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There was no sign that Congress was going to agree to defund the popular Special Olympics program in spite of Trump's proposal.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had struggled to defend the proposal in testimony to Congress and both Trump's Republicans and opposition Democrats had denounced the move.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump overrode his budget team and backed funding for the Special Olympics on Thursday after his proposed cuts to the athletic program drew heavy fire from both Republicans and Democrats.
There was no sign that Congress was going to agree to defund the popular Special Olympics program in spite of Trump's proposal. He had sought to cut funding last year as well and lawmakers added the funding back into the budget.
The Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities or physical disabilities.
"I've been to the Special Olympics, I think it's incredible and I just authorized a funding," Trump said. "I heard about it this morning. I have overridden my people. We're funding theSpecial Olympics."
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The Republican candidates have been so bad that Ann Coulter has been threatening to support Hillary. Her latest column tears into the worst Republican of all: John McCain.
And my brave little Hillary needs a bold move after the Potomac primaries this week. If she can't trick Gore into endorsing Obama, she may have to divorce Bill.
Hillary is, shockingly enough, the most conservative candidate among the top three presidential candidates.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell once remarked that his people would rather vote for Beelzebub than Hillary Clinton.
He didn't mention John McCain.
You can also watch her speech at CPAC, where she says much the same thing.
Camera IconAshleigh Barty is the highest-ranked player in the Fed Cup semi-final between Australia and Belarus.
Ashleigh Barty is daring to dream of Australia's first Fed Cup title in 45 years as she attempts to match the feat of Evonne Goolagong Cawley.
World No.9 Barty will lead Australia's charge in a semi-final against a strong Belarus outfit in Brisbane from Saturday.
Barty admitted it would be special to clinch Australia's first title since 1974, a campaign powered by fellow indigenous star and former world No.1 Goolagong Cawley.
"It's pretty special for me personally, to know Evonne was in that last team that had won a Fed Cup," she said.
"We've still got a long way to go, it's been a bit of a work in progress.
"But I can guarantee that all four of us and the wider team are doing everything possible to give ourselves a chance."
A winner of the WTA's high-profile Miami Open last month, Barty will head a quartet that includes Samantha Stosur, Daria Gavrilova and Priscilla Hon.
Kimberly Birrell was the unlucky omission from the team that beat the United States in the quarter-finals, while Astra Sharma reached her first WTA final last week in Colombia.
"It's (Fed Cup) the ultimate competition and it shows the depth (Australia possess)," Barty said.
"We've had some amazing results from all of our players; I think the depth, particularly in the females, is unreal."
Barty has won her past 11 Fed Cup fixtures across singles and doubles and says she's in career best form.
"It (Miami) was one of the best weeks of my career; I struck the ball better than ever," she said.
"But it's different conditions, different ball, different country, different everything (in Brisbane)."
Seven-time winners Australia hold home court advantage but won't have it easy against last year's finalists, who boast two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka and world No.10 Aryna Sabalenka.
Azarenka is Barty's current doubles partner but is not yet in Brisbane for Saturday's two singles rubbers.
"She's a great chick," Barty said of the former world No.1 Azarenka.
"We'll park the friendship if she's on the other side of the net, but outside the court the relationship doesn't change."
Australia will play either France or Romania at home in November's final if they defeat Belarus.
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A writer, an editor, and a safety official weigh in.
Comfortable, dependable and, seemingly everywhere, the Honda Civic has endured for 10 generations, equally at home on city, suburban and country roads.
The versatile compact car comes in a mind-boggling mix of styles, trims, and powertrains. First pick a body — sedan, hatchback, or coupe — and then choose from nearly half a dozen trim levels boasting varying degrees of luxury. A standard 158-horsepower, 2.0-liter, four-cylinder engine powers the sedan and coupe, while the hatchback gets a zippy, turbocharged, 1.5-liter, four-cylinder engine that delivers 174 horsepower. The Civic also offers a choice between a six-speed manual transmission on some trims or a continuously variable automatic transmission. A pair of high-performance models, the Si and the Type R, come standard as manuals and ratchet output to 205 and 306 horsepower, respectively.
