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Denzel Washington wins raves on Broadway for 'A Raisin in the Sun', NEW YORK, Foto, Celebridade

Denzel Washington and Sophie Okonedo in 'A Raisin in the Sun' on opening night at the Barrymore Theatre in New York, on April 3, 2014.

NEW YORK- Denzel Washington may be best known for his film roles, but the award-winning actor is dazzling theater critics in the Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's acclaimed 1959 play "A Raisin in the Sun."

"Heart-stopping," "a Broadway bulls-eye" and "nothing short of revelatory" are just a few of the accolades used to describe director Kenny Leon's production, which opened on Thursday at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

"It captures the play's passion, pathos and intelligence, without stinting on Hansberry's dry humor," the New York Post said.

Hansberry's story about a struggling African-American family seeking a better life after inheriting a windfall was the first play written by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway.

Washington, 59, plays an ambitious chauffeur with big dreams of success but no business acumen to achieve it.

"Reprising Sidney Poitier's role, Washington is stunning as the dreamer-schemer Walter Lee Younger, whose frustration throbs at the heart of an American classic that is as deeply humorous as it is affecting," said the New York Daily News.

Trade magazine Variety described Washington's performance as a "triumph," while the New York Post said he was "incredibly believable."

Although the Academy Award winner for the 2001 crime drama "Training Day" and the 1989 Civil War film "Glory" is nearly 25 years older than Hansberry's original Walter, his energy and exuberance on stage is convincing.

"The performance is a personal triumph for Washington, who refrains from star-strutting to fold himself into a tight-knit ensemble of committed stage thesps who treat this revival like a labor of love," Variety said.

This was not Washington's first successful foray on Broadway; the actor picked up a Tony Award in 2010 for "Fences."

AUTHENTIC FEELING

Washington leads an all-star cast that includes LaTanya Richardson Jackson ("Malcolm X," "Sleepless in Seattle) as his mother Lena, the strong, loving matriarch of the family.

British actress Sophie Okonedo, a best supporting Oscar nominee in 2005 for "Hotel Rwanda," makes her Broadway debut as his devoted wife, Ruth. Anika Noni Rose ("Dreamgirls" and "For Colored Girls" is his younger, intellectual sister Beneatha, a college student with dreams of attending medical school.

"LaTanya Richardson Jackson shows us the wit and grit that have sustained Lena; Sophie Okonedo, likewise, conveys Ruth's weariness and resilience to heart-wrenching effect," said USA Today.

The New York Times added: "Ms. Rose stands out as a revelatory Beneatha."

Although Washington is the star attraction, the Hollywood Reporter credits the ensemble cast for giving the revival its authentic feeling.

"The warmth as well as the frictions and frustrations of a real family ripple through this lived-in production, with an accomplished cast that nestles deep into every moment of humor, hope and sadness," it said.

Hansberry was the first African-American playwright to win the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. She died of pancreatic cancer in 1965 at the age of 34.

(This story was refiled to change "win" to "wins" in headline)

Retailers push into crowded mobile payment market, BERLIN

A Wal-Mart representative demonstrates a Scan & Go mobile payment application on a smartphone in San Jose, Calif., on Sept. 19, 2013.




BERLIN - Big retailers are muscling in on the likes of Visa, MasterCard and Google in a fiercely competitive and growing mobile payment market that promises to cut transaction costs and increase customer loyalty.

Stores such as British supermarket Tesco and France's Auchan hope their "digital wallets" - apps which allow users to pay with their smartphones rather than cash or cards - will also give them more comprehensive data about customers' shopping habits than ever before so they can target advertising.

They are joining a crowded market - banks, card companies and tech firms like Google and Apple are all entering the mobile payment business, each hoping their app will become the industry standard. eBay's PayPal, well established in e-commerce, is also experimenting with the technology.

Retailers hope to attract customers to their own services by giving discounts and rewards to those using them, while also linking payments automatically to loyalty schemes and offering features like saved shopping lists.

The global market for mobile payments is forecast to grow about threefold by 2017 to some $721 billion worth of transactions, with more than 450 million users, according to research firm Gartner.

The growth could benefit retailers as the competition from a host of payment providers should help drive down the fees stores pay to have transactions processed - a service currently dominated by banks and card firms Visa and MasterCard.

"We view merchants as overall beneficiaries of the trend toward mobile payments," said Morgan Stanley, which estimated retailers in developed countries spent up to $150 billion in 2012 to accept card payments.

"Expected returns should justify any incremental investments required in enabling mobile payments technology," it said in a report in January.

