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Republicans launched an effort in 2012 that is focused on electing women. Under the “Right Women, Right Now” program, 390 new GOP women have been elected since then.
Tiffany Shedd, a lawyer for small businesses who lives on a farm in Eloy, Arizona, said she was talking with her husband one evening earlier this year about the importance of having someone representing them in Congress who will fight for rural communities. She said he challenged her to run.
She will be running in the Republican primary in the hopes of challenging Democratic Rep. Tom O’Halleran in November.
On the state level, 36 governor’s races will be contested in 2018. The Center for American Women and Politics says 49 Democratic women, including two incumbents, and 28 Republican women have indicated they will run for those seats. There has never been more than nine women serving as governor at the same time.
Even if all the women who have reached out to groups such as EMILY’s List do not end up running next year, they are expected to play key roles in supporting those who do.
“This is the next decade of candidates,” Schriock said.
Associated Press photographer Matthew Otero in Dallas contributed to this report.
Colin Montgomerie said on Monday he would relish the chance to captain Europe's Ryder Cup team on home soil at Gleneagles in 2014.
Though passed over by Nick Faldo for the team to face the United States in Kentucky later this month, the Scot's fine track record in the contest has made him widely tipped for the top job in the future.
Asked about the captaincy in 2014, he told a news conference: "It's a possibility. I would love to, if ever selected. It's not something you apply for, it's something you are invited to be.
"2014 would be favourite I suppose, but it's not up to me. It's up to the European Tour to invite and if that comes, it would be superb."
The 45-year-old's run of eight Ryder Cup campaigns in a row were ended in August when Faldo named Paul Casey and Ian Poulter as his two wildcards for the September 19-21 match in Kentucky.
Montgomerie, who has recorded only three top-10 finishes this campaign, is unbeaten in eight Ryder Cup singles matches since his debut at Kiawah Island in 1991 and has not given up hope of adding to that total.
"I don't believe I've played my last Ryder Cup match or have written my last chapter within the book of the Ryder Cup," he said. "It just gives me more incentive to make the team next time."
Looking ahead to this month's contest, the Scotsman was confident that Faldo's team could make it four consecutive European wins in Kentucky.
"I think the team is very, very strong ... To leave out the likes of Darren Clarke and Carl Pettersen, means they are as strong as ever," he said.
"I think it will be close, but at the same time I think Europe will win.
"Nick knows exactly what he wants to do and I'm sure he will manage very, very well without me on this occasion.
"And I look forward to just playing on the next team, next time."
A woman says her 8-month-old pit bull Sasha is a hero after she alerted the family of a fire in their California home.
Latana Chai says Sasha started barking in the backyard in Stockton just before midnight on June 3 and wouldn't stop until Chai checked on her.
What Chai saw when she went to check on Sasha was a fire spreading to her home from a nearby fourplex apartment.
Chai ran inside the home and that's when she found the Sasha attempting to drag her 7-month-old daughter to safety by her diaper.
"I ran into the room and I see Sasha," Chai said. "She has my baby by the diaper just dragging her off the bed – trying to get her to safety."
Chai quickly grabbed the dog and baby before calling 911.
Thanks to Sasha no one suffered serious injury and the family was able to reach firefighters in time.
The Manchester United Foundation works in some of the most disadvantaged areas across Greater Manchester, taking Manchester United to the heart of the community.
The Foundation delivers a wide range of educational, leadership and personal development programmes designed to develop young people to achieve their potential.
Based in a partner high school (hub of the community) full time, the main responsibility of this role will be to ensure that all service level agreement objectives are met and surpassed through strategic planning, excellence in delivery, strong working relationships and continuous monitoring & evaluation.
• Create a learning environment that is inspiring, dynamic, challenging and educational.
• Build development plans that will increasingly challenge, enhance skills, shape a positive attitude and foster a confident approach to meeting objectives.
• Plan and lead regular progress meetings with students to ensure their agreed personal development objectives remain relevant and on track.
• Develop and manage effective working relationships with key stakeholders within the partnership including with local community groups and organisations.
• Work with the Hub Co-ordinator and recognised school representatives to manage, monitor evaluate and innovate the service level agreement objectives to ensure they remain relevant, unique and aligned to the strategic vision of the Foundation and the partner school.
• Contribute to the strategic planning of and lead the operational delivery of Foundation events and programmes within the partner school.
• Undertake personal development as and when required by Manchester United Foundation and the club.
• As directed by the senior Hub management team, attend seminars, networking events and exhibitions relevant to the role, proactively using the information and learning to influence current and future partner school programmes and activities.
