Question: Lawsuit: Dude ranch owner asked chef for 'black people food'

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Fordjour, a Morehouse, Hunter College and Harvard graduate born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, creates installments at the intersection of race, sports, and the “economic, political and psychosocial implications of games.”\nFordjour always knew he was an artist. “I don’t think it was realization,” he said. “I think I was just an artist … all kids are artists. I just started … and I just never stopped. Art is the first language for kids, but [most] of us kind of adapt, or move away from it. I just kind of kept going.”\nAt Fordjour’s Brooklyn studio, one piece stands out: acrylic, oil pastel, charcoal on newspaper, mounted on a 30-inch by 24-inch canvas. The piece is prideful. It presents the head and shoulders of a black athlete in a striped jersey. The colors peek from behind shadows and strong, textured diamond shapes. The work reeks of the often unsettled place of black athletes in pro sports, a space complicated by fame, money and sometimes false narratives. Fordjour is recipient of the C12 Emerging Artist Award 2017 has had his work featured in exhibitions at Roberts & Tilton Gallery in Los Angeles, New York City’s Sotheby’s S2 Gallery, and Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy.\nHis interest in dissecting race in sports takes over a large space in his studio, which is in the DUMBO area of Brooklyn. He says he is a Los Angeles Lakers fan, from as far back as the Showtime Lakers/Magic Johnson era. “In sports … there’s a lot of preparation and skill, but there’s also luck,” said Fordjour. “Playing the game in the right place matters. If I were [making art] in some far out, distant city, it wouldn’t have the same resonance as it does in New York. I see those parallels, I see [sports] as … entertainment as well, and these works really are about that.”\n“Growing up, I heard in a speech once — ‘If I have to run 10 yards for a first down and you have to run three, it don’t matter how hard I play.’ ”\nHe says that art and sports occupy similar positions in society — because there’s no utility to either of them. “The outcome of a game,” he said, “or when I complete a piece, it doesn’t really fundamentally change the lives of many people … materially anyway … but it has social value.”\nHe said that some of what happens when he works is he takes “the story” and then tries to internalize a lot of it. “One of the reasons why … surfaces are really worn the way they are is because coming from Memphis, I grew up getting things that were worn a lot — freshly used. I had a big brother, my parents were immigrants … [so also] seeing our [used] clothes go to Ghana. Those cycles, the things we have worn … is a lot about what [my] surfaces are about.”\nMany times, he starts by laying down a base of cardboard. “Then I do a second layer,” he said, “where I actually paint the image, and then I use registration, which is like transparencies, these clear things, to mark where it is. I have these marks that will help me position the image on the top layer, and then I kind of tear through. I will do another image. I can almost tear it and then just pull that middle layer if I wanted, or go all the way back to the bottom layer. They’re really three paintings on top of each other, and then I just kind of tear in between. I don’t even know how I thought of it, I think it just happens. You’re making things … you just keep making them.”\nFordjour’s PARADE opened on July 27 and runs through Jan. 14, 2018, is a bold indicator that art still thrives in Sugar Hill. The installation is backed by carnival music — a nostalgic journey that places visitors back to their own childhoods while giving them a glimpse into Fordjour’s own youthful obsessions. There’s a brick-paved tunnel complete with flashing lights and shiny floors. Lighted archways lead to a kind of fun house, with each step visitors move into a new creative space. Unlike regular parades, where the crowd gathers to view the fun passing by, in PARADE visitors walk through the exhibit and enjoy the pieces.\nThe walls are lined with newspaper, with masks and statues, serving as the backdrop of pieces representing Fordjour’s Ghanaian heritage.\nThe walls are lined with newspaper, with masks and statues, serving as the backdrop of pieces representing Fordjour’s Ghanaian heritage. Throughout are what the artist refers to as “works on paper” and the museum describes as ” … his signature and highly textured collages … vignettes, small sculptures, found objects, and interventions.” There is even a small mounted Ferris wheel, a food cart, and a ceiling of blue skies. Sneakers hang from a utility line.\n“A touch of urbanity,” Fordjour said. “Certain kind of symbols, monikers, they locate an experience, and I wanted that kind of specificity. There are certain neighborhoods you don’t see that in.”\nNear the end of PARADE visitors enter a closet that houses coats, hats, shirts and shoes. It turns out he got them from a museum staffer. They were items she’d had stored after a breakup with an ex.\nFordjour is curious: “But did you go through it?” He believes it’s a becomes kind of a litmus test, particularly for adults, about risk-taking. “Some people turn around,” he said of the people who don’t push through and back, and see what’s there, “and go all the way back out.”\nFordjour uses material that methodically disseminates layers of texture, which intensifies as the pieces hit the surface. The end result? Astonishing, thought-provoking art.\n“We want fairness,” he said. “Societal fairness. Growing up, I heard in a speech once — ‘If I have to run 10 yards for a first down and you have to run three, it don’t matter how hard I play.’ Some of my work is about that inequality. That’s what it comes down to. If you look at health care, if you look at the history of housing, if you look at the history of banking, if you look at education, the disparities across all … are a lot greater than we realize. 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Madeleine Pickens, pictured, who recently divorced Texas oil tycoon T.Boone Pickens, is accused of telling former chef Armand Appling not to serve 'white people food' at her Mustang Wild Horse Eco-Resort in Nevada
The ex-wife of a billionaire told a chef to cook her guests 'black people food' at her $2,000 a night ranch and horse sanctuary, court paper have revealed.
Madeleine Pickens, who recently divorced Texas oil tycoon T.Boone Pickens, is accused of telling former chef Armand Appling not to serve 'white people food' at her Mustang Wild Horse Eco-Resort in Nevada.
Appling claims he was fired in 2014 for complaining about working in a hostile work environment and has now filed a federal lawsuit accusing her of racial discrimination.
He accuses the wealthy philanthropist of telling him fried chicken, BBQ ribs and corn bread would be the perfect meal for the tourists who pay more than $2,000 per night to stay at the plush resort.
He says Pickens' stereotypical references were commonplace at the Elko County ranch in Nevada, close to the border with Utah.
Appling, who is African American, also alleges that Pickens, who is white, instructed him to terminate two other black kitchen staffers — one she referred to as her 'bull' or 'ox' and another who had 'too much personality.'
He says she told him they didn't 'look like people we have working at the country club' and didn't 'fit the image' of the staff she wanted at the ranch.
However, Pickens' lawyers argue that even if all the allegations are true, none of her comments were racially motivated.
At worst, Pickens' remarks 'reflect a non-racial personality conflict and amount to discourtesy, rudeness or lack of sensitivity,' they wrote in recent court filings.
Pickens' lawyers argue that even if all the allegations are true, none of her comments were racially motivated
U.S. District Judge Miranda Du said during a hearing in Reno last week that Appling's lawyers have failed so far to prove the sort of racial hostility needed to win such a civil rights claim.
She dismissed the original lawsuit that was filed in February but gave them until January 13 to refile an amended complaint seeking unspecified damages from Pickens' nonprofit, Save America's Mustangs.
'It takes a lot to prove these allegations,' Du told California attorney Willie Williams on Thursday.
Du agreed with Pickens' lawyer, Dora Lane of Reno, that the only comment that specifically referred to race was the reference to 'black people food.'
Lane said categorizing foods by ethnicity is commonplace in the restaurant industry. Some restaurants serve Mexican food, others Chinese or Thai food, she said.
Pickens, right, pictured with her former husband T. Boone Pickens, a Oklahoma energy tycoon
'The suggestion that such categorizations are inherently offensive is nonsense,' Lane argued in earlier court documents.
'This is especially true here, given that Pickens' alleged comments actually reflect a preference for 'black people food' rather than a racial animas against 'black people' or 'black people food.''
Williams said Pickens' comments about the fired employees 'not fitting in' reinforces a long history of African-Americans not being allowed into elite, private-club settings.
He said: 'In many cases, the people fighting to keep African-Americans out of these private clubs would use code phrases like 'they do not fit the image.
He added the use of the words 'ox' and 'bull' implies ownership of property, given 'America's long history of slavery where they were considered personal property of their owners.'
Life under canvas: Guests at Mustang Monument owned by Madeleine Pickens can opt to sleep in a luxury tipi
Guests pay more than $2,000 a night to stay at the plush cottages inside the resort close to the Utah border
Lane argued it was a complimentary reference to physical strength and 'was not accompanied by any overtly racial slurs.'
'Indeed, Appling does not allege that he ever heard any overtly racial epithets, such as the 'N-word,'' she wrote in court documents.
But Williams told the judge last week the comments must be viewed in the context of racial stereotypes.
Du agreed that Lane's arguments focus on the 'plain meaning of words' while seemingly ignoring the context of comments made about 'African-Americans in history and stereotypes that could give rise to racial animas.'

