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His resignation comes days after Dowd and the president publicly called for an end to the special counsel’s Russia probe.
The departure of President Donald Trump’s lead lawyer, John Dowd, on Thursday comes at a tumultuous time during special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia election meddling—and raises questions about whether additional lawyers may be brought on board.
“I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt Dossier,” Dowd emailed The Daily Beast early on Saturday morning.
Dowd’s apparent replacement, longtime D.C. lawyer Joe DiGenova, started working on Trump’s legal team earlier this week. It’s likely the two big personalities—Dowd’s and DiGenova’s—would have clashed had Dowd stayed in the team.
The change has sparked widespread rumors about who might be next to join the president’s legal team. Alan Dershowitz, a lawyer who does civil liberties work and frequent cable TV appearances, told The Daily Beast he is not interested in the post.
On Thursday, prominent Washington D.C. attorney Robert Bennett called on his former law partner Ty Cobb to follow Dowd in leaving the White House’s legal team.
“I hope my friend Ty Cobb will leave the team. He’s not helping himself or his reputation,” Bennett told Politico.
Cobb, who has represented the White House writ large in response to the Mueller investigation, has similarly called for Trump to cooperate with the probe.
It’s unclear how or if the president’s legal strategy will change in Dowd’s absence. Mueller has been building a case related to Trump on obstruction of justice involving the president’s conversation with James Comey about Michael Flynn, according to a source familiar with the probe. In the past, Dowd has expressed concerns about Trump sitting down for an interview with Mueller.
PARIS (Reuters) - France aims to reduce the share of electricity produced by nuclear reactors to 50 percent from 75 percent now by 2035, Environment Minister Francois de Rugy said on Sunday.
The French government has long outlined plans to shrink the country’s reliance on nuclear energy to 50 percent, though the deadline for that goal had remained less clear.
A long-awaited government update on France’s long-term energy strategy is expected to be released later this month, setting out in greater detail how it will cut the share of nuclear in its power generation.
De Rugy said 2035 was the timeframe the government had in mind.
“That’s the deadline we’re working with,” he said in an interview with several media outlets televised by CNews.
De Rugy was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron in September after his predecessor, popular eco-campaigner Nicolas Hulot, resigned citing what he felt were hollow commitments on environmental policy.
The portfolio also includes an energy remit.
The new environment minister has said he expected there would be fewer nuclear reactors in France in 10 year’s time, though he has given few details on how many of state-owned EDF’s 58 plants will have to close.
De Rugy raised further doubts on Sunday over plans to build more plants using the European pressurized reactor (EPR) design, having previously questioned whether this new generation of reactors were viable.
“What’s the future of the nuclear sector? Does it involve EPRs? That’s an open question today, as the technological reliability, safety and competitiveness of EPRs has not yet been proven,” he said.
The unranked Fordham Rams put just a single runner on base against No. 4 UCLA on Thursday night.
It has been years since the Bruins’ (6-0) last perfect game, and redshirt sophomore pitcher Rachel Garcia was one away from the feat.
Down 4-0 in the bottom of the seventh and at its very last out, Fordham infielder Skylar Johnston hit a shallow pop-up toward the rear of the infield that junior infielder Brianna Tautalafua was unable to make a play on – it was the Rams’ only hit of the night.
In what was its first game of the year, Fordham finished with just one hit, four errors and no runs on the board and an overall record of 0-1.
That one blemish aside, Garcia was perfect. She recorded a personal best of 17 strikeouts against 22 batters. That’s just one more than the absolute minimum for a full seven-inning softball game.
In the 45 games she pitched in last year, Garcia never logged more than 12 strikeouts. The sophomore had never been so close to perfection, either. She has pitched a complete one-hitter game before, but gave up four walks in that game against BYU.
Garcia was also efficient against the Rams. She tossed 97 pitches in total and averaged just 4.4 pitches per batter.
As for the Bruins’ offense, four separate players made UCLA’s four runs. Senior infielder Kylee Perez drew first blood in the third inning, singling through the right side of the field and scoring freshman infielder Kinsley Washington.
