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Netanyahu, “is dissolving America’s bipartisan pro-Israel consensus in favor of an unstable alliance of end-times Christians, orthodox Jews and wealthy conservatives”, Milbank threatens.
That would be the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus that turned over a sizable portion of Israel to Islamic terrorists, that has taken the side of the terrorists at every turn and that insists on financing the terrorists.
You’re not pro-Israel if you fund the murder of Israelis. You’re the very definition of anti-Israel.
If that’s a pro-Israel bipartisan consensus, bring on the partisan pro-Israel consensus. The one that doesn’t pay lip service with empty resolutions while funding the murder of Jews, but that ends America’s generation of support for the terrorists that took the lives of Kim, Ziv, Ari and all the others.
Toronto seniors are struggling with a scarcity of quality long-term care beds and affordable housing units. Soon, one downtown building will have both.
Toronto seniors are struggling with a scarcity of quality long-term care beds and affordable housing units.
Soon, one downtown building will have both.
The Rekai Centres, which has run long-term care homes in the city dating back to 1955, and Options for Homes, builders of some 3,100 affordable units in Ontario, have partnered to buy a plot of land in the West Don Lands — at the intersection of Front Street East and Cherry Street.
While there's no firm design yet, the organizations hope to offer 200 long-term care beds, including spaces for seniors suffering from dementia, and 200 affordable housing units that will be marketed to both families and seniors. If all goes well, there's hope it will open in 2020.
Rekai CEO Sue Graham-Nutter says there's a huge demand. Right now, her organization is being flooded with calls from families struggling with relatives dealing with conditions like dementia.
"When your mom or dad is wandering the streets … you're worried. You want a solution," she told CBC Toronto at an event launching the project.
Graham-Nutter says property prices in the city are a huge barrier to building new homes, and in many cases they're forcing operators to move outside of Toronto. A recent CBC News analysis found several of Toronto's long-term care homes have some of the longest wait times in the province.
Waiting for the bus following the event, Esther Appelman says she's comfortable where she lives — although she does need a caretaker's reminder on the exact address — and wants to stay in the city she knows and "respects."
"I live in a community centre home now ... and there's a lot of people, like me, that will need one," she said.
That may be difficult given escalating land prices.
Rekai and Options bought the grassy field from the province at market rate following seven years of negotiations. To understand how much that rate has changed, when Options for Homes built some of its first condos in 2001 — buildings now smack in the middle of the Distillery District — they sold for $65,000.
"As land prices have gone up we've had to sharpen our pencils and get a lot more creative about how we deliver the housing," said Options CEO Heather Tremain.
Health Minister Eric Hoskins, on hand for the announcement, called the partnership "bang on," and said he's hoping Toronto's local health network will be able to provide services so every senior in the building can age in place.
Coun. Pam McConnell also voiced her support, saying she hopes it will be able to open soon.
The city of Toronto hasn't built a long-term care home of its own since Etobicoke's Lakeshore Lodge opened in 1990. Prior to that, Castleview Wychwood Towers opened in 1975.
Fox Television Stations (FTS) and the Web broadcasting outfit Redlasso have ironed out a deal that gives Redlasso the rights to syndicate content from the Fox group’s local newscasts. Starting in April, content from the Fox O&Os will be made available to bloggers and news-oriented Websites at redlasso.com.
Registered users will be able to search content and customize clips for their own sites with Redlasso’s online editing tools.
providing their programming to Web users. Following the lawsuit in July 2008, Redlasso suspended usage to its beta site.
Fox owns 27 stations in 18 markets.
Summit’s highly anticipated YA adaptation hits theaters March 21, 2014.
Shailene Woodley braves daunting heights in the newest still from Summit Entertainment’s Divergent.
In the image, Tris (Woodley) begins her initiation into the Dauntless (brave) faction -- one of the five groups that individuals must commit to in the tale’s dystopian world. In the scene, she must jump down into a courtyard with a deep, black hole, after already jumping from a train onto a seven-story building. An image released last month shows the actress braving knives being thrown at her head.
The beloved YA novel written by first time author Veronica Roth has topped the New York Times Best Sellers list ever since it was published in May 2011. In addition to Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Maggie Q, Miles Teller and Zoe Kravitz also star in the film adaptation helmed by Neil Burger.
Divergent is slated to hit theaters on March 21, 2014.
More than a week after protests at a UC board of regents meeting resulted in two arrests and several officers injured, students gathered at UC Riverside to discuss the path forward.
"Today is clearly a different mood, we’re having a discussion about what happened," one student said.
On-going budget cuts and tuition hikes have been at the heart of many student protests, which tend to follow UC regents meetings.
The most recent meeting at UCR on Jan. 19 ended in nine UC officers being injured and two non-students being arrested.
UCR professor Susan Straight said that while the UC system is financially burdened, her campus is growing.
Wednesday marked a day for an organized discussion about a massive problem that isn’t going away.
"We do stuff here nobody else does," Straight told the crowd. "We have entomologists, scientists, engineers; we have writers."
