IBM is teaming up with the federal government to bring Watson technology into America’s largest hospital and healthcare network. The initiative is one of the first public-private partnerships setup as part of Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot program.

The partnership will bring IBM’s Watson for Genomics technology into the U.S. Department of Veterans Affair’s hospitals and doctors’ offices so that more former soldiers can access the best in precision medicine in the battle against cancer. That means veterans will now have top tier access to innovative genomic treatment options. Some 3.5% of the nation’s care patients are being treated at VA facilities, the largest group of cancer patients within a single health care group.

Over the next two years, the VA hopes to treat 10,000 American veterans with targeted cancer therapies, an almost 30-fold increase from the number that is currently using those therapies today within the VA system. The initiative, which will be implemented and analyzing patient data by the third quarter this year, also gives the VA some much needed good news after investigations revealed ongoing manipulation of patient wait times and corruption among some employees.

Watson for Genomics can provide accurate genomic analysis of a cancer’s DNA by cross-referencing the sequencing data with a comprehensive database of existing medical literature. It can create, within minutes, a report for physicians identifying likely cancer-causing mutations and provides a list of potential therapies ranked by levels of evidence, replacing a previously time-intensive process.

“Genetic alterations are responsible for most cancers, but it remains challenging for most clinicians to deliver on the promise of precision medicine due to the sheer volume of data surrounding each decision that needs to be made,” said David J. Shulkin, Under Secretary for Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs in a statement. “By applying Watson to this problem, we see an opportunity to scale access to precision medicine for America’s veterans, a group most deserving of the best care in the world.”

The public-private partnership is due to be officially announced Wednesday at the National Cancer Moonshot Summit, a gathering of scientists, oncologists, donors, and patients in Washington, D.C. The daylong conference is focused on more than a 100 different types of cancers and is meant to galvanize Biden’s cancer initiative, which aims to achieve a “decade worth of advances in 5 years.” The Cancer Moonshot is doing that with a multi-prong approach, offering funding, targeted incentives, and increased private-sector coordination.

“It’s not just about developing game-changing treatments–it’s about delivering them those who need them,” Biden wrote in a post announcing the Cancer Moonshot in January.

Right now, the way precision medicine works at top tier institutes is a board of 10 to 15 doctors, known as Molecular Tumor Boards, meet once a week to examine the DNA of cancer cells of about a dozen patients. They look for mutations in genetic sequences and then determine the best specific treatment to fight that abnormality. At that rate, that ends up equaling about 1,000 cases per year, notes Steve Harvey, vice president of IBM Watson Health.

“You can see right there that this isn’t scalable,” Harvey told Fortune. “You’re limited by the number of patients that you can look at in any given week, which means that you limit the number of individuals that you can sequence.”

If Watson for Genomics can help the VA expand its precision medicine program to 10,000 cases over two years, it should be quite meaningful for the Cancer Moonshot efforts. Watson for Genomics can sort patients by level of need, sending more straight-forward analyses directly to the treating oncologist; the more complex cases are reviewed and discussed by these expert boards. Another benefit with Watson for Genomics: patients don’t have to live near the top tier cancer institutes in areas like Boston or Houston or New York City to get the most innovative care.

“Regardless of where you live, if your treating oncologist can have the same access to treatment alternatives and fact-based information as an oncologist in Boston or an oncologist in New York, that really is the democratization of health care.”

Summary: The goal is to expand precision medicine to more former soldiers.


Nick Young has bigger problems than the Lakers’ awful season.

“It has nothing to do with chemistry. It has everything to do with basketball,” Lakers head coach Byron Scott told reporters Monday on the decision to sit Young for the past 11 games. “Right now, I know what he’s going through, and I know it’s hard on him. But he’s not here with us, mentally, and there’s no need for me to put him out there on the floor.”

Young’s engagement to rapper Iggy Azalea remains in question following the release of a video, which was secretly taped by teammate D’Angelo Russell, that captures the 30-year-old journeyman confessing his infidelities.

The Lakers’ season was a disaster long before this drama started, and Young had already fallen out of the rotation. It seems unlikely he’ll get back on the court this season, with salvaging his relationship now perhaps his top priority.

“It was strictly a basketball decision,” Scott added. “It’s all based on because I know how [Young] is feeling right now. He’s not really here with us.”

And while the Lakers locker room has reportedly iced out the 20-year-old rookie, the team’s dumpster fire of a season continues to spiral, with morale at an all-time low.

“It’s bad,” a team insider told ESPN after the story broke last week. “It’s about as bad as it can get. There were trust issues already. Now there’s no trust.”

Young is reportedly seeking advice from teammate Kobe Bryant, whose adulterous history is well-documented. Azalea has said she refuses to say “I do” to a cheater.

Though the 25-year-old pop star hit the red carpet solo at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Sunday, she was still wearing her $500,000, yellow diamond engagement ring from Young.

Summary: Nick Young has bigger problems than the Lakers’ awful season. “It has nothing to do with chemistry. It has everything to do with basketball,”  Lakers head coach Byron Scott told r…


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(AAPL) has put the behavioral marketing hammer down by

. In doing so, Apple shows that talk of allowing other ad networks on iOS devices is just that -- talk.

Apple will effectively make itself the only iWhatever ad game in town by restricting the data others can collect even as it makes free use of what it compels customers to give up, should they want to keep downloading updates, media, and apps to their iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. That again could hurt Apple in the long run as regulators start to critically examine how the company operates and competes.

report notes, the control that Apple has over its entire ecosystem gives it an enormous advantage in targeting ads to iOS users:

As I mentioned back in early June, it was clear that

over other ad networks, even as

talked about the need for opt-in data collection. However, he clearly meant that

. Apple forced the issue on one front by requiring all customers to opt into location-based information services -- including marketing -- if they wanted to continue to have access to music, apps, and even handset firmware upgrades. Jobs has specifically stressed how a company must continuously ask permission to use customer information and tell the customers precisely what it plans to do with the data. Except, Apple doesn't bother with such details with its customers.

Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not suggesting that Apple is somehow bad for using customer data to improve iAd targeting. There is no single major high tech company or retailer that does not do exactly this, and in excruciating detail. If Apple wants to continue competing with

in the mobile market, it will have to be able to undercut demand for ads, its competitor's revenue life blood.

Judgment calls aside, there's a particular danger for Apple: all the regulatory interest it has generated through its success and tactics in the mobile device market. The issue would not be that Apple captures information, but that it makes a show about the need to ask, and yet forces compliance (

), and that it effectively prevents competitors from doing the same. It's another way to wave the red flag in front of regulators.

Strategic issues aside, Apple apparently has made the claim that

, largely due to the $275 million it spent on

. I'll now officially scoff. Apple will take in 40 percent of all ad sales. Does the company seriously claim that it can't make money in what could easily become a multi-billion dollar annual business? But then, Apple has claimed that it makes virtually nothing on media and app sales, no matter how quickly they have scaled. Pardon me while I look for the salt shaker.

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Summary: Apple will use iTunes activity data to offer behavioral targeting for iAd. That may make regulators take renewed interest, as Apple is restricting what user data other ad networks can collect.


(CBS News) Not every summer time activity involves activity. There's one male pastime that has baffled women since the beginning of time - count our contributor Faith Salie among them:

True story: I've gone fishing only once. It was on the Amazon, and I was trying to catch piranha. I didn't catch any, and I didn't get hooked on fishing.

Maybe it's because I'm a woman. Sure, there are ladies who like to fish, but it's mostly men wading in rivers, leaning over bridges and boats, angling for the nibble that delivers every fisherman's desire: "tight lines."

Why do dudes love fishing? I went trawling for answers.

Many guys tell me that fishing satisfies a primal hunting urge. It's man vs. nature, armed with only a pole, beer and sunscreen. They think, "I just caught my own dinner (if my wife will de-bone it for me)."

And if you consider fishing a sport - and some do - then it's a very democratic kind of activity. You don't need to be a tall or strong or agile. You just need to be patient, or drunk . . . on the beauty of nature. As avid fisher President Herbert Hoover put it, "All men are equal before fish."

Also, fishing is a pretty good excuse not to do much, which is really what summer should be about.

Scientific studies have proven that women multitask better than men, so fishing is a great way for men to flex their strength at mono-tasking. Standing there with just a rod and a wish is something at which men can really excel!

One man explained fishing as extended periods of boredom punctuated with brief bouts of excitement - which to me describes dating. You put your bait out there; you see what bites; you catch and release, and trust there are OTHER fish in the sea.

Other guys think of fishing as meaningful bonding time with fathers, grandfathers and sons. A friend of mine described his time with his dad as a childhood adventure. The "adventure" was baloney sandwiches in the hot, humid bayou in a tiny boat, and very little fish-catching. Conversation rarely got deep, but it was intimate time shared.

Now there's a reason to fish that I'll buy hook, line and sinker.

Most men probably don't analyze why they love fishing. Why think too hard about a simple pleasure? But it's kind of a metaphor for a good life: Try your best, hope for the best, have days when you catch something and days when you don't, but always, always be thankful for the sound of the water and the sun in the sky and the chance to cast another reel.

It's been said, "Some men fish their entire lives without realizing it's not fish they're after."

So, gentlemen, whatever you're after this summer, have fun . . . and tight lines!

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Summary: Faith Salie explores the mystique behind the adventure of an extremely simple pleasure


United States Senator Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey will return approximately $88,000 given to him by Charles Kushner, the real estate developer arrested last week on charges that he tried to obstruct a federal investigation into his campaign contributions by retaliating against witnesses, a spokesman for the senator said yesterday.