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Question: EastEnders spoilers: Hannah Spearritt returns to BBC soap as Kandice

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The actress made her debut on EastEnders last year as the sister of Karen Taylor (played by Lorraine Stanley).
The star appeared in two episodes of the BBC soap in December 2018.
A spokesperson for EastEnders has now divulged to Metro.co.uk that the singer will be back for another run of episodes later in the year.
However, the details of the comeback are yet to be revealed.
Kandice is Karen’s well-to-do younger sister and the mother-of-six turned to her sibling when the family were having money troubles.

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This is the emotional moment which sees Max Branning wake up to a life which is about to change forever for several residents in EastEnders following the deaths of Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell.
Max was left alone by Roxy as she headed off with Ronnie in an episode which saw the Mitchell sisters die in tragic circumstances at the swimming pool. In tonight’s episode, he awakes to find that she has still not come back and, confused, he heads downstairs.
Only to find that the police are at the entrance at the hotel:
It’s the day after the tragic night before – and things are about to get emotional.
The episode airs on Monday 2nd January at 8pm on BBC One.
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Question: Tina Turner’s son dead at 59

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Tina Turner’s son Craig has died in California at just 59. Picture: Facebook
Tina Turner’s son Craig has died in California at just 59. Picture: Facebook
TINA Turner was seen attending a fashion show in Paris on Tuesday just hours before her son was found dead aged 59 after reportedly taking his own life.
Craig Raymond Turner, who is the singer's firstborn child, was found unresponsive at his home in Studio City, California, on Tuesday.
Police confirmed there were no suspicious circumstances and he was pronounced dead at the scene at 12.38pm local time (5.38am AEST), reports The Sun.
Tina Turner with her son Craig, pictured in the 1980s. Picture: Supplied
The Los Angeles County coroner's office assistant chief Ed Winter confirmed he had died by suicide, however a post-mortem examination is due to take place.
Just hours earlier, music icon Tina Turner, 78, was seen attending a Giorgio Armani show at the Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris.
She was just 18 when she had Craig with Raymond Hill - who played the saxophone for the band Kings of Rhythm.
Craig was adopted by her husband Ike Turner after their marriage in 1962 and gave him his name.
Ike and Tina Turner in Australia in 1975. Picture: Supplied
She also adopted Ike's two children from his first marriage - Ike Jnr, 59, and Michael, 58.
Turner has a son - 57-year-old Ronnie - with Ike.
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in May 2005, Tina Turner said Craig was "a very emotional kid" who had witnessed her being abused by Ike.
Tina Turner has spoken about how her children saw ex-husband Ike beat her. Picture: Supplied
She said: "They saw the black eyes. Ike's children never reacted, but my oldest son, Craig, was a very emotional kid. He'd always look down in sadness.
"One day when Ike was fighting me, Craig knocked on the door and said, 'Mother, are you all right?'
Tina Turner is a true legend of the music industry. Picture: Supplied
"I thought, 'Oh, please, don't beat me at home.' I didn't want my children to hear."
According to his Facebook page, Craig worked in real estate in Beverly Hills.
Tina Turner moved to Switzerland in 1994 before her second marriage to German music producer Erwin Bach five years ago.
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This story was originally published in The Sun and is reprinted with permission.

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Olympia beer’s Facebook page includes a photo of actor Clint Eastwood drinking a can of the beer. A new lawsuit questions where the brewery’s water comes from. Screen grab from Facebook

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Question: Nova Scotia punches ticket to Scotties Tournament of Hearts semifinal

Nine consecutive wins for Team Nova Scotia in Penticton at the South Okanagan Events Centre
Mascots kept the crowd entertained between ends at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Saturday at the South Okanagan Events Centre. Mark Brett/Western News
By Matthew Abrey
Special to the Penticton Western News
Mary-Anne Arsenault and her Nova Scotia rink just keep on winning at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Penticton.
The Dartmouth-based rink brought down Tracy Fleury and Team Northern Ontario by a 6-2 score, winning their staggering ninth match in a row, earning a berth in Sunday’s semifinal.
“It was so nice to put a really good game together,” said Arsenault, who has played in the Scotties 13 times. “I’m so proud of my girls. They played awesome and anytime we were in a little bit of trouble, (they) would make a double and we were back.”
Arsenault blanked the first three ends keeping the hammer for the fourth where she opened the scoring. She managed to expertly draw around the high-sitting guards with her final two stones to lay two, giving her Nova Scotia rink a 2-0 lead going into the fifth end.
Fleury earned one back in the fifth by picking and rolling across the inner blue rings to lay one, cutting Arsenault’s lead to 2-1.
Arsenault fired right back making a pair of tight draws into the inner rings through a cluttered upper house to lay three in the sixth end — extending her lead to 5-1.
Fleury blanked the seventh, then drew to the button in the eighth to cut into Arsenault’s lead. However, her Nova Scotia rink still found themselves down 5-2 heading into the ninth end.
The ninth end featured a jam-up heading into skips’ final shots. Fleury cleared the jam-up with her last stone of the end, but Arsenault hit and stuck her hammer shot to further pad her lead at 6-2.
The teams decided to play the 10th end, even though Arsenault had a sizeable lead, but did not play the entire length. They shook hands with four rocks remaining after Northern Ontario couldn’t keep enough stones in the house to justify finishing the end.
“We would have liked to have played better,” said Fleury, whose rink went 8-3 in tournament play. “But Nova Scotia played amazing and we just had some key misses. They played well and put a lot of pressure on us.”
Arsenault is now two wins away from giving Team Nova Scotia its first Scotties Tournament of Hearts national title in 14 years. Nova Scotia will play the loser of Saturday night’s Page Playoff, between Manitoba and Team Wild Card, in the semifinal at 9 a.m. at the South Okanagan Events Centre to determine who will move on to the final. The winner of the Saturday night 7 p.m. draw will move directly to the final, which takes place at 4 p.m. on Sunday.
The HeartStop Lounge, located at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre, will feature the final on one of their giant-screen TV’s on Sunday, the other will be playing the Super Bowl. Tickets are not required to take in the action at the HeartStop Lounge.
For ticket information for the rest of the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts draws, go to www.curling.ca/2018scotties/tickets/.
The 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts All-Star teams were also released, and are presented as follows:
1st Team:
Skip – Jennifer Jones
Third – Cary-Anne McTaggart
Second – Jill Officer – Manitoba
Lead – Dawn McEwen – Manitoba
2nd Team:
Skip – Tracy Fleury – Northern Ontario
Third – Shannon Birchard – Manitoba
Second – Jessie Scheidegger – Alberta
Lead – Ranoura Westcott – Team Canada
And at the fifth end break, Team Saskatchewan skip, Sherri Anderson, was presented with the Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award, which honours the player that most exemplified sportsmanship and dedication to curling throughout the tournament.
Third Crystal Webster of Team Northern Ontario looks for direction during Saturday’s first playoff game against Team Nova Scotia. Mark Brett/Western News Third Crystal Webster of Team Northern Ontario looks for direction during Saturday’s first playoff game against Team Nova Scotia. Mark Brett/Western News

