USUALLY political conventions are attempts to tell a story — a story about what a party stands for, a story about where its presidential candidate came from, a story about what kind of chief executive he would be.

The Donald Trump National Convention in Cleveland (technically the Republican National Convention, but let’s be real) wasn’t really much for storytelling. Its messages were muddled, its shared agenda boiled down to hating Hillary Clinton, many of its speakers didn’t want to talk about the candidate and one declined even to endorse him.

But if the convention didn’t tell, it definitely showed: It was less an advertisement for Donald Trump than a perfect synecdoche for his entire ascent, with every element of the Trump phenomenon distilled into four strange days of drama.

First, it was a showcase for the institutional failure of the Republican Party in the face of Trump’s assault. The party’s past presidents were absent, and many of its younger politicians also. The ones who did appear found varying ways to cover themselves in dishonor — some with pained, phoned-in endorsements, some with opportunistic zeal, and some by simply being good apparatchiks and squashing the last attempt at delegate dissent.

Almost none of these figures made a positive case for Trumpism, or attempted to explain how his ethno-nationalism fits with their professed Reaganite worldview. But then that worldview also seemed threadbare — a concatenation of clichés so rote and unconvincing that its abandonment by Trump’s voters looks almost inevitable in hindsight.

Meanwhile the convention was also a showcase for Trump’s unique political style, which is basically ramshackle and improvised, and which treats the controversies that most politicians fear as part of the fun, part of the show, a reason for voters and viewers to tune in. Trump literally said this, after his wife’s speech bizarrely plagiarized Michelle Obama and his campaign even more bizarrely let the controversy spin for days: “Good news is Melania’s speech got more publicity than any in the history of politics,” he tweeted, “especially if you believe that all press is good press!”

And he does. How else to explain the stage-management of Ted Cruz’s deliberate non-endorsement, a striking and admirable moment of defiance that Trump’s campaign actually seemed to hype — by apparently whipping boos against Cruz from the floor, and by having Trump show up in the hall as the speech wrapped, as though the two men might stage a W.W.E. confrontation.

That this reality-television approach is poorly suited to an office with the powers of the presidency is, well, obvious enough. But not content to let us draw the inference, Trump also used the convention week to offer a case study in the damage a reckless president can do, by giving an extended interview with this newspaper in which he casually undercut America’s commitment to our NATO allies in the event of Russian aggression in the Baltics.

One need not be any kind of Russia hawk to recognize that this is the kind of thing that encourages brinksmanship, aggression, war. (It also dovetails, rather creepily, with Trumpworld’s conspicuous Russian ties, Vladimir Putin’s history of backing right-wing European parties, and Russian television’s conspicuous pro-Trump propaganda.) And nestled amid the whole ramshackle convention, it was a reminder that the greatest danger of a Trump presidency might not be his transparently authoritarian tendencies, but rather the global chaos that a winging-it Great Man in the Oval Office could unleash.

But then, finally, there came the Great Man’s acceptance speech itself, which was everything that critics charged — exaggerated in its law-and-order fear-mongering, free of policy beyond the promise of quick fixes and delivered with a strongman’s permanent shout — while also pulsing with an ideological message whose power will outlive Trump’s wild campaign.

That message was a long attack, not on liberalism per se, but on the bipartisan post-Cold War elite consensus on foreign policy, mass immigration, free trade. It was an attack on George W. Bush’s Iraq war and Hillary Clinton’s Libya incursion both, on Nafta and every trade deal negotiated since, on the perpetual Beltway push for increased immigration, on the entire elite vision of an increasingly borderless globe.

No recent presidential nominee has given a speech like it. But it gave full voice to sentiments that are widely held on both sides of the Atlantic — sentiments rooted in the broken promises of both right and left, in 15 years of economic disappointment and military quagmire, in the percolating threat of globalized jihad, in an ever-more-balkanized culture governed by an ever-more-insulated elite.

At his convention as in his entire rise, Trump was a walking spectacle, a carnival barker, a man without normal caution or foresight or restraint. And those flaws should doom him in the end.

But his speech wasn’t just a spectacle. And after this strangest of elections is over, Trumpism will come around again.

Summary: Four days in Cleveland distilled the essential features of the Trump phenomenon.


LONDON—The English company that churns out one of the world’s cheapest computers, the $5 Raspberry Pi, is selling itself to a Swiss competitor for about $870 million.

Swiss components supplier Daetwyler Holding AG said Tuesday that it agreed to acquire U.K.-based electronics distributor Premier Farnell PLC for £615 million, or 165 pence a share.

The deal combines two European suppliers with roots in the early 20th-century dawn...

Summary: The U.K. maker of the $5 Raspberry Pi computer, Premier Farnell, agreed to be acquired by Swiss components supplier Daetwyler for nearly $900 million.


Hours before his death, a 50-car convoy of 250 fighters, including Gaddafi and his inner circle, had tried to male a break from Sirte where they had fled from Tripoli at the end of August. Two Nato missiles forced the group to abandon the cars and run off on foot.

HRW believes 103 were then killed in a confrontation with rebels, while Gaddafi was captured as he sought refuge in a drainage ditch together with his defence minister, Abu Bakr Younis, and one of their guards. According to the report, the guard tried to throw a grenade at their rebel attackers, but it accidentally bounced back into the ditch, landing between Gaddafi and Younis. While the defence minister died, Gaddafi suffered serious shrapnel wounds to his head before being cornered by the rebels.

As they led him on to a main road, one of the fighters stabbed Gaddafi with a bayonet, while others assaulted him, before he was loaded into an ambulance and taken to the city of Misurata, a trip of two hours.

“Video footage, obtained by Human Rights Watch, taken at the scene of his capture appears to show Muammar Gaddafi’s nearly naked and apparently lifeless body being loaded into an ambulance, suggesting that he may have been dead by the time he left the area of his capture,” the report says

Peter Bouckaert, the emergencies director at Human Rights Watch, said: “Our findings call into question the assertion by Libyan authorities that Muammar Gaddafi was killed in crossfire, and not after his capture.”

Of the remaining 150 members of the convoy, up to 66 Gaddafi loyalists were shot and killed at the Mahari Hotel just outside the city of Sirte. Others were taken to Misurata and killed.

Summary: Muammar Gaddafi died from wounds he suffered in an attack by rebels after he   had already been captured and not in a firefight, according to a major   report today on the Libyan dictator’s last hours.


I’m currently underemployed and looking for a new job. I’ve been applying for multiple positions per day via online job boards. Most of the time I don’t hear back — good or bad — from the companies I’m applying to, even though I know I’m more than qualified.

I’ve started running into the term “résumé optimization,” and I’m wondering if that’s something I need to be concerned about. What is résumé optimization, and how can I improve my résumé or applications so that I hear back from companies? I’m afraid my applications are getting lost in a mass of résumés. ANONYMOUS

Lots of employers now rely on computerized systems that scan résumés for particular terms as an initial step in (drastically) narrowing down which candidates they will consider. “Résumé optimization” is jargon for what has become a routine practice among many job seekers: creating — or “optimizing” — a résumé with this powerful, nonhuman audience in mind.

The practice is not really as complicated as it may sound. “At its most basic, it means doing what you would do for any job,” Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the Wharton School and director of its Center for Human Resources, wrote in an email. “And that is try to write the résumé around the job description.”

Still, Mr. Cappelli, who has addressed the impact of automated applicant-tracking in his book “Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs,” says it is important to understand that such systems are “designed more to cut out thousands of résumés, and less to find diamonds in the rough.” It’s wise to tweak your résumé with this in mind.

Ian Siegel, chief executive and co-founder of ZipRecruiter, a job-listing and recruiting platform used by more than 13 million job seekers a month, has some practical thoughts on this. “Parsers sound fancy,” he says, but really what they are is pattern-recognition software. So you’ll still want to follow “common best-practice résumé structure,” Mr. Siegel says: summary, skills, employment history and so on. But it might be smart to enumerate skills up top, plainly and specifically.

“The first thing employers care about is: Do you have the skill they are looking for?” Mr. Siegel says. And be clear about the length of your experience. “If you have a section labeled ‘Skills,’ parsers are really going to appreciate that,” Mr. Siegel explains, because ultimately they are designed to extract information in a hierarchy tracked to employers’ needs.

Of course, you’ll still list the companies you worked for and for how long, but add relevant details — the past employer’s size, the nature of the customer base served. And relate this to the position that’s on offer by picking up key terms from the job listing itself. The most common misstep Mr. Siegel sees is an attempt to route around specifics with sweeping language that means nothing to machine parsers — or, indeed, to humans. “I can do everything, I’m a jack-of-all-trades, I’m a Swiss Army knife,” Mr. Siegel offers as examples. “Nobody is hiring a Swiss Army knife. They’re looking for a specific skill set.”

