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He also said he thinks the U.S. will "end up probably terminating" the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico "at some point," though he said he hasn't made up his mind.
"Personally, I don't think we can make a deal because we have been so badly taken advantage of," Trump said.
In the comfort of his most fervent fans, Trump often resurrects his free-wheeling 2016 campaign style, pinging insults at perceived enemies such as the media and meandering from topic to topic without a singular theme. This was Trump's eighth rally since taking office in January, and each event is attended by supporters screened by his campaign.
His comfort-level was apparent: As he discussed his responses to Charlottesville, he interrupted himself. "I didn't want to bore you. You understand where I'm coming from. You people understand."
HE’S best known for changing the way we think about mathematics on YouTube, but this week, students from Orange’s schools got to experience Eddie Woo in person.
Mr Woo visited Orange High School on Monday and Tuesday, teaching 400 primary students on the first day and year 12 students from OHS and Canobolas Rural Technology High School on the second.
Setting a number of challenges for the students, Mr Woo said he wanted students to use their theoretical knowledge to solve questions “that actually matter”.
VISITING: Canobolas Rural Technology High School year 12 maths students Danielle Kiel, Sidney Ewins, Dea Salamat, Jennifer Noble, Henry Shepherd, Luke D'Elboux, Catherine Nicholson, Jayden Zegzula and Charles Pike with Mr Woo.
“For example, you can work out how much it will cost to fit 150 solar panels and what angle they need to be and which roofs,” he said.
Mr Woo said human minds trumped computers because they could formulate the questions and think laterally.
He was encouraged to see students initially struggling to solve the tasks, saying they helped them grow.
Eddie Woo sets the students a task.
“I once asked a mathematician, ‘do you get the answer right all the time?’ And she said, ‘no we’re constantly getting things wrong, but that doesn’t mean we give up’,” he said.
OHS year 12 student Jack Kelly, who one day hopes to study physiotherapy, said he gained a better sense of how maths applied to real life.
“He explained reasoning and understanding the problem rather than just being able to solve it,” he said.
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FILE - In this April 3, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Trump will meet with El-Sissi next month at the White House.
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi on Saturday announced that he has raised the minimum wage to 2,000 Egyptian pounds ($115.74) per month from 1,200 ($69.27), a 67 percent increase.
Egypt's Parliament, which is packed with el-Sissi supporters, overwhelmingly approved a package of constitutional changes last month that would further enshrine the military's role in politics. The supposed referendum is expected to be held in the coming weeks.
El-Sissi said in televised comments the raise will be applied to all Egyptian workers. The move was part of a package of measures, including a raise in pensions and bonuses, intended to ease the burdens of Egyptians hurt by painful austerity measures in recent years. Egypt's Finance Ministry said the increase would kick in in July.
The austerity measures were part of an ambitious economic reform program intended to revive the country's economy mauled by years of political turmoil and violence.
El-Sissi thanked Egyptians, especially women, for enduring the harsh measures. "Another path would have led to the collapse of the state," he said in a ceremony honoring Egyptian women.
Removing state subsidies is something that el-Sissi's predecessors could not do because of fears of unrest. The late President Anwar Sadat attempted in 1977 to remove subsidies on bread, a main staple for Egyptians, sparking deadly street riots. He backed down. In comparison, el-Sissi's reforms fueled popular discontent but never boiled over onto the streets.
The economic reform program has won el-Sissi lavish praise from Egypt's Western backers and bankers. His policies, however, have made more difficult the plight of a majority of Egyptians who are now forced to cope with steep hikes in the price of everything from utilities and fuel to food and transportation.
We reached the end of the internet today. Everyone take your ball cat and go home.
Sports Balls Replaced With Cats. That is all. Maybe forever.
Six people who became unwell after apparently breathing in paint fumes at the Tesco in Littlehampton have been taken to hospital, the ambulance service has confirmed.
A hazardous area response team attended the scene in Broad Piece, Wick, the ambulance spokesman said, where line painting outside the Tesco is believed to have filtered into the store causing people to suffer from 'breathing difficulties'.