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Score it one for the home side and one against to kick-start the Humpty’s Champions Cup at Calgary’s WinSport Arena.
Chelsea Carey topped Team Fujisawa, of Japan, 7-2 in Tuesday night’s first draw of the major event, the final stop of Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling. Calgary’s Carey stole two and three points respectively in the fourth and fifth ends to take the victory over the Olympic bronze medallists.
Meanwhile, on the men’s side, Kevin Koe of The Glencoe Club lost 6-3 to Jason Gunnlaugson, of Winnipeg. Steals of one in the second and sixth ends spelled the difference for the Gunnlaugson rink in a victory over the home side.
The other men’s game saw Saskatoon’s Colton Flasch roll up a 7-4 triumph over Marc Pfister, of Switzerland.
The other women’s winners on Night 1 were Players’ Championship victor Jamie Sinclair, of the U.S., and Scotland’s Eve Muirhead. Sinclair’s score of two in the seventh end and steal in the eight capped a rally to top Olympic gold medallist Anna Hasselborg, of Sweden, 4-3. Muirhead, meanwhile, took down Delia DeJong of Grande Prairie in an 8-2 blowout.
The best and brightest curling stars from around the globe are in Calgary for the six-day event. In fact, the who’s-who field is comprised of 15 men’s and 15 women’s teams who have claimed victory this season. The 30 teams will compete in a round-robin style bonspiel, contending for a combined $250,000 purse.
Round-robin action runs through to Friday with teams split into three pools, and the top eight overall qualifying for the weekend playoffs. Draws go at 8:30 a.m., noon, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Wednesday through Friday.
Among the feature matches of Wednesday’s early draw, Brad Jacobs, of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., faces Rich Ruohonen, of Seattle, and Edmonton’s Val Sweeting meets Winnipeg’s Kerri Einarson.


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Question: Michael Flynn Left The Trump White House This Week. Here's How That Happened

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The events leading to Michael Flynn's resignation as national security adviser accelerated this week, with constant new updates about what he said, to whom and when. But the path to that step has been unfolding since at least last summer. Here's a timeline of key events that eventually led to the resignation of a top presidential adviser less than one month into the Trump administration.
June through November 2016
Early in the summer, the Washington Post reports that hackers in the Russian government have breached the Democratic National Committee. Sources from the DNC and security experts tell the Post that the hackers had access to opposition research on Trump, as well as internal emails and chats.
In late July, WikiLeaks posts a searchable database of more than 19,000 emails stolen from the DNC computer servers. Compromising information in the emails leads to the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz as DNC chair.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, eggs the Russians on.
"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," he says.
Trump repeatedly downplays the hacks in the coming months, saying in a debate that China or "somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds" could have been behind the breaches. Days after the U.S. intelligence community says it's "confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails," Trump dismisses concerns about the breach.
"You ever notice anything that goes wrong, they blame Russia? 'Russia did it.' They have no idea," he says in a speech.
Nov. 8, 2016
Donald Trump wins the presidential election.
Nov. 18, 2016
President-elect Trump announces that Flynn will be his national security adviser. Flynn, it is later reported, had been in contact with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak before the election.
Dec. 9, 2016
Then-President Obama orders a "full review" of digital attacks aimed at influencing U.S. elections, going back to 2008.
The Washington Post reports that the CIA has determined that the Russian government was seeking to help Trump win the election.
The Trump transition office issues a statement:
"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," the statement says. "The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. [Note: This is incorrect.] It's now time to move on and 'Make America Great Again.' "
Dec. 12, 2016
Trump tweets: "Unless you catch 'hackers' in the act, it is very hard to determine who was doing the hacking. Why wasn't this brought up before election?"
Dec. 15, 2016
Trump tweets, "If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?"
Secretary of State John Kerry says on CNN that then-President Obama did issue a warning about Russian hacking, but he also "had to be obviously sensitive to not being viewed as interfering on behalf of a candidate or against a candidate or in a way that promoted unrealistic assessments about what was happening."
Obama tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that the U.S. will strike back against Russia, one way or another, in response to that country's attempts to influence the U.S. election.
"I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections, that we need to take action," he says. "And we will — at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized; some of it may not be."
He added, "But Mr. Putin is well aware of my feelings about this, because I spoke to him directly about it."
Dec. 25, 2016
Flynn and Kislyak exchange text messages wishing each other happy holidays (per remarks later made by Sean Spicer on Jan. 13, 2017).
Dec. 29, 2016
Obama ejects 35 Russian diplomats from the United States and introduces new sanctions against Russia's Federal Security Service, the FSB; the country's main foreign intelligence agency, known as the GRU; along with four GRU officers and three companies that did business with GRU.
In addition, the Obama administration announces it will be closing down two compounds in the U.S. it says were "used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related purposes."
Dec. 29 is also when the conversations between Flynn and Kislyak regarding sanctions took place (this story would break on Jan. 12, 2017). According to a Washington Post story from Feb. 9, two officials "said that Flynn urged Russia not to overreact to the penalties being imposed by President Barack Obama, making clear that the two sides would be in position to review the matter after Trump was sworn in as president."
Jan. 6, 2017
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence releases a declassified report finding that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election and that a major part of that was the hacking of emails at the Democratic National Committee.
"Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him," the report says. The authors added that "Russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process."
Trump meets with intelligence officials for a briefing on the report's contents. Afterward, he releases a statement lumping Russia in with China and "other countries" and insisting that the hacking had "absolutely no effect" on the election's outcome:
"While Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democrat National Committee, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines."
However, as then-Intelligence Director James Clapper had told John McCain just one day earlier, it's impossible to know the impact: "Certainly the intelligence community can't gauge the impact that it had on choices that the electorate made. There is no way for us to gauge that."
Jan. 10, 2017
Then-Attorney General nominee (and Alabama Sen.) Jeff Sessions says in his confirmation hearing that he "has no reason to doubt" the report's conclusions tying Putin to the DNC hack.
Jan. 11, 2017
In his confirmation hearing, then-Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson acknowledges that he thinks it's "a fair assumption" that Putin had knowledge of the plot to influence the U.S. election. He also adds that the intelligence report on Russian hacking "clearly is troubling."
Jan. 12, 2017
The Washington Post's David Ignatius reports that "a senior U.S. government official, Flynn phoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on Dec. 29," the same day that the Obama administration announced the new sanctions and removal of Russian diplomats.
Jan. 13, 2017
White House press secretary Sean Spicer says that a conversation took place between Flynn and Kislyak, but that the conversation was on Dec. 28, and that it wasn't about sanctions.
He says that Kislyak texted Flynn on the 28th, asking if he could give Flynn a call. Kislyak then called that day, and according to Spicer, "the call centered around the logistics of setting up a call with the president of Russia and the president-elect after he was sworn in, and they exchanged logistical information on how to initiate and schedule that call. That was it, plain and simple."
This proves to be untrue, as two Trump transition officials confirm to NPR that a call took place on Dec. 29.
Jan. 15, 2017
Officials from the Justice Department and intelligence agencies discuss "whether the incoming Trump White House should be notified about the contents of the Flynn-Kislyak communications," as the Washington Post has reported.
Later that day, on CBS's Face the Nation, Vice President Pence says the conversations between Flynn and Kislyak had nothing to do with sanctions.
"What I can confirm, having spoken to him about it, is that those conversations that happened to occur around the time that the United States took action to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions," Pence said.
Upon further questioning from John Dickerson, Pence added, "I don't believe there were more conversations" as well as "I can confirm those elements were not a part of that discussion."
After the Pence interview, the Post reports, the Justice and intelligence officials thought the issue was "more urgent ... because U.S. intelligence agencies had reason to believe that Russia was aware that Flynn and Kislyak had discussed sanctions in their December call, contrary to public statements."
Jan. 19, 2017
According to the Washington Post, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, DNI James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan discuss whom in the administration should be briefed on the Flynn-Kislyak communications.
Jan. 26, 2017
The Justice Department notifies the White House counsel of discrepancies between what Flynn and Pence had claimed about the phone call between Flynn and Kislyak, as Spicer later reports at a Feb. 14 White House press briefing.
Feb. 8, 2017
In an interview, Flynn twice denies having discussed sanctions with Kislyak, according to the Washington Post.
Feb. 9, 2017
A Flynn spokesman says that the retired lieutenant general "indicated that while he had no recollection of discussing sanctions, he couldn't be certain that the topic never came up," according to the Post.
This is also the day Pence "became aware of the incomplete information he'd received ... based on media accounts," according to Pence press secretary Marc Lotter, who spoke to reporters on Feb. 14.
Feb. 13, 2017
Kellyanne Conway tells MSNBC that Flynn "does enjoy the full confidence of the president."
Later in the day, Spicer says that Trump is "evaluating the situation" regarding Flynn.
That night, Flynn resigns as national security adviser. In a statement, he admits accidental wrongdoing:
"Unfortunately, because of the fast pace of events, I inadvertently briefed the Vice President Elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian Ambassador. I have sincerely apologized to the President and the Vice President, and they have accepted my apology."
The White House announces that retired Lt. Gen. Joseph Keith Kellogg Jr. will be acting national security adviser.
Feb. 14, 2017
Spicer says that 17 days prior, White House Counsel Donald McGahn had told the president that Flynn had been wrong when he told Pence he hadn't discussed sanctions with Kislyak, as reported by the New York Times.
At a press briefing, Spicer says of the resignation, "We got to a point not based on a legal issue, but based on a trust issue," adding that Trump was "concerned that Gen. Flynn had misled the vice president and others."
Politico reports that there's still more to come on the Flynn story, according to the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee:
"Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told House Democrats Tuesday that the recent revelations about former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn's conversations with the Russians are only the beginning, and more information will surface in the coming days, according to multiple sources in a closed party meeting."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicates that the Senate Intelligence Committee will investigate Flynn's contacts with Russian officials, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., a member of the intelligence committee, says Flynn should meet with the committee "very soon."
With reporting from Barbara Van Woerkom

