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Mr. Holt also raised about $750,000, almost as much as the incumbent Republican. And the Democrat, a former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, benefited from Mr. Pappas's conservatism, which placed him to the right of the district's previous Republican incumbent, Richard A. Zimmer.
The Holt campaign did not use the advertisement until the final month or so of the race, and then spent heavily -- about two-thirds of its total ad budget -- to try to saturate the market. The ad was aimed at Mr. Pappas, but if it hit Mr. Starr too, that was all right, Mr. Lawrence, the strategist, said.
The glitch in the vote counting that seemed to put Mr. Holt on the losing track last night resulted from a false keystroke in the Mercer County Clerk's office, and was brought to the County Clerk's attention by a perturbed Mr. Lawrence. ''It was a human error -- that happens,'' Catherine DiCostanzo, the County Clerk and a Republican, said last night.
Five Argentine managers entered the World Cup last week but each one of them has had a disastrous tournament and three are already preparing to pack their bags.
Five Argentine managers entered the World Cup last week in what appeared to be a demonstration of the vast quality of coaching in the nation but each one of them has had a disastrous tournament and three are already preparing to pack their bags. Saudi Arabia’s Juan Antonio Pizzi’s reputation was on the line from the opening game when his side were hammered 5-0 by Russia and his early exit was confirmed by a 1-0 defeat to Uruguay on Wednesday which also saw Hector Cuper’s Egypt eliminated after also losing both of their Group A games.
Ricardo Gareca, who had led Peru to their first World Cup since 1982, swiftly joined his compatriots in being sent home early when his side were beaten by France 1-0 on Thursday. Three hours later, Argentina coach Jorge Sampaoli was put on the brink of a catastrophic elimination by his side’s 3-0 surrender to Croatia.
The two-times winners and 2014 runners-up could still yet avoid their earliest exit from the tournament since 2002 but their fate, and Lionel Messi’s future in what is likely to be the last World Cup at his peak, is no longer in their own hands. Jose Pekerman could still lead Colombia out of their group, with fixtures against Poland and Senegal to come, although his side got off to a nightmare start by losing 2-1 to Japan after defender Carlos Sanchez was sent off in the third minute.
Pekerman is still revered in Colombia for the team’s inspired run to the 2014 World Cup quarter-finals and Gareca’s reputation will not be tarnished either by his side’s exit from a difficult group. The future of Cuper is more uncertain as Egypt underachieved after so much promise although they were hamstrung by the untimely shoulder injury to talisman Mohamed Salah.
The anger within the Argentina camp after the debacle against Croatia could be seen when Sergio Aguero, who was hauled off early in the second half, was asked about Sampaoli’s comments that “some players did not adapt”. “Let Sampaoli say whatever he wants,” said the striker, visibly annoyed.
The art of Japanese Textile Making is an exhibtion on view through Dec. 9 at the Design Museum at UC Davis.
Lunchables are Arts Blog features about exhibitions that can be viewed during lunch or another short break of time in a day.
A highlight of the exhibition is its installation which evokes the aesthetic of a traditional Japanese market where many of the objects were purchased.
Cerny loved textiles as a young child, shopping at curio shops with her father while living in Japan. Later, she graduated from UC Davis Department of Design in 1970, and worked as a costume designer for several years before her interests began to shift toward the study of dress and identity. This interest compelled her to complete a PhD at the University of Minnesota and later to enter academia, as a professor at the University of Rhode Island and Virginia Tech. Over the last 20 years, Cerny has identified as a collector; visiting textile producing communities all over the world, and building a diverse collection of unique textiles suitable for university study.
Through the miracles of modern technology, you can get a sneak peek by viewing the video here.
But textiles, with all their texture and body, are much better in person, so take a walk, bike ride, skateboard or any form of wheels to the museum on the edge of campus at Cruess Hall.
The Design Museum, part of the College of Letters and Science, is in Cruess Hall, Room 124. It is free and open weekdays noon to 4 p.m. and Sundays 2 to 4 p.m.
Click Visit the Design Museum for map and parking information.
SCOTTISH parents are being urged to argue against a ban on smacking children by family campaigners in New Zealand where it has been outlawed for the past decade.
The Family First organisation has warned that the 2007 ban has not resulted in any improvement in children’s “wellbeing” – and in many cases it has worsened.
It is now offering to advise Scottish opponents of such a move here after children’s minister Aileen Campbell recently hinted that ministers are considering a ban.
Campbell revealed that New Zealand was among the countries which the Scottish Government is now looking to “learn from” in its approach to tackling physical punishment of children. Ministers in Scotland say they oppose smacking but have no plans to legislate until a full consultation is carried out.
