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AFGHANISTAN
16 punished over
hospital bombing
BY TARA COPP AND CHAD GARLAND
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has
punished 16 military personnel for an
airstrike last year on a Doctors Without
Borders medical facility in Afghanistan
that killed 42 civilians, including doctors
and patients.
The results of the investigation into the
Oct. 3, 2015, airstrike in Kunduz were
Families, rights groups
decry Pentagon’s nonjudicial
actions after deadly airstrike
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announced Friday by Gen. Joseph Votel,
commander of U.S. Central Command.
SEE HOSPITAL ON PAGE 3
An employee of Doctors Without Borders stands inside the charred remains
of the organization’s hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on Oct. 16.
N AJIM R AHIM /AP
SIGAR: US drawdown will leave Afghan forces with ‘capability gaps’
BY PHILLIP WALTER WELLMAN
Stars and Stripes
KABUL, Afghanistan — Current plans
to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan will leave Afghan forces with
“capability gaps” in a number of areas,
which could threaten the success of reconstruction efforts in the country, a government watchdog said Friday.
Since 2001, the United States and its allies
The U.S. is currently
scheduled to draw down its
9,800 troops in Afghanistan
to about 5,500 by the start
of next year. This reduction,
SIGAR said, could result in
“gaps in air support, signals,
intelligence and other areas.”
have worked to strengthen Afghanistan’s
army and police forces to be able to singlehandedly defend the country, but major challenges continue to hinder those efforts, and
further troop withdrawals likely would exacerbate the situation, according to the Special
Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s quarterly report to Congress.
“The U.S. ability to influence operational
outcomes on the ground is constricting,
while (that of the Afghan National Defense
and Security Forces) has not correspondingly risen,” the report said.
One major challenge is that the U.S. has
lost much of its ability to directly observe
the capabilities and effectiveness of Afghan
forces since troop reductions last year. Uncertainty over Afghan troop numbers is
also a concern, as is the Afghans’ ability to
properly manage U.S. financial aid to support the military and police, SIGAR said.
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Soldier who hit rapist to stay in Army
In 2011, Martland hit an Afghan man who admitted he raped a child
‘ (The Army) modified a portion of one of
BY COREY DICKSTEIN
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — Army Sgt.
1st Class Charles Martland, a
Green Beret once selected for
involuntary separation from the
service after he struck an Afghan
police commander who had admitted to raping a child, will remain in uniform.
An Army board on Wednesday determined that Martland’s
military personnel file contained
an “error or injustice,” an Army
spokesman said Friday morning.
Removing that error from his
record means Martland, 33, will
continue to serve at least through
the end of his enlistment.
The Army initially selected
Martland, a recipient of the
Bronze Star with a “V” device for
valor, to leave the service by November 2015 through the Qualitative Management Program, a
method used to determine which
noncommissioned officers would
be part of the Army’s force reduction. In October, the Army
decided to allow him to remain in
service to appeal his case at the
request of several lawmakers.
The service again delayed its decision on Martland in March.
“The Army Board for Correction of Military Records considers each case on its own merit
when determining to grant or
deny an applicant’s request,”
said Army Lt. Col. Jerry Pionk,
a spokesman for the service. “…
In Sgt. 1st Class Martland’s case,
(Martland’s) evaluation reports ... which
will allow him to remain in the Army.
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Lt. Col. Jerry Pionk
Army spokesman
Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland
the Army Board for Correction of
Military Records determination
modified a portion of one of [his]
evaluation reports and removed
him from the (Qualitative Management Program) list, which
will allow him to remain in the
Army.”
Martland, whose cause has
been championed by former
Marine Corps officer Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and other
lawmakers, has maintained that
the only blemish on his personnel record is an October 2011
“memorandum of reprimand”
issued by Brig. Gen. Christopher
K. Haas, then commander of the
Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command in
Afghanistan.
That reprimand was issued
after Martland and his detachment commander hit an Afghan
local police commander in September 2011 while deployed to a
remote combat outpost in Kunduz province. The Green Berets
shoved and slammed Abdul Rahman into the ground after he’d ad-
mitted to chaining a 12-year-old
boy and sexually assaulting him
repeatedly for several days.
Martland and his commander,
former Army Capt. Daniel Quinn,
were relieved of duty and sent back
to the United States for their actions, which Hass wrote were “the
intentional assault” of Rahman.
Quinn left the Army the following year, while Martland eventually re-enlisted and has continued
serving in special forces.
A spokesman for Hunter said
Friday morning that the congressman was “elated” to receive a call
from acting Army Secretary Patrick Murphy on Thursday night
confirming Martland would be allowed to continue his service.
Hunter “thanked [Murphy]
for doing the right thing and for
putting Charles back in the fight,
which is what Charles always
wanted,” said Joe Kasper, Hunter’s chief of staff. “We’ve worked
a lot of these types of cases as an
office, and this is perhaps the most
gratifying outcome of them all.”
Martland’s case thrust into the
spotlight the long-standing open
secret in Afghanistan of the sexual abuse of children, especially
young boys, commonly called
“bacha bazi” or “boy play.”
Accusations surfaced that
American servicemembers were
instructed to turn a blind eye to
the practice.
Pentagon officials have denied
that was the case, but representatives for the U.S. mission in
Afghanistan have said American
troops are not required to report
allegations of child sexual abuse.
The Pentagon inspector general
is conducting a comprehensive
assessment of the issue.
Last month, Hunter introduced
legislation dubbed the “Martland
Act” that, if made law, would require American servicemembers
to intervene if a child is sexually
assaulted on American-controlled
bases throughout the world.
“The Pentagon finally took action and did the right thing,” Rep.
Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., said Friday morning. “Going forward, I
hope the Department of Defense
will learn from Martland’s case
and avoid punishing those who
stand up for American values at
home and abroad.”
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Marine general nominated to lead AFRICOM
BY JOHN VANDIVER
Stars and Stripes
STUTTGART, Germany — A Marine threestar general was nominated Thursday to serve
as the next leader of U.S. Africa Command, the
mission of which has taken on greater urgency in recent months as Islamic State fighters
spread their reach into northern Africa.
Lt. Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, currently
serving as director of joint force development
at the Pentagon, would replace Gen. David
Rodriguez at the Stuttgart, Germany-based
command.
AFRICOM, the military’s youngest geographic command, became fully operational
in 2008. Initially conceived as a command
focused on training missions, the focus over
the years has steadily shifted toward more
lethal operations. Now, drone strikes against
Islamic militants are periodically carried out
in places such as Somalia and, more recently, Libya, where Islamic State fighters have
gained a foothold.
For Waldhauser, countering terrorist groups
in those countries as well as Boko Haram in
Nigeria will be the top areas of concern. AFRICOM is expected to continue training indigenous forces in the region to carry out the
day-to-day fighting against such groups.
Waldhauser, a native of Minnesota who
began his military career in 1976, has served
in various infantry commands over the years.
In 2001, as a colonel, he led some of the first
forces into Afghanistan as well as Iraq. Rodriguez, a veteran of multiple tours in Afghanistan, where he held key command posts, is
slated to retire.
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Punishments for Kunduz strike decried
BY CHAD GARLAND
Stars and Stripes
KABUL, Afghanistan — Victims’ family members and human
rights groups on Friday expressed
disappointment with the Pentagon’s decision to hand down nonjudicial punishments, rather than
court-martial, 16 personnel held
accountable for an airstrike on a
Doctors Without Borders hospital
in Kunduz, Afghanistan, last year.
Abdul Samad, 41, a resident of
Kunduz city whose nephew was
killed in the strike, said the attack was an “inhumane act” that
violated national and international
laws.
“I wish they were in our country. Then we could get them convicted according to our own laws,”
Samad said in a telephone interview. “Right now, they are 100
percent murders and they should
be treated as murders in their own
country … and we want the United
States to implement the law over
them as murders.”
The punishments will have
“severe repercussions” for those
involved, Gen. Joseph L. Votel,
commander of U.S. Central Command, said during a briefing Friday. The servicemembers at fault
may face blocked promotions and
separation from the military, he
said.
No criminal charges have
been filed, and no one will face
court-martial.
Doctors Without Borders, which
goes by its French initials, MSF,
has been vocal in its criticism,
calling the attack on the hospital
“relentless and brutal,” characterizing it as a war crime and repeatedly demanding an independent
inquiry by an international body.
The briefing amounted to “an
admission of an uncontrolled military operation … during which
U.S. forces failed to follow the
basic laws of war,” MSF President
Meinie Nicolai said Friday in a
statement. “It is incomprehensible
that, under the circumstances described by the U.S., the attack was
not called off.”
‘Razed to the ground’
The hospital airstrike in the
early morning hours of Oct. 3
killed 14 staff members, 24 patients and four caretakers.
The medical center was “razed
to the ground,” MSF General Director Christopher Stokes said in a
speech in Kabul in November.
Votel said the hospital was a
protected site and had been on
a “no strike” list, but in the rush
to get the U.S. gunship in the air,
“the crew did not get all the preparatory information they would
normally have received.”
He said the strike should not be
considered a war crime because it
was “unintentional,” which he said
“takes it out of the realm of being
a deliberate war crime.”
‘
Nicolai, however, said the
“threshold that must be crossed”
is not whether it was intentional
or not, and that combatants “cannot escape their responsibilities
on the battlefield simply by ruling
out the intent to attack a protected
structure.”
The organization’s statement
called the administrative punishments “out of proportion to the
destruction,” and said they are unlikely to deter future war crimes.
U.N. investigators said in a report last December that even if
U.S. troops did not knowingly target the hospital, they still could
have committed war crimes if
they had not taken precautions to
protect civilians.
More than a half-million people
have signed a petition asking the
Obama administration to authorize an independent review of
the incident. Other humanitarian
organizations have joined the call
for an independent inquiry.
In a statement Thursday, Naureen Shah, director of Amnesty
International USA’s Security With
Human Rights program, echoed
the call for a criminal inquiry.
“To prevent the principles of
international humanitarian law
from being further eroded, the
U.S. government must respect its
obligation to independently investigate serious violations of international humanitarian law and
ensure those responsible are prosecuted,” Shah said.
Apologies, condolences
Last month, shortly after taking
charge of the forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John W. Nicholson traveled to Kunduz, where he offered
his condolences and “humbly and
respectfully” asked forgiveness.
Votel on Friday noted that many
U.S. officials had apologized and
expressed condolences to the
victims. He also cited “modest
payments” meant to express sympathy that had been paid out to
more than 170 victims of the attacks. The families of those killed
were offered $6,000; the wounded
were offered $3,000, he said. But
the payments are not meant to
be compensation, and earlier this
month a New York Times editorial
criticized the Pentagon, calling
the sums “wholly inadequate.”
For Samad, the man whose
nephew was killed, those responsible for the strike should get prison time, but he said no matter the
punishment, it won’t restore what
the victims have lost.
“It will not give us anything,”
he said. “But at least it should be
a strong lesson to those in the future that they should not bomb
hospitals.”
Zubair Babakarkhail contributed to this
report
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I wish they were in our country. Then we could
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Abdul Samad
Kunduz resident whose nephew was killed
PHOTO
COURTESY OF
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
The Pentagon announced Friday that 16 servicemembers will be disciplined for an U.S. airstrike that hit
a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
Hospital: Incident was the result of a series
of communication and operational breakdowns
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For 12 of the 16 personnel —
who included members of the AC130U gunship air crew that fired
on the hospital, a general officer
and a U.S. special forces unit that
was on the ground and identified
the target — the punishments included suspension and removal
from command, letters of reprimand, formal counseling and extensive retraining, according to a
letter released Friday by the Pentagon that outlined the results of
the investigation.
Three air crew members still
face recertification boards that
will determine whether they are
eligible to be returned to flight
status. Votel said those crewmembers have not flown since the incident and their recertification is
still in progress.
Five of the 16 personnel, including the general officer, were
ordered out of Afghanistan. The
general officer was also removed
from command.
The hospital airstrike occurred
in the early morning hours of Oct.
3 as Afghan forces battled Taliban
insurgents, who had overrun Kunduz on Sept. 28 and briefly held
the city of 300,000. Fourteen staff
members, 24 patients and four
caretakers were killed, according
to Doctors Without Borders, which
goes by its French initials, MSF.
In the days after the attack,
President Barack Obama apologized, and Defense Secretary Ash
Carter said he would hold personnel accountable if an investigation showed U.S. culpability in the
airstrike.
The Pentagon has concluded
that the personnel did not know
they were striking a medical facility; therefore, the charges against
them fell short of a war crime.
Instead, Votel said Friday that
the incident was the result of a
string of communication and
operational breakdowns that occurred as U.S. and Afghan forces
were on their fourth day of firefights against the Taliban in the
area. The area was unusually hostile, he said.
“This was an extraordinarily intense situation,” Votel said, noting
that the air crew had to evade a
surface-to-air missile that was shot
at them shortly after they reached
the target. “That’s a very significant thing. That does not happen
very often in Afghanistan.”
The hospital was marked on a
“no strike list” database, though
the crew flying the mission did
not have access to that database
during the attack. The flight crew
was launched in response to an
emergency call, which resulted
in it taking off 69 minutes earlier
than planned and kept it from receiving all of the information that
they would normally process before takeoff, Votel said.
Afghan forces provided the
correct grid coordinates for the
Taliban building that the gunship
intended to strike, but the onboard
system
on
the
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and the
situation.
system
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the
crew to
an open
airfield instead. The investigation
found one crewmember did identify the correct Taliban target, but
the aircraft was redirected to the
hospital.
The Pentagon said it would not
release names of the personnel to
protect their privacy and because
some of them are still serving
overseas. The Defense Department has provided $5.7 million
in funds to rebuild the hospital. It
also has paid between $3,000 and
$6,000 to an estimated 170 people
who were killed, injured or otherwise affected by the airstrike.
A letter of reprimand is an administrative punishment that indicates misbehavior and can block
promotions or have career-ending
consequences. It does not involve
criminal charges.
MSF has called the attack on
the hospital a war crime and has
repeatedly called for an independent inquiry.
“We still think that it would
obviously be best to have an independent investigation,” said Kate
Stegeman, a spokeswoman for the
group in Kabul. She said MSF had
not gotten any feedback from the
United States.
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In March, shortly after taking
charge of the forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John W. Nicholson
apologized for the destruction of
the hospital and the many deaths
caused by the airstrike.
“I grieve with you for your loss
and suffering, and humbly and
respectfully ask for your forgiveness,” he told the people of Kunduz during a visit there with his
wife last month.
A Pentagon investigation in
November, one of at least three
performed in the wake of the attack, stated the incident was the
result of “avoidable human error,
compounded by process and
equipment failures.” Investigators
found that a series of errors led
the American forces to confuse
the hospital with an Afghan intelligence headquarters building
reportedly occupied by Taliban
fighters.
MSF officials called that report’s
findings “shocking” and said it left
many unanswered questions.
The organization conducted
its own investigation, which concluded there were no armed combatants in the hospital at the time
of the airstrike and no fighting
“from or in the direct vicinity” of
the facility. MSF also has said it
had informed all armed groups involved in the conflict of its GPS coordinates and its neutrality under
international humanitarian law.
The group has repeatedly
called for an independent inquiry
by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, a
permanent body set up under the
Geneva Conventions to investigate
apparent violations of international humanitarian law. More than
550,000 people have signed an online petition calling on the Obama
administration to consent to the
commission’s investigation.
In a separate report last December, United Nations investigators found nothing to indicate the
hospital had done anything to lose
its protected status under international law. Even if U.S. troops did
not knowingly target the hospital,
they still could have committed
war crimes if they did not take
precautions to protect civilians,
the report stated.
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New charges in
Naval Academy sex
misconduct case
BY JOHN WOODROW COX
The Washington Post
The military has filed new
criminal charges against Marine
Maj. Mark Thompson, a former
U.S. Naval Academy instructor
who insisted he had been unfairly
convicted of sexual misconduct
with two female midshipmen.
After revelations about his case,
the military has charged Thompson with making a false official
statement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
If convicted of lying under oath,
Thompson could face up to five
years in prison, dismissal from
the service and a total loss of his
retirement benefits. Retired U.S.
Air Force judge advocate Rachel
VanLandingham said the potential penalty for the conduct-unbecoming accusation depends on
the underlying offense.
The Marine Corps will hold an
Article 32 preliminary hearing in
May at Quantico, Va.
Thompson, who served in Afghanistan, has long fought to
show he was falsely accused of
having sex with two students in
2011, but a Post investigation revealed he’d been dishonest when
he testified under oath in 2014 to
an administrative board deciding
if he should be expelled from the
Corps. Asked in January why he
had lied to authorities, Thompson
described the immense pressure
he faced after one of the women
asserted that he had raped her.
Thompson was acquitted of
the rape charge but found guilty
of five lesser offenses. He served
two months in a military brig and
was fined $60,000.
After the Post story was
published last month, the Marine Corps launched a new
investigation.
A prosecutor met this month
with one of the accusers, Sarah
Stadler, to review the contents of
her long-missing cellphone.
A number of the messages she
and Thompson exchanged appear
to contradict several assertions
he made at the administrative
hearing.
Then, this week, Marine Maj.
Michael Pretus — a key witness
for Thompson’s defense at his
2013 court-martial — told The
Post he would now serve as a witness for the prosecution.
“I feel vindicated,” Stadler said
of the new charges. “I feel relieved that this might now finally
be coming to an end and that the
end might actually be justice.”
Thompson has maintained that
he did nothing wrong.
On the night of April 30, 2011,
Stadler and a female friend — both
of whom knew Thompson through
the school’s rifle team — attended
the boozy annual croquet match
between the academy and St.
John’s College. Afterward, they
stopped by Thompson’s house,
just two blocks off campus.
He claimed they asked to use
the bathroom, did so and left.
The women claimed he served
them shots of tequila before they
played strip poker and staggered
to his bedroom, where he had sex
with both of them.
Stadler, who later was dismissed from the Navy for lying
about her relationship with an enlisted sailor,
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Thompson should be discharged.
The combat veteran insisted
his interactions with Stadler were
appropriate, professional and
within academy guidelines.
He told the board that she had
created “a complete fiction about
a relationship that never existed.”
The board members allowing
him to remain a Marine and decried his convictions as unjust.
Soon after, Thompson asked The
Post to examine his case.
But many text messages on
Stadler’s old phone, which she
discovered after being contacted
by The Post, strongly imply that
the two were involved in an inappropriate relationship.
VanLandingham, who teaches
at Southwestern Law School, said
he put himself in jeopardy.
“A military officer who, as an
instructor at a premiere military
academy, sleeps with his students
commits a serious fraternization
crime,” she said. “However, a military officer who lies under oath
about it, plus arrogantly engages
others to help spin his web of lies
on the front page of the nation’s
leading newspaper, is deserving
of years in jail and our collective
condemnation.”
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Honoring the fallen
Coalition forces participate in an annual remembrance ruck, run and walk Wednesday in Kabul,
Afghanistan. It honors airmen who died fighting during the war in Afghanistan.
GOP senator blocks vote on Army
secretary over Guantanamo Bay
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The nomination of President Barack
Obama’s choice to serve as Army
secretary remains blocked by a
Kansas senator over administration efforts to close the prison
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and
transfer detainees to the U.S.
Eric Fanning, who has held
several jobs in the Pentagon,
would be the first openly gay
leader of a U.S. military service if
confirmed. But Republican Sen.
Pat Roberts placed a hold on the
nomination last year and refused
to relent Thursday despite pleas
from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,
the chairman of the Armed Ser-
vices Committee.
“My hold on the nominee is to
protect the security of the United
States and more especially the
people of Kansas,” Roberts said
on the Senate floor.
Closing the U.S. military prison
at Guantanamo Bay was a theme
of Obama’s 2008 campaign, and
he has pushed to shutter the facility, which he argues is costly and
gives extremists a recruiting tool.
Congress repeatedly has prohibited the transfer of any detainees
to U.S. soil, and the possibility of
Kansas’ Fort Leavenworth as an
alternative prompted Roberts’
actions.
Roberts said his hold has nothing to do with Fanning’s qualifi-
cations or character. “I would be
more than happy to vote on Fanning’s nomination” once there
are assurances from the White
House, he said.
The senator said he had a conversation Thursday morning with
the White House in hopes the
issue could be worked out, but the
administration would not rule out
Leavenworth as a potential location for detainees.
McCain argued it was unfair to
block Fanning’s nomination over
an unrelated issue. He said Roberts “is shooting a hostage” and
abusing his power.
“That’s not the role of advise and
consent,” McCain said. “That is a
distortion of advise and consent.”
Senators unveil legislation to reform VA
BY BRIDGET BOWMAN
CQ-Roll Call
WASHINGTON — Senators
took fresh steps this week in the
effort to reform the beleaguered
Veterans Affairs Department just
as news broke of a new scandal
— cockroaches in food at a VA
hospital in Chicago.
“Almost every morning there’s
a story on the news about some
other failure at a VA hospital,”
said Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga.,
chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs
Committee.
He said the Chicago story was
“just another failure of care for
our veterans that we need to see
stopped.”
Nearly every committee member joined Isakson on Thursday
to unveil the Veterans First Act,
the product of nearly a year of
negotiations.
The bipartisan bill combines
other legislation aimed at increasing accountability, including lowering barriers to hire and
fire senior executives, expanding
health care programs, protecting whistleblowers, reviewing
prescription drug use, increasing
access to disability compensation
and expanding education access.
Isakson said leaders from both
parties were aware of the bill but
declined to say when it might be
considered, especially in light of
the constrained congressional
calendar in an election year.
The committee’s announcement came a day after a group of
Republican senators announced
plans to introduce legislation
— the Care Veterans Deserve
Act, which would seek to address
the persistent problem of lengthy
wait times for health care.
Two years ago, alarming shortcomings centered around delayed
care and administrative oversight at some VA hospitals were
uncovered. The scandal led to the
resignation of VA Secretary Eric
Shinseki and prompted hearings
and congressional action.
But a 2014 reform law has not
been effectively implemented,
prompting the new legislation.
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Residents of Iraqi
city held by group
suffer in siege
BY SINAN SALAHEDDIN
Associated Press
Q ASION NEWS AGENCY/AP
People scramble through rubble Friday following airstrikes in Aleppo, Syria. Insurgents shelled a mosque
in a government-held neighborhood of Aleppo, while government airstrikes hit rebel-held areas.
Violence in Syria’s Aleppo kills
many, including worshippers
BY A LBERT A JI
BASSEM MROUE
AND
Associated Press
DAMASCUS, Syria — Insurgents shelled a mosque in a
government-held neighborhood of
Aleppo, killing at least 15 people
as they left Friday prayers, while
government airstrikes struck
rebel-held parts of Syria’s largest city — even as the army unilaterally declared a brief truce in
other parts of the country.
The violence in Aleppo has
killed more than 200 civilians
during the past week and is likely
to continue unchecked, as the
government’s cease-fire does not
include the city.
At least 15 people were killed
and 30 were injured when rockets
struck Malla Khan mosque in the
government-held Bab al-Faraj district shortly after Friday prayers,
Syrian state TV reported.
“We want the army to finish
them,” an Aleppo resident told
state TV outside a hospital where
some of the dead and wounded
were taken.
The attack followed an earlymorning lull in government airstrikes on rebel-held parts of
Aleppo, following days of deadly
violence that killed scores.
Yet by late morning, air raids
resumed on the city, according to
activists from the Britain-based
Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights and the Local Coordination Committees.
The resumption of air raids
prompted religious leaders to
suspend Friday prayers in rebelheld areas.
The Religious Council of Aleppo, a body that runs religious
affairs in opposition-held parts
of the province, said in a statement online that it was calling on
mosque leaders to call off Friday
prayers for the first time. “The
heart of the believers is aching …
but preserving lives is an important religious duty,” it said.
The Observatory reported
that six people were killed in the
strikes on opposition areas, while
the LCC said at least 10 people
died and dozens were wounded.
The LCC and the Observatory
also reported shelling near a clinic in the rebel-held neighborhood
of Marjeh. There was no word on
casualties.
The
humanitarian
situation has deteriorated further in
opposition-held neighborhoods,
which are almost encircled. The
sole road leading into and out of
rebel-held areas from northwest
Aleppo is regularly targeted by
sniper fire and shelling.
The carnage in Aleppo — a
city contested since the summer
of 2012, when opposition fighters
took over several districts — was
particularly bad on Wednesday and Thursday, when airstrikes and artillery killed more
than 60 people, including dozens at a hospital in a rebel-held
neighborhood.
Also on Friday, the Syrian army
has declared a temporary truce
for the capital, Damascus, its suburbs and the coastal province of
Latakia — but not Aleppo.
It was not immediately clear
what impact this unilateral declaration would have. The opposition
seemed unlikely to abide by the
truce after dozens were killed in
government airstrikes in Aleppo.
The cease-fire is due to come
into effect at 1 a.m. Saturday, according to announcement read
on Syrian state TV. The military
statement said it will last 24 hours
in Damascus and its suburbs and
three days in Latakia.
SIGAR: Report says security ‘essential’ for rebuilding
FROM FRONT PAGE
The U.S. is currently scheduled
to draw down its 9,800 troops in
Afghanistan to about 5,500 by the
start of next year. This reduction,
SIGAR said, could result in “gaps
in air support, signals, intelligence and other areas.”
In light of the challenges, it said
the long-term stability of Afghan
forces remains uncertain.
“Without the ability to call on
U.S. and coalition military components for help … without the
strong monitoring and mentoring
arm of U.S. and coalition troops,
it is increasingly questionable
whether the ANDSF will develop into a robust and sustainable
force,” the report said.
The new head of U.S. forces in
Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson, is conducting a review of the
security situation in Afghanistan,
which could affect Washington’s
troop-withdrawal plans. His assessment is expected to be ready
at the end of May.
In addition to international
troop numbers, funding is also a
concern.
According to SIGAR, maintaining Afghanistan’s security forces
costs about $5 billion per year, with
roughly 80 percent of the amount
coming from the United States.
SIGAR’s analysis shows that even
with this level of funding, Afghan
forces are unable to sustain themselves in many areas.
Nicholson’s predecessor, Gen.
John Campbell, recommended
continuing that funding until at
least 2020.
“With the Afghan economy
under great stress facing years
of low growth Afghanistan’s difficulty in contributing significantly
to its security costs will persist,”
the watchdog said.
The United States and its allies
will meet in Warsaw this summer
to discuss how to share the burden of financing the costs of Afghan forces.
SIGAR said providing effective
security is “essential for the survival of the Afghan state — and
for the success of the reconstruction effort. Neither can deliver
lasting gains without the other.”
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BAGHDAD — Abu Jassim can
only afford to provide one meal
per day for his seven-member
family — usually a stew made of
locally grown leafy green vegetables or rice with a small portion
of flat bread.
“We are experiencing the
agony of starvation for the first
time in our life,” said Abu Jassim,
52 a grocer and resident of the besieged, Islamic State-held city of
Fallujah.
In reality, nobody seems to be
starving in Fallujah just yet. But
medical officials say malnutrition
is on the rise and vital medical
supplies are running out.
Since August, Iraqi government
troops have tightened their grip
around Fallujah — under Islamic
State control since the early days
of 2014 — and have prevented the
entry of food and medicine into
the city. Those seeking to flee the
city have sometimes found themselves trapped by the militants,
who seek to retain Fallujah’s civilian population as human shields
against a full-scale government
assault.