In short, it’s a lot more effective to spend time honing a résumé for specific openings that might really be a good fit rather than spamming hundreds of listings. “What you want to try to put in your résumé, as much as possible, is explicitly the keywords an employer would use to search for someone with your skills,” Mr. Siegel says. “That’s really the game.”

My current job title (program coordinator) does not reflect the actual work that I do (grant writing). After two years in this position, I am starting to look for new job opportunities. I would like to continue working as a grant writer. But I worry that companies using automated systems to prescreen candidates will discount my experience as irrelevant because of my title. Can I use my unofficial job title to make my résumé more competitive? ANONYMOUS

This is an example of how applicant-sorting systems intersect with a specific job search. Jane Horowitz, a career coach and founder of More Than a Résumé, in Denver, says she gets questions like this from clients all the time. Someone in this situation, she advises, has some latitude. “If they’re a grant writer, say grant writer; that’s fine,” she says. “If they coordinate the materials that grant writers create, then they really are a program coordinator — for grants. So get the word ‘grants’ in there.” Getting through the applicant-tracking software means using keywords — “but not just keywords,” she adds. “It’s keywords in context.”

Both Mr. Siegel of ZipRecruiter and Mr. Cappelli of Wharton say much the same: Tweaking or supplementing a title so that it accurately describes or clarifies your actual job is fine. Could an employer later get cold feet because of a technical title discrepancy? That’s extremely unlikely, Mr. Siegel says; it’s most likely to happen if “you are applying to be a top executive at a Fortune 500 company.”

Ms. Horowitz adds a vital caveat: You can’t inflate your job title, and you certainly can’t just make up something that reflects the job you only wish you had. Declaring yourself Senior Executive Vice President of Grant-Writing Operations, for instance, isn’t clarity. It’s lying.

And she echoes Mr. Siegel’s broader point about thoughtful targeting. Sometimes it feels more productive to apply for hundreds of jobs rather than a few, but that’s often illusory. Think of your résumé as a template that needs to be customized for every job you pursue, she says. “You can’t do that for 500 companies. No way.”

Send your workplace conundrums to workologist@nytimes.com, including your name and contact information (even if you want it withheld for publication). The Workologist is a guy with well-intentioned opinions, not a professional career adviser. Letters may be edited.

A version of this article appears in print on July 10, 2016, on page BU7 of the New York edition with the headline: Résumés That Grab Digital Eyes. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

Summary: Employers increasingly rely on computerized systems to narrow down job candidates, so experts recommend using keywords and simple structures in résumés.


NORRISTOWN Pa.--Amy Ott caught up with the Democratic convention by viewing YouTube clips each morning. Michael Disalvia watched one night, only because his girlfriend put it on. Bill Hadden tuned in bits of both parties’ conventions, falling asleep during Bill Clinton’s speech.

The voters of Pennsylvania, a central battleground in the presidential election, absorbed the parties’ nominating conventions with varying degrees of...

Summary: Interviews with Pennsylvanians found little immediate sign that two weeks of political messages had changed any minds whether voters chose between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.


COULD the clam roll become the new lobster roll? Two new Brooklyn restaurants are betting so.

It would be a return to glory: New York once supplied most of the nation’s hard-shelled clams. Canarsie Indians thrived on mollusks from the stream that became the Gowanus Canal. Nowadays, the old mill buildings and warehouses along this industrial waterway hold a salty allure for arty types; the former wasteland downhill from Park Slope is starting to look like Williamsburg.

You can experience the change at Littleneck, 288 Third Avenue (President Street), Gowanus, Brooklyn, (718) 522-1921, littleneckbrooklyn.com, an urban clam shack a cherrystone’s throw from the canal. It is run by musicians with a kitchen led by the Brooklyn restaurant veteran Alan Harding (Gowanus Yacht Club, Patois).

On opening nights for the neighboring gallery, hipsters wait for seating amid Littleneck’s whitewashed wainscoting and cute nautical doodads. Andy Curtin, an owner looking more shipmate than band mate in a beard and woolen cap, swoops about with dishes you’ll be happy to dine on: specials like huge, scrumptious, head-on shrimp, baked in salt with a touch of tarragon ($12); snappy, fascinating salads like pea shoots with bittersweet popcorn shoots, watermelon radishes and golden beets ($8). Meaty corkscrew whelks are perfect in drawn garlic butter ($1 each). Urchins are creamy embodiments of sea ($6 each).

The fabulous bicoastal oyster selection ($2 for East Coast, $3 for West) delivers bracing, diverse pleasures vividly described by the waitresses — British Columbian Kusshis have a “slight melon flavor,” Chincoteagues are “kind of lemony.”

The oysters are even better than their compadre shellfish. The eponymous clams on the half shell are tender and mellow ($1.50), but the chowder — white rather than red at this self-proclaimed New England-style shack — wants for creaminess to balance all the pepper, and the clams within it are chewy ($7). Half the bowl of big, sweet steamers ($13) might arrive shut tight, while the other half are so soft, they nearly disintegrate with handling.

The clipper-ship-size clam roll ($16) pretty much redeems the mollusk; fat-bellied fried Ipswiches burst from their griddled split-top roll. Dressed in spicy tartar sauce, the clams taste swell, though their batter, sadly, lacks crunch. Still, the clam roll trounces the mayonnaise-drowned lobster roll ($18). Perhaps we are indeed experiencing a changing of the guard.

That argument is supported by a visit to Sea Witch, 703 Fifth Avenue (21st Street), Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, (347) 227-7166, a pub named for a fabled 19th-century New York merchantman. Watery touches here include a phantasmagorical undersea mural and a mesmerizing fish tank.

You could sit all evening sipping craft drafts (grassy Avery Ellie’s brown ale, citrusy Victory pilsner) watching those fish. But you’ll get hungry at some point. There aren’t much more than hot sandwiches on this menu, but, boy, are they tasty. Tops is the clam roll, a neat little bun dressed in a caper tartar sauce and iceberg lettuce, then loaded with just-fried clams ($11). They’re small next to Littleneck’s monsters, but they’re briny-sweet with just the right balance of creamy clam to crisp crust. The bun makes it feel like fast food — but fast food of a high order.

Just as delicious is the kielbasa ($6), a nod to the neighborhood’s Eastern European remnants. Supremely garlicky and smothered in raw onions, mustard and sauerkraut, it’s not date food, but who needs companionship with a sandwich this good? Pork schnitzel ($6.50) is juicy and tender, its richness cut by tangy whole-grain mustard and pickles. The cheeseburger — a high-fat mix of short rib, brisket and chuck — is thin and satisfying ($5.50). The fries ($3) are hot, freshly cut and well salted. Even the Indian-spiced fried vegetable cutlets please ($6), with an expertly done coriander chutney.

There is no waiter service — cooks emerge with food straight from the heat. Despite the paper plates and limited menu, what they bring is such great bar food, you’ll feel like one lucky sailor.

Recommended Dishes Oysters on the half shell; salt shrimp; clam roll; all salads.

Open Monday and Wednesday 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Thursday and Friday 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Saturdays 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.; and Sundays 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., closed Tuesdays.

Reservations For parties of 4 or more.

This information was last updated: July 26, 2016

Recommended Dishes Clam roll; kielbasa sandwich; pork schnitzel sandwich.

Open Monday to Thursday, 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.; Friday to 2 a.m., Saturday, noon to 2 a.m., and Sunday, noon to 1 a.m. .

This information was last updated: Oct. 14, 2015

A version of this review appears in print on January 18, 2012, on page D6 of the New York edition with the headline: The Clam Returns To Brooklyn. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

Summary: Littleneck and Sea Witch bring back a mollusk that once was a specialty of the borough.


WASHINGTON—Since Egypt's military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi last week, the job of trying to coax the Egyptian military to restore order and democracy in ways that satisfy Washington's standards has largely fallen to newly minted Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

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After 41 years of marriage in which the Marquess of Bath has enjoyed the company of at least 73 "wifelets", his real wife has finally had enough.

The Marchioness of Bath, 66, is, though, not objecting to her husband's latest infidelity, but to his cooperation with a biographer, Nesta Wyn Ellis.

The author, whose book about Lord Bath, 78, will be published this autumn, tells Mandrake: "Lady Bath has put her foot down. I think she has decided that it is undignified for her to read about all these different women."

