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Question: Chang Redux: US man employs underhand serves at French Open

PARIS — A young American man tried an underhand serve while cramping during a five-setter at the French Open. Hmm. Seen that before, haven't we?
Except there was one key difference this time: For 21-year-old Jared Donaldson against No. 4-seed Grigor Dimitrov on Wednesday, unlike for 17-year-old — and eventual tournament champion — Michael Chang against Ivan Lendl in 1989, the unorthodox strategy didn't come in a victory.
Dimitrov came back to beat the 57th-ranked Donaldson 6-7 (2), 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 10-8 in a second-round match that lasted 4 hours, 19 minutes on the new Court 18 at Roland Garros. The most memorable aspect was Donaldson's two unusual service motions; he won the point the first time, but not the other.
"I would never try it if I was feeling 100 per cent and stuff," said Donaldson, who could barely move by the end because of painful cramps in his legs. "But obviously Grigor was playing so far back on the return that I felt like, 'You know, maybe it's just something that I'll try.' He obviously wasn't expecting it, you know what I mean? It's kind of a cheeky way to get a point."
Donaldson said he has never seen footage of what Chang did 29 years ago. He did, however, know of the episode: Chang used an underhand serve while cramping during a fourth-round win over Lendl on the way to the French Open title; he remains the youngest man to win a major singles championship.
Dimitrov was not angered by the tactic.
Quite the opposite, actually, shrugging his shoulders and conceding it was smart for Donaldson to try it.
"It was beautiful, right?" Dimitrov said. "He wanted to use something different to kind of try to put me off guard."
Before his first underhand attempt, Donaldson was actually two points from the victory, leading 6-5 in the fifth set and at love-30 on Dimitrov's serve. But Dimitrov took the next four points.
In the next game, at 6-all, 40-30, Donaldson successfully used the underhand motion. He hit a short serve that two-time Grand Slam semifinalist Dimitrov returned long to allow Donaldson to hold.

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Given ['Represent the article to find a fitting news title', 'By Jason Keidel\nSuper Bowl LII\nPhiladelphia Eagles (15-3) vs. New England Patriots (15-3)\nSunday, February 4, 6:30 pm ET\nOne more game, the game, four quarters to distill six months and decide the winner of the NFL for the 2017 season. Super Bowl LII features the New England Patriots, the classic chalk and talk of football for the last 17 years, making a league-record 10th trip to the Super Bowl, and the eighth since Bill Belichick and Tom formed the most famous and successful HC-QB tandem in history.\nThe Pats play the Philadelphia Eagles, the ultimate upstart, faces covered with German Shepherd masks to remind us how long they’ve been overlooked and underdogs. They’ve long been a forlorn franchise, making its third trip to the Super Bowl, looking for their first Lombardi Trophy, and first NFL title since they beat Vince Lombardi, himself, in 1960.\nFirst, the bad news for the underdog Eagles. The Pats under Brady and Belichick are 4-1 against the Eagles. The Pats have a combined 73 Super Bowls played among their players. The Eagles have eight. Tom Brady has thrown more playoff touchdowns (68) than Nick Foles has tossed in his entire career (61). The Pats have beaten every team not from the Meadowlands, and every QB not named Eli Manning.\n>>MORE: NFL Playoffs: Super Bowl Picks\nThe good news for the Eagles is the NFL’s leading passer is 0-5 when he reaches the Super Bowl. Brady led the league in passing yards in 2017. The other good news is of the Pats’ prior seven Super Bowls this century, they opened none with a TD drive. In fact, Brady has yet to lead the Pats on a scoring drive of any kind in the first quarter of any of his Super Bowls. It belies their regular season efficiency, as the Patriots have scored a FG or TD in nine opening drives during the 2017 season, going 7-2 in those games. Just further proof the Super Bowl is exalted and accelerated, even for a veteran-hardened team like New England.\nThe bad news for the Eagles is the Patriots have scored 77 points combined in the fourth quarter and overtime during those games, which is why they’ve won five of seven, including that biblical comeback last year against Atlanta. The Pats have also toppled the Eagles in the Super Bowl, 13 years ago, a game the Eagles could have won but ran out of gas in the fourth quarter, which fueled some ugly postgame backbiting, led by Terrell Owens, who called out QB Donovan McNabb for coming up lame and sick, heaving and vomiting over the last few minutes of the game.\nSo as soon as the Eagles soothe their Super Bowl jitters — a very real thing, any player will tell you — the sooner they can get to putting it on the Pats, much the way Atlanta did last year, before forgetting they had the lead, the clock, and Devonta Freeman running the ball. The Eagles are aggressive on both sides of the ball. By any objective measure, they have a deeper and more talented roster, a better offensive and defensive line, and a better overall defense.\n>>MORE: Keidel: Super Bowl 52, By The Numbers\nThe Patriots are five-point favorites for two reasons — Brady and Belichick — and their combined wisdom, experience, talent and temerity. On paper, the Eagles seem to have the edge. Of course, the Super Bowl is played on a football field, albeit and neutral field, not in theory or with computerized algorithms. Another level of New England’s gridiron genius is their perseverance, patience, and absolute allergy to making big mistakes. Many times the Patriots win games just by making fewer errors. We’ve often heard that teams lose games more than win them, which has been the ultimate science behind the Patriots’ playoff success.\nIf we look at the playoffs, no one can doubt that the Eagles have looked exponentially better. Philadelphia has put forward record-setting defense in January, top five all-time in average playoff points per game against a team in the Super Bowl era. The Eagles D has yielded 17 points so far in the postseason, averaging 8.5 points per game. Only the 2000 Giants and 2000 Ravens have been more stingy to this point than the 2017 Eagles.\nOf course, the Pats are harder to kill than Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Freddy Krueger combined. Even when you have the symbolic boot on their throat, you’d better grind until life leaves their eyes, there’s no breathing, and no pulse. Just ask Atlanta. If the Eagles jump out front, they have the defense to make it stick, and Foles has proved he’s got enough talent and temerity to avoid the big gaffe that felled the Seahawks and Falcons before them.\n>>MORE: Commentary from CBS Local Sports Voices\nThis iteration of the Eagles may be more beloved than any in history. More than the Dick Vermeil squads, more than the Reggie White club, led by the ornery Buddy Ryan. This is not just the most cherished team, but also the best in franchise history. How many premature postmortems must we write about these Eagles before we finally realize they refuse to die?\nPrediction: Eagles win, 26-24\nJason writes a weekly column for CBS Local Sports. He is a native New Yorker, sans the elitist sensibilities, and believes there’s a world west of the Hudson River. A Yankees devotee and Steelers groupie, he has been scouring the forest of fertile NYC sports sections since the 1970s. He has written over 500 columns for WFAN/CBS NY, and also worked as a freelance writer for Sports Illustrated and Newsday subsidiary amNew York. He made his bones as a boxing writer, occasionally covering fights in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, but mostly inside Madison Square Garden. 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Question: Why your iPhone battery may be draining faster than usual and what you can do to fix it

There’s no disputing that iPhones are one of the best smartphones available on the market.
The iPhone powers incredible levels of technology but all this comes at a price to the battery life.
The battery on iPhones has always been a source of frustration for owners but this seems to have got worse for those who have downloaded the latest operating system.
Researchers who have downloaded the iOS 11 have found that it drains the battery more than twice as quickly as the iOS10 did.
Mobile security company Wandera analysed the battery decay of 50,000 iPhones and iPads that were used moderately to heavily and compared the average battery drain over three days to estimate the average.
Wandera have claimed that a phone with 100 per cent battery using iOS10 will last for 240 minutes while those on the latest system will last just 96 minutes.
The company said that some users have got so frustrated by the battery life issues that they have switched back to iOS 10.3.3 but the company has advised strongly against this.
A Wandera spokesperson said: “The more up to date your software, the more protected you are from hackers attempting to exploit your device and infiltrate your personal and corporate data.”
The company also said that users running the new system on older iPhone devices will experience worse battery drain than on newer models so not all users will be feeling the same frustration.
Apple have released two updates since the iOS11 came out and the most recent of these appears to have limited the battery drain.
Under new experiments, iOS11.0.1 had a battery drain time of 159 minutes meaning a 65 per cent improvement compared to iOS11.
However, the company said it was too early to experiment on the new 11.0.2 operating system.
Matt Vlasach, director of product at Wandera, said: “It is a simple reality of software: there will always be bugs in new major OS releases, which are constantly pushing the limits of the devices they are running on.
“This, in turn, burns battery and always causes a new uproar about battery performance.
“However, it is inevitable that these problems will be addressed and improved as time goes on, until the next major update.”
How you can save battery
Customers who are still unsatisfied with their battery life can take a number of steps to help it last longer.
The first is limiting the number of apps that can refresh in the background (Settings > General > Background App Refresh) and limiting the number of apps that can access your location in the background (Settings > Privacy > Location Services).
If that doesn’t make much difference, low power mode may be your best option until Apple pushes out new updates that will hopefully address excessive battery drain.