A Democratic Party committee of which Mr. Corzine is chairman has already returned $25,000 as well as a $25,000 check that it did not deposit.

In a complaint filed on Tuesday in United States District Court in Newark, the federal government charged that Mr. Kushner hired prostitutes to have sex with two witnesses who were cooperating with federal investigators looking into his campaign contributions. The complaint says Mr. Kushner planned to use secretly recorded videos of the witnesses with the prostitutes to blackmail them and discourage their cooperation.

Last month, Mr. Kushner was fined $508,900 by the Federal Election Commission for illegally making donations in other people's names, often without their consent, in political races from 1997 to 2000.

The return of the funds was first reported yesterday in The Star-Ledger of Newark.

Mr. Corzine was already required to return $50,000 because of the election commission's findings, his spokesman, David Wald, said. He will return an additional $38,000 that Mr. Kushner gave him from 2000 to 2003 ''just to be conservative,'' Mr. Wald said.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which Mr. Corzine heads, has returned $25,000 it received in 2003 to Mr. Kushner, said a committee spokeswoman, Cara Morris. A $25,000 check that Mr. Kushner sent this year has also been returned.

New Jersey's other senator, Frank R. Lautenberg, also a Democrat, has already returned money received from Mr. Kushner, according to a spokesman, who said he could not yet determine how much Mr. Lautenberg had received or returned.

Summary: Sen Jon S Corzine returns about $88,000 in campaign contributions to Charles Kushner, New Jersey real estate developer who has been charged with hiring prostitutes to obstruct investigation of his campaign contributions; Democratic Party committee headed by Corzine and Sen Frank Lautenberg also return donations (S)


Emilia Clarke had the best reaction to watching Kristen Wiig appear on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night as the Mother of Dragons.

Clarke, who plays the blonde-haired bad-ass queen Daenerys Targaryen on HBO’s smash hit show Game of Thrones, posted a photo of herself crying with laughter to her Instagram.

Kristen Wiig appeared on Jimmy Fallon dressed as the dragon queen complete with blue dress, blonde wig and a plastic dragon perched on her shoulder and hilariously answered questions while pretending to be the Khaleesi. (TIME suspects she’s not a GoT devotee.)

Summary: The Mother of Dragons was amused.


Most Americans celebrated as the ball fell in Times Square New Year's Eve. But for auto dealers this new year is especially sweet. January 1 marked the expiration of the federal luxury tax on cars, the last vestige of the destructive luxury tax package in the infamous 1990 budget deal.

Starting in 1991, Washington levied a 10% luxury tax on cars valued above $30,000, boats above $100,000, jewelry and furs above $10,000 and private planes above $250,000. Democrats like Ted Kennedy and then-Senate Majority Leader George...

Summary: Car dealers had an extra reason to celebrate this New Year.


Wani fitaccen dan siyasar Najeriya Dr Junadi Muhammad ya yi zargin cewa shugaban kasar Muhammadu Buhari yana matukar nuna bambanci a mukaman da yake nadawa.

Dr Junadi ya ce shugaban kasar yana kuma kare wasu jami'an gwamnatinsa da ake zargi da hannu a cin hanci da rashawa.

A wata hira da BBC, babban dan siyasar ya ce an nunawa mutanen Sokoto da Kaduna da Abuja bambanci a nade-naden da aka yi na ministoci, yana mai cewa mutanen da aka nada ba 'yan asalin jihohin ba ne.

Ya ce abin takaici ne yadda aka bar wasu manyan shugabannin sojin kasar na baya da kuma na yanzu a binciken da ake yi na sace kudaden da aka ware na sayen makamai ga jami'an tsaron kasar.

Sai dai wasu mukarraban shugaban kasar sun shaida wa BBC cewa ba za su mayar da martani a kan wadannan zarge-zarge ba.

Summary: Wani fitaccen dan siyasar Najeriya Dr Junadi Muhammad ya ce shugaban kasar Muhammadu Buhari yana matukar nuna bambanci a mukaman da yake nadawa.


WASHINGTON—A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday limited constitutional protections against searches, ruling that evidence gathered after police illegally detain someone could be used in court absent “flagrant” misconduct by law enforcement.

Writing for the court, Justice Clarence Thomas said a police officer’s possible “negligence” in stopping a pedestrian without reasonable suspicion shouldn’t prevent prosecutors from charging...

Summary: A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited constitutional protections against searches, ruling that evidence gathered after police illegally detain someone could be used in court absent “flagrant” misconduct by law enforcement.


A Brisbane chef who threw a puppy against a child's swing set and attempted to suffocate it with a towel has avoided jail.

Craig Muller, 36, was sentenced to 30 months probation after pleading guilty in Caboolture Magistrates Court on Wednesday to animal cruelty against eight-month-old kelpie Nera in May 2016.

Muller's repeated and sickening acts of violence towards the dog were captured on video over three days by a neighbour who reported him to the RSPCA.

In one video Muller can be seen picking up Nera by her leg and tail and throwing her onto a glass table.

He then used a towel to smother the puppy's face in an apparent attempt to stop her from breathing.

Muller only stopped when the person recording the incident called out that she was filming him.

Other videos show Muller throwing Nera against a child's swing set and choking her as he lifted her into the air by her neck.

Nera was surrendered to the RSPCA and is recovering from surgery for a broken leg.

Muller was also ordered to undergo anger management counselling and banned from owning an animal for three years.

RSPCA Queensland spokesman Michael Beatty said he had hoped Muller would receive at least a suspended prison sentence but the long probation and counselling order were a good result.

Mr Beatty said while Muller's offending was towards the upper end of the spectrum the RSPCA did come across other examples of more extreme cruelty.

"Animals can't talk and we are reliant on members of the public coming forward with information so that we can catch those responsible," Mr Beatty said.

Summary: A Brisbane chef who brutally abused a kelpie puppy will have to undergo an anger management course.


Physical inactivity is costing people a lot more than their slim-fit jeans: A report published Thursday by The Lancet, a U.K. medical journal, puts the number at $27.8 billion in the U.S. alone, with global figures reaching $67.5 billion.

The study, from 142 different countries, is the first-ever to calculate just how much sloth is costing us, Bloomberg News reports. And the financial toll is a conservative estimate.

The study took into account productivity losses, health care costs, and disability-adjusted life-years of various conditions related to inactivity: coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, and colon cancer. Type 2 diabetes was the most expensive disease, accounting for 70% of all health care costs.

According to Melody Ding, the lead author of the study and a senior research fellow at the University of Sydney’s school of public health, rich countries bear more responsibility for the economic costs of inactivity, while less-wealthy nations bear a higher percentage of the disease burden.

As Bloomberg put it: “The most striking finding is not the actual number, it’s the distribution of the economic burden across regions,” Ding said. “In wealthy countries, people pay with their pockets. In less wealthy countries, they’re paying with their lives.”

The U.S. strikingly accounts for over 40% of worldwide sloth costs. Let’s hope Pokemon Go can save us.

Summary: Have you gotten up from your desk today?


08/10/2016 AT 12:15 PM EDT

A marriage proposal isn't the only major life event that warrants a cheesy photo shoot.

Benita Abraham decided to commemorate a different kind of milestone – getting a job offer – with over-the-top, romantic photos because why the hell not?

Abraham posted photos in which she poses with (and stares lovingly at) the job offer on her Facebook page to celebrate the fact that her seven-month job search had finally come to an end â¦ and she found the employer of her dreams.

"I finally found my soulmate, my perfect match, my boo," she wrote in the post, which has already received more than 6,000 shares. "After 7 long months, I found the perfect job with a company that truly cares about its employees and one I will learn so much from."

, the newly employed 37-year-old lives in Long Beach, California, and works in healthcare administration.

Abrahim is just the latest person to subvert the whole romantic photo genre. In July 2015, another one of our personal heroes – David Sikorski –

of gushy engagement photos with a carne asada burrito.

Summary: Benita Abraham is our role model


Restaurateur Jon Cronin wants to become a big player in the South Boston waterfront’s booming development scene with his plans for a 22-story residential high-rise overlooking the harbor.

But first, Cronin will have to get past a Boston-based environmental group that’s pledging to litigate if state officials approve a change in development parameters for the area. The Conservation Law Foundation’s claim: too much of a key waterfront lot would be taken up by the building, limiting the potential for public access and setting a bad precedent for shoreline development in the city.

Cronin has powerful allies in his quest to convert his Atlantic Beer Garden and Whiskey Priest restaurants into a luxury condo tower. The Walsh administration is pursuing the change on Cronin’s behalf, and many Southie politicians and businesspeople have signaled their support to the state environmental officials who are reviewing the city’s request.

But the Conservation Law Foundation represents a formidable foe, given its platoon of attorneys and the ease in which it can engage in a legal war.

“This is a sweetheart deal for one developer,” said Bradley Campbell, the organization’s president. “We think this is a very dangerous precedent. . . . If this project is approved as is, we would certainly go to court to enforce Chapter 91.”

Campbell is referring to an 1866 state law, one based on a centuries-old legal doctrine that the sea and shoreline should belong to the public and not to one particular person.

This is the law at the heart of Somerville’s recent battle with Wynn Resorts over its proposed casino in Everett, and it’s a big reason why developer Don Chiofaro has not yet been able to turn the Boston Harbor Garage into a two-tower complex.

