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And the president is seemingly caught in another whopper. And by that doggone “fake press” at that.
As far back as the 1980s, the New York Times reports, Donald Trump has been claiming that he graduated at the top of his class at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School. Yet despite these claims of being numero uno, school records suggest that Trump was not—nor was he even close.
The coldest part is that this exposure comes from the students at the institution itself. The University of Pennsylvania’s student-run newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian, found historical documents (or primary sources) to dispute the president’s claims.
It dug into the records available during the time Trump was at the school (he finished at UPenn in 1968 after transferring fromtaken by the United States within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment. The complaint also alleged a claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1346(b), but plaintiff concedes that he proved no case under that act.
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The United States established the Dahlgren Naval Proving Ground at Dahlgren, Virginia, in 1918. Since that time sixteen-inch naval guns and many other types of ordnance have been tested there.
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In 1939 plaintiff and another physician, Dr. N. Talley Ballou, purchased Wood Island, which has an area of about one acre, and is located in Machodoc Creek about 2,300 yards from the then boundaries of the Proving Ground. They built a house and other improvements on the island, and used it for recreational purposes.
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Rob Fahey Friday 6th May 2016 Share this article Share
Steam saved PC gaming. As retailers aggressively reduced the shelf space afforded to PC titles - blaming piracy, but equally motivated, no doubt, by the proliferation of MMO and other online titles which had little or no resale value - Valve took matters into its own hands and delivered on the long-empty promises of digital distribution. It was a bumpy ride at first, but the service Valve created ushered in a new and exciting era for games on the PC. Freed from the shackles of traditional publishing and retail, it's become a thriving platform that teems with creativity and experimentation. Steam still isn't all things to all people, but it saved PC gaming.
Sometimes, though, you look at Steam andLost Cities Millions of Syrians have fled their war-torn country, a scattering on the scale of Chicago and Houston combined. Some have made the long journey to Europe. But most don’t run far.
After World War II, millions of people were swiftly resettled. Today's refugees can expect to languish for years or even decades.
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On a bright, cold day in February 2011, a group of young people decided to graffiti their city, the way teenagers are wont to do. But this was Syria, and regime change had already roared through Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. The teens scrawled a message to their president, Bashar al-Assad, an ophthalmologist turned dictator: "It's your turn, doctor." They scrawled another one: "Leave, Bashar." And still another one: "The
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people want the regime to fall." What followed has been a war without end, a fight without apparent limits. The teenagers were arrested and tortured, and in response, a once-stable Syria exploded into violence. In the years since, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have died in the fighting, according to the United Nations. That's the equivalent of a Hiroshima and Nagasaki, twice.
The Zaatari Syrian Refugee Camp, pictured here, first opened in July 2012.
Millions of Syrians have also fled the country, a scattering on the scale of Chicago and Houston combined. Some Syrians have made the long journey to Europe, capturing the attention of the West. But most don't run far. They pour into Turkey to the north, Lebanon to the west, and Jordan to the south, where atent city called Zaatari has taken on a feeling of permanence. It represents a new model for refugee camps — once-temporary settlements now routinely fixed by the concrete of modern politics.
A group of young boys play soccer at a drop-in center near the refugee camp.
After World War II, millions of displaced people were swiftly resettled. Today, most refugees can expect to languish for years or even decades. The average stay in a refugee camp is 12 full years. The world's oldest refugee camp, Kenya's Dadaab, will turn 24 this year. By those standards, Zaatari is still young. But the people in Zaatari never expected to be there for even this long. Many doubted the need for a camp at all. The world's oldest refugee camp, Kenya's Dadaab, will
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turn 24 this year. After the fighting in Syria started, they crossed the border by the thousands. They dodged sniper fire, sidestepping snakes and scorpions, carrying the young and the weak. They were dispossessed and battered — but also hopeful. The Free Syrian Army was on the march. The president of the United States was calling on Assad to step down. The Arab League was on their side. It seemed clear to everyone that soon the displaced would all go home and vote on the future.
A boy does a handstand next to a series of faded murals in Zaatari.
With Syria in ruins, is this place now home? The question is as painful as it is comforting. Few, if any, residents would say yes.
The Zaatari camp is a hometo about 80,000 Syrian refugees. Although it was intended to be temporary, politics have led to its continued existence.
But the United Nations determined otherwise. In July 2012, the U.N. banded together with aid groups to build Zaatari in two weeks flat. The workers hammered tent pegs for 5,000 people. By the following summer, 150,000 had arrived — forming a population center the size of Savannah, Georgia or Dayton, Ohio. From the beginning, the camp posed basic physical problems. The weather was broiling in the summer, frigid in the winter and prone to floods in the months in between. There was no electricity, little food, no security.
It's a surprising civilization, a spectacle of determination and basic humanity. A cyclist stops to speak to a shopkeeper.
Some residents worry about relatives
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a supply of food they actually liked to eat.
The Azraq Syrian Refugee Camp first opened in April 2014. While it has the capacity to house 130,000 refugees, it currently houses 40,000.
The Azraq camp is undergoing improvements to infrastructure, including solar fields.
People also became innovative. Sly electricians began to wire up the caravans, which then sprouted microwaves and washing machines, stereos and air conditioners. Guerrilla plumbers set up makeshift latrines and private bathrooms. Today, parts of Zaatari can still resemble a scene from "Mad Max." It's a loud and dirty place. The sewers smell and the dust settles into people's wrinkles. Crime remains a problem. Too many kids aren't in school. There's been an uptick in early marriages.
Two boys collect water from the communal supply in the camp.
And yetas Azraq, and in every way that Zaatari is makeshift, Azraq was planned. The next step is infrastructure: real water and sewage systems, a solar field, automatic banking machines, camp-wide wireless Internet. Every new arrival got a welcome kit and a trip to an on-site supply store. Inside, the new families found a map of the camp, mattresses, lanterns, waste bins, buckets, gas burners — all the supplies a person could need. There was also security, healthcare, and a vast supermarket from day one. Plus, the residences are larger, with higher ceilings, pitched roofs and ventilation. The cabins are arranged in groups of six, which combine into four distinct "villages."
The average stay in a refugee camp is 12 years.
The idea was to keep friends and families close together,
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and settle regions of people with their own former neighbors. The idea was autonomy and dignity, the secret of Zaatari's relative success. But despite the effort, Azraq remains chronically empty. It was built to house more than 100,000 people, but it's never had more than 30,000 residents. Zaatari's population is also down to below 80,000 people, almost half its peak.
A truck drives through the camp, repairing fixtures on the site. All these projects are planned or already underway, and at times, it is more expensive to be temporary.
Young refugees stand near the street. Each new arrival receives a welcome kit and a trip to an on-site supply store.
This is not good news. It's not a sign of success or an indication that Syria is healing. There are onlyevidence to prove one of the elements of burglary, that statements made by the State during closing argument misstated the law and misled the jury, and that the court's jury instructions were so confusing as to constitute obvious error. Finding no error, we affirm the judgments of the Superior Court.
I. The Facts
In the early morning hours of January 19, 1992, William Googins burst into the home of his ex-wife, Katina Nelson, found her in the arms of another man, Richard Theriault, and shot him. Nelson had been socializing that evening and had come home with a few friends Theriault, Joe Hedrich, and Glori Cote. Googins, anxious to reconcile with Nelson, telephoned Nelson's house repeatedly and irritated everyone present. Eventually, Theriault and Hedrich began answering the telephone and
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left the dinner party thrown by David (William Smithers) and Doris (Gail Kobe) Schuster.
1966: On Dark Shadows, Sam (David Ford) thought Bill Malloy was the one man who could help him until the sheriff (Dana Elcar) told him Malloy's body had been found.
1968: On Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Mark (David Birney) and Laura (Donna Mills) Elliott faced a marital crisis as Laura worried about Jean Garrison (Jane Manning). "There are all kinds of ways to take a man away from his wife," Laura told Mark.
1998: On As the World Turns, while David Allen (Daniel Markel) held Julia Lindsay (Annie Parisse) and Lily Snyder (Martha Byrne) hostage, Lily went into labor. Meanwhile, Carly Tenney (Maura West) was trapped in the trunk of her car.
2009: On General Hospital,Pope Francis Joins Battle Against Transgenic Crops
MEXICO CITY, Aug 11 2015 (IPS) - A few centuries ago, the biotechnology industry would have been able to buy a papal bull to expiate its sins and grant it redemption. But in his encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si”, Pope Francis condemns genetically modified organisms (GMOs) without leaving room for a pardon.
In his second encyclical since he became pope on Mar. 13, 2013 – but the first that is entirely his work – Jorge Mario Bergoglio criticises the social, economic and agricultural impacts of GMOs and calls for a broad scientific debate.
Laudato Si – “Praise be to you, my Lord” in medieval Italian – takes its title from Saint Francis of Assisi’s 13th-century Canticle of the Sun, one of whose verses
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the determined efforts of social organisations. This encyclical reinforces our collective demand,” he told Tierramérica.
The priest said the encyclical warns of the social, economic, legal and ethical implications of transgenic crops, just as environmentalists in Mexico have done for years.
The document holds special importance for nations like Mexico, which have been the scene of intense battles over transgenic crops – in this country mainly maize, which has special cultural significance here, besides being the basis of the local diet.
That is also true for Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, which together with southern Mexico form Mesoamérica, the seat of the ancient Maya civilisation.
The pope is familiar with the impact of transgenic crops, because according to experts his home country, Argentina, is the Latin American nation whereGMOs have done the most to alter traditional agriculture.
Soy – 98 percent of which is transgenic – is Argentina’s leading crop, covering 31 million hectares, up from just 4.8 million hectares in 1990, according to the soy industry association, ACSOJA.
The monoculture crop has displaced local producers, fuelled the concentration of land, and created “a vicious circle that is highly dangerous for the sustainability of our production systems,” Argentine agronomist Carlos Toledo told Tierramérica.
Just 10 countries account for nearly all production of GMOs: the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, India, China, Paraguay, South Africa, Pakistan and Uruguay, in that order. Most of the production goes to the animal feed industry, but Mexico wants GM maize to be used for human consumption.
In July 2013, 53 individuals and 20 civil society
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and Sciences Could Tell Them Apart text: While both have since retired from acting, one has enjoyed more critical acclaim than her twin sister. Mary-Kate's work in "So Little Time" was nominated for a Daytime Emmy. Ashley's performance was not so well received.
quicklist: 4 title: 4. Mary-Kate Has a Running Habit text: But she doesn't bother with spandex or sneakers. Instead, she slips into her birthday suit and a pair of stilettos. "I run around my house naked with heels all the time," Mary-Kate told Harper's Bazaar in 2007. "It's so funny. All my friends will tell you I love running around in kimonos and jewelry or naked with jewelry." Stars, they're just like us!
quicklist: 5 title: 5. Jimmy Fallon and Will Forte Took Them to a Prom'Cool' Mom text: She was spotted smoking alongside her fiance, Olivier Sarkozy, and his daughter. Just kidding. Very uncool, Mary-Kate. Smoking kills. media: 24130587
quicklist: 12 title: 12. Our Lips Are Sealed text: On their "Ellen" appearance earlier this year, Ashley contended that she had her first kiss before her twin sister. Mary-Kate disputed the claim. Ellen did not inquire further.
quicklist: 13 title: 13. They Were Friends with a Pretty Little Liar text: "Pretty Little Liars" actress Troian Bellisario grew up across the street from the Olsens. They lost touch after the duo moved away, but Bellisario went on to play a small part in the straight-to-video movie, "Billboard Dad."
quicklist: 14 title: 14. Move-In Ready text: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen sold a $7.3 million Manhattan penthouse apartment in 2005
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that they never lived in. We understand. Six thousand square feet and natural light just isn't for everyone.
quicklist: 15 title: 15. The Write Stuff text: Mary-Kate is left-handed. Ashley is right-handed. Michelle Tanner was thus, necessarily, ambidextrous.
quicklist: 16 title: 16. They Were Not Always Individuals text: No, really. "Full House" producers credited the twins as "Mary-Kate Ashley Olsen" in early seasons of the television show. They apparently did not want people to know that the role of Michelle Tanner was played by twins.
quicklist: 17 title: 17. Ashley Has a Better Memory text: On Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live," Elizabeth Olsen told a fan that Mary-Kate forgot her birthday this year. Lizzie assured listeners that she would not hold the slip-up against her sister. "She was out of town!"the younger Olsen reasoned.
quicklist: 18 title: 18. Diaper Duty text: Bob Saget took his role as their on-screen father seriously. In "Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian," Saget recalled changing the twins' diapers on set. media: 24130666
quicklist: 19 title: 19. They Were Trend Setters text: Mary-Kate and Ashley were the first twins to share a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
quicklist: 20 title: 20. They Founded a Fashion Line to Find the Perfect T-Shirt text: The twins co-founded luxury label The Row in order to craft a superlative t-shirt. Mary-Kate told The Wall Street Journal that she and her sister decided to launch the brand in response to the question: "How we could make a perfect T-shirt in a great fabric that
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would fit any age." media: 24130538
quicklist: 21 title: 21. They're Big in Norway text: The twins launched a collection with Norwegian retailer Bik Bok in 2013.
quicklist: 22 title: 22. It's Kind of Like a Pool Party text: The Row's first standalone store on Melrose Place is outfitted with a full-size courtyard pool. The flagship reportedly keeps towels on hand for shoppers looking to cool off.
quicklist: 23 title: 23. Mary-Kate Sparkles text: Olivier Sarkozy proposed to the younger twin with an $81,000 vintage Cartier engagement ring.
quicklist: 24 title: 24. They Have a Brother text: Sister Elizabeth is now famous in her own right, but the twins also have a brother. Trent is a year older than the twins and reportedly toyed with the idea of getting into acting. Achildhood friend told the New York Post that the "prankster" sold his sisters' autographed pictures for pocket change in elementary school. Clearly, entrepreneurship runs in the family.
quicklist: 25 title: 25. Ashley Has a Back-Up Plan text: A friend asked Ashley to chop off several inches of her hair this year. Of her skills, Ashley boasted: "She made me do it, but it looks great."
quicklist: 26 title: 26. Ashley Has a Middle Name text: It's "Fuller." Doesn't have quite the same ring to it as "Kate," does it?
quicklist: 27 title: 27. They're as Close as Ever text: In December 2013, Ashley told Allure that their twin bond is "beyond words." #Aw. media: 24130455
quicklist: 28 title: 28. Matchy-Matchy text: They may be all grown up, but it's never too late
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LONDON (Reuters) - British public companies and pension funds may have to publish by 2022 what risks their businesses face from climate change under a new so-called green finance strategy.
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Britain last week became the first G7 country to sign into law a requirement to reach net zero emissions by 2050 and the green finance strategy, published on Tuesday, sets out plans to increase investment in sustainable projects and infrastructure.
The government paper builds on disclosure on climate risks set out by the G20 Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.
