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“I think the single biggest lesson (Trump) either learned or should have learned since the election is when he gave a very calm and rational victory speech,” said Ritholtz.
The election-night market turnaround has continued and traders have driven up U.S. stock prices, particularly banks and some industrials, while selling bonds.
The yield on the benchmark U.S. Treasury note hit on Thursday the highest level since late December, on the expectation that Trump’s ascendance heralds greater spending, higher deficits, and more inflation.Some analysts said it heralds a “great rotation” out of bonds, ending a three-decade bull market, and into stocks.
“People are writing research notes about how to invest under a Trump presidency… you have no idea what he’s capable of, what’s in his mind, what’s going to be in his mind next week,” said Brown, the chief executive officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management.”We just don’t play that game,” he added. But even if stocks are in...
Some traders with less patience probably feel pretty good, having driven the S&P 500 bank index .SPXBK up 14 percent in the seven trading days since the election.That increase is based on bets that many regulations slapped on the banking sector after it brought the global economy to its knees in 2008 will be removed. T...
A new Census report is out and the results are in: the tsunami of foreigners, led by illegal immigration, is overwhelming the historic American population. For example, several counties in Texas have less than 5 percent white population, south of the Mexican-Dixon line.
Whites are now in the minority in nearly one in 10 U.S. counties.
And that increased diversity, fueled by immigration and higher birth rates among blacks and Hispanics, is straining race relations and sparking a backlash against immigrants in many communities.
Of course, it's not increased births among black citizens that is adding to "diversity" — the extreme transformation being wrought in the American nation is caused by the demographic warfare being waged via immigration against the current citizenry by Mexicans and others.
Immigration has spread from traditional gateways of southwestern border states and New York to all over the nation at a speed that has terrified many citizen communities with the rapidity by which a town may be swamped by illegal foreigners. For example, Luzerne County Pennsylvania (home to Hazleton) has experienced a ...
"I think across the board all of us feel like we're not welcome," said Jacinto, who was born in the U.S. and volunteers for an advocacy group called Mexicans Without Borders.
"I don't think Latinos or any other so-called minority group are seeking to make white people a minority," Jacinto said. "It's just a reality."
The article also recites the now-outdated statistic that "By 2050, minorities will account for half of U.S. residents." Obviously the demographic reversal will be much sooner than mid-century unless our borders are shut down soon, and many of the residents will be loyal to foreign nations that are historic enemies of A...
Immigration — it's the new way of war.
Burma’s first census in three decades has reignited long-smoldering tensions in the nation’s restive west, leading to attacks on aid workers. The U.N. is also facing accusations of complicity in a discriminatory census that does not allow members of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority to identify themselves as such ...
Late last week, mobs in Rakhine (or Arakan) state launched assaults on international aid organizations, sacking 14 buildings. More than 70 foreign and local staff were evacuated from the state capital, Sittwe, on Friday.
“Rakhine employees are being threatened by their own community to not work for NGOs, in some cases being physically beaten or family members threatened,” said one aid worker, quoted by the news website Asian Correspondent. The aid worker asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.
Boats and vehicles used to deliver aid have also been destroyed, meaning food, clean water and medical supplies will likely run out soon.
Rakhine extremists fear that international aid agencies are biased toward the persecuted Rohingya, and have resorted to violence to enforce an official refusal to recognize the Muslim minority in the population survey.
Around 140,000 Rohingya live in squalid displacement camps following sporadic pogroms over the past two years. They are incorrectly regarded as “Bengali” land-grabbers from neighboring Bangladesh — even though they have lived in Burma (officially known as Myanmar) for generations — and are denied citizenship. They also...
The two-week process to collect basic demographic data on Burma’s estimated 60 million people began on March 30. “If we ask a family about their ethnicity and they say Rohingya, we will not … accept it,” presidential spokesman Ye Htut told reporters on Monday, according to the Irrawaddy.
His statement appeared to backtrack on an earlier government pledge to allow the Rohingya to self-identify on census documents.
Abu Tahay, chairman of the Union Nationals Development Party, which represents the Rohingya, confirmed that Rangoon residents were not allowed to register as Rohingya on Tuesday.