However, it is still unclear how the retail mobile payment market will develop, with card companies and banks seen retaining a leading role in processing payments even if physical cards become obsolete.

Retailers' apps might struggle to take off as customers are unlikely to be willing to use a variety of services for different stores, but the success of Starbucks Corp in combining mobile payments with promotions shows big players can succeed.

U.S. RETAILERS

Starbucks, the world's biggest coffee chain, launched its mobile payment and rewards app in 2011. It already has 10 million users and the firm said this month it is looking for ways to expand the program beyond its own network.

"The mobile payments platform has given us a higher degree of frequency and higher degree of loyalty and the question is how can we leverage that beyond our stores," Starbucks Chairman and Chief Executive Howard Schultz told CNBC television.

An alternative path is also being explored in the United States, where dozens of top retailers including Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy have announced plans to set up a joint digital wallet service - the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX - though no launch date has been set.

Meanwhile, an attempt to create a mobile payment app universally accepted by retailers has recently launched in Germany. Yapital, owned by e-commerce firm Otto, has gone live in thousands of stores and also allows users to pay online and make peer-to-peer transfers.

Yapital Chairman Nils Winkler expects just a few players to survive of the 200 initiatives now clamoring for attention in Europe, with apps tied to retailers more likely to win out than those being developed by telecom and card firms.

"The biggest success in this field will be retail-based. PayPal is a good example that has grown tremendously based on the retail success of eBay," he said.

"CLEAR BUSINESS CASE"

Tesco, the world's third-largest retailer which pioneered the tracking of customer behavior with its Clubcard loyalty card two decades ago, will launch its digital wallet this year, as it also starts offering current accounts.

That is part of the British supermarket chain's eventual plan to use smartphones - and its own-brand Hudl tablet computers - to allow customers to navigate stores with their devices and scan products to buy them as they shop.

Sophie Albizua, co-founder of UK-based retail consultancy eNova Partnership, said her clients were ready to invest in overhauling outdated till systems to enable mobile payments. "People spent the last five to 10 years fine-tuning their websites. Now they have time to focus on something else."

French supermarket group Auchan, Europe's fifth-biggest retailer, launched its "Flash and Pay" electronic wallet about a year ago. It combines payments with coupons, loyalty cards, receipts and a shopping list feature.

"Our objective is to minimize costs. To have alternatives to existing solutions. All other solutions try to make costs for merchants," Arnaud Crouzet, Auchan head of global payments, told the Merchant Payments Ecosystem conference in Berlin.

"It is difficult to imagine our data on our customers going through a third party," he added.

Britain's Centre for Economics and Business Research said there was a clear business case for digital wallets in terms of reduced costs and improved customer service and sales.

UK retailers could have saved 463 million pounds ($770 million) in transaction costs in 2013 by shifting to mobile payments from cash, credit and charge cards, it estimates.

Mobile payments could reduce queue length in stores by speeding users through tills and cut the cost of handling cash and card payments, it said.

Handling cash - which accounts for over half retail transactions by volume in Britain - is costly for retailers as it needs to be counted and guarded, costs equivalent to about 2.5 percent of takings, compared with about 2 percent for processing cheques and 1 percent for debit and credit cards.

However Carrefour, the world's second biggest retailer after Wal-Mart, thinks shoppers need more time to be convinced.

"For the moment, cards are still a good solution, especially contactless ones," said Frederic Mazurier, a vice-president for finance and risk management at Carrefour Banque. "It is going to take quite a few years more."

($1 = 0.6011 British pounds)

Chile's M8.2 quake not 'the big one'

Getty Images: Aldo Solimano, AFP

A man stands among sunken fishing boats April 2, 2014, at the Riquelme Cove, in Iquique, northern Chile, after a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit off Chile's Pacific coast. The quake killed at least six people and generated tsunami waves that may ripple as far as Indonesia.

IQUIQUE, Chile (AP) — Authorities in northern Chile discovered surprisingly light damage and just six reported deaths Wednesday from a magnitude-8.2 quake — a remarkably low toll for such a powerful shift in the Earth's crust.

President Michelle Bachelet declared a state of emergency and was reviewing the damage in Iquique, a northern coastal city of nearly 200,000 people near where the quake struck in the Pacific Ocean. A planeload of 100 anti-riot police was deployed along with 300 soldiers to prevent looting and round up escaped prisoners.

Photos: Chile earthquake triggers tsunami alerts

Thousands of people evacuated from low-lying areas were returning home after a spending a long night outside due to the threat of a tsunami. The government's mandatory order to leave the coast was spread through cellphone text messages and Twitter, and reinforced by blaring sirens in neighborhoods where people regularly practice earthquake drills.