In Cronin’s case, city officials want state permission to update their harbor plan for that part of the waterfront to allow for a much larger building with condos instead of two restaurants. State officials use these plans to weigh whether a project’s proposed public benefits are enough to help offset its impact.

Cronin acquired the property a decade ago and replaced the two restaurants there with his own concepts. At the time, the South Boston waterfront was still largely a sea of parking lots, its renaissance only starting to take shape.

Flash forward to today: Most of the lots have been built on or will soon be, with towers dwarfing Cronin’s two restaurants. He wants to capitalize on the wave of construction all around him with the $260 million project, his largest development so far. The project, which is scheduled to be discussed by the Boston Redevelopment Authority on Thursday, would include 124 condos as well as two stories of restaurant space on the bottom floors.

To pull it off, Cronin is working on deals with three neighboring property owners including the city and the Massachusetts Port Authority, to expand the site from 10,500 square feet to roughly 25,000, according to numbers included in the city’s request to the state. Cronin, for example, needs to obtain a small city-owned parcel, along with air rights over a city sidewalk.

Cronin wants considerably more lot coverage than the 50-percent maximum allowed under the state tidelands law — exactly how much more depends on whether a proposed deck over the water is included in the calculations. State officials can, and often do, waive thresholds imposed by the law, as long as developers come up with an appropriate level of public benefits.

In Cronin’s case, he plans to spend at least $10 million to build a missing piece of the Harborwalk at the site. He has also proposed giving $1.5 million to the Martin Richard memorial park to be built about a half mile away, next to the Children’s Museum. And he plans to donate $250,000 for the construction of civic space in the nearby Envoy Hotel.

The Conservation Law Foundation is planning to sue the developer of a 22-story tower where the Whiskey Priest and Atlantic Beer Garden are located.

The Conservation Law Foundation, among other points, argues that the spirit of the state law suggests such benefits should take place at the site, not blocks away.

But in a statement, Cronin Holdings said the foundation fails to recognize the importance of such amenities: “This iconic project creates public spaces and harbor access in an area where there is none.”

More than 2,100 letters of support for Cronin’s project were filed last month with the state Department of Environmental Protection. A spokesman for Cronin said most of those letters were collected by “the many groups and businesses in the community who support this project” after Cronin distributed petitions.

The Conservation Law Foundation argues that without the additional city land or the new 12-foot-wide Harborwalk connection included in the calculations, the tower would take over nearly all of the site’s ground space, clearly violating the state law.

Campbell said it’s meaningless to have coverage limitations for tidelands property if those can be overcome by simply building out over the water: “It’s an artful misuse of the regulations that essentially walls off the public from all but 12 feet of the waterfront.”

BRA waterfront planner Rich McGuinness defended his agency’s decision to accommodate Cronin with the harbor plan amendment. The Seaport area has changed dramatically since the plan was written 16 years ago, McGuinness said. He also said there’s not enough room on the site for mitigation measures that could be used to offset the tidelands requirements, so it makes sense to count improvements near the Children’s Museum.

The final decision rests in the hands of Matthew Beaton, Governor Charlie Baker’s energy and environmental affairs secretary. Beaton is expected to decide this fall.

Beaton says he wants to strike a balance: offering consistency to developers who want to do business with the state and “consistency in terms of protecting the public access to the waterfront.”

Matthew Kiefer, a land-use lawyer with Goulston & Storrs, said he understands why the Conservation Law Foundation worries about the precedent this project might set.

But he said the benefits might be worth it: “[Building] on pilings in an area of water sheet that is not all that useful for navigation in order to produce publicly accessible open space, it seems to me that’s worth considering.”

Summary: Restaurateur Jon Cronin wants to become a player in the booming development scene on the South Boston Waterfront, with plans for a 22-story luxury high-rise overlooking the harbor. But first, Cronin has to get past the Conservation Law Foundation.


On Tuesday, Gerald Grosvenor, the duke of Westminster who was once an executor of Princess Diana's will, died of a heart attack at age 64. His untimely death means his son Hugh Grosvenor has officially become Britain's youngest billionaire, inheriting the title, real estate on five continents, and a fortune worth $10.8 billion, all at the ripe old age of 25.

Becoming the new duke of Westminster has made Hugh Grosvenor internationally famous once again, as he's a close friend of the royal family: When he was 22, Prince William and Kate Middleton named him godfather to Prince George. The year before, Prince Harry partied with Rizzle Kicks at the now-duke's lavish 21st-birthday party. Here are six things to know about the world's latest most eligible bachelor.

Is he single? Unclear. Reportedly, maybe. Hopefully, yes.

His vast inheritance comes from a 17th-century swamp. In 1677, his ancestors astutely purchased 500 acres of swamp, pastures, and orchards that would become Eaton Square, Mayfair and Belgravia (two of London's most ritzy areas), and the center of Georgian London. The family since expanded their real-estate empire to include properties on five continents.

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CEO Mark Zuckerberg gestures while delivering the keynote address at the Facebook F8 Developer Conference Wednesday, March 25, 2015, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

FILE-In this Thursday April 26, 2012, file photo, Dustin Moskovitz co-founder of the collaborative software company Asana, poses outside of his office in San Francisco. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has been selling 150,000 shares of Facebook stock a day out of the hundreds of millions that he owns. So far, he has shed 1.35 million shares for proceeds of $26.2 million, at prices ranging from $18.79 to $20.08. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Billionaire Elizabeth Holmes, founder and chief executive officer of Theranos Inc., speaks to the media as she arrives at a state dinner hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama in honor of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe goes before the U.S. Congress on Wednesday to present Japan as a stalwart ally that's willing to play a bigger military role in Asia, a message likely to be embraced in Washington and greeted with suspicion in Seoul and Beijing. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder and chief technology officer of Airbnb Inc., speaks during the 2015 Bloomberg Technology Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, June 15, 2015. The conference gathers global business leaders, tech influencers, top investors and entrepreneurs to shine a spotlight on how coders and coding are transforming business and fueling disruption across all industries. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Brian Chesky, chief executive officer of Airbnb Inc., speaks during an interview at a media event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Monday, July 27, 2015. Airbnb is hoping to spread its unique brand of hospitality throughout Africa. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Airbnb online accommodation provider co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Joe Gebbia announces to the media their partnership with the Brazilian Olympic Committee for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the headquarters of the Brazilian Olympic Committee in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 27, 2015. AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA (Photo credit should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)

PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 26: Tatiana Casiraghi attends the Christian Dior show as part of Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2015 on January 26, 2015 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 22: Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel speaks during the iHeartMedia Soundfront at iHeartMedia Headquarters on April 22, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

Bobby Murphy, chief technology officer and co-founder of Snapchat Inc., speaks during a Google Inc. Cloud event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, March 25, 2014. Google Inc. cut prices on some Internet-based services for businesses by 30 percent or more, stepping up a challenge to Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in cloud computing. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Snapchat co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy attends the Time 100 Gala celebrating the Time 100 issue of the Most Influential People In The World at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 29, 2014 in New York. AFP PHOTO / Timothy A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

Adrian Cheng, executive director of Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd., attends the companys annual results news conference in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Chow Tai Fook, the worlds largest listed jewelry chain, reported a 13 percent decline in profit on higher costs and weaker consumer spending. Photographer: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg via Getty Images

He's an econerd. Maybe a coffee addict? Right now he's reportedly an account manager at a London-based green tech company, bio-bean, which recycles used coffee grounds into biofuel. At Newcastle University, he studied plants, wildlife conservation, business, and geology and probably worked on a farm all at the same time. This is an actual major: countryside management.

He likes hip-hop, has an amazing wine cellar: Rizzle Kicks performed at his 21st birthday party (rumored to have cost $8 million), where Prince Harry and 799 other guests followed a "black tie and neon" dress code, ate steak and chips, and listened to comedian Michael McIntyre. A strict no-gift policy did allow wine bottles, meaning: He (probably) has hundreds of bottles of wine!

A sexist 11th-century law made him a billionaire. (Not his fault.) Hugh Grosvenor has two older sisters and one younger sister but he's the duke's only son. Britain's ancient primogeniture law favoring oldest sons, created in 1066, is still in effect. The law lets a family's oldest son inherit an estate even if he has older sisters. Lawmakers are still discussing changes to this rule, so his three sisters will reportedly inherit large trust funds.

Just his family's casual country home: Eaton Hall, set on 11,000 acres of formal gardens and every flavor of land (farmlands, woodlands, parklands). Perks: butlers, W-monogrammed sheets, Rembrandt paintings. A summer getaway!

Here's to the new duke.

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The widow of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs inherited his wealth and assets, which included 5.5 million shares of Apple stock and a 7.3% stake in The Walt Disney Co., upon his death. Jobs' stake in Disney — which has nearly tripled in value since her husband's death in 2011 and comprises more than $12 billion of her net worth — makes her the company's largest individual shareholder.

Though she's best recognized through her iconic husband, Jobs has had a career of her own. She worked on Wall Street for Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs before earning her MBA at Stanford in 1991, after which she married her late husband and started organic-foods company Terravera. But she's been primarily preoccupied with philanthropic ventures, with a particular focus on education. In 1997, she founded College Track, an after-school program that helps low-income students prepare for and enroll in college, and in September she committed $50 million to a new project called XQ: The Super School Project, which aims to revamp the high-school curriculum and experience.

Last October, Jobs spoke out against "Steve Jobs," Aaron Sorkin's movie about her late husband that portrays him in a harsh light, calling it "fiction." Jobs had been against the project from the get-go, reportedly calling Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale to ask them to decline roles in the film.