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PARIS (AP) -- French police said an 8-year-old girl was killed and at least five people were injured when a driver slammed his car into the sidewalk cafe of a pizza restaurant in a small town east of Paris.
An official with the national gendarme service said the driver was arrested soon after the incident Monday night in the town of Sept-Sorts.
The official said it is unclear whether the act was deliberate. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to police policy.
An Algerian man drove his car into a group of French soldiers last week, and a truck attack in the French city of Nice left 86 people dead a little more than a year ago. Several other countries have seen cars used as weapons in recent years.
France (AP) - JUST IN: One girl is dead and at least five people are injured after a driver rammed into patrons at a pizza restaurant, located east of Paris.
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Question: Cosby jury to decide: Serial rapist or con artist’s mark

Bill Cosby is at the courthouse Tuesday morning ahead of closing arguments in his sexual assault retrial.
Accompanied for the first time by his wife of more than 50 years, Bill Cosby walked into a courthouse Tuesday morning ahead of closing arguments in his sexual assault retrial.
Camille Cosby had been absent from the courtroom as prosecutors called a series of women to the stand who testified her husband drugged and sexually assaulted them, but she was by his side Tuesday for the trial’s conclusion.
The jury that will start deliberating Cosby’s fate has heard the comedian described over the past two weeks both as a “serial rapist” and a con artist’s victim.
They have seen a half-dozen accusers testify that the man once revered as “America’s Dad” had a sordid secret life that involved preying on women for his own sexual gratification. And they have heard from a witness who says his chief accuser talked about framing a high-profile person to score a big payday.
Now, seven men and five women who have been kept in a suburban Philadelphia hotel, away from family, friends and daily routines, will get to have their say in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
“You now have all of the evidence,” Judge Steven O’Neill told them after Cosby’s lawyers rested on Monday without calling the 80-year-old comedian to the stand. “Try to relax, so that you’re on your game tomorrow.”
Jurors could be in for a marathon.
Related: Topless protester charges at Bill Cosby as retrial begins
Before going off to deliberate, they will hear both sides rehash the case in lengthy closing arguments, and they will get O’Neill’s instructions in the law.
Cosby is charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault — all stemming from Toronto native Andrea Constand’s allegations that he knocked her out with three pills he called “your friends” and molested her at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in January 2004.
Each count carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
Cosby has said he gave Constand 1 1/2 tablets of the over-the-counter cold and allergy medicine Benadryl to help her relax before what he called a consensual sexual encounter.
The jury in Cosby’s first trial weighed the evidence for more than 52 hours over six days without reaching a verdict.
This time, both sides have given the retrial jury much more to consider.
Prosecutors were able to call five additional accusers who testified that Cosby also drugged and violated them — including one woman who asked him through her tears, “You remember, don’t you, Mr. Cosby?”
Cosby’s new defence team, led by Michael Jackson lawyer Tom Mesereau, countered with a far more robust effort at stoking doubts about Constand’s credibility and raising questions about whether Cosby’s arrest was even legal.
The defence’s star witness was a former colleague of Constand who says Constand spoke of levelling false sexual assault accusations against a high-profile person for the purpose of filing a civil suit. Constand got a civil settlement of nearly $3.4 million from Cosby.
Both juries also heard from Cosby himself — not on the witness stand, but via an explosive deposition he gave in 2005 and 2006 as part of Constand’s civil suit against him. In it, Cosby acknowledged he gave the sedative quaaludes to women before sex in the 1970s.
Cosby’s lawyers devoted the last two days of their case to travel records they say prove he could not have been at his suburban Philadelphia home in January 2004. They argue that any encounter there with Constand would have happened earlier, outside the statute of limitations.
Cosby’s private jet records and travel itineraries produced by Cosby’s lawyers do not show any flights in or out of the Philadelphia area in January 2004, but they have large gaps — a total of 17 days that month in which Cosby was not travelling, performing or taping TV appearances.
District Attorney Kevin Steele noted that the records do not account for other ways Cosby could have gotten to Philadelphia.
“You can’t tell us whether he got on a commercial flight,” Steele said, questioning a defence aviation expert. “You can’t tell us whether he got on a train. You can’t tell us whether he got in a car and drove to Philadelphia.”
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission, which Constand has done.
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Actor and comedian Bill Cosby arrives for the closing arguments in the retrial of his sexual assault case Norristown, Pennsylvania
A con man who exploited his fame as "America's Dad" to betray women's trust by drugging and sexually assaulting them, or a misguided married man hoodwinked by a money-grabbing, pathological liar?
The defense and prosecution delivered closing arguments at Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial Tuesday, before the jury later starts deliberations in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
The frail 80-year-old Cosby could spend the rest of his life behind bars if convicted of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand, then a Temple University employee, in January 2004.
The case has trashed the legacy of the actor once adored by millions for his role as lovable father and obstetrician Cliff Huxtable on the 1984-92 hit television series "The Cosby Show."
"The perpetrator of that con?" asked prosecutor Kristen Feden, turning on its head central the defense claim that Constand is a con-artist in dramatic and emotional closing remarks.
"That man!" she shouted, striding at speed toward and pointing at an impassive Cosby in the Norristown court, just outside Philadelphia.