In that same inning, redshirt freshman outfielder Aaliyah Jordan hit a sacrifice fly to center field that allowed freshman infielder Briana Perez to score the Bruins’ second run of the night.
Later, in the bottom of the fourth, Washington singled to score junior catcher Taylor Pack. In her next at-bat, Pack reached on a fielding error by Fordham right fielder Kelly Bright and Bubba Nickles scored.
The Bruins maintained their flawless record after Thursday in what will be the last game played at Easton Stadium for 37 days.
The Bruins will head to the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic I for its next five games. UCLA’s first opponent comes in the form of unranked UC Santa Barbara (4-1) on Saturday night.
What Penn State swimmer and Little Flower Catholic graduate Ally McHugh might accomplish in the next few years will determine whether 2018 was truly her breakout one.
Still, it's going to be in the running.
This week McHugh, a rising senior, will compete as a member of the U.S. national team at the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships, which start Thursday in Tokyo.
McHugh pulled the stunner of the meet by winning the gold medal in the 400 individual medley, making her Penn State's first female national champion in swimming. She then got silver in the 1,500-meter freestyle.
"The Pan Pacific Championships is a huge meet and it is the deciding factor for which meet I will be going to next summer," McHugh said. "I am just so excited to be on the team here in Tokyo with so many amazing athletes.
"This is only my second time out of the country. So being able to travel while doing what I love is something that I will always cherish."
McHugh earned an automatic spot for the trip to Tokyo by winning the 400 IM. She made up close to a half-second deficit to upset 2016 Olympic medalist and defending champion Leah Smith.
"When I touched the wall after my 400 IM, I initially had not even realized that I won," she said after posting a personal-best time of 4 minutes, 34.8 seconds. "At first, I was so shocked with my time and then relieved that all my hard work had earned me a spot on the Pan Pac team.
"Making the Pan Pac team was my big goal for the summer and I was so happy that I was able to achieve that goal. I really thought that my best chance of making the Pan Pac team would be in one of the distance freestyle events, but making it in the 400 IM was a very nice surprise."
She medaled twice at 2018 Big Ten championships in February and got silver in the 1,650-yard freestyle at the NCAA championships in March.
"Things have started to fall in place for me because I have really prioritized what is important in order to swim at my best," she said. "In order to swim at this level, you have to give up a lot of things that many people would not do. But in the end, the results that I have had these past few years have been so rewarding and it has been so worth it.
"I am so proud to become the first national champion for Penn State. The school and the athletic department has given me so much and I so happy to put their name on the map. Penn State has been my home for these past three years and I'm so happy to bring attention to the team and show everyone that we are good and a force to be reckoned with."
Brush for viola and piano was written in the summer of 2011 for violist Rudolph Haken.
Many of my pieces are influenced by outdoor experiences such as hiking where one encounters the “suchness” of nature--its terrain, flora, fauna, sights and sounds. Certainly, it is wonderful to be within an expansive unlimited space. However, in wilderness, traveling is more difficult because there are no set paths or guide posts. One often has to find the way as one encounters and passes through local obstacles in the form of bushes, small trees, vines, and low growing plants.
When I completed my composition for viola and piano I thought about the musical experience I had created, and I found that it reminded me of forging of a path through an overgrown forest or field. The character of the ever changing pizzicati and glissandi in the viola and the play of registers in the piano suggested a kind of musical surface that invites parsing by the players and listener; events come at you that you negotiate one by one, creating a path as you go along. The interesting thing is that each time one plays or listens, the path has to be created anew, yielding new paths and associations. And like bushwhacking in the wilderness, the experience is quite athletic.
But brush can also be tamed, as in brushwood gates and fencing. So Haiku poems like the following also capture other aspects of the suchness of my piece.
Mumbai: Noodles, sauces and snacks manufacturer Capital Foods is planning to launch its products in the overseas markets under the brand name ‘Ching’s Secret´, besides, setting up two new manufacturing units in India.
