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In 2019, Protector expects a combined ratio of around 96 percent, it said.
The company plans to book all remaining losses relating to grey silverfish in its 2018 accounts, it said.
Scott Braden, left, wilderness advocate for Conservation Colorado, shows U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (AZ-03) a map of a proposed special management area in the Tenmile Range near Officers Gulch on Thursday, May 7, 2015, as U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (CO-02) looks on. Polis will reintroduce a bill later this month that would designate more wilderness and protected areas in the High Country.
U.S. Reps. Jared Polis (CO-02) and Raul Grijalva (AZ-03), the top Democrat on the House Natural Resource Committee, toured Summit County Thursday, May 7, to look at proposed wilderness and special management areas in the White River National Forest.
Driving west, they stopped at Loveland Pass, Sapphire Point and Officers Gulch, and Conservation Colorado wilderness advocate Scott Braden showed Grijalva which mountains and forests he saw would be included in the bill Polis will reintroduce later this month.
The representatives also participated in a lunchtime roundtable discussion in Vail with about 30 local elected officials, large and small business owners, water suppliers and wilderness advocates who worked with Polis to craft the bill, so Grijalva could hear from locals about why they support the wilderness protections in Polis’ bill.
The roundtable included Summit County Commissioner Karn Stiegelmeier, Summit Huts Association director Mike Zobbe, Breckenridge Outdoor Eduation Center director Bruce Fitch, Silverthorne area resident and nature photographer John Fielder, Vail Resorts vice president of natural resources and conservation Rick Cables, longtime High Country resident and business owner Dave Gorsuch.
Several people expressed concerns about energy development, and some suggested Polis convince those opposed to the bill that wilderness is the energy source for the High Country.
Garett Reppenhagen, a Park County resident and the Rocky Mountain director of the Vet Voice Foundation, spoke about what wilderness meant to him after his military service.
Grijalva, whose influence on the Natural Resources Committee could help move the bill to a House vote, said he was impressed by the bill’s broad local support.
The bill would protect 58,000 acres of wilderness lands in Summit County and eastern Eagle County and create new wilderness areas in the Tenmile Range, Hoosier Ridge and Williams Fork Mountains as well as expand the existing Eagles Nest, Ptarmigan Peak and Holy Cross Wilderness Areas.
The plan also would create an 11,500-acre Recreation Management Area in the Tenmile Range near Frisco and Breckenridge that would be managed like a wilderness areas but would allow mountain biking.
The proposal was drafted in partnership with local stakeholders so that it maintains existing recreational uses and accounts for future improvements local communities valued. With his new seat on the House Natural Resources Committee and Grijalva’s engagement, Polis said he is optimistic about moving the bill through Congress this session.
For more information about the bill, which Polis is working to retitle through a naming contest, visit polis.house.gov/wilderness.
Guy Ritchie’s transition from maker of gritty British crime flicks like Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels to purveyor of slick Hollywood entertainment continues. The Man From UNCLE, the 46-year-old director’s first film since 2011’s enormously successful Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, is a stylish and expensive-looking spy film based on the classic American TV series.
That series ran from 1964 to 1968 against the backdrop of the Cold War, which made the working relationship between its lead characters, American secret agent Napoleon Solo and Soviet spy Illya Kuryakin, especially tense. Wisely, Ritchie and his co-writer Lionel Wigram (who produced Sherlock…) haven’t tried to make this premise contemporary. The film begins in 1963 when Solo (Henry Cavill, Man Of Steel) is forced to join forces with Kuryakin (Armie Hammer, The Social Network) for the first time on a mission to halt a mysterious criminal organisation led by glamorous Italian shipping magnate Victoria Vinciguerra (The Great Gatsby‘s Elizabeth Debicki). Their key to infiltrating Vinciguerra’s operation is a feisty young German woman called Gaby Teller (played by Ex Machina star Alicia Vikander), whose missing father, a scientific genius, is believed to be building its nuclear weapons.
Their tussle with Vinciguerra remains reasonably gripping as it takes the spy genre’s usual series of hairpin twists and turns, but what really appeals about The Man From UNCLE is its sumptuous period detail – most of the film is set in elegantly wealthy Italy – and jovial tone, which peaks when Ritchie introduces Alexander Waverly (Hugh Grant), a witty British intelligence officer who ribs Solo and Kuryakin and will eventually become their boss as head of the United Network Command For Law And Enforcement (UNCLE). Ritchie’s film definitely feels like a triumph of style over substance, but it’s a consistently likeable one.
