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The first gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro has gone to an American teenager.</div>
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Ginny Thrasher, a 19-year-old West Virginia University sophomore, won the women's 10-meter air rifle event on Saturday morning at the Olympic Shooting Center in Rio's Deodoro neighborhood, edging out silver medalist Du Li of China.</div>
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Thrasher's score of 208 set a record for a final round in an Olympics. She was one point ahead of Du Li, who won a gold medal in 2004.</div>
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China's Yi Siling took the bronze with a score of 185.4.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">It's been remarkable year of success for </span><a href="http://www.wvusports.com/profile.cfm?id=103228&sport=rifle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank">Thrasher</a><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">, who</span><a href="http://www.ncaa.com/news/rifle/article/2016-03-12/ncaa-rifle-west-virginia-wins-fourth-consecutive-championship" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank">won the NCAA's air rifle title as a freshman</a><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;"> in March as a member of WVU's </span><a href="http://www.wvusports.com/teams.cfm?sport=rifle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank">rifle team</a><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">.</span></div>
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Michael Phelps produced a vintage performance to claim an astonishing 19th Olympic gold medal of his career on Sunday.</div>
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The 31-year-old, who quit the sport after the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/31/sport/olympics-michael-phelps-legacy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;">2012 Games</a>, was back with a bang in Rio as Team USA eased to victory in the 4x100 meters freestyle relay.</div>
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Phelps, who produced a stunning second leg, has now won 23 medals in total, extending his record as the most decorated Olympian of all time.</div>
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With son Boomer in attendance, Phelps did his kid proud, along with teammates Caleb Dressel, Ryan Held and Nathan Adrian.</div>
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It was the second gold of the night for the U.S. after Katie Ledecky produced an astonishing performance to win gold in the 400m freestyle.</div>
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The 19-year-old smashed her own world record to win in a time of 3:56.46 -- nearly five seconds ahead of her closest rival.</div>
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Ledecky's previous best in the 400m was in August 2014, when she came home in 3:58.37 at the Pan Pacific Championships.</div>
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But she tore that time to pieces to finish ahead of Britain's Jazz Carlin and U.S. teammate Leah Smith.</div>
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A day after anchoring the U.S 4x100m relay team to silver, Ledecky showed just why she's being touted as the best female swimmer on the planet.<br />
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Tommy Morrison's career reached its pinnacle on a hot June night in Las Vegas, when he stepped into the ring and beat George Foreman to become heavyweight champion.
It reached its nadir when he tested positive for HIV three years later.
The last 20 years of the brash boxer's life would be defined by extensive legal troubles, erratic behavior and mounting health problems. Morrison would later claim that he never tested positive for the virus that causes AIDs, even as he was hospitalized during the last days of his life.
Morrison died Sunday night at a Nebraska hospital. He was 44.
His longtime promoter and close friend, Tony Holden, confirmed that "the Duke" had died, but his family would not disclose the cause of death. Morrison and his wife, Trisha, continued to deny that the former champion ever had HIV during the final years of his life.
"Tommy's a very stubborn person and he views things the way he wants to view things. That's his right and privilege," Holden said. "All through his career, him and I would come not to physical blows but disagreements on certain things. We always ended up friends. That was Tommy.
"That's the way Tommy took off after he was told he was HIV-positive," Holden added. "When he first was told, I was taking him to seek treatment and to different doctors around the country. And then he started research on the Internet and started saying it was a conspiracy. He went in that direction and never looked back."
The controversy, along with Morrison's rapid decline, overshadowed a stellar career.
Morrison was a prodigious puncher whose bid to fight in the 1988 Seoul Olympics ended at the hands of Ray Mercer, who later dealt him his first professional loss. Along the way, Morrison became such a recognizable face that he was cast in Rocky V alongside Sylvester Stallone.
Morrison won his first 28 professional fights, beating faded champions such as Pinklon Thomas along the way. He hit it big at the Thomas & Mack Center in the summer of 1993 — a unanimous decision over Foreman, then in the midst of his comeback — to claim a vacant world title.
As with so many things in Morrison's life, the good was quickly followed by the bad.
