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Marissa Powell, Miss Utah USA, Fumbles Pageant Question On Income Inequality (VIDEO)

You're dressed to the nines. You're vying to become an icon of beauty and poise. The cameras are rolling and millions of people are waiting to hear your answer to this question about income inequality:
"A recent report shows that in 40 percent of American families with children, women are the primary earners yet they continue to earn less than men. What does this say about society?"
View image on Deadspin websiteAlas, when her big moment came during the 2013 Miss USA beauty pageant on Sunday night, Miss Utah USA Marissa Powell choked and gave a truly incoherent answer (see video above).
You can tell from Powell's face that she knew she blew it. But the denizens of the Internet were not about to let such a fantastic flub pass without comment. READ More....

The Jamaican Diaspora last night reacted with shock to the positive drug test of Olympic champion Veronica Campbell Brown. Calls for facts before condemnation

MONTEGO BAY, St James — the Jamaican Diaspora last night reacted with shock to the positive drug test of Olympic champion Veronica Campbell Brown, but gave her support with the hope her name would be cleared. Meeting here in Montego Bay for the fifth staging of the Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference, the overseas-based Jamaicans said persons should await the facts before condemning the athlete who has over the years represented the country with distinction. 
"I think that we are sensationalising the whole issue. We should wait until all the facts come out. I don't think that she or the management are stupid; and from what I have read that masking agent can be used for a lot of things. I read that she went to a dentist ,and [so] we should just wait until all the facts are in before we jump to judgment. I have all confidence that she would not have jeopardised her career and our reputation for that. It's not even an Olympic year," said Patrick Beckford, former Diaspora Advisory Board member for United States North East and a native of Trelawny. Read more:  

 

Spurs Top Heat 114-104 In Game 5 NBA Finals: Manu Ginobili, Danny Green Lift San Antonio (VIDEO)

SAN ANTONIO — With the old Manu Ginobili back, the San Antonio Spurs looked like champs again. One more victory and their Big Three, not Miami's, will be the one that rules the NBA.
Ginobili broke out of a slump in a big way with 24 points and 10 assists in his first start of the season, and the Spurs beat the Heat 114-104 on Sunday night to take a 3-2 lead.
Tony Parker scored 26 points, Tim Duncan had 17 points and 12 rebounds, and Ginobili had his highest-scoring game of the season as the Spurs became the first team to shoot 60 percent in a finals game in four years.
Danny Green smashed the NBA Finals record for 3-pointers with six more and scored 24 points. Kawhi Leonard finished with 16, but the stage was set when Ginobili trotted out with Duncan, Parker and the rest of starters in what could have been the last finals home game for a trio that's meant so much to San Antonio. READ More...

VCB Shocker! : Veronica Campbell-Brown returned a positive test for a banned substance...The sprinter, who has won 16 medals for Jamaica at the Olympic and World Championships level

Ja's most decorated female athlete tests positive for banned substance
Andre Lowe, Senior Staff Reporter

Track star Veronica Campbell-Brown.  - File
The Gleaner can confirm that Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown returned a positive test at the May 4 Jamaica Invitational at the National Stadium.
The sprinter, who has won 16 medals for Jamaica at the Olympic and World Championships level, turned up a diuretic in her A sample and was advised of the adverse analytical finding on June 3.
The athlete has withdrawn from the Edmonton International Track Classic, which is scheduled for June 29 at Foote Field. She will also miss next weekends Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association/Supreme Ventures Limited National Senior Championships and, by extension, this summers IAAF World Championships in Athletics.Diuretics are masking agents banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency because of their ability to hide the presence of performance-enhancing drugs in the system.
According to well-placed sources, Campbell-Brown, along with her management team, was in Montreal for the testing of the B sample on Thursday, with the confirmation of the positive result said to have come sometime yesterday. READ More...

LOOK: This Chart Will Freak Out Every Mom And Dad In America : How College Costs Are Skyrocketing Out Of Middle-Class America's Reach (In 1 Chart)

Over the past three decades, the inflation-adjusted income of the median American family has basically remained stagnant. The same can’t be said of college costs, which have simultaneously surged to almost unrecognizable heights, according to a new report by the left-leaning Center for American Progress.
College CostsCosts at private nonprofit four-year colleges have increased by more than 150 percent since 1982, but the real trouble is at four-year public schools, where inflation-adjusted costs have experienced a startling 250 percent jump.
It’s not so difficult to understand how this puts families in a bind. As of 2011, only half of American households could claim an income of more than $50,000, according to the U.S. Census -- a number low enough to make paying for a child’s college education appear more dream than reality. READ More...

ADIOS, AHMADINEJAD : Moderate Rouhani Wins Decisive Victory In Iran Election... White House: U.S. Respects Results

TEHRAN, Iran — Wild celebrations broke out on Tehran streets that were battlefields four years ago as reformist-backed Hasan Rowhani capped a stunning surge to claim Iran's presidency on Saturday, throwing open the political order after relentless crackdowns by hard-liners to consolidate and safeguard their grip on power.
"Long live Rowhani," tens of thousands of jubilant supporters chanted as security officials made no attempt to rein in crowds – joyous and even a bit bewildered by the scope of his victory with more than three times the votes of his nearest rival.
In his first statement after the results were announced, Rowhani said that "a new opportunity has been created ... for those who truly respect democracy, interaction and free dialogue."
But in Iran, even landslides at the ballot box do not equate to policymaking influence. READ More...