Several Fallujah residents
spoke to The Associated Press
over the telephone — all on condition of anonymity for fear of Islamic State reprisal. Abu Jassim
would only be identified by his
Iraqi societal nickname, which
translates as “Jassim’s father.”
These residents depicted a
bleak picture of conditions inside
the city, with prices soaring for
some basic staples while other
items have completely run out.
A 220-pound bag of flour now
costs nearly 2 million Iraqi dinars
($1,550), compared with about
51,600 dinars ($40) in the past.
Vegetable prices have risen by
500 percent and a 16-ounce can
of powdered baby formula has
jumped from 3,870 dinars ($3) to
144,000 dinars ($112).
Items like sugar and tea are
simply not available at any price.
Some residents, however, pointed
out that families connected to Islamic State members appear to
suffer the least and receive extra
provisions.
There is also a severe shortage
in medicine mainly for chronic
diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes, according
to a doctor at the city’s hospital.
He added the majority of those
seeking treatment these days are
children and the elderly suffering
from malnutrition.
Alarmed by the deteriorating
conditions inside Fallujah, the
New York-based Human Rights
Watch called on warring parties
to make sure that aid reaches the
civilian population.
“The humanitarian picture
in Fallujah is bleak and getting
bleaker,” Joe Stork, HRW’s deputy Middle East director, said in a
statement issued early this month.
“Greater international attention
to the besieged towns and cities of
the region is needed or the results
for civilians could be calamitous.”
The Islamic State militants
who control the city have taken
steps to mitigate the shortages
in the face of rising public frustration. In August, they opened a
bakery to sell subsidized bread,
but eventually had to close it due
to a shortage of flour. Then they
confiscated wheat stockpiled by
farmers and started distributing
five kilograms of flour to each
family for free. But the residents
complained that the quality of the
flour was substandard because
the wheat had been in storage for
a long time and was meant to be
used as animal fodder.
Shortly after Fallujah fell into
Islamic State hands in 2014, Abu
Jassim and his family joined
thousands of residents fleeing the
city. They settled in the northern
city of Kirkuk, but returned home
months later due to the high cost
of living. In 2015, the militants
began preventing civilians from
leaving Fallujah. Anbar councilman Falih al-Issawi estimated
that about 90,000 individuals are
now living in the city — down
from approximately 300,000.
Now Abu Jassim sets traps on
his roof to capture pigeons to boil
them down to make porridge, a
dish his children do not like much.
He also smashes date seeds and
mixes them with flour.
“We are waiting for salvation to
see Fallujah liberated,” he said.
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Clashes result in
20 arrests after
Trump speech
BY GILLIAN FLACCUS
AND A MY TAXIN
Associated Press
COSTA MESA, Calif. — Raucous protesters and supporters of
Donald Trump took to the streets
in California leading to some 20
arrests as the Republican presidential contender brought his
campaign to conservative Orange
County after sweeping the Northeast GOP primaries.
Dozens of protesters were
mostly peaceful Thursday as
Trump gave his speech inside the
Pacific Amphitheatre. After the
event, however, the demonstration grew rowdy late in the evening and spilled into the streets.
Approximately 20 people were
arrested by Costa Mesa police,
according to a tweet from the
Orange County Sheriff’s Department. One Trump supporter had
his face bloodied in a scuffle as
he tried to drive out of the arena.
One man jumped on a police car,
leaving its front and rear windows smashed and the top dented
in and other protesters sprayed
graffiti on a police car and the
venue’s marquee.
Dozens of cars — including
those of Trump supporters trying
to leave — were stuck in the street
as several hundred demonstrators
blocked the road, waved Mexican
flags and posed for selfies.
Police in riot gear and on
horseback pushed the crowd back
and away from the venue. There
were no major injuries and police
did not use any force. The crowd
began dispersing about three
hours after the speech ended.
Earlier in the evening, a halfdozen anti-Trump protesters
taunted those waiting to get into
the venue. Trump supporters surrounded one man who waved a
Mexican flag and shouted “Build
that wall! Build that wall!” — a
reference to Trump’s call to create a barrier between the United
States and Mexico to stop illegal
border crossings.
At one point, seven women
wearing no shirts and Bernie Sanders stickers over their
breasts entered the square outside
the amphitheater. They said they
were protesting Trump’s lack of
engagement on issues of gender
MICHAEL G OULDING, THE O RANGE C OUNTY REGISTER /AP
Police clear anti-Donald Trump demonstrators Thursday at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa,
Calif. Hundreds of people, most of them apparently Trump protesters, blocked an intersection and some
jumped on cars outside the Orange County Fairgrounds, where Trump gave a speech Thursday night.
equality and women’s rights.
“I feel like he wants to make
America great again, but certainly not for women, for the LBGTQ
community or for the lower class,”
said one of the women, Tiernan
Hebron. “He has, like, done nothing to help with gender equality
or women’s rights or reproductive
rights or anything.”
Trump has drawn large crowds
across the country as he has cam-
paigned for the White House and
some of his events have been
marred by incidents both inside
and outside these venues. Trump
addressed a crowd of about
18,000 at the Pacific Amphitheatre and hundreds more were
turned away.
Earlier this week, a Trump
rally in nearby Anaheim, Calif.,
turned contentious when his supporters and protesters clashed,
leaving several people struck by
pepper spray. Trump was not
present.
Ly Kou, 47, of Ontario, said
she likes Trump because he has
vowed to put the country first.
“It’s obvious that America
loves Trump,” said Kou, who is
from Laos, as she pointed at the
waiting throng. “This thing about
him being racist? Look around
the crowd.”
Sanders backers dump on superdelegates GOP finds Trump is
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
—
Nancy
Schumacher says she just wanted
to do her civic duty, and so she
heeded the call to become a superdelegate for Hillary Clinton.
But in the year of the angry voter,
not even an administrative assistant from Elk River, Minn., can
escape the outrage.
“Some of the (phone and email)
messages called me names. Some
of them called Hillary names.
And others said I was a stupid
bitch and something bad will
happen to me,” said Schumacher,
a Democratic committee member. “It’s kind of hard to take
sometimes.”
Bernie Sanders defied expectations to turn his long-shot presidential bid into a real threat for
the Democratic nomination. Now,
as his path to the White House
becomes all-but-impossible, some
of his supporters are lashing out
at a system they believe was engineered against them from the
start.
While Sanders decries a
“rigged” economy, some of his
backers see signs of corruption
everywhere — even in the party
their candidate hopes to lead.
Some have turned their frustration on superdelegates, the
party insiders whose ability to
back either candidate give them
an outsized role in picking the
nominee.
The superdelegates include
public officials: governors, former presidents and even Sanders himself. But they also include
people like Schumacher, volunteers who’ve generally stayed behind the scenes.
The Sanders campaign assures
everyone that it doesn’t condone
harassment.
Yet Schumacher says she’s received vitriolic phone and email
messages from self-identified
Sanders backers and doesn’t
quite understand how things got
quite so nasty. Eight years ago,
she backed Clinton but said she
“cheerfully” switched to Illinois
Sen. Barack Obama. She’d do the
same, she said, if Sanders won the
popular vote or pledged delegates
from state primary elections.
Gus Bickford, the former executive director of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, was
taken aback by the threats that
flowed into his inbox and onto his
Facebook page.
“Someone put up a list of the
superdelegates and a person from
Rhode Island posted a response
that basically said, ‘They should
all be assassinated’ and then said
‘I’m only joking,’ ” recalled Bickford. “With the way people are
talking, you never know who’s
going to take something like that
seriously.”
Bickford said many of the callers were Sanders supporters who
asked him to side with the will of
the people, even though Clinton
narrowly won Massachusetts in
March.
Democrats aren’t the only ones
facing this kind of barrage: Some
Republican delegates say they
have also found themselves at the
receiving end of death threats
and other personal attacks from
supporters of GOP front-runner
Donald Trump.
But Clinton won the support of
many superdelegates even before
votes were cast in the primaries,
and that has drawn the wrath of
many Sanders partisans.
Clinton is 91 percent of the
way to capturing the nomination, meaning that she can lose
every remaining primary by a
wide margin and still become the
party’s standard-bearer, according to an Associated Press analysis. It also means Sanders would
need to flip hundreds of superdelegates to his side to have a shot at
the nomination — including many
from states that Clinton won.
Though they’ve been part of
Democratic presidential elections
since 1984, the superdelegates
have never been a determining
factor.
‘looking more inevitable’
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are beginning to
accept, and even embrace, an outcome that was once unthinkable:
Donald Trump as the GOP presidential nominee.
In the wake of the businessman’s
commanding wins in five Eastern
states this week, a growing number of lawmakers say that Trump
is taking on an air of inevitability. Some argue they should get
behind him now instead of trying
to stand in his way, as some establishment Republicans are still attempting to do by backing various
“Never Trump” efforts.
For some lawmakers, supporting Trump is seen as their only
hope of stopping the Democrats’
likely candidate, Hillary Clinton, in November and ensuring a
Democratic president doesn’t fill
Supreme Court vacancies.
“I don’t understand. I mean,
it’s not ‘Never Trump.’ It’s ‘Never
Hillary.’ Never, never, never, Hillary. Come on. Wake up and smell
the coffee,” said Rep. Mike Kelly
of Pennsylvania, who this week
cast his ballot for Trump, along
with all members of his large family and 57 percent of Republican
primary voters in his state.
Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, a re-
spected senior member of the Senate, previously endorsed Jeb Bush
and then Sen. Marco Rubio and
said he doesn’t intend to endorse
Trump. But Hatch said Thursday of Trump: “It looks to me like
he’s going to win and if he does
I’m going to do everything in my
power to help him.”
Some leading Republicans have
forecast that a Trump candidacy
could spell electoral disaster, help
Democrats win back control of the
Senate and even cost Republicans
seats in the House. They point to
Trump’s disparaging comments
about women and minorities that
have contributed to high unfavorability ratings.
To be sure, not all are on board,
and some lawmakers cringe at the
thought of vulnerable Senate Republicans and candidates getting
linked to Trump’s stances or attempting to distance themselves.
“He’s looking more inevitable,
yeah. I’ve been wrong all along,”
said GOP Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, an outspoken Trump critic.
“My feeling about Donald Trump
is, I don’t think that that’s our best
foot forward at all. And I can’t
imagine being forced to take some
of those positions that he’s taken.
A ban on Muslims, build a wall
and make the Mexicans pay for it,
you name it.”
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US fears rise of jihadis
in moderate Bangladesh
BY M ATTHEW PENNINGTON
Associated Press
STEVE RINGMAN, THE SEATTLE TIMES/AP
Firefighting foam is used in an attempt to extinguish a burning fuel
tanker truck in Issaquah, Wash., in 2002. The accident took place
near one of several wells that supply drinking water to the city. That
well is now contaminated and not in use, but the city says it has not
confirmed the source of the contamination.
Most states doing bare
minimum on contamination
from firefighting foam
BY JENNIFER MCDERMOTT
Associated Press
The military is checking U.S.
bases for potential groundwater
contamination from a toxic firefighting foam, but most states so
far show little inclination to examine civilian sites for the same
threat.
The foam likely was used
around the country at certain airports, refineries and other sites
where catastrophic petroleum
fires were a risk, but an Associated Press survey of emergency
management, environmental and
health agencies in all 50 states
showed most haven’t tracked its
use and don’t even know whether
it was used, where or when.
Only five states — Alaska, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont
and Wisconsin — are tracking
the chemicals used in the foam
and spilled from other sources
through ongoing water monitoring or by looking for potentially
contaminated sites.
A dozen states are beginning or
planning to investigate the chemicals — known as perfluorinated
compounds, or PFCs — which
have been linked to prostate, kidney and testicular cancer, along
with other illnesses. The rest of
the states, about two thirds, are
waiting for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to make a
move.
In addition to the Aqueous Film
Forming Foam used in disasterpreparedness training and in
actual fires, PFCs are in many
household products and are used
to manufacture Teflon.
Knowledge about the chemicals’ effects has been evolving,
and the EPA does not regulate
them. The agency in 2009 issued
guidance on the level at which
they are considered harmful to
health, but it was only an advisory
— not a legally enforceable limit.
The EPA said then that it was
assessing the potential risk from
short-term exposure through
drinking water. It later began
studying the health effects from
a lifetime of exposure. Those
studies remain in progress, and
the agency is also considering
whether to establish a firm limit
on PFCs in water.
The EPA required large public
drinking-water systems and some
smaller ones to check for PFCs
between 2013 and 2015.
But beyond public drinking
water, there may be contamination elsewhere that could affect
private or other water supplies,
including from any use of the firefighting foam. The five states forging ahead with wider tracking for
PFCs are going well beyond the
EPA’s minimum requirement.
States that are not acting point
to the cost of the testing and say
nothing in federal law gives them
the authority to require water utilities and cities to do it routinely.
“We don’t have the resources
to go out beyond what’s required
by the EPA at this point,” said
Mark Mayer, administrator of
the drinking water program for
the environmental department in
South Dakota. “But we have been
paying attention to it because
there have been issues in other
states.”
WASHINGTON — The slaying
in Bangladesh of a U.S. Agency
for International Development
employee has intensified U.S. concern that the strategically located
South Asian country with traditions of religious tolerance is under
threat from Islamic extremists.
Bangladesh’s government denies that transnational jihadi
groups have been behind a spate
of bloody attacks on secular writers, bloggers, foreigners and
religious minorities. But the Bangladeshi branch of al-Qaida on
the Indian Subcontinent claimed
Monday’s killing of USAID employee and gay-rights activist
Xulhaz Mannan.
That claim has not been verified, but it adds to fears that local
extremists with international
aspirations could enable groups
like al-Qaida and the Islamic
State group to gain a foothold in
a country wracked by prolonged
political turmoil because of a
bitter divide between the ruling
party and the opposition.
The No. 2 U.S. diplomat said
Thursday that despite the govern-
ment blaming the political opposition for the attacks, evidence to
date suggests extremist groups,
either local or affiliated with Islamic State or al-Qaida, are responsible for the killings.
“This gives us concern about
the potential for ISIL or Daesh to
take root in Bangladesh,” Deputy
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, using alternative acronyms for Islamic State. “That is
the last thing we want.”
The assaults on minorities and
moderates, typically by young
men wielding knives or machetes
and spewing hateful language,
began in 2013 and have increased in frequency in the past
year. Among the fatalities was
Bangladeshi-American
writer
Avijit Roy, who was attacked on
a street in the capital, Dhaka, in
February 2015.
Human rights groups fear
for others facing militant death
threats as the Bangladeshi government has appeared unsympathetic to their plight — perhaps
because it does not want to alienate Muslims offended by the atheistic writings of some bloggers.
While authorities have arrested
suspects in some of those cases,
none has been prosecuted, and
authorities have yet to identify
the masterminds.
The State Department says
the U.S. is considering providing
sanctuary to some individuals
at risk, although it remains unclear whether that will happen.
Human-rights groups have been
calling for that since December.
A broader concern for Washington as it struggles to counter
Islamic State worldwide is that
Bangladesh could become a hotbed for religious extremists, despite its traditions of secularism,
free speech and respect for its
Christian and Hindu minorities,
and successes in reducing poverty and raising life expectancy
among its 160 million people.
In February, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
gave an unusual mention to Bangladesh in his congressional testimony on worldwide threats. He
said that Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina’s efforts to undermine the
political opposition “will probably provide openings for transnational terrorist groups to expand
their presence in the country.”
Proposed rule would delay questions
about criminal history for federal jobs
BY K EVIN FREKING
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Obama
administration is proposing a
rule that would prohibit federal
agencies from asking certain job
applicants questions about criminal and credit history until conditional offers of employment have
been made.
The administration said that
early inquiries about criminal
history can unnecessarily narrow
the pool of qualified candidates
and make it that much harder
for those with criminal histories
to support themselves and their
families.
Beth Cobert, the acting director of the Office of Personnel
Management, told reporters in
a conference call that the rule
being proposed Friday would
give applicants from all segments
of society a “fair chance” to compete for federal jobs. She said
that early screening for criminal
history can prematurely disqualify applicants from consideration without agencies checking
whether an arrest actually led to
a conviction.
The proposed rule would cover
jobs in which applicants must
compete with others in an open
competition, but it won’t apply to
many of the positions dealing with
national security, intelligence and
law enforcement, Cobert said.
President Barack Obama already had directed the government’s personnel office to wait
until later in the hiring process to
ask about criminal histories. The
proposed rule would formalize
that process.
Obama has intensified efforts
during the final months of his
presidency to help the previously
incarcerated. Each year, more
than 600,000 people are released
from federal and state prisons,
and millions more are released
each year from local jails. He has
said that helping those who have
paid their debt to society can reduce recidivism and save taxpayer dollars.
The White House also noted
that more companies are committing to undertaking similar
efforts to remove barriers in the
hiring of those with criminal records. In all, the White House
said, 112 companies and organizations employing more than 1.5
million people have committed to
ensuring that information about
criminal history is considered
in the proper context. Microsoft,
Best Buy, Kellogg Co. and Catholic Charities were among those
who committed to the effort.
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Officials ask if
Prince overdosed
BY BEN GUARINO
The Washington Post
An official in Minneapolis said
there are still many open questions about Prince’s death: Specifically, did Prince die from a
painkiller overdose?
A law enforcement official said
Thursday that an investigation
was exploring Prince’s history
of prescription drug use. Strong
pain relievers like Percocet, the
investigator told the Associated
Press on the condition of anonymity, are possibly involved. The official also reportedly confirmed
an incident TMZ reported in the
wake of Prince’s death: Prince
collapsed on a plane six days before the he died. When medical
help arrived, they gave the unconscious musician a Narcan shot
— a drug administered when opioid overdoses are suspected.
Should the investigation ultimately show that Prince overdosed, it will be another link in
the grim chain connecting fame
and fatal drug use — though risk
of death is, historically, higher
than average for younger artists.
A retrospective report of 1,000
music stars, published in the
British Medical Journal in 2011,
concluded that “risk of death for
famous musicians throughout
their 20s and 30s was two to three
times higher than the general UK
population.” Prince was 57.
When the rock-n-roll lifestyle
crystallized in the latter half of
the 20th century so did its lethal side effects: At 39 years old,
jazz singer Dinah Washington
became one of the first pop artists to die from drug use in 1963.
Between 1970 and 1971, barbiturates claimed Jimi Hendrix and
Canned Heat guitarist Alan Wilson while heroin did the same to
Janis Joplin and, possibly, Jim
Morrison — all at the age of 27
— planting the seeds of the socalled 27 Club. At the end of 1980,
this timeline of drug and alcohol overdoses ran from Joplin to
punk rocker Sid Vicious to Led
Zeppelin’s John Bonham.
After Michael Jackson died in
2009, a toxicologist reported high
levels of a drug in the singer’s body.
The intoxicant was different: Not
alcohol or the usual recreational
drugs, but propofol. Propofol is an
anesthetic administered through
IV, infrequently seen outside
of the surgery room — Jackson
acquired it from his physician,
Conrad Murray, who said in an
investigation that the pop star referred to the drug as “milk.” During Murray’s trial, in which a jury
found the doctor guilty of involuntary manslaughter, testimony
revealed the “insomniac singer”
implored Murray “to give him
drugs powerful enough to put him
to sleep,” according to The New
York Times.
According to Prince’s brotherin-law, the “Purple Rain” singer
also suffered from insomnia.
Given the early nature of the investigation, however, any speculation between Prince’s possible
Percocet use and alleged lack of
sleep would be premature; what’s
more, Percocet is not prescribed
as a sleeping pill. Instead, as
manufacturer Endo Pharmaceuticals notes on its website, it is
“indicated for the relief of moderate to moderately severe pain.”
Opioids are a great leveler,
however, felling ordinary people,
not just stars. Percocet and other
opioids have come under heavy
scrutiny in recent years. In 2014,
according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 6 out
of 10 fatal overdoses involved opioids, which include heroin and synthetic painkillers like oxycodone.
Those close to Prince say he
had a history of chronic pain. “He
was in pain all the time, but he
was a performer,” singer Sheila
E. told Entertainment Tonight
the day after the singer’s death.
“You think about all the years
he was jumping off those risers.
... We did a year of touring [and]
for him to jump off of that — just
an entire year would have messed
up his knees.”
ROSS D. FRANKLIN /AP
Patrick Tupas, right, and his wife, Maria Real-Tupas, sit on the roof of their shipping container apartment
in Phoenix, as their dog Moon Moon Fitzgerald stands at the front door.
Home sweet shipping container?
BY TERRY TANG
Associated Press
PHOENIX — A stack of shipping containers sitting in a lot in an industrial section of Phoenix has
some developers thinking inside the box.
The structures usually used to transport cargo
have been transformed into eight apartments. Scuff
marks, old serial numbers and shipping company
logos remain, but a look inside each unit reveals a
740-square-foot modern home.
“It doesn’t even feel like a shipping container. It’s
also insulated really well,” said Patrick Tupas, who
is in the Air Force and, along with his wife, signed a
one-year lease for $1,000 a month. “It just feels like
a regular apartment.”
There was a downside, he said — passers-by asking questions and sometimes pressing to see inside.
Housing and retail projects using the containers
have popped up in recent years in Las Vegas, Detroit
and Washington, D.C., as developers and cities try to
cater to millennials and baby boomers who want to
live closer to the cultural offerings in urban hubs.
To meet those needs, “cargotecture” has become
a quick way to fill urban housing gaps.
“They are faster, cheaper and now potentially have
much more of an aesthetic range,” said Dana Cuff,
director of cityLAB, a think tank at UCLA that looks
at architecture and urban growth. Some mask their
origins, but the ones in Phoenix don’t, she said.
“They’re celebrating them,” Cuff said.
In the Containers on Grand project in Phoenix, the
architecture firm StarkJames designed the apartments in a way that retained the corrugated metal
exteriors. Each unit is made of two containers, but
inside there are no signs of the cargo hauling days.
The walls are painted white. The original wood
flooring is encased in epoxy. There is enough space
for a bedroom and living area.
The two rooms are connected by two separate
hallways. One hallway has the kitchen, oven and
some counter space. The other one has closet space
and a nook. There is also a washer and dryer unit.
Monthly rent averages about $1,000.
All but two of the eight units are occupied. One is
being marketed as a vacation rental.
In Washington’s Brookland neighborhood, university students and young professionals have been living in a four-story housing cluster since September
2014. In Las Vegas, containers make up the building
blocks of a downtown retail complex.
In Detroit, Three Squared Construction is working on $14 million in new projects involving shipping
containers because they save time. The company
erected the city’s first residential shipping-container development in April 2015.
The three-story building is used as a showcase
with the top floor periodically rented out. CEO Leslie Horn said there’s been a high demand among
millennials and “empty-nesters.”
With containers, they only save about 5 percent in
lumber costs but even more in terms of time spent.
StarkJames, of Scottsdale, is on track to build 12
more container homes in downtown Phoenix. They
still get ribbing from others in the industry.
“We work with a lot of other developers,” architect Brian Stark said. “They always ask ‘How are
the garbage can homes going?’ ”
Racist statements lead California lawmakers to reject John Wayne Day
BY DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — What a California lawmaker intended as a benign resolution honoring a late, world-renowned movie
icon exploded into an emotional debate over
decades-old racist comments Thursday.
The state Assembly defeated the official
ode to John Wayne after several legislators
described statements he made about racial
minorities and his support for the anticommunist House Un-American Activities
Committee and John Birch Society.
Known as “Duke,” a nickname he picked
up as a boy in Glendale, Calif., Wayne was
the star of movies including “The Alamo,”
“The Green Beret,” and “True Grit,” for
which he won an Academy Award, while
portraying the gruff, rugged cowboys and
brave soldiers who were his stock in trade.
Republican state Assemblyman Matthew Harper, of Huntington Beach, sought
to declare May 26, 2016, as John Wayne
Day to mark the day the actor was born.
“He had disturbing views towards race,”
objected Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, leading off a 20-minute debate.
Alejo cited a 1971 interview with Playboy in which Wayne talked disparagingly
about blacks.
“I believe in white supremacy until the
blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe in giving authority and
positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people,” he told the magazine.
Assemblyman Mike Gipson, D-Carson,
who is black, said he found Wayne’s comments personally offensive.
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-
San Diego, cited his comments defending
white Europeans’ encroachment on American Indians who Wayne once said “were
selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”
Wayne is the latest deceased white icon to
recently come under attack. Former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner and Indian fighter, is being removed from the face
of the $20 bill. Princeton University recently announced that former U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson’s name will remain on its
public policy school despite calls to remove
it because he was a segregationist.
The bill fell on a 35-20 vote; Harper blamed
“the orthodoxy of political correctness.”
“Opposing the John Wayne Day resolution is like opposing apple pie, fireworks,
baseball, the Free Enterprise system and
the Fourth of July!” he said in a statement.
Harper represents the legislative dis-
trict that includes John Wayne Airport in
Orange County. The airport was renamed
after Wayne’s death in 1979 and hosts a 9foot-tall statue of the actor.
Several lawmakers supported the resolution, recalling Wayne as an American hero
whose family created a namesake cancer
foundation after his death.
“He stood for those big American values
that we know and we love,” said Assemblyman Travis Allen, R-Huntington Beach.
Lawmakers have honored others despite controversies that eventually clouded
their legacies, said Assemblyman Donald
Wagner, R-Irvine. Wagner cited President
Franklin Roosevelt, who has been honored
despite his internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
“Every one of us is imperfect,” Wagner
said.
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3 with family ties
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Calif. attack held
Chinese zodiac
sculptures turn
heads in Boston
BY M ARK PRATT
Associated Press
BOSTON — A dozen giant bronze animal heads
representing the signs of the Chinese zodiac are
stopping people in their tracks in downtown Boston
and sparking conversations.
“Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” by contemporary Chinese artist and human rights activist Ai
Weiwei, is the latest in a series of outdoor public art
projects on the Rose Kennedy Greenway intended to
delight, awe, and educate the thousands of tourists
and workers who walk through the park daily.
“The goal of all public art is to engage people,”
said Lucas Cowan, the public art curator of the
Greenway Conservancy, which oversees the 1.5mile-long ribbon of open space that was once a dim,
grimy place in the shadow of an overhead highway.
“To be able to bring people here where they see
them up close and not in a museum is very important,” he said. “If people just walk past this, then
we’ve failed.”
The 10-foot-tall cast bronze sculptures, which
weigh 1,600 to 2,100 pounds apiece when the stem
and base are included, are arranged in an outwardfacing circle surrounding a popular children’s
splash area called the Rings Fountain. They are
positioned in order — rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon,
snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
They are based on similar but smaller zodiac
sculptures that once adorned the fountain clock in
the European-style garden at the Yuanming Yuan,
an imperial summer palace outside Beijing.
The palace was ransacked by British and French
troops in 1860, and the heads were stolen. Most have
been recovered and returned to China, but two remain missing, Cowan said.
“By enlarging them like this, the artist is saying,
‘They belong to us; give them back,’” he said.
Cowan also hopes people who see the sculptures
educate themselves about the social justice and political issues the artist is involved in. Ai this year
has been drawing attention to the European refugee
crisis.