The tsunami lifted fishing boats onto city streets and sunk others in the port of Iquique, but no other major damage from the sea was apparent. Chile's entire coast was initially subject to the mandatory evacuation order, which lasted nearly 10 hours in coastal communitiesclosest to the offshore epicenter.

The shaking that began at 8:46 p.m. Tuesday also touched off landslides that blocked roads, knocked out power for thousands, damaged an airport and started fires that destroyed several businesses. Some homes made of adobe were destroyed in Arica, another city close to the quake's offshore epicenter.

Shaky cellphone videos taken by people eating dinner show light fixtures swaying, furniture shaking and people running to safety, pulling their children under restaurant tables, running for the exits and shouting to turn off natural gas connections.

Reuters: Stringer

People are evacuated from their shelter after a tsunami alarm at Antofagasta city, north of Santiago on the southern Pacific coast, April 1, 2014.

Mining in Chile, which is the world's top copper producing nation, was not affected, althoughworld prices for the red metal jumped as the quake raised supply concerns because most of the Chilean mining industry is in the northern regions.

About 300 inmates escaped from a women's prison in the city of Iquique, forcing the closure of the border with Peru. Several dozen were quickly captured, officials said.

Bachelet, who just returned to the presidency three weeks ago, waited five hours after the quake struck to address her nation. It was not lost on many Chileans that the last time she presided over a major quake, days before the end of her 2006-10 term, her emergency preparedness office prematurely waved off a tsunami danger. Most of the 500 dead from that magnitude-8.8 tremor survived the shaking, only to be caught in killer waves in a disaster that destroyed 220,000 homes and washed away large parts of many coastal communities.

"The country has done a good job of confronting the emergency. I call on everyone to stay calm and follow the authorities' instructions," Bachelet tweeted after Tuesday night's temblor.

Reuters: Cristian Vivero

A military convoy travels along a road after a tsunami alarm at Iquique city, north of Santiago on the southern Pacific coast, April 1, 2014.

She put her interior minister in direct charge of coordinating the emergency response, and announced that schools would be suspended in evacuated areas while authorities assessed the damage.

The only U.S. impact might be higher waves Wednesday for Hawaii's swimmers and surfers, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor was centered in the Pacific Ocean 61 miles (99 kilometers) northwest from coastal Iquique. More than 20 significant aftershocks followed, including one of magnitude 6.2.

The quake was so strong that the shaking experienced in Bolivia's capital about 290 miles (470 kilometers) away was the equivalent of a magnitude-4.5 tremor, authorities there said.

But Tuesday night's quake was not the big one seismologists expect eventually.

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"Could be tomorrow, could be in 50 years; we do not know when it's going to occur. But the key point here is that this magnitude-8.2 is not the large earthquake that we were expecting for this area. We're actually still expecting potentially an even larger earthquake," said Mark Simons, a geophysicist at the California Institute of Technology.

Chile is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries because just off the coast, the Nazca tectonic plate plunges beneath the South American plate, pushing the towering Andes cordillera to ever-higher altitudes. Nowhere along this fault is the pressure greater than in far northern Chile, an area known as the "Iquique seismic gap".

The USGS says the seismic gap last saw a major quake in 1877, when a magnitude-8.8 quake unleashed a tsunami that caused major damage along the Chile-Peru coast and fatalities as far away as Hawaii and Japan. Another quake of similar force hit just north of the area in 1868.

AP: Cristian Viveros

A fire burns at a restaurant after an earthquake in Iquique, Chile, April 1, 2014. A powerful magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off Chile's northern coast Tuesday night.

"This is the one remaining gap that hasn't had an earthquake in the last 140 years," said Simons. "We know these two plates come together at about 6, 7 centimeters a year, and if you multiply that by 140 years then the plates should have moved about 11 meters along the fault, and you can make an estimate of the size of earthquake we expect here."

The latest activity began with a strong magnitude-6.7 quake on March 16 that caused more than 100,000 people to briefly evacuate low-lying areas. Hundreds of smaller quakes followed in the weeks since, keeping people on edge.

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Luis Andres Henao reported from Santiago. Also contributing to this report were Eva Vergara in Santiago, Michael Warren in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Frank Bajak in Lima, Peru.

Suicide bomber kills six police at Afghan ministry ahead of vote

Afghan policemen secure the site at the main checkpoint leading to the Interior Ministry, after a suicide bomb blast in Kabul.