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In 1966, 21-year-old Azim Premji dropped out of Stanford in the wake of his father's death to take the helm of his father's company Western India Vegetable Products — later renamed Wipro. It was under Premji's leadership that the company diversified into toiletries and bath products and, eventually, IT, and the company grew exponentially. Now India's third-largest IT giant, Wipro generated revenues of $7.6 billion in its most recent fiscal year.

Just days into the new year, Premji named Abidali Neemuchwala, a Dallas-based consultancy executive, the new CEO of Wipro, citing him as the best leader to take Wipro into "its next phase of growth." Neemuchwala had been brought on to Wipro as chief operating officer last April after years of working for rival Tata Consultancy Services.

Premji is known for his generosity. He signed the Giving Pledge, committing to donate at least half of his wealth to charity, and in 2015 was named "the most generous Indian" on the Hurun India Philanthropy list for the third year in a row.

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Dieter Schwarz joined his father's food-wholesaling business in 1973 and opened the company's first discount supermarket shortly thereafter. He took over as CEO when his father died in 1977 and rapidly expanded the business outside Germany, rebranding the company as Schwarz Gruppe.

The parent company umbrellas Lidl, a successful grocery-store chain and the second largest in Germany behind Aldi, and Kaufland, a chain of "hypermarket" stores similar to Walmart. Lidl has nearly 10,000 stores across 26 European countries and is set to break ground on US soil in 2018. Schwarz Gruppe now pulls in $85 billion in annual sales.

The German billionaire lives a quiet life out of the spotlight with his wife and two kids in their hometown of Heilbronn. He's reportedly a generous donor to educational causes.

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Georg Schaeffler served in the German military and held a short career in corporate law in the US before jumping aboard his father's company, Schaeffler Group, the nearly $11 billion (in sales) ball bearings and auto-parts maker that Schaeffler now co-owns with his mother.

The company made a splash in 2008 with its $17 billion hostile takeover attempt of tire and auto-parts maker Continental AG, which went south and left Schaeffler Group saddled with debt that it's managing to this day. It still owns a nearly 50% stake in Continental.

Schaeffler Group has recently invested nearly $550 million in its electric and hybrid car parts business, and it expects to double the number in the next five years.

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12. Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz al Saud

Prince Alwaleed comes from royalty — he is the grandson of Abdul Aziz al Saud, the first ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — but he also built his fortune with savvy investments in a range of companies across the US and the Middle East. He founded Kingdom Holding Co. in 1980 and has since invested in everything from real estate to entertainment to education, with stakes in companies like Twitter, The Four Seasons, Time Warner, and Motorola.

Recently, Prince Alwaleed also made a play for ride-hailing service Lyft, reportedly grabbing a 2.3% stake by putting up $105 million of a nearly $250 million round of funding the company raised in December.

Prince Alwaleed has an enigmatic relationship with his money. In 2013, he sued Forbes for allegedly underestimating his wealth. But last summer he announced plans to donate his entire fortune to charity anyway.

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Industry: Petrochemicals, oil, and gas

Mukesh Ambani took over as chairman of Reliance Industries when his father, the company's founder, died in 2002. The enormous industrial conglomerate generates $62 billion in annual revenue from its interests in energy, petrochemicals, textiles, natural resources, retail, and, more recently, telecommunications.

Ambani is the richest person in India with a personal fortune of over $24 billion. He owns a 27-story Mumbai mansion that cost $1 billion to build.

And if Ambani's projections for India's economy prove correct, expect that net worth to soar. Four years ago, Ambani predicted that India would grow from a $1.4 trillion economy in 2011 to a $30 trillion economy by 2030 — a bullish estimate considering that India's GDP today stands at $2.2 trillion.

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10 through 8. Forrest, Jacqueline, and John Franklyn Mars

Net worth: $28.6 billion each

Age: 84, 76, and 80

Siblings Forrest, Jacqueline, and John Franklyn "Frank" Mars inherited a stake in the iconic candymaker Mars Inc. when their father, Forrest Sr., died in 1999. The notoriously private trio co-own but don't actively manage the maker of M&M's and Milky Way bars, which their grandfather started in 1931 as a confectionary business in his kitchen in Tacoma, Washington.

In 2008, Mars Inc. branched out from chocolate to gum, when it acquired the Wrigley Jr. Co. for $23 billion. Since then, it's delved into pet food, buying Iams and two other brands in 2014 from Procter & Gamble for close to $2.9 billion.

Together the three siblings run the Mars Foundation, which gives primarily to educational, environmental, cultural, and health-related causes. In March 2015, Frank Mars was made an honorary knight by Queen Elizabeth II.

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Bernard Arnault's LVMH houses 70 luxury brands from Louis Vuitton to Hennessy to Dom Perignon, all controlled by family parent company Groupe Arnault. By the 1980s and '90s, Arnault, who started out as a civil engineer, had assumed control of the family business and proceeded to buy high-end fashion house Christian Dior, reviving it from the brink of bankruptcy. Like most LVMH brands today, Dior once again thrives as an industry standard bearer, helping the firm haul in a record $33 billion in revenue in 2014.

This year, the French chairman and CEO is joining US-based private-equity firm Catterton to form an investment firm with a consumer focus. The new firm, to be named L Catterton, is targeting $12 billion in assets under management and will be 40% owned by LVMH and Groupe Arnault.

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The heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune and the company's largest shareholder, Liliane Bettencourt is the richest woman in Europe and the second-richest woman in the world, with a net worth of $29 billion. She no longer has a hand in business operations, but L'Oreal and the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation she cofounded with her late husband continue to prosper. She's an avid art collector, owning pieces by Picasso, Matisse, and Munch.

In recent years, Bettencourt became a household name in France as the central figure in an infamous trial in which judges examined whether the billionaire was taken advantage of by those close to her. The trial closed in May 2015 when eight people, including trusted friends and financial advisers, were convicted of exploiting the heiress.

Bettencourt was back in the news again late last year after accusations were made against her former butler and five journalists for recording meetings with the billionaire and thus violating her right to privacy. The butler, Pascal Bonnefoy, claimed that he made the recordings to show Bettencourt's fragile state — all six were acquitted in early January.

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The daughter of late Walmart founder Sam Walton, Alice Walton holds a major piece of the company fortune, making her the richest woman on earth. Though she never took an active role in running the superstore like her brothers, she's become the target of pushback from minimum-wage Walmart employees who view her highfalutin lifestyle as insensitive and ignorant to the plights of many workers.

Instead of spending time at Walmart, Walton has become a patron of the arts. Her immense personal collection includes pieces from Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell, and Georgia O'Keefe. In 2011, she opened the $50 million Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, where a number of her famous paintings are on display.

Walton also recently donated 3.7 million of her Walmart shares to the family's nonprofit and put her Texas ranches — one a working horse ranch, the other a luxurious vacation spot — on the market for a combined $48 million.

Samuel Robson "Rob" Walton is the oldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. He started working at the iconic retail behemoth in 1969, holding positions from senior vice president to general counsel to chairman, a role he stepped down from in June after 23 years on the job. His son-in-law was named as his successor.

Despite Walmart's reputation as a greedy corporation that underpays its employees, the Walton family — the richest in America — has a philanthropic streak. Regulatory filings on New Year's Eve revealed that he and his brother each gave away 1.5 million Walmart shares to the family charity, Walton Family Holdings Trust, while sister Alice gave away 3.7 million shares, for a total family donation of $407 million. It's an incredible amount, but it's also ultimately a drop in the bucket for the Waltons, whose stake in the company — about 50% — is worth nearly $100 billion.

James "Jim" Walton's parents, Helen and Sam Walton, purchased a controlling stake in Arkansas' Bank of Bentonville the year before opening the first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962 — when Jim was just 14. Within five years, the family owned 24 of the retail stores and in 1972 listed Walmart on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1975, after working in Walmart's real-estate department for a few years, Jim joined his parents' bank, later renamed Arvest Bank Group. He's now chairman and CEO of the regional community bank, which has $15 billion in assets.

The businessman is also director of Walton Enterprises, the holding company for the Walton family assets, and chairman of Community Publishers, an Arkansas-based newspaper firm. After the death of his brother John in 2005, Jim joined the board of Walmart, where he serves as a director today.

While America's richest family remains incredibly private, the Walton Family Foundation, of which Jim is secretary and treasurer, has donated millions to charitable causes. In December 2015, Jim and his siblings donated $407 million worth of Walmart shares to a newly formed trust that funds the Walton's philanthropy, which focuses on educational, cultural, community development, and social causes.

Charles Koch is chairman and CEO of multifaceted conglomerate Koch Industries, the second-largest private company in America which their father founded. His younger brother David is the executive vice president. The company employs 100,000 people and generates $115 billion in sales from its diverse company, which makes everything from petrochemicals and Dixie Cups to raw clothing materials.

Outspoken in the world of conservative politics, the Koch brothers, who have a combined net worth of $94.2 billion, wield a heavy influence over the upcoming 2016 US presidential race. The two at one point favored Republican candidate and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, but have since said that they won't support any of the current candidates in the primary. But they, along with their vast donor network, plan on pitching in some $750 million during the 2016 election cycle.

Recently surfaced documents revealed that Charles Koch's plans to reshape American politics date back 40 years, when he began strategizing and developing a libertarian movement.

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Along with his brother Charles, David Koch runs Koch Industries as executive vice president. The second-largest private company, $115 billion (in sales) Koch Industries manufactures everything from fertilizer and Dixie Cups to asphalt and biodiesel.

