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Spotlight: The enduring icon bridging New Zealand and China WELLINGTON, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's just-concluded visit to New Zealand has charted the future of the two countries' "special" relations, and one man will be guiding them towards an even stronger friendship. Three decades after he died, the spirit of Rewi Alley is still felt in the halls of power whenever Chinese and New Zealand leaders get together. While much of the news coverage is focused on the burgeoning economic and trade links between China and New Zealand, Alley will serve as a reminder that the ties run much deeper. Honoring the memory of the New Zealander who helped to pioneer China's industrial cooperative movement during the war against the Japanese was high on Li's agenda during his four-day visit to the Oceanian country, which ended Wednesday. Alley's influence will be heightened as three key anniversaries are marked: 120 years since his birth, 90 years since his arrival in China, and 30 years since his death. The New Zealander is remembered in China for his efforts in building China's industrial base in wartime, and for educating hundreds of young Chinese students before and after the founding of the New China in 1949. Alley is also accredited with helping New Zealand and China build ties, such as the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1972.
"I remember when (Chinese President) Xi Jinping came to New Zealand in 2014, he spent several minutes remembering the contribution that Rewi Alley made to the relationship and that continues today," said Dave Bromwich, president of the New Zealand China Friendship Society. The society, formed by Alley's followers in 1952 to maintain links with China, helped to organize some of the commemorative events during Li's visit, including an exhibition of photos of Alley's life in China. Bromwich told Xinhua by phone that next month he will accompany a delegation of 20 of Alley's relatives and their associates to visit China, culminating in an event in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. "In China, if anything, his importance is increasing," said Bromwich. "In the last decade there's been an increasing amount of commemorative acknowledgement of Rewi Alley's contribution to China." Trade Minister Todd McClay, a key player in talks during Li's visit, also paid tribute to Alley. "The fact the relationship between our two countries is moving from strength to strength shows just how significant and relevant his contribution remains today," McClay said in an e-mail to Xinhua. "Rewi Alley's proud legacy also underlines the importance both China and New Zealand place on old friends. The fact he is regarded by the Chinese people as one of the most influential foreigners in China in the 20th Century speaks volumes about the affection with which he is still held."
Alley, born in 1897 in the small town of Springfield in Canterbury, New Zealand, was a great internationalist fighter and a famous socialist. As one of seven siblings in a socially active family, Alley left home to fight in France in the First World War. He was twice wounded in battle. After a few years, Alley bought a ticket to Shanghai, China, where he arrived in 1927. As a factory inspector, Alley witnessed the poverty of Chinese workers and peasants first-hand, and started to work with progressive organizations and sometimes secretly with the Red Army. During the Japanese invasion, he became one of the founders of the Gong He (Gung Ho) movement of industrial cooperatives on unoccupied Chinese territories. In 1942, he set up a cooperative Bailie School in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The school, which was moved later to Shandan, Gansu Province, had trained engineers for the reconstruction of post-war China. As a friend of writers such as Edgar Snow and Agnes Smedley, Alley became renowned for his work as an educator, a humanitarian and a peace activist, living the rest of his life in China. Alley died in Beijing on Dec. 27, 1987. Late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping wrote an inscription in his memory: "Eternal Glory to the Great Internationalist Fighter." In 2009, Alley won a posthumous award as one of "China's Top Ten International Friends." While he always loved his home New Zealand, Alley described China as family. "This place (China) is a great case study of humanity; one of the biggest examples of humanity's struggle," he reportedly told a fellow New Zealander. "If you can't feel for these people, you can't feel anything for the world."
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Shaun Pearce (born 13 December 1969 in Reading, Berkshire) is a British slalom canoeist who competed in the 1990s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with three golds (K1: 1991, K1 team: 1993, 1997) and a bronze (K1 team: 1995). He also won the World Cup series in K1 in 1994. Pearce also finished 25th in the K1 event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. ==World Cup individual podiums==
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| 1990 || align=right| 1 Jul 1990 ||align=left| Wausau || bgcolor=gold|1st || K1
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| 1991 || align=right| 11 Jul 1991 ||align=left| Reals || bgcolor=cc9966|3rd || K1
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| 1993 || align=right| 25 Jul 1993 ||align=left| Lofer || bgcolor=cc9966|3rd || K1
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|rowspan=3| 1994 || align=right| 26 Jun 1994 ||align=left| Nottingham || bgcolor=silver|2nd || K1
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| align=right| 3 Jul 1994 ||align=left| Augsburg || bgcolor=silver|2nd || K1
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| align=right| 18 Sep 1994 ||align=left| Asahi, Aichi || bgcolor=gold|1st || K1
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| 1997 || align=right| 29 Jun 1997 ||align=left| Björbo || bgcolor=silver|2nd || K1
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==References==
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1969 births
English male canoeists
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists of Great Britain
Sportspeople from Reading, Berkshire
British male canoeists
Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
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The 1894 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1894 college football season. The team finished with an 8–2 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by one selector, the Houlgate System. They outscored their opponents 204 to 44. ==Schedule==
==References==
Princeton
Princeton Tigers football seasons
College football national champions
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== Typo ==
"abandonment of character-driven storylines in favor of and overuse of celebrity cameo appearances and references to popular culture"
It should say "an overuse" instead of "and overuse". == Ideas for a timeline of The Simpsons ==
When did The Simpsons lose its way? Did it recover? Specific good/bad episodes? Regards,
CodingCatSpeedySlothSimpsonsFan CodingCatSpeedySlothSimpsonsFan (talk)
The question is, I suppose,, what do the reliable sources say on those aspects? ——SerialNumber54129
Take a look at the worst, best and most controversial list, or the NoHomers list on CodingCatSpeedySlothSimpsonsFan (talk)
== Semi-protected edit request on 13 May 2019 ==
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Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Jannik Schwaß (talk)
==Simpsons World Streaming closure confirmed==
Here is another source which confirms Simpson World's closure once Disney+ launches: Use it if you wish.
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Grandpa pawpaw and his adopted dog bring tears of joy to the internet Three weeks after viral photos of'sad pawpaw' being 'neglected' by his grandkids broke the web's heart, a different senior is getting the exact opposite reaction out of internet users. Twitter user Jessica Amante shared photos of her 90-year-old grandfather and his brand new fluffy friend, Penny, on March 6, Mashable reported Sunday. Her mom also posted images on Facebook. And over the past month the pics showing the adorable couple have gone viral, literally bringing tears to the eyes of web users around the world. Pawpaw and paw-paw-paw-paw: Images of the 90-year-old man and his new dog, Penny, went viral after they were posted on Twitter this month by his granddaughter, Jessica Amante New dog, old tricks: The sweet photos brought tears to the eyes of many Twitter users. He has been likened to'saw Pawpaw,' the elderly man whose grandkids 'abandoned' him after he made them burgers this month Sweet Tweet: The crying emojis in Jessica's Tweet were prophetic, as many who saw the adorable pictures were moved to tears Amante's grandfather is in an assisted living facility, and had pictures of his new dog sent to her at the start of the month. 'My grandfather just got a new dog and had his caregiver take pictures of him to send to me,' she Tweeted, along with three crying emojis. And those thoughts were echoed by the thousands - 81,374 at last count - of web users who 'liked' the Tweet and the 40,771 who shared it. 'Heart-warming': As the images went viral, many contacted Jessica to let her know how moved they were 'Cute': The original post received more than 81,000 likes from delighted web users 'Adorable': It was also retweeted over 40,000 times. Many had strong emotional reactions to the photos 'So happy': Many, like Jessie here, were brought to tears by the delightful images Twitter user @phunkfina was one of many who responded positively to the idyllic scenes of the grandfather walking his new pal, writing 'Why is this one of the most heart warming things ever?' But a large number of the users were even more moved than that, with several saying that they had been moved to tears. 'OMG,' gasped @lgbtleeds, saying that the grandpa bore an uncanny resemblance to 'the cute little old guy' from the Pixar movie 'Up.' 'I'm crying this is too cute,' she wrote. And @jewishuncle wrote 'That's so adorable I'm gonna get emotional.' 'It makes me so happy I'm teary,' echoed @explicitstiles. But some fans of the sweet story went even further. Waterworks: Many users were so moved they couldn't even write anything, and relied on images to communicate their emotions Tears for cheers: Images of mascara-streaked cheeks were common Those crying emojis in Amante's original post proved prophetic for @nAAAYEomi, @kissingjohnson and @valerieamazing. They were among the users so touched by the story that they couldn't even put it into words. Instead, they simply send selfies showing their tearful faces, with long lines of mascara running down each cheek. But at least this time they were tears of happiness for the internet's latest adorable elder - a far cry from the tears of frustration shed for'saw Pawpaw' on March 16. That was when Kelsey Harmon posted a photograph of her grandpa looking forlornly at one of the gourmet burgers he'd made for his six grandkids - of whom only Kelsey showed up. Another grandkid turned up shortly after the Tweet went out, but by then the internet had gone into a furious meltdown. Messages of support for the man known as'sad Pawpaw' - real name Kenny Harmon - and even threats against the grandkids who didn't turn up, were soon flying around. However, even the story of sad Pawpaw has a happy ending: on Saturday the 66-year-old held a cookout at his family's flea market in Purcell, Oklahoma, and invited the internet. As expected, hundreds of fans and well-wishers showed up to eat burgers, get their photo taken with the now happy Pawpaw and even buy 'I had a burger with saw Pawpaw' hats and T-shirts. Sad Pawpaw: Kenny Harmon (pictured) became known as'sad Pawpaw' when images of him eating one of the burgers he made for his grandkids - most of whom who didn't turn up to dinner - went viral on the web
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Jeremy Corbyn says anti-Semitism is "vile and wrong" after Chief Rabbi warning letter Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour does not tolerate anti-Semitism "in any form whatsoever" after the Chief Rabbi warned his failure to tackle the issue made him unfit to be prime minister. The Labour leader insisted anti-Jewish racism was "vile and wrong" and that the party had a "rapid and effective system" for dealing with complaints. Mr Corbyn was greeted with shouts of "racist" by demonstrators as he arrived at the launch of his party's race and faith manifesto in Tottenham. A series of posters on vans parked outside read "Keep anti-Semitism out of Downing Street" as well as "A home for holocaust denial and terrorist supporters." Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis condemned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (PA) In his speech, Mr Corbyn called anti-Semitism "an evil within our society" which had led to the Holocaust. "There is no place whatsoever for anti-Semitism in any shape or form or in any place whatsoever in modern Britain, and under a Labour government it will not be tolerated in any form whatsoever," he said. Later, in response to journalists' questions, he said that as party leader he had introduced new disciplinary procedures which meant those who committed anti-Semitic acts were "brought to book." Then, if necessary, expelled from the party or suspended. He offered to meet with faith leaders, including the Chief Rabbi, to discuss their concerns. "Be absolutely clear of this assurance from me - no community will be at risk because of their identity, their faith, their ethnicity or their language," he said. Jeremy Corbyn is facing an election crisis over Labour's record on anti-Semitism (AFP via Getty Images) In the speech he made no direct mention of the comments by Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. Instead it was left to the Labour peer Lord Dubs - who came to Britain in the 1930s as a child refugee fleeing the Nazis - to say he believed the attack had been "unjustified and unfair." Writing in The Times, Rabbi Mirvis said Labour's handling of the issue, which has dogged the party under Mr Corbyn's leadership, was "incompatible" with British values. Corbyn insists there is 'no room' for anti-Semitism in Labour - live He said the overwhelming majority of Britain's Jews were "gripped with anxiety" ahead of the General Election on December 12, warning "the very soul of our nation is at stake." His comments were seized on by Boris Johnson who said Mr Corbyn's inability to stamp out the "virus" of anti-Semitism in Labour represented a "failure of leadership." The president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Marie van der Zyl, said most in the Jewish community would find it impossible to trust the assurances given by Mr Corbyn. "Labour's record under his leadership has shown that anti-Semites are indulged by Labour, while Jewish MPs are hounded out without a word of complaint from him," she said. "British Jews are acutely anxious about the proliferation of anti-Semitism in the official party of opposition. What starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews." Dame Louise Ellman, the Jewish former Labour MP who quit the party over the issue, said the Chief Rabbi was reflecting "widespread concern and anxiety" across the mainstream Jewish community.
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It doesn't sound like justice to Saucedo, she said. She wants Crusius to get a fair trial, she said, but if he's found guilty, he needs to spend the rest of his life thinking about his hateful act. An execution would be too merciful, she said. "That's going to take 5 minutes. He needs to understand that he did wrong," she said. "I wish he stays in prison forever."
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The 2013–14 Granada CF season is the 80th season in club history. ==Review and events==
==Matches==
===Legend===
===La Liga===
===Copa del Rey===
==Squad==
===Squad, matches played and goals scored===
===Minutes played===
===Starting 11===
===Bookings===
==Sources==
Granada CF
Granada CF seasons
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Notes From the Book Review Archives Cynthia Ozick reviews "Last Stories," William Trevor's final collection of stories, for this week's cover. In 1964, J.D. Scott reviewed the Irish author's debut novel, "The Old Boys," for the Book Review. Below is an excerpt. The phrase "Old Boys" has in England a special meaning: the old grads of a school. Originally the phrase was used only in those breeding grounds of empire, the public schools. Now it has been taken over by a good many of the schools that are part of the state system of education, but it is still very much an in-group phrase. It reflects the brooding preoccupation of middle-class and upper-class Englishmen with that period in their lives, between the ages of 13 and 18, that they spent in monastic seclusion with others of their kind, in a small, fiercely ingrown world, obsessed by games, tradition and emotional entanglements. In modern England this preoccupation is lessening as the public schools have become less isolated, but the old boys in William Trevor's novel are very old boys, indeed, and hardly belong to modern England. They are the committee of an alumni association, and it is a tradition of the association that members do not serve on the committee until they are very senior, and that all the committee during a two-year term of office should have been at the school at the same time. So we have a small group of men, Mr. Turtle, Mr. Nox, Mr. Swabey-Boyns, Mr. Jaraby, General Sanctuary, Sir George Ponders, Mr. Sole, and Mr. Cridley bound together by ancient memories, antique jealousies, anecdotes crumbling into dust - and unquenchable dislikes. His publishers tell us that Mr. Trevor is young, and this makes it all the more remarkable that he should have taken this difficult material and made out of it a novel that is exceedingly readable, touchingly sad and dreadfully funny. "The Old Boys" is largely written in dialogue, a stylized dialogue that owes something to Miss Compton-Burnett and that some readers may find artificial. Others may feel that Mr. Trevor has got his geriatrics a bit wrong, and that his characters are really octogenarians rather than septuagenarians. Yet this is an excellent novel, a memorable study of old age, and no less compassionate by being in part a comedy.
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Abortion bans are an assault on women's fundamental rights. Business should say so I didn't hesitate to sign the letter because it clearly reflects the values of my company. At Hims & Hers, our core mission is to help people get the healthcare they need without complication, bias, or judgment. We exist to help reach everyone who is being left out or left behind by the current system, whether you're one of the 19.5 million American women who don't have access to a full range of contraceptive methods, or anyone who's struggling to find a safe, reliable place to get healthcare. To put it simply, we value equality and access, and we believe that stigmas and politics should never stand in the way of individuals getting the care they need. The new anti-abortion laws step directly on these values. Abortion bans are a calculated assault on a woman's fundamental right to choose what to do with her own body. They are also part of a targeted attack against those who continue to be systematically oppressed by our legal system. These laws will ultimately force people who are disadvantaged, usually people of color, to turn toward dangerous measures for an abortion. While there will most likely always be safe places for women to turn to when they find themselves in need of an abortion, not everyone will be able to afford it. That privilege will not be an equal one. This is a fight for a woman's right to choose and a grand fight for equality to access. Our employees, our customers, our friends, and our families are under attack and deserve access to care. It should no longer be acceptable for business leaders to play it safe and choose not to speak up because they're afraid of offending someone. We have to break out of our corporate narratives and overdesigned slide decks. In times of injustice or inequality, it's critical that companies take moral stands against depravity of any kind - and especially of this kind. As Desmond Tutu famously said, "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." I acknowledge it's not enough to sign a letter and make a public statement. We all need to do our part in building companies and cultures where fairness and equality are not just core values, but core commitments. That's precisely why 52% of our workforce is women. It's why nearly half of our executive team is female. It's why we're committed to pay equity and why we offer 20 weeks of paid leave to all new primary parents. Equal pay. Equal access. Equal treatment. These should be the first principles that animate every decision we make - no matter what business we're in.
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Abdeslam Ouaddou (عبدالسلام وعدو) (born November 1, 1978, in Alnif, Morocco) is a Moroccan footballer. He last played for AS Nancy-Lorraine as a central defender or defensive midfielder. ==Career==
He started his footballing career quite late, at the age of 21. In the summer of 2001, Ouaddou was signed by newly promoted Premier League club Fulham for £2m, on a four-year contract. However, Ouaddou did not settle in England and spent the last two years of his contract on loan at Rennes, before joining the French club permanently once his contract expired. On the Summer of 2006, he signed for Olympiacos FC. After disappointing appearances with the team, Ouaddou was regulated on the bench. On December 7, 2006 Ouaddou asked Olympiacos to release him free because he felt homesick and had some family problems. The club's directors agreed and Ouaddou will return to France. On January 1, 2007, the opening day of the January transfer window, Ouaddou joined Valenciennes FC on a free transfer. After one season with the club however, he transferred to AS Nancy for a fee of £150,000. He was voted the club's best signing for the 2008/09 campaign. On June 30, 2010, Abdeslam Ouaddou left AS Nancy after a dispute with the Ligue 1 outfit. The Moroccan veteran defender had a deal until 2012 but has left after the club decided to sack him for gross misconduct, while the player wanted to cancel his contract. In 2010, he played for Al-Duhail SC in the Qatar Stars League, eventually winning the league championship. It was announced on August 8, 2011, that Qatar SC had signed him for a two-year deal. He commented on the move, stating "I'm more than pleased to have extended my stay in the Qatar Stars League and move to another big club". In 2013, he criticized employment conditions in Qatar, stating "When you work in Qatar you belong to someone. You are not free. You are a slave." On November 2012, he left Qatar SC. On 1 January 2013, he signed a contract with his first professional club AS Nancy to close his career, but two weeks later he announced that he retired from professional football. === International goals ===
==Honours==
Fulham
UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2002
==References==
== External links ==
Abdeslam Ouaddou's profile, stats & pics
1978 births
Living people
Moroccan footballers
Morocco international footballers
Moroccan expatriate footballers
2002 African Cup of Nations players
2004 African Cup of Nations players
2006 Africa Cup of Nations players
2008 Africa Cup of Nations players
Valenciennes FC players
Olympiacos F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
AS Nancy players
Stade Rennais F.C. players
Ligue 1 players
Premier League players
Superleague Greece players
Expatriate footballers in Greece
Expatriate footballers in France
Expatriate footballers in England
Expatriate footballers in Qatar
Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers of Morocco
People from Errachidia
Lekhwiya SC players
Qatar Stars League players
Association football defenders
Association football midfielders
Association football utility players
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Sydney's western rail line packed to full capacity 'within 15 years' The capacity of the western rail line between Sydney's CBD and Parramatta to handle more commuters will be exhausted within 15 years, Transport Minister Andrew Constance says. The Herald reported last week that government planning is under way on a new metro line between the central city and Parramatta to bring much-needed relief to Sydney's western rail corridor and service growth areas such as the Bays Precinct around Rozelle. Speaking at a business function on Wednesday, Mr Constance said there was "no doubt that there is going to be the need for additional rail capacity" between Parramatta and the city in the longer term. "[However,] the government has made no decision about western metro - let's be clear on that. There is some private sector interest out there, absolutely," he said. "But what is going to motivate a future decision around this is actually the capacity of the existing T1 western rail line, because it reaches full capacity by 2030 - you can't put any more people on the trains." The Baird government has promised to increase the number of trains running each hour by two to 20 on the western line by 2019 "to try to build capacity into a very constrained rail line." "That is our focus at the moment but, given the growth in the city's west, the realistic long-term outcome is going to have to be considered," he said. The western line is the busiest on Sydney's rail network. The most recent government statistics show average loads on the line in the morning peak surged by 21 percentage points to 134 per cent between September 2014 and September 2015. The government says it has "made no decision about a western metro." Photo: Supplied Passengers begin to suffer from overcrowding when trains have loads of 135 per cent, which is the benchmark used by transport officials. Mr Constance's predecessor, Gladys Berejiklian, promised 24 trains an hour in each direction by 2019 on the north shore, which is an extension of the western line north of Sydney Harbour. However, there is little chance of that target being reached. The western line is expected to be at full capacity within 15 years. Photo: Ben Rushton The government will release its long-term transport master plan next year, which is likely to raise the possibility of a new metro line in the city's west. A private consortium that includes former NSW treasurer Michael Costa has been working on its own plans for a $10 billion-plus metro line between central Sydney and Parramatta, to be partly funded by property deals. A joint state and federal discussion paper into western Sydney's rail needs is also expected to be released within the next few weeks. It will canvass a wide range of rail options including the possibility of a link to the proposed Western Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek, which is slated to open in 2025. While not wanting to pre-empt the paper, Mr Constance said: "I have always felt that connectivity from cities out west to the airport is probably the number-one priority in terms of the future success of the airport." Construction of the first stage of a $20 billion-plus metro line linking Sydney's northwest and Chatswood is well under way and due to open in 2019. It will be followed by an extension of the line under the harbour to the CBD, Sydenham and Bankstown, which is scheduled to have driverless trains operating on it by 2024.