KABUL, April 2 (Reuters) - A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself outside Afghanistan's interior ministry in central Kabul on Wednesday, killing himself and at least six policemen, the latest in a string of attacks ahead of Afghanistan's April 5 presidential election.

Taliban insurgents also killed nine civilians including a provincial council candidate in northern Afghanistan, local officials said.

The Islamist Taliban have promised to do everything in their power to disrupt the April 5 vote when Afghans elect a successor to the incumbent president, Hamid Karzai, who is barred by the constitution from running again.

The Kabul attack came on the last day of campaigning for an election that is intended to mark the first democratic transfer of power in Afghanistan's history.

"A suicide bomber wearing a military uniform ... detonated his explosives at the main gate of the interior ministry," the ministry said in a statement.

"As soon as the bomber saw some policemen he detonated his explosives. It was impossible for him to enter the facility with the suicide vest," a ministry spokesman added.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in an e-mail, saying the bomber had penetrated a third ring of security at the ministry before setting off the blast.

The Taliban have stepped up the pace of attacks in the run-up to the vote, targeting those organising the election and foreigners, but campaign rallies have been largely undisturbed.

In the northern province of Sar-e-Pul, militants shot dead nine people, including provincial council candidate Hussain Nazari, after kidnapping them two days ago, officials said.

"They were travelling from Balkhab district to central Sar-e-Pul to attend a campaign two days ago but the Taliban kidnapped them," Abdul Jabar Haqbeen, governor of Sar-e-Pul, told Reuters.

"Last night our security forces found nine dead bodies separately in areas between Balkhab and Sar-e-Pul. All were shot by the Taliban. One person was found seriously wounded."

Global powers are closely watching the election which comes at a crucial time in Afghanistan as most foreign troops prepare to pull out.

In a separate statement, the Taliban warned voters against participating in what they described as a "fake election process".

"The Islamic Emirates announces one last time that all elements of the fake elections will be under our Mujahideen attack," they said in a statement.

"Every official and every voting centre will be in danger and a surge of attacks will start all over the country."

(Reporting by Mirwais Harooni in Kabul and Bashir Ansari in Mazar-I-Sharif; Writing by John Chalmers; Editing by Nick Macfie and Simon Cameron-Moore)

Suicide bomber kills six police at Afghan ministry ahead of voteReuters: Ahmad Masood
An Afghan policeman takes up a position at the main checkpoint leading to the Interior Ministry, after a suicide bomb blast in Kabul April 2, 2014. The suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Afghan interior ministry building in the centre of Kabul on Wednesday, wounding several police officers, the ministry said in a statement.

April Fool panda joke 'went too far', says Taipei mayor

Mother panda Yuan Yuan plays with her 3-month-old cub Yuan Zai at Tapei Zoo in Taiwan.

An April Fool report claiming that one of Taiwan's beloved pandas had been infected by parasites and could be euthanised went "too far", the upset mayor of Taipei said Wednesday.

An April Fool report claiming that one of Taiwan's beloved pandas had been infected by parasites and could be euthanised went "too far", the upset mayor of Taipei said Wednesday.

The story, published on the homepages of Next Media websites in Hong Kong and Taiwan, claimed that Yuan Yuan, mother of the first Taiwan-born panda cub Yuan Zai, was seriously ill.

"Taipei Zoo officials have been discussing euthanizing her... much like Copenhagen Zoo recently did with its giraffe Marius," the story said.

The story sparked immediate concern from local media, and saw the concerned Taipei government rush to check with zoo authorities whether it was true.

"All the three pandas have been in good shape," Taipei mayor Hua Lung-bin said, according to a spokesman. "We don't know the motive of the story. The joke has been taken too far."

To help pacify concerns, the zoo released photographs showing an energetic Yuan Yuan at the zoo.

Panda-mania swept Taiwan after her cub was delivered on July 6 last year.

Since her public debut on January 6, the cub, Yuan Zai, has attracted more than 1.6 million visitors, according to zoo authorities.

Supreme Court voids overall campaign donor limits

A woman protests during oral arguments in the case of McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commision at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in October, 2013.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court further loosened the reins on political giving Wednesday, ruling that big campaign donors can dole out money to as many candidates and political committees as they want as long as they abide by limits on contributions to each individual campaign.




In a 5-4 vote won by conservative justices, the court struck down limits in federal law on the total amount of money a contributor can give to candidates, political parties and political action committees.

The decision wipes away the overall limit of $123,200 for 2013 and 2014. It will allow the wealthiest contributors to pour millions of dollars into candidate and party coffers, although those contributions will be subject to disclosure under federal law. Big donors, acting independently of candidates and parties, already can spend unlimited amounts on attacks ads and other campaign efforts that have played an increasingly important role in elections.

