How many times have you clicked a video or a link and then waited… and waited?

Twenty-first-century fatwas have become way more technologically advanced than edicts of old against the likes of Salman Rushdie and other supposed infidels.

"What's the Wi-Fi password?" If you're like us, you've heard this shouted throughout your house many times.

Want to take control of YouTube, stop Wi-Fi from dropping, and extend battery life for iPhone and iPad? Then read this column.

Want to know how to pick the best TV for your needs, improve your Wi-Fi network or make extra money online? Read this column.

It's easy to imagine the leader of the free world gets all the best things for free, but that is not the case.

Kim Komando answers your questions about finding the cheapest Internet plans, cutting down on spam and eliminating wi-fi dead spots.

The new mobile PCs stuff in faster processors and better Wi-Fi.

Public Wi-Fi is a convenient way to check Facebook, browse the Internet or do some online shopping on the go without putting a dent in your cellular data plan.

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Faraday Future plans to begin testing prototype self-driving electric vehicles on California roads later this year after winning approval from the state, an industry source said on Tuesday.

The China-backed, Los Angeles-based startup plans to begin building and selling electric vehicles next year in the United States, but has not disclosed details of its self-driving program.

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A spokesperson from the California Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday confirmed that Faraday had been approved to test self-driving vehicles on public roads on June 17.

Summary: The company can drive its autonomous vehicles on public roads starting June 17.


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So that audio problem that plagued Adele's performance of "All I Ask" at the Grammy Awards Monday night when a microphone dropped onto the piano's strings? Yeah, Adele noticed it, too -- as it was happening.

"I heard it straight away. And I knew where the mic was and I wanted to turn around and lift it up, but I froze," Adele told Ellen DeGeneres during a visit to her talk show this week. "I wanted to tell everyone straight away because it seemed to be a lot of confusion about what it was. I was embarrassed. I woke up the next morning to people in England being like. 'We still love you, don't worry,' and I was like, I didn't ask you if you still loved me, but thanks. I was so embarrassed."

The "Hello" singer was pretty broken up about the whole thing. "I cried pretty much all day yesterday," Adele admitted. But don't feel too bad about her tears, because apparently they were a prerequisite: "In fairness I would have cried if it went really well as well," she added. "If it was a stand-out performance I would have cried as well. I always cry."

But at least Adele was in a good mood during her visit to DeGeneres' show. She also indulged the host by recording a "Hello"-inspired outgoing voicemail message. Such a good sport.

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Summary: The singer tells Ellen that the botched performance really took a toll on her


"Little Women: LA" star Jasmine Arteaga Sorge and her husband, Chris, are expecting their second child ... TMZ has learned.

Sources close to the couple tell us ... Jasmine is nearing the end of her first trimester. No word on whether it's a boy or a girl.

They'll document the pregnancy on the show, and we're told cameras will also be rolling for the birth.

Jasmine's the fourth 'L.A.' cast member to get pregnant.

Summary: "Little Women: LA" star Jasmine Arteaga Sorge and her husband, Chris, are expecting their second child ... TMZ has learned. Sources close to the…


is putting concert venues everywhere on notice -- telling TMZ, a massive Boosie concert scam is currently preying on unsuspecting booking agents across the country ... and several people have already fallen victim.

We spoke to several of the alleged victims -- two in Dallas and one in Detroit -- and each of them claim the scam cost them $25,000.

Here's how it happened -- one of the alleged victims LaToya Thompson tells us, she came across a Boosie booking flier on Instagram recently and called the phone number. She says she was eventually put in touch with a man claiming to be Boosie's brother TQ.

LaToya tells us, "TQ" instructed her to wire him $25,000 to book Boosie for a concert in April -- and as soon as the money went through last week, "TQ" went AWOL.

The two other alleged victims tell the same story -- one says he had booked Boosie for an appearance last week, and the rapper never showed. He says "TQ" also never responded to his phone calls.

LaToya sent us the contract -- which lists a Giovany Productions as the company behind the bookings. We tried to get in touch with someone at Giovany but the phone numbers didn't work.

But Boosie says it doesn't matter -- he never gave permission to any company to book him. All bookings must go through his brother TQ -- the real TQ -- and TQ tells us, he was NOT involved in the bookings in question. TQ also says he plans to file a police report.

For her part, LaToya has already filed a police report ... but she's probably SOL.

Summary: Lil Boosie is putting concert venues everywhere on notice -- telling TMZ, a massive Boosie concert scam is currently preying on unsuspecting booking…


Over the last seven years, Donald Mitchell, a 60-year-old strategy consultant in Boston, has made $20,000 writing book reviews on Amazon.com. He’s so good, and so prolific–with 2,923 reviews to date–that Amazon customers have consistently voted him among the top five reviewers on the site. (The top reviewer, a former librarian from Pennsylvania named Harriet Klausner, has reviewed 12,753 books. Skeptics doubt that she actually exists.)

Mitchell is part of an online subculture that has helped democratize the reviewing process and cemented Amazon’s significance in the publishing world. Oprah Winfrey and the New York Times can elevate an obscure debut novelist to a best seller, but Amazon provides the shortest path between a good review and an actual sale: The two are just a click away.

The publishing world–as well as the top brass at Amazon–understands this connection. In 2004 Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos invited top reviewers to a company retreat. Best-selling authors like John Rechy, who wrote City of Night, have been caught pseudonymously giving themselves favorable Amazon reviews. Meanwhile, everyman types like Mitchell have become minor celebrities among book buyers and writers alike.

Mitchell started writing reviews in 1999, when he was about to publish his first book, a business manual called The 2,000 Percent Solution. He reads a book a day and writes a review “whenever it feels like it needs to come out”–usually about five a week. He gravitates toward business books. “But I also like memoirs,” he says. “I read a lot of mystery stories. Also, photography. And art–I’m an art collector. And thrillers, and pop culture. I also review self-help books. I do a lot of books about psychiatry. And children’s books.”

Mitchell tries to write reviews as if he’s talking to someone, and he knows how to please his audience. “In novels, they want to know how much is action versus how much is the thought process,” he says. “I have a mental template that I use.” Something about Mitchell’s prose inspires people to contact him. He receives a handful of e-mails a day, most often from people who want to learn to read faster or start their own businesses. “A lot of people will contact me about advising their children: how they can get into Harvard, what they should do for their careers.” He also hears from women who want to divorce their husbands. “I try to send them information and resources,” he says. “They never explain why they pick me out.” He tries to respond to everyone.

Reviewing has its perks. “People are always inviting me to go on trips with them,” he says. “If I have reviewed a travel book, they’ll invite me to go to that place with them.” He gets frequent dinner offers (which he accepts “occasionally”), and after mentioning in a review that he had never played on the Yale golf course, a reader invited him to play there. He accepted.

Writers regularly court Mitchell. He receives up to 40 books a day and hears directly from the author “80% of the time.” He says that Jamie Lee Curtis sends him notes when he reviews her children’s books, and Jack Canfield–of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame–contacts him before releasing a new book. After he reviewed Spencer Johnson’s book Who Moved My Cheese?, Mitchell says, Johnson called him to discuss his criticism and incorporated his suggestions in later editions.

Mitchell has parlayed his reviews into a profitable enterprise. For authors who write books that Mitchell wouldn’t typically review, he’ll ask them to make a $600 donation to Habitat for Humanity. The donation doesn’t guarantee a favorable review, although Mitchell concedes that he’ll try to make it longer. He originally charged $25 and has since bumped up the price. “I’m probably not charging enough,” he says. “A friend told me I should ask for $2,000.” Mitchell has donated his $20,000 in review earnings to Habitat.

Mitchell’s experience as a reviewer jump-started his career as a writer. When he started looking for a literary agent two years ago, he says he found 14 who were willing to represent him. He has 50 blurbs for his upcoming book, which he publicizes on a separate blog run by Amazon. “I found that people were quite helpful,” Mitchell says. “Many people have offered to review it.”

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Summary: Donald Mitchell has written 2,923 book reviews for Amazon.com--and made $20,000 doing it.


When Fiona Bloom needed an air conditioner installed in her Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, apartment three weeks ago, she went on Tinder.

The 47-year-old, who has been dating in NYC for the past 20 years, decided to put the app to use after being repeatedly disappointed by the city’s dating pool. “I’ve tried speed dating and all the dating apps, but every time I put my real age, all I get are idiots and losers,” Bloom, a publicist, tells The Post. “I figured, why not make them useful and have them help me around the house?”

So that afternoon, she swiped right on a 40-something bachelor. His default photo featured him wearing overalls and holding a hammer.

“I wasn’t attracted to him, but he was very forthcoming,” she says. She messaged him, saying she was only looking for someone to come over to install her air conditioner, making it very clear it wasn’t a date.

After he came over, opened her window and set up her AC, she said thank you — and promptly kicked him out. He later messaged her to go on a proper date, but she never replied and doesn’t regret it.

“Men are hard-wired to feel strong and be a provider,” she says, noting she’s also used this method to hitch a ride to the Hamptons. “I don’t feel guilty using them for a little help.”

‘Every time I put my real age, all I get are idiots and losers. I figured, why not make them useful and have them help me around the house?’

Bloom isn’t the only city singleton using Tinder as a cost-effective way to find a handyman and get chores done — and experts say that’s OK, as long as women are upfront about their intentions.

“If a man thinks waxing a woman’s floors will get him action, why not?” says Marni Kinrys, writer of LA dating blog WingGirlMethod.com. “This could be a great starting point for both parties to get to know each other.”

But other dating experts say it’s thinly veiled exploitation. “It just seems so transparently selfish,” says LA-based dating coach Evan Marc Katz. “It’s equivalent to the guy who has sex with a stranger and never calls her again.”

Plus, it could be dangerous if the guy feels rejected after he tried winning her over by doing her chores. “You get the wrong guy on the wrong day, and he has anger issues and yeah — it could be a bad situation,” adds Katz.