The marquess, who lives at Longleat, his family seat in Wiltshire, has now made it clear that he does not wish to be associated with the book. "He gave me 95 per cent of my material, so I am not worried," says Wyn Ellis, who wrote a biography of John Major, the Conservative former prime minister.

"I have all the tapes and transcripts of our interviews, but Lord Bath has decided now that he doesn't like the book. I think he got worried when he saw it all in black and white."

Wyn Ellis claims that the Hungarian-born marchioness, who was known as Anna Gaël during her film acting career, has also forbidden her husband from posting any more of his personal memoirs on the internet during his lifetime.

Summary: The Marquess of Bath, who has had at least 73 'wifelets', distances himself   from a biography with which he had cooperated.


A federal judge sentenced the leader of a renegade Amish group to 15 years in prison on Friday, following a trial in Cleveland last year that found 16 men and women guilty of crimes including conspiracy, hate crimes, assault and hiding evidence.

The defendants, who live in the eastern Ohio community of Bergholz, were involved in a series of hair- and beard-cutting attacks against other Amish in the fall of 2011. Group leader Samuel...

Summary: A federal judge sentenced the leader of a renegade Amish group to 15 years in prison on Friday in the culmination of a trial in U.S. District Court in Cleveland last year that found 16 men and women guilty of crimes including conspiracy, hate crimes, assault and hiding evidence.


Next Monday, he will appear before a local magistrate to answer a charge of trespass, for which the only way to avoid jail will be to pack up and start looking for a new house in Harare, an hour's drive away.

With his departure will also go the hopes of some 300 other white farmers - all that remains of a community that was once 4,000 strong - for whom similar legal challenges had offered some last chance of protection, or at least a stay of execution.

"They will probably give me about 24 hours to get off my land, as they will say I have dragged things out through the appeal process already," sighed Mr Cloete, whose fields supply British American Tobacco, makers of Dunhill's and Benson and Hedges.

"To be honest, I don't really fancy the idea of moving to Harare, and the idea of giving up farming is heart-rending. If I was going to serve a couple of years in jail and then get the farm back, it might be worth it, but that's not how it is."

A former head of the Commercial Farmers' Union, Mr Cloete has spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills fighting the land reform programme, which put Zimbabwe on the path to economic ruin a decade ago when black squatters were first encouraged to "invade" white-owned farms.

Purportedly to redress the injustices of white colonial rule, its effect has been largely to create a new landlord class: the pick of white-owned land has gone to Zanu-PF cronies, leaving an agricultural sector that was once the pride of Africa in the hands of people with no experience of farming.

Hopes that Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC might use their presence in government to halt the programme have proved premature, with the party fearing that vocal support for farmers could allow Mr Mugabe to portray them as the stooges of British rule.

However, the prospect that the MDC might still curb the programme should they win the next elections has encouraged Zanu-PF supporters to continue to grab the remaining white-owned farms while there is still a chance.

"Morgan knows that the land issue is too sensitive to broach because everything is tied in with the liberation struggle," said Mr Cloete, who lives on the farm with his wife Charmian, 57. "But do hope that at some point, we will get a new government and there will be a change of stance."

Mr Cloete's central claim to the Supreme Court was simple: he argued that as had bought the farm after independence in 1980, it could hardly have been considered the booty of a white colonial overlord, and therefore should be exempt from land-grab laws.

That the judges rejected it, though, came as no great surprise to him or his Harare-based lawyer, David Drury.

Zimbabwe's courts are dominated by Zanu-PF judges who are often beneficiaries of land-grabs themselves, says Mr Drury, while the few judges who find in favour of white claimants often end up losing their jobs.

Mr Drury, though, says the intention was not to triumph against odds that were always stacked against them, but to stage what he calls a "show trial" - a record of events that some post-Mugabe government may use to help rectify matters.

"It is a chance to provide a record of the injustice, in the hope that some sort of sanity will eventually be restored to cloud cuckoo land," he said.

"I am the first to support genuine land reform, and to support people who have been marginalised to become productive. But handing land to people on the basis of party connections is completely illogical."

In similar fashion, the Zimbabwean government has also chosen to ignore what should have been a legally binding 2008 ruling by a tribunal of the 15-nation Southern African Development Community, made in response to a petition by 77 white farmers, that the land reform programme was inherently racist as it operated purely on the grounds of colour.

Legal challenges by a few other white farmers are due to be heard by the Supreme Court in July – with some claiming, for example, that they hold their land as a company rather than an individual - but the way every other case has so far been struck down means lawyers are already advising them to prepare to leave.

Even farmers who thought they were on solid legal ground have had no protection.

South African Dirk Visagie, another Chegutu farmer, has suffered constant harassment from farm invaders intent on grabbing his land, despite it supposedly being protected under a bilateral investment agreement between Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Mr Cloete, whose parents first came to Chegutu in 1955 and still live nearby, is in many ways typical of the white farmer's dwindling breed.

He wears the standard attire of khaki shorts and bush shirt, follows cricket keenly, and contrary to Mr Mugabe's narrative of white farmers as uncaring feudalists, shows a country squire's concern for the welfare of his black farm workers.

His mother, he says, built the 700-pupil local school, his father sat on the local council, and whenever his black neighbours need helping out - be it a fellow farmer borrowing a tractor, or the local police borrowing fuel for their cars - it is his door on which they knock.

"There is a perception that we had an elitist, privileged lifestyle, and just took advantage of our workers," he admits.

"And yes, I agree that there are some difficult farmers about - I learned that while dealing with them as head of the CFU. But there is never any talk about the schools we built, the clinics we built. We have never tried to live in isolation from the community."

He has already handed over another farm he owns to a group of black settlers who turned up in 2006, since when, he says, he has done his best to be neighbourly.

He helps prepare the land for cultivation and offers advice when they need it, although driving through his estate, it is clear that some of what is now in black hands is being used for little more than subsistence agriculture.

Such goodwill, however, counts for little when groups of club-wielding "war veterans" - ostensibly men who fought in Zimbabwe's war for independence, but in practice often just hired thugs - turn up to demand a farmer's departure, as they last did with Mr Cloete in late 2009.

The men, who he suspects were sent by Colonel Norman Kapanga, the retired policeman who has claimed his second, 450-acre farm, wielded clubs and lit a fire in his front garden, although they eventually left without further confrontation.

What stung more, though, were the "Go back to Britain" slogans they shouted - meaningless to a man who is in fact of French Huguenot stock, has only ever held a Zimbabwean passport, and has nowhere else to go even if he wanted to.

Infuriatingly, the view that he has no longer a citizen of his own country is shared by the black prosecutor who will oversee his trespass case next week, who has described him in previous court appearances as merely a "visitor".

"I have never viewed myself as anything other than Zimbabwean, and that is what hurts me most," he said.

"We are not being looked at as citizens of this country, yet my father was born here before Robert Mugabe. What future do we have when you are fighting people of that mentality?"

Summary: Despite the introduction of a power-sharing government two years ago,   state-backed farm seizures have continued. Colin Freeman meets one of   the last white farmers still at work in Zimbabwe.


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Baseball teams have come and gone, but the collector’s cards will always be with us. An exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, opening on June 10, “The Old Ball Game,” will feature nearly 300 cards (many focused on New York players) from 1887 to 1977. Drawing from the museum’s collection of more than 30,000 cards, the show chronicles their evolution, says curator Allison Rudnick—from larger pieces meant for cabinet displays in the 19th century to trading items. The exhibit runs until Oct. 20.

Summary: An exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opening on June 10, ‘The Old Ball Game,’ will feature nearly 300 baseball cards starting from 1887.


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Caleb Schwab, the 10-year-old boy killed

at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, knew there was a heaven and he knew exactly what it would be like there: lots and lots of chocolate milk.

Caleb's friend Jack Sloan, 10, told his mother Robin Sloan about the conversations the two boys shared during their days attending Sunday School together at LifeMission Church in Olathe, Kansas.

"They talked about heaven," Robin Sloan tells PEOPLE. "Jack loved chocolate milk. [He and Caleb] said there would be endless amounts in heaven."

while on the Verruckt (German for "crazy" or "insane,") the world's tallest water slide.

While the cause of his death is still pending, funeral arrangements were released. Visitation for Caleb will be Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. at LifeMission Church in Olathe while a memorial service will be held Friday at 2 p.m., according to a

created to help pay for the funeral.

His pal Jack, who will be a fifth grader, described Caleb as a "nice, happy kid," Robin Sloan says.

"He was a hugger," she says of Caleb. "He always hugged Jack whenever he saw him."

Caleb loved sports in general and baseball in particular, Jack relayed.

