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The temperature in Plains, Montana in April is highly unpredictable, so use the forecast as a guide, but be ready for anything! |
Quinn's Hot Springs features both cabins and rooms which are furnished, have log beds, satellite TV, bathroom, coffeepot and wireless Internet access. Walk to the mineral pools, the on-site Harwood House Restaurant and Quinn's Tavern or Fannie's Gift Shop. A certified massage therapist is available by appointment. |
Located just 26 miles north of Thompson Falls on Highway 200, Trout Creek Motel, Cabins & RV Park offers hotel rooms, vacation cabins and RV parking spots. There are three cabins to choose from, each of which has a maximum capacity of six persons. All have vaulted ceilings, air-conditioning, fans, bathrooms and a kitch... |
Zollars, Andre. "Cabins Near Plains, MT." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/cabins-near-plains-mt-41867.html. Accessed 24 April 2019. |
Sen. John McCain, incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he has told the White House that former Sen. Joe Lieberman should be the next secretary of defense. |
McCain made the suggestion when White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough contacted him seeking a recommendation. |
The Arizona Republican told The Washington Post he doubted that President Barack Obama would take his advice and choose Lieberman to replace current Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who announced his resignation last week. |
Lieberman, a Democratic senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013, was Vice President Al Gore's running mate in the 2000 presidential election and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination in 2004. |
In 2008, however, Lieberman endorsed McCain, the Republican nominee, over Obama, and he has been sharply critical of Obama's handling of foreign policy. |
"Some terrible things could happen . . . for us if [Obama] doesn't turn it around," Lieberman said in a June speech. "If you wanted to get a sense of imagining without too much of the horrific about what the world would look like without active American leadership, look at the world today." |
"It's not collapsing, but as my friend said, it seems to be going to hell," he added. |
Lieberman slammed Obama for sending "a message to our allies and enemies . . . [that] we're not willing to put our muscle behind our values." |
"When other powers — Iran, Russia, and China — have acted aggressively, we have reacted ambivalently, slowly or not all," Lieberman wrote in a July 31 op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal. |
In negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, the Obama administration and the Europeans have persuaded Arab allies such as Saudi Arabia that the United States is "naïve," Lieberman said — so much so that the Saudis are looking for ways to obtain their own nuclear weapons. |
He added that in its attempts to broker a ceasefire during this summer's war between Israel and Hamas, "the White House seemed to be siding with Qatar and Turkey, supporters of Hamas," and against Israel and relatively moderate Arab states such as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. |
Last week, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz urged the president to consider Lieberman for the Pentagon post, calling him a "strong option" and someone with "deep experience and unshakable commitment to the security of the United States." |
Sen. John McCain, the incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he has told the White House that former Sen. Joe Lieberman should be the next secretary of defense. |
For their uber-cool Stumptown Series, Danner takes to their hometown tannery, Tanner Goods, for a re-creation of the ever-popular Mountain Light Lownsdale boot ($375). The handcrafted Olive Chromexcel boot with Vibram flex sole and Goretex lining is an updated version of one Danner's most popular pieces of footwea... |
In the aftermath of the North Korean artillery strike against the South Korean island in the Yellow Sea, a new poll conducted by Realmeter reflects a South Korean population in search of action against the north. |
A poll conducted by Seoul-based Realmeter demonstrated a desire for action - among 700 South Koreans surveyed - against the North Korean regime, in retaliation for a North Korean artillery strike on a South Korean island that left four dead. |
While the results may not seem surprising - coming just days after the North Korean action and in a heated environment that has been punctuated by violent riots - they represent a troubling amplification of tensions for the South Korean government and their US allies. |
US and South Korean military planners are expected to conduct military exercises and war games in the Yellow Sea this Sunday. The prospect of joint military exercises has been met with warnings from the North Korean establishment and protests from China. |