Morrison was in line for a high-profile bout with Lennox Lewis when he was upset by unheralded fighter Michael Bentt in Tulsa, Okla., not far from where Morrison was raised. He was knocked down three times and the fight was called before the first round ended.
The loss meant a potential $7.5 million payday for a title unification fight simply vanished.
"I zigged when I should have zagged," Morrison said afterward. "It's one of those situations you have to live with and learn from it. I'll be back."
Morrison indeed came back, but he was never the same feared fighter. He beat a bunch of long shots and faded stars over the next couple of years before getting knocked out by Lewis in the sixth round.
That fight happened in October 1995. By February, Morrison had tested positive for HIV.
He'd been preparing for another fight that winter when his blood test came back positive for the virus that causes AIDs. Morrison's license was quickly suspended by Nevada, and the ban was, in effect, upheld by every other sanctioning body. Morrison said at a news conference in 1996 that he'd never fight again, blaming his plight on a "permissive, fast and reckless lifestyle."
His lifestyle never changed, though, even when he stepped away from the ring.
He had already run afoul of the law in 1993, when he pleaded guilty to assaulting a college student. He also dealt with weapons charges and multiple DUI incidents over the years.
Morrison was finally sentenced to two years in prison in 2000, and another year was added to his sentence in 2002 for violating parole.
When he was released, Morrison said his HIV tests were in fact false positives, and he wanted to resume his career. He passed medical tests in Arizona — even as Nevada stood by its decision to suspend his license — and returned to the ring. Morrison fought twice more in his career, winning once in West Virginia and for the final time in Mexico. He finished with a record of 48-3-1 with 42 knockouts.
Morrison started to fade from the public eye in the final years of his life. He tried to stay connected to the sport by opening a gym in Wichita, Kan., but the enterprise was short-lived.
"If Tommy was fighting today, he no doubt would be a world champion," Holden said. "You have to look at who he was fighting in the '90s, the guys in that division were Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Riddick Bowe, Ray Mercer, George Foreman. There's no one with that talent today. Tommy would absolutely dominate if he were in his prime boxing today."
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NEW YORK — Katie Couric is getting married to her financier boyfriend John Molner.
Couric’s spokesman Matthew Hiltzik confirmed the engagement Tuesday morning following a report by People magazine.
Molner gave 56-year-old Couric, the former host of “Today,” a diamond ring over the weekend in East Hampton. Molner, 50, is a partner at investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, who oversees mergers and acquisitions advisory work for the firm’s corporate clients.
The couple has dated nearly two years.
Couric’s late husband Jay Monahan died in 1998 from colon cancer. She is the mother of two daughters, now 21 and 17.
Her talk show, “Katie,” starts its second season Sept. 9.
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Ariel Castro is seen during his sentencing in Cleveland on Aug 1, 2013.
Ariel Castro, the 53-year-old Cleveland man convicted of kidnapping and raping three women for nearly a decade, was found hanged in his prison cell on Tuesday night in an apparent suicide.
An Ohio corrections spokeswoman said Castro was discovered dead in his cell at 9:20 p.m. He had been housed in protective custody by himself where officers were required to check on his well-being every 30 minutes at staggered intervals.
Castro, a former school bus driver, was sentenced last month to life in prison plus 1,000 years for abducting and sexually assaulting Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus.
“Upon finding inmate Castro, prison medical staff began performing life saving measures,” JoEllen Smith of the Ohio Department of Corrections said. “Shortly after he was transported to Ohio State University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 10:52 p.m.”
In June, Castro was indicted on 977 counts — including 139 counts of rape, 177 counts of kidnapping and two counts of aggravated murder. The Cleveland home where he held the women was later demolished, forfeited as part of a plea deal with prosecutors that took the death penalty off the table.
The three women, who were kidnapped at 14, 16 and 20 years old, escaped from Castro’s Cleveland home on May 6, when Berry broke part of a door and yelled to neighbors for help.
At Castro’s sentencing, Michelle Knight, one of his victims, addressed him directly.
“You took 11 years of my life away, and I have got it back,” she said. “I spent 11 years in hell. Now your hell is just beginning.”
An investigation into Castro’s death has been launched, the official said.