William Ryan, Burma spokesman for the U.N. Population Fund (formerly known as the U.N. Fund for Population Activities and still abbreviated by its former initials UNFPA), says that “UNFPA is very concerned by this apparent departure from the procedure for the census.” However, he declined to comment on whether the $75 ...
According to Human Rights Watch, the U.N. body is at fault for originally agreeing to conduct the census according to the 135 ethnic groups as set out by xenophobic dictator General Ne Win in his 1982 Citizenship Law. The Rohingya are not among those groups.
“These ethnic classifications risk exacerbating already vexing identity issues as part of the fragile nationwide ceasefire process, and within very diverse communities in ethnic areas,” said the New York City–based group in a statement.
Other Burmese groups representing ethnic minorities such as the Kachin, Wa, Pa-O and Mon have also raised concerns and pledged limited cooperation with the census.
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Officers responded to a report of a collision at about 12:10 a.m. on Jackson Avenue underneath Interstate Highway 680 and learned a vehicle struck and killed a woman, police said.
Another driver in a second car struck the woman after the initial impact and fled the scene, police said. No further details were immediately available.
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By tetrapodzoology on April 30, 2008.
Alas, we did not see Smooth snakes Coronella austriaca or Sand lizards Lacerta agilis as planned, but as you can see from the composite above, we saw most other species: Grass snake Natrix natrix (juvenile on far left), Adder Vipera berus (recently sloughed grey male and brown female at top right), and Slow-worm Anguis...
More blogs should used the phrase "depauperate herpetofauna" casually like this.
It's funny. "Herping" and "England" are two words that just don't strike me as going well together! But you sound like you had a good haul. How easy is it to find adders over there? Were you lucky to find those two?
I wonderd if your were going to blog about this (Richard mentioned your recent herping last night). Forgive if im wrong but isnt the middle bottom pic a female/juv wall lizard?
Or is it Ive just forgotten what things look like when its sunny!
Hi Neil. You're right, that's a Podarcis, me silly. Are you gonna show your face at the conference next week?
Stewart: thanks for comments. Adders are easy to find if you look in the right places; namely, sunny heathland, moorland etc (they are widespread across England, Wales and Scotland). They also occur in open woodland and coastal places. The individuals photographed above were hiding under a specially placed tin sheet, h...
Just for contrast, the herpetofauna is far from depauperate where I'm living in the tropical semi-desert of northern Australia. It's getting cooler now and I haven't had a snake call-out for a few weeks: mostly it's western brown snakes (Pseudonaja nuchalis), but in Mount Isa I've also rescued people from three python ...
Thanks for the info, Darren. I unfortunately left England (to move to Australia) before I developed an interest in (obsession with?) reptiles. I don't recall ever seeing a reptile in the wild while I was over there.
hi darren I was planning to show up, but as ever money issues (and the fact I was away on work experience) when the tickets were availible meant I didnt get any. And with richard, mark and co not coming and you and dave busy organising the event Ill be left on my own. There is also the minor matter of my MSc project wh...
Both Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck are now confirmed as cast members for Netflix and J.C. Chandor's action/adventure Triple Frontier. The Triple Frontier project has been in development for several years, going (at least) as far back as 2010. At one point, the film was going to star Tom Hanks, with The Hurt Locker and Ze...
Triple Frontier gets its title from the border between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay and is expected to focus on a military black ops unit battling drug cartels in that region of South America. Details beyond that are unknown at this stage and the film itself appeared to be on the verge of collapsing a year ago, afte...
Popsugar Celebrity has photographs of Isaac and Affleck practicing snorkeling and bodyboarding in Hawaii, in preparation for Triple Frontier starting production on the island of Oahu in May. The actors were spotted on the Hawaiian beaches with a couple of their costars in the film, in the forms of Charlie Hunnam and Ga...
Affleck was reported as having departed Triple Frontier back in July 2017, so either that report was inaccurate or the actor found room in his schedule to work on the film after all. This is the first time that Isaac's involvement with the movie has been reported, though he has collaborated with Chandor before on A Mos...
