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Enrique Marquez Jr., 25, of Riverside, Calif., is accused of purchasing the assault rifles used in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, and has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges.
Benjamin Gottlieb of member station KCRW tells our Newscast unit:
In his plea, Marquez admits that his friend, Syed Rizwan Farook, paid him for the assault rifles used to kill 14 people and injure 22 others in December of 2015. That's when Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik opened fire at a holiday party of Farook's coworkers at the Inland Regional Center. Marquez also admits he conspired with Farook in 2011 and 2012 to attack Riverside City College (RCC) — as well as commuter traffic on a major freeway in Southern California. Those plans never materialized.
U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker said, "While his earlier plans to attack a school and a freeway were not executed, the planning clearly laid the foundation for the 2015 attack on the Inland Regional Center."
Prosecutors say there is no evidence that Marquez participated in the San Bernardino attack or had advance knowledge about it.
He did acknowledge that he was a "straw buyer" when he purchased two high-powered rifles used in the San Bernardino attack.
According to a Justice Department statement:
"Straw purchasers are criminals who are the beginning of the chain of violence in our country," said ATF Special Agent in Charge Eric D. Harden. "It is purchases like Marquez's that led to the terror on that tragic day in San Bernardino. The crime goes beyond making a false statement on a government form. It puts guns in the hands of criminals who will victimize the community. In this case, the straw purchase is as reprehensible as the attack."
Mandy Pifer, whose boyfriend Shannon Johnson was killed in the terror attack, told The Associated Press that Marquez's plea agreement brought mixed emotions:
"It's a hell of a day to come out, Valentine's Day," the 42-year-old Los Angeles resident said. "I'm relieved that it won't be a long trial. If it'll be finished sooner, I'm all for it." She said she planned to speak at Marquez's sentencing about the impact her boyfriend's killing has had on her. In his last moments, Johnson huddled with a colleague under a table, shielding her from the bullets. "It is what it is," she said. "Nothing's going to bring him back."
Marquez is expected to formally enter his guilty pleas Thursday morning.
He has been in custody since he was ordered detained at his initial court appearance in this case on Dec. 17, 2015.
Marquez faces up to 25 years in federal prison.

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In what appears to be turning into somewhat of a tradition, yet another baseball player has injured himself ahead of spring training in an unusual way.
On Tuesday, Kansas City Royals reliever Brian Flynn fell through the roof of his barn in Oklahoma, resulting in a broken rib and three non-displaced fractures in his vertebrae.
"He was working on his barn and fell through the roof," Royals manager Ned Yost told reporters (via Kansas City Star) at a Tuesday afternoon press conference. "So he took a pretty good tumble, knocked himself out."
Flynn, who was not assured a spot in the Royals bullpen, is expected to take about eight weeks to recover, which Yost said will put him "behind everybody else."
Pitching his first season in the big leagues last year, the 26-year-old appeared in 36 games, managing a 2.60 ERA in 55 1/3 innings.
Flynn's bizarre spring training injury follows a string of others from previous years. In 2016, then-Milwaukee Brewers reliever Will Smith twisted his knee after losing his balance while trying to take his shoe off.
And then there was 2015, when at least four players sustained spring training injuries in unusual ways:
Chicago White Sox ace Chris Sale arrived to training camp with a broken foot, sustained when he dropped a heavy box on it while unloading his truck
Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Michael Saunders tore the meniscus in his knee when he awkwardly stepped on a sprinkler head
Former Tampa Bay Rays reliever Ronald Belisario fractured his shoulder while climbing out of a swimming pool
Former Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Corey Hart sliced his foot on a hot tub and needed stitches
The crowning glory of weird spring training injury still belongs to former Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Steve Sparks, who in 1994 dislocated his shoulder while trying to tear a phone book in half.
"I had it halfway ripped apart when my shoulder popped out," the player recalled to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2013.
Sparks was attempting to motivate his team by showing off the trick when it failed miserably. Coincidentally, maybe, the Brewers finished last in the American League Central Division with a 53-62 record.
Of course, bizarre baseball injuries aren't limited to spring training. Let us not forget the time when ex-Chicago Cubs star Sammy Sosa had to miss a game after he hurt his back while sneezing in 2004; Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar was also temporarily sidelined after he injured an oblique muscle in a similar manner 10 years later.
And then there are the more modern problems. Former San Diego Padres right-hander Adam Eaton missed a start for the Padres in 2001 when he tried to open a DVD with a kitchen knife and stabbed himself instead. And ex-Detroit Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya had to sit out after injuring his elbow by playing "Guitar Hero" too much.
While it's easy to make fun of these doofus-like injuries, however, let he who has never handled chili peppers directly before putting in his contact lenses cast the first stone. That won't be former Cubs outfielder Bret Barberie, however. He did that in 1994, went temporarily blind and had to miss a game.
Photos as the Cubs arrive at spring training in Mesa, Ariz., on Feb. 13, 2017.

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Sunday, April 15, despite being uncomfortably cold for a baseball game, was a great day for New York Mets fans. After starting the season 11-1, the Mets had finally lost a second game a day earlier, but responded with a 3-2 victory over the Milwuakee Brewers at Citi Field, powered by eight strikeouts from Noah Syndergaard and a walk-off homer from Wilmer Flores. The Mets were 12-2, off to the best start in franchise history, and all was well.
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Fast forward to May 30 and all is no longer well. The Mets have crumbled as only the Mets can, going 14-24 in their next 38 games and losing key player after key player to injury. First it was veteran and great-clubhouse guy Todd Frazier , then it was Yoenis Cespedes, then Juan Lagares and then came the last straw on Tuesday, when Syndergaard was placed on the disabled list with a strained ligament in his right index finger and Steven Matz left the team's game against the Atlanta Braves with discomfort in his left middle finger . At the time, the Mets led 4-0, and eventually lost 7-6 on a walk-off for the second time in three games. How much pain can one fanbase take?
After Matz left the game, fans watching heard the toll this franchise has taken on the Mets entire broadcast team in the bottom of the fourth inning. Play-by-play man Gary Cohen officially ran out of words to describe the Amazin's luck:
Franchise legend-turned color man Keith Hernandez, a guy who has a habit of lightening the broadcast and adding a little humor whenever possible, could not shake the depression that had begun to set in on Tuesday night:
Like he said, he gets paid by the word, and he too has run out of them. This is a man who is now tweeting everything that pops into his head and he couldn't even muster up a "well, maybe their luck will turn around at some point." What a disaster.
Meanwhile, their crosstown rival New York Yankees can't stop winning games in epic fashion, and they'll make the short trek over to Citi Field the weekend after next in a series the Mets desperately need to take two games from just to give their fans something to feel good about. For their sake, for Keith and Gary's sake, and for the new Mr. Met's sake , let's hope they do, because no one should have to be this sad.
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Question: Reports say Mueller probe now examining possible obstruction

WASHINGTON (AP) — The special counsel appointed to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 presidential campaign is now examining whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice, The Washington Post reported Wednesday evening.
Accusations of obstruction arose last month when Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Comey testified in a Senate hearing last week that he believed he was fired “because of the Russia investigation.”
Comey also testified he had told Trump he was not under investigation.
The Post and The New York Times both reported that Mueller was seeking interviews with three Trump administration officials who weren’t involved in Trump’s campaign: Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence; Michael Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency; and Richard Ledgett, the former NSA deputy director.
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Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Trump’s personal lawyer, responded Wednesday evening to the Post report by saying: “The FBI leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal.”
The Post report cites anonymous sources who were briefed on requests made by investigators. It was not known whether the FBI was the source of the information.
Mueller met Wednesday with the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee in an effort to ensure their investigations don’t conflict.
The leaders of the Senate Intelligence committee said in a statement issued Wednesday that they “look forward to future engagements” with Robert Mueller.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the panel’s top Democrat, didn’t provide any other details regarding the meeting. An aide familiar with the meeting said it was held to discuss the investigations, including ways that the parallel inquiries don’t interfere with one another. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting was private.
The meeting comes a day after lawmakers questioned Justice Department officials about the probe and Mueller’s independence, and after a friend of Trump said the White House was considering firing Mueller.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller last month, testified Tuesday he has seen no evidence of good cause to fire Mueller.
Also Wednesday, Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley said his panel will investigate the removal of former FBI Director James Comey and “any alleged improper partisan interference in law enforcement investigations.”
Grassley announced the investigation in a letter to California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the panel’s top Democrat. Grassley’s office said the letter is in response to a recent letter from Feinstein requesting that the committee seek details from senior FBI leadership about Comey’s interactions with President Donald Trump before he was fired.
The letter said the investigation will also probe Comey’s testimony that Loretta Lynch, as President Barack Obama’s attorney general, had directed him to describe an FBI probe into Hillary Clinton’s email practices as merely a “matter” and to avoid calling it an investigation.
“You and I agree that the American people deserve a full accounting of attempts to meddle in both our democratic processes and the impartial administration of justice … It is my view that fully investigating the facts, circumstances, and rationale for Mr. Comey’s removal will provide us the opportunity to do that on a cooperative, bipartisan basis,” according to the letter.
Feinstein has said the Judiciary Committee should investigate, but had asked Grassley to keep the investigations separate. Grassley said Comey’s dismissal and Comey’s testimony on Lynch should be looked at together, noting that Comey “took the opportunity in his testimony to clear his own name by denouncing as false the administration’s claims that the FBI rank-and-file had lost confidence in Mr. Comey’s leadership in the wake of the Clinton email investigation.”