Famously conservative, the brothers also maintain immense political influence and pledged to spend, along with their vast donor network, some $750 million on 2016 campaigns and causes. David tends to stay out of the spotlight more than his brother Charles, who announced in November that the brothers would not be backing any of the current GOP candidates in the primaries, a sign that they aren't confident in the state of the party.

David has had two brushes with death. He survived a plane crash in 1991 in which everyone else in first class died, and he also won a battle with prostate cancer. He's become one of the world's most generous givers since, pledging to contribute more than $1.2 billion to cancer research, hospitals, education, and cultural institutions over his lifetime through his David H. Koch Charitable Foundation.

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Summary: Gerald Grosvenor's death means his son Hugh has officially become Britain's youngest billionaire at the ripe old age of 25.


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It's recommended that the average person eat 1,600 to 3,000 calories every day, but Olympic athletes can afford to eat much more. That's because their metabolisms are as fast as they are.

Michael Phelps famously shared his impressive 12,000 calorie a day diet during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. That's 4,000 calories every meal.

SEE ALSO: The most stylish Olympic uniforms from Rio 2016 While training for Rio, Phelps updated us on his diet in a Facebook video. He seems to have upped his protein intake and has been grilling hamburgers hot dogs, steaks and lots and lots of chicken. He also said he loves Mexican food.

SEE MORE: Everything you need to know about the Summer Olympics Some athletes, like Venus Williams, are straying entirely from meat. The tennis gold medalist dedicated herself to a vegan, raw-food diet for the Games after being diagnosed with Sjögrens Syndrome, which gave her shortness of breath and muscle fatigue.

Check out these amazing moments captured at the 2016 Olympics:

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 07: Simone Biles of the United States competes on the balance beam during Women's qualification for Artistic Gymnastics on Day 2 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Rio Olympic Arena on August 7, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 07: Jonas Valanciunas of Lithuania shoots over Marcus Vinicius Marquinhos of Brazil during a Men's preliminary round basketball game between Brazil and Lithuania on Day 2 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Carioca Arena 1 on August 7, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Pool/Getty Images)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 07: Segun Toriola of Nigeria plays a Men's Singles second round match against Koki Niwa of Japan on Day 2 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Riocentro - Pavilion 3 on August 7, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 06: Bret Bonanni #10 of United States shoots the ball against Croatia during the Men's Water Polo Preliminary Round - Group B match between the United States of America and Croatia at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre on August 6, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Anna Marton of Hungary, right, fences against Manon Brunet of France during women's saber individual fencing competition in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Russia's Middle Khamukov Petr is punched by Venezuela's Albert Ramon Ramirez during a men's light heavyweight 81-kg preliminary boxing match at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Hungary's Katinka Hosszu competes in a women's 100-meter backstroke heat during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 07: Laura Giombini of Italy (R) reacts during the Women's Beach Volleyball preliminary round Pool D match against Jamie Lynn Broder and Kristina Valjas of Canada on Day 2 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Beach Volleyball Arena on August 7, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 07: Robert Gardos of Austria plays a Men's Singles second round match against Ovidiu Ionescu of Romania on Day 2 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Riocentro - Pavilion 3 on August 7, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 07: Shu-Ching Hsu of Chinese Taipei competes during the Women's 53kg Group A weightlifting contest on Day 2 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Riocentro - Pavilion 2 on August 7, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Lars Baron/Getty Images)

Italy's Pietro Zucchetti, left, and teammate Ruggero Tita attend a training session of the 49er Men event during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Argentina's Federico Pizarro tries to score a penalty during the men's preliminary handball match between Denmark and Argentina at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Belgium's Laura Waem performs on the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women's qualification at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

2016 Rio Olympics - Beach Volleyball - Women's Preliminary - Beach Volleyball Arena - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 07/08/2016. Doaa Elghobashy (EGY) of Egypt and Kira Walkenhorst (GER) of Germany compete. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 08: Lilly King of the United States celebrates winning gold in the Women's 100m Breaststroke Final on Day 3 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on August 8, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)

France's Rudy Gobert, right, fights for a rebound with China's Zhou Qi (15) and Yi Jianlian, rear, during a basketball game at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

United States' Katie Ledecky competes in a semifinal of the women's 200-meter freestyle during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Norway's Sanna Solberg tries to score past Spain's goalkeeper Darly Zoqbi during the women's preliminary handball match between Spain and Norway at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 09: Michael Phelps (L) of the United States leads Chad le Clos of South Africa in the Men's 200m Butterfly Final on Day 4 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on August 9, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 09: Simone Biles of the United States competes on the balance beam during the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Team Final on Day 4 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Rio Olympic Arena on August 9, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Lars Baron/Getty Images)

Russia's Ekaterina Birlova casts a shadow on the sand as she serves to Poland during a women's beach volleyball match at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Germany's Karin Schnaase stretches during a badminton training session at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 09: Ruolin Chen and Huixia Liu of China compete in the Women's Diving Synchronised 10m Platform Final on Day 4 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre on August 9, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 10: Ning Ding of China in action during the Womens Table Tennis Singles Final match against Li Xiaoxia of China at Rio Centro onn August 10, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 10: Axel Augis of France competes on the horizontal bar during the Men's Individual All-Around final on Day 5 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Rio Olympic Arena on August 10, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)

Members of team Cuba attempt to block a ball spiked by Iran's H. Milad Ebadipour Ghara during a men's preliminary volleyball match at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

France's Lauren Rembi reacts after losing to Russia in a women's epee team fencing quarterfinal competition at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Australian sprinter Morgan Mitchell ran her career-best after going vegan a year and a half ago.

Her snacks of choice are chia pods and vegan pizza for dinner.

But even world-class athletes like to splurge. In the Olympic dining hall, the world's best athletes all get free McDonald's.

Summary: It’s recommended that the average person eat 1,600 to 3,000 calories every day, but Michael Phelps eats 12,000.


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But the Maverick Collective wanted the women to give their expertise. The group was created by Population Services International, a global nonprofit organization that focuses on family health and planning in the developing world. (Melinda Gates and Princess Mette-Marit of Norway are co-chairwomen of the Maverick initiative.)

“Money alone is not going to solve problems,” said Kate Roberts, senior vice president for corporate partnerships and philanthropy at Population Services International. “We believed we had a real opportunity to look at the promising solutions around girls and women and create the first collective of smart, bold women to use their money and skills to end extreme poverty in their lifetime.”

She said the women were recruited to work on its wish list of difficult problems. “To put a dent in these issues, we need a whole movement that is willing to invest in this,” she said.

Such an idea is not without major risks. For one, what do people who have made millions in industries very different from the nonprofit world know about solving social problems?

Even without asking for help, nonprofit organizations can struggle with board members who meddle in staff matters. Inviting real involvement in the day-to-day workings of an organization can be a recipe for disaster.

Donors “feel they can lend a hand given their skill set, and they have a desire to do it,” said Marguerite Griffin, director of philanthropic advisory services at Northern Trust Wealth Management. “It can be challenging from the nonprofit’s standpoint. They know what they need to do to get the work done. They want the donor to be engaged. It’s invaluable. But it comes at a cost.”

Ms. Scott’s involvement was initially met with skepticism by the people she would be working with in Tanzania, not least of all because she lived in San Francisco — a 10-hour time difference.

“I had a preconceived idea,” said Melissa Higbie, a deputy country director for Population Services International in Tanzania. “I thought, how are we going to communicate and stay engaged? We weren’t going to ask her how to do this in a flexible way. But she said, ‘I’ll get up at 6 a.m. so you can work.’”

In doing that every week, Ms. Scott built trust with the Population Services International team, Ms. Higbie said. She has also regularly visited Tanzania and worked directly to coach Ms. Higbie’s staff members when they had problems.

Ms. Scott said she knew she had to be involved to build trust but also to understand what needed to be done.

“If you don’t get eye to eye and shoulder to shoulder with the people on the ground, you’re going to make a lot of mistakes,” she said.

Her marketing expertise is in something called “human-centered design.” At its simplest, that involves asking customers what they want, instead of guessing and trying to persuade them to buy the product anyway.

Her project in Tanzania was aimed at reducing teenage pregnancy. Initially, she tried to think of ways to create more demand among teenagers for contraceptives, but then she realized that the problem was coming from medical workers.

“Almost all the providers have a lot of empathy for girls, but what we found was empathy was causing them to adopt a concern for women that was counterproductive,” she said. “They were concerned about the girls’ most important asset, their fertility. There were a lot of providers who thought it might be harmful to give them contraceptives because it might harm their fertility.”

Since that discovery, the project in Tanzania has worked with medical providers. Ms. Scott’s $1 million effort has expanded to a $31 million project with help from other foundations, and it now encompasses two other African countries.

This was what Population Services International hoped would happen. “We don’t consider our Mavericks donors,” Ms. Roberts said. “We consider them part of the team. Our members are helping us build the car while we are driving it.”

Population Services International did not arrive at this model quickly. The process was the opposite of the way it and other nonprofits typically approach a problem, which is to present their solution and seek funding for it — without knowing for sure if that solution really is a solution.

Yasmin Madan, global marketing director for Population Services International, said the Mavericks came about after the organization realized that “the current range of products and services wasn’t enough.”

“There was some hesitation to open the hood and show how the engine works,” Ms. Madan said. “That’s not how we typically work. This was an evolution in P.S.I.’s thinking to say, ‘This isn’t working. We’re hitting a roadblock here. There has to be something different.’”

