Minnesota victim of UCLA shooter identified as Ashley Hasti

UCLA Shooter Killed Wife Before Attack
LOS ANGELES: The former University of California, Los Angeles, graduate student who shot dead a professor at the school then killed himself began his rampage by killing his estranged wife at her Minnesota home, police and the victim"s sister said.

Gunman Mainak Sarkar"s first victim was Ashley Hasti, a 31-year-old medical school student with a love of acting and stand-up comedy, her sister, Alex Hasti, said on Facebook on Friday, two days after Sarkar"s attack sparked a two-hour lockdown of UCLA"s sprawling urban campus.

Sarkar fatally shot 39-year-old engineering professor William Klug and intended to kill a second professor, police said. The native of India was convinced that Klug had stolen software he had developed, according to police, who called Sarkar"s claim unfounded.

So far no motive has emerged to explain why he killed Hasti in the home they had shared in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, some 2,000 miles (3,200 km) away from Los Angeles.

Police only decided to check on Hasti after finding a note at the Los Angeles crime scene written by Sarkar, 38, asking authorities to check on his cat at his home in St. Paul.

Hasti had been dead for some time when they discovered her, police said.

The bizarre hint led to the discovery of a "kill list" that included Klug, Hasti and the second professor, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told reporters on Thursday.

Alex Hasti on her Facebook post offered no indication of what might have provoked Sarkar.

"My sister, Ashley Hasti, was the smartest, coolest, and funniest person I knew. She could do anything she dreamed of," the sister said. "Unfortunately, she won"t get to see that last dream come true as her life was cut short much too soon by her estranged husband ... I"m still in a state of shock right now."

Sarkar was armed with twin 9mm semiautomatic pistols and multiple extra clips of ammunition, authorities said. The shooting drew a massive response of heavily armed police. Students hid in classrooms behind doors, some of which did not lock, according to social media posts.

It was just the latest in a long string of deadly shootings at US schools, including an October attack at an Oregon community college that killed nine and a 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, in which a gunman killed 32 people, was the deadliest mass shooting in US history.

PAIR WED IN 2011 Ashley Hasti married Sarkar in 2011, according to a copy of a marriage license obtained by Reuters. An active Facebook page belonging to Hasti shows pictures of Sarkar, none more recent than May 2011.

A page apparently belonging to Sarkar, with no public posts since 2011, prominently displayed several photos of them together.

Sarkar came from India"s eastern state of West Bengal, where he graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur in 2000 after studying aerospace engineering, according to an ex-classmate and the university"s alumni list.

Staff at his secondary school in the industrial town of Durgapur remembered him as an able student who passed his exams with good results.

"My initial reaction was one of shock and disbelief," said Gautam Biswas, who taught Sarkar in the 9th and 10th grades at St. Michael"s School in Durgapur, West Bengal. "How could he do this? That was the question that racked my mind for long hours."

Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/minnesota-victim-of-ucla-shooter-identified-as-ashley-hasti/articleshow/52573049.cms

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Fall Out Boy and Missy Elliott are redoing the classic "Ghostbusters" theme

Kobe Bryant - Behind-the-Scenes Ghostbusters Promo

The Paul Feig-directed Ghostbusters will not only look different from the 1984 original, but sound different too.

In addition to a cast led by women as the titular Ghostbusters with Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy and Kate McKinnon and Chris Hemsworth as their receptionist this summer"s remake will also feature a new version of Ray Parker Jr."s theme song performed by Fall Out Boy with a verse from Missy Elliott.

Fall Out Boy frontman Pete Wentz announced the news on Twitter on Friday.

The 1984 original was written and recorded by Parker, and went on to receive an Oscar nomination and top the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The Ghostbusters soundtrack will also feature boy band rockers 5 Seconds of Summer, Elle King, Pentatonix, G-Eazy, Jeremih, Walk the Moon and Wolf Alice. King"s contribution, "Good Girls," was released Friday.

Ghostbusters will hit theaters on July 15.

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Source: http://mashable.com/2016/06/03/ghostbusters-theme-missy-elliott-fall-out-boy/

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UCLA gunman killed estranged wife before campus attack

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LOS ANGELES The former University of California, Los Angeles, graduate student who shot dead a professor at the school then killed himself began his rampage by killing his estranged wife at her Minnesota home, police and the victims sister said.

Gunman Mainak Sarkars first victim was Ashley Hasti, a 31-year-old medical school student with a love of acting and stand-up comedy, her sister, Alex Hasti, said on Facebook on Friday, two days after Sarkars attack sparked a two-hour lockdown of UCLAs sprawling urban campus.