For some, using Tinder as a one-stop shop for handymen has the added bonus of leading to romance.

“I sent him a selfie of me sweating in my room, and he came over like a knight in shining armor,” says Lori of her now-boyfriend, Andrew, 28, whom she met on Tinder in 2014 when she was looking for someone to install her air conditioner. “I think men really like a damsel in distress,” adds Lori, a 24-year-old Greenpoint, Brooklyn-based social media editor who asked not to use her last name for professional reasons.

Just don’t expect men to be asking women to do their dishes via the dating app. “I know no single woman in NYC who would ever do a man’s chores,” Kinrys says. “It feels like the 1960s.

“They should go on Craigslist instead.”

Summary: When Fiona Bloom needed an air conditioner installed in her Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, apartment three weeks ago, she went on Tinder. The 47-year-old, who has been dating in NYC for the past 20 years, dec…


While many law school graduates are all too aware of their accumulating pile of debt, few may realize it can prevent them from practicing law and kill any hopes of paying down their loans.

Just ask recent law grad Hassan Jonathan Griffin. The highest court in Ohio denied his bar application because he didn't have a plan to pay back $170,000 in school debt.

The Ohio Supreme Court on January 11 said Griffin lacked a "feasible plan to satisfy his financial obligations." Griffin's debts include $150,000 from law school, $20,000 from his undergraduate studies and $16,500 in credit card debt.

The state's Supreme Court, which regulates admission to the practice of law in Ohio, requires that an applicant be at least 21 years old, have a bachelor's degree and law degree, and pass the Ohio bar examination.

But the state's rules specify that prior to taking the bar exam, applicants must demonstrate they possess "the requisite character, fitness, and moral qualifications for admission to the practice of law."

Griffin, 40, applied in November 2009 for the February 2010 bar exam, but his mounting financial obligations led to an investigation by the state's Board of Commissioners on Character and Fitness.

According to the board's report, Griffin graduated from Arizona State University in 2004 when he was 34 and worked full-time as a stockbroker for over five years before attending The Ohio State University Mortiz College of Law.

Since completing his first year of law school, Griffin has worked 24 to 32 hours a week at the Franklin County Public Defender's Office. Though he graduated from law school in 2008, he has been unable to obtain a full-time job and still earns $12 per hour at the public defender's office.

The board recommended that the court reject Griffin but permit him to reapply for the February 2011 bar exam. Griffin confirmed he is re-applying for the February exam and his attorney said his financial matters are now in better order.

"He has taken some positive steps to address the concerns in that opinion," said Robert Beck, an attorney with Brehm & Associates who is representing Griffin pro-bono.

Beck said he is concerned about public attention from the blogosphere toward his client's case. Beck said Griffin wants to avoid the limelight on himself in order to pursue a career in public service law.

"His parents were both active in civil rights, and so he wants to work in the public defender's office," said Beck. "The work he wants to do is hard work."

"Every member of Brehm & Associates is either a former public defender or a former member of legal aid, and we applaud Jon's desire to represent those in need," wrote Eric Brehm, principal of the law firm representing Griffin. "Jon Griffin does not desire litigation or controversy. [He] merely wants to take the Ohio Bar Examination and serve as an assistant public defender."

Other law graduates, many in the blogosphere, expressed surprise at the rejection.

"The decision strikes me as strange because that kind of debt is not out of the realm of possibility for a law student," said Hannah Yu, a lawyer in Sacramento, Calif. "This cannot be the first person they encountered with that much debt."

Joseph Tsai, co-creator of the website LawRiot.com, said he found the decision "really disheartening."

"The key issue here is about whether the character of a person, based on their past finances, can wholly determine their ethical capacity to practice law," said Tsai. "We believe it does not."

While many law school grads are unemployed, it is apparently rare they fail the character and fitness test because of their personal finances.

In April 2009, the Texas Court of Appeals revoked the probationary law license of a man in Houston with undergraduate and law school loans of around $90,000 plus interest and $58,000 in "unsecured loans."

"We handle about 100 contested hearings a year, and very rarely is financial responsibility the subject of the hearing, and even more rarely is the situation where the board decides to deny" the license, the Texas Board of Law Examiners' executive director Julia E. Vaughan told The Texas Lawyer.

The New York state appellate court rejected the license application of Robert Bowman in April 2009, according to a story in the New York Times. A court subcommittee cited student debt of over $430,000 belonging to the University of California's Hastings law school graduate.

The Education Department recently decided that Bowman's debts will be recalculated and he is not in default, allowing him to re-apply for his license, according to theThe Chronicle of Higher Education in November. Bowman could not be reached for comment.

Griffin and the others are apparently in good company and if high loan debt were to be a major factor for admission to state bars, few would be admitted.

The American Bar Association (ABA) reported that the average amount borrowed for law school was $91,506 for private schools and $59,324 for public schools in 2008. A committee from the ABA wrote in a report that these figures do not include debt from students' undergraduate years and an average law school student will graduate with debt "well in excess of $100,000."

The November 2009 report, "The Value Proposition of Attending Law School" stated that prior to the recession, starting salaries for associates at large firms were around $160,000 a year.

But among law graduates from the class of 2008, only 23 percent of students started with that salary level. About 42 percent of graduates had an annual salary of less than $65,000. And the ABA report said prospects are even bleaker now, with students competing for half as many jobs at top law firms.

"Far too many law students expect that earning a law degree will solve their financial problems for life," the ABA committee wrote. "In reality, however, attending law school can become a financial burden for law students who fail to consider carefully the financial implications of their decision."

Summary: While many law school graduates are aware of their accumulating piles of debt, few may be aware it can prevent them from practicing law to pay down their loans.


An employee walks past an electronic board that indicates the latest stock figures at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in Mumbai, India, on Monday, May 19, 2014.

Indian stocks have been on a tear this year and the government's plan to implement its budget early could provide a further boost.

"Comments that the Indian government aims to implement its new budget from 1 April (three months early) should only add to the [positive] sentiment," said Chris Weston, market strategist at IG.

"This [Nifty 50 index] still has great upside potential. Naturally there will be corrections, but buyers continue to step in and pay up for the earnings, with improving fundamentals," he said.

India's Nifty 50 surged 32 percent year to date and is Asia's best performing index. By contrast, the second-best performing index, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Composite index, is up 28.72 percent, while last year's standout, Japan's Nikkei, is only up 1.5 percent.

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The election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May and his promise to boost India's flagging economy through much-needed reforms underlie India's stock market rally.

In July, Modi announced a budget of structural reforms aimed at reviving growth. A decision to speed up the budget process by three months - announced on Saturday - could see some of these measures rolled out sooner than expected.

"What investors are realizing is that, in a world that is pretty short of growth, you are seeing the best opportunities in India," said Geoff Lewis, global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management.


Jeanine Pirro handled countless cases as the district attorney and first female judge on the Westchester County bench. But the one involving Kathleen “Kathie” Durst, missing since Jan. 31, 1982, would become something of an obsession for Pirro over the next few decades — her great white whale.

Kathleen’s husband, Manhattan real estate scion Robert Durst, was a suspect in her disappearance, although her body was never found, and the case never went to trial.

Based on a tip that ultimately proved fruitless, Pirro reopened the cold case in conjunction with the New York State police in the fall of 2000.

Panicked over the ensuing media attention, Durst fled New York for Galveston, Texas, where he tried to pass himself off as a deaf, mute woman.

This incognito new life didn’t last long; on December 23, 2000, Durst’s longtime friend, Susan Berman, was shot and killed in her Los Angeles home — a shocking development that put Durst once again in the middle of a criminal case.

Then, in October 2001, he was arrested on accusations of having murdered and dismembered a Galveston neighbor, Morris Black. Durst was acquitted after claiming he shot Black in self-defense and dismembered the body in a panic.

More than a decade passed. Durst remained free. But it all came to a stunning climax last February, when the HBO docu-series “The Jinx” aired. In the final episode, Durst, unaware that his microphone is still on, wanders off to the men’s room and mutters, “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.”

In this excerpt from Pirro’s new book — “He Killed Them All: Robert Durst and My Quest for Justice,” out Tuesday — she details meeting Durst’s current wife, Debrah Lee Charatan, who was seen briefly in “The Jinx” and became a source of fascination to viewers.

People wondered what kind of woman would marry Durst — and so did Pirro.

Pirro recalls being driven through Manhattan in October 2001, shortly after Durst was arrested for the murder of Morris Black, when her phone rang. It was John O’Donnell, a senior investigator in her office.

“Boss, we found Robert Durst’s wife.”

My heart stopped. They found the body. I said, “Where?”

He said, “She’s living in New York City.”

Kathie was alive? I said, “What do you mean?”

He said, “He’s got another wife — Debrah Lee Charatan.”

My head was reeling. Who in her right mind would marry Robert Durst?

Durst had quietly been granted a divorce from Kathie on the grounds of spousal abandonment in 1990. He and Charatan had married in December 2000. Upon hearing the surprising news, Pirro immediately had her driver change direction and head to the Madison Avenue offices of Debrah Lee Charatan Realty, Inc., on Madison Avenue.

The receptionist might not have recognized my face, but the name clicked. Her eyes got big. “One minute,” she said, and went through a door. She came back and said, “I’m sorry. Debrah can’t see you. You don’t have an appointment.”

“Well, you tell her she can talk to me now or she can come to the grand jury,” I said, which was my number-one favorite threat.

The receptionist went back in, then came out and said, “Follow me.”

We were brought to a large, sunny office. The woman behind an impressive desk said, “I’m Debrah Lee Charatan.”

“Are you married to Robert Durst?”

In her gravelly smoker’s voice, she answered, “Yes.”

I took one look at her and knew two things. One, she was not a woman you could mess with. And two, she was my kind of broad. She was impeccably dressed in high-end designer clothes. Great jewelry. She was fit and obviously worked out. Here’s a woman who spends a lot on clothes and lifestyle. Money is very important to her. She oozed confidence and was, as I’d realize quickly, sharp as a whip.