But Family First New Zealand, in an article for Scotland on Sunday today, warns that the move may be more about “political ideology” then the impact on families.
National director Bob McCoskrie said the group has already been in contact with politicians and family organisations in Scotland to discuss New Zealand’s experience.
He warns in today’s article that the New Zealand ban has not been a success.
“The problem is that politicians and anti-smacking lobby groups linked good parents who smacked their children with child abusers – a notion roundly rejected by families,” he states.
“A law change would also communicate the message that politicians don’t trust Scottish parents to raise their own children responsibly.
“Ultimately, as we have observed, the supporters of smacking bans are influenced by political ideology rather than common sense, good science and sound policy-making.
Parents in New Zealand now report they increasingly face threats from younger children to report them if they are smacked. About a quarter of parents now say they are less confident in tackling unacceptable behaviour of children.
In Scotland, although physical punishment of children is classed as assault, smacking is generally allowed under the defence of “reasonable chastisement”. A growing body of children’s campaign groups and academics want to see this defence removed.
Rev David Robertson, moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, said he was opposed to any form of abusive behaviour towards children, but added that an outright ban on smacking was “over the top”.
He added: “To criminalise parents who may be good and loving people and are only looking out for their children is just daft and is just another example of the moral thought police approach.
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WATCH: Sexual assault survivors deliver powerful message to Donald Trump: "What happened to me was not just locker room talk"
"I will not be silenced."
In a new Planned Parenthood Action Fund ad, Blair Imani responded to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's 2005 boast that he is able to sexually assault women because of his celebrity with her own story of sexual assault.
"I am a Black American Muslim woman and a survivor of sexual assault, and I know Donald Trump’s America doesn’t value me or my story," Imani, an activist, wrote to introduce the new anti-Trump web ad.
In the less than two-minute ad posted to YouTube hours before the final presidential debate Wednesday, a series of women and men share their stories of surviving sexual assault in reaction to Trump's leaked "Access Hollywood" tape.
"I was at his house," one woman recalled.
"I was at a frat party," another noted.
"He took me in when I was homeless."
"I wanted to forget it ever happened," a woman shared, before adding "I watched that tape of Donald Trump."
"I heard him bragging about grabbing women," another voice picked up. "I heard him laugh." The ad continued with other victims.
"And I heard him say it’s just 'locker room talk.'"
"What happened to me was not just locker room talk."
"We deserve a president who understands that."
The ad ended with this powerful declaration from the survivors of sexual assault: "We will be the reason Donald Trump is not elected president."
"When he sneers at survivors, when he says we are not attractive enough to be assaulted, when he calls us liars, when he insists that we should remain silent, he is letting all of us know where he stands when it comes to the very real and widespread problem of sexual assault in this country — and it is not with survivors," Blair wrote of the GOP presidential nominee.
New Hampshire's two Democratic U.S. Senators say they will not support Judge Neil Gorsuch, Republican President Donald Trump's pick to serve on the Supreme Court.
Sen. Maggie Hassan says Gorsuch has sided with corporations over families and undervalues the federal act requiring equal education for students with disabilities. Hassan's adult son, Ben, has cerebral palsy. She says Gorsuch has "repeatedly ruled against the rights of people with disabilities."
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen says she'll reject Gorsuch because of his record on women's rights. She also says he offered "evasive" answers on his views on money in politics.
Both senators are urging the Senate to maintain the 60-vote threshold needed to confirm court nominees, rather than moving to a simple majority.
New Hampshire Republicans are accusing the two Democrats of being obstructionists.
Michael Brown doesn’t care how much you love Pluto. He loves it too, but that didn’t stop him from leading the charge in 2006 to strip it of its “planet” designation and bust it down to a mere dwarf planet. But now, the Caltech astronomer is making amends in a big way: along with Caltech planetary scientist Konstantin Batygin, he has just released a paper announcing the highly likely discovery of a new planet to replace Pluto—and no one’s ever going to be able to demote this one.
The discovery of the world that Brown and Batygin refer to in The Astronomical Journal simply as “Planet 9” began in 2003, with the discovery of a far more modest object named Sedna. A dwarf planet even smaller than Pluto, Sedna is a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), like Pluto one of a vast band of icy, rocky objects that surround the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune. Brown was part of the team that found Sedna too, and if anything made the new world remarkable, it was its extreme distance from the sun—one that has it completing a single orbit in 11,400 years, compared to Pluto’s 248.
But something else was strange about Sedna as well—or at least about the company it keeps. In the years that followed, astronomers discovered five other KBOs whose closest approach to the sun (or perihelion) matches Sedna’s almost perfectly, both in distance and in the angle of the orbit relative to the horizon of the solar system.