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Samsung's Galaxy S8 is one of the most coveted smartphones of 2017 , enjoying huge popularity and success with users. But for many S8 users, the Samsung experience might be turning sour, as an increasingly large number of S8 owners are reporting problems with receiving text messages on the phone.
According to these reports, text messages may be significantly delayed, or not even arrive at all. The user might see a text appear in the notification bar, but then it's nowhere to be found on the phone. The specific carrier does not appear to be a factor. Galaxy S8 users on Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint all seem to be equally affected, with the Galaxy S8 device being the only common denominator.
The issue also doesn’t seem to be exclusive to any particular messaging app. Users are experiencing the same problems whether they use the default Samsung SMS app, Textra, or even Android Messages.
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So far, there doesn't appear to appear a sure solution to this issue. It's been suggested to turn off Advanced Messaging in the default messaging app, which might stop text messages from being delayed, but there's no guarantee that this would work.
The Galaxy S8 is a great phone in many ways, but this text messaging problem is just one of a host of issues that we've found with it. Hopefully Samsung will be able to step in with a solution soon. We'll keep you posted if we hear anything.
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Question: 10 things that are stopping us getting a good night’s sleep

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There’s nothing like a good night’s sleep to prepare us for the new day. But sadly many people aren’t getting one.
New research* reveals that the average Brit wakes up three times during the night, and for one in 10 of us it’s 7 to 10 times.
Here’s 10 reasons people say they can’t get a good night’s sleep.
1. Going to the toilet
Nearly half those surveyed (47%) have to get up to use the loo during the night. This happens more often if we’ve had liquids before going to bed, and functions as nature’s own little alarm clock. Unfortunately, it usually goes off around 3am…
2. Being woken up by discomfort
A bad back or even general aches and pains are keeping 19% of us awake at night.
3. Snoring
A hefty 41% of us fed up of having to poke our other halves until they turn over.
4. Being edged out
A sizeable 25% of us wake up to find ourselves occupying a sliver of space on the edge of the bed, as our partners have managed to occupy our side as well as theirs.
5. Tossing and turning
This affects 10.5% of us too, whether it’s us doing it, or our partners.
6. Bedroom talk
10% of us have to put up with our partner talking, or making other weird noises, in their sleep
7. Phone problems
10% of us are woken up by our partner looking at their phone, because no matter what manufacturers say, the light that emits from them at night is still enough to wake people up.
8. Brought to book 4.6% of us are woken by a partner who is watching TV or reading (presumably because they can’t get to sleep).
9. Bad dreams or nightmares
These affect 11% of us - and who hasn’t woken up sweating about the bogeyman under the bed?
10. Plain old anxiety
This affects 6% of us. We’re worrying about the next day at work, bills, relationships, waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep...
The survey of 2,000 British adults was carried out by mattress company Tweak Mattress (tweakmattress.com).
Psychologist Robert Stewart said: “There are two main reasons our sleep is good or poor, and these are our sleep hygiene and our sleep cycles.
“Sleep hygiene relates to our ‘before-bed’ routine. Not drinking or eating a lot, choosing the same time to sleep each night, and not looking at phones, laptops or TV in bed, to name a few.
“Getting these right should help in getting you off to sleep, but more importantly, there are the sleep cycles you go through.
“A person will go through 5 stages of sleep in a night and each of these vary in depth.
“Stage 5 or rapid eye movement (REM) stage is the lightest stage of sleep and this is where people are most likely to stir.
“Whilst we cannot control this, the surrounding environment, such as a partner snoring, other noise or discomfort, will impact on whether we return to sleep smoothly or are awoken.
“So to drift back to sleep seamlessly and without disturbance, ensure you have the best environment to aid this, whether it be earplugs or a comfortable mattress.”

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Question: Mum campaigns for better children's mental health care after her daughter was sent for treatment hundreds of miles from home

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A Bramcote woman is supporting a national campaign calling for better mental health care for children after her teenage daughter was sent hundreds of miles away for treatment for an eating disorder.
Rachel Bannister's teenage daughter was first referred to children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in 2012 when she was 13 years old.
She was eventually diagnosed with anorexia and was sent for treatment at specialist units in Birmingham, Cambridge and Scotland due to a lack of available beds closer to home.
Now 18, Mrs Bannister's daughter continues to seek help for her eating disorder.
Mrs Bannister, a 38-year-old supply teacher, found her daughter's care to be inconsistent, with variations in the staffing and skills required to treat her daughter adequately.
She has since written to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt calling for improvements to CAMHS care and is lending her support to the Treat The Right campaign.
Launched by the Association of Child Psycotherapists (ACP) last week, the campaign calls for better funding for specialist support for CAMHS.
The professional body also wants all CAMHS to have access to an ACP-registered child psycotherapist, which is not the case currently.
Mrs Bannister said: "It's not seeing them and putting them on a waiting list, it's assessing them, finding out what they need and treating them straight away with people that have got the training and experience.
"It's shocking that we're talking about this now. This crisis in mental health has been going on for decades, but particularly in the last five years it has gone downhill.
"It's about money and investment and what we prioritise. These young people - and my daughter is an example - are now under the adult system. This could have been treated if she'd had the right treatment at the right time."
In Nottingham, a new £21m hospital providing specialist CAMHS support, including the region's first eating disorders unit, will open in Foster Drive, Woodthorpe, in the spring.
A spokeswoman for Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, said: "Nottinghamshire Healthcare has responded to concerns about a lack of specialist CAMHS beds by building a £21m unit for children, young people and families with mental health needs, including specialist eating disorder beds.
"We have always worked to provide the most suitable bed for a young person, wherever that is, but this new unit will mean that young people can be treated closer to home.
"We would always welcome extra funding for mental health support for young people, whatever the professional group involved."
Dr Nick Waggett, chief executive of the ACP, said: "There must be no more quick fix solutions for complex child mental health problems.
"Treat Them Right is a signal to the government that we are heading down the road of very limited mental health services for children and young people that do not meet the needs of those with the most severe and complex difficulties."
A spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: "We have committed to making additional funding available to support our mental health green paper proposals, on top of existing funding for specialist NHS children's mental health services.
"Our proposals will plug the gap in early intervention and prevention for children and young people with the early signs of distress.
"They will not reduce the number of clinicians in specialist services - the mental health support teams will be newly recruited, additional staff, helping children access help and support when they need it."

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The family of a former City worker have blamed cannabis for 'devastating' his mind before he fell to his death from a block of flats.
Aaron Dover, 42, had smoked potent forms of the drug since he was 15 and his mother believes its effects ultimately led to his death.
The Cambridge-educated IT expert worked for banks including Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse before being gripped by mental illness.
After three years of psychotic episodes which isolated him from his wife and family, he locked himself inside a friend's home in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur and fell from the balcony.
Aaron Dover, 42, had smoked potent forms of the drug since he was 15 and his mother believes its effects ultimately led to his death
Details of the tragedy came as experts warned yet again of the long-term dangers of cannabis abuse. Researchers found users are more prone to violent crime.
Despite this a number of figures, including Nick Clegg, Richard Branson and Sting have backed a campaign for drug laws to be relaxed.
Yesterday Mr Dover's mother Jenny, 69, of Hampstead, north London, said cannabis played a key role in his decline and warned others the Class B drug was not 'harmless'.
'Aaron smoked it since he was 15 and people do not realise how dangerous it can be to someone's mental health,' she said.
'The effect on the brain of taking cannabis over a long period of time can have this devastating effect. Aaron had been to Cambridge and was a high flyer academically.
'He was very successful in the City before he became ill. This could happen to anyone.'
Mr Dover enjoyed a 19-year City career after studying physics at St John's College, Cambridge and University College, London.
After three years of psychotic episodes which isolated him from his wife and family, Aaron locked himself inside a friend's home in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur and fell from the balcony. Yesterday Mr Dover's mother Jenny, 69, of Hampstead, north London, said cannabis played a key role in his decline and warned others the Class B drug was not 'harmless'
But in 2013 he suffered his first psychotic episode and his mental health rapidly deteriorated with erratic and paranoid behaviour.
Last year he fled to Thailand after he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. He took health chiefs to court to force them to release him, telling friends he was locked in the 'Hannibal Lecter ward' at Highgate Mental Health Centre in London. While abroad his health continued to decline.
Mrs Dover told North London Coroner's Court of the last conversations she had with her son. 'He still had totally delusional ideas,' she said. 'He thought he was going to be penniless and locked up for 20 years in prison if he came back to this country. He thought that if I visited him I was going to bring the police with me.'
Mr Dover was admitted to hospital in the Far East before travelling to Kuala Lumpur in March to stay with a friend.
Mr Dover was also said to have written a note to the girlfriend of the man he was staying with saying: 'I just want to die'. On March 16, he fell to his death from an apartment balcony.
Consultant psychiatrist Dr Petros Lekkos, of the Camden Mental Health Team, said cannabis played a part in his mental illness. He said: 'The earlier one starts it, it can affect the adolescent brain more.' Coroner Andrew Walker recorded a verdict of death by a fall.