Sarkar fatally shot 39-year-old engineering professor William Klug and intended to kill a second professor, police said. The native of India was convinced that Klug had stolen software he had developed, according to police, who called Sarkars claim unfounded.

So far no motive has emerged to explain why he killed Ashley Hasti in the home they had shared in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, some 2,000 miles away from Los Angeles.

Police only decided to check on Hasti after finding a note at the Los Angeles crime scene written by Sarkar, 38, asking authorities to check on his cat at his home in St. Paul.

Hasti had been dead for some time when they discovered her, police said.

The bizarre hint led to the discovery of a kill list that included Klug, Hasti and the second professor, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told reporters on Thursday.

Alex Hasti on her Facebook post offered no indication of what might have provoked Sarkar.

My sister, Ashley Hasti, was the smartest, coolest, and funniest person I knew. She could do anything she dreamed of, the sister said. Unfortunately, she wont get to see that last dream come true as her life was cut short much too soon by her estranged husband Im still in a state of shock right now.

Sarkar was armed with twin 9mm semiautomatic handguns and multiple extra clips of ammunition, authorities said.

The two guns were legally bought in Minnesota, according to Meredith Davis, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. She declined to say who bought the weapons.

The shooting drew a massive response of heavily armed police. Students hid in classrooms behind doors, some of which did not lock, according to social media posts.

It was just the latest in a long string of deadly shootings at U.S. schools, including an October attack at an Oregon community college that killed nine and a 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, in which a gunman killed 32 people, was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

Hasti married Sarkar in 2011, according to a copy of a marriage license obtained by Reuters. An active Facebook page belonging to Hasti shows pictures of Sarkar, none more recent than May 2011.

A page apparently belonging to Sarkar, with no public posts since 2011, prominently displayed several photos of them together.

Sarkar came from Indias eastern state of West Bengal, where he graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur in 2000 after studying aerospace engineering, according to an ex-classmate and the universitys alumni list.

Staff at his secondary school in the industrial town of Durgapur remembered him as an able student who passed his exams with good results.

My initial reaction was one of shock and disbelief, said Gautam Biswas, who taught Sarkar in the ninth and 10th grades at St. Michaels School in Durgapur, West Bengal. How could he do this? That was the question that racked my mind for long hours.

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New IFAB rule changes will be implemented at Copa America Centenario

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The Copa America Centenario will be the first major competition to implement soccers latest round of rule changes.

The International Football Association Board (IFAB), a body made up of the four British football associations and FIFA that decides on changes to the laws of the game, made several amendments to the rules in May for the 2016-17 season. Most notably, IFABchanged the rule that mandatedan automatic red card for players who committed a foul in the penalty area that denied an obvious goalscoring opportunity.

The changes, which will officially take affect when the US and Colombia open the tournament on Friday at Levis Stadium (9:30 pm ET; FS1, Univision, UDN), will require a bit of an adjustment from referees, players, coaches and fans alike.

The Copa Amricas refereeing committee recently held a six-day boot camp for all tournament referees in Chicago to help ease that transition. The referees, who will all be stationed in Chicago for the duration of the tournament and will travel to match sites two days prior to games, underwent practical on-field exercises, classroom training sessions and physical testing at the Chicago camp, which concluded on Tuesday.

Weve got several days in which theyre doing practical sessions on the field with players where theyre practicing and doing situations that involve a lot of these law changes, CONCACAF director of refereeing Brian Hall, a member of the Copa Americas referee committee, told MLSsoccer.com over the phone on Tuesday. Then were doing theoretical sessions in the classroom where theyre watching video clips and theres four FIFA instructors here providing structure to them. So theyre doing theoretical classroom sessions in which theyre watching video clips and discussing all the law changes, so theres been a lot of focus on discussing these things.

Because of logistical difficulties and the tight timeline around the start of the tournament, representatives from the refereeing committee will not meet with teams participating in the Copa America regarding the rule changes. Hall said the committee has sent all 16 participating federations materials regarding the law changes and that representatives from every team will be briefed further on the changes at every match coordination meeting, held the day before each game.

Hall also discussed the tournaments policy to not hold extra time in the event of a tie at the end of regulation in the quarterfinals or semifinals, but to instead move directly to a penalty kick shootout. Hall said the policy, which has been used in past Copa America tournaments and is not an IFAB rule, was implemented because of the high number of games that will be held in a short timeframe for teams advancing at the tournament and the potential for high temperatures at many match venues.