If it wasn’t chance that was behind such a tidy clustering, it had to be gravity—the influence of a passing object that herds the KBOs together, in the same way Saturn’s moons influence the positioning of particles in the rings. Using mathematical modeling and computer simulations, Brown and Batygin concluded that Sedna and the other members of its flock must be herded by an as-yet-unobserved planet with about ten times the mass of Earth, circling the sun at an average distance 20 times greater than that of Neptune—making one orbit every 20,000 years. A body with different mass or a different distance simply couldn’t explain the behavior of the six KBOs.
How Planet 9 found itself in so remote a place is unclear. It’s unlikely that it formed in situ, essentially coalescing out of the primordial cloud of dust and gas that formed the rest of the solar system, since there probably wouldn’t have been enough raw material to form so big a world out that far. Rather, the new planet might have accreted closer in like the other planets, and then been ejected by their gravitational forces.
Now, Brown and Batygin need earthbound witnesses to confirm that Planet 9 exists. Just as Neptune was originally inferred by wobbles spotted in Uranus’s orbit, the existence of Planet 9 can be inferred by the aligned KBOs. But without a verifiable observation, it’s still a theoretical discovery. The pair are hoping to crowdsource that job, getting as many telescopes looking as possible across the globe. They’ve made the challenge easier by mapping Planet 9’s orbit; now skywatchers have to pinpoint where it is on that very long path.
This photo of Pluto was made during the New Horizons spacecraft's historic flyby of the dwarf planet in July 2015. New Horizons is now sailing into the Kuiper Belt for a rendezvous with another small world.
This nebula named "Thor's Helmet" is powered by a central "Wolf Rayet" star whose explosive tantrums blow huge bubbles of gas and make them glow like neon. This star is easily 20 times the mass of the Sun and located 15,000 light years away. Eventually the star's instability will lead it to explode as a supernova. The photo was captured at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter in Arizona and released on Jan. 3, 2015.
Super Typhoon Maysak, as seen from aboard the International Space Station on March 31, 2015. NASA Astronaut Terry Virts captured this image and tweeted "The eye of #Maysak typhoon really stands out early in the morning with the shadow being cast deep into the vortex." His ESA crewmate on station also viewed the storm and wrote, "Commands respect even from #space..."
The total solar eclipse at Svalbard, Norway, on March 20, 2015. A partial solar eclipse was seen in Europe, northern and eastern Asia and northern and western Africa.
Pluto's haze layer shows its blue color in this picture taken by the New Horizons spacecraft on Oct. 8, 2015 after it passed the dwarf planet. The high-altitude haze is thought to be similar to that seen at Saturn’s moon Titan. The source of both hazes likely involves sunlight-initiated chemical reactions of nitrogen and methane, leading to relatively small, soot-like particles called tholins.
A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captures the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away on July 6, 2015.
The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with a Cygnus spacecraft onboard, suffered a catastrophic explosion moments after launch on Oct. 28, 2014, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Cygnus spacecraft was filled with supplies slated for the International Space Station. The never before seen photographs were released by NASA this year.
The stark transition between radiating sand dunes and an old volcanic flow on the surface of Earth was captured by astronaut Kjell Lindgren aboard the International Space Station, on Dec. 5 2015.
The Lagoon Nebula, a bright cloud of dust and gas 4,000 light years away and 40 light years across, glows brilliantly due to hot energetic young stars forming within. It can even be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies away from city lights. The photo was captured at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter in Arizona and released on July 15, 2015.
Circinus X-1 is an X-ray binary star known for its erratic variability can be seen in this photo released on June 23, 2015. Within the system, a dense neutron star, the collapsed remnant of a supernova explosion, orbits with a more ordinary stellar companion Circinus X-1 30,700 light-years away.
The spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 and the nebula M1-67 was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, released on Aug. 21, 2015. The twin formation is located in the constellation of Sagittarius, 15,000 light-years away. The star shines brightly at the very center of the image. Surrounding it are hot clumps of gas being ejected into space at over 93,000 mph.
A meteor from the Perseid Meteor shower can be seen in the upper left corner in this long exposure image taken as a wildfire burned in Lake and Napa Counties near the town of Clearlake, Calif. on Aug. 12, 2015.
The once in a generation supermoon total lunar eclipse viewed from Glastonbury, England, on Sept. 28, 2015. Three decades had passed since the last time Earth was witness to the triple crown of lunar events — a full moon, a lunar eclipse, and a lunar perigee all at the same time.
This composite image made from five frames shows the International Space Station, with a crew of nine onboard, in silhouette as it transits the sun at roughly five miles per second, on Sept. 6, 2015.