It was just bizarre to be standing in front of my nemesis’s wife. If Debrah Lee Charatan and I had happened to meet in the 1980s at a restaurant like Elaine’s or Michael’s, I could see talking to her over a cocktail and thinking, “This is one smart cookie”. . .But we weren’t meeting under pleasant circumstances.

Why marry him? Robert didn’t make a move unless he had a damned good reason, so their secret marriage had to serve a larger purpose. Knowing him, and getting to know her, I concluded that reason could only be one thing: money. It sure as hell wasn’t love.

“When did you marry Robert?” I asked.

“Do you remember the date?”

“You don’t remember the day you got married?”

She was giving me the run-around while two men with guns stood behind me. This woman had seriously big, clanging balls.

But so did I. “Why don’t you get your calendar and we’ll take a look?” I asked.

She called in the receptionist to get her calendar. Debrah flipped through it and said, “We got married on Dec. 11.”

Twelve days before Susan Berman was murdered.

I said, “Were any people at the wedding?”

“It was a small ceremony.” As my team later discovered, Debrah had opened a phone book and picked a rabbi, one Robert I. Summers. He performed a 15-minute ceremony in a conference room.

Robert gave her a $78,000 ring. It might sound like a lot. But consider that Durst received $3 million a year from his trust. If you used the one-month-salary rule, Durst should have spent $250,000.

The betrothed couple next went to a lawyer’s office, and he signed over power of attorney, giving her control of his vast fortune. Durst would himself describe the union to his sister, Wendy, as a “marriage of convenience. I had to have Debrah to write my checks. I was setting myself up to be a fugitive.”

I said to her, “You do realize that Robert Durst is a dangerous man.”

“He’s not dangerous at all. If he came home, I’d open the door.” He was on the lam at the time, having jumped bail in Galveston, Texas.

At the time, Durst was a suspect in the murder and dismemberment of Morris Black. After being charged with the murder, he posted $300,000 bail and fled Texas. He was later caught in Pennsylvania shoplifting a sandwich from a Wegman’s grocery store.

Clearly, Debrah didn’t scare easily. I would find out that she grew up a butcher’s daughter in Howard Beach, Queens. Her parents were among the few Polish Holocaust survivors — her father lost a foot on a landmine during the war — so you can only imagine how tough they were. Their daughter came with a survivor’s instinct preinstalled. It was in her blood.

“Do you have kids?” I asked.

“Would you let Robert in if your son was home?”

“I didn’t get custody,” she said.

Her first marriage, to attorney Bradley Berger, ended in 1985. The divorce, and the custody battle for her then 5-year-old son, was brutal. Her husband got full custody. After losing numerous appeals, Debrah didn’t visit or speak to her son for 15 years.

“Let’s back up for a second. How’d you meet Robert?” I asked.

“Oh, I’ve known him for years,” she said.

As it turned out, they met at the Rainbow Room at a real-estate-industry party in December 1988. I can totally understand why Robert Durst would have zeroed in on her. She was 16 years his junior, striking and elegant with an unmistakably hard edge.

But she was having a rough time. She was buried under lawsuits and legal bills, recently divorced. Her first firm, Bach Realty, Inc., had been an all-female firm founded in 1980.

It was, initially, a huge success, with annual billings of $200 million. Charatan was obsessed with money and fame. In a profile for Manhattan Inc. magazine in the mid-’80s, she was quoted as saying, “If I couldn’t be a star, I wouldn’t be happy.”

By the late ’80s, her star had fallen. The Labor Department was investigating her on three cases, and at least four lawsuits were filed by ex-employees [who claimed the firm failed to pay commissions]. They used words like “tyrannical,” “greedy” and “shark” to describe their former boss.

Debrah lost most of the suits and had to pay hundreds of thousands in fines and commissions. The firm dissolved in 1987.

Enter Robert, Debrah’s savior, in 1988. Somehow, he overcame his chronic cheapness and gallantly paid off her lawyers. He showered her with Durst Organization perks like car service vouchers.

Practically overnight, she went from down-and-out to living large.

In 1990, two years into their relationship, Charatan moved into Durst’s Fifth Avenue apartment.

After the altruistic, naïve Kathleen, Robert must have seen Debrah as appealingly ruthless and savvy. His murky past and personality quirks — burping, farting and smoking pot in public —wouldn’t faze her. She could handle him.

Debrah must have looked at Robert and seen dollar signs. . .She was, it seemed, the only person in the world he trusted.

I said, “You know, his wife is missing. Susan Berman was murdered. And he chopped up a guy.”

She said, “Yeah. I’m not afraid of him at all.”

“What’d you do for Christmas?” I asked. Susan was killed Dec. 23.

She said, “We don’t celebrate Christmas.”

“What’d you do for Hanukkah?”

I said, “What’d you do for New Year’s Eve?”

“I was probably in the Hamptons. He was wherever.”

“Where did you go on your honeymoon?”

“We didn’t go on a honeymoon,” she replied.

“Well, that’s weird,” I said.

“Look,” she said. “I’m a businesswoman. I have a business to run. I have a lot of other things going on.”

“Okay,” I said. She got me there. “So you get married, you don’t go on a honeymoon, you don’t spend Hanukkah or New Year’s together. Are you guys living together? Did you consummate the marriage?”

Before she could answer that gruesome question, a man came into the room. “Steve Rabinowitz. She’s represented by counsel. No more questions.” He started making noises about asking us to leave.

I could tell by Debrah’s voice that she was a smoker. I was a smoker then, too. I said, “Where can we have a cigarette?” Apparently, she was jonesing for one, and she took me out onto the fire escape.

The two of us — in our skirts and heels — climbed out the window. I asked again about their intimate relationship, but she danced around the details. From her expressions, though, it was obvious that she wasn’t a real wife and theirs wasn’t a real marriage. She was a front, a beard.

“I don’t get it,” I said. “Why would you stay with Robert after what he’s done?”

“You’re a stand-up woman,” she said. “You stood by your man.”

Pirro’s husband, Al, was convicted in 2000 of federal tax evasion and conspiracy.

She was equating my loyalty to Al, the father of my children, with her loyalty to Robert Durst?

I said, “My husband never laid his hand on me or anybody else.”

I stayed with Al because I believe in family. Al was a great father, a great provider, and a decent, wonderful man. There was a difference between an accountant’s screwup and dismembering a human.

“Well, I’m not afraid of [Robert] and I’ll take him back.” But by the time we finished our cigarettes, her lawyer [had returned]. “She’s done talking,” he said.

Durst, now 72, was arrested on first-degree murder charges in the death of Susan Berman in March 2015 and is awaiting trial in a New Orleans prison.

Charatan, 58, remains married to Durst, but a New York Times story from March 2015 states that she hasn’t spoken to Durst since February, when “The Jinx” aired. She is currently expanding her NYC investment office.

From “He Killed Them All” by Jeanine Pirro. Copyright 2015 by Jeanine Pirro. Reprinted by permission of Gallery, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Summary: Jeanine Pirro handled countless cases as the district attorney and first female judge on the Westchester County bench. But the one involving Kathleen “Kathie” Durst, missing since Jan. 31, 1982, wo…


What about her fever? Certain infections will sometimes produce this type of lesion in response to cold; mononucleosis can do it, and some pneumonias, too. But she didn't have symptoms of either. She had a painful hip -- if she had an infection in that joint, could tiny pieces of infected tissue have escaped into her bloodstream? Septic emboli, as they're called, can block off the smallest blood vessels and cause this kind of blackening. But embolic lesions are usually patchier than this, and her hip was not as painful as he would expect if there was active infection there. Still, overlooking this type of infection could be fatal.

There are also a number of serious systemic diseases, as varied as lupus, leukemia and hepatitis C, that can cause this injury. In each of these cases, the body overproduces cells or proteins that can, in turn, damage the small blood vessels and cause this bruised appearance.

He ordered blood tests to tell him if there was an infection or a systemic disease, an X-ray of her foot to see if it was trauma and one of her hip to look for an infection. In the meantime, he started her on antibiotics. Before she left, he took a pen and drew a thin line between the dark toes and the normal part of her foot so that he could tell if the disease, whatever it turned out to be, was spreading. Then he arranged to visit his patient at home the next day, Sunday, since the office was closed.

That evening, Nadoolman reviewed the results of the tests he'd ordered. Both X-rays were normal. The blood tests were unremarkable, with one exception: her white-blood-cell count was slightly low. Normally, an infection causes the white count to go up. In very significant infections, though, it can actually decrease as fighter cells are destroyed. But in that case, there's usually an increase in immature white cells -- known as bands -- as the body ramps up its defenses. This patient had no evidence of more bands.

The next afternoon he paid his house call. The patient looked better than she had the day before: her eyes were bright, and she laughed easily at his banter -- an unofficial but useful gauge. Her toes were unchanged. Her fever and aches had disappeared, but it remained a mystery whether they had something to do with her foot injury. He told her to continue taking the antibiotics and to follow up at the office the next day.

3. Resolution As Dr. Nadoolman drove away, he considered the case once more. She looked far too healthy to have the kind of severe infection that causes the white count to go down. So what did that leave? A cold injury? He still couldn't figure out how to connect the ski trip with what she had now. He headed to the hospital library. He needed to know more about injuries caused by cold. One in particular came to mind: pernio, also known by its medieval-era moniker, chilblains, from the Anglo-Saxon for cold sore. Historically, this was a torment of infantrymen. These days it's common in skiers. But could pernio really take this much time to show up? As he read, he felt the sudden thrill of recognition: "Pernio lesions have an insidious onset," appearing "several days or weeks after exposure to wetness and cold."