The final scene shamelessly sets up a sequel, but this film’s franchise potential will ultimately depend on whether the audience accepts that Cavill and Hammer, actors who lack the natural magnetism of someone like Sherlock’s Robert Downey Jr, are credible as charismatic badasses pulling off effortless feats of international espionage. Though each does enough to earn the benefit of the doubt – Cavill is handsome and appealingly glib; Hammer is handsome and appealingly earnest – they’re upstaged by Debicki’s scene-stealing turn as their deliciously sniffy foil. Next time out, the men from UNCLE will need to raise their game.
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The German industrial conglomerate will pay cash to acquire Boston-based Mendix, and it also plans to invest in the company’s research and development efforts and global expansion over the next few years, Mendix co-founder and CEO Derek Roos wrote in a blog post announcing the deal Wednesday.
Roos and his co-founders started Mendix in 2006 in the Netherlands. The idea was to speed up and simplify the process of developing software applications at big businesses, enabling even non-technical people to build new programs.
Mendix was able to get to cash-flow positive early on, and it didn’t raise a major venture capital round until a $13 million Series A deal in 2011. The company relocated its headquarters to Boston the following year. Overall, Mendix raised at least $38 million from investors including Prime Ventures, Battery Ventures, and Henq. The firm competes with the likes of OutSystems and Salesforce in the enterprise app market.
I lived in Canberra for a couple of years in the 1980s and loved everything about it (OK, nearly everything: the lack of good bread, distance from the coast and lack of street life all left me wanting). Despite the lack of carbs and surf, at the time I really felt Canberra and what it had to offer was unfairly maligned by the rest of Australia.
I have travelled back many times to Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin's beautifully designed city since leaving in 1987. I love the lake, the million trees they planted, the monuments, the art, the institutions, the lilac bushes, the purple hue of the Brindabellas in the distance.
The 'Enlighten' festival in Canberra in March.
So, like many of you, I am proud as punch that Lonely Planet named Canberra its No.3 best city to visit in 2018 – and I particularly love that, in every article, Canberrans are quoted hastening to add that this ranking is higher than any Australian city before it!
"Criminally overlooked, Canberra packs a big punch for a small city," Lonely Planet says. The reasons given include the national treasures found around every corner, alongside new boutique precincts "bulging with gastronomic highlights and cultural must-dos". Suddenly, it seems Canberra is being noticed for all the things a vibrant exciting city offers (including the bread I once craved!).
Public spaces and how people interact with and traverse them is at the heart of this. Canberra is having its moment in the sun because it is creating more of a sense of place and a bit of joie de vivre, which helps cajole people out of their living rooms, and other cities, into Canberra.
Vibrancy, culture and tolerance seem to me to be in the DNA of cities that work – and it doesn't need to be to the exclusion of nature. Cities are by definition built environments and need what I'd call a modicum of "grunge" breathing life into them. Cities need a mix of the built and the natural environment to co-exist; to create both harmony and friction.
Given all that we know about the recipe for cities that flourish, I am constantly struck by people's opposition to things like graffiti, signs, neon and a night culture. Perhaps it is opposition not to these things themselves but because they are seen to connect public space with private interests?
Worries over the possible effects of this go to a historical division of the commercial from the idea of a civic panacea. The accolades from Lonely Planet debunk this somewhat. It is the heady mix of local business, cultural icons and national treasures that create in Canberra that sense of a city worth visiting. There is no mention of being the bush capital, its sublime city design or its abundant nature. This is not to say those things are unimportant, but that they are no longer the only notable ingredients in Canberra's recipe.
It is the collaboration between the commercial and the civic that gives an emerging city like Canberra its X-factor. We need to move away from the cliched argument that these two worlds thrive only at the expense of the other, and enjoy both.
Painting ourselves into a corner by insisting that there is a good and a bad instead of a symbiotic relationship at play is useless. Why deny the aesthetic joy that can exist in cities, just because it is not the beauty of a mountain range or a waterfall? Seeking purity through opposition to the rhythm of urban life strips the meaning from the places we call homes. Canberra's natural beauty cannot and should not restrict its ongoing evolution as Australia's capital.
As an optimist, I'd like to believe the best lies ahead of us, in the exploration of these nuances through a more contemporary, open dialogue facilitated by government. Let's move past the binaries and onto better things.