So it went scouting for women who could give at least $1 million over three years but were also committed to social change. Indrani Goradia, who lives in Texas, had already started a foundation, Indrani’s Light, to train workers at domestic abuse shelters so they could help without succumbing to compassion fatigue. As part of the collective, she can take this idea to India.

Diane Powell, a social worker and volunteer, said that after her husband had a big payday at a biotechnology company, they began looking for ways to give. Her husband, who heard Ms. Roberts speak at a conference, approached her, and soon Ms. Powell was part of the collective. She has taken on a project in Senegal to reduce the maternal mortality rate.

Population Services International made sure that everyone knew what was expected so donors and staff members could work together.

Concerns about donor meddling are real, but so, too, is the risk that donors will become bored or feel underused. At the same time, a donor may come to feel trapped and see the involvement as a burden.

“You may want to ask if you’re involved in a way that is meaningful for you,” said Kenneth E. Spruill Jr., manager of private foundations at Hawthorn, the private wealth division of the PNC Financial Services Group. “People’s lives ebb and flow. If you’ve got young children, your involvement may torque back a bit. You can get compassion fatigue.”

To this end, Ms. Griffin at Northern Trust Wealth Management said she often suggests that donors limit their involvement to a certain number of times a month or quarter. And she said that “discrete opportunities” can be more effective.

Ms. Scott said she had looked at her involvement like one of her business projects: a chance to solve a problem.

“I hope that the work that I’m doing with P.S.I. has two outcomes,” she said. “One, we really realize our dreams and put a significant dent in teenage pregnancy in Tanzania and, secondly, I hope that P.S.I. embraces the idea of human-centered design.”

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A version of this article appears in print on August 6, 2016, on page B7 of the New York edition with the headline: Philanthropic Group Asks Rich Women for Work as Well as Money. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

Summary: In an unusual approach for a nonprofit, the Maverick Collective also asks its donors to give their time and expertise to the organizations they fund.


As war between Israel and Hizballah loomed 10 years ago, Israeli photographer Shaul Schwarz called looking for magazine support. Large numbers of his reservist friends in Israel were getting called up. His instincts were that this would be big. But, from the early months of 2003, the magazine’s main international story was Iraq. TIME had a team of writers, photographers, and Iraqi staff rotating in and out of a Baghdad bureau, and coverage of a new war threatened our resources. Some in the newsroom feared readers, fed up with never-ending conflicts in the Middle East, would turn away. But we knew that we had to cover this war and sent photographers to Lebanon and Israel.

Many war photographers had repeatedly risked their lives covering the post 9/11 conflicts. But by 2006, it had become too dangerous to work the streets in Afghanistan or Iraq. As American military embeds became the only safe way to access the story, many opted out, choosing Beirut as a safe haven and home. With fighting now on their doorstep, the Lebanese crisis offered a new opportunity to cover the fallout, this time independently.

The pictures that resulted captured a strong and undefeatable Israeli Army leaving battle, forlorn and distraught. Hizballah demonstrated that guerrilla warfare could effectively cripple a mighty military force. Though Lebanese deaths far outnumbered those of Israeli soldiers and civilians combined, this war was a turning point—leaving many in Israel feeling more disillusioned and vulnerable than ever before.

On the 10th anniversary of the conflict, TIME asked 18 photographers to select and reflect on the images they took:

This was different from any other war. I lived in Beirut. For the first time in my life, I truly understood what it was to be a civilian caught in conflict, because I was one. Being in Lebanon wasn’t like being in Afghanistan or Iraq. I had no psychological protection, no place of safety to look forward to returning after my assignment. Day after day, Israel bombed infrastructure across the country, dropping massive bombs into densely populated urban neighborhoods just a couple of miles from my apartment.

Each time my body would grow tense and I would cover my ears. I even removed the windowpanes on one side of my flat for fear the glass would shatter. There was often no electricity or fuel for generator power. I resorted to buying truck batteries to power my computer. In the dark, I would listen to the news while transmitting my pictures to the outside world. In this photograph, Lebanese teens watch Israeli airstrikes from a hilltop overlooking Beirut at the start of the 2006 Lebanon War.

Like all images of conflict, I have mixed feelings about this picture I took in south Beirut in 2006. I see it every morning framed on a stark white wall in my Brooklyn apartment. The opaque nature of reality in the Middle East is captured in the image. The beautiful subjects in the red Mini Cooper driving through a devastated neighborhood took offense at how they were depicted. They falsely claimed to reporters that they were actually refugees. The way I was subsequently treated by numerous members of the media made me want to leave the profession and go someplace far away.

For me, this picture also stirs feelings of hopelessness for the region. War has developed a vicious tenacity in the Middle East. It seems to only get bloodier and darker with each passing year. News pictures are a hostage to time and place, liberating them from the fallout of what happens in the days and months after the click of the shutter.

One of the things that stood out about the Israel-Lebanon War was the access that was possible. It felt like three wars going on, and there were photographers covering all three areas. From Israel, to the bombardments in the suburbs of Beirut, to the bombings that were happening in the south of Lebanon, where I was working. Because of that access, there were a lot of photographers, and that may have saturated an already weary audience from seeing another conflict.

These conflicts tend to go in cycles. Look at what has happened over the years in the Gaza Strip, or the prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which are continuing in different ways today and have turned into different types of conflict. And of course Syria, Libya—these countries have become extremely difficult to work in.

The war in Lebanon was one of the last places I’ve worked where you could move freely and document the conflict from all sides. That is something we always strive for, and always hope for, and almost never have the luxury to do. In this photograph, residents of the village of Aitaroun, in southern Lebanon, take advantage of a temporary halt in Israeli airstrikes to flee, Aug. 2006.

This image I took, as the only embedded photographer with the Israeli Defense Forces in Lebanon (IDF), depicts a classic “sacrifice” visual narrative of a hero giving his life for his nation. I was told by several people that it was ’very Vietnam’. Since this image was not overtly gruesome and since the soldier survived his injuries, it could be prominently displayed. I later learned that this scene actually represents a victim of a friendly fire incident, though it had already circulated and had been published with the caption that this soldier had been wounded in a Hezbollah attack. Because I insisted that information be included in the caption, the image lost value as a propaganda tool.

I have come to believe that embedded “war photography” simplifies the brutal ambiguity of conflict into well-worn and widely recognized visual templates. We, “war photographers,” help in reinforcing masculine myths of war as a purging experience. As it stands, I believe my images did a great disservice to the people who died or participated in this unnecessary and farcical demonstration of force in 2006, which besides claiming the lives of more than one hundred Israeli soldiers, also killed almost 30 times more Lebanese civilians than the 44 Israeli civilian dead. This conditioned Israeli public opinion to accept similar carnage in Gaza in 2009 and 2014 as a reasonable response.

Abbas, a chubby young boy, sat on the side of narrow village road, held his injured mother’s hand and wept. “Don’t leave me, mother, don’t go, don’t go.” “Take care of your brothers and sisters,” the mother moaned softly, as her eyes closed leaving two white slits. A piece of shrapnel had cut into her chest and almost severed her right arm. Blood stained mother and child.

Abbas, his mother, brother, aunts and a grandmother, 18 in total, were cramped inside a small white minivan, fleeing their village in south Lebanon when an Israeli rocket pierced the roof of the car. Now the survivors were scattered on the road or in the shadow of a building crying, while inside the van lay the headless corpse of an uncle, a dead grandmother and a neighbor.

“Why are you leaving me,” Abbas started yelling at his mother, as her arm fell on the ground. He buried his face in his hands and wept. His brother, 12-year old Ali, stood on the other side of the mother, his hand bandaged and eyes staring into the horizon, as the Lebanese Red Cross started helping the survivors, July 2006.

There’s no one In the village Not a human Nor a stone There’s no one In the village Children are gone And a mother rocks herself to sleep Let it come down Let her weep

The dead lay in strange shapes

Some stay buried Others crawl free Baby didn’t make it Screaming debris And a mother rocks Herself to sleep Let it come down Let her weep

The dead lay in strange shapes

Limp little dolls Caked in mud Small, small hands Found in the road Their talking about War aims What a phrase Bombs that fall American made The new middle east The rice woman squeaks

The dead lay in strange shapes

Little bodies Little bodies Tied head and feet Wrapped in plastic Laid out in the street The new middle east The rice woman squeaks

The dead lay in strange shapes

Water to wine Wine to blood Ahh Qana The miracle Is love

In this photograph, Qana, Lebanon, where 28 civilians were killed during an Israeli air strike in the early hours of July 30, 2006.

This was was my first conflict. I was 30 at the time and had visited Lebanon in 2004 and 2005. Because I knew people there, I felt the urge to cover this story. I arrived in Beirut at the beginning of the conflict and I travelled to Tyre, in the south of the country, with Paolo Pellegrin who guided me into the world of conflict journalism.

I have two distinct memories of the situation. My first impression was that in Tyre there was no front line. Soldiers did not face each other in combat. Israel was bombing the south of Lebanon from planes and neither the local population, nor the journalists, could anticipate when that would happen. After an explosion, there was smoke, and the reporters, mostly all together, scrambled to report what was happening. Journalists in conflict areas, I then discovered, tend to stick together, share information as much as possible, move in small groups, cover the same events, and in some cases take more or less the same pictures. I suspected, and I learned that this is what you are supposed to do.

