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“The devil will be in the details of this opinion as to how debilitating it’s going to be,” he predicted.
Atlantic, Ia. — The U.S. is on shakier financial ground now than it was during the economic crisis of 2008, Ron Paul told a crowd of roughly 150 Iowans gathered this afternoon in Atlantic, Iowa.
Among his plans for the White House is a sweeping proposal to cut $1 trillion from the federal government in one year. The deep cuts are needed to avoid an economic collapse, he said, telling those gathered that the U.S. is in the midst of another financial bubble.
Paul’s final stop of the day is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Council Bluffs.
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HARARE – Beverages maker Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited (SZL) is failing to meet demand for its products owing to foreign currency shortages impeding its ability to source adequate raw materials.
SZL said the foreign currency allocations it is receiving from banks were inadequate to fully satisfy demand for beverages during the peak summer demand season up to December.
“We anticipate continued gaps in production, supply and availability of our products in the market. The recent panic buying in October 2018 depleted raw materials and finished goods inventories, resulting in supplies to both our domestic market and export market falling short of demand significantly,” SZL said in a sta...
To cushion itself from the foreign currency shortages, SZL started to export cordials and juice drinks into regional markets last year.
“Export volumes and revenues are growing appreciably to approximately $750 000 monthly but are still inadequate to meet monthly imported raw materials’ total requirements of $2,25 million for our beverage business.
“The domestic market will account for 95 percent of total beverages output while export market volume will account for five percent of total output for 2018,” SZL said.
Owing to an increase in the price of some of its inputs, among them sugar, consumables and spares, the price of the popular Mazoe Orange Crush has been increased to $4 per two litre bottle from $3,20.
Multiple Lehigh Acres fire department units were battling a brush fire at McArthur and Sunrise boulevards in the eastern section of the community Monday afternoon.
The fire was reported shortly before 3:30 p.m.
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Who would’ve thought memory cards could be so full of intrigue. Andrew “bunnie” Huang – whose name you might remember from inside the chumby One – was prompted to investigate an apparent bad batch of Kingston microSD cards when the touchscreen widget device (which stores its OS on a microSD) started acting up. He went ...
To figure that out, bunnie had to go round collecting various real and fake memory cards. The latter would sometimes be out in huge trays, with street vendors dropping the cards into Kingston packaging and slapping on an “authenticity” hologram and serial number.
After stripping down the various samples with nitric acid and acetone, it was revealed that several of the Kingston-branded cards were in fact fakes, and that even the authentic Kingston cards used Sandisk or Toshiba chips. It’s an interesting – if technical – read, but if you’re thinking of picking up a new memory car...
Welcome to 32 Brooks Rd located in the desirable neighborhood of Moorestown Hunt. Designed and decorated with warm famly gathering spaces in mind and a large backyard for outside entertaining, this is a great place to call home. A welcoming 2 story light filled foyer offers hardwood floors, a classic turned staircase a...
The evidentiary hearing into possible election fraud in the 2018 general election in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District officially got underway Monday, and the lead investigator with the State Board of Election claims the evidence they plan to present will show a "coordinated, unlawful and substantially resour...
"We believe that the evidence...will show that a coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme operated during the 2018 general election in Bladen and Robeson counties," North Carolina Board of Elections executive director Kim Strach said in her opening statement.
For the first time publicly since the allegations of election fraud became known, Strach went into detail about the alleged scheme run by Leslie McCrae Dowless, the man at the center of the investigation into whether or not Republican Mark Harris' 905-vote victory last year over Democrat Dan McCready was legitimate and...
"McCrae Dowless hired workers that he paid cash to collect absentee requests, to collect absentee ballots and to falsify absentee ballot witness certifications. McCrae Dowless paid generally $150 per 50 absentee ballot requests and $125 per 50 absentee ballots collected," Strach said.
In this Dec. 5, 2018, file photo, Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. poses outside his home in Bladenboro, N.C.
"There were also efforts to ensure that same color ink as the witness was used, so that if a witness had signed in a different colored ink, tracing sometimes over that with an ink pen that would be similar to that of the voter was used," she added.
Strach also said that incomplete or blank absentee ballots were voted in the home of McCrae Dowless.
Lisa Britt, a witness called by the Board of Elections, said she was paid to collect absentee ballots and deliver them to Dowless.