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The investigators hypothesized that the attacker was a lonely American who had wanted to kill people with anthrax for some undefined time period, but then became "mission oriented" following 9/11 and immediately prepared and mailed the deadly spores while pretending to be a Muslim.
Mueller's FBI honed in on Steven Hatfill as the culprit - a "flag-waving" American, who had served in the Army, then dedicated himself to protecting America from bioterrorist threats by working in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
There was no direct link from Hatfill to the attacks, by the FBI's own admission, and the bureau never charged Hatfill. The FBI did however spy on, follow, and harass him non-stop for years. The Department of Justice also publicly outed Hatfill as the possible terrorist.
While Hatfill's dignity and life was being trampled on by America's secret police, Mueller took a stand. But on a different topic. He made front page news for threatening President Bush he would resign over NSA policy. All while his own team was trampling on the rights of an American in the FBI's largest-ever investigation.
Hatfill successfully sued the government for its unlawful actions. He won almost $6 million dollars.
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The order is the first known time that the special counsel demanded documents directly related to President Trump's businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.
The breadth of the subpoena was not clear, nor was it clear why Mr. Mueller issued it instead of simply asking for the documents from the company, an umbrella organization that oversees Mr. Trump's business ventures. [...]
The Trump Organization has said that it never had real estate holdings in Russia, but witnesses recently interviewed by Mr. Mueller have been asked about a possible real estate deal in Moscow. In 2015, a longtime business associate of Mr. Trump's emailed Mr. Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen at his Trump Organization account claiming he had ties to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and said that building a Trump Tower in Moscow would help Mr. Trump's presidential campaign.
For months, The Gateway Pundit has been reporting on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's flaws exhibited in both the investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion during the 2016 presidential election and his personal track record as an attorney.On Saturday evening, media icon Matt Drudge reminded us all why Mueller is "hardly a saint."According to Los Angeles Times reporter David Willman, Mueller's "tenacious yet linear approach to evaluating evidence led him to fumble the biggest U.S. terrorism investigation since 9/11."The case? Mueller personally oversaw the FBI's investigation into the "2001 anthrax letter attacks that took five lives and infected 17 other people."The Federalist reported Drudge, seemingly concerned about the Mueller probe's direction, is asking his millions of readers if the time has come to fire the special counsel.This week, Mueller crossed President Trump's " red line " after issuing a subpoena for documents related to the Trump Organization's business dealings with Russia.New York Times reports Recently, Mueller's Russia probe took yet another unpredictable turn after the special counsel invoked the unusual "conspiracy to defraud the government," charge that "could use the same legal strategy to go after President Trump and his associates, even if the conspiracy is not linked to a criminal act," The Washington Times reports.


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अहमदाबाद। पहले चरण के मतदान के बाद गुजरात में चुनावी प्रचार तेज हो गया है। सोमवार को पीएम मोदी ने पाटन की चुनावी रैली के दौरान कांग्रेस पर हमला बोला।
पीएम मोदी ने रैली के दौरान कहा कि पहले चरण में कांग्रेस की हार तय है, इसलिए वे इवीएम का बहाना लेकर आरोप लगा रहे हैं। इसके अलावा उन्होंने गुजरात के गांवों में जाकर लोगों के बीच बच्चों की शिक्षा के प्रति जागरुकता जगाने की बात कही। साथ ही कांग्रेस की कमियों की ओर भी इशारा किया।
पीएम ने कहा, जब हम किसानों के पास गए, कृषि महोत्‍सव किया, हम अमीरों की मदद के लिए नहीं गए थे। हम गरीबों के बीच गए। दुखद है कि कांग्रेस नेताओं का जन्‍म सोने के चम्‍मच के साथ हुआ है, इसलिए वे कभी नहीं समझ पाएंगे कि गरीबी क्‍या है।
When we went to the farmers, did Krishi Mahotsav, we did not go out helping the rich. We went among the poor. Sadly, Congress leaders born with golden spoons will never understand what poverty is: PM Narendra Modi in Patan #GujaratElection2017 pic.twitter.com/6qW7yoOAAz
During peak summer, I would go to the villages of Gujarat and ask parents to educate their children. Whose children were they? Were they Ambani's children? No. They were children of the poor. We are working for poor: PM Narendra Modi in Patan #GujaratElection2017 pic.twitter.com/4P2K3QoY8y
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Question: Mass. cop on Facebook mocks protesters hit by car in Virginia: 'Hahahaha love this'

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- A Massachusetts police officer in a post on Facebook has mocked the anti-racism demonstrators who were run down during a fatal incident Saturday at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
"Hahahaha love this, maybe people shouldn't block roads," wrote Springfield officer Conrad Lariviere in a comment on a news article about the crash.
Lariviere in a Facebook conversation with MassLive.com confirmed that he is a patrolman, and he expressed remorse for what he described as "a stupid comment about people blocking streets."
"Never would I want someone to get murdered. I am not a racist and don't believe in what any of those protesters are doing," Lariviere told MassLive.com. "I'm a good man who made a stupid comment and would just like to be left alone."
Springfield Police Commissioner John Barbieri said the department has launched an investigation into the comments. He confirmed that an officer named Conrad Lariviere is employed by the department.
"I received notification of this Facebook post earlier today via email from a complainant. The post is purportedly from Springfield police officer. I took immediate steps to initiate a prompt and thorough internal investigation," Barbieri wrote in an email. "If in fact this post did originate from an officer employed with the Springfield Police Department, this matter will be reviewed by the Community Police Hearings Board for further action."
Videos from the protest, which saw neo-Nazi, white supremacist and right wing groups face off against leftist and antifascist demonstrators over the planned removal of Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue, show scenes of carnage and panic as a car plowed into antiracist demonstrators.
The videos show a gray Dodge Charger drive down a clear section of street and crash, without any sign of braking, into a crowd of protesters and two other vehicles. The Charger then reverses away from the scene of the crash.
Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old Charlottesville paralegal, was killed in the crash, and 19 other people were injured.
Later, police arrested James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Ohio, and charged him with second degree murder, malicious wounding and failing to stop at an accident that resulted in death.
The original post including Lariviere's comments has since been deleted, but MassLive reviewed multiple screenshots of the comments and confirmed their contents with people who viewed the exchange.
In another comment on the Facebook post, Larivere expressed doubt that the driver, who at the time had not been identified, was a Nazi.
"How do you know he was a nazi scumbag?" Lariviere wrote. "Stop being part of the problem."
But Fields was photographed at the rally carrying the wooden shield of Vanguard America, a white supremacist organization that bills itself on Twitter as "the face of American fascism." And one of Fields' high school teachers told the Washington Post Fields was a white supremacist and appeared fascinated with Nazism as a teenager.
Lariviere berated another Facebook commenter who criticized his post.
"I've been hit by a s------ with warrants but who cares right you ignorant brat live in a fantasy land with the rest of America while I deal with the real danger," he wrote.
Earlier on Sunday, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno released a statement condemning the violence in Charlottesville.
"My thoughts and prayers go out to all those families that suffered a terrible loss of life and were injured. These actions by white supremacists - the 'new KKK' groups - should be denounced by all," he said. "Don't be fooled by their propaganda, once again, they spew hate and enjoy violence. In the end, they will not prevail and good will overcome evil."
Shortly after 9 p.m., Sarno released a statement condemning Lariviere's comments.
"I just got done issuing a statement this morning on how upsetting the tragic incidents were in Charlottesville, Virginia and one of our own officers does this? Unbelievable! There is no place for this in our society, let alone from a Springfield Police Officer," Sarno said. "I stand by and commend Commissioner John Barbieri's steps for a thorough internal investigation and review by our Community Police Hearing Board to pursue the appropriate discipline against said officer."