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== The New Adventures of Bruno Brazil ==
The French Wikipedia entry mentionned a return of Bruno Brazil with a new team of authors from what I saw on these French articles. --
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U.S. March, first-quarter auto sales drop in weak start to 2019 (Reuters) - Major automakers on Tuesday reported weak U.S. sales for March and the first quarter, citing a rough start to the year, but said a robust economy and strong labor market should encourage consumers to buy more vehicles as 2019 rolls on. FILE PHOTO: Vehicles for sale are seen at Serramonte Ford in Colma, California, U.S., October 3, 2017. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo Passenger-car sales suffered throughout the first quarter versus the same period in 2018 as Americans continued to abandon them in favor of larger, more comfortable, and for automakers, far more profitable pickup trucks and SUVs. The battle for market share in the particularly lucrative large-pickup truck market intensified in the quarter, as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV'S (FCA) Ram brand outsold No. 1 U.S. automaker General Motors Co's Chevrolet-brand trucks. The two automakers have both launched redesigned pickup trucks. For decades Ford Motor Co has had the single best-selling truck brand in its F-Series trucks, with the Chevy brand a solid No. 2, and Ram a distant third. In the fourth quarter the Chevy and Ram brands were tied for second place behind Ford. GM said versions of its new Silverado pickup trucks that are already on the market rose 20 percent in the first quarter versus sales of the old model in 2018. GM said it is still ramping up production of remaining variants of the truck. Overall, U.S. new-vehicle sales are expected to decline in 2019 after a long bull run since the end of the Great Recession, led by falling passenger car sales. Competition in the high-margin SUV market is intensifying. Ford on Tuesday unveiled details of the latest version of its Escape SUV, heavily emphasizing comfort features including a movable rear seat to provide more leg room for passengers, plus consumer-friendly features such as an 8-inch (20.3 cm) touchscreen and Wi-Fi connection for up to 10 devices within 50 feet (15.2m) of the vehicle. GM's first-quarter sales fell 7 percent, with declines across all brands. Sales of Silverado pickup trucks fell nearly 16 percent and the high-margin Chevy Suburban large SUV dropped 25 percent. GM and Ford do not report monthly sales. Ford is scheduled to release its first-quarter sales on Thursday. FCA reported a 7 percent fall in U.S. sales in March and a 3 percent drop for the first quarter. All of FCA's brands dropped in March, except for Ram, which saw a 15 percent increase in pickup truck sales. "The industry had a tough first quarter, but with spring finally starting to show its face and continued strong economic indicators... we are confident that new vehicle sales demand will strengthen going forward," FCA's U.S. head of sales, Reid Bigland, said in a statement. Toyota Motor Corp reported a 3.5 percent fall in U.S. sales in March and 5 percent for the first quarter, hurt by declining demand for its Corolla sedans and Camry vehicles. "While some of our competitors are abandoning sedans, we remain optimistic about the future of the segment," Toyota said in a statement. Slideshow (3 Images) Nissan Motor Co Ltd posted a 5.3 percent drop in sales in March, and its first-quarter sales were down 11.6 percent. Honda Motor Co Ltd and Hyundai Motor Co bucked the trend. Honda's U.S. sales rose 4.3 percent in March and 2 percent in the quarter, while Hyundai's were up 1.7 percent and 2.1 percent, respectively. Industry consultants J.D. Power and LMC Automotive have predicted a 2.1 percent drop in U.S. auto sales in March, partly due to bad weather, mixed economic data and lower tax refunds. Reporting by Nick Carey in Detroit and Sanjana Shivdas in Bengaluru; additional reporting by Ben Klayman; editing by Shailesh Kuber, Susan Thomas and Leslie Adler
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Trudeau: Brexit trade deal between Canada and UK will be easy Britain will be able to negotiate a bigger trade deal with Canada after Brexit, Justin Trudeau has said. The Canadian Prime Minister said it would be 'fairly easy' to thrash out a new agreement after the UK quits the EU. His comments are a boost for the Government which has said that Brexit will provide the UK with new opportunities to get bigger and better trade deals globally. Mr Trudeau Britain's departure will allow Canada to negotiate a larger and'more impactful' trade deal with the UK than its current one with the EU. He said: 'Trade deals are always challenging but it should be fairly easy for all of us to get to an improved approach on trade between Canada and the UK.' Canada currently has a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta) with the EU which took seven years to agree. In an interview with The Times, Mr Trudeau said that agreement 'is obviously a deal that was designed for the entire European Union'. 'There will be things in Ceta that are no longer as necessary between Canada and the UK and there'd be other areas where we would be interested in going further.' He added: 'The rolled-over or specific Ceta arrangement between Canada and the UK is just the floor, or the first step.' 'After that, we very much look forward to negotiating an even better or larger or more impactful deal to encourage the deepening of trade ties between Canada and the UK.' His comments come ahead of a meeting of the head of the Commonwealth nations next week. But in gloomier news for Theresa May, India has cast doubt over how easy it will be to strike a post Brexit trade deal. India's deputy high commissioner said that reaching any trade agreement would be 'a very tedious process'. Dinesh Patnaik said: 'There are a million small things to decide. It will take a very long time to do.'
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Walter Morley Aseltine, (September 3, 1886 in Napanee, Ontario – November 14, 1971) was a Canadian parliamentarian. A farmer and lawyer by training, Aseltine ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons of Canada as the Conservative candidate for Rosetown, Saskatchewan in the 1926 election. In 1933, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada by R.B. Bennett. He became Government Leader in the Senate in 1958 under John George Diefenbaker. He served in that position until 1962. Aseltine resigned from the Senate in March 1971 at the age of 84 for health reasons. He died eight months later. The elementary school in Rosetown, Saskatchewan is named "Walter Aseltine School." == External links ==
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The chef Vivek Singh arrived in Britain in 2000 from Jaipur, where he had been cooking at the five-star Oberoi Rajvilas hotel. When Singh, who grew up in West Bengal, ate in a curry house in Canary Wharf, he found that he didn't recognise any of the sauces. Singh was puzzled by the grid formula of the menu - pick any protein in any sauce - and the curious fantasy that a small kitchen serving just 60 or 70 covers could pretend to offer a hundred or more dishes. In a hugely successful departure from the traditional low-price British curry, Singh has been at the forefront of a new, high-end version of Indian food in Britain. At Singh's Cinnamon Club in Westminster, which is a favourite of senior politicians, a main course of chargrilled halibut with bay leaves might cost £25. When Singh first moved to Britain, he said, there were only five Indian restaurants here that he considered to be any good. Now, Singh claims, there are as many as 200 excellent examples, in which number he includes not just pricey establishments such as his own, but the more affordable London chain of Dishoom, modelled on the Irani cafes of Mumbai. In Vivek Singh's view, the original curry houses were based on a faulty understanding both of cuisine and of business. "You employ very few people. You don't pay them very well. You are not willing to share your knowledge or techniques." Isn't it sad, I ask, that these old family-run businesses are now struggling? "Not for me!" replied Singh. "The British curry house is an institution that has to be revered. But it failed to adapt." Vivek Singh at his restaurant, The Cinnamon Club, in Westminster Photograph: PR Company Handout Politicians have not exactly ignored the cries of crisis from curry house owners, but nor have they exactly helped. In 2012, David Cameron's government unveiled a highly touted scheme to train unemployed British youth to cook the chicken tikka masalas that the nation loves so much. Five "curry colleges" were to be set up in Birmingham, Manchester, London and Leeds, funded by £1.75m in public money, to mitigate the harsh effects of the coalition's immigration policy on curry kitchens. The idea was to offer six weeks of training followed by a two-year apprenticeship on the job in which British chefs with no previous background in Indian food would learn how to cook everything from lamb kebabs to chapatis. One of the curry college lecturers, Dipna Anand, admitted to the BBC that it would be a challenge to teach people with no knowledge of south Asian cuisine the techniques and spicing that the south Asian cooks who set up Britain's curry houses understood automatically. The real challenge turned out to be persuading the unemployed British people to apply. Out of 70 possible places, the curry colleges attracted just 25 students, of whom nine dropped out. The whole scheme folded within a year of being set up. In hindsight, the curry college plan looks like an unusual fiasco, but the thinking behind it was in keeping with a wider mindset that saw curry as something so utterly British, it no longer required "foreign" input. Once it had been decided that curry was the quintessence of Britishness - and not even authentically Indian - it became very easy to argue that south Asian people were not needed to make it. How difficult could it be to tandoori a chicken, when thousands of British people "made" their own curries every day from cook-in sauces? In 2015, George Osborne, standing in for Cameron during PMQs, replied to a question about curry houses closing under the pressure of immigration restrictions by saying: "We all enjoy a great British curry but we want the curry chefs to be trained in Britain." It called to mind an old bit from the early 80s comedy sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News, in which Rowan Atkinson plays a Tory politician speaking at his party conference: "I like curry, I do [pause]. But now that we've got the recipe, is there really any need for them to stay?" Five years on from the curry college debacle, the BCA claims that there are now around 15,000 unfilled vacancies for curry chefs. Over the past few years, some of these jobs have been done by EU workers, from Italy and Eastern Europe, but after Brexit, there is no guarantee that this source of labour will continue. Meanwhile, most third-generation British Asian people have chosen not to follow their parents and grandparents into the curry business - and who could blame them, after witnessing their parents endure dwindling profits, long and anti-social hours, rude customers and racial abuse.
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The decision to pursue a criminal case against her represents a major escalation by U.S. prosecutors. When the Justice Department pursued the Chinese technology firm ZTE on charges that it had violated sanctions on Iran, it did so by prosecuting the company itself. The result was a major financial penalty against ZTE. The company was banned from using American components as a result and nearly shut its doors before U.S. President Donald Trump personally intervened at the request of Xi to keep it afloat. In the case of Huawei, the decision to arrest a top executive "suggests they have unusually strong evidence tying her personally to the case," according to Julian Ku, a law professor at Hofstra University who studies China. How does China see this move? Chinese officials have reacted furiously to Meng's arrest and have called for her release. China's embassy in Ottawa said it would "take all measures to resolutely protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens." Ku said China is likely to believe the case is politically motivated. "The Chinese government is not going to see this as a legal case," he said. "They're going to see this as Trump abusing poor Chinese executives." The prosecution could hamper talks on a broader trade agreement between the two countries. Trump and Xi agreed at the G-20 summit in Argentina earlier this month to put additional tariffs on hold for 90 days while negotiators try to strike a deal. In an unrelated case, theWall Street Journal reported on Friday that American prosecutors are set to unseal an indictment targeting a long-running Chinese hacking campaign against U.S. firms. What's China's likely response? One possibility is that Beijing would bring similar legal cases against Western executives working in China. The range of such potential cases is broad. Chinese law, for example, prohibits arms deals with Taiwan, so Chinese authorities could conceivably go after Western executives working with Taipei.
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Shakira is dragged into the Paradise Papers scandal Shakira has been dragged into the Paradise Papers row after it was revealed she transferred £30million in musical rights to an offshore firm in Malta. The Colombian-born singer is the latest celebrity revealed to use abroad tax havens after 1.34million papers were leaked to the German press this week. Malta Tournesol Limited, the star's company, is based on the Mediterranean island of Malta, known for its tax incentives. On the papers, Shakira is listed as a Bahamas resident, despite living Barcelona with her footballer boyfriend Gerard Pique. Her lawyer was keen to stress all activity was legal and in accordance with laws. Shakira's lawyer Ezequiel Camerini told Spanish website El Confidential: 'The Maltese company Tournesol Limited fulfils all legal requirements to operate as such. All of the corresponding information relative to this entity is public and transparent.' While admitting that Shakira lives in Barcelona, the lawyer justified her residence in a tax haven explaining that 'as an international artist she has resided at different locations throughout her professional career and, in every case, has fully met the laws of all the jurisdictions where she has resided.' The website reported the company's capital was just under £3million pounds but the associated share premium corresponding to the musical assets and trademarks had been valued at €31.6 million (£27.8 million). El Confidential was one of the nearly 100 media organisations involved in sifting through information obtained by German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung following a share with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and U2 frontman Bono have all been named in the Paradise Papers, which have thrust the spotlight back on the tax affairs of the rich and powerful 18 months after the Panama Papers. The disclosure of 13.4 million documents, published on Monday, dramatically revealed the ties of major companies and political figures to secretive overseas arrangements. It emerged today that the Duke of Westminster's estimated £9.35 billion estate, which has been passed on between the generations, has included holdings in Bermuda and Panama. The finances of James Sassoon, a Tory member of the House of Lords who is related to a famous war poet, have also come under scrutiny. Until around 1999, the Duke of Westminster's Grosvenor International Holdings Ltd had assets worth more than £600m with 42% of its shares held by screen companies in the tax havens. Two offshore companies, incorporated in 1964 and 1977 respectively, held shares in GIHL, the paper reported, before Grosvenor bought them both out for £40million in 2007. Questions were asked when it emerged Gerald Grosvenor, who died from a heart attack aged 64 in August last year, left a personal estate of £743.4 million, reduced to £616.4 million after debts and liabilities. The rest of his estimated £9billion estate appears to have been in family trusts which were passed on to his only son Hugh, 26, now the 7th Duke of Westminster. As with nearly all of those highlighted in the Paradise Papers, there is no suggestion that any rules were broken.
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Glassdoor reveal job applicants most bizarre interview questions Business brains, recruiters and top career experts from around the country have put together the most bizarre questions that have been asked in real interviews - and how to handle them if one is thrown your way. 1. How many traffic lights are there in London? 'This is essentially a brainteaser to test how you would think through tough questions,' said James Reed, author of Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again. 'Reassure yourself that no one is going to have the correct answer to the question. It is highly impossible unless you have a comprehensive knowledge of UK traffic lights. 'Take a breath to gather your thoughts and respond with: "I couldn't give you an exact number, obviously, but I could make a guess by trying to estimate the number of traffic lights in a square mile based on my personal experience and then taking a shot at the total size of London in square miles."" 2. How would you interject a fight between Batman and Superman? Lee Biggins, founder of CV-Library, said this super hero question may be asked in order to demonstrate how the candidate handles conflict. 'Try to keep it relevant to the job role - you're not being asked how you would handle a scuffle in the pub on a Friday night,' he said. 'Focus on the positive attributes of both parties and how you could encourage them to work well together.' 3. What can you make from this piece of paper? 'This is an opportunity for the interviewer to see how creative you are, whilst working under pressure,' said Penny de Valk. 'If you manage to make an origami swan, fantastic! If, like most, you don't have such skills - it's the chance to see what you can create on the spot. 'If you're applying for a role where one of your main responsibilities is writing, for example a journalist, then you could say that you could make a multitude of stories from that one piece of paper without the help of origami. 'It's better to do this than spend half an hour folding it into intricate shapes and feeling totally out of your comfort zone.' Invasive: One woman who was being interviewed for the role of human resources manager at a major supermarket was asked whether she had a boyfriend, and wanted children in the future (file photo) 4. If we shrunk you to the size of a pencil and put you in a blender, how would you try to get out? Careers writer Paul MacKenzie-Cummins said this question is designed to reveal whether a candidate is flustered by unexpected problems. 'Candidates should bear in mind that there is no right or wrong answer to this - it's all down to interpretation,' he said. 'However, candidates should try to answer the question as best as possible, as this reveals that they are willing to solve an issue they are unfamiliar with.' 5. What colour is your brain? 'Colours are commonly linked to describing a person's mood,' said James Reed. 'The interviewee is trying to gage how you work and whether your personality would fit in well with their working environment.' He added: 'There are some dependable colours that represent positive attributes, but always stay loyal to who you are. If you are a passionate person, for example red, then be honest by saying that, always making sure that whatever colour you pick is described with positive undertones throughout.' 6. What do you think about garden gnomes? 'Not all questions are serious; a question like this is most likely thrown out to see your sense of humour in an otherwise formal situation,' said a spokesperson from recruitment company Pareto. 'It is still prudent to air on the side of how it can be related to the role you have applied for, but try to take a not so serious approach to it. For example if you are applying for an engineering role, question whether the gnomes have the right tools to do the job in hand.' 7. Can you name the seven dwarfs? 'There is no clear answer as to why this would be asked but it is a good indicator of how good your memory is,' said James Reed. 'If you know the names of the seven dwarfs then great. However if you don't reply by saying: "Unfortunately I'm not sure of the full list of the seven dwarfs but I can definitely find this out and come back to you."' 8. What fruit would you be? The interviewer may be trying to understand how creative the candidate is with this seemingly strange question. Penny de Valk said: 'Would you choose a traditional trustworthy option, such as the humble apple? Or maybe show your travelling prowess by saying a durian fruit, as sampled during your travels of Borneo? It provides the interviewer with an insight into your levels of creativity.
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Belenois welwitschii is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests. The larvae feed on Maerua and Cadaba species. ==Subspecies==
Belenois welwitschii welwitschii (north-eastern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Malawi)
Belenois welwitschii shaba Berger, 1981 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Tanzania, Zambia)
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Video game loot boxes declared illegal under Belgium gambling laws Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Fifa 18 is one of the games which is apparently contravening the law Video game loot boxes are "in violation of gambling legislation," according to the Belgium Gaming Commission. Loot boxes give random rewards and can be acquired either through gameplay or by spending real cash. Those that can be bought for real money must now be removed from video games in Belgium. Companies like EA, who publish the popular Fifa series, could now be subject to criminal law. Failure to comply may lead to a fine of €800,000 (£697,000) and up to five years in prison for the publishers. Belgium's Minister of Justice, Koen Geens, was keen to focus on how children are confronted with loot boxes, calling the mix of gaming and gambling "dangerous for mental health." According to the statement (in Dutch), the punishments of a fine and prison sentence can be doubled "when minors are involved." The Belgian decision is in contrast to the UK and US, who have both ruled the loot boxes do not contradict their gambling regulations. The BBC has contacted EA Sports for comment, but a spokesperson for the company told gaming news website GamesIndustry it would "welcome the dialogue with minister Geens" and denied that any of its games could be considered gambling. "We strongly believe that our games are developed and implemented ethically and lawfully around the world, and take these responsibilities very seriously," he added. What are loot boxes? Players can unlock special characters, equipment and vehicles in some games using loot boxes, which can be bought using real money. As loot boxes are random, people could spend £10 and get something useful, or spend £100 and get nothing useful at all - similar to how slot machines work. They have become ubiquitous with many mainstream video games, and have appeared in titles including Call of Duty, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Rocket League. The Belgium Gaming Commission investigated four games: Fifa 18, Overwatch, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Star Wars Battlefront II. Only Battlefront II was found not to be in violation of the law - after developer EA temporarily halted micro-transactions completely following negative feedback. This criticism focused around a post by EA on community news site Reddit, which became the most downvoted in the site's history, when the company appeared to call micro-transactions a way to "provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes." Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Many see similarities between gambling machines and video game mechanics 'Predatory Practices' US politician Chris Lee condemned the use of loot boxes in video games in November 2017. He criticised the "predatory practices" of developers, specifically targeting Battlefront II by calling it a "Star Wars-themed online casino designed to lure kids into spending money." US authorities decided that games using loot crates did not constitute gambling because players do get some kind of reward when they acquire the boxes. While in the UK, the Gambling Commission took a similar stance and said the boxes did not come under its control because rewards were usable only in the game. But the Belgium Gaming Commission has disagreed, instead focusing on whether the loot boxes constitute a "game of chance" - the use of a game element which involves a bet that can by chance lead to profit or loss. It cited a series of issues with how loot boxes function, such as the use of virtual currency which can be purchased for real money, and the way that some loot boxes make players think they will gain an advantage despite their random contents. 'Taking advantage of kids' Mr Geens has said that he would meet members of the video game industry to discuss the next step. It is not clear what this will be, though the report specifically states that "the loot boxes must be removed" to come into line with gambling legislation. The move has been widely praised online, becoming the most upvoted topic on Reddit's news subreddit in April 2018 with one person calling it "brilliant" and praising it as a way to "avoid taking advantage of kids with fancy and shiny in-your-face computer graphics and images." Another said they "hoped more countries will take note," but some have suggested that video game publishers may simply stop selling their games in Belgium altogether. Some people have been more critical of the decision, suggesting that "Pokemon and other trading cards" would also be illegal under these rules. But others pointed out that the Belgium Gaming Commission's definition specifically requires there to be "a game element" in opening the crate, which differentiates loot boxes from trading cards. Meanwhile, one person who was in favour of the decision called it "fantastic" and suggested that "Belgium will have a sense of pride and accomplishment for making such a wise decision." By Tom Gerken, UGC & Social News
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Shahbazyan's diminutive frame as a 12-year-old made him an ideal sparring partner for Rousey during the climax of her unprecedented MMA reign, and he's been in the former champion's ear ever since. He even has a propensity for fast fights, just like Rousey. Shahbazyan, a graduate of the Los Angeles fight scene, sports nine first-round finishes, with five wins coming inside one minute. "We knew early on this kid has what it takes to be a great champion," Tarverdyan said. "He's mature and has dedication and heart, and he's only getting better day by day." The No. 11 ranked Tavares, a 12-year veteran who's 10 years Shahbazyan's senior, will look to be more than just another test for a fast-rising prospect still developing his skills, body and power. In his last fight over a year ago, Tavares dropped a decision to Adesanya. Adesanya is now the middleweight champion that Shahbazyan would need to beat in order to make history - that's if the Nigerian-New Zealander star still remains on top, and the fast-rising Shahbazyan ascents to meet him there for a chance at realizing his career-defining dream.
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Roxxxy, termed a "sex robot" is a full-size interactive sex doll. The robot is built by the New Jersey-based company TrueCompanion. Its engineer is Douglas Hines, founder and president of the company, who worked as an artificial intelligence engineer at the Bell Labs before he founded TrueCompanion. Development of Roxxxy is claimed to have cost between $500,000 and $1 million. Roxxxy made its public debut at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE) in Las Vegas on January 9, 2010. The gynoid stands 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds (170 cm and 54 kg). It has synthetic skin and an artificial intelligence engine programmed to learn the owner's likes and dislikes. An articulated skeleton allows Roxxxy to be positioned like a human being but the doll cannot move its limbs independently. A pump installed in the robot powers an internal liquid cooling system. The Roxxxy prototype is claimed to have been modeled after a college-aged Caucasian fine arts student. According to the website of the company, Roxxxy is not limited to sexual uses and "can carry on a discussion and expresses her love to you. She can talk to you, listen to you and feel your touch." Other features include touch sensors that give Roxxxy the ability to sense when it is being moved. The robot's vocabulary may be updated with the help of a laptop (connected to the back by cables) and the Internet. Customers can ask TrueCompanion to customize the Roxxxy according to personal preferences, such as hair color, eye color, skin color, breast size and other features. Roxxxy is priced at $7,000 to $9,000 plus a separate subscription fee. According to Douglas Hines, Roxxxy garnered about 4,000 pre-orders shortly after its AEE reveal in 2010. However, as reported by Jenny Kleeman in April 2017, no actual customers have ever surfaced with a Roxxxy doll, and the public has remained skeptical that any commercial Roxxxy dolls have ever been produced. ==References==
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Others, like Scalable Capital do not offer financial advice. It holds discretionary investment management permissions meaning the firm holds responsibility for the investment decision making and transactions. How does your robo-adviser invest? A deep dive into one Investment approaches also differ. Robos are new and so proven history of investment excellence is short, making it hard to compare performance today. What we have seen from very short time frames is that even the robots are programmed by humans - and if the humans make a bad call, the portfolio suffers. For example some robos made adjustments to offload US exposure before last year's election and then suffered when US markets unexpectedly rallied. This is still a man and machine combination. As an example, we dived into the one that you mentioned Scalable Capital, which uses something a bit different to the traditional investment committee approach - to explain what it does. Scalable Capital adopts what we call a 'Value at Risk' approach. This is geek speak but each portfolio is described with a percentage. You the investor know that their aim is to promise that you only run the risk of losing more than the specified percentage amount in one year out of every 20. For example, pick their 20 per cent portfolio illustrated above, and you should not expect to see losses of more than 20 per cent in more than one year out of every 20. It helps to put numbers on the risk we are taking in the hope of better returns. It is important to note that there are no guarantees when it comes to investments, so there is still a possibility for losses that exceeds the 20 per cent ceiling. Labelling portfolios with percentages arguably sounds much more complicated than the more typically appealing word descriptors such as "cautious" or "balanced." But many would argue it's a much more specific way of managing investors" expectations. This unique approach from Scalable Capital does attract a customer base which is typically more financially savvy than your average Joe. Around two-thirds of its clients have a background in economics, technology or engineering. At 20 percent of all clients, bankers are the largest customer group. Rather than be put off by this, I think it's reassuring - and remember, there's no maths test to check you fully grasp what is going on under the bonnet in order to become a client! Robo-advisers are new and so we have to assess longevity and how likely they are to succeed. With still limited information to go on. And some will inevitably fall by the wayside. Scalable Capital has raised decent amounts of funding from some institutional backers and has an established business in Germany too. Your money is actually held by their custodian bank, Winterflood Securities (part of the established Close Brothers Group) and some protection is offered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. It's important to check that any robo-adviser you consider has a solid, global custodian bank - if the robo goes belly up your money is held in a ring-fenced account by these custodian banks and you are protected. Scalable Capital is not an established brand with decades of experience and pots of cash in the vaulted coffers. But I rate the management team, what I've seen so far is good (if the techno speak doesn't make you short circuit) and I think in general that robo advisers are a great addition to the scene. I would just caution investors to keep an eye on both performance and levels of assets under management. The robos that will fade away will be those who cannot evidence competitive, ongoing performance and those who are not ramping up the growth curve as fast as competitors. Get help from Money Pit Stop To be featured, email This is Money at [email protected] with as much of the following details as you wish to disclose. The information you send us will be passed on to the financial expert who will look over your portfolio for free. It will not be shared with any third parties for promotional or commercial reasons. Copy and paste the following information into an email or download the form here About you Name Age City or County you live in Occupation or former occupation if retired Phone number (not for publication) Your investment portfolio Investment goals: retirement income, university fees, housing deposit, holiday, second home Risk appetite: Low, medium or high - and a short explanation why Time horizon: one, three, five, 10 or 20 years Portfolio details: What you hold in the following categories: Shares Funds, investment trusts, or ETFs Savings Property (and any mortgages) Other eg premium bonds
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× Amelasorbus is a flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. A naturally occurring, it is the result of a cross between two distinct tree genera, Amelanchier and Sorbus, and shows phenotypic similarities to both parents. This type of intergeneric hybrid is quite rare, and is indicated by a multiplication symbol before the name. The name Amelasorbus is an example of a portmanteau word, a combination of the two parents' names. ==Species==
There is only one accepted species, ×Amelasorbus jackii, (Jack's amelasorbus) the result of Amelanchier alnifolia×Sorbus scopulina. A specimen was discovered growing in Idaho, and described by Alfred Rehder of the Arnold Arboretum in 1925. Individuals have also been discovered in Oregon. Due to their hybrid nature, they tend to be quite variable, and this had (mis)led authors to describe other species; ×Amelasorbus raciborskiana and ×Amelasorbus hoseri, which may or may not be synonyms. ==References==
Maleae
Plant nothogenera
Flora of Idaho
Flora of Oregon
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But seemingly sarcastic, he responds: 'That's good to hear. I am glad you found you someone who could give you what you deserve sis. I am happy for you.' Long then states that at the time of the original video, he was actually in a relationship and when Jorge asks why he wouldn't tell her, he states: 'I don't have to, it's not your business for me to tell you everything.' At a point of no return, Jorge states that while she was in love with Long and wanted to be with him, 'that's all in the past now.' But clearly bothered by the trajectory of the conversation, Long adds: 'I hope I never see you again.' 'I wipe my hands of you,' finishes Jorge proceeding to wipe her hands but Long then does the same motion, almost mocking her. The second clip has gone viral, with many upset that the two would go on camera to air out their dirty laundry. Many also seem to be rallying behind Jorge again but dubbing Long as the new #Hurtbae. 'Kourtney gained followers. Fell in love again. Got a great career. Turned being #HurtBae into something bigger (?) Leonard...learned how to exfoliate,' stated one user. Another added: 'Leonard is the new #HurtBae...he so salty he's making up things on the spot to try to make her mad. He need to grow his hair back bc he don't deserve waves.' It was a sentiment shared by many, as Buzzfeed's Sylvia Obell said: 'Bruh the way he turns on her halfway thru the intervieeeeeewwwww. I told myself I was still too exhausted from the first #HurtBae video to watch the second and my dumba** still pressed play and now I'm annoyed all over again. He's truly a f***boy all star.' 'They need to cast this #hurtbae bruddah as the bad guy in Black Panther be 2. Full of evil,' said one user capitalizing on the blockbuster smash Black Panther. Sharing a gif of Will Smith, a different user added: 'So after all the #HurtBae Leonard is gonna say they were never together.' It is rather interesting that now, Long is claiming that the two never were in a relationship. They were seen pictured together as far back as 2015 and in the original video, he calls her his girlfriend around the 4.12 mark.. But it doesn't matter, reconciliation seems to be the last thing on their minds.
