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Specifically, Boothe was referring to the widespread criticism of Trump's Wednesday visit with troops at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, his first visit
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to a war zone since taking office.
She said Trump was prematurely criticized for not taking the trip on Christmas, and then when he did make the trip, he was panned over his speech to soldiers.
"President Trump just can't win, ever, with the media," she said.
Julie Banderas said she had a particular problem with Trump's statement that the United States "is no longer the suckers, folks."
She said that she'd never consider the U.S. as "suckers," and that Trump's comments were disrespectful to servicemen and women.
"What does that say to the families that have lost loved ones in wars prior?" she asked.
Kennedy argued that Trump's comments speak to the bravery of soldiers.
"Sometimes, they put themselves in harm's way for incursions and wars that don't that don't make sense," she said.
The president reportedly said that he has "no plans at all"
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Rival protests over a murder in the east German city of Chemnitz have ended with several people injured as objects were hurled by both sides,
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police say.
Far-right activists had gathered in the centre for a second day as a Syrian and an Iraqi remained under arrest on suspicion of Sunday's deadly stabbing.
Anti-Nazi activists rallied just metres away, accusing the far right of using the death for political ends.
Injuries were caused when protesters on both sides threw objects, police say.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel had warned that "vigilante justice" would not be tolerated.
Police warned masked demonstrators who were picking up stones in the city, about 200km (120 miles) south of Berlin, that their actions were being filmed.
Earlier, authorities said police were investigating alleged assaults on an Afghan, a Syrian and a Bulgarian during the unrest that broke out on Sunday.
Reports have included mentions of protesters chasing foreigners, though there are few details.
Chemnitz police, quoted by the local broadcaster MDR, said: "We did not anticipate such a total of participants [on Sunday]".
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Last summer I and many others left ScienceBlogs, our blog host, because its publisher had sold to Pepsi a blog slot that looked in every
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essential like the a normal blog slot written by people who were there — and assumed to be there — to communicate rather than sell. This little but important tempest was inevitably labeled PepsiGate. The key issue, at least to me, was that the bought advertorial content (that is, bought by the company that was writing it) was presented in a way that invited readers to mistake it as editorial content (that is, content written by people hired and published because they brought an outside view to things they wrote about.) The incident sparked a lot of discussion about how to distinguish, as good publications always have, between material written from a roughly disinterested and critical editorial point of view and what are essentially ads or PR written by people tooting their own horns.
Yesterday's Independent ran a piece that violates those editorial principles. Apparently someone wasn't paying attention. They ran a piece that the Open University wrote about research done by Open University researchers. It's actually an interesting piece, but it's still
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The Ikea superstore in Carbrook, Sheffield.
The organisers of the Sheffield Design Awards are going to the people to find out which new
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building deserves the public’s seal of approval.
The biennial prizegiving – organised by the Sheffield Society of Architects and the Sheffield Civic Trust – is now in its 10th year, and a ceremony is happening in October when honours will be presented in a range of categories.
The M&S Foodhall at St James' Retail Park, Norton, Sheffield.
One of the sections, ‘people’s choice’, relies on outside votes, and the full list of 34 entries to pick from has now been published. It features all the nominations received this year; the judges’ shortlist, released last month, was whittled down to 16 candidates.
The £60 million Ikea superstore in Carbrook, St James’ Retail Park on the old Norton College site – which represented a ‘marked change in retail park design’, according to the architects – and the expanded Rising Sun pub at Nether Green are among the
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With all the news media accounts and reports from governmental health organizations about the opioid epidemic, including the 70,237 drug overdose deaths in 2017, a
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newly emerging threat is gaining attention: use and misuse of benzodiazepines, opioid drugs and Z-drugs. Specifically, combining these three drugs can create a deadly combination that snuffs out lives.
Benzodiazepines, a class of sedative narcotic drugs including Xanax and Valium used to treat anxiety, insomnia and other disorders and classified as Schedule IV under the Controlled Substances Act by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), are increasingly misused, diverted and abused. These are powerful drugs that are highly addictive and can be fatal, especially when combined with opioids, alcohol (and Z-drugs, per recent findings). Prescriptions filled for benzos jumped 67 percent, from 8.1 million in 1996 to 13.5 million in 2013, according to a 2016 study reported in the American Journal of Public Health. Benzodiazepines are also considered responsible for a dramatic increase in overdose deaths in recent years, rising from 1,135 in 1999 to 8,791
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The Government is scrapping all of its interim KiwiBuild targets and going back to the drawing board.
KiwiBuild hasn't exactly
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got off to a roaring start this year, with Housing Minister Phil Twyford admitting last week that the Government would not hit its mid-year target of 1000 KiwiBuild homes being built.
