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Whether to use the word "genocide" to describe those killings has been a fraught political issue for years. Turkish officials base their argument that the killings do not meet the definition of genocide on the claim that no deliberate plan to eliminate Armenian populations was involved. Most historians, however, have c...
U.S. administrations of both parties have resisted using the word out of deference to Turkey.
Activists had hoped Obama would change that this year, particularly after Pope Francis referred to genocide in a statement just over a week ago.
"Given Pope Francis and his statement, the European Parliament, the German chancellor [Angela Merkel], all coming out in the last many days encouraging Turkey to come to terms with its past, we had hoped and expected that President Obama would have done the same," said Bryan Ardouny, executive director of Armenian Asse...
Obama, as a senator and a candidate for president, supported using the term to describe the killings and criticized the George W. Bush administration for not doing so.
"Armenian genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence," Obama said in 2008. "The facts are undeniable. An official policy that calls on diplomats to distort the historical facts is an untenable policy...
As a freshman a year ago, Iowa State's Kristin Scott started a few games and played key minutes during the season. But her 3-pointers would not fall.
The 6-foot-3 post made merely 7-of-48 3-pointers — 14.6 percent.
After the season, when Scott asked Cyclone coach Bill Fennelly if she should prepare to shoot 3-pointers in games this season, he told her yes. That surprised Scott.
“She just kind of looked at me, like 'OK, you are crazy,'” Fennelly said.
But, so far, it's worked. This season, the versatile sophomore has made 11-of-27 3-pointers — a team-high 40.7 percent.
In a huge performance during Wednesday's 96-58 win against Kansas State, Scott shot 3-of-4 from deep to finish with 19 points. She also had team-highs of 10 rebounds and three steals.
That effort prompted high praise from Fennelly.
“If she understands how good she can be, I think she can be an all-Big 12 player,” Fennelly said after the game.
Scott has made a leap from her freshman year to sophomore year. A year ago, she averaged 4.8 points per game; now, playing for an improved team, she is averaging 11.5 points per game.
Fennelly projects a continued upward trajectory. Sharing time with two senior posts this season, she is in line for major playing time next season.
In five seasons as Kansas State's women's basketball coach, Jeff Mittie has coached against ISU plenty of times. But, after ISU's 38-point win on Wednesday, he said he'd never seen such a good Cyclones team.
“I will say this: that's the best I've seen them play in the five years I've been (here),” he said.
Mittie pointed to ISU's confidence and depth as reasons the Cyclones are especially strong. With the win, No. 25 ISU improved to 11-2 and 1-0 in the Big 12.
It was a sharpshooting effort. Seven different ISU players hit a 3-pointer, and the Cyclones knocked down at least three treys in each quarter.
Ashley Joens and Bridget Carleton led the long-range attack, each hitting four 3-pointers. Scott had three, while Alexa Middleton added two.
With her 26 points on Wednesday night, Carleton climbed another spot in the ISU record book. She now has 1,624 career points, good enough for ninth in school history. She needs 16 points to pass Kelsey Bolte for eighth.
Carleton also tied for third in ISU history for career blocks, swatting her 102nd in the second quarter.
“I've said it many times, it always helps when you have the best player in the league on your team,” Fennelly said.
Kansas State enlisted 6-foot-4 post Peyton Williams to guard Carleton.
The plan didn't work. Carleton notched six offensive rebounds and spearheaded the Cyclones to victory.
Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (29) stretches at the start of the second period as the Golden Knights play the Buffalo Sabres at T-Mobile Arena Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018.
Monday, Oct. 22, 2018 \| 10:02 a.m.
Marc-André Fleury’s strong play in goal last week helped the Golden Knights bring their record to .500 on the young season.
He was named one of the NHL’s “Three Stars” for the effort, in which he went 2-0-0 with a 1.00 goals-against average, for the week ending Oct. 21.
Colorado winger Gabriel Landeskog and Edmonton center Connor McDavid were the other two stars.
Fleury had a 26-save performance last Tuesday in a 4-1 victory against Buffalo. Saturday, he had 17 saves in a 3-1 victory against Anaheim for the 408th victory of his career, moving him past Glenn Hall into No. 10 on the NHL’s all-time wins list.
More important, at 4-4 overall, the Knights have won three consecutive games, Fleury said.
The following are pictures of Captain Amsale Gualu Endegnanew at Bole International Airport, provided by Ethiopian Airlines to nazret.com.
Ethiopian Airlines today celebrated the maiden flight of its female Captain Amsale Gualu Endegnanew. Captain Amsale proudly took off her first flight from the left hand seat of the flight deck of a Q-400 aircraft from Addis Ababa to Gondar then to Axum and finally returned back to Addis Ababa after a total of 3.6 fligh...