Inside, the five-passenger Civic is hailed for its head- and legroom in both rows, although taller passengers sitting in the back may not be as comfortable. (The Type R seats four.) The interior boasts abundant cargo space and can be outfitted in a range of materials, from cloth to leather. Bluetooth, a 5-inch display screen, and a USB port come standard. Upgrade for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, satellite radio, and navigation, but note that the optional 7-inch touch screen can be finicky and slow to respond.
The Civic received stellar safety ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Honda Sensing, the automaker’s package of advanced safety features, includes adaptive cruise control, forward collision warning, and lane departure warning. It comes standard on higher trims and costs an additional $1,000 for lower trims.
Sedans equipped with the manual transmission deliver 28 mpg in the city and 40 mpg on the highway. The automatic transmission lifts city mpg slightly. The turbocharged engine with automatic transmission achieves 32 mpg in the city and 42 mpg on the highway.
The 2018 Honda Civic sedan starts at $18,840. Coupe and hatchback models start at $19,250 and $20,050, respectively.
A big rig struck the Houston Avenue bridge over the Katy Freeway on Wednesday night.
This is at least the fifth time an 18-wheeler has struck the bridge in 2018 and the 15th time since 2017, according to earlier Houston Chronicle reports.
During Wednesday's crash, a truck hauling a shipping container struck the 14-foot, 4-inch bridge causing the container to fall off and land on the main lanes around 9 p.m.
It is unclear if the bridge sustained any major damage.
A project to raise the bridge won't begin until at least 2020, according to earlier Houston Chronicle reports.
The bridge, which sits 14.3 feet above the interstate on the eastbound side, will be raised as part of the multi-faceted North Houston Highway Improvement Project, which is expected to cost a total of $7 billion through 2026. The reconstructed bridge will stand at least 16 feet above the highway.
The Texas agency has already spent about $753,000 for emergency repairs from bridge strikes since 2011 — a figure that doesn't include insurance reimbursements for trucking companies or drivers involved. And judging by the continuous strikes over the years, that cost likely may continue to rise until the bigger project takes shape.
After being stranded for weeks, a monster botnet responsible for an estimated 40 percent of the world's spam was able to briefly reconnect to its mothership in a tense international duel playing out online that could have a dramatic effect on the amount of junkmail flowing into inboxes everywhere.
The rogue network dubbed Srizbi was able to establish ties to a new master control channel using an emergency mechanism built into the 500,000 or so machines infected by the bot. Botherders designed the pseudo random domain name generator in the event their network got disconnected from the previous channel. That's precisely what happened earlier this month, when a network provider known as McColo was yanked offline.
At time of writing, most of Srizbi's connection to the outside world had once again been severed, thanks to decisive actions taken to shut down servers located in Estonia. A single server located in Germany continued to host some nodes of the network, as researchers scrambled to get it shut down as well.
"An onslaught of spam was certainly averted," said Alex Lanstein, a researcher at intrusion detection system prover FireEye, who has spent the past four weeks closely monitoring Srizbi. "Estonia stepped in in record time and kicked these guys off line."
For weeks, the researchers were able to thwart the emergency backup measure by generating the domain names such as qpqduqud.com themselves and then snapping up the addresses ahead of the bad guys. The cat-and-mouse standoff ended this week after FireEye researchers decided they could no longer afford to spend the money buying the domains.
Most of Srizbi's new command and control servers were located in Estonia and all of its domains were registered in Russia. For about 13 hours, some 100,000 or so infected machines had the ability to connect to those servers, though it's not clear exactly how many of them did so, since many of them were likely not powered on, Lanstein said.
The Estonian servers were quickly disconnected in a take-down action Lanstein said he was not at liberty to discuss in detail.
At time of writing, a single server located in Frankfurt continued to act as a command and control channel for the rogue network.
Since the shutdown of McColo, junk-mail levels have plummeted, according to anti-spam companies and anecdotal evidence. Levels have gradually crept upward since then after a separate spam botnet dubbed Rustock, also orphaned by the McColo shutdown, was able to reboot itself last week.
