(CNN) You have to be careful of the quiet ones.
If that old adage fits anyone, it's surely Carlo Ancelotti.
He has one of the most impressive CVs in football -- one of just seven men to have won the Champions League as both player and coach, the Italian is also one of only two coaches to have won the European crown on three separate occasions.
The 57-year-old has not achieved this by bawling and screaming, fostering a siege mentality or through mendacious mind games, but with a calm, hands-in-pockets cool.
A quiet word here or there when necessary, resulting in a haul of trophies to really shout about.
"Quiet is my style of management -- quiet because that's my style, my character, my personality," Ancelotti told CNN ahead of his first Bundesliga match in charge of German champion Bayern Munich, on Friday against Werder Bremen.
Some have tried to change him, such as Roman Abramovich at Chelsea, but Ancelotti wasn't for turning.
His traits were instilled, he says, from his childhood growing up in a small village in Emilia-Romagna, in the north of Italy.
"I try to be quiet in my relationships with people," he explains. "I grew up like this because I lived in a very quiet and very calm family.
"I had a father who was very quiet, so I grew my character from the beginning."
Ancelotti has used his lifetime of training to good effect during a managerial career which -- starting in the 1990s -- has taken him to Italian clubs Reggiana, Parma, Juventus and Milan, English team Chelsea, France's Paris Saint-Germain and Spanish heavyweight Real Madrid.
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He has delivered league or cup titles in every country he has worked in, sometimes both.
Ancelotti -- assistant coach when Italy lost the 1994 World Cup final -- believes his relationship with his players is central to his success.
"With the players, above all I have to be myself," he says. "I cannot use another personality because I don't have one."
It seems to work, since a host of the world's highest-profile footballers featured in his autobiography -- this year's " Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches " -- almost tripping over themselves to lavish praise on their former boss.
"I say Carlo is the best and I have worked with the best," said Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who has worked under modern coaching giants such as Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola.
"He's the best," agreed former Italy star Alessandro Nesta. "You have to understand how clever he is with his tactics."
Nesta, Paolo Maldini, Filippo Inzaghi and supposed hard man Gennaro Gattuso were in tears, David Beckham recalled, when Ancelotti left Milan in 2009, after an eight-year spell that had resulted in league, cup, Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup successes.
"He genuinely cares, and he takes the time to care," former England captain John Terry said. "That's what makes him the very best."
The Chelsea stalwart's relationship with Mourinho is widely believed to have been his closest bond with a coach -- but that's apparently not so.
"He is, for me, the ultimate," the veteran defender said of Ancelotti.
Even Cristiano Ronaldo joined in, saying the atmosphere at Real Madrid under Ancelotti was "spectacular." The Portugal star was one of the most vocal protesters when it became apparent Ancelotti was going to be sacked by Real in 2015, a year after delivering the club's long-awaited 10th European title.
These are serious accolades, which the star names didn't have to agree to, so what's his secret?
"I really didn't have problems with players -- in all my career," Ancelotti explains.
"I know what the player is thinking about a lot of the situations -- and know when a player is not happy and why.
"I really enjoy my job. It's not a job, it's a passion. I just love -- day-by-day -- my job."
Happy with the work of the team and for this debut with Bayern. We'll work hard to win more trophies #MiaSanMia pic.twitter.com/YAz70Zhwaa — Carlo Ancelotti (@MrAncelotti) August 14, 2016
Occasionally labeled the "Diva Whisperer," Ancelotti insists that working with top stars is easy because of their desire to be the best -- citing three-time world footballer of the year Ronaldo as an example.
"When we got back at 3 in the morning from away trips, instead of going to bed he would go to the ice bath, so this means he is really professional," Ancelotti says of the club's record scorer.
"Managing top talent is easy because most of them are really serious so it's not difficult -- really not."
He puts his emphasis on his squads, he says, because he can't control the president, the fans or the media -- though you will find him online, with 2.2 million followers on his @MrAncelotti Twitter feed -- so why would he even try?
For a supposedly soft man, one of the coach's role models may be a little surprising.
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He is in thrall to the lead character in mobster movie "The Godfather" (whose keeping-it-in-the-family attitude might explain why Ancelotti appointed son Davide to be Bayern's assistant coach this week).
"When you watch Vito Corleone in 'The Godfather,' do you see a weak, quiet man or do you see a calm, powerful man in charge of his situation?" he asked in his autobiography.
It's a telling comment which explains much of Ancelotti's approach, even if the violence is reassuringly absent.
His main football influence was part of one of the sport's most heralded triumvirates -- Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm -- the Swedish forwards popularly known at Milan as "Gre-No-Li."
Liedholm would later manage Milan three times, but he made his biggest impression on Ancelotti when he coached Roma, where the midfielder played between 1979-1987.
Liedholm, who Ancelotti describes as -- surprise, surprise -- "quiet but strong," was powerful, respected, flexible (like his protégé) and liked to both fine-tune players and give them responsibility.
Thanks Pep. I wish you the best. Good luck!
Gracias, Pep. Te deseo lo mejor. Suerte! pic.twitter.com/yRDmbf3ooq — Carlo Ancelotti (@MrAncelotti) July 20, 2016
After Champions League successes with Milan in 2003 and 2007, and Real Madrid (the all-important "decima") in 2014, Bayern -- whose last European triumph came in 2013 -- is hoping to tap into some of the Ancelotti magic.
"Carlo Ancelotti has enjoyed success everywhere as a coach and has won the Champions League three times," Bayern's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge told the club website upon the Italian's appointment in December to replace Pep Guardiola, now at Manchester City.
"Carlo is a calm, balanced expert, who knows how to deal with stars and favors a multifaceted style of play -- we were looking for this, and have found it."
After years working under such challenging owners as Abramovich ( who once chastised Ancelotti after a 6-0 win ), Florentino Perez and Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italy international is likely to relish working with former top-level players at Bayern, such as Rummenigge and Mathias Sammer.
And Bayern will surely benefit from the extended break Ancelotti recently afforded himself with his Canadian second wife Mariann, who he married in 2014.
"I think it was really good after 20 years to have one year off," he said. "I enjoyed beautiful places like Canada but now I am ready to start."
He is, he says, looking forward to the "longest period of sustained success" in his career at Bayern, where he has already won the season-opening German Super Cup.
Despite his calm demeanor, it promises to be some ride.

Carlo Ancelotti: Football's 'Godfather'?


Carlo Ancelotti, one of football's "quiet overachievers," begins his first Bundesliga campaign with Germany champion Bayern Munich on Friday against Werder Bremen.