The Boston installation, which will be in place
until October, is part of a world tour of the animal
heads owned by a private collector that started in
2010.
Even as workers put the finishing touches on the
exhibit earlier this week, dozens of people stopped
to take pictures or just to gaze up at the detailed
sculptures.
“We live just down the street, and we knew they
were putting them in, but when we saw them, we
just said, ‘Wow,’” said Davida Carvin, who was
BY A MANDA LEE MYERS
AND JOHN ROGERS
Associated Press
BILL SIKES/AP
A man photographs one of 12 gigantic bronze
animal heads — representing the signs of the
Chinese zodiac — by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei on
the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston.
checking out the sculptures with her friend, neighbor and walking partner, Andrea Mattisen-Haskins.
“I’ve seen a lot of art along the Greenway, and this is
right up there with the best.”
“The quality is spectacular and the detail and texture is amazing,” said Mattisen-Haskins, as the pair
snapped pictures.
Howard Wu, a Bishop, Calif., resident visiting
Boston for the first time, stumbled upon the animal
heads on his way to the nearby New England Aquarium and was astonished.
Wu, who is half-Chinese, immediately recognized
them as the Chinese zodiac and understood their
cultural significance.
“They are just exceptional,” he said as he snapped
dozens of pictures. “They will bring Boston good
luck.”
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The
brother of the man behind the
San Bernardino terror attack and
two Russian sisters have been
charged with marriage fraud in
a case that was unrelated to the
December shootings but came to
light in the investigation that followed it.
The accused include Syed Raheel Farook. His brother and
sister-in-law, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, died in
a shootout with police after killing 14 people and wounding 22
others on Dec. 2.
Also arrested Thursday were
Syed Raheel Farook’s wife, Tatiana, and her sister, Mariya
Chernykh.
Prosecutors
say
Chernykh’s marriage to Enrique
Marquez Jr., the only person
charged in the shootings, was
a sham designed to enable her
to obtain legal status in the U.S.
after overstaying a visitor visa in
2009.
Marquez confessed to the
scheme when authorities questioned him about the shootings,
and he acknowledged getting $200
per month to marry Chernykh, according to his criminal complaint.
The three each entered notguilty pleas at an arraignment
late Thursday afternoon in federal court in Riverside. They
were ordered to stand trial June
21 in federal court in Los Angeles. Federal Judge David Bristow
also scheduled a pretrial conference for June 6 in Los Angeles.
Bristow ordered that Chernykh,
who prosecutors allege was most
culpable for the sham marriage,
be subject to electronic monitoring. Her boyfriend, who is the
father of her child, arrived in
court late Thursday afternoon to
tell the judge he would post her
$50,000 bond.
The mother of the Farook
brothers posted bonds of $25,000
each for her oldest son and his
wife. Her son left court shortly
thereafter, declining to speak
to reporters. His wife was expected to be released later in the
evening.
Farook, who like the others appeared in court with shackles on
his hands and feet, wept at times
during his arraignment and bail
hearing, including when his
mother came forward to tell the
judge she was posting bail.
“This is about a misrepresentation of an act of marriage. This is
not about terrorism,” his attorney,
Ronald Cordova, told Bristow as
he argued for a reasonable bail,
maintaining that Farook is not a
flight risk or a danger to society.
Outside court, he said Farook
has cooperated with federal authorities throughout the terrorist
investigation.
“I think his thorough cooperation may have led to some of the
trouble he’s going through now,”
Cordova said.
If convicted of conspiracy to
make false statements on federal
immigration documents, the Farooks and Chernykh face up to
five years in prison. Chernykh
also is charged with fraud, misuse of visas and other documents,
perjury and two counts of making false statements, which could
mean up to 25 years in prison.
Nigerian princess seeks funds to help Boko Haram survivors
BY JONATHAN L ANDRUM JR.
Associated Press
ATLANTA — It pains Nigerian princess
Modupe Ozolua every time she hears about
the suicide bombings, killings and kidnappings by the Boko Haram militant group in
her ancestral homeland.
But Ozolua feels just as troubled when
the plight of survivors dealing with the aftermath of the attacks goes unheard. The
princess, a member of Benin Empire in
southern Nigeria, doesn’t want those victims to be forgotten.
Ozolua is taking a step toward raising
awareness and money to assist displaced
victims at her inaugural “Rise Above Terror” African Art Gala at the Besharat Gallery on Saturday in Atlanta. She hopes the
money can help rebuild schools and homes
and provide medical relief and food to help
some of the millions who have been unable
to leave an area with destroyed schools and
burnt villages.
“When people hear
about Boko Haram,
you think about ‘Bring
Back Our Girls’ only,
but it’s much bigger
than that,” Ozolua
said. “Figures are
being thrown around
about how many people are being killed.
It’s bigger than that.
Ozolua
There are millions
of people who have
survived these attacks, seeing their families killed in front of them. Their lives are
completely traumatized. Nobody is giving
much attention to them. Our focus is on
them. They should be assisted.”
“Vampire Diaries” actress Kat Graham will co-host the gala. The event will
auction off African artwork including
29 paintings and 11 handmade wood and
brass carvings.
Ozolua, a cosmetic surgery philanthro-
pist, has brought aid to victims in Africa
since she started her nonprofit foundation,
Empower 54, in 2003. But this is first time
she is holding the fundraiser in the United
States, calling it a “coming-out party.”
“It’s my privilege to join Empower 54 and
help internally displaced persons in northeast Nigeria,” said Graham, who is of Liberian descent. “The horrors of IDPs losing
their loved ones, possessions and rendered
helpless does not make them hopeless.”
The Boko Haram militant group has
killed and kidnapped thousands in a campaign of violence in recent years as it seeks
to establish an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with
170 million people, which is divided almost
equally between mostly Christians in the
south and Muslims in the north. The Nigeria-based Islamic extremist group has
forced young men to be its fighters and girls
to be sex slaves or even suicide bombers.
The nearly seven-year insurgency, which
has launched attacks beyond Nigeria’s bor-
ders into Cameroon, Chad and Niger, has
killed at least 20,000 people, according to
Amnesty International. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says the violence also
has displaced 2.8 million people in the region, mostly those from Nigeria. Millions
more face dire food shortages.
Boko Haram, which means “Western
education is sinful,” in the local Hausa
language, in 2015 swore allegiance to the
Islamic State group.
While Boko Haram is thought to have abducted thousands of people over the years,
the mass kidnapping of more than 200 girls
from a school in the town of Chibok in 2014
brought the extremist group to the world’s
attention.
Ozolua said she wants to give underprivileged children in Nigeria a better option. Last year, the princess said her event
in Nigeria raised $100,000. She hopes the
gala on Saturday can produce more than
$400,000.
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NK says US soldiers
provoking its troops
BY HYUNG -JIN K IM
Associated Press
K IM KWANG H YON /AP
Kim Dong Chul, center, a U.S. citizen detained in North Korea, was sentenced Friday by a North Korean
court to 10 years in prison for what it called acts of espionage.
North Korea sends 2nd US
citizen to prison this year
Associated Press
PYONGYANG, North Korea —
North Korea on Friday sentenced
a U.S. citizen of Korean heritage
to 10 years in prison after convicting him of espionage and subversion, the second American it has
put behind bars this year.
Kim Dong Chul had been detained in the North on suspicion
of engaging in spying and stealing state secrets. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison with
hard labor after a brief trial in
Pyongyang. North Korea’s Supreme Court found Kim guilty of
espionage and subversion under
Articles 60 and 64 of the North’s
criminal code.
Further details were not immediately available. When he
was paraded before the media in
Pyongyang last month, Kim said
he had collaborated with and spied
for South Korean intelligence authorities in a plot to bring down
the North’s leadership and had
tried to spread religion among
North Koreans before his arrest
in the city of Rason in October.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, the country’s
main spy agency, has said Kim’s
case wasn’t related to the organization in any way.
Kim’s sentencing comes on
the heels of a 15-year sentence
handed down on Otto Warmbier,
an American university student
who the North says was engaged
in anti-state activities while visiting the country as a tourist earlier this year.
North Korea regularly accuses
Washington and Seoul of sending
spies to overthrow its government
to enable the U.S.-backed South
Korean government to control the
entire Korean Peninsula. Some
foreigners previously arrested
have read statements of guilt they
later said were coerced.
Most of those who are sentenced to long prison terms are
released before serving their full
time.
In the past, North Korea has
held out until senior U.S. officials
or statesmen came to personally
bail out detainees, all the way up
to former President Bill Clinton,
whose visit in 2009 secured the
freedom of American journalists
Euna Lee and Laura Ling. Both
had crossed North Korea’s border
from China illegally.
It took a visit in November 2014
by U.S. spy chief James Clapper
to bring home Mathew Miller,
also arrested after entering the
country as a tourist, and KoreanAmerican missionary Kenneth
Bae, who had been incarcerated
since November 2012.
Jeffrey Fowle, a U.S. tourist detained for six months at about the
same time as Miller, was released
just before that and sent home on
a U.S. government plane. Fowle
left a Bible in a local club hoping a North Korean would find it,
which is considered a criminal offense in North Korea.
11 dead in Norway helicopter crash
Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — An oil-rig helicopter crashed Friday on an island off the coast of western Norway, killing 11 people and leaving two others
missing, a rescue official said.
Jon Sjursoe, a spokesman for Norway’s Joint
Rescue Coordination Center, said the Eurocopter
EC-225 helicopter was carrying 11 Norwegians,
one Briton and one Italian from the Gullfaks B oil
field in the North Sea to Bergen, 74 miles away on
the Norwegian mainland. He did not know who was
among the confirmed victims.
Norwegian broadcaster NRK said 11 on board
were employed by the Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil ASA. The company didn’t immediately
return calls seeking comment.
Police spokesman Morten Kronen said the heli-
copter “totally smashed” as it hit the island of Turoey, near Bergen, and the 11 victims were found on
land.
The helicopter’s fuselage was found in the water
off the island while its rotor system was on land,
Sjursoe told The Associated Press.
“It is a very small island and (helicopter) parts
are spread partly on land, partly in the sea,” Sjursoe
said.
Norwegian media posted photos of huge billows of
smoke. Witness Rebecca Andersen told the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang that the helicopter’s
“rotor blades came rushing toward us.”
“Then we heard a violent explosion,” Andersen
was quoted as saying.
Statoil said it had mobilized its emergency response team and had “temporarily grounded all
equivalent traffic helicopters.”
SEOUL, South Korea — North
Korea on Friday accused U.S.
soldiers of trying to provoke its
frontline troops with “disgusting” acts and encouraging South
Korean soldiers to aim their guns
at the North.
A North Korean military statement warned U.S. soldiers to stop
“hooliganism” at the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom,
or they’ll meet a “dog’s death any
time and any place.”
“GIs hurled fully armed MPs
of the South Korean puppet army
into perpetrating such dangerous
provocations as aiming at” the
North Korean military side last
week, said the statement.
It said U.S. troops pointed their
fingers at North Korean soldiers
and made strange noises and
“disgusting” facial expressions.
North Korea occasionally accuses South Korean and U.S. troops
of trying to provoke its border
troops and vice versa. After North
Korea’s first nuclear bomb test in
2006, the U.S. accused North Korean troops of spitting across the
demarcation line, making throatslashing hand gestures and flashing their middle fingers.
The latest North Korean accusation came a day after South
Korean and U.S. officials said two
suspected medium-range missile
launches by North Korea ended
in failure. North Korea has fired
a barrage of missiles and artillery
shells into the sea in an apparent
response to South Korea-U.S.
military drills that end Saturday.
The U.S. and South Korean
militaries had no immediate official responses.
About 28,000 American troops
are deployed in South Korea to
deter potential aggression from
North Korea, a legacy of the Korean War, which ended in an armistice and not a peace treaty.
Panmunjom, located inside the
2.5-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone
that bisects the Korean Peninsula, is where the 1953 armistice
was signed. It remains one of the
world’s most dangerous flashpoints, but Panmunjom — jointly
overseen by North Korea and the
American-led U.N. Command
— is also a popular tourist spot
drawing visitors on both sides.
Visitors from the southern side
are often told by tour guides to
be extremely careful about what
gestures they make so as not to
antagonize the nearby North Korean soldiers.
UN: More than 9K killed
since Ukraine conflict began
BY M ICHAEL A STOR
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Nearly
10,000 people have been killed
and more than 20,000 injured
since the Ukraine conflict began
in April 2014, a top U.N. official
said Thursday.
Assistant Secretary General
for Political Affairs Taye-Brook
Zerihoun told the Security Council that the total number of casualties now stands at 30,729
including 9,333 people killed and
21,396 injured.
He said the latest incident occurred Wednesday when shelling
killed at least four civilians and injured at least eight people in Olenivka near the city of Donetsk.
Zerihoun said fighting has escalated in recent weeks to levels
not seen since August 2014, when
it was at its most intense.
He criticized both sides for hindering access to an international
monitoring mission put in place
under the Minsk cease-fire agreement ironed out by the Ukraine,
Russia, France and Germany on
Feb. 14, 2015, but said that, according to statistics provided by the
monitors, restrictions were more
common in rebel-held areas.
During the meeting representatives from Russia and Ukraine
traded bitter accusations over who
was to blame for the flare-up.
“Russia has organized and deployed in Donbas a 34,000-strong
hybrid military force consisting
of the regular Russian troops
as well as of foreign and local
militants. Russian generals and
military officers provide direct
command-and-control of this illegal military entity impressively
heavily armed,” Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine’s deputy minister of
foreign affairs, told the council.
He claimed this force is better
armed than most NATO members despite the Russians’ claims
that the weapons were acquired
in local hardware stores.
Russian Ambassador Vitaly
Churkin denounced the U.N.
session as a play for time while
Ukraine’s army occupies towns
“in the neutral strip” stipulated
by the Minsk agreement.
“Over the entire crisis the U.N.
has been used as a propaganda
platform,” Churkin said.
Russia tried to circulate a press
statement reaffirming the U.N.’s
commitment to the Minsk agreement, but failed to gain consensus
approval because it also called for
an investigation into the killing
of Russian protesters in Odessa,
without mentioning violations of
the cease-fire by rebel forces.
The U.S., France and Britain
all denounced Russian aggression for igniting the conflict.
“What is happening today is
the result of Russia’s violation of
Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity which began with
its occupation of Crimea more
than two years ago and expanded with substantial military on
the ground and weapons support
for armed separatists in Eastern
Ukraine,” U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power told the council.
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Parts of India ban
daytime cooking
amid deadly heat
BY NIRMALA GEORGE
AND I NDRAJIT SINGH
Associated Press
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Rescue workers search the city dump for survivors Thursday, one day after trash collapsed on workers
in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Rescuers search for missing
in fatal Guatemala trash slide
Associated Press
GUATEMALA CITY — Hundreds of rescuers picked through
a Guatemalan garbage dump
Thursday looking for bodies or
possible survivors a day after a
massive slope of trash collapsed,
killing at least four people.
The National Civil Police reported that 18 people still could
be missing, while Guatemala’s
national disaster response agency
put the figure at five.
Dozens of people seeking loved
ones who were unaccounted for
also were at the scene.
Marta Julia Davila, 21, said
her grandfather, Hugo Leonel
Perez Alonzo, 60, works as a
“guajero,” or garbage picker,
who looks for recyclable materials. Perez’s family had not seen
him since before the slide, and
workers reported that he was last
spotted sitting down in the area
where the collapse happened, she
added.
“We are sure he is there because yesterday he left for work
and last night he did not return
to his home,” Davila said. “There
are a lot of people buried.”
Recent rains may have contributed to the slope’s collapse.
Authorities said about 1,000
people worked in that area of
the dump and had been asked to
evacuate after an earlier slide,
but some resisted.
About 3,000 tons of garbage
from the capital and surrounding areas is handled daily at the
dump.
Eurozone economy
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Revered Chinese
monk mummified,
covered in gold leaf
BY PAN P YLAS
Associated Press
BY DIDI TANG
Associated Press
BEIJING — A revered Buddhist monk in China
has been mummified and covered in gold leaf, a
practice reserved for holy men in some areas with
strong Buddhist traditions.
The monk, Fu Hou, died in 2012 at age 94 after
spending most of his life at the Chongfu Temple on a
hill in the city of Quanzhou, in southeastern China,
according to the temple’s abbot, Li Ren.
The temple decided to mummify Fu Hou to commemorate his devotion to Buddhism — he started
practicing at age 17 — and to serve as an inspiration
for followers of the religion that was brought from
the Indian subcontinent roughly 2,000 years ago.
Immediately following his death, the monk’s body
was washed, treated by two mummification experts,
and sealed inside a large pottery jar in a sitting position, the abbot said.
When the jar was opened three years later, the
monk’s body was found intact and sitting upright
with little sign of deterioration apart from the skin
having dried out, Li Ren said.
The body then was washed with alcohol and covered with layers of gauze, lacquer and finally gold
leaf. It also was robed, and a local media report said
PATNA, India — With sizzling
temperatures claiming more than
300 lives this month in India, officials said Friday they were banning daytime cooking in some
parts of the drought-stricken
country in a bid to prevent accidental fires that have killed nearly 80 more people.
The eastern state of Bihar this
week took the unprecedented
step of forbidding any cooking between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. after accidental fires exacerbated by dry,
hot, windy weather swept through
shantytowns and thatched-roof
houses in villages and killed 79
people. They included 10 children
and five adults killed in a fire
sparked during a Hindu prayer
ceremony in Bihar’s Aurangabad
district last week.
People were told to cook at
night, instead.
Hoping to prevent more fires,
officials also have barred burning spent crops or holding religious fire rituals. Anyone defying
the ban risks up to a year in jail.
“We call this the fire season in
Bihar,” said Vyas, a state disaster
management official who goes
by one name. “Strong, westerly
winds stoke fires which spread
easily and cause great damage.”
Much of India is reeling under
a weekslong heat wave and severe drought conditions that have
decimated crops, killed livestock
and left at least 330 million Indians without enough water for
their daily needs.
Rivers, lakes and dams have
dried up in parts of the western
states of Maharashtra and Gujarat, and overall officials say
that groundwater reservoirs are
at just 22 percent capacity.
In some areas, the situation is
so bad the government has sent
tankers of water for emergency
relief. Monsoon rains are still
weeks away, expected to start
only in June.
At least 300 people have died
of heat-related illness this month,
including 110 in the state of Orissa, 137 in Telangana and another
45 in Andhra Pradesh where temperatures since the start of April
have been hovering about 111 degrees Fahrenheit.
That’s about 8 to 10 degrees
hotter than normal for April, according to state meteorological
official Y.K. Reddy. He predicted
the situation would only get worse
in May, traditionally the hottest
month in India.
C HINATOPIX /AP
A man takes a photo of revered Buddhist monk Fu
Hou, whose body was mummified and covered in
gold leaf. The monk died in 2012 at 94 in China.
a glass case had been ordered for the statue, which
will be protected with an anti-theft device.
The local Buddhist belief is that only a truly virtuous monk’s body would remain intact after being
mummified, local media reports said.
“Monk Fu Hou is now being placed on the mountain for people to worship,” Li Ren said.
LONDON — It’s been a long
and tortuous journey, but the eurozone economy is finally back to
the size it was before the global
financial crisis.
Official figures released Friday
show that the eurozone, which
as a bloc is the world’s secondlargest economy, accelerated unexpectedly at the start of the year
to bring it back to the level it was
before the recessions of the past
eight years.
Eurostat, the European Union’s
statistics agency, said the 19country currency bloc expanded
by a quarterly rate of 0.6 percent
in the first three months of the
year. The increase was double the
previous quarter’s rate and ahead
of market expectations for a more
modest 0.4 percent.
The increase means that the eurozone economy is now 0.4 percent
bigger than it was in the first quarter of 2008, before the deep recession stoked by the global financial
crisis. Since then, the eurozone
has had a torrid time, falling into
and out of recession as the global
financial crisis morphed into a regional debt crisis that at various
times threatened the future of the
euro currency, itself.
Though the size of the eurozone
economy is back to where it was
in 2008, the region still has a way
to go to heal fully. That’s most evident in the unemployment rate,
which at 10.2 percent is still 3
percentage points higher than it
was in 2008. It is far higher in the
countries that have suffered most
financially, such as Greece and
Spain.
While the eurozone was dealing with the debt problems of
a number of its member states,
other economies, such as the
U.S. and Britain, were recouping the ground lost in the wake of
the global financial crisis, which
triggered the deepest global recession since World War II. The
U.S., for example, regained its
pre-recession size back in 2011
and has since managed to eke out
consistent growth and has seen
unemployment fall sharply.
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Government eavesdropping run amok
BY NOAH FELDMAN
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T
he U.S. government claims the
right to eavesdrop at will on your
email when you’re writing to
someone who lives abroad. Now it
wants to be able to use those emails to convict you of a crime.
That’s what’s happening to Aws Mohammed Younis al-Jayab — and he’s not
the only one. The legal basis is the 2008
Amendment Act to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which says the
government may monitor communications
from within the U.S. to foreigners abroad,
or vice versa, without first obtaining a warrant to authorize the surveillance.
No court has yet reviewed the law’s constitutionality because until 2013 the government didn’t tell anyone that it had been
doing this. The Supreme Court ruled in
2013 that no one had legal standing to challenge the law based merely on the speculation that it might be applied to them.
Al-Jayab is different. The government
can charge him with a crime only by using
evidence gathered from his intercepted
emails. So it’s put him on notice that it intends to rely on material collected without
a warrant per the FISA. That gives alJayab standing to challenge the law.
Rightfully, al-Jayab should win — and the
details of his case show why. It’s one thing
for the government to intercept communications with foreigners for intelligencegathering purposes. I would consider that
a close debate. But it’s quite another to use
those intercepts as evidence at trial. Such
use badly erodes our Fourth Amendment
protections, especially in an era when so
much electronic communication spans the
globe and where we move across borders
frequently.
The alleged facts of al-Jayab’s case are
telling. The Sacramento, Calif., resident
came to the U.S. as a refugee from Iraq
in 2012. According to the government,
while living in Arizona and Wisconsin, he
emailed with jihadis in Syria about going
there to fight. The emails indicated he had
been there before. And sure enough, in
2014, al-Jayab traveled to Turkey and from
there crossed into Syria to fight alongside
several groups, allegedly including Ansar
al-Islam, a Kurdish jihadi group that
has since merged with the Islamic State
group.
In theory, al-Jayab could be charged
with material support for terror if it could
be proven that he really fought with Ansar
al-Islam, a designated terrorist group for
purposes of that law. But either the government doesn’t want to charge him with that
crime for tactical reasons, or it’s afraid
it doesn’t have enough direct evidence to
prove it.
Instead, the government called al-Jayab
in for an interview with U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services after his return
to the U.S. in 2014. They asked him whether he’d been a member of a rebel group or
supported terror. He said no, and claimed
to have done nothing more than visit his
grandmother in Turkey on the trip.
The government then charged al-Jayab
with the crime of lying to government officials. Its evidence comes from his emails
to Syria when he was in the U.S. and responses he received. Obtained under the
FISA without a warrant, they are the heart
of the government’s case.
To be sure, in the light of the Paris and
Brussels attacks, the U.S. needs some way
to lock up potential jihadi terrorists who
may have been trained abroad to commit
attacks here. But relying on warrantless
wiretapping isn’t it.
There is a reason that warrantless wiretaps usually are inadmissible in court.
They count as searches for purposes of the
Fourth Amendment. Requiring a warrant
before law enforcement is allowed to listen
in is a basic element of our modern right
to privacy.
Once we relax that right by allowing
evidence obtained in a warrantless search,
there’s no easy stopping point. It would
seem arbitrary if we could convict one
criminal who called an associate outside
the U.S., but not another whose associate
was inside our borders. Once the former is
permitted, we’ll start thinking about how
to allow the latter.
What’s more, the Constitution doesn’t
say that my privacy stops when I am speaking to someone who happens to be outside
the U.S. The Framers surely wouldn’t have
exempted letters sent from abroad if they
were read within the U.S.
The Fourth Amendment provides for the
right of “the people” to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures. That need
not apply to people outside the U.S. But it
should apply to everyone who is here, and
we shouldn’t lose our privacy rights just
because we’re talking across borders.
It’s harder to say with certainty that the
government should always be barred from
such intercepts when they’re made purely
for intelligence purposes. Say the government is listening to the phone of someone
in Syria and that person gets a call from
the U.S. — the government shouldn’t have
to stop listening.
But charging a U.S. resident in U.S.
court on the basis of warrantless searches
of communications while the resident was
in the U.S. goes too far. The government
should find another way to hold al-Jayab if
he is dangerous, such as charging him with
a crime that can be proved without violating his rights — and ours.
Noah Feldman, a Bloomberg View columnist, is a
professor of constitutional and international law
at Harvard.
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Some crimes can be – and should be – forgotten
BY PETER ORSZAG AND CASS SUNSTEIN
Bloomberg View
T
he U.S. is supposed to be a nation
of second chances, but for the 70
million Americans with a criminal record, we’re not doing such a
great job. Even among those whose crimes
were nonviolent and committed long ago,
too many still bear a scarlet letter. So it’s
encouraging to see many states now moving to expunge or seal the records of nonviolent crimes that aren’t repeated.
The stigma from a drug or other offense,
even one committed in young adulthood,
can linger for decades. In one recent experiment, job applicants randomly assigned a
criminal record were half as likely as other
applicants to get an offer of employment or
even an interview request.
People with actual records who are able
to get jobs are paid 10 percent to 40 percent
less than otherwise similar people, and
those with records are less likely to move
up the pay scale, research shows. That
remains true no matter how many years
former criminals stay on the straight and
narrow — even though the longer it’s been
since their offense, the less likely they are
to commit another one. And the former
offenders themselves aren’t the only ones
who pay: More than 5 million American
children have parents who have been incarcerated. The family effect, furthermore,
has a substantial racial aspect: Parental incarceration rates are two to seven times as
high among black and Hispanic children
as they are among white children.
To limit these costs, many states are expanding former criminals’ ability to seal
or expunge their records. In February,
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat,
signed legislation that will seal the records
of most second- and third-degree misdemeanors if the offender has not broken the
law for a decade.
To put this in perspective, third-degree
misdemeanors in Pennsylvania include
offenses such as disorderly conduct and
loitering. Do we really want someone who
loitered in his early 20s to continue to bear
the costs of that bad decision in his 40s and
even 50s?
The Reporters Committee for Freedom
of the Press apparently believes so, citing
its “strong interest in preserving the presumptive right of access to criminal court
proceedings and documents afforded by
the First Amendment.” (The committee makes the same argument in many
settings, including, in the interest of full
disclosure, a family law case involving columnist Peter Orszag.) But when it comes
to criminal records, permanent full transparency has costs as well as benefits.
Yes, the First Amendment is understood
to create a presumptive right of access to
certain judicial proceedings, and criminal court records should not be sealed
without good reason. But in the U.S., both
sealing and expungement have a long history — expungement reaches back at least
50 years. Given the states’ strong interest
in preventing severe damage to people’s
lives, the constitutional objection to expunging long-ago nonviolent transgressions is weak.