• Ensure that the Foundation’s code of conduct is upheld in all activities, delivery and physical appearance.
• Work with the Hub Co-ordinator to ensure the partnership is satisfying all required monitoring and evaluation requirements.
• As directed by the senior Hub management team, maintain registers, collect all relevant data, information and evidence of good practice to support funding conditions and for the formulation of case studies.
• Uphold and promote the Foundation’s Safeguarding policy and that of the partner school working in conjunction with both Manchester United FC's Safeguarding team and the school’s safeguarding lead.
• Work with the senior Hub management team to coordinate and facilitate external events to support SLA objectives and in the fostering of a team ethos within the Hub department.
• Complete risk assessments to ensure a safe and healthy working environment at all times in accordance with Manchester United Foundation and Manchester United Football Club’s policies.
• Support the senior Hub management and other divisions in the delivery of football/sports tournaments and enrichment events.
• Maintain FA coach license award and other qualifications where applicable.
• Any other reasonable duty as may be assigned that is consistent with the purpose of the role and its level of responsibility, including the ability to work flexible hours and travel.
Despite the torture he says he experienced for years, former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Omar Deghayes still thinks reconciliation between the Middle East and the United States is possible.
"We have different values and we look at things differently but this doesn't mean that we have to fight each other," he said. "We can sit down and we can negotiate and understand."
Deghayes shared his story Friday night via videoconference with Democracy Now host Amy Goodman, former Guantánamo prison guard Terry C. Holdbrooks Jr. and approximately 500 Davis community members.
Organized by the UC Davis Center for Human Rights, the event was the first time a former guard and prisoner spoke together in front of a live, American audience.
Holdbrooks was inspired to hear that Deghayes still believed reconciliation is possible, but thinks it is nearly impossible.
"Quite frankly, I'm always surprised when I hear that another detainee has gone out and has not decided to retaliate," Holdbrooks said.
While Deghayes said everyone knows about Guantánamo, Goodman begged to differ and steered the conversation toward seeing what living in Guantánamo was really like.
"For people in the United States, I think we know very little about what actually goes on there," she said.
Deghayes said he experienced various forms of torture - his face was drowned until he suffocated, his ribs were battered and his nose was broken from being continually beaten.
At one point, five guards came into his cell, chained him and one guard pushed two of his fingers into Deghayes's eyes. Because Deghayes didn't scream, the guard continued. To this day, he can hardly see out of his right eye.
"Before Guantánamo, I never thought that people could be deeply cruel to each other to that extent, even if they were their enemies," he said.
Holdbrooks said he witnessed torture as well, referencing forms of sexual, psychological and physical torture.
"It was 100 percent torture, not just some physical or emotional abuse," he said. "It was torture."
Facing a strobe light, detainees were forced into stress positions and had to listen to the same Celine Dion song over and over for 12 hours straight. The stress positions themselves were specifically designed to induce muscle and bowel failures, Holdrooks said.
"It was common that detainees would have excrement or would urinate on themselves while being interrogated," he said. "It wasn't out of fear, it was strictly out of stress."
On a day-to-day basis, Guantánamo was 98 degrees, barren and humid. In addition to the sun, there were constantly lights on. Detainees could never sleep in the dark, Holdbrooks said.
"That place is horrible," he said. "I'm at a loss of words to describe Guantánamo."
Cells were completely made of iron and utilized extreme air conditioning. The effect was like living inside a refrigerator, Deghayes said.
Deghayes and Holdbrooks both described guards who purposefully disrespected the Quran in order to get a reaction from detainees. Guards threw copies of the Quran in toilets, scrawled abusive writings inside and kicked them on the ground.
Doctors were also involved in the torture, Deghayes said. If a prisoner had a disease, doctors would sometimes refuse to provide medication unless the prisoner cooperated with interrogations.
"The psychologically engineered schemes that went on were a lot worse with a lot deeper wounds than the physical ones," Deghayes said.
The psychological torture permanently changed Deghayes, who expressed the difficulty in becoming normal again.
"We're more cold than we used to be," he said. "We can't express our feelings easily to our families or friends. We suspect everyone and everything."
Even the guards were under surveillance and suffered abuse, Deghayes said. Thus, the people who designed Guantánamo are the ones who need to be held accountable for their actions, he said.
Holdbrooks, though more skeptical, agreed.
"It would be quite an amazing accomplishment if everyone responsible could be convicted or tried or even remotely punished in this life," he said.
JANELLE BITKER can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.
Indian shoppers are thronging malls and high streets once again, lured by the end-of-season discount sales, and bringing some relief to nervous retailers.
