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The high winds and movement of the fire from bone-dry brush on the ground to 100-foot oak and pine treetops have created dire conditions. |
"A crown fire is much more difficult to fight," said Daniel Berlant of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. "Our firefighters are on the ground having to spray up." |
The blaze sweeping across steep, rugged river canyons quickly has become one of the biggest in California history, thanks in part to extremely dry conditions caused by a lack of snow and rainfall this year. Investigators are trying to determine how the fire started Aug. 17, days before lightning storms swept through th... |
"This fire has continued to pose every challenge that there can be on a fire: inaccessible terrain, strong winds, dry conditions. It's a very difficult firefight," Berlant said. |
Statewide, more than 8,300 firefighters are battling nearly 400 square miles of fires. |
Many air districts have issued health advisories as smoke settles over Northern California. While Yosemite Valley is clear, the Lake Tahoe basin is thick with smoke, and many outdoor activities have been canceled in Reno, Nev. |
NEW YORK — One day after he was struck in the face by a line drive, pitcher Bryan Mitchell was placed on the seven-day concussion disabled list by the New York Yankees on Tuesday. |
Sporting a large bruise under his eye and tape across the bridge of his nose, Mitchell was in good spirits as he discussed the moments after he was knocked down by a line drive off the bat of Minnesota’s Eduardo Nunez. |
Mitchell was knocked down by the liner, with the ball caroming into centre field for an RBI single for Nunez. Mitchell was on the ground for over a minute but was able to walk off the field escorted by members of the Yankees training staff. |
Mitchell said the ball hit his hat before connecting with his face. He showed the media how the cap was completely bent forward where the ball had it. |
“Bill of the cap, then my face, then centre field,” he said jokingly. |
Mitchell sustained a concussion last month while with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. He was working out with bands attached to a door, which flew open and caused him to fall backward and hit the back of his head. He said he did not have similar symptoms after Monday’s incident and the move to the DL was precautionary. |
In other moves, the Yankees selected Chris Capuano to the 25-man roster and recalled reliever Nick Rumbelow, both from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Pitcher Caleb Cotham was optioned to Triple-A, as well. |
Barack Obama got elected in 2008 partly on the basis of calling into question Republican national security judgments. He was right. The invasion of Iraq was more than just a blunder. It was strategic malpractice of the first order. |
As 2009 Obama articulated, the most disheartening aspect of the Iraq fiasco was the inability of the Bush Administration to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time, taking its eye off an arguable war of necessity in Afghanistan to obsess over a war of choice in Iraq and turning both into debacles as a result. |
But in an almost poetic, woeful stroke of political irony, 2014 Obama is committing the same sin he once bemoaned so effectively. He's taking his eye off the ball in Afghanistan. Like his predecessor, he's neglecting not only the war, but those doing the fighting on his behalf. |
President Obama's last press conference devoted to discussing the war in Afghanistan was one year ago. At that joint event with Hamid Karzai, he declared that the U.S. had accomplished what it set out to do there. Since then, he has barely discussed the subject at all. |
Since then, 132 Americans have lost their lives in combat. The U.S. has spent more than $86 billion to sustain a war effort that doesn't consistently make the evening news. Since then, Karzai has released prisoners considered threatening to our security. |
Given that U.S. involvement in Afghanistan is entirely concerned with containing security threats, this is a worrisome development. It renews questions over whether the Karzai government's strategy is in any way consistent with our own. |
Then again, what is our strategy? |
Recent revelations emerging from former Secretary of Defense Bob Gates' memoir portray Obama as unconfident in his own strategic deliberations, at odds with Karzai as well as his own commanders, and possessed with the notion that this isn't even "his war." Perhaps this explains why Mr. Obama spends so little time visit... |
This is not to say President Obama is anything other than a humane man. Certainly he is aware of the loss of young men and women in his war and certainly he feels that loss. But the nation needs more than concern and empathy. |
We need leadership. We need strategy. We need him asking tough questions and telling us how to make sense of the answers. We need him meeting with his war council, adjusting his plan, firing those who fall short and promoting those who show promise. We need him talking to us about the meaning of our involvement. This s... |
Most of all, we need justification for the expenditure of $6.5 billion per month to sustain our involvement in what even Obama seemingly views as a failed enterprise. As Congress finalizes appropriation of the budget Obama recently signed into law, the parties are squabbling over whether to extend unemployment benefits... |
Congress is also trying to decide whether to repeal a veteran compensation cut which saves enough over ten years to fund one month of Afghanistan operations. In other words, we're asking those who have done the fighting in Afghanistan to pay for another month of fighting there by giving up their pensions. |