More and more states are coming to recognize the value of a second chance. From
2009 to 2014, more than 30 states expanded
programs to seal or expunge former criminal records, according to the Vera Institute of Justice — by allowing the process
to apply to nonviolent felonies in addition
to misdemeanors (Wyoming), by reducing
the waiting time before the option is available (Colorado), by making it illegal to deny
employment or an occupational license on
the basis of an expunged record (Indiana),
and by expunging juvenile records (North
Carolina). We strongly support these efforts, though we would stop short of allowing sealing or expunging for serious violent
crimes (e.g., murder or rape) or for professionals who should know better (e.g., people in the financial services industry who
commit fraud or related transgressions).
Some employers — including Facebook,
Starbucks and Wal-Mart — have taken the
complementary step of removing the box
on application forms that asks about former
criminal activity. The federal government
should do the same, except in the case of
law enforcement jobs, as the Brennan Center for Justice has recommended.
As Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute said earlier this week at
a White House conference on the economics of the criminal justice system, America
cannot afford to waste so many lives. One
good way to save them is to allow nonviolent criminals to seal or expunge their records after a period of good behavior.
Peter Orszag, a Bloomberg View columnist, was
formerly President Barack Obama’s director
of the Office of Management and Budget. Cass
Sunstein, a Bloomberg View columnist, is director
of the Harvard Law School’s program on behavioral economics and public policy.
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Policy specifics still seem foreign to Trump
BY M ARTIN SCHRAM
Tribune News Service
W
hile covering a news event
Wednesday afternoon, a most
unsettling realization came
over me. It was based not
on personal views — just an instinct that
comes with decades of covering things as
a journalist and then seeing how they turn
out.
I realized that the speaker who was delivering a major international policy address had a keen talent for telling ordinary
people what they want to hear, making
complex crises sound simple and solvable.
And a supremely confident way of capturing the hopes and hearts of people who are
fearful and fed-up.
I realized I was quite possibly — and
maybe even probably — covering America’s next president: Donald Trump.
Democrats are now salivating at the
prospect of being gifted with Trump as
their Republican presidential opponent.
But in November, those Democrats may
be as shocked as today’s Republican elites
who last summer were laughing at Trump’s
chances. Trump has a way of winning over
people who may not have a lot of knowledge
about issues — but know enough to know
their lives and livelihood are not as prosperous as they should be and their government seems to be making things worse, not
better.
What made that realization so unsettling
was that Trump clearly seems unknowledgeable about the national security topics he was reading from a teleprompter
(something he’s rarely done as a neophyte
politician). Even worse, I believe he doesn’t
know his major in-depth foreign policy
speech was riddled with inconsistencies
and contradictions. (A point cited by many
post-speech TV analysts, including former
House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Mike Rogers, R-Mich.)
Trump, who only in recent weeks formed
a team of international affairs consultants,
laid out a world vision in which, in a sin-
Trump made no mention
of trying to undo any
of Russia’s military
adventurism in Ukraine,
an omission he might not
have charitably forgiven if it
had been made by Obama.
gle sentence, he declared two seemingly
contradictory concepts: “We’re getting
out of the nation-building business and instead focusing on creating stability in the
world.” But America got into nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq only because
the demise of the dictatorial regimes of
the Taliban and Saddam Hussein had left
unstable lands that militants sought to capture to create safe havens for terrorism.
While never specifically mentioning
President George W. Bush’s rush to invade
Iraq and topple Saddam’s regime, Trump
said of the present problems in the Middle
East: “It all began with a dangerous idea
that we could make Western democracies
out of countries that had no experience or
interests in becoming a Western democracy.” Yet, in his list of steps he will take
to make things better, Trump said (without
further explanation): “Finally, I will work
with our allies to reinvigorate Western values and institutions. Instead of trying to
spread universal values that not everybody
shares.”
But Trump also was able to capitalize
on a number of the calamitous outcomes
of President Barack Obama’s declarations
and actions, such as the time Obama pointedly warned that if Syria used or even
moved its chemical weapons, he would
consider that crossing a red line. Trump
quite properly said: “Our friends and enemies must know that if I draw a line in the
sand, I will enforce that line in the sand.”
Trump spoke of the importance of U.S.
allies being able to trust his commitments
and adversaries respecting his word. Yet
when talking about combating Islamic
State terrorists, Trump declared, “We
must as, a nation, be more unpredictable.”
And, after listing what he called reductions in U.S. military strength under
Obama, Trump concluded, rather incongruously, by tossing in his only mention of
climate change: “Our military is depleted
and we’re asking our generals and military
leaders to worry about global warming.”
He spoke hopefully of a new comity with
old adversaries: “We desire to live peacefully and in friendship with Russia and
China. … Some say the Russians won’t be
reasonable. I intend to find out. If we can’t
make a deal under my administration, a
deal that’s great — not good, great — for
America, but also good for Russia, then we
will quickly walk from the table.”
Trump made no mention of trying to
undo any of Russia’s military adventurism
in Ukraine, an omission he might not have
charitably forgiven if it had been made by
Obama. Still, Trump’s speech was loaded
with the sort of jingo-demagoguery that
has worked so well for him among fed-up
voters so far. And it may indeed surprise
the pols and pundits come November.
But Trump’s biggest fans may not have
forgiven him one omission. Trump never
mentioned what every Trump rally-goer
can name is his foreign policy centerpiece:
Trump never mentioned Mexico or forcing Mexico to pay for building a huge wall
along the U.S. border.
Alas, unlike his rally-enthusiasts,
Trump’s polite foreign policy audience
didn’t prompt him by chanting, “Build the
wall!”
Martin Schram, an op-ed columnist for Tribune
News Service, is a veteran Washington journalist,
author and TV documentary executive.
Celebs, stop threatening to leave the US over elections
BY A LYSSA ROSENBERG
The Washington Post
T
here have been many startling
things about the 2016 race for the
presidency. But we’ve reached a
predictable part of the election
cycle, one that I particularly dislike: the
part where various celebrities, with varying degrees of flippancy, start suggesting
that they’ll move out of the country if a candidate they find horrifying gets elected.
We’re at least three presidents into this
sort of posturing: Robert Altman said he’d
move to France if George W. Bush was
elected in 2000, and Alec Baldwin suggested he’d pull up stakes before reversing himself. In 2008, Akon said he would
renounce his U.S. citizenship if John McCain triumphed over Barack Obama. And
now “Girls” creator Lena Dunham has remarked that she’d relocate to Vancouver in
the event of a Donald Trump presidency.
Beyond the fact that no one ever actually follows through on these pledges (an
exception, kind of, is James Cameron, who
withdrew his application for U.S. citizenship after George W. Bush was elected),
they constitute one of my least favorite
forms of interaction between the political
and entertainment industries.
Threatening to leave the United States
behind for good may be a way to communicate just how high celebrities believe the
stakes are in a given
election. But it immediately undercuts
artists’ credibility to
speak on political issues in two important
and specific ways. And
that’s a shame for anyone who believes that
artists actually have
real things to offer the
Dunham
political process.
First, upping the
ante like this immediately highlights the
difference between celebrities and their
fans, who presumably are the people
they’re trying to influence.
Moving can cost thousands of dollars,
and given the oft-cited statistic that 47 percent of Americans couldn’t come up with
$400 on short notice, plenty of ordinary citizens probably don’t have the cash on hand
to switch countries at a moment’s notice
(though I guess we could all start Fleeing
to Canada funds). Whether stars intend it
or not, talking cavalierly about leaving the
country because of the result of a presidential election is a good advertisement for
just how much cash they have on hand and
just how much flexibility their jobs allow
them.
Because beyond the question of the immediate costs of the move, lots of people
have jobs that they can’t just take with
them. If you’re Miley Cyrus and your job
consists of flying to different locations to
record and tour, it doesn’t really matter
where you make your primary residence.
And people at the top of the creative ladder
in the entertainment industry and the people who work steady, or even irregular, jobs
in it have very different levels of financial
security and job flexibility. I don’t know
whether everyone in the “Girls” writers
room would be completely sanguine about
relocating to Vancouver for work, especially with the show coming to a close, if that’s
where Dunham wants to live.
But especially in the world outside
the entertainment industry, if you work
at a store, or in a factory, or in a specific
school district, there’s no guarantee that
an equivalent job awaits you over the border, or that you’d be able to get a Canadian
work permit.
Yes, I know, to a certain extent it’s silly
to blame rich, highly in-demand people for
being wealthy and valuable commodities.
But flaunting their wealth and privilege in
an unseemly way isn’t the only reason it’s
extremely dumb for celebrities to threaten
to move to Canada based on the outcome of
an election.
The most idiotic thing about this particular bit of political posturing? It suggests
that the people who engage in it are fundamentally unserious about U.S. politics. It’s
a grand gesture that’s actually the equiva-
lent of giving up and running away.
If you move to Canada, or France, or any
place other than here and leave everyone
else to live through the actual consequences of an election result you didn’t like,
you’re not proving that you’re committed
to change. Instead, you’re showing that
your primary concern is for yourself, even
though if you’re already a significantly
wealthy person, you’re probably fairly buffeted from any actual policy changes that a
new administration might institute.
You’re signaling that you find being associated with a given president, and the
Americans who voted for him or her, distasteful. And that’s an awfully flimsy reason to flounce out of the country.
I will make one exemption. If you declare that you’re moving out of the country
but will dedicate, say, 90 percent of your
money to funding down-ballot candidates
and building durable political institutions that could change the electoral tide,
I will give you a pass and agree to regard
you as a moderately serious person. But if
you’re going to do that, why not stay in the
United States and enjoy the results of your
investment?
And unless you’re willing to make that
kind of commitment, your threats to deprive us of your shining presence don’t
count for much.
Alyssa Rosenberg blogs about pop culture for The
Washington Post’s Opinions section.
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THE CENSUS
12K
The amount of money authorities say a New Jersey man owes in unpaid tolls. Oscar Sanchez, of
Jersey City, was pulled over for not having a front license plate on his car. The officer then discovered
Sanchez was driving with an expired license and had more than 200 counts of missed EZ Pass toll
payments. Sanchez faces charges including theft of service and driving on a suspended license.
Zoo introduces new
African lion cub
BUFFALO — A New
NY
York zoo has welcomed
a new African lion cub, its first
cub to be born there in 25 years.
The Buffalo Zoo introduced
the nearly 8-week-old male to the
media Wednesday.
Zoo President Donna Fernandes said it was one of four
cubs born to Lelie and Tiberius.
The new unnamed cub won’t be
seen in the lion exhibit for some
time, but the zoo plans to post pictures and video to social media.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service classifies African lions as
endangered because of loss of
habitat and poaching.
Labrador helps man
stranded in snowstorm
FLAGSTAFF — Flagstaff police said a dog
helped lead them to a hiker who
was stranded at the base of Mount
Elden during a snowstorm.
The Arizona Daily Sun reported Officer Melissa Seay said
the hiker would have died in the
freezing temperatures on April
16 if it hadn’t been for Marley, 2,
a black Labrador mix, that heard
the man’s cries for help.
The dog’s owner, John Paul
Roccaforte, said he let Marley
outside around 1 a.m. when she
started barking and wouldn’t
stop. Roccaforte said he went outside and eventually heard someone moaning and calling for help.
Seay said the hiker, who had
fallen and been unable to walk,
was found in a rocky area covered by trees.
AZ
School project’s sparks
fears of Zodiac Killer
TALLAHASSEE — A
FL
Florida State University
class project about drug cartels
and serial killers took a turn when
students scrawled a message associated with the infamous Zodiac Killer on a sidewalk.
The Tallahassee Democrat
reported Wednesday that police
started investigating after finding the message that included
the cipher associated with the serial killer responsible for several
murders in Northern California
in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.
The message near a student
apartment complex stated, “I’m
alive and well and I’m going to
start killing again.”
Police stepped up patrols and
eventually discovered it was done
for an English class project. Students were told to write a message in a public forum and take a
picture of it.
Tallahassee police spokesman
David Northway called it a class
project gone wrong.
MITCH SNEED, A LEXANDER CITY (A LA .) O UTLOOK /AP
That’s one way to settle a debate
Alexander City, Ala., Mayor Charles Shaw, left, is restrained by an officer Monday after a fight broke out between him and Councilman Tony
Goss, far right, during a meeting of the City Council . The meeting was intended to discuss city audits and other municipal financial issues
but spiraled into a shouting match before it ended and the brawl ensued.
Duck race winner can
dine anywhere in world
HARVARD — A rotary club in a MassaMA
chusetts town is gearing up for its
annual rubber ducky race in which
the winner’s prize is a free dinner
for two anywhere in the world.
The Boston Globe reported that
the winner of Harvard’s Ducky
Wucky River Race will receive
free airfare, a two-night stay at a
hotel and the fancy dinner.
The Ayer Rotary Club will kick
off the festivities on May 7, when
a construction vehicle will dump
thousands of numbered ducks
into the Nashua River to float
downstream.
Last year’s champion dined
in Venice, Italy. Rotary member
Jason Kauppi said past winners
have traveled as far as Paris,
Tokyo and Australia.
The event finishes off the Apple
Blossom Festival in Harvard, a
town of 6,000 residents.
Man jumps in river, runs
naked from hospital
PITTSBURGH — Police said a Pittsburgh
PA
man driving a stolen car ditched
the vehicle and jumped into a river
to escape from authorities. Police
said he later fled naked from a hospital and hid inside a dumpster.
Police first chased James Edward Williams, 30, when a detec-
tive saw him driving a stolen car
Wednesday morning. Police said
Williams abandoned the car and
ran through a recycling yard,
where he pushed a steel shelving
unit onto an officer. He later tried
to swim away in the Ohio River.
His foot got tangled in a barge’s
rope, and he was taken to Allegheny General Hospital. Later
Wednesday, he ran naked from
the hospital and was found hiding
in a garbage container.
12-year-old runs
half-marathon in error
ROCHESTER — A 12year-old western New
NY
York girl wound up running 10
extra miles after she got into the
wrong road race.
LeeAdianez Rodriguez had
registered for the 5K race that
was part of last Sunday’s Rochester Regional Health Flower
City Challenge. She thought she
was arriving late at the starting
line when the race started, so she
began running.
It turned out she was running
with the half-marathoners on
the 13.1-mile course and not in
the 5K, or 3.1 miles. Rodriguez
said she realized about halfway
through that she was in the wrong
race but decided to finish.
Her mother became worried
when she wasn’t among the finishers of the 5K, but they were
reunited when she finished the
half-marathon.
Owner reunited with
sentimental snow globe
ST.
PETERSBURG
FL
— When Michael Moore
was forced to throw away a liquid-filled snow globe before going
through airport security, he was
heartbroken: It had been a gift
from his parents to celebrate his
and his wife’s adoption of a 5-yearold girl. A couple retrieved the
sparkling, silver globe and yelled
after him that they would get it
back to him somehow.
That was in February. On
Wednesday, Ivelise Amarri Hernandez personally handed the
keepsake over to Moore’s emotional mother, Linda Modry, who
had bought the globe in January
and decorated it with photos of
Moore, his wife, their dog and
their new daughter.
Modry said it was a good thing
it was raining when she picked up
the globe, “because we were all
crying.”
Woman charged with
stealing priest’s Bible
SUNBURY — Police
have charged a woman
PA
with stealing the personal Bible
of a Catholic priest from his central Pennsylvania chapel.
The (Sunbury) Daily Item reported Elizabeth Pensyl, 52, was
arrested at her home Wednesday.
The Rev. Fred Wangwe told
Sunbury police he noticed Tuesday that the Bible and two other
religious books missing from
the chapel at St. Monica Parish.
When police reviewed surveillance video, they identified Pensyl and found the stolen materials
at her home while arresting her
on an unrelated charge.
Officer Steve Mazzeo told the
newspaper, “It is disgusting to
steal, let alone from a church.”
University student
named Indy 500’s poet
INDIANAPOLIS — An
Indiana University stuIN
dent has been named the Indianapolis 500’s first official poet
since the early 20th century.
Adam Henze, of Bloomington,
beat out more than 200 others
who submitted Indy 500-themed
poems for the contest.
The competition revives an
Indy 500 tradition from the 1920s,
when an official poem was included in the race day program.
Henze is an educator and a doctoral candidate at IU. He received
a $1,000 cash prize and two tickets to the race on May 29.
His poem is titled “For Those
Who Love Fast, Loud Things.”
It will appear in the official race
program, and he will have a
chance to read his winning poem
at the Speedway during qualification weekend.
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LIFESTYLE
Miss. man collects mini liquor bottles
BY TAMMY SMITH
The Sun Herald
A
t first glance, Joe Fleming’s
neat home in Long Beach, Miss.,
seems like pretty much any other
ranch-style house. But take a look
in that cabinet in the dining room. And that
one and that one in the living room. And
that one in the den. They’re full of miniature liquor bottles, the kind you find in displays at the counter of package stores, on
flights or sometimes in hotel mini-bars.
Hmm. What’s in this one? Exotica such
as Admiral Nelson Spiced Rum, Agwa
De Bolivia Coca Herbal Liqueur, Caribbean Rum Runner, 1921 Tequila, Bird
Dog Peach Whiskey. It goes on and on, and
that’s just one display cabinet.
“This is my only dedicated cabinet, and
it’s all Scotch whisky,” Fleming said, indicating a nearby china cabinet bereft of
china. Instead, scores of true Scotch whisky bottles fill the shelves.
Altogether, Fleming now has “in excess
of 5,600” little (50-milliliter) liquor bottles
in his home. And there’s not a duplicate in
the bunch.
Well, not anymore. He recently had a
potluck party where friends were invited
over to polish off some 300 unintentional
duplicates. It’s understandable. After all,
if you have more than 5,000 bottles at
home and a slight obsession with collecting, you’re bound to forget you already
have one or two or 300. His guests, many
of whom had not seen the collection, were
astounded and fascinated — and more than
happy to help him pare down the extras.
Just how dedicated to his collection is
Fleming?
“As they fill up, I get another cabinet,”
he said. “I’ve been accused not of collecting liquor bottles as much as collecting
cabinets.”
It’s not just cabinets.
“Take a look at this,” Fleming said, leading to the closet in the foyer. He opened the
door to reveal row after row of shelves in
the closet. Behind the expected coats and
other such closet residents, the shelves hold
— you guessed it — more bottles. “They
[the shelves] go down to the floor.”
A bedroom holds more displays as well
as his carefully maintained cataloging system. Each bottle has its own printed index
card, which bears a color photo of the bottle as well as its price, date of acquisition,
manufacturer and, perhaps most important, where it’s located. He has a numeric
system that tells him the cabinet the bottle
is in, as well as the shelf and location on the
shelf. The system also is on his computer,
giving faster access.
It all began decades ago.
“I’ve been collecting since August 1971,”
Fleming said. He was on a business-related
trip in Europe and at the end of his trip, he
was in London. As he was walking down
the street, he was wondering what souvenir he wanted to take back.
“I had three criteria,” he said. “It had to
not cost a lot of money, it
could not weigh a lot and
it couldn’t take up a lot of
space.”
Just then, he walked by
a store with a display of
miniature liquor bottles.
It was his “aha” moment.
On the next trip, he did
the same, then the next
and the next. It all started
with that one bottle. Fleming consulted his catalog
and pulled out the bottle, a
PHOTOS BY JOHN FITZHUGH, THE SUN HERALD/TNS
miniature of Drioli, a marachino liqueur.
Joe Fleming of Long Beach, Miss., has a
Vodka, he said, is probcollection of more than 5,000 liquor bottles.
ably the most common
mini bottle variety.
“It’s in vogue right now,” he said. “Seven can Whiskey.”
or eight years ago, they began to flavor
He first learned of the brew when he
vodka. Now, there’s in excess of 200 flavors was traveling through Virginia and saw
of vodka. But rum is definitely making a a catalog listing it on a store’s counter. It
push now. They’re starting to flavor that, was the right size bottle; the problem was,
too.”
the store didn’t carry it. Nor did store after
Among the more unusual beverages in store he contacted. Finally he was told he
his collection, Fleming said, is a bottle of could order it. Well, yes, but it couldn’t be
bison grass vodka, which, yes, is flavored shipped to him. He would have to go pick
with bison grass. In Poland, it’s known as it up in person from the source, which was
Zubrówka.
the gift shop at Mt. Vernon, Washington’s
Fleming is especially proud of a min- historic home — which he did.
iature bottle and shot glass presentation
Is there one he’s still trying to find,
set that has its roots in the nation’s first that elusive bottle that will complete his
president.
collection?
“This,” he said, opening a small square
“I don’t know. I’ll know it when I see it,”
box, “is George Washington Vatted Ameri- he said with a smile.
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GAMING
ILLUSTRATION BY ELLEN C HEUNG
Stars and Stripes
GIRLS KEEP OUT!
Female video gamers face vile abuse, threats
BY TALI A RBEL
Associated Press
N
ico Deyo, a 33-year-old e-commerce specialist from Milwaukee, used to enjoy mixing it up
with players from around the
world in the popular online fantasy game
“World of Warcraft.” Then a stalker began
harassing her on the game’s forums,
impersonating her in the game and, later,
sending her barrages of Twitter messages, some threatening her with graphic
rape and murder.
While the stalker didn’t drive her from
the game, the experience helped sour her
on multiplayer gaming. “There’s a lot of
things about the community that are very
hostile,” she says of “Warcraft.” Deyo
largely gave up the game almost two years
ago and now mostly spends her time on
playing other games by herself.
Deyo is far from alone. In the maledominated world of multiplayer online
games like “Grand Theft Auto,” “Halo”
and “Call of Duty,” many women say
they’ve had to take drastic steps to escape
harassment, stalking and violent threats
from male players. Some quit particular
games. Others change their screen names
or make sure they play only with friends.
Online harassment of women, often
involving threats of horrific violence, has
become a big issue — and video games are
a frequent flashpoint. Two years ago, the
online “Gamergate” movement, ostensibly
a protest over the ethics of game journalists, also fueled Twitter attacks on female
critics replete with gutter-level abuse and
assault threats. Some targets left their
homes or canceled speaking engagements,
fearing for their safety.
Last month, the South by Southwest
Interactive festival held a daylong summit
on online harassment; one panel addressed
problems in “gaming and geek culture.”
That summit, however, almost didn’t happen. Last October, the festival canceled
two gaming-issue panels after receiving
“numerous threats of on-site violence.”
Organizers reversed themselves a few days
later after BuzzFeed and Vox Media threatened to boycott the festival entirely.
Online gaming companies, however,
have been slower to act. Major console
makers Microsoft and Sony and game
developers like Blizzard Entertainment
have “terms of service” that explicitly
ban stalking and other harassing behavior. The companies have the right to ban
reported bad actors from their public
forums. Players say that rarely happens
— and when it does, as in Deyo’s case,
their harassers often follow them onto
Twitter and other social channels.
Becky Heineman, the 52-year-old
founder of the Olde Skuul game studio in
Seattle, was an aficionado of shoot-emups like “Halo” and “Call of Duty.” But
constant catcalls from other players and
questions about her bra size or “whether I
do it on top or bottom, or other derogatory
things,” she says, wore her down.
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Reporting her harassers
never seemed to make a
difference, she says.
She limited her
It’s only recently that
play to friends
for a while, but
‘women players have
now mostly
been recognized as
focuses on
simple singlevalid gamers that
player games
are interesting for
like “Cookie
Clicker” on her
companies.’
phone and coman
puter.
Eastern
Contrary to popular
Kentucky
stereotypes, women are
University profesavid video gamers; one recent
sor who wrote a book about
survey showed that about half
racist and sexist interactions
of all women play video games,
within Xbox. “They can go to
about the same as men. But men
the next person and do the same
are far more likely to identify
thing.”
themselves as “gamers,” and exThat’s especially true when
perts say that “hard-core” shootharassment shades into the real
ing and action games remain
world. Mercer Smith-Looper,
mostly male.
a 27-year-old Boston woman,
It’s only recently that “women
found it annoying when male
players have been recognized as
players patronized her and told
valid gamers that are interesther how to play. Then she started
ing for companies,” said Yasmin
receiving unwanted gifts — a
Kafai, a University of Pennsylnecklace, a sword — in the mail.
vania professor who focuses on
One gamer unexpectedly showed
gender and gaming.
up at her workplace after calling
Microsoft says recent changes
her repeatedly.
to its Xbox Live service make
Fed up, she changed her
it more likely that players with
gamer name and now sticks to
bad reputations will end up
playing privately with friends
playing each other. It adds that
or alone. “I’m kind of in hiding,”
its enforcement team monitors
she says.
complaints at all times and that
What would effective antiall reports are investigated.
harassment measures look like?
Sony, Blizzard and the EnterExperts like Edwards and Gray
tainment Software Association,
point to Riot Games, the maker
a trade group, did not respond to
of “League of Legends,” for its
requests for comment.
efforts to change player culture.
Those moves don’t impress
Riot built a system based on
some women in
artificial intelligence and player
the industry.
feedback to determine appropriate behavior during
gameplay, and uses it to
punish or reward play‘Players basically
ers who draw complaints, according
have to adopt their
to the company’s
own strategies
online support
documents.
to deal with it
When
players
(harassment).’
show “signs
of toxicity,” Riot can block them
from competitive play, limit their
chats or ban them entirely. The
company shows players what
“While they have very good
behavior other players didn’t like
statements about harassment
when it punishes them. Jeffrey
and, you know, responsibility to
Lin, Riot’s lead game designer
the community and all that kind
for social systems, has said that
of stuff, the enforcement side of
because of these efforts, only
it is pretty lax,” says Kate Ed2 percent of its global games
wards, executive director of the
experienced racist, homophobic,
International Game Developers
sexist language or excessive
Association. “Players basically
harassment.
have to adopt their own strateRiot Games declined to comgies to deal with it.”
ment when contacted by The
Games and online game
Associated Press.
networks, for instance, let
IGDA’s Edwards acknowledgplayers “mute” messages from
es that dealing with harassment
opponents and turn off voice
is a difficult challenge. “You’re
chat, where trash talk can easily
dealing with minors versus
shade over into harassment.
adults,” she says. “You’re dealXbox Live also labels players
ing with free speech issues. It’s a
who get lots of complaints with a
struggle for companies to figure
red marker so that other players
out exactly how to approach it.”
can avoid them.
And while Riot-style moderaBut constantly muting or
tion might limit harassment, it’s
reporting other players interrupts what’s supposed to be a fun unlikely to solve the problem on
pastime. And it doesn’t change
its own. “This is a social and culharassing behavior.
tural problem, not a technologi“If I just block somebody, is
cal one,” says Dmitri Williams,
that stopping them from doing
CEO of game analytics firm
the abuse?” says Kishonna Gray,
Ninja Metrics.
How to stop harassment in video games
BY TALI A RBEL
Associated Press
M
any women say popular
video games such as “World
of Warcraft” and “Halo” are
rife with harassment, stalking and sexism that game companies
don’t police effectively. But there are
some steps the game industry, social
media and law enforcement could take to combat
harassment.
Standard for enforcement
Video game companies create their own
rules for acceptable behavior, and some players
complained that they didn’t know what resulted
from their reports of bad behavior.
“One of the things that would be really cool to
see is if all companies adopted similar standards for what constitutes harassment and behavior so they work more in tandem,” says Kate
Edwards, executive director of the International
Game Developers Association.
Players can mute, block or report users who
bother them. But some say that’s not enough:
Avoiding a problem doesn’t solve it or change
how people act with others.