The justices left in place limits on individual contributions to each candidate for president or Congress, now $2,600 per election.

The court's conservative majority, under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, continued its run of decisions back to 2007 rejecting campaign finance limits as violations of the First Amendment speech rights of contributors. The most notable among those rulings was the 2010 decision in Citizens United that lifted limits on independent spending by corporations and labor unions.

Roberts said the aggregate limits do not act to prevent corruption, the rationale the court has upheld as justifying contribution limits.

The overall limits "intrude without justification on a citizen's ability to exercise 'the most fundamental First Amendment activities,'" Roberts said, quoting from the court's seminal 1976 campaign finance ruling in Buckley v. Valeo.

Justice Clarence Thomas agreed with the outcome of the case, but wrote separately to say that he would have gone further and wiped away all contribution limits.

Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the liberal dissenters, said that the court's conservatives had "eviscerated our nation's campaign finance laws" through Wednesday's ruling and the Citizens United case.

"If the court in Citizens United opened a door, today's decision we fear will open a floodgate," Breyer said in comments from the bench. "It understates the importance of protecting the political integrity of our governmental institution. It creates, we think, a loophole that will allow a single individual to contribute millions of dollars to a political party or to a candidate's campaign."

Roberts said the dissenters' fears were overstated because other federal laws prohibit the circumvention of the individual limits and big donors are more likely to spend a lot of money independently in support of a favored candidate.

Reaction to the ruling generally followed party lines, with advocates of capping money in politics aligned with Democrats in opposition to the decision.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called the Supreme Court decision "an important first step toward restoring the voice of candidates and party committees and a vindication for all those who support robust, transparent political discourse."

The GOP and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky had argued that other decisions relaxing campaign finance rules had diminished the influence of political parties.

Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said, "This in itself is a small step, but another step on the road to ruination. It could lead to interpretations of the law that would result in the end of any fairness in the political system as we know it."

Congress enacted the limits in the wake of Watergate-era abuses to discourage big contributors from trying to buy legislative votes with their donations and to restore public confidence in the campaign finance system.

But in a series of rulings in recent years, the Roberts court has struck down provisions of federal law aimed at limiting the influence of big donors as unconstitutional curbs on free speech rights.

In the current case, Republican activist Shaun McCutcheon of Hoover, Ala., the national Republican Party and Senate GOP leader McConnell challenged the overall limits on what contributors may give in a two-year federal election cycle. The limits for the current election cycle included a separate $48,600 cap on contributions to all candidates.

McCutcheon gave the symbolically significant amount of $1,776 to 15 candidates for Congress and wanted to give the same amount to 12 others. But doing so would have put him in violation of the cap.

Relatively few Americans play in the big leagues of political giving. Just under 650 donors contributed the maximum amount to candidates, PACs and parties in the last election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The court did not heed warnings from Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. and advocates of campaign finance limits that donors would be able to funnel large amounts of money to a favored candidate in the absence of the overall limit.

The Republicans also called on the court to abandon its practice over nearly 40 years of evaluating limits on contributions less skeptically than restrictions on spending.

The differing levels of scrutiny have allowed the court to uphold most contribution limits, because of the potential for corruption when donors make large direct donations to candidates. At the same time, the court has found that independent spending does not pose the same risk of corruption and has applied a higher level of scrutiny to laws that seek to limit spending.

If the court were to drop the distinction between contributions and expenditures, even limits on contributions to individual candidates for Congress, currently $2,600 per election, would be threatened, said Fred Wertheimer, a longtime supporter of stringent campaign finance laws.

Newtown residents want gunman's house torn down

This photo released by Connecticut State Police on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013 shows an aerial view of the home where Adam Lanza lived with his mother in Newtown, Conn. Lanza gunned down 20 first-graders and six educators with a semi-automatic rifle at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown, after killing his mother inside their home. Lanza committed suicide with a handgun as police arrived at the school

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Some Newtown residents say in a new survey that they want the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter's home torn down and the property turned into a park or nature preserve.

The Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation received more than 1,600 responses to the survey it released Monday on town residents' unmet needs in the wake of the December 2012 shootings. The foundation has been deciding how to distribute more than $11 million in donations made in response to the shootings, which left 20 first-graders and six educators dead.

Some survey responses said money should be set aside to tear down gunman Adam Lanza's house in Newtown, where he killed his mother before going to the school.

The survey found that counseling and cash assistance services were among families' top priorities.