A spokesman for the South East Coast Ambulance Service said: “I can confirm ambulance crews have attended the scene following a call made at approximately 7am this morning.
“Our hazardous area response team has also attended the scene.
In a statement, Sussex Police said: “Emergency services are attending the Tesco store in Broad Piece, Littlehampton, where a number of people have become unwell after apparently breathing in paint fumes.
“The alarm was raised at 7.25am on Thursday (September 27).
"It appears that the fumes may have been drawn into the store from line painting that was being undertaken outside.
In the wake of the election of Donald Trump, it’s been difficult not to view any work of art through that particular extra-textual lens—perhaps lending certain films a resonance they might not have had before “Trump’s America” became a reality. Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival is a fine sci-fi picture in its own right, but its implicit endorsement of understanding a language, and by extension a culture, foreign to our own couldn’t help but seem so much more timely after a political campaign like Trump’s that thrived on rhetoric of xenophobia and isolationism. The upcoming Miss Sloane—a thriller about a powerful lobbyist with an apparently limited moral compass—may have seemed like a preaching-to-the-liberal-choir variation on Michael Clayton before November 9th. Now its cynicism feels almost cathartic.
In this topical light, it’s possible I may be overvaluing new documentary Disturbing the Peace. Stephen Apkon and Andrew Young’s film fits the activist-documentary mode to a T: talking heads galore (given a slightly novel twist by the filmmakers’ adoption of Errol Morris’s direct-to-the-camera Interrotron style); somewhat cheesy reenactments; a second half that teeters on the edge of self-congratulation; an ending that tries to leave us all inspired by the possibility of change. As filmmaking, there’s nothing especially inventive going on here.
And yet, especially in this current divisive political climate, it’s churlish to dismiss a film like this—one that is all about unity, empathy and bridging cultural divides—simply on the basis of such relatively negligible aesthetics. Disturbing the Peace revolves around a group called Combatants for Peace, a Middle East-based organization comprised of both Israelis and Palestinians working together and using nonviolent methods of protest to try to bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You’ve probably never heard of them, of course, because news outlets—especially American ones—tend to focus only on the bloodshed in the region. With so much violence between both groups, and with so many widely publicized efforts at diplomacy collapsing, it’s no wonder many people on the outside looking in feel despair about a peaceful solution ever arising.
Combatants for Peace, however, denies vehemently such hopelessness. Such optimism, however, has hardly come automatically for the group’s members, many of them former soldiers and fighters on both sides. In the first half of Disturbing the Peace, many of the individual members tell their stories, and some of them are indeed heartbreaking. Israeli Maia Hascal witnessed many of her colleagues killed while she served as part of the nation’s Defense Forces. Palestinian Jamel Qassas watched his brother get murdered by Israeli soldiers during the First Intifada. Palestinian Shifa al-Qudsi decided to carry out her own suicide attack before she was caught and imprisoned for six years. All of these perspectives, though, are masterfully woven together by editor Ori Derdikman into a tapestry that suggests a miniature history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one full of buried hatreds and resentments which have festered over many decades.
All of the featured interview subjects eventually have a moment of revelation that leads them to transcend the blanket demonizing on both sides to tap into their capacity for empathy. For Palestinian Suliman al-Khatib, it’s a viewing of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List while he was serving a 10-year prison term in Israel; for Qassas, it’s seeing his own mother crying over the deaths of Israeli children and sharing in the pain of Palestinian mothers. Perhaps Apkon and Young’s most brilliant strategy is to avoid any mention of Combatants for Peace until it is actually created midway through the film, allowing such moments of road-to-Damascus conversion to feel earned rather than preordained.