WASHINGTON A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two U.S. ships, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, in the most serious of a number of incidents in the Gulf area this week.
"They did feel compelled ultimately to fire three warning shots and the reason for that is... they had taken steps already to try and de-escalate this situation," spokesman Peter Cook told reporters.
Tensions have increased in the Gulf in recent days despite an improvement in relations between Iran and the United States.
Years of mutual animosity eased when Washington lifted sanctions on Tehran in January after a deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions but serious differences still remain over Iran's ballistic missile program, Syria and Iraq.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the USS Squall patrol craft fired three warning shots from a .50 caliber gun in the northern Gulf on Wednesday after warning flares did not work.
The incident started with three Iranian vessels, but there was only one around by the time the warning shots were fired, the official said. He described the Iranian behavior as "unsafe, unprofessional, and not routine."
At one point, the Iranian vessel came within 200 yards (193 meters) of a U.S. ship, the official said.
Another interaction took place between an Iranian and U.S. ship on Wednesday, the defense official said but gave few more details.
The Pentagon earlier this week accused Iranian vessels of harassing a U.S. warship near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.
On Thursday, Iran's defense minister said those Iranian vessels were just doing their job.
“If an American ship enters Iran’s maritime region, it will definitely get a warning. We will monitor them and, if they violate our waters, we will confront them,” Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said in a statement reported by the Iranian Students’ News Agency.
A State Department spokeswoman said it was not clear what the intentions of the Iranian ships were, but the behavior was unacceptable.
"We believe that these type of actions are of concern, they unnecessarily escalate tensions," State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told a briefing.
(Reporting by Idrees Ali; Additional reporting by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Paul Simao and Alistair Bell)

U.S. Navy ship fires warning shots at Iranian vessel


A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two U.S. ships, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, in the most serious of a number of incidents in the Gulf area this week.


Shopping in King just got a little bit easier, thanks to the efforts of a King resident. Tom Marchese launched KingTownshipBiz, a subsidiary of DistrictBiz, a privately held company having roots right here in King Township. He came up with the idea this past February, deciding it was time to make it easier for the community to shop locally.
The Coppa family’s commitment to the community has come full circle, with the grand opening of their newest flagship store in King City. Coppa’s Fresh Market opened its doors Tuesday and held its official opening before a large, supportive crowd.
It’s been a successful year of dance for Kaitlyn and Lina Drummond. The sisters from Schomberg attend Simcoe Dance Academy in Bradford. Lina, 10, has been dancing competitively for four years and Kaitlyn, 9, has been dancing competitively for a year. Both have made remarkable achievements in the past few months.
King Township is blessed with some family owned businesses that have served the community for decades. One local business has been part of the very fabric of King City for more than 100 years!
The annual “We Belive in Abby Family Day” continues to give back. The event, held June 18 at Hickstead Park in Schomberg, raised $10,965.65 – all in a four-hour event! According to Becky Eveson, they will be donating $9365.65 to SickKids foundation. The “Cardiac Kids BBQ” was able to raise $1,600 for their organization.
Samantha Grecchi’s life so far has been “epic.” With a sky’s the limit attitude, Grecchi has decided to put down stronger roots in her home town, and become a business woman.
The best investment we can make is in our own wellbeing. Eating healthy meals together isn’t a luxury, but rather a necessity.
Local residents are keenly aware of the importance of the equine industry in this region. It’s much more than a sport or a hobby. Led by a passionate and talented group of equine experts, Headwaters Horse Country is poised to become nationally significant, with a goal of becoming “Canada’s Horse Country.”
The word is out. As much as King residents may want to keep this oasis in the GTA all to themselves, discerning home buyers are eyeing an exclusive area near King City for their dream homes.

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Reno, Nevada (CNN) The speech that Hillary Clinton delivered on Thursday was the one that many Democrats had been waiting for.
It was a blistering attack on Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric that left no gaffe or alleged dog-whistle unmentioned, framing him as a vessel for hate speech, a champion of conspiracy theories, and a representative of the far-right fringe of the Republican Party.
Race has long been an unsettling undercurrent of the 2016 presidential race. But this week, the two major candidates forced that debate into the open with Clinton's speech linking Trump to the "alt-right" movement, and Trump's new charge that the former secretary of state is "a bigot" who has pandered to minorities with feckless policies as part of a calculated quest for votes.
Clinton was clearly seeking to reframe the campaign debate as a referendum on Trump's fitness to be commander in chief during a week in which she has dealt with an onslaught of allegations that she used her influence as secretary of state to help donors to the Clinton Foundation.
"From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia," Clinton said during her speech at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. "He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party. His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous."
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Clinton described Trump as a candidate "with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of the supermarket tabloids and the far, dark reaches of the internet."
At a time when Trump seems to be attempting to adopt a more inclusive tone, Clinton reminded her audience that Trump opened his campaign by suggesting that some undocumented immigrants from Mexico were rapists and criminals. And she seized the opening that Trump gave her earlier this month when he hired Steve Bannon, the former chairman of Breitbart News, as his campaign's chief executive.
At her rally in Reno, Clinton charged that Trump has essentially embraced the ideas of the so-called "alt-right," an amorphous movement closely tied with white nationalism that has been criticized as racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic. Alt-right thinkers and writers, she noted, have found a home at conservative news sites like Breitbart.
Alleging that Trump is trying to bring a hate movement into the mainstream, she noted that the real estate magnate's admirers include members of the Ku Klux Klan; that he was slow to disavow praise from former Klan leader David Duke during the Republican primaries; and that he has retweeted comments from white supremacists online.
"Through it all, he has continued pushing discredited conspiracy theories with racist undertones," she said.
There was little subtlety in Clinton's speech. In a moment that drew gasps and jeers from the Reno audience, she read a series of recent headlines from the Breitbart website. Among them: "'Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy" and "Hoist It High And Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims A Glorious Heritage."
Trump responded to Clinton's speech during an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, arguing that his campaign was "bringing love," not hate, and that his rallies are packed with Americans who have been left behind.
Calling Clinton a "third-rate politician," he argued that African-Americans are just realizing that the Democrats who have "run" the nation's inner cities have left them behind.
Trump also rejected the notion that he was embracing the "alt-right" movement. "Nobody even knows what that is," Trump told CNN's Cooper. "There is no alt right or left."
When Cooper noted that Bannon, Trump's new campaign chief executive, has used the term "alt-right," Trump professed ignorance.
"I don't know what Steve said," he said in the interview on "Anderson Cooper 360," before pivoting back to Clinton and her email controversies. "She is all talk, no action. ... She should be ashamed of herself."
Trump made those comments at a time when he is trying to expand his outreach to African-Americans and Hispanics, who widely disapprove of his rhetoric, his denunciations of undocumented immigrants, and his more outlandish proposals -- like a wall along the Mexican border that would be paid for by the Mexican government.
Given their sky-high unfavorable ratings, both Clinton and Trump hope to make the campaign a referendum on each other.
While Clinton wants to blunt any inroads that Trump might make with minority communities, she was also making the case for her candidacy on Thursday to moderates, independents and Republicans who are alarmed by Trump's associations with the more nefarious elements of the internet.
Throughout her speech, she praised Republicans, like former GOP presidential nominee John McCain, for standing up to hate speech.
Trump did his best to refute Clinton's attacks on Thursday as he attempts to rescue his poll numbers in key swing states.
During an interview with WMUR, a New Hampshire television station, Trump was asked whether he wants white supremacists to vote for him.
"No. I don't at all," Trump replied. "This is not about hate, this is about love. We love our country; we want our country to come back; we want our country to be strong again."