Several experts credit Riot Games, the company behind popular online game “League of
Legends,” for building a system that aims to improve the culture of the game and change player
behavior. If a player is punished, the company’s
system tells them why they were reported and
shows them the specific comments that other
players didn’t like.
Hiring and diversity
Video game developers remain overwhelmingly male, and companies could make a
conscious effort to diversify their workforces,
Edwards says. Doing so might result in games
with broader appeal.
The industry is paying attention to criticism.
At the June 2015 Electronic Entertainment
Expo, or E3, video game conference, companies
featured more games with prominent women
characters. There were also more women attending and representing the industry than
there had been in previous years.
Social media
Harassment isn’t limited to game platforms.
It spills out onto Twitter and other social media.
After criticism, some sites have taken steps to
try to curb abuse.
Twitter has tried to make it easier to report
threats and abuse, adding staff and trying to
streamline reporting and blocking. In February,
the company formed a “Trust & Safety Council”
with outside groups to help develop tools and
policies to fight abuse while still allowing people
to speak freely.
Last year, the freewheeling online discussion board Reddit adopted new guidelines that
prohibit publishing people’s private information
(such as stolen pictures or home addresses),
harassment, abuse and comments that incite
violence.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital
rights group, says that if companies aren’t willing
to build in filtering functions for harassing messages, they should let outside developers do so.
Prosecution
Federal law and many states prohibit stalking
and threatening someone online. Law enforcement can pursue people who make threats by collecting user information from Twitter and other
services. But such cases can be challenging.
It has to be a “true threat,” says Wesley
Hsu, an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.
“There is a difference, under the law, between
‘I hope someone comes and kills you’ and ‘I’m
coming to kill you.’ ”
It can also be difficult to track people who
make online threats, Hsu says, given the prevalence of tools for staying anonymous on the
Internet.
ELAINE THOMPSON /AP
Becky Heineman, longtime video game developer and founder of the Olde Skuul game studio in Seattle,
used to be an aficionado of action-packed, violent games, but after being constantly harassed while
playing highly-competitive games, she now plays simple, single-player games.
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HEALTH & FITNESS
BY M IKE PLUNKETT
The Washington Post
I
n a studio normally used for Bikram
yoga classes, Pierre Wright is leading students through a sequence of
exercises designed to improve how
their bodies move.
The class starts with bent-elbow arm
circles to release tension in the shoulder
blades, then moves to a series of spinal
stretches, modified yoga poses and core
twists. It ends with the cross touch, a challenging variation of the dead bug posture,
engaging the whole body.
This isn’t a typical yoga class. In fact,
Wright would say it’s not really yoga.
The class — FaYoFlex (which stands for
Fascia, Yoga and Flexibility) at Wright’s
Bikram Yoga Petworth in Washington
— is designed to ensure someone can lift
weights, fully perform a backward bend
or simply stand and walk correctly and
without pain.
FaYoFlex, as created by Wright, focuses
on mobility: the connectivity between
muscle groups, joint capsules and the fascial system (the web of soft connective tissue that surrounds the muscles and joints,
affecting movement and performance).
Wright, who has a psychology Ph.D
from Howard University and opened the
studio a year ago, told me that FaYoFlex is
open to everyone — from children to the
elderly — regardless of athletic ability.
Betty Weiss, a yoga-practicing Washington resident, is recovering from a
back injury, and she said she’s seen her
strength and flexibility improve from
taking the class. “It’s a good complement
for other exercise classes. It keeps things
from being too tight,” Weiss said.
Although the class might look easy at
first glance, FaYoFlex can be deceptively
hard for some.
“There are athletes who are super-muscular but can barely get through the class
because myofascially they are so tight,”
Wright said. “Muscles create a tight body,
not just physically but internally as well.
A tight body is not the most functional
body. What we’re trying to accomplish is a
functional body.”
Mobility is a topic that often gets mislabeled. It’s not the same as flexibility or
stretching, although both will give you
clues to a body part’s level of mobility.
Rather, mobility is how the body moves on
a daily basis. Having good mobility means
being able to walk, sit, run and move the
way your body was intended to.
Kate Galliett, a fitness coach who focuses
Athough FaYoFlex incorporates modified yoga
poses such as pigeon
pose, above, the class
focuses on one’s sense
of body awareness.
Courtesy of Elise Perry
Getting back to the basics
Mobility class teaches the body to move the way it was meant to
on mobility issues at fitforreallife.com, said
the concept that you can “fix” one part of
the body without addressing the larger
mobility issues is a misconception people
have in dealing with aches and pains.
“Everything really is connected. What
happens at your foot certainly has influence
in what is happening in your hips, but it’s
not your job to isolate each muscle and try
to make it more mobile on its own, as if it
were in a vacuum,” Galliett said. “Nothing
works in isolation in your body, so when you
look at muscles as ‘tight adductor’ or ‘tight
calves,’ you’re missing the point.”
Kelly Starrett, a San Francisco-based
coach and physical therapist whose new
book, “Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World,” focuses on improving mobility for the office worker, said that a good
test of mobility is to attempt a full squat,
keeping your feet pointed forward and
your weight on your heels, with a neu-
tral spine and your calves touching your
hamstrings. He said a successful squat
mobilization requires the ankles, hips and
spine to be free of restriction.
Starrett says mobility has two components: motor control and biomechanics.
Motor control is the technique needed to
create stable and powerful body positions.
The body is built to move correctly all the
time, but Starrett said our society doesn’t
teach people the skills to move the way we
were meant to move. Instead, we focus on
“working out” or “getting some exercise.”
The second component, biomechanics,
deals with the muscular structure, joints
and connective tissues, as well as the nervous system, which sends signals throughout
the body to instruct mobile positioning.
“Your nervous system is the gatekeeper
when it comes to mobility. If your nervous
system does not sense that it has control of
the joint in the range you’re trying to ex-
pand into, it will simply disallow you from
going into it,” Galliett said. For example,
if you have trouble touching your toes, it’s
not just your back and leg muscles stopping you. It’s also your brain telling the
rest of your body that it’s not possible.
Part of why Wright created the FaYoFlex
class was his own inability to complete the
Bikram yoga sequences pain-free.
“I have been practicing yoga for a long
time, and in the yoga experience, I was
unhealthy. And, being unhealthy, the mat
was far more challenging than it would be
for the average person,” Wright said.
FaYoFlex strives to integrate body
awareness — having a full understanding of how your body is doing and feeling
— with the physical.
“This class focuses on the innate awareness of the body,” Wright said. “Are you
connected? Are you willing to be connected?”
Sweat out your hangover with this day-after workout
BY SUZEE SKWIOT
Rodalewellness.com
A
fter a particularly wild
Saturday night, or a
spring break celebration, the morning-after
hangover can be no joke. Sure,
you can reach for one of those
best hangover foods, but the best
way to get out of that after-effect
might just be to sweat it out.
“The only thing I want after
a night out is a workout,” says
Conor Murphy, a Reebok CrossFit trainer. “As long as you get
moving in the morning — before
noon, because once you cross
that threshold, the hangover is in
full effect — you’re going to feel
better.”
Following the 80/20 rule
— sticking to a healthy diet and
workout regimen for 80 percent of the time, indulging in
Cheat Day and rest days for the
remainder of the time — means
that your boozy nights and
hungover mornings might just
be part of the occasional routine.
But quicker recovery lies in how
you approach the “cocktail flu.”
“It’s OK to get hungover and
feel like crap in the morning,”
Murphy said. “You had too
many drinks? All right, here’s a
workout.”
20 minutes of ‘Chelsea’
“This is a classic CrossFit
benchmark workout that’s been
scaled so you don’t visit ‘pukie,’ ”
Murphy said. “Each round should
take between 35 and 45 seconds.
Scale the number of reps from
the start if you don’t think you
can make that timeframe. If you
don’t finish a round in the allotted
minute, rest and start back up the
following minute.”
Every minute on the minute,
perform:
5 pullups
10 pushups
15 air squats
Interval rowing, running
“Grab a friend, partner, perhaps someone you met the night
before, and trade off between a
400-meter row and a 400-meter
run,” Murphy said. “This is not
a sprint pace, but after 8 to 10
rounds, you will be sweating out
all of the toxins and cervezas.”
If you can’t make it to a rower,
or your spring break resort’s
gym doesn’t carry a machine? No
worries.
“Congrats, you now get to do
the whole workout running,”
Murphy adds.
Get in the water
“Even if last night’s drinks
have your head spinning, you
won’t have a problem understanding this workout,” Murphy
said. “It’s simple. It doesn’t
matter whether you’re near an
ocean, a pool, or a pond — just
get in the water. Set a distance to
swim and do it.”
Try Tabata
“Any variation of Tabata bodyweight movements will do the
trick,” he adds. “Tabata involves
20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest for eight rounds.”
Here, Murphy suggests, you’ll
start with 20 seconds of pullups
and follow that with 10 seconds
of rest before repeating that
cycle for seven more rounds.
From there, move on to pushups
and move down the list accordingly:
Pullups
Pushups
Situps
Air Squats
“To make the workout extra
salty — yes, we’re talking saltier
than the rim of last night’s margarita — rest at the bottom of
your squat for all eight rounds of
the Tabata air squats,” he continues. “We’ve dubbed this ‘bottom
to bottom.’ ”
Lunges and burpees
“Lunges and burpees are two
classic functional training movements, and pairing them together
makes for a grueling workout,”
Murphy said. “Expert tip: If you
mixed and matched liquors the
night before, you may want to
start with the round of 30.”
For this workout, complete the
following:
40 lunges (each leg)
40 burpees
30 lunges (each leg)
30 burpees
20 lunges (each leg)
20 burpees
10 lunges (each leg)
10 burpees
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She’s (a) legion
Tatiana Maslany likes playing multiple characters
RICHARD SHOTWELL , INVISION /AP
Carrie Preston
says goodbye
to ‘Good Wife,’
hello to ‘Crowded’
BY A LICIA R ANCILIO
Associated Press
C
arrie Preston appeared on
only 14 episodes of “The Good
Wife” during its seven seasons
on CBS, but her character, the
spacey yet keenly observant lawyer, Elsbeth Tascioni, was always met with excitement from fans.
Just this week, a Twitter user wrote, “I
will never love another fictional character as much as I love Elsbeth Tascioni.”
Another said, “My life goals are to be
like Elsbeth Tascioni.”
Keep in mind, her last appearance was
in February, and fans can’t shake her.
In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Preston said co-creator Robert King offered this guidance on the
character when she appeared in season
one:
“He said he thought of it as a female
Columbo. But I had never seen ‘Columbo,’ ” she said.
“So, instead of getting tripped up with
that, I started to focus on what was on
the page. ... I just started thinking about
what it would be like to be a person who
has the ability to focus on 100 things
at once and that your brain works that
fast, that you can actually be working
on a case and complimenting someone
on their blouse and thinking about picking up your dry cleaning all at the same
time and none of the other things suffer.
And so I just kind of took that and ran
with it.”
After that first appearance in season
one, Preston said, “I didn’t hear anything for an entire season. I thought, ‘Oh
wow, I really blew that.’ ... Then in season three I got a call.”
Preston, who won an Emmy Award
for her portrayal of Tascioni, believes
her character was brought in “just when
things might get a little too serious on the
show. I don’t think it would’ve worked to
have her there every episode.”
She doesn’t appear in the remaining
two episodes of “The Good Wife,” but
stateside fans can see her on the new
NBC sitcom “Crowded.”
Preston and Patrick Warburton play a
couple whose two grown daughters leave
the nest, only to return home. One set of
grandparents lives next door, making
things very crowded (hence the show’s
title).
Preston, who has also had supporting
roles on shows like “True Blood,” says
it’s interesting to be a lead actor.
“I’m used to coming in as, like, the
pinch hitter. I like it, I feel like I have a
little more say on things. I’m pretty deferential to the writers but it’s nice to help
build something from the ground up.”
BY A LICIA R ANCILIO
Associated Press
T
hink you’re busy? Tatiana
Maslany can relate. She’s
played 11 characters to
date on her BBC America
series, “Orphan Black.” The crazy
part? She can recall an earlier
time when she was juggling just
as much.
“There was a time in Toronto
like 10 years ago where I did
three jobs at the same time,”
she said in a recent interview.
“I was filming this improvised
film all day. That night I
did a night shoot on a TV
series and after an hour’s
sleep went straight to the
improv film, and I was
doing a miniseries at the
same time.
“I love working. I’ve
learned to not do that
much. But ‘Orphan
Black’ is no different,
but for four months.”
“Orphan Black,”
now in its fourth
season on BBC
America, is about a
dozen or so women,
played by Maslany,
who are clones. Each
multiple has her own
personality, physicality and accent. One is
a housewife, another
is a scientist (and so
on). The series follows
Sarah, who is trying to
get to the bottom of the
conspiracy that creates
the clones.
Jordan Gavaris, who
plays Felix, Sarah’s
adopted brother, says
watching Maslany in
between takes is as
interesting as when the
cameras are rolling.
“There’s no drama
with her. She takes
notes so graciously, just
as if like her personal
trainer were to say,
‘OK, now give me 25
sets of this. OK, great,
OK.’ There’s no part
of her that’s defensive.
She’s totally artistic all
the time,” he said.
Maslany, 30, is quick to
credit her acting double, Kath-
ryn Alexandre, with helping her pull
off scenes with multiple clones. Together they block out movements
to make it work.
“She’s just so incredible. She
shows up every day having
prepared the scene to such a
detailed degree, and she always
asks me questions while we’re
rehearsing or while we’re shooting about intention or something that I’ve never kind of
looked at. ... We’ve got a really
good collaborative relationship,” Maslany said.
For a show with such technical work, Kristian Bruun,
who plays straight-laced
husband, Donnie, to his uptight (clone) wife, Alison,
says there’s a lot of room
for improvisation.
“They let us improv
quite a bit. Tat and I
like to improvise up
until we say action.
We never quite know
what they’re gonna
keep or use. It’s
always a fun day
for us. I always
love to see what
ends up making it
on scene.”
“Orphan Black” hasn’t
been renewed yet for a
fifth season, but Maslany’s
full schedule continues.
She’s about to begin production on a film opposite
Jake Gyllenhaal.
Maslany says she’s
dedicated to finding a
work-life balance.
The “first season (of
‘Orphan Black’) was
really bad. I lost contact
with every person in my
life, and that was not good.
I’ve sort of learned to not
do that and still be a part
of the world. You can’t;
I need that balance. I
need to see people and be
social and be not social
and not always be going,
going, going.”
Tatiana Maslany is
starring in her fourth
season of the BBC
America series
“Orphan Black.”
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
Economy slow at start of election year
BY M ARTIN CRUTSINGER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It was not a
great start for the U.S. economy.
With consumers and businesses
turning cautious, the U.S. struggled to grow in the first three
months of a presidential election
year that is shining the spotlight
on the economy’s fitful recovery.
Gross domestic product, the
broadest measure of economic
health, expanded at a paltry annual rate of 0.5 percent in the
January-March quarter, the
Commerce Department reported
Thursday. That is slower than
the fourth quarter’s 1.4 percent
growth rate and marks the weakest performance in two years.
The good news is that American
employers are still adding plenty
of jobs, which is expected in the
months ahead to fuel an economy
that’s still outshining much of the
world. But if the global slump
deepens, or if jobs lose momentum, it could turn Election Day
into a pivotal referendum on the
economy.
The poor start to the year did
not escape notice among Republicans hoping capture the White
House in November.
“Today’s report showing the
weakest period of economic
growth in two years is the latest sign the Obama economy
isn’t working,” said Republican
National Committee Chairman
Reince Priebus. “Hillary Clinton wants to double down on his
failed agenda.”
Democrats said GDP is expected
to strengthen going forward, with
the country continuing to enjoy
the longest stretch of private-sector job growth on record. The U.S.
has added 14.4 million jobs during
the past 73 months.
Jason Furman, chairman of
Obama’s Council of Economic
Advisors, said the GDP report
showed “there’s more work to do
and the president will continue to
call on Congress to support policies that will boost our long-run
growth and living standards.”
Private economists said that
given the severity of the 2007-2009
recession, the debate over the
economy is certain to take center
stage during campaign season.
Democrats will point to a jobless
rate at 5 percent — considered
close to full employment — and
expectations that job growth will
continue at a solid monthly pace
of at least 200,000 in the months
leading up to the election.
But Republicans note that annual GDP growth in this recovery
has averaged just above 2 percent. That is the slowest pace in
the postwar period. Many middle
class families are struggling, especially those who lost jobs in the
downturn and have had to take on
work at lower salaries.
The 0.5 percent GDP advance
in the first quarter was the weakest showing since GDP contracted by 0.9 percent in the first three
months of 2014. It’s a familiar
pattern in recent years — a weak
first quarter followed by a much
stronger second-quarter figure.
Many economists are forecasting growth will revive in the cur-
rent April-June quarter to about
2 percent, and strengthen further
in the second half of the year.
Part of the first-quarter weakness stems from the turbulence
in the stock market at the beginning of the year, which was triggered by worries that China was
slowing more than expected.
The market has since recovered
all of its early-year losses, China’s
slowdown now seems less worrisome and oil prices have stabilized and started to rebound.
MARKET WATCH
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (May 2) ............................ $1.1737
Dollar buys (May 2) ..........................€0.8520
British pound (May 2) .......................... $1.50
Japanese yen (May 2) ........................105.00
South Korean won (May 2) ............1,110.00
Commercial rates
Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770
British pound .......................$1.4645/0.6828
Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.2539
China (Yuan) ........................................6.4831
Denmark (Krone) ................................6.5041
Egypt (Pound) ......................................8.8796
Euro ........................................ $1.1444/0.8739
Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7593
Hungary (Forint) .................................273.30
Israel (Shekel) ..................................... 3.7376
Japan (Yen)........................................... 107.29
Kuwait (Dinar) ..................................... 0.3014
Norway (Krone) ...................................8.0553
Philippines (Peso).................................46.90
Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.84
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7502
Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3432
South Korea (Won) ..........................1,140.08
Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9604
Thailand (Baht) .....................................34.90
Turkey (Lira) ......................................... 2.7979
(Military exchange rates are those
available to customers at military banking
facilities in the country of issuance
for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For
nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e.,
purchasing British pounds in Germany),
check with your local military banking
facility. Commercial rates are interbank
rates provided for reference when buying
currency. All figures are foreign currencies
to one dollar, except for the British pound,
which is represented in dollars-to-pound,
and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)
INTEREST RATES
Prime rate ................................................ 3.50
Discount rate .......................................... 1.00
Federal funds market rate ................... 0.36
3-month bill ............................................. 0.25
30-year bond ........................................... 2.68
WEATHER OUTLOOK
SATURDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
SUNDAY IN THE PACIFIC
SATURDAY IN EUROPE
Misawa
58/40
Kabul
85/54
Seoul
77/54
Baghdad
97/70
Kandahar
99/65
Kuwait
City
100/75
Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
55/35
Brussels
53/38
Bahrain
91/80
Riyadh
92/71
Lajes,
Azores
66/57
Doha
95/80
Busan
71/56
Tokyo
72/57
Iwakuni
75/58
Guam
90/79
Sasebo
74/61
Ramstein
57/36
Pápa
70/48
Stuttgart
58/39
Aviano/
Vicenza
66/46
Naples
69/56
Morón
79/56
Djibouti
90/81
Osan
78/54
Sigonella
76/53
Rota
70/56
Okinawa
77/69
The weather is provided by the
American Forces Network Weather Center,
2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
77/58
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City
Abilene, Tex
Akron, Ohio
Albany, N.Y.
Albuquerque
Allentown, Pa.
Amarillo
Anchorage
Asheville
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Austin
Baltimore
Baton Rouge
Billings
Birmingham
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Bridgeport
Brownsville
Buffalo
Burlington, Vt.
Caribou, Maine
Casper
Charleston, S.C.
Charleston, W.Va.
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Chattanooga
Cheyenne
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Cincinnati
Cleveland
Colorado Springs
Columbia, S.C.
Columbus, Ga.
Columbus, Ohio
Concord, N.H.
Corpus Christi
Dallas-Ft Worth
Dayton
Daytona Beach
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Duluth
El Paso
Elkins
Erie
Eugene
Evansville
Fairbanks
Fargo
Flagstaff
Flint
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Honolulu
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Missoula
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Oklahoma City
Omaha
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Pendleton
Peoria
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Hi: Thu., 96, Laredo, Texas
Lo: Thu., 5, Mount Washington, N.H.
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SCOREBOARD
Sports
on AFN
Go to the American Forces
Network website for the most
up-to-date TV schedules.
myafn.net
College baseball
Thursday’s scores
EAST
Castleton 4-19, New England 1-3
Keystone 11, Susquehanna 9
NJ City 3, Stockton 2
W. New England 4, RPI 1
SOUTH
Blue Mountain 11, Martin Methodist 1
Loyola NO vs. William Carey, ppd.,
weather
Middle Georgia St. 17-3, Bethel (Tenn.)
2-9
MIDWEST
Grand View 3-6, Missouri Valley 0-8
Midland 8-1, Doane 2-11
SOUTHWEST
Oklahoma Christian 6-3, Lubbock
Christian 5-13
TOURNAMENTS
CIAA
First Round
St. Augustine’s 10, Chowan 1
Winston-Salem 6, Virginia St. 2
Conference Carolinas
First Round
Mount Olive 7, Belmont Abbey 2
ODAC
First Round
Randolph-Macon 11, Virginia Wesleyan 9
Washington & Lee 2, Hampden-Sydney 1
Pro soccer
MLS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
Montreal
4 3 1 13 11 9
Philadelphia
4 3 0 12 10 7
Toronto FC
3 2 2 11
8 5
Orlando City
2 2 3
9 13 11
D.C. United
2 3 3
9 10 10
New England
1 2 6
9
9 14
Columbus
2 3 2
8
7 9
New York City FC 1 3 4
7 10 13
New York
2 6 0
6
8 17
Chicago
1 2 3
6
6 7
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
FC Dallas
5 2 2 17 15 13
Colorado
5 2 1 16 10 6
Los Angeles
4 1 2 14 17 7
Real Salt Lake
4 1 2 14 12 11
San Jose
4 2 2 14 11 10
Sporting KC
4 4 1 13 10 9
Vancouver
3 4 2 11 10 12
Portland
2 3 3
9 12 15
Seattle
2 4 1
7
7 10
Houston
1 4 2
5 13 14
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Wednesday’s games
New York City FC 1, Montreal 1, tie
New England 1, Portland 1, tie
Vancouver 1, Sporting Kansas City 1, tie
Friday’s games
FC Dallas at New York
Saturday’s games
San Jose at Philadelphia
Colorado at Montreal
Vancouver at New York City FC
Columbus at Seattle
D.C. United at Chicago
Orlando City at New England
Houston at Real Salt Lake
Sunday’s games
Toronto FC at Portland
Los Angeles at Sporting Kansas City
Friday, May 6
New York at Orlando City
Saturday, May 7
Portland at Vancouver
FC Dallas at Toronto FC
Montreal at Columbus
Sporting Kansas City at Houston
Real Salt Lake at Colorado
San Jose at Seattle
Sunday, May 8
New England at Los Angeles
New York City FC at D.C. United
NWSL
W L T Pts GF GA
Washington
2 0 0
6
3 1
Portland
1 0 1
4
3 2
Orlando
1 1 0
3
4 3
Sky Blue FC
1 1 0
3
3 3
Houston
1 1 0
3
4 4
Chicago
1 1 0
3
2 3
Seattle
1 1 0
3
4 2
Western New York 1 1 0
3
1 1
FC Kansas City
0 1 1
1
1 2
Boston
0 2 0
0
0 4
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Saturday, April 23
Chicago 1, Western New York 0
Orlando 3, Houston 1
FC Kansas City 1, Portland 1, tie
Sunday, April 24
Washington 2, Sky Blue FC 1
Seattle 3, Boston 0
Friday’s games
Washington at Western New York
Sky Blue FC at Houston
Sunday’s games
Portland at Boston
Orlando at Chicago
FC Kansas City at Seattle
Tennis
Auto racing
Estoril Open
Thursday
At Clube de Tenis do Estori
Cascais, Portugal
Purse: $520,000 (WT250)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
Second Round
Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, def. Taro
Daniel, Japan, 6-4, 7-5.
Gilles Simon (1), France, def. PaulHenri Mathieu, France, 3-6, 6-2, 6-1.
Leonardo Mayer (7), Argentina, def.
Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, 7-6 (5), 6-4.
Nicolas Almagro, Spain, def. Joao Sousa (4), Portugal, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.
Doubles
Quarterfinals
Treat Huey, Philippines, and Max
Mirnyi, Belarus, def. Kyle Edmund, Britain, and Frederico Silva, Portugal, 6-4,
6-4.
Borna Coric and Franko Skugor, Croatia, def. Jonathan Erlich, Israel, and Colin
Fleming, Britain, 6-4, 6-4.
Lukasz Kubot and Marcin Matkowski
(1), Poland, def. Gastao Elias and Joao
Sousa, Portugal, 3-6, 6-3, 10-7.
Eric Butorac and Scott Lipsky (4), United States, def. Pablo Carreno Busta and
Inigo Cervantes, Spain, 6-3, 6-1.
Istanbul Open
Thursday
At Koza World of Sports
Istanbul
Purse: $542,250 (WT250)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
Second Round
Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
def. Illya Marchenko, Ukraine, 6-3, 5-7,
6-3.
Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, def.
Bernard Tomic (1), Australia, 6-2, 6-2.
Ivo Karlovic (3), Croatia, def. Dusan
Lajovic, Serbia, 7-6 (11), 7-6 (7).
Marcel Granollers (5), Spain, def.
Chung Hyeon, South Korea, 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles
Quarterfinals
Marcus Daniell and Artem Sitak, Australia, def. Carlos Berlocq, Argentina, and
Teymuraz Gabashvili, Russia, 6-4, 6-3.
Guillermo Duran and Maximo Gonzalez (3), Argentina, def. Roman Jebavy
and Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, 2-6, 6-2,
10-8.
Grand Prix SAR
Thursday
At Au Club des Cheminots
Rabat, Morocco
Purse: $250,000 (Intl.)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
Quarterfinals
Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, def. Yulia
Putintseva (8), Kazakhstan, 6-3, 6-7 (4),
6-3.
Marina Erakovic, New Zealand, def.
Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, 6-4, 6-4.
Timea Bacsinszky (1), Switzerland,
def. Johanna Larsson, Sweden, 6-4, 6-1.
Timea Babos (5), Hungary, def.Pauline
Parmentier, France, 6-3, 6-3.
Doubles
Semifinals
Tatjana Maria, Germany, and Raluca
Olaru (1), Romania, def. Georgina Garcia
Perez, Spain, and Aleksandrina Naydenova, Bulgaria, 6-2, 5-7, 10-7.
Xenia Knoll, Switzerland, and Aleksandra Krunic (4), Serbia, def. Laura Pigossi,
Brazil, and Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain,
6-4, 5-7, 10-6.
Prague Open
Thursday
At TK Sparta Praha
Prague, Czech Republic
Purse: $500,000 (Intl.)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
Quarterfinals
Karolina Pliskova (3), Czech Republic,
def. Camila Giorgi, Italy, 6-2, 6-1.
Lucie Safarova (2), Czech Republic,
def. Su-wei Hsieh, Taiwan, 7-6 (3), 7-5.