It was previously reported that Mark Wahlberg has been approached to replace Affleck in Triple Frontier, but it's possible that delays on The Batman and/or other DC-related projects led to Affleck being available. Wahlberg currently has two movies scheduled to begin filming this year - Instant Family and The Six Billio...
As for the actual film: Triple Frontier certainly has the makings of something worthwhile, between its talented cast and intriguing subject matter. Chandor has emerged as a storyteller with a distinct stripped-down visual style and interest in exploring social/political topics through genre tropes, earning him a good d...
Triple Frontier doesn't have a premiere date yet, but is expected to begin streaming on Netflix in 2019.
Westbury - On June 26, Country Music Hall of Famer Merle Haggard will be performing at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury on Long Island.
Haggard was named "Entertainer of the Year" by both the Country Music Association (CMA) and the Academy of Country Music (ACM) in 1970. His classic hit "That's The Way Love Goes" earned him the 1984 Grammy award for "Best Male Country Vocal Performance."
Aside from being inducted into the coveted Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in 1994, Haggard is a multi-Grammy award winner, as well as a Kenndy Center Honoree since 2010.
In early June of 2015, the country music living legend will be playing two shows in New Jersey, at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank on June 2, as well as at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood on June 3.
To obtain tickets to Merle Haggard's live shows, click here.
Digital Journal's 2013 interview with Merle Haggard, conducted by Adrian Peel, may be seen by clicking here.
For more information about country veteran star Merle Haggard and his upcoming tour dates, check out his official website and his Facebook page.
Raheem Sterling, Gabriel Jesus and Leroy Sane were among the Manchester City stars in training on Friday afternoon as they prepared to take on Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.
Players appeared to be in convivial mood at the Manchester City Academy as Pep Guardiola's men look to bounce back from their Champions League quarter-final first leg defeat at Tottenham.
After Palace's 3-2 victory at the Etihad in December they have the opportunity to record a double over City for the first time since the 1972-73 campaign.
However, City stars looked focused ahead of Sunday's game which could see them leapfrog Liverpool at the top of the Premier League, if only for a few hours.
Guardiola came out swinging in defence of his players at his press conference on Friday by rejecting Ilkay Gundogan's claim that Manchester City are mentally weak in big matches.
Guardiola shot the midfielder down ahead of Sunday's crunch trip to Palace, however, and indicated they are learning to deal with setbacks.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh paid floral tributes at the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial here on Saturday to mark the centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Gandhi, Singh, Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, accompanied by some other Congress leaders, paid floral tributes at the memorial inside the Jallianwala Bagh in the morning. They also observed a two-minute silence to remember those who were massacred in the tragic incident on April 13, 1919.
Gandhi arrived at Amritsar late on Friday night. Upon his arrival, the Congress chief, accompanied by Singh, went straight to the Golden Temple here and paid obeisance.
Singh and Punjab Governor V P Singh Badnore had also taken part in a candlelight march on the eve of the centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on Friday evening as part of the various events organised by the Punjab government to mark the historic occasion.
Singh had termed the tragic event as a heart-wrenching moment in India's history.
The massacre took place at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar during the Baisakhi festival in April 1919 when troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Dyer opened fire at a crowd of people holding a pro-independence demonstration, leaving several dead and scores injured.
Pac-Man inspired hundreds of spin-off products, including board games, a cartoon and even a hit song.
"During the early stages of the arcade industry, where most games skewed towards a male audience, we saw the need to expand our appeal," explained Kenji Hisatsune, president, CEO and COO of Namco Networks America Inc. "In order to fill this void, Pac-Man was created as a 'cute' game with both good and bad characters th...
Lisa Sharp, a 36-year-old finance director at Georgia Tech, remembers cashing her $10 weekly allowance into quarters to play Pac-Man for as long as the coins lasted. Her first taste of the game came from an unlikely place: her dentist's office.
Google's logo, which often changes to reflect events of the day, became a playable Pac-Man game on Friday, spelling out the company's name. A Google spokeswoman said the game will be available over the weekend and gameplay reaches 256 levels.