The speech that Hillary Clinton delivered on Thursday was the one that many Democrats had been waiting for.


(CNN) Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner's first meeting was like a scene out of a romantic comedy, complete with a funny kicker. In fact, the same can be said of much of their Hollywood romance.
They met on August 13, 1981, as the sun had just started to hide behind the Hudson River, according to Wilder's detailed account in his 2006 memoir "Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art."
Wilder was dressed in a tuxedo. He had just finished shooting a scene on the set of "Hanky Panky," in which he was set to star with Radner.
Their location for the evening was "where the the ocean liners docked on the East River," he wrote. Scenic no doubt.
He walked over to introduce himself to Radner, who he knew from her work on "Saturday Night Live," but not personally.
What happened next was a point of disagreement between the two in the years that followed.
"Gilda said that I rubbed my crotch against her knee when I asked her if I could bring her some tea or coffee," he wrote in his book. "When she told me this story, I said, 'You're nuts!' And she said, 'No, they were your nuts.'"
"Well...it was a beginning."
Radner later wrote of this meeting in her own book: "My heart fluttered -- I was hooked. It felt like my life went from black and white to Technicolor."
It took two weeks for Radner to make a move on Wilder. When it finally happened, she threw him on his hotel room bed and, according to Wilder, said "I have a plan for fun." He rejected her advance.
Radner was married to guitarist G.E. Smith at the time, but she told Wilder that she was unhappy.
"I knew I was going to fall in love with you and leave my husband," Wilder quotes her as saying the morning after he sent her home in a cab.
Wilder was baffled and overwhelmed.
"Gilda, you're talking like this is a fairy tale, and you're going to meet Prince Charming, and everything's going to be all right, and we'll both live happily ever after," he told her, according to his book.
Her reply? "So what's wrong with that?"
It wasn't happily ever after from that moment on. They separated after a year of living together because Wilder felt smothered by Radner's need for his attention. Her struggle with bulimia also put strain on their relationship.
"I thought she was a baby. She couldn't be without me, do without me," Wilder told Larry King in 2002.
But they found their way back to one another and eventually married in 1984, in part thanks to a Yorkshire Terrier named Sparkle, some rat poison and a phone call that alleviated some of Wilder's biggest fears.
When Radner had to miss a planned flight and vacation with Wilder to care for the dog she'd bought during one of their breakups, she told him to go without her. That she'd be "fine."
"That's what I was waiting for for 2½ years," he told King.
Radner and Wilder were married for about two years when she was diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer.
Wilder remained hopeful until about three weeks before she died.
"I said ... 'I'll exchange life spans with you,'" he told King. "The irony is that I meant it. I thought that she'd pull through and that she would live longer than I would."
Radner died May 20, 1989.
On mourning Radner, in a 2005 interview with CNN, Wilder said honoring their happiness meant living his life.
"If you asked Gilda, she'd say, don't be a jerk. You know, go out, have fun. Wake up and smell the coffee," Wilder said. "Would I want to erase the memories I have, the good memories? No, of course not. But I wouldn't want to mourn for the rest of my life."
Wilder married his fourth wife Karen in 1991 at the Connecticut home Radner left him.
Sparkle was in attendance.

Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder: A love story


Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder's first meeting was like a scene out of a romantic comedy, complete with a funny kicker. In fact, the same can be said of much of their Hollywood romance.


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ELECTRIC DREAM: Chen Yang-yi hopes the project will generate 1 gigawatt daily by 2020, which would help accomplish the goal of a ‘nuclear-power-free homeland’
By Hung Ting-hung and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
National Sun Yat-sen University professor Chen Yang-yi’s （陳陽益） dream of using the Kuroshio Current to generate electricity has been proved viable after seven years of testing, and Chen hopes that by 2020 the project would be able to produce 1 gigawatt （GW） of electricity per day.
Chen’s research team said that it reported the results to Premier Lin Chuan （林全） on Saturday.
According to Chen, the Kuroshio Power Plant Development Project late last month successfully deployed a floating platform anchored to a sunken ship, the first such platform in Taiwan and the first system to test the viability of power generation by ocean currents.
The project was the first to turn on low-speed generators submerged in water currents flowing at 0.45m per second, Chen said, adding that the generators were kept running for 60 hours.
The team first used tugboats off Pingtung County’s Siaoliouciou Island （小琉球） last year to tow their third generator through ocean currents at a speed of 1.43m per second, Chen said, adding that average power generation was 32.57 kilowatts （kW）.
That was the first time a research team towed a generator to simulate ocean current speeds and generated power, Chen said.
On July 23, the team deployed a multipurpose platform 25km southeast of Oluanpi （鵝鑾鼻）, which it anchored to a foundation 900m deep converted from an abandoned ship, Chen said.
From July 25 to July 29, the team ran consecutive tests as the Kuroshio Current flowed past the platform at a depth of 30m, with currents traveling at 1.27m per second, generating an average of 26.31kW, he said.
“It was a successful trial,” Chen said.
The team plans to move to Jioupeng Bay （九鵬灣） in Pingtung next year for a trial run, which it hopes will generate 2 megawatts for commercial operations, Chen said
If the test results are positive, the system could become a replacement for the Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant, as it is projected to be able to generate 1GW by 2020, which would move the nation one step closer to the government’s goal of a “nuclear-power-free homeland.”
While many nations have been attempting to use sea currents to generate power, most are still at the design stage and none have had a successful trial, he said.
According to Chen, Japan last year demonstrated a sea current generation system, but said that it would not conduct live trials until 2020, meaning that Taiwan’s research has surpassed that of other nations.
Chen, who served as president of the university’s College of Marine Science, launched the Kuroshio Current power generation research project in 2009 in collaboration with research teams from the National Applied Research Laboratories and National Cheng Kung University’s Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory.
The team also collaborates with Wanchi Steel Industrial Co （萬機鋼鐵） on technological matters.
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ELECTRIC DREAM: Chen Yang-yi hopes the project will generate 1 gigawatt daily by 2020, which would help accomplish the goal of a ‘nuclear-power-free homeland’By Hung Ting-hung and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer


Los Angeles (CNN) When Netflix's "Narcos" debuted, it seemed to come with a built-in expiration date. Its central figure is drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, who lived a brutal life and died a relatively early death -- at some point he would die and that would be that. But that only makes the second season of this Netflix series more riveting, a morality tale that resonates far beyond its time, place and characters.
Indeed, despite its early '90s setting, this fact-based drama about the battle against narco-trafficker Escobar is a virtual primer on U.S. political adventures abroad, in which neutralizing the bad guy has often involved terrible collateral damage and getting into bed with people who might be even worse.
Netflix has offered higher-profile series, but none better or more addictive. And while the franchise's future is hazy beyond season two, this might be one of those instances when the end of a sensational two-year run is just the right time to declare victory and move on.
Escobar (Wagner Moura, again delivering one of the best TV performances of this or any other year) spent season one amassing power over the Medellín cartel; the latest installment chronicles his fall, as forces array against him on all sides. That includes not only the U.S. government and two intrepid FBI agents (Boyd Holbrook and "Game of Thrones'" Pedro Pascal) but the Cali cartel and a ruthless paramilitary force, backed by the CIA.
Having escaped from prison, Escobar remains a folk hero and near-mythic figure. Authorities seeking to capture him also discover that expecting the people of Medellín to cooperate is, as it's wryly observed, "like asking Chicago to rat out Michael Jordan."
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POLL-Clinton leads Trump by 5 points in Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Chris Kahn
NEW YORK, Aug 26 (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads her Republican rival Donald Trump by 5 percentage points among likely voters, down from a peak this month of 12 points, according to the Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll released on Friday.
The Aug. 22-25 opinion poll found that 41 percent of likely voters supported Clinton ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election, while 36 percent supported Trump. Some 23 percent would not pick either candidate and answered "refused," "other" or "wouldn't vote."
Clinton, a former secretary of state, has led real estate developer Trump in the poll since Democrats and Republicans ended their national conventions and formally nominated their presidential candidates in July. Her level of support has varied between 41 and 45 percent during that period, and her lead over Trump in the tracking poll peaked this month at 12 percentage points on Tuesday.
During the past week, Clinton has been dogged by accusations by Trump, which she has denied, that donations to her family's charitable foundation influenced her actions while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Questions have also surfaced again about her use of a private email server and address rather than a government one during her period at the State Department.
Meanwhile, Trump and Clinton also sparred over who would be a better advocate for African Americans and other minorities, and Trump hinted he could soften his hard-line stance on immigration.
In a separate Reuters/Ipsos poll that includes candidates from small, alternative parties, Clinton leads the field by a smaller margin. Some 39 percent of likely voters supported Clinton in the four-way poll, compared with 36 percent for Trump, 7 percent for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and 3 percent for Green Party nominee Jill Stein.
Both polls were conducted online in English in all 50 states. They included 1,154 likely voters and have a credibility interval of 3 percentage points.
The results may differ from the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project, which includes a separate weekly tracking poll that measures support for the major party candidates in every state and Washington D.C.
The States of the Nation, released on Wednesday, estimated that if the election were held now Clinton would have a 95 percent chance of winning by a margin of about 108 votes in the Electoral College, the body that decides the election through a count of the candidates' wins in each state.


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POLL-Clinton leads Trump by 5 points in Reuters/Ipsos poll


Kim Dotcom wants to livestream legal fight against the US
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom wants to livestream his legal battle against the United States on YouTube.
Dotcom's lawyers have asked if they can film his extradition appeal, which began Monday at New Zealand's High Court in Auckland. The U.S. opposes the plan.
Justice Murray Gilbert, the New Zealand judge hearing the appeal, criticized Dotcom's request for coming at the last-minute but said he'd let other media discuss it before making a decision, the National Business Review newspaper reported.
A New Zealand judge last year ruled that Dotcom and three of his colleagues could be extradited to the U.S. to face conspiracy, racketeering and money-laundering charges. If found guilty, they could face decades in jail.
The ruling came nearly four years after the U.S. shut down Dotcom's file-sharing site Megaupload, which prosecutors say was widely used by people to illegally download songs, television shows and movies.
Megaupload was once one of the internet's most popular sites. Prosecutors say it raked in at least $175 million and cost copyright holders more than $500 million.
But Dotcom and his colleagues argue they can't be held responsible for people who chose to use the site for illegal purposes.
In his application to livestream the case, Dotcom's lawyer Ron Mansfield said the streaming would have a 10-minute delay to ensure sensitive information could be censored, the NBR newspaper reported.
Mansfield also argued livestreaming would ensure balanced and fast reporting, as opposed to the constraints of traditional media.
Dotcom and colleagues Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato are seeking to halt their extradition. They say lower court judge Nevin Dawson didn't give their arguments a fair hearing.
Grant Illingworth, the lawyer for Ortmann and van der Kolk, told the high court Monday the case "has gone off the rails," NBR reported.
Born in Germany as Kim Schmitz, Dotcom has long enjoyed a flamboyant lifestyle. He was arrested in New Zealand in 2012 after a dramatic police raid on his mansion.


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Kim Dotcom wants to livestream legal fight against the US


Trade critic Trump visits Boeing Co's backyard
By Emily Stephenson and Ginger Gibson
EVERETT, Washington/WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - R epublican Donald Trump, who has made his criticism of a pending Pacific trade agreement central to his campaign, on Tuesday was to visit a Seattle suburb that is home to a large Boeing Co plane manufacturing facility that depends heavily on sales to Asian markets.
Trump's campaign has booked the Xfinity Arena, which seats thousands of people, in anticipation of a large crowd. The Republican presidential candidate, who has courted manufacturing workers with vows to tear up trade agreements, is due to speak at 7 p.m. Pacific Time (10 p.m. EDT).
The rally is likely to attract workers from Boeing, the world's largest aerospace company. Supporters of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) point to Boeing's aircraft sales to Asia to tout the benefits of the agreement. Secretary of State John Kerry visited a nearby plant earlier this year to rally support for the pact.
Trump presents a conundrum for the unions who represent those workers. The unions agree with Trump on his opposition to TPP and the export of jobs overseas, but officials said they find his track record unconvincing.
"The fact is that Trump has had the opportunity to bring jobs to American, and he's chosen to outsource them," said Larry Brown, legislative and political director for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751, which represents about 32,000 workers in the state, mostly at Boeing.
Boeing produces some of its largest planes only miles from where Trump will be speaking. As they are assembled, the painted tails of the planes show the airlines that ordered them, and many are Asian. Major components of each plane come from overseas: South Korea, China and Europe.
Over the next 20 years, Boeing projects that Asian customers will account for 40 percent of the total global jetliner's market, the company said in a recent report.
"Trade is a huge part of the success of manufacturing in Washington," said Linda Dempsey, vice president of international economic affairs for the National Association of Manufacturers, which Boeing belongs to. "They are exporting $73 billion in manufactured goods."
But Trump offers a more dire outlook, arguing that only he can keep Boeing from moving those high-paying manufacturing jobs from Washington to China.
"They'll start taking your business away, and you won't have much of Boeing," Trump told Seattle's KIRO radio on Monday.
RALLYING WORKERS
Trump has broken with the Republican Party's traditional embrace of free trade. He has vowed to rip up the TPP and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, an existing deal with Canada and Mexico which he blames for the loss of U.S. jobs.
The Republican Party's support for free trade has put it in sync with large business groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers.
Tony Fratto, a former official in the administration of Republican George W. Bush, criticized Trump as out of step with the party.
"Trump's policies in this area are really dumb generally, but are particularly dumb for a major exporting company," said Fratto, who worked on behalf of a coalition of large companies, including Boeing, that were pushing for renewal of the Export-Import Bank.
Visiting Washington state is also unlikely to get Trump much closer to victory on Nov. 8. Clinton leads by large margins in the state, according to opinion polls.
But voters there remain divided. Corey McNally, 40, of Whidbey Island, Washington, has not decided whom he will vote for.
"The union members love Hillary just because they're supposed to because she's a liberal," said McNally. And Trump, whom he called "just kind of a big show," may be too late to change anything.
"This company's been outsourcing jobs for years," he said of Boeing.