Srizbi's resurrection had the potential to see spam levels spike to previous levels. After successfully reconnecting to the new servers, infected machines immediately got back to the business of sending spam. While the Estonian servers were active, botmasters updated templates for sending spam to Russian-speaking recipients, most likely as a way to test if the bots were still working. The botmasters were stopped before they could do much else.
This marks the second-straight year Ochoa has opened her season with a win.
PATTAYA, Thailand (AP) -- Lorena Ochoa won the Honda LPGA Thailand on Sunday for her 25th career title, easily overcoming an early deficit and pulling away for a three-stroke victory in her season debut.
The top-ranked Mexican star, three strokes behind playing partner Paula Creamer at the start of the round, shot a 6-under 66 in overcast conditions that took the edge off the heat on the Siam Country Club's Plantation Course.
"It's been a great week," Ochoa said. "My goal was to win the tournament and here I am with the trophy. I'm pleased. I played exceptionally well."
Ochoa finished at 14-under 274 -- shooting 71-69-68 the first three days -- and earned $217,500 for her second straight season-opening victory. Last year, she opened with a victory in Singapore in the HSBC Women's Champions and went on to win five of her first six events. She will be in Singapore next week for her title defense.
"This is a good preparation for next week, as the course is pretty much the same," Ochoa said. "I will take a rest and will be ready to defend my title on Thursday."
South Korea's Hee Young Park shot a 65 to finish a career-high second. The third-ranked Creamer had a 73, leaving her four strokes back at 10 under.
"I started on the wrong foot. It wasn't my day," Creamer said. "Lorena played awesome. ... It would have been difficult for me if I had played better."
Stacy Prammanasudh, an American who has a Thai father, shot a course-record 63 to tie for fourth with Brittany Lang (73) at 7 under.
"It was unexpected for me as it was for everybody else," Prammanasudh said. "It was just one of those days that you putt the ball and they all go in."
Ochoa wiped out Creamer's three-shot lead in three holes, picking up two strokes on the par-5 second with a birdie and Creamer's bogey, and pulling even when Creamer dropped another stroke on the par-3 third.
Ochoa took the outright lead at 10 under on No. 5, added a birdie on the par-5 sixth and pulled away with birdies on the par-3 eighth and par-5 11th and 13th. She bogeyed the par-3 16th, got the stroke back with a birdie on 17 and parred 18.
Park, winless in 22 events last year as a rookie, played the first four holes in 4 under, birdieing Nos. 2 and 3 and eagling the par-4 fifth.
She overcame an opening 79 with rounds of 64 and 69.
"I felt sick on the first day," Park said. "I had to be vaccinated at the hospital."
Mika Miyazato (70) was sixth at 6 under, and Yani Tseng (68), Helen Alfredsson (70), Angela Stanford (71) and Sophie Gustafson (70) followed at 5 under in the event that attracted a tournament-record 16,500 fans Sunday. Stanford won the season-opening SBS Open two weeks ago in Hawaii and has three victories in her last eight starts.
Where does the midwest stop and the south begin? I'm not sure, but it could be at milepost 83 on Interstate 55 south of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where the rolling hills of southern Illinois and Missouri come to an abrupt end. A table-flat plain stretches off to the horizon. "This is it," says geologist David Stewart. "The last hill before the Gulf of Mexico." If it were up to him, there would be a big billboard here reading "You are entering the New Madrid seismic zone," and another one 101 miles south at Blytheville, Arkansas, reading "You are leaving the New Madrid seismic zone." Since he's not in charge, you just have to know that this area is earthquake central for the lower 48.
An alternate travel plan is to start the semicircle tour at Reelfoot, which is just east of Tiptonville on State Highway 21. In addition to motels, it offers two state-park campgrounds. The more attractive one, among cypress trees by the lake, is open April 1 to November 1. The other--a collection of bare lots staked off in an open field, suitable for motor homes--is open all year.