Sam Stosur (4), Australia, def. Barbora
Strycova (5), Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-7 (3),
7-6 (4).
Svetlana Kuznetsova (1), Russia, def.
Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4.
Doubles
Semifinals
Maria Irigoyen, Argentina, and Paula
Kania, Poland, def. Raquel Atawo and Abigail Spears (1), United States, 6-4, 6-2.
Margarita Gasparyan, Russia, and Andrea Hlavackova (2), Czech Republic, def.
Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Maria
Jose Martinez Sanchez, Spain, 7-5, 4-6,
10-5.
BMW Open
Thursday
At MTTC Iphitos
Munich
Purse: $520,000 (WT250)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
Second Round
Fabio Fognini (5), Italy, def. Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan, 6-3, 7-5.
Jozef Kovalik, Slovakia, def. Igor Sijsling, Netherlands, 6-3, 6-4.
Alexander Zverev (8), Germany, def.
Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-4.
David Goffin (1), Belgium, def. Victor
Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic, 5-7,
6-3, 6-2.
Philipp Kohlschreiber (4), Germany,
def. Florian Mayer, Germany, 6-3, 6-2.
Juan-Martin del Potro, Argentina, def.
Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, 6-3, 3-6, 63.
Doubles
Quarterfinals
Oliver Marach, Austria, and Fabrice
Martin, France, def. Ken and Neal Skupski, Britain, 7-6 (6), 6-3.
Julian Knowle and Peya Alexander,
Australia, def. Mikhail Elgin, Russia, and
Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, 6-3, 6-4.
Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah (2), Colombia, def. Aliaksandr Bury,
Belarus, and Igor Zelenay, Slovakia, 7-56
(3), 4-6, 10-6.
Henri Kontinen, Finland, and John
Peers, Australia, def. Alexander and Mischa Zverev, Germany, 6-4, 7-6 (5).
Golf
Zurich Classic
PGA Tour
Thursday
At TPC Louisiana
Avondale, La.
Purse: $7 million
Yardage: 7,341; Par: 72 (36-36)
Partial First Round
Brian Stuard
31-33—64
Retief Goosen
30-35—65
J.J. Henry
34-33—67
Geoff Ogilvy
34-33—67
Derek Ernst
34-33—67
Charles Howell III
32-35—67
Patrick Rodgers
35-32—67
Seung-Yul Noh
32-36—68
Danny Lee
34-34—68
Rickie Fowler
34-34—68
Byeong-Hun An
34-34—68
Steve Wheatcroft
33-36—69
Freddie Jacobson
36-33—69
Angel Cabrera
34-35—69
Stuart Appleby
35-34—69
Jason Day
38-31—69
David Hearn
33-36—69
Andrew Loupe
34-35—69
Andres Gonzales
35-34—69
Hiroshi Iwata
33-36—69
Jonas Blixt
34-36—70
Jeff Overton
37-33—70
Nick Taylor
34-36—70
Ben Martin
35-35—70
John Senden
34-36—70
Steve Stricker
34-36—70
Marc Turnesa
35-35—70
Blayne Barber
38-32—70
Tyler Aldridge
34-36—70
Ryan Ruffels
37-33—70
Rob Oppenheim
35-35—70
Darron Stiles
35-36—71
Daniel Berger
34-37—71
Chesson Hadley
34-37—71
Robert Streb
37-34—71
Marc Leishman
36-35—71
Tom Gillis
36-35—71
Bryce Molder
35-36—71
Sung Kang
35-36—71
Brice Garnett
35-36—71
Dawie van der Walt
35-36—71
Rhein Gibson
36-35—71
Justin Hicks
36-36—72
Tyrone Van Aswegen
35-37—72
Robert Allenby
36-36—72
Gary Woodland
36-36—72
Vijay Singh
36-36—72
Volunteers of America
Texas Shootout
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LPGA Tour
Thursday
At Las Colinas CC
Irving, Texas
Purse: $1.3 million
Yardage:—6,462; Par:—71 (36-35)
First Round
Mi Jung Hur
35-31—66
Gerina Piller
33-34—67
Eun-Hee Ji
33-34—67
So Yeon Ryu
34-33—67
Catriona Matthew
33-35—68
Amy Yang
33-35—68
Sei Young Kim
34-34—68
Jenny Shin
33-35—68
Brooke M. Henderson
34-35—69
Jacqui Concolino
33-36—69
Ariya Jutanugarn
36-33—69
Alison Walshe
36-33—69
Casey Grice
35-34—69
Carlota Ciganda
37-32—69
Jodi Ewart Shadoff
36-33—69
In Gee Chun
35-34—69
Danielle Kang
33-36—69
Benyapa Niphatsophon
36-34—70
Belen Mozo
35-35—70
Giulia Molinaro
35-35—70
Ryann O’Toole
35-35—70
Angela Stanford
35-35—70
Megan Khang
37-33—70
Sun Young Yoo
34-36—70
Morgan Pressel
37-33—70
Lindy Duncan
36-34—70
Ayako Uehara
36-34—70
Mirim Lee
35-35—70
Caroline Masson
38-32—70
Min Seo Kwak
35-35—70
Marina Alex
34-36—70
Annie Park
35-35—70
a-Cheyenne Knight
35-35—70
Nannette Hill
35-35—70
Lee Lopez
36-35—71
Haeji Kang
36-35—71
Wei-Ling Hsu
36-35—71
Ilhee Lee
36-35—71
Charley Hull
36-35—71
Candie Kung
37-34—71
Minjee Lee
36-35—71
Ashleigh Simon
37-34—71
Dani Holmqvist
37-34—71
Simin Feng
37-34—71
Alena Sharp
35-36—71
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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
schedule and winners
Through April 24
Feb. 13 — x-Sprint Unlimited (Denny
Hamlin)
Feb. 18 — x-Can-Am Duel 1 (Dale Earnhardt Jr.)
Feb. 18 — x-Can-Am Duel 2 (Kyle Busch)
Feb. 21 — Daytona 500 (Denny Hamlin)
Feb. 28 — Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500
(Jimmie Johnson)
March 6 — Kobalt 400 (Brad Keselowski)
March 13 — Good Sam 500 (Kevin Harvick)
March 20 — Auto Club 400 (Jimmie Johnson)
April 3 — STP 500 (Kyle Busch)
April 9 — Duck Commander 500 (Kyle
Busch)
April 17 — Food City 500 (Carl Edwards)
April 24 — Toyota Owners 400 (Carl Edwards)
May 1 — GEICO 500, Talladega, Ala.
May 7 — Go Bowling 400, Kansas City,
Kan.
May 15 — AAA 400 Drive for Autism, Dover, Del.
May 20 — x-Sprint Showdown, Concord,
N.C.
May 21 — x-NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race,
Concord, N.C.
May 29 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C.
June 5 — Axalta We Paint Winners 400,
Long Pond, Pa.
June 12 — FireKeepers Casino 400, Brooklyn, Mich.
June 26 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif.
July 2 — Coke Zero 400, Daytona Beach,
Fla.
July 9 — Quaker State 400, Sparta, Ky.
July 17 — New Hampshire 301, Loudon,
N.H.
July 24 — Crown Royal Presents The Your
Hero’s Name Here 400 at The Brickyard, Indianapolis
July 31 — Pennsylvania 400, Long Pond,
Pa.
Aug. 7 — Cheez-It 355 at The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y.
Aug. 20 — Bass Pro Shops NRA Night
Race, Bristol, Tenn.
Aug. 28 — Pure Michigan 400, Brooklyn,
Mich.
Sept. 4 — Bojangles’ Southern 500, Darlington, S.C.
Sept. 10 — Federated Auto Parts 400,
Richmond, Va.
Sept. 18 — Chicagoland 400, Joliet, Ill.
Sept. 25 — New England 300, Loudon,
N.H.
Oct. 2 — Dover 400, Dover, Del.
Oct. 8 — Bank of America 500, Concord,
N.C.
Oct. 16 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas
City, Kan.
Oct. 23 — Alabama 500, Talladega, Ala.
Oct. 30 — Goody’s Fast Relief 500, Ridgeway, Va.
Nov. 6 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth,
Texas
Nov. 13 — Can-Am 500, Avondale, Ariz.
Nov. 20 — Ford 400, Homestead, Fla.
x-non-points race
IndyCar schedule and winners
Through April 24
March 13 — Firestone Grand Prix of St.
Petersburg (Juan Pablo Montoya)
April 2 — Desert Diamond West Valley
Grand Prix (Scott Dixon)
April 17 — Toyota Grand Prix of Long
Beach (Simon Pagenaud)
April 24 — Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama (Simon Pagenaud)
May 14 — Angie’s List Grand Prix of Indianapolis, Indianapolis
May 29 — Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis
June 4 — Chevrolet Dual in Detroit Race
1, Detroit
June 5 — Chevrolet Dual in Detroit Race
2, Detroit
June 11 — Firestone 600, Fort Worth,
Texas
June 26 — Road America Grand Prix,
Plymouth, Wis.
July 10 — Iowa Corn 300, Newton, Iowa
July 17 — Honda Indy Toronto, Toronto,
Ontario
July 31 — Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio,
Lexington, Ohio
Aug. 21 — ABC Supply 500, Long Pond,
Pa.
Sep. 4 — Grand Prix of Boston, Boston
Sep. 18 — GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma,
Sonoma, Calif.
Formula One
schedule and winners
Through April 24
March 20 — Australian Grand Prix (Nico
Rosberg)
April 3 — Bahrain Grand Prix (Nico Rosberg)
April 17 — Chinese Grand Prix (Nico Rosberg)
May 1 — Russian Grand Prix, Sochi
May 15 — Spanish Grand Prix, Barcelona
May 29 — Monaco Grand Prix
June 12 — Canadian Grand Prix, Montreal
June 19 — European Grand Prix, Baku,
Azerbaijan
July 3 — Austrian Grand Prix, Spielberg
July 10 — British Grand Prix, Silverstone
July 24 — Hungarian Grand Prix, Budapest
July 31 — German Grand Prix, Hockenheim
Aug. 28 — Belgian Grand Prix, Spa-Francorchamps
Sept. 4 — Italian Grand Prix, Monza
Sept. 18 — Singapore Grand Prix
Oct. 2 — Malaysia Grand Prix, Sepang
Oct. 9 — Japanese Grand Prix, Suzuka
Oct. 23 — United States Grand Prix, Austin, Texas
Oct. 30 — Mexican Grand Prix, Mexico
City
Nov. 13 — Brazilian Grand Prix, Sao Paulo
Nov. 27 — Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Deals
Thursday’s transactions
BASEBALL
Major League Baseball
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF
BASEBALL — Suspended Miami Marlins
2B Dee Gordon 80 games for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug
in violation of the Minor League Drug
Prevention and Treatment Program. Suspended Minnesota Twins OF Reynaldo
Rodriguez (Rochester-IL) 80 games,
without pay, following a positive test
for metabolites of Stanozolol, a performance-enhancing substance in violation
of the Minor League Drug Prevention and
Treatment Program.
American League
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed RHP
David Robertson on the bereavement
list. Recalled INF Carlos Sanchez from
Charlotte (IL).
DETROIT TIGERS — Placed RHP Shane
Greene on the 15-day DL, retroactive to
April 25.
LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed RHP
Huston Street on the 15-day DL.
National League
CHICAGO CUBS — Placed C Miguel
Montero on the 15-day DL, retroactive to
April 25. Selected the contract of C Tim
Federowicz from Iowa (PCL).
CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned RHP
Layne Somsen to Louisville (IL). Activated RF Jay Bruce from the paternity list.
MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Selected
the contract of INF Hernan Perez from
Colorado Springs (PCL). Transferred RHP
Matt Garza from the 15- to the 60-day DL.
Placed 2B Scooter Gennett on the 15-day
DL, retroactive to April 25.
American Association
SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed RHPs
Graham Johnson and Jason Townsend.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
SACRAMENTO KINGS — Named Ken
Catanella assistant general manager.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived DB Damarr Aultman, WRs Tyler Davis and Robert
Herron and DT Robert Thomas II. Released LB Terrell Manning.
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed DE Tavaris Barnes and TE Brandon Williams.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Announced
a six-year affiliation extension with Syracuse (AHL).
COLLEGE
CALIFORNIA — Named Tim O’Toole
men’s assistant basketball coach.
CHATTANOOGA — Signed women’s
basketball coach Jim Foster to a oneyear contract extension and men’s basketball coach Matt McCall to a two-year
contract extension.
IDAHO — Announced it will drop to the
Football Championship Subdivision beginning in 2018 and will join the Big Sky
Conference, pending approval from the
Idaho State Board of Education.
LOYOLA NO — Named Nick Dodson
men’s and women’s cross country/track
and field coach.
TEXAS — Named Jamie Carey women’s assistant basketball coach.
TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY — Named
Kenya Crandell men’s assistant basketball coach.
UTICA — Named Sean Coffey men’s
basketball coach.
AP sportlight
April 30
1922 — Charlie Robertson of the Chicago
White Sox pitches a 2-0 perfect game against
the Detroit Tigers.
1961 — Willie Mays of the San Francisco
Giants hits four home runs in a 14-4 victory
over the Braves in Milwaukee.
1971 — The Milwaukee Bucks become the
second team to register a four-game sweep
in the NBA championship, beating the Baltimore Bullets 118-106.
1975 — Larry O’Brien is named the NBA’s
third commissioner, following J. Walter Kennedy (1963-75) and Maurice Podoloff (194663). O’Brien holds the position until 1984.
1976 — Muhammad Ali wins a unanimous 15-round decision over Jimmy Young
in Landover, Md., to retain his world heavyweight title.
1992 — The Red Wings and Canucks become the ninth and 10th teams in NHL history to rebound from 3-1 deficits to win
playoff series. Detroit beats the Minnesota
North Stars 5-2 in the Norris Division, while
Vancouver defeats the Winnipeg Jets 5-0 in
the Smythe Division.
1993 — Monica Seles, the top-ranked
women’s player, is stabbed in the back during a changeover at the Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany. Guenter Parche, 38, reaches
over a courtside railing and sticks a knife
into the back of Seles. She has an inch-deep
slit between her shoulder blades and missed
the remainder of the 1993 season.
2002 — Texas Rangers shortstop Alex
Rodriguez becomes the second-youngest
player to reach 250 homers during a 10-3 win
over the Toronto Blue Jays.
2005 — James Toney outpoints John Ruiz
to win the WBA heavyweight title in New
York. Toney, a former champion at three other weights, wins his third heavyweight bout,
becoming the third one-time middleweight
champion to take boxing’s top crown.
2009 — Derrick Rose scores 28 points and
blocks Rajon Rondo’s potential winner as
Chicago held on for a 128-127 triple-overtime
victory over Boston to force Game 7. Ray Allen scores a career playoff-high 51 points for
the Celtics, while tying the NBA playoff record with nine three-pointers.
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Briefly
Ducks fire Boudreau
after early playoff exit
Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Anaheim Ducks have fired coach
Bruce Boudreau after their firstround exit from the playoffs.
Ducks general manager Bob
Murray announced the decision
Friday.
Boudreau had spectacular
regular-season success with the
Ducks, leading them to four consecutive Pacific Division titles
while going 208-104-40 in nearly
five seasons in charge.
But the Ducks’ last four seasons have ended with a Game 7
loss on home ice in the playoffs.
The Ducks blew a 3-2 series lead
in all four years, culminating in
Wednesday’s 2-1 loss to Nashville
in Game 7 of the first round.
Anaheim reached the Western
Conference finals last season,
losing in seven games to Chicago.
That was the second straight year
the Ducks were eliminated by the
eventual Stanley Cup champions.
In other NHL news:
Boston’s Patrice Bergeron,
Anaheim’s Ryan Kesler and Los
Angeles’ Anze Kopitar are the finalists for the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the NHL’s top defensive
forward.
Members of the Professional
Hockey Writers’ Association submitted ballots at the end of the
regular season, with the top three
designated finalists Thursday.
The winner will be announced
June 22 during the NHL Awards
in Las Vegas.
Bergeron won the award in
2012, 2014 and 2015 and was second in 2013.
The NHL has fined Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson
$2,404 for his knee-on-knee hit
that temporarily knocked Pittsburgh forward Conor Sheary out
of Game 1.
Will Smith’s shooter
indicted for murder
NEW ORLEANS — A business
owner and semiprofessional football player was indicted Thursday on a second-degree murder
charge in the shooting death of
retired New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith.
Cardell Hayes was also indicted on a charge of attempted
second-degree murder because
police say he wounded Smith’s
wife in the shooting. Hayes and
Smith got into an argument after
Hayes’ Hummer hit Smith’s Mercedes SUV from behind on April
9, police said. Smith’s wife was in
the passenger seat at the time.
Hayes’ defense lawyer John
Fuller has said Hayes was not the
aggressor and that a witness saw
a gun in Smith’s possession. Police say a loaded gun was found in
Smith’s vehicle.
A lawyer for Smith’s family, Peter Thomson, insists Smith
never brandished or carried a
gun. Thomson has described
Hayes as “enraged” during the
altercation and portrayed his cli-
ents as the victims.
Smith was shot seven times in
the back and once along his side,
the coroner said. His wife, Racquel, was shot twice in the legs
but survived.
Angels put closer Street
on 15-day disabled list
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Los Angeles Angels closer Huston Street
has been placed on the 15-day
disabled list due to a strained left
oblique muscle.
The Angels announced the
move Thursday.
Street injured himself while
warming up Wednesday. The 32year-old veteran has converted
all five of his save opportunities
this season with a 1.17 ERA, allowing just four hits and one run
over nine appearances.
The Angels are uncertain how
long Street will be out. Their new
closer will be eighth-inning specialist Joe Smith, who earned the
save Wednesday night when Los
Angeles completed a three-game
sweep of defending World Series
champion Kansas City.
Platini arrives at CAS to
fight 6-year ban by FIFA
LAUSANNE,
Switzerland
— Michel Platini has begun his
appeal at the Court of Arbitration
for Sport against a six-year ban by
FIFA over a $2 million payment
approved by Sepp Blatter.
The UEFA president did not
speak with reporters Friday after
arriving for an 8 a.m. closed-door
hearing expected to last at least
eight hours.
A verdict could come as early
as Monday, when UEFA gathers
in Budapest, Hungary, ahead of
an annual congress of 54 soccer
federations who have been without their leader for seven months.
“Hopefully it will be early next
week, maybe a little later,” CAS
secretary general Matthieu Reeb
said. “The CAS tribunal will adapt
itself to the needs of the parties.”
The three-member CAS panel
is judging Platini’s case afresh
and has the authority to impose a
life ban for corruption.
Previously, FIFA’s ethics and
appeals committees ruled out
bribery as a factor and found Platini and Blatter guilty of charges
including conflict of interest and
disloyalty.
Blatter, the former FIFA president, arrived at 10:30 a.m. to serve
as a witness. Blatter employed
Platini as a presidential adviser
from 1999-2002.
“I accepted this task. I’m on
good form and I’m happy to be a
witness in this matter,” Blatter
said outside the court.
Platini and his former mentor
deny wrongdoing, and claim they
had a verbal contract for the additional money. FIFA eventually
paid Platini three months before
Blatter was re-elected as president in 2011.
R ALPH RUSSO/AP
The University of Michigan equipment truck is parked next to a practice field at IMG Academy in
Bradenton, Fla., on March 1. The NCAA’s Division I Board of Directors has rescinded the ban on
satellite camps almost three weeks after approving a proposal prohibiting Bowl Subdivision coaches
from holding or working at camps and clinics away from their schools.
NCAA board rescinds
ban on satellite camps
BY ERIC OLSON
Associated Press
The NCAA Division I Board of
Directors scrapped a proposed
ban on satellite camps Thursday, rebuffing a request from
powerhouse conferences in the
South and clearing the way for
coaches to hold and work at clinics far from their campuses this
summer.
The decision won’t end the debate that centered on whether the
camps are just another recruiting tool: The board also asked
the Division I Council to conduct
a broad assessment of the entire
college football recruiting model
in coming months, and that could
bring modifications to how the
camps are run and who can take
part.
The council approved a ban
three weeks ago prohibiting
Bowl Subdivision coaches from
holding or working at camps and
clinics away from their schools.
The camps had drawn a high
profile after Jim Harbaugh and
his Michigan staff held camps
in the South last summer and he
was among the first to praise the
board’s decision.
“Good news,” Harbaugh said
in a telephone interview with
The Associated Press. “It’s good
for prospective student-athletes,
fans, coaches and competition.”
The Southeastern Conference
and Atlantic Coast Conference
sponsored the proposal that created the ban, but there was an
outcry from coaches who contend
R ALPH RUSSO/AP
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh speaks to reporters during his
satellite camp at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., on Feb. 29.
satellite camps provide opportunities for un-recruited athletes
to be noticed by high-profile
coaches and possibly receive
scholarships.
“While we are disappointed
with the NCAA governance process result, we respect the Board
of Directors’ decision and are
confident SEC football programs
will continue to be highly effective in their recruiting efforts,”
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey
said.
The SEC had warned it would
lift its ban on satellite camp participation without an NCAA-wide
prohibition. The SEC and ACC
both said their coaches will now
be allowed to participate in the
camps.
“We continue to believe football recruiting is primarily an ac-
tivity best focused in high schools
during the established recruiting
calendar, which has provided opportunities for football prospective student-athletes from all
across the country to obtain broad
national access and exposure but
with appropriate guidance from
high school coaches, teachers and
advisers,” Sankey said.
The board also directed the
council to take a deeper look at
FBS recruiting, with initial recommendations due by Sept. 1.
Opponents of the camps say
they are simply recruiting events
held outside the official recruiting calendar and the sight of a Big
Ten coach like Harbaugh drawing attention in SEC country with
his Florida camps helped put the
issue on the front burner for the
NCAA.
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MLB
Gordon
out 80
games
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Reigning
NL batting champion Dee Gordon of the Miami Marlins was
suspended 80 games for testing
positive for a performance-enhancing drug, Major League
Baseball said soon after he got a
key hit Thursday night in a win at
Dodger Stadium.
Gordon was not available for
comment after the startling latenight announcement.
The 28-year-old Gordon led the
majors in hits and stolen bases
last year. He batted .333, became
an All-Star for the second time
and won a Gold Glove at second
base.
The big season helped him earn
a $50 million, five-year contract
he signed in January.
MLB said he tested positive
for exogenous Testosterone and
Clostebol.
Marlins manager Don Mattingly managed Gordon during his
first three big league seasons in
Los Angeles before he was traded
to Miami in a seven-player deal in
December 2014. Mattingly took
over as Marlins manager prior to
this season.
“These guys love Dee, and
we’re going to support him,” Mattingly said. “I feel like Dee’s one
of my kids, to be honest with you,
because I’ve known him so long.
So we’re going to love him, and
then we’re going to support him.
He’s been a big part of the success that we’ve had.”
The fleet-footed Gordon is the
son of former All-Star pitcher
Tom Gordon. Shortly before the
penalty was announced, Gordon
hit an RBI single in the seventh
inning and scored after forcing a
balk as the Marlins rallied for a
5-3 win and a four-game sweep of
Los Angeles.
A LEX G ALLARDO/AP
The Marlins’ Dee Gordon was
suspended 80 games Thursday
after testing positive for a
performance-enhancing drug.
Scoreboard
American League
East Division
W
L
13
8
12
10
10
11
10
13
8
12
Central Division
Chicago
16
7
Kansas City
12
9
Cleveland
10
9
Detroit
11
10
Minnesota
7
15
West Division
Texas
12
10
Seattle
11
10
Los Angeles
11
11
Oakland
11
12
Houston
7
15
Baltimore
Boston
Tampa Bay
Toronto
New York
Diamondbacks 3, Cardinals 0
Pct
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.545
.476
.435
.400
GB
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1A
3
4
4A
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.571
.526
.524
.318
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4
4
8A
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Arizona
ab r h bi
Segura 2b 4 0 1 0
Lamb 3b
3 0 1 0
Gldschmdt 1b 4 0 0 0
Peralta rf 4 0 0 0
Drury lf
4 2 2 1
Herrmann c 3 1 1 2
Owings cf 2 0 1 0
Ahmed ss 2 0 0 0
De La Rosa p 2 0 0 0
Tomas ph 1 0 0 0
Hudson p 0 0 0 0
Ziegler p
0 0 0 0
Totals
30 0 3 0 Totals
29 3 6 3
St. Louis
000 000 000—0
Arizona
020 100 00x—3
E—Ahmed (3). DP—St. Louis 1, Arizona
1. LOB—St. Louis 6, Arizona 5. 2B—Holliday (7), Segura (5), Ja.Lamb (8), Drury
(6). HR—Drury (3), Herrmann (2). SB—Segura (4), Owings (5).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
St. Louis
Wacha L,2-1
7
5
3
3
1 9
Siegrist
1
1
0
0
1 0
Arizona
De La Rosa W,3-3
7
2
0
0
2 10
Hudson H,4
1
0
0
0
0 1
Ziegler S,5-5
1
1
0
0
1 0
WP—Wacha.
T—2:25.
A—18,933
(48,633).
Carpenter 3b
Piscotty cf
Holliday lf
Moss rf
Molina c
Adams 1b
Gyorko 2b
Diaz ss
Wacha p
Wong ph
Siegrist p
National League
East Division
W
L
Pct GB
Washington
14
7
.667 —
New York
13
7
.650
A
Philadelphia
12
10
.545 2A
Miami
10
11
.476 4
Atlanta
5
17
.227 9A
Central Division
Chicago
16
5
.762 —
Pittsburgh
13
9
.591 3A
St. Louis
12
10
.545 4A
Cincinnati
9
13
.409 7A
Milwaukee
8
13
.381 8
West Division
Los Angeles
12
11
.522 —
San Francisco
12
11
.522 —
Arizona
12
12
.500
A
Colorado
9
12
.429 2
San Diego
7
15
.318 4A
Wednesday’s games
Chicago White Sox 4, Toronto 0
Baltimore 3, Tampa Bay 1
Detroit 9, Oakland 4
Texas 3, N.Y. Yankees 2
Cleveland 6, Minnesota 5
L.A. Angels 4, Kansas City 2
Houston 7, Seattle 4
San Francisco 13, San Diego 9
Philadelphia 3, Washington 0
Boston 9, Atlanta 4
N.Y. Mets 5, Cincinnati 2
Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs
Pittsburgh 9, Colorado 8, 12 innings
St. Louis 11, Arizona 4
Miami 2, L.A. Dodgers 0
Thursday’s games
Detroit 7, Oakland 3
Baltimore 10, Chicago White Sox 2
Chicago Cubs 7, Milwaukee 2
Pittsburgh at Colorado, ppd., rain
Philadelphia 3, Washington 0
Atlanta 5, Boston 3
Arizona 3, St. Louis 0
Miami 5, L.A. Dodgers 3
Friday’s games
Chicago White Sox at Baltimore
N.Y. Yankees at Boston
Toronto at Tampa Bay
L.A. Angels at Texas
Detroit at Minnesota
Houston at Oakland
Kansas City at Seattle
Atlanta at Chicago Cubs
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh
Cleveland at Philadelphia
San Francisco at N.Y. Mets
Miami at Milwaukee
Washington at St. Louis
Colorado at Arizona
San Diego at L.A. Dodgers
Saturday’s games
Detroit (Zimmermann 4-0) at Minnesota (Duffey 0-0)
Houston (Devenski 0-0) at Oakland
(Graveman 1-2)
Toronto (Happ 3-0) at Tampa Bay (Archer 1-4)
Chicago White Sox (Latos 4-0) at Baltimore (Gausman 0-1)
N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 1-2) at Boston
(Porcello 4-0)
L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 1-3) at Texas
(Holland 2-1)
Kansas City (Ventura 2-0) at Seattle
(Miley 1-2)
Washington (J.Ross 2-0) at St. Louis
(J.Garcia 1-1)
Atlanta (Teheran 0-3) at Chicago Cubs
(Lackey 3-1)
San Francisco (M.Cain 0-2) at N.Y.