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By Hsiang Cheng-chen and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday criticized radio talk host Clara Chou (周玉蔻), saying that she engaged in “groundless and malignant slander” against him.
Ma made the remarks during a hearing on his lawsuit against Chou at the Taiwan High Court in Taipei.
According to Ma, Chou has since December 2014 repeatedly slandered him by claiming on political talk shows that he has accepted NT$200 million (US$6.3 million) from Ting Hsin International Group to cover up a scandal involving edible oils.
Ma said that Chou, through such TV appearances, was able to make NT$1 million.
Having been a civil servant for more than 30 years, Ma said “fiscal integrity” was his life, adding that he could not accept the district court’s ruling that Chou was not culpable and therefore he filed an appeal to the Taiwan High Court.
The courts are a bastion of protection for the freedom of speech, but it should not be a guarantor for the abuse of such liberties, Ma said, adding the Republic of China (ROC) is a nation that is governed by law and should not tolerate the “special few” who are able to slander others without proof.
Chou told reporters after leaving the session that Ma’s speech was very emotional.
“That Ma has turned toward personal insults in court saddens me. I am further surprised that he treats journalism a tool for money. His remarks about me show the naivete and ignorance of Ma in terms of judicial law,” Chou said.
The collegiate bench at the Taiwan High Court yesterday summoned My-Formosa.com vice chairman Wu Tzu-chia (吳子嘉) and former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislator Hsieh Kuo-liang (謝國樑) for questioning.
Wu said he had evidence that the Ma campaign team received NT$1 billion in political donations from Ting Hsin, adding that the funds were paid to the team and not to Ma.
When asked by Judge Chen Hsiao-pei (陳筱佩) to state his source, Wu said he would rather be fined than reveal his sources.
Hsieh said that the fomer Ma administration should have been more active when the Ting Hsin food scandal broke in 2014.
Hsieh said his feelings regarding such a letdown caused him to hypothesize that if someone took political donations from the company, it would be difficult to carry through the public’s self-imposed ban on Ting Hsin products.
However, Hsieh said his comments were not backed by any evidence.

Ma accuses Clara Chou of ‘groundless slander’