The government report said the financial sector needed be at the heart of changes required to meet the net zero emissions goal.
“The re-allocation of tens of trillions of dollars of capital toward green investment offers the potentialLocal roundup: Taconic softball beats Mount Everett 1-0
SHEFFIELD >> The Taconic and Mount Everett softball teams competed in an old-fashioned pitcher's duel on Tuesday in Sheffield.
Taconic's Ashley Keegan and Everett's Chandler DeGrenier went pitch for pitch, but the Braves had just enough offense to pull out a 1-0 win.
Taconic plated the eventual winning run in the top of the fifth. Olivia Bordeau started the inning with a walk. Brooke Ovitt entered as a pinch runner for Bordeau and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Aubrey Lazits.
With one out, Janee Walker hit a single into right field, plating Ovitt for the winning run. Keegan earned the win, allowing only two hits, striking out nine and walking none. DeGrenier struck out 11, allowed six hits and walked two.
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which helps build upon the foundation of why this world works the way it does. As the episodes progress, Otaru also ends up unleashing two more of these special marionettes into the world in the form of the cute and friendly Cherry (whose constantly picked on for her small bust size, a traditional piece of Japanese humor) as well as the older somewhat more mature Bloodberry, who simply wants to marry Otaru and manages to get the first kiss with him.
The first six or so episodes of the show is fairly much formula. Introduce character through obvious circumstance, then proceed to next episode with character development of that new character. Repeat twice. With the final few episodes on this installment of nine episodes, we start to get moreSanders (I-Vt.), has made his outspoken support for Medicare for All a central plank of his campaign.
Critics of the former vice president bemoaned his "doubling down" on a position which seemed sure to result in electoral ruin.
"This is a losing politics," tweeted The Nation literary editor David Marcus. "In almost every state that's held a primary so far, including those Biden has won, exit polls show a majority of Democrats prefer single payer."
The question of whether the U.S. would be better suited to handle the crisis with a Medicare for All system has persisted throughout the coronavirus outbreak, which is expected to get worse and peak in the coming weeks and months. Progressives mourned a California teen who died last week, likely from the coronavirus, after being turned
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Amy Schumer. (Getty)
This week Amy Schumer released her book, The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo, and has kicked things off with some signings in and around New York. But the publicity push has been overshadowed by a growing backlash to a number of outrageous statements made Kurt Metzger, one of the writers on her TV show.
Metzger went on a rampage this week via his social media channels, mocking women who attempt to call out alleged rapists. This came after some people apparently tried to call out another comedian who had allegedly raped a number of women, which led to that comedian getting banned from UCB, a move Metzger likened to "mob justice." His overall "point" came off critical of the way rape victims report being the victimof a crime, mocking those who don't go straight to the police to file a report.
He was relentless, firing off a slew of tweets and Facebook rants—he's since deleted a few of them... and added a few more. Schumer was called out to respond, given their friendship and working relationship, and while she initially blocked people trying to address her about it on Twitter, she eventually responded saying she was "disappointed" in Metzger. He claims, "I specifically told her to do exactly what she did." (Hey it's a pattern: Metzger told Schumer what to do! Metzger told rape victims what to do!)
Kurt Metzger (Comedy Central)
I didn't fire Kurt. He isn't a writer for my show because we aren't making the show anymore. There are no writers for it.
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teeth to ankles and feet — but nearly every time he either popped right back up or returned to the ice in the same game. (Tight skates make effective casts.)
But the April 23 injury that left a pool of blood on the ice and Pavelski with a concussion and in need of staples in the back of his head was a surreal moment for Sarah Pavelski. Sitting with other hockey wives in Section 113, she had a clear view of her husband’s awkward fall after being cross-checked after a face-off. The injury led to a controversial 5-minute major penalty for the Knights and powered the Sharks to erase a 3-0 lead with four goals in just over 4 minutes.
At first, she thought he had been struck again inovation Joe received last week when made his first public appearance since the injury, albeit in a three-piece suit, waving to the fans during Game 5 against the Avalanche. The experience was overwhelming for them both.
“That was the happiest he had been” since his injury, she said. “Just to see his face and his smile. You know, it was a long couple of weeks.”
On Sunday, he joined his wife and son at their local Catholic church to celebrate Nathan’s First Holy Communion. Pavelski hopped a plane later that day to be in Denver with the team for Game 6.
Joe Pavelski comes out in a suit to fire up the San Jose crowd pic.twitter.com/3vhKk86Kx7 — CJ Fogler (@cjzero) May 5, 2019
The anticipation has been building for weeks about whether
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in with him; (3) Lopez, the
man who lived with his mother, never saw Flores and the victim fight and said
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spending super bowl with Flores and his family and called to get someone to
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indicating that she and Flores had gotten into it again and that her memoryan upper class equestrian happening that might only feed ongoing accusations of patrician elitism, accompanied by potentially ruinous photo ops and endless late night jokes, of which there already have been plenty – just ask Stephen Colbert. The New York Times reported:
“As millions tune in to the Olympics in prime time this summer, just before Mr. Romney will be reintroducing himself to the nation at the Republican convention, viewers are likely to see ‘up close and personal’ segments on NBC about the Romneys and dressage, a sport of six-figure horses and $1,000 saddles. The Romneys declared a loss of $77,000 on their 2010 tax returns for the share in the care and feeding of Rafalca.”
But several media outlets — including the Times, CNN, and the British newspaper The
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Telegraph have reported that Mitt Romney will in fact take time from the campaign to attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympics with his wife on July 27 (the Romney horse’s event begins Aug. 2). He was, after all, head of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games. And an appearance at the opening, filled with extravagant special effects, music and patriotic flag-waving for the U.S. team, is safer than showing up at an event where your wife’s horse is worth several times the mean yearly per capita income for individuals in the United States.
So family loyalty is trumped by political expedience, but while in London, Romney will find time to attend — you guessed it — a private fundraising dinner. According to The Telegraph, “The price ofbut not shut, for it yielded to his touch and
swung open, revealing a large bedroom with an old-fashioned fourposter
in the corner furthest from the door. Marsland glanced round the
room curiously. It was the typical "best bedroom" of an old English
farm-house, built more than a hundred years before the present
generation came to life, with their modern ideas of fresh air and light
and sanitation. The ceiling was so low that Marshland almost touched it
with his head as he walked, and the small narrow-paned windows, closely
shuttered from without, looked as though they had been hermetically
sealed for centuries.
The room contained furniture as ancient as its surroundings: quaint
old chests of drawers, bureaux, clothes-presses, and some old
straight-backed oaken chairs. On the walls were a few musty old
books on shelves, a stuffed pointer in a
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Operating since 2001 at College Park in the heart of Toronto, the Centre for Sport & Recreation Medicine has provided exceptional service from a state-of-the-art sports medicine clinic. In January 2016, we opened our second location at 3080 Yonge St, unit 3024, located conveniently at Yonge and Lawrence, right above the Lawrence subway station.we can tackle the bigger question about life in the ocean beneath Europa's ice shell."
For more than a decade, scientists have wondered about the nature of the dark material that coats long, linear fractures and other relatively young geological features on Europa's surface. Its association with young terrains suggests the material has erupted from within Europa, but with limited data available, the material's chemical composition has remained elusive.
"If it's just salt from the ocean below, that would be a simple and elegant solution for what the dark, mysterious material is," said research lead Kevin Hand, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
One certainty is that Europa is bathed in radiation created by Jupiter's powerful magnetic field. Electrons and ions slam into the moon's surface
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in their irradiated salts. But no telescope on or near Earth can observe Europa with sufficiently high resolving power to identify the features with certainty. The researchers suggest this could be accomplished by future observations with a spacecraft visiting Europa.
JPL built and managed NASA's Galileo mission for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, and is developing a concept for a future mission to Europa. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.
For more information about Europa, visit:
http://europa.jpl.nasa.gov
News Media Contact
Preston DychesJet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.818-354-7013preston.dyches@jpl.nasa.govDwayne BrownNASA Headquarters, Washington202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov2015-166aspects of their lives, rather than managing the impact on an established life.
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The emerging adults in this study were already in a liminal state, between childhood and older/full adulthood. In addition, participants described being in a liminal state with respect to their renal disease, which in many ways prolonged the liminal phase they were already experiencing as a young adult as they put life 'on hold'. Liminality was particularly experienced on
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This story was originally published by Reveal. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who is departing January 2 amid multiple ethics investigations, leaves a legacy of widespread attacks on science. Zinke was in charge of balancing the protection of national parks, endangered species, waterways, and other resources with public uses on 500 million acres of public land.
Here are six ways Zinke rejected or impeded science during his nearly two years as Interior secretary:
Changes in staffing
Zinke set an anti-science tone early by reassigning the Interior Department’s top climate change official to a job managing fossil fuel royalties. Thirty-two other senior career employees also were reassignedlast year. He suspended dozens of Bureau of Land Management resource advisory councils and reconvened them with new responsibilities to expedite oil and gas permitting and meet other Trump administration priorities. He filled a national parks advisory committee with big donors and businesspeople. He appointed former lobbyists, including deputy secretary and former oil company lobbyist David Bernhardt, to key jobs.
Threats to ancient treasures and birds
Under Zinke, BLM put countless archaeological sites at risk by auctioning off oil and gas leases in southeast Utah. Zinke expedited lease sales to oil companies that encompassed tens of thousands of acres near two national monuments in Utah.
Also, by crafting a new legal opinion, the Interior Department’s solicitor’s office erased a policy that had been used by Republicans and Democrats since the Nixon
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administration to protect migratory birds. Zinke’s top lawyer declared that it’s no longer illegal for companies to accidentally kill birds with oil wastewater ponds, wind turbines, and other industrial practices.
Removal of climate change references
Every mention of the human role in causing climate change was removed from a draft of a major National Park Service scientific report on sea-level rise and storm surge. The references were reinserted after Reveal exposed the attempted censorship. But the data and an interactive website that was supposed to be made public still have been blocked from release.
A small New England national park, the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, was told that mentioning climate change would raise eyebrows with the new administration. So the park’s managers removed every mention from a major reportrelates to Zinke’s 10 priorities, according to guidelines first reported by the Washington Post.
Zinke also put a high school football buddy with no scientific expertise in charge of reviewing proposals for scientific grants at the Interior Department. This review, managed by Steve Howke, created a bottleneck that slowed the funding of research, according to the Guardian.
Misstating climate science
In his last weeks in office, Zinke misinformed the public about a major report on climate change impacts, the National Climate Assessment, which was released in late November. In a television interview, Zinke erroneously asserted that the report was slanted.
“It appears they took the worst-case scenarios and they built predictions upon that,” he said.
The report was compiled by hundreds of scientists and 13 federal agencies and considered a wide range of
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The Caucasian nation might be predominantly Christian Orthodox, but it also harbours a valuable, often forgotten, Muslim heritage. The architecture and photography project “Indigenous Outsiders” carried by Suzanne Harris-Brandts, Angela Wheeler and Vladimer Shioshvili aims to let people discover the old wooden mosques of the Adjara province and raise awareness about their preservation.
Both mountainous and maritime, Georgia’s small Adjara province lays right at the border with Turkey; a boundary that during much of the 20th century was impossible to cross due to the Cold War. At that time, Georgia was part of the Soviet Union while Turkey was the main Western ally in the region. But few abroad know that, from the 16th century until 1878, Adjara belonged to the Ottoman Empire, a period during which its populationbecame Muslim. This is one of the reasons why Adjara still enjoys an autonomous status within the Republic of Georgia. The other province enjoying a similar status according to the constitution is Abkhazia which has been de facto independent since the 1992-1993 war.
After decades of state sanctioned anti-religious communist policies, and a post-Soviet revival of the Orthodox faith in Adjara, Muslims are now a minority in the province. Near the coast, in urban areas like Georgia’s second-largest city Batumi, few traces remain of the Ottoman past. Most Muslim communities live inland where many small Islamic architectural gems are hidden. In villages in this mountainous and green area, many wooden mosques built during the 19th century are still standing. While they might look like normal houses from outside, their
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interiors are finely decorated and painted.
These buildings caught the attention of two researchers and one photographer, Canadian architect and PhD Candidate Suzanne Harris-Brandts, American PhD student Angela Wheeler, and Georgian-American photographer Vladimer Shioshvili, who decided to join forces in order to document this precarious and overlooked heritage through the ongoing project “Indigenous Outsiders”. In 2017 and 2018, they travelled to Adjara several times and researched thoroughly. However, due to the lack of written sources, much remains unknown about the wooden mosques. The team will present their material at an exhibition in Tbilisi, opening on June 22. For those who cannot come, it will still be possible to find information about many mosques and see pictures and architectural plans on the project’s website.
How did you start this project?
Harris-Brandts: InDonald Trump is keeping Americans in the dark about his earliest conversations and decisions as president-elect, bucking a long-standing practice intended to ensure the public has a watchful eye on its new leader.
Mr Trump on Thursday refused to allow journalists to travel with him to Washington for his historic first meetings with President Barack Obama and congressional leaders. The Republican's top advisers rebuffed news organisations' requests for a small "pool" of journalists to trail him as he attended the meetings.
The decision was part of an opaque pattern in Mr Trump's moves since his victory on Tuesday. He was entirely out of sight on Wednesday. His aides said he was huddled with advisors at his offices in New York. His team has not put out a daily schedule, or
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offered any detailed updates on how he has spent his time. They have not acknowledged phone calls or other contact with world leaders.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to Trump on Wednesday, Moscow spread the word. A phone call with British Prime Minster Theresa May was announced in London. The pattern was repeated for calls with leaders of Israel, Egypt, South Korea and Australia.
The White House typically releases statements on the president's phone calls with foreign leaders, providing some details about the conversation. Past presidents-elect have had early briefings with journalists, even in confusing first hours after Election Day.
But early signs suggest Mr Trump is willing to break protocol when it comes to press access and transparency.
As a candidate, Mr Trump railed against the pressas "disgusting" and "dishonest." He refused to allow a pool of campaign reporters and photographers to fly on his plane to events, sometimes starting his rallies before his press corps had arrived. The practice did not extend to his running mate, Mike Pence, who was followed by a traditional pool of journalists.
President-elect Trump says he looks forward to working with Obama at White House meeting
News organisations had tried for weeks to coordinate a pool of journalists to travel with Mr Trump immediately after Election Day if he won. The Associated Press is among those reaching out to Trump advisors about press access.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said the president-elect's team expects "to operate a traditional pool and look forward to implementing our plans in the near future."
The White House
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Correspondents' Association, which coordinates press pools and advocates for transparency at the White House, urged Mr Trump to allow journalists to cover his meetings and other movements.
"This decision could leave Americans blind about his whereabouts and well-being in the event of a national crisis," said Jeff Mason, White House correspondent for Reuters and the group's president. "Not allowing a pool of journalists to travel with and cover the next president of the United States is unacceptable."