In their seven years of driving the area to research three books on the New Madrid quakes, Stewart and his colleague Ray Knox have developed what amounts to a geologists' gourmet guide to the five-state quake region, with special emphasis on Missouri. If you're feeling a bit flush and touristy, Sikeston (exit 67, population 17,640) beckons with Lambert's, 2525 E. Malone (573-471-4261), an eatery well publicized as "Home of the Throwed Rolls." The food is good, plentiful, and not especially cheap; the piano is live; and warm rolls are indeed lobbed through the air. The atmosphere is a bit like Redamak's in New Buffalo, Michigan, but with more variety on the menu and more stuff on the walls. If you're allergic to tour buses, don't stop.
Sikeston also has a mall with 34 factory-outlet stores, I-55 to exit 57 (800-908-7467), and Granny's Antiques and Museum (573-471-3945). Granny's is six miles off the interstate, not two as promised; follow the signs from U.S. Route 60-62 onto ever smaller blacktops. Be patient with the farm machinery; we met a John Deere 9600 combine that took up both lanes and both shoulders. The store--one huge single room on a concrete slab--contains antiques ranging from hand drills and a canopy bed to antique canning jars full of marbles, Dukes of Hazzard lunch boxes, and yardsticks with small-town business imprints ($12 a pop, so make sure you want to measure something important).
In New Madrid itself (exits 44 and 49, population 3,350), Rosie's on Highway 61 at the corner of Scott Street (573-748-7665), offers your choice of ambience, depending on which of her three doors you enter: "cafe," "lounge," or "dining room." (The roadside sign calls the establishment "Rosie's Colonial Tavern," and the cafe menus read "Bar and Grille.") All share the same kitchen. Stewart and Knox recommend the pie. Downtown, a block from the New Madrid Historical Museum and the offices of the Weekly Record newspaper, the River Bend Cafe, 535 Mott (573-748-9334), a pleasant local hangout, has a reputation for smoked pork chops and Creole gumbo. "Southern hospitality is no myth," says Stewart. On a friendliness scale of 1 to 10, everyone we met in New Madrid rated about 15.
Earthquake connoisseurs shouldn't miss the New Madrid Historical Museum, 1 Main (573-748-5944); small admission fee, located in a former saloon and fish market hard by the Mississippi River levee at the foot of Main Street. Maps, books, photos, a video, and a seismograph help make sense of the geology. Especially fine is a graph comparing the energy released by a tornado, the Nagasaki A-bomb, the New Madrid quake, and the 1964 Alaska quake; it makes dramatically visible the fact that an 8 on the Richter scale releases 32 times as much energy as a 7. Also on display is a 1950s aerial photograph of the town, showing the surrounding farmland freckled with sand boils large and small, each one a place where the ground erupted in 1811-'12.
When it was first opened in 1975 the museum was devoted entirely to "Indians, the Civil War, life on the Mississippi River, and early American history," according to founding director Virginia Carlson. (You can still learn a lot about the key 1862 battle U.S. and Confederate armies fought here for control of the river.) It had nothing about earthquakes. "In all the years I went to school here and lived here, nobody ever told me that there was a possibility of another earthquake," she says. "Even the big one back in 1811-'12 was never talked about." Outside at the top of the levee, a wooden observation deck lets you watch the river (flowing west to east--if you don't understand this, go back inside and check the maps again) and the barge tows (going both ways).
If you haven't had enough history, the Hunter-Dawson mansion dates from 1858 (573-748-5340); small admission fee. In spring don't miss the blooming pink dogwoods along Scott Street. And for what it's worth, Stewart and Knox believe that the New Madrid Golf Course, 1376 Mill (314-748-7794), is "the only one in the world with seismic sand traps." If you get a lie so bad you wish the earth would open up and swallow you--it just might.
The best way to cross the river would be the ferry between Dorena, Missouri (about 15 miles east of New Madrid on county roads), and Hickman, Kentucky (about 25 miles north of Reelfoot Lake on state routes 78 and 94). "The Mississippi River looks awesome from the bank," says Stewart, "but you don't really appreciate it until you're out on it." The ferry hasn't run for the last four years, but operations will resume in mid-June; for up-to-date information call Fulton County judge executive Harold Garrison (502-236-2594).