"Caleb knew Jesus, and he's there [in heaven,]" Sloan says. The two friends didn't doubt the power of prayer. "They knew if someone was sick, they would just pray for them," she says.

Sloan said it was difficult having to break the news of Caleb's death to Jack and her other two kids.

"I told him there was an accident at Schlitterbahn and someone got hurt," she says. "He asked if they were going to make it and I said no."

When Jack learned it was Caleb who died, he was devastated. "It's hard for him," Sloan says. "He was in his room sad and crying."

Prayer is offering some comfort to her family, she said, and Jack is taking solace in his faith.

"He knows that he will see him again," Sloan says. "He said, 'It's not forever sad, it's just temporary sad.'"

At school, Caleb, who would have started fifth grade next week, was known among teachers as "kindhearted, joyful and inquisitive," Rick Lukianuk, chief administrator at Heritage Christian Academy in Overland Park, Kansas, tells PEOPLE.

"Teachers would rave about the fact that he would try to clean something up even if it wasn't his mess," Lukianuk says.

Caleb also was a good sport on the field, as a baseball player with his little league team, the Mudcats. "If he didn't get a hit he didn't go and pout," Lukianuk says. "He would just say, I can't wait to try again."

Caleb loved recess, playing tag and dancing around the classroom, he says. He and some buddies also liked drawing cartoons of superheroes but would "make themselves the heroes saving the world," he said.

The grade-schooler also had a contemplative side, he says. Last year, students were saddened when a teacher and mother of one of his classmates died at the beginning of the year. "He asked, 'Why would a bad thing happen to a good person,'" Lukianuk recalls.

The administrator told him, "Good can come out of bad," and now Caleb will also provide that heartbreaking lesson to his fellow classmates, he says. "We're letting kids know that God wants your life to be joyful and to care for others as Caleb did," Lukianuk says.

Summary: Caleb Schwab died Sunday at Schlitterban Water Park in Kansas City


The makers of the Thermomix will be investigated by the ACCC. (AAP)

The maker of Thermomix is being investigated by the consumer watchdog after 45 people were injured while using the cooking appliance.

The investigation comes after advocacy group Choice sent a mass incident report citing 87 Thermomix complaints calling on the ACCC to act.

Of the 45 people who were injured, some 18 required medical treatment and eight were hospitalised.

One victim was treated in a specialist burns unit for three weeks.

The appliance has been linked to several burning incidents. (Supplied)

Choice head of media Tom Godfrey today welcomed the news that Vorwerk, the manufacturer of Thermomix, would be investigated but raised concerns about the company's "ongoing failure to release vital safety information to the public".

"It's deeply concerning that vital information about the number and nature of injuries caused by products like the Thermomix TM31 continues to be hidden from the public," Mr Godfrey said in a statement.

"Because these reports are confidential, independent advocacy organisations like Choice have no way to confirm whether or not companies like Thermomix are complying with their legal requirements."

The ACCC says they have been investigating the matter since March and has a range of options it can pursue if it considers the business has contravened the ACL.

"We not the public interest in these matters, and will be seeking to reach a considered view as soon as possible," a ACCC spokesperson said in a statement on Thursday.

* 87 reports of problems with a Thermomix product

* 83 for the TM31 product and four regarding the TM5 product

* In 45 reports a consumer was harmed

* 18 people reported having to receive treatment from a doctor or nurse

* Eight people were hospitalised

* Six of those were treated in a specialist burns unit

* 12 people were harmed before the October 2014 TM31 recall

* 18 people were harmed after the recall but were using the green sealing ring supplied to rectify problems

* 53 people complained to Thermomix Australia and only five people were happy with the resolution

* 33 cases of ongoing issues with their machines

* 26 near-miss cases of spitting or exploding hot liquid.

Summary: Consumer group Choice has welcomed an investigation into the maker of Thermomix after 45 people were injured by the cooking appliance.


Kinder Morgan Inc. KMI 2.25 % on Sunday said it is selling a stake in a 7,600-mile natural-gas pipeline system to utility Southern Co. SO -1.03 % for $1.47 billion.

The Southern Natural Gas pipeline system connects natural-gas fields in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Gulf of Mexico to markets in the Southeast. Southern is one of the pipeline system’s customers.

The deal comes as Kinder Morgan seeks to reduce its debt load. The sale of the 50% stake will help bring the company’s ratio of debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization below the level it has targeted for the year.

The two companies will also try to work together on additional projects expanding the pipeline system.

Kinder Morgan said the deal has been in the works for a year. Since those discussions began, pipeline companies like Kinder Morgan have taken a hit from the prolonged period of languishing oil and natural-gas prices amid investor concerns that these companies, once seen as havens from volatile commodities prices because of the stable fees they take in, wouldn’t be immune to the pain affecting the energy industry.

As Wall Street soured on pumping new debt and equity into pipeline companies, Kinder Morgan reduced its dividend by 75% late last year as it faced a choice between using its cash for growth and funding the payout. The deal announced Sunday will help the company in its efforts to restore its dividend.

“The transaction significantly advances our effort to strengthen our balance sheet and move us closer to returning value to shareholders in the form of an increased dividend or stock repurchases,” Kinder Morgan Chief Executive Steve Kean said in a statement.

Southern Chairman and CEO Thomas Fanning said the pipeline stake will position the company “for future growth opportunities and enhanced access to natural gas, which are expected to benefit customers and investors alike.”

Kinder Morgan shares have rallied this year, along with oil and natural-gas prices. Kinder Morgan shares closed at $18.54 on Friday, up nearly 25% since the beginning of the year but still down more than 50% from this time last year.

The company has pledged to tighten its belt to bring its balance sheet in order, cutting spending plans and looking to bring in joint-venture partners for some of the projects it has in the works.

Last month, Kinder Morgan announced that it sold a 50% stake in its Utopia ethane pipeline to private-equity firm Riverstone Investment Group. The 215-mile pipeline in Ohio will connect to existing pipes to bring natural-gas liquids from the Utica shale formation to petrochemical producers in Ontario, Canada. Kinder Morgan expects the project to cost $500 million.

Write to Alison Sider at alison.sider@wsj.com

Summary: Kinder Morgan Inc. said it is selling a stake in a 7,600-mile natural-gas pipeline system to utility Southern Co. for $1.47 billion.


World leaders have agreed at the UN headquarters to ratify the Paris climate deal and get the ball rolling on plans to check global warming.

Held on Earth Day, Friday's ceremony in New York City came four months after the deal was clinched in Paris and marks the first step towards binding countries to the promises they made to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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"The era of consumption without consequences is over," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday.

"We must intensify efforts to decarbonise our economies. And we must support developing countries in making this transition."

French President Francois Hollande and Canada's Justin Trudeau joined John Kerry,Â US secretary of state,Â for the signing ceremony attended by 175 governments,Â the largest single-day signing of an international agreement.

Kerry carried his granddaughter in his arms, a symbol of the future generations the agreement is aimed at protecting.

While the US, China and India - the world's top greenhouse gas emitters - were not represented at their highest level, leaders of island states such as Fiji, Tuvalu and Kiribati, facing existential threats from rising sea levels, were to present formally the already completed ratification by their parliaments.

"China will finalise domestic legal procedures on its accession before the G20 Hangzhou summit in September this year," China's Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli said at the signing ceremony.

Last month was the hottest March in modern history and 2016 is shaping up as a record-breaking year for rising global temperatures.

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This year's El Nino - dubbed Darth Nino - is believed to be behind droughts, floods, severe storms and other extreme weather patterns.

The Paris agreement will come into force as soon as 55 countries responsible for 55 percent of the world's greenhouse gases have ratified the accord.

The target date for the agreement to begin is 2020.

China and the US have said they will ratify this year and are pushing for quick ratification so that the agreement becomes operational possibly as early as late 2016 or 2017.

Caught in the midst of an election campaign, the US plans to ratify the Paris accord with an executive agreement, bypassing Congress and setting up a complex process for any future president wishing to pull out.

The EU's 28 countries are expected to take up to about a year and a half, according to Maros Sefcovic, who will be signing on behalf of the EU as vice president.

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Summary: Gathering of 175 leaders in New York marks first step towards binding countries to pledges they made to cut emissions.


LONDON—A year of debt cuts, asset sales and rising commodity prices have pulled Glencore GLNCY 1.79 % PLC back from the brink of crisis. Now, the mining and trading giant’s shareholders have a new concern: That Chief Executive Ivan Glasenberg might return to his free-spending ways.