The second half of Disturbing the Peace mostly chronicles the efforts of the group to make their mark on the fraught political landscape through public protests and private dialogues. As briefly suggested earlier, this is arguably the less immediately compelling half, at times coming off as little more than a glorified advertisement for the cause, however noble, but there are occasional disturbances in its general wave of affirmation. Most notable is a domestic scene with Qassas and his family, as he and his wife get into a heated argument over whether he should bring his daughters to a Combatants for Peace protest. Though the filmmakers clearly align with the magnanimous long-range vision Qassas expresses, his wife’s arguments—articulating the resentment at the heart of Palestinians’ view of Israelis—offer a sobering reminder of just how steep this group’s climb is in essentially convincing a whole generation of people to put aside decades-long biases and embrace compassion.
This is only further emphasized when the latest attempts at peace talks between Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas break down, leading to a new cycle of violence and a sense of discouragement among Combatants members. And yet, the group soldiers on nevertheless, staging a mass rally in a public square in Israel even as some Israelis call them traitors and openly wish for their deaths. No doubt U.S. viewers will see a scene like this and immediately think of the many appalling news stories of emboldened racism and sexism in the wake of Donald Trump’s election—but it’s not like the other side is completely exempt from blame, with many Democrats now forced to look inward and assess whether they did enough to address the underlying working-class resentments that are now flaring into the open. Maybe, in chronicling the exploits of a band of Israelis and Palestinians making a very public effort to reach across the aisle and suggest a peaceful way forward for the two nations, Disturbing the Peace is the kind of movie we need at this moment, aesthetic concerns be damned.
Kenji Fujishima is a freelance film critic, contributing to Slant Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, The Playlist and the Village Voice. He is also Deputy Editor of Movie Mezzanine. When he’s not watching movies or writing and editing film criticism, he’s trying to absorb as much music, art and literature as possible. He has not infrequently been called a “culture vulture” for that reason.
There was a time when one went to the railroad depot for purposes directly associated with railroading. You went to buy tickets to ride. To welcome relatives to town. To bid farewell to brave loved ones deploying in service to their country. Trains and railroads transformed the landscape and the American experience.
Railroad depots helped facilitate America’s mobility. Over 140,000 depots were built in the United States. Their recognizable architecture added to their popular appeal. Depots were usually rectangular in form, the longer side parallel to the tracks. They were predominantly single-story, so baggage and freight could be easily transported to the trackside platform. Rooflines extended with wide eaves to shelter passengers from weather. Most often, depots are owned privately, but used publicly. Depots are components of a larger infrastructure system of railways, but to a far lesser frequency and number these days.
People still go to the depots, of course, which continue to serve travelers well, maybe better than ever. They remain buildings supporting regular, daily transit for commuters, and poignant places of arrival and departure for travelers.
For a number of depots, time and function passed them by. Travel by train is no longer available in many areas where it used to be. Nevertheless, communities didn’t want to lose their old buildings, if only they could find compatible uses. Many of them found a new purpose.
When it's time to travel this holiday season, by passenger train, plane, bus or vehicle, don’t miss out on these repurposed depots along the way.
Built in 1869, the depot served as the main freight depot for the Georgia Railroad. The Freight Room is rented for special events, and can accommodate 800 guests for a seated event and 1300 for a stand-up reception.
The former Texas & Pacific Railroad Depot houses the Abilene Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Abilene Cultural Affairs Council.
Built in 1899, the depot is home to Broken Symmetry Gastro Brewery.
New Freedom Station along the Heritage Rail Trail is home to a café and museum.
The historic L & N Depot is home to the Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce and Realizations, the Walter Anderson Shop.
Built in 1863, the depot houses a museum and the South Bay Historical Railroad Society.
The rehabilitated depot is part of a 32-acre Depot Park.
Former baggage depot built in the 1890s, has been restored and serves as a Greyhound bus station.
The Central Vermont Railway built the depot in 1901. Now a restaurant with American neighborhood dining.
The depot was built in 1900. In 1989, the Union Pacific System donated it to Evanston, where it is used as a community and events center.
"The day we wrote this song was one of those days that renewed my faith in the bond the three of us have as songwriters," Lady A singer Charles Kelley remembers. "It came so easily, and it reminded me of the early days when we first started out, and we'd spend hours in my brother Josh [Kelley]'s house writing songs. Everyone keeps asking if we feel pressure after the success of 'Need You Now,' and we are trying to not even think about the new album or these songs in those terms. We are just writing about what we are going through in our lives, and we hope that country music fans continue to connect with them."