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Contactless pay-as-you-go ticketing will be extended to nearly 200 more train stations in south-east England under a Tory government. The manifesto also re-stated a series of other rail pledges including building Northern Powerhouse Rail between Leeds and Manchester. Social media is an increasingly important battle ground in elections - and home to many questionable claims pumped out by all sides. If social media sites won't investigate the truth of divisive advertising, we will. Please send any political Facebook advertising you receive to [email protected], and we will catalogue and investigate it. Read more here.
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The portrait of former President Andrew Jackson has also stared out from the face of the $20 since 1928. But it may not be for much longer after a campaign to remove the controversial former president, who was responsible for deaths of so many Native Americans, as well as their loss of life. Jackson first won fame as a military commander in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, when he led an American force that prevented a much larger British army from seizing the city and threatening the rest of the Louisiana Purchase. He was elected in 1828 as the right to vote was expanded to all white men, not just property owners, and he brought new voter groups into the fold. For the White House, comparisons with Jackson help place Trump inside the pantheon of US presidents and within the mainstream of American political history. Trump's critics have painted the polarizing mogul as an aberration and his views as antithetical to the American democratic tradition. But historians say Jackson's story is more subtle and comparisons with Trump may be misleading. A top Jackson biographer says the comparison of Trump and Jackson is 'not the cleanest analogy,' but the seventh president offers the 45th a convenient example of 'an unconventional presidency trying to accomplish big things.' Although he attempted 'cleansing the Augean stable' - while Trump talks of 'draining the swamp' in Washington - Jackson was no political outsider. Before entering the White House, Jackson rose through Tennessee politics, becoming a congressman and a senator before taking up a judgeship and becoming a general. There are fundamental differences in the paths they took to the presidency. Trump is a New York real estate mogul who came from wealth. Jackson was born into poverty and rose to become a wealthy lawyer and a national hero after the War of 1812. But Jackson's reputation has been somewhat tarnished in recent years, with criticism focused on his temperament and the forced removal of Native Americans from their land. The Treasury Department recently decided to replace Jackson's image on the $20 bill with civil rights hero Harriet Tubman. Trump acknowledged that his political kindred spirit was 'a flawed and imperfect man'. Until Trump won the White House, Jackson was also the last president to serve without bringing a family pet to the presidential mansion. The president's Nashville rally comes on the heels of a Congressional Budget Office report that says the GOP's health care plan would leave 14million people without coverage next year and 24 million uninsured by 2026. The plan is disliked by both far-right conservatives, who want a large-scale repeal as they believe they were promised, and by Democrats, who oppose the loss of coverage for so many.
President Andrew Jackson signed The Indian Removal Act on May 28, 1830, which forced tens of thousands of Native Americans to abandon the lands they had occupied for generations, to relocate to unsettled lands west of the Mississippi. Few tribes went peacefully and when many resisted, Jackson's government responded in brutal fashion. Tribes were forcibly moved west by the United States government, often marching more than 1,000 miles, some in stockades. Between 1836 and 1839, more than ten thousand Native Americans were said to have died on the forced march, which became known as the 'Trail of Tears.' Andrew Jackson had been a strong proponent of what he called 'Indian removal' since his time as an Army general. He spent years leading brutal campaigns against the Creeks in Georgia and Alabama and the Seminoles in Florida. They military actions resulted in thousands of acres of Native American land being handed to white farmers. When Jackson became president he continued his campaign and in 1830, he signed the Indian Removal Act. The law stated the government had to negotiate removal treaties fairly, voluntarily and peacefully. They were not allowed to force Native Americans to give up their land. President Jackson gave little heed to the law, and by the end of the decade, around 125,000 Native Americans had been relocated from their cotton-rich lands in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida, to west of the Mississippi - which later became the state of Oklahoma. The Choctaw became the first tribe to be forcibly moved from its land in the winter of 1831. Under threat of invasion by the U.S. Army, the tribe made the long journey on foot - some bound in chains - with no food, supplies or other help from the government. Around 4,000 people died on the way, earning it the long deadly march the name, the Trail of Tears. In 1836, another tribe, the Creeks, began a deadly march for Oaklahoma - 3,500 of the 15,000 who set out died. Representatives from the Cherokee tribe had negotiated the Treaty of New Echota, which traded their land east of the Mississippi for $5 million, with relocation assistance and compensation for lost property.
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3830 N Abingdon St 2 pm to 4 pm $849,900 4116 40th St N 2 pm to 4 pm $2,299,000 3675 Military Rd 1 pm to 3 pm $950,000 3536 Utah St 1 pm to 3 pm $1,874,999 2501 Lincoln St N 1 pm to 3 pm $2,890,000 3663 N Monroe St N Noon to 2 pm $2,499,000 2541 Military Rd 2 pm to 4 pm $1,299,000 4124 N Richmond St N 2 pm to 4 pm $2,149,500 4664 25th St N 2 pm to 4 pm $2,485,000 1840 Dinwiddie St N 1 pm to 3 pm $699,000
1200 Nash St N #828 1 pm to 4 pm $855,000
1021 Arlington Blvd #318 1 pm to 3 pm $180,000 1700 Clarendon Blvd #121 2 pm to 4 pm $1,445,000 1881 Nash St N #1102 1 pm to 4 pm $1,595,000
6827 28th St N 2 pm to 4 pm $1,695,000 200 E Oak St 1 pm to 4 pm $999,990 103 W Linden St E 1 pm to 4 pm $1,275,000 609 E Alexandria Ave E 1 pm to 4 pm $879,900 2211 Main Line Blvd #101 1 pm to 4 pm $674,900 725 Annie Rose Ave 2 pm to 4 pm $879,000
608 Woodland Ter 2 pm to 4 pm $1,149,000 3310 Wyndham Cir #209 1 pm to 4 pm $215,000 718 Timber Branch Pkwy W 2 pm to 4 pm $1,695,000 1309 Roosevelt St 2 pm to 4 pm $1,035,000 2409 Taylor Ave 2 pm to 4 pm $1,275,000 1311 Kenwood Ave 1 pm to 4 pm $765,000
1401 N Van Dorn St #a 1 pm to 3 pm $320,000 3831 Dominion Mill Dr 2 pm to 4 pm $599,000 5232 Tancreti Lane 1 pm to 4 pm $659,500 5275 Colonel Johnson Lane 1 pm to 3 pm $685,000 303 Lannon Ct 1 pm to 3 pm $665,000
3009 Russell Rd 2 pm to 4 pm $949,000 303 Mount Pl 1 pm to 4 pm $879,000
4669 Lawton Way #103 1 pm to 4 pm $409,000
301 N Beauregard St #110 1 pm to 3 pm $239,900
101 N West St 1 pm to 4 pm $499,000 402 John Carlyle St 2 pm to 4 pm $989,000 214 N Lee St S 2 pm to 4 pm $1,799,000 722 Gibbon St 1 pm to 3 pm $889,000 718 Washington St #103 1 pm to 4 pm $265,000 1205 Portner Rd 1 pm to 3 pm $789,000 411 N Lee St N 2 pm to 4 pm $1,050,000 523 Duke St 1 pm to 4 pm $1,489,000 1263 Dartmouth Ct 2 pm to 4 pm $1,199,000 420 Pendleton St 2 pm to 4 pm $929,900 309 Holland Lane #226 2 pm to 4 pm $635,000 130 Roberts Lane #300 1 pm to 4 pm $339,000 118 Fayette St S 2 pm to 4 pm $1,445,000 1250 Washington St S #411 1 pm to 3 pm $1,098,000 530 Columbus St N 2 pm to 4 pm $1,395,000 1117 Pitt St N #3b 2 pm to 4 pm $325,000 1732 Abingdon Dr #202 2 pm to 4 pm $217,000 403 Princess St 1 pm to 4 pm $975,000 501 Slaters Lane #1419 1 pm to 3 pm $630,000 317 S Lee St 2 pm to 4 pm $1,195,000
5904 Mount Eagle Dr #1210 1 pm to 4 pm $388,500 5901 Mount Eagle Dr #1002 1 pm to 4 pm $249,900 5901 Mount Eagle Dr #215 2 pm to 4 pm $279,000 5904 Mount Eagle Dr #601 2 pm to 4 pm $375,000
6614 Beddoo St 2 pm to 4 pm $565,000 3113 Groveton St 2 pm to 4 pm $529,900
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Back at the "Ask me about roses" sign, volunteer rosarian Bill Morgan fields questions from under the magnolia. A dozen clipped rose blossoms line a tray on a table in front of him. Their labels hint at their characteristics, such as the pale pink Lady Emma Hamilton - an 18th-century English performer and lover to naval hero Lord Nelson whose coy portrait hangs in the Huntington's European gallery. The anniversary flower, whose commercial name is Life of the Party, is not in Mr. Morgan's lineup on this day, but he regularly gets queries about it. Potted plants of the Huntington's 100th sold out in record time at this spring's plant sale. One woman wants to know whether the centennial rose would do well on the coast, where "June gloom" creates cool temperatures and overcast skies. The leaves of her rose plants get all moldy. Mr. Morgan assures her this is a "vigorous" plant that does well in a lot of climates. I pipe up with a question. Hardly a rose expert - or even a gardener - I ask whether the 100th bushes are between blooms, because buds seriously outnumber blossoms. Meanwhile, other varieties are going gangbusters, including one gorgeous peachy-pink called Jump for Joy. As it turns out, this celebrated newcomer blooms continually, but it drops its petals more quickly than others. The trade-off is the fragrance, explains the Huntington's curator. That's why long-lasting roses shipped to the United States from Ecuador for Valentine's Day look fantastic but have no scent. Get the Monitor Stories you care about delivered to your inbox. Also, the celebrity bushes by the sundial are still young, he points out, unlike the more robust surrounding varieties, which are older and more established. "No rose is perfect," says Mr. Carruth. But once the Huntington's 100th gets going, "you'll be able to walk in that circle and not put your nose to it to smell it."
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Family of critically ill Windrush victim call for fast-track compensation Friends and family of a critically ill man who has lived in Britain since arriving in 1960 aged three have called on the government to apologise for his treatment and fast-track compensation after he spent weeks in intensive care fighting a Home Office decision to refuse him citizenship. Hubert Howard, 62, was finally granted British citizenship a fortnight ago, after his lawyer highlighted the seriousness of his illness. His family say the stress caused by his protracted battle with the Home Office has contributed to his ill health. He remains seriously ill in hospital, and they say the U-turn on his citizenship has come too late. His lawyer, Connie Sozi, who had to gather material for legal action during interviews with Howard in hospital, said she was dismayed by the "overall injustice" of the case and the Home Office's systemic failure to help him resolve his documentation issues which led to him being sacked from his job in 2012, prevented him from visiting his dying mother in Jamaica, and pushed him thousands of pounds into debt. After the government apologised for the Windrush mistakes last year, Howard had hoped to travel to Jamaica, but the ongoing dispute about his right to citizenship made it impossible. "My client's life has disintegrated as a result of the uncertainty over his immigration status," Sozi said. "Had he received confirmation of his status earlier, he would have gone to see his mother, not lost his job and not faced such a traumatising last few years." His daughter, Maresha Howard, said the Home Office's failure to acknowledge that her father was in the UK legally had put him under enormous pressure. "He has gone into debt. He wasn't able to get a bank account. He has tried hard to sort it out, but it has made him sick. As a family we have seen him very ill and struggling." She said her father had felt distressed to have been granted citizenship as an apparent concession to his ill-health. He has leukaemia and a chest infection. "To get it out of pity after being ill in intensive care, it feels humiliating. He feels stripped of his dignity. He needs an apology and compensation," she said. Tyrone McGibbon, a lifelong friend who met Howard when they were schoolchildren, said: "This has been killing him. It has had a massive effect on his physical state and the stress of constantly fighting the Home Office just to prove his status has ruined him. It has really hurt me as a friend to see the way he has been treated." He added: "Theresa May said there would be compensation but I haven't seen anyone get anything. How many more people have to die before they do something about this? He wanted to go to Jamaica, but I'm not sure now that he will have a chance to travel." Last month Jashwa Moses, a reggae musician who arrived in Britain in the 1960s aged 12, died shortly after securing citizenship, too late to travel back to Jamaica. Sarah O'Connor and the former Middlesex bowler Richard Stewart both died before receiving compensation or personal apologies from the government. Both their families said they had become stressed and depressed by the process of attempting to prove how the Home Office's mistakes had caused them decades of difficulties. There is concern at the slowness of the compensation scheme which was launched in March. Howard, who has not left the country since 1960, first realised he had problems with his documents in 2005 when his employers, Peabody, asked for evidence that he was in the UK legally. He tried to get a passport the following year so he could visit his mother in Jamaica; the Home Office told him they had no record of him and consequently he was unable to travel. He tried repeatedly to contact the Home Office to arrange a passport. In 2012 he was sacked by Peabody because he was still unable to prove he was in the UK legally. He thinks he made more than 50 phone calls to the Home Office, fruitlessly attempting to resolve this issue over 13 years. "I don't see how an organisation calling itself the Home Office can treat people like this. I don't understand how the government can treat people like this," Howard told the Guardian last year. "It has completely ruined my life." He was earning £23,500 a year when he lost his job, and had hoped that a compensation payment would reflect that he was wrongly denied the chance to work for six years.
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Eretmocera dioctis is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1897. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia. The wingspan is 9–11 mm. The forewings are fuscous, with a purplish lustre and a few whitish-ochreous scales, and sometimes with three indistinct whitish-ochreous spots, the first on the dorsum before the middle, second on the tornus and third (seldom developed) on the costa at four-fifths. The hindwings are dark grey. The larvae feed on Chloris gayana and Enteropogon acicularis. ==References==
dioctis
Moths described in 1897
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The Trofeo Luigi Berlusconi (Luigi Berlusconi Trophy) was an annual friendly football match. It was organized by Italian club Milan, and usually was played in August at the San Siro, Milan's home stadium. It was last played in 2015. The competition was founded by Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi in memory of his father Luigi, and was originally intended to be contested by the Rossoneri and the UEFA Champions League winners; however, in the first edition — which took place on 23 August 1991 — they faced Juventus instead of Red Star Belgrade: the match was won by Juventus 2–1. Over the next three years, Milan played against Internazionale, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich respectively, winning all three times. Between 1995 and 2012 the "Berlusconi" was contested exclusively between Milan and Juventus. In the 19 times Milan and Juventus have played each other, Juventus holds a 10–9 edge. Due to scheduling conflicts no game was played in 2013. The game returned in 2014 - the 23rd edition; it was scheduled in November, but was not played against Juventus, but and Argentinian team, San Lorenzo: Milan won the game 2–0 to earn its 13th trophy. The 24th and final edition to-date was played between Milan and Internazionale in 2015, won by Inter 1–0. ==Final==
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!width=8%|Result
!width=15%|Loser
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|1
|23 August 1991
|Juventus18’ e 30’ Casiraghi
|2 – 1
|Milan23’ Maldini
|- align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|2
|22 August 1992
|Milan4’ Papin
|1 – 0
|Internazionale
|- align=center
|3
|17 August 1993
|Milan20’ Simone, 23’ Papin, 39’ Boban
|3 – 2
|Real Madrid42’ Míchel, 55’ Zamorano (Penalty)
|- align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|4
|17 August 1994
|Milan67’ Gullit
|1 – 0
|Bayern Munich
|- align=center
|5
|18 August 1995
|Juventus
|0 – 0 E.T. (6–5) Penalties
|Milan
|- align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|6
|21 August 1996
|Milan83’ Eranio
|1 – 0
|Juventus
|- align=center
|7
|19 August 1997
|Milan54’ Cruz, 60’ Kluivert, 62’ Weah
|3 – 1
|Juventus31’ Conte
|- align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|8
|25 August 1998
|Juventus66’ e 85’ Inzaghi
|2 – 1
|Milan31’ Bierhoff
|- align=center
|9
|17 August 1999
|Juventus26’ Del Piero
|1 – 0
|Milan
|- align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|10
|27 August 2000
|Juventus24’ Trezeguet, 65’ Inzaghi
|2 – 2 E.T. (7–6) Penalties
|Milan2’ José Mari, 35’ Shevchenko (Penalty)
|- align=center
|11
|18 August 2001
|Juventus5’ Del Piero
|1 – 1 E.T. (4–3) Penalties
|Milan85’ Serginho (Penalty)
|- align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|12
|18 August 2002
|Milan
|0 – 0 E.T.
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But there's a wrinkle. In 2009, the Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force issued a report in which it estimated that there were 3,000 MS-13 gang members in the NoVa region, an area with roughly 2.5 million people. Fairfax County is obviously the largest part of the region - about half the population - and the report said MS-13 was the largest gang in the county. Jay Lanham, a retired assistant chief of the Prince William County police and executive director of the task force, told WTOP in June that the number of MS-13 members was now "over 5,000 easy." But when we reached Lanham, he backed away from the number. "They are so transient," Lanham said. "It's really just an estimate." The task force maintains a database funded by the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program, but he acknowledged it's difficult to know if members listed in the database have left the area or are no longer in the gang. Still, Lanham thought a figure of 2,000 MS-13 gang members for Fairfax was "probably pretty accurate" given the size of the county. Gillespie, of course, often says "more than 2,000." We should note that Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force has had its funding cut dramatically by Congress, from $3 million in 2012 to $325,000 currently. Lawmakers have cited its estimates - higher than police estimates - as a reason to bolster funding. "Most of the estimates from the police department are going to be on the low side," Lanham said. Still, it's strange that DOJ estimates would suggest there has been no gain in MS-13 membership across the United States over 10 years, while the Northern Virginia task force would claim membership in the region would nearly double in eight years. The Pinocchio Test Despite Gillespie's certitude, the plain fact is that no one knows how many MS-13 gang members are in Fairfax County. Gillespie is citing the highest possible estimate, in an effort to make the situation seem as bad as possible, particularly for people in vote-rich Fairfax County. In fact, under Gillespie's math, Fairfax County by itself accounted for more than one-fifth of all of the MS-13 members in the United States, given the Justice Department figure of 10,000 MS-13 members nationwide. ICE, meanwhile, indicates the entire D. C. region represents just one-tenth of the MS-13 membership. That would suggest Fairfax County has less than 1/20th of the MS-13 population. Both Fairfax County police and ICE estimates for the region are much lower than the number Gillespie is touting on the campaign trail - a fact that he should acknowledge. We wavered between two and three Pinocchios, given how Gillespie hypes this figure. But we ultimately settled on two because Lanham offered some backing for Gillespie's statement, despite the much lower estimates by other official sources. Two Pinocchios (About our rating scale) Send us facts to check by filling out this form Keep tabs on Trump's promises with our Trump Promise Tracker Sign up for The Fact Checker weekly newsletter Do you rate this claim as true or false? More Pinocchios for false, fewer based on your opinion of the statement's truthfulness. (The check mark means you think the statement is true, not that you agree with the rating.) Pardon the interruption! We need to verify that you are an actual person. View Results This is a non-scientific user poll. Results are not statistically valid and cannot be assumed to reflect the views of Washington Post users as a group or the general population. Share the Facts Washington Post Rating: Two Pinocchios "We know that there are more than 2,000 MS-13 gang members in Fairfax County alone." Ed Gillespie Republican candidate for governor of Virginia
in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial board Wednesday, October 18, 2017
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Corbyn's chances of winning election "close to zero" claims ex-Lib Dem leader Vince Cable Sir Vince Cable, who led the Liberal Democrats from 2017 to 2019, gave his thoughts on the general election this week to CNBC. The former Business Secretary had a very gloomy prediction for Jeremy Corbyn as he claimed voters would choose Boris Johnson as the "lesser of two evils." The ex-MP also defended his successor Jo Swinson, although he admitted the Lib Dems winning the election was "certainly not going to happen." Sir Vince said: "I think the most likely outcome is that there is an overall Conservative majority. "The chances of Corbyn winning are close to zero. "There is a significant possibility that we may finish up with no overall majority, which could then open the way to a referendum on the Brexit issue." A YouGov poll showed that 23 percent of those who voted Lib Dem at the last election are now undecided. READ MORE: Lib Dems accused of misleading voters over Rees-Mogg's constituency It has been suggested the revoke Article 50 policy the opposition party initially campaigned on weakened Mr Cable had vocally criticised his former party's Brexit policy, branding it an "unhelpful distraction." He told CNBC: "What we're really campaigning for is to be a substantial block of MPs so that we're in a position to go back to the public in a People's Vote. "The revocation stuff was only a hypothetical possibility if we won the election, outright, which was not going to happen, and certainly isn't going to happen now." In the summer, the Lib Dems were polling only two percent behind the Conservatives at 23 percent compared to 25. The opposition party also had very successfully European Parliament elections during the summer. However, the polls seem dire now for the party. Sir Vince defended his party: "The theoretical potential is there, but I think the reality is that we have a voting system that encourages polarisation into the two traditional parties. "We can make progress through tactical voting, and we will, I think, depending on what happens on Thursday. "But it is actually very difficult to make headway when you have an electorate that is so polarised, where you have a first-past-the-post system that prevents us capitalising on our still significant support."