A list of the major IFAB amendments is below:

Denial of an obvious goalscoring opportunity

• Denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity (DOGSO) in the penalty area is no longer automatically a straight red card, unless the offense involves holding, pulling or pushing, if theres no attempt to play the ball or no possibility of making a challenge or if the offense would be punishable by a red card, no matter where it happened on the field (i.e., violent conduct).
• The rule for players who commit a foul to deny an obvious goalscoring opportunity outside the box has not changed. Those offenses will still earn an automatic red card.

Offside rule adjustments

• Hands and arms are no longer included when judging offside.

• Restarts following offside decisions will be taken at the spot where the attacker is when the referee whistles for offside. For example, if a player is offside when the ball is played, but runs toward his own goal to receive the ball, the free kick to restart play will be taken where the attacker receives the ball, not where he started his run.

Other changes

• The ball no longer has to move forward at a kickoff. It only needs to move for the game to start.
• Players who are injured as a result of a red or yellow card foul do not need to leave the field after receiving treatment.
• On penalty kick attempts, if a goalkeeper moves off his line prior to the ball being kicked, he will be issued an automatic yellow card. If the kick is missed when the goalkeeper moves off his line prior to the ball being kicked, the attempt will be retaken. The rule will apply in penalty kick shootouts, as well as in regular play.
• If a foul occurs off the field of play, the game will be restarted with a free kick on the sideline or endline. If a defender fouls an attacker off the field but in between the goal and the edge of the penalty area, it will result in a penalty kick. Previously, all fouls that occurred off the field resulted in a drop ball.
• Time taken for water breaks which are held if certain weather conditions are met prior to kickoff can now be officially added on at the end of a half.

Source: http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/06/03/new-ifab-rule-changes-implemented-copa-america-centenario

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Day after endorsement, Paul Ryan slams Donald Trump

Paul Ryan endorses Donald Trump

(CNN) Just a day after House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed Donald Trump, he turned around and blasted the presumptive Republican nominee for attacking the judge overseeing the Trump University lawsuit.

While explaining his endorsement Friday on a Wisconsin radio station, Ryan unprompted ripped Trumps attacks on the Mexican heritage of U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel.

Look, the comment about the judge, just was out of left field for my mind, Ryan said on WISN in Milwaukee. Its reasoning I dont relate to, I completely disagree with the thinking behind that.

And then Ryan issued a warning to Trump, that he will speak out when he feels he needs to.

So he clearly says and does things I dont agree with and Ive had to speak up on time to time when that has occurred and Ill continue to do that if thats necessary I hope its not, Ryan said.

Ryans comments came shortly after Hillary Clintons campaign slammed Trump in a statement for targeting the U.S.-born judges Hispanic descent.

The fact that Donald Trump doesnt see Judge Curiel and his family as Americans makes him unfit to be president of this great nation, a nation of immigrants, Lorella Praeli, director of Latino outreach for the Clinton campaign, said in a statement.

Trump has controversially gone after Curiel, who is presiding over a class-action lawsuit against Trumps now-defunct training program in California, and suggested his Mexican heritage could prevent him from judging Trump fairly as a result of Trumps strident anti-immigration rhetoric.

He told The Wall Street Journal that its an inherent conflict of interest for Curiel to sit on the case because Trump has proposed building a border wall between the United States and Mexico.

In the statement from the Clinton campaign, Praeli praised Curiels experience and qualifications, saying, Judge Curiel and his family epitomize the American Dream. His parents worked hard to give their U.S.-born children a better life. He and his brother became successful lawyers. His other brother served in Vietnam.

In Trumps version of America, this Latino family isnt really America. But they are America. And Hillary Clinton will fight for ALL Americans, Praeli wrote.

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Curiel, who was born in Indiana, is at the center of the controversy surrounding the Trump University lawsuit. He allowed for the playbooks about Trumps embattled namesake school to be opened to the public, saying there is now public interest in them since Trump became the front-runner in the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential race, and has placed the integrity of these court proceedings at issue.

Trump and campaign aides have repeatedly brought up Curiels heritage while questioning his ability to judge the case, and has also criticized Curiel for his membership in the former La Raza Lawyers Association, which is a leading Latino lawyers group in California.

Im building a wall. Its an inherent conflict of interest, Trump recently told the Wall Street Journal.

Source: http://q13fox.com/2016/06/03/day-after-endorsement-paul-ryan-slams-donald-trump/

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Here"s how government will work on Mars, according to Elon Musk

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Do you dream of a world in which government doesnt include people like Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? So does Elon Musk.