Again, a more reasonable course would be to end the war and pay what is owed to our veterans. But this kind of folly is not the product of clear thinking; the solutions to a dozen different problems are within reach by ending the war, but the President doesn't notice them because he has taken his eye off the ball, and ... |
Most Americans have no idea there is a war. No one is talking to them about it. Sunday talk shows showcased a scandal about a traffic jam on a bridge, and whether it would impact an election nearly three years from now. |
60 Minutes covered the ever-important A-Roid scandal. Network TV is concerned not with America's war against Al Qaeda, but Peyton Manning's against Tom Brady. A new movie chronicles one of the Afghanistan's most intense battles. The one reporter who tried to bridge from the story of that battle to the larger question o... |
Honey boo boo quickly occupied the attention of pop culture America. |
Commentators and veterans are the only ones talking about something that should be in center focus for all Americans. They struggle to make sense of something that seems senseless. |
One very small segment of Americans painfully aware of the war is comprised of those doing the fighting and their families. The prevailing sentiment among them, when they allow themselves to feel anything, is a blend of confusion and powerlessness. They realize they're the only ones left who care about this, and wish t... |
This is profoundly nonsensical given that the war is supposed to be over by the end of the year, but they swallow hard and get about doing their jobs, hoping sanity will prevail at some point. But it is heartbreaking to see the expressions on their faces when I ask them if they believe in what they're doing. The answer... |
They do what they do out of a sense of duty to team and to fulfill their oaths of service, but not because they believe in or even understand what they're supporting. They worry about how history will judge their participation in something even their commanders don't seem to understand or celebrate. Most dishearteningl... |
As my friends pack their bags for a year in Afghanistan, Washington politicians have started raiding their pension funds, inducing new anxieties about whether their willingness to serve will prove justified. They see more broken promises and betrayals ahead. |
They also perceive new pressure on the Department of Defense to squeeze personnel accounts, which has put the jobs of honorable, competent, dedicated servants on the line even as they're asked to do more to sustain a war no one else seems to care about. |
Some will be sent to a remote outpost, and while there, receive orders to return home so they can be separated from the military as part of the upcoming drawdown. With the stroke of a pen, they will go from being so valuable to the war effort that a year away from family was justifiable ... to so expendable they aren't... |
The President seems to have consigned himself to being a passive bystander in a war effort starving for his leadership. That, such as it is, would be bad enough. But in signing the budget, he went beyond neglect and into the realm of promise-breaking. |
Going back on his own word, he broke the faith with veterans who carried out an unguided war, legalizing the raiding of pensions they fought, suffered, bled, and endured untold deprivation to earn. Their spouses couldn't hold consistent work. Their families were uprooted time after time. They missed events from birthda... |
Against this backdrop, suicides among veterans are spiking to an alarming rate. This is a dire signal of the difficulty in reconciling the horrors of war with life in civilized society. This reconciliation becomes more difficult as the nation becomes more aloof to the plight of those doing the fighting and a natural re... |
Dark days lie ahead unless our national leaders grow to perceive and address this transition from a nation supporting war to one reintegrating its fighting servants. If our own history has anything to say about the matter, we will spend the next several decades grappling to understand and heal the injury inflicted upon... |
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Netflix plans to raise an additional $1.6 billion in debt to fund “content acquisitions, production and development,” among other “general corporate purposes,” the streaming giant said on Monday. |
The company will raise the capital by selling senior notes. |
“The interest rate, redemption provisions, maturity date and other terms of the Notes will be determined by negotiations between Netflix and the initial purchasers,” per the announcement. |
That’s all pretty standard stuff and run-of-the-mill corporate terminologies — but clearly, Netflix is not resting on its laurels with the content the company’s already got. |
Netflix revealed its third-quarter 2017 earnings last Monday, when the company boasted another 5.3 million subscribers signed on during those three months. |
The housemates have been asked to gather on the sofas. Lesley is telling those present how annoyed she gets at housemates being unable to assemble immediately. Big Brother reveals they are about to test the fire alarms, and warns the housemates not to leave the sofas. |
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"A new constitution that addresses the concerns and grievances of the minorities is the urgent need to be addressed by the next parliament. The resolution of our ethnic conflict, which continues after war, is sine qua non for Sri Lanka’s march forward toward peace and prosperity." |
Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera told parliament on Tuesday that the 19 Amendment alone would not be the panacea for all problems Sri Lanka was faced with. |