"If the US brings its carrier to the West Sea of Korea (Yellow Sea) at last, no one can predict the ensuing consequences," North Korean's state-run KCNA reported on Saturday. |
45 percent of South Koreans polled in the Realmeter survey support a "strong response" against their unpredictable northern neighbors “even if it would escalate arms clash with North Korea,” Donga Ilbo, a local daily, reported on Saturday. |
Tensions have been elevated on the Korean peninsula since North Korea sank a South Korean vessel - killing 46 sailors - earlier this year, leading to a UN investigation and a global rebuke of the North Korean regime. |
A bill that would set tougher tracking and accounting requirements for fetal remains after an abortion will be sponsored again next year by state Representative Diane Franklin (R-Camdenton). The measure would require that all tissue is accounted for, all is viewed by a pathologist, and a report on them must be issued a... |
“We want the fetal tissue to be handled properly, whether you agree with abortion or you don’t” says Franklin. |
Opponents of the bill say further restrictions are unnecessary, redundant and are meant to make it tougher to provide abortions. |
“I think it’s worth ensuring the integrity of the baby body parts. We wanted to protect those individuals who think that something might be going astray,” says Franklin. |
Her bill passed in the House this year but didn’t make it to the Senate floor. |
Chelsea's David Luiz says his selection for the Brazil World Cup squad is a "dream come true". |
Manager Luiz Felipe Scolari's 23-man provisional squad does not include Kaka, Robinho, Ronaldinho, Lucas Moura and Philippe Coutinho, but Chelsea's quartet of Luiz, Oscar, Ramires and Willian made the cut. |
Brazil face Croatia, Mexico and Cameroon in Group A of the tournament. |
That's that. CIT has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The filing was expected, and pre-packaged, and the commercial lender hopes to be back on its feet in two months. |
Via DealBook, here's the filing. |
Scrolling through social media in the current news cycle can be a jarring experience. A picture of a friend’s adorable new baby … a snap of kids laughing on their last day of school … then, suddenly, a photo of a child caged like an animal. |
In recent weeks, as awareness of families being separated at the border grew, it became impossible to turn on a TV or pull up Facebook without seeing images or hearing audio of distraught children. Reactions in the face of such trauma vary: While some might seek to unplug to avoid the images, others may consume as much... |
But is there a middle ground? Can you pay attention and contribute while not letting it overtake your life? Can you feel happiness in your own experiences without feeling guilty that others are in pain? According to Alexandra Solomon, a clinical psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, it’s impo... |
A 2017 American Psychological Association study reported that 56 percent of adults say watching the news causes them stress and 59 percent consider this the lowest point in U.S. history that they can remember. APA Associate Executive Director for Practice Research and Policy Lynn Bufka said it’s entirely possible to se... |
It’s natural for guilty feelings to creep in when you take a step back from the news, but Solomon said it’s a crucial piece of coping that actually goes hand-in-hand with taking action. |
“There are two parts of coping, and one is stepping up: making calls, marching, donating, making your voice heard. Taking those kinds of actions is a way of helping with feelings of depression, anxiety, things that trigger our sense of trauma,” Solomon explained. “But the other phase of coping is stepping back and step... |
When it comes to stepping back, Solomon said it’s important to do so in a way that is present and honors the five senses — going for a walk in nature, cooking a delicious meal, enjoying an uninterrupted conversation. These moments allow us to recharge so that we’re ready to engage again when the time comes. |
While this sort of self-care can inspire more feelings of guilt, both Solomon and Bufka said that guilt can be helpful in that it often inspires gratitude for our own blessings, as well as action. |
Parcel D of the Public Market project will include 223 apartments, 25 of which will be priced affordable. |
When the Emeryville City Council voted to increase the city’s affordable housing requirements for developers in October, some observers said the city would be discouraging major projects by making new market-rate housing less profitable. In spite of this, the city council increased its affordable housing impact fee on ... |