“We will be introducing our Ching’s noodles in the US, Canada and Singapore soon. Besides, we also plan to launch our ready-to-eat meals in the US, Canada, Australia and the Middle East next month," Capital Foods managing director Ajay Gupta told PTI here.
The company will invest Rs34 crore to set up two new manufacturing units in Vapi, Gujarat, for processing frozen foods, Gupta said.
“We will be investing around Rs34 crore in the two facilities which will be operational by mid-2010," he said.
At present, the company has one facility in Vapi that manufactures hakka and instant noodles, along with soup and sauce mixes. It also has one facility each in Kandla, Gujarat, and Nashik, Maharashtra.
Gupta said the company aims to become a niche player in Chinese processed foods.
“Our noodles cater to the way Indians prefer to eat Chinese -- that is our opportunity. Besides, Ching’s targets people in the age group of 18-25. People look at noodles as a full meal rather than a snack," Gupta said.
The noodles market in India is worth ₹ 1,100 crore and Capital Foods enjoys 20 per cent share in that, he said.
The company had, last November, launched its range of soups to give competition to Hindustan Unilever’s Knorr soups.
Her passenger — Olivia Drozdoski-Richardson, 23 — died. The two others in the vehicle were also seriously injured.
A 22-year-old woman faces multiple charges, including impaired driving causing death, after a police investigation into a road crash that resulted in the death of her 23-year-old friend.
The head-on, two-vehicle crash occurred in St-Stanislas-de-Kostka, near Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, on the night of July 15, 2018.
The vehicle Karell Tanguay was driving veered into an oncoming vehicle, the Sûreté du Québec said.
Her passenger — Olivia Drozdoski-Richardson, 23 — died, while Tanguay suffered serious injuries. The two people in the other vehicle were also seriously injured.
On Wednesday, Tanguay, of Sherbrooke, was arrested and will face nine charges, including dangerous driving causing death, SQ said. Her blood-alcohol level exceeded the legal limit, according to the charges.
Both single-family and multi-family permits rose significantly in 2015.
MURFREESBORO — Single-family and multi-family house permits in Murfreesboro rose by 32.4 percent in 2015, according to data released by the city.
Final statistics for 2015 released by the Murfreesboro Building & Codes Department indicate permitting for single-family detached units increased by 29 percent or 190 units in 2015 to 837 units compared to 647 units in 2014 and 589 units in 2013.
The Building & Codes Department issued an average of 53.9 single-family detached permits per month in 2014 compared to an average 68.8 per month in 2015. A total of 451 single-family detached units were permitted in 2012.
While single-family building permits were higher in January of 2015 compared to the previous year, permits actually fell during the month of February due primarily to abnormally wintry weather.
During the second half of 2015, however, single-family building permits rose significantly, higher every month from May through December with the lone exception of September.
For example, 86 permits were issued in November 2015, which more than doubled the 41 permits in 2014. In all, 74 permits were issued in December 2015 compared to 40 in December 2014.
The increase in single-family building permits in 2015 resumes Murfreesboro’s upward trend in housing growth. City officials expect the trend to continue in 2016 in one of the fast-growing cities in the United States.
Multi-family residential permits also continued to increase in Murfreesboro as builders seek to satisfy a growing demand for apartment dwelling by the millennial generation.
Permitted multi-family units increased 25 percent to 1,149 in 2015 from 913 units in 2014. In 2013, 889 multi-family units were permitted, which almost doubled the 464 units permitted in 2012.
A tight supply of available lots for new homes continues.
Lots available for construction in Murfreesboro dipped to just 748 at the end of 2015 from 826 in 2014, 984 in 2013 and 1,254 in 2012. The past few years are far lower than the peak of 1,799 available lots in 2006 during the height of Murfreesboro’s construction boom.
As evidenced by Nashville’s changing skyline, Middle Tennessee’s economy is booming.
Nashville’s commercial market ended 2015 with diminishing vacancy pushing up rental rates and a record high volume of new construction.