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Question: BYU Marriott School Student Council spreads love with 3,500 hearts for Valentine’s Day

Students hold paper hearts promoting the student council's Instagram account. James Pickard said the council hopes to reach 1,250 as a result of this event. (Gianluca Cuestas)
The paper heart chandelier dangles through four levels of the Tanner Building. (Gianluca Cuestas)
Elise Eisinger, Tessa Smith and Matt Malmors stand in front of a wall of hearts. Each heart displays a clever business related joke or the BYU Marriott School Student Council's social media handle. (Gianluca Cuestas)
Free treats are given to students as part of the celebration. (Gianluca Cuestas)
Students are greeted as they walk into the Tanner Building on Valentine's Day. (Gianluca Cuestas)
Students are in for a Valentine’s Day surprise when they walk into the Tanner Building today. Members of the BYU Marriott School Student Council decorated the interior of the building with 3,500 paper hearts, including a crafty chandelier that spans four floors.
Volunteers have been planning this “heart attack” since mid-January, according to council member James Pickard. The student council began teasing the event on Instagram nine days ago, with mysterious captions accompanying each photo. About 40 students stayed in the Tanner Building until 2 a.m. on Tuesday morning in order to finish the pre-Valentine’s Day preparations.
Pickard said the end goal of this event is to make all students aware of the “happenings” at the Marriott School and the school’s social media.
“We wanted to do something big, capture people’s attention,” Pickard said. “We wanted them to know about the Marriott School.”

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From left: Jasmine Malhi, Amanvir Hans, Vijayta Kaushal and Baljot Grewal were among a group of volunteers preparing care packages Sunday for Valentine's Day care packages for women's shelters. One of the hand-made Valentine's Day cards included in the care packages that were delivered to women's shelters across the GTA on Sunday.
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OTTAWA — A plan to "triage" asylum seekers crossing the Canada-U.S. border illegally, in an effort to move some migrants out of Quebec and into Ontario, has stalled because Ontario is in the midst of a provincial election.
Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau says Ontario civil servants have been working on details of the plan with the federal government and Quebec, but nothing can be finalized until a new provincial government is in place.
"There's a lot of very hard work being done by civil servants who work for Immigration Ontario to look at the whole issue of the triage, which is more than just a reception centre. It's the whole process of absorbing people who want to go to Ontario. And that entails resources — financial resources, and other kinds of resources, manpower resources," Garneau told reporters Wednesday.
"There is an election going on and, when it's all in place, there will be a requirement to get the new government of Ontario, whatever that government is, to sign onto that."
The ad hoc intergovernmental task force on irregular migration met Wednesday evening to discuss the ongoing issue of illegal border crossers and how to address pressures facing Quebec, where the vast majority of irregular migrants are arriving.
The group of federal and provincial officials also met last month, when they reached agreements on measures including the creation of a so-called triage system to identify asylum seekers interested in going to areas outside Montreal or Toronto to await the outcome of their refugee claims.
So far, the system has not materialized.
Quebec Immigration Minister David Heurtel says his province's resources are becoming strained. More than 9,000 refugee claimants have crossed into Canada through unofficial paths along the border so far this year, with 90 per cent of them landing in Quebec.
A majority of the primarily Nigerian asylum seekers who have arrived this year have indicated they want to live in Ontario. That's why Heurtel says he wants to see the triage system up and running, to help facilitate travel and other arrangements for those who want to go to Ontario.
"For us it is important to see that people who do not want to be in Quebec do not have to stay in Quebec," he said in French.

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Given ['This news article should be represented to find a fitting news title', 'A Denver jury found fully in pop singer Taylor Swift\'s favor Monday, delivering a unanimous verdict in a trial over whether she was groped by a former radio host during a Denver meet-and-greet. Wanting the trial to serve as an "example to other women," the star had sought a single dollar in damages, which she was granted.\nIn his closing statements, Swift\'s lawyer Douglas Baldridge referenced the example that Swift hoped her suit could be for others in similar situations "by returning a verdict on Ms. Swift\'s counterclaim for a single dollar — a single symbolic dollar, the value of which is immeasurable to all women in this situation."\nIn his own closing arguments, David Mueller attorney Gabriel McFarland wondered why his client would introduce himself by name and then almost immediately after reach under the skirt of "one of the planet\'s, one of the country\'s, biggest superstars?"\nThe case was largely fought on the credibility of Swift and Mueller.\nLate this past Friday, a federal judge threw out part of the case brought against Swift by Mueller, saying he had not proven Swift had set out to get him fired.\nSwift countersued Mueller for sexual assault after his own suit was filed in 2015, leading to Denver trial which began jury selection last Monday. Swift initially had sought to keep the incident quiet.\nBy Friday, most of the principals in the case had been heard from — most notably Ms. Swift herself, who had several sharp rejoinders to questions from Mueller\'s attorney. Asked about Mueller\'s firing, Swift responded: "I am not going to allow your client to make me feel like it is anyway my fault, because it isn\'t."'], a positive would be ['represent this title to get a news article that provides more details about it', 'Taylor Swift Wins Sexual Assault Lawsuit Against Former Radio Host']

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Question: Birth control: Trump expands opt-out for workplace insurance

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women for religious and moral reasons.
The administration has issued a long-expected revision to Obama-era rules. The rules require most companies to provide birth control as preventive care for women, at no additional cost. Under the Affordable Care Act, preventive services are supposed to be free of charge to employees and their dependents.
The Trump administration’s revision issued Friday expands a religious exemption that previously applied to houses of worship, religiously affiliated nonprofit groups, and closely-held private companies.
The share of women employees paying their own money for birth control pills has plunged to under 4 percent, from 21 percent, since contraception became a covered preventive health benefit, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

In his State of the State Address in 2014, Gov. Phil Bryant announced a goal: "to end abortion in Mississippi."
Bryant has now signed a law that makes his state the most difficult state in the country to get an abortion. It is called the Gestational Age Act, and it bans abortions after 15 weeks of gestation, except in the case of a medical emergency or a severe fetal abnormality. The law does not make exceptions in cases of rape or incest. The Mississippi House passed the measure on March 8, and Bryant signed it into law on Monday.
The Associated Press reports that Mississippi's only abortion clinic has sued the state in response to the legislation. In 2012, that same clinic, The Jackson Women's Health Organization, filed a lawsuit challenging a different bill Bryant signed into law. That bill enacted stricter requirements for abortion facilities, including a requirement that all physicians associated with an abortion facility have the right to admit patients to a local hospital. It was eventually blocked by a federal district court in 2013.
After signing this latest bill, Bryant wrote on Twitter, "I am committed to making Mississippi the safest place in America for an unborn child, and this bill will help us achieve that goal."
"We are saving more of the unborn than any state in America, and what better thing we could do," Bryant said as he signed the bill. "We'll probably be sued here in about a half hour, and that'll be fine with me. It is worth fighting over."
On the national level, some recent attempts to restrict abortion have failed, as Julie Rovner reported for NPR and Kaiser Health News:
Despite many attempts, Congress did not pass a federal ban on abortions occurring after 20 weeks, didn't cut off Planned Parenthood's federal funding and didn't write into permanent law the Hyde Amendment, which bans most federal abortion funding but needs annual renewal.
But, Rovner added, the Trump administration has made some progress in restricting abortion and contraception access:
The administration made myriad changes. It reinstituted and expanded the "Mexico City" policy, which forbids funding of international aid programs that "perform or promote" abortion. It issued rules aimed at allowing religious-affiliated and other employers to not offer contraceptive services if they have a "religious belief" or "moral conviction" against them, although federal courts have blocked the new rules from being implemented. And just last week the administration created a new "conscience and religious freedom" division in the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights. That new division is designed to enforce both existing laws protecting the rights of conscience for medical personnel as well as the new regulations. Most important, according to many in the anti-abortion movement, the president nominated and the Senate confirmed more than a dozen federal district court and appeals court judges who are considered likely to rule in favor of abortion restrictions.