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An alliance in politics, said Ambrose Bierce, is the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot – without the agreement and cooperation of the other – plunder anyone.
For examples in today’s Malawi look no further than the alliance of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the United Democratic Front (UDF).
They have their hands so intertwined that each on his own cannot successfully plunder or pillage.
But as a team, Ladies and Gentlemen, they are “awesome”.
They can and they are achieving anything they want.
Throwing spanners into a long-standing but clear-cut former president’s case, blocking the independence of the Anti-Corruption Directorate,
passing some dubious laws and many more activities on the exploration and mining fronts are evidence of their collective might or wickedness, depending on which side of the fence you stand.
Together, they can even conspire to fill the recent vacancy of the Malawi Electoral Commission chair with a uselessly partisan character who – going by his unethical display at the State’s Tax collector where he colluded with a compromised bank to fiddle with national accounts so as to create an impression that the Zero Deficit Budget was working – is not fit for any office where ethics are more important than the law.
The new alliance in town:
When you talk about a lion, African wisdom advises, you should go up a tree. And since we are talking alliances, it is time to seek refuge high up a tree.
There is another one in town: the Transformation Alliance (TA). TA is reportedly a political pressure group advocating for nothing short of an overhaul of our systems.
Brilliant stuff and how I wish this had come sooner!
It says Malawi urgently needs a complete overhaul of the political system to resolve prevailing political and socio-economic “calamities”.
It further says politics of patronage and “blind loyalty” which lead to creation of semi-gods in the country’s leaders should go as Malawi does not need leaders who are detached from the economic realities facing citizens.
Interim chairperson of the grouping is Moses Kunkuyu, coincidentally the first Cabinet minister to be appointed by former president Joyce Banda when she assumed power in April 2012 after the death of president Bingu wa Mutharika.
Unveiling TA in Blantyre, Kunkuyu said his group believes that leaders with a better background and understanding of the country’s political and economic dynamics have the potential to bring about the change Malawians desire.
He did not define “better background” nor clarify what constitutes “understanding of the country’s political and economic dynamics”.
He was however on song when he said: “Malawians are fed up with costly leaders that assume top public office posts, but are eternally on leadership orientation. Malawi should groom its future leaders beginning now.”
An alliance overrating itself?
The movement has also dared the leadership of the quasi-religious grouping Public Affairs Committee (PAC) to prove the relevance of their institution by briefing the country’s citizens on the concerns and recommendations presented during the previous All-inclusive Stakeholders Conference which took place in February this year.
On this, I must admit, the Transformation Alliance has confused me.
In my view, between the two i.e. the so called Transformation Alliance and PAC, the one that desperately needs to prove relevance is the Transformation Alliance. I will elaborate later.
TA has also called upon Parliament, through the Public Accounts Committee, “in a similar tone and under the same immunity [if any] or boldness that Honourable [Kamlepo] Kalua has to either refute or confirm the allegations being made by one of its members. Parliament’s silence on this crucial issue is questionable and unacceptable”.
A stranger in Jerusalem would say, by Jees! Where were these guys all this time? And this is where it all gets interesting.
Alliances of hope and transformation:
For a start, this is not the first time for Kunkuyu to be spearheading a pressure group.
In 2011, while serving as a member of Parliament (MP) affiliated to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) under Bingu, he also led Hope Alliance; a pressure group within DPP which later announced its “working relationship” with Joyce Banda following her coming into power.
The key clause here is “following her coming to power”.
Kunkuyu, who was spokesperson of the alliance, said they were not rebels but MPs who love their party and want to help it regain its lost glory, whatever this garbage meant.
“It is a grouping of over 30 MPs who love the party. We want to fight from within the party. We want to bring hope to Malawians by ensuring that the party observes the rule of law, good governance, democracy and that Malawians are able to get basic needs,” said Kunkuyu.
“We feel as MPs we have a say on whatever is happening. We feel our leader (i.e. late Bingu wa Mutharika) is poorly advised. …some people surrounding the President are blocking the way for those who want to tell him the truth. As MPs, we bring to the President issues from the constituents but there is never feedback. We want to improve the communication channel” added Kunkuyu.
This was in January 2012.
Alliances of frustration:
Fast-forward to April 2012, Kunkuyu was appointed as the first minister in President Joyce Banda’s cabinet, a cabinet which did very little to help her uncover Cash-gate created by her predecessors and more importantly dismally failed to help her retain the presidency in the 2014 elections.
Perhaps more tellingly, many members of that Cabinet were rejected by the electorate or sensing embarrassment, “retired” from politics.
Why? Because the people that surrounded Pres Joyce Banda, Moses Kunkuyu included, quickly embraced the very same “politics of patronage” and “blind loyalty” which led Pres Joyce Banda astray and before her, destroyed Bingu wa Mutharika’s first term legacy.
And so where does this leave us all? The answer is not complicated. We are where we were before this new alliance was unveiled i.e. still stuck in deep shit.
This is why, if Moses Kunkuyu wants me and like-minded individuals to pay even the remotest interest to his “alliances”, he has another think coming.
First, he should explain the lessons, if any, he learnt from the Hope Alliance and prove to us that just as the Hope Alliance was just disguised Peoples Party (PP) operating within DPP, Transformation Alliance is not a proxy for some party or individual looking for gullible idiots.
Secondly, I need some convincing as to when he actually realised that buzz words like “politics of patronage”, “blind loyalty”, “a better background and understanding of the country’s political and economic dynamics”, and “better background” are critical in our selection and election of leaders.
Where is this coming from?
While I understand Kunkuyu’s falling in love with the Bingu wa Mutharika of 2004-2009 to the extent of forsaking his independent parliamentary ticket and joining the DPP bandwagon, his somersault into Pres Joyce Banda’s cabinet had me and still puzzles me.
While I could try to comprehend the somersault above, his reasons for leaving his “first” political party, the Peoples Party are, to say the least, suspicious.
Evidence of the frustration:
Verbatim: from the Daily Times
Moses Kunkuyu’s resignation shocks People’s Party “The National Executive Committee of the opposition People’s Party (PP) says the party leadership is shocked with the resignation of former minister of Information and the party’s Deputy Publicity Secretary, Moses Kunkuyu. Announcing the decision on Wednesday, Kunkuyu, who was the first person to be appointed minister in former president Joyce Banda’s Cabinet, could, however, not disclose his next political move. He, however, said he remains a passionate politician and feels as a young person he still has a lot to contribute to the country’s economic development through politics. In an interview, PP spokesperson, Ken Msonda, said Kunkuyu was one of the dedicated young people in the party and his services will be greatly missed. “We are shocked and disappointed with Honourable Kunkuyu’s resignation from the party. He was passionate about party activities, prayerful and as a party we will really miss him. “But as somebody who has the right to freedom of association, there is nothing we can do apart from wishing him all the best wherever he is going. We have no problem with his decision but we are really shocked,” Msonda said. The 35-year-old Kunkuyu, who served as an independent Member of Parliament for Blantyre City South but supported Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) agenda in Parliament, said he could not describe himself as a political rolling stone since PP was his first party. Banda appointed Kunkuyu as PP Deputy Publicity Secretary last year. “I have been thinking and praying about it for some time and I feel this is the right time for me to move out of the party. I wanted the house to be in order before announcing my resignation and now that the party has an acting president, I thought it was my time to take leave. “Despite supporting the DPP agenda in Parliament, PP is the first party that I was a member. So, this is the first time I am leaving a political party. But I do not want to pretend that I will take a break in politics or I will be doing something else. I am young and remain a politician. “If there are people to quit politics, it should be those people who are old, not young people like me. Actually, I would like to encourage other young people to join politics and not to leave it for old and tired people,” Kunkuyu said. In the 2014 Tripartite Elections, Kunkuyu stood on PP ticket in Dedza South Constituency. Just before the death of Bingu wa Mutharika and his joining the PP, Kunkuyu led a grouping that christened itself Hope Alliance, which was critical of Mutharika’s government then.
The straw that broke the alliance’s back:
Reading between the lines, it is clear that Kunkuyu left the Peoples Party (PP) because he was left out in the cold when an Acting President, other than him, was appointed.
“I have been thinking and praying about it for some time and I feel this is the right time for me to move out of the party. I wanted the house to be in order before announcing my resignation and now that the party has an acting president, I thought it was my time to take leave.”
This should be understood as: “Now that PP has finally and clearly indicated that it cannot trust me with the responsibility of an Acting president, I quit.”
To put this in its proper perspective, with his being stepped over as PP’s Acting President – the reward he thought he had earned from President Joyce Banda, Moses realised that he was still far from the ‘promised land’.
Transformation Alliance – debunked:
I therefore have serious doubts if at all Kunkuyu has the capacity and ability to play second fiddle and more importantly, if he and his Transformation Alliance pals have a grasp of the meaning of the buzz words they have picked as their mantra in their quest to resurrect impotent or non-existent political leadership potential.
“Politics of patronage” – this was the whole essence of late Pres Bingu wa Mutharika and his predecessors and successor. Had Kunkuyu been immune to this syndrome, after joining the DPP bandwagon and learning his mistake, he would have quit. More importantly, as soon as PP swallowed the politics of patronage bug, he should have quit.
“Blind loyalty”: as above.
“A better background and understanding of the country’s political and economic dynamics”: What proof does Kunkuyu and his buddies have that they have a better understanding of our political and economic dynamics? Is not true that all politicians when in wilderness “pretend” to understand these and drop the pretence when driven in fuel guzzlers while we are struggling with bus fares?
“Better background”: Against all the above, if Kunkuyu thinks he has a “better background”, then I will encourage the Friday Jumbes, Sam Mpasus, Vuwa Kaundas, Binton Kuntsairas, Nicholaus Dausis and these many other political disasters to also stake their claims to possessing “better backgrounds”.
To conclude, going by the looting that our leaders are all competing for, all these alliances are unions of thieves with their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot – without the agreement and cooperation of the other – plunder our money.
In other words, all these alliances of convenience are borne out of politicians’ distrust for each other. Why should you and I trust them?
I rest my case.
Malawi Blogger ; Wise One From The East

Malawi politics: Of a ‘Moses’ hoping from one alliance to another towards the ‘promised land’


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Iran has arrested a member of the team that negotiated a landmark nuclear deal with world powers on suspicion of spying, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday.
The suspect was released on bail after a few days in jail but is still under investigation, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said at a regular weekly news conference, calling the unidentified individual a “spy who had infiltrated the nuclear team,” state media reported.
The deal that President Hassan Rouhani struck last year has given Iran relief from most international sanctions in return for curbing its nuclear program, but it is opposed by hardliners who see it as a capitulation to the United States.