Captain Amsale joined Ethiopian Airlines Pilot Training School on July 10, 2000 and started her career as first officer on November 26, 2002. Since then, she has trained and worked on Fokker-50, 757 and 767 aircraft as first officer. Captain Amsale has been able to complete successfully all the necessary training requi...
This entry was posted on October 16th, 2010 at 22:11 by apache and is filed under Ethiopia.
Mayor de Blasio’s wife took umbrage at questions from the media and the City Council about the billion dollar mental health program a day after she stumbled over basic questions about what the program does.
“The truth is, haters gonna hate. That’s all that’s about” First Lady Chirlane McCray said in her swift response to questions about the program on Hot 97’s morning show Wednesday.
That was a marked change of tune from McCray’s comments during a marathon council hearing Tuesday, when she thanked members for their questions about the program, even if she couldn’t always answer them.
McCray is figurehead of the program aimed at helping the mentally ill, but critics have questioned how much it is doing to help those with the most serious mental illness.
The program has also struggled to offer clear goals and markers of success — leaving it unclear how many people have actually been connected to mental health professionals through the endeavor three years since its formation.
Asked again — by hosts who hedged that the critique was generated by people who disliked McCray’s husband, Mayor de Blasio — about the slew of skeptical headlines and criticism about the program, McCray doubled down.
“I think you gotta ask them. It’s just haters, haters wanna hate,” she said.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal officials vowed on Monday to ensure the safety of climbers seeking to scale Mount Everest after three European climbers were involved in a fight with sherpa guides on their way to the peak of the world’s highest mountain.
Three experienced climbers from Britain, Italy and Switzerland were on route to camp three at 7,000 meters (22,965 feet) on the 8,850 meters (29,035 feet) Everest summit when a brawl broke out on Saturday with sherpas fixing their ropes.
Witnesses said the sherpas pelted the Europeans’ tents with stones and punches were thrown.
Swiss climber Ueli Steck descended to the base camp after the attack and said he would abandon the climb and return to Kathmandu if proper security was not ensured.
Nepali officials were quick to respond after the unusual brawl on Mount Everest, which is a key source of income for impoverished Nepal as foreign climbers pay royalties to scale the world’s highest peak.
Tourism Ministry official Dipendra Paudel said the government would ensure the safety and security of the climbers.
He said the European climbers would resume their bid to climb Everest.
Officials said hundreds of climbers from 32 expeditions and their sherpas were on Mount Everest in the current climbing season which continues through May.
Sherpas are locals from the Everest region and are noted for their climbing skills. They are responsible for fixing ropes and accompany most of the foreign climbers to the summit.
Beni Hyoju, an official of the Cho-Oyu Trekking agency that organized the expedition, said the three European climbers had failed to comply with a request from their sherpa guides to stay at a location while the guides fixed the route.
Hyoju said this made the sherpas unhappy and they attacked the climbers. No one was critically wounded.
Historian Elizabeth Hawley, who has been tracking foreign expeditions to Mount Everest for more than five decades, said this type of fighting on the mountain was rare.
“I have not heard of any such incident before,” said Hawley.
About 4,000 climbers have reached the top of Everest since it was first scaled by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
The Haven has worked with various groups of Dartmouth students on different projects in the past, but Nat Healy ’20 discovered the Haven while searching for a project during the winter of 2018 for ENGS 21, “Introduction to Engineering.” He said he and his team recognized the Haven’s potential to be a Dartmouth Humanita...
When the DHE team asked Kobylenski about problems faced by the Haven, she mentioned that the cots in the seasonal shelter that they started in 2014 after the economic recession had harmful effects on the community.
The employees of the Haven combined the seasonal shelter with the waiting area and café. The seasonal shelter, which is open for the entire winter, must be constructed every evening and taken down every morning.
Haven started out using old cots from the Red Cross and has transitioned to camping cots. Jennifer Fontaine, the current director of operations at the Haven, elaborated on the cots’ functionality.
The employees of the Haven wanted the DHE engineers to create a stackable cot that would be space-efficient and durable, even with constant folding. Healy said that the stackable cots take up less room and require less effort to arrange than the current cots. They are also less bulky and more stable, and thus more comf...
Fontaine has been impressed with the zeal of the Dartmouth engineers.
Healy thought the design of the cot clips represent the way DHE works, with continuous testing and trial-and-error. Healy explained that the team began by borrowing a cot from the Haven and testing it to identify its weak points. After a “no-holds-barred” brainstorming session, the team created several designs and prot...