Mr. Glasenberg spent much of the past decade as the commodities industry’s biggest deal maker, snapping up coal, copper and gold mines in places such as East Africa, South America and Australia. After a mounting debt pile and sagging commodities prices sent Glencore shares tumbling last year—the stock price fell 29% on a single day, Sept. 28 in London—investors pressured Mr. Glasenberg to slash borrowing and unload unprofitable mines. He suspended the company’s dividend, laid off workers to cut costs, and trimmed the company’s debt load to more sustainable levels, investors say.

With shares up about 180% since the free fall, Baar, Switzerland-based Glencore recently emerged as a contender in bidding for several big properties, including Australian coal assets that Rio Tinto PLC and Anglo American NGLOY 0.88 % PLC were looking to sell, say people familiar with the sales talks.

Investors say Mr. Glasenberg has work to do before he can responsibly start buying, and are hoping to hear more about cost savings than new spending when the company reports earnings on Aug. 24.

“First, we have to finish the deleveraging, then we have to restore the dividend,” said David Herro, a fund manager for Harris Associates LP who controls about 6% of Glencore’s stock, valued at about $2 billion.

Mr. Herro snapped up billions of dollars of Glencore’s stock last autumn as it fell, and said Glencore should consider whether stock buybacks make more sense than deals.

A spokesman for Glencore declined to comment.

Mr. Glasenberg transformed Glencore from a trading house into one of the world’s biggest miners, with deals like the $29.5 billion acquisition of coal miner Xstrata in 2013. But his big bets fell flat over the past two years, when commodities prices crashed. Coal, despite a rebound this year, remains under pressure due in part to world-wide attempts to curb global warming by reducing carbon emissions from coal-burning power plants.

Glencore lost $5 billion in 2015, and its stock remains more than 60% below its 2011 offering price.

There is little question Glencore’s situation has improved from a year ago, when Mr. Glasenberg was fending off investor fears that his mining and trading house was a debt-bloated powder keg on the verge of exploding.

At the end of 2015, Glencore’s net debt—which doesn’t include billions of dollars of borrowing that fuels its trading business—had dipped to $25.9 billion from $29.6 billion midyear. Glencore says it plans to reduce the debt load to $17 billion to $18 billion by the end of 2016.

“Management is doing exactly what they should be doing,” said Harris Associates’ Mr. Herro.

Last week, Glencore reported lower copper, coal and zinc output in the second quarter, compared with a year earlier, due largely to voluntary mine closures.

Glencore has already raised $2.5 billion in a share offering and $1.4 billion in a pair of “streaming” deals, which give Glencore upfront cash in exchange for gold or silver down the road. The dividend suspension has saved about $2.4 billion in cash. In the second half of the year, Glencore says it expects to book about $3.13 billion from the sale of nearly half of its agricultural business and an additional $100 million from the sale of a Kazakh gold deposit.

Glencore is also exploring the sale of another Kazakh gold mine that could fetch $2 billion and Australian rail assets that could raise an additional $750 million or more, analysts say.

Charl Malan, a portfolio manager for Van Eck Global, which holds roughly $200 million of Glencore stock, said the company should continue cutting debt and return cash to shareholders before looking for new investments. He said Glencore should restore the dividend by sometime next year, depending on commodity prices.

“Management is not going to be driven by, ‘I want more coal, I want more copper,’” Mr. Malan said. “Management will be driven by what is best for shareholders.”

One risk is that commodity prices could fall. Some analysts say a round of Chinese stimulus this year has fueled prices, and they could slide once that stimulus ends.

Other investors harbor concerns about the long-term value of coal, in which Glencore says it could invest more. Hermes Investment Management partner Bruce Duguid said his clients who have invested in Glencore worry the company hasn’t adequately calculated the risks of policies intended to curb global warming.

Glencore said it expects demand for thermal coal—which is used to produce power—to increase for years, especially in Southeast Asia.

“We’re wary of the idea that you can predict the world with great confidence, given the commodity crash that just happened was based on the misunderstanding of demand,” Mr. Duguid said.

Write to Scott Patterson at scott.patterson@wsj.com and Alex MacDonald at alex.macdonald@wsj.com

Summary: A year of debt cuts, asset sales and rising commodity prices have pulled Glencore back from the brink of crisis. Now, the mining and trading giant’s shareholders have a new concern: That CEO Ivan Glasenberg might return to his free-spending ways.


Australian seafarers have hailed a High Court victory they say will protect local jobs on offshore oil and gas projects and curb the potential exploitation of foreign workers.

The High Court on Wednesday unanimously ruled against the federal government's decision to exempt companies from obtaining visas for foreign workers on vessels that are outside the redefined Australian migration zone.

Unions argued the move provided an incentive for companies to hire foreigners for cheaper wages and undercut safety standards and conditions.

The court found the immigration minister had exceeded his authority by exercising unrestrained powers.

Slater and Gordon lawyer Kathryn Presdee said foreigners hired by international shipping firms would not have been covered by Australia's Fair Work Act.

"It's not just about exploitation, it's a huge safety issue," she told AAP.

Maritime Union Australia spokesman Will Tracey described Employment Minister Michaelia Cash as shrill and the government's "chief job destroyer".

"It's disappointing this government continues to attack the jobs of Australian workers in the most lucrative industry in the country - offshore oil and gas industry," he told reporters, outside the court.

Australian Maritime Officers Union spokesman Tim Higgs said the government had massively overreached and the ruling would help preserve proper wages and conditions.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the High Court's decision was disappointing.

It meant workers on vessels performing highly-specialised work now had to apply for and get a visa before being able to do any more work.

"This will add red tape, add costs to industry and reduce the competitiveness of what is one of Australia's biggest export earners," the minister said in a statement.

He accused Labor of putting the interests of its "union masters" ahead of the national economic interest in bringing in the requirement for visas in the first place.

Summary: A long-running dispute between maritime unions and the coalition government over offshore oil and gas visas is due to come to a head in the High Court.


A key crossbench senator warns it "fails the pub test" to allow the dress uniforms of Australians troops to be made overseas.

The $9 million contract has been awarded to Australian Defence Apparel which is manufacturing the uniforms in China, the ABC reports.

"What's really on parade here is a failure to support Australian jobs by people that seem to know the price of everything and the value of nothing," Nick Xenophon said in a statement.

Defence has said the tender represented best value for money.

"Australian Defence Apparel was selected as the preferred tenderer, following an open competitive process," the department said.

Summary: Crossbench senator Nick Xenophon is outraged the dress uniforms for Australian troops will be made overseas costing local jobs.


HONG KONG — A Donald Trump presidency could hurt bonds in emerging markets such as China and Mexico by weighing on global trade, according to Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd.

The Republican nominee, who faced Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton in their first debate on Monday, has proposed protectionist measures including placing punitive tariffs on Chinese imports and building a wall on the US border with Mexico. Trump is behind Clinton by just 1.6 percent in the The Real Clear Politics average of national polls. The narrowing Clinton-Trump spread has already contributed to a drop in prices of Treasuries, seemingly benefited the dollar, and hurt emerging-market currencies, according to Societe Generale SA.

Near-zero percent interest rates in the US, Europe and Japan have sparked a hunt for yield and prompted investors to plow money into riskier assets. In the debate, Trump targeted the Federal Reserve and said its policy of keeping rates low was politically motivated, a claim Fed Chair Janet Yellen has repeatedly denied. Dollar bonds from issuers in emerging markets have returned 11.1 percent this year, the most since 2012, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes. A Trump victory in November could turn the tide, according to Donald Amstad, a director at Aberdeen Asset Management.

“China has been a huge beneficiary of globalization and if Trump gets elected, I don’t think globalization will continue to increase at the same pace as before,” Amstad said. “Trump represents the American workers who have lost their jobs to Chinese workers.”

Trump lashed out at trade with China and Mexico in the debate as he has throughout the campaign. He said the US was being put at a disadvantage. China, he said, is “using our country as a piggy bank.’’

Clinton’s message has been more complicated, even as she has taken positions that also could weigh on commerce. She has rescinded her affection for the Trans-Pacific Partnership she supported as Secretary of State, and is now pledging to appoint a “chief trade prosecutor,” triple the number of enforcement officers and review existing agreements.

Amstad declined to comment on the effect of a Clinton victory on emerging-market bonds.

Another risk is if a buoyant US economy pushes the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates more rapidly, Amstad said. The Fed left interest rates on hold last week but that decision drew dissent from three voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee — the first time that’s happened since 2014.

“If wages in the US surge, creating inflationary pressures, the Fed may need to raise rates aggressively,” said Amstad. “This may be a difficult time for emerging markets.”

Summary: If Trump wins, it would weigh on global trade, say investment observers.