Mr Trump's meeting with Obama in the Oval Office was recorded by the pool of White House reporters, photographers and TV journalists who cover the president.
Every president and president-elect in recent memory has traveled with a pool of journalists when leaving the White House grounds.
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on campus in Davis, California, U.S. following the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States Reuters President Trump protests An Oakland police officer checks out damage after a window was broken by protesters at a car dealership in downtown Oakland, Calif AP President Trump protests A protester faces a police line in downtown Oakland, Calif AP President Trump protests President-elect Donald Trumpís victory set off multiple protests AP President Trump protests A fire burns during protests in Oakland, Calif AP
A pool of reporters and photographers was in the motorcade when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas. The pool was just steps away from President Ronald Reagan when he was shot outside a hotel in the District of Columbia, and was stationedoutside his hospital as he recovered. The pool also travels on vacation and foreign trips and at times captures personal, historic moments of the presidency.
The practice makes journalists eyewitnesses to how the president conducts business, rather than relying on secondhand accounts. They often capture more intimate moments between the president and people he greets. The White House, meanwhile, depends on having journalists nearby at all times to relay the president's first comments on breaking news.
News organisations take turns serving in the small group, paying their way and sharing the material collected in the pool with the larger press corps. The pool also covers official events at the White House when space doesn't allow for the full press corps.
Because of safety concerns, presidents and presidents-elect travel in a bubble
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of security, with the exact timing of their travel kept secret and streets often blocked off around their events. That leaves news organisations dependent on the White House to facilitate the pool coverage by arranging security clearances and transportation.
Mr Obama also has looked for new ways to limit White House press access.
On Thursday, photographers were not allowed to shoot a meeting between first lady Michelle Obama and Melania Trump, who joined her husband on the White House visit.
The White House released a photo taken by a staff photographer and circulated it on social media. The AP does not distribute such photos.
White House photographers were allowed to shoot a similar meeting between Mrs Obama and then-first lady Laura Bush eight years ago.The Blazers wrap up an Eastern Conference road trip tonight in Milwaukee against the Bucks, in the second half of a back-to-back after losing to the Hawks last night.
The Bucks are one of the surprising teams in the NBA this year, sporting a 24-22 record heading into tonight’s contest. After finishing dead-last in the league last year with a 15-67 record, Milwaukee was set to begin its rebuild around forward Jabari Parker, the No. 2 pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, with new coach Jason Kidd leading the way.
Since, Parker has been lost for the season to an ACL injury, center Larry Sanders has gone off the deep end and a group of versatile, young players has led the Bucks to the No. 6 seed in the East
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was when I was successful in Dallas and I'm going to try to bring it to Ottawa."
Chiasson was the only roster player the Senators received in Tuesday's Spezza deal, along with forward prospects Nicholas Paul and Alex Guptill and a 2015 second-round pick.
"Chiasson is a young, big strong guy that has big potential, we think," general manager Bryan Murray told reporters Tuesday. "It looks like he has an ability to score points and goals, and he's a hard-working kid."
Murray likes how Chiasson fits in with the rest of the group currently assembled in Ottawa, which will have to work for points rather than rely on one or two players to produce them.
The 23-year-old right-winger could slide in on the second line, just behind Bobby Ryan on Ottawa's depthof his first three this past season. In doing so, he joined the likes of Teemu Selanne and Pat LaFontaine among players with nine-plus goals in their first 10 NHL games.
"The way I started and the way things were going, it was fantastic," the Montreal native said. "Every kid dreams to play in the NHL, and I feel like the way that I started really boosted me to reach a different potential and to try to get better. I know there's expectations that come with that."
Chiasson only had two goals in his next 17 games, and he went into a worse slump around Christmas after getting what he called a really bad flu bug. He lost 10 to 15 pounds in the process.
"With the schedule last year with
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the rare marine life in the Sultanate.
Oceanic Quest, which is one of the top diving companies in the region, did a fantastic job looking after the safety of all divers involved in this trip, he added. "They did their job professionally."
William expressed his hope that Brunei would become a hot spot for divers from around the region.
However, in order to build Brunei's underwater eco-tourism, William stressed that more publicity was needed. He recalled that after he was commission to take photos and to publish a book for a village in Sulawesi island, tourists from all over began to descend on the village.
William also hoped that the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam would take steps to protect the delicate marine life fromemerging technology.
Indian Government Continues to Support Blockchain Adoption
Apart from primary education, the IT minister declared that blockchain could find utility in multiple sectors in the country. According to Minister Prasad, India has close to 26,000 with close to half of them focusing on technology.
For Prasad, NIC should work in tandem with these up-and-coming firms to develop blockchain-based solutions for agriculture, health, excise operations among others. The IT minister isn’t alone in calling for greater blockchain adoption in India.
As previously reported by BTCManager in November 2019, India’s Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Sanjay Dhotre, announced that the government was working towards creating a national blockchain framework.
Despite the constant calls for greater blockchain adoption in India, authorities continue to block crypto utilization in the country. Back in
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Major League game. Buddy Bell (April 22, 1972) was the last Indians player to hit a grand slam for his first career homer.
Kouzmanoff, of course, didn't know any of these little nuggets of information at the time. He just knew he had made a nice first impression on his team, which benefited from the early production.
"You never know if it's going to stand the test of time," manager Eric Wedge said of the first-inning homer. "But it ended up being the difference for us in the ballgame."
Lee was a difference maker, as well, lasting seven innings for the first time in five starts and giving up four runs, only two of which were earned, on seven hits. Aided further by Martinez's sacrifice fly in the second, he lookedjudge asked.
The lawyers for DisruptJ20 organizers and users said the concerns about overreach were particularly acute because of what they asserted is a lack of respect for First Amendment rights by the Trump administration.
"You have an administration investigating the political activity of people protesting this administration," said Scott Michelman, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney representing MacAuley and Carrefour.
"We're dealing with an administration whose hostility to dissent and willingness to abuse the process of law to silence critics is increasingly evident," said Paul Alan Levy, a Public Citizen lawyer representing what he described as "three frienders and one liker" of the DisruptJ20 page.
Borchert said prosecutors want to conduct a "front to back" search of the MacAuley and Carrefour accounts for a 90-day period around the protest. He argued
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Dynamic analysis of intraarticular pressure in the glenohumeral joint.
Dynamic analysis of intraarticular pressure was performed in 180 glenohumeral joints. The intraarticular pressure demonstrated characteristic changes during shoulder movement. In the healthy group minimum pressure was measured at 40 degrees of elevation in the scapular plane. In patients with contractures the pressure increased in the early phase of elevation and persisted. Pressure changes of the group with incomplete tears of the rotator cuff resembled those of the healthy group, whereas those in the massive tear group showed only slight pressure changes. When patients with rotator cuff tears had no limitation of arm elevation, pressure changes close to the normal pattern were found. However, when active elevation was markedly limited, no significant pressure changes were noted in some cases. InThe indpendent MLA has been charged under the Arms Act.
Highlights Cops seized AK-47 rifle, grenade from residence of Bihar MLA Anant Singh
The MLA Anant Kumar Singh said he was not afraid of his arrest
The MLA was charged under the Arms Act and Explosive Act
The police recovered an AK-47 rifle and a hand grenade from the residence of Independent MLA Anant Kumar Singh in Bihar's Mokama area.
Denying being afraid of his arrest, Mr Singh said that he would surrender in the next few days. "I am not scared of being arrested. I will surrender in next three-four days," Mokama MLA Mr Singh said in a video message.
The MLA has been charged under the Arms Act, Unlawful Activities Act and Explosive Act after the police seized the banned arms from
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period. For the top quartile of patenting counties from 1990–95, patenting grew by 50%. For those below the median, patenting did not grow at all. So, overall, location became more important over time.
This overall trend is driven by substantial increases in the concentration of patenting at the very top of the distribution, such as in Silicon Valley (e.g. Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, and San Francisco County). In other words, the trend at the very top is driven by a small number of places.
Looking at the broad trend in the rest of the US, however, we showed that many places resisted the overall concentration of invention. To understand this, it is important to separate the adoption of the internet (and associated advanced technologies for digital communication) byTechnology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity”, NBER Working Paper 20036, forthcoming in Adam Jaffe and Benjamin Jones (eds.), The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, University of Chicago Press.
Forman, Chris and Nicholas van Zeebroeck (2012), “From wires to partners: How the Internet has fostered R&D collaborations within firms”, Management Science, 58(8): 1549–1568.
Friedman, Thomas L (2005), The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Wellman, Barry (2001), “Computer Networks As Social Networks”, Science, 29: 2031–2034.
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to the boiling caldera, which lies at an altitude close to sea level.
Imagine the island like an iceberg, where you just see the top of this oceanic mountain. The scenery is in constant mutation. It changes depending on the level of geothermal activity.
Image by Martin Panzer Imagine the island like an iceberg, where you just see the top of this oceanic mountain. The scenery is in constant mutation. It changes depending on the level of geothermal activity.
The last eruption was in 2001 >> Update: Whakaari erupted again on the early afternoon of 9 December 2019!
Image by Martin Panzer The last eruption was in 2001 >> Update: Whakaari erupted again on the early afternoon of 9 December 2019!
There aren't many places in the world that you can walk aroundthe crater of an active volcano, roaring and rumbling in boiling acid. Compare the size of this vast lake with the visitors who venture to the edge of the main crater, on the left. Image by Theirishkiwi There aren't many places in the world that you can walk around the crater of an active volcano, roaring and rumbling in boiling acid. Compare the size of this vast lake with the visitors who venture to the edge of the main crater, on the left.
The colors and level of the lake vary a lot depending on its mood. Captain Cook didn't make a very good choice when he named the island 'White'. His expedition never got close enough to check what was causing the whiteness that can be seen over
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Inside the crater, no vegetation survives the tough acidic environment. Instead, bright yellow sulphur abound, and steaming crevices of boiling gases rise from the ground. Image by Aelena Like a pirate story, the island was sold for two barrels of rum by the Maoris. Inside the crater, no vegetation survives the tough acidic environment. Instead, bright yellow sulphur abound, and steaming crevices of boiling gases rise from the ground.
It is also interesting to walk through the corroded rusting remains of the abandoned sulfur processing plant. It has been uninhabited since the 1930s. This story is quite dramatic: In 1914 an earlier mining settlement was completely wiped out, when a flank of the crater wall collapsed, resulting in a massive avalanche. The ten workers of the camp were neverfound. Only the cat survived. Image by Aelena It is also interesting to walk through the corroded rusting remains of the abandoned sulfur processing plant. It has been uninhabited since the 1930s. This story is quite dramatic: In 1914 an earlier mining settlement was completely wiped out, when a flank of the crater wall collapsed, resulting in a massive avalanche. The ten workers of the camp were never found. Only the cat survived.
Like in politics, in White Island corruption quickly takes over.
Image by Matt Biddulph Like in politics, in White Island corruption quickly takes over.
A small river of liquid volcanic goodness runs across the crater floor.
Image by X-oph A small river of liquid volcanic goodness runs across the crater floor.
Whakaari has a distinctive look from the sky, with
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its stream of paint pouring into the ocean.
Image by X-oph Whakaari has a distinctive look from the sky, with its stream of paint pouring into the ocean.
Sulphur Bay, where the river from hell flows to. The greenish tail coming out to the ocean, from the cone side that has fallen. Image by Aelena Sulphur Bay, where the river from hell flows to. The greenish tail coming out to the ocean, from the cone side that has fallen.
The issuing of gas masks by the tour agencies is not for show, it's due to the high sulphur dioxide levels in the air. But a sense of possible danger contributes to the increased feeling that this is not an average tourist experience. It is also possible to reach the island flyingMark Wahlberg has shared his exciting plan to turn hit period drama Boardwalk Empire into a Martin Scorsese movie.
The Oscar nominated actor acted as an executive producer on the HBO show and won an Emmy for directing its 2010 pilot episode.
Set in Atlantic City during the Prohibition era from 1920 to 1933, Boardwalk Empire followed the life of corrupt politician Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson (Steve Buscemi) and his secret gangster activities. Kelly MacDonald, Stephen Graham and Michael K Williams also starred.
Steve Buscemi and Paz de la Huerta in Boardwalk Empire
Five award-winning seasons and 56 episodes later, the popular series came to a close last year.
“My next goal now is to get the movie made and start talking to Martin Scorsese about directing it,” Wahlberg told NJ.com.
The Fighter star’s ambitions
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outcropping provided a convenient place for the soldiers to store their weapons and gunpowder. The site is now part of the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, and the field where the soldiers camped is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
During the 1870s, John T. Wilder, an industrialist and former Union general, began purchasing large tracts of iron ore-rich lands in the Roan Mountain area, and established several mining operations in the region. In the early 1880s, he established the Roan Mountain community, originally known as Roan Mountain Station, as a stop along the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ("Tweetsie"). He laid out streets, planted trees, and built a hotel, the Roan Mountain Inn, as well as a house for histhey say the event is about expressing your "rawest self" in a "safe and welcoming, non-judgmental environment."
"We as a society are inundated with so much false ideals about body image that we can easily become lost in self criticism, judgment and insecurities," the group said online.
"This group is a place to break free from our societal constraints and tap into the liberation and freedom from embarrassment and shame and allow us to fully embrace and courageously love all of ourselves in the presence of others."
Letting it all hang out
Jarret Hoebers, recreation regional manager with the City of Calgary, said Southland Leisure Centre and many other facilities around the city are available for rental, but this is the first time the leisure centre has been rented out by Calgary
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an electronic apparatus such as a notebook personal computer.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A switch is incorporated in a notebook personal computer as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 10-154428, for example. The switch includes an operating piece attached to the side surface of the enclosure of the notebook personal computer for relative sliding movement. The operating piece is connected to a switch element located in the enclosure through a connecting piece. The connecting piece penetrates through a through hole defined in the wall of the enclosure. The switch element moves between an switch-on position and an switch-off position through the sliding movement of the operating piece.
The connecting piece is inserted in the through hole during the assemblyNo charges will be filed against the former Saint Francis hospital bus driver who shot a man in an argument on the side of Interstate 95, the state justice department said.
The bus driver and another man engaged in an on-the-road altercation in September before both pulled over near the Airport Road exit ramp to escalate the fight. The bus driver shot the other man after he pulled out a can of pepper spray, state police said.
Prosecutors didn't charge the bus driver because he fired in self-defense in accordance with Delaware law, according to state justice department spokeswoman Julia Lawes.
The Saint Francis Life Paratransit bus driver was driving north on Del. 1 from Pulaski Highway when a man from Bear in a Dodge SUV pulled up alongside both sides
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of the bus, pointing at the driver with a cellphone, according to state police accounts.
Both continued onto I-95 north and the bus driver signaled for the Dodge to pull over near the Airport Road exit ramp, state police said. Both pulled over and got out.