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Question: Hillsdale Drive Realigned Following Shift Friday

Press Release from City of Charlottesville:
A major traffic shift occurred on Friday, August 11th when traffic from an existing section of Hillsdale Drive (north of Greenbrier Drive) was relocated west to a new section.
Hillsdale Drive has been realigned opposite of existing Pepsi Place. Stop signs have now been erected on Greenbrier Drive, Hillsdale Drive and Pepsi Place to create a 4 way stop controlled intersection. All vehicles must stop before proceeding through the intersection. Electronic Message Boards will remain this week to notify drivers of the new configuration.
Flagging of traffic at the Greenbrier Drive/Pepsi Place intersection is scheduled for the week of August 14th - 18th for a utility relocation. Traffic will be maintained in both directions. Please expect slight delays. Speed limit is posted at 25 MPH – please drive carefully.

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TORONTO — A judge has ruled that a class-action lawsuit can proceed against the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and a photographer who is alleged to have taken intimate photos of students.
Lawyer Margaret Waddell says about 60 people have been identified so far as potential class-action members in the lawsuit against the ballet company and Bruce Monk, who worked as a photographer between 1984 and 2015.
The lead plaintiff, Sarah Doucet, alleges Monk pressured her into letting him take semi-nude photos of her as a teenager and then distributed them.
The allegations have not been proven in court, and both Monk and the ballet company have filed statements of defence denying the accusations.
Police investigated a complaint against Monk in 2015 but no charges were laid.
The recent decision by an Ontario Superior Court justice certifies Doucet's case as a class-action lawsuit, although the defendants have 30 days to appeal the ruling.
"To date, 53 former students have contacted (Doucet's lawyer) self-identifying as potential class members, or they have been identified by the witnesses on this motion as students whose photographs are on the internet and who may have been photographed by Mr. Monk in a private setting," the ruling states.
Lawyers for Monk and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet were not immediately available for comment Wednesday.
Waddell said there are still a few steps before the lawsuit can be heard.
"We have to get notice out to the class members, to let everybody know that the action has been certified ,and they have an opportunity to decide if they want to exclude themselves," Waddell said.

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Question: Treasury says GOP tax bill will generate $1.8T in revenue

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is now estimating the Republican tax bill will generate about $1.8 trillion in new tax revenue over 10 years by boosting economic growth.
But that's a lot more than nonpartisan congressional analysts have projected. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that growth stimulated by the anticipated tax cuts will generate some $409 billion in additional tax revenue over 10 years.
President Donald Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have promoted the massive tax plan by promising the tax cuts will boost the economy. The $1.5 trillion House and Senate tax bills combine steep tax cuts for corporations with modest reductions for individuals.
The new Treasury Department analysis out Monday says about half the expected increase in economic growth likely will result from tax benefits for corporations.

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How in the world did Paul Ryan think this was something he should tweet?
$1.50 a week will indeed cover the basic $60 membership to Costco, but it wouldn’t cover the gold membership!
The GOP is bragging about giving public school employees $78 a year, meanwhile, according to the Tax Policy Center, the new tax changes will hand the richest 1 percent an extra $51,000 a year.
And that’s just now. As my colleague Edwin Rios noted in December, “over time, that disparity gets even worse.”
At the end of 2025, most of the individual tax cuts expire while corporate tax cut provisions remain. That year, the top 1 percent would still receive a larger share of tax benefits than the bottom 60 percent of Americans combined. In 2027, low-income households will see their taxes rise by $30 in 2027 as compared to what they’d pay under current law. The top 1 percent, on the other hand, would still get a tax cut of $20,660.
Ryan later deleted the tweet, but too late. The Speaker of the House just handed Democrats one hell of an attack ad.


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Question: Tigers Fall By Nine on The Road

The Rock Springs Tigers were unable to hold off the tough offense of the Kelly Walsh Trojans as they fall, 60-51. The Tigers are now 2-2 in conference play and 8-7 overall.
Freshman Graedyn Buell led the Tigers in scoring with 20 points. Sophomore Justis Reese, junior Derek Lionberger, senior Noah Spence, and senior Nick McMurtrey each added 6 points.
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Question: Moscow awaits Russian diplomats ordered to leave Britain

MOSCOW (AP) - Moscow is awaiting nearly two dozen Russian diplomats ordered to leave Britain as part of a standoff over a nerve agent attack on British soil.
Britain ordered the 23 diplomats to leave by Tuesday, and they're expected in Moscow later, according to Russian media reports.
Russia retaliated by expelling 23 British diplomats, who are expected to leave Moscow in the coming days.
A vehicle wrapped in blue tarpaulin is removed from Larkhill Road in Durrington, 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Salisbury, England, on the back of an Army lorry, Monday March 19, 2018, as the investigation into the suspected nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia continues. A road in the village of Durrington was closed off and tents were erected as the military and police searched for clues Monday. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)
Russia denies involvement in the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the British city of Salisbury earlier this month. They remain in critical condition.
Britain accuses Russia of the poisoning, which Western powers see as an example of increasingly aggressive Russian meddling abroad.
International chemical weapons experts took samples Monday of the nerve agent used, which Britain says is the Soviet-developed Novichok.

Washington has no legal grounds to close Russian consulates in the United States, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Sunday evening on state news broadcast Rossia-1.
Russia’s Kommersant newspaper reported on Friday that the White House is considering closing a Russian consulate in response to the Kremlin’s ousting U.S. diplomatic staff from Russia and confiscating embassy property.
Russia currently has four consulates in the United States — one more than the Washington maintains in Russia.
Zakharova dismissed reports of the possible consulate closure as “a bluff" intended to impress "those who don’t understand the core of the issue.”
She said that several years ago Washington turned down Moscow’s offer to open a fourth consulate in Russia.
“The Americans were invited to open a fourth consulate on the territory of the Russian Federation, and they did not do it.”


