bot>: Ms. Wright, owner of the restaurant Jezebel, which opened in 1983, was a precursor of today’s upscale soul food eateries like Red Rooster in Harlem. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015090519id_/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/nyregion/alberta-wright-soul-food-pioneer-dies-at-84.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: WITH Egypt and Tunisia's leaders toppled and protests breaking out across the Middle East, revolution in the Arab world has filled the pages of Arabic newspapers: how did it happen, will it spread, and what kind of future will it herald? Tareq al-Hameed, editor-in-chief of Al-Sharq al-Awsat, a pan-Arab daily newspaper based in London, tells Arab leaders elsewhere that the game is up: If other Arab countries are swept up with similar protests, the best course of action would be to immediately conduct presidential elections under international monitoring. If the rulers win fair-and-square, they can stay; otherwise, they can exit gracefully. In an online Yemeni newspaper, Al-Masdar, Iyad Shuaibi exhorts Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's president, to follow the example of Egypt and Tunisia’s leaders: Go. Just go! Leave the south, leave Yemen. Get out; don’t even bother trying to pick yourself up. The wave of truth has already swept two of our sister countries. A certain passion deep down is ineluctably dragging us forward toward a future where the only tears to be shed will be those of joy, a future where we will be able to reclaim the dignity of our people from the claws of your despicable regime. In Echorouk, an Algerian newspaper, conscious of Egypt’s moment in world history, Salah Awad describes the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's president, as a direct counterpoint to the 2003 American invasion of Iraq.: It is no longer time to cry... Once, nothing could balance out our brokenness and defeat the day American soldiers settled into Baghdad, sowing corruption in the capital of human civilisation—except our joy today in this past Friday’s victory, when the tyrant was overthrown amid cries of "God is Great!" in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. In the Egyptian opposition daily, Al-Shorouq, Fahmy Howeidy had recently criticised Israel’s role in keeping Mr Mubarak in power against the wishes of the Egyptian people. A day after the fall of Mr Mubarak, however, Mr Howeidy is careful to reassess the controversies surrounding the treaty with Israel: The resurrection of Egypt…is clearly a disaster for Israeli strategy and will force them to reconsider their position. While I don’t advocate opening the file on Israeli relations now, my point is that the Israelis are calling for it—along with the United States and its allies. We found that out when Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, commented on what was happening in Egypt—not so much as an Egyptian revolution, but more regarding its effects on the peace treaty with Israel. The Egyptian press has written much about interfaith unity throughout the protests, but the comments of the Coptic weekly Al-Watani, which historically has been deeply critical of sectarian divisions in Egyptian society, are noteworthy. Ikhlas Attallah writes that these divisions have all but disappeared: Egypt is living through an historic moment. What is happening today, and what does it hold for us tomorrow? There are many questions that come up…and we have to come up with the answers after we contemplate and rationalise what is happening to us. That Egyptians—Muslims and Christians, young and old, women and men—averted the danger that threatened our country is proof of the mettle of this noble people. Criticism of Western influence echoes throughout the Arab world, though in different forms. In the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, Bashir al-Bakr lambasts Western hypocrisy in its dealings with the Egyptian and Tunisian regimes: Democracy: this magic word remains foreign in the Arab world, not because the Arab peoples are not mature enough to receive it, as Egyptian vice president Omar Suleiman claimed, but because the West fundamentally does not want democracy for Arabs. The West does not want it for the Arab world, contrary to what it says. If this weren't the case, how could the West enter into such close friendships with the regimes of Mubarak and Ben Ali, knowing their bloody history, their corruption, their strong antipathy to democracy and power-sharing, and their utter contempt for their own people? Mohamed Gameeh of Al-Sharq al-Awsat, decries the hypocrisy of Iran's response to the upheaval: During his sermon the Friday before last, the Iranian Grand Ayatollah announced his support for the demands of the protesting multitudes in Egypt—the very grand ayatollah who has employed the most vile, oppressive measures against the youth of his own country who have filled the streets of Iran’s cities seeking nothing more than a whiff of fresh air from the stifling yoke of so much politico-religious mythology. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Latif al-Sheikh of the Saudi paper Al-Jazirah points out the dangers of the military being left in charge in the wake of Mr Mubarak’s resignation: Since the coup of 1952, the military has ruled Egypt. Throughout this period it has received many privileges from the establishment, both in terms of power and finance...The survival of a mutually respectful relationship between the military and the revolutionaries, as it appears now, seems almost impossible, and a collapse imminent. The military will not relinquish its grip on its powers or earnings, and at the same time, will not accept new politicians. Other observers in Egypt are similarly concerned about the role of the army; in a short piece in a popular Egyptian independent, Al-Masry al-Youm, Yosri Fouda, a prominent journalist, refers to calls for civilian rather than military rule: The revolutionaries/Who stop in the middle of the road/Are digging their own graves/And we haven't even started yet... For more translated commentary from the Arab media, visit news.meedan.net <bot>: WITH Egypt and Tunisia's leaders toppled and protests breaking out across the Middle East, revolution in the Arab world has filled the pages of Arabic newspapers: how did it happen, will it spread, and what kind of future will it herald?Tareq al-Hameed, editor-in-chief of Al-Sharq al-Awsat, a pan-Arab daily newspaper based in London, tells Arab leaders elsewhere that the game is up:If other Arab countries are swept up with similar protests, the best course of action would be to immediately conduct presidential elections under international monitoring. If the rulers win fair-and-square, they can stay; otherwise, they can exit gracefully. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2011021719id_/http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/02/reactions_mubaraks_fall_arab_press
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Mr. Kushner pointed to himself as a case in point, since he now divides his time between New York and Hollywood, working on a screenplay about Abraham Lincoln for Steven Spielberg, and another about Eugene O’Neill. The screenplay for Mr. Spielberg’s “Munich,” written by Mr. Kushner and Eric Roth, was nominated for an Oscar. Mr. Kushner said that he planned to put the money away “to buy me time to work on plays,” which he hopes to do full time when he finishes the two films. Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of the Public Theater and one of the judges, said that while there were many extremely qualified candidates, the committee wanted to pick a person who would be “universally recognized in the theater community as the right choice.” Mr. Kushner’s talent, seriousness and status as a public intellectual quickly made him the consensus choice, Mr. Eustis said. Mr. Eustis originally commissioned “Angels” at the Eureka Theater Company in San Francisco and directed both parts when they had their debut in 1992 at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. In addition to his own work, Mr. Kushner has adapted and translated classics, including Pierre Corneille’s “Illusion,” S. Y. Ansky’s “Dybbuk” and Bertolt Brecht’s “Good Person of Setzuan” and “Mother Courage and Her Children,” which was performed in Central Park in 2006 with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. He also wrote the English-language libretto for the opera “Brundibar” by Hans Krasa. The trust, which was created in 1986 with part of the fortune Mr. Steinberg made from real estate, has donated more than $40 million to support regional theaters, leadership courses, scholarships, playwriting commissions, producing and more, said James Steinberg, a son of Harold and Mimi’s. “Theater ought to be at the center of American culture,” he said, adding that the award was a way to honor playwrights and raise the visibility of theater. Mr. Steinberg said his parents always loved the theater, and took him and his two siblings often. Even as a child, he sat through O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” Now he said he sees at least 100 productions a year. The Mimi, as the trophy is nicknamed, was designed by David Rockwell and will be awarded every two years. In the alternating years the trust will issue two $50,000 awards for playwrights who are just starting out; the first is to be presented next year. An article on Tuesday about the award of a new $200,000 prize for playwriting to Tony Kushner misspelled the surname of an actor who appeared in Mr. Kushner’s translation of “Mother Courage and Her Children” in Central Park in 2006. He is Kevin Kline, not Klein. The article also misstated the subject of a screenplay Mr. Kushner is working on. In addition to writing one about Abraham Lincoln for Steven Spielberg, he is writing one about Eugene O’Neill, not about Woody Guthrie. (Mr. Kushner is also working on a play for the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.) <bot>: Tony Kushner is the first recipient of a newly created $200,000 prize for playwriting. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2008091619id_/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/theater/16kush.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Think of the device you're reading this on. It's the culmination of hundreds, maybe thousands, of inventions that all got added together to form a computer, tablet or smartphone. Most of this technology came out of Silicon Valley, one of the world's greatest hubs for innovation. But what is it about that place that makes it such a fruitful breeding ground for ideas? Intuitively, you might imagine that having lots of inventors clustered together would be great for collaboration. One engineer or company can quickly take someone else's idea and build upon it. Now there's research to back that up. A recent study of the entire U.S. patent system — covering millions of patents dating back to 1836 — finds that geographic clustering does, in fact, accelerate the pace of innovation. "Our empirical findings indicate that during the 20th century, inventions in large U.S. cities built on recent advances much more often than comparable inventions in smaller U.S. cities," according to the University of Waterloo's Mikko Packalen and Stanford University's Jay Bhattacharya, in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Looking at keywords that represent important technological leaps, such as "database," "microprocessor" or "transistor," the researchers examined how quickly those terms made it into other patents soon after the terms first appeared in the U.S. patent system. They found that in places with higher population density, inventors were quicker to pick up on new ideas and incorporate them into their own work. This might sound like an obvious conclusion. But, Packalen and Bhattacharya point out, there's nothing special about geographic clustering that makes innovation inevitable. A big city that's home to a dominant industry could plausibly suppress innovation if the industry in question decides a new invention poses a threat, for instance. So the fact that America's inventors do their best work when they're around other inventors seems like something worth appreciating, and perhaps promoting through public policy. There's just one complication: For whatever reason, the researchers note that the benefits of geographic clustering appeared to drop off beginning in the 1960s and 1970s. What's so interesting about that pattern is that it fits the rise of advanced communications technologies, along with a precipitous fall in the cost of talking to someone over long distances. One of the first examples that comes to mind is the Internet, which the researchers say has "made new ideas available more cheaply to all, regardless of where they were developed." But you also can't forget the rise of satellite communications, fiber optics, the fax machine, the cellphone and all manner of other technologies that shrunk distances and made it easier for inventors in small towns to benefit from advantages enjoyed by inventors in large cities. While the researchers don't provide conclusive evidence for that conclusion, they point to predictions from as far back as 1920 that communications technology would someday lead to a dramatic decrease in the cost of innovation. The economist Alfred Marshall "himself explored the implications of such ‘cheapening of the means of communication,’ and raised the possibility that location might play only a minor role in knowledge production," Packalen and Bhattacharya write. Whether this is actually what we're seeing isn't fully clear. But it does raise questions about whether it's better to cluster innovators together — or whether the Internet has effectively erased the tremendous historical advantages of physical proximity. Brian Fung covers technology for The Washington Post, focusing on telecom, broadband and digital politics. Before joining the Post, he was the technology correspondent for National Journal and an associate editor at the Atlantic. <bot>: For nearly 100 years, geographic clustering sped up the adoption of new ideas. But new communications tech may be changing that. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015021819id_/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/02/18/how-the-internet-may-be-shifting-innovation-away-from-big-cities/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: The bodies of three people were found Saturday in a small tourist destination in southern Maine, police said. The dead were found in two Boothbay Harbor houses and are believed be from the same family, WCVB-TV reported. Authorities found the bodies while doing a well-being check, police said. The identities of the two men and a woman were not released while authorities investigate. Boothbay Harbor, with a population of about 2,000, is a popular summer retreat for yachters and tourists. <bot>: The bodies of three people were found Saturday in a small tourist town in southern Maine, police said. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015070519id_/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dead-small-maine-tourist-town-article-1.2281573
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: BEAR Grylls is shamelessly plugging ‘zombie knives’ on his website as the deadly weapons are banned. The TV favourite advertises the Gerber Zombie Apocalypse Kit, bragging it featured in an episode of US horror drama series Walking Dead. In a video clip the adventurer urges his followers to buy the terrifying £237 product, which includes seven ‘survival tools’ to help prepare for the “zombie apocalypse”. Focusing on the parang machete, he says: “This is really the machete that I always use in the jungle. “It was designed by jungle tribesmen and this is the modern version of it. “Heavy duty, heavy blade, very good grip handle. But razor sharp and can be used for brush cutting and also used as an axe.” The 42-year-old, known for his Man vs Wild TV show, then dramatically slices branches in two with the huge blade. He adds: “This is something that I will always take with me when in the jungle – invaluable tool.” The kit contains a Gator machete, Camp II axe, Gator Pro machete, Parang machete, LMF II Infantry knife, DMF Folder knife, and an Epic knife, along with a durable canvas carrying case for secure transport. The star’s site states: “What if it happens. What if our worst fears are realized. If the Dead walk, the continuation of the human race will become a daily struggle. Are you prepared to protect and defend your family and friends. Your best chance lies in the Gerber Apocalypse Survival Kit.” Zombie knives were outlawed following a string of murders and attacks after the weapons were glamorised in TV shows and films. From last week anyone caught in possession of the blades will face four years in prison – prompting people to hand in hundreds of knives in the past week. But knife suppliers have said that kids will get around the ban by trying to buy them from abroad. And campaigners hit out that the survivalist icon was advertising them on his US website. The England and Wales zombie knife ban was brought in after police forces reported they were being used in an increasing number of brutal stabbings. In April, 17-year-old Blaise Lewinson was convicted of manslaughter after stabbing teenager Stefan Appleton to death with a zombie knife in Islington, north London. Statistics show that in 12 months from last March forces dealt with 28,664 offences involving a knife or sharp blade – a 10% rise from the previous year. Caroline Shearer, whose teenage son Jay Whiston was fatally stabbed at a house party in Colchester in 2012, founded the charity Only Cowards Carry Weapons Awareness. She told The Sun last night: “This has got to be across the board whether a celebrity is involved or not. “Bear Grylls might be in the jungle and it’s okay, and a fisherman might use one to gut a fish, however to actually advertise this and help sell it is unhelpful. “It’s a testosterone piece, an accessory, look at me and my knife I’ve a bigger one than you. “These are death weapons killing children and adults. “It’s a lethal nasty weapon, not a knife. “The blade goes in and brings the rest out, that’s what the barbs are for. “These weapons must be banned and mandatory prison sentences handed to anyone with them. The butterfly and flick knife were outlawed in 2013 and you can still buy them.” Sarah Newton, Minister for Vulnerability, Safeguarding and Countering Extremism, said: “Zombie killer knives glamorise violence and cause devastating damage – they have no place whatsoever in our society. Not known The product’s website claims ‘your best chance [in surviving an apocolypse] lies in the Gerber Apocalypse Survival Kit’ “We committed to banning the sale, manufacture and importation of these dangerous weapons. With the ban now becoming law, we are delivering on our commitment. “Anyone caught making or selling zombie knives now faces up to four years in prison.” Chief Constable Alf Hitchcock, National Police Chiefs’ Council Lead for Knife Enabled Crime, said: “Zombie knives are absolutely horrific weapons. Forces are determined to reduce the harm caused by these and all other dangerous weapons. “There is no place for knife crime within society and this ban is further commitment to keeping communities safe.” The ban is expected to extend to Northern Ireland. We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368 <bot>: BEAR Grylls is shamelessly plugging ‘zombie knives’ on his website as the deadly weapons are banned. The TV favourite advertises the Gerber Zombie Apocalypse Kit, bragging it featured in an episode… <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016082219id_/https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1654286/bear-grylls-shamelessly-plugging-237-zombie-knives-on-his-website-despite-deadly-weapons-being-banned/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: When Lee Moreau and his colleagues at Newton-based design consultancy Continuum began to look for a new home two years ago, the focus quickly turned to more urban locations. Forget about office parks in Framingham or Waltham. Moreau and his team wanted to be in the city, a place where they could easily mingle with other like-minded creative types. In June, that will happen when they pile into a renovated property in South Boston’s marine industrial park. “To be an island is no longer a relevant solution for an innovation consultancy,” said Moreau, who is organizing Continuum’s move. “We need to be deeply embedded in a culture that wants to change the world and create the future.” General Electric’s announcement last week that it will abandon the suburban setting of Fairfield, Conn., for the South Boston waterfront reinforces Moreau’s decision to head down the Mass. Pike into Boston. It also reflects a trend that has taken hold in major metro areas during the past five years, as more employers move into dense urban areas to better compete for millennial-aged workers who have no interest in the burbs — or even in owning a car. People used to move to where the jobs are located. Now, increasingly, it’s the jobs that are moving to be closer to people. “Companies want to move to where the talent is located,” said John Boyd, a corporate relocation specialist in Princeton, N.J. “That tends to be in major cities, throughout the country.” This trend, to some extent, parallels another shift in the workplace: less office space allocated per worker. Thirty years ago, Boyd said, employers typically figured on 200 square feet per office worker. Today, it’s more like 125, in part due to the rise in collaborative work environments and telecommuting. That, however, makes it financially feasible to be in the city, where space is at a premium. When Continuum’s 140 employees leave the suburbs this spring, they’ll join a fast-growing exodus. Software firm Acquia moved from Burlington to downtown Boston last year when it was time to expand. Sneaker-maker Converse, meanwhile, established a hipster-friendly headquarters near North Station, leaving the humdrum environs of North Andover behind. Other firms that have made the move into the city over the past five years include marketing firms Allen & Gerritsen and Racepoint Global. And Biogen chief executive George Scangos famously reversed his predecessor’s decision, deciding in 2011 to move the biotech firm’s headquarters back to Cambridge’s Kendall Square after only about a year out in the Weston woods. The interest in Boston’s commercial real estate was particularly high in the final months of 2015: Leasing activity for office space surged 18 percent from the same time a year ago, according to Lisa Strope, a research manager at brokerage Jones Lang LaSalle. Potential employees know that if you move downtown, the options for lunch spots and watering holes go from dismal to endless. “In Waltham, there was a guy in a truck who came to sell you coffee and doughnuts,” said Racepoint chief executive Larry Weber, who moved his firm to Boston from Waltham in 2012. “How depressing is that?” Being close to Logan International Airport is also a big advantage, particularly to firms with out-of-state or overseas locations and clients. For people like Weber who work on State Street, one of Logan’s terminals can be reached by cab in under 15 minutes. “I’m sure GE is thinking, ‘Wow, Logan is right there,’” Weber said. For tech firm LogMeIn Corp., moving from Woburn to Boston in 2013 proved to be crucial. Being in the city would help recruit young employees skeptical of trekking to the suburbs. Nearly 300 workers made the move three years ago. Today, about 500 people fill the headquarters on the South Boston waterfront, a number that could double over the next four years following an expansion this month to a second building across Summer Street. Moving into the city came with its own challenges. Goodbye free parking, hello traffic jams. But Bill Wagner, the company’s chief executive, said the headaches are worth it: “It really changed the dynamic of our hiring.” The rush continues. Design and engineering software firm Autodesk last week shifted its 200 Boston-area employees from Waltham to the Seaport, in the same innovation-oriented building that Continuum plans to occupy. And Harvard Business Publishing next month will move 350-plus employees from Watertown to Brighton, just inside the Boston city limits. Don’t cry for the suburban office park owners — at least not yet. Many of them in recent years remade their tranquil settings to give them more of an urban feel, placing restaurants and stores within walking distance of the cubicle farms. Plus, suburban offices are often much less expensive than their downtown counterparts. Several major employers remain committed to the suburbs. Companies such as travel website operator TripAdvisor and shoe maker Wolverine Worldwide, for example, recently opted for new campus-like settings. But John Boyle, executive managing director at brokerage Cushman & Wakefield’s Boston office, said a building’s character and ambience matter to recruiting more than it used to. That makes the old industrial structures in such places as Boston’s Fort Point much more appealing than anonymous, glass-enclosed offices surrounded by nicely trimmed lawns could ever be. “There’s a lot more of a connection now between real estate and brand recognition,” Boyle said. “The sleepy suburbs with the trees and the pond is not necessarily what many technology companies are looking for. They want to have activity, buzz, and a sense of place.” <bot>: More employers are moving into dense urban areas to better compete for millennial-aged workers who have no interest in the burbs, or even in owning a car. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160120072416id_/http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/01/19/move-reflects-headquarters-trend-choosing-cities-over-suburbs/Sebvk8lb7D6qxDr0IUR03N/story.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: This is a rush transcript from "Journal Editorial Report," January 4, 2014. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. PAUL GIGOT, HOST: This week on the "Journal Editorial Report," from Washington to Wall Street and around the world, our look ahead to 2014. After ObamaCare's rocky rollout, can the president get back on track and push forward with his populist agenda? Will 2014 be another big year for stocks, or are there signs of a slowdown? And will the coming year bring historic peace accords or growing global disorder? Welcome to the "Journal Editorial Report." I'm Paul Gigot. And this week, we're looking ahead to 2014 and the challenges facing the Obama administration at home and abroad. We start on the home front, where the president, no doubt, is happy to put 2013 behind him. So can the White House move past their ObamaCare woes, pump up those sagging poll numbers and push forward with what's shaping up to be a populist agenda? Let's ask Wall Street Journal columnist and deputy editor, Dan Henninger; columnist, Mary Anastasia O'Grady; and assistant editorial page editor, James freeman. So, Dan, the president has got a comeback strategy I suspect. DAN HENNINGER, COLUMNIST & DEPUTY EDITOR: Yeah. GIGOT: What is it and what are the prospects? HENNINGER: I think it's difficult for the president himself to come back, Paul. I think the damage that was done to his credibility with ObamaCare is pretty significant, you know, saying you can keep your doctor or health care plan, which wasn't true. When the public withdraws its belief in the president, he has a problem. Nonetheless, they've got a big election to contest in November of 2014. HENNINGER: I think a lot of the effort is going to go into disadvantaging the Republicans to try to suppress Republican turnout, make the Republicans look like something you don't want to vote for. GIGOT: Financing Tea Party challengers -- HENNINGER: They don't want the Republicans taking control of the Senate. So I think that's what we're going to see across the legislative agenda in Washington. GIGOT: Mary, there's also an emerging, on the left, economic populism, which is of course fascinating, since they've been in charge for over five years. They're now saying we need this new aggressiveness on economics, redistribution. They're going to promote a minimum-wage, referenda, all around the country if they can do it. Push Congress, talk about extending unemployment benefits, unemployment benefits, a variety of these arguments aimed at saying Republicans are for the rich and we're for the little guy. MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY: Right. I don't think it's really about getting any of that done. It's really more about taking advantage of the circumstances to demagogue the other side. I think what we're seeing here with this president is his lack of experience in politics. It's hurt him for five years and is going to continue. When he runs into a problem or an opposition from the other side, he doesn't sit down and try to figure out how he can get part of what he wants done. Instead, he uses it to, basically, you know, as I say, demagogue the other side. And for that reason, I don't think there's going to be any change. GIGOT: But hasn't it worked? I mean, he won in 2008. He won in 2012. They figure, hey, it worked in 2012 against Romney, let's use it against Boehner and company. O'GRADY: Well, it's the only game he knows. But as Dan says, his credibility is really hurt. And I think he needs one or two wins under his belt. So I think he's in for another troubling year. GIGOT: Let's talk about Congress. What can get done, James? Do you see anything? JAMES FREEMAN, ASSISTANT EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR: I think there are two areas where he really has an opportunity, if he wants to put aside a lot of this class warfare rhetoric and campaigning. I'm not betting on it. While he's vacationing in Hawaii, his old campaign organization was frantically sending out e-mails for the next, I'm sure, set of inequality gripes. He does have opportunity in two areas. One is housing and the other is immigration. Housing, a moment where there is, I think, an opportunity to get a bipartisan agreement that government and these mortgage monsters they created, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, should withdraw from the more damage market. FREEMAN: It's a good time to do it. GIGOT: Because housing market has come back and home prices are rising again. FREEMAN: Yeah. I think the Senate is ripe for a deal if -- if he either stays out of it or doesn't decide that this is another opportunity to campaign against bankers. GIGOT: What about immigration, Dan? Because that -- HENNINGER: Well, let's talk about that. GIGOT: Because I think Boehner, I think he wants a deal, if he can get it. I know Paul Ryan would like to get some kind of deal. A lot of Republicans would like to get this issue passed. HENNINGER: Yes. I think there's two ways to think about the immigration issue. Obama's support among Hispanic voters, which is one of the key parts of his base and re-election, has fallen off. He's down about 14 points among Hispanic, and among young voters as well. He could go in one of two directions. Put the Republicans in a position where it's impossible for them to vote for the immigration bill, and say to Hispanic voters, look, Republicans don't like you, you can't vote for them. Or -- GIGOT: Use the issue against them. HENNINGER: Or he can get a combination bill, which I think would show he and Washington can do something. The result I think would be kind of a status-quo vote, which would mean that maybe some of those Democratic Senators would survive -- GIGOT: It would help them in the Senate. <bot>: Or are signs pointing to a slowdown ahead? <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2014011219id_/http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/journal-editorial-report/2014/01/06/will-stocks-continue-climb-2014
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: AS THE state's gubernatorial race enters its final month, the candidates have committed $1.2 million each - more than half the legal campaign budget -in an effort to establish winning television images. Although New Jersey does not have its own VHF television station, both Representative James J. Florio, Democrat of Runnemede, and Thomas H. Kean, Republican of Livingston, have retained nationally prominent advertising consultants to help them distill their political messages into the brief spots that are beginning to crowd the airwaves coming out of New York City and Philadelphia. But while the candidates will invest the same amount of money on advertising, their commercials, and the consultants they have chos en to produce th em, reflect the basic differences in style and philosophical approach to the issues that separate the two men. Joseph White, Mr. Florio's consultant, is based in New York, and has made a specialty of helping Democrats who are in political trouble. Until recently, he concentrated on radio, the tool he learned to use as a 21-year-old volunteer working for George McGovern in 1972. ''It's been hectic and a bit furious so far,'' said Mr. White, who dresses casually and often answers his own telephone, ''but we're digging in now for a tough fight.'' Mr. Florio's ads have been short and direct . With rare exceptions, he is the only featured speaker. Most last fo r 10 seconds, and each tries to address only one issue. ''Some officals try to sweep toxic waste under the rug,'' Mr. Florio declares in one commercial. ''I wrote the national law to clean it up.'' '' We are trying to show that he really does have beliefs,'' Mr. White said. ''We want to undermine Kean's credibility while talking about specific issues, with Jim looking right into the camera.'' Several Florio advertisements have attacked Mr. Kean directly. One seeks to portray him as a disinterested friend of the corporate elite. Another notes that Mr. Kean's real-estate company once leased land to a concern planning to explore for uranium in Morris County, and implies that this indicates a disregard for the potential hazards of nuclear waste. In attempting to undermine the Republican candidate from the start, as well as in placing emphasis on Mr. Florio alone, Mr. White has challenged the conventional political strategy. This dictates that negative commercials must not come too early in the campaign, and that the candidate should not speak singly into the camera until after he has established himself among groups of potential constituents. ''They are doing spots now that I'd be more likely to do at the end,'' Mr. White said about the Kean campaign. ''I don't think the conventional wisdom here is necessarily correct.'' Mr. Kean has enlisted John Deardourff of the Washington firm of Bailey & Deardourff, which represented William T. Cahill in 1969, the last time a Republican ran successfully for Governor in New Jersey. Mr. Deardourff, who has served as media advisor to scores of Republicans in the last 20 years. Such a role has become as important to G.O.P. politics as ward-heelers once were to Democratic politics. In the current campaign, Mr. Deardourff has concentrated on placing Mr. Kean, who must attract a strong blue-collar vote in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1, among the farmers and factory workers whose support will be hardest for him to win. In a five-minute commercial, Mr. Kean invokes the nickname of his grandfather, known in Washington as Mr. Social Security for the major role he played in creating the current Social Security system. As the spot opens, Mr. Kean is shown playing bocce with an elderly man, who shakes his hand and tells him: ''This is the place to come, right down to the grass roots.'' Mr. Kean, who has sought to minimize his image as a wealthy patrician, listens as he is told how unfair high taxes are, how crime has ruined the lives of the elderly and how education has become neglected. He then reminds his fellow citizens that Mr. Florio's party has been in power for some time and that his opponent is ''just a carbon copy of Brendan Byrne.'' According to Mr. Deardourff, the five-minute spot is an effort to give people a complete view of who Mr. Kean is, to acquaint them with his accomplishments and to give them the chance to react emotionally to him. '' The perception I would like people to have of Tom,'' Mr. Deardourff explained, ''is of a guy who has taken a more-responsible attitude about life and the campaign - someone who has a sense of proportion.'' Initially, the Kean campaign did not use commercials that attacked Mr. Florio, but last week it used a spot that assails the Representative for what Kean aides call Mr. Florio's record as a liberal spender. Mr. Kean has sought to avoid too close an association with President Reagan, preferring instead to emphasize New Jersey issues. But the Reagan Administration, which has been eager for a victory it could regard as an endorsement of Republican policy in Washington, has sent several top officials, including Vice President Bush, to help raise funds for Mr. Kean. <bot>: AS THE state's gubernatorial race enters its final month, the candidates have committed $1.2 million each - more than half the legal campaign budget -in an effort to establish winning television images. Although New Jersey does not have its own VHF television station, both Representative James J. Florio, Democrat of Runnemede, and Thomas H. Kean, Republican of Livingston, have retained nationally prominent advertising consultants to help them distill their political messages into the brief spots that are beginning to crowd the airwaves coming out of New York City and Philadelphia. But while the candidates will invest the same amount of money on advertising, their commercials, and the consultants they have chos en to produce th em, reflect the basic differences in style and philosophical approach to the issues that separate the two men. Joseph White, Mr. Florio's consultant, is based in New York, and has made a specialty of helping Democrats who are in political trouble. Until recently, he concentrated on radio, the tool he learned to use as a 21-year-old volunteer working for George McGovern in 1972. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20150524075829id_/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/04/nyregion/florio-and-kean-making-a-heavy-pitch-on-tv.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Richard Perry/The New York Times Twoseven, an 11-year-old company housed in an old factory in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, makes window displays for upscale stores like Louis Vuitton. The hulking five-story brick factory, complete with an emblematic smokestack, once braided rope for New York’s shipbuilding industry and employed hundreds of blue-collar workers. It no longer makes rope, but in a promising twist for the city’s survival as a place where things are made, the factory on the Brooklyn side of Newtown Creek has not suffered the fate of many old industrial buildings: conversion into residential lofts for artists or bankers to live in. Rather, this building, at 1205 Manhattan Avenue, has been sliced and diced into several dozen small factories, each with a niche clientele. One forges exhibits out of wood and metal for the city’s museums. Another makes props and models for advertisers of products like Absolut Vodka to use in their magazine photo spreads. A third restores stained-glass masterpieces for museums like the Cloisters. This is the face of manufacturing in 2012 Brooklyn. The big industrial behemoths that until the 1960s once made Brooklyn a rival to Chicago’s image as the “stormy, husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders” are mostly gone. Domino sugar, Eberhard Faber pencils, Schaefer beer, Pfizer pharmaceuticals, companies that sold their products across much of the country and sometimes the world, have found locations where wages, taxes and real estate costs are lower, traffic is not as snarled, regulations are not as burdensome, and there is elbow room for the scale required by modern machinery and trailer trucks. Their departures have cost the city thousands of jobs nearly every year for decades. But in a shift that has been both celebrated and parodied, Brooklyn is increasingly retaining some of its remaining industrial spaces for small-scale, small-batch manufacturing. A surge of young entrepreneurs eager to produce $7 chocolate bars made from hand-roasted and hand-ground cocoa, or build theater and movie sets or fashion high-end furniture for a connoisseur’s market find the smaller spaces carved out of these old factories precisely what they have been looking for. Often the rents are affordable and the entrepreneurs can commute to work by bicycle. Such businesses also operate in New York because it has a wealth of the skilled employees they need for idiosyncratic operations that often find their customer bases within the city’s borders. “We think this is the future of urban manufacturing,” said Brian T. Coleman, chief executive of Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center, a nonprofit group that has bought four weathered industrial buildings and converted them into lofts for small factories housing 110 businesses with 500 employees. “There is a highly skilled work force making products for local consumption,” he said. Jonathan Bowles, executive director of the Center for an Urban Future, a policy-research institute, said he was optimistic about this “revival of entrepreneurial manufacturing.” But he noted that these niche enterprises do not employ anything like the thousands of workers the mass producers did; Brooklyn averaged 11.2 workers per business in 2011, compared with an average of 16.8 workers in 2000. Kay S. Hymowitz, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, pointed out last year in “How Brooklyn Got Its Groove Back,” that the refashioned Brooklyn Navy Yard rented space to 275 businesses employing 5,800 people, a figure that pales next to the 15,000 the yard employed in 1959. Still, Mr. Bowles said, while “the overall trend continues to be that manufacturing employment is dropping, it is dropping at a smaller rate in Brooklyn than it has in decades.” Between 2000 and 2003, Brooklyn hemorrhaged about 11,000 manufacturing jobs, dropping to 32,298 from 43,212, according to New York State Labor Department figures Mr. Bowles cited. But between 2009 and 2011, the drop was far smaller, to 19,445 from 20,650, or just 1,205 jobs. Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn borough president, said Brooklyn “is going back to the future.” “What is emerging is the artisanal approach rather than the mass production for millions of items of something,” he said. A prime example of the new frontier in Brooklyn factories is Swell, a tenant in the building along Newtown Creek. Swell, a six-year-old company owned by a Japanese-born entrepreneur, Makoto Aoki, has many of the fixings of a factory — a band saw, table saw and drill press. But with just 1,500 square feet of loft space and two employees, he is not making a mass product for hundreds of thousands of people to use, the way Eberhard Faber did. <bot>: In a promising twist for the city’s survival as a place where things are made, an old factory in Brooklyn has avoided being converted to condos, the fate of many old industrial buildings. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2012080819id_/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/nyregion/small-factories-thrive-in-brooklyn-replacing-industrial-giants.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: The Pentagon’s proposed defense cuts – shrinking the U.S. Army to its smallest size since before World War II – has Hispanic war veterans up in arms about the thousands of current military personnel who are going to lose their jobs and worried about lost opportunities for the next generation of Latino youths. Under the five year budget proposed by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday, the U.S. Army would be reduced by as much as 80,000 troops from the current size of 520,000 to possibly as low as 440,000, slashing the Army to its smallest size in 74 years and eliminating a fleet of Air Force fighter jets. The Pentagon budget would be cut by $75 billion over the next two years. Personnel and programs at major bases from Fort Jackson, S.C., to Fort Hood, Texas, could be significantly scaled back. "We need the ground troops regardless of how many machines we have," said Gumersindo Gomez, a Vietnam veteran who served in the Army for 20 years and has been the Director of the Bilingual Veterans Outreach Center of Springfield, Massachusetts, for 28 years. As director, Gomez, 65, has seen firsthand the cost of not investing enough in the nation's servicemen and women. Over the years, he told Fox News Latino, he's helped as many as 15,000 veterans and their families file disability claims or attempt to get new jobs. "We have no jobs for these people if they get released from military services," said Gomez. He fears that slashing 80,000 troops from the Army is going to be overwhelming in this economy. "I'm not ready to pick up another 100 veterans," he said. "Secretary Hagel is not talking about what’s going to happen to those individuals once they are released from service, as if they aren’t his responsibility." More than 100 veterans are in the center's job placement program and in six months they've been able to place 13 of them. Gomez says part of the problem is employers who are afraid to hire combat vets because of fears of post-traumatic stress disorder and more general worries about the possibility of aggressive behavior in the workplace. Hagel called the cuts “difficult choices” but they are an effort to move resources away from large war time ready troop sizes into better technology and equipment. The difficulty of the decision was echoed by Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), who is the second highest ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. "As we pull out of two wars, we need to consider what our strategic needs truly are and pass a budget that reflects those needs and is fiscally responsible," Sanchez told Fox News Latino in a statement. Any cuts that threaten to slim down operations at bases like Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, will have ripple repercussions on the entire community. “Fort Hood is the lifeblood of Killeen and surrounding communities,” said José Segarra, 49, Killeen city council member and real estate broker. Segarra, who served in the army for 10 years, says if the Pentagon decides to cut medical, commissary privileges and jobs, it’ll drive consumers away from the town. He recalled that Killeen looked like a ghost town after the troop reduction after the first Gulf War. “It’s not just the military – it’s the spouses, the dependents. One person not being hired affects everybody,” he said. Another concern is that a major shrinking of troop levels will mean diminishing opportunities for Latinos who can’t afford or choose not to go to college. Growing up on the Southside of Chicago with his Puerto Rican family, Segarra said that if it weren’t for the military he would not have been able to become a politician or a businessman. “I think the military offers a lot of Hispanics the ability to develop as leaders,” Segarra explained. Other veterans, like Frank Medina, the National Chair of the Borinqueneers Congressional Gold Medal Alliance, believe the cutbacks might not be such a bad thing. "I chose the military to start off my career, but it’s not the only option," Medina said. "It may be a silver lining for other Latinos to find other ways to grow." Bryan Llenas currently serves as a New York-based correspondent for Fox News Channel (FNC) and a reporter for Fox News Latino (FNL). Follow him on Twitter @BryanLlenas. Follow us on twitter.com/foxnewslatino Like us at facebook.com/foxnewslatino <bot>: The Pentagon’s proposed defense cuts – shrinking the U.S. Army to its smallest size since before World War II – has Hispanic War Veterans up in arms about the thousands of service men and women who are going to lose their jobs all while worried about lost opportunities for future Latino service men and women. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2014022719id_/http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/02/26/defense-cuts-mean-lost-jobs-opportunities-for-minorities-hispanic-war-veterans/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: “Everybody shut up!” Bobby Cannavale shouted good-naturedly to the chattering audience at the Gotham Independent Film Awards on Monday night. Mr. Cannavale, a star of “Blue Jasmine” and a Bagger favorite, was acting on orders from the show’s host, Nick Kroll, as he tried to bring some order to the proceedings. It was in vain, mostly, as Mr. Kroll looked for mirth in an unusually somber slate of films. “Trying to write a joke about ‘12 Years a Slave’ was about as much fun as watching ‘12 Years a Slave,’” he said. The speech-making and awarding, too, were often drowned out by talk in the crowd. The Bagger didn’t mind, though, because we had our own entertainment close at hand: we were seated at the “Inside Llewyn Davis” table. “Got any Jell-O?” John Goodman asked a passing waiter. Mr. Goodman has a small part in “Llewyn,” the Coen brothers’ film about the 1960s folk scene in New York. It took home the best feature prize, in a bit of a surprise, against competition that included “12 Years a Slave” and “Before Midnight.” The Coens were absent, so the star, Oscar Isaac, who plays the title role, gave an impassioned, impromptu speech. “It’s a movie made in New York, by New Yorkers, filled with New Yorkers, at a time in New York that changed the face of this country and I think the world,” he said, as his castmate F. Murray Abraham cheered wildly from the table. Other winners included Brie Larson, for best actress in “Short Term 12” – “This may be the only time I’m accepting an award,” said Ms. Larson, giddy and not quite expecting the win (her competition included Cate Blanchett of “Blue Jasmine”). She got a long hug from another competitor, Shailene Woodley (nominated for “The Spectacular Now”) afterward. Ryan Coogler won breakthrough director for “Fruitvale Station,” his feature debut just two years out of film school, and his star, Michael B. Jordan, won breakthrough actor. Mr. Jordan’s speech was the right mix of humble personality and industry insiderness – he grew up “right across the river in Newark,” he said, recalling his mother’s driving him to New York for auditions, and dutifully thanking his team, including his publicist and his stylist, for “always keeping me dressed.” An absent Matthew McConaughey picked up the award for best actor, for his performance as an AIDS patient in “Dallas Buyers Club.” His co-star Jared Leto accepted on his behalf and made a joke of calling Mr. McConaughey on his phone from the stage. “He says, ‘Alright, alright, alright,’” Mr. Leto reported. “Are you talking to Matthew McConaughey?” John Goodman asked, when he caught the Bagger with our phone out. Mr. Goodman and especially Mr. Abraham quickly became our favorite people to sit with at an awards show. “He’s well-oiled,” Mr. Goodman noted, after Mr. Abraham poured some vodka for the table. During long-winded speechifying, they recalled their first meeting, when Mr. Abraham was in a Baltimore production of “Cyrano de Bergerac” in 1980, and mused about future projects. “Burl Ives, I think we should really think about that,” Mr. Abraham said, deadpan, to Mr. Goodman. “Burl Ives and his sidekick, Oscar.” At the end of the night, Mr. Kroll suggested that the crowd get its money’s worth by stealing things. “It’s independent film!” he said. “Take anything you want off the table!” But Mr. Abraham was one step of ahead of him. “I’m bringing these to my wife, do you mind?” he said, as he wrapped up entire plateful of cookies in a napkin. “And how about some silverware?” <bot>: “Inside Llewyn Davis” won the top honor at the Gothams, and at least one cast member had his eye on a bigger prize, the silverware. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2013120319id_/http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/taking-home-prizes-and-possibly-silverware/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Students and teachers at Wilson High School in Long Beach were shaken by a new development in the case of Melody Ross, an honors student who was gunned down in a gang attack outside a homecoming football game last fall. Two Wilson students now stand accused of trying to intimidate witnesses scheduled to testify against the alleged assailants. On Friday, Long Beach police arrested a 16-year-old girl and a 17-year-old girl, accusing them of making "verbal and nonverbal" threats and intimidation of key witnesses inside and outside of the courtroom. Authorities allege the girls confronted one student last week on campus, though officials would not disclose the exact nature of the exchange. The girls also went to a Long Beach courtroom and flashed apparent gang signs during a pretrial hearing and had to be thrown out, said Long Beach Police Cmdr. Laura Farinella of the gangs and violent crimes division. "When you have kids out there trying to dissuade people from doing the right thing for Melody, that's just atrocious," Farinella said. "Incidents like this just stir up those horrible feelings of that night." Prosecutors have not yet filed charges against the two girls. When charges are filed, the girls, who are in custody, will be tried in juvenile court, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Ross, 16, was a talented student and pole-vaulter who had hoped to go to UCLA. She was leaving a homecoming football game with some friends, when she was fatally shot in a crowd of students. Less than a week later, Long Beach police arrested two 16-year-olds, reputed gang members Tom Love Vinson and Daivion Davis, and charged them as adults for allegedly opening fire into a crowd, killing Ross and wounding two others. The police investigation last fall was complicated because the shooting was linked to a feud between two gangs, police said. The gang rivalry made many witnesses reluctant to talk to police. Authorities made public appeals for witnesses and their families to overcome their fear and come forward. "It's unsettling that we have this innocent person that's no longer here, and you have people actually saying that we support the guy in custody," Farinella said. "We need to send a clear message to those young adults that this kind of behavior is unacceptable; that the witnesses should be praised for their courage." <bot>: Students and teachers at Wilson High School in Long Beach were shaken by a new development in the case of Melody Ross, an honors student who was gunned down in a gang attack outside a homecoming <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2010042719id_/http://www.latimes.com/news/local/crime/la-me-0427-student-intimidation-20100427,0,6192618.story