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Crisis-wracked commodity trader Noble Group said on Friday said proposed agreements to sell four dry bulk carrier vessels have fallen through after the buyers failed to get approval from their boards for the deals by Thursday.
Noble estimated it would have received net proceeds of about $30 million if the vessels had been sold, after repayment of mortgages associated with the ships and other costs.
“Noble Group wishes to update that the vessels are, in the current market, profit generating and cash flow positive,” it said in a statement. The vessels were still available for sale and the company has started discussions with interested third parties, it added.
The proposed disposal of the vessels is a part of the company’s debt reduction plans. This week, Noble proposed a deal under which existing shareholders’ equity would be nearly wiped out, while the restructured company would have much lower debt.

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Aug 14 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1000 GMT on Monday:
** A unit of Chinese conglomerate Fosun Group's pharmaceutical business said it is bidding for a stake in U.S. speciality drugmaker Arbor Pharmaceuticals LLC.
** British mail delivery company DX Group said talks for a potential merger with John Menzies Plc's distribution unit had been terminated due to unsuitable terms.
** Shares in French food group Danone rose on Monday after the New York Post newspaper said in a report over the weekend that Danone could be a takeover target.
** Stada warned that even fewer retail investors have so far tendered their shares in the planned takeover of the German generic drugmaker than at the same stage during the previous, failed attempt to get a deal done.
** German energy group RWE is considering all options in the planned sale of E.ON's 46.65 percent stake in Uniper, its chief executive said, fuelling expectations that the group might submit a bid.
** SoundCloud, the world's most popular streaming music app, said it received new funding on Friday, insulating it from potentially running out of cash this year.
** Cruise operator Genting Hong Kong Ltd said it, Apollo Funds and TPG Fund have agreed to sell an aggregate 6.58 percent of shares in Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd with market value of $428 million to third party investors.
** Chinese news aggregator Toutiao, backed by Sequoia Capital and CCB International, is raising at least $2 billion at a valuation of over $20 billion in its latest funding round, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. ** India's Tata Steel Ltd has received regulatory approval for a deal to cut its UK pension scheme liabilities, it said on Friday, paving the way for a possible merger between its British and European steel businesses and those of Germany's Thyssenkrupp.
** Kroton Educacional SA will seek to expand in Brazilian regions where it does not yet operate and in onsite campuses, as the country's No. 1 for-profit education firm aims to resume growth following antitrust rejection of a local takeover. (Compiled by Roopal Verma in Bengaluru)


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Spending your own money on health care might mean that you'll be more frugal with it. That's the theory behind health savings accounts, a decades-old GOP concept that's sparking renewed interest on Capitol Hill as Republican lawmakers look for ways to replace the Affordable Care Act.
HSAs are like personal savings accounts — with a difference. As with a retirement account, money put into an HSA can be invested, and any growth in the fund accumulates tax-free. Withdrawals can be made at any time, and they are tax-free, too — but the money can only be used to pay for certain medical expenses, such as health insurance deductibles, or for copays for hospital care or a visit to the doctor.
Currently, HSAs are only available to people who have high-deductible health plans, meaning they usually pay a few thousand dollars for medical care each year before their insurance kicks in to pay its share. While HSA participation is growing, only about 20 million people out of the 176 million who have health insurance participate in these savings accounts, according to a 2015 report by the Association of Health Insurance Plans.
Why don't more people who are eligible for HSAs have them? For one thing, not everyone has money to contribute upfront. But psychologists and behavioral economists point out that even many people who have the extra cash on hand confront big psychological barriers to saving.
"How we think and feel is directly tied to our ability to make 'good' financial decisions," says Alycia DeGraff, a board member and secretary of the Financial Therapy Association. DeGraff says when faced with financial decisions about the future, many people simply get stressed-out.
"These stressors can become so overwhelming that ... we can become debilitated and ignore the situation all together," she says. "Or we can practice any kind of defense mechanism — entitlement, suppression, overcompensation, isolation, etc. — to try and deal with [it]."
This may explain, at least in part, why middle-class Americans are pretty bad at saving money in general. Only about half of us have money in any sort of retirement account. And those of us who are parents have only saved, on average, enough to pay for about one year at an in-state college for our kids.
Saving money is hard. It means setting aside what we want now for something we think we'll want or need later. And we live in a culture that offers a lot of pretty, shiny, things to buy RIGHT NOW.
Plus, we all pretend we won't get old or sick.
"People are predictably irrational," says Dr. Mitesh Patel, especially when it comes to money. He's a behavioral economist, physician and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine.
But many of us really hate to lose money, Patel says, which is what makes the concept of HSAs is so appealing.
For example he and his colleagues published a study last year in the Annals of Internal Medicine on what motivates people to lose weight, and found that the way a financial incentive was framed made all the difference.
The researchers observed three groups of people for 13 weeks. They told one group to walk 7,000 steps a day. About 30 percent of the group did so. Meanwhile, people assigned to the second group were told they'd be paid $1.40 every day they walked 7,000 steps. About 35 percent of the second group did so.
Here's the kicker: Each person in the third group was paid $42 upfront and was docked $1.40 each time they failed to meet their goal. Forty-five percent of that group met the assigned goal, Patel says. People hate to lose money.
Another way to encourage more saving might be to make HSAs operate more like the 401(k)s that required people who didn't want to participate to actively opt out of the plan — rather than requiring people who want to contribute to opt in. "This creates a path of least resistance," Patel says.
Of course, setting up and overseeing such a plan would likely cost the government some money, he notes.
People with HSAs do use less health care than those without such plans, a recent study from the Employee Benefits Research Institute suggests. But it's unclear whether they actually improve their health. Prescription drug costs went down for people enrolled in HSAs in the EBRI study, but emergency room visits went up — particularly for lower-income families.
Then there's the issue of figuring out how much you, as an individual or a family, would need to save for health care — it's not easy to find out the average price for a medical test or procedure in your town, let alone how much that price varies from doctor to doctor or hospital to hospital.
"If you want to save for a house, you can pretty much figure out the math," Patel says. "But if you go to a doctor, they don't give you a menu for prices."
To really increase their health savings — or any savings — we'd all need to change our mindset, says Degraff, the financial therapist.
"People would have to first take a dose of reality and get real about their future selves," she says. Naturally, we thing our future selves will be "better, healthier, more financially secure," she adds. But, for many of us, health and income eventually decline with age. We need to save more now for later.
HSAs can be useful, Degraff notes, but only for those who have enough cash to pay their day-to-day expenses — plus a little left over.
"A lot of people don't even have a regular emergency fund savings," DeGraff says, "especially those that are already struggling to pay for health insurance."

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Question: Shock Emmerdale exit as the burden of Daz Spencer's secret becomes too much to bear?

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Emmerdale' Kerry Wyatt has had enough of hiding Daz Spencer's big secret, and their discussion may lead to his shock exit from the soap.
Daz is keen to offload more of his shocking secret, so goes to speak to Kerry so he can give her the full story.
At first, Kerry, is desperate to share what she has been told but as Daz tells her more and more of the story, she starts feeling conflicted as to whether she should speak out.
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Later, Bernice Blackstock, Daz's girlfriend, discovers him at the house with a fully packed holdall, and realises he is trying to make a quiet exit from her life.
Naturally, Bernice believes it must be her fault that he is leaving, and wants to find out what is going on with her beloved.
Daz flounders and tries to think fast on a reason, but ends up bolting and sees Kerry on his way out of the village.
Kerry tries to talk him down, explaining to him that he needs to open up and can't just run away.
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But can Kerry help Daz solve all the questions whirring round his head, and get him to tell the truth once and for all?
The couple have already experienced some ups and downs when Bernice's daughter, Gabby, tried to blackmail Daz to get her and her friend Liv Flaherty some booze.
He refused, which led to the terrible twosome stealing drugs from Vanessa Woodfield and accidentally spiking Lisa Dingle at The Woolpack, though the spiked pint was actually meant for Daz.
Emmerdale airs from 7pm weekdays on ITV.