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Sixteen-year-old Murad Rahimov peered down into a gigantic space he had only dreamed about before: the world's largest clean room, kept scrupulously free of any dust or contamination, where NASA assembles and tests spacecraft before launch.
Murad's eyes gleamed and a smile played on his face as he took it all in — the scientists encased in sterile white suits; the replica of the massive new space telescope, the most powerful ever built, that will study the first galaxies born after the Big Bang.
Murad is obsessed with space. He has been ever since he was three, back in his home country Uzbekistan. His young imagination was sparked when his aunt gave him a picture book about space, and he couldn't stop looking at the images of the solar system. Soon after, he told his parents his dream: He wanted to become an astronaut and work for NASA.
On this recent day, he was getting a private tour of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., thanks to an NPR listener who heard about Murad's passion for space in a story that aired earlier this year. In January, NPR profiled the Rahimov family on the day they became naturalized as U.S. citizens. The Rahimovs immigrated to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010, when Murad was nine. When they first landed in Kansas City, Murad spoke no English. Now, heading into his junior year of high school, he's on an accelerated track, taking extra classes in the summer and packing his schedule with AP courses.
Listener Aaron Schnittman heard that story on the radio, and his ears perked up when he heard that Murad's goal is to work for NASA. He emailed NPR that same day, that his brother is a research astronomer working for NASA at Goddard. "I think it would be a cool follow up to connect the son to my brother and help him make the connections needed to pursue studies in astronomy," he wrote.
Cool, indeed. The connection was made, emails were exchanged, and last week, at the invitation of Jeremy Schnittman, Murad and his mother, Limara Rahimova, made the trip to Goddard outside Washington, D.C. Schnittman, an astrophysicist who specializes in black holes, spent several hours showing the Rahimovs the inner workings of the space flight center and sharing his enthusiasm for space science.
Murad was clearly in his element, sporting a t-shirt with a picture of the Millennium Falcon spaceship from Star Wars, and a line from the movie: "the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy."
He and his mother got to see the giant cryo-vac chamber where spacecraft are tested to find out if they'll withstand the extreme temperatures of space. They walked inside the acoustic chamber that blasts spacecraft with earsplitting sound to simulate the vibration of launch. They toured the laser lab where scientists are fine-tuning measurements to detect gravitational waves. "Amazing," Murad marveled.
Back in his office, ("black hole central," as he calls it) Schnittman talked with Murad about his research into how light gets bent around black holes. Naturally, they both share a hero in Albert Einstein, whose photo Schnittman keeps pinned above his desk. "It's remarkable," Schnittman said. "It's over 100 years since Einstein did all of this stuff, and still, everything is Einstein. Einstein, Einstein, Einstein."
When Murad mused about the possibilities of time travel, Schnittman sounded optimistic. "It's really not that much of a stretch to say that we're one step closer to time travel," he told Murad. "This is something that Einstein predicted 100 years ago. According to the theory, the equations, time travel should be possible. The trick is just building it and getting it to work, but as far as we can tell, there's no rule against it."
The astrophysicist and the would-be astronaut parted ways with the promise to stay in touch.
Later Murad said he loves science because it shows "the sheer awesomeness, the sheer scale of how insignificant and alone we are in the universe. All these petty fights that people have between themselves, they are just insignificant. When you start thinking about space, you get lost in the vastness of it. That's what captivates me the most."
Now that he's a U.S. citizen, he believes his dream of becoming an astronaut is more within reach. He and his brother automatically became citizens when their parents did. Murad was at school the day they took the oath: "I came home and looked at my parents, and felt all this pride," he said. "You could sense that something has changed. They were smiling from ear to ear."
For his mother, Limara, becoming a U.S. citizen has grounded her in a new way. "I felt before like I'm between countries," she said. "But now I feel like I'm staying ...both my feet here in this land."
Limara works at a school, and each morning they all stand for the pledge of allegiance. Before, she said, "it didn't touch me. But now, yes! And I know what each word in the pledge of allegiance means. And it means, for me, a lot."
As for Murad? The rising high school junior has his sights set on going to Cal Tech, and on the Mars mission he dreams of one day leading. "Some people, they tell me to try to get a real job," he said, "of maybe not shooting so high. But nah. I'm shooting for it. I'm gonna chase my dreams."
Meantime, there's a celestial show about to happen, one he's been excited about for years: the total solar eclipse.
Murad's hometown, Kansas City, is a perfect spot to see it: right in the path of totality.
Next Monday he will be outside, watching in awe as the moon slides over the sun, and dreaming big dreams of space.

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HOUSTON North Dakota oil production will get a shot in the arm next month as a pipeline comes online despite opposition by environmental groups and Native Americans, allowing the energy industry to save at least $540 million in annual shipping costs.
The Dakota Access Pipeline gives the state's producers cheaper access to refineries and other customers on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Market players said they expect this will hasten a revival of output from the Bakken region which fell sharply along with global oil prices during the past two years.
"We're back to growth in the Bakken," Hess Corp (HES.N) Chief Executive Officer John Hess said in a recent interview. The New York-based company has contracts to send roughly half its daily North Dakota output through DAPL. For 2017, Hess has said its Bakken production could grow more than 10 percent.
President Donald Trump approved the $3.7 billion pipeline in February, reversing the prior administration which had blocked it last December with a decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP.N), which operates the 1,100 mile (1,770 km) long DAPL, has begun filling the line with crude and could reach full operating capacity by late April, based on industry estimates.
DAPL "will provide a safer, more environmentally responsible and more cost-effective transportation system to move crude across this country as opposed to truck or rail," said ETP spokeswoman Vicki Granado.
The pipeline will carry about 500,000 barrels of oil per day, more than half of North Dakota's daily output, cutting reliance on riskier rail-cars and reducing transport cost by roughly $3 to $5 per barrel, analysts estimate.
That should help level the playing field between Bakken producers and rivals in other U.S. shale plays, many of which are closer to refineries and other customers.
"Economics for drilling in the Bakken will look better because of DAPL," Rusty Braziel of RBN Energy consultants in Houston, said in an interview.
The state's drilling rig count has jumped 40 percent since early February, when Trump gave final approval to the pipeline. By the end of the year, analysts expect the rig count to rise another 10 percent or more.
DAPL's opponents say they will continue to oppose the line and oil production across North Dakota, which pumps more crude each day than any state but Texas.
"Just because oil flow is pending does not mean that it cannot be stopped by court order, and we have a strong, ongoing case in front of the courts," said David Archambault II, chairman of North Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which lives adjacent to the line.
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Transportation savings from DAPL are a key factor oil companies are considering when deciding whether to boost production, executives, analysts and investors said.
Hess plans to triple the number of drilling rigs it operates in North Dakota this year. The company will move the 30 percent of its existing Bakken production from rail to pipeline once DAPL opens.
Oasis Petroleum Inc (OAS.N), another large Bakken producer, said its 2017 output could rise more than 30 percent. DAPL "is definitely going to give us more options to get our product to market," Oasis Chief Executive Officer Tommy Nusz said in an interview.
Whiting Petroleum Corp (WLL.N), the state's largest oil producer, does not contract for space on DAPL, nor does Continental Resources Inc (CLR.N), the second-largest.
But Continental expects DAPL to ease a transport bottleneck out of the state and open room on other pipelines, allowing it to stop using rail.
Both Whiting and Continental have projected production to rise more than 20 percent this year. The companies did not respond to requests for comment.
North Dakota's oil production fell 13 percent in the last 12 months for which data are available to about 980,000 barrels per day (bpd) due to low prices. While the expected jump in 2017 output likely won't return output to its 2015 peak, it could help statewide production again rise above 1 million barrels per day.
Another reason for rising production is that higher prices have prompted many companies to hedge, or sell forward, some of their output, which bolsters confidence. Whiting and Oasis, for example, have hedged more than half of 2017 production.
But the state's producers say that DAPL's opening, after months of uncertainty, gives them confidence they can ship their product to market.
"We have to have a more pragmatic approach to infrastructure development in this country," said Hess.
(Reporting by Ernest Scheyder; Editing by Gary McWilliams and David Gregorio)

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Independent Oil and Gas Service reported a nearly 18% increase in the number of active oil and gas drilling rigs in Kansas last week. There were seven active rigs east of Wichita, up one, and 26 in western Kansas, up four. They’re drilling at two sites in Barton County, and moving in completion tools at sites in Barton, Ellis and Stafford counties. Baker Hughes reported 847 active rigs nationwide last week, an increse of eleven rigs targeting oil and a decrease of three targeting natural gas. Canada reported 118 active rigs last week, a seasonal decrease of 14 rigs.
Independent Oil & Gas reported 44 new well completions last week, and 17 of them were dry holes. There were 19 completions in eastern Kansas, four of them dry holes. West of Wichita there were 25 completions with 13 dry holes reported. There was one completion in Ellis County and one in Stafford County, both were dry holes. Russell County reported two new well completions.
For the month of March, there were 90 new well completions statewide, including three in Barton County, six in ellis County and two in Stafford County. There were 55 completions reported last month in western Kansas, but 24 of them were dry holes. There was one dry hole completed in Barton County, two in Ellis County and one in Stafford County. Producers in eastern Kansas completed 35 wells last month, with just one dry hole.
Operators filed 24 permits to drill in new locations across Kansas last week. That’s 414 so far this year. There were 11 permits filed in eastern Kansas and 13 west of Wichita, including one each in Barton and Stafford counties. That brings the monthly total for March to 134 drilling permits across Kansas, 67 east of Wichita and 67 in the western half of the state.
Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline, filed for tariff approval with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission late Thursday to begin shipping oil from North Dakota to Illinois beginning May 14. The government must approve pipeline shipments across state lines under the Interstate Commerce Act. Dakota Access will join up with another interstate project, called the Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline, to move crude from Illinois to refineries in Texas. That pipeline also will begin moving crude oil on the same day.
Russia’s state-owned oil company Rosneft might end up owning Citgo, a US energy company based in Houston, Texas. This isn’t a direct takeover. Instead, it hinges on the ability of Venezuela’s state-run oil company to pay back its Russian loan. The Venezuelan company has owned Citgo since the 1980s. The company was used as collateral for the loan. Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers are highly alarmed. Members of Congress wrote to the Trump Administration, warning that it could be a big problem for US national security if Russia gets a hold of Citgo. Venezuela has been desperate for cash. In exchange for a loan from Rosneft in December, Venezuela’s oil company put up a 49.9% stake in Citgo as collateral.
Big banks appear to be freeing up cash held to cover bad loans, and could soon increase lending in the oil patch. According to a report from Bloomberg, at least three big banks, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo and citigroup said in earnings reports that rising crude prices have helped them free up a combined $370 million previously set aside to cover bad energy loans during the price downturn. Meanwhile, Reuters reports some big new bets in the oil patch by investors who lost big last year due to bankruptcies in the industry. In the first quarter of this year, private equity funds raised $19.8 billion for energy ventures. That’s nearly three times the total in the same period last year.
Iran, was exempt from the OPEC oil production cut agreement last November, is now ready to join the initiative as long as there is consensus among the cartel’s members. The country’s oil minister adding that most OPEC members seem to be already in favor of the extension. He did not add details about how much Iran would be will to cut.
Reuters reports that surging West Texas oil production has pushed the value of the region’s spot crude to its lowest discount to the U.S. oil benchmark in nearly two years. Last week, WTI at Midland, Texas for May fell to a $1.65 a barrel discount to the U.S. benchmark. Four months ago, it traded at a $1.05 a barrel premium to WTI. Permian output is expected to rise to 2.29 million bpd in April, up 15 percent from a year ago, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Texas shale producers applied for more than 1,300 oil and gas drilling permits last month, mostly in the Permian basin, according to the state’s energy regulator. Data from the Texas Railroad Commission said that number is nearly triple the number a year ago at this time. The latest data also showed a decline in the number of well completions.
In North Dakota, oil production jumped above 1 million barrels per day in February, a 5.4 percent increase in production. Preliminary figures from the Department of Mineral Resources said Thursday the state produced an average of 1.034 million barrels per day in February, an increase of more than 52,000 barrels a day over January.
The Alaska House has passed legislation calling for structured draws from the state’s oil-wealth fund to help fill Alaska’s multibillion-dollar deficit. The House made numerous changes to a bill that passed the Senate, including the size of the dividend Alaskans initially would receive from the fund and the calculation of future dividends. The House also made the bill contingent upon legislative passage of a broad-based tax and the version of an oil tax and credit overhaul that passed the House. House Finance Committee Co-Chair Paul Seaton sees the language as a way to try to coax the Senate into negotiating on a more comprehensive fiscal plan.