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: LAS VEGAS, Nev.— It was a compelling, often confusing, at times disturbing spectacle: 6,600 members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and their wives and guests coming to Las Vegas, city of drink, good times and gambling. Like others who come to this desert city, the teamsters went to lavish parties, ate lobster and platters of spareribs, meatballs and finger sandwiches, and consumed immense quantities of beer and mixed drinks. They listened to the country songs of Tammy Wynette and the jokes of Joan Rivers, the comedienne. They received a filmed greeting from President Reagan and warm salutes from two White House emissaries. And they elected as their new president Roy L. Williams, who on Friday is to be arraigned in Federal District Court in Chicago on charges he conspired to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon, Democrat of Nevada, in connection with trucking deregulation legislation. The union's sixth general president, Mr. Williams, 66, a longtime Kansas City teamster leader, replaces Frank E. Fitzsimmons, who died May 6. Mr. Williams takes over a union which, despite the loss of 400,000 members, is still the largest in the nation and an exceedingly influential institution. It represents more than 400,000 people in the trucking industry, which remains, despite rising petroleum prices and talk of a need to improve rail transportation, vital to the nation's economy. It represents, as well, airline pilots, bartenders, embalmers, firefighters, gas station attendants, librarians, policemen, school principals, television announcers, Xray technicians and youth counselors. It employs more than 500 attorneys. And despite an unsavory reputation that it cannot escape, many workers, including many public employees, clamor to join. It was appropriate that the teamsters came to Las Vegas. This is a town that the teamsters built, helping finance its huge hotel-casinos with their billions of dollars of pension funds. Las Vegas, which, with its lights, has night but not darkness, seems somehow a metaphor for the teamsters. It smacks, in ways that cannot always be proven, of shady dealings, of misconduct. Its leaders say the union's reputation for misconduct is undeserved. ''We are ethical,'' said Jackie Presser, a Cleveland leader who seemed to emerge at the convention as the No. 2 man and a likely successor to Mr. Williams should he be convicted or otherwise be unable to hold the presidency. ''We are probably the most progressive union in the world.'' Mr. Presser and other union men say Government investigators and the press use against the teamsters techniques - insinuation, anonymous sources and guilt by association - that were used against Communists 30 years ago and are now widely deplored. ''We haven't peddled any influence and don't intend to peddle any influence,'' Mr. Presser said. Yet there are solid reasons for the way in which the teamsters are regarded. Two former presidents, Dave Beck and James R. Hoffa, served prison terms. In 1975 Mr. Hoffa disappeared and is presumed to have been murdered. Since January alone, more than 26 local or national teamster leaders have been indicted or convicted. Union officials were forced to relinquish control of the $3 billion Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Funds. Something of how the union works was demonstrated at last week's convention. One by one, proposals of the leadership were boisterously accepted by the 2,100 delegates, almost all of them, as local officers or business agents, part of the union apparatus. They voted to seek changes in Federal law to allow five-year terms for local officers, rather than the current three years. They voted enormous increases in executive compensation, including a $225,000 annual salary for Mr. Williams, up from the old $156,250 president's salary. They voted to prohibit union members from divulging ''the private business of the union.'' They voted to appoint business agents rather than elect them. They rejected proposals by some 35 dissident delegates for a convention every three years rather than every five; for direct election of national officers rather than by delegates at convention; for simple majority votes on contracts instead of the present system, under which a contract can be rejected only if two-thirds of the members vote against it; for a massive campaign to organize unorganized workers. It was not merely rejection of the proposals that disturbed the dissidents, but the manner in which it was done. Debate was cut short. Dissident speakers were sometimes vilely hooted down. A group of Ohio men dressed in white Teamster T-shirts three times menaced dissidents, once Ken Paff, an organizer, and twice Pete Camarate, the dissidents' presidential candidate who received only 10 votes. Why such things occur in the union is not clear. Why the membership goes along with them when they do occur is even more difficult to answer. The best answer appears to be that the union often gets lucrative contracts for them. A truck driver, working hard, can make $50,000 a year, perhaps with less than a high school education. The prevailing attitude seems to be, ''O.K., there may be a few crooks in the union, but it doesn't affect me. Besides, tough measures are needed in a tough industry.'' Mr. Presser, in nominating Mr. Williams, staunchly defended him and made what appeared to be a widely accepted point among teamsters: ''Any trouble this man has today, he has inherited only from solving the troubles of our union members, and for that we owe him a great debt of thanks.'' Dissidents like Mr. Paff of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union say that union methods often intimidate the rank and file. But it is clear that many teamsters, surely almost all the delegates at the convention, see nothing wrong with the union. This is ''the largest and greatest union in the world,'' Mr. Williams said. The delegates cheered uproariously. It is true, as teamster leaders complain, that the good works the union does, its scholarships, its gifts to charity, its senior citizen housing, receive little attention. Yet something else is ignored by the teamsters themselves, for almost no mention was made at the convention of the great problems facing the teamsters and all of American labor - organizing, the low pay of workers at the bottom end of the economy, the lack of innovative methods to counter management in a profoundly altered economy. It may be that in 1934, when drivers in Minneapolis Illustrations: Photo of Roy Williams <bot>: It was a compelling, often confusing, at times disturbing spectacle: 6,600 members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and their wives and guests coming to Las Vegas, city of drink, good times and gambling. Like others who come to this desert city, the teamsters went to lavish parties, ate lobster and platters of spareribs, meatballs and finger sandwiches, and consumed immense quantities of beer and mixed drinks. They listened to the country songs of Tammy Wynette and the jokes of Joan Rivers, the comedienne. They received a filmed greeting from President Reagan and warm salutes from two White House emissaries. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20150524080349id_/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/07/weekinreview/teamster-delgates-elect-williams-any-objections.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Night after night, in good games and bad games, in wins and losses, Stephen Curry made 3s. Sometimes he made 10. Sometimes he made just two or three. Once he made a dozen. But from November 2014 to last Saturday, he always made at least one. His 157-game regular-season streak of 3-pointers is the N.B.A. record. (It is 196 games, if you include playoffs.) But on Saturday night against the Lakers, the steak ended. Curry fired up 10 3-pointers, but none went in, and the Warriors lost by 20. You might have expected Curry to bounce back in his next game. Did he ever. Not only did Curry make a 3-pointer against the New Orleans Pelicans to start another streak, he hit more 3s than any other player has in a single N.B.A. game, 13, breaking the record of 12 shared by Kobe Bryant, Donyell Marshall and Curry himself. He ended the game 13 for 17 on 3-point attempts, a .765 percentage, higher than any of the players who made 12. The Warriors won, 116-106. Last season, Curry made 402 3s, shattering his own record of 286 set the season before. Curry has four of the top seven 3-point-shooting seasons in N.B.A. history. Here’s a look at the 13 record-setting 3s from Monday night: 1. Despite his struggles on Saturday, it did not take Curry long to fire up a 3. In transition, five minutes into the game, Kevin Durant passed to Curry at the 3-point line. Buddy Hield of the Pelicans was focused on getting back on defense, so Curry was open. A swish. 2. Behind the line, Curry faked a pass, then shot over Solomon Hill. 3. Curry got the ball near the baseline off a turnover, but Terrence Jones was in attendance. Curry let him jump past, then took a step to the right and hit the shot. 4. Curry jumped on a fumbled pass and benefited from the confusion to grab an open shot. 5. Getting a pass from Draymond Green, who was acting as point guard, Curry had E’Twaun Moore’s hand in his face but made the shot anyway while falling backward off balance. 6. Curry dribbled between two defenders, Hield and Tim Frazier, then fired away while leaning forward. A seemingly low-percentage shot for a mortal was good for Curry. 7. With Frazier’s hand in his face, Curry again calmly took a step to his left and hit. 8. Once again, Curry benefited from a dropped pass and fired quickly before Anthony Davis could get in the way. 9. A pick by Durant did not quite free Curry when Langston Galloway got up on him. It didn’t matter. Three more points. 10. Curry waited for Hield to jump up and past him, then sank it. 11. The first of three rapid-fire 3s that broke the record. Andre Iguodala with the assist. 12. Thirty-nine seconds later, the record was tied despite Frazier’s hand in Curry’s face. 13. With 2 minutes 23 seconds left, 31 seconds later, the record-breaker, with both Hill and Moore defending. The shot also put the Warriors up by 12 in a game that had been fairly close most of the way. Curry smiled and pumped his fist after the 13th bucket. He took just one more shot in the game, a 2, and missed it. (His 2-point shooting on the night was 3 for 9.) The 3-point shot has been steadily increasing since it was introduced to the N.B.A. in 1979-80. That year, teams averaged 0.8 3s a game. This year so far, they have been averaging 8.7. “That’s a pretty cool record to have,” Curry told Agence France-Presse after the win. “It probably won’t last too long, the way guys shoot in this league. But to have the 3-point record is pretty special.” <bot>: After a recent 0-for-10 night on 3-point attempts, Curry made 13 of them in a 116-106 victory over the Pelicans on Monday night. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016110919id_/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/sports/basketball/stephen-curry-golden-state-warriors-3-pointers.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: We’re less than 48 hours out from the Kentucky Derby, but the final field may still not be set. Trainer Bob Baffert announced this morning that Hoppertunity, considered a contender by many, would be scratched due to a foot injury, making room for Pablo Del Monte to draw in off the also-eligible list. Trainer Wesley Ward has until 9 a.m. on Friday to decide if the horse will run. 8:45 Friday update: the Daily Racing Form’s Marty McGee reported that Pablo Del Monte will not run. If not, 19 horses will go to the early Saturday evening, with Derby dreams on the line, and whether you’re watching from home, attending a Derby party, or heading to the track to watch Kentucky Derby 140, you’ll find no shortage of race analysis in print, online, and on television. The fan education site Hello Race Fans! (to which I contribute) offers a cheat sheet on all the contenders along with wagering strategies, and below you’ll find our stable of handicappers, offering their perspectives, suggestions, and picks for the race. Horse racing is the only sport in the U.S. on which you can bet legally online, and even a $2 win bet makes watching the race more exciting. Two options for wagering from home are NYRA Rewards (for New York and Connecticut residents) and Twin Spires, both of which offer wagering from mobile devices. A third, DerbyJackpot, offers on-line wagering options for those who prefer their gambling to be more akin to playing a game than the result of hours of handicapping. Michelle Berne, Hialeah Park racing analyst; 7th place finisher at 2013 Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge, assistant trainer: While handicapping is by definition an analysis of statistics, the Kentucky Derby is the most over-analyzed event of the racing year. So we are taking a novel approach, one known as KISS: keep it simple, sports-fans! (Or something like that!) California Chrome’s four straight wins have been impressive, but there was never a straw in his path. His only bad effort was on the big stage on Breeders’ Cup Day when things did not go his way. Also, he may be able to outrun his humble pedigree, but that Not for Love on the bottom concerns us. He may have given Chrome his grit, but he won’t help him much with getting a mile and a quarter. Wildcat Red also may face similar pedigree limitations thanks to his sire D’wildcat. Wicked Strong is purported to have disliked Florida, so wants to be excused for two poor efforts there. But one good effort does not a Derby winner make (see also Danza and Dance With Fate), and there will be many more horses to pass in the 2-0-horse field on Saturday. We are also eliminating those who, while no doubt talented, threw in a sub-par effort last time out: Uncle Sigh, Vinceremos, Tapiture, and Candy Boy. That puts the focus on contenders who have run well consistently and are associated with top trainers and riders. These include Samraat, Chitu, and General a Rod. Samraat’s admirable five-for-six record was hard-fought versus Uncle Sigh all winter. The expertly managed Chitu is only a half-length shy of being undefeated and gives the visual impression of a horse with room to improve. The top pick is General a Rod. Never respected at the windows, he makes his third start of the form cycle for top conditioner Mike Maker. He possesses speed, versatility, and gameness, and jockey Joel Rosario should be able to work out a good trip from the eight post position. Good luck to all those taking a stand on Saturday, and safe trips to all the horses and the jockeys. Who do YOU like in the Kentucky Derby? Seth Merrow, publisher of Equidaily.com and handicapper for Capitol OTB: I’m going for a replay of the strategy I touted in this space last year: the seven-horse exacta box. Again, it’s not a bet that makes sense on an everyday basis, but in the Derby, with its unique 20-horse field, the exacta box can offer fun, excitement, and value. At the $1 bet increment, a seven-horse exacta box will cost $42, and we win if any of our seven horses come in the top two. And the Derby exacta payouts over the last five years have been (at the $2 increment): $981.60, $306.60, $329.80, $152.40 and $2074.80. OK, I missed last year. So why try again? Well, my seven horses finished 1-3-4-5-6-8-17. Yep, I had five of the top six horses, but I didn’t hit the exacta. Too close to not give it another shot. Here we go (listed in order of preference): <bot>: A stable of handicappers analyze this year's Derby and offer their wagering strategies. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2014050219id_/http://www.forbes.com/sites/teresagenaro/2014/05/01/who-do-you-like-betting-the-2014-kentucky-derby/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Brought to life by the same creators of the "Ice Age" films, "The Peanuts Movie" will be a newer, enhanced version of the cartoon crew as compared to its dated, grainier versions of years past. The special, youthful enchantment that Charlie Brown, Snoopy and friends have had for over six decades is not lost because the makers of the film are keeping it in the Schultz family with two of the original cartoonist's sons as writers for the project. The movie will be released in theaters on November 6, just in time for the comic strip's 65th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the beloved "A Charlie Brown Christmas." <bot>: The Peanuts gang is coming to the big screen and it's not your average Charlie Brown special -- this movie has high-flying Snoopy action in 3-D animation! <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015010619id_/http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/06/showbiz/feat-the-peanuts-movie/index.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: PARIS — The world may be in the middle of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, at least according to the financial and political powers of The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which ended on Saturday. But in Paris, as of Sunday, fashion was still championing the preindustrial art of couture: garments made entirely by the human hand, to order, for one client at a time. Does this mean they are out of touch? It was hard not to think that in the wake of a conversation about global technological disruption, the clothes on show (and indeed, the whole couture enterprise itself) could end up looking alarmingly disconnected. One day you have the economist Nouriel Roubini discussing what he has labeled “the new abnormal” state of world markets; a few days later, Giorgio Armani is unveiling a subset of his main Armani ready-to-wear collection entitled “The New Normal.” It’s a little disconcerting. Yet designers are not nearly as oblivious to this situation, and the need to make couture relevant, as you might assume. If not all their solutions are convincing, at least, as the run of shows began, they were wrestling with the problem. For Donatella Versace, for example, the answer lay in the realm not of Silicon Valley, but silicon gel, as well as a variety of other symbols and fabrications that had to do with sports, and the power and energy encased in the human form, as opposed to a motherboard. Her argument posited the body as the ultimate smart machine. So she christened the Atelier Versace collection “athletic couture,” set it to a specially commissioned soundtrack by Violet with the refrain “we march to the beat of our own drum,” and put it on a plain gray runway. The result was a relatively stripped-down (for Versace) show built on a blinding white base, shot through with chartreuse, orange and sky blue. Sharp smoking jackets cinched asymmetrically by luggage straps were paired with stretchy stirrup pants; sheer crystal-mesh bodysuits and T-shirts were layered under cowl-backed minidresses; and the usual bounty of cleavage-baring necklines were transformed into racer tanks and draped and dropped to show a flash of hip here, a slash of side there. Webs of “water jet-cut” velvet backed by leather formed bomber jackets and stiff skirts, and it was all held together, mostly, by crystal bungee cords. The only prints came in the form of ergonomic lines racing over the body. Imagine Barbarella going on a jog around the Google campus, and you’ll get the idea. It wasn’t always flattering, and the tension between haute heritage and high functionality was not entirely — well, worked out, but it was full of effort. As was the high/low smorgasbord prepared by Bertrand Guyon at Schiaparelli, who served up a soupçon of politics with his embroidery via a play on the concept of taste: the kind that comes from your gut as much as your head. “Today enjoying a great meal with friends may strangely become an act of resilience” went the show notes, in an oblique reference to the Paris attacks of last November, and out came a series of easy little skirt suits, the jackets embroidered with ornate teakettles or Wedgwood porcelain; bias-cut evening gowns in silk crepe printed with cherries and root vegetables, the shoulder straps twisted in the classical mode; and a navy blue jacquard covered in silver spoons (and assorted other cutlery). It sounds clowny, but in fact the sartorial jokes and surreal references were less heavy-handed then they have been in the past, especially when it came to neat jackets in a patchwork geometry of 19th-century dish towels over Op Art awning-striped taffeta gowns, which elevated the ordinary to the interesting. Even at Christian Dior, currently in limbo between designers, an attempt was made to “free” volumes and explore a “new realism.” That it did not succeed is perhaps a natural consequence of the fact that the creative team is working without an official guiding point of view. Rather, it is being led by Lucie Meier and Serge Ruffieux, the heads of studio under the former artistic director Raf Simons, who are filling his shoes on an interim basis. It is their job to advance the vision he left behind without being too wildly assertive about their own ideas, so as to allow the next artistic director, whoever he or she may be (and the rumors are rife), to take the brand in a new direction. In practice this meant new versions of the Bar jacket, the Dior classic that Mr. Simons revived, but oversize and mannish (and a bit clunky) or shrunken, with a frilled peplum and fluted sleeves (much better). It meant curving Bar coats and dresses cut away from the body with one shoulder tacked down as if it had slipped off, layered over thin jeweled tulle T-shirts. It meant high-waisted pencil skirts, a stiff ruffle climbing over the waist and jutting out weirdly at the hips, three-dimensional lily of the valley and insect beading that referred to Mr. Dior’s favorite charms, but in a tougher, more dangerous way; and odd proportions that were potentially provocative to consider, but not particularly pretty to wear (corset minidresses with long sheer skirts attached). It meant the collection as a whole looked neither here nor there. It was neither the new abnormal nor the new normal but maybe the new abnormal normal. It’s not a revolution, but in fashion, given the current state of designer churn, it may actually turn out to be a thing. <bot>: From Donatella Versace’s “athletic couture” to tweaking Dior hallmarks, the season begins with a nod to relevance. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016012519id_/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/fashion/dior-versace-review-couture.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Hitachi Ltd. is looking to promote artificial intelligence to management. The Japanese electronics maker said it has developed a new artificial intelligence program that will enable robots to deliver instructions to employees based on analyses of big data and the workers’ routines. “Work efficiency improved by 8% in warehouses with the new artificial intelligence program, compared to those without them,” a Hitachi spokeswoman said. “The program can examine an extremely large amount of data to provide the most efficient instruction, which is impossible for human managers to handle.” Hitachi last month unveiled a fast-moving two-armed robot which it says may replace humans in performing basic functions like retrieving items in warehouses. Its new artificial intelligence can also analyze how an employee, judging from past experience, tries new approaches to work in an effort to improve efficiency, and can choose the best course of action, the company said. “The AI automatically analyzes the outcome of these new approaches, and selects processes which produce better results and applies it to the next work order,” Hitachi said in a statement. Tests showed that artificial intelligence could accurately issue work orders for employees at a warehouse, instructing them on the most efficient route to pick up a product on a shelf and complete their duties. Hitachi plans to further test the program over the next few years before trying to market it commercially. It said it hopes to apply the technology to fields other than logistics, including transport, finance and health care. For the latest news and analysis, <bot>: Japanese electronics maker Hitachi said it has developed a new artificial intelligence program that will enable robots to deliver instructions to employees, improving work efficiency. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015090819id_/http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/09/08/whos-the-boss-hitachi-looks-to-promote-artificial-intelligence/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: More star power is coming to Amagansett, a wealthy Hamptons hamlet. Designer Stella McCartney has just bought a $1.5 million beach cottage, according to property records. It was asking $1.7 million with Douglas Elliman listing brokers Diana and Dawn Neway. The super sweet bayfront cottage, on Bay View Avenue, is 1,350 square feet and comes with three bedrooms and two bathrooms on 0.73 acres. There’s an open floor plan and lots of deck space for entertaining, according to the listing. But considering the size of her own family, the home will likely be expanded or torn down altogether, sources tell the Post. McCartney, her husband Alasdhair Willis and their four kids will be near Stella’s father, Sir Paul McCartney, her step mother Nancy Shevell and her half sister, Beatrice, who are also in Amagansett, where Sir Paul can be spotted in the vintage vinyl record store from time to time. Hollywood mom Gwyneth Paltow also owns a beach house nearby with her brood, as does her mom, the actress Blythe Danner. Scarlett Johansson is also in Amagansett, as the Post was the first to report, with her husband Romain Dauriac and their daughter Rose. Celeb playdates at Indian Wells Beach will be easy. Alec Baldwin is also in Amagansett, often spotted a little frantic in the heat, ordering take out from places like Hamptons Chutney for his wife Hilaria who is pregnant with their third child. Sarah Jessica Parker and hubby Matthew Broderick are also in Amagansett with their kids. Jerry Seinfeld and his wife, Jessica, are also in Amagansett with their three kids. While wealthy residents welcome the star power, they have been up in arms over a proposal to bring affordable housing to their swanky spot. <bot>: More star power is coming to Amagansett, a wealthy Hamptons hamlet. Designer Stella McCartney has just bought a $1.5 million beach cottage, according to property records. It was asking $1.7 million… <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016080919id_/http://nypost.com/2016/08/08/stella-mccartney-buys-1-5m-hamptons-beach-cottage/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: In case you haven’t heard, California’s Proposition 19 was defeated last week. The initiative, which would have revoked state laws that prohibit the possession and small-scale cultivation of marijuana, drew only 46 percent of the vote. I’m no expert on what this will mean for incarceration rates, California’s budget, drug-related violence or the sales of Phish concert tickets, but what will keeping pot illegal mean for transportation? A study by the RAND Corporation concluded that passage of Prop 19 would have reduced pretax marijuana prices by something on the order of 80 percent. Chapter one, page one of your microeconomics textbook tells you that consumption of a good rises as its price drops. So it’s probably safe to say that cannabis use would have gone up, perhaps considerably (though RAND could not hazard a guess about the magnitude of the increase). This would certainly have translated into more driving under the influence of pot. And obviously, this would have led to more dangerous driving, more accidents and more carnage on our roads. Maybe. As a recent review of the evidence by R. Andrew Sewell, James Poling and Mehmet Sofuoglu (all of Yale University’s School of Medicine) demonstrates, the links between cannabis use and dangerous driving are more complex than one might think. One thing is certain: marijuana does erode your driving skills. Past work shows that “attentiveness, vigilance, perception of time and speed, and use of acquired knowledge” are all impaired by pot. In fact, an analysis of 60 studies (performed by G. Berghaus and B. Guo) found that pot impairs you “in every performance area that can reasonably be connected with safe driving of a vehicle, such as tracking, motor coordination, visual functions, and particularly complex tasks that require divided attention.” Yet despite the fact that driving while high is self-evidently a terrible idea, the evidence on whether stoned drivers are indeed a menace to society is surprisingly mixed. How can this be? Surprisingly, most lab experiments show that stoned drivers perform little worse than sober ones, except when pot is combined with alcohol. Many researchers have concluded that this is because drivers who are high are very aware that they are impaired, and deal with their neurological and psychological deficiencies by adopting coping mechanisms to compensate — even overcompensate — for their altered state. This leads to stoned drivers driving at lower speeds, leaving greater following distances between cars and making fewer efforts to pass other vehicles. Interestingly, it seems that pot impairs “automatic” functions, like reaction time or the ability to stay in one’s lane, while leaving “cognitive” functions (e.g. the choice of speed) comparatively intact. Alcohol, on the other hand, degrades cognitive function, with drunks much more prone to making risky choices behind the wheel. Of course, lab experiments may be a poor reflection of real-life driving behavior: after all, subjects know they’re being studied. Lab work is a better reflection of what people can do than what they actually do. So numerous studies have looked at pot’s effects on actual driving behavior. This is primarily done using two methods. One is culpability study, which determines which driver was at fault in an accident and whether the guilty party was more likely to be stoned than the innocent one. Some of these inquiries have found drivers who are high are more likely to be at fault in crashes, but many conclude that stoned drivers are no more dangerous — and indeed might be less dangerous — than others. The ambiguity in the literature is due to numerous factors. For example, the mechanics of testing for pot use are tricky. Also, even when elevated accident levels for pot users have been documented, it could be argued that this is because they tend to share certain common characteristics — youth, male gender, a predisposition to risk-taking — that are more responsible for the accidents than the pot itself. A couple of studies suggest that this is the case. In all, the jury’s still out. The other main method for studying this issue is the case control technique. As the name suggests, stoned drivers are compared with an appropriate control group. The trick is finding that control group, and being sure it matches well with the stoned driver group, something most studies to date have often not done satisfactorily. In all, as with culpability studies, the results from case control studies have been inconclusive. There are three things, however, that we do know conclusively. First, driving stoned is not “safe;” impairment unquestionably exists. Sewell et al. suggest that “patients who smoke marijuana should be counseled to have a designated driver if possible, to wait at least three hours after smoking before driving if not, that marijuana is particularly likely to impair monotonous or prolonged driving, and that mixing marijuana with alcohol will produce much more impairment than either drug used alone.” Second, the kind of ambiguous results we get for stoned drivers have never been found with respect to drunk drivers, who have proven conclusively and ad nauseum to be a serious menace, as I’ve written about extensively. Finally, since the adaptive techniques used by stoned drivers — sticking to the speed limit, leaving plenty of room between you and the car in front of you, foregoing gratuitous passing of other vehicles — seem to be effective, think of what a better place the world would be if we all adopted them — while driving sober. Eric Morris is a transportation scholar at UCLA. Follow @freakonomics on Twitter. <bot>: In case you haven't heard, California's Proposition 19 was defeated last week. The initiative, which would have revoked state laws that prohibit the possession and small-scale cultivation of marijuana, drew only 46 percent of the vote. I'm no expert on what this will mean for incarceration rates, California's budget, drug-related violence or the sales of Phish concert tickets, but what will keeping pot illegal mean for transportation? <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2010110819id_/http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/is-it-safe-to-be-high-on-the-highway/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: It's Upstairs, Downstairs at the Royal Academy. Downstairs is the shock-horror of Apocalypse, while upstairs the Sackler gallery has the far more respectable retrospective of Terry Frost RA. It suggests a neat, cynical division of the RA's public into two. But the result is a surprise. Frost began painting in a German prisoner-of-war camp where he spent four years of the second world war, and today lives in Newlyn, Cornwall. His paintings bounce, breathe, make you feel you have been transported to a salty, sunny utopia somewhere between Land's End and Long Island. This exhibition makes the best case I've seen for the rather implausible claim that the abstract painters who worked in St Ives after the war were Britain's answer to the New York School. That's not true: British abstract painting was mostly too modest, too dry, too English. But Frost's paintings have some great qualities. There's a freedom to the way he slaps on the paint that must surely have something to do with his desire to escape imaginatively from that PoW camp. He throws together a circle, a spiralling squiggle, a series of slanty straight lines. He likes these dollops and blobs and streaks of colour, and his palette - at its most intense in 1950s paintings such as the Tate Gallery's Yellow Triptych (1957-59) - is never confined. What Frost does best is allow dull English colours - the creamy grey of a cloudy morning, the rust and smoke browns of heavy industry in Leeds Painting II (1954-56) - burst into unlikely life, so that Leeds burns gold and bronze. Frost is also an artist of nature. He's in a British tradition of landscape that has observation of the world as its beginning and end. With Frost, the observation leads into liberating abstract territory; but his painting has a roughness of texture and underlying realism of colour that ground it in the world. That's where the toughness of his early paintings comes from. Frost never had the massive originality of his American contemporaries. You can see that in the 1960s he started to jump on the latest bandwagons: he puts words in a painting, like the young David Hockney; he has a go at painting like Ellsworth Kelly. In 1974 he moved back to Cornwall and his painting since has been more lightly decorative, without the bite of his early work. But even today, in his 85th year, Frost can do it: Exclamation Mark (2000) rocks off the wall. Painting is a sensualist's art with little use for irony. Leaving the RA you pass Richard Prince's pictures in the Apoca lypse show. He does mock-1950s abstract paintings over which he prints terrible jokes: "I was up there in the prison talking to Charlie Manson and he says to me he says 'Is it hot in here or am I crazy?' " Frost's paintings from the 1950s, the core of his achievement, are abstraction without the irony, and they make Prince's jokes look sad, sad, sad. • Until November 12. Details: 020-7300 5959. This show is being personally supported by Paul and Alison Myners. Mr Myners is chairman of the Guardian Media Group. <bot>: Terry Frost Royal Academy, London *** <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20140508221223id_/http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2000/oct/14/art.artsfeatures
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Every year in each district across America, every child has to face the first day of school. But for Maggie McKay in “Friends With Boys,” a graphic novel by Faith Erin Hicks, that single day, upon which so much of a teenager’s life seems to hinge, is more daunting than for most. This is her first day of school ever. Maggie and her three roughhousing brothers, we learn right away, were home-schooled by their mother — who has recently left the family and is openly missed — until reaching high school age. And today, little sister Maggie has her turn. When she refuses her hippie-haired father’s offer to drive her to school, she passes a graveyard en route, picking up a female ghost companion along the way. This “solitary girl with a spook” scenario clearly brings to mind 2011’s “Anya’s Ghost” by Vera Brosgol. But in this case, Maggie knows her ghost well, having first encountered her as a child, though, as she tells this ghost in an effort to shake her off: “I haven’t seen you for months. I was kinda hoping you’d stopped stalking me.” And whereas an undercurrent of rebellious adolescent rage ran through Brosgol’s book, “Friends With Boys” is characterized more by melancholy and a longing for connection than by angst or anger. Once at school, Maggie befriends a brother and sister, Alistair and Lucy, fellow outcasts who also sport mohawks. Siblings and boys are familiar to Maggie, though Lucy becomes the first female friend she’s ever had. “I’ve always had my brothers,” Maggie explains. “So for ages it didn’t feel like I needed any other friends.” And this is a story about friendship, or companionship, and the shared experiences, differences and mutual respect that define burgeoning adult relationships, whether between friends, siblings or romantic partners. Hicks excels at depicting adolescent emotion and the way feelings ricochet off the actions and reactions of others, each teenager suffering a constant and confusing onslaught of hurt and acceptance, infatuation and rejection, loneliness and relief. Her black-and-white panels, often wordless, are better at conveying these fleeting but deeply felt states than they are at depicting action, which is sometimes lost in the shuffle. She also shows flashes of clever humor, as when she labels an image of two brothers embracing “Manly Hug.” But what mostly emerges is a fundamentally sweet and sensitive story, one with a rare, genuine-feeling portrait of loving sibling relations. Despite being separated from their mother, Maggie and her brothers clearly enjoy a harmonious relationship with their father, the local chief of police. (He cuts his hair when he’s promoted to chief.) Hicks may wrap up falling-outs and misunderstandings a bit neatly in the end, but the ghost remains – a reminder of the mysteriously absent mother and the unanswered questions and unresolved hurts that linger past adolescence and haunt our adulthood. <bot>: In the graphic novel “Friends With Boys,” by Faith Erin Hicks, a formerly home-schooled adolescent girl learns to get along in high school. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2012022919id_/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/books/friends-with-boys-by-faith-erin-hicks.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: When I awoke one recent morning in Prague from unsettling dreams, I found myself changed into a tourist on a mission. Changed, anyway, from the traveler I had been when I lived in Prague for three years in the 1990s. Back then, whatever associations I had between the city and the writer Franz Kafka, a native son, were negative. I loathed the commercialization of Kafka, his face scrawled across coffee mugs and T-shirts in souvenir shops, his name emblazoned on awnings of Old Town cafes and restaurants. Yet there was always something nagging at me about never having explored the Kafka trail in Prague, an integral part of the city’s cultural history. On top of that, Kafka’s novella “The Metamorphosis,” in which the protagonist, Gregor Samsa, finds himself transformed into a bug, was first published in book form this month a century ago. And so, I thought, what better time to finally explore the writer and the city with which he is inextricably intertwined. In doing so I’d talk to a fairly diverse group of people about how this city may have influenced one of his most famous works — and how it may have shaped the famously tortured writer himself. Once while standing at a window at the Oppelt House at Old Town Square 5, Kafka looked out at the square and said, “This narrow circle encompasses my entire life.” He wasn’t exaggerating, as I learned on a tour booked through the Franz Kafka Society. The guide, Ondrej Skrabal, a 23-year-old law student, showed me the building where Kafka was born (or, rather, the building that replaced it), and from there we hit what seemed like a dozen other places he had resided — so much so that it became underwhelming. “That far left window on the third floor,” Mr. Skrabal said, pointing to another building on Old Town Square and pausing. “Yes, Kafka lived there, too.” We passed by a shop his father had owned and stopped to take in the intriguing Franz Kafka Monument (where Dusni and Vezenska Streets meet in Old Town), a 12-foot-high bronze statue of an upright empty suit with a smaller man — bearing the resemblance of Kafka — riding on his shoulders. It’s a popular photo op among tourists, and a 12-inch version of it is the literary award that the Franz Kafka Society gives to winners of the annual Kafka Prize. Aside from the statue, my Kafka tour wasn’t proving to be particularly memorable. But then we got to Kamzikova 6, a building in a small hidden alley just off Old Town Square. The building housed a restaurant called U Cerveneho Pava (At the Red Peacock) and a Segway rental shop aimed at Russian tourists. “Here,” Mr. Skrabal said, pointing to the door, “was a high-class brothel and Kafka regularly came here to chat with the girls.” “You mean ‘chat,’” I said, using air quotes. “No, really,” he said, “Kafka was interested in all types of people, and he really did come here to have philosophical discussions with the prostitutes.” The one Kafka home Mr. Skrabal didn’t take me to was Parizska 30, where the writer lived when he wrote “The Metamorphosis” — that building was destroyed in 1945; today, an InterContinental Hotel stands in its place. “The Metamorphosis” takes place entirely in an apartment, and Kafka scholars have said the writer used his fourth-floor apartment at the time as a model for the one in the story. I wasn’t staying at the hotel, so I took the elevator to the rooftop restaurant, Zlata Praha. From the outdoor terrace, with the Gothic and Baroque spires of Old Town at my back, I looked down at Svatopluk Cech Bridge, an Art Nouveau span that would have been only a few years old when the writer lived there. This was, more or less, Kafka’s view from 1907 to 1913. He wrote to a friend about the then-new bridge, saying that this part of the Vltava River had been popular for suicide attempts: “It will always be more pleasant to walk across the bridge up to the Belvedere than through the river to Heaven.” Another important Kafka site that is now a hotel is the erstwhile insurance office where Kafka worked from 1908 to 1922; he complained in his diary that a company business trip was the reason the ending of “The Metamorphosis” was so unsatisfying. Today the neo-Baroque building is the Hotel Century Old Town Prague, which has some not-so-subtle Kafka references: a bust of the writer; a restaurant named after one of his fiancées, Felice; and, just outside of Room 214, a photo of the writer and a plaque indicating it had been his office. I had hoped to stay in Kafka’s former office, but it was booked. So I went with plan B: sneak up to the second floor to get a peek at the room. I got to the door and saw the plaque and photo; I considered knocking on the door, but it was 8 a.m. and I didn’t want to disturb its occupants. I stopped into the Franz Kafka Museum, in the Mala Strana neighborhood, hoping to find a treasure trove of “Metamorphosis” artifacts and information. The self-guided tour provided an entertaining and educational hour on the writer, but there wasn’t much about his famous story. A couple of days later I turned to the Franz Kafka Society Center, behind the Franz Kafka Bookstore in Josefov. “Many Czechs were unfamiliar with Kafka until recently,” Marketa Malisova, the center’s director, said, explaining that his writing was banned during the German occupation of World War II and then became unpopular after the war because of anti-German sentiment (Kafka was a Czech Jew who wrote in German). “And then there’s the Communist period,” she said. “Because he foretold the tyranny that was to come, the Communist regime didn’t exactly promote his writing.” It wasn’t until after the 1989 Velvet Revolution when tourists from Western Europe and the United States began turning up wanting to see the Kafka-related sites that Czechs recognized his importance. “I met a local guy here in Prague in the early ’90s,” Ms. Malisova said, “who asked: ‘Who is this Kafka guy? Is he American? I only see American tourists with Kafka T-shirts.’ ” Just before I said goodbye to Ms. Malisova, she pulled out a book in a plastic container. It was a first printing of “The Metamorphosis”; on its cover was the image of an open bedroom door, a man looking away and covering his face in horror. Kafka was quite vague about what kind of insect or beast Gregor Samsa had metamorphosed into. He specifically used the phrase “ungeheuren Ungeziefer,” a “monstrous vermin,” as some of his English-language translators have interpreted it. “Not that, please, not that!” he wrote in a letter to his Leipzig-based publisher in 1915, reacting to a potential cover to the very first edition. “The insect itself cannot be drawn. It cannot even be shown at a distance.” That hasn’t stopped readers from conjuring up images of the protagonist as a beetle or cockroach. This includes the infamous Czech artist David Cerny. I met him one day at the MeetFactory, an art center in the Smichov district where he has his studio. Prague is sprinkled with provocative pieces by Mr. Cerny — a sculpture of a urinating man (directly in front of the Franz Kafka Museum), a statue of the Czech patron saint King Wenceslas sitting on an upside down dead horse. His most recent installation in Prague is a sculpture of Kafka’s head, set behind the Tesco department store in the center of town. The 36-foot-high head is made up of 42 moving chrome-plated layers, which move both in synchronicity and in opposing directions. Mr. Cerny’s original idea was a fountain featuring three figures: a robot, referencing the Czech-language writer Karel Capek, who coined the term; a Golem, representing the Yiddish language; and Kafka’s beetle, referring to the German language. “I wanted to remind people that Prague was once a city of three languages,” Mr. Cerny said. Unfortunately, city water regulations prevented him from placing a fountain there, so instead he came up with the huge reflecting Kafka head, which is based on similar work of his on display in Charlotte, N.C., called “Metalmorphosis.” “I loved the irony that this sculpture faces a city government building in Prague,” he said. “Imagine you’re angry because the clerks are doing nothing, only saying for you to go to another office and then another office and another until finally you hear, ‘This office is closed.’ And then you walk out of the building, and there’s the huge head of Kafka looking at you, reminding you of the irony.” A similar irony is not lost on Jachym Topol, the author of five novels and a political dissident in the 1970s and ’80s. I briefly met up with him at a literary festival in Prague, and when I mentioned Kafka, he was happy to talk about what Kafka means today. “During the Communist regime, we used to make samizdat copies of Kafka’s works such as ‘The Metamorphosis,’ ” he said. “And now, along with the Charles Bridge and the castle, Kafka has become a part of Prague kitsch. He’s everywhere and he’s for sale everywhere. It’s his last joke.” Latent jokes seemed to come up with nearly everyone I talked to about the writer, including Jaroslav Rona, the artist who created the Franz Kafka Monument — the statue of the writer riding atop an empty suit — at Café Louvre, an attractive high-ceilinged second-floor spot where Kafka would hang out with his writer friend Max Brod. Mr. Rona’s first attempt at creating a sculpture for the competition to win the right to design the memorial was, naturally, a beetle. The final concept was inspired by a Kafka short story called “Description of a Struggle” — though it turns out that he inserted quasi-hidden references to “Metamorphosis” as well. “All the other pieces in the competition were basically Kafka on a pedestal,” Mr. Rona said. “But what I did was, after reading ‘The Metamorphosis,’ I realized something about Kafka’s thinking: I love art where it isn’t obvious what the artist is thinking. “And I think this was Kafka’s philosophy, too — not only in ‘The Metamorphosis,’ but in a lot of his writing. So I used that same type of thinking to create the monument to Kafka.” I asked about possible “Metamorphosis” allusions. He smiled playfully and glanced down at his cappuccino. “I couldn’t imagine making a monument to Kafka without some kind of reference to ‘The Metamorphosis,’ ” he said. “So I planted a somewhat secret reference to it.” After our meeting, I walked to the statue and took a closer look at its base. And there, as I stood among the photo-snapping tourists, I saw on the sidewalk around the base the outline of a beetle. In Mala Strana, the Franz Kafka Museum (Cihelna 2b; 420-257-535-373; kafkamuseum.cz) is a good primer for those not familiar with the author and his work. TheFranz Kafka Society (Siroka 14, 420-224-227-452; www.franzkafka-soc.cz) is a bookstore and center dedicated to the writer. You can also arrange private Kafka-themed tours through them. JayWay Travel (jaywaytravel.com) offers tours of Kafka’s Prague, taking literary travelers from his birthplace to his grave and everywhere else in between. Founded in 2001 by artist David Cerny, the MeetFactory (Ke Sklarne 3213/15; 420-251-551-796; meetfactory.cz/en) is a complex that puts on live concerts and art exhibitions. Mr. Cerny’s Kafka art installation is behind the Tesco department store at the intersection of Narodni Trida and Spalena streets. Jaroslav Rona’s Franz Kafka Memorial statue sits in Prague’s Old Town at the intersection of Dusni and Vezenska streets. The InterContinental Prague (Parizska 30; 420-296-631-111; icprague.com) is centrally located and offers nice views of Old Town and Prague Castle. In the erstwhile Workers Accident Insurance Institute of the Kingdom of Bohemia, where Kafka worked, the Hotel Century Old Town (Na Porici 7; 420-221-800-800; centuryoldtown.com) is just outside of Old Town. A former Kafka hangout, Café Louvre (Narodni 22, 420-224-930-949; cafelouvre.cz) has been serving up coffee and cake for more than a century. <bot>: Exploring the relationship between Prague and one of its most celebrated sons, Franz Kafka, looking to uncover the inspiration behind one of his greatest works. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015122719id_/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/travel/franz-kafka-prague.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Oops, they did it again: popular Facebook games maker Zynga last month trademarked the name FishVille and promptly launched the game by that name less than a month later. This time Games.com reports it could be pets the social games giant is going after next, with another trademark filing on the term PetVille. It makes perfect sense. In the same way that FishVille targeted rival company CrowdStar’s popular Happy Aquarium game concept, PetVille would neatly knock on the door of rival Playfish’s successful title Pet Societypet society. Zynga is perhaps best known for its wildly popular game FarmVille, but is clearly not content to rest on its laurels and is aggressively building out social games with similar casual mechanics and a reportedly impressive revenue stream from in-game currency sales. Just how big is the social games space? Big enough to prompt industry-leading video game publisher Electronic Arts to snap up Playfish for as much as $400 million. With shorter development cycles and growing revenue streams, it’s no wonder the traditional video games industry is taking notice, as sales data from consoles and software continue to plummet. For many of the same reasons, the industry should be worried about Apple’s iPhone too. Do you play casual games on FacebookFacebook? Have you ever spent real money on virtual goods? <bot>: Oops, they did it again: popular Facebook games maker Zynga last month trademarked the name FishVille and promptly launched the game by that name less than a <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2009120619id_/http://mashable.com/2009/11/19/zynga-petville/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Photo: Steven G. De Polo, Getty Image File photo of emergency room sign. Red Emergency Sign at Hospital File photo of emergency room sign. Red Emergency Sign at Hospital East Bay teen collapses after football drills, dies A 15-year-old high school student in Alameda collapsed after offseason football conditioning drills Tuesday and later died, officials said Wednesday. The Encinal Junior & Senior High School student collapsed around 5:45 p.m. on the football field and was later pronounced dead at Highland Hospital, said Susan Davis, a spokeswoman for the Alameda Unified School District. The student was identified as Giovanni Pulido by Alameda County coroner’s officials. The school will be providing counseling throughout the week for students and staff. “Our thoughts and our hearts are very much with this young man’s family, friends, teammates and classmates,” said school district Superintendent Sean McPhetridge. “This is a deep loss to the Encinal community and our Alameda community at large.” The cause of death is under investigation. Hamed Aleaziz is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: haleaziz@sfchronicle.com Twitter: haleaziz <bot>: A 15-year-old high school student in Alameda collapsed after offseason football conditioning drills Tuesday and later died, officials said Wednesday. The Encinal Junior & Senior High School student collapsed around 5:45 p.m. on the football field and was later pronounced dead at Highland Hospital, said Susan Davis, a spokeswoman for the Alameda Unified School District. “Our thoughts and our hearts are very much with this young man’s family, friends, teammates and classmates,” said school district Superintendent Sean McPhetridge. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160630121013id_/http://www.sfgate.com:80/bayarea/article/East-Bay-teen-dies-after-collapsing-during-7641669.php
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: SEATTLE, WA - JUNE 05: Seattle Police and first responders work the crime scene after a shooting at Seattle Pacific University on June 5, 2014 in Seattle, Washington. A gunman is in custody after four people were shot on campus resulting in one death. (Photo by Mat Hayward/Getty Images) Shooting suspect Aaron Ybarra, left, is led in chains to a court hearing at a King County Jail courtroom Friday, June 6, 2014, in Seattle. Ybarra was arrested in the killing of a 19-year-old student and wounding of two other young people Thursday at Seattle Pacific University. Police say Jon Meis and other students subdued Ybarra until officers arrived and handcuffed him moments later. Meis, the 22-year-old building monitor, pepper-sprayed and tackled the gunman Thursday in Seattle Pacific University's Otto Miller Hall, likely preventing further carnage, according to police and university officials. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) SEATTLE, WA - JUNE 05: Seattle Police officers secure the crime scene after a shooting at Seattle Pacific University on June 5, 2014 in Seattle, Washington. A gunman is in custody after four people were shot on campus resulting in one death. (Photo by Mat Hayward/Getty Images) Students from Seattle Pacific University gather outside in a spontaneous prayer circle after a church service was full, following a shooting on the campus of the university Thursday, June 5, 2014, in Seattle. A lone gunman armed with a shotgun opened fire in a building on the campus, killing one person before he was subdued by a student as he tried to reload, police said. Police say the student building monitor at the university disarmed the gunman and several other students held him until police arrived at the Otto Miller building. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Students and faculty pray together following a shooting on the campus of Seattle Pacific University Thursday, June 5, 2014, in Seattle. Seattle police now say there are four victims in a shooting and say one suspect is in custody. Police say one man and one woman have life-threatening injuries while another man and another woman are reported in stable condition.(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Detectives wait outside a home believed to be tied to Aaron R. Ybarra, who was arrested Thursday, June 5, 2014 following a shooting at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Seattle Police officers walk past a home believed to be tied to Aaron R. Ybarra, who was arrested Thursday, June 5, 2014 following a shooting at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) A police officer stands near the scene of a shooting on the campus of Seattle Pacific University Thursday, June 5, 2014, in Seattle. A lone gunman armed with a shotgun opened fire in Otto Miller Hall, hidden behind the vehicle at left, on the campus, killing one person before he was subdued by a student as he tried to reload, police said. Police say the student building monitor at Seattle Pacific University disarmed the gunman and several other students held him until police arrived at the Otto Miller building. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Television videographers and other media wait for a briefing at the scene of a shooting Thursday, June 5, 2014, at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) A Seattle Police SWAT team officer strings police tape at the scene of a shooting Thursday, June 5, 2014, at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle. A lone gunman armed with a shotgun opened fire in a building at the small university, killing one person before he was subdued by a student as he tried to reload, police said. Police say the student building monitor disarmed the gunman and several other students held him until police arrived at the Otto Miller building. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Young people are escorted past police following a shooting on the campus of Seattle Pacific University on Thursday, June 5, 2014, in Seattle. A lone gunman armed with a shotgun opened fire in a building at the small university, killing one person before he was subdued by a student as he tried to reload, police said. Police say the student building monitor disarmed the gunman and several other students held him until police arrived at the Otto Miller building. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Seattle Police SWAT officers run toward a campus building following a shooting at Seattle Pacific University on Thursday, June 5, 2014, in Seattle. A lone gunman armed with a shotgun opened fire Thursday in a building at the small Seattle university, killing one person before he was subdued by a student as he tried to reload, police said. Police say the student building monitor disarmed the gunman and several other students held him until police arrived at the Otto Miller building. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Students and faculty pray together following a shooting on the campus of Seattle Pacific University Thursday, June 5, 2014, in Seattle. Seattle police say there are four victims in a shooting and say one suspect is in custody. Police say one man and one woman have life-threatening injuries while another man and another woman are reported in stable condition.(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) A Seattle Police SWAT team officer walks with his gun and a roll of police tape at the scene of a shooting Thursday, June 5, 2014 at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Seattle Police SWAT officers stand near a campus building following a shooting at Seattle Pacific University on Thursday, June 5, 2014, in Seattle. A lone gunman armed with a shotgun opened fire in a building at the small university, killing one person before he was subdued by a student as he tried to reload, police said. Police say the student building monitor disarmed the gunman and several other students held him until police arrived at the Otto Miller building. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Brianna Clarke, left, cries as she talks on her phone while Erin Rutledge, right, an athletic trainer at Seattle Pacific University, is hugged by a colleague, at the scene of a shooting Thursday, June 5, 2014 at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle. About 4,270 students attend the private Christian university, located in a residential neighborhood about 10 minutes from downtown Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Map locates Seattle, where a gunman opened fire on the campus of Seattle Pacific University.; 1c x 2 1/2 inches; 46.5 mm x 63 mm; A Seattle Police SWAT team officer strings police tape at the scene of a shooting Thursday, June 5, 2014 at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Brianna Clarke, a student at Seattle Pacific University, cries as she talks on her phone at the scene of a shooting Thursday, June 5, 2014 at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle. About 4,270 students attend the private Christian university, located in a residential neighborhood about 10 minutes from downtown Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Medical workers stow an used backboard at the scene of a shooting Thursday, June 5, 2014 at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle. About 4,270 students attend the private Christian university, located in a residential neighborhood about 10 minutes from downtown Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) A Seattle Police SWAT team officer walks with his gun and a roll of police tape at the scene of a shooting Thursday, June 5, 2014 at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Students help each other as they walk away from the scene of a shooting Thursday, June 5, 2014, at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle. Police say a university student on Thursday disarmed a lone gunman who entered a building and shot four people. A hospital spokeswoman says one man has died and three other people are injured, one critically. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Medical and police officers walk at the scene of a shooting Thursday, June 5, 2014, at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle. Police say a university student on Thursday disarmed a lone gunman who entered a building and shot four people. A hospital spokeswoman says one man has died and three other people are injured, one critically. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Students and faculty pray together following a shooting on the campus of Seattle Pacific University Thursday, June 5, 2014, in Seattle. Seattle police said there are four victims in a shooting and have one suspect in custody. Police say one man and one woman have life-threatening injuries while another man and another woman are reported in stable condition.(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) City officials, including Mayor Ed Murray, third from right, and interim police chief Harry Bailey, second from right, walk at the scene of a shooting Thursday, June 5, 2014 at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) By MANUEL VALDES and PHUONG LE SEATTLE (AP) -- When a lone gunman armed with a shotgun at a small Seattle university stopped firing at students to reload, another student pepper-sprayed him and subdued him with the help of others and prevented more deaths, police said. "There are a number of heroes in this," Assistant Police Chief Paul McDonagh said. "The people around (the gunman) stepped up." A 19-year-old man was fatally shot and two other young people were wounded after the gunman entered the foyer at Otto Miller Hall on the Seattle Pacific University campus and started shooting Thursday afternoon. When he paused to reload, a student building monitor disarmed him. The gunman had additional rounds and a knife, McDonagh said. "But for the great response by the people of Seattle Pacific, this incident might have been much more tragic," he said. The man in custody was not a student at the school, McDonagh told a news conference. Four people, including the young man who died, were taken to Harborview Medical Center. A critically wounded 19-year-old woman remained in intensive care Friday, according to the hospital. A 24-year-old man was in satisfactory condition. A 22-year-old man injured in the struggled with the suspect was treated and released, officials said. None of the victims was immediately identified. Aaron R. Ybarra, 26, was booked into the King County Jail late Thursday for investigation of homicide, according to police and the jail roster. Also late Thursday, police who said they were serving a warrant entered a house believed tied to Ybarra. A phone message left at that house in the north Seattle suburb of Mountlake Terrace was not immediately returned. Messages left with friends and relatives of Ybarra via social media were not immediately returned. The Seattle Times reported that the suspect's father, Ambrose Ybarra, said he did not know anything about the shooting. "We just hope he's safe," he told the newspaper. "It's upsetting to have these accusations thrown around. We're in emergency mode. We are trying to stay calm." The paper said Zack McKinley described himself as one of Ybarra's closest friends and said he was "super happy and friendly." McKinley said the attack was puzzling because Ybarra was happy to have just started a job bagging groceries. Ybarra could get emotionally low, but McKinley said he had a good group of friends and never saw him depressed. Student Chris Howard was at Otto Miller Hall when the shooting happened. He said he saw the wounded woman on the floor. Her phone was covered in blood, but she asked those helping her to look through her phone for her mother, aunt and best friend. "She was panicking," Howard said. "She said `I think I'm going to die.'" Howard said he also saw the suspect pinned on the floor. "The suspect was calm. Not speaking. Not moving. Not struggling. Just there," Howard said. The shooting came a week before the end of the school year. McDonagh said detectives are working as quickly as they can to figure out the gunman's motive or intended target. He said it appears the suspect acted alone. The university locked down its campus for several hours. Some students were taking finals in the building that the shooter entered. On Thursday evening, an overflow crowd packed the First Free Methodist Church on campus for a service of prayers and song. The private Christian university cancelled classes Friday and planned to hold a service of "prayer, lament and worship" at noon. "We're a community that relies on Jesus Christ for strength, and we'll need that at this point in time," said Daniel Martin, university president. The school's 40-acre campus is in a leafy residential neighborhood about 10 minutes from downtown Seattle. Jillian Smith was taking a math test on the second floor of Otto Miller Hall when a lockdown was ordered. She heard police yelling and banging on doors in the hallway. The professor locked the classroom door the students lined up at the front of the classroom. "We were pretty much freaking out," said Smith, 20, a sophomore. Smith said she saw bullet casings and what appeared to be blood on the lobby carpet and wall as she left the building. "Seeing blood made it real," Smith said. "I didn't think something like this would happen at our school." The gun violence follows a spate of recent shootings on or near college campuses. Last month, Elliot Rodger killed six people and injured seven before turning his gun on himself in a rampage in Isla Vista, California, near two universities, according to police. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, noting previous mass shootings in the city, said: "Once again the epidemic of gun violence has come to Seattle." <bot>: Heroic students helped stop gunman at Seattle university <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2014060719id_/http://aol.com/article/2014/06/06/heroic-students-helped-stop-gunman-at-seattle-university/20908143/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Aaron Rodgers will have to rest on his MVP credentials Sunday because the Packers aren't willing to expose him to risk in a game that has zero playoff implications for them. Rodgers is inactive today vs. the Lions, and backup Matt Flynn will make his second career start. It could serve as a welcome opportunity for Flynn to showcase his skills as he is ticketed for free agency in a few months and could be the 2012 version of Kevin Kolb -- intriguing potential, scant body of professional work. Flynn stepped in for concussed Rodgers in 2010 and nearly led Green Bay to an upset win at New England, passing for 251 yards and three TDs in a 31-27 loss. Elsewhere, Eagles RB LeSean McCoy (ankle) is inactive, meaning Maurice Jones-Drew just lost his main competitor for the 2011 rushing title. Other notable Sunday inactives: Texans RB Arian Foster, Saints S Malcolm Jenkins, Panthers DE Charles Johnson, Texans CB Johnathan Joseph, Saints MLB Jonathan Vilma. <bot>: QB must rest on his MVP credentials because the Packers aren't willing to expose him to risk in a game that has zero playoff implications for them. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2012010119id_/http://content.usatoday.com/communities/thehuddle/post/2012/01/aaron-rodgers-gets-a-rest-matt-flynn-to-start-for-packers/1
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: The G-8 leaders will urge the adoption of measures to protect children from online predators, to strengthen privacy rights and to crack down on digital copyright piracy, according to two people who have seen drafts of a communiqué the G-8 will issue at the end of a meeting this week in Deauville, France. At the same time, the document is expected to include a pledge to maintain openness and to support entrepreneurial, rather than government-led, development of the Internet. This balancing act was reflected Tuesday in a speech by Mr. Sarkozy, who convened a special gathering of the global digerati in Paris on the eve of the G-8 meeting. Calling the rise of the Internet a “revolution,” Mr. Sarkozy compared its impact to that of two previous transforming episodes in global history: the age of exploration and the industrial revolution. The Internet revolution “doesn’t have a flag, it doesn’t have a slogan, it belongs to everyone,” he said, citing the recent uprisings in the Arab world as examples of its positive effects. Before an audience that included top executives of some of the world’s largest Internet companies, including Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay, he added, however: “The universe you represent is not a parallel universe. Nobody should forget that governments are the only legitimate representatives of the will of the people in our democracies. To forget this is to risk democratic chaos and anarchy.” The pre-Deauville meeting in Paris, called the E-G8 Forum, is providing a public window into the debates that have shaped the expected G-8 communiqué — in addition to serving as a soapbox for Mr. Sarkozy as he gears up his campaign for re-election next spring. Mr. Sarkozy’s push to turn Internet governance into a G-8 issue, elevating it to the level of more traditional topics like trade, currencies, terrorism or climate change, has been applauded by companies in industries like music, which have been ravaged by digital piracy. But it has drawn concern from Internet companies and outright criticism from some people who see a threat to the openness that has characterized the Internet to date, at least in most Western societies. During a panel discussion Tuesday, Yochai Benkler, faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, told Finance Minister Christine Lagarde of France that he thought the French approach to online copyright protection was “the wrong way to go.” “You can make the Internet safe for Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber, or you can make it safe for the next Skype or YouTube,” he said, asking her to relay that message to the G-8 leaders in Deauville. Ms. Lagarde promised to do so, but added that she thought the rights of content owners and Internet companies could be reconciled. A draft of the communiqué dated May 20 states: “Governments, the private sector, users and other stakeholders all have a role to play in creating an environment in which the Internet can flourish in a balanced manner. “In Deauville in 2011, for the first time at Leaders level,” the communiqué continued, “we agreed in the presence of some leaders of the Internet economy, a number of key principles, including freedom, respect for privacy and intellectual property, multistakeholder governments, cybersecurity, and protection from crime, that underpin a strong and flourishing Internet.” Mr. Sarkozy is not alone in calling existing laws and regulations inadequate to deal with the challenges of a borderless digital world. Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said this week that he would ask Parliament to review British privacy laws after Twitter users circumvented court orders preventing newspapers from publishing the names of public figures who are suspected of having had extramarital affairs. But France has gone further than many other Western countries in pushing for what Mr. Sarkozy has called a “civilized Internet.” Among his initiatives are a so-called three-strikes law that threatens persistent digital pirates with the suspension of their Internet connections. Another new French law authorizes the government to filter out Web sites containing illegal content like child pornography. The G-8 communiqué, which is still being finalized by the G-8 leaders’ sherpas, or policy emissaries, is not expected to contain specific prescriptions like these. Instead, it will include broad pledges to deal with privacy, piracy and child protection, the people with knowledge of the talks said. In some cases, even general agreement has been difficult. On digital piracy, for example, Russia, which has been the home of some notorious file-sharing services, is said to have raised objections. And while there had been speculation before the E-G8 Forum that Mr. Sarkozy might call for the creation of a new international body to oversee the Internet, this idea was apparently rejected. Eric E. Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, said technology, rather than regulation, could take care of many of the challenges facing the Internet, including potential limits on capacity as more and more video traffic and other bandwidth-heavy content passes through telecommunications networks. “Before we decide there is a regulatory solution, let’s ask if there’s a technological solution,” he said. “We will move faster than any of these governments, let alone all of them together.” <bot>: A communiqué will urge the adoption of measures to protect children from online predators, strengthen privacy rights and crack down on digital piracy. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2011052419id_/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/technology/25tech.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: A longtime independent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders now contends he is a full-fledged Democrat who deserves to be the party’s presidential standard-bearer. Yet Mr. Sanders has a long record of criticizing the Democratic Party and before the 2012 presidential election took the view that President Barack Obama should be challenged for the party nomination. That history undercuts the claim that Mr. Sanders is truly committed to the Democratic Party, one of his rivals, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, suggests. In an appearance on a TV talk show Sunday Mr. Sanders pushed back on the notion that he is not a true Democrat. “I made a decision in this presidential election that I will run as a Democrat; I am a Democrat now,” Mr. Sanders said on ABC’s “This Week.” At a candidate forum Friday in South Carolina, Mr. O’Malley took aim at Mr. Sanders’s longstanding identification as an independent. “I think that when President Obama was running for reelection, I was glad to step up and work very hard for him, while Senator Sanders was trying to find someone to primary him,” Mr. O’Malley said. “I am a Democrat. I’m a lifelong Democrat. I’m not a former independent. I’m not a former Republican. I believe in the party of Franklin Roosevelt, the party of John F. Kennedy.” Mr. Sanders was a proud independent for much of his political career. In his book, “Outsider in the White House,” he wrote: “Over the years I had been extremely critical of the Democratic Party and its tepidness about fighting for the working families of this country.” In the same book, he describes the 1996 Democratic convention, in which then-President Bill Clinton was the party’s nominee, as “heavily scripted and entirely poll-driven.” He gave a radio interview in 2011 in which he said there were “millions of Americans who are deeply disappointed in the president” and said “it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.” Asked about such comments on ABC, Mr. Sanders said: “The idea that I’ve worked against Barack Obama is categorically false.” He added that “Barack Obama is a friend of mine. I think he’s been a very strong president and has taken this country … in a very positive way.” ______________________________________________________ 2016 Election Calendar | WSJ/NBC Polls | 2016 Poll Standings Politics Alerts: Get email alerts on breaking news and big scoops. Capital Journal Daybreak Newsletter: Sign up to get the latest on politics, policy and defense delivered to your inbox every morning. For the latest Washington news, For outside analysis, <bot>: A longtime independent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders now contends he is a full-fledged Democrat who deserves to be the party's presidential standard-bearer. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015111419id_/http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/11/08/bernie-sanders-i-am-a-democrat-now/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: The Sant’Eustachio bar in the heart of Rome is considered one of the best in the Eternal City. It serves about 5,000 shots of caffè a day – commonly known outside of Italy as an espresso – and keeps its almost intimidating level of hustle and bustle going by automatically putting sugar in patrons’ drinks, unless they explicitly opt out. “It saves time, or else you have all the people standing there, stirring,” said the owner, Raimondo Ricci. No one would dream of bringing their laptop to Sant’Eustachio and settling down for a few hours, even if there was somewhere to sit inside, which there isn’t. Here, you stand at the bar, drink, and move on. But days after the news broke that the ubiquitous American coffee shop is finally daring to enter the Italian market, Ricci does not react with the sense of disdain one might expect. Sure, Starbucks products with Italian-sounding names like Frappuccino would probably offend the sensibilities of most of his customers – he jokes about the American tourists who enter his shop asking him if he knows what a “caffè latte” is – but he nevertheless thinks it will be a good thing for competitors and customers in Italy to be exposed to a different way of doing business, and a higher price for coffee. In Rome, a coffee can cost as little as 70 cents (55p). In Milan, where Starbucks will open its first shop next year, the price is a little higher, about €1.10 (85p). Prices at Starbucks shops around the world are much higher. “It’s not that Starbucks’ prices are strange, it’s that our prices are too low in Italy. There is too much competition. And that results in lower quality and the product is worse,” Ricci said. “You can’t do a quality coffee for prices as they are in Rome. If you give 70 cents to the guy who is washing your windshield at the traffic light, he will look at you badly.” For Italians, going to a bar for a quick caffè – sometimes even five times a day – is a deeply ingrained ritual. In many, you first pay for your order at the register and then take your receipt to the bar. While Italy is not necessarily a model of efficiency, the bar is a different matter. The staff work rapidly, often juggling multiple orders, making coffees, serving up pastries or sandwiches, squeezing oranges to make fresh juice, and at the same time filling up small dishwashers to clean the saucers and cups they clear off the bar. No one writes your name on a cup and shouts it out 10 minutes later. Coffee shop owners who are familiar with Starbucks – and its offering of huge American drinks, free Wi-Fi, comfy seats, and refrigerated sandwiches served out of a package – believe it will be a novel experience but not one that will take off as it has in other countries, much less replace the traditional Italian bar. “In Milan, it will be a matter of fashion. It will open, people will go, but it won’t be on every street corner like it is in London. You’ll go to Starbucks, have an espresso which is disgusting and pay €3 for it,” said Stefano Castroni, owner of the Castroni bar on Via Nazionale in Rome. The bar, which has been in the family since 1932, is getting ready for Easter and huge chocolate eggs wrapped in cellophane of every colour are hanging from the ceiling. “In Italy, there is a bar every four stores. An Italian goes, has one espresso for a euro, that’s it. In America you go in, open your Wi-Fi, you have your lunch, a sandwich, a huge cup of coffee, spend 10 or 11 euros. Here it doesn’t work like that,” he said. Carlo Alberto Carnevale Maffè, a business professor at the Bocconi School of Management in Milan, said Italians’ typical response might be to pooh-pooh Starbucks, but they are missing the obvious. “Italians think they have the monopoly on good coffee, which is well deserved, but don’t have it on business. I always say, ‘If you are so smart, why aren’t you rich?’ Starbucks has the right idea,” he said. In fact, he added, the coffeehouses of Italy in the 17th century were literary places where educated people discussed politics, far more similar to the Starbucks of today than an Italian bar. “Yeah, espresso is by far better than any of the dark water that they call coffee at Starbucks, but let’s not talk about the product,” Carnevale Maffè said, before expounding on the topic. “Of course the products of Starbucks have an international standard – with sizes that are very far from the classic Italian taste of coffee, an almost religious tradition, if you will. But there is of course room for everybody and Starbucks has a great diversification of products and foods.” For now, Starbucks is not revealing too much of what exactly it will offer or how it will adapt to Italian tastes. For example, although Italians are generally fit, it is not because bargoers request low-fat milk and low-fat pastries. Such products are not even on offer. The company said it would be working with local food providers to create “perfect pairings for Italian customers”. Back at Sant’Eustachio, Ricci points to an espresso machine that sits behind a glass display in the corner, one of the oldest of its kind. An old framed newspaper on the wall captures the day that Henry Kissinger came for a coffee in the 1970s. “You know Howard Schultz once came a few years ago,” Ricci said, referring to the Starbucks founder and chief executive. “He was checking it all out.” <bot>: Rather than greeting the US chain with disdain, some bar owners think it can give the business a shot in the arm <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016030419id_/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/04/arrival-starbucks-may-have-perks-italys-coffee-traditionalists
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: As the Washington Post ombudsman, Patrick Pexton represents readers who have concerns or complaints on topics including accuracy, fairness, ethics and the newsgathering process. He also serves as The Post’s internal critic and strives to promote public understanding of the newspaper, its Web site and journalism more generally. He operates under a contract with The Post that guarantees him independence. Pexton has been a reporter and editor for 28 years. He came to The Post from National Journal, where he was deputy editor, the No. 2 job at the nonpartisan weekly magazine about politics and government. Before National Journal, Pexton worked for the Army Times Publishing Co., where he was an editor, chief Pentagon correspondent and an investigative reporter. He played a key role in uncovering two national stories about the U.S. Navy: the Tailhook sexual harassment scandal and the widespread cheating by midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy. At the beginning of his career, Pexton worked at the Shoreline Times newspapers in Southern Connecticut and the Journal newspapers in the Washington suburbs. A Los Angeles native, Pexton graduated from Claremont McKenna College and earned a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He can be reached at 202.334.7582 or ombudsman@washpost.com. Latest by Patrick B. Pexton Does The Post fail area Congress members? The image of a Tibetan setting himself afire during an anti-China protest angered some readers. In the rush of Election Day, a caption used to describe a color photo doesn’t work when it’s turned into black and white. Let the readers deal with poisonous commentary. <bot>: As ombudsman, Pexton serves as a reader representative and The Post’s internal critic. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2012041319id_/http://www.washingtonpost.com/patrick-b-pexton/2011/02/24/ABkLhYN_page.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Natalie Portman and her fiancé of two years, French dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, have made it official. The couple wed in a Jewish ceremony Saturday night at a private home on the central California coast of Big Sur, reports People.com. Family and friends, including Ivanka Trump, were on hand to witness the happy occasion. Portman, 31, and Millepied, 35, met on the set of Black Swan in 2009. In December 2010, the couple announced they were engaged and expecting their first child. Their son Aleph is 14-months old. Portman won an Academy Award for her role in Black Swan. <bot>: The couple married in a Jewish ceremony Saturday night at a private home on the central California coast of Big Sur. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2012080519id_/http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/08/natalie-portman-marries-benjamin-millepied/1
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: It's no secret that Taylor Swift has dated her fair share of famous hunks: From Harry Styles to Taylor Lautner and Calvin Harris, many a celeb hottie have stepped out with the former country singer over the years. Lucky girl! Following the news that Swift is now dating actor Tom Hiddleston just weeks after news of her breakup with Calvin Harris was made public, we decided to rank our favorite Taylor Swift's romances. SEE ALSO: Here's a complete guide to all of Justin Bieber's tattoos Check out the gallery below for a full ranking of her seven most infamous celeb boyfriends, and watch the video above to learn more about each individual romance. Remember when she dated a musician 13 years her senior? Yeah, we forgot about that one too. (Photo by Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage) (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Clear Channel Radio New York) (Photo by David Krieger/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) (Photo by Josiah Kamau/BuzzFoto via Getty Images) Current: Tom Hiddleston. This is the first known photo of the pair together, leaving Anna Wintour's New York City home separately (See T.Swift in the background?) the night before the Met Gala. (Photo by Raymond Hall/GC Images) The pictures that broke the internet. World exclusive: Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston sensationally exposed https://t.co/qDYyetcvGf https://t.co/tzL7HgFWBN RELATED: Watch below for details on Taylor Swift's most recent celebrity boyfriend, Tom Hiddleston: More from AOL.com: Justin Bieber watches 'The Bachelorette' and says he's Team Chad (because of course he is) Stacey Dash plans 'new political movement' for Hollywood and beyond Johnny Depp resurfaces with a mohawk at a Los Angeles comedy club -- see the pics <bot>: Taylor Swift has had her fair share of famous celebrity boyfriends, and we couldn't be more jealous, frankly. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016062819id_/http://www.aol.com/article/2016/06/27/taylor-swift-famous-boyfriends/21419996/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: It's a bit of a slow period for political news: Congress is going into recess, the Affordable Care Act is in a kind of procedural limbo, most people are turning their attention to the holidays – and, perhaps most disheartening, the economy just continues to trudge along, offering neither much hope nor much political urgency. That there should be more political urgency regarding jobs and the economy is a topic of eloquently-expressed frustration by my friend Jason Linkins at the Huffington Post. But economic numbers are hard, while idle speculation about the 2016 presidential candidates is super-easy! And, to be fair, it's a subject that will be on the minds of regular folks soon enough. With that in mind, some thoughts on how to discuss – and perhaps even report on – the candidates and their chances. I mean, that's strong language, but the pseudo-sophistication of pooh-poohing a frontrunner is a short-term strategy for punditry. While it's true that the chattering class deemed Hillary Clinton "inevitable" in 2008, there's little evidence that the inevitable label had a role in her eventual loss. Barack Obama's unprecedented levels of organization and fundraising were, you know, significant factors. In GOP races, there's even less reason to hedge: conservatives are historically conservative in their choices, not just for the past few, either: for almost 20 years, 1976-2004, there was a Bush or Dole on every ticket! Between 1952 and 1972, Richard Nixon was on five out of six of them. 2016 will be a little different, what with the GOP not having an obvious front-runner, but don't be afraid to stick to the safest name (Chris Christie) even if seems kind of boring. Unless you just don't want to be boring. See next items. On the Democratic side, the Elizabeth Warren "boomlet" is almost entirely of journalistic blue-skying. The lady says shedoes not want to run for president, and she seems far too level-headed to try to muscle her way in based on the pining of some Beltway insiders. On the Republican side, the words "Donald Trump" and "Sarah Palin" are actually Democratic fund-raising slogans. But drop this knowledge: a schism in the Iowa GOP has made that influential (though by no means predictive) caucus especially friendly ground for a Libertarian candidate (Rand Paul). The GOP's dismal relationship with minorities could nudge its leaders to embrace a black or Hispanic candidate – but why not also cite polling that shows most Republicans actually agree with the majority of Americans who say Roe v Wade should remain the law of the land? Softening their pro-life stance would almost instantly give the female voters who fled the GOP in 2012 a reason to reconsider. Names to drop: Brian Sandoval, the Hispanic (and pro-choice) governor of Nevada. Don't forget the rousing 2012 GOP Convention speech by choice supporter Condoleezza Rice! (who is going to have a new book out in 2015; the pre-election-year book is a fairly reliable sign of presidential ambitions.) Warren, for instance, has "pledged to serve out her term", which is about as high as one can go on the scale of "not going to" as you can get. New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez has explained her desire to not abandon her family to the rigors of a presidential campaign, which is arguably an even more unambiguous rejection. Compare these statements to Clinton's ("I have absolutely no plans to run") or Jeb Bush's ("I'm not thinking about it") or Christie ("I'm nowhere near making a decision yet"). Non-denial-denials will become increasing untenable positions as donors and organizers make their/i> decisions about who to support. Caveat: Even Warren- and Martinez-strength denials can be subject to repeal based on intense personal soul-searching or donor entreaties. (See: Obama, Barack.) Corollary: gaffes are not the same as unintended revelations about core beliefs. (Confusingly, "a politician accidentally telling the truth" is one classic definition of a gaffe. We need a new lexicon!) Sure, Rick Perry's moment of innumeracy marked the start of a deep dive in the polls, but that's probably an exception to the general rule that most politicians can survive an embarrassing moment, especially if it's handled with humor and grace afterwards. (Perry's inability to recover probably had more to do with his backstage lackadaisical attitude toward the campaign itself than his on-stage brain freeze.) Politicians say stupid things all the time: Obama's visit to 57 states. Romney's affection for Michigan's perfectly-sized trees. George W Bush. Joe Biden. Sarah Palin. Saying something stupid is not the same as saying something that reveals something about your character: That's the difference between loving Michigan's trees and dismissing 47% of the electorate, or implying there is such a thing as "illegitimate" rape. This is all by way of saying that Joe Biden is still a pretty strong candidate. <bot>: Ana Marie Cox: Talking about economic data and policy is hard. Idle speculation about the 2016 presidential candidates is super-easy <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2013120719id_/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/06/2016-presidential-speculation-exageration
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Updated JAN 30, 2014 7:25p ET Ever wonder how much the Lombardi Trophy costs to create? What's the deal with halftime shows, eh? Well, look no further, because with Super Bowl XLVIII fast approaching, we've built a handy guide to give you all the pertinent information, complete with the logistics of putting on the big game in the Big Apple. If you want to view the image on its own, click RIGHT HERE. Enjoy! <bot>: How much does it cost to make a Lombardi Trophy? How long does it take to build a halftime show set? We've got all these facts and more right here. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2014013019id_/http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/laces-out/infographic-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-super-bowl-013014