SPOILER ALERT: Corrie's Maria Connor can barely look at lover Aidan as the jailbird comes face to face with him for the first time since he left her to fight alone in court


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Question: Helen Mirren reveals she once HATED her sexy figure

Dame Helen Mirren has established herself as one of the most timeless beauties in Hollywood, but the revered actress has revealed she once suffered from terrible insecurities as a young woman breaking into the industry.
The 72-year-old icon reflected on her rise to fame in the 1960s in a new interview with Allure published on Monday, and recounted disliking her curves because they didn't match the tomboyish aesthetic of the decade.
'It was the time of Twiggy, and I did not look like a twig,' she said. 'My cheeks were too fat, legs were too short, breasts too big.'
Looking back: Dame Helen Mirren, 72, reflected on her rise to fame in the Twiggy era in a new interview with Allure published on Monday
Outspoken: The proud feminist revealed she would like to tell her younger self not to be so 'bloody polite' and now wishes she had told more people to 'f**k off'
Looking back, the Academy, Emmy and Tony Awards winner said she can see why people called her sexy at that time, but explained she struggled to accept her own appearance because it seemed at odds with the trends.
'I fell into the cliché of sexiness: blonde hair, tits, waist, which I hated at the time because it was not fashionable,' she added. 'You had to be thin and have a cigarette and only wear black. And I just never fit into that look.'
If she could give her younger self a few words of advice, Mirren said she would like to tell her not to be so 'bloody polite' and say 'f**k off' more often.
While she didn't use quite such strong words, the movie icon famously stood up to British talk show host Michael Parkinson when, in a 1975 interview, he suggested that her figure might be getting in the way of her becoming a 'serious' actress.
Even though she held her own that day, Mirren now wishes she had been less concerned with politeness in general during her younger years.
'In those days, you had to,' she told Allure. 'It's hard to explain how difficult it is to overcome the culture. You become a voice in the wilderness. No one wants to listen.'
Movement: Now an outspoken advocate for gender equality, the actress recounted her past struggle to call herself a feminist, and how she has embraced the label
Speaking out: In her thirties, Mirren famously stood up to talk show host Michael Parkinson when he suggested that her figure might get in the way of her being a 'serious' actress
Now an outspoken advocate for gender equality, the actress reflected on her past struggle to call herself a feminist, and how she has embraced the label.
'I wasn’t into the very didactic feminism of the 1960s and 1970s because I liked wearing makeup and high heels. That was a no-no. It was sort of "That’s playing to the patriarchy," ' she said.
'I was thinking, "Well, I just really like it." Then as feminism developed, they realized you can like nice dresses, high-heeled shoes, and makeup. That’s not stopping you from being feminist.'
The British-born actress, who had a Russian father and an English mother, recounted taking part in New York City's Women's March earlier this year, describing it as a 'positive, funny... joyous' event, even though everyone in attendance 'had good reason to be angry'.
Past: The Dame also recounted feeling insecure about her frame earlier in her career. 'It was the time of Twiggy, and I did not look like a twig,' she said
Trends: 'I fell into the cliché of sexiness: blonde hair, tits, waist, which I hated at the time because it was not fashionable,' Mirren added about her look
Bashing the current administration, she added: '[Trump] just said and did whatever it took to get what he desired. That is quite terrifying, because it means there's a lack of morality there and a lack of conscientiousness.'
As for Ivanka Trump, Mirren finds the First Daughter 'talks a good game, but there's no substance'.
'Her book is so ignorant about how the majority of women live, talking about "Make time for yourself to have a massage." Puh-lease,' the actress added in reference to Women Who Work, Ivanka's latest book, which was slammed by critics for being tone-deaf when it came out in May this year.
Mirren's feelings about the First Lady seemed more mixed.
'You look at old Mel there, and she is one of the most powerful women in the world because she could take him down,' the actress said of Melania, adding that the former model 'almost' brought her husband down when she brushed off his hand.
'I'm Eastern European, you know; [we've] got these dark souls,' Mirren added. 'That dark Slovenian soul is about to come out. She's only got to do a nice interview with Allure.'

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Question: Cheddar, the CNBC for millennials, is now valued at $160 million after its latest funding round

Cheddar
The web video startup Cheddar has raised another $22 million, bringing its valuation to $160 million.
The two-year-old 'post cable' network is planning to expand internationally while adding a second network in the US.
Cheddar, the self-described "post cable" financial news startup sometimes called "CNBC for millennials," has just raised $22 million, bringing its valuation to $160 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.
It's been a wild ride for Cheddar, which was launched roughly two years ago by former BuzzFeed president and Daily Mail North America CEO Jon Steinberg.
The company started off by producing two hours of live, talking heads-style content from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange right around the time that Facebook Live was seen as the next big platform.
Soon after that debut Cheddar said it planned to start charging its young audience for exclusive access to its content for $6.99 a month.
But more recently, Cheddar has been inking a string of distribution deals, with partners ranging from Twitter to Twitch to fledgling streaming services such as Haystack TV. Cheddar's videos are now free and ad-supported.
With the new cash infusion, Cheddar plans to expand internationally, launch a second network (Cheddar Big News) and roll out content on Snapchat Discover, Steinberg told the Journal.
The new funding round was led by Raine Ventures and included Liberty Global, Goldman Sachs and Dentsu Ventures, among others. Cheddar has now raised $52 million to date.