Now it appears that that and the other interim KiwiBuild targets are out the window as the whole policy is, as Mr Twyford calls it, "recalibrated".
"So I'll take a paper to Cabinet in a few weeks' time, we're looking at both how we can make KiwiBuild both a stronger incentive for developers and how we can make it work better for first home buyers."
While the interim targets are toast, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is sticking to her guns about the overall KiwiBuild target.
"Our 100,000 over 10 years hasn't changed, those interim targets haven't been a useful way to demonstrate our delivery programme and that's why the minister is looking at that again," she said.
Opposition leader Simon
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The University of Missouri System is using an unexpected boost in state aid to set up dozens of scholarships for needy students.
This month, Gov.
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Jay Nixon released $1.1 million to the system, money that came from lottery proceeds that exceeded the state's expectations. The four UM campuses will pitch in another $1.1 million in donations to create endowed scholarships. The goal is to have 56 endowments worth $40,000 each, which would allow scholarships to initially provide $2,000 to students.
System administrators are determining how the scholarships will be divvied up among the four campuses, but it will depend, in part, on the level of student need, said Nikki Krawitz, vice president of finance and administration.
Opting to use the released state funds for scholarships aligns with Nixon's goal to make college more affordable. For the first two years of his term, Nixon struck a deal with college presidents to keep tuition flat.
Last year, when the UM Board of Curators raised tuition by more than he requested, he punished the university by withholding $4.4 million.
Nixon
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The 52nd Fighter Wing’s geographically separated units are of paramount importance to the mission; visits to these GSUs allows leadership to highlight the
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important purpose shouldered by each and every person serving at the GSU, while reviewing the mission progress.
U.S. Air Force Col. Jason Bailey, 52nd FW commander and Chief Master Sgt. Alvin Dyer, 52nd FW command chief, visited 52nd Operations Group, Detachment 2, on Mirosławiec Military Air Base, Poland, January 29, 2018. Bailey and Dyer also visited 52nd OG, Det. 1 on Łask Air Base, Poland, January 30, 2018.
Det. 1 was established in 2011 and currently has a small contingent of Airmen serving there; Det. 2 was established in 2018 and has about 75 Airmen and contractors. Both locations have been a tremendously successful collaboration between U.S. and Polish air forces, Bailey said.
Dyer observed the accomplishments made by those at Det. 2 because the personnel there understand the mission and have a clear sense of purpose.
For the Polish forces at
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June 19 (Reuters) - Britain’s FTSE 100 index is seen opening 4 points lower at 7,627 on Tuesday, according
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to financial bookmakers, with futures down 0.75 percent ahead of the cash market open.
* DEBENHAMS: British department store Debenhams warned on profit for the third time in six months on Tuesday, blaming poor trading on increased competitor discounting and weakness in key markets.
* CAPITA: British outsourcer Capita plc said on Tuesday it agreed to sell its supplier assessment services business, including Constructionline, to funds affiliated with Warburg Pincus for 160 million pounds ($212 million) in cash.
* FERGUSON: Ferguson Plc, the world’s largest distributor of plumbing and heating products, on Tuesday posted a 17.1 percent rise in quarterly profit, helped by solid demand from U.S. residential markets.
* ASHTEAD: Ashtead Group Plc, which rents out industrial equipment, reported a 17 percent rise in full-year underlying pretax profit on Tuesday, helped by growth
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Taking Tuesday's tough defeat to heart can make Democrats tougher to beat the next time.
Taking Tuesday’s tough defeat to heart can make
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Democrats tougher to beat the next time.
Senator-elect Scott Brown and his wife, Gail.
The morning after Martha Coakley won a four-way Democratic primary in early December, her opponents gathered in a Boston ballroom to present a united front. I stopped by to cheer on my friend Alan Khazei, who had won the Globe endorsement but tried in vain to convince primary voters to nominate an outsider. The most striking aspect of an otherwise unremarkable event was the backdrop behind Coakley, which said simply, “The Massachusetts DEMOCRATIC Party.” A local operative joked that nowhere else in America would a campaign make the Democratic Party its general election message.
So much for that idea. It turns out that even in Massachusetts, a successful candidate has to be able to reach beyond party label. Among independent voters, Scott Brown beat Coakley by more than 2-to-1. Her generic campaign even turned off some moderate Democrats: Brown
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DATA from a satellite was used to try to locate missing flight MH370 after it mysteriously disappeared, but it was later discovered it had a “
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wobble” in its orbit which skewed the data.
The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished from radar on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board and, to this day, has not been discovered. However, official investigators have concluded that its most likely location now is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. This was calculated using signals exchanged between MH370 and satellite 3F1, owned by British telecommunications company Inmarsat.
However, an issue was later discovered with 3F1’s data.