A Soyuz spacecraft is seen as it returns home with NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of Roscosmos, near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on March 12, 2015.
Astronaut Scott Kelly, re-entering the International Space Station after his spacewalk on Oct. 29, 2015.
Astronaut, Kjell Lindgren captures one last stunning view of the Milky Way before his return to Earth on Dec. 10, 2015.
A Vega rocket lifts off from French Guiana on Dec. 3 2015, carrying the European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, which will test methods for detecting gravity waves.
The supermoon, which occurs when the moon is full, with the closest approach to Earth on its elliptical orbit, above the Washington Monument on Sept. 27 2015. Making the phenomenon even more dramatic: a total lunar eclipse also occurred that evening.
Charon, the largest moon of Pluto, captured by the New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 290,000 miles.
A Soyuz spacecraft returning from the International Space Station lands in Kazakhstan on June 11, 2015, with NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency aboard. The burst of fire and smoke at the point of impact comes from the braking rockets the Soyuz fires to ease the landing.
Volunteers using the web-based Milky Way Project brought star-forming features nicknamed "yellowballs" to the attention of researchers, who later showed that they are a phase of massive star formation. The yellow balls -- which are several hundred to thousands times the size of our solar system -- are pictured here in the center of this image of the W33 Star forming region taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, released on Jan. 27, 2015.
New Horizons scientists made this false color image of Pluto using a technique called principal component analysis to highlight the many subtle color differences among Pluto's different regions. The picture was taken from a distance of 22,000 miles on July 14, 2015.
The Twin Jet Nebula, or PN M2-9, is a striking example of a bipolar planetary nebula, formed when the central object is not a single star, but a binary system. An earlier image of the Twin Jet Nebula using data gathered by Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 was released in 1997. This newer version released on Aug. 26, 2015 incorporates more recent observations from the telescope’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph.
The brilliant palette of Africa captured by astronaut Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station on July 22, 2015.
Aurora Borealis seen over the Brecon Beacons, Wales, England on Mar. 17, 2015. Increased solar activity has meant that the northern lights were viewable over many areas of the UK, reaching as far south as South Wales.
The blood moon lunar eclipse sets behind Pikes Peak on April 4, 2015 in Colorado Springs. The reddish hue is the result of Earth moving between the sun and the moon and Earth's atmosphere absorbing blue wavelengths and allowing red ones to pass through.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of the sun setting at the close of the mission's 956th Martian day, or sol, on April 15, 2015, from the rover's location in Gale Crater. This was the first sunset observed in color by Curiosity.
The rippled surface of the first Martian sand dune ever studied up close can been seen is this photo taken on Nov. 27, 2015 by NASA Mars Rover Curiosity. The dunes close to Curiosity's current location are part of "Bagnold Dunes," a band along the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp inside the Gale Crater.
A 3-D computer model (a digital terrain map) of Hale Crater on Mars based on stereo information from two HiRISE observations showing dark, narrow streaks on the Martian slopes that are inferred to be formed by seasonal flow of water on contemporary Mars was released on Sept. 28, 2015.
Astronaut Scott Kelly captured this image of the Bahamas from the International Space Station on July 19, 2015.
An image of the wildfires in the Northwest taken from the International Space Station released on Aug. 17, 2015.
Sand dunes sculpted by wind, captured by astronaut Kjell Lindgren, aboard the International Space Station on Dec. 8 2015.
This photo shows the new mountain range discovered by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015 on Pluto, in a heart-shaped region named Tombaugh Regio.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this parting view showing the rough and icy crescent of Saturn's moon Dione following the spacecraft's last close flyby on Aug. 17, 2015. The image was captured from a distance of 37,000 to 47,000 miles.
Comet 67P, photographed by the Rosetta Orbiter from a distance of 79 miles on Nov. 22, 2015.
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus and a small stretch of Saturn's rings, as seen by the Cassini spacecraft on July 29, 2015.
This image released on April 6, 2015, shows the centre of the globular cluster Messier 22, also known as M22, as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Globular clusters are spherical collections of densely packed stars, relics of the early years of the Universe, with ages of typically 12 to 13 billion years.
The Hubble Space Telescope revisits one of its most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. This image shows the formation as seen in infrared light, which gives the familiar pillars an unfamiliar look. The image was released in January 2015.
Moonlight over Italy, as captured by astronaut Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 23, 2015.
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have assembled a bigger and sharper photograph of the iconic Eagle Nebula's "Pillars of Creation," rereleased in January 2015.
The supermoon rises behind Glastonbury Tor on Sept. 27, 2015 in Glastonbury, England. A supermoon occurs when the moon is both full and at the closest approach it makes to Earth during its orbit.

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