Poll: US marijuana legalization inevitable

Grower Steve Jenkins checks out his marijuana plants at the Botanacare marijuana store in Northglenn, Colo., on Dec. 31, 2013.

DENVER (AP) — Marijuana legalization in the U.S. seems inevitable to three-fourths of Americans, whether they support it or not, according to a new poll out Wednesday.

The Pew Research Center survey on the nation's shifting attitudes about drug policy also showed increased support for moving away from mandatory sentences for non-violent drug offenders.

The telephone survey found that 75 percent of respondents — including majorities of both supporters and opponents of legal marijuana— think that the sale and use of pot eventually will be legal nationwide. It was the first time that question had been asked.
Some 39 percent of respondents said pot should be legal for personal adult use. Forty-four percent of those surveyed said it should be legal only for medicinal use. Just 16 percent said it should not be legal at all.
The responses come as two states have legalized recreational marijuana, with more than 20 states and Washington D.C. allowing some medical use of the drug.
"It's just a matter of time before it's in more states," said Steve Pratley of Denver, a 51-year-old pipefitter who voted for legalization in Colorado in 2012.
Pratley, who did not participate in the Pew survey, agreed with 76 percent of respondents who said people who use small amounts of marijuana shouldn't go to jail.
"If marijuana isn't legalized, it fills up the jails, and that's just stupid," Pratley said.
Legalization opponents, however, drew a distinction between making pot legal for all and thinking that pot users belong in jail.
"It's an illegal drug, period. I don't see it spreading," said Laura Sanchez, a 55-year-old retiree in Denver who voted against legalization. She agreed that pot smokers don't belong in jail, but she disagreed with legalization.
"I've seen no proof that it's good for anybody," said Sanchez, who also did not participate in the survey.
The poll suggested that despite shifting attitudes on legalization, the public remains concerned about drug abuse, with 32 percent of those surveyed calling it a crisis and 55 percent of respondents viewing it as a serious national problem.
And a narrow majority, 54 percent, said that marijuana legalization would lead to more underage people trying it.
As for mandatory minimum sentences, public attitudes have been shifting for years.
In 2001, the survey was about evenly divided on whether it was a good thing or bad thing for states to move away from mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders. In 2014, poll respondents favored the move by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, or 63 percent to 32 percent. The other 5 percent either didn't respond or said they didn't know.
Public officials are well aware of the public's shifting attitudes on drug penalties.
Just last month, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified in support of proposed sentence reductions for some non-violent drug traffickers in an effort to reserve the "the harshest penalties for the most serious drug offenders."
"Certain types of cases result in too many Americans going to prison for too long, and at times for no truly good public safety reason," Holder said last month at the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Drug legalization activists said the Pew results come as no surprise.
"We see a growing bipartisan recognition that mandatory minimums went too far and did more harm than good," said Ethan Nadelmann, head of the Washington-based Drug Policy Alliance, which opposes criminal penalties for non-violent drug users.
Marijuana legalization opponents saw signs of hope in the survey, too.
Kevin Sabet, co-founder of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, which opposes pot legalization, pointed to the fact that 63 percent said it would bother them if people used marijuana openly in their neighborhood.
"Saying that we don't want people to serve prison time for marijuana is very different from saying I want a pot shop in my neighborhood selling cookies and candies and putting coupons in the paper," Sabet said.
The poll of 1,821 adults was conducted Feb. 14-23. The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.

Casada com Fabian Aguilar, Clara se envolveu com Vanessa no ‘BBB 14’ e mostrou que tem intenção de levar o affair para fora do confinamento.

RIO DE JANEIRO – Casada com Fabian Aguilar, Clara se envolveu com Vanessa no ‘BBB 14’ e mostrou que tem intenção de levar o affair para fora do confinamento. Após saber que o seu casamento está em crise, a sister contou que vai tentar se acertar com o marido.

“A gente vai conversar. O que acontece no 'Big Brother' é muito intenso. Só quem está lá dentro para saber. Estou ouvindo muitas coisas, mas eu só vou ter uma posição quando eu conversar com ele”, explicou.

A loira palpitou sobre o possível motivo de Fabian ter ficado com tanto ciúmes dela na casa: “Ele já me conheceu assim. Eu me abri com ele desde o começo, falei que eu gostava de ficar com mulheres. Já fiquei com mulheres até na frente dele e nunca tinha acontecido de ele ficar com ciúmes. Mas talvez, por desta vez eu realmente gostar da Vanessa, eu entendo que ele possa estar bravo comigo”.

Já sobre o fato de evitar falar de seu filho, Max, a stripper disse: “É uma forma de preservá-lo. Minha vida já é um livro aberto, não queria expor o meu filho”.