"Accounts of the incident by the participants and witnesses established that the two participants were in a heated exchange on the side of the interstate when the Dodge Durango driver produced an object from his pocket and sprayed the bus driver in the face with mace, and, nearly simultaneously, the bus driver removed a lawfully possessed and concealed handgun from his pocket and fired a single shot, striking the Durango driver," Lawes said in an email Wednesday morning.
The bus driver remained on the sceneand called 911 while offering the man he shot first aid. The Dodge driver, 53, was hospitalized but survived and was later released.
Desmond Chisholm, a resident of Bear, pulled over to the side of I-95 that day to help. He said the bus driver was still there and spoke briefly to Chisholm.
"He said he (the Durango driver) tried to Mace him and he shot him in self-defense. And that's the only thing I heard from him," Desmond Chisholm, a resident of Bear, said.
There were no Saint Francis patients in the bus involved in the incident, which is used to shuttle elderly patients to and from Saint Francis Life Center in Wilmington's Riverfront.
The bus driver lost his job because the health care company's policy forbids employees from carrying firearms,
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level at that age, like he did last season, means you have to have something special.
“And Sam will only get better. He hasn’t had Harry Kane’s experience but Kane’s got three years on him and before this season no-one had heard of him.”
Sam Gallagher fires in the winning goal in the U21 Premier League Cup final
Gallagher scored on his FA Cup debut against Yeovil Town last season and netted his first Premier League goal against Norwich City 13 months ago – before being likened to Zlatan Ibrahimovich by Saints captain Jose Fonte.
He last played for the first team when he made his 15th appearance as a substitute, against Manchester United at the end of last season.
“I think he would have been a regular in the first team thisMamata Banerjee had alleged that central forces personnel were asking voters standing in queues to exercise franchise in favour of the saffron party.
The Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government wrote to Election Commission of India over deployment of central forces across all polling booths in the state for 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
In a letter to the EC, the West Bengal government on Tuesday alleged that the BJP government at the Centre was using central forces to manipulate the voting process.
In the wake of recurring instances of violence during voting in West Bengal, the Election Commission of India deployed Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) inside all polling booths in the state for Phase 5 and Phase 6 of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Around 770 companies of Central forces were
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deployed to ensure free and fair elections on Phase 6 of 2019 Lok Sabha polls held on Sunday.
Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the BJP government at the Centre was using the central forces to influence voters in West Bengal.
"I do not disrespect the central forces. But they are being instructed to influence the voters. On the pretext of deploying central forces in West Bengal, the BJP is forcefully pushing BJP and RSS activists here. I doubt that some RSS activists in (central forces') uniform are being pushed into West Bengal," Mamata Banerjee said while addressing a rally in Basanti area of South 24 Parganas district.
Banerjee also alleged that central forces personnel were asking voters standing in queues to exercise franchise in favour of the saffron party.
"How cana lifeline to academics at risk
Two academics die in the battle for Mosul
December 14, 2016 |News
It is with great sadness that Cara reports another tragic loss for the University of Mosul.
Cara’s sources have confirmed that Professor Lokman Safar, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Assistant Professor Abdul Aziz Mahmoo, Head of the Department of Geology, were killed as the Iraqi military offensive on the ISIS stronghold of Mosul continues.
According to the UN, the almost two-month-old battle for Mosul has the potential to become one of the largest humanitarian disasters in history.
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recently with Penn about his new films, The Interpreter and The Assassination of Richard Nixon, he was bemusedly reading a letter from a fan resident in a lock-down facility in Modesto, California. This inmate was encouraged to hope that Penn might like another prison pen-pal - such is the kind of correspondence you will get as a celebrity with well-advertised principles.
Then again, Penn's principles can rub some observers very firmly the wrong way - such as when he rose to rebut Chris Rock's vigorous mockery of Jude Law at this year's Oscars. Or when, in the countdown to he US presidential run-off of 2004, he upbraided the makers of Team America: World Police for their assertion that uninformed 19-year-olds would do better to abstain than cast a voteas a mirror of Penn's antipathy to the current US president, but Penn himself is not of a mind that Nixon's own baleful influence has yet receded. He is still irked by the attacks made on John Kerry's presidential run by John O'Neill, prime mover of the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who proclaimed Kerry unfit to be commander-in-chief. Like Kerry, O'Neill is a decorated Vietnam veteran. Unlike the senator, he never changed his mind about the rightness of America's cause, and so became a tool in Nixon's original counterassault on the veterans' protest movement of which Kerry had emerged as an eloquent voice. "Among the Nixon White House tapes," Penn says, still seething, "is the conversation that began the Swift Boat attacks on Kerry, back in
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1971 - where they brought in John O'Neill and talked about using him to destroy Kerry. That had an enormous impact on the 2004 campaign."
This is the kind of skulduggery that gets Penn mad. Since Bush's re-election he has been one of many pro-Democrat actors and entertainers jeered as a "limousine liberal" by Republican columnists. But there is nothing armchair about Penn's politics. Throughout 2004 he was stumping for the shoestring campaign of the most leftward Democratic candidate, Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich. Only when Kucinich withdrew did Penn put his shoulder behind Kerry's efforts.
In the final days before polling, Penn embarked on a whistle-stop tour of battleground states Arizona and Nevada, even canvassing door-to-door. The folks he met there had no quarrel with a well-paid actor exercising hisit work."'
But there is scarcely an aspect of global politics that Penn cannot translate back into the family home that he shares with wife Robin Wright Penn and their two teenage children. As his comrade-in-arms Susan Sarandon says, "Sean's interest in politics is something that has grown concurrently with his children - the sense of responsibility for the world that they will claim." His next project is an outstanding choice in that line, as he partners Jude Law and Kate Winslet in a new screen version of Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men, surely the greatest novel of American politics. Its anti-hero is one Willie Stark, a Louisiana governor modelled on demagogue Huey "Kingfish" Long, who fused ruthless backstage fixing with a populist pitch - "Every man
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World Bank approves $611m to assist Nigeria’s out-of-school children
The World Bank has approved $611 million to support the Nigeria government in tackling the rising statistics of out-of-school children, who are currently put at about 10.5 million.
The World Bank Education Specialist and Consultant, Adebayo Solomon, stated this in Abuja at the 2017/2018 annual school census exercise.
The exercise will run across the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Solomon said the step by the World Bank was to support the Federal and state governments in their efforts to foster inclusion in education, which is in consonance with the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan of the Federal Government.
He noted that the funds would be provided through the Better Education Service Delivery for All Programme, which was aimed at bringing out-of-school childrenmay shift.
The next contest is in New York, a state where both candidates have ties, on April 19, and it could have major implications for both campaigns even if Clinton does win. The latest state poll, released by Quinnipiac University on March 31, had Clinton leading by 12 points.
"If she were to lose, or if it were very close in New York -- a state that she represented in the Senate -- that would be very devastating," Campbell said.
Campbell noted that even if Clinton won but Sanders still had "a respectable showing" of upwards of 40 percent of the vote, that could lead to problems for the Clinton camp.
"She might be able to survive that, and she probably would be able to survive that, but it would make
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to praising their Movies and TV series. The US is by far best in it, something of which the influence on the world should not be underestimated.
Because it exports its culture through entertainment, the rest of the world has become interested in their politics and eventually their businesses and its economy. This last one is something I admire a lot. Everything has a price. Everything is buyable and there are markets and stock exchanges for everything and anything.
Their success and richness, furthermore, are often the result of private enterprises and the people’s meritocracy. Understood as the antithesis of the Hispanic wealth system in South America, whose success and richness often come from proximity to political power.
Its pratriotism, power and unity, especially compared to Europe. When asked what toThese images show the airship Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 flying over Chicago in August 1929, on the American leg of its round-the-world trip. The Graf Zeppelin flew low over the city. Large crowds gathered to watch its flight.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a German count, or "Graf," developed the Zeppelin airship. The design was patented in 1895 in Germany and 1899 in the U.S. Designed to carry passengers, the airship began commercial operations in 1910 through the company Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-AG (DELAG).
By the middle of 1914, the craft had made over 1,500 flights and carried over 10,000 fare-paying passengers. It was the world's first commercial airline, and was so successful that the word Zeppelin was used to describe all airships.
During WWI the German army used Zeppelins in bombing raids on Britain,
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killing over 500 people. Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the peace treaty which finally ended the First World War, the remaining Zeppelins were surrendered to the Allies and production stopped.
In 1924 as war reparation, the Zeppelin Company manufactured the LZ 126. The vessel was flown to America and operated there as the ZR-3 USS Los Angeles.
Restrictions were lifted in 1926 and after two years of fundraising and construction, the LZ 127 — christened the "Graf Zeppelin" — was launched. It was the largest dirigible (airship with a solid frame) built thus far.
Later that year it flew to the U.S., landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station for some repairs.
Then in 1929 American newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst backed an ambitious project: a four-leg circumnavigation of theglobe. On Aug. 8, 1929 the Graf Zeppelin took off from Lakehurst and headed east. It carried several distinguished passengers and Hearst correspondents, including Lady Grace Drummond-Hay, making her the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by air.
After refueling in Germany it continued across Eastern Europe, Russia and Siberia to Tokyo. After five days there, the Graf continued across the Pacific to California, completing the first ever nonstop flight of any kind across the Pacific Ocean. From there it crossed 13 states and several American cities, including Chicago, arriving back at Lakehurst from the west on Aug. 29, three weeks after its initial departure.
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the front line could be well behind you, and death lurks around every tree trunk.
First of all, in another post you said that I lost 300PL of forces. That is, I did, or I did in combination with other forces in the Flaeness.
I choose the latter. My people are heroic, and it was my forces and my magic that did the most to eliminate the 300PL force of the City of the Gods. Half of the robots died pretty quickly to the uber-sandstorm + antimatter bombs, but the other half had to be brought down by force.
But our soldiers aren't jumping in front of other soldiers of other nations to take the hits -- with the sole exception of the war against the demons. We were there byEmployees of MF Global's British offices may have received their quarterly bonuses last Monday, just hours before MF Global filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York, The Telegraph is reporting.
It's an interesting development - because last Monday, Robert Preston at the BBC reported very early in the morning that London employees had been sent home. Maybe they were sent home with their bonuses?
MF Global's bankruptcy was announced at around 10:30 a.m. EST last Monday - that was 2:30 p.m. London time. (England is usually five hours ahead of the US - but their daylight savings time occurs one week before the US, so London was only four hours ahead last Monday.)
UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that bonuses were also paid out to US employees, but
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A MAN who lives with nine life-sized plastic dolls took home a dead sheep and deer and “may have posed naked” with them, a court heard.
Cops investigating stalking claims found a snap of Everard Cunion with a carcass, plus indecent images of kids and extreme porn.
2 Everard Cunoin was arrested for stalking an old schoolmate when police raided his home Credit: Bournemouth News
2 Police discovered indecent images of children and images of extreme pornography, as well as a photo of Cunion posing with a sheep's carcass during the raid Credit: Bournemouth News
Police uncovered a photo of the 63 year old posing with a sheep carcass while raiding his home during an investigation into allegations of 'harassment and stalking' made against him.
He had rekindled an infatuation for a schoolfriend 50 years later and began stalking her, despite not having seen her since they left school in 1972.
Prosecuting, Sadie Rizzo said: "Mr Cunion had his computer seized from his home in September 2018 in relation to an unrelated investigation. Police then examined his computer and he was arrested again in June 2019.
"He went on to describe another incident involving a deer."
Sentencing at Bournemouth Crown Court, Judge Oba Nsugbe QC told the defendant there was an 'element of depravity' to his offending.
He said: "Despite careful enquiries and long discussions, the Probation Service is unable to fully understand what precisely drove you to have this activity in your life.
MOST READ IN UK NEWS KILLER HUSBAND NABBED Moment husband who murdered wife before going to the pub is caught CANCER
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HOAX Girl, 17, FAKED brain tumour to con Louis Tomlinson and his fans out of €436k Warning GULL HORROR Man 'executes' seagull in front of horrified shoppers after it stole sandwich TOT DEATH Gran, 53, 'left baby granddaughter to drown in bath as she watched Emmerdale' EVIL BULLY Thug stabbed ex and told her 'I hope you die' as he refused to call an ambulance MY SERIAL KILLER FRIEND Pal left Dennis Nilsen's specs claims he was a 'friendly old man'
"Your view is that you weren't harming anybody, and it's entirely something you kept to yourself.
"Whether you kept it to yourself or not, it's illegal."
Cunion, of Christchurch, Dorset, received a 12-month community order with 30 rehabilitation activity requirement days and a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Sex offender whoThe Read the Bills Act (RTBA) is proposed legislation intended to require the United States Congress to read the legislation that it passes. It was originally written in 2006[1] by Downsize DC, a non-profit organization focused on decreasing the size of the federal government. The proposed act is a response to the passing of bills that are thousands of pages long and are passed without copies being made available to the members of Congress who vote on the bill. The bill is aimed at limiting the size and growth of the federal government.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stated his support for it in November 2010.[2] Senator Paul went on to sponsor and propose the bill in the 112th congress as S.3360 on June 28, 2012.
Similarly, a separate bill nicknamed
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In treacherous plot, Gong Li’s character juggles an ex-husband, an adoptive father and the temptation of escaping the war with her lover. (The international cast includes Pascal Greggory , Joe Odagiri and Mark Chao .) For Mr. Ma, the fraught moment in history unexpectedly recalled her time as a student in Germany, though the connection did not come to mind while writing.
“When I was in West Berlin during the 1980s, the wall was still there,” she said. “West Berlin was referred to as a lonely island, because it was completely surrounded.”
Despite the story’s setting, the movie had a smooth process of approval by the Chinese censors. Mr. Lou and Ms. Ma attributed this to the historical nature of the film, which was shot in black and white.
“In termsthat while using those certificates would restrict industrial emissions, they would not affect fossil-fuel consumption by ordinary consumers.
Liberal Leader Brian Gallant's plan for consumer carbon pricing diverts a share of the existing 15.5-cent-per-litre gas tax into a climate fund. (Michel Corriveau/Radio Canada )
2 targets, 1 of them met
The Gallant government has cited two emissions targets for New Brunswick. One has been met and one has not. The province's legislated goal is 35 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030, or 10.7 megatons.
That objective was agreed to by the Eastern Premiers and New England Governors in 2015, and was written into law by Gallant's climate legislation.
The Paris climate agreement sets out a less stringent goal: a reduction of greenhouse gases to 30 per cent below 2005 levels.
In New Brunswick,
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tax into a climate fund and calls it a carbon price, with no net increase for drivers.
The government is arguing that with New Brunswick emissions already below Paris targets, a higher tax isn't needed.
New Brunswick met its emissions target of under 14.3 megatons in 2015, which is why PCs say no carbon tax is needed. (CBC)
Liberals accused of hypocrisy
When he was asked last Friday for his emissions-reduction plan, Higgs at first accused the Liberals of hypocrisy for talking about lowering them while at the same time embracing large, carbon-emitting projects.