When the patient arrived the next day, she was using crutches, but otherwise she felt fine. When the doctor described pernio to the girl and her mother, they nodded in agreement. The dermatologist he referred them to agreed -- she had pernio. The body's normal response to cold is to limit blood flow to the extremities in order to preserve the warmth of the inner organs. In some individuals, the body overreacts; the vessels clamp down, and the amount of blood that gets through to nourish the tissue is inadequate. Ultimately that leads to pain, swelling and a bruised appearance. Her toes would heal in a few weeks, the dermatologist told them, but only if she bundled up. His prescription was simple -- wool socks and warm clothes. Having had pernio once, however, she would be at risk for it again. Skiing was probably not going to be her sport.

When I spoke to the patient a couple of days ago, she was no longer on crutches and had a large supply of socks. The purple had faded, and though her toes remained a little tender, they were getting better. She had given up skiing for the season. I asked about next winter. "Oh, who knows?" she told me. "That's a long way off." Then she left for volleyball practice.

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 2-27-05: DIAGNOSIS If you have a solved case to share with Dr. Sanders, you can e-mail her at LSanders@pol.net. She is unable to respond to all e-mail messages.

Summary: Diagnosis article on symptoms that seem to indicate trauma or frostbite, but actually are condition called pernio, caused when body overreacts to cold; drawings (M)


The phrase “genius school” has been tossed around quite a bit over the past few years, especially after Cornell University won an international contest to create a high-tech mecca in New York City. Slated to open in 2017 on Roosevelt Island, a narrow, 150-acre slab of land smack in the middle of the East River, the campus is expected to attract thousands of top-flight students, teachers and researchers from all over the world to work on green technology, computer programming and urban planning (among other disciplines) while pumping billions of dollars back into the New York economy.

Other New York-based schools lost out on the big prize but — with financial help from the city — are planning their own counterparts to Cornell’s mid-river jewel. New York University, for example, is planning an urban sciences center that will operate out of a disused Metropolitan Transit Authority building in Brooklyn, while Columbia has plans for new engineering institute that will be funded in part with a $15 million gift from the city.

In Gotham, it seems, geniuses will soon be as thick on the ground as pigeons, tourists and out-of-work actors.

But this is not the first time New York has played host to a “genius school.” In fact, seven decades ago, the city housed just such a venture at Hunter College — a school filled not with post-adolescent megaminds and college-age uber-geeks, but 450 apparently well-adjusted, engaged kids who just happened to enjoy IQs averaging around 150. (Post-graduate students, by comparison, generally fall in the 120-130 range.)

As LIFE noted in a March 1948 feature on the school:

The school they go to is P.S. 600, part of New York’s public-school system and the only institution in the U.S. devoted entirely to the teaching and study of gifted children. It is held in a wing of the college’s main building, in whose long corridors the bright little kids from 3 to 11 years old like to stop off for between-class chats.

Offhand, young geniuses would seem to present no immediate problems because they are usually bigger, healthier and even happier than average children. However, an educational problem exists simply because they are too bright for their age. If they are promoted rapidly through school on the basis of their studies they will end up as social misfits, unable to enjoy the society of children their own age. On the other hand, if they are held back with their own age group, their quick minds are apt to stagnate.

Hunter children know they are smart, but they are more humble than cocky about their intelligence. . . . Although their interest are advanced, their plans for the future have a refreshing normality. There is a 9-year-old who wants to be a fur trapper, an 8-year-old who wants to be a babysitter and a 7-year-old who wants to be president of the Coca-Cola Company.

Here, LIFE.com presents photos from the feature in the magazine, as well as pictures that never ran in LIFE.

Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk.

Summary: In the 1940s, LIFE visited a 'genius school' in New York -- a school filled with kids who just happened to enjoy stratospheric IQs


If you still need to finish your holiday shopping, Amazon is offering you a new last-minute option. Amazon Prime customers in several cities can order their holiday essentials and get them within hours.

For the first time this holiday season, Amazon says its Prime customers -- those who pay a $99-a-year subscription fee for free two-day shipping and access to Amazon's streaming services -- can say goodbye to the standard shipping models of the past.

While crowds of holiday shoppers on New York City's 34th Street dart in and out of retail stores, five floors above employees bring some of the season's yuletide joy to you in two hours or less, reports CBS News correspondent DeMarco Morgan.

Using the Prime Now app, last-minute shoppers can choose from over 10,000 items. Amazon guarantees delivery of gifts, pantry items and electronics through Christmas Eve until the clock strikes midnight.

"It changes the game for customers. Being able to get stuff delivered to you in an hour is a huge advantage. But it also is changing the game for our company too. We're adding more shopping days to the holiday season," said Stephenie Landry, worldwide director of Amazon Prime Now.

Urban fulfillment centers, now available in more than 20 cities including places like San Francisco, Houston, Miami and Atlanta, are purposely centrally located.

"There's no way that we can get things to people in an hour if we weren't in the center of the city," Landry said.

As soon as the order arrives, it's processed, bagged and handed off to a delivery associate.

Amazon Prime customers willing to shell out an extra $8 will have their order in an hour. For those willing to wait two hours, the service is free.

In New York City, deliveries are done by subway, bike or on foot.

Bloomberg News reporter Shannon Pettypiece says the Prime Now app marks Amazon's latest attempt to gain an upper hand on the competition.

"Most of Amazon's competitors, you're still looking at 5 to 7 day shipping," Pettypiece said. "It's like Amazon is always one to two steps ahead."

"You call this a procrastinator's dream. Is that sending a bad signal that it's okay to wait until the last minute to get your items out?" Morgan asked Landry.

"Well, we like to serve customers' needs, and we don't judge," Landry responded.

Delivery associate Sylvester Alderman will work from 6 a.m. to midnight on Christmas Eve -- despite his family's wishes.

"I told them I will do work, and I will get off when I can, and I will see them when I get home," Alderman said.

Amazon does not release figures on the number of its Prime subscribers, so we do not know how many customers use this service. If you're curious what happens if you order something on the app that's already sold out, well, you can't. The app only shows what is currently in stock.

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Summary: Last-minute shoppers can say goodbye to standard shipping models of the past and look to get some of the season's yuletide joy delivered in two hours or less


When Yvonne Chu launched Kimera, her Brooklyn, N.Y.-based dress retailer, five years ago, setting up a system to accept her customers’ credit cards was an afterthought. Already armed with a small business card from Capital One, she figured why not use the bank’s credit card-processing services, too? “I needed it in a hurry,” says Chu.

It took a few years, but Chu eventually realized she was leaving real money on the table. Today she uses New York-based Merchant Processing Services, which charges her a base rate of 1.61% on each bill, plus 20 cents per card swipe. That’s down from roughly 2% and 23 cents at Capital One. Says Chu: “Every little bit counts.”

Of all the demands of running a business, shopping for a competitive credit card processor might seem trivial. Yet a healthy dose of due diligence can go a long way.

Take, for instance, a 120-seat restaurant that does roughly $2 million a year in sales–80% of that on account. Shaving just 1.5 points off of those processing fees equates to savings of $24,000 a year.

In the case of Visa and MasterCard , when a credit card is swiped, the transaction gets relayed–via an intermediary–to the credit card company, which then sluices the funds to the merchant’s bank account. That middleman charges the merchant a fee–2% to 5% of the sale–for the hookup; meanwhile, the processor pays a fee to the credit card company. ( American Express puts the money right into merchants’ accounts, charging them fees directly.)

Letting your bank handle credit card processing may seem convenient–but that convenience comes at a price. Often, using one of the 400 third-party service providers–such as Heartland Payment Systems and Global Payments –is a cheaper way to go.

Of course, fees aren’t the only consideration when choosing the right processor. Service and speed matter, too. Terms are negotiable (these guys want business), so knowledge is your best weapon. Here are some things you should be looking for.

Equipment. Credit card processing machines–which often come as part of point-of-sales systems–run between $300 and $800 apiece. (Sleeker systems involve software, too.) Vendors include Micros, Aloha and Squirrel, though some processing companies offer equipment as part of a package. Merchants also need a way to connect to the processor, via either a separate telephone line or the Internet.

Lag time. Another critical factor is the time it takes to get your mitts on customers’ money. The lag can be anywhere from one to five days. Why the difference? Some processors have more efficient fraud-checking systems. Others try to eke out interest on the “float” (the reimbursement from the credit card companies) before depositing the funds into merchants’ accounts. (That’s why all processors must be sponsored by a bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.) Obviously, the quicker you get the money, the better–and you may not have to pay more for faster service.

Fees. Generally speaking, a base rate of 2% on each bill is pretty good. Unfortunately, there is no one resource for comparing processing prices–and the fee structures are opaque at best. While third parties typically offer cheaper rates than banks, there are plenty of caveats.

Case in point: “nonqualified” rates on certain types of transactions. Fees on phone orders (where the merchant types the number into the system rather than swiping the card) might cost in the 5% to 8% range, for instance. Some processors may deem a wide range of charges nonqualified. Make processors spell those out before giving them your business.

Remember, too, that the processor must pay a fee to Visa and MasterCard, which typically charge 1.65% for a normal credit card transaction, says Dan Price, chief executive of Seattle-based Gravity Payments, a credit card processing company. So, if a processor offers a super-low base rate of 1%, watch out: The company is likely making up for that loss by larding on other fees–or perhaps by bumping up the rates midway through your contract.

Then there are termination fees. Typical processing contracts are one to three years long, and getting out early could cost you a few hundred dollars. Any more than that is probably too steep.

No matter how transparent, contracts will likely have some confusing language. To get a better handle on things, ask to see a typical monthly statement itemizing every transaction and its related fees.

Extras. Rather than deducting fees at the point of each transaction, some processors will bundle them and deduct the cumulative amount at the end of the month, streamlining your bookkeeping and leaving you with a little more cash on hand. Another potential perk: gift-certificate processing, which might cost another 25 to 50 cents per transaction. Not all processors will offer such extras, but it’s worth asking.

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Summary: A percentage point or two can add up over time. Here's what to look for.


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has been single and very much ready to mingle. Cue

to help her on her search for The One, and she sat down with PEOPLE Now to deliver the inside scoop on how her love life is faring since the show.