Take out-of-home advertising signs as an example of how this binary thinking can move onto something better. The infrastructure it comes with embeds benefits such as lighting, shelter and general amenity alongside technology for way-finding and community messaging. Some of the most vibrant, interesting and exciting locations in the world have effectively integrated advertising signs to add flair and create a sense of place. Canberra could harness these benefits in ways that promote, rather than destroy, its sense of identity.
Advertising goes hand in hand with a thriving city that is overflowing with possibility.
Advertising goes hand in hand with a thriving city that is overflowing with possibility. It is not a case of out with the old and in with the new; more a case of respecting the old and building on it by inviting in the new. It's about finding ways to develop regulation that encourages a more thoughtful dialogue between everyone who wants to contribute to Canberra maintaining its mantle as one of the top cities in the world to spend some time in.
Charmaine Moldrich is chief executive of the Outdoor Media Association.
Voting rights advocates blasted the new executive order.
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to set up a commission to study his unproven allegations of voter fraud in last year's presidential election, as he continues to grapple with the fallout from his abrupt and controversial firing of FBI Director James Comey.
The commission will be chaired by Vice President Pence, who will be joined by up to 15 other members appointed by the president. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has advocated for some of the most restrictive election laws in the country, will serve as the commission's vice chair.
Trump, who lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton by nearly 2.9 million votes, has claimed that last year's election included up to 3 million to 5 million fraudulent voters — but there is no evidence to back this assertion.
Trump's executive order creating the "Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity'' comes as Democrats and other critics accuse him of firing Comey to obstruct an ongoing investigation into possible collusion between Trump campaign associates and Russians who tried to influence last year's election.
The president is planning a visit to the FBI headquarters in the coming days to calm the waters, administration officials said. But the unexpected announcement of the new commission — which was not on Trump's public schedule for the day — might be seen as a way to distract from the firestorm unleashed by the Comey firing earlier this week.
Voting rights advocates blasted the new executive order, calling it a distraction that doesn't address pressing issues such voter suppression.
Meanwhile, federal and state election officials from both parties have disputed Trump's claims of massive voter fraud. They say there have been few, if any, incidents of people voting when they were not registered – or voting by people who were not American citizens.
"Every election is going to have issues, but I don’t think that three to five million people voting illegally was one of those issues," said Thomas Hicks, then-chairman of the federal Election Assistance Commission said in January in USA TODAY.
Election officials have said they worry Trump’s claims could shake the faith of voters, particularly at a time when the FBI and Congress are investigating whether Russia interfered in last year’s presidential election.
For his part, Trump has stood by his claim.
"We'll see after the committee," Trump told Time magazine in March. Trump had originally been expected to sign the executive order creating the voter commission in late January, but it has been consistently been put off.
The advisory commission set up to "promote fair and honest federal elections'' will hold public meetings and meet with federal state and local officials as well as election experts, according to the order. The commission is expected to present a report to the president next year.
"The experts and officials on this commission will follow the facts where they lead,'' Sanders said.
Brennan released a recent national report that disputed Trump's claims of massive fraud. Of 23.5 million votes cast in 42 jurisdictions in last year's general election, about 30 were incidents of suspected noncitizen voting, the report found.
"All studies, including our own, have shown that voter fraud is vanishingly rare,'' Myrna Pérez, deputy director of the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, said in a statement. "And, the myth of voter fraud has been the justification for restrictive voting laws for years, serving to roll back access to our democracy for people all across the country."
Voting rights advocates say the administration should focus on making access to the polls easier instead of unfounded claims of voter fraud. They argue some lawmakers are using the claim to ramp up more restrictive election laws.
States, mostly controlled by Republican legislatures, have adopted more election laws, including voter ID, in recent years. Supporters say they help protect against voter fraud.
Voting rights advocates also took aim at Trump's appointment of Kobach to the commission. Kobach, a conservative, has been in legal battles in Kansas over some of the state's election laws, including one requiring voters to prove their citizenship before voting.
"No commission with Secretary Kobach at the helm can be taken seriously," said Clarke from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Other commission members include Republicans such as Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson; Ken Blackwell, former Secretary of State of Ohio; and Christy McCormick, a commissioner on the Election Assistance Commission. Democrats include Bill Gardner, New Hampshire’s Secretary of State and Maine secretary of State Matthew Dunlap.
Clarke said she's surprised to see Trump follow through on his promise to set up the commission considering the lack of evidence. “It’s also disappointing that nowhere in this executive order… is there any sensitivity to this administration’s obligation to enforce federal rights law,'' she said. "There is no reference to voting discrimination or voter suppression. Those words simply do not appear."
Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, called the commission a waste of taxpayer money.
"Instead of supporting an investigation into fake issues like voter fraud that pose no threat to the country, the Trump administration should support an investigation into real issues that do, real issues like Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, campaign collusion and cover-up, and voter suppression and intimidation,'' Richmond said in a joint statement with Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.
Trump's order, however, could get support from some Republican lawmakers, who have welcomed a federal investigation into allegations of voter fraud.
“Safeguarding our democracy requires fair and accurate elections,” said Rep. Gregg Harper, R-Miss., chairman of the House Administration Committee, which has jurisdiction over federal elections.
Jaquan Wilson scored 10 of his 23 points in the first quarter as Vidalia evened its District 2-2A record with a 66-33 victory over Beekman on Friday night at Tarver Gym.
Scoring on six of their first eight possessions, the Vikings (10-13, 4-4) settled the matter early.
Three-pointers by Wilson and Roderick Ranson staked Vidalia to a 6-0 lead less in the opening minute.
Malachi Evans made the front end of a shooting foul to get Beekman on the board, but the Vikings countered with 11 straight points.
Ranson ignited the flurry with a steal and layup, Demikal McCoy added a pair of baskets from close range, and Wilson drove for a layup and completed a three-point play as the Vikings' lead ballooned to 17-1 less than four minutes in.
Vidalia held a 23-5 advantage as the quarter drew to a close.
Beekman closed the margin to 13, 35-22, on Javontae Chandler's 3-pointer, but Wilson answered with a 3 to send the Vikings into the break with a 38-22 cushion.
Wilson and Beekman's Keith Haynes traded buckets to start the second half, but the remainder of the quarter belonged to Vidalia. Three-pointers by Christian Page and Wilson sparked a 9-0 run as the Vikings sailed ahead 49-24, and stretched the distance to 60-27 at the end of the stanza.
Wilson, who hit four of the Vikings' six 3-pointers, was joined in double digits by McCoy with 17 and Brendan Smith with 10. Roderick Ranson had seven, Curtis Washington Jr. six and Page three.
Scoring for the Tigers (5-20, 0-8) were Xavier Hargraves and Raquan Mansfield with seven, Xavier Lewis with four, Joey Chain, Malachi Evans and Javontae Chandler with three, Haynes and Gavin Wolfe with two and Jaquinton Killian and Dakota Collins with one.
Beekman's next two are on the road — at Rayville on Tuesday and at Claiborne Christian on Thursday.
VIDALIA (10-13, 4-4) — Jaquan Wilson 23, Demikal McCoy 17, Brendan Smith 10, Roderick Ranson 7, Curtis Washington Jr. 6, Christian Page 3.
BEEKMAN (5-20, 0-8) — Xavier Hargraves 7, Raquan Mansfield 7, Xavier Lewis 4, Joey Chain 3, Malachi Evans 3, Javontae Chandler 3, Keith Haynes 2, Gavin Wolfe 2, Jaquinton Killian 1, Dakota Collins 1.
Three-point goals — Vidalia 6 (Wilson 4, Ranson 1, Page 1), Beekman 2 (Chain, Chandler). Total fouls — Vidalia 16, Beekman 4. Free throw shooting — Vidalia 2-3, Beekman 11-24. Fouled out — none. Technicals — none.
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and conservative media figures repeatedly enabled each other to spread baseless smears and outright lies throughout the Republican presidential primary election cycle. Voices in conservative media repeatedly legitimized Trump’s debunked conspiracies, policy proposals, and statistics, some of which echoed longtime narratives from prominent right-wing media figures.
Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) directly contradicted claims made by anonymous Fox News sources who argued the military could have done more to prevent loss of life during the 2012 attack on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya.
Fox correspondent Adam Housley cited two anonymous sources in an attempt to revive a debunked smear against the Obama administration and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton that officials had readily available assets that could have saved lives during the attack. After Housley’s report aired during the May 11 edition of Fox News’ Special Report, Gowdy urged Housley’s two “witnesses” to appear before the select committee he heads and speak.
Fox News has a history of citing anonymous sources, fraudulent “experts,” and dishonest sources in its obsessive attempt to find a “smoking gun” to claim the Obama administration lied about the Benghazi attacks, despite multiple investigations that have found no wrongdoing.