Grande campeã do ‘BBB 14’, Vanessa se envolveu com Clara no confinamento

RIO DE JANEIRO – Grande campeã do ‘BBB 14’, Vanessa se envolveu com Clara no confinamento e mostrou que não descarta continuar o affair com a loira e seu marido, Fabian Aguilar, aqui fora.

“A gente tem que conversar. Não o conheço pessoalmente, só vi em foto e é bem gatinho. Mas não é só a beleza que me atrai, tem outras coisas também”, afirmou.

A sister negou os boatos de que seu romance com a loira seria falso. “Fui eu que cheguei na Clara na primeira festa. Já tinha visto ela aqui fora e sempre achei ela uma diva. Já tinha visto a Clara em uma balada e tentei adicioná-la no Facebook, mas ela não me aceitou.”

Apesar de Valter ter declarado interesse por Vanessa, a modelo contou que não tem planos de ficar com o rapper. “Se não rolou lá dentro, não vai rolar aqui fora. Estou muito desencanada de homem, não me atrai.”

A bela, aliás, ressaltou que a stripper não foi a primeira mulher com quem ela se envolveu: 'Meu primeiro beijo foi com uma menina. Depois namorei meninos, depois meninas...'.

Vanessa ainda adiantou que já tem planos para o prêmio de R$ 1,5 milhão: “Quero abrir uma clínica veterinária 24h em comunidades carentes. Também quero comprar uma chácara para morar com minhas oito crianças de patas e minha família. E, se puder, terminar minha faculdade de Veterinária que abandonei porque não tinha como pagar. Já me atolei em dívida, nem sei se meu nome está limpo”.

Campeã! Vanessa deixa Clara e Angela para trás e fatura o prêmio de R$ 1,5 milhão do 'BBB 14'

RIO DE JANEIRO - No dia de seu aniversário, Vanessa ganhou de presente do público o prêmio de R$ 1,5 milhão do "Big Brother Brasil 14". Pedro Bial inovou ao anunciar o nome da vencedora. ao invés de falar o nome da campeã, cantou parabéns para que ela soubesse que havia se tornado a nova milionária do pedaço.

A modelo venceu o programa com 53% dos votos deixando Angela em segundo lugar com 28%. "Achei muito justa a vitória dela", disse a advogada. Clara ficou em terceiro lugar com 18% dos votos.

Vanessa chorou, se jogou no chão, saiu da casa correndo e foi recebida por Clara sua grande parceira no confinamento do lado de fora. "Eu amo os meus animais. Foram eles que me colocaram aqui e me fizeram ganhar", contou a grande zebra dessa edição. Ou a “underdog”, termo equivalente em inglês - e provavelmente como gostaria de ser nomeada.

Sua causa em prol dos bichos abandonados deve ter contribuído muito para seu sucesso no programa. Mas,sua vitória se deve em boa parte à Clara. Em uma edição sem vínculos afetivos, elas foram a exceção. Fake ou não, o casal lésbico foi a jogada mais certeira em uma casa repleta de estrategistas.

A torcida de Clanessa mandou no rumo do jogo, eliminou favoritos e no final teve que se escolher um lado. Para surpresa de todos, a modelo herdou toda a popularidade que a empresária acumulou desde a primeira semana por conta de seu imenso carisma e na reta final levou o milhão.

A paulista, que encarou cinco Paredões, foi comendo pelas beiradas e se tornou favorita aos 45 minutos do segundo tempo. Sua vitória já era esperada após eliminar Marcelo no último domingo (30) antecipando a verdadeira final do reality.

Sempre coerente dentro da casa, Vanessa foi coadjuvante durante quase todo o programa. Talvez por isso, errou menos que os demais. Em uma edição apática e pouco atrativa, nada mais coerente do que a pessoa que sempre se sentiu um peixe fora d'água ter "sobrado" para apagar a luz da atual temporada.

O programa

O último programa, desta edição do reality show, foi exibido nesta terça-feira (1) e reuniu familiares e ex-BBBs em um grande show embalado pelo som de Gaby Amarantos. Nome bastante criticado para ocupar o palco da grande final.

No "BBB 13", Boninho deu um show de como se fazer reality show ao surpreender o público e os confinados com twists sensacionais - quem não lembra da falsa eliminação de Anamara?

Dessa vez, o diretor parecia acomodado e pouco fez para movimentar o jogo fazendo que a fuga de telespectadores chegasse ao ponto do programa ter sua liderança ameaçada pela concorrência pela primeira vez em 12 anos.