"I love that Patti was an excellent role model and encouraged me to be my best Farrah – so no more 'Fallen Farrah,' more about 'Fabulous Farrah,' " said Abraham, 25.

"And I really am happy that we talked about the adult entertainment and some of those things. I think it's helped me process and move forward in my life and be better on the dating ground."

As for what she's looking for in a guy, the

revealed, "Definitely not a man-boy, a full-grown man, good Christian values, I wanted someone who could equally support me in all of my endeavors since I am so diverse and [someone who's] understanding that I've been in adult entertainment."

And, since the sharp-tongued Stanger, 55, previously

she was "trying to get her away from the sex industry," Abraham added with a laugh: "I think Patti and Candace kind of had their words toward my vagina."

Abraham appears on this Friday's

at 10 p.m. ET on WEtv, and

returns to MTV in the fall.

Summary: Abraham appears on this week's Million Dollar Matchmaker at 10 p.m. ET on WEtv


Who remembers when Ben Affleck and Matt Damon stole everyone's hearts by winning their maiden Oscars in 1997?!

The best friend duo had their defining moment 19 years ago when they accepted the Academy Award for Original Screenplay for "Good Will Hunting," a win that catapulted the pair's already burgeoning popularity into full-on superstardom.

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Before "Hunting," Affleck and Damon had appeared in a few other projects together, but this was their first (and most serious) role to gain much traction with audiences and critics.

The pair's excitement was clear when they accepted their first Oscars in front of the biggest names in Hollywood, with Affleck doing most of the talking during their speech.

See photos of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck from the 1997 Oscars:

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon at the 1997 Oscars

LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 23: Oscar winners Matt Damon (L) and Ben Affleck hold the awards they won for best original screenplay for the film 'Good Will Hunting' which the two wrote during the 70th Annual Academy Awards 23 March in Los Angeles. (Photo credit should read HAL GARB/AFP/Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES: Actor-writers Ben Affleck (2nd left) and Matt Damon (3rd left) arrive with their mothers Chris (L) and Nancy at the 70th Annual Academy Awards 23 March in Los Angeles, CA. Affleck and Damon are nominted for best original screenplay for 'Good Will Hunting.' Damon is also nominated for best actor for the same film. AFP PHOTO Vince BUCCI (Photo credit should read Vince Bucci/AFP/Getty Images)

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck (Photo by Jim Smeal/WireImage)

Matt Damon, Robin Williams and Ben Affleck (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and mother Nancy Carlson-Paige (Photo by SGranitz/WireImage)

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Chris Affleck, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and mother Nancy Carlson-Paige (Photo by Ke.Mazur/WireImage)

LOS ANGELES - MARCH 23: Actor Matt Damon and actor Ben Affleck attend the 70th Annual Academy Awards on March 23, 1998 at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

Actor Ben Affleck and mother Chris Boldt and actor Matt Damon and mother Nancy Carlsson-Paige attend the 70th Annual Academy Awards on March 23, 1998 at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

Actor Matt Damon and actor Ben Affleck attend the 70th Annual Academy Awards on March 23, 1998 at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES: Ben Affleck (L) and Matt Damon hold up their Oscars after winning in the Original Screenplay Category during the 70th Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium 23 March. The two won for their Original Screenplay 'Good Will Hunting.' (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) AFP PHOTO/Timothy A. Clary (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES - MARCH 23: Actor Matt Damon and actor Ben Affleck attend the 70th Annual Academy Awards on March 23, 1998 at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

Chris Affleck, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and mother Nancy Carlson-Paige (Photo by Ke.Mazur/WireImage)

Chris Affleck, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and mother Nancy Carlson-Paige (Photo by Ke.Mazur/WireImage)

Matt Damon, Robin Williams and Ben Affleck during The 70th Annual Academy Awards - Press Room at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by Jim Smeal/WireImage)

Actor Matt Damon (R) and actor Ben Affleck with his mother Chris Affleck arrive at the 70th annual Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles March 23. Damon is nominated in the Best Actor category for his role in "Good Will Hunting." Damon and Affleck are also nominated in the Best Screenplay Writing category for "Good Will Hunting. OSCARS

Oscar winner Ben Affleck holds his Academy Award for photographers at the Vanity Fair Oscar party March 23 following the 70th annual Academy Awards ceremony. Affleck won the best original screenplay Oscar along with actor [Matt Damon] for the film "Good Will Hunting."

Ben Affleck (L) and Matt Damon celebrate with their Oscars after winning best screenplay written directly for the screen for their movie "Good Will Hunting", March 23 at the 70th Annual Academy Awards. The movie also won for best actor in a supporting role when Robin Williams won. OSCARS

"I just said to Matt, 'Losing would suck, and winning would be really scary,'" Affleck joked to start off their speech. "And it's really, really scary!"

"We're just two young guys who were fortunate enough to be involved with a lot of really great people," he continued as Damon fist pumped to his Mom behind him. "There's no way we're doing this in less than 20 seconds..."

Affleck continued to rattle off a bunch of names as Damon fed him reminders of who to thank. They also gave shout-outs to their mothers (who were their beautiful dates for the evening), their co-stars and, hilariously, Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Watch the whole speech below:

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Summary: The best friend duo had their defining moment 19 years ago when they accepted the Academy Award for Original Screenplay for 'Good Will Hunting.'


Lord Malcolm said the older of the two girls - now aged 25 and 26 - had suffered "very serious damage" as a result of the attacks, which included an admission by O'Flaherty that he had raped her on at least 12 occasions.

Jailing O'Flaherty, Lord Malcolm said: "You repeatedly were prepared to take advantage of this young child to satisfy your deviant desires and it's clear from the reports you have no real remorse or understanding for the damage caused by your conduct."

Dunsmore, of Newhaven, Edinburgh, had previously pleaded guilty to several rape charges and to abusing the older girl between the ages of six and 15, acting with her ex-husband William King, who died 12 years ago.

Petch, of Buccleuch Street, Edinburgh, and O'Flaherty were both friends of Dunsmore’s ex-husband.

Another three men and a woman died before any charges could be brought against them.

In mitigation, the defence said that background reports showed Dunsmore had herself suffered "horrific and lifelong abuse" which coupled with her learning difficulties had left her unable to deal with the situation. The reports also indicated that Dunsmore was a suicide risk.

Lord Malcolm sentenced Dunsmore to 12 years while O'Flaherty, of Ferryroad, Edinburgh, was given a 13-year sentence. Petch will be sentenced in August.

Summary: A man and a woman who systematically raped and abused two young girls as part of a paedophile ring in Scotland were today jailed for a total of 25 years.


Jackett, appointed in May 2013, led Wolves to the League One title in his first season - with a record total of 103 points.

They missed out on the play-offs on goal difference in the following campaign but were threatening to break into the top six last season until a run of just four wins in their last 16 matches saw them finish in mid-table.

Mr Shi said: "I would like to sincerely thank Kenny for everything he's done for Wolves over the last three years.

"He's shown true professionalism during his tenure and over the course of the transition to new ownership. I would like to wish him all the very best for the future."

The club was sold last Thursday for £45million to Fosun International, a Chinese conglomerate that has ties to agent Jorge Mendes, whose clients include Cristiano Ronaldo, Jose Mourinho and David De Gea.

Jackett's future has been in doubt all summer, but Mr Shi had said earlier this week that the manager would keep his job. "I'm trying to give him all the support I can. We share the same opinions," he added.

Summary: Wolverhampton Wanderers have sacked boss Kenny Jackett - just four days after stating his position was not under threat.


Wilson’s skill as an interviewer also involved concealment. Although early on he confided that Spencer was a textbook narcissist, he kept his views hidden from Spencer himself until finally he dropped the mask and read out the psychopath check list: “Egocentric, callous, cold-blooded, predatory, impulsive, irresponsible, dominant, deceptive, manipulative and lacking in empathy, guilt or genuine remorse for deviant and criminal acts. And that fits you to a T.”

Spencer was ready with his retort. “It also fits you to a T,” he snapped back. “I think you need to see a psychiatrist.” This was an extraordinary film. Perhaps the police will do something about its findings.

Summary: How do you score high marks in a psychopathy test?


Video game expert Jon Jones always knows when his UFC light heavyweight alter-ego has done something controversial. '@jonjones is a cokehead' wrote one detractor after the fighter failed a drugs test due to cocaine metabolites, with the mild-mannered Jones replying: '.@PlayDead_ I do enjoy the refreshing taste of @CocaCola, but the only Colombian export I partake in is coffee'.

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If you’d prefer to pick a Kentucky Derby winner based on a name, you might as well pick one with a good yarn behind it.

Owners and breeders often put a lot of thought into names, which traditionally are references to a horse’s pedigree but can be anything that meets criteria set by the breed’s registry, the Jockey Club.

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Hillary Clinton ’s presidential campaign, hoping to take advantage of growing public unease with rival Donald Trump, is recruiting prominent Republicans in a bid to make GOP voters comfortable casting ballots for the Democratic nominee this November.

The effort, which largely targets national-security experts and business leaders, began several months ago but has ramped up in the wake of Mr. Trump’s recent troubles, including his spat with the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who died in Iraq, people familiar with the effort said.

It is expected to culminate in a Republicans for Hillary group, whose members will endorse her candidacy.

Matt Higgins, a businessman and a longtime Republican, said he reached out to the Clinton campaign after Mr. Trump secured the nomination, and was invited to its Brooklyn, N.Y., headquarters to meet with officials. They won him over, he said, and he has donated the maximum contribution to her campaign. He is also speaking publicly on her behalf.

“They were very coordinated, very responsive, and very sensitive,” Mr. Higgins said.

If the effort pays off, campaign officials hope it will boost Mrs. Clinton’s support among Republicans, particularly suburban women, and reinforce anxieties about a Trump presidency.

A representative for Mr. Trump didn’t reply to a request for comment on the outreach by the Clinton campaign.

Mr. Trump has predicted he will win over supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, who lost the Democratic nomination to Mrs. Clinton.