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TORONTO — Accused Toronto van attack suspect Alek Minassian has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and 13 of attempted murder.
Minassian, 25, made a brief court appearance Tuesday dressed in a white forensic jumpsuit. He showed no emotion as he stated his name for the Finch Ave. court.
Justice of the peace Stephen Waisberg ordered him remanded in custody until he appears by video May 10.
Minassian was also ordered to not contact any of the 13 people he’s accused of trying to run down on Yonge St. during the horrific attack. Court documents identified them as: Sammantha Samson, Samantha Peart, Morgan McDougall, Mavis Justino, Catherine Riddell, Aleksandra Kozhevinikova, Amir Kiumarsi, Yunsheng Tian, Jun Seok Park, Amaresh Tesfamariam, Beverly Smith, Robert Anderson, and So Ra.
The names of the murder victims were not mentioned on the information charging Minassian.
Minassian’s father, Vahe Minassian, was escorted out of the court by police officers.
Police will be holding a press conference at 3 p.m. that will be live-streamed.

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Injured Welsh flanker Sam Warburton, part of the BBC's punditry team in Cardiff, says he "can't defend" Wales' fourth try in the 34-7 Six Nations win over Scotland.
TV replays show Hadleigh Parkes' pass to try-scorer Steff Evans was forward.
Could the resulting bonus point prove crucial in the tournament?
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The Six Nations will be watched and streamed all over Europe
England will start as strong favourites to win a third consecutive title, having fallen one win short of back-to-back Grand Slams last time out.
The final-day defeat to Ireland remains their only loss of the Eddie Jones era and the Australian coach will be keen to avoid any more blemishes on his run towards the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
Meanwhile, Scotland are the dark horses, coming in at 11/1 but much-fancied after beating Australia and nearly turning over New Zealand.
So here’s how you can make sure you don’t miss a moment of the Six Nations action.


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Question: Paralyzed NWHL player Denna Laing teams up with ex-NHLer to finish Boston Marathon

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Former NHL player Bobby Carpenter and NWHL player Denna Laing teamed up to finish the Boston Marathon in 4:32:30 on Monday.
Laing, 25, sustained a serious spinal cord injury during the 2015 Winter Classic while playing for the Boston Pride, paralyzing her and forcing her to use a wheelchair.
Carpenter, 53, last played in the NHL in 1999 with the Devils. Over his 16-year career, he played with the Devils, Capitals, Rangers, Kings and Bruins.
Here's video of the pair crossing the finish line.
Hockey star Hilary Knight also snapped a picture with her fellow players on the course.
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Team Denna has raised more than $80,000 for Journey Forward Inc., an organization that helps people who have suffered spinal cord injuries. The team's original goal was to raise $53,000.
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CLEVELAND — Cavaliers forward Kevin Love will return Monday after missing six weeks because of a broken left hand.
Cleveland was 11-9 without Love, who was injured on Jan. 30. He's averaging 17.9 points and 9.4 rebounds in 48 games.
Associate head coach Larry Drew said Love's minutes will be restricted in Cleveland's game against Milwaukee. Drew is running the team while coach Tyronn Lue takes a leave of absence to address health issues that have included chest pains and a loss of sleep.
The Cavaliers are third in the Eastern Conference despite dealing with several injuries. Larry Nance Jr. (sore right hamstring), Rodney Hood (strained lower back), Cedi Osman (strained left hip flexor) and Tristan Thompson (sprained right ankle) were ruled out of Monday's game.

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CLEVELAND >> LeBron James will sit out Friday’s exhibition game against the Indiana Pacers as he recovers from a sprained left ankle.
James got hurt on Sept. 27 when he stepped on a teammate’s foot in practice. He took part in Cleveland’s workout on Thursday and the club wanted to see how he responded before deciding if he would try to go against the Pacers. He’s going to sit again as a precaution, the team said.
The three-time champion also missed Wednesday’s preseason opener against Atlanta. Cleveland next plays on Tuesday against Chicago.
James and his teammates attended Thursday night’s AL Division Series matchup between the Indians and New York Yankees.
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Iman Shumpert will miss Friday’s game with a sprained left foot that is expected to keep him out for a week or more.
The Cavaliers open the regular season on Oct. 17 against the Boston Celtics.
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Question: No designer babies, but gene editing to avoid disease? Maybe

Don’t expect designer babies any time soon — but a major new ethics report leaves open the possibility of one day altering human heredity to fight genetic diseases, with stringent oversight, using new tools that precisely edit genes inside living cells.
What’s called genome editing already is transforming biological research, and being used to develop treatments for patients struggling with a range of diseases.
The science is nowhere near ready for a huge next step that raises ethical questions — altering sperm, eggs or embryos so that babies don’t inherit a disease that runs in the family, says a report Tuesday from the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine.
But if scientists learn how to safely pass alterations of the genetic code to future generations, the panel said “germline” editing could be attempted under strict criteria, including that it targets a serious disease with no reasonable alternative and is conducted under rigorous oversight.
“Caution is absolutely needed, but being cautious does not mean prohibition,” said bioethicist R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“This committee is not saying we will or should do germline — heritable — editing. What we are saying is that we can identify a set of strict conditions under which it would be permissible to do it,” Charo added. “But we are far, far away from being ready to try.”
Genome editing should not go beyond healing the sick and enhance traits such as physical strength, what’s commonly called “designer babies,” the panel stressed.
But the public should get involved in these debates now, to say what might one day be acceptable.
The long-awaited report offers advice — the prestigious academies cannot set policy. But it is considered a step toward creating international norms for responsible development of this powerful technology. The U.S. National Academies and its counterparts in Britain and China have been holding international meetings with the hope of doing just that.
“Genome editing is a new tool for gene therapy and it has tremendous promise,” Charo said. But, she added, it has to be pursued in a way that promotes well-being and is responsible, respectful and fair.
Genome editing is essentially a biological version of cut-and-paste software, allowing scientists to turn genes on or off, repair or modify them inside living cells. There are a few older methods but one with the wonky name CRISPR-Cas9 is so much faster, cheaper and simpler to use that it has spurred an explosion of research.
Under development are ways to treat a range of diseases from sickle cell and hemophilia to cancer. In lab experiments using human cells or animals engineered with humanlike disorders, scientists are unraveling how gene defects fuel disease — and are even trying to grow transplantable human organs inside pigs.
That kind of research is very promising, is adequately regulated today and should continue at full speed, the National Academies panel concluded.
When it comes to the more sci-fi-sounding uses, it’s quite possible scientists will learn how to perform germline editing in five to 10 years, said panel co-chair Richard Hynes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Safety is one reason for caution, he said, as scientists will have to learn whether editing one gene has unwanted downstream effects.
Some critics argue that families plagued by inherited diseases already have other alternatives — adopt, use donated eggs, or undergo in vitro fertilization and discard resulting embryos that inherit the bad gene. But Charo noted that sometimes parents carry two copies of a lethal gene, guaranteeing any children inherit it. Others oppose the discarding of embryos for religious reasons.
For some families, “you can see there would be strong arguments for doing it” if the other criteria are met, said Robin Lovell-Badge of Britain’s Francis Crick Institute.
Some countries prohibit any germline editing research. Others, such as Britain, allow laboratory research with genome editing in embryos, not for pregnancy but to understand human development.
In the U.S., scientists can perform laboratory embryo research only with private, not government, funding. Any attempt at pregnancy would require permission from the Food and Drug Administration, which is currently prohibited from using federal funds to review any such request.
“The bottom line is there is no planetary government with enforcement power,” Charo noted Tuesday.

