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"The way Gaga sang the first verse of the song, she really captured that loneliness so perfectly. Really vulnerable and fragile,” co-producer/music supervisor Bonnie Greenberg says in the below clip.
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Authorities have removed Emily Satterwhite from Mountain Valley Pipeline construction equipment.
The extraction process required two aerial lifts, an angle grinder and a smaller grinding tool. It took nearly two hours to complete and was part of the nearly 15 hours Satterwhite spent attached to the excavator. The lockbox device consisted of a metal solid metal outer pipe that bent at a right angle. She also had ot...
Virginia State Police and crews on scene requested Satterwhite come down throughout the day. State Police said after examining the device she used to attach herself, there was no way for her to remove it without being physically cut out of it.
Satterwhite was taken into custody and transported to the Montgomery County Magistrate's Office in Christiansburg after being checked by a doctor on scene. Satterwhite said she was charged with interfering with someone else's property, but not for resisting arrest or obstruction. She was released on bond and will appea...
A Blacksburg woman, who is an associate professor at Virginia Tech, has locked herself to construction equipment as a protest against the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
Emily Satterwhite is an associate professor in Appalachian studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
A Virginia Tech spokeswoman told 10 News that the university supports its faculty's First Amendment rights and that the right to engage in civil protest falls inside these parameters.
Pipeline construction came to a halt on Brush Mountain on Thursday morning.
The blockade, carried out by Satterwhite, is the most recent action in an ongoing campaign to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
She has been locked to the equipment since 6 a.m. Thursday. She wants to protect the land and water that the pipeline could affect.
She was surrounded by a banner that read "Water is life - we won't back down."
"I'm here because for three and a half years we've been fighting this stupid pipeline that nobody wants," stated Satterwhite.
Natalie Cox, Mountain Valley Pipeline spokeswoman, gave this statement: "While we respect the opinions of those who are opposed to MVP and other important natural gas infrastructure projects, it is unfortunate that a select few continue to engage in this type of unsafe activity."
A few supporters came to watch as Satterwhite sat locked to the top of the excavator.
"Emily is here to make a stance. To make her own personal stance against what so many before us have been fighting for for decades and centuries. To protect this earth and protect it for the next seven generations will make sure our water are still here for our children and their children and their children," said Tris...
People close to her say that it won't be easy for her to give in after researching and studying the project and its possible environmental effects.
"I want to say this is not a game. This is about our livelihoods and our survival and protecting our waters in our futures and for generations and generations ot come," said Satterwhite.
Pipeline resistor Jammie Hale said he loves seeing his friend take action against a company that he believes is stealing away their rights and land.
"To stop Mountain Valley Pipeline and EQT. Period stop them or delay them as long as we can until they give up," stated Hale.
Hale said that he was the one that was supposed to be locked to the top of the machine, but things didn't go as planned.
"I got summoned to go to court yesterday by Mountain Valley Pipeline. More harassment, yeah, so I'm due back in court," said Hale.
Some people are hoping that Satterwhite is the one to bring some kind of better outcome to the situation.
“Emily is always successful in her quest. So I think that’s a day just by taking a stand and being a mom who is doing mom things to protect the environment is a success," said Trish McLawhorn.
Dozens of police were at the scene trying to find the best way to get Satterwhite down. State police told her that she was in violation of state wall, but didn't specify which ones.
Blacksburg emergency officials are urging supporters to ask her to come down because they are worried about her health.
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The UN's chief prosecutor in The Hague has suggested Croat war crimes suspect general Ante Gotovina is hiding in one of the country's monasteries.
She argues the Vatican could pinpoint his exact location within a few days, but has failed to cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.
Speaking in an interview with the UK's Daily Telegraph on Monday (19 September), Carla del Ponte indicated she had decided to come public with the information, after being "extremely disappointed" over the reluctance by the Roman Catholic Church to deal with the issue.
Mrs del Ponte said she had appealed to several top Vatican authorities, including the pope Benedict XVI, in a bid for greater cooperation, but has failed to receive any.
"I have information he (general Gotovina) is hiding in a Franciscan monastery and so the Catholic Church is protecting him. I have taken this up with the Vatican and the Vatican refuses totally to co-operate with us", she said in the interview.
The Vatican argues it has no international obligations towards the tribunal.
Mrs del Ponte has been pressing Zagreb for months on information on the whereabouts of the fugitive general.
Cooperation with the international court in The Hague, which is dealing with individuals accused of war crimes in ex-Yugoslavia, is one of the conditions for the EU opening membership talks with Zagreb.
Originally supposed to start in March, they were postponed after member states decided the Croatian authorities had not cooperated enough.
Zagreb has now promised the prosecutor to raid any monastery sheltering the general, but the Vatican is refusing to help find out which one it is.