I took this picture of a woman desperate to flee Ramesh, Lebanon at the border with Israel. The village was isolated for over a week or so, due to the Israeli bombings. The population was stuck in the village without water and food. When the news reached journalists, a large group decided to drive there despite the risk of being hit by an Israeli bomb on the road. Once we arrived, the situation was tense and surreal. The population was desperate to flee. The few locals with cars were offering rides out of the village for $100 per person. Journalists and photographers were running around to get the most poignant pictures, the best quote. We were pressed for time and had to leave to file the news and pictures. I must confess — I was excited, scared and shocked, all at the same time. Probably, this was less about the the real situation, and more about my being there. Ten years later, I still sometimes wonder what I was really doing there.

I spent four weeks in Lebanon in 2006. I have bad memories of this trip. I was always late, always on the side of events, never in the right place. As a relatively young photographer, I was selfishly running after action and strong images — without ever reaching them. The culmination of this quest was the march towards Bint Jbeil, the besieged city that was copiously bombed by the Israeli Air Force. At 12 kilometers away, we could see and hear the F-16s dropping their bombs on the martyred city. No one could enter or leave. It was all that was needed to stimulate my imagination.

I decided to walk for 12 km with another photographer and a peaceful white sheet fixed to a stick. Surrounding us, was the invisible buzz of a drone. The first burst of Israeli artillery was falling quite far from us. In a field, the earth absorbed the explosion. We were less than 500 meters from the entrance of Bint Jbeil. I decided to continue. I saw silhouettes of buildings through smoke and dust from the explosions. I could see a portrait of Hassan Nasrallah, and a few trees. The second salvo of artillery fell close enough to us that stones and earth fell on our helmets. There was half a second of fear and hesitation. It was too late to run to the city center. The next salvo would be for us. We left in the opposite direction, defeated and disappointed. There was not even a picture. Frustrated, I was missing the essential: understanding and accuracy.

I remember the 2006 war in Lebanon as pretty much driving and wandering around a certain Mediterranean picturesque but empty normality, suddenly interrupted by the extreme brutality of the war.

The two pictures that stick in my mind are the red-lit family living room. A bomb had hit not far away, and had blown out the windows. The family was gone. The place was totally quiet and eery. And the other extreme: screaming, shouting, shoving. Lebanese forces had evacuated the dead from an Israeli air raid. And suddenly they carried out these two little boys, brothers? I don’t think more needs to be said.

The most frantic time in a war zone is often when there is a lull in fighting. A scramble for resources, quick burial of the dead, and displaced people fleeing for safer refuge can create a chaotic scene where there was a ghost town of rubble just minutes before. Carloads of people, who had been cut off from all communication in the village of Bent Jbeil for days, as heavy fighting destroyed their village, were using such a lull to escape on July 27, 2006.

Visibly dehydrated children peered out of mosquito netting that covered the blown out windows of the car in which they fled. The driver slowed to ask New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid about what had been happening in the rest of Lebanon, and where they should go. I only had a beat or two to make this photograph before the car moved on. We didn’t have much to suggest to them. They were stuck, as the poor and less able-bodied often are in war. Those in power, those who fought, and even those who covered the war (of which there were many in 2006), all knew their roles at this point. The displaced people were extras in that play, being herded from one dark corner of war to another.

The momentary ceasefire was over as quickly as it started. Munitions rumbled up the valley, and the streets emptied again. I look back at this picture and shake my head at how I took for granted my ability to photograph the victims of conflict in the early 2000s. Many colleagues, including Shadid, have since died in the region as it has become prohibitively dangerous to cover. Although quick and largely forgotten, the 2006 war was at a critical crossroads of what had been happening in Iraq and Palestine, and what has since happened in Syria. It is nearly impossible to properly document conflict in the Middle East. There are millions of displaced, injured, and killed civilians that the world will never see.

A woman stands in disbelief among the remains of where her house once stood in the village of Aita Chaab, southern Lebanon.

It was quite shocking to see how destructive this very short war was between Hezbollah and Israel. The village was first bombed, and then the Israeli army brought bulldozers to completely flatten it.

This was ten years ago. It is depressing how much the situation in the Middle East has deteriorated since then.

I’m a mother of two young boys now. I understand this photograph in a way that I wasn’t capable of when I took it.

We all took advantage of a temporary halt in Israeli air strikes in the middle of the war. Journalists were finally safer to drive around, and those trapped in bombarded villages were given an opportunity to escape. We entered Aitaroun and found people emerging out of a flattened village. It was a moment of chaos as people realized it was quiet and safe to flee. At the time, there were only enough vehicles to evacuate women and children. It was a moment of true fear, as these boys knew they were leaving their father behind.

I made this photograph of families fleeing from the border towns of Lebanon through the very dangerous coastal road between Tyre and Sidon in 2006. Ten years later—and now having a little one of my own to keep safe—I feel even more acutely the stress and fear this mother must have felt when this photo was taken. I can’t imagine how agonizing a decision it must have been to make this dangerous trek, knowing armed drones flew above and were targeting suspicious cars on the road.

I wonder what those children remember of that war, now that they are all teenagers or older, maybe some with children of their own? Did they all survive the war? How was their education affected? Were any of them radicalized?

I spent most of my years in conflict zones focusing on civilians caught in the middle, trying to protect their families. With many of the wars of the past 15 years having no clear frontlines, and thus a sustained and increased sense of fear and vulnerability, it’s no wonder the region remains unstable.

When the Israel-Lebanon war started, I was an Israeli photographer living in New York. Many people thought this would be another news story that would go away in a few days, but when my friends and family called from Israel and said they had been drafted, it was not only personal, but it was also the moment I knew it was time to go home and cover this war.

This was a time when social media wasn’t pervasive and the immediacy of pictures getting to mass populations around the world existed through print magazines and newspapers, more than through internet channels. In the Middle East, wars go from zero to a hundred faster than anywhere in the world. This war became proof of that. While most people will remember the devastation in Lebanon, I remember Israel being bombarded like I had never seen before. I remember the daily deaths, the constant bombing, and the endless numbers of soldiers walking past the border north into the ugliness of war. It wasn’t long before those same soldiers would return in body bags, at least a few each day. Funerals became a daily routine. Often, they would be interrupted by sirens announcing incoming artillery. As the war continued, we photographed funerals less, as they had become old news, and a too “easy, sure thing” picture.

Looking at the grief in the eyes of the family of Israeli paratrooper Yiftach Shrayer was one of the pictures I took on assignment for TIME in the blood bath of 2006. It may have been 10 years ago, but I can remember it vividly like it was yesterday.

Looking back, I am reminded that it is the personal loss for individuals on both sides that will never heal. It is a stark reminder that we should never accept war, and as photographers we should never stop taking these pictures. Perhaps, they will remind us of the grave price we all pay.

The 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon proved one of the only times in my career when I have covered both sides of a war, across sovereign borders. Frontlines, visas, security, suspicion, broken infrastructure and travel bans generally make it extremely difficult for a journalist to cover two nations at war within the span of a few weeks.

I was in Angola when the fighting began, and by the time I made my way to the region, I was assigned to northern Israel for the New York Times. A few weeks later, I was sent to Lebanon to cover the ceasefire. The first image is of Israeli troops loading artillery, and firing their tanks into Lebanon in retaliation for Hezbollah rockets streaming into civilian areas across Israel. The second image is from south Beirut, as families made their way through the decimated southern suburbs of Hezbollah territory.

I took this picture 5 or 10 minutes after the bombing in a neighborhood in southern Beirut. I got to the site immediately with the Red Cross and there was nothing to be found. It was August 13, at the very end of the war. There was no reason for the Israeili Air Force to bomb that place. I assume that people from Hezbollah were living there. They leveled 11 big buildings, including a school. There were many casualties, and it was was a very big shock. This was basically a war fought against a non-threatening country that was laid to rubble. It was for the benefit of the right wing Israeli policy to dominate. It’s a cycle for no other reason than to consolidate the system that is in place.

It was the summer of 2006. The war between Israel and the Hezbollah had ceased, leaving ruins, destruction and death. Lots of families had been displaced. Their towns, villages and homes were turned into ruins. Despite the truce and an Israeli ban on vehicles in the southern part of the country, some had decided to take the road back to a place they called home.

It was very difficult for me to take pictures of another war in my own country. I wanted to show the absurdity of war and the resilience of the people. I feel like we live in a doomed region where war will never end.

I don’t think this is my best image from the 2006 Israel Lebanon war, but for sure it is the moment I remember the most. The Israeli soldiers had just returned from south Lebanon carrying the bodies of their friends inside the APC. I usually remember quiet, emotional moments more than the actual battle on the front line. It goes deeper when it’s quiet, and the fact we don’t see the faces of the soldiers allows the photograph to become general; it’s not a personal story.

Alice Gabriner is TIME’s International Photo Editor.

Summary: 18 photographers reflect on the Lebanon War


Eleven people have been charged following a lengthy investigation into an organised drug syndicate across Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.

Earlier, police arrested 16 people as part of a 10-month investigation into organised crime, and drug trafficking and distribution of methamphetamine, which they say has halted six major players.

The raids comprised of more than 100 specialist officers executing warrants at 13 homes in Chelsea, Aspendale, Hampton Park, Springvale South, Notting Hill, Seaford, Dandenong, Frankston, Cheltenham, Mordialloc and Braeside.

Those charged include a 44-year-old Cheltenham man, a 25-year-old Seaford man and a 42-year-old Moorabin woman.

Police investigate at a property following the drug raids. (9NEWS)

Four people remain in custody and are expected to face an out of course sessions hearing this evening.