Feden said Cosby used his fame to gain the trust of unsuspecting women, time and time again, deliberately drugging Constand so that she would be unable to resist his advances.
Camille Cosby, center, walks to the courtroom in Norristown, Pennsylvania, for closing arguments in her husband Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial
Five other accusers testified that Cosby was a serial rapist and predator who preyed on them in a similar manner.
"He's laughing like it's funny?" Feden shouted in Cosby's direction at one point, seemingly in response to his behavior.
"There's nothing funny about that Mr Cosby. And there's nothing funny about five different women, plus Ms Constand. Six. Being incapacitated."
Cosby claims he gave the Canadian Constand an over-the-counter antihistamine to relieve stress and that their relations were consensual.
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Actor and comedian Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille, arrive for the closing arguments in the retrial of his sexual assault case in Norristown, Pennsylvania
Constand says Cosby gave her three blue pills, saying they would help her relax but passed out. She woke up to find him penetrating her vagina with his fingers and that he made her masturbate his penis, she says.
The prosecutor said the case was about trust, betrayal and the inability to consent, tearing into the defense's "vicious" and "filthy" character assassination attempts against Cosby's accusers.
Cosby's high-flying defense team urged the jury to acquit their client on all three counts of aggravated indecent assault and save a "distinguished", legally blind, elderly man from "absolute ruin."
Cosby's wife of more than half a century, Camille, wearing an elegant orange coat and sunglasses, attended the defense closings, embracing him tenderly and beaming, but left during the lunch break.
"Mr. Cosby must be acquitted of all counts. He must walk out of here free," said defense lawyer Tom Mesereau, best known for getting the late Michael Jackson acquitted of child molestation.
"You're dealing with a pathological liar, members of the jury, you are," said Mesereau, who has called 45-year-old Constand a "con artist" who pursued a lonely, grieving father and falsely accused the star to bag a $3.38 million civil settlement in 2006 to escape debt.
In a case which essentially boils down to she-said, he-said, Mesereau drilled into what he called 12 "lies" uttered by Constand and called the 2006 settlement "one of the biggest highway robberies of all time."
Cosby's first trial in Norristown, a Philadelphia suburb, ended in a hung jury in June, with a sequestered panel hopelessly deadlocked after six days of testimony and 52 hours of deliberations.
This time they have more testimony to consider.
The defense star witness is Marguerite Jackson, an educated adviser who worked at Temple University for decades, who claimed that Constand spoke of wanting to set up a celebrity for cash.
They have presented phone and travel records to suggest that Cosby was not in Philadelphia to carry out the alleged assault in January 2004.
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Tom Mesereau, center, attorney for Bill Cosby, arrives at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, for final arguments in the sexual assault trial of the actor and comedian
Experts have disagreed on whether or not Constand's side-effects were consistent with either the over-the-counter antihistamine nor Quaaludes, a 1970s party drug that Cosby admitted during a 2006 deposition that he had obtained with a view to having sex.
Former federal prosecutor Kathleen Bliss sought to neuter any influence that the cultural watershed of the #MeToo movement may exert.
"Mob rule is not due process," said Bliss, referencing witch hunts, lynchings and McCarthyism as "horrible periods of time where emotion and hatred and fear overwhelm us."
"There isn't a single woman here who hasn't felt the pain... of being made to feel lesser," she said. But women are "not snowflakes," she said. "We reject gossip and speculation and false promises."
Prosecutors initially declined to pursue the case, but reopened it in 2015, arguing new evidence had come to light, while an avalanche of women came forward publicly to accuse the star of decades of assault.


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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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The proportion of geriatric population amongst the total population continues to grow and is the single largest driver for the growing global geriatric care services market. Changing family structure in most developed countries has resulted in decrease in time family caregivers can provide. This factor has been crucial in developing and shaping of geriatric care services market. Furthermore, the industrial development and improved job opportunities in the emerging nations of Asia-Pacific have resulted into more people working away from home. This has further led to unavailability of family caregivers which is incentivizing formal care providers. Along with this a large fraction of geriatrics today wish to continue their professional lives but require moderate support from care services. The market in the region has begun developing and returns from geriatric care business in the region are expected to grow in the coming years. The global geriatric care services market was valued at USD 560.4 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach USD 850.0 billion by 2019, growing at a CAGR of 5.9% during the forecast period 2013 to 2019.
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The global geriatric care services market is broadly categorized into home care services, adult daycare services, and institutional care services. The institutional care services market constituted the largest segment in the global geriatric care services market while home care services market is expected to witness fastest growth amongst all the segments during the forecast period 2013 to 2019. The freedom to stay at home and cost containment are the prime reasons which explain the emergence of home care services market in the overall geriatric care services market. This segment of market provides unique advantages such as less expensive, desired stay at home and more independence which is helping to gain traction in the steadily growing global geriatric care services market. The shortage of other available options such as nursing homes and assisted living communities in the developing regions is also propelling the growth of global geriatric home care services market.
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Question: U.S. ups pressure on South Sudan's Kiir, bans arms sales

