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Newman, 21, said he introduced the resolution after what he described as TPUSA members harassing students on campus during a student organization's voter registration drive.
He also cited concerns about the group trying to influence student government elections. Former student government President Brooklyn Boreing resigned last fall after being accused of receiving unreported donations — including $2,800 and 25 iPads — from TPUSA. A formal investigation by the student government was closed without finding any wrongdoing.
Rodriguez, the TPUSA chapter leader, said the claims of election rigging and harassment were false.
How can I stop my husband from spreading messages about me to everyone in his unit, even to his commander?
It's not fair that I'm in Germany all alone and without anyone, no friends or anything, because he has turned everyone against me.
He tells people that I trapped him by getting pregnant and that my parents forced him to marry me, and that's the reason he joined the Army.
He told his commander that all I do is shop at malls in Frankfurt with his money but, Ms. Vicki, please tell me, what money? He's at the low end of the totem pole, and he doesn't make any money.
His commander had the nerve to confront me and started asking me a bunch of questions, acting like everything is my fault. Well, I told him a thing or two, gave him a piece of my mind! And yes, I had a few choice words for him!
Then his fool commander had the nerve to call my husband on the carpet about it when my husband is the one who started it by accusing me of all those things.
Now, of course, my husband is even madder at me and the other wives on base are calling me a gold digger! When my husband came home today, he said he was going to do an ERD [Early Return of Dependents] for me and our baby.
Can he do that? Can he get us kicked out of Germany for no reason?
Girl -- Lord help me! This sounds like a big high school mess!
Why do I feel like I am missing something with this story? It's like you went to Germany, and all hell broke loose while you were shopping in the mall in Frankfurt!
I feel like I'm missing some details somewhere in between the commander said something to you that made you angry and now they are sending you and your child back to the States.
To answer your question, yes, your husband and his commander can initiate an Early Return of Dependents. I'm guessing you are command sponsored in Germany, and something has gone terribly wrong.
I don't mean to sound judgmental, but I think you are a very young couple who could be away from home for the first time without family support. This can be difficult. I know what moving overseas without close family and friends is like. It can be very stressful.
Instead of alleviating the stress and putting a game plan or a wellness plan in action -- which is what we should do -- sometimes we do just the opposite.
We get moody and cranky, and we find substitutes for happiness, like spending more money than we have. Then the arguments and shouting start.
This is what I think happened with you and your husband: Instead of the two of you coming together as two adults to handle your problems, everyone on base and in your husband's unit got involved.
I think you and your husband should sit down like two married adults and talk to each other, instead of talking at each other and talking to other people.
Get everyone else out of your marriage. Tell him you want to work on the marriage, and you can't do that long distance. I have a feeling that if you leave Germany, your marriage will be over.
Lastly, you and your husband should talk to his commander. Hopefully, he or she is willing to rescind the ERD paperwork. If not, then you should visit with legal on base and try to get something in writing regarding spousal support and child support.
If you leave without it, it might be very hard to get your husband to provide support, and you don't need that frustration. Let me know what happens.
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union regulators have fined Google 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for abusing its dominant role in online advertising, the third big antitrust penalty they’ve given the internet giant since 2017.
The latest punishment means the commission has now issued Google with almost $10 billion in fines from probes into various parts of the Silicon Valley tech company's business.
In the latest ruling, Google and parent company Alphabet were found to have breached EU rules by imposing restrictive clauses in contracts with websites that used its AdSense advertising business. That prevented Google rivals from placing their ads on these sites, the EU's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, said Wednesday.
"Google abused its dominance to stop websites using brokers other than the AdSense platform," Vestager told a news conference as she outlined the results of the long-running probe.
The AdSense For Search service — known simply as AdSense — lets Google act as a middleman between advertisers and website owners who want to make money by selling space for ads. AdSense allows web publishers such as newspapers and bloggers to place text ads on their websites, with the content of the ads based on results from search functions on their sites.
The commission said Google has 70 percent of the European market for "online search advertising intermediation."
Microsoft filed a complaint with the EU in 2009 about Google's service and the commission formally launched its probe in 2016, although it said at the time that Google had already made some changes to give customers more freedom to show competing ads.
Google "prevented its rivals from having a chance to innovate and to compete in the market on their merits," Vestager said. "Advertisers and website owners, they had less choice and likely faced higher prices that would be passed on to consumers."