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Charlie Hunnam has landed one of the most talked-about roles in Hollywood.<br />
He'll play Christian Grey in the film adaptation of <i>Fifty Shades of Grey, </i>set to hit theaters Aug. 1, 2014.<br />
To play the character, he's got to be hot, sexy, dominant — and tortured.<br />
Can he pull it off?<br />
"I've been swaggering since I was 14 years old!" Hunnam <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/07/11/charlie-hunnam-pacific-rim-movie/2446761/" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/07/11/charlie-hunnam-pacific-rim-movie/2446761/">told</a> USA TODAY's Brian Truitt when touting the film <i>Pacific Rim</i>
in July. In that movie, his character had to take a giant robot into
war against futuristic monsters. He's also know for playing tough
biker-club president Jackson "Jax" Teller on FX's <i>Sons of Anarchy</i>. He told <a href="http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2013-07/10/charlie-hunnam-interview-pacific-rim-sons-of-anarchy" title="http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2013-07/10/charlie-hunnam-interview-pacific-rim-sons-of-anarchy">GQ UK</a> in July that Season 6 was being filmed and he's signed for Season 7.<br />
Both were a good fit for Hunnam, 33, who learned to be tough in real life early on.<br />
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The actor is originally from Newcastle, England, a working-class
town. As a kid, he moved to the Lake District, where fighting was
common. He is one of two sons of what he has described as a "tough-guy"
father and a "bohemian" mother. They split up when he was 2 years old.<br />
Hunnam
went on to get his degree in the performing arts from Cumbria College
of Art and Design in Cumbria, England. His first big role came at age
18, when he was cast in the British TV series <i>Queer As Folk</i>. He
appeared in 10 episodes, playing a gay teen, before moving to Los
Angeles. He went on to land roles including the lead in 2002's <i>Nicholas Nickleby,</i> a part in <i>Cold Mountain</i> in 2003 and <i>Sons of Anarchy</i> in 2008.<br />
So will he be ready to bare his bod for the film, which will have plenty of sexy scenes?<br />
He has a <a href="http://www.mensfitnessmagazine.com.au/2011/09/rising-son-charlie-hunnam/" title="http://www.mensfitnessmagazine.com.au/2011/09/rising-son-charlie-hunnam/">chiseled physique</a> that he maintains by boxing, swimming and weightlifting among other things, according to Australian <a href="http://www.mensfitnessmagazine.com.au/2011/09/rising-son-charlie-hunnam/" title="http://www.mensfitnessmagazine.com.au/2011/09/rising-son-charlie-hunnam/">Men's Fitness</a>. In a 2011 feature for the magazine, he revealed that he owns 82 pairs of sneakers.<br />
"I'm
happier, more confident, and more positive when I work out. And I feel
like I'm a better actor because of the clarity it gives me," he told the
mag.<br />
As for his personal life? He's not single.<br />
He met Katherine Towne at an audition for <i>Dawson's Creek</i> in 1999 and the two got married a few weeks later in Las Vegas. They divorced in 2002.<br />
For the past six years, <a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/454550/5-things-to-know-about-charlie-hunnam-fifty-shades-of-grey-s-christian-grey" title="http://www.eonline.com/news/454550/5-things-to-know-about-charlie-hunnam-fifty-shades-of-grey-s-christian-grey">according to E!</a>, Hunnam has been dating jewelry designer Morgana McNelis. In an interview with Britain's <i><a href="http://blog.sfgate.com/dailydish/2013/07/09/charlie-hunnam-quits-los-angeles/" title="http://blog.sfgate.com/dailydish/2013/07/09/charlie-hunnam-quits-los-angeles/">7 Nights</a></i>
magazine in July he said they had bought a ranch so they could escape
the Hollywood scene. "We've got 30 chickens and a couple of donkeys, a
couple of ducks and we've got a big, organic garden. We are going to try
to live a bit more sustainably."<br />
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American 64-year-old long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad on Monday
became the first person to swim<br />
across the Florida Straits from Cuba
without a shark cage, succeeding on her fifth attempt at the feat.<br />
Her face sunburned and lips swollen, with barely enough energy to
speak, Nyad waded ashore at Key West after a 53-hour swim and delivered a
simple message to onlookers: "We should never, ever give up .... You
never are too old to chase your dreams."<br />
In an inspiration to Baby Boomers everywhere, Nyad completed the
estimated 110-mile journey after departing from Havana on Saturday
morning. She set a record for the longest ocean swim without a shark
cage or flippers, according to her crew.<br />
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She was met by crowds in Key West who surrounded her, snapping
photos, as they enjoyed sunny beach weather on the annual Labor Day
holiday.<br />
Helpers were waiting to give her medical treatment and immediately
placed her on a stretcher and hydrated her with an IV before she was
taken to a hospital.<br />
The iron-willed Nyad had been trying to achieve the crossing for 35
years, describing it on her website as her "Xtreme Dream," and seemed
determined to prove The Beatles were right that there is plenty to live
for "when I'm 64."<br />
"Diana shows that at any age you can do whatever you want," said
Nancy Jordan, 57, a volunteer pilot on one of Nyad's support vessels.