"I wouldn't be buying a smelter up north, let's put it that way. I wouldn't be putting government money into one of the largest emitting plants possible," he said, referring to the Gallant government's promotion of a proposed ironthis mix, he adds environmental politics, thinking about ecosystem loss and restoration as a way of delving more deeply into cure. Ultimately Brilliant Imperfection reveals cure to be an ideology grounded in the twin notions of normal and natural, slippery and powerful, necessary and damaging all at the same time.
About the Author
Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, activist, and the author of Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, also published by Duke University Press, and The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion. He speaks regularly at conferences, community events, and colleges across the United States and Canada about disability, queer and trans identities, and social justice, and his writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies. Clare lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont and can be found
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starred the two-time Oscar winner as an astronaut leading a crew attempting to become the first humans to set foot on Mars. Designated Survivor‘s Natascha McElhone co-starred as the Elon Musk-esque CEO funding the mission. The cast also included LisaGay Hamilton (The Practice), Hannah Ware (Boss), Keiko Agena (Gilmore Girls) and James Ransone (The Wire).
The eight-episode season dropped in September and received mostly tepid reviews. It marked Penn’s first significant foray into television.his identity. "He was advertising himself as a psychologist, a mental doctor."
Bill, as we are calling him, says he was suffering from stress and anxiety, and searched online for a psychologist or psychiatrist with a PhD. He says he came across an online ad for Haberle that stated he was a psychologist practicing in Winter Garden.
Bill said he saw that Haberle had several five-star reviews on Healthgrades.com and RateMDs.com, so he decided to contact his office and schedule an appointment.
"He seemed more worried about how much I could pay him and how often I could pay him," Bill said. "We spent most of the first session talking about my finances instead of the reason I was there."
Bill says during his session at a Winter Garden office, Haberle encouraged
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him to try to apply for disability benefits and charged him a total of $3,500 to get the ball rolling.
"He claimed he had an 80-85 percent track record of getting people approved for disability," Bill said. "So I was like, 'Hey this guy must be really good.'"
Bill says he also saw Haberle had a PhD from Wellington Shaw Christian University. But after three sessions, he says he grew suspicious, and started doing research.
"He supposedly gave himself his own PhD to become a psychologist, which is ridiculous," Bill said.
A Google search revealed Wellington Shaw Christian University was advertised as an online college that bragged about getting the quality of an Ivy League education with the convenience and affordability that only an online university can offer.
On Manta.com, it states theuniversity proudly featured some of today's greatest minds in the areas of psychology, theology, Biblical leadership and business teaching. On Yelp.com, it showed WSCU specialized in substance abuse, depression, anxiety and mental health but stated it had grown to be one of the top-rated mental health and substance abuse clinics in Central Florida, not a university.
News 6 went to the address listed for Wellington Shaw Christian University and discovered it led to a house in a gated community in Ocoee, the same house Haberle lists as his home address.
Even though Haberle is out of jail on bond, he wasn't home when we came to ask questions about the university and the allegations against him. However, a family member was and told us she did not know about the
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see if he was still presenting himself as a licensed mental health professional. In December 2016, Department of Health investigators served Haberle with a cease and desist order for practicing mental health counseling without a license and issued a citation.
The Department of Health conducted another investigation in 2017, after a patient contacted the Winter Garden Police Department about Haberle swindling him out of more than $3,000. DOH investigators again issued a citation and a notice to cease and desist for practicing without a license from November 2016 through mid-February 2017. Their investigative report states Winter Garden Police Department recovered approximately 120 patient files out of Haberle's office.
"My heart just sank," Bill said. "Because I knew he had got me and it was very likely I would not geta PhD and as a licensed practitioner.
The police document states during a June 16, 2017 police interview with his lawyer present, Haberle described himself as a Christian counselor, spiritual advisor and someone who facilitates mental health counseling.
Haberle claimed that his spiritual counseling was part of a ministry through the Universal Life Church, where he is an ordained minister, and that payments were donations to further the ministry.
Many claimed to have received no spiritual counseling whatsoever and claimed that their interaction with "Dr. Drake" was entirely secular in nature.
When investigators asked Haberle where the money went, he confirmed it all went into his own accounts. Investigators also pointed out that the Universal Life Church will declare anyone an ordained minister if they fill out a form on their website,
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The United States government stood at the brink of crisis. For more than three months, there had been no agreement in Congress over an appropriations bill to fund the government. The Democrats had taken a stand to protect 800,000 young people who had arrived in the United States as minors and been protected by former president Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which President Trump had rescinded, giving it an expiration date of March 2018. Trump had won the presidency on a campaign that blamed the nation’s problems on immigrants, promised to deport them, and pledged to build a massive wall to keep them out. The issue divided the American people, and that division was now threatening to shut down the government.
Without a bill to protect theseimmigrants, Democrats refused to approve the legislation. The government’s funding was set to end at midnight on Friday, January 19, 2018. As of Friday afternoon there was still no path in the Senate to break a filibuster. If they failed to reach an agreement, the government would shut down. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees would be furloughed. U.S. government operations around the world would grind to a halt, and stay that way indefinitely until the two sides could come to a compromise. The situation was tense, the stakes were high, and I, like many other Americans, was glued to my television set watching the “shutdown clock” tick down on CNN.
I was captivated as senators huddled together in small groups around the Senate chambers trying to wheel and
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little more skin in the game. “I liked the idea of putting my money behind my convictions,” he says. He deposited $10 on PredictIt, which he had seen advertised on Facebook. He bet that Sanders would see the biggest polling boost from the debate. He lost his $10.
A few months later, Gill had graduated and was working as a quantitative analyst at Jane Street Group, a trading firm in New York. The Wall Street traders he worked with loved to gamble. Prop bets were a part of the work culture. After losing some money to his coworkers betting against the Cubs, Gill turned to political prop bets to try to even the score. It was an election year, so everyone had strong political opinions. Gill would find lineson PredictIt that he felt were fair and then offer to take whichever side of the bet his coworkers didn’t want.
Gill hadn’t paid much attention to PredictIt while he was trying to settle in at his new job, but when checked back in, he noticed that PredictIt had grown. There were new and interesting markets and there were more people using the site. Since he now had some disposable income, he deposited a few hundred dollars on the site. By the time the Connecticut primary rolled around, Gill felt confident enough to deposit a few thousand. There were a handful of primaries that night on the East Coast, and Gill felt good about a number of the contracts he could buy. He bet it all. The next morning
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might have an edge by being glued to his computer and ready to make trades as new information broke. He was quickly hooked, spending all of his time hanging out in the comments section and monitoring Twitter for information related to his investments. Eventually he involved his childhood friend, David Rees, a comedian, author, and host of the TV show Going Deep With David Rees. Rees and Kimball teamed up with the writer and producer Starlee Kine, who had recently produced and hosted the hit podcast Mystery Show. The trio created a podcast called Election Profit Makers in which Rees and Kimball would discuss their PredictIt trades and the week’s news. The podcast was largely tongue-in-cheek, with Rees investing small amounts of money, often only a few dollarsgrand in the market the very first week it was offered. He woke up the next morning to discover the president had gone on a tweetstorm and Gill had lost it all while he was sleeping.
While many users on PredictIt were trying to figure out how to make money in these new Trump tweet markets, one user, who goes by the handle Jane Kay, was mastering the game. The 32-year-old pediatrician was becoming a known quantity on PredictIt despite rarely paying much attention to politics before setting up her account during the 2016 election cycle.
“Like a lot of people my age, I became more politically aware during the last election,” she says. “It seemed more important as Trump became a major contender.”
She read about PredictIt in a news
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story online. Though she considered herself very conservative with money (“All of my retirement accounts are in index funds”), she was inexplicably drawn to PredictIt. She liked debating in the comments section, where the anonymity allowed her to come out of her shell and blow off steam. “I could call people stupid, which I would never do in real life.”
She also loved that she could blend science and current events to make money. She was drawn to the polling markets, where traders tried to predict what polls would say before they were released. The markets were very mathematical, which appealed to Kay. She realized that understanding the math and doing some research gave her an edge. Like Kimball and Gill, she made money by betting against overconfident “Trumpers”quickly, mainly because instead of holing up in one market, his money was spread among lots of them at once. “I was everywhere on the site.” He started to make friends with other hardcore traders, and they would share information. “They would give me advice, I would reciprocate.” His advice proved valuable, and soon other traders were coming to him asking him what he liked.
Gill also discovered that once he was maxed out on a position, which he almost always was, then he had no incentive to keep his trades secret from the market. In fact, he had every incentive to shout it from the rooftops, to get others to agree with him and invest in the same position with him, and help drive the price up. He
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prefer, Reality makes the rules. We just have to play by them.
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The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics, by Kevin Williamson. The author takes a flamethrower to mob politics, the “beast with many heads” that haunts social media and what currently passes for real life. He believes it’s destroying our capacity for individualism and dragging us down “the Road to Smurfdom, the place where the deracinated demos of the Twitter age finds itself feeling small and blue.”
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789, by Joseph J. Ellis. This is a gripping portrait of one of the most crucial and misconstrued periods in American history – the yearsbetween the end of the Revolution and the formation of the federal government – and the men most responsible for this second American founding: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by Jonathan Haidt. This is a book about ten Great Ideas. Haidt draws on philosophical wisdom and scientific research to show how the meaningful life is closer than you think.
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Did you know that you can purchase some of these books and pamphlets by Richard Fernandez and share them with your friends? They will receive a link in their email and it will automatically give them access to a Kindle reader on their smartphone, computer or
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even as a web-readable document.
Open Curtains by George Spix and Richard Fernandez. Technology represents both unlimited promise and menace. Which transpires depends on whether people can claim ownership over their knowledge or whether human informational capital continues to suffer the Tragedy of the Commons.
The War of the Words, Understanding the crisis of the early 21st century in terms of information corruption in the financial, security and political spheres
Rebranding Christianity, or why the truth shall make you free
The Three Conjectures, reflections on terrorism and the nuclear age
Storming the Castle, why government should get small
No Way In at Amazon Kindle. Fiction. A flight into peril, flashbacks to underground action.
Storm Over the South China Sea, how China is restarting history in the Pacific.Former U.S. Diplomat Weighs In On State Department Dissent Cable
NPR's Ari Shapiro interviews former U.S. diplomat John Brady Kiesling about how a dissent channel works and responds to the White House message to career diplomats that they should "either get with the program or they can go."
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
For a bit more context on the State Department dissent cable, I'm joined by John Brady Kiesling. He spent two decades at the State Department and signed dissent cables during his time there. One of them was a push for intervention in Bosnia. It earned him an award for constructive dissent from the American Foreign Service Association. John Brady Kiesling, welcome to the program.
JOHN BRADY KIESLING: Thanks for having me.
SHAPIRO: This memo criticizing President Trump's executive order has reportedly been
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signed by close to a thousand State Department staff members. How unusual is that?
KIESLING: Completely unusual. It's never happened before. I think the previous record must be around 50.
SHAPIRO: That's quite a jump from 50 to a thousand.
KIESLING: It reflects a direct challenge to the professionalism of the State Department and to the idea that the State Department is an institution that knows what it's doing and does it.
SHAPIRO: Explain what you mean by that.
KIESLING: Terrorism has been on the landscape for over a hundred years. The United States government has been protecting the U.S. borders for even longer than that. A system has evolved. It's not a perfect system, but it's pretty good. And it's staffed by professionals who are absolutely committed to protecting their country.
Now yourecall includes 234,054 of its 2011-2017 G5 SUVs due to the affected vehicles being prone to sunroof damage that can allow water to soak into foam around the side air bag inflators. If water soaks the foam, the side airbag inflator could rupture and send shrapnel flying inside the vehicles.
VW first investigated the incident in June 2016 in China, and reports that "the production process was modified to include a plastic sleeve over the side head airbag curtain canister."
Neither Audi nor the National Highway Traffic Administration state whether the air bags included in the recall were made by Takata. Both recalls are expected to begin in mid-February.
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the streets of the local business community to finding viable businesses worthy of funding.
Another was initiatives in the business-to-business space, particularly in the US where peer-to-peer funding is being experimented with. I must emphasise that this model is in the very early stages.
Another theme was improving linkages between seed or risk capital partners and banks to provide more early-stage risk financing.
Niching is also going to be another part of the toolbox. This involves looking at a small geography, sector or community, and is currently most developed in the franchising market. By addressing the risks of a common activity or market, financing becomes more predictable.
Posted on: Jul 12, 2012
Clive Pintusewitz
Clive Pintusewitz is the director of Small Enterprise and Enterprise Development at Standard Bank. He is an experienced problem solverFox News' Chris Wallace is one of the moderators of the long prayed-for final GOP debate before the January 3 Iowa Caucus. And on December 14, Wallace had some interesting things to say on the Neil Cavuto show re everyone's favorite scrappy libertarian doctor:
According to Raw Story.com, with video at the link:
"The Ron Paul people are not going to like my saying this," Wallace began. "But to a certain degree, it will discredit the Iowa caucuses because, rightly or wrongly, I think most of the Republican establishment thinks he's not going to end up as the nominee."
"So therefore, Iowa won't count," he added. "It would certainly be a knock to Gingrich because, you know, right now he was the frontrunner — or a week ago he was the
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Primary school students are more likely to eat a nutritional breakfast when given 10 extra minutes to do so, according to a new study by researchers at Virginia Tech and Georgia Southern University.
The study, which is the first of its kind to analyze school breakfast programs, evaluated how students change their breakfast consumption when given extra time to eat in a school cafeteria. The study also compared results of these cafeteria breakfasts to results of serving in-classroom breakfasts to the same group of students.
"It's by far the most sophisticated, accurate measurement of school breakfast intake ever done," said Klaus Moeltner, a professor of agricultural and applied economics in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "We know exactly how much the students consumed and how muchtime they had to consume it."
Using food weighting stations developed by co-author Karen Spears of Georgia Southern University, the researchers collected information on the number of students who ate a school breakfast, how much they ate, and their exact nutritional intake.
The findings, recently published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, revealed that the number of school breakfasts consumed increased by 20 percent when students were given 10 extra minutes to eat in the cafeteria, and an additional 35-45 percent when breakfasts were served inside classrooms, bringing the overall rate of breakfast consumption close to 100 percent.
"The percent of students that go without breakfast because they didn't eat at home and they didn't have time to eat at school goes from 4 to 0 percent when given 10
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Back in February, the U.S. Navy announced it was “looking to expand the civilian police force for installations in the Navy Region Mid-Atlantic.”
“No experience is required and the hiring process is being done through direct hire authority which will streamline the process to help identify candidates who fit the job,” read the announcement on the Military News website. It said applicants must be 21, pass a background check, a physical agility test and a drug screening.
