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(Newser) – It's become de rigueur to become outraged at almost anything Donald Trump does or says these days, but reaction to his latest remarks about the election have been completely overblown, according to Trump himself. Besides his "nasty woman" comment from last Wednesday's debate, Trump also came under fire for proclaiming he was going to keep America "in suspense" about whether he'd accept the election results. And he doubled down the next day, noting he most certainly would accept the results "if I win." Despite all of the ensuing commotion from his comments, however, Trump told WBT-AM on Monday that he "knowingly" said what he said "because what's happening is absolutely ridiculous," and added that the din is a lot of ado over nothing, Politico reports.
What an idiot! Any sane American knows that the entire world hangs on the American President's every word. Everything a Presidents says is sifted, and analyzed. He is not prepared for the job.
The man simply has no filter, whatever is on his seemingly shallow mind he just blurts it out. Which would make him completely wrong and even dangerous at POTUS. You can't have someone in that position that will point blank tell a foreign leader exactly what he thinks of them. He doesn't understand diplomacy and decorum, he only understands bullying and scheming.
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel plans to collect data over five years for its digital health project and hopes 100,000 people will volunteer to include their medical records in a database it estimates could bring the country billions of dollars in annual income.
The project will get under way in the fourth quarter and over the next six months the government will work out the mechanisms for collecting the data, Eli Groner, director general of the prime minister’s office (PMO), told reporters on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel will invest nearly 1 billion shekels ($290 million) in the project to make data about the state of health of its population available to researchers and private companies.
“The increasingly unsustainable costs of healthcare are driving the world to a more personalised and preventive healthcare model,” Groner said.
Almost all of Israel’s 8.5 million citizens belong to four health maintenance organisations, which keep members’ records digitally, thus comprising a huge database.
Digital health records are valuable. Big data analytics — comparing information provided by large numbers of patients — give leading drugmakers indications of how medicines perform in the real world.
The PMO estimated the global digital health market was worth 6 trillion shekels annually and the income potential for Israel’s economy at 12 billion shekels a year.
Israel has 470 companies in the digital health sector.
Healthcare experts say Israel’s push to harness big data for healthcare had huge potential, but also held risks in terms of privacy and medical confidentiality.
Groner said participation in the database will remain voluntary and there will be several layers of data protection.
"Very sad," "shocked:" these were the reactions of Americans to the fire at Paris's Notre-Dame Cathedral, an 850-year-old landmark whose destruction wiped out centuries of heritage.
"When I heard the news, it did strike me at a personal level," said Amy Sapenoff, 33, after attending a mass in the capital Washington.
The high school history teacher, a Catholic, explained she went on a walking pilgrimage last year from Notre-Dame to the Saint James the Great shrine in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in northwestern Spain.
"I'm extremely grateful, because I was able to go, to see it and to go for mass," she added tearfully.
IT consultant Nicolas Nader, 48, said he was "heartbroken."
"My earliest memory of it is reading Victor Hugo novel about it," he added of the cathedral, which he described as a "Catholic treasure."
Outside Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception -- one of the 10 largest churches in the world -- Simon Ciccarillo, 24, said he could not "understand" the tragedy.
"I was very sad, I actually started kind of tear up a little bit," the Colombian-American, who works at the Department of Justice, told AFP.
In New York, 90-year-old writer Judith Gutman recalled the "horror" of seeing Notre-Dame burning in images online.
"I was in Paris many, many times, I have seen Notre-Dame," she said near St Patrick's Cathedral in the heart of Manhattan.
"I am not religious, but as an icon, as a building, a structure that is a symbol of Paris, it is shocking."
For Matt Shrock, in New York on vacation with his wife and two children, it was "horrible" to see images of the tragedy.
"We were shocked, hoping that there was not something terrorist-related... it's unfortunately these days one of the first things that goes to your mind."
On social media, some compared the fire to the images of New York's Twin Towers burning after two planes crashed into them in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
But the comparison was short-lived, since there were no victims in the Notre-Dame blaze and no link to terrorism has been established.
For Katie Conper, a student of Scottish history, pictures of Notre-Dame's iconic spire crumbling in the flames drew comparisons to the 1666 Great Fire of London.
"As a historian, it makes me very sad," said the 23-year-old, visiting from Toronto.
"As somebody who has never visited Paris before, it makes me even more sad, I always heard about Notre-Dame and I always thought about visiting this iconic landmark."
From the steps of St Patrick's Cathedral, whose doors opened in 1879, Cardinal Timothy Dolan -- the archbishop of New York -- said he prayed for the French cathedral and expressed the "sorry that we feel over the devastating fire at Notre-Dame cathedral in the heart of Paris."
"Indeed, the very heart of Europe and certainly the heart of civilization in so many ways," he added.
"I can only imagine... what it would do to us if a fire struck St Patrick's. We would all sense there's a fire in our home. That's what a cathedral really is."
HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City. The play ends in ’84 before there was an HIV test; Murphy’s film is about 45% new material written by Kramer, he said. “Gay marriage is in the news, and people are fighting to be loved for who they are and to be accepted for who they are. That’s still very modern and applicable for the way we’re living today.” Murphy said he had to take out a second mortgage on his house to pay for the rights to the play — then acknowledged he was kidding, but that the rights were pricey.
original movie adaptation of Kramer’s play, starring Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo, and co-starring Matt Bomer. Kramer wrote the film, directed and exec produced by Murphy with Jason Blum, Dede Gardner and Dante Di Loreto.
Roberts plays Emma Brookner, the polio-stricken physician who treated several of the earliest victims of the disease. Ruffalo plays Ned Weeks, who witnessed first-hand the disease; Bomer plays Felix Turner, a reporter who becomes Ned’s lover.
“For TV — yes,” the critic shot back.
The city of La Villa is searching for its third police chief in about as many years.
Former Police Chief Baudelio Castillo left the department in February after about six months on the job for a better paying stint with the Alamo Police Department — a larger city.
With the recent departure of a patrol officer, the department serving the Delta area city of about 2,000 residents currently employs five officers and interim Police Chief Adolfo Flores.
City Administrator Arnie Amaro recognized turnover may be attributed to the enticement of working in cities like Alamo, Weslaco, San Juan or McAllen, which often offer a bigger paycheck — an issue he’s been working to address since managing the city for more than three years.
La Villa has been improving the quality of life for its citizens and employees to combat turnover, Amaro said, even though it’s “going to be impossible to compete” with larger cities. Last year, the city for the first time offered health insurance benefits to its employees.
“We’re in a very unique situation. … There’s a lot of good things that are starting to surface (in La Villa),” Amaro said.
He hopes to increase the force of the police department from five officers to eight and hire a police chief expeditiously.
“We’re trying to provide better equipment, better tools, better technology,” Amaro said.
The city did not set any tenure requirements for potential officers but requires a basic peace officer license through the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement. City administration seeks a chief with management and law enforcement experience.
“I want the employees that are going to buy into the image, the idea, the plan we have here as a family,” Amaro said.
The police chief will be paid a salary, while officers are paid hourly. The city did not disclose a salary range for the positions.
Those interested in applying can submit an application on the city’s website, cityoflavilla.org.
Cristina M. Garcia covers Weslaco, Donna, Mercedes and the Delta area for The Monitor. She can be reached at cgarcia@themonitor.com or (956) 683-4441.
"People ask 'if the former prime minister of a country cannot get justice from courts, then who will'?" says PM.
PTI, PPP woo Balochistan senators in Islamabad for talks; PML-N consults allies, reaches out to MQM factions, PML-F.
NORTHERN IRELAND boss Michael O’Neill is not bothered by Brazilian-born star Richard Almeida.
The Azerbaijan playmaker is set to make his debut for his adopted country against the Green and White Army tonight.
But O’Neill is not scared claiming: “the best Brazilians don’t always play in Azerbaijan”.
And he has no plans to stop Almeida with Steven Davis, Oliver Norwood and Chris Brunt backed to keep the Qarabag man, 28, quiet.
O’Neill added “We have watched him play for his club, we know this will be his first game for Azerbaijan and we respect his quality as a player.
Northern Ireland thrashed Azerbaijan 4-0 in Belfast just seven months ago and with O’Neill’s men second behind Germany, this is a huge game for their World Cup qualification hopes.
Their hosts are fourth and three points behind but also lost their last game to Germany.
O’Neill said: “I’m confident that having looked back at the game in Belfast, we certainly know the areas where we can exploit.
“We scored four very good goals against Azerbaijan in Belfast against a team that hadn’t been beaten. We come into this game in a good place, the team is in a good place.
“This is a bigger game for Azerbaijan, obviously they have lost the last two and conceded eight goals in doing so.
Renewable energy for the Department of the Navy (DON) is not a distant goal or a vision of the future—rather it’s a change for the better that is happening all around us, and it’s happening quickly. The DON’s pursuit of renewable energy is being accomplished in many ways, one of which we can see at the 17 megawatt (MW) solar farm that started construction at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune last week. This is the very first project executed by the DON’s Renewable Energy Program Office (REPO), which was established to help achieve Secretary Mabus’ renewable energy goals to increase the DON’s energy security and operational capability.
The way this project model works is the utility (in Camp Lejeune’s case, Duke Energy) builds a renewable energy asset (e.g. a solar farm) on-base. The energy generated from the asset is then available for consumption for all the utility’s customers, including the base that hosts the asset. This means power diversification and regional resiliency for the base as well as the surrounding community. As you can imagine, increasing the sources from which we obtain our power gives us a strategic advantage, since it means we can minimize the risk of power outages that can interrupt mission-critical activities. Just like you would diversify your stock portfolio to minimize the risk of financial loss, we need to diversify our energy portfolio.
By hosting a power source on our base, we can also protect that asset. Here in the US, many of the electrical grid’s most important components sit out in the open. We don’t think about it much, but this presents a security risk as it leaves our power sources vulnerable. For example, in 2013, an individual deliberately cut communication lines and attacked a substation in an event that was deemed by the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), to be “the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred”; 17 out of 23 transformers were destroyed and the damage took 27 days to repair.