Last night the Emeryville city council finalized a deal with City Center Realty Partners to build a 456 unit apartment complex with 50 affordable units, about 11 percent of the total. The city's new, higher impact fee and on-site affordable requirements don’t actually take effect until December 19, but the development ... |
The Public Market Project has been a long time in the making. It was first approved in 2008, slowed due to the Great Recession, and then revived in 2013. It’s a complex project, involving realignment of a street and redevelopment of a public park. |
In July, the city council was presented with a plan to build 462 apartments plus retail on the Public Market site. The council tabled the proposal because it would have only included 33 affordable housing units, or 6.9 percent of the total, and also because the city’s “family-friendly” policies encouraging the construc... |
Since then, the council increased their affordable housing impact fee and strengthened other development policies that require developers pay more for the right to build in Emeryville. |
According to Emeryville’s Community Development Department, there are ten major projects in the development pipeline, in addition to the Public Market, that will have to comply with the city’s new rules. These projects include at least 775 units of housing, which could eventually generate as much as $21 million for the... |
Instead of slowing development, Asher said she is concerned that the impact fee will only raise money for the city, rather than pushing developers to build affordable housing in their projects. |
“My worry is that people are going to be writing us checks, and the fee isn’t high enough to get the on-site units which is what we’d really prefer.” According to Asher, the Public Market project was unique in that the city had leverage over the developer in the form of land and permission to realign streets. This allo... |
City Center Realty Partners did not return phone calls seeking comment about the deal. |
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Assignments. 479 Fighter Group, 15 Oct 1943; VIII Fighter Command, 1-15 Dec 1945. 479 Fighter-Bomber (later, 479 Fighter-Day) Group, 1 Dec 1952 (attached to Icelandic Defense Forces, 1 Dec 1952-27 Mar 1953; Air Proving Ground Command, 26 Jul-6 Sep 1955); 479 Fighter-Day (later 479 Tactical Fighter) Wing, 8 Oct 1957 (at... |
The fourth annual Lewton-Brain Foldform Competition attracts international metal artists and recognizes an unprecedented 27 Jurors' Choice selections this year from among a competitive field of submissions. |
FLORIDA, N.Y. - Aug. 5, 2015 - PRLog -- The Center for Metal Arts in the Warwick Valley, New York announced results for the 2015 Lewton-Brain Foldform Competition on July 24, 2015, at the annual Foldform Awards Dinner at the Seligmann Center for the Arts. With special dinner guest Charles Lewton-Brain, the celebrated p... |
Dan Lippitt of Madison, WI, U.S., won First Place with “Stovchen III,” a sterling silver tea warmer. Ira Sherman of Denver, CO, U.S. took Second Place for “The Hoshen,” a Torah Hoshen Breast Plate of sterling silver and semi-precious gemstones. Christina Brandewie of Cincinnati, OH, U.S., was awarded Third Place for a ... |
Now in its fourth year, the Lewton-Brain Foldform Competition invites metal artists everywhere to submit their work in a global competition designed to survey the evolving field of foldforming as a metal arts technique. This annual event challenges makers to share their most innovative and best work, and recognizes new... |
The 2015 jurors are three well-known leaders in the metal arts community; Charles Lewton-Brain, Artist Goldsmith and Foldforming Pioneer, Hazel Wheaton, Editor of Art Jewelry magazine, and Dr. Hanuman Aspler, Owner / Co-Founder of The Ganoksin Project. They were tasked with selecting the winners and Jurors' Choice entr... |
Competition sponsors that support this event are Art Jewelry magazine, Center for Metal Arts, The Ganoksin Project, the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts, and Rio Grande. The winners will receive prizes including Rio Grande gift certificates, a one-year subscription to Art Jewelry magazine, and a small foldformed object c... |
Results will be covered in the November print issue of Art Jewelry magazine for the third consecutive year, with Jurors' Choice selections included in a special online gallery. The Ganoksin Project will share results with its global audience at www.ganoksin.com. For news about future competitions and to view previous y... |
2015 WINNERS: First Place is Dan Lippitt, Madison, WI, U.S.: “Stovchen III” (6.5 in x 4.5 in) (16.5 cm x 11.4 cm) sterling silver. Second Place is Ira Sherman, Denver, CO, U.S.: “The Hoshen” (45.7 x 25.4 x 6.4 cm) sterling silver and semi-precious gemstones. Third Place is Christina Brandewie, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.: “Ho... |