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As sales of motorbikes soar among women over 60 whats behind the remarkable rise of the blue rise bikers Christine Langton, 64, from London, took up the hobby when she turned 60 Since 2011 she's travelled thousands of miles and owned seven bikes Joy Smith, 68, from London, rides four times a week with her husband She has spent over £20,000 on her hobby and owns a Harley Sportster By India Sturgis for the Daily Mail
Since turning 60, Christine Langton has been taken aback by the new group she's fallen in with. There's solid and fiery Ruby, quick little Rosie and flashy but reliable Annie. Now, Christine can barely believe she managed for so long without them all. But Ruby, Rosie and Annie aren't kindred 60-something souls brought together by the WI or shared a love of bridge, they are - in order of appearance - a £3,500 Moto Guzzi Breva, a £2,750 Kawasaki ER6 and a £8,000 Triumph Thruxton 900. In other words: motorbikes - and fast ones at that. Christine, 64, a slim, blonde Harley Street practice manager, mother-of-three and grandmother-of-eight from London started motorcycling after her 60th birthday and hasn't looked back. Joy Smith (left) and Christine Langton (right) both took up riding motorbikes later in life The only person in her family to take up the sport, she passed her motorcycle test first time in January 2011, has chalked up thousands of miles and ripped through seven (rather expensive) bikes, which she affectionately names after family members or their colour. "I remember waiting to board a ferry in Southampton in July last summer," says Christine. "I spotted a petite elderly woman on a huge Harley Davidson bike in front of mine with a sticker across the back that said: "I'm riding my grandchildren's inheritance." "I looked at my bike and thought, yes, that's about right." Christine is part of a growing breed of sensible 50 and 60-somethings who are shunning free bus passes in favour of two wheels and a lot of leather. Last year, almost 3,000 over-50s passed motorcycling tests - 8 per cent of all new passes - while a report for Saga this month has found over-50s are behind nearly 30 per cent of all spending on bikes, up 17 per cent from seven years ago. It's also little coincidence that Saga, looking to capitalise on this new interest, has just bought motorbike insurers Bennetts, 43 per cent of whose clients are north of 50. More surprising, perhaps, is that it's women fuelling this spike, not men. Christine Langton (pictured) started motorcycling after her 60th birthday four years ago and has ridden thousands of miles since then Karen Cole, a director at the Motorcycle Industry Association, says: "Of all over-50s gaining a licence in 2013, nearly half were women. This represents a steep rise for women, up from 268 in 2012 to 2,588 in 2013." Then there are all the groups. Women-only bike gangs are two a penny - just ask the Curvy Riders, a 300-strong gang run "by lady bikers, for lady bikers"; Hells Belles (whose membership is strictly invitation-only); or Lippy Ladies, a Yorkshire group "for ladies with attitude" who document the best places to ride to for tea and cake. For Christine, learning to ride a motorcycle was a way to finally take some me-time. "I reached 60 and realised that my life was absorbed by family, and I was always doing things for them but never myself. My only regret is that I didn't start ten years earlier. I'd encourage all older women to have a go - it opens up a whole new world. "I'd secretly loved bikes for years, ever since I rode on the back of a friend's boyfriend's bike when I was 16. It was thrilling and something about it stuck. I never bought one but now I could." Her ex-husband, though encouraging, assumed it was a mad phase that would wear off and she didn't tell her children initially, for fear they would put her off. He helped her research and to buy a £175 second-hand bike from eBay, which she took to a nearby field for its first ride and spent most of the time falling off. "I knew I needed lessons but I wanted to have a go first and see how it felt. My family thought I was crazy but I wasn't scared. I was excited; I think the adrenaline took over. I'd made a decision that I wanted to bike and that was that."
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Nigeria: Obasanjo Denies Plane Crash Escape Reports By Dennis Erezi Former Nigeria president Olusegun Obasanjo Wednesday evening denied reports he was on board an Ethiopian plane that escaped a crash in Lagos. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Wednesday afternoon reported that Obasanjo was on board the Boeing 777-300 aircraft Ethiopian flight that encountered bad weather during landing at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. However, Ethiopian Airlines confirmed its Boeing 777-300 aircraft took off in Addis Ababa en route Lagos. Although the airlines said the weather during landing at the airport was bad, it denied the aircraft escape crash as reported. Obasanjo was widely reported to have been among the 393 passengers on the flight. But the former Nigeria president through his media aide Kehinde Akinyemi said he did not leave his home. NAN previously reported that Obasanjo, who did not attend President Muhammadu Buhari inauguration in Abuja, was returning from a stakeholders' dialogue on Continental Trade and Strengthening Implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) which ended on Tuesday in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia Airline general manager Nigeria, Firihiewot Mekonnen explained that the aircraft upon experiencing bad weather had to embark on a go - round the airport for better and smooth landing. "On a second attempt, the aircraft made safe and normal landing. This was according to safety standards. Pilots are encouraged to make similar go - round in such cases. However, some media incorrectly reported this standard safety precautionary go - round. " The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) also confirmed the incident "The flight, which tried to land at about 1157hours had earlier mis-approached due to bad weather and immediately went up to position properly for landing," it said in a statement. The aircraft landed safely at exactly 1213hours and parked at gate E63."
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I long as much as anyone for a politics of inclusion and justice. I also hunt, and enjoy the rich diversity of people I meet there. Is there any party of the left that will welcome my support and in turn support my freedom to hunt as part of a responsible and well-reasoned stewardship of the countryside? Philip Martin
Alderholt, Dorset It was predictable in 2010 that the Lib Dems would suffer disaster if they went into coalition with the Tories. Starting with Lloyd George's coalition of 1918-22, disaster has been the result every time Liberals have veered in that direction. The Lib Dems did have a better option in 2010. They could have said that they were prepared to join a three-party government to tackle the economic mess, but would not gang up with one of the bigger parties against the other. Yes, probably one or both of the bigger parties would have rejected the suggestion. The Tories would have formed a minority government, called another election at the time of their choosing, won the election and damaged the Lib Dems seriously. But it is most unlikely that the Lib Dems would have suffered anything like as heavily as they did last week. The Lib Dems did some good in the Coalition. But they also damaged their reputation disastrously by shared responsibility for Tory policies, by their shameful volte-face over tuition fees and by authorising an increase in that most illiberal tax, VAT. Lib Dems would do well both for themselves and for their country in thinking their way back to distinctively Liberal principles and policies. Roy Douglas
Wanock, East Sussex The Labour Party has now fought two elections with the wrong leader. Good men, but not the right men for the media show that election politics has now become. I am now in total despair that they are about to make it three in a row, as the suggested leadership contestants so far all seem to me to have had a charisma bypass, when it is charisma that is required. Its not going to be much of a job, that's true, with the next election also unwinnable when the Tories put the boundary changes into effect. And the Conservative Party have already got their charismatic leader in waiting: Boris Johnson! John Humphreys
Milton Keynes Your censure of the Tories" attitude towards human rights is admirable (editorial, 11 May) but perhaps does not go far enough. By limiting the provision of legal aid and making it virtually impossible for the poor to get legal representation, the last government revealed that it believes that rights reside in property and not the person. This takes us back to before 1776. And it logically follows that if this is their credo, then it is perfectly feasible for the neoliberal extremists now in Parliament to extend that limitation to the franchise in general. Michael Rosenthal
Banbury, Oxfordshire David Jackman suggests a new centre-left merger (letter, 12 May). He puts forward a name for the party: Democrats. That sounds too American for me. What would be wrong with the Radical Party? Ted Frith
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Congress Caves to Trump in Fight Over China's ZTE - Foreign Policy Lawmakers handed U.S. President Donald Trump a win this week, backing down on threats to reinstate harsh penalties on Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp. for having violated sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Members of the House and Senate announced Monday the decision to strip from the final version of the must-pass annual defense bill a provision that would have reimposed a seven-year ban on ZTE buying gear in the U.S. market - a move that would have effectively put the Chinese firm out of business. But after heavy lobbying from the White House, lawmakers took a softer stance, merely preventing the federal government from working with ZTE, China's Huawei Technologies Co., "or any entity controlled by the government of the People's Republic of China." In April, the Commerce Department slapped a hefty penalty on ZTE, which had evaded U.S. sanctions on Iran and North Korea. But at the time, Trump was trying to secure Chinese cooperation on North Korea and resolve trade tensions. In an infamous May 13 tweet, Trump said he was working with Chinese President Xi Jinping to prevent the collapse of the company, which employs almost 75,000 people. "President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast," Trump tweeted. "Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!" In May, the administration decided to lift the ban on U.S. firms selling equipment to ZTE but insisted it pay a fine of more than $1 billion, change its management and board, and provide certain security guarantees. The about-face sparked a wave of criticism from lawmakers following years of warnings about ZTE from the U.S. intelligence community. In the House and Senate, lawmakers looked for ways to reimpose the penalties on the Chinese giant. But on Monday, it was clear that they'd conceded defeat. Congressional sources told Foreign Policy that members of both chambers agreed to strip the ban out of the defense bill after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored it as a net negative because it would forestall the $1.3 billion the U.S. would otherwise obtain from the ZTE fine. That money would have come straight out of taxpayers pockets - retirement benefits, health benefits, or other mandatory spending accounts, the sources said. But not everyone buys that excuse. "I just don't think the [Democrats] fought that hard and were happy to use CBO as cover. I am not saying CBO didn't give them a negative score - I believe that," one congressional source said. "But there are definitely ways to find mandatory money." The White House lobbied heavily for lawmakers to strip the provision out of the final conference report, according to multiple congressional sources. The agreement came as an unpleasant surprise to those who had fought to include harsh penalties against ZTE in the final version of the defense bill. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was one of the authors of the amendment that was passed by the Senate but did not make it into the final version released Monday. "No nation steals American intellectual property or spies on America more than China, and Chinese telecommunication companies are among the most powerful tools they use to do this," Rubio said that day in a statement. "That is why I fought so hard last month to put ZTE out of business. And that is why I am so shocked that some of my colleagues decided to let ZTE continue to do business. Once again, China has figured out how to play the United States. We can't continue to let this happen." Other lawmakers accused Trump of caving to pressure from Xi. Lifting the penalties on ZTE is just another example of Trump "being weak in the face of another nation's leader while the GOP just follows along," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement last Friday. "By stripping the Senate's tough ZTE sanctions provision from the defense bill, [Trump] & the Congressional GOP who acted at his behest have once again made President Xi & the Chinese Govt the big winners & the American worker & our national security the big losers," Schumer said. Still, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross insisted earlier this month that the U.S. will remain "vigilant" against ZTE. "While we lifted the ban on ZTE, the Department will remain vigilant as we closely monitor ZTE's actions to ensure compliance with all U.S. laws and regulations," he said in a statement. Of course, it's worth noting that the original ban was imposed precisely because ZTE misled U.S. authorities about systematically evading export control laws.
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Two police officers shot, one critically Police search for a suspect after two officers were shot. Picture: AP / Charles Krupa TWO police officers have been shot, with one critically hurt, after they were called to a house in Boston, Massachusetts, where a man had a gun. The Boston Police Department said that they had located a suspect wanted in connection with the shooting in a house in the Orient Heights area, in the east of the city, on Wednesday night (Thursday AEDT). Police Commissioner William Evans confirmed that the suspect is deceased inside the home. Boston Police confirmed that two officers had been shot. The officers have been taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where one officer is in a critical condition after being shot multiple times, and the other officer is in stable condition. Authorities said the officers were responding to a report of a person with a gun in East Boston when they came under fire. Police initially asked residents in the East Boston neighbourhood to shelter in place as they searched for a suspect. They later said the suspect was killed and the situation was under control. Commissioner Evans said the incident is "possibly a domestic incident gone bad." Armed police arrive at the scene after two officers were shot in the east of the city of Boston. Picture: AP / Charles KrupaSource:AP
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Eric Bailly sent off for PUNCH: Man Utd ace to miss final By Oliver Todd for MailOnline
Eric Bailly will miss the Europa League final after the Manchester United defender was sent off for a punch on Celta Vigo's John Guidetti in Thursday night's semi-final. Centre back Bailly was involved in a brawl late in the game and pushed a hand into the side of Guidetti's face before confronting Celta scorer Facundo Roncaglia. Romanian referee Ovidiu Hategan deemed the offence worthy of a straight red card - meaning Bailly misses the final against Ajax in Stockholm through suspension. Bailly raised his hand and struck the side of Celta Vigo star Guidetti's face at Old Trafford Roncaglia was also dismissed in the incident that saw both Bailly and team-mate Antonio Valencia hit out at Roncaglia as a huge group of players clashed. Manager Jose Mourinho said: 'I didn't see the incident but he (Bailly) was phenomenal and the game was emotional until the end for everyone. Some kept control better than others. 'I think it was with Roncaglia; Roncaglia is not new in this kind of situation and I think it was probably a bit naive. 'We lose a very important player for the final.' United will face Ajax in Stockholm on May 24 and have been crippled by problems in the centre back position throughout their hectic schedule this season. Bailly lined up alongside Daley Blind on Thursday night but Chris Smalling has only just returned from a knee problem. Phil Jones was back on the bench against Celta as he recovers from a foot injury. Marouane Fellaini's goal sent United to Stockholm, despite Roncaglia's equaliser, with Mourinho's men securing a 2-1 aggregate victory. Share this article Share 3.1k shares Share or comment on this article
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Never got into the race when a distant 10th two years ago but was only a seven-year-old and can probably also be forgiven his modest effort at the Cheltenham Festival last month, since he seems not to cope well with that track. Change of stable helped him recover his best form when scoring at Kempton in January, beating Le Reve despite jumping left throughout. Should have more to offer with this season's champion jockey aboard, though new stable may be slightly going off the boil. He is vulnerable to the occasional mistake. Chance: medium Rule The World Jockey: D Mullins Trainer: MF Morris Age: Nine Weight: 10st 7lb Yet to win over fences after 13 attempts but no doubt that he has the ability to land a good race. He was second in last year's Irish National and third in the Kerry National, giving plenty of weight to the front two. Between those efforts, he somehow slipped up on the run to the last in the Galway Plate when seeming to have every chance. Last two efforts have not been as good but midwinter ground might not be his thing. Worth a second look. Related: Grand National 2016: five things to look out for Chance: medium Just A Par Jockey: S Bowen Trainer: P Nicholls Age: Nine Weight: 10st 6lb Produced an extraordinary finish to win the Bet365 Gold Cup last year, beating Vics Canvas and Le Reve, seeming to relish the marathon distance. Fairly handicapped on 7lb higher now and easy to imagine a similar effort carrying him into the argument, although horses that need extreme hold-up tactics can get into trouble in Grand Nationals. First two (weak) runs this season came at a time when the stable was faring poorly. Back to form last month with a second place at Exeter, giving a stone to the winner and without usual blinkers. Chance: medium Katenko Jockey: W Kennedy Trainer: V Williams Age: 10 Weight: 10st 6lb Looked really classy in his first season since arriving from France but hasn't been the same since falling in the 2013 Hennessy and no real sign of encouragement for at least two years now. This course has sometimes sparked a revival in some horses and he has at least dropped back to his last winning rating but a substantial reason for hope is lacking. Chance: low Vics Canvas Jockey: R Dunne Trainer: DA McLoughlin Age: 13 Weight: 10st 6lb Sole win over fences so far was in the Cork Grand National of 2014 but there have been other impressive efforts. He was third in a quality Christmas handicap at Leopardstown that season and second to Just A Par at Sandown last April. Efforts this season have been mixed but his fifth in the Becher Chase here in December was another fine run from a slightly higher rating than he has here. Aged 13, which would make him the oldest National winner since 1923, but lightly raced for his age and could get involved. A brief history of the Grand National Chance: low Black Thunder Jockey: S Waley-Cohen Trainer: P Nicholls Age: Nine Weight: 10st 6lb Four wins over fences have come against a maximum of five rivals, suggesting he may not relish the experience of racing against 39 others. Has generally struggled since leaving novice company and even a drop in the weights didn't help him at Sandown last time. Bought at auction by a syndicate including Robert Waley-Cohen, the father of the jockey, on Thursday. Chance: low Ballycasey Jockey: K Walsh Trainer: WP Mullins Age: Nine Weight: 10st 6lb Chance in last year's race was not obvious, even though he was ridden by Ruby Walsh. In the end his credentials went untested, as he was brought down at the first Canal Turn. It looks as though a return here has been the only plan since then, in which case it may be unwise to fret over a couple of his poorer efforts this winter. He has still not won at three miles or further, so his stamina is a major concern. Chance: low Hadrian's Approach Jockey: N de Boinville Trainer: N Henderson Age: Nine Weight: 10st 6lb Proved he's the right type for this by landing the Bet365 Gold Cup in 2014. Just three runs since but there was promise in his midfield effort at Kempton last time, his first outing for more than a year. Is only 1lb higher than for his Sandown success and jockey bookings suggest he is the better hope of his trainer, Nicky Henderson, who also runs Triolo D'Alene. Leap of faith required but not out of this. Chance: medium Vieux Lion Rouge
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Trump's Big Iran Oil Gamble - Foreign Policy The Trump administration's announcement Monday that it is ending waivers allowing several countries to keep importing Iranian crude is likely to push up oil prices and sour relations with U.S. friends and rivals alike that rely on Iranian energy, all while stoking more tensions in the waters around the Persian Gulf. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday morning that the United States, in a bid to apply "maximum pressure" on Tehran, will not renew waivers that eight countries received last November to keep buying modest amounts of Iranian oil. The surprising move aims to drive Iran's oil exports down from the current level of around 1.5 million barrels a day to close to zero, the administration's long-stated goal since it pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal almost a year ago. The waivers expire on May 2. Coming just two weeks after President Donald Trump said he would designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, Monday's decision represents Washington's latest bet that it can amp up the diplomatic and economic pressure on Tehran without hurting the global economy or angering friends in Europe and Asia. But it carries economic and political risks, especially with Trump entering a re-election campaign. Hence, the White House also announced Monday morning it is coordinating with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Iran's regional rivals, to keep any supply disruptions and price hikes in check. Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke earlier this month. Even so, Saudi officials said Monday that they are open to increasing production - but this time only after assessing the oil market impacts of the new U.S. sanctions policy, not before. Saudi Arabia felt burned last year when it increased production to offset Iran sanctions only to be blindsided by the U.S. issuance of waivers. Pompeo said the policy of issuing waivers was over. "We will no longer grant any exemptions. We're going to zero - going to zero across the board," he told reporters, adding that how long the United States pushes for zero Iranian exports "depends solely" on whether Tehran changes its behavior. "We have made our demands very clear to the ayatollah and his cronies. End your pursuit of nuclear weapons. Stop testing and proliferating ballistic missiles. Stop sponsoring and committing terrorism. Halt the arbitrary detention of U.S. citizens," Pompeo said. Most analysts had expected the administration would end up renewing most of the waivers, since oil prices are relatively high, and knocking a million-odd Iranian barrels out of the market would simply send them even higher right at the start of the U.S. summer driving season. "We'll see how the oil markets are after the initial shock has worn off but it's going to be an expensive summer to travel," said Neil Bhatiya, an expert on sanctions at the Center for a New American Security. Many were taken aback at how sudden the decision was. State Department officials reportedly told waiver recipients this month they could expect renewals, before White House officials intervened and changed course. Both Trump and National Security Advisor John Bolton have been driving the administration's hard-line stance despite pushback from European allies, which favor diplomatic engagement with Tehran. There was "very little short-term planning that major importers would have wanted to see" from the Trump administration in the run-up to the announcement, said Suzanne Maloney, a scholar at the Brookings Institution. "This is not entirely unexpected, but it's not on a timeframe that was well prepared." Pompeo said sanctions are depriving Iran of a key source of revenue. "Up to 40 percent of the regime's revenue comes from oil sales. It's the regime's No. 1 source of cash," he said. "Before our sanctions went into effect, Iran would generate as much as $50 billion annually in oil revenue." The latest U.S. move still carries plenty of risk, depending on just how fully countries such as China, India, and South Korea comply with the new American demands. All three remain major buyers of Iranian oil, together purchasing almost 1 million barrels a day. China, in particular, has never fully complied with U.S. demands to quit buying Iranian crude and reiterated Monday that its trade with Iran is legal. South Korea, too, might have a hard time replacing the Iranian barrels that fuel its petrochemical industry. Benchmark oil prices rose almost 3 percent early Monday to just below $74 a barrel. Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members, along with Russia, have cut back oil production to prop up prices; Riyadh has in fact reduced production much more than it said it would. On paper, that gives the Saudis the ability to ramp up production to offset the loss of Iranian barrels.
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Glad to have you, Sam
Hallo Sol, van harte welkom bij de Engelstalige Wikipedia. Zelf ben ik meestal op de Nederlandse te vinden. Veel plezier hier en groeten van Ellywa
==Levi Stubbs==
Just thought you might want to see the VfD vote on him. He's a very important figure in Motown and was the lead singer of The Four Tops. Mike H 02:29, Jul 14, 2004 (UTC)
== Gmail usernames ==
Tell you what, I have the account slowpoke (don't use e-mail this user as I use another account for that). Send me an e-mail at the account +solitude with the subject test and a random number in the body, and let's see if I get it. I can do the same for you if you have an account and want to test it. Dori | Talk 14:11, Jul 14, 2004 (UTC)
I got both your emails, see if you got the one from me. Dori | Talk 16:09, Jul 14, 2004 (UTC)
Yup I received it, now I'll email you from a regular email account, maybe that is the critical factor. I tried mailing myself from my student account and that only works to the "dotted" account and not to the "dots and +". To complete this discussion, me and Dori tested it several times, all the username aliases seem to work, so that section is added back rightfully. ==Oceanic==
POLITE NOTICE:
Please do allow me to conclude my own work before you call in the wikifairies. If the item HMS Oceanic is so in need of cleaning up, perhaps you could give me a few pointers? Faedra
Thank you for your interest in my work however, I hope you enjoy the finisherd item, and have something to add to it. All the best. Faedra. Hi there, I'd suggest shortening in the article and writing it in a more compact style. Currently it reads too much like prose, and not like an encyclopedic article. It was not my intention to call in the wikifairies too quickly, an article on wikipedia is never finished IMHO. May I also suggest the preview button to prevent unwanted editing. Dear Solitude: Thanks for comments. I have made the item as conscise as I can at this time, if you have an interst please go ahead now and see if you can improve it as per your suggestion. I will certainly not take offence. Faedra
== Erika Steinbach/Erika of Rumia ==
I removed the marker. See Erika Steinbach/Erika of Rumia for details. Halibutt 15:03, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)
== Latorilla ==
Hello Solitude. I understand your engagement to create a nice wikipedia free of copyright violations. That is also my goal. But your deleting of the contents was too premature. I was still in the process of editing it and the supposed violations were just a guide for the final form of the article. Why this knee-jerk reactions? How can I edit now when you have summarily executed the material? Also the link to the suppossedly violated webpage is broken. I politely ask you to wait for some time before you make summary executions. Latorilla
I responded on your discussion page on this. When you submit material to the wikipedia, it needs to be copyright free, wether you are in the process of editing or not. You can use the'show preview' button, or write the article in a text editor on your local pc first. If you really want to upload the article before finishing it, please use the tage to explicitly let us know that you are working on it right then. The copyrighted URL's were indeed broken, my bad, but I assume you know where you took the content from. Regards. By the way, you can find the original content back in the history of the copyrighted pages, if you want to rewrite the article, follow the instructions in the copyright boiler plate text. Note that the article content is still available in the page history, for one week. However, it will be extremely difficult to remove the "taint" of the original article from the text without doing a full rewrite. Unfortunately. I can understand all your emotions here. But I also sense the tendency to knee-jerk reactions. As far as I understand, a wiki was developed for constant editing.