"They said they have no intelligence and I don't believe that. I think that the Catholic Church has the most advanced intelligence services", she argued.
General Gotovina (49) is accused of being responsible for the killing of at least 150 Serb civilians and of being in charge of forced deportation of between 150,000 and 200,000 people in 1995.
He is still considered a national hero by many Croats, as the operation led to the re-establishment of Croatian control over the country's Krajina region.
Carla del Ponte has admitted she is not expecting the actual transfer of top fugitive indictee Ante Gotovina to The Hague as a precondition for a positive report on Croatia, needed to trigger the country’s EU talks. In an interview with the EUobserver, the UN chief prosecutor also said she is "confident" the Croat auth...
MainAll NewsRadioTish'a B'Av is over - now what?
A fresh start for us after the devastation of the Churban and of the many of our sins that brought it about.
You have to wonder why there is a word in the dictionary, COINCIDENCE.
There doesn't seem to be any. Not at least when it comes to Parshat HaShavua and Calendar dates.
True, Matot and Mas'ei are juggled to make sure D'varim is before Tish'a B'Av and that Va'etchanan is right after.
But they are amazingly well placed and suited for their calendar tasks.
We won't belabor the point of the focus by Moshe Rabeinu on the sin of the spies, that sin being the first tragedy that the mishna in Taanit associates with the ninth of Av.
But take a look at Va'etchanan.
First of all, the Torah reading for Tish'a B'Av morning is taken from Va'etchanan. That portion speaks of the prophecies that the people of Israel will turn their backs on G-d, and sadly, they did. Big time. That's the mishna's item two.
But look at the NECHAMA, the consolation that we find even as we read the Torah on Tish'a b'Av morning. The reading includes the greatest gift we have received from G-d - T'SHUVA, the golden opportunity to repent and return to Him. It contains the reminder of G-d's mercy and His special relationship with us. And it spe...
And that's all from the part of the sedra that we read on Tish'a B'Av morning. Look at the rest of the sedra.
Moshe Rabeinu just happens to tell us about Revelation at Sinai, the receiving of the Torah, and about its transmission throughout the generations.
That's a fresh start for us after the devastation of the Churban and of the many of our sins that brought it about.
And back to the Eretz Yisrael factor. If Tish'a B'Av marks our rejection of the Land with the panic that erupted from the report of the Meraglim, then Parshat Va'etchanan gives us several fresh opportunities to recommit, not only to Torah and Mitzvot, but to the location that HaShem has always wanted for us and our liv...
Every pasuk - and there are many - that reminds us that G-d made us a nation, His nation, in order to give us the Torah and give us Eretz Yisrael should do different things to different Jews today.
For the Jew who lives in Israel, he/she should be strengthened in his choice, he/she should feel good that he/she is doing R'TZON HASHEM, G-d's will.
For the other Jews, wake up, do some serious thinking, and make plans.
The filmmaker speaks out about his activism.
Actors, activists and the religious community are coming together to bring attention to the extrajudicial killings of black men.
The film opened in theaters nationwide over the weekend.
Now there’s a new project to get excited about.
He’s basically just a really down-to-earth dude who makes films.
Oscar Grant was murdered by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer on new year’s day four years ago. His story is once again making international headlines thanks to a young director’s film that recounts Grant’s last 24-hours.
Devin Nunes is undermining Trump’s argument against the Mueller investigation.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes walks to a closed-door committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 27 in Washington.
The latest sideshow stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion is Congressmen Devin Nunes’ (R–Calif.) and Mark Meadows’ (R–N.C.) demand for classified documents from the Department of Justice. Nunes has requested that the DOJ reveal the identity of a key source in the Russia pro...
Meanwhile, when Congress has debated a bill to protected Mueller from Trump’s firing, Republican senators have invoked a similar theory of the president’s absolute removal power to explain their votes against it. A growing number of conservatives and academics have been fighting to revive Justice Scalia’s extreme inter...
One of us has argued previously that Scalia was wrong on his own originalist terms. Historically, most prosecution in England and America was private prosecution until the end of the 19th century. The first Congress also allowed some law enforcement officials to be removable by federal judges, and it contemplated givin...
If supporters of the unitary executive really believe these powers are exclusively committed to the executive branch, why are they silent about such congressional overreach?
But Scalia also overlooked Congress’ investigatory and prosecutorial powers, in some of the ways that Nunes and Meadows are illustrating now.
Congressional committees can use subpoena power to investigate crimes. And Congress has the power to enforce these powers with its own legislative contempt proceedings. Historically, Congress has internally prosecuted contempt of Congress, defined as a criminal offense.
But there is a deeper problem with Scalia’s formalistic separation. Many people don’t realize those words “separation of powers” don’t appear in the Constitution. The concept is implicit in the structure of the Constitution, but not explicit. In fact, the Framers understood the structure of the new government to be a m...