"That's what she set out to show; don't ever give up your dream."<br />
Dave Magmone, whose boat was used to prepare Nyad's meals, said, "She
has a mental and physical strength like no one I have ever known. She
is an example for all people, regardless of their age."<br />
Women and men of a certain age have been inspired in recent years by a
wave of older athletes breaking records and snagging headlines.<br />
Last year, then Colorado Rockies player Jamie Moyer, now 50, became
the oldest pitcher in Major League Baseball history to win a game.
Canadian Ed Whitlock, now 82, shattered records when he ran the 2012
Toronto Marathon in 3 hours 30 minutes. And Dana Torres in 2008 at age
41 became the oldest-ever American female swimmer to win an Olympic
medal.<br />
"I think this is the prime. When one reaches this age, you still have
a body that's strong but now you have a better mind," Nyad told CNN
before a previous failed attempt to making the crossing in 2011.<br />
JELLYFISH, SHARKS<br />
Nyad's team said her fifth attempt at the Florida crossing benefited
from several key factors, including calm seas, the surprising lack of
jellyfish and favorable currents in the powerful Gulf Stream that flows
eastwards through the Florida Straits.<br />
"You can't do the swim unless you have three things - the
determination, the weather and the cooperation of the Gulf Stream," said
Ron Bartlett, her navigator.<br />
Bartlett said the crew only encountered one minor squall during the crossing and only one deadly box jellyfish sighting.<br />
The marathon swimmer had said this was her final attempt, this time
equipped with a protective silicone mask as well as a body suit to
better protect her from box jellyfish that forced her to end one of two
attempted crossings last year.<br />
A team of ocean kayakers and divers accompanied Nyad on her journey
dragging an electronic device in the water that emitted a current to
repel sharks.<br />
Nyad has spent much of her life in the water. She described in a 2011
YouTube documentary how her father told her when she was a young girl
she was destined to swim, noting that her last name is derived from the
Greek word for water nymphs or female swimmers.<br />
Born in New York, the multi-lingual Nyad was raised in south Florida
by a French mother and Greek-Egyptian stepfather and swam six hours a
day as a 12-year-old.<br />
She retired after successfully completing a swim from Bimini in the
Bahamas to Florida in 1979, ending a long-distance career that set
several world records including one for circling Manhattan in less than
eight hours in 1975.<br />
She went on to a career in sports journalism and fitness and has expressed a lifelong fascination with Cuba.<br />
The treacherous Florida Straits has been conquered only twice
previously, both times with the aid of a protective cage. The last time
was by Australian Susie Maroney, who used a protective cage at age 22
during a 1997 swim. The cage glided on ocean currents and enabled
Maroney to make the journey in just 25 hours.<br />
Nyad's fifth attempt to make the crossing comes 35 years after she
made her first go at it aged 28 in 1978, when she gave up after covering
76 miles in 42 hours, with the aid that time of a shark cage.<br />
With Key West in her sights on Monday Nyad halted briefly about 2 miles offshore to thank her support team.<br />
"This is a lifelong dream of mine and I'm very, very glad to be with
you," she said, according to her website. "So let's get going so we can
have a whopping party."<br />
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Their mothers must love this.
Two intrepid young rabbis are going “up the river” for the High Holidays — to a federal lockup in Brooklyn, where they will lead Rosh Hashana services for Jewish convicts.