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Apple expected to unveil iPhones echoing last year's models Apple is expected to unveil three new iPhone models that are so similar to last year's lineup, they may be upstaged by details about the company's upcoming video service. Interested in Apple? Add Apple as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Apple news, video, and analysis from ABC News. The company will show off its latest iPhones Tuesday at an annual hardware showcase. But the buzz surrounding its best-selling products has waned, as have sales, in the absence of compelling new features. IPhone shipments are down 25% so far this year, according to the research firm IDC, putting more pressure on Apple to generate revenue from services such as music streaming, product repairs, revenue sharing from apps and ad commissions from making Google the default search engine. Revenue from services rose 14% to nearly $23 billion during the first half of this year. And now Apple is getting ready to roll out a Netflix-like video service that will feature a slate of original programs featuring stars such as Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Jason Momoa. Apple provided a peek in March, but hasn't specified when it will debut this fall or how much it will cost. Those details are expected to be revealed Tuesday, along with more information about a video gaming service called Arcade. The company's new phone models will likely mirror last year's iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max. Prices are likely to stay at $750 to $1,100, before add-ons such as more storage. And they will likely have the same design - with more display space, less bezel and no home button - that Apple switched to with the iPhone X in 2017. With little change, many customers who bought models in the past two years may hold off upgrading this year, analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights said. The biggest difference is likely to be in the phone's camera, an area that Apple and its rivals have all been trying to improve as consumers snap more pictures on their devices. Even there, improvements from year to year have been small. This year, Apple is expected to add an extra camera lens to each model. The two pricier models already have a telephoto lens for better zoom. Now, they are expected to sport a wide-angle lens to capture more of a scene than regular shots. The cheapest model is expected to get one of those features, but it's not clear which. Even with those additions, the new iPhones may still be catching up with the improvements that rivals such as Samsung, Huawei, Lenovo and Google have been making to their latest phones. Unlike some of the other devices coming out this year, the new iPhones aren't expected to support upcoming ultrafast cellular networks known as 5G. Apple paid billions of dollars to settle a royalty dispute with chipmaker Qualcomm in April to gain the technology it needs for 5G iPhones, but those models aren't expected to be ready until next year. Besides iPhones, Apple is also expected to provide looks at the next versions of its internet-connected watch and its video-streaming device, Apple TV. New iPads could also be in the mix.
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Ruinous project in East Timor could open door to China A pipeline across the unstable 3,000-metre deep Timor Trench between Greater Sunrise and the Timor coast carries a high risk of catastrophe, says Marc Moszkowski, whose Florida-based undersea pipeline company DeepGulf surveyed the pipeline route for the government in Dili, which has not released the findings. East Timorese independence hero Xanana Gusmao is pushing ahead with his controversial plan. Credit:AP A sudden rush of water into the pipeline as it was being laid could capsize the pipe-laying vessel. Because no compressor exists that is powerful enough to expel water 3,000 metres down, a flooded pipeline would then have to be abandoned. Loading In October, ConocoPhillips said it would sell its 30 per cent share to East Timor's state oil company, TimorGAP, for US$350 million. Last month, Royal Dutch Shell, said it would sell its 26.56 per cent share to the Timor company for US$300 million. The remaining partners − Australia's Woodside Petroleum with 33.44 per cent and Japan's Osaka Gas with 10 per cent - can pre-empt these deals, but Gusmao says they have waived this right. Illustration: Dionne Gain Credit: However, Woodside also wants no part of Gusmao's project. In October, its chief executive Peter Coleman suggested a way his company might detach itself from Tasi Mane. Greater Sunrise development could be split into two phases. The first, costing US$2 billion, would be wells and platforms, and storage-offloading tanker, to extract petroleum liquids, worth between US$15 billion and US$17 billion. Any natural gas would be reinjected into the wells, pending a decision where it should be piped. Coleman was effectively saying to Gusmao: if you want the gas, you have to pay for the pipeline and onshore facilities such as the LNG plant at Beacu, and then handle the exports. The point of sale for the companies would be the production platforms. Woodside's preferred option is sending the dry gas through a new 210 kilometre pipeline in relatively shallow water to connect with an existing pipeline from Bayu-Undan to the ConocoPhillips LNG plant in Darwin. Or it could be simply put into the Australian pipeline grid. Either way East Timor would get 90 per cent of royalties, without a huge development cost. But asked recently on Dili television about those who questioned the cost or feasibility of Tasi Mane, Gusmao said "I don't care" and viewers should just trust "I will win" as he did in the independence struggle. East Timor's government is not standing in the way, even though new Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak, another former guerrilla leader, had been critical of Gusmao's grandiose scheme in his former role as the country's head of state. Indeed, funding for the ConocoPhillips purchase is now included in its 2019 budget, as presumably will be the Shell purchase. The laws governing the sovereign Petroleum Fund have been changed to allow Gusmao to tap it for Tasi Mane. Concerns are rising in the oil and gas industry about Xanana Gusmao's plans. Credit:The Age The only serious questioning inside East Timor is coming from La'o Hamutuk, a non-government organisation in Dili. It says it has "serious doubts" the benefits will outweigh the costs. "We have repeatedly asked the managers of the project for the assumptions and data that make them so optimistic." La'o Hamutuk's estimate of Tasi Mane's total cost - including the ConocoPhilips and Shell acquisitions, the 56 per cent share of offshore development, the pipeline, the LNG plant at Beacu and support facilities - comes to US$15.85 billion. This is roughly the present size of the Petroleum Fund. Gusmao is thus betting the house on his scheme. Loading Moszkowski says the flight of oil majors, selling out at discounted prices, should signal something. Even oil majors team up to dilute the risk and capital requirements for projects this size, he said. TimorGAP had zero production and zero revenue except subsidies. Now one of the world's tiniest state oil firms was trying to get a majority interest in a US$25 billion project. Who might step in to help fund it? The only possibility is China, Moszkowski thinks. "But it is unlikely China would sink US$25 billion in a money-losing scheme if she does not get something valuable in return." This could be access for its navy to the new Suai port and for its air force to the large Baucau airfield - both right on the approaches to Darwin.
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Recalling how The Golf Widows had acquired One For Arthur, McClung, whose phone went off during the press conference to the tune of Flower of Scotland, said: "On a day at Kelso about three and a half years ago, we drank a lot of gin and Debs said "Let's get a horse"." "I looked at him in the paddock at Warwick and he looked trained to the minute. "I have never seen him looking better and it was the same today. When he pinged the Canal Turn I said he was lobbing along." Thomson added: "We never dreamed of getting One For Arthur to the National, let alone winning it. I can't believe it. "I thought this morning it was baking hot and at Warwick he preferred soft ground. "I said there was no pressure because I did not think he could win but he showed his class. "When we got Arthur, we did not realise we had just bought such an amazing horse but he has taken us on a wonderful journey. "The husbands were here today. They were not going to miss out." There were few hard luck stories behind One For Arthur and no complaints from the team behind Gordon Elliott-trained Cause of Causes. Noel Fehily said he was enjoying a great ride on Blaklion, until "he ran out of puff two out." The only jockey and trainer to perhaps feel unlucky were Danny Cook and Brian Ellison. Their well-backed 10-1 shot Definitly Red was hampered jumping Becher's Brook first time. The gelding's saddle slipped out of position and he was forced to jump two fences without stirrups before pulling up. Share this article Share 63 shares
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Before Charles could regroup, orders arrived from the Aulic Council, the imperial body in Vienna charged with conduct of war, to overset his plan; Charles' troops were to leave Zurich in the supposedly capable hands of Korsokov, re-cross the Rhine and march north to Mainz. Charles stalled this operation as long as he could, but eventually he had to concede to Vienna's orders. Consequently, the Russian troops under a novice general replaced the Austrian troops and their seasoned commander in the strategically important city. Charles withdrew his force to the north of the Rhine and marched slowly toward Mainz. In Italy, the Russian generalissimo, Alexander Suvorov, was horrified when he heard this: he depended upon a stable Austro-Russian presence in Switzerland to protect his flank and he expected to join this army by September or October at the latest. Although the order to Charles to recross the Rhine and march north was eventually countermanded, by the time such instructions reached him, he had gone too far to return to Zurich in time. ===Second Battle of Zürich===
In the Second Battle of Zürich, the French regained control of the city, along with the rest of Switzerland. Notably, Masséna out-generaled Korsakov; surrounded him, tricked him, and then took more than half his army as a prisoner. Massena also captured the baggage train and most of Korsakov cannons, and inflicted over 8,000 casualties. Most of the fighting took place on both banks of the river Limmat, up to the gates of Zürich, and in part within the city itself. Zürich had declared itself neutral, and was spared general destruction. General Oudinot commanded the French forces on the right bank and general Joseph Mortier, those on the left. At the same time, Soult led a small force, some 150 musket-men, across the river Linth—the men held their muskets over their heads and waded across, through water to their chests—and protected the crossing site for the remainder of the force. Baron von Hotze, commander of the Habsburg force there, advanced on the position near Richterswil to direct its defense, and was killed by a French musket ball. His successor, Franz Petrasch, could not push the French back, and organized a retreat from the region, falling back to St. Gallen and losing another 8,000 men and some guns. By the time Suvorov arrived in St. Gallen in early October, the Austrians and the Russians had been pushed out and he was forced to lead his men over the Alps to the Vorarlberg, resulting in additional losses. ==Organizational and command problems==
The French army experienced a variety of command problems, especially in its early operations in southwestern Germany. After the defeat at Stockach, the army withdrew into the Black Forest. Jourdan relinquished command provisionally to Ernouf, who was a capable staff officer but had insufficient experience to hold together a varied and demoralized force. Jourdan retired to Strasbourg, where he was, or claimed he was, indisposed. By the time Masséna arrived to take command, organization and discipline was in shambles. Only four divisional generals had remained at their posts: Klein, Ferino, Souham, and Vandamme. Decaen was under arrest in Strasbourg, pending a Courts-martial, as was d'Hautpoul, for his failure to organize a timely cavalry attack at Stockach. The others had disappeared to different parts of the southwest or had gone to France. No one knew where Bernadotte had gone, and Saint Cyr had retired to Mannheim. The latter was at least reachable. Lecourbe, who had been injured at Stockach, had withdrawn to Paris to recover; in a strategically astute move, he remained there until late November, when he was able to offer Napoleon direct assistance in his coup, and thus acquired Bonaparte's attention and gratitude. ===School for marshals===
Initially, the Army included five future Marshals of France: Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, its commander-in-chief, François Joseph Lefebvre, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, and Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier. After the defeat at Ostrach, the Army was reorganized and command shifted to another future marshal, André Masséna.
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A Transgender Director Who Defies Genres (to France's Confusion) "Saison Sèche" deals with the violence women suffer in patriarchal societies. The cast will be trapped in a closed white space, under a ceiling that moves up and down without rhyme or reason. "It's the glass ceiling, and more," Ms. Ménard said. "That's what it's like to be permanently under surveillance, and reprimanded as soon as an action is deemed objectionable." In person, Ms. Ménard, who first made a name for herself as a virtuoso juggler in the 1990s, is thoughtful and patient; one senses that her even, articulate tone was honed over years of explaining herself. While the United States has prominent transgender performers, such as Laverne Cox and Trace Lysette, transgender identity is only just entering mainstream consciousness in France. For a long time, Ms. Ménard said, it remained tied to Parisian night life and to a handful of cabaret performers who came of age in the 1960s, like Coccinelle, who died in 2006, and Bambi, 82, who will be in Avignon to introduce a documentary about her life. There are signs of change: A well-known comedian, Océan, recently came out as a transgender man, and a transgender character was introduced in March on "Plus Belle la Vie," one of France's most popular TV soap operas. Still, Ms. Ménard said, French culture's "macho" Latin roots led to societal resistance, and mainstream depictions of transgender identity can be problematic. Last year, the director Nadir Moknèche was criticized for casting the actress Fanny Ardant as a transgender woman in his film "Lola Pater." In an interview with the magazine Télérama, Mr. Moknèche railed against his detractors, saying their argument implied "only a rapist could play a rapist." Ms. Ménard grew up in the Brittany region of northern France, where her mother was a seamstress and her father worked in the local shipyards. Her working-class environment in the 1970s and early "80s was left-wing and pro-union, but gender roles were strictly defined. "When you were discovered wearing your mother's clothes, you were taken to a therapist," Ms. Ménard said - speaking of herself, as she often did, in the second person. "All the way until my late 20s, I thought I was crazy."
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Wimbledon 2018: Kyle Edmund into round three for first time after straight sets win over Bradley Klahn Kyle Edmund set up a third-round blockbuster against Novak Djokovic by easing past Bradley Klahn on Centre Court. The British number one has become adept not just at coming through the grand slam matches he should win but doing so efficiently, and it was the same here as he defeated the American qualifier 6-4 7-6 (7/0) 6-2. Edmund did not face a single break point and, although he would have liked a better conversion rate than three of 12 chances on the Klahn serve, there was never a moment when the outcome looked in doubt. The victory marked another first in a season of them for Edmund as he reached the last 32 at the All England Club for the first time, but he will have his work cut out if he is to go further. Djokovic has begun to recover some of his old swagger and has cruised into the third round, although Edmund did win their most recent match on clay in Madrid in May. Their next meeting will come on Saturday. Follow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.
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Petropavl Railway Station is a railway station in Petropavl, Kazakhstan. == Buildings ==
The Railway Station Building, Petropavlovsk is located on the Railway Station Square in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan. The building of the railway station was built in two stages: the construction of the first stage was completed in December 1895; the second stage of the building (restaurant, auxiliary services of the railway station) was completed in 1904. The building is one-storey, brick-built. In a later period (presumably in the 1950s), the outer surface of the walls was plastered and coloured in two colours. Now (to the 100th anniversary of the West Siberian Railway) the building has been restored and brought into full compliance with the original project. The building has a complex shape in plan. Separate rooms are different, in their horizontal and high-altitude dimensions, are united among themselves into a single volume stretched along the railway platform. The monument has roofing wooden structures covered with iron. The main hall and some rooms inside have vaulted ceilings, which facilitates the circulation of air inside. Large windows provide good illumination, framed by a figured masonry. The building is built in the style of "late Baroque". At present, the building is used as the luggage compartment of the railway station and warehouses. The building is a sample of the historical layout of the city, typical for late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, expressed in the planned integrated construction of brick buildings of public use and is the architectural heritage of the city. ==References==
==Literature==
ГАСКО. Ф. 3037. Инв. No. 7263, 7264. Северо-Казахстанская область. Энциклопедия. Алматы. 2004. Сс. 200-201, 435-437. Buildings and structures in North Kazakhstan Region
Railway stations in North Kazakhstan Region
Railway stations opened in 1894
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The 2012 Super GT International Series Malaysia was the third round of the 2012 Super GT season. It took place on June 10, 2012. ==Race results==
Super GT International Series Malaysia
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== Random nitpicks ==
In the story of Adonis it says that: "This version is suspect because it implies that Artemis had lain with Ares and by virtually all accounts, she remained chaste throughout time." How can a version of a story be suspect? That implies that somehow one version is "truer" than another, which doesn't make very much sense in context. (Perhaps it is meant that that the version with Ares is corrupted from an older one?) It can be noted that it conflicts with many stories which name her chaste and virginal, but I don't see how it's "suspect." Also, there's not really a good segue into the section devoted to stories of Artemis. I renamed one section to "Tales of Artemis and Men" from simply "Men" but there should be a proper introduction to the whole section. It should include information about who told the stories, how do we know of them, etc. Also, there was what seemed to be an ad placed in the neopaganism section. The IP address which added it seemed related to the one it linked to, so I took that as confirmation and deleted it. The birth section starts by just repeating the introduction, and it is rather short. I remember the myth of the twin's birth being reasonably involved, so it should be expanded some. (I'm not sure I have time to get around to it, though. :( But there should be plenty of resources on this if someone feels like it.) Someone had added to the Birth section, but it was rather badly phrased. There are definatley multiple versions of the birth story out there: In some Leto couldn't give birth on the ground, in others she needed a place where the sun had never shone. There was also a serpant which either chased her or guarded the island... I might actually go to the library and look some of this up eventually...
== Neopagans ==
The nasty bit about "Neopagan sects " needs some serious work, amongst the article in its entireness. → Chèvredan∫ante talk · contrib
I.e. sources, etc. == Artemis and men ==
Am I readin this wrong or did artemis have a relationship with ares or anyone else
because most of the miths state that she disliked men
please let me know send a reply to sexybitch@
Quite right, the section begins with the assertion that Artemis sent the boar to destroy Adonis (correct), and that in another version it was Ares (also correct). The rest of the line and subsequent paragraph additions become confused: the bracketed "(who was a lover of Ares)" statement is reffering to Aphrodite, who was a lover of both Ares and Adonis, and not to Artemis. Both versions of the story are described in Apollodorus' Bibliotheke C3rd BC. I've now altered the content of this section to match the Greek source. Theranos
== Artemis in popular culture ==
This section has been repeatedly removed in its entirety as 'trivia'. I disagree, as I found some of the citations of the appearance of Artemis in poular culture interesting and revealing. It seems inconsistent to discuss modern-day worship of Artemis, but yet to dismiss as 'trivial' evidence of the interpretation and incorporation of the ancient myths into contemporary culture and media. Jpb1301
Sometimes its better making a seperate page for this info such as "Artemis (popular culture)" and then make a heading and link on the main page. Otherwise some of the mythology entries get swamped with pop culture lists. So, perhaps that is a compromise. EG Cerberus and Cerberus (popular culture)
The problem with removing the information without first placing it in a page entitled Artemis (popular culture) means that now it's nowhere to be found on the site. Besides, isn't deciding that references to Artemis in popular culture are trivia a bit biased? I was a little surprised not to see the section on the Artemis page to be honest. LTD2 23:06, 21 September 2011
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So many scatter-brained "associations". I've removed the following texts:
"She didn't yet know of her future." "In some Ancient Cultures Artemis was believed to be the male god of the plague, but this is not very widely known and sadly little is known about this." If you have this page on your Watchlist, let's work to bring it up to the standard shown in some other Greek deities' entries. I've cleaned it of vandalisms and deletions again.
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New US weather satellite launched By Associated Press
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - An advanced U.S. weather satellite designed to improve the accuracy of extended forecasts has been launched into polar orbit from California. The Joint Polar Satellite System-1 lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 1:47 a.m. PST Saturday atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket. The satellite is the first of four next-generation spacecraft for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Circling the Earth from pole to pole 14 times a day, JPSS-1 carries a suite of five instruments intended to make global observations that will improve forecasts of severe weather events three to seven days beforehand. The satellite also will contribute to near-term weather forecasts, climate and ocean dynamics research, among many other uses. Share or comment on this article Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.
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That's because in the United States passenger rail has been a distinct second fiddle to to freight rail since the 1960s. Most railroads were eager to get out of the passenger business altogether, so in return for being allowed to dump their passenger-carrying obligations onto the federal government they have to let the government run passenger trains over their tracks. Not sure that there's anything very open about it otherwise. AnonMoos (talk)
== Article 21 of the UNDHR ==
Article 21 of the Declaration of Human Rights says the following:
"Article 21. (1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country. (3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures." How can this be reconciled with the existence of a minimum voting age in most jurisdictions? Are we not depriving children of a fundamental human rights? For the record, I don't support abolishing the voting age, but I'd like to know what legal explanation is given for not allowing children to exercise their human rights. Thanks! Leptictidium (mt)
Children will, in a short time, be able to vote. SO they are part of "everyone". This is different from women, who will not magically become men at a later date, or people of ethnic minorities, who will magically become part of a different ethnic group. Children do magically turn into adults. So they do get to take part in their government. If that's the case, the UNDHR should have said "everyone has, or will have, the right..." The more accurate answer is that every society has more or less arbitrarily restricted political power to people it deems fit to rule. At this point in history, children are still considered their parents' property, and their role in politics is restricted to being used as rhetorical tools (Think of the children! Will someone please think of the children?) and propaganda (i.e. Israel's most inhuman army is killing babies!) How about kids with terminal diseases, who are unlikely to survive to adulthood? StuRat (talk)
The dead cannot vote under normal circumstances, so I don't take your exception here. Adults with terminal diseases who expire before the next election lose their right to vote as well. I was responding to when you said the justification for legally excluding children from voting is that it's not a permanent exclusion. However, in the case of children who we know won't make it to adulthood, it is a permanent ban on them ever voting. So, we need another justification. Quite simply, children lack certain rights, including the right to vote, but Article 21 doesn't make this clear. Perhaps you could argue that children be thought of as a subset of those not allowed to vote due to mental incompetence. However, some 17-year-olds are quite mentally competent, so that argument won't hold water, either. StuRat (talk)
So, children die, and for that reason we should have no age limits on voting? Seems like a weak argument. Not what I said at all. I said that the justification that "they can vote when they grow up" is invalid. Only if no other justification can be found would one reach your conclusion. StuRat (talk)
I wonder by what means the OP would anticipate newborns would cast votes. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→
Show them pics of the candidates. If they smile, that's a yes. If they poop, that's a definite no. StuRat (talk)
And what about mentally handicapped people, who can also be denied the right to vote, and they don't magically turn into mentally healthy people either. And then there are convicted criminals who have lost voting rights. In short, these rights are just not absolute and are subject to (reasonable) conditions imposed by the state. - Lindert (talk)
Where are mentally handicapped denied the right to vote? This is not an uncontentious issue and pressure groups are successfully defending the right to vote of them. OsmanRF34 (talk)
In many places, the mentally handicapped are not only encouraged to vote, but even to run. StuRat (talk)
In many places, but usually a court order is required to revoke someone's voting rights.