The rest stop on the northbound side of I-55 at mile 42 has tourist info aplenty, but it doesn't offer the fact that it's the "Bull's Eye," in the words of Stewart and Knox's Fault Finders Guide, "the very center of Epicentral Ground Zero for the largest earthquake in the history of the coterminous United States"--an estimated Richter 8.8 on February 7, 1812--during which the ground rolled in waves and a section of the Mississippi River ran backward for hours.
Moving south, you come to Hayti (I-55 exit 19, population 3,280), which is festooned with fast-food eateries. But the knowledgeable geologist ventures past them to Boudreaux's, 100 N. Highway (573-359-1616), which offers, among other things, "shrimp ten ways," "crawdad lovingly stuffed," and cajun gumbo.
A bit farther off the big road, at Caruthersville (I-55 exit 7, population 7,389), Knox and Stewart praise the liver and onions at the Roundhouse Restaurant, 830 S. Third (573-333-1330). And across the river in Tiptonville, the galloping geologists recommend the "outstanding catfish" at Boyette's Restaurant, Lake Drive, (901-253-7307).
Visitors from the upper midwest shouldn't skimp on Reelfoot Lake. It's not just a hunting and fishing enclave. The state park's first-class visitors' center, on 22 just east of 78 (901-253-7756), is open from 8 to 4:30, though it may close during the lunch hour. Boardwalks built over the swampy lake edges are perfect for viewing wetland wildlife and cypress "knees." Pontoon-boat rides are available from May 1 to October 1; prices vary according to the age of the passenger and the length of the cruise. Daily tours (December 1 to mid-March, except for about a week around Christmas) to view the lake's wintering population of bald eagles require advance reservations. Reelfoot State Park itself includes less than 1 percent of the lake's shoreline, but much of the rest is in wildlife preserves of one kind or another.
It was a proud day for Berkhamsted Bowls Club as they were named Bowls England’s Club of the Year for 2015 – finally taking the title having been runners-up in both 2012 and 2013.
The prestigious title is awarded annually to the club that is judged to have shown the greatest efforts to promote itself, increase membership and work with the local community.
Berkhamsted BC beat off stiff competition from runners-up Lyndhurst BC (Durham) and fellow finalists Cowplain BC (Hampshire) and Chacewater BC (Cornwall) to take the crown at a celebration event at the Hilton Hotel in Coventry.
The club celebrated its 30th anniversary last year and recorded several major achievements in the process, including the addition of 31 new members – making it one of the most successful recruitment campaigns in the country for the fifth year running.
Berkhamsted already boasts the largest junior section in the county since introducing junior bowls four years ago, while blind member Sarah Marshall represented England at the World Disability Games in Auckland and picked up the bronze medal. She also picked up the British B2 Championship.
On top of this, Berkhamsted BC organised and hosted the first ever U18 Junior Singles Championship for the Watford & District Association, while the club won top prize for services to disabled sport at the Dacorum Sports Awards, in conjunction with the Gazette.
The club was also named runners-up in the Sports Club of the Year category and was nominated for Community Club of the Year at the Hertfordshire Sports Awards.
To cap off a superb year, one of Berkhamsted BC’s founder members, Marcia Dunstone, was named Bowls England President for 2015 – the Club of the Year award, however, was independently judged.
Berkhamsted BC president Kevin Clarke said “We are flattered by the award which will encourage us to deliver an even better and more adaptable club that pleases all who visit.
“Four years ago we set about making this a glamorous game that appealed to the young as much as anyone; in the process we have enhanced our opportunities to connect with the community and deliver more leisure to all ages.
“We are a progressive club that is always striving to deliver enjoyment, quality, friendship and recreation.
This year the club are already planning for the start of the new season in April with their own car parking being built, as well as having the clubhouse and it surroundings redeveloped.
Apart from holding a prestigious match with Bowls England as part of their prize, the club will also be hosting a men’s county match versus Wiltshire and a match with Disability Bowls England.