While nothing has soothed the sting of tuition hikes, some students said they plan to file complaints alleging misconduct against UC police.
All ten UC’s have been dealing with budgets cuts, which have been a flashpoint for anger.
This year’s MJHL All-Star Game will be heard on NCI FM, the organizing committee announced Tuesday.
The game is set for Wednesday, January 19 at the Swan River Centennial Arena, and will include two popular names behind the mic.
Former Winnipeg Jet and broadcasting veteran Curt Keilback will handle play-by-play duties, while sportswriter/broadcaster Scott Taylor will join him in the booth.
“This is a tremendous opportunity for our station,” NCI Sales Manager Michael Fabian said in a statement.
NCI FM will broadcast a total of 15 MJHL regular-season games.
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - For a man who promised to surround himself “only with the best and most serious people,” Donald Trump has often delivered otherwise, and seen his administration racked by turmoil and ethical criticism. One exception has been the Federal Reserve, where the president has filled vacancies with a string of well-regarded experts, including Chairman Jay Powell.
Until now. Trump said on Friday he wants to nominate former campaign aide and conservative commentator Stephen Moore for a seat on the Fed board. That threatens to inject politics into the heart of the central bank.
First, though, there’s the question of expertise. Although he boasts a master’s in economics from George Mason University, Moore is more of a polemicist than an economist. His chief credentials are working as an editorial-page writer at the Wall Street Journal and advocating supply-side policies at conservative think tanks like the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation.
His Club for Growth lobbied actively for George W. Bush’s tax cuts in the early 2000s. And he worked with White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow to help shape the Trump administration’s signature 2017 tax reductions. Moore’s promised increase in government revenue hasn’t arrived, though. The Congressional Budget Office in January predicted the federal deficit would average more than $1 trillion a year from 2020 through 2029.
As to monetary matters - not the thrust of most of his work - Moore lambasted the Fed’s quantitative easing earlier this decade under Chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen as misguided money-printing that depressed the economy. Lately, however, he has criticized the Fed for keeping money too tight. He said the central bank’s last rate hike in December threatened to tip the economy into recession and called on Powell to resign.
Setting aside questions about his economic rigor, those views themselves don’t disqualify Moore. The U.S. central bank could arguably use more varied perspectives. But his incendiary style is unlikely to help.
More importantly, someone so closely aligned politically with Trump - about whose economic populism Moore co-authored an approving book - ought to be a no-no for the Fed, whose credibility rests in large part on its independence from the partisan fray. If its governors want the president’s views, they only need to turn to Twitter.
On Saturday, June 8th, 2019 we will have our normal style ticketed bottle/can release. Details as to the products being released will be announced in the coming months. If you attended the dinner/party on the 7th, it will guarantee you one of the first 52 tickets for the Saturday release and guarantee access to magnum sales (yes, there will be more than just the initial 52).
For 20 years, the EU has been importing bananas from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries duty free, while imposing tariffs on bananas from elsewhere.
The EU's argument is that it it wants to protect small producers in former colonies from the might of US multi-nationals, who themselves have cried foul over two decades. They have now won the day, after a vote in the European Parliament went their way.
The Fairtrade Foundation's Aurelie Walker and Gabriel Stein of Lombard Street Research, give their views on this contentious issue.
Abbas spokesman rejects Jason Greenblatt's comments on others filling the void if the PA isn't part of the solution in Gaza.
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, says that the "Palestinian people" alone will determine their future and choose their legitimate leadership, not the United States or any other entity.
Abu Rudeineh said in response that said there is no alternative to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the only legitimate representative of the "Palestinian people."
Anyone who presents an alternative to the choice of the "Palestinian people" will be a partner in the plot to eliminate the Palestinian problem, he added.
Abu Rudeineh said Greenblatt's comments were "unacceptable" and "interfering in the internal affairs of the Palestinians." He noted that the Palestinians would oppose the American approach just as they fought the President Donald Trump's “Deal of the Century”.
He called on Hamas to be aware of a plot against the Palestinian national enterprise, expressed in humanitarian aid programs, the construction of a seaport and an airport and the like, in return for giving up the Palestinian national principles, headed by Jerusalem and the refugees.
The PA opposes the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas that is being mediated by Egypt, and considers it a betrayal of the Palestinian national principles.
Carrie Underwood's new song picked up its fifth straight Showdown win Friday on Taste of Country Nights radio, meaning 'Two Black Cadillacs' will be placed in the immortal halls of the Showdown Hall of Fame and two new challengers will square off today. It's the battle of a legend versus a feisty country newcomer on Monday.
George Strait looks to be prepping new music for 2013, having released, 'Give It All We Got Tonight,' his lead single from a new album. The singer continues to adjust his sound in the slightest ways to stay relevant without sacrificing the style that made him famous decades ago. The Top 30 single will go up against the rowdy new track from Dustin Lynch. 'She Cranks My Tractor' will need support from every fan Lynch has to move on to Tuesday's Showdown, but bigger upsets have taken place before.