North Carolina editorial boards are criticizing Gov. Pat McCrory (R) after he filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department in defense of the state’s anti-LGBT bathroom bill. McCrory claimed that the federal government had no authority to demand state legislators rework the law so it isn't discriminatory, and state newspapers denounced the governor for “defending the indefensible” and engaging in a “disturbing” legal battle that “won’t end well” for North Carolina.
The New York Times' Mark Landler and Maureen Dowd are baselessly claiming that Hillary Clinton would be more likely to bring the nation to war if elected president than Donald Trump, in part due to Trump's claims of opposition to the Iraq War. In fact, Trump supported the Iraq War, has refused to rule out using nuclear weapons in the Middle East and Europe, has floated military engagement with Iran, and called for U.S. invasions of Libya and Syria.
Fox News hosts and guests spun protests against GOP front-runner Donald Trump at recent campaign events in California as beneficial to Trump as a candidate.
Paul Waldman: Between Republicans And Democrats’ Visions Of The Economy, "Only One Is Based In Reality"
The Washington Post’s Paul Waldman described how GOP front-runner Donald Trump and conservatives are spreading misinformation about the economy to downplay economic success made during the Obama administration. Trump’s misinformation has been fueled and perpetuated by right-wing media outlets like Fox News.
The economy is an absolute nightmare. Americans are living in such misery that they’re practically eating their own shoes in order to survive. If we cut taxes on the wealthy, reduce regulations on corporations, renegotiate trade agreements, and deport all illegal immigrants, then our economy will be spectacular and working people will experience American greatness again.
Trump’s story is the same one other Republicans tell, with the addition of the idea that “bad deals” on trade have had a crippling effect on the country. For the moment we’ll put aside the merits of Trump’s claim that imposing enormous tariffs on Chinese goods will cause all those jobs sewing clothing and assembling electronics to come pouring into the United States, but the political question around Trump’s story is whether people will believe his over-the-top description of both what’s happening now and the transformation he will be able to produce.
Today, the objective reality is a lot closer to the way Democrats describe it, in large part because they aren’t offering an extreme version of their truth. If Obama and Clinton were more rhetorically similar to Donald Trump, they’d be saying that this is the greatest economy in the history of human civilization, everybody has a terrific job, and there’s so much prosperity that the only question any American has is whether to spend their money on everything they could ever want or just roll around in it like Scrooge McDuck.
But they aren’t saying that. Instead, they’re attempting the tricky balancing act of emphasizing the progress Obama has made while acknowledging the long-term weaknesses in the economy. Both of those things are real. Since the bottom of the Great Recession early in Obama’s first term, the economy has added 14 million jobs, and unemployment is now at 5 percent. On the other hand, income growth has been concentrated at the top and Americans still feel uncertain about their economic futures.
Donald Trump has chosen to pretend that the good things about the American economy don’t exist, and weave a laughable fantasy about what his policies will produce (“I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created”).
Trump’s misinformation echoes right-wing media, who often stoke fears and downplay positive changes in the U.S. economy.
In a departure from the misinformation and false balance that typically dominate coverage of anti-LGBT legislation, several outlets have begun modeling best practices in reporting on anti-LGBT “bathroom bills” by highlighting the harmful impacts the laws have on transgender people.
Thus far in 2016, at least 16 different states have considered an unprecedented 44 bills targeting transgender people. Like the high-profile law (HB 2) recently passed in North Carolina, many of these bills aim to ban transgender people from public restrooms that do not correspond with the gender on their birth certificate.
In reporting on laws regulating transgender people’s access to restrooms, media outlets have frequently failed to debunk the anti-LGBT “bathroom predator” myth peddled by proponents of the law. The talking point claims that permitting transgender people to use the restroom that aligns with their gender identity would open the door for predatory men to sexually assault women and children in public bathrooms. Although the “bathroom predator” myth has been repeatedly refuted by law enforcement experts, government officials, and women's safety advocates in cities and states across the country, journalists have uncritically parroted the talking point, providing free airtime to anti-LGBT activists. Outlets also often neglect to mention the high levels of discrimination and sexual assault experienced by transgender people.
But in a move toward more responsible journalism, national media outlets have started to actively highlight the harmful impact “bathroom bills” have on transgender people.
Samantha Allen, for The Daily Beast, reported March 17 that suicide rates rise among transgender teens when they are forced to use bathrooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate. On April 20, about a month after North Carolina passed its “bathroom bill,” Allen reported that calls to a crisis call line for transgender people called Trans Lifeline had nearly doubled.