In 2016, a bunch of tech companies went public, including Coupa, Line, Nutanix, Talend, and Twilio. Now a new batch is in the running for an initial public offering (IPO).
Many of these companies get their money by selling to other companies, typically the largest companies in the world. But there are also a few IPO contenders that are already household names because they have millions and millions of end users. Should even one or two of these go public in 2017, this will be remembered as a big year for tech IPOs. One of the contenders, in particular, could raise $4 billion in its deal — an ungodly sum in recent years, though not without precedent.
All the companies on this list have recently been highlighted as IPO contenders by private company research startup CB Insights, IPO exchange traded funds (ETF) manager Renaissance Capital, or both firms.
Without further ado, here’s our top 2017 tech IPO candidates:
Airbnb
The startup that lets you pay to stay in other people’s homes and rent out your own is eight years old now, and it has taken on about $4 billion in funding. Think it’s about time for that thing to go? I’ll say. Airbnb’s investors include Google Capital Capital G, Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic, and Tiger Global.
Anaplan
Cloud-based financial planning software provider Anaplan reportedly hit unicorn status earlier this year. Investors include Coatue Management, DFJ Growth, Salesforce, and Workday.
AppNexus
This ad tech company counts publishers like Bloomberg, Dow Jones, and ESPN as its customers. Investors include News Corp.
Apttus
Last year, Salesforce acquired one of Apttus’ top competitors, SteelBrick, a deal that was notable because Salesforce had previously invested in Apttus. Other investors in the quote-to-cash software company include Gulf Islamic Investments and Iconiq Capital. In September, chief executive Kirk Krappe told Fortune that the company was looking to go public in the first half of 2017.
BuzzFeed
LOL. Yeah. That BuzzFeed. All those goofy articles over the years have helped BuzzFeed accumulate a major audience and finance more serious journalism. In November, NBCUniversal confirmed to Variety that it had invested another $200 million in BuzzFeed. Other investors include Lerer Hippeau Ventures, RRE Ventures, and Hearst Ventures.
Cloudflare
The content distribution network (CDN) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation service is often in the news because so many companies rely on it to keep their websites going even under heavy loads of traffic. Cloudflare last announced funding in 2015, and, at the time, cofounder and chief executive Matthew Prince said an IPO could happen as soon as 2017.
Credit Karma
About a year and a half ago, personal finance company Credit Karma said it had raised $175 million at a $3.5 billion valuation. Recently, the company introduced a tax preparation service, challenging the likes of H&R Block and Intuit.
Domo
Cloud-based business analytics service Domo said in March that it had held its valuation at $2 billion for its most recent $131 million round. It’s competing against some of the biggest technology companies, including Microsoft and Salesforce.
Dropbox
It’s been nearly two years since cloud syncing and sharing service Dropbox saw competitor Box go public. This year, Dropbox reached 500 million users. It last disclosed a funding round in 2014 at a valuation of $10 billion.
ForeScout
Network security company ForeScout, which was founded in 2000, announced a $76 million funding round at a billion-dollar valuation in January 2016. In September, Reuters reported that it had started interviewing banks that could be its IPO underwriters.
Glassdoor
Perhaps best known for storing employees’ reviews of their workplaces, Glassdoor makes money through advertising job openings and enhancing companies’ profile pages. Investors include T. Rowe Price.
Gusto
The payroll and benefits startup has been taking on customers from competitor Zenefits after the latter was found to be practicing without licenses in some states. A year ago, Gusto confirmed it had raised an “opportunistic insider round.” Investors include Capital G, GV, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Y Combinator.
Illumio
The cybersecurity company counts Morgan Stanley, Plantronics, and Salesforce among its customers. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Formation 8, and General Catalyst Partners.
InsideSales
Based in Utah, predictive sales company InsideSales last announced funding in 2015, with Microsoft and Salesforce Ventures participating.
Instacart
The grocery delivery company last raised funding in 2015. That year it also hired its first chief financial officer and made some layoffs. In 2016, Instacart announced several partnerships, including Cash & Carry, PlateJoy, and Publix.
Medallia
A 15-year-old company specializing in customer experience management, Medallia last announced funding in 2015, with top-flight firm Sequoia Capital participating.
MuleSoft
Cloud app integration software company MuleSoft has been in a position to go public for years, but has chosen to hold off. “There are a lot of advantages to continuing to stay private, including flexibility in how we run the business,” MuleSoft founder Ross Mason told VentureBeat in an email in 2015, when the company last announced funding.
Okta
This identity management software company became a unicorn when its valuation passed the $1 billion mark in 2015, and it now has more than 800 employees. It’s setting up a second headquarters in San Jose, 50 miles south of its current headquarters in San Francisco.
Palantir
Some of Palantir’s most prominent backers have reportedly disagreed about whether the big data company should go public. But a few months ago, chief executive Alex Karp said the company was looking at an IPO. Numerous government agencies are Palantir customers.
Pinterest
The company best known for letting users pin save photos and other content to boards now has more than 150 million monthly active users, but it last raised money in 2015.
Qualtrics
Cloud software for surveying employees can apparently be a lucrative business, given the rise of Qualtrics. The Utah company last raised money in 2015; investors include Insight Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital.
Razer
A company that has become known for its mechanical keyboards, mice, and other hardware, Razer announced in 2016 that it would begin investing in startups. Also, it acquired a little company called THX.
Slack
The trendy team communication app’s valuation of $3.8 billion is crazy high, even though the product has only been around for less than three years. But it has lots of competitors, including Microsoft, which launched Teams in November, while still keeping Yammer around. Slack investors include Accel Partners, Comcast Ventures, GGV, Index Ventures, Social Capital, Spark Growth, and Thrive Capital.
Snap
Snap Inc. was Snapchat until a short time ago, when the startup announced its first foray into hardware with the launch of Spectacles glasses (with included camera). Now Snap Inc. is positioning itself as a camera company, not just another messaging app (albeit one that remains popular with younger generations and has seen multiple features copied by Facebook). And it’s on a hiring spree. The inevitable IPO will be huge whenever it happens.
Spotify
The music streaming service has faced formidable competition from Apple, and it confirmed a billion-dollar debt round in March. Spotify brought in $187.1 million in revenue in 2015, up from $159 million in the prior year, according to a filing. “As an investor … we’re looking forward to an IPO at some point in time,” Northzone general partner Par-Jorgen Parson told Reuters recently.
Sprinklr
In July, the New York-based social media management company announced that it had raised $105 million in new funding at a $1.8 billion valuation. It employs more than 1,200 people, and its customer list includes McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nike, and P&G.
Stripe
Popular online payment provider Stripe raised $150 million in November at a reported $9.2 billion valuation. “We are very happy as a private company right now,” Will Gaybrick, the startup’s chief financial officer, told Business Insider last week.
Tanium
Endpoint security company Tanium last raised money in 2015. In 2016, VMware announced TrustPoint, a product that packages up Tanium’s software.
Thumbtack
A company that specializes in helping people find the right professionals for specific jobs, Thumbtack last announced funding in 2015, at a valuation of $1.3 billion, according to the New York Times. Shortly thereafter, it hired its first chief financial officer. Investors include Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital.
Uber
The app-enabled cab service has raised at least $12.46 billion in funding, according to CB Insights data, and its valuation of $68 billion, per the Wall Street Journal, is higher than that of any other unicorn. Its balance sheet exceeds $11 billion, and among its investors is the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.
Unity Technologies
Provider of a popular gaming engine, Unity announced a $181 million funding round in July. Investors include DFJ Growth, Sequoia Capital, and Thrive Capital. Unity says 770 million people play games made with its engine.


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Question: Real Estate Forgot To Take A Summer Vacation

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by Ethan Rothstein
In commercial real estate, August is traditionally the slow season when business drags on as people come and go from the office to the beach, mountains or some foreign country for a family vacation. But this summer is marching to the beat of its own drum. With the first two weeks of August complete, nothing has slowed down, and the market is as active as ever.
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Bisnow asked more than a dozen brokers across the country, from Boston to Los Angeles, and the responses were near-unanimous: August has been busy, and not just busier than previous years, but busier than the winter and spring.
In New York City, the office market had a sluggish start to 2017, with leasing volume, absorption and sales volume all down from the year before.
This was not the case in the last three weeks, during which time five leases were signed for more than 500K SF and several expansion deals have been completed.
Last Tuesday, Travel Leaders Group, a merged entity of Tzell Travel Group and Protravel International, took down 106K SF at 1633 Broadway. Colliers International Vice Chairman Bob Tunis said the framework of the deal was approved in May, but the fact that it closed in August was a sign the market's timing has changed.
"There were vacations and absences and so on necessitated by the summer, and perhaps 15 years ago that would have precluded this being done before Labor Day," he said from his vacation close to New Paltz in Upstate New York. "I think it’s this weird thing called technology ... The ubiquity of our devices makes this stuff easier to handle."
A Slow Start To The Year
Following President Donald Trump's election, widespread uncertainty caused real estate transaction volume to slow. In the Bay Area, according to Transwestern, businesses have leased 2.4M SF of offices in the last 90 days compared to 700K SF in the first quarter. In New York, leasing in July was up 2.2% over the previous month and up 10% over July 2016, according to Colliers International. Deal volume has only accelerated in the weeks since then.
"It does feel that this August is much busier than most of the previous Augusts that I’ve been in the business," CBRE Senior Vice President Stuart Siegel said. "There was an anxiety level earlier in the year that has passed somewhat, and the new normal has taken over and tenants are no longer waiting to just sit back and wait and see what’s going to happen."
Bisnow Colliers International Executive Vice President Kitty Wallace, speaking at a Bisnow event
The same is holding true in Los Angeles, where firms thatfc stood pat while they waited for the new administration to take shape are making up for lost time, according to Colliers Executive Vice President Kitty Wallace.
"I think what happened is we have a calendar year, and people haven't done enough business, so they've got to get the business done," she said.
With Tech, You Can Run, But You Can't Hide
There are plenty of economic reasons to explain the summer surge, but 10 years ago, no matter how much pressure there would be to get a deal done, a vacation would get in the way. Siegel joked that nowadays, the only time brokers can get away with not responding to emails is if they are on a cruise. Even if they are in a foreign country, clients expect them to answer emails.
A confluence of technological ubiquity and the rise of the younger generation has shifted the dynamic completely, and not always for the best.
"More of us are plugged in 24/7. I was in Ogunquit, Maine, three weeks ago negotiating a lease with a national broker from the beach," Gerry-Lynn Darcy, senior vice president of New England-based Lupoli Cos., said in an email. "The younger generations (millennials) are used to immediate gratification. The younger working professionals are ready to make decisions quickly even if it means making a bad one."
Siegel said the deals he has made with younger people in decision-making roles tend to happen faster. During a transaction Siegel was handling on vacation, the tenant he represented offered to tour a space without him present, something that would have been unheard of when he first entered the industry 25 years ago, he said.
"Turnaround times on responses and customer connections are off the charts quick," said Hines Senior Managing Director John Heagy, who is based in Atlanta. "So quick sometimes that if I'm not looking at my email even between 9 and 11 o'clock at night, I'm missing out."
While Tunis said the abundance of summer activity occurring this year might be an anomaly because of the way the year began, no one expects to get their peaceful Augusts back next year.
"I was just in San Diego for a wedding for four days and I was handling five emergency deals that needed my attention," said Transwestern Senior Managing Director Ed Del Beccaro, based in Walnut Creek, California. "Summer doesn't exist for most people anymore."
Reporters Karen Jordan, Julie Littman, Jarred Schenke and Cameron Sperance contributed to this report.