Madison’s vision of “checks and balances” is more accurately how the Constitution works in design and practice. For example, the presidential signature or veto of legislation is a lawmaking legislative act. The president nominates and the Senate confirms judges. If the founders wanted complete and formal separation, ju...
As a result of Madison’s vision, the powers of each branch aren’t clearly defined silos but ones that overlap and sometimes clash. Nunes and Meadows current requests to DOJ seek to follow in that tradition. But if Congress can intervene in executive functions through its oversight authority, it can certainly do the sam...
Despite his earlier denunciation of Congress’ ability to criminalize his personal actions, Trump himself has acquiesced to these recent congressional efforts by tweeting his support for Nunes and Meadows: “[The DOJ lawyers] don’t want to turn over Documents to Congress. What are they afraid of? Why so much redacting? W...
Even the proponents of unitary powers have now tolerated Congress’ intervention into the most sensitive details of a criminal investigation. If the supporters of the unitary executive really believe that these powers are exclusively committed to the executive branch, why are they now silent about such congressional ove...
Of course, the check-and-balances framework doesn’t mean that Nunes and Meadows should be able to subpoena the DOJ for whatever documents they want. This is where the difference between these two interpretations matters. Scalia framed the separation of powers with hyperformalism, with the language of exclusivity and co...
Thus, the “checks and balances” approach tends to arrive at common sense results. Congress surely has the power of general oversight of the DOJ, and it can use the subpoena power in many cases. But those powers have limits if they interfere with or jeopardize ongoing and sensitive investigations. One lesson is that Con...
But the bottom line is that checks and balances are a better understanding of our Constitution than strict separationism, and Congress should be exercising its powers to protect the rule of law, not to undermine it.
Asha Rangappa is a senior lecturer at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. She served as an FBI counterintelligence agent from 2002–2005.
Why does food research conflict so much?
Is the food you're eating healthy? The answer should be simple, but it's not.
September 1, 2015, 9:20 a.m.
Trying to plan out your next clean-eating kick through research can be more frustrating than helpful. If your Google search on “avocados” offers a long list of contradicting headlines, what’s the answer?
Shouldn’t science be able to tell us what foods are good for us and why? The truth behind the conflicting research about food is that food science is much less black and white than we want it to be.
There’s a disconnect between science and the way we present that science. While scientific studies may imply a certain outcome, the reality is the answer is not so clear-cut.
We frequently take these correlations in research and assume causation. In other words, if an article says that people are less likely to have heart disease if they drink red wine, it means that scientists found a pattern that showed fewer instances of heart disease in groups of people who commonly drink red wine. Whil...
A one-sided headline and article describing only the reasons why a food is bad for you is never the full story. The truth is that there are numerous scientific studies that provide different evidence, which we can use to build a more comprehensive understanding of each food. That’s how we’ve approached the list below.
Above all, remember that moderation is key. A food that’s good for you in some ways may be less good for you in others.
The good: Avocados contain healthy monounsaturated fats and are packed with more than 20 vitamins. They can also improve heart health by lowering bad cholesterol. And they’re great for your vision too, because they have natural chemicals that reduce eye damage.
The bad: Avocados have a high calorie content, which means if weight loss is your main focus, too many avocados won’t help you.
The good: Pickles can be good for intestinal health because they are a fermented food. They are good for your digestive health because they contain live (meaning good) bacteria, which help to regulate the immune system. They can also offer antioxidant protection because pickling fruits and veggies preserves their natur...
The bad: Moderation when eating pickles may be a wise decision. One pickle, while low in calories, contains 49 percent of your suggested daily intake of sodium.
The good: Despite its bad rep, coffee has demonstrated some health benefits in recent research. Coffee may help fight type 2 diabetes with its ability to regulate blood sugar. Coffee has also demonstrated an inverse relationship with the risk of many different cancers.
The bad: Coffee contains caffeine, and caffeine can cause negative health effects such as insomnia, anxiety, restlessness, rapid heartbeat and more.
The good: Chocolate could be good for your heart and your brain. It has been linked to lowered risks of both heart disease and stroke. An NYU study found that people who ate 100 grams of cocoa powder scored higher on memory tests.
The bad: Here’s the catch: While 100 grams of cocoa powder could possibly improve memory (which is a good excuse for a little dessert!), chocolate isn’t going to help the rest of your body, especially when it comes to your daily calorie intake.
The good: Red wine, in moderation, might reduce risk of heart disease by increasing good cholesterol in your body. It has also demonstrated the ability to burn fat in tests on mice, although this may not translate to humans.
The bad: More is less when it comes to red wine. While one or two glasses a day might result in health benefits, drinking more than that has been shown to lead to abnormal heart rhythms, high blood pressure, liver problems and more. And of course, red wine is high in calories, so it can increase weight gain.

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