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Kim has refused to give up development of nuclear missiles capable of hitting the US in spite of increasingly severe UN sanctions, raising fears of a new war on the Korean peninsula. The North has fired test-fired missiles over Japan. In state media this week, the North warned the South of spoiling inter-Korean ties by insisting it gives up its nuclear weapons. Reuters, New York Times
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He was one of the few that had been part of the exclusive coterie of actor and actresses the studio favored at the height of Weinstein's power. 'He bought "Good Will Hunting" and shot it in '97 and I did three movies after that, he signed me to a three-picture deal,' explained Damon. 'That was the height of his power.' He continued: 'I mean, you had to spend about five minutes to know he was a bully. He was intimidating. That was his - that was his legend. That was his whole kind of M.O.' This description of the movie boss also lines up with the accounts given be the victims, who said they could not turn down the powerful executive when he made demands to meet them in a hotel room or asked them to succumb to his demands. 'Like could you survive a meeting with Harvey. Could you survive - could you stand up for yourself with Harvey,' Damon went on to say. 'So when people say, "Everybody knew," like, yeah, I knew he was an a**hole. I mean, he was proud of that. You know what I mean? That's how he carried himself.' He then stated: 'I knew he was a womanizer. You know, I wouldn't want be to married to the guy but I'm not - it's not my business really.' Damon later said that many were unaware because the incidents took place behind closed doors. 'He didn't do it out in the open,' said Damon. 'If there was ever an event where there was something I was at with Harvey in public and he was doing this thing and I missed it, and there's some woman who was somehow assaulted and was at the Golden Globes or something and I somehow missed it, then I'm sorry.' Clooney wrapped up that interview by stating the sexual harassment and assault that is now being revealed in Hollywood is not exclusive to that industry. 'There has to be a comeuppance for all of that, all those people part of the chain and then have to make it safe to feel people can talk about this, and in doing that I think that will scare away that kind of behavior,'said Clooney. 'But more than anything, you're going to have to have a warning shot over the bow of anyone that would act like that that you will be outed and out of the business and more than that you might be prosecuted.' He then name dropped his famous wife Amal by going on to say: 'I talked with my wife about this, and she said she could find in her line of work, which is human rights law, there have been plenty of instances where some guy in power has tried to make their move.' Clooney said that the sad reality is, most women deal with this behavior. 'I think that's a little bit of a surprise to some of us, that it's this big, that it's this prevalent,' said Clooney. 'And maybe that's something else that's good is that we're going to have these discussions and have this conversation and again we'll make it harder for it to happen.' Paltrow detailed her encounter with Weinstein for the second New York Times expose. 'I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,' said Paltrow, who revealed that when she was told to meet Weinstein in his hotel room she did not think anything suspicious of it because it came on a fax from Creative Artists Agency. Once she arrived at the hotel, he began to massage her and then asked her to join him in the bedroom. She rejected his advance and drove away devastated, thinking: 'I thought you were my Uncle Harvey.' She told then-boyfriend Brad Pitt about the incident she said, who then confronted Weinstein. Weinstein came back to the actress and told her to never tell anyone what happened between them again. 'He screamed at me for a long time,' said Paltrow. 'It was brutal.' A few years later she was a superstar and Oscar winner, but she did not have the power to share her story. 'I was expected to keep the secret,' said Paltrow, who called Weinstein 'alternately generous and supportive and championing, and punitive and bullying.' She has now decided however to no longer staying quiet. 'We're at a point in time when women need to send a clear message that this is over,' said Paltrow. 'This way of treating women ends now.' Weinstein is said to be in rehab but there has still been nothing to prove this claim, and now over 60 women have come forward with allegations of sexual harassment and assault.
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== December 2019 ==
Hello, I'm Serols. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Stone Cold Steve Austin—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thanks. Serols (talk)
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TCG stands for "Turkiye Cumhuriyeti Gemisi" which translates as "Republic of Turkey's Ship". There was no Republic of Turkey in 1914 and the ship being renamed "TCG Yavuz Sultan Selim" at that date is not possible. As far as I know it was named just Yavuz after the Ottoman Emperor Selim I who had earned the nickname Yavuz (cruel) because of his massacres of Turkomans in early 16th century. Yavuz can be translated as "resolute" and has a positive meaning in Turkish. it is definitely wrong to translate "yavuz" as "cruel".84.71.92.85
Into Russian yavuz translates as "грозный" (Grozny), that usually translates as "terrible" or awesome into English (See Ivan-the-Terrible):
The epithet "Grozny" is associated with might, power and strictness, rather than poor performance, horror or cruelty. Some authors more accurately translate it into modern English as Ivan the Awesome
How about this option? Сергей Олегович (talk)
== Unencyclopedic ==
The 1915 section reads like a biased action script. "Eagerly the Russians chased after them, the ponderous battleships at their maximum of 25 knots," "... but she spurted out of range...," "... stern searchlights stabbed back down her wake, illuminating the sinister shapes of five destroyers...," "The big guns of the battleships belched flame, and columns of water from exploding shells rose all around their lone opponent." 24.21.10.30 (talk)
I made a couple changes, trying to tilt it a little away from the action novel sound. Hope I didn't ruin anyone's masterpiece. Sorry for not making a note about my edits, I'm a novice still. 24.21.10.30 (talk)
== Photo ==
There was a photo od Goeben, but it was can find another one? == Captains ==
Where are the captains? No mention of Rauf Orbay and his forays into Mediterranean and Red Sea. There had been a full list of captains inboard this vessel. However user PARCECBOY called them from an unreliable source an errased it. I gave the correct source "turk navy high command" and then he again erased as "unimportend data". Here is the List
Lists of captains are to be avoided. Either work them into the main narrative or don't include them at all. == Commanders ==
=== under german Flag ===
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| 2. Juli 1912 - 3. April 1914 || Captain Otto Philipp
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=== under ottoman Flag ===
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| 4. April 1914 - 2. Januar 1918 || Captain Richard Ackermann
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Study confirms link between deforestation and economic growth in developing nations Jan. 17 (UPI) -- New data analysis shows the relationship between economic growth and deforestation resembles half of a Kuznets curve. In other words, economic growth in less developed countries appears to drive deforestation. The environmental Kuznets curve describes the environmental impact of economic growth in differently sized economies. In theory, the curve suggests pollution and other environmental problems will rise as less developed economies grow. But at a certain point, a growing economy matures enough that the environmental consequences of economic growth slow and begin to reverse. Researchers in Laxenburg, Austria, looked at forest cover and deforestation rates, as well as economic data from 130 different countries. "This study was like a large-scale, natural experiment, which in economics is extremely rare," study leader Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, IIASA, said in a news release. "For the first time, we were able to empirically assess this effect in a convincing fashion, making use of natural borders." The data revealed only half a curve. Economic growth drives deforestation in developing nations, but has no consistent impact on forest health among developed countries. The findings -- detailed in the journal Scientific Reports -- are problematic, as many of the world's least developed economies boast some of the largest swaths of forest. "Africa is home to some of the world's largest tracts of remaining undisturbed forests," said IIASA researcher Ian McCallum. "Factors that keep deforestation in check in other tropical regions of the world, like good governance, monitoring systems, and peace, are lacking in much of tropical Africa." Scientists say more needs to be done to mitigate the impact of economic development on forests. "It's important to keep in mind that there are many factors that contribute to deforestation," IIASA researcher Ping Yowargana said. "Issues like education, ease of doing business, and corruption are vital to understand the bigger picture -- and to find solutions that can lead to both decreased poverty along with forest preservation."
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Scottish court delays decision on Boris Johnson's Brexit tactics Judges at Scotland's highest civil court are waiting to see if Boris Johnson fully complies with the Benn Act in seeking a Brexit extension before making a decision on whether he has broken the law. At the hearing before the Court of Session in Edinburgh today, it was accepted the Prime Minister had observed part of the legislation by sending the request by letter to the EU. This is despite the fact he did not sign it and also sent a second letter, which he did put his name to, that said a delay would be a mistake. READ MORE: Brexit: No.10 warns customs union vote could 'kill off' Boris Johnson's deal Petitioners including businessman Dale Vince, Jolyon Maugham QC and SNP MP Joanna Cherry QC have now been granted a request by three of Scotland's most senior judges to postpone any decision to see if the terms of the act have been fully carried out. This includes waiting to see if any potential extension granted by the EU is accepted by the Prime Minister. Aidan O'Neill QC, representing the petitioners, described the manner in which the letter was sent as "unusual." He said: "We don't know when the EU will come back with a response for the request. "So it depends on it coming back and ensuring the Prime Minister carried out the duties imposed upon him within the Benn Act." READ MORE: Lesley Riddoch: SNP must back Labour's Brexit vote plan Mr O'Neill claimed there was a breach of the principle that Mr Johnson would not try to frustrate the purposes of the legislation, but this would also be for the court to decide at a later date. Judge Lord Brodie said: "I think it is fair to say it was a very carefully written letter." Mr O'Neill said the Prime Minister was "sailing very close to the wind" and "not entirely in accord with spirit" of the act by sending the second letter, in which he said an extension would "damage" the UK's interests. The case could also be made null if Parliament accepts the withdrawal deal brought to them by the Prime Minister. David Johnston QC, representing the UK Government, argued the appeal should be dismissed as the letter had been sent. The court said it would return to the matter at a later date. During the case's first hearing on 9 October, the Government's lawyers assured the court Mr Johnson would adhere to the law in writing and before the judges - despite the Prime Minister's repeated public declarations he would never request an extension. The case was then postponed until after the deadline for the extension letter to be sent under the terms of the legislation. Judge Lord Carloway said the decision would be delayed under similar terms to those in previous hearing. He said: "The court considers that the case should be continued until clear that the obligations under the 2019 Act have been complied with in full." European Commission president Donald Tusk confirmed at 10pm on Saturday that he had received the Prime Minister's request, tweeting: "The extension request has just arrived. I will now start consulting EU leaders on how to react." In his signed letter, Mr Johnson wrote: "A further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners, and the relationship between us." The letter, to Mr Tusk and copied to European Council president Jean-Claude Juncker, refers to his regret at being defeated over the Letwin amendment in the House of Commons on Saturday. It states: "Regrettably, Parliament missed the opportunity to inject momentum into the ratification process for the new Withdrawal Agreement." MPs voted by 322 to 306 in favour of amending the Brexit deal to withhold the Commons' approval until the necessary UK legislation to leave the EU has been passed. The Government's response was to cancel Saturday's vote on the deal, with it expected to be brought back before MPs this week.
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Freddie Connolly was two years younger than James, a boy from the neighborhood whom James's mother had agreed to watch on Saturdays for the pocket money. Freddie's mother worked at a hair salon, and his father managed the night shift for the gas-and-electric company and slept during the day. Freddie had a crinkle of red hair and adenoidal breathing, which made him sound as if his nose were a clogged drainpipe. When he was particularly excited, his words came out in a rush of air and spit. James wasn't happy to be saddled with this unappealing boy, but Freddie sat for hours and listened to James's schemes, nodding his head fervently as if James were a Bible-thumping minister and Freddie his truest believer. Tape ten flattened cardboard boxes together to make a slide from the second-floor bedroom window right into the twins" kiddie pool? Hallelujah! Re-create the Wizard of Oz's balloon with dry-cleaning plastic, a bicycle pump, and a wicker hamper? Amen! James both derided his disciple for his unquestioning faith and was keenly aware that, without Freddie, he would be a boy with a head full of ideas that interested no one. James ran his hand along a piece of birch that was lying on his workbench, studying the knots and whorls embedded in the wood, thinking vaguely of the table that would emerge from it. Memories of Freddie came to him at odd times - when Marco had a cold and his voice was thick with mucus, or when another child's freckles brought to mind Freddie's discolorations, which were laid on so thickly it was as if a painter had shaken out a brush on his ruddy cheeks. All boys play with guns, James thought suddenly, the defensive rage he'd felt that morning at the preschool resurging. Though he himself had never craved that sort of toy. His mother had remarked on that when the police came to the house. She'd said she always thought it was funny that he'd never asked for a gun for Christmas, as if this were his larger crime. That night, at the dinner table, Melinda gave James a meaningful look. "Marco," James began. "We have to talk about something." "Something important, honey," Melinda added. Marco speared a tube of pasta with his fork, then shook it so that the food danced and bits of red sauce flew onto his placemat. "Mrs. Willing said that maybe you are too rough at school," James said. Marco chewed, working his jaws with the tremendous effort of an ant laboring to move a pebble. "Do you know what Daddy's talking about?" Melinda said. "Unh-unh," Marco said, shaking his head. "It's about pretending to shoot people with a stick," James said. "Some kids don't like that." "No kids like that," Melinda said. "When you point your stick at kids and pretend it's a gun, it frightens them." "It is a gun," Marco said. "No, it's not, sweetie," Melinda said. "It's just a stick." "It's a gun," Marco repeated. "It's a stick that you are pretending is a gun," James said. "It shoots bullets," Marco said. "Pretend bullets," Melinda said. "O.K.," James said, unwilling to fall further into this rhetorical quagmire. "The point is: Sam was scared of the way you were playing." Marco put down his fork and looked at James as if to explain more clearly. "I'm the policeman and Sam is the wobber. He stoled. He's the bad guy." "In the game he's the bad guy, but not in real life. In real life, Sam is your friend," Melinda said. "And we don't tell our friends we want to ki - to hurt them. We don't want to hurt anybody." Marco poked at his plate with his finger. "He's the bad guy and I'm the policeman." "In the game," Melinda said. "This is ridiculous," James mumbled. "Look, Marco. Here's the deal. Don't tell kids you're going to kill them. Even if you're playing bad guys and good guys. Even if you're playing war, for fuck's sake - " "James!" Melinda said. "Even if you're playing war where the idea is to kill the other guy, because that's the whole point of war. Just don't do it. No killing. Not ever. O.K.? Those are Mrs. Willing's rules, whether you like them or not." "And our rules," Melinda added.
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Pro-government forces used 'imprecise, explosive weapons' in the urban conflict and allegedly used disproportionate force, such as a March 17 attack cited by Amnesty in which 105 civilians died in an air strike targeting two IS snipers. Iraqi forces waved flags and flashed victory signs after Abadi arrived in the city. 'This victory is for all Iraqis, not just for us,' Mohanned Jassem, a member of the elite Counter-Terrorism Service, said at the police base where Abadi met commanders. Mr Jassem, who fought in most of the other main battles of the war against IS, said Mosul was the toughest. 'I took part in fighting in Ramadi and Tikrit and Salaheddin and Baiji and Al-Qayyarah... but the fighting here in (ISIS's) stronghold was the most violent,' he said. ISIS swept across much of Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland in a lightning offensive in mid-2014, proclaiming a 'caliphate' straddling Iraq and neighbouring Syria. Imposing its brutal interpretation of Islamic law, the group committed widespread atrocities and organised or inspired deadly attacks in Iraq, Syria and abroad. French President Emmanuel Macron was among the first world leaders to offer his congratulations. 'Mosul liberated from Daesh,' he tweeted. 'Homage from France to all those, with our troops, who contributed to this victory.' British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon congratulated al-Abadi and the 'Iraqi forces who have been fighting on the ground with great bravery'. The European Union called the victory 'a decisive step in the campaign to eliminate terrorist control in parts of Iraq'. IS has lost most of the territory it once controlled, and the coalition is aiming to oust the jihadists from their Syrian stronghold Raqqa. The city is under assault by US-backed Arab and Kurdish forces. Iraqi forces launched their campaign to recapture Mosul in October, seizing its eastern side in January and launching the battle for its western part the next month. But the fight grew tougher when security forces entered the densely populated Old City on the western bank of the Tigris River, which divides the city. Even in the final days of the battle, thousands of civilians remained trapped inside the Old City and some of those who fled arrived grief-stricken after losing relatives in jihadist sniper fire and bombardments. The United Nations said Sunday that 920,000 civilians have fled their homes since the battle for Mosul began last autumn. 'It's a relief to know that the military campaign in Mosul is ending. The fighting may be over, but the humanitarian crisis is not,' Lise Grande, the UN's humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, said in a statement. The recapture of Mosul will also not mark the end of the threat posed by IS, which controls territory elsewhere in Iraq and is able to carry out frequent bombings in government-held areas. In Iraq it holds towns including Tal Afar and Hawijah in the north, as well as territory in western Anbar province. It also continues to hold significant territory in Syria, including in Raqa, where the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are battling to oust the jihadist group after penetrating its fortified historic centre. While the loss of Mosul is a major blow to the jihadists, it is not a fatal one. 'We should not view the recapture of Mosul as the death knell for ISIS,' said Patrick Martin, Iraq analyst at the Institute for the Study of War. 'If security forces do not take steps to ensure that gains against IS are sustained for the long-term, then ISIS could theoretically resurge and recapture urban terrain,' he said. The black shaded area shows the tiny portion of Mosul still under Islamic State control, which is said to be no larger than 600 square yards in the Old City, which is shown inside the red border
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Meet BAUM: the body positive pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen fans will love At only 20, pop singer Sabrina Teitelbaum is using her platform to sing about social issues queer relationships and sexual discovery. The Los Angeles musician who goes by BAUM is writing about what she knows: whether it's a same-sex romance in "Hot Water" or taking revenge on a two-timing ex on "Effortless." With her latest single "This Body," BAUM is tackling an issue that affects many individuals, body image, which she does in a way that blends the dark-pop ethos of MUNA and the danceability of Carly Rae Jepsen. One day she was walking to the USC practice rooms when she was catcalled about her "fat ass." While it wasn't the first time she was cat-called, it was particularly bothersome for BAUM that day. So, she tackled it the most effective way she knew how: through song. On "This Body," BAUM takes her power back and details the female experience. Ahead of her debut EP Ungodly due March 16, BAUM opened up about her body image issues, music influences and empowering others through song.
How did you get into making music? I was obsessed with music from a young age because my parents played it around the house all the time. My dad played a lot of classic rock and I always listened to radio pop in the car. I started writing songs and singing because I wanted to imitate what I was hearing and also make my own version of it. What was the concept behind your latest track "This Body"? This song was inspired by my frustration with beauty standards and being objectified by men on the street. I wrote the song one morning after being viscously catcalled. That experience sort of stirred up my anger surrounding the reality of being a woman: I wanted to get my power back. How do you want to inspire others with it? When I sing this song it reminds me to take my power back. I get stage anxiety and singing this song reminds me to be present and powerful in my body. My hope is that it has the same effect on people listening to it. Why is body positivity so important to you and especially critical now? Body positivity is very important to be on a personal level. Candidly, I've struggled with eating issues my whole life. When I found the body positivity movement I was recovering from a disorder. I feel lucky that I get to talk about it in my music and grateful to contribute to the feminist movement in my own minute way. These are issues we should be able to comfortably talk about in music and mainstream media in general. I do not buy into the stigma surrounding eating disorders or mental health struggles. How did the comments that you had to hear from other people affect you? Obviously it's wildly painful to hear something negative someone says about your appearance. I had a videographer who said that I "looked like a cow" in the video we shot together. Those things are never nice to hear, but I've worked very hard on loving myself, and it has gotten a lot easier to stop a take a second and be like "wait, no.... my body is amazing. I am healthy, I am beautiful, and what does this person's subjective opinion really matter anyway?" The judgmental things that people say about others are typically a direct window into how they treat themselves. Same thing goes for people who have cat called me on the street. It's obvious to me that people who do that are people who feel powerless and need to objectivity women to feel good about themselves. As someone who has had an eating disorder, how do you hope this song helps someone else who might deal with the same condition? Honestly, I just hope someone who is struggling can hear the song and remember that they are beautiful and realise that they're not alone in what they're going through. Personally, I do not know one woman who has never suffered from body image issues. When I was at my lowest point, I felt better remembering that there were other people in it with me. Sometimes one song or one quote can make you feel better for a brief moment and remind you that you don't have to look a certain way to be sexy. Which musicians inspire you? I am probably most influenced by specific artists rather than genres. When I was younger I listened to a lot of The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, etc. Recently I've been very inspired by artists such as Frank Ocean, Bon Iver and SZA. What's your dream collaboration? My dream collaboration is with Kanye West. He is one of my favourite artists and producers. I'd learn a lot from just talking to him about music let alone working with him. Reuse content
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Ryder Cup team-mates Justin Rose and Sergio Garcia share the lead heading into the final round of the Masters after a dramatic third day at Augusta National. Rose, who became the first English winner of the US Open for 43 years at Merion in 2013, carded a third round of 67 to finish six under par, with halfway joint leader Garcia shooting 70. Rickie Fowler was a shot off the lead after returning a 71, with 2015 champion Jordan Spieth another stroke back alongside compatriots Ryan Moore and Charley Hoffman. Tweet of the day Shot of the day Jordan Spieth found himself in the pine straw under the trees on the par-five 13th, a position similar to that from which playing partner Phil Mickelson played a brilliant shot on his way to the title in 2010. Spieth could have been forgiven for playing safe, but smashed a long iron on to the green from 230 yards and narrowly missed the eagle putt. Round of the day Rose was one over par for the day after seven holes, but birdied the par-five eighth and picked up five more shots coming home in a back nine of 31. The resulting 67 matched his lowest score in the Masters. Quote of the day "Jose sent me a beautiful message on Wednesday night, and you know, he has a good touch when it comes down to those things. It really meant a lot." Garcia reveals he received a message of support from two-time winner Jose Maria Olazabal. Statistic of the day Toughest hole For the first time this week the first hole was not the toughest and even gave up six birdies. The 18th played the most difficult in round three with Justin Rose making one of just five birdies, with 16 bogeys and two doubles leading to an average of 4.283. Easiest hole Unsurprisingly it was a par-five which played the easiest, with the 13th regaining its title from the opening day. Although there were no eagles, compared to two on the 15th, 24 of the 53-strong field made birdie, with just three bogeys recorded for an average of 4.604. On the up References to the late Seve Ballesteros, who would have celebrated his 60th birthday on Sunday. Garcia is looking to join Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal as Spanish champions at Augusta. On the slide Phil Mickelson began the day with birdies on the first two holes before making a mess of the short third, hitting an iron off the tee into a bunker and even duffing a pitch - a rare occurrence for someone with his short-game skills. The 46-year-old dropped three more shots on the front nine as a 74 dropped him out of contention to become the oldest ever Masters champion. Share or comment on this article Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.
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Iran Presses for Progress in Nuclear Negotiations MUNICH - As consultations continued here on a possible new cease-fire arrangement with Russia and Ukraine, Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said on Sunday that Tehran does not favor another extension of the talks on limiting its nuclear program and expects economic sanctions to be quickly lifted if an accord is reached. "Sanctions are a liability; you need to get rid of them if you want a solution," Mr. Zarif told a security conference. "This is the opportunity to do it, and we need to seize this opportunity," he said of the long effort to forge an agreement. "It may not be repeated." The nuclear talks have already been extended twice and face a late March deadline for hammering out the main outlines of an accord. The deadline for completing a detailed agreement is the end of June. With a Republican-led Congress in Washington, an extension of the talks is virtually a political impossibility for the United States. And Secretary of State John Kerry, who met twice here with Mr. Zarif, including 90 minutes early Sunday morning, has been making an intensive effort to negotiate an accord. Mr. Kerry and the German and French foreign ministers here have also been busy trying to see if a new arrangement can be negotiated to end the fighting in eastern Ukraine without conceding too much autonomy to areas occupied by Ukrainian separatists and Russian soldiers. On Sunday, Germany announced that the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France aim to meet in Minsk on Wednesday to continue work on resolving the Ukraine crisis. Diplomats will gather in Berlin on Tuesday to try to arrange the summit, the German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement. Mr. Kerry issued a statement of support for the European efforts and noted that Washington is concerned by new reports of "fierce fighting today in Debaltseve and Mariupol, and press references to new Russian convoys into eastern Ukraine." Debates over Ukraine dominated the Munich Security Conference, with sharp splits emerging between Germany and prominent American politicians like Senator John McCain over the wisdom of supplying defensive arms to Ukraine to raise the cost to Russia of its military interventions in eastern Ukraine. Moscow continues to deny the involvement of its military. But one of the main prompts for Germany and France to try to work out a new arrangement in eastern Ukraine has been a serious discussion in Washington about providing lethal, if defensive, military equipment to Kiev, something that both the German and French leaders have opposed. In a speech on Sunday, Mr. McCain said the European opposition missed the intimate connection between military pressure and successful diplomacy. Asking if Ukraine could ever defeat Russia is the wrong question, he said. "The right question is: If we help Ukrainians increase the military cost to the Russian forces that have invaded their country, how long can Putin sustain a war that he tells his people is not happening? That is why we must provide defensive arms to Ukraine." He said that in his view, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin does not want a diplomatic solution, but "he wants to dominate Ukraine" as a "prelude to further aggression." The German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, brushed away the criticism. Negotiations for a peaceful solution were vital, he said. "We must make sure we use this opportunity to contain and then defuse these conflicts," he said. "It would be irresponsible not to use the opportunities we have." Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, said that if the Russian goal is special status and a form of political autonomy for the east within a constitutional, sovereign Ukraine, that could be acceptable. "But if the real objective is different, to have a grasp on Ukraine or at least on eastern Ukraine and Ukrainian foreign policy," he said, then that would be unacceptable for Europe. President Obama and Mr. Kerry clearly would like to finish the deal with Iran. Mr. Kerry has publicly outlined an ambitious goal for what an agreement should achieve: an accord should slow Iran's nuclear program enough so that it would take Tehran at least a year to produce enough material for a nuclear bomb if it later decided to "break out" of an accord. Any agreement that falls short of that standard would face sharp criticism in Congress, where many lawmakers have vowed to vote for additional sanctions if the talks fail. Mr. Zarif insisted in October that Iran was opposed to prolonging the talks before they were last extended in November. And it remains to be seen if Iran will make the compromises that would be needed to seal an agreement. "I do not believe another extension is in the interests of anybody, as I did not believe this extension was either necessary or useful," he said Sunday.