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday banned the export of weapons and defence services to South Sudan, stepping up pressure against President Salva Kiir to end the country’s four-year civil war.
While the United States does not conduct arms sales with South Sudan, the move prevents any U.S. company or citizen from providing military equipment or defence services to the country’s warring factions.
The unilateral arms embargo was another signal that Washington is losing patience with South Sudan’s leaders after repeated agreements to end the violence. The war has been marked by brutal attacks against civilians, which has sparked the region’s biggest refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
In South Sudan’s capital Juba, Kiir’s spokesperson Ateny Wek Ateny declined to comment.
The Trump administration has pressed neighbouring countries and African groups, such as the eight-member Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), to sanction South Sudanese officials who undermine the peace process.
The State Department said in a statement it would amend the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) to reflect the arms ban on South Sudan. Other countries on the blacklist include Belarus, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Venezuela.
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Some top officials close to Kiir have already been sanctioned by the United States, including the once-powerful army chief Paul Malong, who was later fired and forced into exile when he quarrelled with the president.
The African Union on Monday said it was open to imposing sanctions on leaders violating ceasefires in South Sudan, joining a chorus of officials who say those prolonging the conflict must be punished.
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told the U.N. Security Council last week it was time to impose a U.N. arms embargo on South Sudan. Haley visited South Sudan in late October and met with Kiir.
The Obama administration had failed to convince the United Nations to back an arms embargo in 2016.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit attends the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and the Government of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia January 28, 2018. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
Any U.S. push for the U.N. Security Council to take further action against South Sudan is likely to be resisted by veto power Russia. The council, however, sanctioned several senior South Sudanese officials on both sides of the conflict in 2015.
“The time has come to acknowledge the hard reality that the leaders of South Sudan are not just failing their people, they are betraying them. And so this Council is at a crossroads,” Haley told the council last Wednesday. “We cannot stand by idly as innocent civilians are murdered and raped.”
Brian Adeba of the Enough Project, a Washington-based policy group fighting to prevent genocide and atrocities, said a weapons ban would be more effective if it was imposed by a group of countries, including some in Africa.
“A unilateral action risks being symbolic,” he said, adding, “However, we believe that the United States should not just restrict this to an arms embargo, but should escalate this by enacting more targeted financial pressures.”
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Oil-rich South Sudan has been wrecked by civil war since 2013, when troops loyal to Kiir clashed with troops loyal to then-Vice President Riek Machar.
The conflict has claimed tens of thousands of lives since then, slashed oil production and driven about a third of the population of 12 million from their homes.
The European Union imposed an arms embargo on Sudan in 1994, which was amended to also apply to South Sudan when the country gained independence from Sudan in 2011.
Independent U.N. experts have reported to the U.N. Security Council that South Sudan’s government has spent millions of dollars on weapons as the country slid into famine and an economic crisis.
In January 2016, U.N. experts reported that sources had told them: “Uganda either supplies South Sudan with its own stock or acquires the weapons and then transfers them to South Sudan, without necessarily involving or obtaining the consent of the primary seller.”
Last year, the U.N. experts said: “Weapons continue to flow into South Sudan from diverse sources, often with the coordination of neighbouring countries.”

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A confidential U.N. report is warning that the war in South Sudan has reached “catastrophic proportions for civilians” and the rise of militias risks spinning out of control, fueling fighting for years to come.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in the report obtained by AFP on Tuesday that civilians were fleeing villages and towns “in record numbers” and that the danger of mass atrocities “is real.
The stark warning followed a series of meetings that Guterres held with regional leaders and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir last month to push for an end to the three-year war.
“The security situation continues to deteriorate in parts of the country and the consequent impact of this ongoing conflict and violence, has reached catastrophic proportions for civilians,” Guterres wrote.
Heavy-handed military operations by all parties, but especially by government forces loyal to Kiir, were “daily destroying homes and livelihoods,” said the report sent to the Security Council on Monday.
“The rise of militias under the loose command of the SPLA or rebel commanders is spreading the fragmentation and dislocation of its territories, which risk, if this trend continues, remaining out of any government control for years to come,” said the report.
Guterres has been pushing regional leaders like Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, who is close to Kiir, to put pressure on the South Sudanese leader to rein in his forces and pull back from the brink.
The U.N. chief urged the Security Council to take action to revive political talks to convince rebels to stop fighting and give the government legitimacy to seek international financial aid.
The United Nations has 13,000 peacekeepers in South Sudan, but they have repeatedly been blocked by government soldiers and rebels from areas where fighting has flared.
Last week, a peacekeeper on patrol in Eastern Equatoria was stopped by four soldiers, dragged out of his car and beaten, the report said.
Following his meeting with Kiir, Guterres reported progress on deploying a regional force under U.N. command to bolster security in the capital Juba.
Rwanda is poised to send troops and helicopters in a first wave of deployment expected in March or April, while Ethiopia is also preparing to contribute forces.
But Kenya has yet to schedule talks on their contribution to the 4,000-strong force and a dispute over the force’s presence at the Juba airport is unresolved, the report said.
South Sudan remains a divisive issue at the Security Council after the United States failed in December to win support for an arms embargo and sanctions.
Russia, China, Japan and Egypt were among the countries that voted against a U.S.-drafted resolution, arguing that punitive action would antagonize South Sudan’s leaders and further dampen prospects for peace.
Council diplomats point to the success by West African leaders in pushing Gambia’s leader, Yahya Jammeh, to abide by election results and cede power as proof that regional pressure can achieve results.
After gaining independence from Sudan in 2011, South Sudan descended into war in December 2013, leaving tens of thousands dead and more than 3 million people displaced.
There is growing alarm over the humanitarian crisis in the country where more than 6 million people — half of South Sudan’s population — are in need of urgent aid.


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Malaysian authorities say they have detained a woman in the suspicious death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother, Kim Jong Nam. Kim, who was in his mid-forties, was the eldest of former dictator Kim Jong Il's children. He died en route to the hospital Monday after some sort of encounter at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
The woman detained was carrying Vietnamese travel documents, according to police, and was alone at the time of the arrest. Malaysian media cite government sources saying closed-circuit cameras at the airport caught two women approaching Kim. One of them covered his face with a cloth before walking away. Police say Kim fell ill and asked a counter clerk for help.
Sources tell NPR his body was transported earlier Tuesday from one hospital to a larger one — Hospital Kuala Lumpur. An autopsy will be performed.
After growing up in Western countries, Kim has been living outside North Korea for decades. He is believed to have homes in Macau, Beijing and Paris. In 2001, Kim was detained trying to enter Japan on false travel documents. He later said he was trying to bring his family to Tokyo Disneyland.
The big mystery, if he didn't die of natural causes, is why Kim Jong Nam was attacked, and why now.
"I don't think we will know the full story about the death of Kim Jong Nam for many years," says Michael Madden, a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, who runs the site North Korean Leadership Watch.
Chan Kok Leong contributed to this post, from Kuala Lumpur.

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Question: Liberals on track for $4B deficit

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TORONTO -
Ontario’s fiscal watchdog says the Liberal government will run a deficit this fiscal year, despite claims it has balanced the budget.
In a new report Monday, the Financial Accountability Office said the Liberals will run a $4 billion deficit in 2017-2018, and will continue to be in the red over the next few years.
More moderate growth in revenues and the increasing fiscal impact of the province’s Fair Hydro Plan, which cuts electricity rates by 25 per cent, will take their toll on Ontario’s books the report notes. It also says a long-simmering accounting dispute between the Liberal government and Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk over how to count two public sector pension plans on the ledger is contributing to uncertainty.
“We’ve been very consistent that because of a number of factors we think the deficit will re-emerge,” said FAO chief economist David West. “Now, with this accounting debate it will become more significant.”
The Liberals presented a balanced budget in the spring, a year ahead of the provincial election, and have promised to keep the books in balance through the next couple of years.The FAO, however, projects the government’s budget deficit will grow to $9.8 billion in 2021-2022.
“The government is out borrowing this money,” West said. “This current year they’re going to borrow $23 billion in the markets. That’s going to rise to $45 billion in the coming years.”
The FAO also said the government’s new hydro plan will add $3.2 billion to the budget deficit by 2021-2022.
Last year Lysyk questioned the province’s decision to include a pair of public pensions — the Ontario Public Service Employee’s Union Pension Plan and the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan — as assets on its balance sheet.
The FAO said in its report that since the government has not adopted the auditor’s recommended accounting for both the pension assets, and with the addition of the Fair Hydro Plan, it is becoming more difficult for legislators and the public to assess the government’s fiscal projections.