Hasidic Rabbis Yoel Pesso and Chezky Weiss, both 23, are turning the chapel at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park into a temporary shul this week so that some 30 inmates can atone for their sins.
“Everyone deserves to have a connection with God,” said Pesso, who is a Crown Heights-based Lubavitch Hasid, along with Weiss. “Even if you commit a crime, it doesn’t sever the connection.”
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The detention center houses about 1,000 inmates, about 60 of whom are Jewish, according to the Aleph Institute, a Miami-based organization that provides services to Jewish inmates at 30 prisons.
Rituals will include the blowing of the shofar — a ram’s horn — and a reading of the Torah portion in which Abraham is ordered to sacrifice his son, Isaac.
“God tested Abraham, which is analogous to what’s happening on Rosh Hashana; throughout the year, people are tested . . . and sometimes they’ll give in to [temptations],” Weiss said.
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Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire the handset and services business of Nokia for about $7.2 billion, an audacious effort to reshape itself for a mobile era that has largely passed it by, Nick Wingfield reports in The New York Times. Microsoft and Nokia said 32,000 Nokia employees would join Microsoft as a result of the all-cash deal, which makes the Finnish mobile phone pioneer the engine for Microsoft’s mobile efforts.
The deal also gives Microsoft a potential successor to Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, who will retire within 12 months: Stephen A. Elop, a former Microsoft executive who was running Nokia until the deal was signed, will rejoin Microsoft after the transaction closes.
“This agreement is really a bold step into the future for Microsoft,” Mr. Ballmer said by phone from Finland. “We’re excited about the talent capabilities it will bring to Microsoft.”
VERIZON SEALS $130 BILLION VODAFONE DEAL | Verizon Communications agreed on Monday to take full control of its wireless unit for $130 billion, in a bet that the American desire for cellphones and broadband services was still far from being sated, Michael J. de la Merced and Mark Scott report in DealBook. The deal, more than a decade in the making, allows Verizon to take advantage of receptive debt markets and its own strong stock to buy out its longtime partner, Vodafone of Britain. It also leaves Vodafone flush with cash to reinvest in its own businesses and buy competitors.
While the roughly 100 million Verizon Wireless customers probably will not see any immediate changes in service, the telecommunications industry is very much in flux, with new competitors like SoftBank of Japan in the market and new opportunities for wireless services emerging, DealBook writes. In light of those trends, Verizon deemed it essential to gain control of its biggest business, which in the most recent quarter accounted for $20 billion of the company’s nearly $30 billion in revenue. Among the company’s plans is bundling mobile broadband services with wired offerings like high-speed, fiber-optic connections.
“There’s a big phase of growth in the U.S. telecom market,” Lowell C. McAdam, Verizon’s chief executive, said in an interview. “The timing was perfect for us.” Under the terms of the deal, Verizon agreed to pay $58.9 billion in cash and an additional $60.2 billion worth of its shares to Vodafone, the latter of which will be distributed to Vodafone’s shareholders.
The banks helping to arrange and finance the transaction are eager to take part in a bonanza of fees, Mr. de la Merced reports. Advisers to Verizon could earn $110 million to $125 million, while bankers for Vodafone could reap $100 million to $118 million, according to estimates from Freeman & Company. In addition, with roughly $60 billion in financing, bankers could enjoy well over $150 million in fees for arranging the debt.
A LOOK BEHIND MCKINSEY’S SUCCESS | The management consulting firm McKinsey & Company has been the go-to strategy adviser for the world’s top companies. “So why has its advice, at times, turned out to be so bad?” Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in the DealBook column. “It often goes unmentioned, but McKinsey has indeed offered some of the worst advice in the annals of business.”
“A thought-provoking new book called ‘The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business,’ which comes out next Tuesday, offers a fascinating look behind the company’s success,” Mr. Sorkin writes. “The book, by Duff McDonald, chronicles McKinsey’s rise, but also raises an important question about it that is applicable to the entire netherworld of consultants, advisers and other corporate hangers-on: ‘Are they worth it or not?’”
ON THE AGENDA | The ISM manufacturing index for August is out at 10 a.m. Data on construction spending in July is out at 10 a.m. H&R Block reports earnings after the market closes.