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The region of space enclosed by open system boundaries is usually called a control volume. It may or may not correspond to physical walls. It is convenient to define the shape of the control volume so that all flow of matter, in or out, occurs perpendicular to its surface. One may consider a process in which the matter flowing into and out of the system is chemically homogeneous. Then the inflowing matter performs work as if it were driving a piston of fluid into the system. Also, the system performs work as if it were driving out a piston of fluid. Through the system walls that do not pass matter, heat () and work () transfers may be defined, including shaft work. Classical thermodynamics considers processes for a system that is initially and finally in its own internal state of thermodynamic equilibrium, with no flow. This is feasible also under some restrictions, if the system is a mass of fluid flowing at a uniform rate. Then for many purposes a process, called a flow process, may be considered in accord with classical thermodynamics as if the classical rule of no flow were effective. For the present introductory account, it is supposed that the kinetic energy of flow, and the potential energy of elevation in the gravity field, do not change, and that the walls, other than the matter inlet and outlet, are rigid and motionless. Under these conditions, the first law of thermodynamics for a flow process states: the increase in the internal energy of a system is equal to the amount of energy added to the system by matter flowing in and by heating, minus the amount lost by matter flowing out and in the form of work done by the system. Under these conditions, the first law for a flow process is written:
\mathrm{d}U=\mathrm{d}U_{in}+\delta Q-\mathrm{d}U_{out}-\delta W\,
where and respectively denote the average internal energy entering and leaving the system with the flowing matter. There are then two types of work performed: 'flow work' described above, which is performed on the fluid in the control volume (this is also often called'work'), and'shaft work', which may be performed by the fluid in the control volume on some mechanical device with a shaft. These two types of work are expressed in the equation:
\delta W=\mathrm{d}(P_{out}V_{out})-\mathrm{d}(P_{in}V_{in})+\delta W_{shaft}\,
Substitution into the equation above for the control volume cv yields:
\mathrm{d}U_{cv}=\mathrm{d}U_{in}+\mathrm{d}(P_{in}V_{in}) - \mathrm{d}U_{out}-\mathrm{d}(P_{out}V_{out})+\delta Q-\delta W_{shaft}\,
The definition of enthalpy,, permits us to use this thermodynamic potential to account jointly for internal energy and work in fluids for a flow process:
\mathrm{d}U_{cv}=\mathrm{d}H_{in}-\mathrm{d}H_{out}+\delta Q-\delta W_{shaft}\,
During steady-state operation of a device (see turbine, pump, and engine), any system property within the control volume is independent of time. Therefore, the internal energy of the system enclosed by the control volume remains constant, which implies that in the expression above may be set equal to zero. This yields a useful expression for the power generation or requirement for these devices with chemical homogeneity in the absence of chemical reactions:
\frac{\delta W_{shaft}}{\mathrm{d}t}=\frac{\mathrm{d}H_{in}}{\mathrm{d}t}- \frac{\mathrm{d}H_{out}}{\mathrm{d}t}+\frac{\delta Q}{\mathrm{d}t} \,
This expression is described by the diagram above. ==See also==
Process flow diagram
==References==
Continuum mechanics
Thermodynamics
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Man charged with two counts of attempted murder in Belfast 61-year-old driver was arrested at the scene of last night's riot in Ardoyne Police scrambled to lift the vehicle off the 16-year-old after she was trapped Violence broke out after Protestant loyalists were blocked from marching up contested strip 25 officers injured in chaos, including one who was left with a severed ear By Steph Cockroft for MailOnline
A 61-year-old driver has been charged with attempted murder after a teenage girl was struck down by a car during a riot in northern Belfast. A huge team of police scrambled to lift the vehicle off the 16-year-old after she became trapped during the 'night of shame' which erupted following an Orange Order parade. While she was being rescued, a policeman was hit in the face by a bottle and lost a tooth. Other officers were forced to give her first aid while separating missile-throwing loyalists from republicans. Scroll down for video A driver was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder at the scene of a riot in Belfast after a 16-year-old girl was knocked down by a car. The 61-year-old has since been charged and will appear in court tomorrow The 16-year-old girl, who was rescued by officers, has been taken to hospital and is said to now be in a stable condition The girl is now in a stable condition in hospital. The suspect, who was arrested at the scene, will appear in Belfast Magistrates' Court tomorrow morning charged with two counts of attempted murder, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said. Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin said: 'I am just thankful today because many of us held our breath, and the fact that one of the girls has survived is to some extent remarkable. 'When we watched it many of us feared the worst and I am thankful that her injuries are reported as not life-threatening.' The violence broke out after Protestant loyalists were blocked from marching up a contested strip of Ardoyne during the annual parade. Shield-wielding members of the PSNI were forced to use water cannon and fire batons after they were pelted with bricks, bolts and bottles. Some 25 officers were injured, including one inspector had his ear cut off. Another officer was treated for a suspected fractured skill while two were treated for concussion in the 'Well Being Hub' - a well equipped, 16-bed, first-aid and triage centre - which had been established nearby. The Federation said: 'Rioters used bricks, bottles and ball bearings as their "weapons" against our colleagues. When they had nothing else, they resorted to fists and hair pulling.' The spokesman added: 'These are cold, hard statistics from a night of shame. Behind each one is a human story, of the understandable reaction at home whenever officers said they'd been bitten, struck by an object or punched.' A huge team of police scrambled to lift the vehicle off the 16-year-old after she became trapped during the violent 'night of shame' which erupted following an Orange Order parade PFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said his members had borne the brunt of frenzied attacks. He said: 'It really is very hard to imagine what goes through the minds of people as they launch vicious attacks on officers who are upholding a lawful determination or who try to bite off the finger of an officer. 'Some images of the evening will remain with me for a very long time including the injured inspector being pulled from the frontline to the relative safety of the rear of a Land Rover; the enormous effort of officers who lifted a car on its side to free a trapped teenage girl; the erection of protective grilles by local residents fearful of what might happen and the patient and professional work to restore order on the streets. 'It has always been and is still unacceptable for our officers to be subjected to such sustained violence at very close quarter.' He said an officer's finger was almost bitten off but was saved by his motorcycle glove. It is believed he needed 12 stitches. The teenager was seen being carried into an ambulance on a stretcher by a two paramedics after the crash in Ardoyne Mr Martin said: 'I would want to pay tribute to the officers who were under my leadership yesterday. They did a professional and brave job. 'At one stage they were in the middle of three opposing factions. They did their duty with courage and professionalism and the humanity of policing was shown very starkly when they, despite a number of them having been struck by the same car, manhandled that vehicle up on its side physically so that the young girl could be rescued and hopefully very important life-saving treatment rendered.' The senior officer said violence was not orchestrated by paramilitaries and blamed young people exploiting the tense situation. He noted efforts by loyalist and republican community leaders, including Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly, to defuse tensions.
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What are the rules for donating to UK political parties? What are the rules for donations? Under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA), which governs donations to political parties, any contribution of more than £500 must come from a UK-based individual or company. What about donations under £500? Contributions of £500 or less are, somewhat confusingly, not considered to be "donations." This means political parties are not required to keep records of the names and addresses of people making such payments. However, it is an offence to attempt to evade the controls on donations, for instance by donating more than £500 via multiple small payments. Can you donate from abroad? No, except if the amount is £500 or less, because that would not technically be considered a donation. An Electoral Commission spokesperson said: "An overseas individual can give an amount under £500." Why is the Brexit party's donations system considered controversial? Nigel Farage's new political vehicle, the Brexit party, is almost entirely reliant upon small contributions, facilitated by the online payments platform PayPal. The party's website says it can only accept donations totalling more than £500 from someone on the UK electoral register. Anyone making a donation of more than £500 is asked to tick a box allowing PayPal to give their name and address to the party. Why is this a potential problem? The Brexit party has been clear it would record and report anyone making a donation of more than £500, as required by law. However if PayPal is not routinely giving small donors" details to the party, it is not clear whether it would be able to tell if someone was attempting to evade the £500 threshold. There are also concerns that the party's reliance upon small cash contributions could mean it is being funded by foreign money, albeit legally. What has the Brexit party said? The Brexit party has rejected claims it could be breaking or circumventing the law. Farage has said the party does not accept foreign currency and that the party has been in contact with the commission to ensure its donation system meets legal requirements. "I've got a team of four accountants working on this. I'm not stupid," Farage said. What has the Electoral Commission said? In response to concerns raised by the former prime minister Gordon Brown, officers from the commission visited the Brexit party's offices on Tuesday to examine its donations system. The day before, a commission spokesperson said: "As part of our active oversight and regulation of these rules, we are attending the Brexit party's office tomorrow to conduct a review of the systems it has in place to receive funds, including donations over £500 that have to be from the UK only. "If there's evidence that the law may have been broken, we will consider that in line with our enforcement policy." Why does this matter? There are concerns that the UK's pre-internet electoral law is not fit for purpose and vulnerable to manipulation by foreign actors. Last year, the commission recommended that methods used by businesses for risk assessment and customer due diligence should be used to prevent foreign money from influencing elections. In February, a parliamentary committee called for the government to urgently modernise electoral law, in particular the absence of rules governing online political advertising.
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Abby Elliott talks about "Odd Mom Out" (and does her Drew Barrymore impression) share pin email "Saturday Night Live" alum Abby Elliott, daughter of comedian Chris Elliott, visits Kathie Lee and Hoda to talk about the new season of comedy series "Odd Mom Out," on which she plays snooty Brooke Von-Weber. She also breaks out her dead-on impressions of actresses Drew Barrymore, Anna Faris and Joan Cusack.
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In any event, I accept your grammatical criticisms and have modified the text to a superior standard as per your request. The "Senior school" section needs surgery throughout. TONY (talk)
Perhaps you would care to enlighten us as to the "surgery" required? It is an entirely factual account. OK—are there chunks of text longer than single phrases that are directly copied? If so, consider direct quotes, or paraphrase. Usually, text from sources can be improved, which solves the problem. TONY (talk)
Much of it is paraphrased. Notwithstanding your original criticisms, I think the history section is reasonably well-written. There is still a lot of work to be done on this article, however it should be noted that it is difficult to write about the facilities and various educational programs of the school without the article appearing to sound like a marketing brochure for prospective students. As a former student myself, I am taking as much care as reasonably possible to ensure a balanced view is provided. :Please do exercise that balance you talk of; WP is fussy about what might be self-promotion. I'll have a look now at what you've done. TONY (talk)
::Hardly any change; 28 and 8 pounds for boarders and dayboys. Looks like a different ratio to the current one (infobox; BTW, why are the day fees over such a huge range (10 to 20 thousand dollars)?). Query the 100 pound a year salary for Broughton in the 1830s—sounds like a HUMUNGOUS salary. It's 12.5 day fees and almost four boarders. Compare with today's fees. Looks OK. So I'd question the assumption in that source that it was a low salary. TONY (talk)
Tony, I have paraphrased the sources to which I have access. If you believe the assumption made in those sources is incorrect, please find another source that suggests that the salaries were indeed high for the time. As for the seemingly large variance in fees, this is to do with what grade you are in. Meaning, if you're in Kindergarten, you'd pay significantly less than you would if you're in Year 12.
:Thanks. I'm time-stressed until early March now; just popping in for quick visits. Tony (talk)
Who is anon 117.104.178.1? Probably a teacher at the school. It's an excellent copy-edit. TONY (talk)
== Scipionic Circle ==
Is there any reason why this is omitted from the Academic Clubs sub-heading? The clubs are as exclusive as each other, there is no ranking of which is the most prestigious. Quintus132 (talk)
== images and infobox ==
I'd get rid of the useless infobox; the info is probably in the main text already, and if not, should be. At the very least, it could be transferred to the lead to make that stronger. The logo deserves to be somewhere, but perhaps further down. With such a superb campus, I can't believe that a stunning shot can't be used at the top right. The image of the school entrance is pretty awful, marred by multiple traffic lights and a less-than-compelling background. Tony (talk)
== Query quote ==
The King's School was founded 1831 for 'the benefit of the Children of the Upper Classes of Society in the Colony'. Unsure who inserted this, but why the capital letters? They suggest this was a quote itself in Maters's book of an early 19th century commentator. Can someone clear this up? Tony (talk)
I have taken the liberty to remove the Master's quote, given that the reference was general rather than specific, and it seems to be included herewith for the purposes of making private schools look bad. == The ==
I agree with the recent move. Tony (talk)
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In the past year, prices have remained "very stable," but in 2019 there have been fewer transactions, said Marcus von Busse, the project manager for Engel & Völkers on Ibiza. A number of factors, including Europe's unstable economic outlook, have resulted in inventory that is "a bit lower than usual," he said. "There are no bargains." Sellers "are quite stuck on their price," said Maxim Rettich, an owner of Ibiza Now Real Estate. At least until after the summer, "when the rentals are done," he added, and "they are more eager to sell and more open to negotiate." In the country, "strict new regulations" limit what can be built, Mr. von Busse said. With increased tourism and a high season that stretches from mid-May to mid-September, he said, "there is a desire to protect nature and to limit the number of properties on the island." Many buyers are waiting for the results of the May 26 Balearic Islands regional election, in which all 59 seats in parliament are in play. At stake is whether the two-year-old moratorium on new building licenses and strict renting rules will be extended or lifted, Mr. Rettich said. Who Buys on Ibiza About 20 percent of buyers on Ibiza are from mainland Spain, agents said. The rest are from other European countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Italy, as well as England and Scandinavia. And agents are beginning to see buyers from the United States, Russia, China, India and the Middle East as well, Mr. Van Den Driessche said. The vast majority of foreign buyers are seeking second homes, Mr. von Busse said. The areas most popular with foreign buyers are in the south, where Ibiza Town offers many entertainment and travel options, and "where the sunset views are stunning," Ms. de Boer said. Especially desirable are areas close to the center of Ibiza Town, like Talamanca, a beach resort; Cap Martinet, home to the island's jet set; and Can Rimbau, a luxury enclave next to the village of Jesús. Buying Basics A foreign identity number, or NIE, is required to buy property in Spain if you are not a citizen. In the Balearic Islands, transfer taxes on resale properties are on a sliding scale, from 8 percent on a property sold for 400,000 euros ($446,000) to 11 percent on properties valued at more than 1 million euros ($1.1 million), Mr. Van Den Driessche said. New houses and apartments are subject to a 10 percent value-added tax. There is also a stamp duty of 1.2 percent of the sale price. Notary costs, paid by the buyer, usually do not exceed 2,000 euros ($2,230). Buyers are also advised to retain a lawyer for due diligence; the fee is about 1 percent of the sale price. Mortgage are available to foreign buyers, and the property appraisal required to obtain a mortgage costs about 500 euros ($560); other costs associated with getting a mortgage total about 1 percent of the loan principal. Foreign buyers who spend at least 500,000 euros ($560,000) on a home may obtain a Golden Visa that allows them and their families to live and work in Spain, Ms. de Boer said. Websites Languages and Currency Catalan, Spanish; euro (1 euro = $1.12) Taxes and Fees The annual property taxes on this home are 1,200 euros ($1,340). Contact Inge Van Knippenberg, Prestige Properties, 011-34-971-19-04-55; ibizaprestige.com For weekly email updates on residential real estate news, sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @nytrealestate.
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Florida girl shoots herself reaching for candy in purse A week ago, four-year-old Yanelly Zoller was staying at her grandparents' home in Florida when she reached into her grandmother's purse looking for a sweet treat, but instead found a gun. Yanelly, known to her family as 'Nelly,' accidentally pulled the trigger, shooting herself to death. The toddler was pronounced dead from a single gunshot wound to the chest on September 14 at the Tampa residence of her paternal grandparents, Michael and Christie Zoller. Her 22-year-old father Shane Zoller told the Tampa Bay Times on Wednesday that he was on his way to pick up Nelly to take her to the local splash pads when he saw police vehicles with their lights flashing outside his parents' home. 'She just wanted some damn candy,' Zoller said of his late daughter's motivation to reach into her grandmother's bag. Tampa police told the newspaper they are investigating the case, but have no reason to doubt Zoller's version of events. Speaking to DailyMail.com on Thursday, a spokesperson for the Tampa Police Department would not confirm that the firearm found inside Christie Zoller's purse belonged to her and would not comment on whether the woman had a gun permit. He added that the shooting appears to be a 'tragic accident' and that he does not think any charges will be filed, although police are still investigating the incident. Shane Zoller was still in high school when he became a father, and if his parents had not helped with Nelly, he would have had to drop out of school. He says Nelly was 'attached to her nana's hip" and loved staying at her grandparents' house. Zoller shared custody with the girl's mother. He now has one surviving child, a son, and another on the way. According to her obituary, Nelly Zoller loved playing with her puppy, watching the animated series Shimmer and Shine, jumping on the couch and doing her makeup. Family members have launched fundraisers on the sites GoFundMe.com and YouCaring.com to help Nelly's parents with her funeral expenses. As of Thursday morning, just under $1,700 has been raised from both campaigns. 'Our little angel's life was short-lived, however her beauty and magic will linger forever,' the description of the YouCaring campaign read. 'In her 4 years of life, she touched so many lives as an Angel from God would, a little Angel sent to us from Heaven. Now she is back in God's arms'
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Forget Donald Trump, what's the US done to deserve Hillary Clinton, asks RICHARD LITTLEJOHN While the Republican front-runner was once again dominating the media coverage of the primaries, Hillary Clinton sewed up the Democratic nomination After Super Tuesday, the nightmare scenario has moved a step closer to reality. America is on the brink of electing a polarising president with a long history of dishonesty, scandals and shady finances. No, not Donald Trump. While the Republican front-runner was once again dominating the media coverage of the primaries, Hillary Clinton effectively sewed up the Democratic nomination. Her sole challenger, self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders, is still in the race, but Hillary is now unstoppable. She was nailed on for the nomination before a single vote was cast. Nobody of substance was prepared to stand against her. They were all terrified of the wrath of the Clinton attack machine, which has left a trail of bodies in its wake over three decades. Nevertheless, her preordained progression towards the White House masks a distinct lack of enthusiasm on the part of the electorate. Turn-out in the Democratic primaries has been well down, compared with the wave of excitement generated by the Barack Obama bandwagon eight years ago. His optimistic "Yes We Can" has been replaced by Hillary's implied "It's My Turn." In a direct inversion of John F. Kennedy's dictum, Mrs Clinton asks not what she can do for her country, but what it can do for her. Hillary's sense of entitlement dwarfs even that of our own Cherie Blair, who still bristles privately that she had to play a supporting role to her husband. Insulting But while the Wicked Witch has settled for a pot of gold and a vast property empire, Hillary has unfinished political business. Share this article Share 12 shares Not that the Clintons are short of a shilling. When Bill left office in 2001, Hillary complained that they were flat broke. Yet 15 years later, they are reported to be worth in the region of $110 million (about £80 million). Hillary is said to account for more than a third of that money. Which is why it was absurd to hear her condemning the wealthy and powerful at her victory rally on Tuesday night. Turn-out in the Democratic primaries has been well down, compared with the wave of excitement generated by the Barack Obama bandwagon eight years ago Wealth and power are what the Clintons live and breathe. Through their charitable foundation, which allows them to lord it like potentates, they have taken tens of millions of dollars from dubious foreign donors. Meanwhile, only 10 per cent of the foundation's income has actually gone to charity. Equally insulting this week was Mrs Clinton claiming to champion those who are struggling to "put a little away for their retirement." There's little chance of Hillary having to choose between heating and eating in her old age. You won't find the former First Lady spooning cat food out of the tin, in front of one bar of an electric fire, at her home in upstate New York, while Bill wraps himself in a moth-eaten blanket and watches a scratchy video of Debbie Does Dallas. This is a woman who, while railing against the bankers, has made a fortune from financial institutions. She was paid $675,000 by Goldman Sachs for three speeches. When asked why she accepted so much money, she replied: "That's what they offered." In other words, it would be rude not to. Her answer recalled that of the notorious American bank robber Slick Willie Sutton. When asked why he robbed banks, he replied: "That's where the money is." Coincidentally, Hillary's husband is also known as Slick Willie, not because he robs banks, but because he has made a career out of extricating himself from sticky situations. After Super Tuesday, it looks as if Hillary and The Donald will be going head-to-head for the White House, unless the Trump Travelling Circus can somehow be derailed - which appears increasingly unlikely Bill has been involved in a series of "bimbo eruptions," most notably the Monica Lewinsky affair, which led to impeachment proceedings being brought against him. He came dangerously close to being kicked out of office for lying. Throughout, Hillary stood by her man. One of Bill's many conquests, Gennifer Flowers - who was his mistress for 12 years - recently came out of the woodwork to condemn Hillary for condoning his behaviour and hinted that there was more dirt to come. Women who cross the Clintons have to endure a torrent of ordure poured from a great height. Lewinsky's life was blighted for ever. I recently met a ferociously bright, thirtysomething professor of U.S. politics at Cambridge.
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Poland: Priest's Abuse Trial Opens A Polish priest accused of sexually abusing minors in Poland and in the Dominican Republic, where he led a parish for almost a decade, offered to serve a seven-year jail sentence as his trial opened on Friday, according to a spokeswoman for a regional court in Warsaw. The priest, the Rev. Wojciech Gil, is charged with committing 10 crimes, most of which relate to the molestation of boys under the age of 15. If convicted, he could serve up to 15 years in prison. During the trial, Father Gil for the first time since his arrest did not deny the charges, the court spokeswoman said, but it is unclear whether he pleaded guilty. Under Polish law, a defendant can offer to serve a jail term for some crimes without admitting to any guilt. The trial resumes on Wednesday.
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Hello, I'm TYelliot. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to History of Norway— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. TYelliot | Talk | Contribs
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to History of Norway. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. TYelliot | Talk | Contribs
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Summers are warm and hot with occasional showers being the only real variation in weather. ==Demographics==
As of the census of 2000, there were 65,660 people, 23,759 households, and 14,873 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,515.2 people per square mile (584.9/km2). There were 25,703 housing units at an average density of 593.1 per square mile (229.0/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 64.65% White, 17% African American, 0.40% Native American, 1.65% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 13.32% from other races, and 2.17% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any ethnicity/nationality were 17.83% of the population. There were 23,759 households out of which 32.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.2% were married couples living together, 14.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.4% were non-families. 26.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.27. In the city, the population was spread out with 27.0% under the age of 18, 18.1% from 18 to 24, 29.8% from 25 to 44, 15.8% from 45 to 64, and 9.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 28 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.7 males. The median income for a household in the city was $31,672, and the median income for a family was $41,433. Males had a median income of $29,780 versus $22,428 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,770. About 15.5% of families and 22.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 27.0% of those under age 18 and 11.7% of those age 65 or over. ==Government==
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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates the Hamilton Unit, a pre-release facility in Bryan. Hamilton opened as an adult prison facility. It was renovated for juveniles and, in mid-1997, re-opened as the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) J.W. Hamilton Jr. State School. On June 15, 2003, the facility was transferred back to the TDCJ. The TDCJ also operates the Bryan District Parole Office in nearby College Station. ===Federal===
The United States Postal Service operates the Bryan and Downtown Bryan post offices. The Federal Bureau of Prisons operates the Federal Prison Camp, Bryan, a women's prison, is located in Bryan.