The installations include the Philadelphia Naval Yard, where the civilian police force has jurisdiction over the Naval Surface Warfare Center and the Naval Foundry & Propeller Center.
In one eye-catching case, expanding the force meant hiring a former Philadelphia police officer who was the focus of a controversy that landed in the headlines.
While Philadelphiawhere Ian Hans Lichterman – the former Philadelphia police officer who drew negative attention because of an “apparent Nazi tattoo” – landed after leaving the city force in mid-March.
Lichterman is a captain on a force that some say has other questionable hires.
Thom Carroll/PhillyVoice Although the U.S. Navy has scaled-back its operations at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, it currently operates a Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, (or NISMF), where inactive ships are held while their final fate is determined.
The roster already included an officer – Howard “Doc” Giles – who was investigated for inappropriate behavior and viewing child pornography as chief of a department in Iowa more than 15 years ago and a captain – Shane Daly – who was permanently barred from law enforcement work in New Jersey
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after pleading guilty to charges that he stole items from the USS New Jersey in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Camden County spokesman Dan Keashen said Daly was employed as an officer with a county parks police force that’s since been disbanded.
A county attorney in Iowa and the state’s Department of Criminal Investigation were unable to track down the outcome of the allegations against Giles, who resigned several days before the accusations were brought to light.
Update: Several days after this story was posted, Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the field operations for the Iowa Department of Public Safety, told PhillyVoice that "no charges were filed in connection with the investigation" into Giles.
Chris Cleaver – public affairs officer for Naval Support Activity – confirmed last week that Lichterman, GilesEconomic costs of trauma, United States, 1982.
The economic costs of trauma to the United States were analyzed by taking latest available data from United States Vital Statistics and using models to convert to dollar costs for trauma fatalities and nonfatalities. Trauma cost the nation approximately +61.025 billion dollars in fiscal 1982 (1977 figures indexed to 1982 dollars). This included +19.278 billion for direct costs (treatment related) and +41.746 billion in indirect costs (forgone earnings). The largest single category by group was indirect costs (forgone earnings) for male fatalities (+26.635 billion). The next largest was direct costs (treatment related) for male nonfatalities ($ 12.145 billion.) This disease is currently responsible in economic costs (1982 dollars) for 6.9% of health care expenditures and 2.3% of the United States gross national
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Predators winger James Neal was the first publicly named offender in the NHL's new anti-diving push. And given Neal's non-pristine reputation, it's hardly surprising he received the dubious distinction.
The Hockey News
It is something of an understatement to say Predators winger James Neal has a reputation among NHL players and officials, and it isn't a good one. Even before he was dealt to Nashville this summer, he became infamous for embellishing and vicious episodes.
So it wasn't in the least bit eyebrow-raising to hear Neal was the first NHLer publicly named and fined under the NHL's new anti-diving legislation. He had already received a warning after a Nov. 13 game against St. Louis, but apparently the message didn't sink in. Because even the most ardent Preds fan who's being honestLook: Jiu-jitsu world champ Meggie Ochoa visits anti-mining campers
Three-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion Meggie Ochoa visited Tuesday the camp of the protesting residents of Manicani Island, Eastern Samar and Sta. Cruz, Zambales picketed in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) office in Quezon City.
The Manicani islanders, who have been picketing in Quezon City for almost a month, are calling for the closure of open-pit mining operations of Hinatuan Mining Corporation, which has been operating since 1992 and was suspended in 2002 but was permitted by the DENR to continue its loading operations.
According to Marcial Somooc, president of Save Manicani Movement, Hinatuan Mining has practically destroyed the environment of the 12 square kilometer island of 3,000 people. His group has been calling for rehabilitation and
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went to the border, to Damascus, to Latakia, to Lebanon, and a lot have come back, which has given us hope that future can again be good and that we will have good people working for a new church rising up.”
The 72-year-old archbishop was in New York last week for a conference on the persecution of Christians in the Middle East. Knights of Columbus CEO Carl Anderson, who also spoke at that conference, invited Archbishop Jeanbart to speak at the Knights’ headquarters. He also celebrated a Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine rite in the Knights’ chapel for employees and spoke the night before at St. Mary’s Church, near Yale University, which is where Father Michael J. McGivney founded the fraternal organization.
The Knights have raised some $10.5 million toAdult Film Star Amber Rayne Found Dead At 31
Game of Thrones, ASOUE, and all things '00s. Twitter: @gen_vanvee Email: gen@moviepilot.com
Porn actress and cancer survivor Amber Rayne — whose real name was Meghan Wren — passed away in her Los Angeles home on Saturday, April 2 at the age of 31.
Originally from Detroit, Rayne obtained her bachelor's from CSU LA before going into the adult film industry in 2005. She quickly became a successful star, gaining fame until ultimately retiring in 2005.
Adult film director and friend of the late Rayne, Stormy Daniels, disclosed to AVN:
“She was a really good friend, and one of the best actresses and performers that I've ever had the pleasure to work with, and I'm just glad that I had the opportunity to work with
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Spotlight on Commerce: Andrea Pacheco Dhamer, Deputy Director for the Office of Business Liaison, Office of the Secretary
Andrea Pacheco Dhamer, former Deputy Director for the Office of Business Liaison
Ed. note: This post is part of the Spotlight on Commerce series highlighting members of the Department of Commerce and their contributions to an Economy Built to Last.
I grew up in a town on the border between the U.S. and Mexico; a place where two cities abutted one another culturally and geographically. At the time, I was too young to understand all of the influences at play around me. I went to school in the U.S. and actively volunteered in varied capacities throughout high school. In college, I discovered the intoxicating world of study abroad and sought every opportunity tostarted to emphasize its readiness to make all-electric vehicles, in a move that apparently aims to sweep away its public image as slow to jump on the bandwagon.
On Monday, Toyota announced it plans stop selling all-gasoline cars by 2025 and produce 5.5 million electrified vehicles — which include hybrids and FCVs as well as ‘pure’ EVs — in 2030, including 1 million zero-emission vehicles such as EVs and FCVs. Toyota has sold about 11 million electrified vehicles since the debut of its Prius, the first mass-marketed hybrid, in 1997.
And last week, Toyota President Akio Toyoda announced the firm will strengthen its cooperation with Panasonic Corp. — the leading maker of lithium-ion batteries used for electric vehicles and the battery supplier to U.S. carmaker Tesla Inc — and work
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into infinity, the terraces at SunTrust Park form more of an enclosing wall. If and when the Braves can rally their fans, they’ll have a hell of a home-field advantage. (Until then, Cubs, Red Sox and Yankees bandwagoners will have the run of the joint.)
View photos SunTrust Park is ready for its close-up. (Yahoo Sports) More
SunTrust Park features Braves history around every turn, from the bat Hank Aaron used to hit home run No. 715 to the brace Sid Bream wore as he trundled around third base to win the 1992 National League Championship Series. Braves players must pass the long list of Gold Glove and Silver Slugger winners. There’s even a Braves alumni lounge tucked away on the suite level, where the many former Braves who livein the area can hang out when they’re in the park. Current players get the luxury of theater seating, wide lockers and a pool table in their clubhouse. The team takes care of its own.
The team takes care of its field, too; we’re a long way from the days when the Braves had to share a stadium with the Falcons, the occasional soccer club, and whatever turf-shredding motocross event came to town while the ballclub was on a road trip. The grass resembles the greens at Augusta National; the infield dirt is as delicate as Himalayan salt. You cringe at the thought of the first pitcher scuffing up the mound, the first baserunner carving a trench en route to second base.
There are fun quirks beyond, as well. My
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on the watch list of every major law enforcement agency in the free
world.
Take
a look at these facts reported in Business Insider magazine and then tell me
you aren’t concerned enough to stand up and say something.
Herve Falciani
worked in HSBC's IT department between 2006 and 2008, when he became a whistle
blower to French authorities.
100,000, the number of HSBC
client accounts under scrutiny related to tax evasion and money-laundering
investigations, involving £78 billion —
the accounts' asset total between 2005
to 2007 — the years in which the account data stems from, involving
203 countries
The other
countries launching investigations into HSBC over client tax evasion and
money-laundering allegations are Belgium, France, Argentina, the US, and
Switzerland.
Are you
worried now, Mr Cameron?
I
believe that your silence in the face of this tsunami of financial crime and
organised criminality taints you and your colleagues.Ever since the internet came along, our relationship to libraries has changed dramatically. But recent studies show that these institutions—pillars of the OG sharing economy—are still viewed as essential to American communities. So it's fascinating to take a look through the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's collection of posters and propaganda from the American Library Association, an organization founded in 1876 and still going strong in its quest to make libraries—both physical and digital—cultural hubs for learning and leisure.
Lots of the images on file are from efforts to increase book donations from civilians during WWI, then later from the Victory Book Campaign during WWII (anyone particularly interested should check out the the posts over at Books For Victory, which has some great background info).
Others offer an appeal to
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to build an ongoing and highly effective support network. Rather than indiscriminately dumping the clothing at various encampments, FDL has built a network of liasons and representatives to ensure that it goes to the places that need it most, and that it reaches those who will use it for its intended purpose: primarily, the "sleeper" protesters, largely impoverished, who form the backbone of the camps. Beyond that, FDL has expended great efforts to ensure that the goods it distributes are manufactured not in Chinese sweatshops but rather entirely by American unions -- a difficult challenge in this age of disappearing American industry -- which in turn ensures that the workers producing the products enjoy health insurance, living wages, and a decent standard of living: aims of the Occupymovement itself.
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That last point underscores one of the most significant aspects of the Occupy movement: that it is not devoted to voicing grievances as much as it is finding a model to solve them. It's one thing to demand middle class conditions for American workers; it's another to help sustain them by patronizing unionized manufacturers. It's the difference between talking and doing, and that difference has quietly fueled the Occupy movement from the start.
One of the most striking conversations I had was with an organizer at Occupy Oakland right around the time that media reports began trying to demonize the camps by pointing to the homeless contingent that had become a part of them. She reacted with scorn at the notion that there was something improper or odd
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describe, but the social construction of the camp has been part of the political movement, and our success has already been in declaring that middle class teachers, union workers, homeless people and even mentally ill people can inhabit the same political space as equals. This is the strength that we used to launch an unprecedented action at the port of Oakland, where tens of thousands responded to the call and shut down the port of Oakland as a clarion call to the nation and city. It was the largest human mass I've ever seen in my life. We've shown mainstream people that the right to assemble is a right that they can take without mediation or permission, and that the power of assembly can even push police back,The police picks up a Genk-supporter in which you’re a firework between the Standard’s supporters threw
The police department has still not been returned as a supporter of a first division soccer team KRC Genk are arrested. In the last match, on the 19th of may, against Standard Liege, which had a supporter, you’re a firework, in the bezoekersvak together. That’s what happened when a few of the hundreds of supporters in the field and assaulted after the final whistle of the match. There is also an investigation of the thirty or so other supporters.
A 20-year-old, his supporters from the village of Houthalen-Helchteren was when the Last fireworks of the and at this very moment, and walked to the bezoekersvakken of the Standard, and on the other side of
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voetbalwet. Wearing a ski mask, he may have a GAS-to-fine.
The identification of the other supps are still working on
The police department is also currently working on the identification of the thirty or so other supporters who, on the 19th of may and violations are committed. Before, during, and after the game was the pyrotechnic material be used. After the match, had to have the police intervene on the field of play, in order to be a confrontation between fan groups are to be avoided. A number of the supporters are used to this violence. There are reports in the framework of the voetbalwet.contrast to China's security apparatus, which includes widespread blocking of websites and deep monitoring of online communications. China even shut down the internet in the Xinjiang region for 10 months in 2009 after riots.
"Media in the US and Britain used to criticise developing countries for curbing freedom of speech. Britain's new attitude will help appease the quarrels between East and West over the future management of the internet," an editorial in China's Global Times read. "As for China, advocates of an unlimited development of the internet should think twice about their original ideas." During the mobile reception shutdown in San Francisco by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) on Thursday, commuters at stations from downtown to near the city's main airport were affected. BART officials sought to thwart a
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a mind with the former president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak," the Electronic Frontier Foundation said on its website. Echoing that comparison, vigorous weekend discussion on Twitter was labelled with the hashtag "muBARTek." Aaron Caplan, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who specialises in free-speech issues, was equally critical, saying BART clearly violated the rights of demonstrators and other passengers. "We can arrest and prosecute people for the crimes they commit," he said. "You are not allowed to shut down people's cellphones and prevent them from speaking because you think they might commit a crime in the future." Similar questions of censorship have arisen in recent days as Britain's government put the idea of curbing social media services on the table in response to several nightsthe ability to think straight. But Western governments should avoid such knee-jerk reactions as they served only to highlight the perceived hypocrisy in the West's efforts to bring democracy to other parts of the world. "The domestic challenges posed by the internet demand a measured, cautious response in the West," he wrote. "Leaders in Beijing, Tehran and elsewhere are awaiting our wrong-headed moves, which would allow them to claim an international licence for dealing with their own protests." Queensland University of Technology associate professor Axel Bruns, writing in The Conversation, said he felt like repeatedly smacking his head on his desk when he heard Mr Cameron's proposal.
"It is, to be blunt, just staggeringly dumb ... he wants to shut Twitter and Facebook down, just because someone, somewhere might
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Slavery Abolition Act , (1833), in British history, act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada . It received Royal Assent on August 28, 1833, and took effect on August 1, 1834.
Several factors led to the Act’s passage. Britain’s economy was in flux at the time, and, as a new system of international commerce emerged, its slaveholding Caribbean colonies—which were largely focused on sugar production—could no longer compete with larger plantation economies such as those of Cuba and Brazil . Merchants began to demand an end to the monopolies on the British market held by the Caribbean colonies and pushed instead for free trade . Thepersistent struggles of enslaved Africans and a growing fear of slave uprisings among plantation owners were another major factor.
Legal challenges to slavery in British North America
British abolitionists had actively opposed the transatlantic trade in African people since the 1770s. (Several abolitionist petitions organized in 1833 alone collectively garnered the support of 1.3 million signatories.) Such antislavery views spread to Upper Canada (later Canada West), influencing the passage there of the 1793 Act to Limit Slavery, the first such legislation in the British colonies.
In the eastern colonies of Lower Canada (what is now Québec), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, however, abolitionist attempts had been unsuccessful. In 1793, for instance, Pierre-Louis Panet introduced a bill to the National Assembly to abolish enslavement in Lower Canada, but the bill languished over
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several sessions and never came to a vote.