The satellite was old: launched in 1996, it was only meant to be in operation for around 13 years.
Running on for 5 years longer than planned, the satellite had run low on fuel it required to stay precisely on location above the equator.
According to Jeff Wise, author of The Plane That Wasn’t There, the satellite was “wobbling” during the time it was receiving signals from MH370.
During the
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Scattered back along the creeks with their families, men rose in the morning to pursue the mud-burrowing clam. They wrested
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a living from nature, surviving through their strength and their knowledge of seasons and tides.
Calling no person boss, they worked from their own boats, set their own hours, and sold independently to small packing houses. Unfettered by paper work, many never even filed income tax forms.
Then fickle nature changed the conditions of their lives. From the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the toxic marine algae that cause red tide silently drifted up along the North Carolina coast.
Lodging in shellfish, the toxin forced state biologists to close oyster, clam, and scallop beds for 300 miles along the coast. Some 10,000 North Carolina shell fishermen lost $5 million in four months. The red tide became one of the worst disasters shell fishermen faced in the century.
Here in this quaint 200-year-old town of 1,225, about 100 full-time fishermen clam year-round for their major source of income. Few had more than a couple
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Allegheny National Forest, set along the Allegheny Plateau in northwest Pennyslvania, stretches for more than 517,000 scenic
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acres, nearly 90 percent of which are forested. The area serves as a natural habitat for more than 300 animal species, such as black bears, beaver, red and gray foxes, white-tailed deer and wild turkey. Pennsylvania's only national forest also provides an array of recreational activities, including hiking, swimming, fishing and canoeing. For riders of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), the forest is most known for its more than 100 miles of ATV trails, the easiest of which is the Timberline Trail.
The main trailhead for Allegheny National Forest's Timberline ATV Trail lies along Forest Road 232, a mile south of the intersection of state highways 66 and 948, in the forest's Marienville Ranger District. The trail, open 24 hours per day, can also be accessed via two smaller trailheads with parking areas near the communities of Buehler Corner and Pigs Ear. The 38-mile trail is open to ATVs, motorcycles,
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The Department of Defense will trim its forced furloughs for employees to 11 days from 14.
Defense Department employees are getting a little bit
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of a reprieve.
Workers now face 11 days of furloughs, cut down from an expected 14 days, Defense Department Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Tuesday. Starting July 8 through the end of September, workers will be forced to stay at home one day each week -- a 20% pay cut over 11 weeks.
"I have made this decision very reluctantly, because I know that the furloughs will disrupt lives and impact DoD operations," Hagel said in a memo to employees on Tuesday.
The Pentagon is the nation's largest federal agency and has to cut as much as $40 billion by Sept. 30 because of forced spending cuts that went into effect on March 1. The furloughs will save the agency $1.8 billion, according to a senior defense official.
A senior defense official acknowledged that the savings from furloughs may not seem like a lot of money for an agency with an overall budget of $680 billion.
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The mall is part of a larger integrated mixed redevelopment project spread over 65 acres adjacent to Mumbai’s western express highway.
MUMBA
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I: Real estate developer Omkar Realtors & Developers is looking to monetise its upcoming over 1-million-sq-ft retail mall in the suburb of Andheri in Mumbai for Rs 2,000 crore, said two persons familiar with the development.
The mall is part of a larger integrated mixed redevelopment project spread over 65 acres adjacent to Mumbai’s western express highway. The total proposed development will be around 100 million sq ft, of which 60% will be residential development and the rest will be for mixed use.
“The entire project with a range of collaborations with leading names in hospitality for a five-star hotel and services business is being financed with a mix of internal accruals and external funding,” said one of the persons mentioned above. He said for the proposed monetisation of the retail mall, the company has already initiated talks with private equity funds that own and operate premium retail malls in key cities of the country.
The project has begun construction
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The Remarkables ski field near Queenstown got down to business yesterday, 48 hours early.
Regular snow over the last few weeks and busy
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work with snow-making gear gave field managers confidence that most runs were ready for customers.
Area manager Ross Lawrence said: "We have been grooming and preparing trails. It's great to see so many snow addicts up here getting back on the boards and boots, and loving it."
Two other Central Otago fields have held pre-season open days after early winter snow and cold days created promising conditions on the slopes. Coronet Peak and Cardrona held one-off opening days ahead of scheduled June 16 openings.
A warm front is expected to push northwards over the country during the day, WeatherWatch says, although another front coming through will keep temperatures down.
Meanwhile the country can expect more settled but still cold weather in the weekend after gales and heavy rain.
WeatherWatch's Aaron Wilkinson said a large high in the Tasman Sea was directing a southwesterly airflow over New Zealand. MetService said the front, which produced snow to low levels in the South Island
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January 15, 2015 Budget, Charter schools, Common Core, Construction, In the classroom, Palm Beach County schools, Students, Technology, Testing.