Mets (deGrom 2-0)
Cincinnati (Simon 0-2) at Pittsburgh
(Liriano 1-1)
Cleveland (Bauer 1-0) at Philadelphia
(Eickhoff 1-3)
Miami (Chen 1-1) at Milwaukee (Ch.
Anderson 1-2)
Colorado (Rusin 1-0) at Arizona (Greinke 2-2)
San Diego (Rea 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers
(Stripling 0-1)
Sunday’s games
Toronto (Stroman 3-0) at Tampa Bay
(Odorizzi 0-1)
Chicago White Sox (Sale 5-0) at Baltimore (Jimenez 1-2)
Detroit (Pelfrey 0-4) at Minnesota (Nolasco 1-0)
L.A. Angels (Richards 1-3) at Texas
(Hamels 3-0)
Houston (Fister 1-3) at Oakland (R.Hill
3-2)
Kansas City (Kennedy 2-2) at Seattle
(T.Walker 2-0)
N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 1-2) at Boston
(Price 3-0)
San Francisco (Bumgarner 2-2) at N.Y.
Mets (Syndergaard 2-0)
Cincinnati (R.Iglesias 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Locke 1-2)
Miami (Koehler 2-2) at Milwaukee
(W.Peralta 1-3)
Washington (Scherzer 2-1) at St. Louis
(C.Martinez 4-0)
Atlanta (Wisler 0-2) at Chicago Cubs
(Hammel 3-0)
Cleveland (Salazar 2-1) at Philadelphia (Velasquez 3-1)
Colorado (Bettis 2-1) at Arizona
(S.Miller 0-2)
San Diego (Pomeranz 2-2) at L.A.
Dodgers (Kershaw 2-1)
ab
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
2
1
0
r
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
bi
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Cubs 7, Brewers 2
Milwaukee
M ARK J. TERRILL /AP
The Marlins’ J.T. Realmuto, center, hits a solo home run as Dodgers
starting pitcher Kenta Maeda, below, and catcher Yasmani Grandal
look on during the second inning of Thursday’s game in Los Angeles.
Thursday
Tigers 7, Athletics 3
Oakland
Detroit
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Burns cf
4 2 1 0 Kinsler 2b 4 2 2 1
Lowrie 2b
3 0 2 0 J.Martinez rf 3 1 1 0
Reddick rf
4 0 1 1 Mi.Cabrera 1b 5 1 2 1
K.Davis dh 5 0 1 1 V.Martinez dh 4 0 0 0
Vogt c
4 1 1 1 J.Upton lf 4 0 1 1
Canha lf
4 0 0 0 Castellanos 3b 3 0 2 1
Coghlan 3b 2 0 0 0 Saltlmcchia c 4 0 1 0
Alonso 1b
2 0 0 0 J.Iglesias ss 3 1 0 0
B.Butler ph-1b 1 0 0 0 Gose cf
4 2 2 2
Semien ss
3 0 0 0
Totals
32 3 6 3 Totals
34 7 11 6
Oakland
001 100 001—3
Detroit
004 300 00x—7
DP—Oakland 2, Detroit 1. LOB—Oakland 11, Detroit 8. 2B—Burns (3), Lowrie
(4), Kinsler (4), Castellanos (5), Gose (1).
3B—Saltalamacchia (1). HR—Vogt (3),
Gose (2). SB—Burns (6), Coghlan (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Oakland
Bassitt L,0-2
3C 10
7
7
3 5
Rodriguez
2B
1
0
0
1 2
Doolittle
1
0
0
0
1 1
Madson
1
0
0
0
0 0
Detroit
Sanchez W,3-2
5C
3
2
2
7 9
Ryan
1B
1
0
0
0 0
Hardy
1C
2
1
1
2 2
Rodriguez S,5-6
B
0
0
0
0 0
WP—Rodriguez. PB—Saltalamacchia.
T—3:04. A—26,200 (41,681).
Marlins 5, Dodgers 3
Los Angeles
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Gordon 2b 4 1 1 1 Utley 2b
2 1 1 0
Prado 3b
5 0 3 1 Seager ss 4 1 2 0
Yelich lf
4 0 1 0 Gonzalez 1b 4 0 0 0
Stanton rf
4 1 1 1 Grandal c 3 0 1 1
Bour 1b
3 0 0 0 Puig rf
4 0 1 1
Phelps p
0 0 0 0 Crwfrd lf
4 0 0 0
Ramos p
0 0 0 0 Kendrick 3b 3 0 0 0
Suzuki cf
4 0 0 0 Baez p
0 0 0 0
Realmuto c 4 2 2 1 Coleman p 0 0 0 0
Hchvrria ss 4 1 1 0 Thmpsn ph 1 1 1 0
Fernandez p 2 0 0 0 Pederson cf 2 0 0 0
Dietrich ph 1 0 0 0 Turner ph-3b 2 0 2 0
Ege p
0 0 0 0 Maeda p
2 0 0 0
Barraclgh p 0 0 0 0 Hrnndz 3b-cf 2 0 0 0
Rojas 1b
1 0 0 0
Totals
36 5 9 4 Totals
33 3 8 2
Miami
010 000 310—5
Los Angeles
200 000 001—3
E—D.Gordon (2). DP—Miami 2. LOB—
Miami 6, Los Angeles 8. 2B—Prado (3),
Grandal (5). HR—Stanton (7), Realmuto
(2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Miami
Fernandez W,2-2
6
5
2
2
3 8
Ege
0
1
0
0
0 0
Barraclough H,3
1
0
0
0
0 1
Phelps H,4
1
0
0
0
1 1
Ramos S,6-6
1
2
1
1
0 2
Los Angeles
Maeda L,3-1
6C
7
4
4
1 5
Baez
1B
2
1
1
0 1
Coleman
1
0
0
0
1 0
Ege pitched to 1 batter in the 7th
HBP—by Barraclough (Utley). WP—Ramos. T—2:51. A—44,009 (56,000).
Phillies 3, Nationals 0
Philadelphia
Washington
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Herrera cf
3 1 1 0 den Dkkr cf 3 0 1 0
Galvis ss
4 1 1 0 Espinosa ss 3 0 0 0
Franco 3b
2 1 0 0 Rndn ph-3b 0 0 0 0
Howard 1b 3 0 1 0 Harper rf
4 0 1 0
Ruf ph-1b
1 0 0 0 Zmmrmn 1b 4 0 1 0
Rupp c
4 0 1 2 Murphy 2b 4 0 0 0
Hrnandez 2b 4 0 1 0 Werth lf
4 0 1 0
Lough lf
4 0 1 1 Drew 3b-ss 3 0 0 0
Nola p
2 0 0 0 Severino c 2 0 0 0
Burriss ph
1 0 0 0 Roark p
2 0 0 0
Hinojosa p 0 0 0 0 Kelley p
0 0 0 0
Araujo p
0 0 0 0 Heisey ph 1 0 0 0
A.Blanco ph 1 0 0 0 Rivero p
0 0 0 0
Gomez p
0 0 0 0 Papelbon p 0 0 0 0
Bourjos rf
3 0 0 0
Totals
32 3 6 3 Totals
30 0 4 0
Philadelphia
000 000 003—3
Washington
000 000 000—0
DP—Philadelphia 1. LOB—Philadelphia
5, Washington 6. 2B—Galvis (5), Rupp (7).
SB—C.Hernandez (2), den Dekker (1),
Harper (5). CS—O.Herrera (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Philadelphia
Nola
7
2
0
0
1 7
Hinojosa
C
1
0
0
1 1
Araujo W,1-0
B
0
0
0
1 1
Gomez S,7-7
1
1
0
0
0 0
Washington
Roark
7
2
0
0
2 6
Kelley
1
0
0
0
0 1
Rivero L,0-1
0
2
3
3
0 0
Papelbon
1
2
0
0
0 1
Rivero pitched to 3 batters in the 9th
T—2:59. A—22,112 (41,418).
Braves 5, Red Sox 3
Miami
Atlanta
Boston
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Markakis rf 5 0 4 3 Betts rf
4 1 1 0
Castro 3b
5 0 0 0 Pedroia 2b 5 1 2 1
Garcia dh
5 0 1 0 Bogaerts ss 3 1 1 0
Freeman 1b 4 0 3 0 Ortiz dh
4 0 0 0
Pierzynski c 5 0 0 0 Ramirez 1b 4 0 3 2
Stubbs pr
0 0 0 0 Shaw 3b
4 0 0 0
Flowers c
0 0 0 0 Young lf
3 0 1 0
Francoeur lf 4 0 0 0 Holt ph-lf 1 0 0 0
Peterson 2b 1 2 0 0 Bradley cf 4 0 1 0
Aybar ss
4 2 1 0 Vazquez c 3 0 1 0
Smith cf
4 1 3 2 Rutledge ph 1 0 0 0
Totals
37 5 12 5 Totals
36 3 10 3
Atlanta
030 101 000—5
Boston
101 000 001—3
E—F.Freeman (3), Pierzynski (2). DP—
Atlanta 1. LOB—Atlanta 10, Boston 9.
2B—Markakis (11), M.Smith 2 (5), Pedroia
(7), Bogaerts (9), Han.Ramirez (5), Chris.
Young (4). SB—Stubbs (4). CS—M.Smith
2 (4).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Atlanta
Chacin W,1-1
5
6
2
2
2 4
O’Flaherty H,2
1
1
0
0
0 1
Ogando H,2
C
1
0
0
1 1
Cervenka H,2
B
0
0
0
0 0
Johnson H,4
1
0
0
0
0 1
Vizcaino S,2-2
1
2
1
1
0 2
Boston
Buchholz L,0-3
6B
8
5
5
4 2
Layne
1B
3
0
0
0 1
Hembree
1B
1
0
0
0 0
Chacin pitched to 1 batter in the 6th
PB—Pierzynski 2. T—3:22. A—32,232
(37,499).
Chicago
ab r h bi
Fowler cf
5 1 1 1
Heyward rf 4 0 0 0
Bryant lf
1 2 1 0
Baez lf-3b 1 1 1 0
Rizzo 1b
2 1 1 1
Zobrist 2b 5 0 2 2
La Stella 3b 2 1 1 1
Cahill p
0 0 0 0
Strop p
0 0 0 0
Fedrowcz ph-c 1 0 0 0
Russell ss 3 0 0 1
Ross c
3 1 1 1
Hammel ph 1 0 0 0
Ramirez p 0 0 0 0
Arrieta p
2 0 0 0
Soler ph
0 0 0 0
Grimm p
0 0 0 0
Szczur ph-lf 2 0 0 0
Totals
31 2 6 2 Totals
32 7 8 7
Milwaukee
000 010 001—2
Chicago
212 011 00x—7
E—Cahill (1), D.Ross (1), Capuano (1),
Y.Rivera (2). DP—Chicago 2. LOB—Milwaukee 10, Chicago 14. 2B—Villar (4),
Presley (1), Rizzo (2), La Stella (4).
HR—D.Ross (2). SB—Villar (5), Braun (2),
H.Perez (1). SF—Presley (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Milwaukee
Jungmann L,0-4
3C
6
5
5
3 2
Capuano
1B
0
1
1
3 0
Freeman
2
1
1
1
4 2
Torres
1
1
0
0
1 1
Chicago
Arrieta W,5-0
5
3
1
1
4 6
Grimm
1
1
0
0
0 3
Cahill
1C
1
0
0
3 2
Strop
B
0
0
0
0 1
Ramirez
1
1
1
1
0 1
HBP—by Jungmann (Bryant), by Jungmann (Bryant). WP—Capuano, Freeman,
Ramirez. PB—Lucroy. T—3:45. A—32,734
(41,072).
ab
Villar ss
4
Presley rf
3
Braun lf
4
Lucroy c
1
Carter 1b
4
Nieuwnhs cf 4
Hill 3b
2
Capuano p 0
Flores ph
1
Freeman p 0
Walsh ph
0
Torres p
0
Rivera 2b
4
Jungmann p 1
Perez 3b
3
r
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
3
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
bi
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Orioles 10, White Sox 2
Chicago
Baltimore
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Eaton rf
4 0 2 0 Rckard rf-cf 4 2 2 0
Rollins ss
4 0 1 0 Mchdo 3b-ss 4 3 2 5
Saladino ss 1 0 0 0 Davis 1b
4 1 2 2
Abreu 1b
3 1 2 0 Kim ph-lf
1 0 1 0
Sands 1b
1 0 0 0 Trmbo dh-1b 4 1 1 1
Frazier 3b
4 1 1 2 Jones cf
4 0 2 1
Sanchez 3b 1 0 0 0 P.Alvrz ph-3b 1 0 0 0
Cabrera lf
4 0 0 0 Hardy ss
5 1 2 0
Lawrie 2b
4 0 1 0 McFrlnd p 0 0 0 0
Garcia dh
3 0 2 0 Rmold lf-rf 4 1 2 0
Sanchez c
4 0 1 0 Schoop 2b 4 1 1 0
Jackson cf 4 0 0 0 Joseph c
3 0 0 0
Totals
37 2 10 2 Totals
38 10 15 9
Chicago
200 000 000— 2
Baltimore
104 005 00x—10
E—Lawrie (2). DP—Chicago 1. LOB—
Chicago 11, Baltimore 8. 2B—Lawrie (7),
M.Machado (9), A.Jones (3), J.Hardy (7).
HR—Frazier (6), M.Machado (7), C.Davis
(7), Trumbo (6). SB—Eaton (3), J.Rollins
(2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Chicago
Danks L,0-4
5
9
6
6
2 4
Petricka
1
2
4
3
1 1
Jennings
1
2
0
0
0 0
Webb
1
2
0
0
1 3
Baltimore
Wilson
4C
4
2
2
1 3
Givens W,2-0
1B
2
0
0
1 2
Bundy
2
3
0
0
0 1
McFarland
1
1
0
0
0 1
Danks pitched to 1 batter in the 6th
HBP—by Wilson (Eaton). WP—Petricka,
McFarland. T—3:10. A—14,568 (45,971).
Calendar
May 18-19 — Owners meetings, New
York.
June 9-11 — Amateur draft.
July 12 — All-Star Game, San Diego.
July 15 — Last day to sign for amateur
draft picks subject to deadline.
July 24 — Hall of Fame inductions,
Cooperstown, N.Y.
Aug. 1 — Last day to trade a player
without securing waivers.
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MLB
Machado powers Orioles past White Sox
Career-high
five RBIs for
Baltimore SS
‘ It’s good to be
back home.
’
Manny Machado
Orioles shortstop, on his five-RBI
effort at Camden Yards on Thursday
BY TODD K ARPOVICH
Associated Press
BALTIMORE — Manny Machado was ready for this 10-game
homestand.
Machado had a grand slam and
a career-high five RBIs, leading
the Orioles over the White Sox
10-2 Thursday night and stopping Chicago’s six-game winning
streak.
Chris Davis and Mark Trumbo
hit consecutive third-inning homers for the Orioles, whose 8-1 record at Camden Yards is the best
home mark in the major leagues.
“It’s good to be back home,”
Machado said. “It was a rough
couple of days on the road. We’re
excited to be back, we’re excited
to be back here in front of the
crowd and put that ‘W’ in that win
column.”
Machado stopped an 0-for-17
slide with an RBI double in a fourrun third inning against John
Danks (0-4) and homered in the
sixth off Jake Petricka. Machado
is batting .333 with a team-high
seven homers.
PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP
The Orioles’ Manny Machado, right, is greeted by teammates Jonathan Schoop (6) and Nolan Reimold
after driving them in with a grand slam during the sixth inning of Thursday’s game against the Chicago
White Sox in Baltimore. The Orioles won 10-2.
Mychal Givens (2-0) pitched 1 1 ⁄3
scoreless innings to win in relief
of Tyler Wilson, who allowed two
runs and four hits in 4 2 ⁄3 innings.
“Obviously, I’d like to stretch it
out over a few more frames,” Wil-
son said. “The White Sox did a
really good job tonight of battling
and fighting off good pitches.
That’s the nature of the game.”
Danks gave up six runs and
nine hits in six-plus innings. He
has lost seven straight starts dating to Sept. 14.
“I certainly need to be better,”
Danks said. “I’ll be ready to go.
I’ll work hard.
“I’m not going to pout or any-
thing. I never have and never will.
I guess it’s part of it. It’s not easy.”
Baltimore had scored just five
runs in its previous four games,
but the Orioles offense woke up
against Chicago, which has the
best record in the AL at 16-7.
After Todd Frazier’s two-run
homer in the first, Adam Jones
hit an RBI double in the bottom
half. Baltimore burst ahead 5-2
in the third on Machado’s double,
Davis’ two-run homer and Trumbo’s solo shot.
Before Machado’s slam, which
landed in the Orioles’ bullpen,
second baseman Brett Lawrie
could not handle a sharp grounder by Nolan Reimold, an error
that allowed J.J. Hardy to score
from second.
“They swung the bats. They
got some thunder and it showed
tonight,” Chicago manager Robin
Ventura said. “... If you live in the
middle of the plate, they are going
to hammer it.”
The Orioles hit back-to-back
homers for the third time in 2016.
Baltimore also improved to 7-0
when scoring five or more runs.
Roundup
Cubs’ Arrieta wins 16th straight decision
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Jake Arrieta’s
bid for a second straight no-hitter
ended after five pitches and the
Cubs ace went on to win his 16th
straight decision, leading Chicago over the Milwaukee Brewers
7-2 Thursday.
Arrieta (5-0) gave up one run,
three hits and four walks in five
innings — the first run he allowed at Wrigley Field since July
25. Alex Presley’s fifth-inning
RBI double ended Arrieta’s home
scoreless streak at 52 2 ⁄3 innings,
four outs shy of the big league
record.
At 16-5, Chicago is off to its best
21-game start since 1907.
Ben Zobrist hit a two-run single in the first off Taylor Jungmann (0-4), who gave up five
runs, six hits and three walks in
3 2 ⁄3 innings.
Phillies 3, Nationals 0: Cameron Rupp hit a tiebreaking, tworun double off Jonathan Papelbon
in a three-run ninth, and visiting
Philadelphia completed a threegame sweep of Washington.
Aaron Nola, Dalier Hinojosa,
Elvis Araujo (1-0) and Jeanmar
Gomez combined on a four-hitter and extended Washington’s
scoreless streak to 22 innings.
Odubel Herrera singled off
Felipe Rivero (0-1) opening the
PAUL BEATY/AP
Cubs starter Jake Arrieta delivers a pitch during the first inning of
Thursday’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers in Chicago.
ninth and took third on Freddy
Galvis’ double.
Maikel Franco was walked intentionally, and Papelbon came
in to strike out pinch-hitter Darin
Ruf. Rupp hit a drive that landed
over a backpedaling Bryce Harper at the warning track in right,
and David Lough followed with a
run-scoring single.
Gomez got a save for the third
straight day, his seventh overall.
Tigers 7, Athletics 3: At Detroit, Anthony Gose doubled and
homered, and Anibal Sanchez (32) allowed two runs and three hits
in 5 2 ⁄3 innings. Sanchez struck
out nine, but walked seven — one
shy of his big league high.
Chris Bassitt (0-2) gave up
seven runs, 10 hits and three
walks in 3 2 ⁄3 innings as Oakland lost for the fifth time in six
games.
Francisco Rodriguez got one
out for his fifth save.
Braves 5, Red Sox 3: Nick
Markakis had three singles, a
double and three RBIs, helping
visiting Atlanta end an eightgame losing streak.
Mallex Smith doubled twice
and had an RBI single for the
Braves, a big league-worst 5-17.
Jhoulys Chachin (1-1) gave up
two runs and six hits in five-plus
innings to win for the first time
since signing with the Braves as
a free agent.
Clay Buchholz (0-3) allowed
five runs, eight hits and four
walks in 6 1 ⁄3 innings.
Diamondbacks 3, Cardinals
0: Rubby De La Rosa struck
out a career-high 10 and pitched
two-hit ball through seven innings and Chris Herrmann and
Brandon Drury homered for host
Arizona.
The Diamondbacks forced a
split in the four-game series. De
La Rosa (3-3) had been shaky
this year and was demoted to the
bullpen for a time but turned in
his second straight strong start.
Herrmann’s two-run home run
— after Drury’s blooper dropped
in for a double — gave the Diamondbacks a 2-0 lead in the second. Drury lined a 2-1 pitch from
Michael Wacha (2-1) into the
seats in left for a solo shot in the
fourth.
It was Drury’s second home
run in two days.
Wacha (2-1) lasted seven innings. He struck out nine with
two walks and allowed three runs
and five hits.
Marlins 5, Dodgers 3: At Los
Angeles, Dee Gordon and Martin
Prado drove in the tying and goahead runs with consecutive twoout singles in the seventh inning,
and Miami got home runs from
Giancarlo Stanton and J.T. Realmuto to complete a four-game
sweep.
Jose Fernandez (2-2) allowed
two runs and five hits in six innings, striking out eight and
walking three.
Kenta Maeda (3-1) was charged
with four runs and seven hits over
6 2 ⁄3 innings in his fifth big league
start, after allowing just one run
in 25 2 ⁄3 innings.
The Dodgers held a 2-1 lead
into the seventh before Gordon
chased Maeda with his RBI single. Prado then greeted Pedro
Baez with a first-pitch single, and
the right-hander balked home
Gordon with the Marlins’ fourth
run.
Stanton added his 18th homer
in the eighth against Baez, and
A.J. Ramos got three outs for his
sixth save.
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OLYMPICS
Guessing Games
As countdown to Rio moves below 100 days,
a look at predictions for how things will unfold
FELIPE DANA /AP
The Olympic Aquatics Stadium is shown inside Rio 2016 Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro. With less than 100 days until the start, problems still hang over South America’s first
Games. Brazil President Dilma Rousseff is being impeached and is likely to be suspended when the Games open Aug. 5, partly fallout from Brazil’s worst recession in decades,
10-percent unemployment and a $3 billion Petrobras corruption scandal. Away from politics, the Zika virus threatens athletes and tourists.
BY STEPHEN WADE
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO
wo years ago, the Australian IOC
member John Coates called the
preparations for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics “the worst” in recent
memory.
A lot has happened since then as the
countdown clock reached 100 days on
Wednesday.
The venues that Coates worried about
are 98 percent ready, and American television network NBC has just passed $1
billion in advertising sales and will set revenue records.
The Olympic Park in the upscale suburb
of Barra da Tijuca looks spectacular. Television cameras will love the aerial shots
above Copacabana beach, or views from
the famous Christ the Redeemer statue
as it peers over Sugar Loaf mountain and
Guanabara Bay.
But problems still hang over South
America’s first Games, the most unsettled
in decades.
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff is being
impeached and is likely to be suspended
when the games open Aug. 5, partly as
fallout from Brazil’s worst recession in decades, 10 percent unemployment, and a $3
billion bribery scandal involving the staterun oil company Petrobras.
Away from politics, the Zika virus threatens athletes and tourists. Ticket sales are
lukewarm, and the bacteria and virusfilled venues for sailing, rowing, canoeing
and open-water swimming could put 1,600
athletes competing there at risk.
The deaths of two people last week
when a new Olympic legacy cycling path
collapsed into the sea have raised doubts
about construction standards in the rush
to build.
In addition, a labor minister report Mon-
T
M ARK LENNIHAN /AP
Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil, is
being impeached and is expected to be
suspended when the Rio Games begin on
Aug. 5.
day said 11 workers have died on Olympicrelated projects since January 2013.
The Associated Press asked a wide range
of Brazilians — and non-Brazilians — to
predict how the Games will unfold. Here
are some of the replies.
Briton Michael Payne, former marketing director of the International Olympic
Committee: “The Rio Olympics will surprise everyone. No question, the country is
facing the ‘perfect storm’ — political and
economic meltdown, Zika, construction
delays. But in the end, the unique and incredible stage of the city — perhaps one of
the most dramatic visual backdrops of any
Olympics to date — and the carnival atmosphere of the Brazilians will overcome
these problems. There is clear potential to
be truly great games. For those working
behind the scenes, it will be tough. Very
tough.”
Brazilian Sergio Praca, political scientist at the Getulio Vargas Foundation:
“The Rio de Janeiro Olympics will, at
best, be a non-event. Brazilians are too
occupied with politics. At worst, we’ll
see violence and the collapse of the city’s
infrastructure.”
Brazilian Juliana Barbassa, author of
“Dancing with the Devil in the City of
God”: “The Games will be a beautiful,
tightly controlled spectacle set against
a backdrop that has stunned visitors for
nearly 500 years. Those marveling from
afar may not even notice the serious budgetary crisis facing the city and the state,
and the tremendous cost that this global
party has had for locals. But that cost —
both in money and in missed opportunities
and misplaced priorities — is significant,
and Rio will not recover for decades to
come.”
American Susan Francia, two-time Olympic rowing gold-medalist: “The Olympics
in Rio de Janeiro will go off without a hitch.
The IOC always pulls it together, even if it’s
at the last minute. I think Brazil will put
on a fantastic event and the Brazilians will
show their incredible hospitality.”
American Jules Boykoff, political scientist at Pacific University; author of “Power
Games: A Political History of the Olympics”: “I imagine Rio organizers and their
allies will perpetually profess that the
Olympics will be a high point of the summer. It seems to me that it is just as possible
that the Olympics will become a focal point
of discontent. Rather than a happy-faced
antidote to the political mayhem gripping
the country, Rio 2016 could actually stoke
dissent as the sharp contradictions of the
games — Olympic elites living the high life
while hospitals are being shuttered — become more and more obvious.”
Brazilian Marina Izidro, reporter for
Sportv: “The Rio Olympics will have an
amazing atmosphere for spectators and
athletes, especially Brazilians who have
been waiting for the moment to compete
in their country for the last four years. In
terms of organization and infrastructure,
there will be issues because of bad planning. My fear is how big these problems
might be.”
Spaniard Edu Sotos, correspondent
for the Barcelona daily El Periodico de
Catalunya: “I believe Brazilian authorities
are crossing their fingers and hoping no
misfortune strikes during the Olympics.
The pace at which (Olympic) projects were
built is a recipe for disaster. I think things
will work reasonably well, but I don’t want
to think what might happen in case of a
terrorist attack — a possibility Brazilian
intelligence has brought up. I guess right
now everyone is asking: Was it really a
good idea to choose Brazil for an event of
this size?”