This long and ever-changing process is characteristic of engineering. The students are constantly altering their designs and adapting to new problems, something that Kiera Jackson ‘22, the new co-leader of the project, mentioned.
“It’s tempting to continue to make prototype iterations and test them to work out every little kink of the project, but if you actually want your product or idea to go out into the real world and help people, as is our goal in DHE, you have to know when it’s good enough,” Jackson said.
Kobylenski sees broader implications of this new cot than solely improving the Haven’s seasonal shelter.
Healy hoped Kobylenski was right, but there are patenting difficulties specific to undergraduate engineers.
But Healy was determined for this project to be different.
This is the first local project DHE has tackled during Healy’s time with the organization.
Jackson said that the humanitarian part of engineering is more than just math and requires people with different talents.
Healy and Jackson hope to have created a solid cot for use by the Haven by the end of spring term. Fontaine is confident in their success. “I thoroughly predict them coming up with something that will work,” she said.
While Kobylenski has retired (although, we can’t be sure; she has tried to retire twice before and found herself working to help people yet again), she wonders at the serendipity of this partnership.
“The fact that the students approached us, that they found that space to be connected to the community … I would call it the usual Haven magic,” she said.
A Duluth restaurant received a big honor today for all they do for people with disabilities.
DULUTH, Minn.-A Duluth restaurant received a big honor today for all they do for people with disabilities.
Sir Benedict’s Tavern was named an Outstanding Disability Employer by the Minnesota Organization for Habilitation and Rehabilitation.
UDAC, which helps people with disabilities learn life skills while getting job training, nominated Sir Ben’s for the award, due to all the work the restaurant does when it comes to hiring people with disabilities.
The owner of the restaurant said he’s honored by the award.
“It allows us to make a small difference in somebody’s life, hopefully to get them more independent when they can make a living wage and pay for the things they want to pay for and feel part of a team,” said Josh Stotts, Sir Ben’s owner.
In case you didn’t know, October is recognized as National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
While traditionally focusing on scoring goals, Montreal Canadiens forwards Max Pacioretty and Brendan Gallagher shifted their attention toward netting a few laughs in a video shown on the team's website.
The end result? Well, let's just say that the two should keep their day jobs.
With the "Seinfeld" theme in the background, Pacioretty looked a bit stiff on stage and out of his element while delivering a dentist joke with a painful punchline. The team's leading goal-scorer in 2014-15 exited after one attempt at comedy while Gallagher seemed to genuinely warm to the task.
"How does NASA organize their company parties?" Gallagher said during the 49-second video. "They planet."
Houston • Wednesday’s win against the Rockets was a big step for the Jazz after consecutive home losses to the Warriors and Grizzlies.
Up next comes another big step, against the Anthony Davis-led New Orleans Pelicans, who are looking increasingly like they’re the real deal.
And then another, versus the improving Mavericks, who seemingly have been re-energized by rookie Luka Doncic and bolstered by the addition of DeAndre Jordan.
And still another, against the decidedly fractured but undeniably talented Timberwolves.
Given all those potential big steps the Jazz are taking, when, then, might the team ascertain exactly where those steps are taking them? At what point are coaches and players able to stop saying “It’s too early to tell” and become capable of divining how any game, or any stretch of them, becomes indicative of a bigger,...
Utah’s Quin Snyder was not that dismissive, but nevertheless is inclined to a view that any singular result — victory or defeat — is fraught with the potential to be blown out of proportion.
So then, for now at least, each game remains an end unto itself, and is a means to a bigger end only insofar as the team determines that every passing contest is generating cumulative progress and improvement.
The whole one-game-at-a-time mantra is cliché, but players still say it by rote and maintain there is merit to it, especially as the team is finding its footing.
There is, after all, much work yet to be done, as both Joe Ingles and Jae Crowder said Wednesday.
Donovan Mitchell, who snapped out of a three-game funk with a scintillating 38-point, seven-assist effort against the Rockets, can certainly appreciate the value of keeping proper perspective.
While praising his teammates for telling him to “stay aggressive and stay with it,” he pointed out that his performance in Houston would not actually alter that.
That, Snyder said, is exactly the right approach.
All of which is fine and great. But center Rudy Gobert, for one, at least seemed willing to acknowledge that while continued progress is indeed the goal, it doesn’t come in a vacuum — that these athletes are not their “NBA 2K” avatars, where improvement is a sterile achievement accomplished by moving a sliding scale a ...
Asked about the importance of this four-game trip, Gobert initially responded with the default “We wanna take it one game at a time,” before acknowledging that yes, the two-game losing streak was frustrating, and yes, it was absolutely wonderful to kick it to the curb.

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