MADOFF TRUSTEE ADDS DETAILS TO SUIT | J. Ezra Merkin, a prominent Wall Street financier who had earned a fortune investing his clients’ money with Bernard L. Madoff, “willfully blinded” himself to numerous indications that Mr. Madoff was a con man, according to new claims in a lawsuit filed on Friday in Federal District Court in Manhattan by the trustee for victims of Mr. Madoff’s fraud. The filing includes details of a 2003 meeting between Mr. Merkin and a research company in which Mr. Merkin admitted that he did not fully understand Mr. Madoff’s business and questioned its legitimacy, Peter Lattman reports in DealBook.
“Despite Merkin’s knowledge that Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme, that Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities was a fraud, and that Madoff could not have achieved his incredible returns, Merkin never pressed Madoff for an explanation but instead participated in Madoff’s fraud,” wrote the trustee, Irving L. Picard, in the amended complaint, which updated an action originally filed in 2009.
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Labor Day in the United States is a holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September. It is a celebration of the American labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of their country.
Labor Day was promoted by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor, who organized the first parade in New York City. After the Haymarket Massacre, US President Grover Cleveland feared that commemorating Labor Day on May 1 could become an opportunity to commemorate the affair. Thus, in 1887, it was established as an official holiday in September to support the Labor Day that the Knights favored.[1]
The equivalent holiday in Canada, Labour Day, is also celebrated on the first Monday of September. In many other countries (more than 80 worldwide), "Labour Day" is synonymous with, or linked with, International Workers' Day, which occurs on May 1st.
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Ozil, 24, joins Arsenal from Real Madrid where he made a total of 159 appearances in three years. During that time he won both La Liga and the Copa del Rey.
The attacking midfielder has been a long-term target and manager Arsène Wenger said: “We are extremely pleased to have signed Mesut Ozil. He is a great player, with proven quality at both club and international level. We have watched and admired him for some time as he has all the attributes I look for in an Arsenal player.
“I have said throughout the summer that we have been working hard to bring in top quality players to this football club. This has involved many many people across the Club and I have always had the full support of the Club in making decisions on the football side.
“Mesut is a top quality footballer who will be a fantastic addition to our talented squad. We are all looking forward to him joining up with us after his international matches with Germany and working with us as an Arsenal player.”
Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis said: “This is an exciting day for all of us. We have signed a world-class player who is one of Europe’s brightest young talents.
“Mr Kroenke, our controlling owner, has always fully supported Arsène and the Club in making significant investments to strengthen our squad and to bring in talented players who fit our style and ambitions.
"Like all of us, Mr Kroenke wants to see Arsenal winning titles and trophies and he has absolute faith and belief in our manager to achieve that. We will continue to work towards that goal and look forward to an exciting season.”
Ozil joined his hometown club Schalke in 2006 at the age of 18 and, after spending two years with the Gelsenkirchen club, he made the move to Bundesliga side Werder Bremen in 2008. After making 71 appearances with Bremen, Ozil made the move to Real Madrid following impressive displays at the World Cup in South Africa. He has made 47 appearances for his country, scoring 17 goals.
Speaking after completing his medical in Germany, Ozil said: “I am thrilled to be joining a club of the stature of Arsenal and am looking forward to playing in the Premier League. It will be great for my own personal development as a player and I am particularly looking forward to working with Arsène Wenger.
“From our negotiations it is clear the Club has huge ambition and I look forward to being part of an exciting future.”
Everyone at Arsenal welcomes Mesut to the Club. The deal is subject to the completion of regulatory processes. His number will be announced via @Arsenal on Twitter shortly.
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“I don’t believe what I’m seeing,” said John McEnroe, as Roger Federer sprayed another forehand six feet past the baseline en route to a straight-set loss at the U.S. Open to No. 19 seed Tommy Robredo and another early exit from a Grand Slam.
Neither could anyone else, except, perhaps, Roger Federer, who seemed oddly resigned to his fate early in the stunning defeat.