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A is for Assessments: The school board is among many that would like to see relief from testing. They’d like more time to transition to the state’s new tests – time in which schools and districts would not be penalized for poor performance. There’s also concern about the number of tests, the technology demands the state has tied to testing and the use of the test results.
B is for Buses: Rep. Irv Slosberg, D-Delray and the guy who often leads the charge in Tallahassee when it comes to highway safety, had some questions about buses. Are they safe? What challenges do we have?
COO Mike Burke says they’re safe, we know this because they must be inspected monthly. But, Burke said, “We get (from the state) about a dollar each way to get students to and from school.” The fleet average age is 10 years old when
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Now here’s an item of interest. I don’t make the claim that every piece of news rises to the level of a
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matter of national importance, but that doesn’t mean that you won’t get a kick out of hearing some of the odd things that happen across our nation.
Let’s play a little word association game. I’m going to say a word, and you tell me the word that pops into your mind. Ready? The word is: “Shark.” Now take a minute to think, and tell me what your reaction was.
Confused? Don’t worry—that’s perfectly normal. In fact, the more normal you are, the more you would quite naturally be confused. Two seemingly unrelated terms—“shark” and “shopping cart”—are here being dangled in a tantalizing but mysterious manner. Is there a method to this madness, or is it just a canard? I can see that you’re intrigued. We’re not here to play games
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Now that Avengers: Infinity War has come out on home release, Marvel has been dropping all sorts of fun featurettes online. The first one is
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talking about why Thanos is one of the best villains that Marvel has made so far — mostly because everything exists to fight him. The Avengers exist because of Thanos.
Next we get a more behind-the-scenes look at the villain, and it’s really amazing how all of the visual effects make this character look pretty realistic. They also praise Josh Brolin and his ability to bring this character to life via motion capture.
Avengers: Infinity War, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, stars Robert Downey Jr., Josh Brolin, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Olsen, Sebastian Stan, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Bettany, Chadwick Boseman, Benedict Wong, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel, Dave Bautista, Pom Klementieff, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Bradley Cooper, and Anthony Mackie.
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Some time in eighth grade, my sister and I decided we would get matching heart tattoos on the left corner of our left wrists. I’
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m not sure when we decided this; there was never a definitive moment. However, I suspect it developed when we, and the rest our friends, were really into doodling all over our hands and arms.
I always drew three stars on my left wrist — a classic middle-school move — but I knew the permanent ink must be a heart. My sister and I are twins born on Valentine’s Day. It had to be honored.
Come mid-May our senior year of high school, we hopped into my mom’s minivan with our best friend and headed to a tattoo parlor on a Tuesday night. Clad in my American Red Cross sweatshirt and black yoga sweats, I walked into the tattoo and piercing place where my sister had gotten her belly button pierced just three years earlier.
But we had to leave. My sister and I didn’t have driver’s licenses at the time, and forgot to bring our birth certificates. It
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Fire ruled an accident; cat rescued from one of houses.
Two houses caught on fire in Northeast El Paso early Sunday morning in what fire officials
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are calling an accidental fire.
The El Paso Fire Department was called out to a fire along the 5300 block of Annette Avenue at about 4 a.m. Sunday.
When crews arrived, they found heavy smoke and flames coming from the back of one house and from the side of another. Firefighters began to simultaneously fight the fire and look for occupants. One of the houses was empty and the residents of the other were able to get out on their own. Firefighters rescued a cat from the empty house.
Firefighters knocked down the fire at about 4:45 a.m. and continued to check for hot spots until about 5 a.m. The fire was confined to about 25 percent of one house, with damages estimated at about $55,000, and to 10 percent of the other house, with damages estimated at $12,000.
The cause of the fire was accidental, fire officials said. No other details were available.
A total of 11 units
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A donation from the Knights of Columbus ensures the children will stay active throughout the year.
AVONDALE - The Avondale Youth Center is
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home to 22 children between ages 10 and 18, so sporting activities are a popular part of the day. Equipment is needed for most of those tasks, and the center was short on most of them.
The Knights of Columbus Council 505 made sure to change that.
The council, including Grand Knight Mark Hill and Youth Program Chair Robert La Prad, presented the center with several new sporting good items this week as part of its Christmas in July program.
Around 70 percent of the items were purchased new, like new footballs, softballs, fishing equipment and tennis rackets — to name a few — from the K of C's general fund. The rest came from donations from members, including a pool table and ping pong table.
Gary King, youth center director, said in an article published last summer in the TR that the center had been in need of sporting goods for some time. La Prad read the article and decided to approach the council about helping.
The K of
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