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Your browser, Internet Explorer 8 or below, is out of date. It has known security flaws and may not display all features of this and other websites. <bot>: In his Easter address, the pontiff called for an end to conflicts in Syria and Ukraine and encouraged Catholics to help "those crushed by life's troubles" <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2014042019id_/http://time.com/69389/pope-francis-easter-sunday-ukraine/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: FRENCHTOWN, Montana – A Montana woman fended off a bear trying to muscle its way into her home Thursday by pelting the animal with a large piece of zucchini from her garden. The woman suffered minor scratches and one of her dogs was wounded after tussling with the 200-pound bear. The attack happened just after midnight when the woman let her three dogs into the backyard for their nighttime ritual before she headed to bed, Missoula County Sheriff's Lt. Rich Maricelli said. Authorities believe the black bear was just 25 yards away, eating apples from a tree. Two of the dogs sensed the bear, began barking and ran away, Maricelli said. The third dog, a 12-year-old collie that wasn't very mobile, remained close to the woman as she stood in the doorway of the home near Frenchtown in western Montana. Before she knew what was happening, the bear was on top of the dog and batting the collie back and forth, Maricelli said. "She kicked the bear with her left leg as hard as she could, and she said she felt like she caught it pretty solidly under the chin," Maricelli said. But as she kicked, the bruin swiped at her leg with its paw and ripped her jeans. The bear then turned its full attention to the woman in the doorway. She retreated into the house and tried to close the door, but the bear stuck its head and part of a shoulder through the doorway. The woman held onto the door with her right hand. With her left, she reached behind and grabbed a 14-inch zucchini that she had picked from her garden earlier and was sitting on the kitchen counter, Maricelli said. She threw the vegetable. It bopped the bruin on the top of its head and the animal fled, Maricelli said. The woman called for help from a relative staying with her. They found the collie outside, unable to move, and took it to a veterinarian. The dog appeared to be fine on Thursday, but the vet was keeping it for observation, Maricelli said. The woman did not need medical attention for the scratches on her leg, though she got a tetanus shot as a precaution, Maricelli said. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials set up a trap in an attempt to capture the bear, the agency said in a statement. Besides the nearby fruit trees, there wasn't anything on the woman's property that would attract a bear into the backyard, like garbage or livestock feed, wildlife officials said. Maricelli interviewed the woman, but said the sheriff's office was complying with her wish not to identify her. "She was very, very shaken, and it kind of took the humor portion out of it for me," Maricelli said. "She said it had this horrific growl and was snarling. "(But) she can see the humor in it, and she wanted the story put out so the local residents can take precautionary measures," he added. <bot>: Police say a Montana woman fended off a bear attack with an unlikely weapon -- a zucchini. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2010092319id_/http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/09/23/woman-fends-bear-attack-zucchini/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: <![if ! lte IE 8]> <![endif]> The Delaware North Cos., a hospitality company whose customer-service representatives help people plan vacations at national parks, sometimes struggles these days to keep 80 or so seats filled at its call center in Fresno, Calif.—a city tied for the 9th-highest unemployment rate in the U.S. The company has no shortage of job applicants. But finding the right candidates has gotten tougher since the company started using a customized assessment last year to see how applicants stack up against top call-center workers in such traits as friendliness, curiosity and the ability to multitask. Managers said the new test, administered online, has reduced turnover and allowed Delaware North to more accurately select applicants who best fit the job. “Now we understand better what makes a great reservation sales applicant,” said Andy Grinsfelder, vice president of sales and marketing for the Buffalo, N.Y.-based company’s parks and resorts division. Pre-hire assessments have been used for years, but never have such tests been deployed so widely at companies across the U.S. The automation of the job application process, combined with powerful data tools and inexpensive online software, have led to falling costs, more accurate results and a surge in use. Eight of the top 10 U.S. private employers now administer pre-hire tests in their job applications for some positions. These tests have, in effect, raised the bar for U.S. job seekers: With more companies holding an alleged formula for workplace success, fewer are willing to take a chance on anyone who doesn’t measure up. In 2001, 26% of large U.S. employers used pre-hire assessments. By 2013, the number had climbed to 57%, reflecting a sea change in hiring practices that some economists suspect is making it tougher for people, especially young adults and the long-term unemployed, to get on the payroll. Employers are taking longer than ever to fill jobs, with the stepped-up search for excellence joining other factors that slow hiring, such as the reluctance to raise wages, and mismatches in skill or education between applicants and jobs. Companies aren’t settling for people with minimum skills; they want applicants who stand out in ability and workplace temperament, a new recruiting standard they say yields longer tenure and higher productivity. Steven Davis, a University of Chicago economist who has studied the gap between job openings and hires, found the annual sum of hires and separations—called labor-market churn—has declined by more than 25% since 2000, suggesting, he said, that as employers intensify their front-end screening, among other factors, “a larger fraction of the people they hire are working out.” The latest generation of pre-hire assessments augments other hiring hurdles whose use has also grown over the past decade, including criminal-record and credit checks. “The incentives to screen before hiring have increased over time, while the costs have declined,” Mr. Davis said. “Both those things are encouraging employers to move away from what was essentially a trial employment situation to just screening people out in advance.” One result, he said, is that fewer applicants clear the bar set by employers. Companies want to pluck only pearls from an ocean of applicants, even if it takes a bit longer. Employers in February took 26.8 days, on average, to hire for open jobs, an all-time high, Mr. Davis’s research found. Even during the peak of the prior expansion, jobs were vacant 23 days at most, on average. Employers are figuring out how their top employees do their jobs and are using that information to screen new hires, said Jay Dorio, who develops assessment tools for the Smarter Workforce initiative at International Business Machines Corp. IBM -1.45 % “That’s where the future is,” he said, “and we’re doing it today.” Personality tests were developed for the workplace in the 1940s and 1950s by research teams at industrial companies like AT&T Inc. They were first used largely to screen candidates for management jobs. Employers wanted to know, for instance, if a potential executive was an extrovert, prone to anxiety or an office backstabber. They fell out of favor in the 1960s, after researchers questioned their reliability, only to resurface in the 1990s, when industrial psychologists determined they had value as a hiring tool. This was followed by a shift to online job applications in the early 2000s that allowed employers to streamline the recruiting process—historically labor-intensive. Taking stock of “candidates’ data now takes minutes or seconds instead of months,” said Brian Stern, president of Shaker Consulting Group, an assessment vendor. Cheap, effective software-based assessments have allowed even small companies to analyze their workforces to pinpoint the kind of employees who perform well and stick around. “The notion of using data in hiring,” Mr. Stern said, “that’s moving to all size businesses.” Tests in the past gauged only a few broad personality traits. But statistical modeling and better computing power now give employers a choice of customized assessments that, in a single test, can appraise everything from technical and communication skills to personality and whether a candidate is a good match with a workplace’s culture—even compatibility with a particular work team. Furstperson, the company that developed Delaware North’s test, can score personality and work styles by asking applicants if they agree or disagree with a long list of such statements as “I dislike yelling, but sometimes a little yelling is necessary,” and “I have never understood why some people find abstract art appealing.” They are designed so applicants can’t figure out the best answers to get hired. Companies in the billion-dollar pre-hire testing industry say more precisely matching applicants with jobs leads to longer, happier careers because employees are less likely to quit or be fired. The assessment algorithms also can be easily refined and updated. Furstperson recently analyzed 20 companies—a call center and 19 of its subcontractors—that use its test. In 2012, before the assessment test was adopted, 90-day attrition—the proportion of employees who quit or were fired after three months—was 41%. After the tests and subsequent revisions, 90-day attrition fell to 34% in 2013; 28% in early 2014; and 12% late last year, said Jeff Furst, founder of Furstperson. The tests, of course, are fallible. “Predicting what humans will do is really frigging hard,” said Charles Handler, the president of Rocket-Hire, a consulting firm that advises companies on using the assessments. “Tests are a predictor and better than a coin toss, but you have to be realistic about them. There will be false positives, people who get through that shouldn’t, and false negatives, someone who should’ve gotten through that didn’t.” U.S. workers looking for jobs say they aren’t happy about the new hurdles. Chuck McCrory, a former academic adviser at the Art Institute of Philadelphia who was laid off in 2012 after 11 years, said he felt like he was up against “an invisible wall” during his lengthy job search. “Most of the tests are what I believe to be common-sense tests,” Mr. McCrory said, questions asking, for instance, what to do when a customer calls with a complicated request for help five minutes before the end of a shift. The problem with the assessments, he said, is “you don’t get results back, so you have no idea what you did wrong or how to improve.” In February, Mr. McCrory, age 51, started a job at Drexel University helping students navigate through registration, financial aid and other college paperwork. The school ran a background check and called his references, but it didn’t require a pre-hire assessment. Mr. McCrory said he wished he could have spoken directly to other prospective employers during his job search. But he could never get past their tests. “Why don’t you bring me in and see the passion for what I do, see that I’m a really kind individual that will bend over backward for your company?” he said. Employers’ selectivity grew in the recession and has largely continued. Companies with a glut of applicants have their choice of the best talent at the right price. College degrees, for example, are asked for jobs that never before required one—so-called credential creep. Labor-market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies found that 60% of ads for computer help-desk jobs in 2013 required a bachelor’s degree, even though only 39% of the workers in similar jobs had the credential, according to census surveys around that time. “We look at the way applicants answer questions to see who would thrive in our environment, not just survive,” said Charlotte Harris, global HR director at Regus RGU -0.46 % PLC, which rents out temporary office space around the world. In 2013, the company started giving applicants for customer-service jobs a 15-question test designed by IBM. Ms. Harris said Regus, which employs more than 11,000 people, wants new hires with “the right DNA and mind-set to be successful here.” The IBM test screens out half of applicants. “We’re looking at the top 50th percentile of people applying to us,” Ms. Harris said, “and we’re constantly raising that bar.” Employers can measure and analyze what differentiates their best performers in a variety of occupations—from fast-food workers and retail store managers to insurance agents and nurses—and use the data to create a profile of ideal workers. The tests show how applicants compare. “We use our existing employees that we know are really good at the job and then try to find people who [test] just like them,” said John Marick, co-founder of Consumer Cellular, a cellphone-service company with call centers in Oregon and Arizona. Some tests capture not just answers, but the amount of time applicants spend on questions, or whether they scroll back to reread test instructions. Results fed to hiring managers can be as simple as a green, yellow or red light indicating the scoring algorithm’s recommendations—or run into pages of detail about a candidate’s performance. Researchers at the University of Toronto, Yale University and Harvard University in one of the first academic studies of pre-hire testing found, in unpublished research, that managers who ignored test results picked workers who were more likely to quit or be fired. In other words, the algorithm was better at hiring. Even with the tightening job market, employers haven’t shown any inclination to lower standards. If Delaware North can’t find enough top candidates, Mr. Grinsfelder said, it will broaden the pool by posting on more job boards or allow some new hires to work from home. Likewise, at Consumer Cellular, “If we’re struggling to fill the seats,” Mr. Marick said, “we double down on efforts to get people through the door rather than lower our standards.” Mr. Marick said his turnover rate has fallen to 8%, about half the industry average. Fewer people, he said, now come in with the attitude of, “‘I really need a job but I don’t like people.’ If we took that person on, they’d probably decide in a few months, ‘I don’t like it here,’ and move on.” Tougher screening has also improved retention at Delaware North’s Fresno office. The company used to hire 15 people for every 12 jobs, knowing about three workers would drop out during training. Now it hires 14. Patrick Corbett, 46 years old, discovered the tests after he was laid off a few years ago from his job as a mortgage processor for Citibank. Though he now works in technical support for a large company, Mr. Corbett sometimes applies for jobs, he said, and assessment tests are required for nearly every one. “Companies just keep adding more and more of these hoops,” he said. Last fall, Mr. Corbett spent about an hour filling out the multi-page test for a mortgage processing job on the website of ClearFit, a job-matching service. Soon after, ClearFit emailed Mr. Corbett to ask that he retake the test. “Our system can detect when people are overthinking, or rushing their responses: this may have happened to you,” the email said. “This can skew your results.” Mr. Corbett said he didn’t bother. “When I go to apply for a job and they state ‘You must take the personality test,’ I just don’t apply,” he said. “I don’t feel like wasting another hour of my life for a job I won’t get.” Write to Lauren Weber at lauren.weber@wsj.com <bot>: More companies use assessments to hire, with fewer willing to take a chance on anyone who doesn’t measure up. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015041719id_/http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-personality-test-could-stand-in-the-way-of-your-next-job-1429065001
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: WASHINGTON, Sept. 3— Gone is ''Careers in Medical Technology and Related Biological Sciences,'' a publication of the Veterans Administration. Gone is ''Strengthening Small Business Management,'' a 155-page guide for the aspiring entrepreneur. Gone, too, is ''Stewards of Your Public Lands,'' a photo album of Federal land management employees. The Office of Management and Budget announced today that the Reagan Administration's drive to cut Government spending had eliminated these and scores of other publications, restricted the circulation of others and is shaving $103.7 million from the Federal printing bill. However, the deputy budget director, Edwin L. Harper, said the battle against the Government printing costs had only begun. Now, he said, the Administration is undertaking a new, more rigorous review of all Government publications, warning that those that did not meet the ''justification criteria'' would be eliminated March 31. President Reagan, as a cost-cutting measure, imposed a moratorium April 20 on the production of newsletters, magazines, pamphlets, books and audio-visual aids. The Government spent $309 million on such materials last year and will spend $336.7 million this year, despite the cutbacks. Yet the expenditures for ''flicks and flacks,'' as the budget office describes the programs, will still be $16.6 million less than if the moratorium had not been imposed, Mr. Harper said. As part of the Administration's program to make even deeper cuts, the budget office has extended the moratorium for 38 agencies, including the Departments of State and of Defense. The Pentagon alone expects to save $36 million in 1982, a figure that accounts for more than a third of the reduction in publication costs. ''We're pleased by the interim results,'' said Mr. Harper, ''but this effort is not over.'' Plans Must Be Clarified He said 21 additional agencies had been asked to clarify their plans for reducing such expenditures and 36 others had been asked to submit new plans. Agencies will now be required to justify each pamphlet, periodical or audio-visual aid, he said. The budget office has also begun discussions with the Joint Committee on Printing and with the Government Printing Office on ways to consolidate, modernize and streamline the Government's printing operations. Few of the publications being eliminated were as popular as ''The Car Book,'' a 64-page booklet on vehicle performance and maintenance records that was produced in the Carter Administration. Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, who has characterized the pamphlet as ''anti-industry,'' ordered that it not be republished this summer. Magazine for Volunteer s Another of the publications being eliminated is Reconnection, a magazine for former workers in the Vista and Peace Corps programs that cost nea rly $100,000 a year and reached only about 20 percent ofthe former vo lunteers. ''The budget for this publication could pay for 600 volunteers the whole year,'' Mr. Harper said. One publication whose departure has not prompted an outpouring of grief is ''Homes of the Department of State,'' an illustrated booklet that cost the Government $3,670 for only 2,000 copies. ''I wouldn't say it was one of our most popular publications,'' said Paul Auerswald, director of the State Department's Office of Public Communications. ''I'm not terribly upset about not publishing it.'' <bot>: Gone is ''Careers in Medical Technology and Related Biological Sciences,'' a publication of the Veterans Administration. Gone is ''Strengthening Small Business Management,'' a 155-page guide for the aspiring entrepreneur. Gone, too, is ''Stewards of Your Public Lands,'' a photo album of Federal land management employees. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20150524075826id_/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/04/us/government-s-publications-list-to-keep-shrinking.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: In moving 120 miles to the north, Spanos, of course, would risk alienating fans in San Diego, where the Chargers have played for more than a half-century. It is unclear how many of those fans would pay thousands of dollars for seat licenses and tickets, which would undoubtedly be more expensive in Los Angeles. “I’ll drive to L.A. to support them, but only a couple of games a year,” said Alex Sanchez, a lifelong Chargers fan. Spanos will need to find new fans in Los Angeles should he decide to move — he agreed in a television interview on Sunday that he was more likely to move his team than stay, only to say later that he had not made up his mind. The city went without an N.F.L. team for two decades before the Rams returned. Of course, the Chargers might be a breath of fresh air compared to the Rams, who are 4-10. In an effort to make a splash, the Rams made a blockbuster trade to acquire the first overall pick in the draft in April. They chose quarterback Jared Goff, who sat on the bench until late November and has lost all five games that he has started since then. Coach Jeff Fisher was signed to a two-year extension before the season, then fired this month after the team’s ninth loss. But while the Chargers and the Rams struggle, the Raiders and their fans are reveling in their good fortune, at least on the field. Off the field, owner Mark Davis has threatened to move to Las Vegas, where state lawmakers agreed to help pay for a domed stadium by raising $750 million through an increase in the hotel bed tax. The public largess is in contrast to Oakland, where Mayor Libby Schaaf has made far more modest promises, though last week the city and county gave the Fortress Investment Group, which is representing the city, two months to negotiate a stadium deal with the Raiders, assuming the team will come to the table. While the owners understand why Spanos might abandon San Diego for Los Angeles, a much larger market, they are far less convinced that it makes sense for the Raiders to leave the Bay Area, the sixth-biggest media market in the country, for Las Vegas, which is far smaller. Raiders fans in Oakland certainly want their team to stay put. But the team is also immensely popular in Southern California from the years it played in Los Angeles, and many fans in that part of the state say they could travel to Las Vegas just as easily as the Bay Area. “I’m a Raiders fan, so I’m always going to follow them,” including to Las Vegas, said Jose Munoz, who lives in Culver City in Los Angeles County and made the trip to San Diego this weekend. Alvarez, the Chargers fan, said he, too, had a game plan if the Chargers leave San Diego. His season-ticket money would be available to use for other purposes, such as going on the road to watch the Chargers play, but just not in Los Angeles. <bot>: This much is known: The Raiders are in the playoffs, and the Chargers are out. Where they will play in the future is an open question. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016122019id_/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/sports/oakland-raiders-sand-diego-chargers-los-angeles-las-vegas.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Many important things will be said in the next few weeks about the murder of nine people holding a prayer meeting at a historic African American church in Charleston, South Carolina on the evening of June 17. Here I want to focus on what the suspected killer, Dylann Roof, said right before he gunned down a room full of black worshippers. Reportedly, Roof proclaimed: “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.” It is amazing all that can be said in three little sentences. To a sociologist who studies gender and its intersection with other forms of inequality, this statement spoke volumes. Roof’s alleged act was motivated by racism, first and foremost, but also sexism. In particular, a phenomenon called benevolent sexism. Sociologists use the term “benevolent sexism” to describe the attribution of positive traits to women that, nonetheless, justify their subordination to men. For example, women may be described as good with people, but this is believed to make them perform poorly in competitive arenas like work, sports or politics. Better that they leave that to the men. Women are wonderful with children, they say, but this is used to suggest that women should take primary responsibility for unpaid, undervalued domestic work. Better that they let men support them. And the one that Roof used to rationalize his racist act was: women are beautiful, but their grace makes them fragile. Better that they stand back and let men defend them. This argument is hundreds of years old, of course. It’s most clearly articulated in the history of lynching, in which black men were violently murdered routinely by white mobs using the excuse that they had raped a white woman. Roof is the modern equivalent of this white mob. He believes that he and other white men own me and women like me — “you rape our women,” he said possessively — and so he justified gunning down innocent black people on my behalf. You are vulnerable, he’s whispering to me, let me protect you. That’s chilling enough, but he also makes claim to the nation itself. “You’re taking over our country” reflects a xenophobic white entitlement to land. We could call it ironic – given the presence of Native Americans centuries before the arrival of the white man – yet it is so routine as to be the common sense of this country. When European colonizers first arrived on the shores of America, the country was a “she”: they saw “her” as open to discovery and exploration. Today, we still call her the “motherland” and, when she is attacked, we refer to her as the domesticized “homefront.” In art, too, nations are often portrayed as women, such as in English painter William Blake’s engraving, “Europe supported by Africa and America” (1796) of three naked women – one black, one white, one brown – who stand in for their countries. These white male colonialists hardly differentiated between what could be extracted from the land and their right to extract whatever they wanted from native women. Roof is that colonizer. White women are his land. His land is a she. His relationship to this country and the white women in it is the same: both belong to white men like him. In his mind, apparently, black people are the interlopers, the rapists, the plunderers of his natural resources, female and otherwise. It’s a twisted but not an unusual way to think about the world; not then and not now. As sociologist Michael Kimmel documents in Angry White Men, the rage felt by many rural, poor and working class whites is rooted in the belief that a country that is their birthright is being taken away from them. In the 1920s and ‘30s, Texan Jessie Daniel Ames was one of the first women to argue that lynching was sexist as well as racist. She exposed the idea that white women needed protection from black men as a lie, gaining the support of thousands of women and hundreds of public officials for her anti-lynching campaign. She and other women went into communities where lynchings occurred — where their lives really were at risk from angry white men — and protested the murder of black men with white women’s rape as a justification. Historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall describes Ames’s work as a “revolt against chivalry.” Ames understood that all oppression is interconnected. We know this now more than ever. We live not in isolated pockets of prejudice, but with a collection of privileges that depend on each other for their persistence and resonance. Roof’s act was racist, yes, but his racism was built upon colonialism and sexism. Our hierarchies interconnect, interweaving, providing each other with support. “We are none of us free,“ wrote the poet Emma Lazarus, “if we are not all free.” I am a white woman. I am not yours to protect. No more murder in my name. Shooters of color are called ‘terrorists’ and ‘thugs.’ Why are white shooters called ‘mentally ill’? Charleston isn’t really about gun control. It’s about racial violence. Think the Charleston shooting will lead to new gun control laws? It won’t. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. <bot>: Before he gunned down a room full of black worshippers, Roof reportedly proclaimed "You rape our women and you’re taking over our country." <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015062219id_/http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/21/how-benevolent-sexism-drove-dylann-roofs-racist-massacre/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: ???initialComments:true! pubdate:06/29/2011 18:04 EDT! commentPeriod:3! commentEndDate:7/2/11 6:4 EDT! currentDate:8/21/11 8:28 EDT! allowComments:false! displayComments:false! <bot>: College players, streetball legends and the occasional pro provide a respite from the harsher realities at the Barry Farm public housing project. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2011063019id_/http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/peace-love-and-basketball-at-barry-farm/2011/06/28/AG7sDFrH_gallery.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Cheryl Senter for The New York Times Jon M. Huntsman Jr. and his wife, Mary Kaye, at an event Friday in New Hampshire, where Mr. Huntsman has put his focus. More Photos » NEWPORT, N.H. — Jon M. Huntsman Jr. was in jeopardy of arriving late to his own rally here the other night. But his wife’s desperate need for caffeine forced them to stop for gas-station blend at the Bradford Market, where an admiring clerk added to their delay. “You have a working knowledge of China,” the clerk, Jason Reid, told Mr. Huntsman, the ambassador to China until last spring. Mr. Reid said he would vote Huntsman in the Republican presidential primary on Tuesday. But, calling himself “a realist,” he added, “Say Romney does get the nomination or something like that: could you see yourself working in an executive position for him in some capacity?” Pausing for a moment, Mr. Huntsman pursed his lips and said as politely as he could, “Don’t want to even contemplate that.” For good or for bad, this is Mr. Huntsman’s moment. An early favorite of the pundit classes in Washington and New York — invited for cameos on “The Colbert Report” and “Saturday Night Live” — Mr. Huntsman, out of other options, has bet it all on New Hampshire. Glimmers of promise appeared for him last week: an endorsement from The Boston Globe, the unveiling of his first television advertisement Friday morning, and the taste of possibility implicit in Rick Santorum’s come-from-behind showing in Iowa against Mitt Romney. But there have also been challenges, including Mr. Romney’s solid lead in polls and new strength from Mr. Santorum and Ron Paul. And he was only a secondary presence at Saturday’s night Republican debate in New Hampshire, barely attacking his rivals. But nothing has quite threatened his candidacy like his own relatively minuscule campaign bank account, which constrains his ability to carry on even if he does well here in New Hampshire. It is one of the great incongruities of the year: that a race being run by the son of one of the richest men in the world — the chemical magnate Jon M. Huntsman Sr. — could fail because of a lack of money. Aides predicated the building of Mr. Huntsman’s campaign upon the idea that he would tap his father’s resources and connections to have one of the best-financed operations in the Republican presidential field. But through a complicated father-son dynamic — Mr. Huntsman, 51, a former governor of Utah, has spent much of his life trying to balance the benefits of being a Huntsman against a drive to make a mark on his own — he told advisers and even reporters that he would not accept extensive help. Still, it is an outside group financed in part by his father that has kept him in the running, putting advertising on television here when he could not afford to. Barring a first- or second-place showing here, Mr. Huntsman will most likely require the sort of quick infusion only his father could offer to carry out the never-say-die plan his aides have hatched for the weeks ahead: to muddle through the next few contests doing just well enough to survive, and then make a bigger stand against Mr. Romney as the rest of the field presumably drops away. “If he doesn’t prevail, it’s going to be for lack of resources,” said a close supporter, who would speak about Mr. Huntsman’s financial situation only on the condition of anonymity. “And this is from one of the great wealthy families of America.” Of course, there are other significant factors at play. Analysts, rivals and even some former aides have wondered aloud in interviews whether he was not his own worst liability, unwilling to run the kind of rock-ribbed conservative campaign that his rivals are using to show their toughness against President Obama — who until 10 months ago was his boss. And in a climate where the loudest, pithiest voices stand out, he is soft-spoken, given to detailed policy lectures about China, the “trust deficit” in Washington, or his calls to limit the size of banks. From the start, Mr. Huntsman’s father was prepared to press his network of high-flying associates — and underlings — into the service of raising money for the campaign, two people with knowledge of the early operation said. Richard A. Oppel Jr. contributed reporting. <bot>: The hazards for Jon M. Huntsman Jr. include Mitt Romney’s solid lead, strengthening rivals and — though he is son of one of the world’s richest men — a shortage of campaign funds. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2012010819id_/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/us/politics/ready-or-not-huntsman-faces-his-moment-in-new-hampshire.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Samsung 837, the Korean giant's first flagship retail space opens on Monday in New York City. Located at 837 Washington Street in the Meatpacking District, the 55,000 square-foot space isn't your typical retail store. In fact, it's not a store at all. As Zach Overton, the VP and GM of Samsung 837 walked me through the cavernous space, he told me that when Samsung decided to build its first North American flagship space, "we wanted to build what we think is the future of retail. Which is not retail, but experience." And experience is probably the best way to describe Samsung 837. Walking into the space, I was immediately hit by the color scheme. Dark woods, natural earth tones, leather. This is not an Apple Store. And frankly, it doesn't want to be. "This space is about the collision of culture and technology," Overton says. The space, which spans three floors, is made up of different sections and vignettes. You enter on the second floor and are greeted by a modular product area showing off phones. A glass recording studio — where Samsung plans on recording radio programs, podcasts and interviews with special guests and musicians — is off to one side. At the center of the space is a gigantic three-story array of televisions. Called "The Screen," there are 96 55-inch panels all connected. The screen spans three stories and it can be programmed together or in segments. Samsung says this is the world's largest interactive display. Samsung has created custom content for "The Screen" but it can pull in livestreams from other sources too. In front of "The Screen" is an open air theater that can seat about 75 people. Samsung plans on hosting live events in the space, utilizing "The Screen" as the ultimate TV. Another unique aspect of the space is the Selfie Station. Users are invited to take a photo of themselves with a Samsung smartphone. A few seconds later, that photo is projected onto "The Screen" for everyone to see. Even cooler, the selfie itself is comprised of thousands of other photos, creating a pointillisy effect. I won't lie. Seeing my smirk projected across three stories of screens was cool. But the coolest part of Samsung 837 has to be the VR Tunnel. Featuring an installation from Black Egg & Kenzo Digital, the VR Tunnel is comprised of mirrors and screens across the entire chamber. Before you enter the tunnel, you're instructed to enter in your Instagram handle. Then you walk through a tunnel where all of your photos, hashtags and Instagram descriptions are projected against screens that literally cover the entire space. The floor and ceiling are mirrored, giving off a truly sci-fi effect. Instagram images on display in the VR Tunnel at Samsung 837. Oh. And it talks. Words from your Instagram photos are read out loud. As you walk further through the tunnel, your images become enmeshed with images that have come before. It's hard to truly describe the experience — except to say it's highly futuristic — and highly cool. Also on the first floor of the space are premium VR experience chairs. These chairs are similar to what you see at amusement parks and they can move your body left or right and back and forth. The idea is to sit in a chair, put on a pair of Samsung Level headphones and strap on a Gear VR headset. Then you're in a fully-immersive VR environment. We should note that the VR chairs face the front of the space and are visible from the street. Which is sort of meta if you think about it. The people in the VR experience are totally tuning out the outside world. Yet the outside world is easily able to observe them sitting in a moving chair with a helmet and headphone strapped to their heads. At the very least, the juxtaposition should lead to some great street photos from outside the space. On the second floor of the Samsung 837 is a cafe where visitors can buy locally-sourced coffee and snacks. It accepts Samsung Pay (naturally) and the cafe gives off a vibe not unlike mid-aughts IKEA. Also upstairs is an area Samsung is calling The Concierge. This is, obviously a take on Apple's Genius Bar. And like the Genius Bar, it's a place people can come to get their Samsung products repaired. Overton told me that they can do one-to-one trainings, screen repairs for all Samsung phones and help arrange repairs for other Samsung items. Overton pointed out to me that "our techies will sit next to the customers and not across from them," a subtle dig at the way Apple Store Genius Bar appointments work. There is also a broader product area where products will be on display and a family friendly area for kids to interact. Samsung also has created a living room to show-off both its television and smart home products. Powered by SmartThings, users can use apps to turn on TV, adjust lights and audio. Samsung 837 is might be Samsung's flagship retail space, but it is not a store. Other than food, you can't actually buy anything in the space. Instead, the idea seems to be to give customers and visitors greater insight into the broader Samsung experience. Employees will be happy to help visitors learn about products and help send them online to buy or to a nearby retail store to pick something up, but the point of this space isn't to have every visitor leave with a bagful of Samsung products. And although I like the idea of showcasing the technology just to show it off, rather than as a pure sales play, I do wonder if Samsung could do more to help connect the dots between what you see and how you could get something in your own home. Overton told me that Samsung 837 will use Beacons to push information to Samsung Galaxy owners in the store (provided they have alerts on and the right apps installed), which could potentially close that feedback loop, but the central point remains, this is not about retail but about experience. I should note that I saw the space in a slightly unfinished state. By the time Samsung 837 opens on Monday — conveniently timed around the expected reveal of the Galaxy S7 — the space is expected to be bustling. The space was designed to be modular and the plan is to change up both the look and the feel on a regular basis so that visitors can experience new things and new content when they drop in. Samsung 837 opens on Feb. 22. Its operating hours are Monday - Friday, 11am - 8pm. Saturday, 10am - 10pm and Sunday 10am - 8pm. <bot>: Check out the cool tech inside Samsung's first North American flagship retail space. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016022019id_/http://mashable.com/2016/02/20/samsung-837-flagship/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: February 22, 2015. Actress Scarlett Johansson attends the 87th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California. (Getty Images) What's the difference between being married to an actor and an artist? In a rare interview about her personal life, Scarlett Johansson opens up to Parade magazine about how her relationship with husband Romain Dauriac is different than her previous marriage to Ryan Reynolds. "The Avengers: Age of Ultron" actress split from Reynolds in 2011, and sort of implies that it was their careers that tore them apart. "Acting is a very strange world to be co-existing in. It's very volatile. There's always going to be the more successful person," Johansson explains. "It's related to rejection. Because actors, if they're not having success, connect it directly to unpopularity -- to the fact that nobody wants them. It's not necessarily true. I'm constantly rejected." PHOTOS: They Dated?! Random Celebrity Hookups Last October, Johansson decided to give marriage another go with Dauriac, but admits that it "takes a lot of work." "It takes a man who's not only confident in the love that you have for one another, but confident in what he has going on in his own career," she says. "He has to be in a field that's completely different from yours." VIDEO: Ryan Reynolds Says His Baby Daughter Is 'Allergic to Sleep' "My husband's also involved in art. What’s important to him is the recognition that he gets from his job, and that has nothing to do with my job," she continues. "We're interested in each other's worlds. He's interested in my weird, alien entertainment world. It fascinates him because it's so different than what he knows. And I like to go to art openings with him and talk about art and emerging artists with him. That's his passion." Scarlett Johansson Shows Off Her Post-Baby Body While Kissing Her Baby's Daddy Aside from being an insanely good looking power couple, Johansson's marriage seems pretty normal. "We like to go out and go dancing," she shares. "Other times, we like to sit at home and eat Thai food and watch "House Hunters International" for four hours." NEWS: Scarlett Johansson -- My Baby Looks 'Completely Different' From What I Imagined Staying at home is probably a must for these new parents! Dauriac and Johansson welcomed a daughter this past September named Rose, and, of course, her mother had to dote on her little one. "The biggest joy that I have is looking at my daughter," she says. "When I'm just hanging out with her and we're doing silly stuff and if I make her laugh, the feeling of joy I have is explosive. If I can make her laugh and she gets a big smile on her face, that's pretty much it. If only you could actually bottle that and carry it around." <bot>: What's the difference between being married to an actor and an artist?In a rare interview about her personal life, Scarlett Johansson opens up to Parade magazine about how her relationship with husband Romain Dauriac is different than her previous marriage to Ryan Reynolds. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015042519id_/http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/04/24/scarlett-johansson-says-it-was-hard-being-married-to-another-actor/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Mobile ad blocking has suddenly become a hot topic, and prompted a great deal of handwringing over what it could mean for web-based businesses. Ad blockers, aside from potentially robbing content providers of advertising revenue, do provide a lot of benefits to end users. Users who install the software (which zaps advertisements, popups and autoplay videos) can benefit from faster browsers. Additionally, ad blockers could also save users data by reducing the number of network calls and improve battery life by reducing load on your phone’s CPU. Most ad blocking headlines these days have focused on Apple’s AAPL iOS, which recently added an easy way to install an ad blocker for Safari, the company’s default web browser. But what if you’re an Android user? Google’s GOOGL nominally open mobile operating system does have its own options for removing annoying ads, although in the past Google has banned ad blocking software in its app store over concerns it could “interfere” with services provided by third parties. If you’re serious about zapping third-party tracking scripts and ads here’s a rundown of the pros and cons of both operating systems. There are a plethora of ad blocking options in the App Store for you to choose from, even though some developers have recently pulled theirs over moral concerns. Currently the number one paid app on the American App Store is Crystal, a $0.99 ad blocker. Another affordable option is Blockr, which also costs $0.99. At number four on the App Store paid apps list is Purify Blocker, which costs $3.99. There are also free ad-blocking options, like 1Blocker, although those often have in-app purchases to unlock full functionality. There are also ad-blocking apps on iOS that are full browsers like Adblock Plus for people who don’t use Safari. However, it’s important to note that you can’t currently make a third-party browser your default on iOS. On Android it’s a different story. Chrome, the default Android browser, doesn’t accept ad-blocking plugins like mobile Safari does. Instead, the most popular options for blocking ads on Android are full browsers, like Adblock Browser or Ghostery Privacy Browser. Both are free. On the plus side, it’s possible to set one of these as your default browser, so it opens links from other apps. It’s also possible to install Firefox on Android, which can use extensions. After installing Firefox, you can navigate to the Firefox Android Add-ons site and install an extension like Adblock Plus or Ublock Origin. Finally, there are system-wide options if you’ve “rooted” your Android device, which means you’ve unlocked certain lower-level system permissions (as well as likely nullified your device’s warranty.) There are also ad blocking apps that work by routing your traffic through a third-party server. These are clunky approaches, and are unlikely to be widely adopted. In the end iOS’s ad blocking plugin options leaves Apple users with better choices. Winner: iOS All of the iOS ad blockers generally follow the same installation procedure. It’s a pain, but relatively straightforward. After installing the ad blocker, it will ask you to go into Safari’s settings and enable the software under Content Blockers. Updating preferences as well as lists of sites to be blocked is done in the app, which isn’t easily accessed from a Safari window. It’s not too much harder in Android, especially if you’ve chosen to use one of the full browsers available on Google Play. Simply download your browser of choice — like Ghostery—and follow configuration options. Then, to set the browser as the default, open a link from an app like Facebook or Twitter. Choose the option to open it in a browser. Android will give you a few choices, hopefully including your ad-zapping browser of choice. Choose “always” open in this browser to make it the default. If you’re using a Firefox plugin or another ad-blocking approach on Android, installation will be trickier. The ability to choose your browser of choice gives Android an advantage. Winner: Android An ad blocker is only as good as its blacklist, or the list of sites and servers it won’t load. The good news is that most of the apps currently available for iOS and Android use lists based on high-quality publicly available block lists like EasyList. Crystal takes a “set it and forget it” approach to its block list—you can’t customize the blacklist beyond reporting sites to the app’s developer, although it does appear to get regular updates. On the other hand, apps like 1Blocker will let you pick individual rules to turn on or off, and gives you granular options like “block Twitter widgets.” If you’re on a page that won’t work without ads, you’ll need to leave Safari and go into your ad blocking app to disable it. Still, on iOS, there are enough different choices for ad blockers at the moment that users can pick the blacklist and customization options they want. On Android, your out-of-the-box blacklist options are more limited. Adblock Browser uses Adblock Plus’ blacklist by default, which has been criticized in the past for allowing “acceptable ads,” or ads that certain companies have paid to whitelist. However, you can add custom block lists inside the app, although few likely will. Ghostery on Android uses the excellent (and consistently updated) Ghostery blacklist, which is what popular iOS blocker Peace used before it was pulled from the app store. Ghostery allows users inside the browser to whitelist certain sites, as well as monitor which scripts are tracking you at the moment. Ghostery even allows you to turn off blocking if you’re on a page that won’t work without it. In general, ad blocking performance is comparable between the major mobile apps available today, and the main differences in usage surround functions like how the browser handles whitespace where an ad used to be. Winner: Tie Apple might be gaining a ton of attention for allowing content blocking plugins to interface with Safari, but Google’s open ecosystem means that Android users can avoid ads just as well. The key difference between the two is that Google is an ad company, whereas Apple sells hardware—developers don’t need to worry about being unceremoniously booted from iOS the way some ad blockers have been from Google in the past. Considering the simplicity of many available ad blocking solutions (as well as its friendly app ecosystem that will encourage future ad blocking innovation), iOS is, at least for now, the overall winner. Sign up for Data Sheet, Fortune’s daily newsletter about the business of technology. For more about Apple, check out the following Fortune video: <bot>: Apple's new AdBlock software allows users to filter out display ads. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160612004713id_/http://fortune.com:80/2015/09/22/ad-block-ios-android/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: On Wednesday, we looked at mortgage debt and the home mortgage interest deduction, based on new data released in a Joint Committee on Taxation report. Today, we’ll look at student loans and their corresponding interest deduction. The numbers here are far, far smaller, and therefore less likely to be a meaningful target in the ongoing budget discussions in Washington: The amount of student loans out, $33 billion $330 billion, represents a sliver of total household debt of $13.4 trillion, and is dwarfed by the $10.2 trillion in home mortgage debt. While the ever-rising cost of higher education is an enormous issue for anyone who’s facing those college costs, as a country we’re more indebted for our cars. The reasons for providing tax benefits for education are clear: More education results in higher wages, higher productivity and, even, studies show, improved health. Academic studies show that an extra year of education increases wages by between six percent and 13 percent. Also, importantly, government intervention can help reduce the inequalities in access to education between low-income and high-income families. Yet, it’s tougher to know precisely what the right policy should be. Over the past 25 years, the tax treatment of student loan interest has flip-flopped (at times allowing unlimited deductibility, at times prohibiting it, and at times limiting it for higher-income taxpayers). The tax code offers a variety of other educational tax benefits — including tax credits that are generally more valuable than deductions — that are extremely complicated to sift through. Who gains from the student loan deduction? According to the JCT report, the total cost of the student loan interest tax deduction is $801 million, all of which goes to families earning under $200,000 a year. Nearly half of the benefit (47 percent) goes to families that earn $75,000 or less. The average amounts per return are relatively small: $180 for those who earn between $100,000 and $200,000 and $133 for those who earn between $50,000 and $75,000. But the issue with the deductibility of student loan interest is more complicated than this data makes it seem because there are so many — overlapping and sometimes conflicting — tax benefits for education. The bigger issue is not this one tax break, but that morass. As National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson testified before the Senate Finance Committee in late June: “The tax code contains at least 11 separate incentives to encourage taxpayers to save for and spend on education. The eligibility requirements, definitions of common terms, income-level thresholds, phase-out ranges, and inflation adjustments vary from provision to provision. The point of a tax incentive, almost by definition, is to encourage certain types of economic behavior. However, taxpayers will only respond to incentives if they know they exist and understand them. Few, if any, taxpayers are aware of each of the education tax incentives and familiar enough with the particulars to make wise choices. Moreover, some who try to make informed choices will be overwhelmed by this complexity.” How have you sorted through the tax benefits for education? To what extent does the deductibility of student loan interest play into your thinking? Comment below. (This post was corrected on July 14, 2011 to amend the amount of student loan debt in second paragraph) <bot>: The tax treatment of student loan interest has flip flopped in recent years, creating such a complicated morass that few taxpayers can make wise choices. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2011071519id_/http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-wealth/2011/07/13/who-benefits-from-student-loans-and-educational-tax-benefits/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Yaalon this week accused the Obama administration of being weak on Iran and questioned its commitment to Israel’s security. Previously, Yaalon has criticized Kerry for being unrealistic and naive in trying to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Yaalon’s remarks were “not constructive” and “inconsistent” with the close relationship between the U.S. and Israel. Psaki repeated Obama and Kerry’s oft-stated position that the U.S. commitment to Israel’s security is “unshakable,” outlined several main elements of the longstanding U.S.-Israeli defense relationship. And she noted that Netanyahu himself has spoken of an “unprecedented level” of security cooperation between the countries. “The comments of the defense minister are completely inconsistent with that,” Psaki told reporters. “So, it is certainly confusing to us why Defense Minister Yaalon would continue his pattern of making comments that don’t accurately represent the scope of our close partnership on a range of security issues and on the enduring partnership between the United States and Israel.” She would not say if Kerry had demanded an apology of Yaalon, declined to characterize Netanyahu’s response to Kerry’s protests and referred questions about that to the Israeli government. In Israel, an official in Yaalon’s office said Netanyahu and Yaalon had “discussed the recent reports” and added that the minister “will clarify what was said in his talks with the Americans.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the diplomatic matter with the media by name. In remarks quoted in Israeli reports on Tuesday, Yaalon said Israel cannot depend on the United States to lead any action against Iran’s nuclear program and can only rely on itself. “We thought that the one who needs to lead the campaign against Iran is the U.S.,” Yaalon was quoted by the daily Haaretz as saying during a lecture at Tel Aviv University on Monday. He also disparaged American influence and power, noting the ongoing crisis over Ukraine and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Yaalon has made controversial comments about Washington in the past. In January, he was quoted as saying that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was “obsessive” and “messianic” over his Mideast peace efforts. Associated Press writer Tia Goldenberg contributed to this report from Jerusalem. Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. <bot>: The Obama administration on Wednesday vented its anger at the Israeli defense minister’s public criticism of the U.S. and his personal insults of Secretary of State John Kerry. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2014031919id_/http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-irate-with-israeli-defense-minister-comments/2014/03/19/1ef482c4-af93-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f_story.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Update | 12:48 a.m. The organizers of the mobile donations said on Twitter Thursday night that over $2 million had been raised. Update | 6:51 p.m. Adding more information about the campaign and updating the total raised. In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, thousands of Americans are sending financial support — through their mobile phones. Anyone with a mobile phone and an account with a major wireless carrier can text the phrase “Haiti” to the number 90999 and donate $10 to the Red Cross. That amount is charged to the donor’s cellphone bill. The texted donations are being handled by a company called mGive, which started the campaign in a joint effort with the State Department and the Red Cross late Tuesday night. Thanks to a mention on the White House’s blog and lots of word of mouth on Twitter and Facebook, the campaign had raised well over a million dollars by Tuesday evening, mGive said. “Today is a huge day for mobile giving,” said Tony Aiello, chief executive of mGive. “We are experiencing a tipping point.” Each month, when people pay their wireless bills, the texted donations are collected from the carriers and shuttled into a nonprofit clearinghouse managed by an mGive foundation, which in turn cuts a check to the appropriate charity. MGive typically charges a licensing fee for its software platform, $4 to $1,500 a month, depending on the scale of the fund-raising effort and the additional services the company provides. In addition, after the charity receives the total amount raised from the wireless carriers, mGive charges a transaction fee for each collected donation. In the case of the Haiti disaster, however, Mr. Aiello said the company had elected to waive all software and transaction fees. “Catastrophic fund-raising is different from the everyday fund-raising that we help facilitate,” Mr. Aiello said. “This is a huge tragedy, and we simply hope to help provide relief.” It typically takes about 90 days from the time someone makes a donation until the charity receives the money, Mr. Aiello said, although the company is working with wireless carriers to reduce that delay. Mr. Aiello said the widespread adoption of cellphones and social media Web sites was helping to foster this approach to fund-raising. “Mobile giving is currently outpacing the early days of online giving,” he said. Awareness about the disaster in Haiti has swept through Twitter and other social media sites. Facebook, for example, said its users had posted more than 1,500 status updates a minute containing the word Haiti. MGive, which was founded in 2005, works with more than 200 organizations and charities, including the American Heart Foundation and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Mr. Aiello said the Haiti campaign had “outpaced anything we’ve every done in mobile giving so far” and showed no signs of slowing. “Everyone is still trying to gauge the scope of this tragedy,” Mr. Aiello said, “But I expect this campaign could run for months.” In another campaign that Twitter users are publicizing widely, the Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean is urging people to donate $5 to his charity organization by texting “YELE” to 501501. <bot>: Thousands of Americans are donating money with their mobile phones to help relief efforts in Haiti. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2010011319id_/http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/1-million-in-donations-for-haiti-via-text-message/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: We've now warmed to the idea of a and brow, thanks to the and her legions of model and celebrity muses crushing it on Instagram. But if the runways and Pinterest have anything to say about brows, there's a new, more aggressive trend to know about. Yep, bold, colored brows are officially in—specifically the purple, pink, and blue varieties. While we're still on the fence about the look, far be it from us to stand in the way of the daring. And some real-life examples below... Want to play around with the bold brow trend without tinting? Try 's how-to. First, apply NYX Cosmetics's in Milk ($5) onto the brow and blend. Then, using an of your choice into the brow. What do you think of colorful brows? Love them or hate them, sound off below! <bot>: Everyone from models to bloggers is rocking the latest eyebrow trend: coloring them in in bright, vibrant colors. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160524191004id_/http://www.aol.com:80/article/2016/01/20/you-wont-believe-what-women-are-doing-to-their-brows-now/21300187/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: The online-video landscape is turning into something of a bidding war, with platforms trying to convince media companies and celebrities to use their services, and Facebook in particular seems to be willing to come up with cold, hard cash in order to get the content it wants on Facebook Live. We already know that the giant social network is paying media outlets such as the New York Times and BuzzFeed millions of dollars each in order to produce a certain number of videos per month for its live-streaming service. BuzzFeed alone is getting $3 million, according to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal. But Facebook FB also appears to be targeting up-and-coming independent video artists, the kind that more typically show up on YouTube or Twitter’s Vine platform, and it is paying them substantial sums. For example, the Journal says it has seen documents that show Facebook is paying Vine star John Paul Piques $119,000 to post at least five videos on its live-streaming service over the next two months. That’s the equivalent of $24,000 per video. And he is just one of about two dozen other Internet celebrities and video stars who have signed similar deals. Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter. The newspaper says the highest-paid independent video performer appears to be Ray William Johnson, who developed a following for a YouTube show called “The Equals Three Show,” in which he makes fun of viral videos. He could make as much as $224,000 over the next six months. The company is also paying significant sums to celebrities from other fields to get them to use its service, including Pittsburgh Steelers football player Antonio Brown, swimmer Michael Phelps, and actor George Takei. Justin Osofsky, Facebook’s vice president of global operations and media partnerships, told the Journal that these arrangements aren’t an “acquisition strategy to go after Vine and YouTube stars.” But that seems to be exactly what they are. If Facebook can convince enough viral stars to use its platform exclusively, then it has a built-in content machine ready to fuel its video strategy. Facebook will be all video in 5 years: One of the reasons for the upfront payment approach is that Facebook hasn’t rolled out a monetization strategy for video yet. The social network seems to have rejected the idea of pre-roll ads on videos, so it’s not clear how it will generate revenue, or how much it will share with creators. YouTube GOOG is trying to move from an advertising-based model for its videos to a subscription approach with the recent launch of its YouTube Red service, which allows creators to share in the proceeds. But Twitter hasn’t done much to help its Vine stars generate income, which could make them easy prey for Facebook or YouTube. Twitter seems to be spending more of its time and resources on signing deals to stream professional video content from partners such as the NFL, CBS, and the NBA. The company has announced half a dozen partnerships over the past few months, with the latest being an expanded deal with the NBA to show basketball-related content via Twitter, Vine and its other video service, Periscope. <bot>: The social network is paying independent artists as much as $24,000 per video to stream their content on its platform. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160721162814id_/http://fortune.com:80/2016/07/19/facebook-paying-vine-youtube-stars/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: 02/13/2015 AT 12:25 PM EST Hollywood marriages often crash and burn, but rocker has been soaring for 25 years. What's his secret? It's simple. "I got it right the first time," Bon Jovi told PEOPLE at Common Thread: An Acoustic Collection Music Series, an event he is curating with designer Kenneth Cole in New York City. Sounds so simple, right? Just pick the right person the first time, don't settle for someone else. But then, why do so many people get it wrong? Well, not everyone is as lucky as Bon Jovi, who married his high school sweetheart, Dorothea. "She's the best, I just adore her," he said. His marriage obviously isn't the only success in his life. Bon Jovi's band is still one of the biggest touring bands in the world, which was proven by the screaming fans outside the Kenneth Cole store in Soho and the audience singing along to his acoustic rendition of "Livin' on a Prayer" at the event. Fans will be happy to know he has another album in the works. "I was in the studio all day working on the new record. I walked here from the studio," the musician told PEOPLE. Where is he getting inspiration for his 18th album? From the news. "I just read the paper, it gives you an opportunity to write something ... It's early but I'm about a dozen songs in. I feel good." As for Thursday night's event, Bon Jovi and Kenneth Cole have known each other for a decade and decided to curate this series over dinner one night. "Around Christmas time, as a matter of fact, we were out to dinner with our wives reminiscing about the year gone by and we were talking about the frustrations both in the design world and the music world ... And we were talking about what a joy that is when you see that next generation come through," Bon Jovi expressed. "So he said, 'For Fashion Week wouldn't it be neat if we did something like this?' And he was promoting the next generation's designers and I could throw a bone to some good songwriters, and I know plenty of them. So we said, this is a great concept. And I'm here, and it's Fashion Week and it gave us an excuse to go to dinner again ... it's giving back to the next generation, all at the same time." He did just that Thursday, opening up the stage to up-and-coming artists Rodney Atkins, Rose Falcon and Cole Redding. This isn't the only time the duo has teamed up to give back. Bon Jovi's teamed up with Kenneth Cole's wife, Maria, and HELP USA to build a 50-unit apartment building in Newark, New Jersey, together. "Across the country my foundation has built 450 houses and the kitchen is doing great," he said, referring to Soul Kitchen, his pay-what-you-can charity restaurant in New Jersey. "It's so rewarding emotionally. I try to explain to people, take part in what we do because you'll leave there feeling so good about it." <bot>: "I got it right the first time," Bon Jovi tells PEOPLE of his marriage to high school sweetheart, Dorothea <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20150214144226id_/http://www.people.com:80/article/jon-bon-jovi-secret-to-happy-marriage
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Rampage Jackson Grants Fan Request -- Yes, I'll SLAP You in the FACE!!! got one crazy request from a ballsy fan last night -- dude wanted to get SLAPPED IN THE FACE ... and Rampage obliged. Rampage was leaving Greystone Manor nightclub in L.A. ... when a fan with a pain fetish approached Jackson and asked to be cracked in the mouth. Never one to deny a fan ... Jackson bestowed the 5-finger honor across the fan's jaw -- and the fan couldn't have been HAPPIER! You gotta check out his reaction ... hilarious. <bot>: UFC face pummeler Rampage Jackson got one crazy request from a ballsy fan last night -- dude wanted to get SLAPPED IN THE FACE ... and Rampage obliged.… <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2012092519id_/http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/16/rampage-jackson-slap-fan/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: BlackBerry’s philosophy about encryption and law enforcement requests is to take a “balanced approach,” according to chief operating officer Marty Beard. His comment, reported by FedScoop from a conference of tech and government IT leaders in Washington DC, was aimed at setting BlackBerry apart from rivals that he described as being “all about encryption all the way.” Encryption is a hot topic, thrust once again into the forefront of debates after the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. Lawmakers want easier access to would-be criminals’ data. Technology companies like Dell have proclaimed such access is a horrible idea. When Fortune tried to clarify Beard’s statement, a BlackBerry spokeswoman provided the following: Encryption is very important to protect governments, business and individuals from hacking. That’s why so many world leaders and CEOs rely on BlackBerry to protect their data. At the same time, no one wants to see terrorists and criminals taking advantage of encryption to evade detection. That’s why we have always strongly supported law enforcement around the world when they need our help. While we do not support so-called ‘back-doors,’ we and every other tech company bears a responsibility to do all we can to help governments protect their citizens. The competitor Beard was referring to is likely Apple, a staunch supporter of encryption. Apple CEO Tim Cook has repeatedly touted Apple’s AAPL lack of a back door into the company’s’ products as a key selling point. In theory, encryption back doors would let law enforcement peek into a suspect’s electronic communications without compromising the security of the overall platform. Cook says if a backdoor is present for the good guys, bad guys will find and take advantage of it. Furthermore, Apple’s privacy website claims it lacks the ability to unlock a customer’s device, nor can it decrypt your iMessage conversations in real time. BlackBerry’s position on sharing data with government entities has changed throughout the years. In 2010, then BlackBerry co-CEO Mike Lazardis told The New York Times that his company wouldn’t give into government pressure. Three years later, BlackBerry struck a deal with Indian officials that provided access to real-time communications. BlackBerry’s position in 2015 for protecting user data involves cooperating with governments in the name of safety. Exactly where “balance” comes into play, however, remains a mystery. Find out more about privacy by watching this Fortune video: <bot>: The company stops just short of saying it provides governments access via a back door. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160524220956id_/http://fortune.com:80/2015/11/18/blackberry-government-surveillance/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Saudi health officials reported 15 more people diagnosed with the deadly MERS virus on Sunday, while the first case seen in the United States, a health worker who had been in Saudi Arabia, was in good condition in an Indiana hospital. Saudi Arabia has seen a big jump in cases in the past few weeks and hospital officials around the world are on alert because some of the clusters are clearly happening in hospitals. At least five of the cases reported Sunday were at a government hospital in Riyadh. The patient in Indiana is being kept isolated and hospital workers there are using special precautions to make sure the virus doesn’t spread. "The patient is in full isolation and presents no risk to patients, staff or the general community," said Don Fesko, CEO of Community Hospital in Munster, Indiana. "We are thoroughly prepared to handle respiratory infections. We continue to work closely with the CDC and State Health Department and are following every recommendation. Safety is our top priority." Middle East Respiratory Sydrome (MERS) virus was first seen in 2012 and most cases are linked to the Middle East, although it’s now been seen in more than a dozen countries around the world. Many of those who are sick enough to show symptoms have had other conditions, such as cancer, diabetes or kidney disease. The virus has killed more than 100 people and infected more than 300. But as scientists test more and more people in close contact with victims, they are finding some people appear to have been infected without ever having gotten sick. Saudi officials say four of the 15 cases reported Sunday did not ever become ill. MERS also doesn’t seems to be easily transmitted. Nonetheless, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts are tracking down people who had been in contact with the Indiana patient just to be sure and to caution them to be on the lookout for symptoms such as cough and fever. "We are very pleased the patient is improving and no other cases have been identified at this time," said Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. William VanNess. "The swift diagnosis and precautionary measures taken have undoubtedly greatly helped reduce the risk of this potentially serious virus spreading." First published May 4 2014, 7:34 AM Maggie Fox is senior health writer for NBCNews.com and TODAY.com, writing top news on health policy, medical treatments and disease. She's a former managing editor for healthcare and technology at National Journal and global health and science editor for Reuters based in Washington, D.C. and London.She's reported for news agencies, radio, newspapers, magazines and television from across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe covering news ranging from war to politics and, of course, health and science. Her reporting has taken Maggie to Lebanon, Syria and Libya; to China, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and Pakistan; to Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia and to Ireland and Northern Ireland and across the rest of Europe.Maggie has won awards from the Society of Business Editors and Writers, the National Immunization Program, the Overseas Press Club and other organizations. She's done fellowships at Harvard Medical School, the National Institutes of Health and the University of Maryland. <bot>: Saudi health officials reported 15 more people diagnosed with the deadly MERS virus on Sunday, while the first case seen in the United States, a health worke... <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2014050419id_/http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/mers-spreads-saudi-1st-us-case-stable-hospital-n96616
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: The curator Nicholas Cullinan has had the bold and lovely idea of interspersing paintings, drawings and sculptures by Cy Twombly with paintings and drawings by Nicolas Poussin, in a compact exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Arcadian Painters, he bills the pairing, his working premise being that the veteran American artist (who died on 5 July 2011) shares with the 17th-century Frenchman a devotion to classical antiquity. Whether or not you feel that such an affinity comes through visually, the experiment in juxtaposition gives you much to reflect on. Above all, it refreshes your eyes. We expect Poussins to inhabit a zone of studious murmuring and fusty hauteur. (We know they are in their element in the Dulwich, the country's most venerable public picture gallery.) And we suppose that the Twomblys will be hanging out across town in the no less snooty cool of the modernist White Cube. But thrust them together and you're forced to think anew about how things made for looking at actually work. Twentieth-century paint juts outward and 17th-century paint draws in: that's the first impression you receive, from the placing of a Poussin between a pair of Twomblys that meets you as you enter. The latter are big quasi-octagonal panels that might have been carpentered for some hieratic medieval interior. Each is cream above and green-black below, colours which meet along a ragged descending border that disrupts the panel's symmetry; and loose white paint has been slathered and sprayed across that border, here being worked with fingers, there left to dribble. This act and the physical fact of it are what the pictures principally announce, even if the caption claims that they are impressions of the countryside around Rome and that this is what connects them to the Poussin canvas. Into that picture, by contrast, you plunge, seeking spatial footholds in its deep-sunk browns. You close in on a tree, a couple of resting travellers, a swan in a pond, the towers of a small town. Gradually adjusting to a summer evening's long shadows, you register that all those elements are held in place by a single, dead straight Roman road, hurtling away from the canvas's foreground to far-off mountains. To pick out its converging lines is to peel the picture back to its structure – which is almost comic in its simplicity. One symmetrical form, a triangle, has been inscribed on the base of another, a rectangle. The latter doubles up as a canvas of the Roman Campagna and the former as a perspective recession of Roman civilisation's most famous token. Poussin draws you inwards only to get you looking on, or at, the structures that comprise his canvas. Twombly for his part thrusts handfuls of paint in your face only to invite you into a mist, a dissolve, a trackless indeterminacy. If there's any notion of landscape informing those panels of his, it's more Chinese than Italian: its spaces come about as the soft aftershocks of gestures, rather than through geometries of objects and light. In fact, each of these operators has an eccentric take on the standards supplied by his forebears – in Poussin's case, the transparent pictorial window of Renaissance art, in Twombly's the in-your-face vehemence of the Abstract Expressionists. For that reason they won't be reduced to period representatives, the Grand Old Master versus the Good Old Modernist. Arcadian Painters turns out to be a study in twinned forms of vivid awkwardness. Twombly more or less set out cussed. Arguably it was the shrewdest strategy for a young American in the 1950s to adopt. He had the luck to study at Black Mountain College, the North Carolina forcing-house for aesthetic innovation, alongside Robert Rauschenberg, with whom he then went on to tour Italy. Rauschenberg soon achieved stardom with an art that was a whole bend more urban, abrupt and grungy than anything Pollock and De Kooning had come up with. But Twombly was drawn to the dreaminess of those big boys – their debts to surrealism, their Jungian notions of "myth". He set his hand to run loose, by literally drawing in the dark. Pencil loops and nicks cover two 1956 sheets on show at Dulwich. Their intent, it seems, is to hold back intent, to not yet mean anything in particular – at the same time, to walk that tightrope with pace and panache. Suchlike scribbling formed a seedbed for the art Twombly developed after he returned to Italy in 1957 and married an heiress. He unpacked a whole puppet-show of about-to-be-significant manoeuvres, spreading them out over big cream-primed canvases: the child's impulse to smear some intrusion on the clean expanse; the romantic's impulse to mouth some antique name or choice line of verse; quick coarse grunts of lust; then the impulse to stock-take, to reason, embodied in numbers and diagrams, and the impulse to round on yourself, to erase. It was the manner of the spread that was charming and chancy, the way Twombly's blurts coexisted with a broad, bright spaciousness. With all those romantic cues, he became something of a writer's painter. John Berger cherished Twombly's slurred quotes as pointers to that great hinterland of unknown texts that lies beyond each individual reader. Roland Barthes wrote an arch meditation on the "indolence" of his scrawls, which for him bore the erotic redolence of some crumpled pair of pants discarded by a rent-boy. Living it up in a dream of Italian aristocratic languor, the Twombly of the 60s was, in a sense, pursuing a classic American lifeplan – but by the same token, he was quite out of step with the American avant-garde. Donald Judd, its toughest spokesman, a foe to all things European, dismissed his work as goofy whimsy in 1964, and for years to come Rauschenberg's former buddy had no more than a toehold in curators' schemes of contemporary American art. With the advent of postmodernist criticism in the 80s, "marginal" began to mean "central", and "bad" – the way Twombly aped Pollock's messiness, rather than his swagger – to mean "good". For its part, Twombly's studio practice got more old-fashioned-painterly. He turned from scribbling to lading his canvases with lush oils. Dulwich exhibits Hero and Leandro, painted like those landscape panels in 1985 – their dribbles and fingerworking here orchestrated into a deliquescent collapse of mist-greys and cerise. And it shows four lofty canvases from the early 90s, Twombly's Quattro Stagioni, in which the root muscular impulses of his art – to blurt, to scratch, to dangle, to let go – get upgraded to a monumental dignity. They demand to be admitted into the hall of fame, and its doors are thrust wide. Inside, curators stand waiting, eager to take the grand old man at his word when he claims: "I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time." In another time, a pushy, brainy young Norman made his way to Europe's art metropolis: Poussin would make Rome his base until his death 41 years later in 1665. His production there started out along familiar Italian guidelines. At Dulwich there's an assiduous School-of-Raphael-style battle drawing from 1625 and more attractively, a 1628 canvas, The Arcadian Shepherds, echoing Titian at his most sensuous and poetic. Yet it's not their flocks that Poussin's Arcadians attend to, but an inscription on a tomb. By now, he was a draughtsman participating in an early scientific project to codify the diversity of nature: henceforward, text would always be a behind-the-scenes presence in his work. The question for him became how to deliver a self-contained analogue to verbal thinking by means of his own "mute art". The distinctiveness of Poussin's aesthetic becomes clear if you consider the customary way he came to conduct his business. Every couple of months or so Bertholin the courier would call at his house on the Monte Pincio and collect from its straitlaced and thrifty proprietor – a one-man operation, with hardly an assistant to hand – a sealed case containing a rolled up canvas. A few weeks later this would get unfurled and restretched in the mansion of some Parisian patron. In such a way, Poussin compressed his consummate knowledge of Rome's buildings, artworks and landscapes, and his deep, careful reading of scripture, epics, histories and science, into forms that would pass permanently out of his sight – since after 1642, he made no move to visit his native land again. Courier-packet painting became a highly self-conscious procedure. You wanted to ensure that whatever thoughts went into the picture would come out the other end, but you also got singularly caught up with the canvas as a confined rectangular object. You arrived at your image by partitioning that rectangle. Hence Poussin's insistent structuring (which becomes strikingly experimental in a series of canvases sent to Cardinal Richelieu, the Seven Sacraments: the Dulwich has managed to borrow five of them to display alongside Cullinan's exhibition). It's matched by his fine-tuning of colour – there's a gorgeous interplay of blues and oranges in many of the canvases included in the show. But all this was intended to assist the painting's meaning, which on a certain level became political. Poussin was exiling himself from France the better to serve her. Dispatching his distillations of history and religion to men of discernment, he hoped to open up a new, virtuous cultural space opposed to the corruption epitomised by Mazarin, Richelieu's successor as chief minister. The scriptures, histories and legends of the ancient world provided an exemplary model against which the present could be held to account. Classical antiquity provided Poussin with a form of critique. What does classical antiquity provide Cy Twombly with? Mystique. Twombly adores its lostness. He goes after its baffling, mellifluous names – Smintheus, Agyieus, Platanistius, Theoxenius – his pencil languidly scratches, in a whimsical mock-invocation of Apollo from 1975. The letterings trail and expire, and that sighing of the hand reflects Twombly's self-declared romanticism ("I would've liked to have been Poussin") and the overall psychophysical drift towards release and collapse that is the level on which meaning actually comes through in his art. For these reasons, it seems to me misleading to pair up, say, a 1635 The Triumph of Pan and a 1975 collage labelled Pan as if they were ancient and modern treatments of the same theme. (The exhibition captioning and catalogue toy with this tactic extensively, if irresolutely, mythologically annotating every scribble and grunt: quite frankly, they're best ignored.) Twombly may feel his way around classical subjects and his adopted terrain of Italy, but his mental activities are remote from the moral and intellectual focusing of Poussin. Despite this, the two artists' paintings actually hang together brilliantly. You might consider Twombly's a lightweight schmoozing up to one of the great heavyweights of western painting. But a truly stylish gatecrasher makes the party swing better. Twombly's nimble hops about the canvas, his instinct to surprise himself, the pizzazz of his rudeness, all pep up his companion: the near-manic idiosyncrasy of that doughty loner starts to shine through. (The bizarre knot of branches top left in that Triumph of Pan and the foreboding chunk of pediment signing off The Triumph of David feel like Poussin's attempts at repartee.) To better appreciate the duo's fundamental good neighbourliness, step outside the Dulwich's exhibition galleries to watch Edwin Parker, a recently made short film in which Tacita Dean trains her camera on the octagenarian Twombly. He's seen sitting about in a studio and a canteen in his hometown of Lexington, Virginia: he's seen muttering to assistants, taking a letter from an envelope and slowly rolling his wry brown eyes. Beyond the studio blinds there are bright leaves, then there are bare branches. Time does a ferocious amount of passing in the course of the film's 10 minutes, and Twombly does a ferocious amount of being. He "be"s so intensely that I had to rush out, gasping for breath, back to the exhibits of canvas and paper. Give me those singing blues and oranges, those swooning creams and cerises. I'll opt for those weird and stubborn wall-hangings to take on Time, that grim inspector. I get the feeling they might just win. <bot>: A new exhibition juxtaposes the work of Cy Twombly with paintings by Poussin. A Good Old Modernist meets a Grand Old Master. Julian Bell on a bold pairing that works brilliantly <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20150930105806id_/http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jul/06/cy-twombly-nicolas-poussin-exhibition
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: One thing that “Breaking Pointe,” a new series on the CW network, made clear is that a reality show about a ballet company can be just as gooey as every other reality show. These leggy perfectionists in updos and heavy eyeliner may not be quite as capable of snark as a Jersey housewife, but they absolutely deliver on the soapy romances, tears and on-camera humiliations.Allison DeBona in “Breaking Pointe” (Erik Ostling - 2012 THE CW NETWORK, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED) And of course, someone had to mention glass in the pointe shoes, to raise hopes for a catfight. But the fact that “Breaking Pointe’s” first installment last Thursday at 8 p.m. ended up being more thoughtful and honest than it began bodes well for the rest of the series. I’m grateful that the makers of this behind-the-scenes look at Salt Lake City’s Ballet West realized partway through the episode that a daggers-out rivalry among competing ballerinas just wasn’t going to happen. They backed off that avenue of intrigue, in the face of cheery comments about the niceness of the troupe’s veteran star Christiana, and the sweetness of her supposed antagonist, 19-year-old phenomenon Beckanne. Christopher Rudd and Christiana Bennett in “Breaking Pointe” (Erik Ostling - 2012 THE CW NETWORK, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED) “You almost wish someone with that much talent was a brat,” says a fellow dancer, dimples flashing, “because then you wouldn’t feel so bad about being jealous.” Dancers are typically good-natured, eager-to-please people, and it’s reassuring to see that streak come through in this show—reassuring that BBC Worldwide Productions is not aiming to blacken the eyes of a generally well-behaved lot. On the contrary, according to a statement issued by Ballet West Artistic Director Adam Sklute: “When the BBC approached us, their idea was to create the antidote to the movie ‘Black Swan.’” “My hope for ‘Breaking Pointe’ is that we can set the record straight about the dance world,” said Sklute. “I want to present the real joys and heartaches—dramatic, yes, but not with overblown and exaggerated stereotypes.” One stereotype that gets stomped straightaway is the one about food deprivation, as we see dancers Katie and Beckanne tucking into fat, sloppy sandwiches while Beckanne laments the fact that some in the company are too envious of her talent to befriend her. “Just because you’re a freak at ballet doesn’t mean you’re a freak at everyday life,” says Katie, consolingly.Beckanne Sisk in “Breaking Pointe” pilot (Erik Ostling - 2012 THE CW NETWORK, LLC.ALL RIGHTS RESERVED) “I like that statement,” coos Beckanne. “A little.” I like this show. A lot. I’m all for breaking down the mystique of ballet, and I hope this approach will spark wider interest in the art form. To that end, it’s a brilliant idea to bring viewers into the claustrophobic confines of a ballet company to meet the appealing and courageous souls who spend their lives quite literally on top of one another, dealing with the same few dozen ambitious folks day in and day out, working together, falling in love, falling off balance, falling out of favor, etc. Even after grabbing a rare moment in the spotlight, there’s little glamour once they step offstage to ice their feet and prepare to sweat it out again the next day. All too soon, it may come to an end. As it does for Katie, when she enters Sklute’s office and hears him tell her she’s finished after this season. Her tears surely burned into many a viewer—this was real grief, painful to watch. Still, both she and Sklute remained respectful, gentle and courteous with one another--a model, really, for how to handle bad news in an age of Donald Trump-style firings. Later, packing up for an audition in Boise, Katie tells her boyfriend, “My job is to put a smile on my face and work hard.” Surely dancers have one of the best work ethics on the planet. Bravo to “Breaking Pointe” for spreading the word. <bot>: The CW network’s new reality series sets out to be the antidote to “Black Swan.” <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2012060419id_/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/2012/06/01/gJQA80SPDV_blog.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: NEWARK, NJ — Considered the ultimate wildcard, Donald Trump is complicating debate strategy for Republican presidential candidates now scrambling to prepare for their first face-to-face meeting on national television. The billionaire businessman, who has dominated the 2016 Republican race in recent weeks, threatens to do the same when the top 10 GOP candidates — as determined by national polls — face off in less than two weeks. It’s a high-risk, high-reward event for candidates eager to stand out, yet wary to fall victim to one of Trump’s notorious bombastic political attacks. “It’s the No. 1 unavoidability,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a 2012 GOP candidate who had a knack for standing out in debates four years ago. “Do not try to match him in anger and in aggressiveness. It’s not possible,” Gingrich warned Trump’s rivals. “He’s a very instinctively aggressive guy, and if you try to dance with him on his strengths he’ll run over you.” Despite his longshot status, the reality television star has commanded attention and seen his poll numbers rise after firing off provocative comments about immigrants, his presidential rivals and critics in both parties. His supporters love him because he’s willing to say what others only think. But that makes him dangerous in a debate setting, says Charlie Black, a leading GOP strategist who has worked on multiple presidential campaigns. “Just try to ignore him,” Black said. “The less attention you give him the better. I wouldn’t even look at him.” That’s easier said than done in a nationally televised program where Trump is sure to play a central role — literally, perhaps, if he’s positioned at the center of the stage as the leader in recent polls. Count former Texas Gov. Rick Perry as among the candidates eager for a showdown, although he may not qualify for the Aug. 6 meeting in Cleveland. Only the top 10 candidates in national polling will be allowed on stage. With 16 declared candidates, several high-profile Republicans will be left out. Perry is on the bubble. “If Donald Trump wants to sit on the stage and talk about solutions, I’m going to be happy to have that conversation,” Perry said on Fox News. “But if all he’s going to do is throw invectives, then I’m going to push back and I’m going to push back hard.” Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky told The Associated Press that he’s ready to be tested. “You have to be able to stand your ground,” Paul said, because politics is “somewhat of a body combat sport.” Even without Trump’s emergence, the first debate promises to be an unruly affair. Never have more than 10 candidates taken the stage for a televised Republican presidential debate. Part of the problem is basic math. In a 90-minute debate featuring so many candidates, there could be only enough time for four or five questions — with little time left over for the interaction between candidates that makes for an actual debate. And few campaigns expect Trump to respect the time limits or other rules established by organizers. While there were some rumblings about trying to bar Trump from the stage, some GOP leaders say they’re happy about Trump’s participation, predicting it will attract a far larger audience, exposing new people to Republican ideas. “If I were Fox, I would be thrilled that Trump has made this so intense so early because they’ll have a much higher viewership than they would have three or four weeks ago before Trump got on a roll,” Gingrich said. Ron Kaufman, a senior adviser to 2012 nominee Mitt Romney who is supporting Jeb Bush, said Trump offers a prime-time opportunity to lesser-known candidates to get attention. “I think they have to pick a fight with Trump,” Kaufman said. Many candidates have already been hard at work. Bush, one of the top contenders, recently brought in two veterans of Romney’s 2012 campaign, Beth Myers and Peter Flaherty, to help coach him. Aides say Bush will fill much of his schedule next week with debate preparation in Florida. Bush has not participated in a debate as a candidate since his successful re-election campaign for governor in 2002. “My objective with this is to, wherever I can, share my record,” Bush said this week in South Carolina. He said he’ll go into the debate without thinking about Trump or any rival but that it’s his first presidential debate and he’s “not certain how all this plays out.” Paul perhaps summed up the field’s feeling best when asked how he prepares to face someone like Trump: “Very carefully,” he said. <bot>: NEWARK, NJ — Considered the ultimate wildcard, Donald Trump is complicating debate strategy for Republican presidential candidates now scrambling to prepare for their first face-to-face meeting on ... <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015072419id_/http://nypost.com/2015/07/24/debating-the-donald-gop-rivals-prepare-with-caution/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Tailoring may not be destiny, but for the poor, black South African men known as Swenkas, donning a well-draped suit is a transformative experience. Every Saturday night, amid the squalor of downtown Johannesburg, the men engage in a ritualistic fashion show known as "swanking": dressed to the nines, they compete for cash prizes and, sometimes, livestock. "The Swenkas," the Danish filmmaker Jeppe Ronde's intriguing documentary, is on one level a window into a strange and selfish obsession. As the men drop thousands of hard-earned rands, the equivalent of hundreds of dollars, on designer clothing, their women and children scrabble to survive on country farms. But this seemingly frivolous behavior also fosters dignity and self-respect among men with few reasons for hope. In a country riven by AIDS, the Swenkas' insistence on cleanliness -- washing is a recurring motif in the film -- and the promotion of "chaste conduct" are difficult to fault. Above all, "The Swenkas" is a study in contrasts: a silk necktie reflected in a shard of broken mirror, a picture of Elvis -- the ultimate swanker -- taped to a rusty locker, a Pierre Cardin suit anointed with good-luck herbs. But as the men pivot and pose to the strains of Henry Mancini and Nat King Cole, flashing cuff links and zebra-striped socks, a more universal ritual is enacted. Like Tony Manero in "Saturday Night Fever," what working stiff doesn't itch to become a peacock on Saturday night? "The Swenkas" is playing at Film Forum with "Fast Film," an inventive, 14-minute collage of iconic Hollywood images. The Swenkas Opens today in Manhattan. Directed by Jeppe Ronde; written (in English and Zulu) by Mr. Ronde and Kim Leona; directors of photography, Lars Skree, Sebastian Wintero and Nic Hofmeyr; edited by Olivier Bugge Coutté; music by Povl Kristian; produced by Rasmus Thorsen and Anne Diemer; released by Seventh Art Releasing. At the Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, west of Avenue of the Americas, South Village. Running time: 72 minutes. Playing with a 14-minute film, Virgil Widrich's "Fast Film." These films are not rated. <bot>: Jeannette Catsoulis reviews documentary movie The Swenkas, directed by Jeppe Ronde; photo (M) <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160604051956id_/http://www.nytimes.com:80/2005/11/09/movies/saturday-night-peacocks-in-squalid-south-africa.html?_r=0