Hillary Scott, who is happily dating drummer Chris Tyrell, acknowledges her budding romance may have made its way into the song. "We love writing songs from personal experience, and this is definitely one of those songs," she notes. "There is so much excitement at the beginning of a new relationship ... all the butterflies and that optimistic feeling that this person could be 'the one.' This song is about one of those times when your brain kicks in and tells your heart 'good things are worth waiting for.'"
Dave Haywood adds that the male-female ratio in the group enhances their songwriting ability. "One of the best things about writing for us is that we have the option to speak from both the man and woman's perspective because Charles and Hill can share lead vocals," says Dave. "This is actually the very last song we wrote for the album. We were about six songs into recording and someone had this idea, so we sat down to write it. Then we took it to our producer Paul Worley, and a few days later we were recording it."
The trio will perform the new song on 'American Idol' this Thursday (May 5) on FOX. The group will have to finish the new album between dates on their concert schedule, including a show in New York next week and an appearance at Nashville's CMA Music Festival in June. See their concert schedule here.
What the What? We can't make fun of this disturbing, deathly Walmart trend, can we?
Today on What the What, Rob is looking at some of the crazier crimes of the week and you'll find out why he's nervous about headin' down to the Walmart.
This week on What the What?, we're exploring the trend of parking lot deaths at Walmart outlets across the country.
By Washington Post on Jan 15, 2019 at 5:06 p.m.
WASHINGTON - A group of rank-and-file House Democrats turned down an invitation to have lunch with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, a snub that underscores the extraordinary divisions that have brought negotiations over the government shutdown to a standstill.
The invited Democrats, including centrist-leaning freshman and sophomore members, skipped the meeting amid calls for unity from Democratic leaders and fellow lawmakers who had voiced concerns the meeting would be little more than a photo opportunity that bolsters Trump.
Their decision marked another failure in the White House's ongoing attempt to splinter Democrats, who instead are holding firm against Trump's demands for $5.7 billion for his border wall.
The stalemate led to the partial government shutdown that was in its 25th day Tuesday, the longest such closure in history, with 800,000 federal workers going without pay.
"Today, the president offered both Democrats and Republicans the chance to meet for lunch at the White House. Unfortunately, no Democrats will attend," said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. "The president looks forward to having a working lunch with House Republicans to solve the border crisis and reopen the government. It's time for the Democrats to come to the table and make a deal."
Shortly before the statement from Sanders, House Democratic leaders had made clear they did not want to see individual lawmakers breaking off to meet with the president - although they said they were not explicitly discouraging anyone from attending.
"The question that I think everyone can reasonably ask is, is he inviting people to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to really try to resolve this problem or to create a photo op so he can project a false sense of bipartisanship?" said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who chairs the House Democratic Caucus. "That is a question that I think every individual member will have to entertain for themselves."
Invited lawmakers included Reps. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., and J. Luis Correa, D-Calif., both leaders of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition, and Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., a freshman lawmaker who is also a Blue Dog member.
In a statement, Murphy cited a scheduling conflict, while a spokesman for Correa said the congressman "welcomes the opportunity to talk with the president about border security, as soon as the government is reopened."
Trump's proposed meeting Tuesday marks the second attempt in as many days to start a dialogue that works around the gridlocked talks between Trump and top Democrats.
A bipartisan group of senators met late Monday to try to find a way out of the shutdown impasse. Their gathering did not produce a consensus. As of Tuesday, no new meetings were scheduled nor was it clear whether the bipartisan group would convene again.
Both the House and the Senate canceled recesses that had been scheduled for next week, with leaders saying they would stay in town to work through the shutdown.
The White House's strategy for weeks has been to splinter the Democrats, but they have failed repeatedly as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has aligned himself closely with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. The newest iteration of this approach for the White House has been to try to pry loose rank-and-file members from Schumer and Pelosi's side, but that appeared to have failed as of Tuesday.