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Instead, individual legal challenges first raised in the late 1700s undermined the institution of enslavement in these areas. One important case arose in February 1798, when an enslaved woman named Charlotte was arrested in Montréal and refused to return to her mistress. She was brought before James Monk, a justice of the King’s Bench with abolitionist sympathies, who released her on a technicality. According to British law, enslaved persons could be detained only in houses of corrections, not common jails, and no houses of correction existed in Montréal. Charlotte and another enslaved woman named Judith were accordingly freed that winter. Monk stated in his ruling that hewould apply this interpretation of the law to subsequent cases. Another significant 1798 case came before the courts in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, when a local military officer, Frederick William Hecht, sought to establish his title to an enslaved woman named Rachel Bross. After a lengthy trial, the jury rejected Hecht’s claim, ruling instead that Bross was a free servant.
Rulings in such cases did not always favour emancipation, however. Only two years after the trials of Charlotte and Bross, an enslaved woman named Nancy petitioned for her freedom in the New Brunswick courts. Fourteen years earlier, Nancy had run away with her son and three others, but they were caught and returned to her owner, a farmer and loyalist settler named Caleb Jones. The challenge filed by her
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drying and prevents spills.
Don’t forget to check out the Vallejo Panzer Aces range – sets of paints designed specifically to reproduce the colours of the uniforms of tank crews and general armed forces of WWII. Three colours have been selected for the flesh tones, as well as a series of colours to reproduce the design of Splinter Camouflage, printed on many of the garments and canvas equipment of the German Army.
Vallejo Model Air is a range of liquid acrylic colours developed especially for airbrush techniques, with very finely ground pigments and an acrylic resin with properties of extreme resistance and durability.
Hobbies also stock Vallejo Weathering Effects – the perfect way to add that extra special touch to your model or miniature. Vallejo Thick European Mud and the Vallejobehind the bar.
“We have come to a fuller understanding of the Old Town over the years,” said Gerard Meagher, the storied establishment's current co-owner.
It appears Viemeister’s was predated by L.E. Reichenecker Cafe, and before that it was Burckel Brothers’ Cafe, the bar that likely opened in 1892.
A Burckel Brothers' Cafe business card (DNAinfo/Amy Langfield)
Many of the bar's iconic fixtures date to those early days, including the 90-foot mahogany bar, possibly the city's oldest operating dumbwaiter, and of course the men's downstairs urinals, which got their own centennial party in 2010. (The women's restrooms remain upstairs, the only part of the bar where women were originally allowed, Meagher said.)
Other celebrated features came later, such as the booths with Prohibition-era hiding places under the seats for bottles of booze. The
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up on the basement stair, meeting my father in one of the rug-filled prayer rooms as he prepares a pipe he probably no longer has. The smoke is sweet and soothing, like his hand on my head, stroking my hair and massaging around my eyes after a long day. My childhood sounds like high-pitched eeeeeee’s in the background, the thumps of my brother’s hard run. I remember cramps that curled me in the back of the car, ready for a hospital, or headaches that saw me lying on the floor in the middle of gym class while the other students thought I was faking.
Unhappy memories are not summoned when I remember my childhood. I think of the House with the Big Blue Sign, the Sufi spiritual center wherePresident Trump will hold a rally next week in El Paso, Texas, his campaign announced Wednesday after he highlighted the border town in his State of the Union address to make a case for a physical barrier along the U.S.-Mexico divide.
The event will be the seventh Trump has held in Texas, and his first in El Paso, since he first announced his candidacy in June 2015.
“As the President continues his fight to secure our border, there’s no better place to demonstrate that walls work than in El Paso. President Trump looks forward to visiting with the patriots of Texas who are on the front lines of the struggle against open border Democrats who allow drugs, crime, and sex trafficking all along our border every day,” said Michael Glassner,
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chief operating officer of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. in a statement.
During his 82-minute speech to Congress Tuesday evening, Trump cited El Paso as being a success story for a border town with a wall as he continues to call on Congress to come up with a long-term spending agreement that includes $5.7 billion in funds for a physical barrier.
"The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our Nation's most dangerous cities. Now, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of our safest cities," he said.
The Democratic congresswoman in the room who represents El Paso, Veronica Escobar, did not like that line.
He lies. @POTUSis once again lying and using the #SOTU address to spread falsehoods about our beloved city of El Paso.
Fact is that El Paso has been one of the safest cities in the nation long before the wall was built in 2008. #WallsDontWork — Rep. Veronica Escobar (@RepEscobar) February 6, 2019
"He lies. @POTUS is once again lying and using the #SOTU address to spread falsehoods about our beloved city of El Paso," she tweeted in response. "Fact is that El Paso has been one of the safest cities in the nation long before the wall was built in 2008. #WallsDontWork."
The claim about a drop in crime rate after the wall was built in El Paso has been examined by fact-checkers. An El Paso Times review found the rate of
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to a remote area where he had sex with her, shot her in the head and left her body in the desert, authorities said.
Urdiales attacked and killed six more women in California and in Illinois who were working as prostitutes, authorities said.Library and Archives Canada's move to finally release a 98-year-old document on Ottawa's treatment of sick First Nations children sheds a small sliver of light onto a part of Canada's history still shrouded by the darkness of locked archives, researchers say.
Library and Archives initially refused to release the document under provisions of the Access to Information and Privacy Act that exempts files covered by solicitor-client privilege.
The 1920 document contained a request for advice from Indian Affairs along with the response from the Department of Justice on whether existing provisions in the Indian Act gave officials the power to create regulations allowing for the forcible removal of sick First Nations children.
The document was requested by researcher Edward Sadowski who filed a complaint last October with the federal Office of
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in 1945.
Drees said health records produced by Indian Affairs are only accessible through individual requests under the Access to Information Act.
"You can't actually research this topic as as researcher because it could take you 100 years to get them," she said.
Research for court case
Sadowski was requesting the document as part of research to support a failed court application to include the Fort William Indian Hospital Sanatorium School, where First Nation students who contacted tuberculosis were sent for treatment, as part of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement.
Former residential school students who were sent to the Fort William Indian Hospital Sanatorium, seen here around 1960, want to be compensated for their time there through the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. (Thunder Bay Museum)
Sadowski said the document reveals the stepsOttawa took to try to deal with tuberculosis outbreaks in First Nations communities, which were made worse by residential schools, while keeping costs down.
"This is a very complex issue," he said.
"You have to look at the bigger picture in this and everything is interconnected. It was about getting rid of 'the Indian problem."
The document, in the form of two letters, is from the era when Duncan Campbell Scott was deputy superintendent of Indian Affairs. Scott was the architect behind amendments to the Indian Act that made it mandatory for First Nations children to attend residential schools.
Scott once stated that Indian Affairs' goal was to find a "final solution of our Indian problem."
The case of a young girl
The March 27, 1920, Indian Affairs letter was written by the assistant
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deputy and secretary for the department who describes a report from a departmental doctor working on the Peguis First Nation.
The letter describes "the case of a young girl with tubercular spine and the case of a child with eye trouble" who can't be "properly treated in their home but whose parents refuse to permit them to be taken to a hospital for treatment."
A portion of a 98-year-old letter released by Library and Archives Canada which was initially withheld under a provision under the Access to Information and Privacy Act that exempts documents under solicitor-client privilege.
The Indian Affairs official wanted to know whether the department could draft new regulations allowing for the removal of First Nations children from their homes under existing Indian Act provisions.
The Justice Department's deputy ministerresponded saying that a new amendment to the Indian Act was needed to create the regulations.
Sadowski said the Indian Act was amended by 1927, giving the department the powers it wanted.
A 1926 letter from the United Church to Scott revealed why parents didn't want their sick children taken away for treatment to places like Selkirk, Man.
"The Indians seem to object to their children being sent to Selkirk, as they say they never see them again, because of the distance, and because most of them go there to die," said the letter signed by the United Church's general secretary Rev. J. H. Edmison.
Edmison was writing to Scott about the possible construction of an "isolation hospital" for children with tuberculosis near the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ont.
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billion capital pricetag, are highway projects. A few more are bus projects, such as an Orange Line extension to Burbank and Pasadena, and bus rapid transit on Vermont Avenue feeding the Red and Purple Lines. But the bulk of spending is urban rail, including such projects as future phases of the Wilshire subway to UCLA, an extension of the under-construction Crenshaw light rail line north toward Hollywood, extensions of the Gold Line, and a rail tunnel under the Sepulveda Pass.
It remains to be seen whether anything will come of the 28 by 28 program. In 2010, in the wake of Measure R, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pitched a similar concept called 30/10. Using federal loans, backed by future Measure R revenues, Villaraigosa proposed constructing 30 years worth of transportationits 'L' system has its rail yards at the end of each line, reducing deadheading. Los Angeles should seek to emulate this feature of Chicago's by building yards at the end of rail lines; this in turn requires the lines to have a consistent end, rather than incrementally extending farther out every few years.
Building a subway line to its natural terminus also makes it easier to reconfigure the buses. Were there a subway from Downtown to Santa Monica under Wilshire, most likely Metro would not need to run many buses on Wilshire, and would divert the resources to connecting routes, including Whittier going east and several north-south lines intersecting Wilshire. Building only part of the way under Wilshire, missing key north-south bus routes, makes for a less efficient
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has blogged at Pedestrian Observations since 2011, covering public transit, urbanism, and development. Now based in Paris, he writes for a variety of publications, including New York YIMBY, Streetsblog, Voice of San Diego, Railway Gazette, the Bay City Beacon, the DC Policy Center, and Urbanize LA. You can find him on Twitter @alon_levy.She was thirteen years old, struggling as all girls do to make sense of her life and her own self. Her world was crumbling. Her grandfather–the only father figure she had ever known–had died; her siblings were growing up and moving out; her mother had moved them to a new city; her new school was as warm and welcoming as communism; and her new church was hokey. H-O-K-E-Y. Depression settled first upon her with the silence and wonder of October’s first snow, then buried her with the fury and drift of February.
She felt utterly alone, utterly isolated, utterly forgotten.
Her journal was her only solace. Day after day, she inked her frozen prayers on the pages, determined to cling to her faith rather than abandon it. She asked God
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A California high school teacher has reportedly been fired after he was heard in a video making disparaging remarks about the military in his classroom.
The El Rancho Unified School District voted unanimously to dismiss the history teacher, Gregory Salcido, on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Times. Salcido has 30 days to appeal the decision, it added.
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"The classroom should never be a place where students feel that they are picked at, bullied, intimidated," Aurora Villon, president of the district's Board of Education, told the newspaper.
"His comments do not reflect what we stand for, who we are," Villon said.
Salcido is heard saying military members are “not intellectual people” and “the lowest of out low.”
According to the Facebook post that featured the video, his comments were in reaction to aThe idea of NFN attained first public exposure at the CCNxCon 2012 meeting. A year later the project has started getting flesh and bones, with a couple of first workshop papers, and a progress report presented and demoed at CCNxCon 2013. In summer 2014, a first working implementation based on CCN-lite runs NFN-over-CCNx and NFN-over-NDN, with Scala hosting the nameable functions.
Named Function Networking (NFN) is a companion project to Named Data Networking. Likewise, we embrace the "Content Centric Networking" approach, as it is generically called, and would like to see it thrive ... and add to it a new twist!
Named Function Networking is: an ICN style where the request carries at least two names in order to be satisfied Our stance is that CCN can benefit from a
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successful.
Inside the event:
Asia Inc. 500 is a platform that brings together entrepreneurs, start-ups, digital thought leaders and women leaders across the globe. Growth Conclave 2017 is the debut event by Asia Inc. 500 in India, this was an official Road to GES event. Asia Inc. 500 has helped over 10,000 women entrepreneurs across Asia and Europe.
Katherine B. Hadda, U.S. Consul General in Hyderabad was the Chief Guest at the conclave and she delivered a key note address where she said “Women leaders are changing the way business is done, they are the key part of every organization. Asia Inc. 500 has done a tremendous job in bringing women leaders together and I wish they succeed in their mission to empower 100,000 women by 2020 ”.
Asia Inc 500 andThe Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Sunday released how much the Indian cricketers and the support staff have been paid in August. As per the details, Captain Virat Kohli got Rs 1,25,04,964 as his match fees for the South Africa series and the prize money from ICC. Team India coach Ravi Shastri who is under fire for the team's below-par performance against England was paid Rs 2.05 crore by the BCCI as advance fees for his services for a period of three months.
Here is how much the players have got:
Player Amount in Rs Details Hardik Pandya 5059726 Taxfree portion of 90% Retainership fees for Jan to March 2018 6075000 Taxfree portion of 90% Retainership fees for October to December 2017 Ishant Sharma 5542397 Taxfree
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4901386 Match official Fee for IPL Season 2018 Wriddhiman Saha 4434805 Match fees for India tour to South Africa Shikhar Dhawan 11223493 Taxfree portion of 90% Retainership fees for Jan to March 2018 2700000 Match fees for Srilanka tour to India 14175000 Taxfree portion of 90% Retainership fees for October to December 2017
Meanwhile, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) in all likelihood will have a discussion with Shastri on the team's show in England. India lost the ODI as well as Test series to the hosts and the CoA is expected to assess the team's performance after the end of the fifth Test.
''There is a CoA meeting in Mumbai on September 11. While the main discussion will be on implementation of the new constitution, the performance of England seriesand Alex are driving out of town when they stop at a mall so Eve can pick up her prescription. In the parking lot, Alex says that her mother was a “slut” as a teen, earning Alex a brutal face slap (one of the most genuinely surprising moments in the whole hour). While Eve is picking up the meds, Alex calls Kevin and tells him she doesn’t want to go with her mother — but their call gets cut off by the now-descending Mist.
Across town, Natalie Raven (Frances Conroy), the Copelands’ neighbor, and her husband are at the library looking up old Bridgeville newspapers to see if something similar happened a few years ago. Spoiler alert: It did. And earlier in the day, a toad (one of many
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survivors.
Our second group is at the mall. Mrs. Carmody, one of the parents who disapproved of Eve for discussing oral sex, tries to shame her in front of the other customers, but Eve points out that Mrs. Carmody’s son Eric is already aware of what oral sex is; she caught him watching porn in school. She also calls her a pathetic bitch and walks away. Talk about a mic drop. (Also, as a reader pointed out, Mrs. Carmody is yet another nod to the original novella.)
Following this exchange, the mall loses power, and Eve runs out into the Mist to find Alex, who, for her part, has exited the car. They quickly find each other and head back into the mall. Here, Mrs. Carmody accuses them of lyingGeneral Interest
Winning silver in the 10m synchronised platform event at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (debate.com.mx, 31 Jul 2017)
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The United States’ trade wars have allowed Canada’s agriculture industry to pump up sales of soybeans and wheat to China, and pork to Mexico.
FILE PHOTO: A canola crop used for making cooking oil sits in full bloom on the Canadian prairies near Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada July 11, 2011. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo
But the same tariff battles are undermining commodity prices and eating into Canadian farmers’ profit margins even as they grab more market share.
Their struggles illustrate the complex global consequences of U.S. protectionism as tariffs launched by President Donald Trump spark retaliations and redraw global agricultural supply lines around the globe. In the case of Canada, farmers have become bystanders hit by retaliatory strikes aimed at the United States.