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Question: Canadian Solar CEO seeks to take it private in cash deal, board considering

The Canadian Press
GUELPH, Ont. -- Canadian Solar Inc. of Guelph, Ont., has received a non-binding takeover offer from its chairman, Shawn (Xiaohua) Qu, who is also the company's CEO and president.
Qu is tentatively offering US$18.47 in cash for each share not already owned by him and his wife.
That's about seven per cent above Friday's closing price of US$17.25 on Nasdaq, when Canadian Solar was worth about US$1 billion.
Founded in 2001, Canadian Solar is one of the world's largest solar power equipment manufacturers and solar utility developers.

represent the article to find a fitting news title For instance, <<['This news article should be represented to find a fitting news title', 'They say opposites attract. But these days, maybe not so much.\nA growing number of singles are adding a clause to their online dating profiles telling either Trump haters or Trump supporters — depending on their political preference — that they need not apply.\n"This was like a deal breaker for me," says 50-year-old Elizabeth Jagosz from the Detroit area. "If you are Trump supporter, I\'m not even going to consider meeting you for coffee."\nIt\'s not just an issue of party politics, Jagosz says. It\'s about core values. Love, she says, cannot conquer all.\n"If you don\'t care about a person who says you can grab women by the pussy and that\'s OK — I don\'t wanna date you if you think that behavior\'s OK," Jagosz says. "If that\'s not a deal breaker for you, then you and I have nothing to talk about."\nAs another single put it in her profile, "Red hats need not apply."\nBut the people wearing those red hats — the ones stamped with "Make America Great Again" — have been feeling the same way.\nThis lack of desire from liberals and conservatives to date each other is what David Goss says prompted him to launch TrumpSingles.com.\n"Yeah, it\'s both ways," Goss says. "You know, like a liberal doesn\'t want to date a Nazi. And a republican doesn\'t want to date, well, a whiny snowflake, and that\'s what they\'re viewing each other as."\nTrumpSingles.com is a kind of safe space for Trump supporters who say they\'re sick of the "lefties" refusing to even give them a chance.\n"[The liberals] are just repeating this left echo chamber of \'Oh, you must be a racist; oh, you must be a homophobe; oh, you must be a misogynist,\' " Goss says. "They\'re judging the people based on who they voted for without actually getting to know them."\nHelen Fisher, the chief scientific adviser to the Internet dating website Match.com, says new research from the website shows both liberals and conservatives are moving away from the center of the political spectrum.\n"There\'s a real distinct difference that we\'re seeing today, and all singles are becoming more rigid in their views," she says.\nThe data also shows that singles are more likely now to shun those who are at the other end of the political spectrum. And liberals are more likely to spurn conservatives than the other way around.\n"I think it\'s very natural to the human animal to bring it into the idea of \'OK, you like this person, well, you must be like that person then,\' " Fisher says. "America is taking this very, very personally. No question about it."\nLooking back now, it seems almost unfathomable that even two opposing campaign advisers could cross the aisle and then actually walk down the aisle as James Carville and Mary Matalin did in 1993.\nAs Carville famously put it once, "You can love the sinner and hate the sin."\nThe couple says their secret to survival and harmony at home is simply agreeing to disagree.\nBut today, singles seem to be saying they just can\'t do that.\n"I mean, I wish I could just go out and tell everyone to knock it off and be cool with each other, but it\'s just not going to work that way," Goss says.\nHis Trump Singles dating site is up to 35,000 members. LiberalHearts.com, founded by Salvatore Prano, is up to nearly 50,000.\n"There\'s more activity now than ever," Prano says. "I knew liberals would only find comfort in each other\'s arms."\nBut there is one other option for lonely liberals. Single Joe Goldman founded MapleMatch.com, a dating site that helps Americans find Canadians "to save them from the unfathomable horror of a Trump presidency." Goldman became his own first client.\n"I can\'t tell you the sinking feeling I felt [after the election]," he says. "That\'s not the country I want to live in. So why not consider places that might be more in line with my values, like Canada."\nIt may be better than the alternative. According to the new Match.com survey, a growing number of liberals today are simply choosing to not date at all.']>>  to "['i found this news title. can you represent it to find an explanatory news article?!', 'When Dating In The Era Of Divisive Politics, Both Sides Stick To Themselves']"

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March 29 The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Wednesday:
** Exxon Mobil has agreed to sell its operated upstream business in Norway to private equity firm HitecVision and oil company Point Resources for an undisclosed sum, it said.
** Greece has agreed that its main power utility, Public Power Corp (PPC), will sell some coal-fired plants as part of bailout reforms, two sources close to the talks said.
** French drug maker Sanofi has hired advisers for the sale of its European generic drug business, several sources familiar with matter told Reuters, ahead of an auction process which is expected to start after the European summer.
** Chinese property developer and hotel operator Goldin Properties Holdings Ltd said Chairman Pan Sutong had offered about $1.5 billion to buy its outstanding shares and delist the company.
** Japan's government named six investment banks to serve as underwriters for the sale of additional shares in Japan Post Holdings Co, which is partly aimed at funding the rebuilding of areas hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
** Brokerage Cowen Group Inc's shares surged 19 percent on Wednesday after Chinese conglomerate CEFC China said it agreed to acquire a stake of about 20 percent in the U.S. company for $100 million.
** An attempted merger between the German and British stock exchanges was struck down by European regulators, formally ending a deal that unravelled in the wake of Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
** Russia's Sberbank hopes to complete the sale of its Ukrainian subsidiary in May or June, a source with the bank said.
** The chairman of Indian miner Vedanta Resources said he had no plans to buy assets in South Africa from Anglo American or push for a board seat after announcing plans to buy a 13 percent stake in the mining giant.
** Finland's Amer Sports, which makes Wilson tennis rackets and Salomon skis, will buy U.S. ski maker Armada for $4.1 million, the company said.
** Australian retail group Premier Investments Ltd said it had purchased a 10.8 percent stake in department store owner Myer Holdings Ltd, but added it had no plans to make a takeover offer at this time.
** U.S. private equity group TPG Capital is weighing whether to make a takeover offer for Australia's Fairfax Media Ltd as the target proceeds with plans to spin off its real estate classified advertising arm, The Australian Financial Review reported.
** Euronet Worldwide Inc ramped up its fight against China's Ant Financial Services Group in trying to acquire MoneyGram International Inc, urging the U.S. government to closely scrutinize the rival Chinese bid saying it raises "significant national security risks."
** U.S. private equity firm KKR & Co LP is preparing a potential consortium bid for Australia's Quintis Ltd backed by the sandalwood plantation group's managing director, a source said.
** Family-owned German vacuum pump maker Busch hopes its increased offer for rival Pfeiffer Vacuum will allow it to start constructive talks with management after a previous attempt was rebuffed. (Compiled by Laharee Chatterjee in Bengaluru)


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Question: Lost portrait of maid who became lady of castle goes on show

A forgotten portrait of a scullery maid who joined the gentry after marrying her master is to go on show for the first time.
Isobel Black married Colonel William Gordon (1736-1816) of Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire after giving birth to his son.
Black's husband''Colonel William Gordon, painted by Pompeo Batoni, is now on show in Amsterdam. PIC: NTS.
While the marriage legitimised their child, Ms Black was not fully accepted by high society and she remained an unpopular figure.
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The portrait of Black, painted by Aberdeen artist James Giles, will be displayed at Fyvie Castle this spring.
The piece was discovered last summer and will hang in the place of a portrait of her husband, which is on loan to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for an exhibition on Europe’s most powerful figures through time.
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Black is portrayed in a noticeably different style to her husband’s heroic and flamboyant pose. She is pictured in a domestic setting wearing the frilled indoor cap of a married woman and a large white cartwheel ruff.
Vikki Duncan, a curator with for the National Trust for Scotland, explained: “One of the most striking aspects about the painting of Belle Black is the very different way in which she is portrayed compared to her husband. Whereas Colonel Gordon is painted as the grand Roman hero in the prime of his life, she has been painted in late middle age.
“She is wearing an indoor cap, which was a modest necessity worn by matrons and spinsters of the time. She also wears a large cartwheel ruff, which had become fashionable again in an era which harked back to the romanticism of the Elizabethan period – then considered a golden age.
“William Gordon taking his housekeeper as his mistress wouldn’t have been terribly scandalous – it was not unusual at the time – but, by legitimising William Gordon of Fyvie, it was tantamount to saying that he was William Gordon’s son and heir.
Although he would never inherit his father’s estates, he did inherit Fyvie Castle and William Gordon was raised as a gentleman. He attended Eton, then the University of Cambridge, and was popular within society – unlike his mother.
Ms Duncan added: “This is the first time we will be displaying the portrait of Isobel Black at Fyvie Castle – we only re-discovered the painting at Mar Lodge last summer.
“It had been in storage for years and we then managed to work out who she was. When the portrait of Colonel Gordon returns from Amsterdam, we might look to re-unite the family, displaying them together in one room temporarily in what would be another first for the Trust.”