"I took the signed, sealed ballot," Britt said in describing her involvement in the operation. "That ballot was turned back in with the other ballots I had collected that day" to Dowless.
When asked last year by ABC News' Steve Osunsami about his role in the alleged scheme, Dowless offered a no comment.
"At this time I have no comment and you can contact my attorney," Dowless, who worked as a campaign consultant for Harris during the 2018 election, told Osunsami in December 2018 outside of his home in Bladenboro, North Carolina.
Dowless has not said anything publicly about the claims against him in recent months. An attorney for Dowless told Charlotte ABC affiliate WSOC reporter Joe Bruno on Monday that they maintain Dowless did not break any laws during the 2018 election.
Strach claimed that there have also been efforts to obstruct the board's investigation into the alleged election fraud and the testimony at Monday's hearing.
Democratic congressional candidate Dan McCready leans against wallboard as he pauses during a Habitat For Humanity building event in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 26, 2018.
Strach showed documentation at Monday's hearing that the investigator said proves the Red Dome Group, a political consulting firm employed by Harris during the 2018 election, paid Dowless over $200,000 for various services throughout the campaign.
The Red Dome Group has not responded to ABC News' requests for comment.
Harris has maintained he was unaware of any alleged illegal activity by Dowless during the election and says he has cooperated with the board's investigation.
"Although I was absolutely unaware of any wrongdoing, that will not prevent me from cooperating with this investigation," Harris said in a video posted on Twitter last December, "However if this investigation finds proof of illegal activity on either side to such a level that it could have changed the outcome of the el...
While Harris was present in the hearing room Monday, McCready was not, but will be represented in the hearing by his attorneys.
The North Carolina Board of Elections has the authority to call for a new election under two circumstances, which were laid out at today's hearing by the board's chairman Bob Cordle.
"One is when enough ineligible voters voted or eligible voters were prevented from voting for some other reason 'sufficient in number to change the outcome of the election,'" Cordle said, "The second way is when 'irregularities or improprieties occurred to such an event that they taint they taint the result of the enti...
The U.S. House of Representatives, specifically the House Administration Committee, also has the power to call for a new election under certain circumstances.
Like a tonic, Samantha Bee commended the press tonight for continuing to check the president “as if he some day may get embarrassed” – and that was hours before Donald Trump recited the lyrics to an old one-hit wonder and called it a poem. Embarrassment isn’t in the cards.
The special kicked off with a pre-taped bit featuring Allison Janney as her West Wing press secretary C.J. Cregg, reminding everyone of that fast-talking series (and a more liberal cultural moment). Taking the podium at a faux-press conference, Janney/Cregg addressed a room of Spicer-era press corp that included a Lyny...
“You pretend to be them, ruining their reputations,” Janney said, “at least among people too stupid to tell the difference.” She ended the bit by confirming that, yes, Bee is a witch and so is she, then blasted the Opus Dei guy with her eye-lasers.
Interspersed were some wickedly funny pre-taped bits with Bee appearing at WHCDs through the decades, including a silent film newsreel of her snarking about Woodrow Wilson’s racism and, in Material Girl-era Madonna drag, roasting Ronald Reagan with AIDS jokes that leave Ron, Nancy and Frank Sinatra gobsmacked. In a cli...
Towards the end, Ferrell took the stage – a surprise that couldn’t be contained before the show – with “How do you like me now?” Best joke: “You guys remember Helen Thomas? Helen Thomas scared the sh*t out of me until someone pointed out that she had been dead since 1954.” And, Ferrell’s Bush said, she still asked toug...
Bee brought the evening to a close with a pre-taped bit in which she tearfully imagines a Hillary presidency and the resultant Men’s March that could be seen from space.
Ticket sales from tonight’s event raised nearly $200,000 for the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Opinion: Yes, there are always new ways for malware to attack a system, but I'm not as worried as some are about RSS.
Trend Micros David Sancho paints a scary picture of a future with ubiquitous RSS capability that will come with the deployment of Internet Explorer 7. History has shown that it often makes sense to assume the worst in computer security, but not every assertion is reasonable.
Sanchos paper discusses several potential developments in "bot worms," which have certainly been the most troublesome threat on the Internet for several years. The sexiest claim is that worms will begin to utilize RSS to update themselves and spread new malware.