Last year, Vestager hit the company with a record 4.34 billion euro ($5 billion at the time) fine following an investigation into its Android operating system. In 2017, she slapped Google with a 2.42 billion euro ($2.7 billion at the time) fine in a case involving its online shopping search results.
Google's case highlights how the EU has led the way in promoting tougher regulation for the big tech companies . Besides cracking down on antitrust breaches by multinationals like Microsoft and Intel, the EU has enforced tougher data privacy rules that affect Facebook and other social media companies.
Google's senior vice president of global affairs, Kent Walker, said the company agrees that "healthy, thriving markets are in everyone's interest."
"We've already made a wide range of changes to our products to address the commission's concerns. Over the next few months, we'll be making further updates to give more visibility to rivals in Europe," Walker said in a statement.
Google, which is appealing both of the earlier cases, said ahead of Wednesday’s announcement that it has put in place remedies required by the commission. The company said in a blog post that it was making some tweaks to its shopping results. It will also start asking European users of new and existing Android phones if they want to use another search service or mobile browser.
Dorothy Hayes, the mother of Billy Hayes, a North Babylon man whose attempt to smuggle hashish out of Turkey led to imprisonment in that country, a daring escape and Hollywood fame, died Monday in West Islip. She was 91.
The cause was a heart ailment, her son said. Dorothy Hayes had spent several days receiving treatment in Good Samaritan Medical Center, where she died.
Hayes, also known as Dotty, was steadfast in her support for her son after his 1970 arrest at an Istanbul airport with more than 4 pounds of hash strapped to his waist. The 23-year-old, a graduate of Seton Hall High School in Patchogue who had dropped out of Marquette University, became a pawn in United States-Turkish relations and a subject of international fascination. A nighttime escape from an island prison in 1975 paved the way for a bestselling memoir, "Midnight Express," and an Oliver Stone movie with the same title.
Dorothy Hayes' husband, William Hayes, was often the public face of the family; but through it all, Billy Hayes said, his mother was "the heart." A lifelong Catholic, she began attending Mass several times a week to pray for her son at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Lindenhurst.
She and her husband mortgaged their North Babylon home to pay for their son's legal expenses during his imprisonment. They also bankrolled his escape, concealing 27 hundred-dollar bills in a family photo album given to him on a prison visit.
Beyond the half-joking, half-earnest wish that her son become a dentist, Dorothy Hayes rarely expressed doubt over his choices, Billy Hayes said, a subject he discusses in a one-man show called "Riding the Midnight Express."
"It's still the hardest thing to talk about, the pain that I brought" his parents, he said. "I wasn't thinking about anybody but myself. "
Dorothy Hayes, nee Smith, was born in the Bronx on Nov. 11, 1923, into a large Irish Catholic family. She attended St. Anselm School in the Bronx, where she met her future husband in ninth grade. They were married from 1946 until his death five years ago.
In addition to Billy Hayes of Los Angeles, Dorothy Hayes is survived by another son, Robert of Coral Springs, Florida, and a daughter, Peggy Turri of West Islip.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:45 a.m. Friday at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Babylon.
Jamie Gollands was in good form for Wisbech.
There was a comfortable win for Wisbech when this year’s Jaidka Cup T20 competition got under way last night (May 3).
They took on Fen rivals March at Harecroft Road in a Zone B match and cruised to an eight-wicket victory.
March were bowled out for 92 and Wisbech raced to 93-2 in 9.3 overs.
Tyler Phillips top-scored for March with 18 while Barry Stanway (3-15), Jamie Gollands (3-15) and Parth Patel (2-13) were the chief Wisbech wicket-takers.
Gollands (38no) and Patel (32) then did just as well with the bat.
Next Wednesday (May 10) Wisbech are in action at Ramsey while in Zone A Nassington entertain Deeping and Castor are at home to Peterborough Town.
America may have created AI, but China is taking the ball and running when it comes to one of the world’s most pivotal technology innovations.
That’s according to Kai-Fu Lee, a world-renowned AI expert who founded Sinovation, a China-U.S. fund that raised its fourth fund worth $1 billion earlier this year.
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, Lee — who led Google in China before it left the country — said any lead America’s tech industry may have enjoyed is rapidly being eroded by hungry Chinese entrepreneurs who have oodles more data at their disposal to build, train and deploy AI systems.