“Bernie Sanders people are going to be voting for Trump,” he said in Florida this week. “They like Trump.”

There is no evidence his campaign has an organized effort to lure those voters, and many Sanders backers who don’t like Mrs. Clinton say they are considering the Green Party candidate.

The Clinton recruitment drive is being led by campaign chairman John Podesta and by Leslie Dach, a former Wal-Mart executive who worked in the Bill Clinton and Obama administrations. They have reached out to potential recruits directly and worked through emissaries. Mrs. Clinton has personally made phone calls, including one to Meg Whitman, the Republican CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and onetime candidate for California governor, who this week endorsed her.

More than 45 Republicans, including politicians, strategists, policy experts and business executives are backing Mrs. Clinton, according to public statements.

One recent recruit is Frank Lavin, who worked in the Reagan and both Bush administrations and said he has strategized with Mr. Dach about speaking publicly on Mrs. Clinton’s behalf, possibly in his home state of Ohio, a battleground. He said in an interview he had decided long ago not to back Mr. Trump, but reached out to the Clinton campaign after the Democratic convention, which left him more comfortable supporting her.

“I have an increasing comfort level with Hillary Clinton and ongoing concern about Trump,” he said. He added that Mrs. Clinton’s choice of Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, seen as a centrist, as her running mate gave him particular reassurance.

“She’s not going to be bossed around by the Bernie Sanders wing of her party,” he said.

That points to a potential pitfall: any effort to recruit conservatives’ risks alienating liberal Democrats. To avoid that, the campaign is emphasizing Mrs. Clinton’s qualifications, temperament and fitness for office when seeking GOP support, not her policy positions.

Laurie Cestnick of Boston, part of the “Bernie or bust” movement, said she expects most hard-core Sanders supporters will vote for the Green Party’s Jill Stein, although she has seen some efforts by Trump backers to win them over.

“They’re disappointed and they’re going Green because they don’t know what else to do,” she said.

The Clinton campaign has telegraphed its interest in recruiting Republicans. The Democratic National Convention featured former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Republican-turned-independent, and two Republicans, former Reagan administration official Doug Elmets and a co-founder of a pro-Clinton GOP women’s group, Jennifer Lim.

In her speech last week, Mrs. Clinton said she would be “president for Democrats, Republicans and independents.” After the convention, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Kaine and their spouses went on a bus tour through Republican parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Priorities USA Action, the primary Clinton super PAC, released a new TV spot featuring high-profile Republicans slamming Mr. Trump.

“I thought both the convention as a whole and the president’s speech at the convention was an outreach to Republicans to say, ‘It’s OK, you can cross over this time and the world isn’t going to come to an end,’” said former New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman, a Republican. She said she has been approached by Clinton emissaries but while she won’t vote for Mr. Trump, she remains undecided between Mrs. Clinton and the libertarian ticket.

In recent days, Mrs. Clinton has picked up endorsements from Rep. Richard Hanna (R., N.Y.), as well as Republican advisers Sally Bradshaw, who worked with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and Maria Comella, a former aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Clinton fundraisers said they have been informally asked by the campaign to recruit donors who have traditionally given to Republicans.

Tom Leonard, a longtime Democratic fundraiser based in Philadelphia, said the informal message is: “You know people. Take their temperature. See if they’re willing to send in money and see if they’re willing to go public” with their support for Mrs. Clinton.

“I’m talking to all of my Republican friends who will talk to me,” said Lynn Forester de Rothschild, another Clinton fundraiser. “I know they are good, good people and I know that Hillary is hard for them, but there’s a choice they have to make.”

Stephanie Cutter, a senior adviser in President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, said the prospect of collecting more GOP endorsements is “a real opportunity for Secretary Clinton.” She recalled when former Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican, endorsed then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008. “It was a significant breakthrough,” she said.

Write to Laura Meckler at laura.meckler@wsj.com and Peter Nicholas at peter.nicholas@wsj.com

Summary: Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, hoping to take advantage of growing public unease with rival Donald Trump, is recruiting prominent Republicans in a bid to make GOP voters comfortable casting ballots for the Democratic nominee this November.


Tech accessory firm Tendigi has managed to develop an iPhone case that lets the Apple-built handset run Google’s Android operating system. It’s the brainchild of Tendigi CTO Nick Lee, who revealed his curious creation in a blog post:

“You heard me. The holy war is over, brethren. At Tendigi, we’ve designed and built a case that allows iPhone devotees to sample the best Mountain View has to offer.”

So how does it actually work? Well the iPhone isn’t technically running Android. Instead, the case is emulating the software, and streaming it to the iPhone using a Lightning connection. As such, the iPhone couldn’t run the software without being plugged into the case.

“Despite some obvious drawbacks, Android has a killer feature that made this project possible: (virtually) the entire operating system is open-source. For a platform of its scale, it’s surprisingly easy to clone it out and built it on your local machine,” explains Lee.

The case contains an embedded Lemaker HiKey development board, which runs on an 8-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor. The HiKey is actually the official reference board of the Android Open Source Project, which helped. The case also has its own 650mAh lithium-polymer battery pack, too.

Unfortunately, there are some obvious drawbacks to this solution. The first is that the case is bulky and awkward looking. The second is that because the iPhone isn’t running the software, the Android OS is pretty laggy. And the third is that the software doesn’t run in full-screen – it’s a little squished.

Nevertheless, this is a seriously cool way to mend relations between the iOS and Android camps. See, we can all be friends.

This article originally appeared on TrustedReviews.com

Summary: It's the best of both worlds


The markets, shops, restaurants that make up Madrid’s buzzing food scene are richly diverse. Every neighbourhood has its own personality and, from the upmarket Salamanca area to the hipster vibe of Lavapiés, there’s a tone for every taste in this vast city of edibles.

Mercado de Antón Martín in the bohemian Huertas district (Calle de Santa Isabel 5), is a traditional market with two floors housing 60-odd stalls selling food and everything else from shoes to ceramics.

Started in the early years of the Second World War, it offers a lot of high-quality surprises – and certainly this spot gives visitors a sense of old Madrid.

Bluefin tuna from the central fish market, Mexican food at Cutzamalá and delicious pastries from JonJo are all worth the trip.

In the Bartolomé market, you will find a wide range of foods from all regions of Spain – it is particularly noted for its range of hams, olive oils and turrones (traditional nougats).

Nearby are the meaty centres of Los Ferreros, which is the place for cured meats, especially hams, cheeses and fantastic saffron, and Hijos de Lechuga.

Originally this was a butchers of such high reputation that it was the preferred supplier to the royal household, aristocrats and great hotels such as the Ritz and the Grande. It still specialises in meat, cured meats and sausages.

Slightly further afield is Mantequería Andrés, which sells nothing but the very finest 100 per cent Spanish products from across the country. Despite its quality and reputation, the prices are reasonable.

The trendy, progressive district of Chueca has more than two dozen shops that sell everything from fresh meat to regional specialities such as Andalucian squid and pintxos, the Basque take on tapas, which include foie gras and mushrooms or the more traditional cod-based dishes.

Here you will find the sleek, modern San Antón Market. Located on three floors, its stalls sell an enormous range of foods with taverns and bars on the upper floor while on the third is a kitchen where you can cook what you have bought.

Three storeys isn’t news in Madrid but the all-encompassing market in hippest Malasaña (Calle Fuencarral 57) has those, and yet does not offer food for you to cook.

You stop here before you go on elsewhere: there are almost 20 stalls and a handful of bars on its trio of floors and it is open almost all the time. Veal burger with foie gras? A carefully selected Mahou beer would be perfect to accompany it.

Mallorca Market (Calle de Génova 12) is two storeys of history located in the comfortably-off Chamberí area.

Here you can find quality hams and cheese, as well as those delicious doughnut-hole shaped pastries and torrijas, a kind of Lenten pain perdu. Eat at the chic lower-level restaurant or enjoy lunch on either level.

Mercado de Chamberí is in one of the most madrileño of the barrios of Madrid – you can’t get more authentic than this stunning gastronomic marketplace.

Founded in 1943 in a neighbourhood packed with traditional shops, tapas restaurants and bars, it stocks some of the best quality produce – fruits and vegetables certainly, but also delicious items straight from ovens of the famous Horno de San Onofre bakery.

The array of food is vast but so is the idea of this market: there’s even a gym with a swimming pool to help you work off all there is to eat. Residents say this is the market of their dreams.

Well-heeled Salamanca’s Mercado de la Paz (Calle de Ayala 28) has been a source of quality for more than a century. One of the city’s oldest markets, it still feels and functions like a neighbourhood favourite. Stall vendors are friendly and helpful.

Fish, meats, cured meats, cheese and more are all fresh and delicious here, along with a truly magnificent array of gourmet edibles, such as tuna loin and salted cod, while their raw-food stands are also a popular attraction.

Finally, if you cannot make it out to do a proper food crawl through this teeming city of eats, do not turn your nose up at the food halls of the upmarket department stores El Corte Inglés across the city, which sells fantastic local food such as paprika, jamón ibérico, cheeses, olive oils and so much more.

A plus is that they will wrap them for you so you can put them in your luggage without a problem when travelling in the EU. Shop here for something perfect for picnics or nibbling on as you wander around the city.

For more information on the real taste of Madrid, visit mahou.com #perfectpairing #mahou

Summary: From upmarket to hip, Madrid has a buzzing food scene with a fantastic selection of markets, shops and restaurants across the city


Wander into Nintendo’s booth at this year’s E3 video game show, and it’s hard not to be gobsmacked. Instead of banners around kiosks partitioned into gameplay areas, the company’s opted to create a mammoth wraparound abstraction of the open world it’s been fastidiously detailing for its upcoming action-adventure, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Here you’ll find a goblin archer perched on a watchtower. Or a tentacled Guardian menacing the game’s hero, Link, who’s balanced on one foot with bow drawn. Or a cooking pot filled with bric-a-brac referencing a central tenet in the game’s reimagined edible-oriented gameplay.