Iran arrests nuclear negotiator suspected of spying


Iran has arrested a member of the team that negotiated a landmark nuclear deal with world powers on suspicion of spying, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday.


Story highlights Border Patrol: "This is one of our larger cash seizures"
California is a hub for money laundering by Mexican cartels
(CNN) Border Patrol agents in California hit a jackpot this week in terms of cash seizures: $3 million.
For the agency that deals with border security, it was a major intercept of smuggled cash. The Border Patrol noted most of its past seizures has been in smaller amounts: $300,000, $51,000 and $43,000.
"This is one of our larger cash seizures," said Ralph DeSio, spokesman for the San Diego office of US Customs and Border Protection. Normally, he said, the big figure reported is the value of confiscated drugs.
The U.S. Border Patrol photographed the boxes it says carried $3 million in the trunk of a Volkswagen Passat
Currency smuggling and money laundering are the lifeblood for the Mexican cartels moving the majority of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine across the US border as well as for human traffickers.
If the sophisticated gangs can't get their tens of millions of dollars in cash home each year, the US market wouldn't be nearly as attractive. And California is central to those type of activities, experts say.

San Diego Border Patrol seizes $3 million


Border Patrol agents in California seize $3 million from currency smugglers who launder money for mexican cartels, drug smugglers and human traffickers


Cardiff City have accepted a bid from Hull City for goalkeeper David Marshall, according to reports.
The rumours come on the day the Bluebirds secured the loan signing of former Manchester United stopper Ben Amos, who was believed to be replacing Simon Moore after he joined Sheffield United last week.
BBC Sport claim the fee could rise as high as £5 million, with Saturday's clash with Reading at the Cardiff City Stadium being the 31-year-old's final game.
Football League fans voted Tom Heaton as the best outside of the PL but Marshall is in stunning form
The Scotland international is widely regarded as one of the goalkeepers outside the top flight and there is often interest from Premier League clubs during transfer windows.
Cardiff have always managed to fend off the advances of Premier League clubs, but it appears that Marshall's career as a Bluebird is coming to an end after seven years in the Welsh capital.

Hull City have 'bid accepted' for Cardiff City captain David Marshall


Earlier today, the Bluebirds confirmed the loan signing of former Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Amos


What do you give the Pope if you're a tech CEO?
Mark Zuckerberg handed over a Facebook drone when he, and his wife Priscilla Chan, met Pope Francis on Monday.
"It was a meeting we'll never forget," Zuckerberg said. "You can feel [the Pope's] warmth and kindness, and how deeply he cares about helping people."
Zuckerberg updated his personal page on Facebook (FB, Tech30) with a photo of himself giving the Pope a model of Aquila, a solar-powered aircraft that Facebook hopes will expand Internet access in developing countries.
"Together they spoke about how to use communications technology to alleviate poverty, encourage a culture of encounter, and to communicate a message of hope, especially to the most disadvantaged," the Vatican Press Office said in a statement.
Zuckerberg announced his trip to Italy last week after the country was struck by a devastating earthquake. He has scheduled a live question and answer session for later on Monday, and said he was "looking forward to spending time with our Italian community."
The tech CEO has said Rome is a special city to him. He honeymooned there with Chan, and says he is a student of Latin and Classical history.
Zuckerberg also posted a photo of himself running by the Colosseum.
"It's great to be back in Rome! We started the day with a run past the Circus Maximus and House of Augustus up to the Colosseum. It's pretty amazing to run on roads in the city that helped invent them," he said.
Over the weekend, Zuckerberg posted an update and photo from the wedding of Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek, which was held near Lake Como in northern Italy.
Related: In case of emergency, open Facebook
Usually the act of a politician, visiting a country after a disaster would fit with Zuckerberg's recent push to paint himself as a sort of Silicon Valley statesman. He has been carefully crafting his image through Facebook posts, Q&As and public trips to places like China.
The social network has also taken on an unexpected role in international disasters. After events like earthquakes, hurricanes, or bombings, people let friends and family know they're OK with Facebook's Safety Check feature.
-- Livia Borghese and Heather Kelly contributed reporting.

Mark Zuckerberg gives Pope Francis a Facebook drone


Mark Zuckerberg has added a very special event to his tour of Italy: a meeting with the Pope.