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Tim Berners-Lee says the internet could be 'weaponised at scale' Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the internet, has warned that large technology firms must be better regulated to prevent the web from being 'weaponised at scale'. The 62-year-old computer scientist from London made the warning in an open letter on the 29th birthday of the internet. Berners-Lee has accused technology giants of spreading misinformation, helping run questionable political advertising campaigns, and causing people to lose control of their personal data. Scroll down for video 'In recent years, we've seen conspiracy theories trend on social media platforms, fake Twitter and Facebook accounts stoke social tensions, external actors interfere in elections, and criminals steal troves of personal data,' Berners-Lee wrote in an open letter marking the 29th anniversary of his invention. The concentration of power among a small number of platforms - including Twitter, Facebook and Google - has caused these problems to get worse, he said. These companies 'control which ideas and opinions are seen and shared'. 'What was once a rich selection of blogs and websites has been compressed under the powerful weight of a few dominant platforms,' Berners-Lee wrote. The internet's biggest firms consolidate their power by buying up new innovations and poaching the industry's top talents, making it difficult for others to compete. Share this article Share 20 shares 'A legal or regulatory framework that accounts for social objectives may help ease those tensions,' he said. Berners-Lee added that attempting to coordinate the incentives of the technology sector and the wider-public will require consultations with a diverse group of people from civil society, academia, business, government and the arts. The computer scientist, who in 1980 described the concept of a globally-connected system through which scientists could share information that would go on to form the basis of the world wide web, warned of 'two myths' that 'limit our collective imagination' when attempting to solve problems with the internet. 'The myth that advertising is the only possible business model for online companies, and the myth that it's too late to change the way platforms operate. On both points we need to be a little more creative,' he said. 'I want the web to reflect our hopes and fulfil our dreams, rather than magnify our fears and deepen our divisions.' Berners-Lee is widely considered as one of the founding fathers of the internet. In 1989 he published his landmark paper, 'Information Management: A Proposal', built the first WWW server and web browser 'WorldWideWeb.app'. When he first dreamt up his information sharing model, the British computer scientist envisioned it as a free platform for collaboration and the exchange of ideas. Since the mid-90s Berners-Lee has used his platform to fight for greater internet accessibility worldwide and to challenge what he perceives as obstacles to his original vision for the web. In November 2017, the 62-year-old warned 'the system is failing' when it comes to the internet, and that the future of open online communication is under threat. In an in-depth interview with The Guardian, Berners-Lee explained that he feels his creation is being used to spread misinformation and to polarise debate. Advertising platforms and AI algorithms used by big firms like Facebook and Google can be used by third parties with ulterior motives to spread propaganda, for political or financial gain. High profile cases have included attempts by Russian operatives to influence the outcome of elections in the US, and a group of Macedonian teenagers who spread political clickbait fake news on Facebook to cash in on Google's AdSense revenues. Speaking to The Guardian, he said: 'The system is failing. The way ad revenue works with clickbait is not fulfilling the goal of helping humanity promote truth and democracy, so I am concerned. 'People are being distorted by very finely trained AIs that figure out how to distract them. 'We are so used to these systems being manipulated that people just think that's how the internet works. We need to think about what it should be like.' Also under fire are attempts to remove net neutrality protections. Net neutrality is the principle that all internet traffic should be be treated equally. Whether you're trying to buy a necklace on Etsy, stream a series on Netflix, or upload a photo to Facebook, your internet service provider has to load all of those websites equally quickly. If net neutrality is lost, internet service providers (ISPs) could create special 'fast lanes' for content providers willing to pay more.
The World Wide Web was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist born on June 8, 1955. Having studied physics at Queen's College Oxford, graduating in 1976, he started as an engineer in the telecommunications and microprocessor software industry.
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"Yeah, it was a jump," agrees Haggerty. "But watching the non-indictment on TV and then going out into the streets..." He pauses, as he does frequently. "It was a jump that I felt was essential to... who I am. Because the silent, I-don't-wanna-mess-up, fearful person that had emerged out of me is not who I truly am. And, on the night of the non-indictment, I got real clarity of what I could be doing with my art in terms of speaking up, speaking out and getting outside of myself." For an outside observer, Macklemore can be a difficult cultural figure to untangle. Haggerty grew up as a middle-class kid in Seattle, releasing his debut album, The Language of My World, in 2005 before hooking up with Lewis in 2008. As producer, Lewis takes a hands-on approach, not only making beats, but also pushing Haggerty into lyrical spaces outside of his comfort zone. The pair have never been afraid to tackle social issues - 2012 single Same Love was a passionate argument for gay and lesbian rights, which brought with it a fair amount of criticism for piggybacking on other people's struggles (rapper Le1f tweeted: "I'm gonna write a song about disabled people, or the aboriginal struggle. cuz mama needs a new fur coat."). But much of the duo's output is dedicated to sillier songs such as Let's Eat ("Fuck it man, I love fried shit!") and Brad Pitt's Cousin. Critics don't seem able to agree on what Macklemore should be doing: some say he needs to stop trying to write the white To Pimp a Butterfly and concentrate on his goofier pop side; others say he is able to use his rarefied position for good, so why undermine it with goofy pop hits about fast food? Their knack for novelty suggests they might not have treated a song about white privilege with the respect it deserves, yet nothing could be further from the truth. Hyper-aware of the criticism that might come their way, the pair reached out to black activists, scholars and songwriters to bring them onboard. "All very sceptical of what we were doing at the beginning," says Lewis, "and rightly so." Georgia Roberts, Lewis's thesis adviser from his time at the University of Washington, gave them a weekly, three-hour schooling on race that lasted six months. Haggerty and Lewis even promised to support Black Lives Matter, the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, Youth Undoing Institutional Racism and the Tyree Scott Freedom School (a project of American Friends Service Committee and the People's Institute) and Black Youth Project 100, putting out a statement that read: "As a company (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis LLC), we are committed to a long-term investment of our time, resources, finances and creative capacities towards supporting black-led organising and anti-racist education and discourse." In the words of rapper Talib Kweli: "What [Macklemore is] attempting to do is exactly what activists ask white allies to do when dealing with the struggle. He is talking to other white folks on the song. He has black voices on the song. He is dealing with the issue head on. It's not something that comes from an abstract place - it comes from a real place." After countless lunches, phone calls, meetings and "awesome conversations," they were left with something unique. But they had also been through a learning process so steep - "the more I learned, the more I realised that I know really very little" is how Lewis puts it - that they began to question themselves and their motivations. "Often you lose perspective on a song," explains Haggerty. "But it's more like: "Do we get a bass, do we get a live drummer, I don't know, let's go home and figure it out later." This was more like: "Should we even be doing this? Should this come out into the world?"" Did the duo ever wonder if the answer to all their self-analysis on White Privilege II was actually quite simple: that white people should stop making hip-hop? Haggerty nods: "Ryan hit a certain point in making the song that was kinda like: "Wait... so if this and this and this and this, then... what are we doing?"" They both crack up before Haggerty continues. "It's hard for me to be objective, but I feel that, as long as I'm using my voice for a cause that is greater than my own means, there is still a reason to continue."
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The announcement of the government's Help to Save initiative as part of Wednesday's budget will be of little comfort to those people living pay cheque to pay cheque - an increasingly significant proportion of the population. Almost half of UK adults have less than £500 set aside for emergencies. The Tories hope to combat this by rewarding employees on in-work benefits who are able to put aside £50 a month with a top-up of up to £1,200 after four years. However, as Labour has pointed out, low wages and cuts to benefits tend to make saving for the future quite difficult. Take comfort, though, in the knowledge that your inability to save money is probably your own fault.
For instance: anyone of my age who is trying to save for a deposit will be familiar with the portrayal of our generation as spendthrifts. A recent article in the Financial Times entitled "why millennials go on holiday rather than saving for a pension" sums up this perception of people in their 20s and 30s as shallow and profligate. "Although their financial prognosis is poor, the millennials are a very powerful consumer group," it said. "The concept of saving seems so futile, they spend freely, insisting on a #yolo lifestyle (translation for oldies - you only live once) despite their restricted means." This naturally provoked widespread ire from those younger people spending up to two-thirds of their incomes on preposterously high rents. Once you factor in high living costs and student loan repayments, then you're lucky if you have enough left for a cocktail at the end of the month. But wait, big spender - you weren't actually thinking about having that cocktail, were you? Because the moment you do, some busybody will almost certainly come along and point out that that's £7 that could be in your ISA, you squanderer. The implication is that unless you're sitting on a bare, stained mattress in an unheated hovel and knitting yourself a hair shirt, you have no right to whinge about the wealth gap. Such beady-eyed interest in the spending habits of others is a personal sore point, as I was pulled up by several readers last week for an article I wrote about generational injustice. My crimes? Taking a taxi and attending a party, expenses amounting to less than £20, which, granted, when I was on welfare would have been a huge sum, but which are now affordable in small doses. But never mind the rampant social inequalities at work in our country as a result of the buy-to-let boom, rising property prices, and the unfair concentration of wealth at the top - if I never get on the property ladder, it is probably down to my own improvidence. These days, you're at risk of this particular brand of supercilious financial monitoring regardless of your economic situation. I was once told that, despite growing up on benefits, we had not been "that poor" because we had a car (actually a Motability vehicle provided by the government for my disabled brother). All you need to hear is one mention of "flatscreen TVs" to know this unhelpful genre of interference is a class issue too. It's as though all working-class people need to do in order to drag their families out of poverty is to restrain themselves from entering a hire-purchase agreement on a telly. It's not helped by our media output, what with poverty porn such as Benefits Britain, The Big Benefits Handout, Benefits Street, and Benefits by the Sea reinforcing the "scrounger" narrative, and rightwing newspapers disproportionately highlighting cases of benefit fraud. The left would do well to admit that such people exist - anyone who has lived in a poor area has seen "problem families" who spend their lives on the dole. That's the genius of the narrative - it takes what some of us know to be true and multiplies it to stigmatise whole demographics and to maximise social divisions. It's a depressing state of affairs that is in part down to a culture of conspicuous consumption amplified by social media. If it has become the norm to flaunt one's spending, then it has also become the norm to comment on the finances of others. There no longer seems to be much faith that the majority of those who say they are struggling really are doing their best to keep their heads above water, even with the occasional treat - whether that be a packet of fags, a telly or a night out - to make life not just bearable but a little bit nice.
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Mexican drug lord 'Barbie' pleads guilty in US court Image copyright AP Image caption Edgar Valdez smiled when he was paraded in front of the media shortly after his arrest in 2010 The leader of a Mexican drug cartel, Edgar Valdez Villareal, has pleaded guilty to drugs charges in a US court. Valdez, a US citizen better known as "Barbie" for his light eyes, was arrested in Mexico in 2010 and extradited to the US in September 2015. A key figure in the Beltran Leyva cartel, he was accused of smuggling more than 1,000kg (2,200lb) of cocaine into the southern and eastern US. He has yet to be sentenced but lawyers said he could face life in prison. Valdez, a former high school football player in Texas, is believed to have started his criminal career dealing marijuana in Laredo, Texas. He left his middle-class life in Texas in the 1990s after being indicted in the US, where he had expanded his drug-dealing business to the neighbouring states. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption He left behind a middle-class life in Texas to rise through the ranks of the Beltran Leyva cartel In Mexico, he joined the ranks of the Beltran Leyva cartel and quickly gained a reputation for extreme violence which helped him rise through its ranks quickly. He is believed to have led the cartel's gang of hitmen. When the cartel's founder, Arturo Beltran Leyva, was killed by Mexican security forces in 2009, Valdez made a move for the top job, pitting himself against Arturo's brother Hector and unleashing a wave of internecine gang warfare, Each group would decapitate their rival's hitmen and hang their bodies from bridges as a grisly message to keep out of each other's territory. Valdez, who had a $2m (£1.37m) price on his head, was captured in a residential area near Mexico City in August 2010. He pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine, and conspiring to launder money, before a federal judge on Wednesday. While security forces say they have dismantled the Beltran Leyva cartel, Mexico continues to suffer from drug-related violence which has left tens of thousands of people dead over the past 10 years. The most notorious cartel leader, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman of the Sinaloa cartel, is currently at large after escaping a maximum-security jail in July last year.
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China beekeeper breaks Guiness World Record for most bees on human body IN just his undies, a beekeeper covered himself with almost 1.1 million bees weighing 109kg and withstood being stung more than 2000 times to set a new Guinness World Record. Gao Bingguo has caused a buzz as his body temperature rose to a dangerous 60C - the average norm being 37C - to reclaim the world record for "most bees on a human body" in Liangzhuang, Tai'an city in China's Shandong province, on Monday. The 55-year-old beekeeper, smoking a cigarette to keep the bees from stinging his lips, began his Guiness World Record attempt by placing about a dozen queen bees on his body in order to attract the other bees brought by more than 20 beekeepers to him. Took three hours for bees to swarm all over body... Chinese beekeeper Gao Bingguo sets a new Guinness World Record for most bees on a human body. Picture: Liu hongjie Boxes of bees were later dumped at his feet in increasingly large numbers as the bees crawled on to his body. After three hours before his body was totally covered with bees, with just his nose and mouth evidence that there was a human being beneath the mass of bees. Only lit cigarette and glasses visible... An assistant dumps bees on the bee-covered body of beekeeper Gao Bingguo as sets a new Guinness World Record for most bees on a human body. Picture: Liu hongjie The almost 1.1 million bees weighed a total of 109.1kg, smashing the previous record of 85.5kg. Each kilo of weight amounts to about 10,000 bees. After shedding his "bee jacket," Gao was delighted with his success. For such an apparently niche world record "the number of bees on a human body" is keenly contested. Gao reclaimed the world record after his previous best - set last June - was broken by another bee fanatic. Stung more than 2000 times in record breaking attempt... Assistants dump bees on the bee-covered body of Chinese beekeeper Gao Bingguo. Picture: Liu hongjie Last May beekeeper named Ruan Liangming set the separate record for the longest time spent cloaked in bees - he managed to stay in his bee suit for 53 minutes and 34 seconds.
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HMS Una was a British U-class submarine, of the second group of that class, built at Chatham Dockyard. She was laid down on 7 May 1940 and was commissioned on 27 September 1941. == Career ==
She spent most of her career operating in the Mediterranean from early 1942, where she sank the Italian tanker Luciana, the Italian fishing vessel Maria Immacolata, and the Italian merchants and Petrarca. She also damaged two sailing vessels and the Italian merchant Cosala (the former Yugoslavian Serafin Topic). The damaged Italian ship was grounded, but declared a total loss and eventually sank during a storm. She was unlucky on numerous occasions, unsuccessfully attacking the Italian merchant Brioni, the Italian tanker Panuco and the German merchant Menes. Una also fired torpedoes against a merchant in Lampedusa harbour. The torpedoes however hit the rocks. From April to August 1943, she was used for Anti-Submarine training after undergoing a refit in the UK. After the end of the war, she was decommissioned and placed in reserve in November 1945. She was sold to be broken up for scrap on 11 April 1949 and scrapped at Llanelly. ==References ==
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Calvin Harris equals The Rolling Stones' chart record Image copyright Reuters Calvin Harris has scored his eighth UK number one - equalling The Rolling Stones' chart record. The DJ's latest single Feels, which features Katy Perry, Pharrell and Big Sean, knocked Despacito off the top spot on this week's singles chart. It means he's now level with The Rolling Stones, Oasis and Eminem - who also have eight number ones each. Cliff Richard is now the only British male solo artists ahead of Calvin - with 14 chart toppers to his name. Dance Wiv Me (with Dizzee Rascal, 2008) I'm Not Alone (2009) We Found Love (with Rihanna, 2011) Sweet Nothing (2012) Under Control (2013) Summer (2014) Blame (2014) Feels (with Katy Perry, Pharrell and Big Sean, 2017) The rest of this week's top five is taken up by French Montana, DJ Khaled, Luis Fonsi and Dua Lipa, whose single New Rules has climbed to number five - her highest chart placing to date. Over on the album chart - Ed Sheeran returned to number one with his third album Divide. Glen Campbell's album Adios re-entered the chart at number two after his death earlier this week. Top five singles Artist Title 1) Calvin Harris, Katy Perry, Pharrell and Big Sean Feels 2) French Montana feat. Swae Lee Unforgettable 3) DJ Khaled feat. Rihanna and Bryson Tiller Wild Thoughts 4) Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber Despacito 5) Dua Lipa New Rules Top five albums Artist Title 1) Ed Sheeran Divide 2) Glen Campbell Adios 3) Arcade Fire Everything Now 4) Rag'n'Bone Man Human 5) Lana Del Rey Lust For Life Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
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The world's most beautiful floral hotels In between spearheading the hotel's extravagant displays, Leatham's client list is vast, from the Kardashians to Oprah Winfrey. Despite his hectic schedule, lucky guests can score a (free!) two-hour workshop with him, dubbed The Jeff Leatham Experience, resulting in a bouquet with bragging rights. (Non-hotel guests can also partake for 200 euros.) In a twist, Leatham is now splitting his time with the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, where he'll focus on more California-centric designs. He also has his own shop in the LA hotel. But while he'll spend most of his time in L.A., this doesn't mean he's saying adieu to Paris. He'll still return to the George V for five days every month, so guests can continue to be wowed by the flower king. The Kitano Hotel New York As a Japanese-owned hotel, it makes sense that The Kitano would employ a resident ikebana expert to oversee floral arrangements. Ikebana is the ancient Japanese art of arranging flowers in a way that's all about simplicity and balance. Noritaka Noda, who learned the craft in Japan and the US, has been designing ikebana creations on a weekly basis for the hotel since 2014. If you can time your visit for March, odds are good that you can also admire his annual ikebana exhibit at the hotel, which this past year included 23 floral arrangements. (Yes, cherry blossoms were among them.) While The Kitano doesn't offer any ikebana classes, fear not. The hotel can arrange private classes with Noda himself, who also teaches at the Ikenobo Ikebana Society. Pulitzer Amsterdam Mention the Netherlands, and tulips are one of the first things that spring to mind. While you can undoubtedly find this unofficial national flower at many a Dutch hotel in spring, you'll encounter 2,000 tulips at The Pulitzer's spacious inner courtyard gardens, which were designed by the same landscape architect as the famed Rijksmuseum. The hotel's florist, Season Flowers, has also filled the interior with colorful tulips that complement the décor. Don't worry if you miss prime tulip season, since the impressive displays are changed on a weekly basis and often highlight whatever's in season. Even better, the hotel offers a flower shop right off of the lobby, so you can fill your room with all the stems you desire. The Bellagio, Las Vegas Las Vegas doesn't do anything that's subtle, and the Bellagio is no exception. The hotel is home to the 14,000-square-foot Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, which undergo a massive transformation every season. "Japanese Spring" is the current theme, with a 35-foot kabuki figure starring as the centerpiece. It took a team of 120 horticulturists and designers to arrange the exhibit's 80,000 flowers just so, including butterfly and turtle topiaries, a tea house and a Japanese temple. The creation is the brainchild of designer Ed Libby & Co. Events, whose team have also contributed to the Macy's Flower Show, MGM National Harbor and high-profile events. Romantic honeymoon hotels Romantic honeymoon hotels The Resort at Pedregal -- Located in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, this property boasts rooms outfitted with private hot tubs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Romantic honeymoon hotels Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Landaa Giraavaru -- Each of this resort's standalone, thatched-roof bungalows features private water access. Romantic honeymoon hotels Shangri-La Hotel, Paris -- Its unparalleled views of the Eiffel Tower directly across the river make the Shangri-La an ideal Paris honeymoon hotel. Romantic honeymoon hotels Cap Juluca -- Romantic activities at Anguilla's Cap Juluca include horseback rides along the beach and private candlelit dinners under the stars. Romantic honeymoon hotels Kichwa Tembo Tented Camp -- Overlooking Kenya's wild Masai Mara reserve, this resort features luxurious private tents. Romantic honeymoon hotels Gritti Palace -- Built in 1475, this stunning palazzo is one of the most luxurious and romantic hotels in Venice with sweeping views of the storied city. Romantic honeymoon hotels Wildflower Hall Shimla -- Situated 8,250 feet above sea level in Shimla, India, Wildflower Hall is surrounded by cedar forests and wildflower fields. Romantic honeymoon hotels Royal Mansour -- The Royal Mansour in Marrakech, Morocco, is an oasis of 53 elegant private residences, or riads. Romantic honeymoon hotels
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Govt flags action on microbeads Environment minister Greg Hunt has outlined a plan to phase out environmentally damaging microbeads. Source: AAP AUSTRALIA could follow a number of states in the US in phasing out microbeads. THE tiny beads, found in toothpaste and facial scrubs, are believed to be polluting waterways and getting into the human food cycle through fish eating them. "I believe these are emerging as a genuine, significant global environment problem," federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt told Sky News on Thursday. "It's clear they pose a medium-to-long term risk to the environment." Some US states are already banning microbeads, while consumer companies such as Unilever have agreed to phase out the beauty product additive. Mr Hunt said his preferred option was a voluntary phase-out by industry.
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'Many tears' as Italy lets stranded minors leave rescue ship Italy's far right interior minister has let dozens of unaccompanied minors leave a refugee rescue carrying more than a hundred migrants after the boat spent more than two weeks waiting for a port to disembark in. The 27 children could leave the Open Arms ship despite it being "contrary to my policy," Matteo Salvini said in a statement on Saturday. But the remaining 105 adults and two accompanied children must stay on the ship operated by the Spanish aid group, he said. "Evacuation of unaccompanied minors completed," Open Arms tweeted after the Italian coastguard collected the children and took them to Lampedusa port. "Many tears. They've left friends and travel companions," it added. Salvini said he was agreeing to let the children disembark on Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte's insistence. "Permission to disembark for these people is the sole responsibility of Conte," Salvini said, arguing that "the great majority of Italians" shared his own hard-line stance in closing Italy's ports to refugee and migrant rescue ships. The standoff laid bare the split between Salvini's anti-migrant League and the 5-Star Movement, which together govern Italy. Salvini, who is also deputy prime minister, is seeking to end Conte's populist coalition with a no-confidence vote and early election that he hopes would make him prime minister. In an open letter on Thursday, Conte accused Salvini of disloyalty and of using immigration for political gain. He said France, Germany, Romania, Portugal, Spain and Luxembourg had agreed to take in the rescued people. Amid the standoff, the director of Open Arms warned that tensions were rising on the vessel and fights were breaking out between the asylum seekers who had been rescued after leaving chaos-stricken Libya. Oscar Camps warned European leaders that as of Saturday "we cannot be responsible nor guarantee the security of the people on board Open Arms." But Salvini tweeted that if the ship had gone to Spain instead of Italy 16 days ago "you would already have been home." "The NGOs' battle is political and certainly not humanitarian, played out using the lives of migrants," he said. A court overturned Salvini's decree banning the Open Arms ship from entering Italian waters on Thursday [File: Filippo MONTEFORTE/AFP] Salvini rose to popularity on a hard-line anti-migrant stance and has repeatedly faced off with ships carrying rescued migrants. Earlier this month, he signed a decree banning the Open Arms from Italian waters, saying it was to protect public order. But the group appealed to the administrative court which on Wednesday suspended his decree. Salvini then signed a new order blocking the ship, but Italy's Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta blocked it as an act of "conscience." As the row continued, Open Arms filed a formal complaint with prosecutors in Sicily alleging that both the migrants and the crew were being held hostage. Salvini and other ministers have been investigated in the past for alleged kidnapping stemming from previous standoffs, but no charges have ever been brought. The dispute over the Open Arms came as another humanitarian rescue boat, the Ocean Viking, maintained its course off Italy with 356 migrants aboard and no port to disembark. The Norwegian vessel had plucked the migrants to safety in several rescues in the past few days and is operated by two humanitarian groups, Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee. SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies
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