Specifically he suggests that worms will modify the feed list for the RSS reader to trick it into downloading updates and other malware. As he says, there are no standards for such operations, so a worm would have to write custom hacks for one or more specific readers. Since there is, as of yet, no dominant reader out ...
The proposed technique strikes me as novel, but not especially useful from a malware perspective. Its also worth pointing out that Sancho is not describing a new method of infection. All he is describing is a way that systems which are already 0wned can download code from external systems.
If the worm is already running on the system, the cats out of the bag, the horse out of the barn and all that. It can already download code from whatever site it wants. There is a fair point to make, as Sancho makes, that a users personal firewall might be set to allow the RSS reader to download data from the Internet,...
Sancho also warns that the feed would still be active if the worm were removed, but once again we shouldnt go into conniptions over this. If the content is just downloaded, its not being executed, even if its read by the reader.
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One of the suggestions Sancho makes is that anti-virus scanners start scanning HTTP so that they can find malware in an RSS feed as it is read. This is not a bad idea, but hell have to explain to me what difference it would make, since an "old-fashioned" anti-virus program that didnt scan HTTP would still see the malwa...
Its ironic that one of the reasons for RSS itself is to avoid many of the problems that developed in the SMTP mail system. You cant stop people from sending you spam or mail worms, but if you dont want an RSS feed anymore you can just unsubscribe, and that includes any hypothetical hijacked feeds. This alone should put...
At this time of year in Japan, you’ll even find chrysanthemum petals in your food, in simmered and pickled forms. Fall is also the season for a range of festivals and shows celebrating the flower.
Small local festivals, like the Yanaka Kiku Matsuri in mid-October, are more or less an excuse for a party, with stands selling festival foods, games for children, and performances by local talent. There are a few examples of an old tradition of decorating life-size dolls with the flower, and of course, potted mums to ...
A simple cascade-shaped example could be bought for home display at the Yanaka festival, but where you will see this art at its peak are at larger shows in late October and November. What’s most remarkable about these displays is that each is a single plant, coaxed into shape by months of labor.
“You can have either three single blooms with flowers 10 to 12 inches in diameter, or, through a series of different techniques, take that same variety and grow it into a single plant 8 to 10 feet across with hundreds of individual blooms on it – the ‘thousand blooms’ style – all starting from a single cutting,” says H...
These forms can take up to 11 months to create, with a single cascade taking 65 hours of work. The technique is reminiscent of bonsai, but as evanescent as the cherry blossom.
In addition to the show at the New York Botanical Garden – http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2014/kiku/about.php – there’s also a chrysanthemum festival in the U.S. at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, Oct. 25- Nov. 23, http://longwoodgardens.org/events-and-performances/events/chrysanthemum-festival?gclid...
Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said on Thursday the company would announce a decision on where it will build a second headquarters before the end of the year, and also said that President Donald Trump is wrong to "attack the media."
WASHINGTON: Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said on Thursday the company would announce a decision on where it will build a second headquarters before the end of the year, and also said that President Donald Trump is wrong to "attack the media."
Amazon has announced 20 finalists in North America for its planned investment of US$5 billion and 50,000 jobs. At a speech before the Economic Club of Washington on Thursday, Bezos did not offer any favorites for the project.
Asked about Trump's repeated criticism of both the Washington Post and Amazon, Bezos called it a "mistake" for any elected official to "attack media and journalists."
What Trump "should say (of criticism) is, 'This is right, this is good. I am glad I am being scrutinized,' and that would be so secure and confident," Bezos said. "But it is really dangerous to demonize the media. It is dangerous to call the media lowlifes, it is dangerous to say that they are the enemy of the people."
"The media," Bezos added, "is going to be fine. We're going to push through this."
The chair of the Pacific Islands Forum, Palau's President, Tommy Remengesau, has announced Fiji's suspension from the Forum has been lifted.
In a just released statement Mr Remengesau says he has directed the secretariat in Suva to deliver his letter to Fiji's Prime Minister, Rear Admiral Frank Bainimarama, saying the Forum's leaders have decided to lift the suspension on Fiji forthwith.
He says Forum leaders were unanimous in their decision based on a recommendation from its Ministerial Contact Group following last month's return to democracy.
Mr Remengesau says the Forum Leaders very much look forward to Fiji's participation and contribution to all Forum activities.