Unprotected energy assets are also subject to accidents involving civilian and commercial vehicles which can disrupt electrical service. There are many recent examples of this happening, such as an accident in June 2015 where a car in Hawaii hit a transformer and subsequently caused a shopping mall, and 140 homes and businesses in the area to lose power. When our power is vulnerable, our base is vulnerable, since power is critical to everything we do. On our base, we can offer an energy generation asset the full protection of the Department of the Navy, and minimize that vulnerability.
But the benefits to the Navy don’t stop there. In exchange for the right to use our land, the utility will provide the base with additional energy security benefits that offset the cost of the land such as updated electrical infrastructure or electrical lines. Apart from the regional resiliency of having access to an additional source of power, the surrounding communities will also benefit from the economic influx the project will bring in the form of capital investments, construction activity, and job creation.
These types of renewable energy projects, like the one at MCB Camp Lejeune, are win-win-win situations. They will be good for the utilities, good for the bases and good for the local communities involved. On a macro level, the project at MCB Camp Lejeune and the other projects sited on other installations are an incredible opportunity for the DON to move into the 21st century of energy. As the DON continues to execute projects like this one at Navy and Marine Corps installations around the country, we will strengthen our energy security each time. This is the beginning of an era of energy innovation, and the pursuit of this innovation will make us a stronger and better Navy and Marine Corps.
Q-It has been years since we acquired our 30-year fixed-rate home loan. We are looking for a mortgage now but are confused by the variety of different types. Can you explain them?
A-Traditional 15- and 30-year fixed-rate programs have remained popular because they offer the consumer the security of knowing that the amount of the monthly payment will remain unchanged.
Today, a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage of $125,000 (principal and interest and not including taxes and insurance) with an interest rate of 9.25 percent would require a monthly payment of $1,028.35.
A 15-year fixed program (at current levels of 9 percent) would be $1,267.84 a month, and would save the consumer $141,994.80 in interest payments over the lifetime of the loan.
Adjustable-rate loans usually provide an initial low interest rate compared to a 30-year fixed loan. However, since the interest is based on a fluctuating index (Treasury Bill/Cost of Funds), there is an element of uncertainty.
Currently, a one-year ARM is being offered at around 6.75 percent and 3 points, and one could expect it to jump to 8.75 percent next year.
Graduated payment programs (GPMs) are similar to ARMs in that they start out with a low initial rate. The difference is that each year the monthly payment increases by a fixed amount, approximately 7.5 percent. Over 30 years, the interest rate usually ends up being slightly higher than prevailing 30-year programs.
Balloons appeal to the consumer because the initial rate is less (8.5 percent for 5 years, 9 percent for 7 years) than a comparable 30-year fixed program.
The monthly payment of a balloon is amortized (based) on a 30-year schedule, but at the end of 5- or 7-year period, the remaining balance becomes due. Usually at this time, the consumer can opt for a conversion option to a fixed program, but the new adjusted fixed rate is usually slightly higher than the current level of 30-year fixed-rate programs.
Whoever becomes Door County Sheriff in 2019 will be paid $86,958, the Door County Board voted during their monthly meeting Tuesday.
DOOR COUNTY - Whoever becomes Door County Sheriff in 2019 will be paid $86,958, the Door County Board voted during their monthly meeting Tuesday.
A reduction of around $3,500 in the starting pay for a new sheriff had been proposed by Door County Administrator Ken Pabich, who also said Sheriff Steve Delarwelle will not seek re-election.
“It's not something we're just picking out of the air,” the administrator said. “A similar move was made in 2014, before he was hired. And then it went up from there."
Pabich added that they are looking at potentially having a new employee come into the organization.
Jon Koch, a member of the County Board who is a retired Sheriff's Deputy, argued against cutting the pay for the new sheriff.
The County Board approved — on a 12-7 vote — Koch's amendment to keep the 2019 sheriff's pay at the rate Delarwelle is making this year.
With the amendment approved, the resolution was approved by an 18-1 board vote.
Delarwelle said he's been a member of the Door County Sheriff's Department for 27 years and as he approaches his 60th birthday, felt it was time to step down.
Nomination papers for candidates wanting to replace the sheriff can't be obtained until April 15 at County Clerk Jill Lau's office, Lau said.
A new shopaholic test could tell if you should leave your credit card at home when heading out to the mall.
The test makes it clear that there's shopping and then there's over-the-top purchasing that can wreak havoc on a person's life. People who become preoccupied with buying stuff and repeatedly spend money on items, regardless of need, are commonly referred to as shopaholics. Scientists call it compulsive buying.
The new test was administered along with a survey that revealed that nearly 9 percent of a sample of 550 university staff members, mostly women, would be considered compulsive buyers. Past studies had put the incidence of compulsive buying somewhere between 2 percent and 8 percent 15 years ago, and more recently, at nearly 6 percent, the researchers say. Other research has found men are just as addicted to shopping as women.
My closet has unopened shopping bags in it.
Others might consider me a "shopaholic."
Much of my life centers around buying things.
I buy things I don’t need.
I buy things I did not plan to buy.

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