The eccentric and wildly future-focused CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla has an ambitious plan to put humans on Mars beginning in 2025. That sounds great! But even utopias need some social structure, and Mars will be no different (we assume).

No fear, though. Musk has it figured out.

Speaking onstage Wednesday at Recodes annual Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Musk laid out his master plan for how Mars and its future inhabitants will avoid a "Lord of the Flies"-style catastrophe.

"The form of government on Mars would be a direct democracy, not representative," Musk explained without missing a beat. "So it would be people voting directly on issues. And I think that"s probably better because the potential of corruption is substantially diminished in a direct versus a representative democracy."

Simple enough. Musk doesn"t want politicians voting on his behalf. He also had a few recommendations for how laws should be created and maintained on the Red Planet.

"It should probably be easier to remove a law than create one," Musk explained, suggesting that 60 percent of people would need to vote in a law, but only 40 percent of voters would be needed to later remove it.

Also, laws will come with a "sunset provision," meaning they will automatically expire after a certain amount of time. "If it"s not good enough to be voted back in, maybe it shouldn"t be there," he said.

Cool. Glad that"s all settled.

Whats somewhat ironic (or sad) about Musks plan, though, is that while hes single-handedly mapping out the future government of Mars, he doesnt believe he has the same kind of influence, or any influence for that matter, on the government here in the United States.

When asked if he was planning to support someone in the upcoming presidential election, Musk balked.

"I try to stay out of this situation," he said with a smile. "I"m not sure how much influence I can have as one person. If I think I could make a difference I would probably do something."

Is he worried about the presidential options?

"I"m just glad being president is like being captain of a large ship with a small rudder," he said. "There"s just a limit to how much good or bad a president can actually do."

If you want to watch the whole Musk interview, here"s the video.

Source: http://www.recode.net/2016/6/3/11852148/elon-musk-mars-government-direct-democracy

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Today"s 5 things: Clinton. Trump. Prince

UCLA shooter’s murdered wife was on a kill list that included a second professor

1. Campaign 2016

It. Is. On. Thought the 2016 general election campaign didn"t start until after the party conventions? Oh no, it started yesterday when Hillary Clinton went on an anti-Trump tear in her foreign policy address. She mocked his temperament, warned he shouldn"t be allowed anywhere near the nuclear codes and blasted his view of how the U.S. should interact with the world. The Donald didn"t even wait for the speech to end to hit back, and later railed at a rally that Hillz ought to be in jail. America, it"s going to be a long five months.

2. Prince

One mystery solved, another begins. We learned yesterday an accidental overdose of pain medication killed Prince. But how did he get his hands on fentanyl in the first place? It"s stout stuff; one of the strongest painkillers available. If the opioid wasn"t prescribed by a doctor, who got it for him? The DEA"s now involved. And if the fentanyl was illegally obtained, this death investigation will change into a criminal one.

3. UCLA shooting

Mainak Sarkar killed his wife, drove 1,900 miles cross-country and then killed his old college professor. All over "intellectual property." That"s the theory cops are working with as they try to unravel the murder-suicide at UCLA. Yesterday, Ashley Hasti, Sarkar"s wife, was found dead in Minnesota. Her name was on a "kill list" that Sarkar left. William S. Klug, the professor Sarkar killed Wednesday before committing suicide, was also on the list. Another professor was also listed, but that person wasn"t on campus and is OK.

4. Plane crashes

A tough day in the skies yesterday. First, a Thunderbirds F-16 crashed in Colorado. Then, a Blue Angels jet in Tennessee. The Thunderbirds pilot, who took part in a flyover at the U.S. Air Force Academy"s graduation, ejected safely. But the Blue Angels pilot, prepping for a weekend air show, died. It"s the middle of the air show season for both demonstration teams, and the crashes are sure to cast a pall.

5. Rio Olympics

Zika. Crime. Political unrest. As if the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio didn"t have enough swirling around it, add this: floating debris and polluted water. Olympians training in Rio"s Guanabara Bay report downright nasty conditions: Trash, wood, plastic bags, raw sewage. An athlete had emergency surgery when small cuts on his legs got infected. Brazil says the water will be safe for the Games, but the water"s been polluted for decades.

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Green means go, red means calls the cops

If you"re a 6-year-old future cop, and you think your dad ran a red light, you got no choice but to call the cops on him, right?

Wait, what?

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President The Rock

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Numbers game

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Number of the day

20

The number of hours a Florida fisherman treaded water in the Gulf of Mexico before being rescued

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/03/us/five-things-friday/

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