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"Every time Donald thinks things aren't going in his direction, he claims everything is rigged against him," Clinton said. "The FBI conducted a yearlong investigation into my emails. They found nothing. He said it was rigged. He said the Republican primary was rigged against him. He claims the court system and the federal judge is rigged against him. There was even a time when he didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him."
"Should have gotten it," Trump then interrupted.
"This is a mindset. This is how Donald thinks," Clinton retorted. "That is not the way our democracy works. We've been around for 240 years. We've had free and fair elections. We've accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them, and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election."
Pete Blair, architect of the ALERRT training program, adopted by the FBI for rapid response to active shooters, says denying fame to shooters would decrease the frequency of mass shooting events. His campaign is called "Don't Name Them."
When Pete Blair isn't teaching criminal justice at Texas State University, he's helping the F.B.I. train law enforcement nationwide to handle mass shootings.
Toward the end of his typically days-long program, he shows a photo on the projector screen. It's Victoria Soto. He asks who recognizes her, and usually no one raises a hand. Then he shows a picture of Adam Lanza, and most hands go up.
Lanza killed 26 people in the Sandy Hook massacre where Soto died protecting her first-grade class.
"Why is it we don't know who she is, but we know who that monster is?" he said. "What does that say about how we're covering these things?"
In addition to his training program, Blair runs a campaign called "Don't Name Them," imploring media and law enforcement, as able, not to publicize the names of mass shooters in an attempt to stem the trend of public massacres that's grown in America since the early 2000s.
The now-notorious shooters from Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Santa Barbara and most recently Umpqua Community College have cited mass killers before them as inspiration for their attacks. Blair said they see a shooting spree as an effective way to get their manifestos or complaints to a national audience.
Umpqua shooter Chris Harper-Mercer wrote online, "seems the more people you kill, the more you're in the limelight," according to the New York Times. So after the rampage that killed nine, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin refused to say Harper-Mercer's name.
The response from law enforcement is almost entirely reactive, Blair said. His training program, called ALERRT for Active Law Enforcement Rapid Response, teaches two basic stages to an active shooter response: Stop the killing and stop the dying.
An FBI spokesperson called it "the national standard for special agent tactical instructors."
The program was adopted by the FBI after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook, when the White House decided that local law enforcement needed specific training to deal with the disturbingly recurrent active shooter events.
Somehow, it's a characteristically American problem; the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that of 166 mass shooting tallied worldwide since 2000, 133 were in the United States.
As opposed to reactive responses, Blair calls for a proactive approach that can stop the violence before it happens. He thinks "Don't Name Them" is that approach.
"We don't want to make celebrities out of people who have done horrific acts," he said.
When shooters open fire, media often delve into their personal stories and typical struggles with bullying and rejection. The coverage can turn the shooters into strong symbols for others, especially with psychological conditions, who sympathize with their stories.
However, law enforcement are rarely at liberty not to name a shooting suspect. If the shooter is killed by an officer, the name becomes public record and must be released if reporters request it. If the shooter escapes, law enforcement will generally release the name in search of leads.
Responsibility, Blair said, falls largely on the media. He pointed to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who in the wake of recent shootings has pledged to name the shooters minimally and to keep coverage focused on victims.
National debate continues to mull solutions to the mass shooting epidemic. Other oft-touted solutions include availability of psychological counseling in schools, heightened restrictions on guns or further arming the civilian populace and school staff.
"What is clear is that this has to stop," Blair said.
The death toll for FDNY members who worked at Ground Zero continues to climb, 17 years after 9/11.
The FDNY Battalion Chief and Uniformed Fire Officers Association said Monday that 182 members have died due to work at the World Trade Center. Over 1,000 firefighters and members of the FDNY have been diagnosed with forms of cancer, respiratory problems or other 9/11-related illnesses.
"They toiled in that toxic stew day-in and day-out, 24-7, performing a mission that no one else could," said Jake Lemonda, president of UFOA.
"Not once did any of these members, who are battling for their life, say that they regretted responding."