Scams & waste loom as charity millions donated after Orlando
The more than 430 fundraisers posted on the GoFundMe website after the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando have exposed weaknesses inherent in these popular do-it-yourself charity campaigns: waste, questionable intentions and little oversight.
The fundraisers — an average of more than four for each of the 49 killed and 53 wounded — include travelers asking for cash, a practitioner of ancient healing, a personal safety instructor who sells quick loaders for assault rifles, and even convicted identity impostors.
"There was a deluge," said Holly Salmons, president of the Better Business Bureau for Central Florida. "It was almost impossible for us or anyone else to be able to vet."
The crowdfunding sites operate outside traditional charitable circles and often beyond the reach of government regulation. Appeals can be created in minutes by almost anyone and shared around the world.
The officially sanctioned Equality Florida campaign raised more than $7 million via GoFundMe, but another $1.3 million went to smaller appeals — mostly set up by people with little or no charity experience.
The Associated Press examined 30 campaigns chosen from throughout the lengthy list produced by a GoFundMe search for "Orlando shootings." Within a month of the June 12 shootings, they had raised more than $265,000.
Half said donations would be used for legitimate-sounding purposes: to cover funeral, medical and other costs. Some campaign organizers were relatives of the dead or wounded. A high school basketball coach raised $15,297 for the family of Akyra Murray, a star player who had just graduated before dying in the attack.
But most campaigns lacked key details, such as exactly what the donations would cover or even who was asking for them. Only nine of the 30 organizers agreed to interviews.
One man wanted money for travel costs to Orlando to shoot independent news video. He hadn't raised anything two months later. Another organizer raised just $25 for travel money to hold a community healing ceremony inspired by ancient shamanic rituals. She dropped that plan in favor of sending painted rocks with an inspiring word of support.
Jackson Yauck of Victoria, British Columbia, put up a lighthearted appeal to let the highest donor burn a pair of skimpy gold-colored shorts he wore to gay-pride events. He had created the appeal on Jan. 1 on behalf of other charities and when he tried to switch it to benefit the Orlando victims, GoFundMe froze his account for at least a week, he said. He agreed to transfer the donations to Equality Florida, and GoFundMe let the appeal go forward.
Yauck said he knew all but one of his 11 donors personally and didn't feel a need to tell them of the switch. "It was just for fun. If you look at the bigger picture, we raised $600 off a pair of underwear," he said.
Several businesses asked for contributions. One appeal raised $1,375 from 14 donors within two months to keep open a hair salon run by partners killed in the attack. A counseling center raised $150 to subsidize services to victims but closed its campaign when it found grant money elsewhere. GoFundMe helps make refunds when contributions go unused.
Weapons-accessory dealer Craig Berberich, of Bradenton, Florida, proposed holding public classes on personal safety. He posted a link to his business at the bottom of his appeal. He said he "wasn't trying to promote my business." Then he added: "I hope we didn't give the impression that we were a charity."
He said he was shutting down his appeal. It remained online over a month later — but with only $100 in donations. Among his store products: a high-speed loader for assault weapons.
Efe Atalay, of Clermond, Florida, raised $1,145 from 81 donors to buy security wands for nightclub entrances, but didn't say which clubs and spoke vaguely of lobbying politicians to require such security measures. He didn't respond to emails sent to his GoFundMe address.
Florida charities law generally requires no filings by crowdfunding campaigns meant for particular victims or their families or in support of other established charities. That accounts for the vast majority of appeals. Other states apply a patchwork of laws.
Yet, crowdfunding campaigns can distribute aid more quickly than large bureaucratic funds. And they have less overhead than traditional charities, with only 8 percent of donations on GoFundMe going to the website and credit card fees.
Bobby Whithorne, a GoFundMe spokesman, said the website's staffers were vetting the Orlando campaigns before releasing funds, and only a small fraction of a percent of past appeals involved outright fraud.
GoFundMe froze funds from entertainment company manager David Luchsinger's campaign when donations piled up quickly. Luchsinger said he was asked for more details of his plans to replace the ruined equipment of one of his deejays who was working at the club during the attack. Luchsinger set an initial goal of $5,000, and raised $8,742 in one month.
Asked about the website's vetting process, he replied, "Was it so strenuous that you couldn't fake it? No, you could definitely fake it."
Despite his good intentions, things got mixed up. He didn't realize someone else had launched a GoFundMe appeal for his deejay, who got his name removed from the second appeal. Two companies eventually replaced the equipment for free, so the deejay kept some of the donations to replace his lost salary and shared the rest with other club deejays, Luchsinger said.
Several big funds have joined forces in an official centralized campaign that raised more than $23 million, including the $7 million from Equality Florida's GoFundMe campaign.
The donations to the central fund are generally tax-deductible, since they go to registered charities. Donations to a crowdfunding site are typically not tax-deductible, unless the organizer is a tax-exempt charity.
The bigger charities — unlike many crowdfunding campaigns — give timetables for distributing aid, and detail recipients and how decisions are made. Ken Feinberg, administrator for the centralized fund, has already held two town hall meetings with survivors and family members of the victims.
In one crowdfunding campaign, friends Guardini Bellefleur and Demetrice Naulings asked for $25,000 to set up a vaguely defined foundation in memory of Eddie Justice, a friend of Naulings killed in the shootings. They said the money would pay for Justice's funeral and victim counseling.
Six people donated $253.
Wilhemina Justice said no one consulted her about the appeal in her son's name or made arrangements to give her proceeds. "To me, it's fraud," she said.
Florida bars anyone convicted in the past decade of certain crimes, including identity fraud, from running a charity. Yet, court records show Bellefleur was convicted in 2012 of buying $3,570 worth of furniture by impersonating the son of an account holder, and Naulings was convicted in 2008 of giving police a false name and driving with a suspended license.
"We've all done some bad things that we would want to change, but this was my moment to change," Naulings said.
Naulings acknowledged he never consulted Justice's mother or helped pay for his funeral, but said, without offering details, his future nonprofit would someday help her.
Bellefleur did not respond to repeated messages, but in an online video, rejected the idea the pair wanted the money for themselves.
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Scams & waste loom as charity millions donated after Orlando


2016-08-27 03:00
By Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
Three opinion polls released yesterday by the Taiwan Thinktank and the Chinese-language Apple Daily and China Times newspapers saw President Tsai Ing-wen’s （蔡英文） approval ratings drop below 50 percent ahead of her 100th day in office today, while her disapproval ratings rose.
According to the Taiwan Thinktank poll, 48.5 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with Tsai’s performance, down 0.6 percentage points from last month. The percentage of people who said they were unsatisfied with her performance rose 2.4 percentage points from last month to 38.4 percent.
Premier Lin Chuan’s （林全） disapproval rating surpassed his approval rating, at 41 percent and 39.6 percent respectively, Taiwan Thinktank polling director Chou Yung-hong （周永鴻） said.
There was no significant change in Tsai’s approval rating, but her disapproval rating increased noticeably, Chou said.
Among people who expressed dissatisfaction with Tsai’s administration, issues they disagreed with most were the employees’ leave policy （42.1 percent）, the cross-strait policy （30.5 percent） and pension reform （20.1 percent）, Chou said.
The three most popular policies among respondents who said they approved of the administration were the handling of ill-gotten party assets （29.7 percent）, pension reform （27.3 percent） and employees’ leave policy （21.5 percent）, he said.
In the Apple Daily poll, Tsai’s approval and disapproval ratings were 43.59 percent and 50.49 percent respectively, while Lin had an approval rating of 38.12 percent and a disapproval rating of 53.17 percent.
The disapproval ratings rose 20 percentage points for Tsai and 15 for Lin from June, according to the poll.
Respondents said they were most dissatisfied with the administration’s cross-strait policy （49.5 percent）, economic policy （49.04 percent） and labor policy （48.76 percent）.
In the China Times poll, 41.4 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with Tsai’s performance, and 40.4 percent said they were dissatisfied, while for Lin, 36.7 percent said they were satisfied and 47.2 percent expressed dissatisfaction.
The China Times poll showed that 48.6 percent of respondents said the government has to dedicate the most effort to developing the economy, followed by education reform （9.7 percent） and pension reform （9 percent）.
“Although Tsai’s administration has clear reform goals, its actions are confusing, which explains the rise of Tsai’s and Lin’s disapproval ratings,” New Power Party Legislator Hsu Yung-ming （徐永明） said.
In terms of labor policy, the administration over a short period of time put forward different schemes for holidays, such as a five-day workweek with a mandatory day off and a flexible “rest day”; a policy that entitles employees to one mandatory day off every seven days; and a proposed increase in annual leave, Hsu said.
“The inconsistency of those schemes confused the public, which was worsened by the discord between the administrative and legislative branches,” he said.
“It is most important for the government to propose policies relevant to the public, or the government will have a hard time regaining trust,” Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Tsai Shih-ying （蔡適應） said.
Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang （黃重諺） said the office respected all the poll results and will continue to carry out reforms and improve its management.
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES

《TAIPEI TIMES 焦點》 Polls show drop in President Tsai’s approval ratings


By Chen Wei-han / Staff reporterThree opinion polls released yesterday by the Taiwan Thinktank and the Chinese-language Apple Daily and China Times newspapers saw President Tsai Ing-wen’s （蔡英文） approval ratings drop below 50 percent ahead of her 100th day in office today, while her disapproval ratings rose.