Nearly 900 Queensland public servants have begun the largest move of government personnel in the state's history as they shift from their current offices to the state's new "Tower of Power".

The workers will finish the move across to the new Executive Building at 1 William Street over the weekend, ready for work on Monday.

The controversial 41-storey tower, planned by the former Newman government, will eventually house 5000 public servants, consolidated under one roof from 20 other offices.

Project director Paul Kroutz, from Queensland Treasury, admitted the expensive project would have cost more if not for cutting some of the more extravagant fittings such as stone walls.

"It was about a million dollars in savings by reducing some of the finishes and reducing some of the rugs and things," he said

In total, 1 William Street has cost around $650 million to build, but will cost the Queensland government $1.14-billion over the next 15 years to lease.

Former premier Campbell Newman had claimed the building would save taxpayers $60 million each year in office leasing costs.

But the current Labor government has criticised the cost of the tower's construction and says it was left with no choice to fill it with public servants as the private sector wasn't willing to pay the high rent prices.

All 5000 public servants will have taken their desks in the new tower by the beginning of December.

The tower was built to meet a five-star Green Star rating, and features open-plan offices looking out on floor-to-ceiling windows offering panoramic views of the Brisbane skyline.

Summary: Public servants will begin moving into Queensland's so-called 'tower of power' on Friday.


Airbnb Inc. made a large slice of its money in the Boston area from properties that were rented for six months or longer in the past year, dwarfing the earnings of small-time casual hosts who are the face of the $30 billion online rental service’s lobbying campaign in Massachusetts, data released by the company show.

Data provided to the Globe show that just over 10 percent ofAirbnb rentals in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville were occupied by renters for a total of six months or more over a 12-month period through August, but generated 37 percent of revenue paid to Airbnb hosts in that period.

That money was generated by a small rental pool: 766 units, split about evenly between private rooms and entire homes or apartments.Airbnb didn’t identify the individual units, and it’s unclear how many were already short-term rentals before the listing service came along.

Airbnb did say some fraction of those units were likely boutique hotels or bed-and-breakfast inns, rather than residential homes. The company collects a percentage of each rental, both from the host and the renter.

Still, some local lawmakers have raised concerns that Airbnb and similar services are helping property owners remove permanent housing from an already tight market and disrupting residential neighborhoods.

“When units are being used as virtual hotels, it hurts the housing stock,” said Aaron Michlewitz, a state representative from Boston who has proposed new regulations. “It’s not the only reason, but it’s certainly one of the spokes on the wheel of the housing crisis we have here.”

The Legislature considered several measures targeting Airbnb in its most recent session, including one to impose hotel taxes on its rentals, but those failed to pass. House Speaker Robert DeLeo said this week that taxing and regulating short-term rentals was one of the key issues lawmakers would tackle in the new legislative session that begins in January.

“We’re going to have to get some regulations,” DeLeo said. “Something like this just can’t operate in a vacuum.”

Airbnb has said it is willing to collect hotel taxes on its rentals, and also signaled a willingness to accept some new regulations — so long as they do not deter casual hosts from renting out their homes.

And with the new session just a few months off, Airbnb is trying to soften up legislators with a campaign that includes new television commercials in the Boston area, highlighting everyday homeowners who make extra money renting out their homes.

“It gives us that little income that’s going to keep the city, for us, affordable. For the working people,” a woman named Sherry, whom Airbnb identified as a teacher in Cambridge, says in one ad.

Airbnb said it has supported regulations adopted in other cities, including limits on the length of certain types of rentals and registration for higher-volume properties. But it also doesn’t want legislators adopting rules that would treat professional landlords the same as casual hosts.

“There are certainly difficult issues, and we’re not trying to avoid them,” Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk said recently. “But we are asking that we have a conversation about them, so that we can come up with innovative solutions and not simply do things as they were once done, because that will stifle this new economy that’s emerging.”

The company’s data show its largest pool of properties in the Boston area — 4,170 entire homes, private rooms, or shared rooms — were rented for fewer than 31 days in the past year. Those units accounted for 9.7 percent of Airbnb hosts’ rental revenue.

Airbnb also said that a large majority of its Boston hosts “are sharing their primary residence a few days each month and typically make $6,400 in supplemental income each year.”

Asked about possible steps to help protect housing stock, the company pointed to cities such as Philadelphia, where hosts must get a permit if the property is listed for more than 90 days per year, and San Jose, CA, which has placed a 180-day limit on renting out a home when the resident is not there.

Those local rules are part of a surge in scrutiny from regulators around the country, who are taking notice of Airbnb’s increasing presence and its possible effects on the housing market and the hotel industry.

This summer, US Senator Elizabeth Warren and two Senate colleagues asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether commercial users on sites like Airbnb are “taking housing inventory off the market and driving up the cost of rent.”

Boston officials are studying the issue and have requested data from Airbnb about its rental hosts. The Cambridge City Council is considering new regulations that could require hosts to live in the building where they’re renting a unit, aiming to restrict absentee landlords from running short-term rentals in the city.

The hotel industry has also been lobbying the issue, saying the lack of rules for Airbnb and similar services is unfair to competitors and potentially unsafe for consumers.

Paul J. Sacco, chief executive of the Massachusetts Lodging Association, said traditional hotels are not trying to stifle competition. But he said properties rented through Airbnb should have to meet some minimum standards, such as maintaining fire safety equipment and complying with federal standards for accommodating disabled people.

“This is big business, and they need to step up to the plate and pay their fair share of taxes and be regulated,” Sacco said. “I’m not even suggesting they should have the same stringent rules and regulations that lodging establishments have. I’m suggesting they have something.”

Airbnb will likely be ready. Since 2015, its first year of filing lobbying reports with the state, Airbnb has paid more than $100,000 for law firm Nutter McClennen & Fish to argue its case with state officials.

“We’re building a long-term, sustainable business, and so our relationship with government is going to be critical,” Blecharczyk said after a speech at high school alma mater, Boston Latin Academy, earlier in October. “I don’t want the narrative to be that because what we’re doing is new, that it’s somehow in conflict with cities.”

Summary: New data show a small number of properties generate a large portion of Airbnb rents in Boston.


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“The evidence in the case will tell you a story about a serial killer who stalked the streets of South Los Angeles,” said Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman during opening statements Tuesday in the trial of Grim Sleeper suspect Lonnie Franklin.

Franklin, a married father of two and former LAPD mechanic and sanitation worker for the city of Los Angeles, was charged in July 2010 with 10 murders and one attempted murder. He faces the death penalty for the alleged 23-year murder spree. All of the women had been shot with a .25 caliber pistol or strangled and were discovered in Dumpsters and alleyways along Western Avenue in South Los Angeles, an area known for its cheap motels, liquor stores, gambling parlors, auto salvage yards and storefront churches.

“All of them, every single one of them was connected to the same serial killer either by DNA evidence or firearms evidence,” said Silverman.

Franklin has plead not guilty to all charges and is represented by defense attorney Seymour Amster, who declined to make opening statements.

Family members have waited for more than five years for justice. “I’m anxious,” says Diana Ware, stepmother of Barbara Ware whose body was found hidden under a gas tank and covered with trash in January of 1987. “But I’m happy the day is finally here.”

“It is a long time coming,” says Donnell Alexander whose 18-year-old sister Monique was found dead on Sept. 11, 1988, in a South Los Angeles alley. She had been sexually assaulted, strangled and shot once in the chest. “This is a process we have to go through. My sister is in a better place. The only thing she did wrong was getting in his car.”

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Victim’s family members somberly watched as gruesome crimes scene photos were projected on a large screen as a bespectacled Franklin, who was dressed in a light blue long sleeved shirt and dark pants, stared silently at the judge.

The series of murders began in 1985 during the crack epidemic. “It was very cheap and extremely potent,” said Silverman of the drug. “It disproportionately effected Black families and left a legacy of destruction.”

During that time, Silverman said, Franklin preyed on women who were addicted to the drug and lured them into his car with the promise of crack.

“He knew they didn’t worry about their safety and they were only focused on getting more,” said Silverman. “They were perfect targets. It was a perfect place in time for a serial killer to roam the streets without detection.”

His victims were all young black women “dumped like trash” in filthy alleyways, said Silverman. “Some of them were left to rot. Some were dumped in trash dumpsters. Some were covered with dirty mattresses. Almost all of them were hidden under debris behind bushes.”

Most of the women, who ranged in age from 15 to 35, were found without their bras, underwear and identification. “They were all taken off to the coroner as Jane Doe’s,” said Silverman.