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: KFC wants to return to its glory days. At a press event that was built up as “what may be 2016’s biggest story in fast food,” KFC U.S. president Jason Marker announced that the chain is undergoing a process they’ve chosen to call “Re-Colonelization.” Not to be confused with “recolonization,” the term refers to KFC’s efforts to refine its cooking process and ensure customers receive “Colonel-quality” fried chicken. “If you think of the craveable taste of KFC as the recipe and the process, it’s been the process piece that we’re focused on,” Marker told Fortune. He added that Yum! Brands yum , KFC’s parent company, announced last year that it would be investing $185 million directly into the fried chicken brand as well as “a quarter of a billion dollars in finance.” That money is helping fund KFC’s “Re-Colonelization” efforts which include upgrading all KFC U.S. kitchens and remodeling 3,000 assets. KFC plans to remodel 1,000 restaurants in 2016. Marker likened KFC to a “once great” football team—people talk about it nostalgically, but in recent years they haven’t been doing their best. To return to its “former glory,” the chain is also changing some of its fundamental cooking practices such as oil management, cook cycles, and hold times, to “go back to the process Colonel Sanders originally had in place.” “What we want is a business where we’re 100% accountable for the food we serve, and 100% proud of the food we serve,” Marker said. The chain is holding itself accountable by implementing a guarantee—if a customer doesn’t love his chicken, he can request a replacement. Marker said that this is just one part of a broader strategy, and that customers should expect future announcements from KFC. First getting the basics right gives the chain the ability to “generate a lot more innovation,” and “there’s some exciting innovation coming this year,” he added. <bot>: It's going back to its roots. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160606023239id_/http://fortune.com:80/2016/04/04/kfc-re-colonelization/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Ford announced at CES 2016 that its new smart car feature, Sync 3, is compatible with Google Android Auto and Apple Carplay. The Post's Hayley Tsukayama breaks down Sync's features and flaws, and what this means for Ford. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post) For the first time this year, buyers of some of the best-selling cars on the market will be greeted by a familiar logo when they get behind the wheel. And it won’t just be the automakers’. From the Honda Accord to the Ford F-150, vehicles across the country are adding support for in-car entertainment systems designed by Google and Apple. Their slick software interfaces allow drivers to make phone calls, pull up maps or directions, and even summon streaming music — using the same recognizable look and feel of an iPhone or Android device. The move by automakers to concede the technological centerpiece of a vehicle’s dashboard did not come quickly or painlessly for Detroit engineers who have long prided themselves on their ability to understand what consumers want from their cars. Even more unnerving to some is that Google and Apple soon may be releasing cars of their own. Apple and Google have each received pledges from roughly 40 automakers to work with their technology. Yet even as executives from either industry shake hands over these partnerships, there’s a clear undercurrent of tension in the alliance between Detroit and Silicon Valley. Software is as central to a car’s character as the stitching on its seats or the feel of its steering wheel. And some auto industry executives are open about their need to partner with firms that are on the front lines of innovation. Many of these tech firms are also launching projects — from driverless fleets to ride-sharing models such as Uber — that are expected to disrupt the basic business of buying or leasing a car. “Carmakers are definitely worried that their business model is going to be seriously threatened in the next 10 years,” said Karl Brauer, analyst at Kelley Blue Book. Added a senior auto industry executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to speak more freely: “It’s interesting to see how Silicon Valley looks at us, and that’s as one word — prey.” In the face of disruptive projects emerging out West, carmakers are racing to bolster their technology prowess. At the nation’s biggest consumer electronics show last week and at the Detroit Auto Show this week, some of these companies are recasting the industrial image that has defined them for decades. Gill Pratt, the new chief executive officer of the Toyota Research Institute, said that robotics could be a major business for Toyota in the future, and perhaps eventually its primary focus. “The old joke is that Toyota is the world’s best manufacturing company. They just happen to make cars. Times have changed, and software and data are now essential components of Toyota’s future mobility strategy,” he said. “It is entirely possible that robots will become for today’s Toyota what the car industry was when Toyota made looms.” Last week, several automakers announced partnerships that would have seemed odd just a few years ago. GM announced that it would invest a half-billion dollars into the ride-sharing company Lyft — a business that on the surface would seem to be competition to companies selling cars to consumers. Brauer said the partnership should help GM absorb lessons that will be crucial to its survival as it adapts to a new era of mobility. “The GM-Lyft alliance follows news of a Ford-Google alliance, both of which are only the beginning of a series of automaker-tech tie-ups we’ll see in the coming months,” added Brauer, the Kelley Blue Book analyst. “The rapidly-shifting nature of personal transportation has traditional car companies scrambling to position themselves for an uncertain future.” Meanwhile, Ford said last week it would work with Amazon and drone firm DJI to get cars to talk to homes and drones. And even as it signed deals with Apple and Google to build info-tainment systems for its cars, Ford said it would continue to work to make its own proprietary system an industry standard. Toyota announced it would use Ford’s system and other manufacturers including Subaru and Mazda, said they would consider it as well. Ford chief executive Mark Fields said that the number of nontraditional competitors coming into the industry has motivated the company to innovate and be more tolerant of mistakes and failure. He added that the company has been drawing lessons from the ethos of Silicon Valley after opening an office there, looking at the consumer experience in a much more holistic way. “For years in this industry, we’ve designed vehicles in a certain way. The switch engineer that does the turn signal doesn’t talk to the headlamp switch engineer, and you end up with an experience that, in our past, hasn’t quite worked,” Fields said at the major consumer technology conference here. “As our vehicles become a part of the Internet of Things, and as consumers give their permission to us to collect that data, we’ll also become an information company,” Fields added. So far Detroit’s record on creating easy technology experiences for drivers has been mixed. Consumers have expressed particular dissatisfaction with automakers’ info-tainment systems — the primary way consumers interact with the technology of their cars. In 2013, nearly two-thirds of respondents to a Consumer Reports survey said they had problems with those systems. Those issues have persisted in recent years, dragging down the reliability ratings of some car brands, other surveys show. Still, automakers can be defensive when it’s suggested that they don’t have the technical chops that their tech counterparts do, and that they may end up making shells to house software from the Googles and Apples of the world. Modern automobiles are practically run on computers, after all. Sophisticated programming helps monitor engine performance, control idling speed and can even fool environmental regulators, as Volkswagen customers infamously discovered last year. They also remain wary of surrendering too much control over the driving experience to tech firms that may not understand the nuances of how to build a car. “I would venture to guess that for the vast majority of this room, the most technically complex thing you own is your car,” said Raj Nair chief technical officer at Ford. “The technical complexity we’re working with in an automobile is not just about getting on Google and researching something. You’re trusting your life to it.” Brian Fung covers technology for The Washington Post, focusing on telecommunications and the Internet. Before joining the Post, he was the technology correspondent for National Journal and an associate editor at the Atlantic. Hayley Tsukayama covers consumer technology for The Washington Post. <bot>: As the Detroit Auto Show launches, an uneasy alliances forms between automakers and Silicon Valley. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016011119id_/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/11/cars/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: A woman is struck by a water cannon during protests in Kizilay Square in central Ankara, Turkey. The unrest, in which police used tear gas and water cannons against stone-throwing protesters in cities such as Istanbul and Ankara, left four people dead and about 5,000 injured, according to the Turkish Medical Association. People help an injured man as riot police fire water cannons at demonstrators in Kizilay Square in Ankara, Turkey, who remained defiant after authorities evicted activists from an Istanbul’s Taksim Square. Protesters try to resist the advance of riot police in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. Police sealed Istanbul’s central Taksim Square on Sunday, a day after clearing it after two weeks of anti-government protests across Turkey. Riot police fires a water cannon on Gezi Park protesters at Taksim Square in Istanbul. Turkish riot police stormed Gezi Park on Saturday, firing tear gas and water cannons to evict hundreds of anti-government protesters, hours after an ultimatum from Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi delivers a speech at a Syria solidarity conference organized by the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo. Morsi said he had cut all diplomatic ties with Damascus on Saturday and demanded Hezbollah leave Syria, pitching the most populous Arab state more firmly against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. / Egyptian Presidency via Reuters Supporters of Hassan Rouhani celebrate his victory in Iran’s presidential election on a street in Tehran. The moderate cleric scored a surprising landslide victory over conservative hardliners without the need for a second-round runoff. Sina Shiri / Fars News via Reuters Iranian President-elect Hasan Rowhani, center, is accompanied by Hassan Khomeini, right, grandson of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, and Ayatollah Mousavi Bojnourdi, during a visit to Ayatollah Khomeini’s shrine outside Tehran. Iran’s newly elected president said Sunday that the country's dire economic problems cannot be solved “overnight,” as he took his first steps in consulting with members of the clerically dominated establishment on his new policies. Protesters march to the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong in support of Edward Snowden. Snowden, a former CIA technical assistant, is in hiding in Hong Kong after he arrived in the city on May 20 and revealed classified U.S. government surveillance programs. Snowden said last Wednesday that the U.S. government has been hacking institutions in mainland China and Hong Kong for years. Philippe Lopez / AFP/Getty Images People dressed as the leaders of the G-8 countries take part in a photo op to raise awareness about the global hunger crisis in front of the Belfast’s city hall. Leaders of the G-8 countries will meet at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland for the G-8 summit Monday and Tuesday. The leaders they are dressed as are, from left, President Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Pope Francis blesses sick and disabled people at the end of an antiabortion Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. The pontiff also blessed thousands of Harley Davidsons and their riders as the American motorcycle manufacturer celebrated its 110th anniversary with a loud parade and plenty of leather. In St. Peter's Square, bikers in their trademark leather Harley vests sat alongside nuns and tens of thousands of faithful Catholics taking part in an unrelated, two-day antiabortion rally, the centerpiece of which was Francis’s Mass. A reenactor dressed as a knight prepares for a jousting competition at Eltham Palace in Eltham, England. The Grand Medieval Joust event at the palace, an English Heritage property which was the childhood home of King Henry VIII, aims to lend insight into life at the palace during the medieval period. Oli Scarff / Getty Images Reenactors dressed as knights stage a medieval jousting competition in Eltham, England. Oli Scarff / Getty Images A man dressed as an Austro-Hungarian officer gives orders during the reenactment of a World War I battle at a military history festival in the village of Fundata, Romania. People watch as at the Dutch ship the Stad Amsterdam sails along the Seine on the last day of the "Armada" sailing boat meeting in Duclair, France. The festival is one of the world’s largest meetings of tall sailing ships and war vessels. Charly Triballeau / AFP/Getty Images Visitors play with an elephant in the river at the Kuala Gandah Elephant Conservation Center in Kuala Gandah, in the Malaysia state of Pahang. The conservation center is a base for the Elephant Relocation Team, which began the elephant translocation program in 1974. Mohd Rasfan / AFP/Getty Images A three-story building is destroyed by floodwaters in Uttarkash, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhund. Government officials say at least 23 people have died and about 50 are missing after three days of torrential rain washed away buildings and roads in northern India. Trash covers a truck submerged in flood waters from heavy monsoon rains in Dehradun, in the Indian state of Uttrakhand. The annual monsoon covered the country nearly two weeks ahead of schedule, officials said. Scantily clad firefighters protest budget cuts near Sabadell Airport, outside Barcelona. A woman gets a tattoo during the 15th International Tattoo Convention in Prague. Michal Cizek / AFP/Getty Images A woman holds her banner in front of the Colosseum during the annual gay pride parade in Rome. Britain's Andy Murray lifts the trophy after defeating Croatia's Marin Cilic in their men’s singles final tennis match at the Queen's Club Championships in London. A three-wheeled car makes its way through Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. A pug terrior mix named Otis sports some doggie shades at the Pequot Lakes Pet Parade in Pequot Lakes, Minn. Kelly Humphrey / Brainerd Dispatch via AP Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade loosens up during NBA basketball practice in San Antonio. The Heat were defeated by the San Antonio Spurs the next day, 114-104. The Spurs now take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven NBA Finals. David Santiago / El Nuevo Herald via AP A Project Loon high-altitude ballon sailsover Tekapo in southern New Zealand after its launch. Google revealed plans Saturday to send balloons to the edge of space, with the lofty aim of bringing Internet to the two-thirds of the global population currently without web access. / Google via AFP/Getty Images Continuing protests in Turkey, reformist candidate wins in Iran, Google’s Project Loon and more. Johnathon Carrington graduated Friday as the valedictorian of his neighborhood school, Dunbar High, and is headed to Georgetown University. But Carrington, 17, is nervous, and so are... The Grand Medieval Joust at Eltham Palace, an English Heritage property that was the childhood home of King Henry VIII, aims to lend insight through reenactment into life at the palace... With the Confederations Cup opening this week and the World Cup one year away, all eyes are on Brazil, where soccer is arguably played with more passion and art than anywhere else.... Father’s Day picnic in Northeast D.C. A decades-old backyard barbecue in Northeast Washington draws hundreds in honor of dads everywhere. “It’s off-the-chain fun,” says Butch McNair, who has worked one... Mandela remains in a hospital For a week, South Africa’s first black president has been undergoing treatment for a lung infection. Schoolchildren at Nelson Mandela’s childhood school in Qunu sang in... 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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Like Richard Petty (43) and the late Dale Earnhardt (3), A.J. Foyt is synonymous with the No. 14. But when Tony Stewart asked the four-time Indianapolis 500 winner if he could use the number on his Chevrolet, Foyt gladly granted permission partly out of their long-standing friendship. And it turns out the racing legend doesn't guard that number as closely as you might think. "He said he wanted to use it, and I thought it was an honor to be back in NASCAR," said Foyt, who uses the number on his open wheel IndyCar Series car. "If anybody else wanted to run with it I probably wouldn't have cared for it, but with Tony it's a big honor because he's been in all types of racing like me and has been successful." The number hasn't been used in Sprint Cup since Foyt last ran a team in 2004 and remained in a pool of numbers that NASCAR licenses to teams. No one else had asked for it until Stewart applied for it last year, and the sanctioning body assigned it with no problem. Foyt notes the number's fine Indy racing history played into what he called a random choice, bolstered by a 1962 Indy car win at Sacramento the first time he used it. After a disappointing 1966 season the No. 14 returned in '67 and he won his third Indy 500 and the series championship. He ran the No. 1 for several years before using 14 again in '73, winning two more Indy car titles. His 1972 Daytona 500 victory came in the No. 21 (Coo Coo Marlin ran No. 14 and finished 25th). "I just said I'm going to pick a number and stick with it," said the Texan, who will be in Stewart's pit on Sunday. "It's what I identified myself with." DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- During an offseason in which many crew chiefs and drivers scrambled to build rapports about shocks, springs and sway bars, Ryan Newman and Tony Gibson have rapped about rods, reels and rifles. Newman, the defending Daytona 500 winner, has moved to a new Sprint Cup team (Stewart-Haas Racing) this season, but the transition hasn't been so jarring thanks to having a kindred spirit in Gibson, a fellow outdoorsman just as comfortable with the roar of 800 horsepower as the tranquility of a mountain lake. "We both share the same passion," Gibson says. "It's a really good way to build that bond. Just trading stories about hunting and fishing made me feel more warm and fuzzy toward Ryan." Such touchy-feely expressions might seem heresy in the testosterone-fueled environs of NASCAR, but Newman prefers having crew chiefs as close friends. He won 12 races from 2002 to 2005 with Matt Borland, also the best man in his wedding. "In a new situation, if you have that friendship and personal touch, it makes it easier to overcome the adversities," says Newman, who has sent Gibson photos from his cellphone while atop a deer stand. "You realize what a guy's mentality is, what makes him mad or happy, and you can adjust your lifestyle around that. It's give and take with the intensity of doing what we do." The need for communication has been magnified by NASCAR's testing ban, which wiped out six practice days last month at Daytona International Speedway and valuable preseason opportunities to fine-tune setups for cars. Today's Gatorade Duels at the 2.5-mile track will be the first chance for Newman and Gibson to work on the radio during a race, and there probably will be plenty of chatter. After an engine failure in practice Wednesday, Newman will start from the rear in the second of two 150-mile qualifying races that set the field for Sunday's Daytona 500. Gibson expects it'll take a few races to establish the necessary on-track chemistry but says it'll be easier after befriending Newman ("I heard he always kept a rod in his truck to stop and fish by the side of the road") months before being hired as crew chief of the No. 39 Chevrolet. "If he's not happy with something, we can listen to one another and not get mad but just figure out how to fix it," Gibson says. "It's like a marriage, rocky from time to time, but you have to be strong enough to get through it." By Gary Graves, USA TODAY WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The patience displayed on a frigid January evening shooting an Old Spice commercial in a shopping mall garage is just a pinch of the perseverance he'll need this season as a rookie NASCAR team owner. But in smiling through numerous takes from varying angles, the two-time Sprint Cup Series champion proved he will go the distance to get things just right, even for the 30-second ad that premiered Sunday. With his breath visible in the cold air, Stewart nailed his lines partly from repetition and constructive give-and-take between him and the director. His first few months getting Stewart-Haas Racing up and running have involved similar back-and-forth with his brain trust, and he seems to be taking direction there as well: The veteran driver and teammate Ryan Newman, the defending Daytona 500 champion, are firmly in the field for Sunday's 51st running, just one of the many strides the once-struggling team has made since Stewart assumed co-ownership with Gene Haas in July. Stewart insists this latest endeavor is the next logical step in an ownership portfolio that includes U.S. Auto Club Silver Crown and World of Outlaws series teams and Eldora Speedway in Ohio. But he also notes it's something he wouldn't have considered on his own, at least not at this stage of his career. "I wouldn't have signed up for this deal if I didn't think we could be contenders," said Stewart, 37, who left Joe Gibbs Racing after 10 seasons, which included titles in 2002 and '05, to take over the team formerly known as Haas-CNC Racing. "There are 150 guys in the shop that believe we can go out and win Daytona, and that's half the battle. I don't see where we're missing too many pieces of the equation." In part, Stewart has timing to thank for that. He had lined up Old Spice, Office Depot and Burger King as primary sponsors of his red Chevrolet — which sports the No. 14 of his hero and mentor, four-time Indianapolis 500 and 1972 Daytona 500 winner A.J. Foyt — just before the U.S. economy tanked, an event that has altered NASCAR's sponsorship landscape. Stewart lured fellow Indiana native Newman, who spent nine seasons and notched 13 victories with Penske Racing (now Penske Championship Racing) to drive the No. 39 with U.S. Army sponsorship for 22 points races and Haas Automation for the other 14. "Timing is everything," Stewart said. While their Indiana roots make them a logical pair, Stewart and Newman possess opposite public personas. Stewart's fierce competitiveness has resulted in outbursts that have gotten him in trouble at times: • In 2002, he was fined $60,000 and placed on probation by NASCAR and then-sponsor Home Depot after an altercation with a photographer at the Brickyard 400. (Stewart apologized.) • Last February at Daytona International Speedway, Stewart drew a six-race probation for an on-track bumping incident with Kurt Busch. Newman, a Purdue University engineering graduate, is more low-key while owning a sarcastic sense of humor. But he is no less competitive or driven, symbolized by his decision to leave an established Penske unit he felt had lost its edge. Those traits, coupled with their racing backgrounds and mutual love of the outdoors, offset concerns about their differences. "I've always admired, with the exception of a couple of racetrack situations, which you always have, Tony and his racing ability," Newman said. "I believe in him, obviously; otherwise, I wouldn't put myself in this situation." Questions loom nonetheless about whether Stewart will blow up on a bad weekend — which happened often during his 10-year relationship with former crew chief Greg Zipadelli at Gibbs. Stewart insists he's more patient than people think, noting he couldn't own race teams and a track without some degree of temperance. Foyt, a firebrand who plans to be in Stewart's pit Sunday, doesn't see a big problem if Stewart gets upset. "I was patient up to a point, but when you see guys keep making the same mistakes, that's what ticks you off," said Foyt, an IRL IndyCar Series team owner who ran a Cup operation from 1973 to 2004. "(Stewart)'s patient because he's done this stuff before and knows what it takes to win." If last weekend's coming-out party at Daytona offered any hints, Stewart-Haas isn't settling for any transitional period. Stewart had the 10th-quickest time (187.336) in Sunday's pole qualifying. Newman, who denied Stewart that elusive Daytona victory with a last-lap pass a year ago, was third fastest Sunday (187.778). That much was expected considering Stewart-Haas is leasing engines and chassis from powerhouse Hendrick Motorsports. Stewart also has followed Gibbs' philosophy of hiring good people, including: • Competition director Bobby Hutchens, who served in similar capacities at Richard Childress Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc. and who most recently oversaw the Earnhardt-Childress engine alliance; • Ex-Hendrick team engineer and troubleshooter Darian Grubb, who will serve as his crew chief. When Jimmie Johnson's crew chief, Chad Knaus, was suspended for the first six races in 2006, Grubb stepped in and led the No. 48 team to two victories, including the Daytona 500; • And former DEI crew chief Tony Gibson, who will oversee Newman's car. "As much as people like to think that Hendrick's helping (Stewart-)Haas, and hopefully it will, it's up to Darian and Tony to communicate and get the cars better," Hendrick vice president of development Doug Duchardt said. "They've made some really good hires over there on the engineering side; they have two good crew chiefs and two really good drivers." Yet for all those encouraging signs, Stewart stops short of predicting where his team will end up, let alone talking about making the 12-car, 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup. In the preceding six years as Haas-CNC, the team posted one top-five and 14 top-10 finishes. For now, Stewart and Newman are assured of starting the first five races — Newman is locked in because the former No. 66 car finished in the top 35 in owners points, while Stewart can use past champion's provisionals. "I don't know what to expect," Stewart said. "I think I've just got an open mind. I don't know that I've got to set goals, (but) my goal is that we go to the racetrack and at the end of the weekend, if we gave 100% and feel like we did our jobs right, there's no shame in that." Looking at their experience and success — Stewart has 33 Cup wins, Newman 13 along with 43 poles — it's hard to imagine either of them being left out of fields because they couldn't get up to speed. But growing pains are expected for new or revamped teams. Consider what veteran driver Michael Waltrip endured in 2007 when he started one of Toyota's three charter teams: winning a Talladega pole highlighted a season in which he started 14 of 36 races and failed to finish three times. "I bet you he might have learned a couple of things that he didn't know he was going to deal with already," Waltrip said. "It takes a bunch of people to run a race team. It's not the owner or the driver; it's the supporting cast that helps you make good decisions and be successful." The operation, which includes some holdovers from Haas-CNC, is based in a state-of-the-art facility in Kannapolis, N.C. Everybody still is learning each other's name, and even Stewart admits to peeking at ID badges. That he hasn't had to worry about day-to-day details such as hiring illustrates how management's insulation has allowed him to focus on his weekend job. As irresistible as the opportunity seemed when Haas-CNC officials presented it just before last season, Stewart took more than six months before deciding, during which time word leaked. Gibbs eventually released him from the final year of his contract, and everything since has been a whirlwind that Stewart still is trying to get his arms around. Stewart spent much of his offseason at the shop instead of at home in Columbus, Ind., and skipped racing in the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals in Tulsa. "For Tony, this is excitement," said Stewart-Haas executive Brett Frood, adding the team works hard to keep his schedule balanced. "He has really liked taking on this endeavor." Stewart's renewed enthusiasm was apparent on that cold January winter night. Not even the onslaught of sponsor appearances and newsmedia interviews have fazed him. "I've been surprised at how much I've enjoyed it so far," he said. "I mean, it's really been a fun transition. I'm comfortable with it, which is kind of surprising. It makes me think the beginning of the end is coming or something." You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. <bot>: The patience Tony Stewart displayed on a frigid January evening shooting an Old Spice commercial in a shopping mall garage is just a pinch of the perseverance he'll need this season as a rookie NASCAR team owner. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2009021219id_/http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/nascar/2009-02-11-stewart-cover_N.htm
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Anyone who's been following "The Real Housewives of New York" this season—and let's face it, you're not anyone unless you're following "The Real Housewives of New York"—will remember a scene when the ladies go to the Miami apartment of the jewelry designer Ranjana Khan and she teaches them how to do "yoga for the face" in her swimming pool. For the uninitiated, Ms. Khan is a friend of the new "Housewife" Carole Radziwill as well as the wife of the fashion designer Naeem Khan. Of course, much has happened on the television series since that trip to Miami: Ms. Radziwill has confronted the Countess Luann for asking Mr. Khan to borrow a dress; Ramona Singer has suggested that the Countess's boyfriend, Jacques, speaks with a fake French accent; Sonja Morgan has fought Heather Thomson on how she believes her party company Sonja in the City should be branded; Aviva Drescher has yelled at the other ladies for ignoring her cause of children without limbs. "It's not about me or my charity," Ms. Drescher told them. "It's about the children who don't have legs." Jewelry designer Ranjana Khan will launch a new website Thursday to share her facial yoga techniques. Yes, it has been intense, and as the ladies venture to St. Bart's in the weeks ahead, it seems clear some more "yoga for the face" would do them some good. Thankfully, Ms. Khan has come to the rescue. She has put her exercises on the Internet. And on Thursday, at her Midtown studio, Ms. Khan will launch her Facial Yoga website, from which anyone can download her 12-minute instructional video for $12.99. Ms. Khan wasn't always a yogi. Because her older sister chose to practice yoga, Ms. Kahn instead focused on running and track and field. "It wasn't until running four marathons that I started to feel the stress of high impact exercise," she recalled. At 42, a friend suggested yoga. "I thought, I should, I'm Indian, but I didn't know anything," Ms. Khan said. "But the first time I did Vinyasa Flow, I realized it was amazing. It gave me a good workout, I felt the endorphins, and I didn't have to worry about a high impact routine." Ms. Khan's work in the fashion world—Lanvin's iconic tulle-covered pearls were "part of my bag of tricks," she said—brought her back to India several times a year where she would see a yoga teacher. "I used to be so jet-lagged, I'd call her at 6 a.m.," Ms. Khan said. "And we started meditating, and I could see how my face was aging, where it was drooping, and she said, 'I'm going to help you.' We did exercises for the face." This was 10 years ago, and Ms. Khan, now 57, has been practicing ever since. "The exercises bring blood to the face and rejuvenate you," she said. "It's amazing how good it makes you feel." She compared the feeling to when you do yoga for your body, and it feels like you are giving yourself a massage. "The good thing about facial yoga is you can do it at your desk, on the car and in the plane," she explained. "It makes you totally relaxed. It tires the tongue, but it empties your mind. You can't think of anything else but working on it. And you don't need more than five to seven minutes a day. You don't need a mat, you don't need a studio, once you know the exercises well enough you own them, you don't even need to look at the video again." Ms. Khan credits facial yoga for her youthful visage. "People are always shocked that I look as young as I do," she said. "I lead a normal life. I go out. I drink. I travel a lot. I have a stressful job. I have two sisters: one is older, one is younger. They don't drink, they're vegetarians. And I look younger than they do! I know it's the facial exercises." The Bravo network, she added, has been pursuing her to be a Real Housewife for some time. But her husband's business and her two sons dissuaded her. "They were like, 'No, mom, that cannot happen,'" she said of her sons. "Even though I watch it and it can be funny." After the facial yoga episode, her website had 2,500 hits and 300 customers downloaded her video. One positive of putting the video online will be that now she won't have to demonstrate her techniques at fashion events and dinner parties to anyone who asks. "I'm always blown away how interested people are," Ms. Khan said. "But it's usually not a good moment because you've had a few drinks." Write to Marshall Heyman at marshall.heyman@wsj.com A version of this article appeared August 23, 2012, on page A19 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: The Face of a Yogi. <bot>: Anyone who's been following The Real Housewives of New York this season—and let's face it, you're not anyone unless you're following The Real Housewives of New York—will remember a scene when the ladies go to the Miami apartment of the jewelry designer Ranjana Khan and she teaches them how to do yoga for the face in her swimming pool. Now has put her exercises on the Internet. And on Thursday, at her Midtown studio, Ms. Khan will launch her Facial Yoga website. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2012082319id_/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444812704577605560431270568.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: In his media sessions, held in the Dodgers' dugout at every home game, Torre says he strives to be as 'honest as I can.' The Los Angeles Dodgers limped disappointingly into the division series this week, but there's still one record Joe Torre can boast about as he enters his 14th consecutive postseason: His pregame media sessions are, by a landslide, the longest and most honest in baseball. Described by beat writers over the years as "a must-listen," "a delight" and "baseball's version of the sermon on the mount," Mr. Torre's daily meetings with the press have become the stuff of legend. For nearly an hour before every home game, the soft-spoken 69-year-old sits cross-legged like a Zen master in the Dodgers' dugout, sipping green tea or chomping pink gum and gazing out toward the palm trees that surround the stadium as he waxes poetic about everything from players' antics to his own days as a catcher to the time he took his daughter to a Jonas Brothers concert. On a slow day he might tell the one about the Boston fan he once met in an elevator who told him he'd rather see the Red Sox beat the Yankees than see the U.S. capture Saddam Hussein, or he might reminisce about how relievers were rumored to sneak out of Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia to a local bar through a secret passageway near the bullpen. Mr. Torre's candor stands out at a time when most sports teams are stepping up media training programs for rookies, encouraging players to dodge tough questions with bland, opaque clichés and even hiring professional spin doctors like former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer to steer them through P.R. crises. Mr. Torre says that though his approach occasionally gets him into trouble with Major League Baseball when he "rattles on" about things he's not supposed to, he strives to be as "honest as I can." While the baseball world is salivating over the prospect of a World Series matchup between Mr. Torre's Dodgers and his former team, the New York Yankees, the skipper's sessions with the press rarely focus on such grandiose questions. Last week he regaled reporters with stories about his recent conversations with director Spike Lee, insisted that his players deserved to pop champagne even if they lost their last series with the Colorado Rockies, expressed relief that his 13-year-old daughter was now wearing Andre Ethier jerseys to games (she routinely sported Yankees attire to Dodgers Stadium last season) and joked about how Derek Jeter used to flex his muscles around the locker room. Los Angeles Dodgers' Manager Joe Torre speaks with reporters at a pre-game press conference in the team's dugout in September. "I like to humanize some of the players that people think are plastic," says Mr. Torre. Theories on Mr. Torre's loquaciousness abound. Some believe he strategically drags out the sessions to take the heat off his players and get reporters out of the locker room, while others believe he genuinely enjoys the chit-chat. Sportscaster Charley Steiner, who worked with Mr. Torre in New York until 2004 and dined with him at 1 a.m. last Saturday night at a Beverly Hills Italian restaurant after the Dodgers finally clinched the division title, says he thinks Mr. Torre likes the mental exercise. "It's like intellectual batting practice," says Mr. Steiner. When the questions peter out, Mr. Torre will frequently let up to 20 seconds elapse while reporters look down at their notebooks, fiddle with their tape recorders and turn toward the field to avoid eye contact. (Mr. Steiner says these awkward silences ensue because "everyone's kind of afraid to set off Mount St. Joseph.") Eventually, if no one pipes up, Mr. Torre will often break the ice himself and continue answering one of the previous questions. "I alternate between thinking, 'This is great,' and 'Oh, my god, I have transcription to do and a story to write," says Michael Becker, a beat reporter for the Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif. Mr. Torre says he has no ulterior motives, but feels that since he has to talk to the media anyway he "might as well have fun with it." When he got his first job managing in 1977 after 18 seasons as one of the league's best players, he says he wasn't sure how open to be with the press. "I thought I had to be more restrained or act like a different person somehow," he recalls. But after eight years managing the New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves, Mr. Torre spent the next five seasons in Anaheim as a TV analyst for the Angels and gained new respect for the work reporters do. He started to consider his media sessions more of "an important responsibility" when he took over as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1990, and says the sessions got longer during his 12-year tenure in New York, where the sheer number of reporters, the intense tabloid scrutiny and the drama surrounding the unpredictable whims of owner George Steinbrenner kept the conversation going for at least 45 minutes each day. "I must have gotten used to it," says Mr. Torre, who still sticks around the dugout for the same amount of time, even though he says the Los Angeles media haven't been nearly as tough on him. Most baseball managers, by contrast, keep their pre-game media sessions as short as possible—usually five to 10 minutes—and don't necessarily appear to enjoy the experience. Red Sox manager Terry Francona famously loathes being interrupted by cellphones. Beat reporters in St. Louis say Cardinals manager Tony La Russa doesn't answer questions so much as challenge them. "Someone asks him why, La Russa asks why not, and round it goes," Sports Illustrated columnist Joe Posnanski wrote earlier this year. "Sometimes the exchanges are testy, more often they are sarcastic and good-natured. But they are never easy." After Mr. Torre left New York, signing a $13 million, three-year contract with the Dodgers last season, the Yankees' new manager, Joe Girardi, moved pre-game media sessions out of the dugout and into the more formal interview room and cut their length in half. By August, many columnists were routinely skipping the sessions, assuming Mr. Girardi would "say nothing of value," a White Plains, N.Y.-based newspaper reported. (A Yankees spokesman says columnists skip his sessions in order to interview players in the locker room—something they used to be able to do from Mr. Torre's dugout sessions while the players were on the field.) So chatty is Mr. Torre, on the other hand, that he makes news whenever he clams up. When questioned in 2004 about the report that Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and Barry Bonds had received steroids from a Bay Area laboratory, Mr. Torre responded: "Next question." (Mr. Torre later said league officials had told him not to talk about the incident, but added that he didn't want to talk about it, either.) And earlier this year, after negotiations over Manny Ramirez's contract broke down between Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and Mr. Ramirez's agent, a local columnist reported that "perpetually genial manager Joe Torre is now refusing—albeit it in his usual, perpetually genial way—to answer any questions relating to Ramirez." But those occasions are few and far between. After a 40-minute session on a warm afternoon last month before the Dodgers played the San Francisco Giants (topics ranged from horse racing to who might win the weekend's college football games) Mr. Torre scanned the fidgety crowd for final questions and then asked, "Alright?" Most of the reporters nodded and began to disperse, but one stayed beside Mr. Torre on the bench. "Joe, you said something interesting yesterday…" he began. Replied Mr. Torre, smiling: "Every once in a while." Write to Hannah Karp at hannah.karp@dowjones.com <bot>: The Dodgers' skipper is known for his candor at a time when most sports teams are wary of the media. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2009101519id_/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703746604574461183701230734.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: The immediacy of war is often missing in daily reports and statistics. What about the gnawing hunger from infrequent meals? The sting of dust from unpaved roads? The constant fatigue? The fear of death? These are the details of war Ricardo Garcia Vilanova renders so clearly in his photographs, each story a kaleidoscope of mundanity and swift military action. Originally from Spain, Garcia Vilanova has worked in Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, where he was kidnapped and held hostage for six months in 2014. Using Facebook, he keeps in touch with military personnel he has met along the way, joining up with them when their lives become chaotic. His pictures show the emotions of war as he places himself in the midst of a gun fight or inside a trench for an all-night vigil. He helps us to experience war as a soldier would. In May, Garcia Vilanova caught up with Kurdish peshmerga forces who were pushing through villages in Iraq toward the northeast of Mosul, the city considered the main headquarters of the Islamic State at the moment. The nine villages recaptured by Kurdish forces in the Khazir area from the Islamic State may be properties of contention in the future. The Kurdish Regional Government deems them part of ancient Kurdish territory. Presently the villages sit inside the borders of Iraq. Heartbreaking photos show what it’s like living in a walled city of a brothel Harrowing scenes of Venezuela on the brink of collapse Heartbreaking photos show how a group of girls is dealing with anorexia <bot>: Photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova's pictures show the emotions of war. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016072619id_/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/07/25/harrowing-images-show-what-war-against-isis-on-iraqs-front-lines-looks-like/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: (Adds Levy comments, details on possible measures, context) WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Brazil's Finance Minister Joaquim Levy on Monday dismissed speculation that he plans to quit following media reports of clashes with other cabinet ministers over austerity measures he is seeking to push through. Speaking at a press conference in Washington, Levy said members of President Dilma Rousseff's government were working together so the economy could return to growth. Levy took a leave of absence until Wednesday, fueling market rumors he could leave the government. The former International Monetary Fund official said Rousseff is allowing him to work from Washington to spend time with family there. "It has nothing to do with any difficulties in the government," Levy said when asked about his trip to Washington. Levy, a former banking executive, has disagreed with other members of Rousseff's cabinet who believe the fiscal belt tightening is harming Latin America's largest economy, now facing its worst recession in 25 years. He said the government was working to deliver a 2016 national budget bill that would boost the markets' confidence in the Brazilian government's ability to meet its fiscal targets. Brazil's Planning Minister Nelson Barbosa said earlier on Monday the government will cut 10 of its 39 ministries to make the state more efficient, but did not specify how much the government could save. He said the government will reveal more details on Aug. 31. When asked whether the government could raise taxes to meet those targets, Levy said: "we are evaluating all options." But he also said the government was not considering raising a tax on gasoline and diesel fuels, known as Cide. Levy said Brazil was ready to face the market volatility sparked by concerns over China's economy, which he said is in a period of transition and that international markets may be reacting to the situation there without being fully informed. (Reporting by Paul Simao, writing by Alonso Soto; editing by Chris Reese and G Crosse) <bot>: WASHINGTON, Aug 24- Brazil's Finance Minister Joaquim Levy on Monday dismissed speculation that he plans to quit following media reports of clashes with other cabinet ministers over austerity measures he is seeking to push through. Speaking at a press conference in Washington, Levy said members of President Dilma Rousseff's government were working... <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20151010194303id_/http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/reuters-america-update-1-brazil-finmin-levy-says-not-planning-to-leave-rousseff-govt.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: ISLAMABAD-- Floods have isolated about 800,000 people in Pakistan who are now only reachable by air and aid workers need at least 40 more helicopters to ferry lifesaving aid to the increasingly desperate people, the United Nations said. The appeal Tuesday was an indication of the massive problems facing the relief effort in Pakistan more than three weeks after the floods hit the country, affecting more than 17 million people and raising concerns about possible social unrest and political instability. "These unprecedented floods pose unprecedented logistical challenges, and this requires an extraordinary effort by the international community," said John Holmes, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs. Earlier, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said hundreds of health facilities had been damaged and tens of thousands of medical workers displaced and the country's chief meteorologist warned that it would be two weeks until the Indus River -- the focus of the flooding still sweeping through the country -- returns to normal levels. Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry said high tides in the Arabian Sea would slow the drainage of the Indus into it, but that those tides would begin changing Wednesday. He said the Indus would reach peak flood stage late this week. "The flood situation is not yet over," Chaudhry said. The floods began with hammering monsoon rains in the northwest and have swept southwards. Many of those cut off are in the mountainous northwest, where roads and bridges have been swept away. The United States has deployed at least 18 helicopters that are flying regular relief missions, but the United Nations said it would need at least 40 more heavy-lift choppers working at full-capacity to reach the estimated 800,000 stranded in the country. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that about 700,000 Pakistanis have been forced into makeshift settlements just in the southern province of Sindh. While there have been no major disease outbreaks because of the floods, aid agencies are increasingly worried, saying contaminated water and a lack of proper sanitation were already causing a spike in medical problems in camps for the displaced. "Pakistan and its people are experiencing the worst natural calamity of its history," Gilani said at a meeting on health issues in the flood zone. "As human misery continues to mount, we are seriously concerned with spread of epidemic diseases." More than 3.5 million children are at risk from waterborne diseases, he said, and skin diseases, respiratory infections and malnutrition are spreading in flooded areas. The problem is compounded by the flood's impact on the country's medical system -- which has long been badly overstretched and underfunded. Gilani said the floods had damaged more than 200 health facilities, and that about one-third of the country's 100,000 women health workers have been displaced. Those health workers are the main primary medical care to millions of rural Pakistani women. Dr. Jahanzeb Orakzai, Pakistan's national health coordinator, said a team has been formed to oversee the response to any flood-related health emergencies. "Health problems usually arise in flood-affected areas after four to six weeks, and we need to be alert and prepared to tackle the situation," he said. The aid group World Vision said it could be three months until some families are able to return to their homes. "People are in urgent need of almost everything: shelter, health clinics, clean water, sanitation and livelihood support," Mike Bailey, the group's regional manager for advocacy said in a statement. Local charities, the Pakistani army and international agencies are providing food, water, medicine and shelter to the displaced, but millions have received little or no help. On Monday, President Asif Ali Zardari defended the government's much-criticized response to the floods, but acknowledged recovery would take a very long time. "Three years is a minimum," Zardari said in an interview Monday with a small group of foreign reporters in Islamabad. On Tuesday, officials announced that the government would give $230 to every family affected by the floods, with a statement from Zardari's spokesman calling the payment "initial assistance." Since the floods first swept the country, the Taliban and Al Qaeda have been relatively quiet. But on Monday, three bomb attacks rocked the northwest, one of which killed the head of an anti-Taliban militia on the outskirts of the main city of Peshawar. <bot>: About 800,000 people have been cut off by floods in Pakistan and are only reachable by air, the United Nations said Tuesday, adding it needs at least 40 more helicopters to ferry lifesaving aid to increasingly desperate people. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2010082419id_/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/08/24/says-cut-pakistan-floods/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: A car accident on Tuesday injured three volunteers and a campaign aide for Ben Carson, leading the presidential candidate to suspend campaigning for the day. The following is the statement from the campaign: “Earlier today in Iowa, a van transporting three campaign volunteers and a Carson campaign employee hit a patch of ice and flipped on its side where it was struck by another vehicle. Three of the passengers, including the campaign staffer driving, are currently being checked out at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. One volunteer is being transported to the trauma center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Dr. Carson has spoken with the family of the volunteer being transported to Omaha, as well as the attending physician. Dr. Carson has canceled all remaining campaign events today and will be traveling to Omaha this afternoon to be with the family during this difficult time. Dr. Carson is asking people to join him in prayer for all the individuals and families involved.” <bot>: A car accident left three Ben Carson volunteers and a campaign aide injured, leading the candidate to suspend campaigning on Tuesday. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016011919id_/http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/19/campaign-workers-for-ben-carson-are-hurt-in-car-accident/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: NEW YORK - The couple who crashed President Barack Obama's first state dinner are peddling their story to broadcast networks for hundreds of thousands of dollars, a television executive says. The executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the network does not publicly discuss bookings, told The Associated Press that representatives for Michaele and Tareq Salahi contacted networks to urge them to "get their bids in" for an interview. The executive said the Virginia couple was looking for a payment in the mid-six figures range. Meanwhile, CNN confirmed that the Salahis had canceled an appearance they had scheduled for "Larry King Live" on Monday. Network news divisions say they don't pay for interviews. But for eagerly sought interviews in the past, they have offered to pay for access to exclusive material, such as pictures or videos from their subjects. Representatives for the couple did not immediately return telephone and e-mail requests for comment. Michaele Salahis is a reality TV hopeful trying to get on Bravo's "The Real Housewives of D.C." Her and her husband's success in getting into the state dinner Tuesday without an invitation embarrassed the White House and Secret Service. The agency acknowledged its officers never checked whether the couple were on the guest list before letting them onto the White House grounds. But it initially insisted Obama was never endangered by the security breach because the couple -- like others at the dinner -- had gone through magnetometers. When it became clear the couple had interacted with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden during the event, Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan expressed concern and embarrassment. He said that while an investigation continues, the agency has taken measures to ensure the oversight is not repeated. A White House photo showed the Salahis in the receiving line in the Blue Room with Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in whose honor the dinner was held. Obama and Michaele Salahi are smiling as she grasps his right hand with both of hers and her husband looks on. Singh is to Obama's left. On Saturday, Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-NY, who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called for a review of Secret Service practices and asked for a briefing this week. Agency spokesmen declined to comment on reports that agents had visited the Salahis' vineyard in Hume, Va., in search of the couple. Voice mail messages left Saturday at two separate telephone numbers for the Oasis Winery, south of Washington, were not immediately returned. It is unclear what the couple told officers at the checkpoint that allowed them to go through the security screening. The Salahis lawyer, Paul Gardner, posted a comment on their Facebook page saying his clients were cleared by the White House to be at the dinner. <bot>: The Salahis are offering their story for hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to a television executive. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2009113019id_/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/28/white-house-party-crashers-looking-sell-story