Eighteen more names were added to the FDNY's 9/11 Memorial Wall just last week.
Retired firefighter Jimmy Martinez died last month of bone marrow cancer caused by Ground Zero toxins.
A new animation from the United Nation’s Global Pulse initiative explains how macro socioeconomic trends effect individual people and how the analysis of real-time data can help inform a more timely and targeted response.
At PSFK CONFERENCE NYC, Robert Kirkpatrick, the Director of the United Nation’s Global Pulse initiative, will talk about his innovative work mining social media, the open web and the massive amounts of passive data that is created every day, to detect the early impacts of global crises on various communities. Click here to purchase tickets and find additional information about this year’s event.
A new animation from Global Pulse explains how macro socioeconomic trends effect the lives of individual people and how the analysis of real-time data can help inform more timely and targeted responses to support communities at the times when they are most vulnerable.
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said in a recent interview that his company will release a 3D-capable game console in the future. He said he wants to wait until 3D TVs are popular enough.
Amid all the hoopla surrounding E3, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told a Japanese publication this week that he plans to bring 3D functionality to the company's next game console.
"If you display a 3D image, the image quality becomes extremely bad, so we'd probably do it with the next system," Iwata told the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. "We're thinking that the timing should be once the 3D television adoption rates crosses the 30 percent mark. We're looking at the adoption trends."
Iwata's comments seem to fall in line with Nintendo's recent push for 3D. The company unveiled the Nintendo 3DS during its E3 keynote earlier this week. The device, which features two screens and allows gamers to play in 3D without wearing glasses, is scheduled to be released next year. The company has yet to offer pricing details.
On the console side, Iwata wouldn't say how 3D would be implemented in a Wii follow-up. But unlike the Wii, which was first to deliver motion gaming and forced Sony and Microsoft to catch up, a 3D-capable Nintendo console would be playing catch-up.
At E3 earlier this week, Sony announced that it hopes to have more than 20 3D titles coming to its PlayStation 3 console by the end of the year. Depending on the success of Sony's titles, it could put the onus on Nintendo to respond sooner than it otherwise might like to.
Regardless, it seems that the future of console gaming will have at least some element of 3D in it. So far, Sony has invested in the technology. Soon enough, Nintendo might follow suit in the console space.
I offer my views in political reporter Ben Calhoun's WBEZ-FM story today about whom Gov. Rod Blagojevich might appoint to the U.S. Senate if our current junior senator, Barack Obama, wins the White House in November.
Click here to listen using the handy embedded audio player.
Click here to read my conflict-of-interest disclaimer on items regarding electronic media, particularly WBEZ.
Knowing Blago's incredibly inflated ego, he will probably appoint himself.
Now getting him out of Springfield is a good thing, Governor Pat Quinn would restore some civility there.
Blago also must think it would be harder politically for Fitzgerald to indict a Senator.
Loud rumors say that Jan Schakowsky wants the job. As one of her reluctant constituents, I'd love to get rid of her. She's never met an illegal alien that isn't a poor oppressed person instead of someone that's taking good paying jobs from poor American citizens.
She also couldn't get elected in a statewide election as she's so liberal, she makes Ted Kennedy look like a right winger.
But Blago's advisors are sneaky enough to get him to name Lisa Madigan & get her out of his way for the 2010 election, even though he'll probably be residing in Oxford, Wisconsin for 8-10 years by then.
There's also a move to name Rahm Emanuel, but he likes it in the House, he just might be the next Speaker, replacing the thoroughly ineffectual Pelosi.
Of the 179 appointees to fill US Senate vacancies –all in the 20th Century when the Constitution was changed—only about 1/3 were then elected to the job. A plurality was rejected by the voters; some didn’t even make it through the primary. Thus, it is not the slam dunk many people think.
The only reason I can think of that would get Lisa to take it is that it is a job that doesn’t intersect with her father.