Fiji was suspended in 2009 for reneging on an earlier commitment to hold elections after then Commodore Bainimarama had staged a military coup in 2006.
Fiji has previously stated on a number of occasions that it will not return to the Forum as long as Australia and New Zealand remain members.
Decades-old tradition of driving way below the speed limit on Belfair's main drag has supporters, detractors.
BELFAIR — On the last day of her senior year of high school, Alix Leetsma rolled down the windows of her car, cranked up her favorite songs on the radio and cruised through Belfair at 5 mph, honking, waving and laughing with her best friend in the car as they celebrated the end of an era.
Senior Slow Day, or Senior Slowdown, is a tradition the North Mason High School graduating class has participated in for more than 40 years, though no one can remember the exact year it started. For some, there are conflicting memories about whether their class took part.
Seniors start driving from the high school and head through town, ending at the Belfair Valley Plaza in the parking lot of Safeway. They drive at speeds below the 35 mph speed limit on Highway 3, as parents and community members cheer from the side of the highway.
But as Belfair’s Highway 3 has undergone construction to move water lines, build sewer and widen the highway, the slowdown causes some ire in the community, as drivers caught unaware find themselves sitting in traffic for hours.
Schroeder recalled painting a train trestle next to the high school as the seniors’ end-of-year tradition in 1972, though Molly Green, class of 2017, noted that her grandfather participated in what he calls a “senior cruise” on the last day of school in 1972.
“I know it has sort of a negative connotation to it, since it ‘disrupts’ lives, but the way I see it is, I would rather my classmates and other kids I’ve grown up with participate in a senior slow day than driving fast and doing something dumb the day before graduation,” Green said.
Still, Schroeder, and many others wish that each year’s class of high school seniors would do something else to leave their legacy.
The slowdown does seem to get slower every year, noted Stephanie Shumaker, class of 1999, but she’s excited to support the teens in the community each year.
Shumaker’s sister got a ticket in 2003 for leading the impromptu parade, but otherwise Shumaker has noticed that law enforcement tend to support the show of community pride and, at most, will usher students along or stop people from participating with scooters.
The North Mason School District has nothing to do with Senior Slow Day. The graduating class organizes on its own through social media and word-of-mouth, said Austin Knight, 18, senior class vice president for the class of 2018.
He said seniors have a lot of celebrate, and their success is entwined in the community, Many spend long hours volunteering and engaging in community service, working at local businesses such as McDonald’s, Safeway, McLendon’s Hardware, Taco Bell and others. Then come long afternoons spent studying, or practicing sport...
Knight will graduate from North Mason High School with his class on Tuesday (the first year the community will hold its own graduation ceremony at the new high school) and in the fall will attend the University of Puget Sound to major in engineering and play football.
“Food gentrification is those with money and satisfied choices dictating food options for those with neither,” Diane Sullivan, an anti-poverty activist, tells The American Spectator.
In San Francisco, where a 385-square-feet studio apartment went for $537,000 earlier this year, residents know the value of space — and the perils of gentrification. But San Franciscans overwhelmingly support a state ballot initiative prohibiting the sale of eggs, bacon, veal, and other products that come from farms no...
“A business owner or operator shall not knowingly engage in the sale within the State of California,” Proposition 12 reads, of any “pork,” “veal,” or “eggs” from animals “confined in a cruel manner.” What California defines as “cruel” others characterize as the norm in agriculture.
Since Californians eat more eggs than their farms produce, the proposition figures to affect many unable to vote in the Golden State on November 6. Farmers in Nebraska or Indiana or New Mexico wishing to sell to Californians must conform to the new law or risk losing out on a market representing an eighth of the U.S. p...
Proposition 12 calls for “phasing out extreme methods of farm animal confinement.” The proposition mandates that farmers raising livestock grant pigs 24-square feet, calves bred for veal 43-square feet, and hens one square foot. The specificity follows a similar California ballot question also advanced by the Humane So...
Critics point to higher mortality rates in chickens and pigs housed in a more free-range environment that fosters pecking, biting, and even suffocation as proof of results not matching intentions. The end game, some believe, involves pricing Americans out of meat the way taxes price many out of tobacco.
Free Rein for Free Range?
Supreme Court Judge Sarath de Abrew has sent in retirement papers, informed sources told the Daily News.

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