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Residents along the east coast and in the Appalachians woke up to snow Tuesday, including government workers and students in the DC area, who were told to stay home as a second round of snow came just a few days after some regions received several inches. In Washington, the snow began falling in time for the morning commute, creating the potential for traffic problems. Non-emergency federal employees in the area were granted an excused absence Tuesday but other employees were told to telecommute, according to the US Office of Personnel Management's website. Public schools were closed in a number of areas including Washington, Philadelphia and parts of Kentucky and Tennessee. In Ohio, overnight snowfall in central and south-west parts of the state made the morning commute Tuesday slow and messy and delayed hundreds of school openings. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for the eastern seaboard, including Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware. Snow accumulations of 3-6in were expected. The new snow comes on the heels of Sunday's winter storm, which dumped several inches of snow on Philadelphia and northern Maryland. Elsewhere, eastern and central Kentucky and south-west Virginia are expected to get 1-3in of snow. All of West Virginia was likely to see snow Tuesday, with 2-4 inches forecast in northern and central counties and 3-5in in the mountains. <bot>: Washington DC, New York and Philadelphia are among the major cities expected to see several inches accumulate today <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2013121019id_/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/snow-storm-us-east-coast-weather
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: The plan to use taxpayer money to fund security guards at private schools — to the tune of nearly $20 million a year — is getting a big F from two city unions. The UFT and the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators both panned the plan on Friday. FEWER CITY CLASSROOMS ARE OVERCROWDED, TEACHERS UNION REPORT FINDS “Crossing the line between public and private is something our forefathers were smart enough not to do,” UFT president Mike Mulgrew said. The money “could be put to better use in any number of ways,” said CSA president Ernest Logan. But Councilman David Greenfield (D-Brooklyn), who sponsored the legislation, expected it to pass the City Council next week. He said it is needed to protect all city school kids. <bot>: The plan to use taxpayer money to fund security guards at private schools is getting a big F from two city unions. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015120619id_/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/security-guard-plan-criticized-city-unions-article-1.2456073
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold snap. Late November and December saw early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when—for the first time in two decades—record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones. But the U.S. was the exception: November was the warmest ever globally, and the provisional data indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the fourth-hottest year on record. Enjoy the snow now, because chances are good that 2014 will be even hotter—perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept. That’s because, scientists are predicting, 2014 will be an El Niño year. Get TIME the way you want it Learn more about the benefits of being a TIME subscriber If you are already a subscriber sign up — registration is free! <bot>: When the Pacific Ocean warms in 2014, the weather will get weird <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2014010719id_/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2161658,00.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Those were the questions in Israel and nearby Palestinian territories, after a Tuesday that saw more bloodshed, more blame but no apparent moves toward peace. Instead, Israel's public security minister, Gilad Erdan, said officials in his country are mulling several options aimed at bolstering security, such as closing off the Palestinian suburbs of east Jerusalem. Another alternative being considered is to make it easier for Israelis to buy firearms by relaxing gun-licensing requirements. Currently, Israel has strict restrictions that limit legal firearms to people in a select number of professions and roles. Of course, violence is hardly unprecedented in this part of the world. But the nature of what has happened in recent weeks -- with a spate of stabbings and other attacks, from a shooting to driving into crowds -- is unique, compared to rocket attacks or more obviously orchestrated armed campaigns of the past. And neither side appears willing to back down. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken sternly and repeatedly about what his government will do to defeat "terrorists" and make his nation more secure. "Today we will decide on a series of vigorous steps in our fight against the sources of terrorism and incitement. They will be implemented as quickly as possible," he said Tuesday. "Israel will settle accounts with the murderers, those who attempt murder, and all those who assist them. Not only will they not enjoy their privileges, but we will exact from them the full cost. Anyone who raises his hand to harm us -- will pay dearly. And we will not hesitate to use all means at our disposal to restore peace to the cities of Israel," he said, according to his office. The office announced last weekend that about 1,600 reserve border police officers have been mobilized in Jerusalem, where many recent attacks have occurred, and throughout Israel as "a primary preventive and deterrent measure." Also Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he would soon travel to the Middle East in a bid to help calm the situation. It wasn't immediately clear when he planned to go. Some have suggested the violence represents the start of the third intifada, or uprising, by Palestinians. But others have dismissed that assertion, saying the unrest is simply the consequence of the absence of any progress toward peace. Whatever the label, some Palestinians insist they are fed up with the status quo. "We've tried negotiations and it didn't work," a Palestinian youth in the West Bank city of Hebron told CNN as thick smoke rose from flaming tires. "So now we will fight." This youth was apparently referring to persistent protests and clashes with Israeli security forces. The official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, reported that "live ammunition" wounded at least five Palestinians at the Beit Hanoun crossing point Tuesday. This is after the 18 reportedly shot and injured the previous night at the Huwwara military checkpoint. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that at least 155 people needed medical care -- most for tear gas inhalation, though 26 were wounded by rubber bullets, six by live bullets and five reportedly beaten -- in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Thirty-seven more were injured in Gaza. There were no deaths reported in either of those incidents. Israeli authorities documented several bloody attacks, including one in which an Israeli Jew stabbed a man he mistakenly thought was Arab outside an IKEA near Haifa; and an Israeli Arab hit on the head with a stick on a Netanya beach, according to police spokeswoman Luba Samri. Other incidents proved even more bloody and were carried out by men that Israeli authorities claim have ties to terrorist groups. In Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Malkei Israel area, one person died and eight were injured when a man drove into a bus stop, ran over three people, then got out of his car and began stabbing people, according to Samri. And in the Armon Anatziv area of Jerusalem, one person with a gun and another with a knife boarded a bus and launched an attack. Pictures from the scene, tweeted by Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, showed shattered glass and bloodied floors. Police managed to kill one and wound the other, who was taken to a hospital -- but not before two passengers had died. This assault elicited praise from Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza. "The Hamas movement blesses the heroic operations in Jerusalem," the group tweeted, "and hails the heroes who (carried them out)." CNN's Michael Schwartz, Amir Tal, Ben Wedeman, Salma Abdelazizi, Ashley Fantz, Michael Martinez and Abeer Salman contributed to this report. <bot>: The violence in Israel continued to rage Tuesday, prompting authorities to mull new security measures -- including possibly relaxing gun licensing laws. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015101319id_/http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/13/middleeast/israeli-palestinian-violence/index.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: If birds are made of air, as the nature writer Sy Montgomery says, then writing a great bird book is a little like dusting for the fingerprints of a ghost. It calls for poetry and science, conjuring and evidence. In her breathtaking new book, “H Is for Hawk,” winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Book Award, Helen Macdonald renders an indelible impression of a raptor’s fierce essence — and her own — with words that mimic feathers, so impossibly pretty we don’t notice their astonishing engineering. The premise of her memoir is simple: Macdonald loses her bearings after her beloved father’s sudden death. She retreats from the human world. She’s a poet, historian and longtime falconer, and for complicated reasons, she seizes upon a strange yet sublime prescription for what ails her: She will raise and train a young goshawk, a cur of a bird to some, notoriously difficult to tame. Bigger, “bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier,” she says, than other hawks they are sometimes confused with. Although “animal as emotional healer” is a familiar motif, Macdonald’s journey clears its own path — messy, muddy and raw. Early on, she drives to Scotland from her home in Cambridge to pick up a captive-bred, 10-week-old, Czech-Finnish-German goshawk she’s seen online. At the first glimpse of her bird, Macdonald’s “heart jumps sideways.” And so does the reader’s, for here is a creature worth writing about: “A reptile. A fallen angel. A griffon from the pages of an illuminated bestiary. Something bright and distant, like gold falling through water.” Back home, the bird fills “the house with wildness as a bowl of lilies fills a house with scent.” Fatherless mourner and baby hawk become acquainted. Macdonald grew up obsessed with birds of prey and later trained them, so she knows what to do and has all the necessary equipment: the tiny leather hood, as beautifully made, an observer says, as a Prada shoe; the jesses, or tethering straps; bells; and transmitters. The freezer is a morgue for dead chicks used to train and feed the hawk. Except for using devices that require a power source, Macdonald handles her bird much as a 15th-century falconer would. The bird becomes Mabel, derived “from amabilis, meaning lovable, or dear,” and she learns to fly to Macdonald’s fist at the sound of a whistle: “There is a scratch of talons on wood, a flowering of feathers, one deep downstroke, the brief, heavy swing of talons brought up and into play and the dull thud as she hits my glove.” There are tearful misunderstandings and glorious steps forward. But Macdonald’s progress is not as steady as her hawk’s. Training proceeds, but not without an existential hitch. “While the steps were familiar,” Macdonald writes, “the person taking them was not. I was in ruins. Some deep part of me was trying to rebuild itself, and its model was right there on my fist. The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief and numb to the hurts of human life.” Looking back at her mad mourning, she realizes a painful transformation is taking place: “What the mind does after losing one’s father isn’t just to pick new fathers from the world, but pick new selves to love them with.” Macdonald feels safe in the dark house, barricaded from the outside world, but knows she must go out for Mabel’s sake — to the woods, where the goshawk’s “long, barred tail feathers and short, broad wings” are perfectly suited for the speed and hairpin-turning ability necessary for aerial slalom in dense forest. We get to know Mabel as her trainer does. Macdonald stays so close, and the house is so quiet when they are together that she can hear the bird blinking. The hawk’s breath is like “pepper and musk and burned stone.” Her preening sounds like a deck of cards being shuffled. Every mood can be read: Feathers held in tight is fear; when Mabel fluffs herself and shakes her feathers into place, she is content. We come to love the bird’s “shaggy trousers and waggy tail,” her “café au lait front streaked thickly with cocoa-colored teardrops,” and even her formidable weapons — the “curved black beak” and the black talons. Soon enough, Macdonald doesn’t even consciously inventory the body language of her bird; instead she seems to just feel what Mabel feels. On a hunch, Macdonald even discovers a little bit of whimsy in this ultra-serious predator. She rolls up paper into a ball and hands it to Mabel. The hawk plays with it like a toy, eyes narrowed in “bird laughter.” That’s not our image of hawks at all. And it’s an important point to Macdonald, who worries, rightly, that generations of preconceived notions rob us of truly seeing some creatures as they really are. “Wild things are made from human histories,” she writes. This handler is determined to see her own hawk for who she really is, and, of course, she comes to see herself more clearly too. The two go further and further afield, and through scrapes, wounds and mishaps, Macdonald sheds something, changes, becomes something new — but not what she might have intended. She thinks she’s becoming a hawk herself. Her identity has shifted enough so that when she slips out of her hawking clothes and into street clothes for social events, she feels she’s in disguise. Perhaps not so surprising for a woman who calls herself a “watcher,” who grew up as an “invisible girl,” who, like her father, a news photographer, felt more comfortable observing others than being seen. Her personal history, the history of falconry and historical and personal notions of identity and belonging surface as she aches for her lost father. She experiences vertigo and depression. She keeps denting her father’s car, breaking dishes. Falconry with Mabel feels like an addiction, as dangerous as “if I’d taken a needle and shot myself with heroin.” And yet the hawk also helps her to remember what happiness feels like. “There was nothing that was such a salve to my grieving heart as the hawk returning,” she writes. She and the hawk are “parts of each other,” incomplete when separated. Macdonald notes: “I remember thinking of the passage in ‘The Sword in the Stone’ where a falconer took a goshawk back onto his own fist, ‘reassuming him like a lame man putting on his accustomed wooden leg, after it had been lost.’ ” Caring for Mabel revives Macdonald’s interest in the author of the book, T. H. White. His memoir “The Goshawk” haunts her; she has a fascination, often reluctant and dark, with the writer and his inept, troubled and even cruel relationship with a goshawk he tried to tame. There is a funny mingling of tame and wild in hawks. They can be bred and raised by humans, Macdonald points out, but they are not domesticated. I’ve brought a gloved fist underneath a trained hawk who was “mantling” a dead pigeon (covering it with his wings), and hissing at me with eyes blazing. It shocked me that he left the kill to hop on my novice’s hand. And I’ve seen injured wild hawks being treated in veterinary clinics where the caregiver plunges a gloved hand into the cage and then pulls it out with a hawk on board. Imagine trying this with an injured tiger. But those wild hawks are every bit as predatory as any big cat. When Mabel is deliberately dropped to a lower weight, her desire to kill, something falconers call yarak, ratchets up. The hunting is brutal. And Macdonald and Mabel are co-­conspirators. They look for prey together, work in tandem on the release, and even share the killing and its spoils. Mabel brings down pheasants and rabbits, and she merrily begins eating them before they’re dead. Macdonald steps in then, breaking the necks of Mabel’s catches to hasten the end. As the hawk becomes tamer, she says, she herself grows wilder. Maybe she’s gone too far on her journey. “Hands are for other human hands to hold,” she writes. “They should not be reserved exclusively as perches for hawks.” Her own hands, by now, are records, written in “thin white lines,” of her months with Mabel, months of grief and healing. “One is from her talons when she’d been fractious with hunger; it feels like a warning made flesh. Another is a blackthorn rip from the time I’d pushed through a hedge to find the hawk I’d thought I’d lost. And there were other scars, too, but they were not visible. They were the ones she’d helped mend, not make.” In some traditions, hawks are considered spirit messengers to a world beyond, and Macdonald comes to understand that part of her bond with Mabel was her desire “to fly with the hawk to find my father; find him and bring him home.” But as Mabel matures into a confident hunter, she brings Macdonald a different kind of discovery: that grace resides in the most unlikely places — and that moving forward means leaving some things behind. 300 pp. Grove Press. $26. <bot>: In “H Is for Hawk,” Helen Macdonald recounts her efforts to train a notoriously difficult bird of prey in the wake of her beloved father’s sudden death. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2015022219id_/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/books/review/helen-macdonalds-h-is-for-hawk.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Janice Wylie (above) and Emily Hoffert were “career girls” living on the Upper East Side when they were murdered in 1963. (Copy Photo) Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert were “career girls” living on the Upper East Side when they were murdered in 1963. (Copy Photo) Janice Wylie (above) and Emily Hoffert were “career girls” living on the Upper East Side when they were murdered in 1963. (Copy Photos) George Whitmore Jr. (above) was coerced into falsely confessing to the murders. The real killer, Ricky Robles (inset) is still serving time in Attica. ( ) On sunny, flawless Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1963 — 50 years ago this month — blond and vivacious Janice Wylie, 21, and her roommate, scholarly Emily Hoffert, 23, were viciously murdered in their apartment in what was thought to be the safe, fashionable Upper East Side. Their slaying was dubbed the “Career Girl Murders” — the biggest, most sensational, most extraordinary crime and police investigation in New York’s history at the time, one that would have a chilling effect on the cops, on the prosecutors and on the courts nationally. Wylie, from a famous family of writers, and Hoffert, the daughter of a prominent Minneapolis physician, lived in a $250-a-month, five-room apartment close to Central Park — number 3C, 57 E. 88th St. — a rent-controlled building with a uniformed doorman and an awning over the entrance. A third roommate, Patricia Tolles, 21, who worked for the book division of Time-Life, came home late in the afternoon and found the apartment in shambles. Frightened, she called Wylie’s father, who lived just two blocks away. In a bedroom, he discovered the girls’ bloodied bodies tied together with strips of torn bedsheets. They had been stabbed numerous times, and Wylie’s nude body was covered with Noxzema, used in the sexual assault of her by the monster who had broken into the apartment. Veteran homicide detectives had never seen such carnage. Wylie worked as a copy girl at the Midtown headquarters of Newsweek, where she ran errands for editors and reporters — filling paste pots, distributing wire-service copy and other routine tasks. Her real goal, however, was Hollywood, or Broadway, and she had taken acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse. On the day of the murder, the magazine was bustling more than usual, covering the big story, the massive march in Washington, which culminated in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. But Wylie never showed up for her late-morning shift, which infuriated her co-workers who were covering for her. Calls to her apartment went unanswered. Had she gone to the march? Was she on a date? Janice had many men in her life, as the cops would soon learn, which initially would lead them on lots of bizarre wild-goose chases to frustrating dead ends in their massive hunt for the killer, or killers. Wylie was a society girl from power and privilege. Her doting father was Max Wylie, an important and creative ’60s-era advertising executive — a genuine Don Draper. He had served on the faculty of New York University and had written a number of novels, plays and textbooks. His brother, Janice’s uncle, was the critically acclaimed author Philip Gordon Wylie, best known for his bestselling 1942 essay collection, “Generation of Vipers,” along with a slew of mystery novels and works of science fiction. The other murder victim, Wylie’s roommate, was short, bespectacled, small-town Emily Hoffert, from Edina, Minn., who had arrived in New York just 39 days before she and Wylie’s lives were viciously snuffed out. A shy brunette, Hoffert was the polar opposite of happy-go-lucky, blond Manhattan sophisticate Wylie, who liked to party at the Stork Club. Hoffert was a serious academic, with a degree from Smith College, who was about to embark on a teaching career. Hoffert and her older sister by five years, Mary, had been adopted. “Emily and I were wonderful friends as well as sisters,” Mary Hoffert Bryson, 82, told The Post on the eve of the 50th anniversary of her sister’s death. “My sister was a very bright, very good person, and when I decided I wanted to be an English teacher, she sort of went along with the same idea. She was very good in languages, and she had a double major in English and Russian literature. She was in New York just for that summer before she would start her first year of teaching. It was just a temporary place, staying in that apartment where the murder took place.” On the day Wylie and Hoffert were slain, Walter Arm, a former newspaperman, who was the deputy police commissioner who dealt with the press, was in a Times Square bar knocking down a vodka and tonic when word of the murders was relayed to him. He immediately informed reporters that there was a major case brewing. “There was the class aspect of the girls, the fact that they were prominent and the threat of living alone in Manhattan that touched a nerve,” says Kenneth Gross, then a young reporter on The Post’s police beat. “The murder, the day of the freedom march in Washington, a lot of things were tied together to remind people that the city and the country were undergoing some transformation. It was a great turning point in the culture.” As the search for the Wylie-Hoffert killer continued, hundreds of men, many of them oddballs and sociopaths, were pursued and questioned, including dates of Wylie, whom the detectives always assumed was the target of the killer because of her looks and partying lifestyle. Some investigators even speculated that the killer might have been a woman who oddly walked two babies in a stroller around Manhattan. Finally she was confronted, and the cops were startled to discover that the “babies” were actually two small monkeys swaddled in pink blankets. Then George Whitmore Jr. surfaced. He was a slow, meek, acne-faced 19-year-old African-American, an eighth-grade dropout who had never been in trouble with the law, who came from the crime-riddled Brownsville section of Brooklyn via Wildwood, NJ. Some eight months after the Career Girl Murders, Whitmore was taken into custody in Brooklyn near the scene of where a young woman, Elba Borrero, had been sexually assaulted by a man who had fled. Whitmore had innocently been waiting to be picked up by a friend and taken to a job site. But in the police station house, he was railroaded by detectives pressured to solve the Wylie-Hoffert case, which had gone cold. Whitmore was never physically abused. Instead, he was isolated in an interrogation room and, for almost 24 hours, underwent nonstop grilling from hardened detectives playing good cop, bad cop. They lied to him that he would never go to jail, that Wylie and Hoffert were alive. All they wanted, they told him, was for him to simply sign a 61-page confession. Unsophisticated, uneducated, brow-beaten — and without any legal representation — the frightened teenager finally agreed to admit to the Wylie-Hoffert murder, along with the recent assault of the Borrero woman (who would wrongly identify him as her attacker) and the unsolved murder of another woman, Minnie Edmonds, a 41-year-old black house cleaner who had been beaten and stabbed on April 14, 1964, some seven months after the Career Girls Murder. Edmonds was murdered about a block from where Borrero was assaulted. Whitmore later explained that confessing was a way to stop the brutal questioning and be permitted to go home. Bogus evidence also was used against Whitmore. In his wallet, detectives had found a number of snapshots, most of them of African-Americans, but one crumpled photo was of two white girls, one a blonde. One of the veteran detectives with a tough-guy reputation who was investigating the Career Girl Murders, Edward Bulger, was positive the blonde was Janice Wylie, and Whitmore was forced to falsely confess that he had taken the photo from the victim’s apartment at the time of the murders. When it came to suspects who were black, Bulger had a curious way of identifying liars he was questioning. He reportedly once boasted to two Manhattan assistant DA’s: “You can always tell when a negro is lying. You watch his stomach. If it moves in and out, he’s lying.” To the cops and prosecutors, the snapshot was considered hard evidence, along with the coerced confession, to charge Whitmore, even though Wylie’s father and others who knew his daughter had emphatically denied that the blonde in the photo was Janice Wylie. Much later, after it was clear that Whitmore had been coerced into confessing, investigators actually tracked down the two girls in the old snapshot. They told police that it had been taken years earlier while they were picnicking in a New Jersey state park, and it had long been lost. Somehow, Whitmore had found it and, for whatever reason, the teenager had put it in his wallet. After his arraignment, and having a lawyer representing him for the first time — an attorney who didn’t believe he had committed the crimes with which he was charged — Whitmore recanted his confession. But the cops and prosecutors still considered him the Wylie-Hoffert killer. “The world was different in the ’60s. There were very few minority people on the police force, or in the district attorney’s office, so the black population didn’t have much influence on the legal system,” says Jerome Leftow, who first represented Whitmore after his arrest. A native New Yorker who practiced criminal defense law for some 40 years, Leftow, looking back, told The Post: “The police were able to do things that were wrong. The district attorney’s office played around with evidence. That’s how they solved crimes back then. There was no one looking over anyone’s shoulder, and they looked at black people in a different way.” After Whitmore truthfully recanted his confession — there was never any credible evidence that he had committed the crimes for which he was charged — Richard “Ricky” Robles, 21, a heroin addict and confessed burglar from The Bronx with a criminal record, became the prime suspect. Another junkie by the name of Nathan Delaney, who was facing a drug-related charge, reached out to detectives saying he knew who killed Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert, in hopes that he could cut a deal for himself. Delaney and his wife, Marjorie, told cops that on the day of the freedom march in Washington, Robles had shown up at the Delaney apartment in Spanish Harlem with blood on his shirt and had told them he had murdered two girls. During questioning, police eventually learned that the murder of Wylie and Hoffert had been a robbery gone bad, Robles looking for drug money and finding the girls instead. The police and prosecutorial mishandling of Whitmore would play a key role in the Supreme Court’s landmark 1966 5-to-4 ruling requiring law-enforcement officers to tell those arrested of their constitutional rights, known as the Miranda warning. In the decision, the justices pointed to the outrageous handling of Whitmore: “Interrogation procedure may even give rise to a false confession. The most recent conspicuous example occurred in New York when a negro of limited intelligence confessed to two brutal murders and a rape which he had not committed. When this was discovered the prosecutor was reported as saying: ‘Call it what you want — brain-washing, hypnosis, fright.’ They made him give an untrue confession . . .” And the events involving Whitmore would influence the 1965 abolishment of the death penalty in New York by the state Legislature, with an assemblyman citing the case of how a wrong man could have been sentenced to die. Ricky Robles was convicted and sentenced on Jan. 11, 1966, to a term of 25 years to life. Having turned 70 last Jan. 28, Robles is one of New York state’s longest-serving inmates, living in a 72-square-feet cell and mopping floors for a dollar a day at the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility, according to a prison spokeswoman. He comes up for parole again next year, but it’s doubtful he’ll ever see the outside again. After Whitmore’s Kafkaesque ordeal — it would take almost a decade for him to finally be vindicated and all of the charges against him dismissed — he had returned to his hometown of Wildwood, fell in to anonymity and spent most of the $500,000 he had won after suing the city of New York for his false arrest. He died last year in a nursing home at the age of 68. Observes Kenneth Gross, the ex-reporter who covered the case: “A lot of prosecutors knew that kid Whitmore was innocent. A lot of cops knew that kid was innocent. There was a lot of heat and a lot of pressure to get that case solved, and all those people were reluctant to give that kid any edge.” <bot>: Janice Wylie (above) and Emily Hoffert were “career girls” living on the Upper East Side when they were murdered in 1963. 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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) -- Google Inc. is stepping up efforts to allow its users to personalize how they search the Web, moving beyond the one-size-fits-all approach to search it already offers. Officials told reporters at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters on Monday of moves to allow users to share their own writings, photos, lists and other creative efforts, as well as to give consumers personalized views of the Web through use of their geographical location and search history. The world's top provider of Web search services is bringing together the more idiosyncratic approach to finding information on the Internet under the umbrella term "iGoogle," the new name for its enhanced personalized home page services. "We want to personalize the traditional notion of search," Sep Kamvar, lead engineer for the personalization push, told reporters. "I am an eclectic person. But everyone is. We can't go about designing products for the average person." Reinventing the classic Google.com home page -- with its simple, uncluttered design -- the company is introducing features that range from colorful new Web page designs to helping users publish their own creative content. Google is borrowing or reinventing ideas that have already become popular features on many social network sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Bebo and Photobucket, where users are encouraged to share their own creative work with friends. To help users create personalized features on iGoogle, the company introduced "Gadget Maker," which allows any user who knows how to upload a photo and fill out a simple Web form to publish their content without knowing computer coding. Google introduced seven templates for creating personalized "gadgets" -- publishing features -- that include tools for publishing photos, sending virtual greeting cards or creating personal profiles or lists of favorite songs or films. "I look at personalized search and I think it is one of the biggest advances we have had in the last couple of years," Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president in charge of search and user experience, told a news briefing. Google's personalized home page, introduced two years ago, offers users the ability to choose from thousands of regularly updating Web features on one page. Tens of millions of users have signed up so far for the personalized approach to search and they are some of Google's most active users, Mayer said. Last week, Google introduced the ability for users to refer back to their personal Web search history over the past several years. The history feature is optional and only for users who give permission to Google to store their Web surfing activity. Google officials were asked whether users might be shocked to see how much information Google stores on searches. "Web history tells the user what we (Google) know about you," Mayer replied. "You actually have full insight into what we know," she said, adding that users can delete any personal information they do not want to be recorded from searches. Google is moving cautiously to avoid the mistakes of a decade ago, when the first wave of Web portals used personalization features on their sites to help marketers target ads rather than giving the user greater control. "At some point we will turn our attention to advertising," Mayer said, but stressed that iGoogle will remain non-commercial for the foreseeable future. Google is also introducing a geographic aspect to search results based on the location that users select as their home location on Google Maps. Users who accept this option will see Google search results that are tailored to their location, so a search for "pizza" will return links to nearby pizza restaurants, not just the most heavily visited pizza sites across the Web. The company is also expanding the number of countries and languages in which it will offer personalized search services. This week, iGoogle personalized Web search will be available in 40 countries and 26 languages, up from 22 nations and 15 languages where personalization is now offered, said Jessica Ewing, the product manager for iGoogle. Copyright 2007 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. <bot>: Google Inc. is stepping up efforts to allow its users to personalize how they search the Web, moving beyond the one-size-fits-all approach to search it already offers. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2007050219id_/http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/01/google.personalization.reut/index.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Matt Kemp skipped down the first base line, watching his drive fly while calling out to the ball, trying to coax it to stay fair. Once it sailed inside the foul pole and landed in the lower left field seats, he had salvaged a victory for the Los Angeles Dodgers after their bullpen almost gave it away. Kemp hit a go-ahead home run leading off the eighth inning, lifting the Dodgers to a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday night and evening their NL Division Series at a game apiece. "This was big for us," he said. "I feel like we definitely do have the momentum. We got continue to go, though." The crowd of 54,599 erupted in cheers as Kemp rounded the bases. Bubbles percolated into the hot night air from a machine in the dugout the Dodgers turn on to celebrate homers. "It seemed like a mistake pitch to Matt and he's been hot, as everyone knows, and that was exciting," Dodgers starter Zack Greinke said. No one looked happier greeting Kemp in the dugout than a once-distraught J.P. Howell, who had served up a tying, two-run homer to Matt Carpenter in the top of the inning after relieving Greinke. Kemp hugged Howell, who pointed skyward in relief. "It was incredible, man," Howell said. "To me it was almost religious because I was praying so hard and it happened pretty quickly. I was pretty thankful." Kemp connected against Pat Neshek for his fifth hit in the best-of-five series. "He tried to get me with a couple of sliders," Kemp said. "I laid off some tough ones that were close on the plate, but he left one just out on the plate that I could do something with and I put a good swing on it." Game 3 is Monday night in St. Louis, with John Lackey starting for the Cardinals against Hyun-Jin Ryu of the Dodgers. "It was there for us and we let it slip away," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. Brandon League got his first career postseason win with a scoreless inning of relief. Kenley Jansen retired the side, striking out two, in the ninth to earn the save. "Now we just got to get our rest in and try to beat the Cardinals at their place, just like they did here in the first game," Jansen said. "Got to go there and steal one." *By clicking "SUBSCRIBE", you have read and agreed to the Fox Sports Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Greinke pitched two-hit ball over seven scoreless innings a night after ace Clayton Kershaw gave up Carpenter's go-ahead three-run double in the seventh that helped the Cardinals win 10-9. The low-key Greinke, who has pitched in Kershaw's shadow the last few years, tried not to put any extra pressure on himself to deliver a win. "Any time personally I try to do more than I feel I'm capable of, it backfires," he said. "My game plan is always to try to lower my expectations and not try to do too much." Greinke belatedly took the mound in the eighth after his teammates had already taken their positions. Manager Don Mattingly came out to get him, and Greinke left to a standing ovation. "We're seeing two teams that don't really want to go home and that are fighting for every game and every out and every pitch," Mattingly said. "It's what everybody wants to see at this time of year." Howell took over and promptly gave up a single to pinch-hitter Oscar Tavares before Carpenter tied it at 2. Carpenter is 4 for 8 in the series, with two homers, two doubles and six RBIs. "I'm just trying to be aggressive," Carpenter said. "I'm getting some good pitches to hit, putting some good swings on it. I don't think there's any rhyme or reason to it." Greinke struck out seven, walked two and didn't allow a runner past second base. He didn't give up a hit until the fifth, when Kolten Wong doubled down the right-field line before Greinke struck out the next two batters to end the inning. Greinke was pretty nifty at the plate, too. He went 2 for 3 for his first career postseason multihit game, and even slid headfirst into third on Dee Gordon's single in the fifth that eluded Wong's dive at second base. "It's really important fielding your position and hitting, not being an absolute out," Greinke said. Cardinals starter Lance Lynn gave up two runs and seven hits in six innings, struck out eight and walked two. The Dodgers took a 2-0 lead in the third. Gordon's groundout to second base scored A.J. Ellis, who doubled leading off for his fifth hit of the series. Adrian Gonzalez's two-out RBI single made it 2-0, with Greinke scoring from second. Mattingly had earlier challenged a call that Greinke was tagged out going to second. After a review, the umpires ruled him safe when Wong tagged Greinke with his empty glove after Wong had already moved the ball to his throwing hand to try for a double play. The teams that share a combustible history in the playoffs were under control, even after Greinke hit Cardinals center fielder Jon Jay with a pitch in the first inning. Unlike a night earlier, when Yasiel Puig's plunking by Adam Wainwright triggered a benches-clearing scrum, everyone stayed put in their dugouts. Puig, who drew attention with his neon-green batting gloves, struck out on a high fastball from Lynn in his first at-bat. Catcher Yadier Molina appeared to say something to Puig, who reacted and had to be walked part way back to the dugout by umpire Rob Drake. Puig struck out four times. Molina and Gonzalez yelled in each other's faces in Game 1 as both benches and bullpens emptied without punches being thrown. Matheny didn't consider the talk about his hitters allegedly stealing signs in Game 1 to be a compliment. "That would be an insult. Absolutely," he said. "Our guys go about their at-bats like pros. It's just rumor and right now it could just be a distraction." The suggestion that Kershaw might have been tipping his pitches on Friday generated a lot of talk among the game's TV announcers and on Twitter. "I'll be the first one to say that there's nothing to it," Cardinals center fielder Jon Jay said. Mattingly said he knows most teams try to give their hitters the location of pitches, but he knows of only one player who ever relayed pitch signs from second base to the hitters. He declined to name the player except to say he's still active. "We know they're trying to do it and everybody tries to do it," he said. "We're switching signs, you do all this stuff. It's just not that easy, so it's execution." Cardinals: Lackey (3-3, 4.30 ERA) needs 3 2-3 innings to become the active leader in postseason innings pitched and overtake leader CC Sabathia with 107 1-3. The right-hander hasn't lost a division series game since Oct. 1, 2008, against Boston when he was with the Los Angeles Angels. Dodgers: Ryu (14-7, 3.38) hasn't pitched since Sept. 12 while rehabbing from left shoulder irritation, but Mattingly isn't worried. "He seems to be able to not throw a whole lot and be pretty sharp," the manager said. <bot>: Kemp's HR lifts Dodgers over Cards, NLDS tied at 1 <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2014100519id_/http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/matt-kemp-hr-delivers-dodgers-series-tying-win-over-cards-in-game-2-100514