Even as his one-time invincibility waned and he went through his streak of Slam-less years, and even during his summer woes that were capped by a stunning loss to No. 116 Sergiy Stakhovsky in the second round of Wimbledon, there was always the feeling that even if Roger Federer was down in a match, his comeback was inevitable. He’d summon whatever it was that made him the sport’s all-time leader in Grand Slams and pull it out in the end.
When Federer went down two sets to Robredo on Monday night in New York, that feeling wasn’t there. It didn’t mean Federer couldn’t come back to win the match, the same way he didn’t always win those previous matches when you figured he’d comeback. But this time, there was a different inevitability all together. It was the inevitability of aging and decline.
Federer’s forehands sailed long. His footwork looked like that of someone wearing cinder blocks in the bottom of the Hudson. Every volley seemed to hit the middle of the net. He looked tense on every break point — he’d finish 2 for 16 and blew three games in which he held a 0-40 lead. This wasn’t the Roger Federer of old, nor the Roger Federer of the recent past. This was a one-time great struggling with the most basic of fundamentals and losing to a fellow tennis old-timer (Robredo is 31) that he’d owned throughout his career.
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wo fans suspected of overdosing on ecstasy died at this weekend’s Electric Zoo music festival on Randall’s Island, prompting organizers to cancel today’s shows - a move that outraged callous concert-goers despite the deaths.
Recent Syracuse University grad Jeffrey Russ, 23, of Rochester, and Olivia Rotondo, 20, a University of New Hampshire student from North Providence, Rhode Island, both died after it appears they took the popular rave drug Ecstasy, also called “Molly,” law-enforcement sources said.
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Jeffrey Russ died of an overdose at Electric Zoo.
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Olivia Rotondo
“She was a great kid. That’s all I can tell you pal. She was a great kid,” said Henry Rotundo, 73, of North Providence, Olivia’s heartbroken grandfather .
Russ’ aunt, Patti Fanto-Holdaway, said she and other loved ones rushed to the city when they heard he had fallen ill.
“We drove down in the middle of the night after we got the call that he was in the hospital,” Fanto-Holdaway said, her voice trembling. “We lost him before we got there because it took six hours.”
Four other unidentified fans were hospitalized and listed in critical condition. They are believed to have also taken the drug.
Ecstasy, the street name for the drug MDMA, is a stimulant and mild psychedelic in pure form - but is also mixed with other more dangerous drugs, a law enforcement source said.
And sometimes bogus pills that contain no MDMA but other more harmful drugs - such as amphetamines or powerful tranquilizers - are sold as Ecstasy to unsuspecting buyers at concerts and parties.
“Especially at concerts when people are buying from strangers, you have no way of knowing what the hell you’re putting down your throat,” the
source said.
The organizers, Made Event of Long Island City, extended their condolences to the families of the victims in a statement on their web site.
“Because there is nothing more important to us than our patrons, we have decided in consultation with the New York City Parks Department that there will be no show today,” the statement said
But some of the 200 or so fans who showed up at at Randall’s Island and others on social media were furious at the cancellation of today’s performances by German DJ Zedd , Laidback Luke, Armin Van Buuren, Steve Aoki and Sebastiona Ingrosso
“If you cared about your patrons then you wouldn’t disappoint the tens of thousand RESPONSIBLE concert goers who LIVE for the music at these festivals. While my deepest condolences go out to the families of the lives that were lost yesterday, it does not mean that everyone else needs to suffer,” fumed David Eli on the event’s Facebook page
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Veteran broadcaster Sir David Frost has died at the age of 74 after a heart attack while on board a cruise ship.
A family statement said he was aboard the Queen Elizabeth on Saturday night where he was to give a speech.
Sir David's career spanned journalism, comedy writing and daytime television presenting, including The Frost Report.
Internationally, he will be remembered for his revealing interviews with former US President Richard Nixon.
A statement said: "His family are devastated and ask for privacy at this difficult time. A family funeral will be held in the near future and details of a memorial service will be announced in due course."
The BBC's Barney Jones edited his Breakfast with Frost programme on the BBC for more than 10 years.
Of his friend and colleague, he said: "David loved broadcasting, did it brilliantly for more than 50 years and was eagerly looking forward to a host of projects - including interviewing the prime minister next week - before his sudden and tragic death. We will all miss him enormously."
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