American Brant Feldman, sports agent,
American Group Management: “Athletes
train for their one moment in time every
four years to show that they are the best
in their particular discipline. You want
fair play to be the only thing that matters. It is your best versus the competitor’s
best. Things like pollution in the bay and
ocean ... is sad to me, to be honest. All I
have heard about the Brazilian people is
that they love to have a great time, to show
the world how to party. Let’s buckle up and
enjoy the show.”
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NHL PLAYOFFS
Scoreboard
First round
EASTERN CONFERENCE
N.Y. Islanders 4, Florida 2
N.Y. Islanders 5, Florida 4
Florida 3, N.Y. Islanders 1
N.Y. Islanders 4, Florida 3, OT
Florida 2, N.Y. Islanders 1
N.Y. Islanders 2, Florida 1, 2OT
N.Y. Islanders 2, Florida 1, 2OT
Tampa Bay 4, Detroit 1
Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 2
Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 2
Detroit 2, Tampa Bay 0
Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 2
Tampa Bay 1, Detroit 0
Washington 4, Philadelphia 2
Washington 2, Philadelphia 0
Washington 4, Philadelphia 1
Washington 6, Philadelphia 1
Philadelphia 2, Washington 1
Philadelphia 2, Washington 0
Washington 1, Philadelphia 0
Pittsburgh 4, N.Y. Rangers 1
Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Rangers 2
N.Y. Rangers 4, Pittsburgh 2
Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. Rangers 1
Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Rangers 0
Pittsburgh 6, N.Y. Rangers 3
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Dallas 4, Minnesota 2
Dallas 4, Minnesota 0
Dallas 2, Minnesota 1
Minnesota 5, Dallas 3
Dallas 3, Minnesota 2
Minnesota 5, Dallas 4, OT
Dallas 5, Minnesota 4
St. Louis 4, Chicago 3
St. Louis 1, Chicago 0, OT
Chicago 3, St. Louis 2
St. Louis 3, Chicago 2
St. Louis 4, Chicago 3
Chicago 4, St. Louis 3, 2OT
Chicago 6, St. Louis 3
St. Louis 3, Chicago 2
Nashville 4, Anaheim 3
Nashville 3, Anaheim 2
Nashville 3, Anaheim 2
Anaheim 3, Nashville 0
Anaheim 4, Nashville 1
Anaheim 5, Nashville 2
Nashville 3, Anaheim 1
Nashville 2, Anaheim 1
San Jose 4, Los Angeles 1
San Jose 4, Los Angeles 3
San Jose 2, Los Angeles 1
Los Angeles 2, San Jose 1, OT
San Jose 3, Los Angeles 2
San Jose 6, Los Angeles 3
Second round
(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
N.Y. Islanders 1, Tampa Bay 0
N.Y. Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 3
Saturday: at Tampa Bay
Tuesday: at NY Islanders
Friday, May 6: at NY Islanders
x-Sunday, May 8: at Tampa Bay
x-Tuesday, May 10: at NY Islanders
x-Thursday, May 12: at Tampa Bay
Washington 1, Pittsburgh 0
Thursday: Washington 4, Pittsburgh
3, OT
Saturday: at Washington
Monday: at Pittsburgh
Wednesday: at Pittsburgh
x-Saturday, May 7: at Washington
x-Tuesday, May 10: at Pittsburgh
x-Thursday, May 12: at Washington
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Dallas vs. St. Louis
Friday: at Dallas
Sunday: at Dallas
Tuesday: at St. Louis
Thursday, May 5: at St. Louis
x-Saturday, May 7: at Dallas
x-Monday, May 9: at St. Louis
x-Wednesday, May 11: at Dallas
San Jose vs. Nashville
Friday: at San Jose
Sunday: at San Jose
Tuesday: at Nashville
Thursday, May 5: at Nashville
x-Saturday, May 7: at San Jose
x-Monday, May 9: at Nashville
x-Thursday, May 12: at San Jose
Thursday
Capitals 4, Penguins 3 (OT)
Pittsburgh
0 2 1 0—3
Washington
1 1 1 1—4
First Period—1, Washington, Burakovsky 1 (Chimera, J.Carlson), 10:13.
Second Period—2, Pittsburgh, Lovejoy
1 (Bonino, Hagelin), 10:40. 3, Pittsburgh,
Malkin 3 (Kunitz, Letang), 11:37. 4, Washington, Oshie 2, 12:10.
Third Period—5, Washington, Oshie 3
(Ovechkin), 3:23. 6, Pittsburgh, Bonino 1
(Hagelin, Kessel), 8:42.
First Overtime—7, Washington, Oshie
4, 9:33.
Shots on Goal—Pittsburgh 9-17-136—45. Washington 15-7-5-8—35.
Power-play opportunities—Pittsburgh
0 of 2; Washington 0 of 4.
Goalies—Pittsburgh, Murray 3-1-0 (35
shots-31 saves). Washington, Holtby 5-20 (45-42).
A—18,506 (18,506). T—3:17.
Playoff scoring leaders
Through April 28
GP G
7 6
6 4
6 6
6 4
6 4
5 3
6 3
5 2
John Tavares, NYI
Jamie Benn, Dal
Nikita Kucherov, TB
Jason Spezza, Dal
Reilly Smith, Fla
Evgeni Malkin, Pit
Sidney Crosby, Pit
Brent Burns, SJ
11 tied with 7 pts.
A PTS
5
11
6
10
3
9
5
9
4
8
5
8
5
8
6
8
PABLO M ARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/AP
Capitals right wing T.J. Oshie, back, scores an overtime goal against Penguins goalie Matt Murray to end Game 1 of their best-of-seven
playoff series Thursday in Washington. Also near the net are Penguins defenseman Trevor Daley, left, and Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin.
Oshie’s OT winner lifts Caps
BY STEPHEN WHYNO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — T.J. Oshie
raised his arms in celebration and looked at referee Dan
O’Rourke. Oshie was pretty sure
he scored in overtime to complete
a hat trick and one of the biggest
games of his career.
Oshie’s third goal of the night
stood up after video review and
the Washington Capitals beat
the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on
Thursday night in an overtime
thriller that was a classic start
to the highly anticipated secondround playoff series between Alex
Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby.
“That’s kind of the stuff you
dream about when you’re a kid
playing in the backyard by yourself is scoring the OT winner and
getting a hat trick,” Oshie said. “It
was awesome. Great way to win.”
Oshie’s wraparound just barely
crossed the goal line against the
right pad of Pittsburgh’s Matt
Murray 9:33 into overtime. The
call on the ice was a goal, and the
NHL’s situation room said video
replay confirmed that the puck
was completely over the line.
Murray, who made 31 saves but
was beaten three times by Oshie
and once by Andre Burakovsky,
wasn’t convinced.
Wilson’s hit may get closer look
WASHINGTON — Tom Wilson’s
knee-on-knee hit on Conor Sheary
knocked the diminutive Pittsburgh
Penguins forward out of Game
1 temporarily but could cost the
Washington Capitals bruiser much
more time in the second-round
series.
Wilson sent Sheary helicoptering to the ice with his left knee 4
minutes into the third period of
the Capitals’ 4-3 overtime victory
Thursday night. Sheary hobbled
to the nearby bench in pain and
missed a few shifts, while Wilson
was not penalized.
The NHL’s department of player
safety, which reviews all question-
“The ref called it a goal on the
ice,” Murray said. “I don’t know
how he could have possibly seen
it from his angle. But I thought
I had it, to be honest. I knew it
was close, but I thought it never
fully crossed the line. I thought it
was close enough that it would be
inconclusive.”
To the Penguins, it was an inconclusive end to a fast game
played at their blistering pace.
able plays, could call Wilson for a
hearing about the incident.
“Those guys, they’re pretty diligent with their job, I’m sure they’ll
look at everything,” Pittsburgh
coach Mike Sullivan said. “They’ll do
whatever they think is appropriate.”
Sullivan said he didn’t get an
explanation from referees Dan
O’Rourke and Chris Lee about why
there wasn’t a kneeing penalty
called on Wilson. He also wasn’t
concerned about that.
“We’re just going to play hockey,
and the refs are going to call it the
way they see it,” Sullivan said. “Our
guys are going to play.”
— Associated Press
Ben Lovejoy, Evgeni Malkin and
Nick Bonino scored for Pittsburgh, which will try to even the
best-of-seven series Saturday
night in Game 2.
Both teams expect much of the
same entertainment value that
was on display in Game 1. Beyond Murray stoning Ovechkin
and Braden Holtby turning aside
42 of 45 shots, there were goals
off the rush, a knee-on-knee hit
by Washington’s Tom Wilson on
Conor Sheary and even Jay Beagle getting a stick stuck between
his helmet and visor.
“The momentum shifts, the big
hits, the goals, overtime, the big
saves: This is what the playoffs
are all about,” Oshie said.
The spotlight was on Ovechkin
and Crosby in their first meeting
in the Stanley Cup playoffs since
2009. Ovechkin assisted on Oshie’s second goal and was denied
by Murray on two breakaways,
while Crosby was on the ice for
three goals against and won 68
percent of his faceoffs.
“I just make stupid plays, stupid moves,” Ovechkin said about
his failed breakaways. “Thanks
God we won this game.”
The Capitals won a playoff
game that Holtby allowed more
than two goals for the first time
since Game 5 against the Boston
Bruins in 2012. The Vezina Trophy finalist was tested plenty but
made a big stop on Phil Kessel in
the final minutes of regulation.
Oshie, traded from the St. Louis
Blues to the Capitals last offseason, won for the first time in the
playoffs when scoring a goal. This
was a huge stage for him to step
up on, especially because Washington acquired him to win in the
playoffs.
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NBA PLAYOFFS
Scoreboard
First round
(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Cleveland 4, Detroit 0
Cleveland 106, Detroit 101
Cleveland 107, Detroit 90
Cleveland 101, Detroit 91
Cleveland 100, Detroit 98
Toronto 3, Indiana 2
Indiana 100, Toronto 90
Toronto 98, Indiana 87
Toronto 101, Indiana 85
Indiana 100, Toronto 83
Toronto 102, Indiana 99
Friday: Toronto at Indiana
x-Sunday: Indiana at Toronto
Charlotte 3, Miami 2
Miami 123, Charlotte 91
Miami 115, Charlotte 103
Charlotte 96, Miami 80
Charlotte 89, Miami 85
Charlotte 90, Miami 88
Friday: Miami at Charlotte
x-Sunday: Charlotte at Miami
Atlanta 4, Boston 2
Atlanta 102, Boston 101
Atlanta 89, Boston 72
Boston 111, Atlanta 103
Boston 104, Atlanta 95, OT
Atlanta 110, Boston 83
Thursday: Atlanta 104, Boston 92
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Golden State 4, Houston 1
Golden State 104, Houston 78
Golden State 115, Houston 106
Houston 97, Golden State 96
Golden State 121, Houston 94
Golden State 114, Houston 81
San Antonio 4, Memphis 0
San Antonio 106, Memphis 74
San Antonio 94, Memphis 68
San Antonio 96, Memphis 87
San Antonio 116, Memphis 95
Oklahoma City 4, Dallas 1
Oklahoma City 108, Dallas 70
Dallas 85, Oklahoma City 84
Oklahoma City 131, Dallas 102
Oklahoma City 119, Dallas 108
Oklahoma City 118, Dallas 104
Portland 3, L.A. Clippers 2
L.A. Clippers 115, Portland 95
L.A. Clippers 102, Portland 81
Portland 96, L.A. Clippers 88
Portland 98, L.A. Clippers 84
Portland 108, L.A. Clippers 98
Friday: L.A. Clippers at Portland
x-Sunday, May 1: Portland at L.A. Clippers
PHOTOS
BY
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Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas, right, makes a move against Atlanta Hawks forward Paul Millsap, center, and center Al Horford during the first
quarter of Game 6 of Thursday’s first-round playoff series in Boston. The Hawks won 104-92 to win the series 4-2.
Hawks overwhelm Celtics in Game 6
Atlanta moves on to set up second-round rematch with Cavaliers
BY KYLE HIGHTOWER
Associated Press
BOSTON — The Atlanta Hawks had their
best regular season in franchise history
spoiled last year by a dismal showing against
Cleveland in the Eastern Conference finals.
They will get another shot at the Cavaliers
in the second round of the NBA playoffs.
Paul Millsap had 17 points and eight rebounds, and the Hawks advanced to the second round with a 104-92 Game 6 victory over
the Boston Celtics on Thursday night.
Al Horford and Kent Bazemore each added
15 points for the Hawks, who earned their
first playoff series win over Boston since the
St. Louis Hawks beat the Celtics in the 1958
Finals.
“Good to finally beat them,” said Hawks
point guard Jeff Teague, who was on Atlanta’s 2012 team that lost to Boston in the first
round. “It feels good.”
The Hawks open the second round on Monday at Cleveland.
The Celtics’ last three playoff appearances
have ended in first-round exits.
Coming off a 27-point win in Game 5, the
Hawks took advantage of poor shooting by
Boston on Thursday, building as much as a
28-point lead.
Atlanta blew the game open with a 39-point
third quarter in which it shot 74 percent from
the field.
“I think we learned from before with this
team that no lead is safe,” Horford said. “To
start the third it was important for us to get
off to a good start and just keep attacking and
Atlanta Hawks guard Jeff Teague drives past
Celtics forward Jonas Jerebko during the
third quarter on Thursday.
have that mentality of keep attacking play
after play.
“I felt we did that consistently in the third
and that was the big difference.”
The Celtics shot just 36 percent for the
game. They made a final charge to get as
close as 10 points, but Atlanta was able to
close it out.
Isaiah Thomas led Boston with 25 points
and 10 assists, but most of that came in the
second half during the comeback effort after
being bottled up early.
“We just wore them down,” Teague said.
“We tried to make other players beat us. He
(Thomas) is a one-man wrecking crew. They
have other good players over there, but everybody feeds off him.”
Jae Crowder added 15 points for Boston, but it wasn’t enough to turn around the
second straight game underlined by their
inconsistencies.
For most of the game, the Hawks simply
benefited from Boston’s struggles.
The Celtics played most of the second half
with Crowder battling foul trouble.
He went to the bench after picking up his
fourth foul with 11:21 left in third quarter.
Coach Brad Stevens rolled dice and re-inserted him, only for Crowder to be called for his
fifth foul with 8:13 to play.
Crowder fouled out with 3 minutes to play.
But most of the damage was done much
earlier.
“I think we should give the Hawks credit.
They’re better right now,” Stevens said. “It
pains me to say that, it’s a sour ending. But
they just proved it over six games. That’s just
kind of how my world works. There’s a scoreboard and if you’re on the losing end then
you’re not as good as the other team.”
Conference Semifinals
(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Cleveland vs. Atlanta
Monday: at Cleveland
Wednesday, May 4: at Cleveland
Friday, May 6: at Atlanta
Sunday, May 8: at Atlanta
x-Tuesday, May 10: at Cleveland
x-Thursday, May 12: at Atlanta
x-Sunday, May 15: at Cleveland
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Oklahoma City vs. San Antonio
Saturday: at San Antonio
Monday, May 2: at San Antonio
Friday, May 6: at Oklahoma City
Sunday, May 8: at Oklahoma City
x-Tuesday, May 10: at San Antonio
x-Thursday, May 12: at Oklahoma City
x-Sunday, May 15: at San Antonio
Thursday
Hawks 104, Celtics 92
ATLANTA — Bazemore 6-13 1-4 15,
Millsap 4-10 9-11 17, Horford 7-10 0-0
15, Teague 4-11 3-4 11, Korver 4-4 4-4 14,
Schroder 5-10 1-2 12, Scott 2-4 2-2 7, Sefolosha 1-4 0-0 2, Hardaway Jr. 3-6 0-0 7,
Muscala 2-2 0-0 4, Hinrich 0-0 0-0 0. Totals
38-74 20-27 104.
BOSTON — Crowder 5-15 2-2 15, Jerebko
5-9 1-1 13, Johnson 1-1 1-1 3, Thomas 9-24
6-7 25, Turner 4-17 0-0 8, Smart 4-11 5-5 13,
Olynyk 0-2 0-0 0, Sullinger 1-5 0-0 2, Hunter
0-2 0-0 0, Rozier 1-2 2-2 5, Zeller 4-6 0-0 8,
Young 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-94 17-18 92.
Atlanta
20 21 39 24—104
Boston
17 16 26 33— 92
Three-Point Goals—Atlanta 8-24 (Korver 2-2, Bazemore 2-6, Horford 1-2,
Scott 1-2, Schroder 1-2, Hardaway Jr. 1-3,
Teague 0-2, Sefolosha 0-2, Millsap 0-3),
Boston 7-32 (Crowder 3-8, Jerebko 2-5,
Rozier 1-2, Thomas 1-7, Olynyk 0-1, Sullinger 0-1, Hunter 0-1, Smart 0-3, Turner
0-4). Fouled Out—Crowder. Rebounds—
Atlanta 57 (Korver 9), Boston 47 (Smart,
Turner 7). Assists—Atlanta 26 (Schroder
8), Boston 16 (Thomas 10). Total Fouls—
Atlanta 23, Boston 29. Technicals—Thomas. A—18,624 (18,624).
Playoff Leaders
Scoring
G FG
5 43
4 41
5 41
Assists
G
Westbrook, OKC
5
Jackson, DET
4
Harden, HOU
5
Rebounds
G OFF
Jordan, LAC
5 22
Howard, HOU
5 26
Plumlee, POR
5 16
George, IND
Irving, CLE
Harden, HOU
FT PTS AVG
45 144 28.8
12 110 27.5
38 133 26.6
AST
56
37
38
AVG
11.2
9.3
7.6
DEF TOT AVG
56 78 15.6
44 70 14.0
49 65 13.0
Calendar
May 17 — Draft lottery.
June 2 — NBA Finals begin.
June 13 — Early-entry withdrawal
deadline for NBA Draft (5 p.m. EDT).
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Scoreboard
2016 NFL Draft
At Chicago
Thursday, April 28
FIRST ROUND
1. Los Angeles (from Tennessee), Jared Goff, qb, California.
2. Philadelphia (from Cleveland), Carson Wentz, qb, North Dakota State.
3. San Diego, Joey Bosa, de, Ohio
State.
4. Dallas, Ezekiel Elliott, rb, Ohio
State.
5. Jacksonville, Jalen Ramsey, cb, Florida State.
6. Baltimore, Ronnie Stanley, ot, Notre
Dame.
7. San Francisco, DeForest Buckner,
de, Oregon.
8. Tennessee (from Miami through
Philadelphia and Cleveland), Jack Conklin, ot, Michigan State.
9. Chicago (from Tampa Bay), Leonard
Floyd, lb, Georgia.
10. New York Giants, Eli Apple, cb,
Ohio State.
11. Tampa Bay (from Chicago), Vernon
Hargreaves III, cb, Florida.
12. New Orleans, Sheldon Rankins, dt,
Louisville.
13. Miami (from Philadelphia), Laremy
Tunsil, ot, Mississippi.
14. Oakland, Karl Joseph, s, West Virginia.
15. Cleveland (from Los Angeles
through Tennessee), Corey Coleman, wr,
Baylor.
16. Detroit, Taylor Decker, ot, Ohio
State.
17. Atlanta, Keanu Neal, s, Florida.
18. Indianapolis, Ryan Kelly, c, Alabama.
19. Buffalo, Shaq Lawson, de, Clemson.
20. New York Jets, Darron Lee, lb, Ohio
State.
21. Houston (from Washington), Will
Fuller, wr, Notre Dame.
22. Washington (from Houston), Josh
Doctson, wr, TCU.
23. Minnesota, Laquon Treadwell, wr,
Mississippi.
24. Cincinnati, William Jackson III, cb,
Houston.
25. Pittsburgh, Artie Burns, db, Miami.
26. Denver (from Seattle), Paxton
Lynch, qb, Memphis.
27. Green Bay, Kenny Clark, dt, UCLA.
28. San Francisco (from Kansas City),
Joshua Garnett, g, Stanford.
New England forfeited.
29. Arizona, Robert Nkemdiche, dt,
Mississippi.
30. Carolina, Vernon Butler, dt, Louisiana Tech.
31. Seattle (from Denver), Germain Ifedi, ot, Texas A&M.
Trades List
1, Cleveland traded its first- (No. 8) and
sixth-round (No. 176) picks to Tennessee
for the Titans’ first- (No. 15), third-round
(No. 76) picks and a 2017 second-round
pick. Tennessee Jack Conklin, ot, Michigan State and (No. 176). Cleveland selected Corey Coleman, wr, Baylor and
(No. 76).
2, Tampa Bay traded its first-round
pick (No. 9) to Chicago for the Bears’
first- (No. 11) and fourth-round (No. 106)
picks. Chicago selected Leonard Floyd,
lb, Georgia. Tampa Bay selected Vernon
Hargreaves III, cb, Florida and (No. 106).
3, Washington traded its first-round
pick (No. 21) to Houston for the Texans’
first- (No. 22) and a 2017 sixth-round
pick. Houston selected Will Fuller, wr,
Notre Dame. Washington selected Josh
Doctson, wr, TCU.
4, Seattle traded its first-round pick
(No. 26) to Denver for the Broncos’ first(No. 31) and third-round (No. 94) picks.
Denver selected Paxton Lynch, qb, Memphis. Seattle selected Germain Ifedi, ol,
Texas A&M and (No. 94).
5, Kansas City traded its first-round
pick (No. 28) to San Francisco for the
49ers’ second- (No. 37), fourth- (No. 105)
and sixth-round (No. 178) picks. San
Francisco selected Joshua Garnett, g,
Stanford. Kansas City selected (No. 37),
(No. 105) and (No. 178).
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Ohio State running back Ezekiel
Elliott was selected fourth
overall by the Dallas Cowboys.
M ATT M ARTON /AP
Buildings are illuminated along the Chicago skyline in anticipation of Thursday’s NFL Draft.
Overall: Three quarterbacks taken in first round of Draft
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“Somehow, somebody got in my
photos and hacked my Twitter account and somebody hacked my
Instagram account, so it’s crazy,”
Tunsil said. “I can’t control that,
man.”
Miami wasn’t turned off.
“He’s a smart kid,” general
manager Chris Grier said. “He’s
very football intelligent. This guy
is one of those grinders. There’s
no doubt this guy loves football,
and football is very important to
him.”
A third quarterback went in
the first round when Denver
moved up to No. 26 to take Paxton
Lynch of Memphis, making him
a possible successor for Peyton
Manning with the Super Bowl
champion Broncos.
Three of the top 10 picks were
players from Ohio State, and five
in all.
San Diego took defensive end
Joey Bosa at No. 3 with the first
real wild card of the night. Dallas followed up by selecting running back Ezekiel Elliott with the
fourth pick, and cornerback Eli
Apple went to the New York Giants at No. 10.
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Draft prospects wait for the start of the first round of the NFL Draft
in Chicago on Thursday night.
Tumble: Tunsil slides to Dolphins after video leaked on internet
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His troubled past — one chapter at a time — seemed to unfold
on social media and national television for the world to see.
The excruciating wait for Tunsil finally ended when the Miami
Dolphins took him with the 13th
overall pick.
Dolphins general manager
Chris Grier said the team had
been aware of the video’s existence well before the draft, and
said it was two years old.
But Tunsil also had other social
media problems.
He said his Instagram account
was also hacked after a message was posted that showed an
alleged text exchange between
Tunsil and an Ole Miss football
staff member where Tunsil requested money.
Tunsil acknowledged taking
money from coaches during an
interview after he was selected
Thursday. When asked if he took
money, Tunsil responded, “I’d
have to say yeah.”
The 6-foot-5, 310-pounder sat
out the first seven games of his ju-
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Mississippi says it will investigate former offensive lineman Laremy
Tunsil’s comments that he accepted money from a member of the
football staff while playing at the school. The university said in a
statement on Friday that it is “aware of the reports from the NFL
Draft regarding Laremy Tunsil and potential NCAA violations during
his time at Ole Miss” and “will aggressively investigate and fully
cooperate with the NCAA and the SEC.”
nior season after the NCAA ruled
he received improper benefits,
including the use of three loaner
cars over a six-month period.
Tunsil, a three-year starter at
Mississippi, was considered a po-
tential top overall pick before the
Tennessee Titans traded the pick
to the Los Angeles Rams.
The Titans had a chance to take
Tunsil with the eighth overall pick
after a trade with the Cleveland
Browns, but Tennessee passed on
him, selecting Michigan State left
tackle Jack Conklin instead.
The Baltimore Ravens had the
No. 6 pick, but also passed on Tunsil; they went with Notre Dame
offensive tackle Ronnie Stanley.
But Baltimore general manager
Ozzie Newsome said his decision
was not influenced by the video,
he just had Stanley rated higher
on his draft board.
Tunsil was one of two Ole Miss
players in this year’s draft with
off-the-field issues that at least
partly overshadowed productive
college football careers.
Defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche was charged with possession of marijuana following a
15-foot fall at a hotel in Atlanta
in December. He was taken by
the Arizona Cardinals with the
29th overall pick late in the first
round.
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California’s Jared Goff smiles after being selected by the Los Angeles Rams as the first overall pick in the NFL Draft on Thursday night in Chicago.
BY JAY COHEN
were the first two selections.
Wentz led North Dakota State to itsfifth consecutive FCS second-tier college
CHICAGO championship in January. He passed for
he Los Angeles Rams selected 1,651 yards and 17 touchdowns during
quarterback Jared Goff with his senior year that was shortened by a
the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft broken wrist.
on Thursday while a former
After the top quarterbacks were off
candidate for the top sethe board, the focus quickly
lection tumbled down the
turned to the slide by offenorder after a bizarre video
sive tackle Laremy Tunsil,
I’m taking it
was shared on his Twitter
once thought to be a potenfeed showing him smoking
tial first overall selection.
as an honor
marijuana.
fell all the way to Miami
and something He
Goff started every game
at 13 after a pair of damagI’m going to
during his three college seaing posts to his social media
sons at California, setting
accounts.
have to prove
records with 977 compleShortly before the draft
them right,
tions, 12,220 yards passing
began, a video was shared
and 96 touchdown passes.
on Tunsil’s Twitter account
that they
The Rams, back in Los Anshowed him smoking
made the right which
geles for next season after
marijuana out of a bong/
decision.
relocating from St. Louis,
gas mask contraption. His
traded with Tennessee to
Jared Goff Instagram account reportget the pick.
Rams’ No. 1 draft pick edly showed a text-message
exchange indicating he
“I’m taking it as an honor
took money from coaches
and something I’m going to
have to prove them right, that they made at his college team Mississippi, something
he
acknowledged
during his news
the right decision,” Goff said.
The No. 2 selection for the Philadelphia conference after he was selected by the
Eagles was Carson Wentz, making it the Dolphins.
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Tunsil’s
tumble
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BY DAVID BRANDT
Associated Press
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Mississippi’s Laremy Tunsil walks on stage
after being selected by the Miami Dolphins as
the 13th overall pick of the NFL Draft.
Laremy Tunsil, considered a potential No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft,
tumbled down the board Thursday
night after a bizarre video of him
was posted on his Twitter account
minutes before the start of the proceedings, potentially costing the offensive lineman millions of dollars.
The approximately 30-second
video, which showed him smoking
from a mask equipped with a bong,
was posted to his verified Twitter
account before quickly being deleted. The entire account was deactivated about 30 minutes later but
the video was another indicator of
Tunsil’s off-the-field problems.
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