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: When the gentleman from North Carolina mentioned “Uncle Chang,” it hit with an awkward clang. “We are spending $10 billion a month that we can’t even pay for,” said Congressman Walter Jones, that rarest of birds, a Southern Republican dove. “The Chinese — Uncle Chang is lending us the money to pay that we are spending in Afghanistan.” On Tuesday morning, members of the House Armed Services Committee tried to grill Marine Corps Gen. John Allen, the commander in Afghanistan who succeeded David Petraeus, about the state of the mission. The impossible has happened in the past few weeks. A war that long ago reached its breaking point has gone mad, with violent episodes that seemed emblematic of the searing, mind-bending frustration on both sides after 10 years of fighting in a place where battle has been an occupation, and preoccupation, for centuries. Afghan security forces cold-bloodedly murdered some American troops after Korans were burned by military personnel. Then an American soldier walked out of his base early one morning and began cold-bloodedly murdering Afghan innocents, leaving seven adults and nine children in one small village dead. There was an exhausted feel to the oversight hearing, lawmakers on both sides looking visibly sapped by our draining decade of wars. Even hawks seem beaten down by our self-defeating pattern in Afghanistan: giving billions to rebuild the country, money that ends up in the foreign bank accounts of its corrupt officials. Committee Chairman Buck McKeon, a Republican from California, made a pro forma complaint that the administration is “heading for the exits.” But most of the politicians seemed resigned to the fact that President Obama is resigned to settling for a very small footprint and enough troops to keep terrorists from using Afghanistan as a base to attack the U.S. or our allies. The White House seems ready to forget eliminating the poppy trade and expanding education for girls. We’re not going to turn our desolate protectorate into a modern Athens and there’s not going to be any victory strut on an aircraft carrier. When you’re buried alive in the Graveyard of Empires, all you can do is claw your way out. Congressman Jones directly confronted General Allen on the most salient point: “What is the metric?” How do you know when it’s time to go? “When does the Congress have the testimony that someone will say, we have done all we can do?” he asked. “Bin Laden is dead. There are hundreds of tribes in Afghanistan and everyone has their own mission.” Jones was once so gung ho about W.’s attempts to impose democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan that, after the French opposed invading Iraq in 2003, he helped lead the effort to rename French fries “freedom fries” and French toast “freedom toast” in the House cafeteria. But now he thinks that both wars are sucking away lives and money, reaping only futility, and that he was silly about the fries. He said he’s fed up with having military commanders and Pentagon officials come to Capitol Hill year after year for a decade and say about Afghanistan: “Our gains are sustainable, but there will be setbacks” and “We are making progress, but it’s fragile and reversible.” He said he had recently visited Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval Hospital to see wounded troops: “I had a young Marine lance corporal who lost one leg,” in a room with his mother. “My question is,” the Marine asked him, “Why are we still there?” Jones also read an e-mail from a military big shot whom he described as a former boss of General Allen’s, giving the congressman this unvarnished assessment: “Attempting to find a true military and political answer to the problems in Afghanistan would take decades. Would drain our nation of precious resources, with the most precious being our sons and daughters. Simply put, the United States cannot solve the Afghan problem, no matter how brave and determined our troops are.” Jones agreed, noting mordantly: “I hope that sometime in between now and 2014, if things are not improving or they are fragile like they are now, somebody will come to the Congress and say the military has sacrificed enough. The American people have paid enough. And somebody would shoot straight with the American people and the Congress.” He concluded: “We can declare victory now. But there’s one thing we cannot do, and that is change history, because Afghanistan has never changed since they’ve been existing.” The epitaph of our Sisyphean decade of two agonizing wars was written last year by then-Secretary of Defense Bob Gates: “Any future defense secretary who advises the president to send a big American land army into Asia, or into the Middle East or Africa, should have his head examined.” Thomas L. Friedman is off today. <bot>: As Vizzini in “The Princess Bride” (and later Bob Gates) warned: “Never get involved in a land war in Asia.” <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2012032119id_/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/opinion/dowd-heart-of-darkness.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: When last year's list of the World's Billionaires hit the stands in March 2009, markets across the globe were diving toward bear-market lows that would wipe out more than a decade of gains. Investors fled stocks, stashing cash in safe havens like government-guaranteed certificates of deposit, Treasury bills and FDIC-insured bank accounts. Settling for sickly yields, it was thought, was far better than watching your life's savings vaporized by a relentlessly dropping market. Thinking changes on a dime in the stock market, and sure enough over the past year the riskiest securities--like junk bonds and auto parts makers' stocks--have been among the hottest investments. Another bet that's done particularly well: a basket of billionaire-controlled stocks. Some cases in point: Over the last 12 months, Steve Jobs' Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) yielded a 102% return; Ralph Lauren ( RL - news - people )'s Polo Ralph Lauren ( RL - news - people ) surged 111%; Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. ( NWS - news - people ) rallied 101%; and Anil Ambani's Reliance Infrastructure delivered an 87% return. An investment in Chinese newcomer Li Shufu's Geely Automotive would have more than quadrupled your money. Tempted to jump in? Do so only selectively. The bargains that existed on paper a year ago--but which most investors were too scared to capitalize on--have mostly vanished. Multiples of earnings and book values are no longer far below historic norms. Here are some billionaire-controlled stocks that have done especially well the past year but seem less like bargains these days. These five hot stocks are at risk of cooling down.* Las Vegas Sands ( LVS - news - people ) Gain in past 12 months: 1,227% P/E: NA Billionaire owner: Sheldon Adelson Reason to avoid: High unemployment and new Las Vegas competition from City Center could hurt performance. Other risks: Singapore, Macau casino projects. Mannkind ( MNKD - news - people ) Gain: 355% P/E: NA Billionaire owner: Alfred Mann Reason to avoid: Fate rests solely on inhalable insulin product; diabetes drugs face tough regulatory hurdles. Similar product from Pfizer ( PFE - news - people ) flopped. Large short position in shares. Garmin ( GRMN - news - people ) Gain: 111% P/E: 10.5 Billionaire owners: Min Kao and Gary Burrell Reason to avoid: GPS maker faces tough competition as navigation systems become ubiquitous on smart phones. Firm also in price war with TomTom. <bot>: These high-fliers may have risen too far. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2010031219id_/http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/09/billionaire-stock-picks-personal-finance-billionaires-2010-stocks.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Quintland functioned as a “living museum” and employed three police guards, a housekeeper, and two maids. There were also three nurses, who became the primary caregivers to the sisters and brought them to a balcony outside the nursery for display in front of curious crowds. A playground surrounded by one-sided mirrors later went up on the site. Visitors could view the girls at play three times a day by appointment. The Dionnes could hear, but not see, the tourists parading by the glass partition. Quintland constituted Canada’s highest grossing tourist attraction between 1934 and 1943, earning $1 million in its first year and as much as $500 million for the province of Ontario in total. In those nine years, approximately three million tourists paid admission to catch a glimpse of the Dionne sisters. <bot>: How the first quintuplets in medical history to survive infancy became an astonishingly profitable tourist attraction. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2016071619id_/http://mashable.com/2016/07/16/dionne-quintuplets/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: San Francisco doesn’t offer the best area for people hoping to buy bargain fixer-upper homes, probably because even fixers sell for a fortune in the Bay Area, and not many properties end up foreclosed or otherwise abandoned to decay much anyway, given the value of property in general. So, even among our few homes for sale needing “TLC,” we don’t find many “bargains.” The properties above show that. Among the currently MLS listed homes for sale in San Francisco proper, only 16 came up under a parameter search for “fixer-upper,” and zero came up when the term “foreclosure” was also added. RealtyTrac maps SF’s pre-foreclosures (we’ve got 180 shown in purple below), bank owned (we have 185 marked in gold below), and for auction properties (we’ve got 41, marked in red below). This section of the map shows you a portion of the RealtyTrac heat map. A portion of RealtyTrac’s heat map for distressed property in SF. Slim pickings, really, in a city with a lot more potential homebuyers than potential homes for sale. The city’s inventory in May was down 24.5% year-over-year. Best cities for fixer-upper bargains RealtyTrac, prolific provider of U.S. real estate data with a particular focus on foreclosure-related activity, analyzed national data to find the 15 best markets for buying fixers at discount prices. The figures show the number of foreclosed homes old enough to potentially be candidates for makeovers that are also valued at $100K or less– a sure sign, in more robust markets– of a bargain. Also analyzed here: the average market value of a distressed home as well as the change in the median sales price of such properties in each location year-over-year. “Low-priced homes are still plentiful in many markets, particularly in the form of foreclosures,” said Daren Blomquist, RealtyTrac vice president. “While these homes may be in need of more work than a typical home and are certainly harder to find now than in previous years, buyers and investors willing to put in a little extra legwork and sweat equity can often find the best deals in their markets on these foreclosure fixer-uppers.” RealtyTrac analysis found that nationwide , there are more than 51,000 potential foreclosure fixer-uppers: bank-owned homes that were built before 1960 with an estimated market value below $100K. As usually happens when we compare other parts of the country to San Francisco, our home prices stand out in sharp relief. For less than you’d need for a downpayment on a fixer here, you could buy an entire home outright somewhere else. So if your reason for wanting a fixer-upper is bargain price (though of course, “bargain” is a relative term), you might want to look elsewhere. Anna Marie Erwert writes from both the renter and new buyer perspective, having (finally) achieved both statuses. She focuses on national real estate trends, specializing in the San Francisco Bay Area and Pacific Northwest, and writes for SFGate and CurbedSF. Follow Anna on Twitter: @AnnaMarieErwert <bot>: Top cities to buy bargain fixer-uppers don’t include San Francisco <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2013061419id_/http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2013/06/10/top-cities-to-buy-bargain-fixer-uppers-dont-include-san-francisco/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Now, he said, the goal is to “educate the federal government on what their expectations should or shouldn’t be.” The industry held a smaller exercise two years ago in which 75 utilities, companies and agencies participated, but this one will be vastly expanded and will be carried out in a more anxious mood. Most of the participants will join the exercise from their workplaces, with NERC, in Washington, announcing successive failures. One example, organizers say, is a substation break-in that officials initially think is an attempt to steal copper. But instead, the intruder uses a USB drive to upload a virus into a computer network. The drill is part of a give-and-take in the past few years between the government and utilities that has exposed the difficulties of securing the electric system. The grid is essential for almost everything, but it is mostly controlled by investor-owned companies or municipal or regional agencies. Ninety-nine percent of military facilities rely on commercial power, according to the White House. The utilities play down their abilities, in comparison with the government’s. “They have the intelligence operation, the standing army, the three-letter agencies,” said Scott Aaronson, senior director of national security policy at the Edison Electric Institute, the trade association of investor-owned utilities. “We have the grid operations expertise.” That expertise involves running 5,800 major power plants and 450,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines, monitored and controlled by a staggering mix of devices installed over decades. Some utilities use their own antique computer protocols and are probably safe from hacking — what the industry calls “security through obscurity.” But others rely on Windows-based control systems that are common to many industries. Some of them run on in-house networks, but computer security experts say they are not confident that all the connections to the public Internet have been discovered and secured. Many may be vulnerable to software — known as malware — that can disable the systems or destroy their ability to communicate, leaving their human operators blind about the positions of switches, the flows of current and other critical parameters. Experts say a sophisticated hacker could also damage hard-to-replace equipment. In an effort to draw utilities and the government closer, the industry recently established the Electricity Sub-Sector Coordinating Council, made up of high-level executives, to meet with federal officials. The first session is next month. Preparation for the November drill comes as Congress is debating laws that could impose new standards to protect the grid from cyberattacks, but many in the industry, some of whom would like such rules, doubt that they can pass. The drill is also being planned as conferences, studies and even works of fiction are raising near-apocalyptic visions of catastrophes involving the grid. A National Academy of Sciences report last year said that terrorists could cause broad hardship for months with physical attacks on hard-to-replace components. An emerging effort led in part by R. James Woolsey, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is gearing up to pressure state legislatures to force utilities to protect equipment against an electromagnetic pulse, which could come from solar activity or be caused by small nuclear weapons exploded at low altitude, frying crucial components. An attack using an electromagnetic pulse is laid out in extensive detail in the novel “One Second After,” published in 2009 and endorsed by Newt Gingrich. In another novel, “Gridlock,” published this summer and co-written by Byron L. Dorgan, the former senator from North Dakota, a rogue Russian agent working for Venezuela and Iran helps hackers threaten the grid. In the preface, Mr. Dorgan says such an attack could cause 10,000 times as much devastation as the terrorists’ strikes on Sept. 11, 2001. Despite the growing anxiety, the government and the private sector have had trouble coordinating their grid protection efforts. The utility industry argues that the government has extensive information on threats but keeps it classified. Government officials concede the problem, and they have suggested that some utility executives get security clearances. But with hundreds of utilities and thousands of executives, it cannot issue such clearances fast enough. And the industry would like to be instantly warned when the government identifies Internet servers that are known to be sources of malware. Another problem is that the electric system is so tightly integrated that a collapse in one spot, whether by error or intent, can set off a cascade, as happened in August 2003, when a power failure took a few moments to spread from Detroit to New York. Sometimes utility engineers and law enforcement officials also seem to speak different languages. In his book “Protecting Industrial Control Systems From Electronic Threats,” Joseph Weiss, an engineer and cybersecurity expert, recounted a meeting between electrical engineers and the F.B.I. in 2008. When an F.B.I. official spoke at length about I.E.D.’s, he was referring to improvised explosive devices, but to the engineers the abbreviation meant intelligent electronic devices. And experts fear government-sponsored hacking. Michael V. Hayden, another former C.I.A. director, speaking at the Bipartisan Policy Center conference, said that the Stuxnet virus, which disabled some of Iran’s centrifuges for enriching uranium, might invite retaliation. “In a time of peace, someone just used a cyberweapon to destroy another nation’s critical infrastructure,” he said. “Ouch.” <bot>: A primary goal of the drill, scheduled for November, is to explore how governments would react as the loss of the grid cripples the supply chain for everyday necessities. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160805070011id_/http://www.nytimes.com:80/2013/08/17/us/as-worries-over-the-power-grid-rise-a-drill-will-simulate-a-knockout-blow.html?pagewanted=all&_r=3&
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: General Motors' sales tumbled 53 percent from a year earlier, while Ford's U.S. sales fell 48 percent and Chrysler's dropped 44 percent. The major Japanese automakers fared only slightly better. Overall auto sales were down 41 percent from February 2008, but up 5 percent from January, according to Autodata Corp. and Ward's AutoInfoBank. January marked the industry's worst monthly performance since December 1981. The increase was a good sign, but it's far less than the usual 14 percent sales bump from January to February, and it doesn't necessarily mean sales have hit the bottom, said Jesse Toprak, executive director of industry analysis for the auto Web site Edmunds.com. "It does mean that there's some life out there," Toprak said. Things are so bad that GM, which marked its worst February sales since 1967, is considering a program to let buyers keep their cars for a time without making payments if they lose their jobs. The huge stock market decline helped push down sales, said Mark LaNeve, GM's North American vice president of sales, services and marketing. The Dow Jones industrial average ended the month at its lowest level in nearly 12 years. "People are seeing, tracking their investments going down 3, 4, 5 percent a day or a week," LaNeve said. "That doesn't put you in a mood to go out and splurge on a new vehicle." Automakers sold 688,909 cars and trucks last month, and there's little they can do to spur sales until the economy recovers, Toprak said. "You can spend money on marketing or incentives. That's all you can do," he said. "Neither is having a big impact on sales. That tells us it's really consumer confidence and the general negative state of the economy overall causing consumers to postpone making purchase decisions." According to one figure closely watched by the industry, February's annualized sales rate was the lowest in more than 27 years, dropping to 9.1 million vehicles. That figure makes adjustments for seasonal sales fluctuations. Toyota Motor Corp.'s sales fell 40 percent. The global auto sales leader was forced to seek aid from the Japanese government Tuesday for its finance arm. Automakers and analysts have been predicting sales will rebound in the second half of this year, but they are becoming less certain. As recently as January, they were predicting that U.S. sales this year would total around 11.5 million vehicles, but as the economy has worsened, they have lopped off a million or more sales from their estimates. The incentive GM is considering would be similar to Hyundai Motor Co.'s "Assurance" program, which helped it buck the double-digit sales decline with only a 2 percent drop last month. The South Korean company's program allows buyers to return a vehicle within a year if they can't make the payments due to a misfortune such as job loss or disability. LaNeve said a GM plan might be more useful to reassure buyers. "We're not crazy about the Hyundai program because all it really does is keep your credit from getting wrecked," he said Tuesday. "You lose your job, you have to turn your car in. If you lose your job, you need your car, right? How are you going to get a new job?" GM is trying to fashion a program that's more consumer friendly but hasn't figured one out yet, he said. Ford Motor Co.'s top economist said retail sales to individuals had been stable for four months but dropped last month, indicating this may not be the bottom. Ford's forecast still calls for a modest second-half recovery as economic stimulus measures take hold, economist Emily Kolinski Morris said. Those who do buy are more often opting for a used car or truck. Edmunds' data show that 27 percent of people who intended to buy a new car in February switched to used at the dealership. There is hope for a rebound, however. Rising used car prices are an indication that new car sales may be near the bottom, because more people will opt for new cars when they see they won't save as much by buying a used vehicle. Higher values also make dealers more likely to take trade-ins on new cars, which could move the market to "a more natural balance between new and used," said Ken Czubay, Ford's vice president of U.S. sales and marketing. Industrywide, the average incentive per vehicle last month rose 8 percent from January to $2,914 per vehicle sold, Edmunds said. Incentives climbed to an average of 20 percent of the sticker price of a new car, and they topped more than $10,000 on some vehicles. Incentives vary be region, but buyers were getting an average of $8,504 in rebates and subsidized financing on the Cadillac XLR sports car, while incentives averaged $8,355 on the Dodge Ram 3500 pickup and $8,144 on the Infiniti EX-35 crossover, according to Edmunds. Some vehicles left from the 2008 model year had higher incentives, including cash to dealers that often got passed on to customers, Toprak said. The latest sales slide casts further doubt on the financial viability of GM and Chrysler. They need to sell cars and generate critical cash to supplement the $17.4 billion in government loans that are keeping them in business. The sales slump hit Ford at both ends of its model lineup. Sales of its F-Series truck, traditionally the best-selling vehicle in the U.S., fell 55 percent, while sales of the Focus small car dropped 39 percent. Associated Press writers Kimberly S. Johnson in Detroit and Bree Fowler in New York contributed to this report. <bot>: Ford Motor Co. says its U.S. sales fell 48 percent in February, proof that huge rebates and low-interest financing aren't enough to entice fearful consumers to make a major purchase. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2009030419id_/http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/bbdp/auto-sales-plunge-again-in-february/293918
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. A new CBS News/New York Times Poll shows a solid majority of Americans support legal recognition for same-sex couples - though not necessarily through the official act of marriage - and the number of people who do support full marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples is significantly higher among younger generations. Overall, 38 percent of those who responded to the survey said same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, just like any other couple. Another 24 percent said civil unions should be used to grant same-sex couples legal rights similar to male-female partnerships. Combined, that means 62 percent - close to two thirds - of Americans believe that same-sex unions should be recognized by law. Of all those who participated, 33 percent said there should be no legal recognition for same-sex couples. One of the most striking figures revealed by the survey comes when the responses are broken down by age. Americans between the ages of 18 and 44 are far more likely than people 45 and older to support full marriage rights for same-sex couples. While the number of those in younger generations who completely oppose any legal recognition for same-sex couples remains nearly identical to the larger population - about a third in total - far more people from this subgroup favor full marriage rights over civil unions. Of all the 18- to 44-year-olds who participated in the poll, 53 percent said same-sex couples should be granted full marriage rights. And while almost a quarter of the entire population feels civil unions are more appropriate, as stated above, that number shrinks to just 17 percent when the younger group is looked at in isolation. Thirty percent of those between 18 and 44 said no legal recognition was appropriate. A number of proponents - from gay and lesbian rights activists to politicians and pop culture figures - have pointed to age as a defining characteristic in the American marriage debate in the wake of President Obama's watershed public backing for same-sex marriage last week. Mr. Obama himself suggested that future generations of voting Americans were likely to push the public consensus more in the direction of legal same sex marriages, when he alluded to his own young daughters' feelings, and some young Republicans agreeing with him on the issue, even though they remain at odds in most other areas. "Some of this is also generational," the president told ABC News' Robin Roberts. "You know when I go to college campuses, sometimes I talk to college Republicans who think that I have terrible policies on the economy, on foreign policy, but are very clear that when it comes to same-sex equality or, you know, sexual orientation, that they believe in equality. They are much more comfortable with it." Cornyn: Obama trying to divide U.S. over same-sex marriageTony Perkins: Obama's marriage stance gives Romney "missing piece of intensity"Video: Clay Aiken says we'll be ashamed in 20 years The views expressed in the new CBS News/New York Times poll have been relatively consistent for the past few years. Prior to that, however, support for same-sex marriage was lower. In 2004, just 28 percent said same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, and 38 percent thought their relationships should have no legal recognition. There are large partisan differences on this issue, as well, and they are clear from the poll data. About half of Republicans said they do not support any legal recognition of same-sex relationships, while 37 percent back civil unions. Few Republicans who participated in the survey - just nine percent - said same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, whereas 58 percent of Democrats say same-sex couples should be permitted to marry. Most independents (62 percent) support some kind of legal recognition of same-sex relationships, including 39 percent who said such couples should be allowed to marry. Most Americans seem to think states, rather than the federal government, should make the decision as to whether same-sex marriage is legal or not. Only a third of those who responded to the survey said the federal government should decide. Most Republicans and independents think this issue should be decided by state governments, while Democrats are equally divided. This poll was conducted by telephone on May 11-13, 2012 among 615 adults nationwide, including 562 registered voters, who were first interviewed for a CBS News/New York Times Poll conducted April 13-17, 2012. Phone numbers were dialed from samples of both standard land-line and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus four percentage points. The margin of error for the sample of registered voters is four percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher. This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls. <bot>: CBS News/New York Times poll shows 62% back marriage or civil unions; Young generations far more supportive of full marriage Read more by Tucker Reals on CBS News' Political Hotsheet. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20120514234749id_/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57433493-503544/poll-most-americans-support-same-sex-unions/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: The Illinois Tollway's website says "fast charging" stations for electric vehicles at its rest stops are "inoperable," and thanks you for your patience. The situation is much the same around the Chicago area. On Kingsbury Street, electric-vehicle chargers are shrouded in black vinyl bags. At a Whole Foods on Halsted Street, a sign says "car charging stations will no longer be available." At a Northbrook Whole Foods, the chargers have been removed. "We're taking this opportunity to look for a new provider who can install new equipment, and hope to have electric charging stations again very soon," said Allison Phelps, a Whole Foods spokeswoman. Three years after Chicago promised to complete one of the largest and fastest-charging networks in the country, many of the stations are being turned off, ripped out or abandoned as court battles and an FBI investigation of the beleaguered project continue. Eight months ago, a federal judge handed the network to its new owner, Arlington Heights-based JNS Power & Control Systems Inc., which promised to get it completed. Since then JNS and a previous operator have been embroiled in legal fights over the hand-over of the stations; JNS claims it doesn't even have computer codes to access the network's coveted fast-charging stations. Brian Howe, chief executive of JNS, is undaunted, saying in an interview that the computer network will have to be rebuilt. "I'm tearing it down before I introduce it to the public. It's going to be better and greater than I thought." The idea behind the project was to put the Chicago area on the map as a hip place that encouraged electric- and hybrid-vehicle use, as well as to ease fears that drivers of electric cars would end up stranded if there weren't an adequate number of charging stations dotting the area. The network — fueled by $2 million in state and federal subsidies — was announced with fanfare by city officials at a 2011 Chicago Auto Show news conference headlined by Gov. Pat Quinn. Today, some electric-vehicle owners are still afraid of running out of juice, but also of getting zapped by charging equipment that isn't being maintained. Brian McKee, a Chicagoan, recalled hooking up his electric vehicle for a charge this past winter. "I'm dragging this giant electric cable through the snow, and I had to wonder, is this safe? I mean, no one is maintaining these things …" McKee said that, over time, he has learned which stations work, and he plans trips accordingly. "If I plan to go on a trip that requires a charger, I usually have multiple places that I have figured out might have charging stations. I'll stop at one, and if that's not working, I'll still have enough range to get to another one, and if that's not working, I'll hope I have enough range to get to another one," McKee said. McKee is one of a minority of electric-vehicle drivers who managed to get a reloadable card that gives access to stations in the area that can recharge an electric-car battery in less than 30 minutes. Those reloadable cards haven't been available since April 2012. That's when the company that was originally to install the network, California-based 350Green, was kicked off the job. The fast-charging stations were key to Chicago's electric future because they acted as gas stations, allowing drivers to power their cars on the go. Slow charging takes hours, making it impractical for all but emergencies. By 2011, plans had called for Chicago to have about 280 charging stations, 73 of which could charge a car in minutes. Today, drivers say those fast-charging stations that were installed and still operate are inaccessible to most because the reloadable card system is not being managed. The future is unclear, with 350Green's original owners under a fraud investigation by the FBI, according to people who have been interviewed by FBI agents and an affidavit for a search warrant obtained by the Tribune. Last week, an FBI spokeswoman declined to comment on the case but said the investigation is ongoing. At one point, 350Green struck deals with two companies at the same time to take over the Chicago project, and a federal judge here decided last year that JNS Power, which had been a contractor to 350Green, owned the network. Howe said in an interview that Car Charging Group, the Miami Beach, Fla., firm that briefly took over the project from 350Green, continues to launch legal complaints and has not handed over computer codes that would enable JNS to access the network's fast-charging stations. Suzanne Tamargo, a spokeswoman for Car Charging, said "we are not purposefully stalling progress on the charging stations in Chicago." She said that at the time of the court ruling its access to the fast-charging stations was deactivated by the network provider. "We cannot provide access we do not have," she said. Complicating matters, 350Green's previous owners have individually filed for federal bankruptcy protection, and dozens of contractors on the Chicago project remain unpaid. The city of Chicago also took a public relations hit. According to the FBI search warrant recently made public, the city of Chicago provided 350Green $1.7 million in state and federal grant money as reimbursement for checks the company claimed it had sent to contractors "when, in fact, some of those vendors and subcontractors had not been paid." According to the warrant, a bookkeeper for 350Green told an FBI agent that the company's owners, Tim Mason and Mariana Gerzanych, would ask the employee to scan checks and submit them as evidence of payment but to not mail them to subcontractors. The bookkeeper told the agent she kept the signed checks, which were never mailed, in a green folder, according to the search warrant. Attorneys representing Gerzanych and Mason didn't respond to the Tribune's requests for comment. The search warrant also indicates that 350Green's financial problems extend beyond Chicago. Former 350Green employees said about $2 million in checks for charging-station projects in Pennsylvania and the Bay Area were never sent to contractors. A search of 350Green's California headquarters revealed $4.3 million in unsent checks for projects around the country, according to the warrant. On Friday, Samantha Bingham, environmental policy analyst for the Chicago Department of Transportation, called the legal disputes a "hiccup in our rollout of a robust public charging infrastructure" but said simply announcing the project did achieve its goal of getting more electric-vehicle manufacturers to roll out cars early for Chicago drivers. "We would be happy to move forward with JNS after their ownership is resolved through the legal system but not until they've worked out the ownership issue, they've settled with 350Green's contractors and we have a grant agreement worked out," she said. Excluding the Chicago network, Car Charging Group owns 350Green's assets in California, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kansas, Maryland, Colorado, Georgia, Utah, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Washington and Illinois, according to company filings. Car Charging Group has been ordered to hand over 51 charging stations to JNS so it can finish the Chicago project. But there has been a hitch with that as well, with Car Charging Group offering to supply a different type of charger in lieu of 350Green's, but that suggestion has been rejected by the city and JNS. Chicago-area electric-vehicle drivers interviewed by the Tribune said they are charging them at home and only making short trips to avoid the possibility of getting stranded. "We need infrastructure like what Tesla put in place using independent locations instead of tying into retail stores," said Nancy Ellis Mau, a Nissan Leaf owner who lives in Rolling Meadows. "It benefits a place like Walgreens to have a slow (charging station), but that is the opposite of the needs of the electric-vehicle owner. It's great that there were grants to help with the infrastructure, but that money is gone, and you have owners like me who can't even go as far as Milwaukee with my Leaf." Tesla supercharging stations open up the heartland States pledge support to plug-in infrastructure Best Car Stories of 2013 <bot>: Many of Chicago's charging stations are being ripped out or abandoned as court battles and an FBI investigation continue. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2014050719id_/http://cars.chicagotribune.com/fuel-efficient/news/ct-charging-station-update-0504-biz-20140504
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Nearly a year has passed since Tiger Woods last played in a competitive golf tournament. And in many respects, the sport is moving on. But even from afar, he looms over the three biggest stars in this week’s PGA Championship. Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Jason Day didn’t compete against Woods in his prime. But on some level, what Woods did in his prime is still a burden on them. It has created an expectation that may be impossible for anyone in today’s game to meet. “Everyone expects if you’re in the lead or if you’re a favorite to win, they expect you to win,” Day said Wednesday, “and if you don’t, then you’re in a slump.” If that is the standard, then consider all three in a slump. McIlroy is coming up on two years since his last major victory. Spieth hasn’t won a major since last year’s U.S. Open. Day, who will defend his PGA Championship title at Baltusrol this week, has finished no better than eighth at a major this year. Whether any of that actually constitutes some sort of failure depends on the answer to a timely question: Is it fair to expect a No. 1-caliber player to win a major every year in the prime of his career? Between his first major victory at the 1997 Masters and his last at the 2008 U.S. Open, Woods won 14 of 46 majors. That means that over 12 years, he won 30% of the majors he played in, averaging a little more than one major title per year for more than a decade. The problem with holding anyone else to that standard isn’t merely that Woods was a once-in-a-lifetime talent. It’s also the nature of golf, which pits a player not just against one opponent but against an entire field. If the No. 1 player in the world outperforms 99% of his opponents on any given week, that is known as losing. Woods defied that reality better and for longer than anyone else in the history of the sport. Go down the list of major title winners and you’ll find players who dominated for short periods and players who amassed trophies over the long haul. But even among all-time greats, winning one major every year has proven elusive. Between his first and last major titles, Ben Hogan won 9 of 16 majors he played in, or 56%, a prolific prime but a relatively short one. Ditto that for Arnold Palmer, who averaged just over a major title per year over a seven-year stretch. To understand the trajectory that McIlroy and Spieth, in particular, are on, consider this: Since his first major title at the 2011 U.S. Open, McIlroy’s winning percentage at majors is 19%. Even if Spieth does not win this week, he will have won 25% of majors since the start of 2015. That compares favorably with Jack Nicklaus, who had a major winning percentage of just 18% between his first and his last. His record of 18 major titles is the sport’s gold standard—but that was over a 24-year stretch. Yet even with Spieth a mere 23 years old and McIlroy just 27, the long view can be difficult to take when they seem capable of doing better. And it’s not just public expectations. They also feel capable of more. “Yeah, I think (one major per year) is realistic,” McIlroy said. “We’ve seen in the past that is achievable. That’s the benchmark.” McIlroy has one non-major win this year and two top-10 finishes at majors, yet when asked for one word to describe his year so far, “neutral” was the best he could come up with. “I’m just trying to stay as positive as I can,” he said. “I guess just maybe running out of patience a little bit and trying to make it happen.” By some measures, Spieth is a better player than he was last year. On the PGA Tour this season, he is gaining more strokes relative to the field off the tee, around the green and with his putter, though majors are not included in the data. He won two tournaments earlier this year to give him eight career wins, one more than Woods had before his 23rd birthday. But Spieth hasn’t been in contention at a major since his final-round collapse at the Masters. And the perception that he is having a down year has weighed heavily on him. “Had last year not happened, I’d be having a lot of positive questions,” he said at the British Open. “Instead, most of the questions I get are comparing to last year and therefore negative, because it’s not to the same standard. So that’s almost tough to then convince myself that you’re having a good year.” Day, the world No. 1, needs less convincing. He has three wins in 2016, including his victory at the Players Championship in May. But even he said last month that he has never been more stressed. The biggest reason for optimism for all three players is that there is still one major remaining in the year. Baltusrol seems most favorable for McIlroy, with the premium it puts on length off the tee. Day didn’t play the course until Wednesday, said he is under the weather and added, “I’m not coming into this week expecting a lot.” But for any of the three, a win this weekend would change the entire year. “When you get to a certain level,” Phil Mickelson said, “if you don’t win a major, the year is going to be a letdown no matter how you look at it.” Write to Brian Costa at brian.costa@wsj.com <bot>: Golf’s elite trio of McIlroy, Spieth and Day is learning that consistent dominance is consistently impossible. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160730011354id_/http://www.wsj.com:80/articles/tiger-woods-has-set-the-bar-too-high-1469661485
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: If you want to see one more amazing thing in this presidential campaign, just wait a few days. It will come along. And so it was on Sunday night that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich announced that they had agreed to divide key remaining primary states between them, giving each a better chance to stop Donald Trump head-to-head and force a contested Republican convention. Is this move a desperate attempt by two... <bot>: Ted Cruz-John Kasich alliance to split states is only the latest Republican presidential campaign stunner. Voters will soon decide whether it is an act of desperation or a clever move to block front-runner Donald Trump. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160808070909id_/http://www.wsj.com:80/articles/cruz-kasich-alliance-the-latest-gop-stunner-1461598250
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: is grudgingly back on U.S. soil, after getting booted from Guatemala. We got video of the computer software mogul entering a swanky hotel last night. He joked with the photog but was mum about his mounting troubles. Authorities in Belize -- the place McAfee has called home since 2008 -- want to chit chat with him about the murder of his neighbor. McAfee told GMA he fled Belize for Guatamala and asked for asylum but his request was rejected and he was returned to his country of origin -- the United States. If you get deported to the U.S., South Beach is a nice landing spot. Sure beats Fresno. <bot>: John McAfee is grudgingly back on U.S. soil, after getting booted from Guatemala.We got video of the computer software mogul entering a swanky hotel last… <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20160708045638id_/http://www.tmz.com:80/2012/12/13/john-mcafee-deported-united-states-murder-belize-south-beach-miami/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: T WO men on horseback playing polo are not a common sight on Fifth Avenue at 52d Street, but they didn't actually stop traffic Wednesday night. They just slowed it a bit. A few passersby stopped to watch briefly. Others were more blase, like the two middle-age women who were hurrying along the street. One tugged at the other's sleeve when she saw the horses, but the other said impatiently, ''I don't have time for this.'' The polo-playing demonstration was held outside Cartier's while a party was held inside in honor of a polo tournament the jewelry store is sponsoring in Palm Beach, Fla., beginning March 16. A highlight of the tournament will be the Cartier International Polo Ball to benefit World Wildlife Fund-U.S. The partygoers were a varied lot. They included Mary Sanford, honorary chairman of the ball; Francis L. Kellogg, a former president of the wildlife group; Joseph F. Coleman 3d, chairman of the Philip Morris Company and head of the executive committee of the fund; Diane Love; Michael Butler, and his sister, Jorie Butler Kent, whose husband, Geoffrey, plays polo. Patti Davis, daughter of Marvin Davis, the Colorado oilman and movie magnate, dashed in late, blond hair spilling over the shoulders of her sable coat, and said, ''I just got into town, and I'm going back to California. Did I miss the polo playing?'' She did, but Paul Nitze didn't. Paul, who will be 4 years old in two weeks, walked around the store in his double-breasted navy coat and red rubber boots and said, yes, he liked the horses. But, with a tidbit clutched in each tiny fist, he seemed more interested in the food. ''I was to take him to dinner at the Promenade Cafe,'' explained his mother, Ann, ''but it was closed. So I brought him here, and he filled up on hors d'oeuvres.'' T HERE was more substantial food at the Plaza Hotel's 75th anniversary party, held in the Terrace Room. Buffet tables held shrimp, crab claws, oysters, beef fillets, stuffed artichokes, steak tartare, various pates and terrines, smoked salmon and all manner of cakes, mousses and petits fours. It was the opening event in a series of anniversary celebrations to culminate in a formal ball on Oct. 1, the opening day of the hotel in 1907. This week's party celebrated the publication of a book on the hotel, entitled, aptly enough, ''The Plaza.'' The 400 partygoers ate and drank with gusto and listened appreciately to Hildegarde - in red taffeta cape, black dress and long black gloves -sing a string of old songs, including ''Happy Birthday.'' Hildegarde announced that she's really the same age as the hotel, but she prefers to transpose the figures to 57. After her performance, Hildegarde held court on the upper level of Terrace Room. Among her admirers was Donald Smith, who recalled seeing a poster advertising a Hildegarde show in Boston when he was 8 years old. He asked his aunt to take him to a performace, but she replied, ''We don't go to nightclubs.'' Some years later, Mr. Smith saw Hildegarde for the first time at the Persian Room at the Plaza. Only Bill Harris, author of ''The Plaza,'' was a little disappointed with the Plaza anniversary party. ''They left my name off the book,'' he said. ''The publishers say it was an accident and they'll put it on the second printing.'' T HE party William Randolph Hearst Jr. gave for the 35th anniversary of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund was held at the fund's headquarters on West 56th Street. The building was originally the Woolworth family mansion and later a nightclub. On the marble staircase in the entry hall the other night, Mr. Hearst welcomed the guests, who included Louisa and Moorhead Kennedy, Sharman Douglas, Damon Runyon 3d, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Celeste Holm, Wesley Addy and Betsy and Walter Cronkite. Mr. Cronkite was rather surprised to discov er he was the guest of honor. ''All I know is I was invited to a cocktail party,' ' he said. ''Then I got here and found out it was for me. I have no i dea why.'' After the party, Mr. Hearst dashed over to the ''21'' Club to join his wife, Austine, for dinner. She had spent the early part of the evening at a benefit for the Musicians Emergency Fund. ''You've heard of separate rooms,'' she said. ''We have separate charities.'' Anne-Marie Schiro <bot>: T WO men on horseback playing polo are not a common sight on Fifth Avenue at 52d Street, but they didn't actually stop traffic Wednesday night. They just slowed it a bit. A few passersby stopped to watch briefly. Others were more blase, like the two middle-age women who were hurrying along the street. One tugged at the other's sleeve when she saw the horses, but the other said impatiently, ''I don't have time for this.'' The polo-playing demonstration was held outside Cartier's while a party was held inside in honor of a polo tournament the jewelry store is sponsoring in Palm Beach, Fla., beginning March 16. A highlight of the tournament will be the Cartier International Polo Ball to benefit World Wildlife Fund-U.S. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: http://web.archive.org/web/20150524125106id_/http://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/22/style/the-evening-hours.html
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: It’s official: The machines are smarter than mankind, at least when it comes to Jeopardy. IBM supercomputer Watson has emerged victorious against its human competition in a three-day competition between the massively intelligent machine and two of Jeopardy‘s greatest champions: Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Yesterday, the competition wasn’t even close, with Watson earning $35,734 and his human competitors earning a combined $15,200. Today though, humanity — specifically Ken Jennings — gave Watson a run for its money. At one point during the third day of competition, Jennings (a 74-time champion) was up $15,000 to Watson’s $11,673. However, it wasn’t even close in the end; Watson earned a total of $77,147. Jennings collected $24,000 in three days of competition, while Rutter garnered $21,600. “I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords,” Jennings humorously wrote on his video screen, ceding the Jeopardy battle to his mechanical competitor. For winning the three day competition, Watson will be awarded a $1 million prize. The intelligent machine won’t be keeping its winnings, though; IBM will be donating the prize money to World Vision. Watson’s victory is the culmination of years of research and development for IBM. Watson calculates hundreds of algorithms simultaneously to parse human language complexities such as puns in order to find the answer through its massive database. The machine is powered by 90 32-core IBM Power 750 Express servers with a total of 16 terabytes of memory. <bot>: It's official: The machines are smarter than mankind, at least when it comes to Jeopardy.IBM supercomputer Watson has emerged victorious against its human competition in a three-day <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2011021719id_/http://mashable.com/2011/02/16/ibms-watson-supercomputer-defeats-humanity-in-jeopardy/
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<human>: Produce an article summary of the following news article: Kate Upton wasn't letting any cats out of the bag about her dating life during a recent interview with Ellen. If even endearing Ellen DeGeneres can't dig the truth out of Kate Upton, who can? The talk show host took her turn trying to get the Sports Illustrated swimsuit model to fess up to rumors that she's currently dating Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez on her show Thursday, but to no avail. "And your boyfriend, New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez, how does he feel about this?" DeGeneres cuts straight to the chase in a clip from the interview. Upton, 19, laughs coquettishly and claims that she "did not have a Valentine's Day date this year," all the while batting her lashes suggestively. "Okay, so he was busy," she prods, continuing to ask Upton about her "boyfriend." "Well, even if I had a boyfriend, I wouldn't ask how he felt about it," Upton laughs, presumably in reference to her racy spread in Sports Illustrated. WHO IS KATE UPTON? THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT THE STUNNER DeGeneres doesn't let up, however, and pushes for Upton to slip-up. "I'm just guessing that it's him. Is it him?" the talk show host asks. "Do you want it to be him?" Upton shoots back, clearly enjoying the rapport. The model explains that she's only met Sanchez "briefly" at a Jets game. Her sister, she says, has worked for the Jets for the past four years - hence her constant presence on the sidelines. CHECK OUT THE SI MODEL'S IMPRESSIVE BODY OF WORK Earlier this week, the buxom blond dodged questions from TMZ reporters as well, telling them that "it's whatever you think!" as she bounded away. DeGeneres makes one last-ditch effort. "So how long have ya'll been dating?" she asks. "I don't know what you're talking about," Upton smiles, shaking her head. <bot>: If even endearing Ellen DeGeneres can't dig the truth out of Kate Upton, who can? The talk show host took her turn trying to get the Sports Illustrated swimsuit model to fess up to rumors that she's currently dating Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez on her show Thursday, but to no avail. <human>: What could be a url for this news article? <bot>: A url for this news article could be: https://web.archive.org/web/2012021619id_/http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/kate-upton-continues-dodge-mark-sanchez-questions-ellen-show-i-talking-article-1.1023737