Walnut Creek’s City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution of support for a proposal that would result in five affluent Walnut Creek schools leaving the Mt. Diablo school district to form a new district. |
About 150 people piled into City Hall to hear the council weigh in on the proposed Northgate Unified School District, a secession movement spurring contentious debates within both Walnut Creek and the broader Mt. Diablo school community. Council members said they were inundated with more than 200 emails asking them to ... |
Yet, after hearing four hours worth of testimony from both sides of the debate, council members still avoided taking a definitive stance on the merits of the proposed secession. Instead, they struck a blow to Mt. Diablo supporters by passing a resolution stating that, should the proposal get the green light from state ... |
Superintendent Nellie Meyer conceded that the city council's decision was a disappointment, but expressed confidence that the county and state boards would not approve the proposal. |
"While we believe the issue unlikely to go before the community for a vote, we are dismayed that the council approved a resolution that would restrict the voice of the people to some specific zip codes when the impacts would be felt by families and staff throughout the district," Meyer said in a statement. |
Council members also chastised district leaders for failing to adequately communicate with Northgate families, who make up 13 percent of the district. Unanswered emails and phone calls may have inadvertently shrouded the district's workings in secrecy, Silva said. |
The proposed district would include Northgate High and its feeder schools, Bancroft, Valle Verde and Walnut Acres elementary schools and also Foothill Middle. As critics of the proposal pointed out, those schools are all located in the wealthier neighborhoods of Mt. Diablo's current district, which includes huge swaths... |
Northgate PACS, the action committee behind the proposal, argued that Mt. Diablo, the largest district in the county, has been slow to respond to complaints from Northgate families. Its supporters also point to low-ranking test scores as evidence that the district is simply too large to oversee all of its 56 schools an... |
The Tuesday meeting drew scores of teachers and students who rebuffed those assertions, many donning red “MDUSD PROUD” buttons. They noted that the boundaries for the new district would essentially create one, uber-affluent and predominantly white district and warned that the secession was rooted in elitism. Others exp... |
Critics also accused Northgate PACS of using dishonest methods to garner signatures for a petition they submitted to the county board, including making false promises about the proposed new district. |
The same arguments are expected to unfold on May 2 and 3, when the county Board of Education will hold two public hearings on the proposal. Once there, the merits for forming a new district will be evaluated on nine criteria, including whether severing the district would cause financial woes for Mt. Diablo or exacerbat... |
If you want a taste of quintessential California beach culture, complete with a heaping dose of surf, sand and tacos, head north of San Diego to North County. When I’m in Southern California, I don’t mind soaking up the cliché tourist experience: I want to be on the beach, gazing out at the limitless Pacific Ocean, wat... |
Start the day at Pipes Café, a killer breakfast spot very close to the beach in Cardiff by the Sea. Step up the counter and order the #1 breakfast burrito ($5.95), which comes with sausage, avocado, cheese and, get this, five eggs. Five eggs for God’s sakes! When my bad boy arrived, the beast took up the entire basket ... |
I’m a total glutton, but I couldn’t come close to finishing this frightening, but very tasty creature. I liked it so much that I couldn’t help but ask some locals sitting next to us about the feasibility of moving to the area with my wife and two little boys. |
My hopes of moving to North County dashed, I knew we’d have to make the most of our visit, so we drove south along the Pacific Coast Highway, taking in peeks of the Pacific when it wasn’t hidden by large homes, shopping and hotels along the way. |
I worked off about 5% of my ridiculous breakfast burrito with a short walk in Encinitas’s attractive little town center followed by a longer walk on the beach in Del Mar, a pristine beach community if ever there was one. I watched the surfers, who were out in force on a day when the waves were up to a gnarly 8 feet, an... |
Before I knew it, it was lunchtime and since I tend to follow an all taco & burrito diet when I’m in California, we backtracked north a couple miles to Rudy’s Taco Shop, a hole-in-the-wall place in a strip mall in Solana Beach that specializes in carne asada. I was ready for a siesta after scarfing down two of their sa... |