Glance at the panoramic skyline and you might notice birds in motion. A giant ruined temple occupies most of a corner. Real trees and swathes of grass surround rows of monitors and Wii U consoles, where visitors can take the new game for a whirl. Nintendo says it’s designed everything in the exhibit to scale to visitors, thus you’re seeing these objects and characters as would the protagonist of the game itself.

Here’s a peek at the experience.

Summary: This is pretty cool


Mr Johnson is a little older than Mr Cameron. At school, he was a star, a scholar and a prefect, over-talented and over-confident in a place that prides itself on producing boys with unrivalled amounts of both. Mr Cameron, by contrast, was relatively ordinary - by the standards of the place, at least: no scholarship, no prefect's waistcoat.

Only one of them them talked of one day being "world King" and only one of them was seriously regarded by contemporaries as a future national leader. And it wasn't the one who is now PM.

Imagine how that plays out now. Mr Cameron beat the star of stars to the top prize - yet Mr Johnson has never seemed to acknowledge that victory, much less respect it. He can rarely resist the chance to tweak the tail of the man he sometimes describes as "Cameron Minor", a little chap from one of the lower forms.

His sister, Rachel, is even more overt in expressing Clan Johnson's militant lack of deference to Mr Cameron. A couple of years ago in a BBC interview she put it thus:

"When they're together it's rather sweet, because David Cameron - even though he's taller - looks at Boris as if he's still head boy at Eton. Remember, Cameron was two years younger - the young pup.

Asked whether Mr Johnson was now resentful as Mr Cameron had become Prime Minister, she said: "No, it gives Boris a sense of continuing superiority because he was Captain of the School."

That attitude was vividly displayed last week when Boris shambled into No 10 last week to hear Mr Cameron's case for staying in the EU, before sauntering out declaring "No deal". At the very least, he sees this as a negotiation between equals, if not a chance for the young pup to win the favour of the head boy.

Of course, this doesn't trouble Mr Cameron much. Even if he wasn't prime minister, wasn't the most successful Conservative of his generation, wasn't the dominant politician of the day, he would still be the most confident, most self-assured man you'll ever meet. That's just who he is.

Some people think Boris tries so hard to take the glittering prizes because as the quarter-Turkish child of a eurocrat and an artist, he never quite felt accepted by the British establishment, and he does indeed stand ever so slightly apart from the rest of the ruling class. Not David Cameron though. No such doubts or insecurity for him. He was born to this life, has nothing to prove. He belongs. No one and nothing can challenge that.

But still, he wouldn't be human if he didn't feel a tiny niggle about Boris and his antics. Here he is, a prime minister at the peak of his powers making his genuinely historic gambit over Europe and all anyone wants to know is if Mr Johnson is going to deign to back him or not.

EU: How the Cabinet would vote

Rightly so, too. Never mind all the fuss about the policy detail of the Cameron reform deal. Personality matters here rather more, or at least two personalities. Mr Cameron is the Remain camp's biggest asset, his endorsement mattering more than the package being endorsed.

But the advantage he gives could be all but cancelled out by a "Boris for Britain" call to Leave. Imagine how Mr Cameron feels about the prospect of Mr Johnson deciding the outcome of his European gamble - and thus, the manner in which his premiership ends.

As for Mr Johnson, imagine being the cleverest of the clever, the brightest of the bright, someone extraordinary - and seeing the greatest jewel pocketed by someone, well, ordinary. That's an awfully big itch to go unscratched for so long.

The best way to understand Boris and Dave is a story they both tell in private. It's about a meeting in No 10 on some minor aspect of the London budget. Dave wants to minimise his spending; Boris to get the most cash he can.

"Who's winning between Dave and Boris today? The man with the big job or the man with the first-name popularity?"

The PM has a briefing paper that reveals the most he's prepared to give Boris. Boris wants to see it. The PM refuses. Boris tries to grab it. The PM snatches it away.

The Prime Minister and the Mayor of London end up wrestling on the floor trying to seize the paper.

And the vital detail is that each man tells the story that he got the paper. Even in a slightly juvenile squabble, they both want people to know that they won over the other.

Of course, that story offers simplicity, a clear way to know who won and who lost. Politics is rarely so clear: who's winning between Dave and Boris today? The man with the big job or the man with the first-name popularity?

Well, we're fast approaching what could finally be a moment of clarity. Europe may well decide the duel between Cameron Mi and the World King once and for all. The man who leads the winning campaign in the referendum won't just secure his place in British history, he will claim a much more personal - and quite possibly more valuable - victory too.

Summary: Europe may well decide the duel between the Prime Minister and the Mayor once   and for all


A puppy has died after being injured by a would-be burglar trying to access a northern Tasmanian property.

Police are appealing for information about the incident which occurred on Wednesday afternoon in Chichester Drive at Devonport.

"Whilst attempting to gain entry to the unit the offender has caused significant injuries to a four-month-old puppy in the yard of the residence. The puppy later died as a result of those injuries," a detective said.

Summary: A puppy injured in its Devonport backyard by an intruder has died and detectives are appealing for public information.


08/25/2016 AT 12:00 PM EDT

There certainly won't be any shortage of celebrity power at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's 95th anniversary celebration, "Hollywood's Night Under the Stars."

is set to host the event, which will take place on Oct. 1 at the MPTF Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills, California, and mark the organization's 95th consecutive year of offering assistance and care to those in the entertainment industry with limited or no resources. The night will include musical performances and special presentations.

Along with Clooney, fellow A-list stars including

and more are expected to attend.

The MPTF serves as a safety net for entertainment industry members by providing programs and services dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families within the industry community.

Tickets for the gala will go

at 12 p.m. PT/3 ET on Sept 1.

Summary: Along with George Clooney, a slew of A-list stars are expected to attend the gala, including Hugh Jackman, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones


NSW Justice Minister Troy Grant says he will stay at arm's length from discussions about who should fill the state's top police positions.

News Corp Australia reported on Wednesday NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione wanted Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn to take charge of the counter-terrorism unit and elite crime-fighting squads that comprise the State Crime Command as part of a restructure of the force's top brass.

It follows the minister's announcement last month the police force would undergo a once-in-a-generation restructure that would lift the number of deputy commissioners from three to five.

Mr Grant, himself a former policeman, said Premier Mike Baird had not consulted him over the question of who should fill the roles.

"One thing I promised myself and the organisation when I was sworn in as the police minister was not to play politics with police appointments or police allocations or police resourcing. I'm not going to start now," he said.

"The premier and I haven't discussed where and who should occupy different positions, that's solely a job for the commissioner and that's the way it should stay."

Ms Burn has come under pressure at the high-profile Lindt cafe siege inquest over text messages she sent during and soon after the 2014 hostage crisis which were deleted and have not been recovered.

Summary: The NSW police minister says he is leaving the selection of five new police deputies to the state's top cop.


(Click here for the latest commodity prices.)

The CRB Index, heavily weighted with age, has also declined measurably from its recent peak.

Likewise, despite geopolitical hot spots around the world, energy prices have also dropped from recent highs. While oil remains stubbornly above $100 a barrel, both at home and abroad. Were it not for recent events in Ukraine and the Middle East, oil prices may have continued their recent dip below that century mark.

Natural gas prices have slumped to below $4 per thousand BTUs, the lowest level in months, if not years. Milder summer weather around the country, and burgeoning supplies of natural gas, have caused these prices to crash from their all-time highs. Consumers use natural gas to power their homes, from electrical power to heating and air-conditioning.

Power bills are likely to fall this summer — a boon to disposable income. Gasoline prices, on the flip side, remain stubbornly high, but could easily decline if markets sense that geopolitical risks do not escalate beyond current levels.

Even more telling is the level of interest rate and the slope of the yield curve. As I write, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note is below 2.5%, as the yield curve is flattening.

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The message of the bond market is not suggesting in any way, shape, or form, that the Federal Reserve is "behind the curve" on battling phantom inflation. Indeed, even despite the "flight to quality" trade in Treasurys, which is pushing yields lower than they might otherwise be, is hardly the sole reason for declining interest rates. A flattening yield curve and tightening credit spreads are hardly screaming out that inflation is just around the corner.

With respect to raging wage inflation, that argument is also a non-starter. Wages are rising at a 2 percent to 2.5 percent annual rate, hardly the stuff of wage-price spirals. Indeed, a rise in wages is not always inflationary, if accompanied by higher productivity, although the latter half of that equation has gone wanting.

In pure monetary terms, the ingredients for runaway inflation are also absent without leave. This chart from the St. Louis Fed shows how the velocity of money (the speed with which the money supply turns over) is near zero. Velocity needs to accelerate markedly if one wishes to make the case that policy-inspired inflation is on the horizon.

Summary: I would bet inflationistas a truckload of scarce limes that inflation pressures are temporary and inflation is about to fall, says Ron Insana.


LeBron James' basketball career is an epic. From his AAU days with the "Fab Four" to his nationally-televised high school career at St. Vincent's-St. Mary's to his first stint with his hometown Cavs to his four years of "college" in Miami to his championship return to Cleveland, James' career has been a thrilling script. And the reigning NBA Finals MVP still has chapters to write.

The mega-documentary will come one day. But that day is still far from now. For the time being, let's live in the moment and enjoy this "Hamilton" parody of James' career.

"LeBron: The Musical" was produced by Dose, to the sound of "Alexander Hamilton," the opening number in "Hamilton."

Stephen Curry, Dwyane Wade, Kyrie Irving and Chris Bosh all make appearances. Check out the script:

Take a bow for this one.

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Summary: LeBron James' career, from St. Vincent-St. Mary's to the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Miami Heat, is depicted in this "Hamilton" parody.