Tanto que a final foi um simples compacto de melhores momentos extraídos a duras penas. Não teve vídeos emocionantes. Não fosse o talento de Mônica Iozzi, nada salvaria. Ainda assim, as piadas da humorista ficaram muito aquém do esperado. Nem parecia o encerramento de uma temporada.

O melhor VT foi uma compilação dos fajutos discursos de Pedro Bial esse ano. "Essa foi uma edição difícil (...) Foi tudo exagerado", reconheceu.

Ainda bem que acabou. Que venha o "BBB 15"!

New York state joins NYC in suing FedEx for shipping untaxed cigarettes

New York state joined New York City in suing package delivery company FedEx Corp for allegedly violating state and federal laws by illegally delivering contraband cigarettes to people's homes.

The City of New York had sued FedEx last December, accusing the company of creating a "public nuisance" through its partnership with Shinnecock Smoke Shop to ship untaxed cigarettes to homes.

An amended complaint filed on Sunday included the State of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman among the plaintiffs, and sought more than $239 million in damages and penalties.

The New York state alleged that FedEx knowingly shipped nearly 400,000 cartons of unstamped cigarettes to homes in the state, depriving it of $15, $27.50 or $43.50 on each carton in tax revenue.

The New York city had earlier alleged that the company deprived it of excise tax of $15 per carton.

"The claims advanced in the Amended Complaint by the NYAG are substantively identical to the City's claims in the original Complaint," Assistant Corporation Counsel Eric Proshansky, who represents the New York City in the case, said in a letter on Sunday.

"Accordingly, the proposed objections to the pleadings raised by FXG (FedEx Ground Package) should still form the basis for discussion at the April 9th pre-motion conference."

FedEx requested the court last week to dismiss or substantially narrow New York City's complaint.

Schneiderman's office and FedEx were not immediately available for comment outside regular business hours.

The case is City of New York v. FedEx Ground Package System Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 13-09173.

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O custo dos estádios para a Copa do Mundo já supera em mais de três vezes o valor informado pela CBF à Fifa quando o Brasil apresentou seu projeto para sediar o Mundial. Cópia do primeiro levantamento técnico da Fifa sobre o País, fechado em 30 de outubro de 2007 e obtido pelo jornal "OEstado de S. Paulo", informava que as arenas custariam US$ 1,1 bilhão, cerca de R$ 2,6 bilhões. A última estimativa oficial, porém, dá conta de que o valor chegará a R$ 8,9 bilhões. 

O informe foi produzido e assinado por Hugo Salcedo, que coordenou a primeira inspeção no País entre agosto e setembro de 2007. Na época, a Fifa considerou que o orçamento havia sido "bem preparado" e que "não havia dúvidas" sobre o compromisso do Brasil de atender às exigências da entidade. 

"A CBF atualmente estima que os investimentos relacionados com a construção e reformas de estádios estão em US$ 1,1 bilhão", escreveu a Fifa em seu informe. Curiosamente, a entidade esteve em apenas cinco das 18 cidades que naquele momento brigavam para receber a Copa. Das que acabariam escolhidas, não foram visitadas Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador, Natal, Curitiba, Cuiabá e Manaus. 

A Fifa, já na época, não disfarçava que o trabalho de reforma e construção dos estádios seria um desafio. "Os padrões e exigências da Fifa vão superar em muito qualquer outro evento realizado na história do Brasil em termos de magnitude e complexidade. Nenhum dos estádios no Brasil estaria em condições de receber um jogo da Copa nos atuais estados", alertou em 2007. "A Fifa deve prestar uma especial atenção nos projetos." 

O time de inspeção ainda fez um alerta sobre o Maracanã. "Não atende às exigências. Um projeto de renovação mais amplo teria de ser avaliado." 

AEROPORTOS  - O relatório elaborado antes de o Brasil ganhar o direito de sediar a Copa é, hoje, verdadeira coleção de promessas quebradas e avaliações duvidosas. "A infraestrutura de transporte aéreo e urbano poderia atender de forma confortável as demandas da Copa", indicou. "O time de inspeção pode confirmar com confiança que a infraestrutura de aeroportos poderia atender a um grande número de passageiros indo a jogos em viagens de ida e volta no mesmo dia." 

O transporte urbano também seria "suficiente" e a Fifa garantia, em 2007, que um "serviço de trem de alta velocidade vai ligar Rio e São Paulo". Considerava a infraestrutura hoteleira "suficiente" e, ao avaliar o sistema de saúde do País, fez elogios aos hospitais, apontados como "referência internacional". A referência, porém, não foram os hospitais públicos.

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