La Jolla is filled with pricey shops, but we were in town to soak up the natural splendor of the place so we headed straight for the waterfront. I don’t think there are many more scenic places for a stroll anywhere in the country than the area around Scripps Park in La Jolla. There’s a long walkway set up high above th... |
We walked down to Seal Beach and my sons, ages 3 and 5, got a huge kick out of seeing dozens of seals lying comatose on the beach as though they were sleeping off hangovers. Every few minutes one of them would decide they wanted to change their spot and would hop around awkwardly as the assembled paparazzi fired off sh... |
A local, who told me I was standing too close to the seals, also mentioned that the seals give birth right on this beach each year from January through March. After my kids had their fill of the seals, we walked a half-mile north to gawk at a colony of sea lions that were all huddled up on top of each other on a huge r... |
There’s been a huge controversy over the supposedly foul smell of bird crap in La Jolla, with many merchants claiming that the smell is scaring away customers, but I didn’t even really notice it other than for a brief moment when we pulled into town. Anyone who dwells on bird crap in a place this beautiful is a little ... |
After a few hours wandering in La Jolla, we repaired to Bull Taco, a taco stand located up on a bluff above the Cardiff State Park beach that advertises itself as “inauthentic Mexican.” It only seemed fitting to wind down my culinary day the way I started it – with a tortilla in hand. This time, I had three tacos – shr... |
We drove further north and enjoyed an extravagant sunset at South Carlsbad State Park beach. On a late Saturday afternoon in December, the beach scene in North County was magical for a cold weather family like us. |
Families were taking their Christmas card photos on the beach, no doubt to taunt their cold weather friends, surfers of all ages were emerging from the crashing surf, raving about the “epic” waves and people who drive posh sports cars happily mingled with surf bums living in beat up old camper vans with rusted old Cali... |
Remember that New York Magazine cover by Ryu Ho-Yeol showing the departure of a score of aircraft from a German runway? It’s actually a composite image stitching all of the aircraft together, and we’ve now the same thing in video format. |
Over the Black Friday weekend, filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker captured every single aircraft landing on one runway at San Diego International airport and merged them into one composite piece of film. It’s an impressive task when you consider the moving background and the number of clips involved. Take a look at the impressiv... |
If you’re looking to try your hand at surfing this summer, there’s no better place to pick up a board than California. For decades, California’s surf beaches have beckoned rookies and professionals alike with their laidback atmosphere and consistent waves. Dozens of surf schools line the coast, offering instruction fro... |
Includes: accommodations, equipment rental, a bar of Organic Surf Wax, an “Endless Summer” DVD, and a two-hour surf lesson. |
Keen codebreakers can have a crack at a brainteaser this festive season in the form of a Christmas card challenge set by GCHQ’s director Robert Hannigan. |
The traditional grid-shading puzzle invites those who dare (or care) to fill in the squares black or leave them white depending on the pattern indicated by the numbers on each column and row. |
Each number indicates how many black squares there should be, with at least one white one left in between each set. Some have already been filled in to give you a head start. |
Once you’ve filled in all the squares, the image you’re left with leads you on to the next in a series of increasingly complex challenges. Although not confirmed by GCHQ, it looks like the image will be a QR code that you scan to get the next puzzle. |
A spokesperson from GCHQ did, however, explain that there are more than 46,000 possible solutions for the second brainteaser, plus a mind-boggling 2.9 billion for the fourth. |
GCHQ would not reveal how many levels there are, but if you get to the end of the entire thing by 31 January, you can enter the prize draw. |
A particularly nifty techie might be able to write a simple algorithm to solve the puzzle, although that may take the fun out of it! |
This may well be a long-winded job application for GCHQ, which announced it would be recruiting 1,900 more staff to help it deal with growing cyber security threats. Indeed, it has used technical challenges to find new codebreakers in the past. |
Given that the challenge is printed in today’s Telegraph newspaper, as well as being available online, this could suggest GCHQ is on the look out for older people to join its team. |
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