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)  The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday that text messaging a photo of one's genitals to another person is not indecent exposure under state law.
The court ruled found that to meet the definition of the Iowa law as written, such an offensive display must be done in the physical presence of the offended person.
"While we acknowledge that one can be offended by a sexually explicit image transmitted via text message, it is much easier to 'look away' from that image than it is to avoid an offensive in-person exposure," the court said.
Sending an unwanted photo of one's genitals to another adult who finds it offensive could still lead to a harassment charge, but that is a simple misdemeanor under Iowa law.
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The ruling dismisses an indecent exposure charge against a 55-year-old Jesup man who stalked a woman for months after meeting her at her workplace in 2014.
Jose Willfredo Lopez continued to contact the woman although she resisted him. She eventually agreed to meet him at restaurants for food and drinks several times but asked him to stop contacting her after rejecting his offers to meet at hotels.
She obtained a no-contact order in April 2015, after Lopez entered her home twice without her permission and persistently texted and called her. Two months later he texted to her a picture of his hand around his erect penis with the message "me in my glory" and said he would visit her at home in Independence on Aug. 1. She contacted the sheriff's department and a deputy arrested Lopez at her home peering through a window.
Lopez was charged with stalking and indecent exposure related to the text message photo. After conviction, a judge sentenced him to up to five years in prison for stalking. On the exposure charge he was given a year in jail and was required to serve 10 years of parole or work release, at the discretion of the Iowa Department of Corrections, after his release from custody. Since the court ordered the indecent exposure charge dismissed, he will not serve the sentences for that offense.
Iowa Department of Corrections records show he's in prison for the stalking conviction with eligibility for release as early as this spring.
Lopez appealed his conviction saying his attorney inadequately represented him by failing to challenge the indecent exposure conviction. The court agreed and considered the case, saying it has never before addressed whether indecent exposure can apply to electronic communication.
The court concluded that if the Iowa Legislature intended electronic images to fall under the indecent exposure statute it would have said so.
The justices specified that their ruling applies only to the electronic transmission of still images and does not address video transmission through programs like Skype and FaceTime.
A spokesman for the Iowa Attorney General's office said it wasn't immediately clear how many other similar cases may be affected by the ruling and it will likely change the way future indecent exposure cases like this are prosecuted.
The state appellate defender representing Lopez and prosecutors in the Buchanan County attorney's office did not immediately respond to messages. The spokesman for the attorney general declined to comment on the record.
States vary in their application of indecent exposure laws.
The Missouri Court of Appeals in 2004 concluded that indecent exposure can be committed through transmission of an electronic image the Montana Legislature in 2015 updated that state's indecent exposure law to include electronic transmission of images.
The Maine Supreme Court found in October that a man who sent five teen-age girls images of his genitals could not be convicted of indecent conduct.

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Having sex with a 16-year-old in Indiana is legal but sending one nude photos isn’t, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled this week.
The court’s unanimous 5-0 ruling means that Sameer Thakar, a former teacher at North Central High School, will go on trial for allegedly sending a 16-year-old girl from Oregon a nude image of himself in 2014, The Indianapolis Star reported. If convicted, he could serve three years behind bars.
Thakar allegedly sent the photo to the girl after they discussed her age, and she told him she wished she were 18. He later confessed to police that he had a problem with chatting online.
Thakar’s charge — a felony count of disseminating matter harmful materials to a minor — was originally dismissed last year on the basis that the state’s dissemination statute was vague because the age of consent for sex in Indiana is 16, the paper reported. While an appeals court upheld the dismissal, the state’s top court disagreed.
The Supreme Court judges acknowledged that while the laws may seem inconsistent, there’s no conflict between them because it’s still possible to follow both simultaneously.
“The Dissemination Statute clearly protects minors under the age of 18 from the dissemination of matter harmful to them,” Justice Mark S. Massa wrote in the court’s decision.
“Whether this inconsistent statutory treatment of minors aged 16 and 17 is advisable with respect to sexually-related activity is a matter for the legislature, and whether Thakar’s alleged conduct violated the Dissemination Statute is a matter for the jury.”
Attempts by Democratic lawmakers Sen. Frank Mrvan and state Rep. Linda Lawson to raise the age of consent to 18 in Indiana failed.