I still think Alderman Ed Burke (14th Ward) would make a very good senator. He is an expert on parliamentary procedure and a very distinguished gentleman with a wealth of experience, especially in finance and law.
Sure, he's a member of the Daley machine, and I'm referring to Richard J. Daley here, but he knows politics in Illinois and Chicago as well as anybody, having served with distinction in the City Council for nearly 40 years.
I think he has the chops to handle the move to Washington for an interim term, and perhaps more.
Realistically, I doubt he is on anyone's list for the job, though, and he probably wouldn't want it, seeing as he was reluctant at first to take the job he now has. Plus, his wife is a Justice on the Illinois Supreme Court, which might make a move to Washington disruptive to his family.
The filling of a vacancy in the United States Senate residing in the hands of Illinois politicians such as Blago and crew is a scary thing, indeed.
G should know that Gov. Rod can't appoint Lisa Madigan to the Senate without her consent, although I believe the point of his/her screed is to knock on liberals rather than to mess with the facts.
I can't get your audio on my computer right now, EZ, but I'm guessing you're sticking with Schakowsky. She seems like the obvious choice, especially when you consider the alternatives. None of the other U.S. Congresspeople is strong enough to hold the seat on a statewide basis, nor are any of the other statewide Dems except perhaps Quinn (who could also turn it down if he'd rather be Gov). We know Mike Madigan and Emil Jones don't want it. Gov. Rod could go for a qualified state senator or state rep, but the ranks seem thin. My guess is he goes for Schakowsky.
Torres, now 41, started playing soccer when he was 7. He played in tournaments outside of Petare, where he grew up, and won many trophies. He dreamed of playing professionally but a lack of resources meant he became an electrician who played soccer on the side.
Still, he recognized that soccer had saved him from a life of crime and possibly even a violent death. He wanted the next generation of kids in Petare to have the same tools that soccer gave him. So he created his own informal soccer school. Other trainers did the same thing, and soon there were 24 informal community soccer schools in Petare that came together over the passion for soccer.
Today, these soccer schools are offering training — both in the game and in life — for more than 2,000 children in one of the roughest parts of Caracas. Torres and others say they hope soccer will help a generation of children stay away from crime and start them on a path to a productive life.
With the dire economic situation in Venezuela, the organization called Pasión Petare also recently added a meal program for the children, which for many of them is the only meal they’ll get all day.
Petare, considered by some to be one of the most dangerous slums in the world, is plagued with poverty, drugs, a high murder rate and chronic teen pregnancy. When Torres and the other trainers formed their schools, Petare didn’t have any grass soccer fields for the kids to play on. Their teams weren’t officially recognized so they couldn’t play in tournaments. They could only play informal games called caimaneras in empty dirt lots. Torres and the other trainers knew they needed to do more.
In 2010, the mayor of Petare, Carlos Ocariz, gave the groups a much-needed boost by allocating government funding for artificial turf on empty lots where they had been practicing. He also gave them official recognition so they could play in tournaments against established teams, and arranged ongoing financial support.
Pasión Petare, the umbrella group for all the schools, was created as an independent NGO so the soccer clubs wouldn’t be financially dependent on which political party was in office.
The goal of Pasión Petare is to use soccer as an equalizer, a way to transcend social barriers and to offer skills to overcome obstacles.
Maria Gabriela Rivas, the sports psychologist of Pasión Petare, said she believes soccer can teach children discipline, values, team work and other skills.
The downward spiral of Venezuela’s economy means more children are left on their own, too.
When the soccer schools became officially recognized, Pasión Petare began helping the 24 community teams get sponsorships, materials for training, transportation for tournaments, uniforms — and shoes, Rivas said.
Trainers also benefit from Pasión Petare. They have access to courses on leadership, first aid or technical skills.
“I love the classes because they empower me, giving me more tools to be a better coach,” Torres said.
Torres takes his coaching as seriously as his day job, setting an example for players like Luis Acevedo, 16, nicknamed “el pollo,” or the chicken.
Luis’ father had to go to Colombia a few months ago to find work as the Venezuelan economy continues to take a dive.