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Goodbye, 2016. You were a leap year, and over your 366 days, the world developed a taste for leaps into the unknown. The improbable beat the odds, time and again.
Poll after poll said that Donald Trump had almost no chance of winning the U.S presidential election; he’s now the president-elect. Poll after poll said Britons would narrowly vote to remain in the European Union; they voted narrowly for Brexit.
2016 was a very bad year to be a professional prognosticator.
So, what do the next 12 months have in store?
The Globe and Mail editorial board’s crack team of oddsmakers is once again ready to make book on the likelihood of various events occurring in 2017.
Let’s begin in OTTAWA.
Probability of a change in government: 0 per cent
Probability of the Trudeau government introducing legislation to reform political fundraising rules: 63 per cent
Probability of the government introducing legislation to hold a referendum on electoral reform: 23 per cent
Probability of major electoral reform: 23 per cent
Probability of minor cabinet changes: 78 per cent
Probability of a major cabinet shuffle: 17 per cent
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Probability that Canadian special forces will still be in Iraq at the end of 2017: 75 per cent
Odds that the government will refer to their mission, which has often involved combat, as a “combat mission”: 12 per cent
Probability of Canada sending a significant number of troops to serve in a “peace” mission in Africa: 88 per cent
Odds that the mission will look more like the Iraq or Afghanistan missions, and less like traditional peacekeeping: 100 per cent
THE WORLD
Probability that Bashar al-Assad will still be President of Syria at the end of the year: 79 per cent
Probability that the so-called Islamic State will control less territory at the end of the year than at the beginning: 73 per cent
Probability that Angela Merkel will be re-elected as German Chancellor: 72 per cent
Odds of National Front leader Marine Le Pen winning the French presidential election: 29 per cent
Probability that British Prime Minister Theresa May will begin the formal Brexit process by her self-imposed deadline of March: 38 per cent
By the end of the year: 68 per cent
Probability that President Donald Trump will call for the renegotiation of NAFTA: 82 per cent
That he will approve the Keystone XL pipeline: 93 per cent
Probability of increased tensions between Washington and Beijing: 90 per cent
Probability that the relationship between Mr. Trump and Vladimir Putin will be worse at the end of the year than at the beginning: 80 per cent
THE ECONOMY
Probability that the Bank of Canada will raise its benchmark interest rate in the first half of 2017: 6 per cent
In the second half of the year: 26 per cent
Odds of the U.S. Federal Reserve raising interest rates in the first half of the year: 64 per cent
In the second half of the year: 34 per cent
Probability that the Canadian dollar will finish the year higher versus the U.S. dollar: 19 per cent
Odds that the Canadian unemployment rate will finish the year higher than at the start: 49 per cent
Probability that the West Texas Intermediate oil price will end the year above US$50: 41 per cent
INVESTING
In 2015, the S&P/TSX Composite index was one of the world’s worst-performing major stock indexes, but in 2016 it bounced back and was a top-performing major index.
Probability of the S&P/TSX composite index ending the year higher: 38 per cent
Of the S&P/TSX outperforming the S&P 500: 47 per cent
SPORTS
Odds of a Canadian team winning the NBA title: 7 per cent
Of a Canadian team winning the World Series: 14 per cent
Of a Canadian team winning the Stanley Cup: 28 per cent
Of a Canadian being the NHL’s leading point-getter: 67 per cent
Probability of a Canadian being the top goal-scorer: 51 per cent
Probability of the NHL reaching a deal to send players to the Winter Olympics in February, 2018: 35 per cent
Probability of an eighth NHL team coming to Canada in 2017: Same as the odds of a change in government in Ottawa.
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Question: Missing California woman turns up on ‘The Bachelor’

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A woman reported missing in Northern California last November has been found in an unusual, but highly visible place: on a popular reality television program.
Eagle-eyed viewers of “The Bachelor” identified Rebekah Helena Martinez this week as a contestant on the show’s current season after the North Coast Journal showed her photo among 35 people missing in Humboldt County, according to the publication.
Martinez, 22, has been listed as missing on the California Department of Justice’s website since Nov. 12. The date, according to the website, was the last time the young woman was seen.
On Thursday, the North Coast Journal posted a story, accompanied by photographs, about missing people in Humboldt County on Facebook, asking if any of their readers recognized anyone on the list.
And they did.
The first to respond, Amy Bonner O’Brien, said she recognized Martinez as a contestant on the latest season of “The Bachelor”; the long-running reality television series began airing its 22nd season at the beginning of last month.
“I was just scrolling through the 35 missing people and I recognized some of them from news stories,” O’Brien recalled in an interview with SFGate. “When I got to her, I was like wait a minute, she looks so familiar and I instantly thought of ‘The Bachelor.'”
The Journal followed up on the tip, contacting the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office after tracking down an Instagram account belonging to Martinez. The account had been active throughout the time the woman had been listed as missing.
MOM. how many times do I have to tell you I don’t get cell service on The Bachelor?? https://t.co/iYnxQCIZBt — bekah martinez ♡ (@whats_ur_sign_) February 2, 2018
A short time later, the deputy who took the missing person’s report confirmed to the publication that she had been located. The deputy spoke with Martinez over the phone, according to sheriff’s spokeswoman Samantha Karges.
She told the Journal that Martinez’s mother reported her daughter missing on Nov. 18, six days after she had last been seen. Martinez had told her mother she was going to work on a marijuana farm in Humboldt County.
“As part of procedure, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office deputies are typically required to make direct contact with the missing person to confirm status and well-being, as geographical and other factors allow,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement obtained by the New York Times. “A deputy was not able to make direct contact with Martinez and she was not removed from the Missing and Unidentified Persons System.”
Martinez had posted on Sept. 17 that she was giving up her phone and social media for several weeks. Her next post was dated Nov. 22.
According to her contestant biography on ABC’s website, Martinez — who goes by Bekah M. — is from Fresno and works as a nanny.