Listen to clips of both Strait's and Lynch's songs and vote for your favorite here. You can vote once every hour online, so come back and vote often to be sure your artist wins. Hear the full versions of the songs tonight after 10PM on Taste of Country Nights. Help your favorite song win by placing additional votes at (888) 678-9995. Call as many times as you like! You can listen to the show online through any of the 41 radio stations that carry it. Voting will end tonight at 10:40PM CT.
HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) -Pearl River Community College honored five outstanding graduates on Thursday night.
Pilot and Navy veteran Charles Amacker, businessman and consultant Brian Montgomery, investment manager Perry Parker, Army veteran and engineer Joel Pigott and longtime ExxonMobil Corporation employee Vonceil Stringer were inducted into PRCC’s Lifetime Achievement Hall of Fame.
A ceremony was held at Southern Oaks and Gardens.
It was the 8th year the college hosted the event.
A total of 42 outstanding graduates have been inducted into PRCC’s Hall of Fame.
Teenage star Moise Kean said Saturday that had learned from Juventus teammate Cristiano Ronaldo after scoring his first goal for Italy in what he hopes will be a record-breaking career.
The 19-year-old forward was the first player born in the 21st century to score for the senior team, with the second goal on 74 minutes in a 2-0 Euro 2020 qualifying Group J win over Finland in Udine.
Italy coach Roberto Mancini chose Kean to replace the injured Federico Chiesa in a three-pronged attack along with Juventus teammate Federico Bernardeschi and Ciro Immobile.
"I learn from Cristiano Ronaldo, in training, I steal his secrets," said Keane, who was born in Vercelli to Ivorian parents.
"I always try to be ready and train regularly so that I'm prepared when the time comes.
The first player born this century to start in Serie A, the first to score in the Italian top flight, and the first to make his debut with the Under 21 team, Kean was also the first to play with the senior national team in a friendly match and now a competitive game on Saturday.
"He has great qualities, but it's all up to him -- the margins for improvement are enormous," said Mancini.
Travelers will now be able to send and receive messages on their phones for free on Delta flights.
Beginning Oct. 1, Delta Air Lines will become the first U.S. global carrier to offer free mobile messaging, providing more customers access to free messaging than any other carrier. The airline will also have the most aircraft enabled with free messaging.
The capability allows customers to use iMessage, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
“We know many of Delta’s customers want or need to stay connected in the air and on the ground, which is why we’re investing in an easy, free way to send and receive messages in-flight through some of the most popular global platforms,” said Tim Mapes, Delta’s senior vice president and chief marketing officer.
Free messaging will be available on all Gogo-enabled Delta flights, including all aircraft with two or more cabins. Customers will be able to access free messaging through Delta’s Wi-Fi portal page, airborne.gogoinflight.com. Free mobile messaging will be for text use only and does not support sending photo or video files.
Simon Parker column: Could injury signal the end of Reid in a Bradford City shirt?
Simon Parker column: Could injury signal the end of Kyel Reid in a Bradford City shirt?
Early birds arriving at the Bramall Lane away end were greeted by a sight guaranteed to warm every Bradford City heart.
Short of sounding a battle horn and lining up a thousand horses on the horizon, watching Andrew Davies going through his paces was as close a signal as you’ll get that the cavalry is on the way.
Ninety minutes later and two stretchers were being carried off that same pitch. One bearing medical equipment – the other a distraught Kyel Reid.
The joy of seeing one of the club’s biggest figures gathering steam on the comeback trail replaced by another waving goodbye to the season – and maybe the club.
It was another reminder of the fragile life of a footballer.
Like so many of the most serious injuries, the fateful incident was much ado about nothing.
Yes, he was caught from behind by home defender Tony McMahon but it was not a hatchet challenge. Reid has had plenty of the x-rated variety and lived to tell the tale.
Unfortunately, in trying to turn and ride the foul, his studs got stuck in the ground and his knee twisted, snapping the anterior ligament in the cruciate.
It’s a devastating blow for the team, who rely so heavily on Reid’s electric pace and ability to attract a posse of markers from the opposition’s ranks.
But what about the player himself? From playing week in, week out and carrying so much of City’s attacking threat, in one fell swoop he is reduced to the role of long-term patient.
And patience will be the key as he contemplates an absence that could stretch to eight months. That’s well into next season.
By that point, the one-year option that City eagerly took up on Reid’s contract will have expired. What will happen then?
His medical bills and recuperation will be funded by the club for the remaining five months he is on the Valley Parade pay roll. But then comes the dilemma.
In normal circumstances, offering Reid a further contract would be a no-brainer. Like all wingers, he may infuriate at times, but ask any club in the lower leagues and they would earmark him as the man to watch – and fear – when playing the Bantams.
It’s safe to assume that having secured James Hanson early on and then unsuccessfully trying to keep Nahki Wells, Reid’s name would have been high up on that priority list of players to keep.
That can’t possibly be the case now. No football club will put a deal in front of a player facing up to such a long spell in casualty.
It sounds harsh but that is simply throwing good money after bad.