The bottoming-out economy has other effects on the program. A year ago, Torres’ longtime assistant trainer had to leave the country to find work. Some trainers reported children fainting on the field for lack of food, and there were fewer children coming to practice due to their parents’ inability to provide meals.
In October 2017, Pasión Petare launched a meal program called “Alimenta la Pasión,” or Feed the Passion, to give each child a plate of food when they showed up at practice, regardless of their ability to play.
With Torres agreeing to supervise meal times, and two volunteer cooks lined up, Pasión Petare began to look for food donations. An abandoned restaurant became their community kitchen.
Another school has added a meal program as well, and Torres hopes there will be more.
Rivas said they worry about running out of food. “It’s hard to have food all the time. And sometimes Iván and the rest of us on the team worry about how to obtain enough private donations to keep the programs going in these communities where the need is so great and the positive effects of the program are so obvious,” she said.
One day recently, two new children appeared at the field, 10-year-old Paola Carrasco and her 11-year-old sister, Nicole.
Belinda Soncini can be contacted at belindasoncini@yahoo.com.
The man accused of running over his ex-wife with a pickup truck and killing her, has been taken into custody at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Cesar Castillo, 37, surrendered to authorities at the San Ysidro Port of Entry around 2:15 p.m. Monday, according to the Chula Vista Police Department.
He is accused of killing is ex-wife, Leonor Castillo, also 37, by driving over her twice.
Leonor's boyfriend told NBC 7 she had planned to meet with her ex-husband to help him buy Christmas gifts for their three daughters, ages 3, 8 and 10.
On Friday evening, Castillo picked Leonor up in his white 1998 Chevy Silverado truck in the 1200 block of 1st Avenue, where Leonor lived.
But the two did not make it four blocks before Leonor somehow got out of the truck in the 1100 block of Elm Avenue, the boyfriend said. Witnesses told police they saw a white truck run over Leonor in a home's front yard, circle back and hit her again, taking out a fence in the process.
Investigators believed Castillo then fled to Mexico, where his mother lives, according to Leonor's boyfriend.
He said Castillo started getting aggressive in March when his ex-wife began dating her new boyfriend, whom she met while working part-time at a Lowe's hardware store.
Leonor got a restraining order against her ex-husband in April after he allegedly held her hostage in his truck, driving her around and threatening to crash, her boyfriend told NBC 7.
After the restraining order was filed, Castillo made an effort to get his life together and get back into Leonor's by attending counseling, the boyfriend says.
Leonor had full-custody of their daughters and was just elected as vice president of the PTA at their school, Palomar Elementary.
The search is on for a hit-and-run driver who fled a deadly scene in Chula Vista. It happened Friday night in the 1100 block of Elm. According to witness accounts, police say the driver hit the woman once, then made a U-turn and ran over her again. As NBC 7’s Omari Fleming reports, neighbors are rattled by what they saw.
On Monday, the school sent out a note to parents, explaining that their "beloved" PTA vice president had been killed. Officials said psychologists would be on campus if any student or staff member needed to talk about the loss.
A small makeshift memorial in the spot where Leonor died continued to grow Monday.
People left candles and flowers to honor Leonor Castillo in the spot where she died.
The memorial is just steps away from a chain-link fence that was badly damaged in the incident. Neighbor Russ Anderson, who owns the fence, says seeing Leonor’s body is something that will stick with him forever.
Castillo was employed as a maintenance worker in the Mission Bay area.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said the number of registered workers under the pension scheme in the fourth quarter, 2018 hit 8,410,184 compared to 8,136,202 registered workers in the second quarter, 2018.
NBS said this in its “Pension Asset and RSA Membership Data Q4, 2018” released on its website.
The bureau said that the Pension Fund Asset, under management as at fourth quarter 2018 stood at N8,637 million as against N8,323million in the second quarter , 2018.
According to the report, the Federal Government (FGN) Bonds have the highest weight percentage of 52.49 of the total pension fund assets.

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