Minister Samaraweera said that the reduction of the executive powers of the Presidency would be only one important step in the challenging journey that we, as a nation, must undertake in order to create a new Sri Lanka. |
April 28 should be remembered as the day which heralded the beginning of the end of the all powerful executive presidential system in our country, the foreign minister said. The minister said: " Since introducing the First Republican constitution in 1972 we have journeyed from a Westminster form of government to an all... |
"The 19th Amendment abolished many of the executive powers of the presidency while retaining the executive nature of the presidency. " |
"The Supreme Court held that in order to abolish many of the other powers, a referendum would be needed. Therefore it will be the task of the next parliament to completely abolish the executive system in favour of a fully-fledged parliamentary democracy." |
"We know that this unaccountable system was in many ways at the root of many of the most pressing national problems. It is at the root of the culture of impunity and the widespread corruption that we experienced over the last few years." |
"It is in the context of such experiences, that President Maithripala Sirisena was given a mandate to abolish the executive presidential system. The citizens of Sri Lanka and indeed future generations will applaud President Sirisena for taking resolute action to fulfill his promises to the people, within the parameters... |
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"A new constitution, which will celebrate Sri Lanka’s ethnic, religious and cultural diversity and pluralism and meet the aspirations of all the peoples of Sri Lanka. Whether it is the tensions between the Sinhalese and Tamil communities or the Sinhalese and Muslim communities, eradicating the motivation for terrorism ... |
"Under the leadership of the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe administration, I am certain that we will form and implement a consensus on the national question that has evaded previous governments. We will use our collective political will to construct a great peace for our country." |
President Donald Trump's border wall may not be going anywhere right now and one of Mexico's leading candidates in the presidential elections told NBC News she wants to make sure the "useless" wall stays that way. |
"It's a false solution to a false problem," Margarita Zavala said of the wall through a translator in a phone interview Wednesday. "The wall does not help in any way the relationship between the two countries. The wall is pulling us apart." |
Trump's proposed wall, she said, is more about scapegoating Mexicans for political gain than for U.S. security. |
"What Donald Trump has done is create an enemy. Mexicans have served as a convenient enemy to rally his supporters," Zavala said, dismissing his comments at the start of his campaign about Mexican rapists and murders as "hate speech." |
Zavala, a former member of Congress and ex-first lady (she is married to Felipe Calderon, a former president), is expected to be the nominee of one of Mexico's two main political parties, the center-right National Action Party (PAN), for the country's July 2018 presidential election. She has been referred to as the "Hi... |
Trump is already shaping up to be a major issue in the campaign. |
This week, the American president reiterated that Mexico will "eventually" pay for the wall "in some form," but Zavala didn't even wait for an aide to translate that question before responding. "Never, never. We will never pay for the wall," she said. |
While careful to not to attack Trump personally and to say the U.S.-Mexico relationship is much bigger than the president, she said Trump has strained relations between the neighbors. |
"The U.S. has to decide: What kind of a relationship does it want with Mexico? I think Donald Trump and the United States have a lot to lose if we don't get along, so it's time to decide how we're going to conduct our relationship in the future," she said. |
Trump thwarted one former first lady's goal of becoming her country's first female president last year, and he might help do it again next year in Mexico. |
Will the wall prevent human trafficking as Trump claims? |
Zavala and her party had consistently led the polls for months. But she's watched as a leftist opponent, Andrés Manuel López Obrador — who narrowly lost to Calderón 11 year ago — surged ahead by bashing Trump. |
Obrador, a former mayor of Mexico City, mixes fiery left-wing populism with nationalism, troubling some American observers. |
"We are running the risk that a strong anti-U.S. sentiment becomes an issue in the election and that may help one candidate. But I will stand by the idea that it serves both countries to have a very strong relationship," Zavala said. |
Mexico's current president, Enrique Peña Nieto, returned the traditionally dominant center-left Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to power in 2012, after back-to-back victories by Zavala and Calderon's center-right PAN. |
Mexican presidents are limited to a single, six-year term, so Pena Nieto cannot run again. But corruption, his perceived softness on Trump, and other issues have damaged Pena Nieto's party's standing. |
Calderón, Zavala's husband, lead the country from 2006 to 2012. But his heavy-handed approach to drug cartels have made him controversial in Mexico. |
Zavala's has faced questions about whether she's running as "a second coming" of her unpopular husband, but she dismissed that criticism. |
"I have my own career, I make my own decisions, and I am responsible for them," she said. "And I think that's been reflected both in the party and outside. People notice and that's why I have a very strong position in the polls." |
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