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Question: Bruno Mars Donates $1 Million Flint

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is putting his money where his mouth is by donating $1 million to help the people of Flint
According to E Online, while on his sold-out 24K Magic World Tour, the popular singer surprised the audience at the Palace in Auburn Hills, Michigan, when he announced that he would be donating a cool $1 million from that particular show to help the city’s residents that are still suffering from the water crisis.
“I’m very thankful to the Michigan audience for joining me in supporting this cause,” Mars said to the crowd.
“Ongoing challenges remain years later for Flint residents, and it’s important that we don’t forget our brothers and sisters affected by this disaster. As people, especially as Americans, we need to stand together to make sure something like this never happens in any community ever again,” he added.
Mars and Live Nation, the promoter of the singer’s 24K Magic World Tour, announced that the funds were redirected to the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, Rolling Stone noted.
“With a grateful heart, the Community Foundation of Greater Flint is honored to accept this inspiring donation,” CFGF president and CEO Isaiah M. Oliver added in a statement.
“We know Bruno Mars’ $1 million gift will be transformative to the children and families of Flint. He understands the issues faced by Flint citizens, and we are touched by his concern and generosity.”
Mars is one of many celebrities such as Snoop Dog, Big Sean and Beyonce who have donated or raised funds for Flint since the crisis hit in 2014.
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Question: Truck-driving cops seek distracted motorists

It takes one to spot one.
The OPP is taking an unconventional approach to a trucking safety blitz that launched Monday – officers are conducting patrols in truck tractors to better spot drivers who are distracted behind the wheel.
The strategy is being used for the first time during Operation Safe Trucking, which runs through Friday and aims to reduce the number collisions involving commercial vehicles on OPP-patrolled roads.
The five-day blitz tackles speeding, following too closely, seatbelt use, hours of service violations, and distracted, aggressive and impaired driving. Vehicles with mechanical, load security or other safety issues will be tackled with the help of Ministry of Transportation inspectors.
So far this year, the OPP has investigated more than 6,200 transport-truck related collisions and 87 people died in 72 of those crashes, commissioner Vince Hawkes said Monday.
“Every year, collisions that involve commercial motor vehicles are in the thousands and they result in significant loss of life,” Hawkes said. “Adding truck tractors to our list of enforcement tools will enhance our officers’ observation and investigative skills during Operation Safe Trucking and future initiatives that focus on commercial motor vehicle safety.”
Distracted driving accounts for more than a quarter of crashes involving commercial vehicles, and the OPP warns motorists aren’t off the hook during the blitz.
“Officers will also be addressing dangerous behaviours on the part of all drivers,” the force warned.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Pflugerville man was forced to trade in his racing bike for a wheelchair after an inattentive driver hit him earlier this month. As he recovers, he is calling for greater awareness about the dangers of distracted driving.
Fifty-year-old Tommy Levario set out on a bike ride after work in the bike lane along Wells Branch Parkway on Sept. 5, headed east. He doesn’t remember the crash itself, but the Department of Public Safety report said that a white truck heading eastbound on Wells Branch Parkway swerved into the bike lane, striking Levario’s bike. Near the intersection with Killingsworth Lane, Levario was thrown to the sidewalk and rushed to the hospital.
According to DPS, the driver said he didn’t see the bike. Troopers found driver inattention to be a factor in the crash, though they did not list a phone, food or any other reason for the distraction.
The driver was cited for expired plates and has another citation pending for failure to stay in a single lane. Both citations come with fines which would amount to no more than a couple hundred dollars.
Levario, on the other hand, was told by medical professionals that he may never walk again.
“Tommy currently pretty much doesn’t have use of anything pretty much chest and below, he’s able to move his arms, but he did suffer injury to his left shoulder which he’s still dealing with, and he did have rib fractures,” said his nurse at St. David’s Rehabilitation Hospital, Holly Cronin.
She explained that as with all patients with spinal injuries, it will be tough to tell exactly how much of Levario’s old range of movement he’ll get back.
“At first I feel a sense of loss because it feels like I wont be able to do [triathlons] that way anymore, but I also feel a sense of hope, because I know I can do it — I will do it again,” Levario said. “Maybe at a different capacity again with a wheelchair, but I will do it again. ”
Levario began doing triathlons with his two brothers to lose weight. It soon became his passion, leading him and his brothers to compete together in several Ironman triathlons.
While his family members are used to supporting Levario through twice-a-day workouts and grueling races, now they are supporting him through an intense therapy schedule. Levario’s therapists at St. David’s say he channels his Ironman determination to his recovery.
Besides learning how to get around the world in a wheelchair, Levario also wants to spread awareness about the dangers of distracted driving.
According to TxDOT’s crash report numbers from 2016, there were a total of 98,847 crashes in the state where driver inattention was a factor, 319 of those were fatal. By comparison, in 2016, there were 1,086 crashes in Texas where texting was a factor, 15 of those were fatal.
“Distracted driving can hurt or kill somebody, and something needs to be done about it, something more than just trying to educate the public,” he said.
Parker Polan, Levario’s attorney, said that he’s seen plenty of lawsuits with defendants with multiple distracted driving citations.
“I think there should be some enhanced penalties that go along with the distracted driving statute, kind of like DWI, your first DWI is a Class B misdemeanor, your second one is a Class A misdemeanor, your third one is a felony,” Polan said. “I think the legislature could do a little bit more.”
Polan added that improved cell phone data has given attorneys a window into just how much people use their phones while driving as well.
Local bike advocacy groups feel similarly.
“The charges issued are not severe enough where a person is seriously injured, whether on a bike or not. A person who drives dangerously and causes a crash should be charged with a more serious violation than a Class C misdemeanor, to reassure the community that all vulnerable road users — pedestrians, bicyclists, driver, wheelchair users, transit riders — are protected. The state of Texas should adopt policies and build infrastructure to eliminate all road fatalities and injuries and to prevent further traffic violence in our communities,” said Mercedes Feris, executive director of Bike Austin.
A GoFundMe page has been created to help with Levario’s medical expenses.
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Question: Trump Administration Takes Key Step To Rolling Back Auto Fuel Standards

The Trump administration has begun the process of rolling back tough fuel standards for America's car and light truck fleet.
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department have opened the public comment period on the rewriting of standards for greenhouse gas emissions for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025.
"We are moving forward with an open and robust review of emissions standards, consistent with the timeframe provided in our regulations," EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said Friday. The 45-day period allows for the public to comment about regulations before proposed changes.
Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules were first put into place after the OPEC oil crisis in the 1970s. During the Obama administration, the CAFE rules were toughened in the wake of the financial crisis and the car company bankruptcies. The new standards called for an increased reliance on electric vehicles.
Low gas prices and sluggish sales of alternative fuel vehicles have made meeting those standards tough, especially for those companies more reliant on larger vehicles. Earlier this year, the EPA announced it would reconsider a decision late in the Obama administration to make the rules permanent.
The auto industry has hailed the decision to reopen the fuel standards. With the announcement, Mitch Bainwol, president and CEO of the Auto Alliance, a group of auto manufacturers, says, "the Administration is fulfilling its commitment to reinstate the midterm evaluation of future vehicle fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards."
Environmental and consumer advocacy groups decried the move. "By reopening the midterm evaluation, EPA is bringing back questions that have already been asked and answered," said Consumers Union, the policy arm of Consumer Reports.
Shannon Baker-Branstetter with Consumer's Union says her organization's studies show people want to save money on gas. According to a recent survey, 90 percent of Americans want automakers to raise fuel efficiency. Baker-Branstetter says adds "In fact, consumers are especially concerned about the fuel efficiency of the crossovers and SUVs they've been gravitating toward in recent years."
"What kind of changes may or may not be introduced is far from clear", says Stephanie Brinley, senior automotive analyst, IHS Markit. The agencies are expected to expand the data used to make the determination, specifically taking into consideration consumer behavior.
The public comment period allows the car companies and others to lobby to keep or make changes.
"Pressures from other government requirements and consumer interest in reducing fuel emissions are expected to continue to be aggressive," Brinley says.
Even if the U.S. scales back, she says, the movement toward higher standards will likely continue in other countries. Already this year, several countries said they would ban the sale of gasoline vehicles altogether within decades. Many analysts believe that rolling back fuel standards could jeopardize the near term future for electric vehicles.