Kate Middleton Cruise Ship Naming Ceremony Calls For An Animal Print (PHOTOS)

Kate Middleton Cruise ShipNaming a ship might not sound like a big deal, but Kate Middleton's cruise ship gig was a major one indeed. On Thursday morning, the Duchess of Cambridge formally christened the Royal Princess cruise ship, the newest addition to Princess Cruises' fleet.
Chosen as the "godmother" of the ship, Kate was on hand to name the vessel -- "I name this ship Royal Princess. May God bless her and all who sail in her" -- and break the ceremonial bottle of champagne on the hull.
The event was a notable one, and not only because Kate's mother-in-law, Princess Diana, christened the first Royal Princess in 1984. It's also one of the pregnant royal's final appearances before she gives birth and goes on "maternity leave." (We may still see her this Saturday at the annual Trooping of the Colour.) READ More...

Prince William Has Indian Heritage? DNA Test Of Princess Diana's Lineage Indicates So: Report

The British royal family may have some explaining to do. If the results of a DNA test conducted by BritainsDNA are to be believed, the royal lineage has some unlikely roots -- in India.
The United Kingdom-based genetic ancestry testing company analyzed themitochondrial DNA of two cousins of Princess Diana and compared them to global samples, CNN reports. According to the results of the DNA test, Princess Diana's sonPrince William has Indian heritage.
The royal's connection to the South Asian country stems from Williams' great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Eliza Kewark, who worked as a housekeeper in India. As ABC News notes, Kewark has often been described as Armenian, but the DNA results indicate that she is at least half Indian.
BritainsDNA discovered the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) belonged to a rare haplogroup, R30b, that is usually only found in the Indian population. READ More...

J$100.47:US$1: Fixed Exchange Rate Won't Solve Ja's Problem - IMF Representative

WignalDr Gene Leon, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) senior resident representative to Jamaica, is arguing that discussions on whether Jamaica should go the way of a fixed exchange rateis misplaced.
Leon, along with economists Dr Damieon King and Dr André Haughton, who were guests at a Gleaner Editors' Forum yesterday, said Jamaica needs to focus on fixing the fundamentals of its economy, rather than being concerned with the value of the Jamaican dollar.
"We focus on the exchange rate as though that exchange rate is anything other than a consequence of where we are," Leon said.
Yesterday, the Jamaican dollar closed at J$100.47:US$1 after breaking the J$100:$US1 mark for the first time last Friday.
The IMF, with which the country's has entered a US$2 billion four-year extended fund facility, said Jamaica's currency is overvalued. Read More...

NSA Spying Controversy Highlights Embrace Of Big Data : 'The First Technological Innovation Since The Internet With The Potential To Change The World'

Nsa Big DataEven within the infrastructure of the American surveillance apparatus, the National Security Agency is notoriously secretive. The spy agency jealously guards from public view practically all aspects of its operations, from the information it collects to its plans for a massive 100,000-square-foot building being constructed in the Utah desert.
But when it comes to the agency's primary tool for making sense of all that data, the NSA hasn't been secretive at all. Indeed, two years ago, it made public the very code for a key program it uses to analyze the firehose of information pouring into its computer servers.
The NSA’s decision to give away that code to developers has helped fuel what is now a booming trend in technology known as "big data." The technology, Accumulo, makes it possible for companies to sift through massive amounts of information with essentially the same degree of sophistication and security as the country's top spy agency. READ More...

Edward Snowden Drops More Bombshells: Edward Snowden Tells South China Morning Post: U.S. Has Been Hacking Hong Kong And China Since 2009

Edward SnowdenThe South China Morning Post published another article early Thursday morning local time about its exclusive interview with Edward Snowden, the person responsible for leaking top-secret information about the National Security Agency's secret surveillance programs. The Post reported that Snowden said that the U.S. government "had been hacking into computers in Hong Kong and [in China] for years."
Snowden spoke with the Post's Lana Lam from an undisclosed location. He said that the U.S. was "bullying" Hong Kong to extradite him and that he has been in constant fear for his safety. "I will never feel safe," he said. "Things are very difficult for me in all terms, but speaking truth to power is never without risk."
Lam also reported:
Snowden said that according to unverified documents seen by the Post, the NSA had been hacking computers in Hong Kong and on the mainland since 2009. None of the documents revealed any information about Chinese military systems, he said ... Snowden believed there had been more than 61,000 NSA hacking operations globally, with hundreds of targets in Hong Kong and on the mainland.  READ More...

HEAT DESTROYED: San Antonio Spurs Rout Miami Heat 113-77: Danny Green, Gary Neal Star In NBA Finals Game 3 (VIDEO)

Heat SpursSAN ANTONIO -- From big 3s to Big Three, the Spurs had it all in the NBA Finals' raucous return to San Antonio.
Danny Green made seven of the Spurs' finals-record 16 3-pointers, Tim Duncan had 12 points and 14 rebounds, and the Spurs clobbered the Miami Heat 113-77 on Tuesday night to take 2-1 lead in the series.
Green scored 27 points and Gary Neal made six 3-pointers while scoring 24 as San Antonio went 16 of 32 from behind the arc, rolling to the third-biggest victory in finals history.
Duncan bounced back from his worst game ever in the finals, and the Spurs' combination of fresh faces and old reliables dominated the NBA's winningest team before an eager crowd that hadn't seen the finals here since 1997. READ More...