This was a key test for both Democratic leaders and also freshman Democrats, many of whom had sent mixed signals about abiding by leadership during their campaigns.
Rep. Katie Hill, D-Calif., a leader of the new class of freshman House Democrats, said the sentiment was clear at a freshman class meeting Tuesday morning that no Democrat should join Trump at the White House.
"I would say that that is definitely the general feeling, is that whoever goes to the White House is kind of setting themselves up to be used as a stunt," Hill told reporters at the Capitol.
The House, newly under Democratic control, has passed spending bills to reopen portions of the government unrelated to the border wall, with Democratic leaders saying Trump must support their legislation and reopen the government before they negotiate on his border security request.
Trump has refused, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said repeatedly that he will not put any legislation on the Senate floor without Trump's support.
Schumer on Tuesday called on McConnell to "end the pain," open the government and allow them to debate border security.
Asked if the Senate might potentially try to override a Trump veto to end the shutdown, McConnell on Tuesday replied: "Of course not."
Amid the confusion surrounding Tuesday's meeting, the White House sought to organize a new meeting with House Democrats for Wednesday, sending out an invitation to bipartisan members of the Problem Solvers Caucus, according to two Democrats familiar with the invitation. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential communications.
Trump's GOP allies in Congress criticized Democrats for the Tuesday snub.
"In case you needed MORE proof that Democrats are more interested in stopping the President than helping the country," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote on Twitter Thursday. "They rejected President Trump's invitation to meet at the White House. They refuse to come to a compromise to secure the border and end the shutdown."
Democratic leaders have worked to maintain a united front opposing any increase in funding for border barriers and security beyond a $1.3 billion annual allocation already in place.
"The Democrats are completely unified, and our objective is to reopen government," said Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., a member of the House Democratic leadership.
At a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus on Tuesday morning, Pelosi began by reading results of the latest Quinnipiac University poll, showing voters blame Trump more than Democrats for the shutdown, according to an aide in the room who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private gathering.
The aide said Pelosi went on to tell her caucus: "We want to talk about our values in terms of immigration and how that's always been bipartisan, including George Herbert Walker Bush, Ronald Reagan and the rest. Not to go into that, but to just say that I understand you all want to know what's the next step, but just the message of 'Open up government so we can have this discussion' is a very important message."
The outreach from the White House came with concerns mounting in the Capitol over the impacts of the government shutdown, with both sides dug in and no negotiations happening between Trump and congressional leaders. Trump continues to demand billions for his wall - and Democratic leaders continue to refuse.
The 800,000 affected federal workers comprise those who have been furloughed and those who are working without pay. Congress has signaled its intent to give workers back pay for the shutdown period, but many workers missed their first check last week, leading to broad hardship and union lawsuits.
The shutdown is also complicating the government's ability to perform duties millions of Americans depend on.
The Treasury Department, including the Internal Revenue Service, is unfunded, complicating preparations for the height of tax season. White House officials warned earlier this month that the nation's food stamp program was at risk of running out of funding in March if the shutdown is not resolved.
The Pentagon is mostly unaffected, since a spending bill for the military was passed by Congress and signed by Trump in 2018. Congress and the president also passed legislation to fund the Labor Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and others before Trump's demands for wall money ground negotiations on other spending bills to a halt.
Programs such as Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid also are unaffected, because their budgets proceed automatically, without the need for annual congressional appropriations. The Russia investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller also is unaffected; it is paid for by a permanent, dedicated funding stream.
This article was written by Erica Werner, a reporter for The Washington Post.
Right after the 2005 season, the Mets made finding a new closer their immediate priority. In other words, they kicked Braden Looper to the curb. Told him to hit the bricks. Showed him the door.
While they’re obviously thrilled Billy Wagner became a Cy Young Award candidate in his first year in Flushing, Looper also landed on his feet after the Mets said no to his $5 million option. And during Tuesday’s workout day, the Cardinals’ set-up man said he holds “no regrets” or bitterness.