Reliance Retail has entered into a back-end joint venture with 2 Sisters Food Group (2SFG), a UK-based meat-processing company.
Ashish Dikshit tells ET that MF&L's long-term goal stays intact, as the recent slowdown in overall demand will not impact India's long-term growth potential.
Italy's l argest coffee company Lavazza is considering strategic partnerships to grow its cafe chain Barista in India.
The Jagtiani family, which owns the Dubai-based Landmark Group, has pumped in fresh equity of Rs 90 cr to drive Lifestyle Intl's expansion plans.
The FIPB said the Department of Industrial Policy Promotion (DIPP) should first study the ownership structure of the brand.
The world's largest clothing retailer Inditex will know the fate of its year-old investment proposal for India at a Foreign Investment Promotion Board meeting on Friday.
Food services company Global Franchise Architects, the owners of Pizza Corner and Donut Baker, is in the market to raise funds.
Alliances can provide the domestic partners with a slew of insights across the entire retailing process.
Bags and accessories brand Holii is expanding its scope to the apparel segment by partnering an upcoming designer.
The bubble that Hollywood leftists live in remains strong an unbroken, even in the face of falling ratings, and the election of a president that – so long as an R remains next to his name – stands against everything they claim to believe in.
Last night’s Emmy’s showed another decline with a two percent drop, continuing a trend of falling popularity that, frankly, shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone at this point.
For at least over half of the American populace, award shows are something you tune into when you feel like being insulted for your beliefs, decisions, or preferences. Americans tune in to watch people in expensive clothing preach against your stances as more people wearing glittering jewelry cheer and applaud.
Many Americans have grown tired of the parade of glitterati virtue signaling as they pat themselves on the back for winning awards they often don’t deserve. It’s why the steep drop from 2013’s 17.3 million viewers to 2016’s 11.3 million viewers occurred. It’s why the Emmys have seen yet another drop this year.
Alec Baldwin, who won an award for impersonating Trump, took his own swipes at the president, but earned the biggest groan — at least from me — when he literally cheered himself and his fellow elite on by talking about how important they are.
I just want to say — if I leave anybody out I’m sorry — but I do want to get this in — which is, you know, I always remember what someone told me — that is when you die you don’t remember a bill that Congress passed or a decision the Supreme Court made, or an address made by the president. You remember a song. You reme...
How he knows what people remember after the die was not explained by Baldwin, but he is holding an Emmy, so we should definitely listen to his wisdom.
But even if you’re not Trump’s biggest fan, the political commentary becomes tiring. Award shows have become more like CNN panels instead of recognition for excellently executed escapism. Even Trump haters seem to be done with the political jabs, as highlighted by Variety.
Hollywood’s unflinching dedication to leftist politics has left it a predictable, boring mess of uninspired jokes, and political platitudes that make it hard to watch. The glimpses inside the Hollywood bubble that award shows give us make many wonder if any of the coastal elite have ever spoken to a member of the fly-o...
If they had, then they would probably understand that falling ratings both at their self-congratulatory ceremonies and the theaters is a result of a citizenry not wanting to partake in the culture Hollywood is serving up. This was perfectly illustrated in the rejection of Hillary Clinton in 2016 despite her star-studde...
Since life in the gilded cage is very unlike the kind seen in the rest of the world, allow me to help those in Hollywood understand how business works.
If the product isn’t selling despite providing the best marketing money can ask for, then the people must want something different. Continuing to push the same product will not only result in a loss of cash, but a loss of faith in the customer.
Right now, Hollywood’s product is bland and unfulfilling. It tastes bad, and doesn’t feel good when you’ve finally gotten it down. Fewer and fewer are walking away satisfied, and more and more are choosing just not to consume the product at all.
To improve the product, change what recipes aren’t working, and expand your ideological menu. Invite more people to the table, and show them that they were considered with care. If they don’t, then they will continue to see a decline in their customer base.
*** "I tell you what, some thing things never change," said Biden. "I probably shouldn't let the press know this. But you know, Jill walked back up here a moment ago you know what she did? She put a little rat on the thing here," said Biden, holding a rubber rat. "Everything's Halloween with this lady. Happy Halloween,...
*** It's the last day to use this one, which Biden has solicited door-to-door in every state he's visited for a week: "I know it's Halloween, but John McCain dressed as an agent of change is a costume that just does not fit!"
*** At the University of Delaware in Newark today, his alma mater and home of the Blue Hens, Biden pointed out this fun political fact: "Ladies and gentlemen, this may be the first time in presidential campaign history that our campaign manager, a Delawarean named David Plouffe who was in the political science departme...