Detective Senior Sergeant Shane Rix said the syndicate was “certainly disrupted if not halted”.

"There's no doubt a number of these people arrested are up at the higher level of drug manufacturing and trafficking.

“Make no mistake, today’s arrests will hopefully have a flow-on effect to drugs not being available on the streets,” he said.

Alleged trafficking boss Ramon Richardson was arrested at his Hampton Park home after armed police smashed their way in early this morning, while in a Braeside storage facility, a clandestine lab believed to have been manufacturing for years saw police seize heroin, ice, cannabis and ecstasy.

A Hampton Park resident, Michelle Asmus, said she and her daughter were woken by men screaming.

“We presumed something smashed a window or someone broke in to get him,” Ms Asmus said.

Police expect to take up to 12 more offenders into custody for low level street trafficking as part of the raids, and say there is “still more work to do”.

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Summary: Fourteen people have been arrested after police conducted raids targeting a methamphetamine ring in Melbourne.


Former Kings Cross identity Bill Bayeh has faced court accused by police of entering The Star casino while banned from the premises.

He appeared in the Downing Local Court on Wednesday charged with entering the Sydney casino on June 26 while being an excluded person.

The case was adjourned to October 5.

In April, Bayeh was given a 12-month bond for making threats involving a dildo to Geoffrey Edelsten's ex-wife Leanne Nesbitt in February 2015.

Summary: Ex-Kings Cross identity Bill Bayeh, on a bond over a vulgar threat, is accused of entering The Star casino in Sydney while banned.


The Fenian White House, or brown-stone house, if you please, is a palatial mansion of four stories and an English basement, at No. 32 East Seventeenth-street, and was until recently the abode of an populent citizen, to whom the Fenian Executive's offer of $12,000 annual rental was a temptation to move to other quarters. It is one of the finest edifices on Union-square. Aloft it flies, from sunrise to sunset, the sunburst of Ireland and an American streamer underneath the golden eagle that is perched on the flagstaff. Inside it is filled with desks and tables and clerks and pens, ink and paper -- all of which, even down to the writing material, which seems never to be out of use, tells the visitor that the word there is Business. The TIMES reporter, who is indebted to Mr. JAMES MCDERMOTT, one of the assistants in the Executive Bureau, for courtesies, found in one of the parlors on the first floor

MR. JOHN O'MAHONY, THE FENIAN PRESIDENT, deeply engrossed with the business of the day, and surrounded by his cabinet. Mr. O'MAHONY is of full six feet in stature. His physiognomy is that of a student. His face is thin and the features are sharp and prominent, particularly the nasal organ, which, however, is quite handsome. The gentleman's eyes are gray, with a tinge of blue, which just saves that organ from close resemblance to the optics of the "Grey-eyed Man of Destiny." His hair is flaxen, long and curley. In habilaments the Fenian President is a model of neatness and modesty, his attire being plain black, with a coat of brownish shade and a black felt oval-topped hat. Mr. O'MAHONY is 49 years of age. He was born in Mitchellstown, County Cork, and was educated in Trinity College, for the bar; but at an early age he gave his his attention to literary pursuits, and has written an elaborate translation of Keating's History of Ireland, a work which is to be republished by Mr. J.B. KIRKER, of Broadway. Mr. O'MAHONY, Col. DOHNEY, Gen. CORCORAN, and a gentleman whose name is withheld, initialed the Fenian movement in this country about seven years ago. They first opened an office at No. 6 Centre-street, and there transacted business until about two years ago, when they moved to No. 22 Duane-street. Thence, recently, they moved to No. 22 East Seventeenth-street.

who are styled malcontents are at Fenian Hall, No. 814 Broadway. The Senators, however, meet daily, at present in the front parlor of the Jones House, at No. 734 Broadway. Their meetings are secret; but the substance of their proceedings is given to the press every evening. The names and occupations of these Senators, as they stood previous to the qualification for the Presidency, are as follows: William R. Roberts, dry goods merchant, of No. 252 Bowery; Patrick J. Meehan, editor of the Irish American; Patrick O'Rourke, pressman of the New-York Tribune; Patrick Bannan, dealer in terra cotta, of Louisville, Ky.; William Sullivan, dealer in tin ware, of Tiffin, Ohio; Michael Scanlan, dealer in confectionery, of Chicago; William Fleming, dealer in gas fixtures, of Troy; J.W. Fitzgerald, of Cincinnati, lawyer; James Gibbons, of Philadelphia, cordwainer, and Edward Lalor Carey, of New-York, coal merchant.

who is one of President O'MAHONY's townsmen, having been born in Mitchellstown, County Cork, Ireland, is 36 years of age, the son of highly respectable parents, who reared him to mercantile pursuits. He came to this city when only 19 years of age, and was one of the members of the Young Ireland Club of 1848; as an Irish patriot he aided in the Revolution of 1848, and became an American citizen on attaining his majority. He has always been in the dry-goods trade, and was once a clerk in Messrs. A.T. STEWART & CO.'s dry-goods warehouse. In addition to the Presidency which has been given him, he is also Presidency of the Knights of St. Patrick, and Colonel of one of our city regiments. He is a gentleman of genial countenance, but lacks the marked individuality of Mr. O'MAHONY. His general appearance is that of a successful New-York tradesman.

It was understood that yesterday President ROBERTS would announce the names of his Cabinet; but at the adjournment, last evening, the new Cabinet had not been formed. Three appointments were made, namely: Mr. PATRICK W. LUNNE, of Peoria, Ill., to fill the vacancy occasioned by the elevation of Mr. W.R. ROBERTS from the Presidency of the Senate to the Presidency of the Fenian organization; Mr. JAMES GIBBONS, of Philadelphia, to be President of the Senate; and Mr. J.J. GEARY, to be Corresponding Secretary of that body. Mr. DUNNE is an old member of the organization, and has contributed with much liberality toward the accumulation of the funds. Mr. GEARY was recently Centre of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Cork. As, however, the British Government has offered a reward of £200 for his head, he makes it convenient to dwell in New-York at present.

It is stated at President O'MAHONY's headquarters that the Fenian Senate, which is composed of fifteen members, is a creature of the House of Delegates, and under the constitution which was adopted in October last is elected by that body. The House of Delegates is composed of about nine hundred members, or one delegate from every circle in the country. But the present Senate, it is alleged, was not constitutionally elected, inasmuch as the Senators' partisans talked eleven days and tired out their opponents, and then, when the rival party had left the hall, they presented the fifteen names on one slate and chose them as one by oral vote instead of ballot, as the constitution requires. It is further alleged that the Senate's records show that it adjourned to the 2d of January, and that, even if it were a legal body, its present meeting would be illegal, as a clause of the constitution gives the President alone the power of calling the body together.

Summary: The Fenian White House, or brown-stone house, if you please, is a palatial mansion of four stories and an English basement, at No. 32 East Seventeenth-street, and was until recently the abode of an ...


BRUSSELS — The European Union’s top competition regulator stood by her decision to demand more than $14 billion in tax repayments from Apple Inc. and tweeted that she may investigate other major US companies, ahead of meetings with officials in Washington.

Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s commissioner for competition, on Monday will meet with US Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew; Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez; Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; and other key lawmakers.

Vestager appeared to confirm on Twitter that probes may be launched against companies associated with the Business Roundtable, which on Sept. 16 sent a sharply worded letter to the heads of 28 EU member states. The group says it represents chief executive officers of US companies with $7 trillion in annual revenue. Its members include Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric Co., Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Kenneth Chenault of American Express Co.

Vestager was contacted on Twitter by Davide Serra, chief executive and founder at Algebris Investments, who on Sept. 17 wrote: “Apple: so in the USA there are 185 CEO which think it’s legal to pay 0.05% Taxes in Europe! @ pls check what they pay asap!”

She replied: “I will. And I keep thinking about all the CEOs who just make sure that their companies do pay their taxes. They exist too.”

Also on Monday, EU officials also appeared to respond to critics that they were unfairly targeting American companies by announcing they were also investigating whether a French company signed a sweetheart tax deal with Luxembourg.

In its letter, Business Roundtable said the EU’s decision to recover $14.5 billion from Apple for alleged illegal state aid “must not be allowed to stand.”

“I urge you to work with your colleagues to overturn this decision and seek an end to the use of state aid investigations that override the ability of your country and other EU member states to determine and interpret their own tax laws,” Business Roundtable president John Engler said in the letter.

The group’s interest in the matter “is for respect of the rule of law,” Engler said. “Unless set aside, this EC decision sets a precedent that EU member states do not control their tax affairs.”

Last year, EU regulators alleged that McDonald’s Corp. side-stepped corporate taxes in Luxembourg for about five years. The Financial Times reported that the potential tax bill in the country could be $500 million.

McDonald’s hasn’t been told by the EU that it owes $500 million, said Terri Hickey, a company spokeswoman. From 2011 to 2015, McDonald’s companies paid more than $2.5 billion in corporate income taxes in the EU, with an average rate approaching 27 percent, she said.

“We pay the taxes that are owed and have not received any preferential treatment,” Hickey said.

In a separate interview with Germany’s Handelsblatt published Sunday, Vestager defended the decision to pursue the tax-repayment order against Apple.

“It is 100 percent legitimate to tax profit where it is generated,” Vestager told the newspaper. “From our perspective, it is irritating when American companies pay less in taxes than European ones.”

US officials have derided Brussels on the Apple decision. Washington’s claim that the Apple taxes rightly belong to the United States is “difficult to comprehend,” Vestager told Handelsblatt.