Eight of Franklin’s alleged killings occurred between 1985 and 1988. The murders resumed again in 2002, 2003 and 2007.

“There was no progress made in the case because of a lack of available leads,” said Silverman. “There were no eyewitnesses to the crime.”

But, in 2007, after the murder of Janecia Peters, the Los Angeles Police Department began a task force to look into the slayings. Although they had the killers DNA, he wasn’t in the state or federal database of felons. “The problem was we didn’t know who owned the DNA,” said Silverman.

All that changed in 2010 when Franklin was finally caught through familial DNA testing after his 28-year-old son, Christopher, was arrested for carrying a weapon in the summer of 2009 and had to give up a DNA swab. Once it was determined that Christopher was related to the killer, detectives followed the elder Franklin to a pizza place in Long Beach. As Franklin finished his meal, a detective who posed as a busboy collected a fork, two plastic cups, a plate and a pizza slice left by Franklin. A few days later, DNA taken from the pizza slice came back as a match to DNA found on alleged Grim Sleeper victim Barbara Ware.

During a police interview, Franklin showed no remorse after he was presented photos of his alleged victims. “He called one of them fat and the other butt ugly,” said Silverman. “He laughs and makes light of the dead women in front of him.”

Police later conducted a massive three-day search of his house and discovered the .25 caliber pistol allegedly used to kill Janecia Peters. Also found inside his home and garage were LAPD handcuffs, 10 different firearms, $17,000 in cash, and a stash of photos, including a picture of Peters and a Polaroid of survivor Enietra Washington, who was shot in the chest and left for dead.

Police suspect that Franklin may have killed at least six additional women in addition to the 10 whose deaths he’s charged with.

“I’m not relieved till it is over,” says Ware’s aunt Sherry Ware Costa about the trial. “There will never be closure, just justice hopefully.”

Summary: Lonnie Franklin is a married father of two and former LAPD mechanic and sanitation worker for the city of Los Angeles


Finally the proof is in: The real-life Mafia and Hollywood's version of the underworld have become one and the same.

The true and the false came together during a remarkable 1999 Christmas party in Little Italy that was under surveillance by the FBI, the Daily News has learned.

During the party at Il Cortile on Mulberry St., cast members of "The Sopranos" mingled with made members of the Colombo crime family, according to a source familiar with the investigation.

Another participant in the Goodfellas get-together down on Mulberry St. was James Caan of "The Godfather" fame, the source said.

The intersection of myth and reality was discovered on a chilly night in December 1999, as law enforcement agents secretly observed the restaurant after learning of a Colombo gathering there, the source told The News.

The investigators were watching James (Jimmy Green Eyes) Clemenza, a reputed Colombo capo and his brother, Jerry Clemenza, an alleged Colombo soldier, the source said.

The FBI was camped out in front of Il Cortile, a fixture serving traditional Italian fare in the heart of Little Italy since 1975. The restaurant is across the street from one ex-mob social club and three blocks from John Gotti's former hangout, the Ravenite.

A source familiar with the investigation said agents observed the Clemenza brothers and other members of the Colombo family enter the restaurant for a party.

They also saw several members of the "Sopranos" cast join the party, including Tony (Paulie Walnuts) Sirico, and Vincent (Big Pussy) Pastore.

In an interview, Sirico acknowledged knowing both Clemenza brothers and said he had eaten at Il Cortile five times in the last few years.

He did not recall attending a party there with the Clemenzas, though he did not rule it out.

"I have been to so many dinners and parties and charities, I have no idea," he said. "I don't want to be mixed up with a lot of bad guys."

Sirico, who has a lengthy criminal record from the 1970s, said he has stayed on the straight and narrow for years: "All that tough guy stuff went out the window years ago."

"If I was at a place where there was mob guys, I'm sorry to hear it. I'm sorry for me," he said.

Regarding the Clemenza brothers, he was discreet: "I know them. I know everybody. I've been around. I don't remember this party. If I was there, I wasn't hanging out with nobody."

"I haven't seen these guys in a hundred years," he added. "I haven't seen the kid Jerry [Clemenza] in a thousand years."

Sirico remembered being at Il Cortile on more than one occasion with Pastore, but he couldn't recall dates.

The owner of Il Cortile, Carmine Esposito, also recalled Sirico and Pastore eating at his restaurant on more than one occasion. Pastore did not return several calls seeking comment.

Either way, Sirico emphasized that he had done nothing unlawful and said the FBI should remember that he is simply an actor who does not take his part too seriously.

"I hope they don't have my name on a list. I'm an actor. I hope they know that," he said.

Another actor who allegedly attended the Colombo party was Caan, who has long professed to be a friend of Andrew Russo, reputedly a top leader of the Colombo crime family.

Representatives for Caan, who played the hot-headed Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather," did not return calls seeking comment.

At times, it is hard to tell the difference between the real-life Mafia and the Mafia of TV and Hollywood. In March 1999, for instance, the FBI recorded several members of the DeCavalcante family discussing the hit HBO show.

Anthony Rotondo, an alleged capo, said he recognized incidents and real gangsters in the characters and plots of the allegedly fictional TV show.

"Every show you watch, more and more you pick up somebody," Rotondo said, reeling off several striking similarities between the show and the DeCavalcante family.

Through a spokesman, "Sopranos" creator David Chase admitted he'd been at Il Cortile in the 1980s and a few months ago, but he insisted he was not at the Colombo family party.

Quentin Schaffer, a spokesman for HBO, emphasized that the highly successful "Sopranos" was all made up:

"David, despite what people think when they watch 'The Sopranos,' does not know all these crime figures. People just assume because it's so accurate, so real. He's not whoever you think he is. They've done research. They obviously read the press clippings. They talk to law enforcement people. They try to give it a feeling of accuracy. But he does not know any of these people."

But when it comes to La Cosa Nostra in the 21st century, the line between fact and fiction gets fuzzier by the day.

Even Sirico, who plays his Paulie Walnuts character as a cold-hearted hit man, says real-life gangsters have given him advice on how to behave on screen.

"I've had guys come up to me, I don't even want to tell you. They say I should have been a little harder in some scene. I don't know what to tell them. What do you say? I mean, what can you say?"

Summary: Finally the proof is in: The real-life Mafia and Hollywood's version of the underworld have become one and the same. The true and the false came together during a remarkable 1999 Christmas party in Little Italy that was under surveillance by the FBI, the Daily News has learned. During the party at Il Cortile on Mulberry St., cast members of "The Sopranos"mingled with made members of


Posted Oct 24th 2007 6:40PM by TMZ Staff

First Lady Laura Bush is waging a war of her own in the Middle East -- against breast cancer!The 60-year-old, who had a cancerous growth removed from her leg last year, met with breast cancer survivors in the United Arab Emirates this week. Mrs. Bush chatted with the ladies, clad in their little black burkas, at the Sheikh Khalifa Medical Center in Abu Dhabi. Laura's helping launch the U.S.-Middle East Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research. October is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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Sunday, May 17th 1998, 2:04AM

Godzilla From the director of "Independence Day," the Monster with the Mostess goes on a romp in Manhattan.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Johnny Depp stars as journalist Raoul Duke in this adaptation of Hunter Thompson's gonzo '60s novel.

Hope Floats Sandra Bullock stars as a single mother who goes back to live with her mom and runs into childhood friend and new romantic interest Harry Connick Jr.

Almost Heroes Matthew Perry (of "Friends") and the late Chris Farley as bumbling explorers.

The Opposite of Sex Comedy starring Christina Ricci as a teenager who tries to seduce her brother's gay lover.

The Last Days of Disco Director Whit Stillman ("Barcelona," "Metropolitan") takes us past the velvet ropes. Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny are the yuppies du jour.

The Truman Show Jim Carrey (as Truman Burbank) discovers his life is being filmed and broadcast all over the world in this drama directed by Peter Weir.

Mr. Jealousy Eric Stoltz and Annabella Sciorra in a comedy about a man who lets jealousy ruin his life.

Can't Hardly Wait Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ethan Embry in a comedy about high-chool students on graduation eve.

Dirty Work (MGM) "Saturday Night Live's" Norm Macdonald stars in this comedy about two buddies who start a company to take revenge on other people.

Hav Plenty Young black urban professionals in love.

High Art Ally Sheedy stars as an elusive and mysterious photographer who captivates her downstairs neighbor, played by Radha Mitchell.

The Land Girls During World War II, three young women go to work at a farm and fall for the owner's son.

6 Days, 7 Nights Harrison Ford as a gruff cargo pilot stranded on an island with acerbic New Yorker Ann Heche.

The X Files The TV cult hit comes to the big screen, promising to tie the loose ends from this year's season finale.