In a report, the committee of scientists, entrepreneurs, ethicists and patient advocates said human genomes could in future be edited to replace faulty genetic information from a parent with a third person's healthy DNA. It stresses that the technique should only be used in the most serious cases, where no other options are available, and conducted under strict guidelines with stringent oversight.
ICYMI: Yesterday we released our report on human genome editing! Download the report for free: https://t.co/JTfoqEBmOQ #GeneEditStudy pic.twitter.com/u0SVrcfvXO — NationalAcademyMed (@theNAMedicine) February 15, 2017
Genome editing is achieved via a technique dubbed CRISPR — Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat. It involves taking short stretches of RNA (ribonucleic acid) and tailoring them to match with DNA sequences. CRISPR is the fastest and most cost-effective method of gene editing and has been hailed as a means of significantly advancing scientific understanding of disorders such as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's Disease.
Reaction to the report from genome editing advocates has been overwhelmingly positive. Sarah Norcross, director of the Progress Educational Trust, called the study "sensible and prudent."
"The report is thoroughgoing, and the National Academy have come up with a very useful set of principles to inform the way we approach genome editing. The report's recommendations concerning different applications of this technology — in basic research as well as in the clinic — place a welcome emphasis on public engagement," Ms. Norcross told Sputnik.
As of February 2017, editing experiments have been successfully conducted on isolated genes in laboratory conditions, and on mice, but never on humans — as any human born from an edited embryo passes on any new genetic information, it would irreparably altering the genetic makeup of its descendants. The committee specifically argues scientists are a long way from being able to use human genome editing techniques safely as a result.
While quick to stress editing research should be limited to disease, the report caveats such seemingly firm directives with phrases such as "at this time," and even goes as far to moot ways disease research could be used to optimize humans from birth — for instance, editing the genes of muscular dystrophy patients could help scientists identify ways to make healthy babies be born stronger.
While for most the prospect of genetically modified humans will call to mind science fiction dystopias such as the 1997 movie Gattaca, others have graver real-world concerns — CIA Director John Brennan has claimed such advances could pose a threat to national security, and be used to create biological weapons. MIT scientist Dr. Jim Kozubek has said genetic engineering could end the possibility of future genius-level intelligence in humanity.
In 2015, a paper authored by Fyodor Urnov, adjunct professor of genetics and development at the University of California, warned human genome editing could have unpredictable effects on future generations — this made the research "dangerous and ethically unacceptable."
Don't edit the human germ line — one of our top opinion pieces of 2015 https://t.co/CX8KQgZXys pic.twitter.com/6xhDDRJXKZ — Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) January 2, 2016
The committee is evidently wise to how controversial genome editing could be — in the report's conclusion, it acknowledges public fears that genome editing would "exacerbate social inequities or create social pressures," driving people to use technologies that are "simply are not necessary." As a result, public discussion is "important for exploring social impacts," as governance policy is developed — and a resolution to the question of consent (by definition, an unborn child cannot consent to being experimented upon) must be found.
However, some are positively enthused by the prospect of enhanced future humans — and unmoved by arguments around consent. John Harris, professor of bioethics at the University of Manchester, is among them.
"Every year an estimated 7.9 million children — 6% of total births worldwide — are born with a serious birth defect of genetic or partially genetic origin. Had sexual reproduction been invented by scientists rather than resulting from our evolved biology, it would never have been licensed.
"We all have to make decisions for future people without considering their consent. All would-be parents take numerous decisions about issues that might affect their future children. They do this all the time without thinking about consent of the children — far from 'absence of consent' being a reason not to make decisions for future persons, it is the reason we must make such decisions," Professor Harris told Sputnik.


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Question: Claire's is closing 92 stores as it files for bankruptcy - see if yours is on the list

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Claire's filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday.
The teen retailer is closing 92 stores, most of which are located in malls.
Here is the full list.
Claire's filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday and announced it would be closing 92 stores in March and April.
Claire's is a teen jewelry and accessories retailer that's perhaps best known for its ear-piercing service.
In 2016, Claire's closed 166 stores. The company has been hit hard by declining traffic to malls, where the majority of its stores are located.
"This decline may be attributable to several factors, including competition from big box retailers, large tenant closures (leaving malls without an 'anchor' tenant to drive foot traffic), and the increased popularity of online shopping," the company said in a bankruptcy filing.
Here's the full list of closings:

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Rue 21 stores in Gulfport and D'Iberville are not on the list of about 400 stores the chain announced will be closing . The company, which specializes in clothing for teens, has more than 1,000 stores, including 24 in Mississippi.
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Question: Kurtenbach: The Raiders have wilted under the weight of expectations  and we should have seen it coming