“Nashville is a vibrant market to watch as it provides high growth, affordability and a business-friendly environment, a combination that is pushing Nashville to lead the Southeast in job growth and construction activity,” CBRE said in its fourth quarter market report.
Commercial development in Murfreesboro also demonstrates higher growth in small-business development in recent years, according to Murfreesboro’s data.
Both commercial permits and site plans continue to trend higher. New commercial permits continued to keep pace with a growing trend line last year, increasing to 40 in 2015 from 24 in 2014, 26 in 2013 and 17 in 2012.
The commercial boom in Murfreesboro inspired Clark Maples Realty & Auction Co. to launch a new commercial division, Clark Maples Commercial Real Estate.
“While we have been involved in commercial real estate for over 40 years since my father started the company, we are excited about this new division,” said Betsy Taylor, broker of Clark Maples Realty & Auction Co.
To round out the commercial division, Taylor added Laws Bouldin and his nearly 30 years of experience in commercial sales to the Clark Maples team.
A majority of his previous brokerage experience involved retail land sales, site location, assemblage and development.
“We feel so privileged to have someone as highly regarded in commercial real estate as Laws join our company and look forward to even more opportunities to serve Middle Tennessee with our new commercial division,” Taylor said.
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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI), the genomics-based, health intelligence company, announced today that following the company's recent Board of Directors meeting, J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., has been reappointed as Chief Executive Officer replacing Cynthia Collins. Saturnino (Nino) Fanlo, who currently serves as HLI's Chief Financial Officer, has also been named Chief Operations Officer. The company and board thank Collins for her service at HLI over the last year and wish her the very best in her future endeavors.
The company is streamlining its efforts to focus on the Health Nucleus platform, the clinical research arm of HLI designed for early screening and detection of major diseases. Health Nucleus will remain the premier public-facing center to collect, analyze and act on pre-symptomatic health data, providing clients and physicians personalized insights to optimize health, help reduce risks and enable longer, healthier lives.
"Since our inception, HLI has pursued the applications of pioneering genomics, advanced imaging and robust machine learning to generate a more insightful picture of human health than available anywhere else, and I am proud of the impact we've had on lives of our clients to date," said Dr. Venter. "We are at a pivotal point where refocusing our efforts and our strong team will allow us to continue to drive this positive impact on health more broadly."
Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI) is the genomic-based, health intelligence company empowering proactive healthcare and enabling a life better lived. HLI combines the largest database of genomic and phenotypic data with machine learning to drive discoveries and revolutionize the practice of medicine. HLI's business focus includes the HLI Health Nucleus, a genomic powered clinical research center which uses whole genome sequence analysis, advanced clinical imaging and innovative machine learning, along with curated personal health information, to deliver the most complete picture of individual health. For more information, please visit http://www.humanlongevity.com.
Noted sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik from Odisha has won the jury prize gold medal at the 10th Moscow Sand art Championship.
Pavel Menikov, the chief organiser of the event presented the prestigious prize at Kolomenskoye, Moscow, Pattnaik said in a statement.
The event concluded yesterday.Twenty five sculptors from different countries around the world had participated in the championship on the theme - "World Around Us".
Pattnaik said he had created a 10 feet high sand sculpture of Lord Ganesh and inscribed "Go Green" on the statue.
Sudarsan said he chose this message to highlight the importance of ecological balance in the face of global warming.Recently, Pattnaik had created world's tallest sand castle at Puri beach.
The Federal Aviation Administration is severely criticized for not telling the whole story on the status of its Y2K efforts.
The Federal Aviation Administration was severely criticized yesterday by members of the House Subcommittee on Technology for not telling the whole story on the status of its efforts to prepare its computer systems for the Year 2000.
The hearing came after the aviation safety board reported last week that it had repaired 70 percent of air traffic systems and 67 percent of all systems it regards as "mission critical."
But the House subcommittee based its findings on recent scathing reports from the General Accounting Office that said the agency is frighteningly behind schedule to be ready for the change of the century.
The discrepancy between the two reports even drew criticism from the head senator on the Year 2000 issue.