Mulan From Disney, a young Chinese princess dresses as a man and joins the army in order to save her family. Animated epic with the voices of Ming-Na Wen and Eddie Murphy.

Henry Fool Long Island auteur Hal Hartley's latest is the story of an unassuming garbageman who is turned into a literary success by the loud, rude Henry Fool. Parker Posey plays the garbageman's nymphomaniac sister.

Cousin Bette Jessica Lange and Elisabeth Shue star in this adaptation of the 1846 Honore de Balzac novel about a Parisian spinster.

Out of Sight George Clooney as a bank robber who takes federal agent Jennifer Lopez hostage. From the novel by Elmore Leonard.

Gone With the Wind The 1939 classic movie romance is rereleased with new digitally reproduced sound.

Doctor Dolittle Eddie Murphy talks to the animals in this remake of the 1967 children's movie.

Armageddon An asteroid is about to crash into the Earth. Bruce Willis and his team of oil drillers are recruited to land on its surface and drop a nuclear device into the core.

Lethal Weapon 4 Chris Rock joins Mel Gibson, Danny Glover and Rene Russo in the latest installment of the hugely successful movie series.

Small Soldiers Joe Dante ("Gremlins") directs this mix of animation and live action about toy soldiers come to life.

Madeline Oscar-winner Frances McDormand stars in the first movie based on the classic children's book.

There's Something About Mary Ben Stiller as a lovable loser who hires a private detective, played by Matt Dillon, to find his high school sweetheart (Cameron Diaz).

Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg's World War II drama stars Tom Hanks.

Jane Austen's Mafia! Organized crime spoof by the creators of "Airplane!" and the "Naked Gun" movies. Starring Lloyd Bridges.

The Parent Trap Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson and Lindsay Lohan in a remake of the Disney classic about twins separated at birth who conspire to reunite their parents.

BASEketball Spoof of the professional sports world by the director of "Airplane!"

The Governess Minnie Driver stars in this period drama about a young Jewish woman who takes a job as a governess on a Scottish island.

A Perfect Murder Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow in a suspenser based on Alfred Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder."

Be the Man The adventures of TV's Super Dave Osborne come to the big screen.

Clay Pigeons Drifters, losers and babes in Montana. With Vince Vaughn and Janeane Garofalo.

Ever After: A Cinderella Story Drew Barrymore as a Cinderella for the new millennium.

The Negotiator Samuel L. Jackson holds hostages, and Kevin Spacey is the expert negotiator brought in to solve the crisis.

Snake Eyes Nicolas Cage and Gary Sinise in Brian De Palma's thriller about an Atlantic City cop who uncovers a conspiracy.

Virus Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin and Donald Sutherland in a techno-thriller about the crew of a tugboat who find a deadly virus.

The Avengers Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman play stylish crimefighters.

"Stepford Wives"-like teen paranoid thriller.

Rush Hour Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker fight crime in L.A.

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LOS ANGELES — Superstar Cee Lo Green is set to host "

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A card from Capt. HENRY M. BINNEY, Aidde-Camp to Col. MILES, appears in the Boston Jour- nal. The following are its essential portions:

"Our first rumors of the enemy's crossing into Maryland, near Nolan's Ferry, at the mouth of the Monocacy River, seventeen miles below Harper's Ferry, was received on Sept. 1, from our pickets at that point, who were driven into Point of Rocks. Reinforcements were immediately received at that point. Col. MILES sent the Eighty-sixth Ohio Regiment, with two 12-pounder howitzers. The enemy crossed in very large force, cutting the canal at seven-mile level, driving back our forces to Berlin, thence to Knoxville, Weavertown, and finally to Sandy Hook.

Thursday, Sept. 11, the enemy were nearly 50,000 strong in Pleasant Valley, and forced their way through Solomon's Gap and there "shelied out" our pickets who were thrown there by Col. FORD, of the Thirty-second Ohio, who commanded Maryland Heights. He then had the Thirty-second Ohio, 600; Rhode Island Cavalry, 350; Maryland Cavalry, 200; MCGRATH's Artillery Company, 100; Battalion First Maryland Infantry, 300 -- total, 1,550. Col. FORD represented if he had another regiment he could hold the Heights against the whole rebel army. He was reinforced by the Garibaldi Guards, and subsequently, at his desire, the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth New-York, the One Hundred and Fifteenth New-York and the Third Maryland. The last order he had from Col. MILES was a peremptory one to hold those heights. On Saturday he evacuated and crossed to Harper's Ferry, spiking the siege guns, Col. FORD never received orders either verbal or written from Col. MILES to evacuate. The enemy did not make his appearance on the heights for over four hours afterward. Col. FORD had the following force when he left the heights: Thirty-second Ohio, 600; Capt. McGRATH's Company Artillery; Fifth New-York, (heavy,) 100; Battalion First Maryland infantry, 300; Third Maryland infantry, 550; One Hundred and Twenty-sixth New-York Volunteers, 950; One Hundred and Fifteenth New-York Volunteers, 975; Thirty-ninth New-York, Garibaldi Guards, 500 -- total, 3,597 men.

Col. FORD's only reason for evacuating the heights, when asked by Col. MILES, was "His regiments wouldn't fight" -- a stigma upon his own Thirty-second Ohio and the Garibaldians, who alone could have held the heights until Monday.

Again, Harper's Ferry is represented as an immense stronghole -- "a Gibraltar." Harper's Ferry was a complete slaughter pen -- a small triangular position, contracted between two rivers and surrounded on all sides by bluffs and hills. Gen. JACKSON and Gen. HILL told me, personally, they had rather take it forty times than to undertake to defend it once. Col. MILES was wounded three-quarters of an hour after the white handkerchief was displayed, emblematic of a cessation of hostilities, and not after the condition of surrender was settled.

Again, I saw a statement that fifty-seven pieces of artillery were turned over, and three field batteries besides, making seventy-five pieces -- a falsity; also, on hundred tons of ammunition, and twenty days' rations for 15,000 men -- a base lie. Our men had been living on half rations for three days precious to Gen. WHITE's arrival with 3,500 men from Martinsburgh, Col. MILES seized all the flour from the mills and stores in and around Harper's Ferry, to subsist his troops upon. The [???] done Col. MILES has emanated principally from the infantry troops, who had nothing to do with the engagements of Sunday and Monday, it being an artillery duct entirely, with the infantry in trenches five [???]. As for ammunition, the enemy got about 40,000 rounds of musket cartridges, and not [???] shall nor round shot. They got about 50 rounds of canister shot (300 yards range,) Col. MILES would not and did not raise the while flag until his artillerists had all reported themselves entirely out of ammunition. The enemy did not get 15,000 stand of arms, but about 7,500, and most of them the men had rendered useless by taking out the lock springs. They got the following guns: Six 24-pounder howitzers; twelve 6-pounder Napoleons, smooth; six 3-inch JAMES' rifled guns; four 20-pounder rifled Parrots; six smooth bores, brass. Also, the following guns, which were spiked and useless on Maryland Heights; Two 9-inch Dahlgrens; one 50-pounder rifled Parrot; six 12-pounder howitzers; four common rough, Total, 17.

By publishing the above written items, you will do justice to the public, and by stating that a more gallant and loyal officer does, not exist in the State, nor does there exist a man who, under the circumstances, could have held out longer than did Col. MILES. The Government knew his situation -- knew he was pressed with 100,000 men who were determined to take the place -- new that the place was under a tremendous cannonade, from daylight, on Friday, Sept. 12, till dark; again from daybreak, Saturday, till dark; from 2 1/2 P.M., Sunday, the 14th, till dark; and at last, before daylight, on Monday, Sept. 15, until the last shell and round shot was expended, at 9 o'clock A.M. Col. MILES' limb was not amputated; reaction did not take place sufficient to allow of it. He lingered until 4 1/2 P.M., on Tuesday. On Wednesday his body was taken to Frederick in a rough box by his Staff officers, and a metallic case procured, and therein conveyed to Sweet Air, Baltimore County, near Baltimore, Md. I hope justice will be done by the proper report at headquarters of the army. Justice demands that the public await the official report, which will be given the world in a few days.

I am, Sir, with great, respect,

Captain, and Aid-de-Camp to Col. D.S. MILES, Commanding the Division.

-- Capt. J. Whele, and Capt. P. Nelson, of the Sixty-Sixth New-York Volunteers, did gallant service in the battle of Sharpsburgh on Sept. 17. They led the regiment in a charge which resulted disastrously to the enemy, and did much to decide the fortunes of the day.