Every day since the start of June, Melbourne-based artist Kashia Kennedy has handmade a finely detailed paper emoji for her Instagram series #emojieveryday. Working from the official emoji keyboard, Kennedy uses a scalpel, tweezers and double-sided tape to create the tiny works, which easily fit in the palm of a hand. She says: “With something like the squirrel, where it’s layered and has curved limbs and intricacies, I draw up a version on paper as a template. Something with angles and straight lines, like the bike, I tend to freestyle.” She is drawn to the idea of a daily project and the discipline it requires. “For some reason in 80-plus days I haven’t been able to bear the thought of skipping a day. I’d be so annoyed with myself.”

Summary: Every day, Melbourne-based artist Kashia Kennedy makes a finely detailed paper emoji by hand for her Instagram series #emojieveryday


Scurvy, an 18th century disease caused by a lack of vitamin C, appears to have made a surprise comeback in Australia.

Historically associated with sailors on long voyages, scurvy has been detected in a number of diabetic patients at Westmead hospital in western Sydney.

Prof Jenny Gunton from the hospital’s centre for diabetes, obesity and endocrinology said several of her patients with long-running unhealed wounds had been cured by a simple course of vitamin C.

A lack of vitamin C in the body results in the defective formation of collagen and connective tissues, which can cause bruising, bleeding gums, blood spots in the skin, joint pain and impaired wound healing.When the patients were asked about their diet, some were eating little or no fresh fruit and vegetables. The rest ate fair amounts of vegetables but were over-cooking them, which destroys the vitamin C.

Gunton fears the problem could be much more widespread.

“Human bodies cannot synthesise vitamin C, so we must eat foods containing it,” she said.

Most Australians don’t meet World Health Organisation standards for vegetable consumption.

Research by University of Sydney PhD candidate Reetica Rekhy, recently published in the journal Nutrition & Dietetics, found that while almost one in two Australians ate the recommended two serves of fruit daily, only 7% of adults consumed the recommended serves of vegetables.

Her research found most of the 1,000 respondents did not have a good understanding about specific nutritional benefits of most vegetables.

“If we are not eating what we are meant to eat, it will have a reflection on our health and there will be all these conditions [like scurvy] that will emerge or re-emerge,” Rekhy said.

Tim McMaster an accredited practising dietitian and spokesman for the Dietitians Association of Australia said that while the number of scurvy cases reported was small, it was still “scary”.“The only time it should be common in this day and age is for people who are in hospital for a long time with repeated surgeries, or cancer patients or burns patients, but not in the general population,” said McMaster, who also works for Diabetes Victoria.He added vitamin C deficiency had started to pop up among those following a low carbohydrate diet, mainly because they were cutting back on their fruit intake.He said it was important for people to remember that when they eat fruit it’s not just the carbohydrate and sugar they are consuming, but other important nutrients that are good for health, such as fibre.

Common foods that are high in vitamin C include oranges, strawberries, red and green peppers including capsicums, broccoli, kiwi fruit and grapefruit. Overcooking any food is likely to destroy the vitamin C.

The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating recommends people eat two to eight serves of vegetables and legumes each day, based on age, physical activity levels and body size.

One serve is described as about one cup of uncooked or half a cup of cooked or canned vegetables or beans.

Potatoes are not considered vegetables for the purposes of the requirements but tomatoes, although officially a fruit, are.

Summary: Diabetic patients found to have symptoms of scurvy in Sydney reported they ate few vegetables, or overcooked them, destroying vitamin C


Artist Ai Weiwei has used many means to dramatise the political responsibilies of artists, from flipping his finger at authority to sowing Tate Modern with fake sunflower seeds. Now, though, he is making it personal with a public attack on Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan.

In a recent interview, Chan – famous for his courageous stunts and comic action movies – was asked repeatedly about Ai, whose conflicts with the government of China and provocative artworks have made him a global celebrity. Chan insisted he had no idea who Ai is, claiming not to recognise the name.

The pugnacious artist is not taking that insult lightly. Publicising an exhibition opening in Ontario on the Canadian radio programme Q this week, he said Chan deliberately belittled him as a critic of China's political system. Ai dismissed the notion that Chan hasn't heard of him: "He knows me very well," he told listeners. "He's very much a pro-government actor. And he's acted so extremely on the side of authority."

On the face of it, Ai might seem to be protesting too much. After all, it is just possible a popular film actor might not be totally up to date with the contemporary art scene. Yet a quick check on Chan's political statements reveals a troubling basis for the accusation that Chan is a proponent of authoritarian views.

The actor has called for a crackdown on protest in Hong Kong and publically questioned the value of freedom, arguing that people need to be controlled. While Ai speaks up for freedom, Chan has on occasion spoken out against it – although "speaking out" against liberty is arguably a contradiction in terms, and Chan's controversial statements are in their way as individualistic as Ai's art.

But the actor's readiness to sing China's tune is a reminder of how lonely and courageous Ai's stand really is. Ai's fame (if not with Chan) may make it seem he has won a big battle; in reality, he's one man fighting an enormous enemy.

The tendency to condone China's regime has grown with its economy, and often takes the form of complacent relativism. From governments seeking lucrative deals to museums borrowing art, plenty of people have found plenty of reasons to ignore Ai's insistence on the universality of human rights.

So his fight goes on. In his Ontario exhibition, on tour from the US, he protests with art of considerable power. Chan should take a trip to see it.

Summary: Jonathan Jones: Ai has responded strongly after the actor claimed not to know of him – and Chan's remarks remind us how lonely and courageous the artist's stand really is


YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia, May 29  Significant amounts of aid began arriving Monday in Bantul, the town south of this city that was hit the hardest by Saturday's earthquake, but a nearby volcano substantially increased its threatening activity.

Scott Eells for The New York Times

Via Romita, 6, was held by her father Monday as she received intravenous fluid and awaited further medical care in Yogyakarta.

A four-hour television series and interactive web site by The Times, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the ZDF network of Germany.

For the third night in a row, residents in Bantul and in Klaten, another badly ravaged town, slept outside their houses, grouped around campfires and used debris for cover from the sporadic rain. Some softly strummed guitars, while others, kneeling on mats, prayed for help.

Mount Merapi, a towering 9,800-foot volcano north of Yogyakarta, has been close to an eruption for nearly a month, but activity weakened in recent weeks. Volcanologists said Monday that the powerful quake destabilized a fragile dome at the mountain's peak. Collapse of the dome would set off a large eruption of lava, rocks and hot gas, they said.

Large, billowing clouds of gas were vented from the mountain's crater on Monday, drifting more than two miles down its western slope toward the village of Magelang.

Subandriyo, director of the Merapi division of the Volcanology Center here, said the volcano released 150 gaseous clouds on Monday, compared with an average of 50 the week before.

"Residents living in the danger areas on the slopes of the volcano have again begun to evacuate," he said. "The danger is growing as activity increases."

South of Yogyakarta, the death toll from the earthquake on Saturday rose to about 5,000, with more than 15,000 injured and 100,000 displaced, according to government figures released Monday.

Puji Pujiono, the lead officer of the United Nations team in Bantul, said it was receiving no new reports of missing persons, a sign that the number of deaths might not increase much in the coming days.

Emergency teams previously deployed in Yogyakarta for the expected eruption of Mount Merapi have shifted their resources to Bantul, where a command center for the rescue effort has been established. A communications post there is monitoring the volcano's activity and keeping emergency workers informed of developments.

Activity at the command center in Bantul was high Monday afternoon as government, military and international aid workers, forming human chains, unloaded rice, water and other supplies.

The Indonesian Finance Ministry told United Nations officials on Monday evening that it would provide subsistence grants to survivors of the quake. The ministry also said it would provide grants to families, administered by local government, to help rebuild houses. It intends to complete a full action plan for rehabilitation in two weeks.

Despite heavy rain during the last three nights, officials said they did not expect large numbers of deaths from disease or hunger. Many residents are staying near their homes and in their villages, where they have been able to share salvaged food, clothing and shelter.

But villagers who were ill or injured continued arriving at seriously overburdened hospitals on Monday afternoon. Officials said medical workers and hospital supplies were now the most urgent need.

To partly relieve overcrowding, the Indonesian Red Cross began transferring patients with minor injuries to hospitals in Yogyakarta and to emergency tents in the quake area. The United States military said it would provide 100 doctors, nurses and medical technicians.

A United Nations team from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs began organizing the arrival of aid groups on Sunday. Daily meetings have been held to share information and coordinate the use of resources.

Electricity in Yogyakarta, a city of half a million, has been fully restored, and the airport, which was damaged during the quake, reopened Monday to emergency and commercial traffic. Aid shipments had been diverted to nearby airports in Solo and Semarang, where the relief groups loaded supplies and personnel onto trucks and vans bound for Bantul.

The convoy of trucks caused heavy traffic along the road to Bantul, further delaying aid. "There is a huge need here," said Mr. Pujiono, the United Nations official. "We are not lacking supplies, but they are being held up by a jammed distribution system."

On Monday, trucks, cars and motorbikes continued to wait in dense traffic on the one-lane road to Bantul, while villagers lined the street holding plastic cups and cardboard boxes begging for food and money.

Emergency shelters were only beginning to go up on Monday. Andi Hanindito, chief of disaster response for the Indonesian Social Welfare Ministry, said the delay was partly because local government workers, who were caught in the quake, were only now returning to work.

Relief groups, many of which were coming from Aceh Province in western Sumatra, where there was widespread destruction from the tsunami at the end of 2004, said their experience there helped them carry out the relief effort in Yogyakarta. Many aid group leaders are already acquainted with the United Nations staff members and government officials responding to the emergency here.

"Everyone is switched on here, and a lot of us know each other," said Rae McGrath, country director for International Medical Corps. "Authorities here have so far been sensible and supportive."

Local government officials have not been attending the daily coordination meetings, and the national government has yet to make a formal request for assistance from the United Nations. But Mr. Pujiono said he had been meeting regularly with local officials and communicating their concerns to other groups.

The Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, temporarily moved his offices to Yogyakarta on Sunday, bringing greater pressure on the provincial government to respond efficiently.

Summary: A volcano destabilized by Saturday's earthquake could pose a new risk to residents trying to recover.