The situation is bad enough toshare in dairy and poultry under revisions to the free trade agreement between the two countries and Mexico.
Like soybean growers, Canadian pig farmers are hurting. Chinese tariffs on U.S. pork have raised alarm about demand, pressuring the U.S. hog prices on which Canadian sales are based.
Canada, the third-largest pork exporter, sold 19.5 percent more pork to Mexico in the first eight months of the year, according to Statistics Canada, including hams that Mexico would normally buy from the United States. The Canadian sales grew after Mexico imposed retaliatory tariffs on U.S. pork.
But Canada’s overall pork shipments declined, including to China, which is oversupplied, and the United States, its two biggest export markets.
Canadian Pork Council said in a statement in September that hog farmers need government compensation to cover
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Rupert Murdoch's business empire could lose a crucial ally with this week's arrest of one of the world's richest men.
Key points: Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been a crucial ally in the past to Murdoch
Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been a crucial ally in the past to Murdoch Prince Alwaleed was arrested as part of a Saudi anti-corruption crackdown this week
Prince Alwaleed was arrested as part of a Saudi anti-corruption crackdown this week 21st Century Fox's annual shareholder meeting is due to be held next Thursday
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is one of 11 princes, four government ministers, and dozens of ex-ministers rounded up in an anti-corruption crackdown in the desert kingdom.
The Saudi investor has been crucial in the past to Mr Murdoch'sefforts to fend off bids from institutional shareholders to wrest control of the business empire.
"Prince Talal, for about 20 years has been the biggest non-Murdoch voting shareholder in News Corp, now 21st Century Fox," shareholder activist Stephen Mayne said.
"His 5 per cent voting stake has regularly backed the Murdoch control of the company."
The timing of the Prince's arrest could prove disastrous for the Murdoch family, with another attempt to loosen its grip on its company likely within days.
21st Century Fox's annual shareholder meeting is due to be held next Thursday.
"Next week at the annual meeting in Los Angeles, there's another hostile shareholder resolution proposing to get rid of the gerrymander, the two-class voting system," Mr Mayne said.
"Whether the Prince's 5 per cent stake will be voted opposing that
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Adams for Daily Telegraph Trumped! The best cartoons on 'The Donald' Morten Morland for The Times Trumped! The best cartoons on 'The Donald' Bob Moran for Daily Telegraph Trumped! The best cartoons on 'The Donald' Christian Adams for Daily Telegraph Trumped! The best cartoons on 'The Donald' Morten Morland for The Times Trumped! The best cartoons on 'The Donald' KAL for The Economist Trumped! The best cartoons on 'The Donald' Martin Rowson for The Guardian
Both Mr Spicer and Mr Trump have repeatedly accused journalists of reporting “fake news” about the new administration.
In his first White House briefing, he lambasted journalists for their coverage of the presidential inauguration, accusing them of misreporting the number of people in the crowd.
He further antagonised the press when he banned journalists from leadingA slim human female with brown hair, high cheekbones, and a small yet prominent nose that gave her face an almost regal air, she held a padd in her hand, her expression one of apology as she nodded to him in greeting.
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Singer Aretha Franklin in 1970
A long-awaited Aretha Franklin documentary will premiere in New York City - 46 years after being filmed.
Amazing Grace was shot by director Sydney Pollack in 1972, but it spent decades in an unedited form.
Years of legal complications followed, and now it will finally debut at the DOC NYC festival on 12 November, with the support of the singer's estate.
The "queen of soul" - known for hits like Respect and Think - died of cancer in August, aged 76.
The film Amazing Grace was only finished in 2011 because of technical problems.
After that, Franklin and her lawyers blocked the film's release repeatedly, once suing producer Alan Elliot for using her likeness without her permission.
Legal clearance finally came after the singer'sdeath, when her family members were open to seeing the film.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Aretha Franklin: In her own words
It was filmed over two nights at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, when Franklin recorded her Amazing Grace album.
However, Pollack - who later won an Oscar for Out of Africa - made a mistake during the 1972 recording.
By not using clapper boards, an essential tool to match sound with footage in a pre-digital age, he made the 20 hours of raw film frustratingly hard to edit.
The Warner Bros studio, which financed the shoot, ultimately gave up, according to the New York Times.
Elliot secured the film's rights in 2007, a year before Pollack died. The producer then assembled a team, who
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were able to put it together using digital technology.
"Aretha's fans will be enthralled by every moment of the film as her genius, her devotion to God and her spirit are present in every frame," said Elliot in a statement.
To qualify for the 2019 Academy Awards, the 87-minute film will run in Los Angeles and New York for one week this year.
Elliot told the New York Times a wider release would likely take place in January, potentially coinciding with the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
"Amazing Grace is the heart and soul of Aretha Franklin," the singer's niece and estate's executor Sabrina Owens told media on Monday. "Her fans need to see this film, which is so pure and joyous."
Franklin won 18 Grammys and had 17 Topand the boundaries between, the private and the public? 2 A. Candas and Y. Silier In the first section, we provide a theoretical framework that depicts the implications of the boundary between the public and the private and give an account of recalibrations of the meanings of public and private. In the second section, we survey the literature on the simultaneous depoliticization and reprivatization of care. Finally, focusing on the recent trends in Turkey on the provision of care, we reflect on the social implications of the simultaneous depoliticization, re-domestication, and privatization focusing on the underprivileged women. Recalibrations of the Public and the Private For Davidoff (1998, 165), "The public–private divide has played a dual role both as an explanation of women's subordinate position and as an ideology
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heading, “Sacred Heart University Department of Public Safety Bolo Information, Off Campus Sexual Assault” and a photograph of Douglas and his car.
The leaflets also warn, “Do not allow the suspect on campus.”
Police said the 19-year-old rape victim was drinking with friends at the Golden Star Café on Main Street when the 39-year-old Reid tricked the young woman to separate from her friends. He is accused of taking her back to his home, where he allegedly raped her repeatedly, ordering her to hold a stopwatch to time his assaults on her.
Police said Reid was identified as the assailant from campus surveillance video. They said prior to Reid’s arrest on April 6, they had no other suspects.
“The arrest of Alfonso Reid, which clearly identified him as the person committing thecrime of rape, further exposed the defendants’ negligent, reckless and intentional conduct in falsely accusing the plaintiff, Gary Douglas, as the actual rapist by widely publicizing and distributing his photograph,” the lawsuit stated.
On April 26, Douglas demanded university officials retract the leaflets but no retraction occurred, according to the suit.
“In their false accusation, the defendants have held the plaintiff, Gary Douglas, up to public hatred, ridicule, embarrassment and contempt causing him to suffer much damage to his reputation, mental anguish, loss of sleep and appetite and his ability to earn income,” the suit reads.
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I started writing this post on Monday, but I have had an insanely busy week – mostly because of the continued sharp drop in oil prices and the impact of that on particularly the Russian rouble. But now I will try to finalize the post – it is after on a directly related topic to what I have focused on all week – in fact for most of 2014.
Oil prices have continued the sharp drop and this is leading to serious challenges for monetary policy in oil-exporting countries. Just the latest examples – The Russian central bank has been forced to abandon the managed float of the rouble and effectively the rouble is now (mostly) floating freely and in Nigeria the central bank the central bank has beenplayer of his class Cheap Nike Air Max 2017 Outlet ," the Argentine added.
Moreno is contracted to Shanghai Shenhua until December 2019 and his market value is estimated at around six million euros.
The 31-year-old has been one of the most consistent performers in the Chinese Super League since joining Shanghai from Argentine side Racing in 2012.
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When Angela Merkel first came into office in 2005, George W Bush was in the White House, Tony Blair was British prime minister, and the Elysée Palace was occupied by Jacques Chirac.
The German chancellor’s announcement on Monday that she would not seek re-election as head of her ruling centre-right CDU party and that her fourth term as chancellor would be her last, heralds the end of an era in which she has dominated German and European politics.
Merkel has been a symbol of steadiness and continuity. The departure of the EU’s de facto leader before Germany’s next federal elections – due in 2021 – comes as the continent’s political stability and consensus are arguably at greater risk than at any time since the end of the second world war.
Merkel’sdecision follows a succession of poor election results that began with last year’s federal vote, when the CDU slumped to its worst return since 1949. Regional polls in Bavaria and – this weekend – in Hesse, where the party plunged 11 points to 27%, weakened her further.
After months of fraught negotiations, Merkel’s damaged conservatives renewed a weakened and unpopular coalition with their traditional centre-left rivals, the Social Democratic party (SPD). In an ever more fragmented European political landscape, both are now paying the price as voters turn their backs on the traditional parties of government.
Held together more by a fear of the alternative – and, in particular, the further rise of the far-right AfD – than by any driving policy ambitions, the governing alliance in Berlin lacks clear,
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a million refugees, mostly Muslims fleeing wars and poverty in the Middle East and beyond, as having speeded her departure, diminishing her authority, dividing her party, her country and its European partners, and boosting support for anti-immigrant parties.
At home, all eyes will will be focused on whether Merkel can manage to stage a smooth exit. In theory, her announcement that she will not be standing again for the party’s leadership at its conference in December should – while she remains chancellor – allow a new CDU chair to build a strong electoral profile before 2021.
But events may well intervene. Merkel is under heavy pressure from her ailing SPD partners to deliver more policy results. The centre-left party, whose vote share has plummeted to an all-time low, could yetsaid that he had asked for a report from the state body on the episode. Kamat said that he had written to the sports authority of Goa to discontinue Ganguly’s services immediately. “He was recommended after many parents requested he be allowed to train students as he was a good coach,” NDTV quoted Kamat as saying.
Goa Swimming Association Secretary Syed Abdul Majid said that Ganguly’s contract had been terminated after they came across the video. “We appointed him because he had a good track record as a coach. There were no prior complaints [of misbehaviour] against him,” he told PTI.
The Goa Legislative Assembly, in 2017, had passed a resolution congratulating Ganguly and a few other coaches for their performance in the 63rd National Games.
Now, follow and debate the
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Demand for edible flowers is soaring.
Chefs and keen home cooks want them, as do customers in Hong Kong who buy punnets of Tamsin Wilson's carefully picked flowers airfreighted twice a week.
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Wilson grows the edible flowers in beds in a paddock at Patumahoe south of Auckland.
She acknowledges not everyone likes the idea of popping petals or a bloom in their mouth - such as a guest on a garden tour.
"We had an amazing 90-year-old lady who walked around the garden and her companion said to me that in the car she told her that she thought that 'God had put flowers on this earth to be admired and they should never be eaten.'
"But she was polite while she was here," she says with a grin.
Wilson prefersembodiment envisions a full fingered glove being convertible to a half fingered glove at the option of the wearer. Where the cut line is disposed on the trigger finger, suitably the shooter""s index finger, the distal end of the trigger finger can be partially exposed sufficient to enable to shooter to have excellent contact between the trigger finger and the trigger with no opportunity for the remainder of the finger element fabric to unravel.
An important preferred element of this invention lies in the fact that the palm side of the glove body, and preferably the palm side directed portions of the finger elements as well, is made up of at least partially of a layer of a substantially non-slip, high friction material. This material may make up the
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enables the thumb to be moved inwardly, that is toward the side of the hand, without the palm portion of the glove material bunching up. Alternatively, or in addition, preferably, a second, similar one layer area of the glove body is disposed across the palm area, suitably closer to the finger elements than the first area, but spaced from the first area. High friction, suitably embossed leather material is disposed as one layer of a plurality of layers in the area between these first and the second areas.
Another aspect of this invention lies in the provision of a padded area in the glove body proximate to the heel of the shooter""s hand. Suitably, this padded area is proximate to the first one layer area referred to above. InCrew SC might be sending a representative to the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, but just three weeks before the tournament’s opening game, the club and player are still unsure of whether it will happen.
Teams from the United States and Ghana seemed to present the best opportunities for Crew players to attend the tournament. But neither well-recognized national team qualified for the World Cup this year, meaning stars Wil Trapp, Gyasi Zardes, Zack Steffen, Jonathan Mensah and Harrison Afful won’t get the chance to play in Russia.
Instead, it was 21-year-old winger Cristian Martinez, who was named to Panama’s preliminary World Cup squad last week.
But Martinez didn’t get a call from the Panama manager, a personalized social media message or even an email. Instead, like the rest of
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The Vatican’s long-promised report on the Theodore McCarrick scandal has yet to materialize. Meanwhile, his “nephews” continue to rise in the Church, often taking positions within the inner circle of Pope Francis. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who roomed with McCarrick for five years in Washington, D.C., has been appointed by Pope Francis to the position of camerlengo, which means that he will preside over the next papal conclave. According to the National Catholic Reporter’s Michael Sean Winters, who serves as a stenographer for the American bishops around Pope Francis, Farrell may receive another papal plum this year: a seat on the powerful Congregation for Bishops.
Winters writes that the seat is likely to go to either Farrell or Joseph Tobin, who is another “nephew” of McCarrick, having received his positionas archbishop of Newark through the string-pulling of McCarrick. Donald Wuerl, who covered for McCarrick, currently sits on the Congregation for Bishops but is nearing 80, which will require that he step down, says Winters:
Of special concern to Americans will be the likely naming of a new American prelate to be a member of the Congregation for Bishops when Cardinal Donald Wuerl turns 80 on Nov. 12. This is an onerous job, but a consequential one, requiring monthly trips to Rome but also providing a seat at the table when new candidates for the episcopacy are discussed and referred to the pope. There are really only two candidates at the moment: Cardinal Joe Tobin, who lives 10 minutes from the airport in Newark, New Jersey, and Cardinal Kevin
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Farrell, who is already in Rome as prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life. Either one would be an excellent choice as both are champions of Francis and neither is an alumnus of the North American College. It is imperative that the nuncio and the congregation look beyond the walls of the North American College for candidates.
The uber-liberal cardinal of Chicago, Blase Cupich, who is another beneficiary of McCarrick’s string-pulling, already sits on the Congregation for Bishops. Should Tobin or Farrell join him on it, that will give liberals two like-minded bishop-makers on the Congregation. Even in his disgraced exile — it was reported this last week that McCarrick is back on the move after leaving the Kansas friary where he was holed up for overa year — McCarrick exerts influence over the Church through his minions.
The abuse cases against him continue to pile up, which will cost the Church untold millions. In Newark, where McCarrick once served as archbishop, the archdiocese is in a lawsuit with workers at St. James Hospital who say the archdiocese has failed to fulfill its pension obligations. Forecaster Beau Henderson writes about the controversy in his December newsletter Strategic Retirement. Henderson predicts that one of the scandals of 2020 will be the Catholic Church’s inability to fulfill pension obligations owing to skyrocketing abuse costs: “In 2019, General Electric made headlines when it announced plans to freeze its pension plan for more than 20,000 domestic employees. In 2020, I expect an even bigger retirement scandal to capture the
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