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The Raiders had a chance to prove they were something more than a disappointment Sunday.
They could have buried their uninspiring and downright average opening 12 games of the season.
They could have made everyone forget about the fact that luck, more than skill, was responsible for the team’s tie for first place in the AFC West at 6-6.
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They could have gone to the Show-Me State, beaten the Chiefs for the second time this season, and proven that they were a real playoff contender, like so many expected them to be at the beginning of the 2017 season.
"Everything we wanted to accomplish in our season was in front of us," coach Jack Del Rio said. "It was a big day and a big moment."
And?
"We didn’t play well."
Or, as quarterback Derek Carr bluntly (and accurately) put it: "We sucked."
They did. But I’d say thats more of the same for this Raiders team.
Don’t let anyone try to spin it: Sunday’s 26-15 loss to the Chiefs wasn’t nearly as close as the final scoreline indicated.
It was an embarrassing display — a limp performance in a game that was as close to a must-win as any Week 14 contest could be — and another clear-cut case of why serious changes need to be made at all levels of the Raiders organization.
No, the Raiders haven’t technically been eliminated from playoff contention, but what reason does anyone have to believe that this team will rise to the occasion and win their final three games of the season to give themselves even the remote shot of making the postseason?
The Raiders have now played three critical road games as underdogs — at Buffalo, vs. New England (in Mexico City), and at Kansas City — and have been blown out three times.
The Raiders can beat bad teams — they can stay with mediocre teams, too — but when this team needs to win and they have to play a good team outside of the Coliseum, they’ve been utterly overmatched.
They were again in Missouri:
Kansas City effectively won Sunday’s game with 3:22 left in the third quarter, after taking a 26-0 lead. At that juncture, the Raiders had 77 yards of total offense and fewer first downs than the Chiefs had scoring plays (six to four).
Forget the 191 yards and two touchdowns in garbage time — the Raiders real performance came in the first 42 minutes of Sunday’s game. Thats the one that should be remembered.
For a normal organization, a performance like that, parlayed with the disappointment of the team’s 6-6 start leading up to it, would prove to be the impetus for major changes — clearly, there are rings broken on the Raiders’ chain — but there’s no guarantee that will be the case with this franchise.
Expectations have exposed this Raiders organization’s flaws. For the first time in a long time, Oakland was expected to be a playoff team. Few paid any mind to the fact that the Raiders were effectively an 8-8 team last year that had an incredible (and unsustainable) run of late-game success — this team’s arrow was viewed as pointing straight up and nothing was off the table for it.
Fans are always optimistic, so you can’t fault Raiders fans one bit for expecting big things from this team.
But this Raiders coaching staff and, subsequently, the Raiders roster clearly bought into their own preseason hype and it’s proven to be anchor this season.
When this team wins — no matter the opponent they beat — it’s a validation of that preseason hype and an opportunity to let anyone who questioned that hype know that they were wrong to doubt.
When this team loses — as they did Sunday — it creates a crisis of confidence. Fingers are pointed, people are thrown under the bus, and people lash out.
All that shouldn’t be surprising. When you expect big things (a Super Bowl) but have never proven that you can actually do the things necessary to achieve such successes (beat a good team on the road), your emotions are beholden to the moment.
As such, this Raiders team has been an emotional roller coaster all season, and thirteen games into this disappointing campaign, they’re still yet to prove that they’re anything more than an average team.
Had the expectations going into the season not been so high — had the Raiders not bought into the outside hype instead of stoking the fire — the Raiders’ 2017 season wouldn’t be viewed in such a negative light.
After all, in order to be disappointed, you must first fail to meet expectations.
But its too late for the Raiders to fix that now.
So what happens next?
There’s plenty of blame to go around, for sure, but the two most important people on an NFL team — the head coach and starting quarterback — are well-insulated from repercussions.
Jack Del Rio, who took over a laughingstock outfit and turned it into a respectable unit, cashed in after last year’s flukey 12-win campaign, signing a four-year contract extension earlier this year.
It doesn’t matter that Del Rio has never proven that he can take a good team and make it great as a head coach, as was his task this season. Nor does it matter that he’s a defensive-minded (and hands-on) head coach and former linebackers coach who can’t put a good defense on the field or develop a good linebacker.
To fire Del Rio, Mark Davis, who handpicked Del Rio and rewarded him with a lucrative new deal in February, would have to first admit that he was wrong about the Raiders’ head coach and then eat a big chunk of cash that frankly, he might not have lying around.
Davis might be peeved about the Raiders’ lack of competitiveness, but can he swallow both a ton of pride and cash? I doubt it.
And Carr? We’re in the first year of a five-year, $125 million contract that was, for a while, the most lucrative in NFL history.
But behind one of the best-paid offensive lines and going up against one of the worst defenses in the NFL, Carr didn’t look worth $25,000 a year when the game was actually in the balance on Sunday.
He was skittish, unaware, and inaccurate — but thats nothing new for him.
And when the outcome of the contest was no longer in doubt and Kansas City was laying off, he was able to find success, but even then, he was a dink-and-dunk quarterback who wasn’t all that great at either dinking or dunking.
But remember: he looked good against the Dolphins…
Still, the Raiders aren’t going to cut him or trade him — don’t be ridiculous. He’s the first worthwhile quarterback this team’s had since Carson Palmer, so he’s getting a free pass. WIth that huge contract, the Raiders have tied the franchise to Carr, for better or for worse.
So who is going to be held accountable for this perceived debacle of a season?
Underlings. Subordinates. Lackeys.
The kind of people you change out when you need to make a show but who cant truly change the course of a franchise.
Offensive coordinator Todd Downing? He’s as good as gone. He was hired because he was Carr’s confidant, but that relationship hasn’t resulted in the quarterbacks evolution.
And while interim defensive coordinator John Pagano will probably stick around for next season, he’ll be on the hot seat all next season — the first guy to go if things don’t change with the NFL’s worst defense.
Perhaps there will be a shakeup of the team’s power structure, but that doesn’t truly matter. Del Rio and Reggie McKenzie might not work in concert after this season, but since McKenzie isn’t without blame in the Raiders’ predicament either, what’s it matter who has the upper hand in that relationship?
The blunt truth is that without a great head coach and a great quarterback, you dont stand much of a chance of being great in the NFL (unless you have a great head coach and a great defense — so that excludes the Raiders). We’re now in year three of this Del Rio-Carr partnership and these two men are still yet to prove they’re anything more than average at their jobs but have been rewarded as if they’re amongst the elite in the NFL.
Maybe the duo of Del Rio and Carr can get this Raiders team over the hump in the years to come. Perhaps with expectations off their shoulders next season, they can show what they’re worthy of the Raiders’ faith and compensation.
But when the expectations were raised this season, both men have wilted.
Isn’t it more likely that this brand of eventful mediocrity is all this duo can provide?

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Just about an hour after Mike McCoy’s latest defeat, after he told the media that, yes, he should be the man to chaperone the (still) San Diego Chargers into the future — be it here or up there — the team early Sunday evening surgically removed his future by releasing a stark email:
The San Diego Chargers announced that Head Coach Mike McCoy will not return in 2017.
I guess one game in 2017 (a 37-27 loss to the Chiefs here in the season finale) was enough.
Looking on the dark side, I can’t help but wonder if this has anything to do with the franchise’s possible move to Los Angeles (which we will know by Jan. 15). How would Mike McCoy, basically humorless, conservative and hardly Hollywood-sexy, play in the TMZ?
Might boss Dean Spanos, never one to pay huge money for a coach — and in most cases not really a bad thing — prefer a name worthy of Tinseltown, which really doesn’t want him or his team there, anyway? In a recent Fox L.A. TV poll, 92 percent of the responders said they didn’t want the Chargers to come. A staggering total, but probably not enough to deter someone who may be determined to carpet his bag, who has tried to get something done here and finally surrendered.
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No way of really knowing, but if Mike McCoy was one thing, he was not a name. He offered no star quality whatsoever. Couple that with a losing record and you don’t have Brad Pitt.
Maybe it’s just me on this one, but I know General Manager (on paper) Tom Telesco, who announced the firing, thought highly of McCoy, as did John Spanos (GM without papers). Just Sunday morning (after ESPN ace Adam Schefter said it appeared McCoy would be gone), a media member I think very highly of told me he wasn’t so sure Mike’s pink slip would be showing when all was said and done.
McCoy didn’t last out the day. And I seriously doubt had his side somehow prevailed over a more talented and healthy Chiefs team it would have made one bit of difference.
In the end, McCoy didn’t have much of a chance, trying to play the NFL brand of football with 20 of his players — many of them starters — on injured reserve.
As quarterback Philip Rivers said before becoming aware of the falling axe: “Some of the teams heading into the postseason have two guys on IR. We have 20. They’re probably in the top 10 of our team’s roster rankings.”
But it was of course more than that. Much more.
McCoy replaced Norv Turner in 2014, went 9-7 and led the team to the playoffs. Even won the wild card game in Cincinnati. The team again went 9-7 in 2015, but failed to play into January. After that, he lost 23 of 32 games, going 5-11 this season.
It’s a bottom-line business. McCoy didn’t win enough and lost too much. That the Chargers were the best bad team in a league lousy with bad teams wasn’t enough to save his job.
Injuries normally do not offer up a decent excuse, but Mike did have one. He was without his two starting receivers basically the entire season. He was down to his sixth-string running back. His fine nose tackle was gone, as were his two starting cornerbacks. His top draft choice sat out the first four games.
And yet, hard as it is to believe, his teams led in every game but one, at Carolina. The Chargers also blew eight fourth-quarter leads, more than anything because he just didn’t have enough people to sustain. He lost close games, true, but good teams win close games. His club, seemingly playing people I’ve never heard of every week, simply wasn’t good enough.
At times I found McCoy maddening. I often questioned his clock management (which he questioned me on) and he completely refused to gamble, even when his season was lost, when it wouldn’t have made a difference. Even Sunday he was booed when, down 34-17 with 10:19 to play in regulation, he opted to kick a field goal.
His special teams, terribly important, were awful and he never fixed them. They were brutal to the finish, when Sunday kicker Josh Lambo hooked yet another kickoff out of bounds (“Inexcusable,” he later would say) and K.C. flash Tyreek Hill returned a punt 95 yards for a score.
On top of it all, he was boring at the podium and came off rude and arrogant when he had done nothing to inspire arrogance.
Still, I wondered about McCoy, because his players played for him, even those he had barely met. There were pluses to Mike McCoy.
“Mike has given us a heckuva chance,” Rivers said earlier when asked whether McCoy should stay or go. “There are 20 teams in our boat that are eliminated and I don’t know that all 20 can say they fought and played as hard, and practiced the way we did.”
True. Mike’s kids went out and played for him. They just didn’t play, couldn’t play, well enough.
“I know this; I want to be back,” McCoy said moments before his dismissal. “This is a special group; 2017 is going to be a special year for this football team (could be).
“We’ve created a culture here.”
He did. For someone else.
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