Sinovation already has five AI companies in its portfolio that are valued at over $1 billion — that might be a record for any VC firm worldwide — and he explained China’s “magical ascent” in AI has taken just two years.
“Coming from way behind, now [China] is actually ahead of the U.S. in AI implementation,” Lee said. “AI we should think of it as electricity. Thomas Edison [the inventor of electricity] — and also the AI deep learning inventors who were American — they invented this stuff and then they generously shared it.
“Now, China, as the largest marketplace with the largest amount of data, is really using AI to find every way to add value to traditional businesses, to internet, to all kinds of spaces. The Chinese entrepreneurial ecosystem is huge so today the most valuable AI companies in computer vision, speech recognition, drones are all Chinese companies,” Lee added.
But it isn’t just progress in the eyes of investors — who create valuations through their investment — Lee said that Chinese AI firms generate more sales, too, while China accounts for nearly half of all VC investments and 43 percent of all AI startups.
In the case of Sinovation, their billion-dollar AI companies include crypto firm Bitmain, image recognition company Megvii (known as Face++), fintech-focused 4th Paradigm, autonomous driving AI company Momenta and chip outfit Horizon Robotics.
Much of the reporting around how China is using artificial intelligence centers around ways that the government is using facial recognition for surveillance purposes. While that has included crime fighting, with facial recognition successfully used to identify and capture suspects, there are also concerns around more sinister applications, such as the surveillance of Chinese minority Uighur Muslims. China is reported to have detained as many as one million Uighur in camps, and facial recognition technology is believed to be one key part of surveillance strategy.
Lee, however, brushed off concern around the darker applications of AI in China, pointing out that the technology has the capacity to be abused anywhere in the world. He said China is also using the technology to develop new kinds of retail, manage busy urban traffic, build new kinds of educational services and more.
Indeed, Sinovation takes an unusual route to develop technologies and startups. As well as investing, it also develops technology in-house using a team of 200 people in its “institute.” Not only does that team work with portfolio companies and on a consultancy basis, but it develops its own services where it sees gaps in the market.
Indeed, the firm recently spun out its first venture from that tech team, which helps traditional retailers develop online-to-offline capabilities, which essentially marry the benefits of online commerce with more traditional brick and mortar retail. That’s a strategy in which Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com have invested heavily.
Donald Trump believes that those who aspire to the most visible spots in his administration should not just be able to do the job, but also look the part.
The parade of potential job-seekers passing a bank of media cameras to board the elevators at Trump Tower has the feel of a casting call. It is no coincidence that a disproportionate share of the names most mentioned for jobs at the upper echelon of the Trump administration are familiar faces to obsessive viewers of cable news — of whom the president-elect is one.
Mattis has a passing physical resemblance to the legendary World War II commander, as well as to the late actor George C. Scott, who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Patton in the 1970 biopic. Trump also seems particularly enamored with a nickname that Mattis is said to privately dislike.
“You know he’s known as ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis, right? ‘Mad Dog’ for a reason,” Trump said in a recent interview with the New York Times.
Battling through the GOP primary, Trump frequently made barbed comments about his opponents’ appearances.
Those kind of skin-deep standards helped make Trump a success as a reality-television star and international brand, but his critics say they are worrisome in the Oval Office.
All of which has led him to some unconventional picks. If confirmed by the Senate, ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson will become the first secretary of state in modern history to come to the job with no experience in government. Then again, Trump himself has none.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) has little obvious foreign policy experience to qualify her for United Nations ambassador, but she is a rising political star who brings diversity to Trump’s largely white and male picks for top jobs. Given how she and the president-elect had clashed during the 2016 campaign, Haley’s selection also suggests that Trump is willing to bring adversaries into the fold when they suit his needs.
In hiring, Trump has long trusted his own impressions, at times more than a candidate’s expertise or experience.
In 1981, he saw a security guard at the U.S. Open tennis championships masterfully eject some hecklers. Trump asked Barbara Res, one of his top construction executives, to hire the man.
“But you’ve never even met him!” she protested. Trump said he liked how the man looked when he handled the situation.
That security guard, Matthew Calamari, has worked for Trump for 35 years and is now chief operating officer of Trump Properties. His son, Matthew Calamari Jr., started with Trump five years ago as a security guard and is now the Trump Organization’s director of surveillance.