"I don't think that it's an understatement to say that today we would have no Mario, Master Chief or Lara Croft if it wasn't for the pioneering efforts of the grinning, little, yellow dot-gobbler," said Steinberg. "It remains as engaging, fresh and relevant as the day it first shipped."
In Evansville, pastor and local NAACP leader petitioned the mayor to ban the film that many said had explicit racial depictions.
D. W. Griffith’s "Birth of a Nation" premiered in Los Angles on February 8, 1915.
An adaption of a novel called “The Clansman” by Thomas F. Dixon Jr., was one of the earliest full-length feature films and the first film shown in the White House.
The NAACP, which had been founded only six years earlier, protested the film for its explicitly racist depictions of African Americans, its valorization of the Ku Klux Klan and its falsehoods and historical inaccuracies.
As the film opened across the country, riots and attacks on African Americans were attributed to showings. Three states and several cities barred showing the film.
In Evansville, Hugh Shannon, reverend of the Alexander Chapel and a local NAACP leader, petitioned Mayor Benjamin Bosse to ban the film. He feared it would further inflame the already delicate state of race relations in the city and promote racial prejudice.
He cited a recent lynching in Henderson, Kentucky, and the violence the film had caused in other cities.
Bosse created a Board of Censorship which would view the film and determine if it would be shown. After the preview and hearing the pleas from African American community leaders, the board allowed the film to premiere in Evansville.
The film would open for a one-week run on Dec. 6, 1915, at the Wells-Bijou Theater.
A reviewer for the Evansville Press, who saw the opening showing of the film, noted the history in the film was one-sided and that the wrongs of slavery were not depicted. He noted that during a scene showing the hero of the film refusing the hand of an African American man, the audience applauded.
The film directly contributed to a revived Ku Klux Klan. Much of the iconography of the Klan, white robes and burning crosses, where inventions of Griffith. His film was widely used as a recruitment tool for the second wave of Klan.
"Birth of a Nation" would hold the record for the highest grossing film until 1940 when it was dethroned by "Gone with the Wind."
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President Trump and his family were visiting Mar-a-Lago (above) the weekend Yujing Zhang of China was arrested.
WEST PALM BEACH – A 32-year-old Chinese woman who was arrested last month at Mar-a-Lago paid $20,000 to a Chinese businessman believing it would allow her to attend an event featuring President Donald Trump’s sister, her attorney told a U.S. magistrate on Monday.
While the receipt Yujing Zhang received for the payment could ultimately help her win her freedom, she now faces additional legal woes. The U.S. government revoked her visa.
Even if Zhang were given the chance to post a bond, she would immediately be turned over to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, federal prosecutors told U.S. Magistrate William Matthewman.
The magistrate delayed a decision on whether Zhang will be granted bail until next Monday.
Matthewman said he would consider evidence Assistant U.S. Public Defender Robert Adler said he uncovered about money Zhang paid to a company owned by Chinese businessman Charles Li. But, he said, he didn’t know how much weight he would give to it.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Rolando Garcia portrayed Zhang as a pathological liar who would be indicted, possibly on additional charges, this week.
While he acknowledged that there is no evidence Zhang was involved in espionage, or was working as a spy for the Chinese government, he said the investigation is ongoing.
President Trump and his family were visiting Mar-a-Lago the weekend Zhang was arrested.
“She lies to everyone she encounters,” Garcia told Matthewman. He said the government would object to allowing her to post bail to leave the Palm Beach County jail, where she has been incarcerated since her arrest on March 30.
Adler, meanwhile, painted Zhang as an innocent woman who believed the $20,000 would allow her to attend “Safari Night,” sponsored by the Palm Beach Gardens-based children’s charity Young Adventurers.
Trump’s sister, Elizabeth Trump-Grau, was to be the honored guest.
Organizers canceled the gala after realizing it had been hijacked by Cindy Yang, the former owner of a Jupiter day spa where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is accused of soliciting prostitution, said Terry Bomar, head of the charity.
Yang, who lives in Wellington, promoted the event on her website to Chinese business people. Li also “piggybacked” on the Young Adventurers event as part of his business, Adler said.

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