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Bangalore, India May 30, 2018: PROLIM Global Corporation is pleased to announce the addition of Aaditya Vidyarthi as Head of APAC and Europe. He is responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of PROLIM’s business in these two key geographies, effective immediately.
Aaditya joins PROLIM from Siemens PLM Software, where he was responsible for mid-market sales of the Siemens PLM Software portfolio. He played a key role in transforming and expanding PLM solutions for the mid-market industries, including automotive, industrial machinery, etc. Prior to Siemens PLM, Aaditya held several sales leadership positions at Dassault Systems, Accelrys India, IBM, and HCL Systems.
Aaditya is experienced in several technology domains, including CAD, CAM, Cloud computing, ALM, PLM, and ERP. He has led large consulting engagements.
Aaditya is an accomplished business leader, motivator, and mentor in Multinational PLM and IT Organizations in India. He is an expert in challenger sales, enterprise consultative sales, business conversations, resource optimization, value creation, and competitive differentiation. Aaditya’s professional success is strongly based in his unique formula: “Never lost a Competitive Opportunity, never won it on the Price.” He strongly believes in bringing a unique insight to a business opportunity, based on competitive differentiators.
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['This news article should be represented to find a fitting news title', '· Says it is a show of confidence in the economy · We are going to use this money to unlock the potential in this economy- Finance Minister · “Nobody can hide our smiles”, says RCC MD on behalf of Contractors\nMinister of Power Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN, Thursday received the cheque of N100Billion proceeds of the just concluded Investments Certificates (SUKUK) for Road Infrastructure across the country commending investors for their demonstration of confidence in the nation’s economy.\nAt the brief but colourful presentation ceremony at the Conference Room of the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Abuja, Fashola also charged contractors working on the roads being financed with the SUKUK proceeds to reciprocate the gesture of the Federal Government which, according to him, has worked assiduously to ensure that funds were raised to pay them.\nRecalling his meeting recently with the contractors where he promised that the roads would be appropriately financed, the Minister declared, “For me, I would only ask you to reciprocate the kind gesture”, adding that a lot of efforts and collaboration were put into the project to make it successful.\nHe thanked the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeoshun, the Debt Management Office (DMO), other agencies and individuals who worked to make the programme successful as well as all the investors in the SUKUK for showing confidence, “not only in the instrument but also in the Nigerian economy”.\nIn her remarks before the presentation, the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, who described the SUKUK as yet another demonstration of the present administration’s readiness to embrace new developments in the financial sector, said Nigeria was not the only nation that has embraced such financial window adding that South Africa and Britain had also used the SUKUK window.\nThe Minister, who expressed gratitude to all the investors in the Investment Certificates, which, according to her, was oversubscribed by N5.6Billion, said it showed the level of confidence and readiness of Nigerians to invest in the building of the nation.\nThanking the Minister of Power, Works and Housing for identifying the road projects covered by the SUKUK, which she described as critical to the economy of the country, Adeosun, who said the SUKUK programme was “all about inclusion”, added that the investment would unlock the potential in the nation’s economy.\nAlso in her remarks, after the presentation, the Managing Director of Lotus Capital, one of the Financial Advisers of the SUKUK project, Mrs. Hajara Adeola, expressed joy that the Fund was tied to specific projects adding that the Road Show carried out for the Fund showed the level of interest Nigerians have for the building of their country.\nAlso, the Deputy Managing Director of FBN Merchant Bank Limited, another Financial Adviser, Mr Taiwo Okeowo, commended the Federal Government for its commitment to the rebuilding of Nigeria thanking particularly the Minister of Power, Works and Housing for his untiring efforts to boost the confidence of investors.\nRecalling that the Group was also chosen a few years back to participate in a similar fund raising programme, Okeowo expressed the appreciation of the government in reposing such confidence in his organisation pledging the readiness of the Group to contribute its might in future events for the country.\nThe Director General of the Debt Management Office, Ms. Patience Oniha, in her remarks, expressed joy that the SUKUK project had reached the stage of cheque presentation adding that apart from its numerous benefits, the SUKUK project had shown what teamwork could do in the effort to rebuild the country.\nSpeaking on behalf of the contractors, the Managing Director of Reynolds Construction Company (Nigeria) Limited (RCC), Engr. Moussa Nakhla, commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Government for the efforts in the rebuilding of the nation’s infrastructure expressing joy that the administration has not belied the trust reposed in them by the contractors.\nThanking the Minister of Power, Works and Housing and the Minister of Finance for the confidence they continued to repose in the contractors, with assurances of payment, the Managing Director declared, “Nobody can hide our smile”, adding that the road to the present had not been easy.\nThe N100Billion SUKUK proceeds are to be shared equally to the six geopolitical zones with each zone getting N16.67Billion for the selected road projects in the zones while the road projects covered by the Fund, include five in the North Central, four in the North East, two in the North West, four in the South East, five in the South West and five in the South-South.\nAccording to the Director Highways, Planning and Development in the Ministry, Engr. Chukwunike Uzo, roads under the SUKUK in the North Central include the Construction of Loko-Oweto Bridge, Dualisation of Abuja-Lokoja Road, sections 1 and 4, Dualisation of Suleja-Minna Road phase 2 and the Dualisation of Lokoja-Benin Road section 1.\nIn the North East Zone, the four projects include the Dualisation of Kano-Maiduguri Road sections 2,3, 4 and 5 while the four projects in the North West include Dualisation of Kano-Maiduguri Road Section 1, Dualization of Kano-Katsina Road Phase 1, Construction of Kano Western Bypass and the construction of Kzduna Eastern Bypass.\nIn the South East, the four roads to benefit from the SUKUK fund include the rehabilitation of Onitsha-Enugu Expressway and the rehabilitation of Enugu-Port Harcourt Road sections 1, 2 and 3 while in the South-South the five projects include rehabilitation of Enugu-Port Harcourt Road section 4, Dualisation of Yenegoa to Otoeke-Bayelsa Palm Road and Dualisation of Lokoja-Benin Road sections 2,3 and 4.\nFor the South-West, the three projects covered include reconstruction of Benin-Ofosu-Ore-Ajebandele-Shagamu Dual-carriageway phase 3 and 4 and the Dualisation of Ibadan-Ilorin Road section 2.\nAlso present at the occasion were, the Ministers of State of Power, Works and Housing, Hon. Mustapha Baba Shehuri and Surveyor Suleiman Zarma Hassan, Permanent Secretary, Works and Housing, Directors, Special Advisers and other top officials of the Ministry and the Ministry of Finance while on the contractors’ side were Managing Directors of Reynolds Construction (Nigeria) Limited, CCECC, Arab Contractors, CGC and Mothercat among others.'] == ['Represent the title to find an explanatory news article', 'Fashola Commends Investors In Sukuk As Finance Minister Presents Cheque']

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates signaled its desire to strengthen ties with Iraq during weekend talks with influential Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr as part of efforts by Sunni nations of the Middle East to halt Iran's growing regional influence.
Sadr met Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi and deputy commander of the UAE armed forces on Sunday in Abu Dhabi, according to a senior aide of the cleric.
Sadr also discussed ways of improving understanding between the Sunni and Shi'ite branches of Islam, at a meeting on Monday with a prominent Sunni cleric in Abu Dhabi.
The UAE is among Sunni nations which feel threatened by Iran's increased power in the region, often projected through allied Shi'ite groups in Iraq and Lebanon.
"The two sides emphasized the importance to act in true Islamic spirit and reject violence and extremist thought," Sadr's office in Baghdad said in a statement on his website on Monday, reporting on his meeting with Emirati cleric Ahmed al-Kubaisi.
Closer ties with Sadr, who commands a large following among the urban poor of Baghdad and southern Iraq, would help Sunni states loosen Tehran's grip over Iraq's Shi'ite community and contain its influence.
The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain severed relations with Qatar on June 5, accusing the major gas-exporting Gulf state of financing terrorism, meddling in the affairs of Arab countries and cozying up to their arch-rival Iran.
Sadr is one of few Iraqi Shi'ite leaders to keep some distance from Iran. In April, he became the first Iraqi Shi'ite leader to call on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, marking his difference with Iran and Iranian-backed Iraqi militias backing the Syrian government.
"Experience has taught us to always call for what brings Arabs and Muslims together, and to reject the advocates of division," the Abu Dhabi crown prince told Sadr, according to report on the Emirati state-run news agency WAM.
The Iraqi cleric's trip to Abu Dhabi comes two weeks after a visit to Saudi Arabia, where he met crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman..
Sadr's office said his meeting with Mohammed bin Salman at the end of July resulted in an agreement to study possible investments in Shi'ite regions of southern Iraq.
The Saudis will consider the possibility of opening a consulate in Iraq's holy Shi'ite city of Najaf, it said.
Sadr also announced a Saudi decision to donate $10 million to help Iraqis displaced by the war on Islamic State in Iraq, to be paid to the Iraqi government.
Baghdad and Riyadh had announced in June they would set up a coordination council to upgrade ties, as part of an attempt to heal troubled relations between the Arab neighbors.
Saudi Arabia reopened its embassy in Baghdad in 2015 following a 25-year break, and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir made a rare visit to Baghdad in February.
(Additional reporting by Ahmed Rasheed in Baghdad; Editing by Richard Balmforth)

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Aoun’s visit to Egypt is the first for the former army commander in 55 years. He was elected after a 29-month vacuum in Lebanon’s top post. He met with Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah Al Sissi who is, like him, a career military officer. Aoun was scheduled to address the Arab League later during his one-day visit.
In a news conference, Aoun said that he discussed with Al Sissi regional issues and called upon Egypt to lead an “Arab salvation plan” to combat terrorism in the Arab world. He also extended an invitation to Al Sissi to visit Lebanon. Lebanon’s political factions are deeply divided with some, like Aoun’s party and Hezbollah, aligning with Iran, while their opponents are siding with Saudi Arabia. Hezbollah, which represents much of Lebanon’s large Shiite community, has a military capability rivaling that of the country’s army and police. Aoun, whose Christian party is allied with Hezbollah, said earlier that Iran’s support for the group “could continue indefinitely.” “As long as the Lebanese army is not strong enough to battle Israel ... we feel the need for its existence,” Aoun told the Egyptian TV network CBC on Sunday night, alluding to Hezbollah. He added: “It has a complementary role to the Lebanese army.” His remarks could spark tension with Saudi Arabia which has been engaged in proxy wars with Iran across the region for years. Aoun’s visit to Egypt also comes amid a lingering rift between Egypt and Saudi Arabia over conflicting agendas, including Syria and Yemen. In October, the Saudis halted oil shipments to Egypt at a time when the Arab world’s most populous nation was undergoing an economic crisis. The Saudi move appears to have been taken in response to Egypt’s support of a UN Security Council resolution on Syria that was fiercely opposed by Riyadh. Saudi Arabia is a leading supporter of the rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Al Assad. Egypt has pushed for a political solution that might keep him in power. Meanwhile, Egypt has been reluctant to heavily support Saudi’s campaign in Yemen against Iran-backed Al Houthi rebels, which Saudis accuse of acting as an Iranian proxy in the Arab world’s poorest nation. More from Lebanon Arab unity urged to guard Jerusalem’s diversity
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