Trump’s closest aides have come to accept that he is likely to rule out candidates if they are not attractive or not do not match his image of the type of person who should hold a certain job.
Several of Trump’s associates said they thought that John R. Bolton’s brush-like mustache was one of the factors that handicapped the bombastic former United Nations ambassador in the sweepstakes for secretary of state.
Trump was drawn to Tillerson and 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney for secretary of state because of their presence and the way they command a room when they walk in.
The president-elect considered Romney despite the former Massachusetts governor’s scathing criticism of him during the presidential campaign. Several Trump associates say he was drawn to Romney, and later to Tillerson, by their “central casting” quality, a phrase the president-elect uses frequently in his private deliberations.
People close to Trump said he has been eager to appoint a telegenic woman as press secretary or in some other public-facing role in his White House — both because he thinks it would attract viewers and would help inoculate him from the charges of sexism that trailed his presidential campaign.
His first choice was his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, who has resisted the offer. On Thursday, Trump announced that she would be counselor to the president. Others under consideration for the podium job included Laura Ingraham, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Monica Crowley, all of whom are conservative pundits familiar to the viewers of Fox News Channel.
The current favorite for press secretary is Republican National Committee chief strategist and communications director Sean Spicer, who has impressed Trump with his tough and unyielding defenses of the incoming administration in hostile interviews on cable news networks.
Crowley, meanwhile, has been picked to become communications chief for Trump’s National Security Council, where the deputy director will be K.T. McFarland, another longtime denizen of the Fox green room.
Trump is also said to be considering CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow for head of his Council of Economic Advisers. That is normally an all-but-invisible spot given to a prestigious economist, but Kudlow has neither an undergraduate nor graduate degree in the subject.
Kudlow is, however, known for his ardent advocacy of tax cuts, which are also a top priority for the incoming president. In Trump’s administration, the job description may be to formulate his policies — and also help sell them on TV.
Marc Fisher, Matea Gold and Rosalind S. Helderman contributed to this report.
Char kuey teow is one of Malaysia's most iconic dishes. Made of flat rice noodles, bean sprouts, chives, and soy, the dish components can vary immensely. Additional ingredients can include tofu, seafood, chicken, and egg.
The term nasi kandar came from when rice (nasi) hawkers would carry around their offerings on poles (kandar) to sell. Today, it's essentially rice with your choice of whichever toppings are on offer.
Roti canai is essentially a fried, crispy, fluffy flatbread that you dip into a curry sauce. The dish has heavy Indian influences and is just unbelievably delicious.
Teh tarik translates to "pulled tea" which describes the process of how the tea is made. The condensed milk-sweetened tea is "pulled" between two mugs to cool, mix, and to make it frothy.
There are different variants of steamboat and lok lok throughout Malaysia. The more traditional steamboat is like hot pot where you eat the soup along with the ingredients you place inside. When having lok lok, you just eat the ingredients you boil on the sticks, and not the soup.
Nasi lemak is one of Malaysia's most-known dishes. It consists of rice cooked in coconut milk paired with sambal chilli, anchovies, peanuts, and boiled egg. Bungkus means "pack" in Malay, and really is just the take away version of the dish.
The oysters are lightly fried on a hot skillet before they're mixed with raw egg. The mix is then fried until it's cooked through and is served with a hot chilli sauce.
Otherwise known as ABC, ais kacang, which translates to "ice beans", is a popular Malaysian dessert. The base of the dish is full of shaved ice, beans, jelly, and evaporated milk.
Similar to laksa, curry mee is a spicy, coconut milk-based soup filled with whatever the heart desires. Commonly paired with thin egg or rice noodles, an array of vegetables and meats can be added depending on your personal preference.
Fried rice and nasi goreng are pretty much one and the same. Though, sweetened with sweet soy over regular soy, nasi goreng has a slightly different taste. Plus you'll often find a fried egg perched on top!
The western equivalent to Ramly burgers are the hotdogs you get from street vendors in NYC. Really popular in Malaysia, these hawker burgers are often wrapped in egg and other goodies.
This dish is a little different to the others found in Malaysia, because the noodles have a lot more bite than the regular rice ones. Also, the flavours are much lighter than most.