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ANAHEIM -- The Angels struggled against the first-place Athletics in the first half of the season, but two games into the second half, that has not been the case.
After losing five of their first six games against the A's, the Angels earned their second straight victory over the American League West leaders, 2-0, on Saturday night at Angel Stadium.
"After the break, two games, you really can't take too much from it, but it's a nice start for us coming out of the break," Hank Conger said.
One night after Jered Weaver threw 6 2/3 scoreless innings, C.J. Wilson upped the ante by holding the A's scoreless on three hits over 8 1/3 innings. The left-hander's longest outing of the season pulled the Angels to within three games of .500 and secured a series victory -- the Halos' seventh in their last 10 series.
After allowing a double in the first and a single to lead off the second, Wilson took over. The left-hander retired the next 18 batters he faced before he walked Derek Norris to begin the eighth. Wilson didn't allow another hit until Jed Lowrie's one-out single in the ninth ended his night.
"I think he was as locked in as we've seen him," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "Had pitches he was getting ahead with, had pitches he was putting guys away with. He didn't get behind in too many counts. He was ahead of counts most of the day, strike one to just about every hitter."
Wilson finished with eight strikeouts against two walks, picking up his 10th victory.
"Tonight, I just had more pitches in the mix," Wilson said. "I had the changeup, the split, cutter, all in the strike zone. This whole year I've been relying mostly on fastball, slider and the occasional curveball, but I had the most strikes tonight."
Athletics first baseman Brandon Moss agreed with Wilson's assessment.
"I've only faced him two or three times before that, but I think the difference in him tonight was that he was throwing two or three different types of breaking pitches," Moss said. "He was throwing a little bit of a cutter, a slider and a curveball. He was mixing what he was throwing in different counts and he was throwing strikes."
Although Saturday was the best Wilson has been all season, he has been pitching well for a while. Wilson has not allowed a run in three of his last six starts and is 6-1 with a 1.69 ERA in his last eight starts.
"His past couple starts have been really good," Conger said. "He's throwing a lot of strikes, he's getting ahead of counts, and tonight he was able to just get a lot of swing and missed on his slider and curveball."
The Athletics' struggles against Wilson wasted a solid start by Dan Straily, who held the Angels to two runs on eight hits while striking out four.
"Brought his changeup in, had a nice slider, good fastball command," Scioscia said of Straily. "He pitched a strong game for those guys and we are fortunate we got a run early."
With one out in the first, Mike Trout -- who would later single to extend his hitting streak to a season-long 12 games -- was hit by a pitch. Trout advanced to third on Albert Pujols' single and scored on Josh Hamilton's sacrifice fly.
In the seventh inning, third baseman Alberto Callaspo gave the Angels an insurance run with a home run to right field. Callaspo's fifth home run of the season gave him 11 hits in his past 11 games.
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Obama at one point said he was willing to "cut the young lady some slack" because the issues he was addressing are worth being passionate about.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Lawmakers are making public emails that show that Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s CEO found out in 2005 that the retailer was handing out bribes in Mexico.
Democratic Congressmen Elijah E. Cummings and Henry A. Waxman, who are investigating bribery charges at Wal-Mart's Mexico division, on Thursday released emails that indicate that Mike Duke and other senior Wal-Mart officials were informed multiple times starting in 2005 about bribes being made in the country. U.S. law forbids American companies from bribing foreign officials.
The emails, which the lawmakers obtained from a confidential source, contradict claims by Wal-Mart senior executives that they had no knowledge of bribes being made by the company, particularly for a store in Teotihuacan, Mexico, the congressmen say. The store was built on the site of ancient ruins as the company expanded in Mexico.
The lawmakers shared the documents with Wal-Mart on Wednesday, and sent a letter to Duke asking for a meeting to discuss them.
"It would be a serious matter if the CEO of one of our nation's largest companies failed to address allegations of a bribery scheme," according to the letter written by Waxman and Cummings to Duke.
Allegations first surfaced in April that Wal-Mart failed to notify law enforcement that company officials authorized millions of dollars in bribes in Mexico to speed up getting building permits and gain other favors. Wal-Mart has been working with government officials in the U.S. and Mexico on that investigation.
Wal-Mart has conducted an internal investigation into the matter. And last November, the retailer said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was looking into potential U.S. bribery law violations in Brazil, China and India.
Brooke Buchanan, a Wal-Mart's spokeswoman, issued a statement on Thursday saying that it has been providing information to the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the documents that were released by lawmakers on Thursday. The world's largest retailer also said that it is exploring other ways to make additional information available
"We are committed to having a strong and effective global anti-corruption program everywhere we operate and taking appropriate action for any instance of non-compliance," Brooke said.
The bribery allegations were first reported by the New York Times. Last month, the paper published another story focusing on how Wal-Mart's Mexico division offered large payoffs to get things that the law prohibited. It focused on how Wal-Mart paid $52,000 to secure approval to build its store in Teotihuacan on the site of ancient ruins. Although local zoning would have prohibited Wal-Mart from building its store, the Times reported that the company allegedly bribed local officials to have that map redrawn.
In the Times article Wal-Mart spokesman Dave Tovar denied that executives in the U.S. knew anything about the alleged corruption involving construction of the store in Teotihuacan. However, Buchanan notes that the letter from Waxman and Cummings "leaves the wrong impression that our public statements are contradicted by the information they released today." She says the company's statement focused on events in 2004.
The documents released Thursday by lawmakers include an email from November 2005 from Maritza Munich, then General Counsel of Wal-Mart International to Duke and other senior Wal-Mart executives. The email informed them of charges related to bribes paid to obtain permits for a store in Mexico.
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Psychology Today article entitled The #1 Worst Thing to Say to Your Fat Friend the author, Harriet Lerner, Ph.D discusses an article written by another writer, a woman named Natalie Kusz. Ms. Kusz is an overweight woman writing about "fat shaming" and in her article she talks about instances of shaming enacted upon her by strangers and she contends that, while they are certainly hurtful, the moments during which she feels the most shamed is "the well-intentioned disapproval of a friend--the one who leans a narrow hand on your arm and murmurs, "I hope this doesn't hurt your feelings, but I love you and I'm concerned about your weight." Both authors contend that this friend is acting in a harmful, rather than beneficial manner when they make such statements to their overweight friends (I wonder if they would feel this way if it was gambling/alcohol, etc rather than obesity being discussed).
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Would you know how to love her still when she decides to stop pretending? When she decides to take off that mask and leave it hanging at the door for good. When she decides it's okay not to be okay. When she decides it's okay to be that way. When she decides there is no other way she'd rather be. Would you still love her? I mean would you know how to love her? Would you be able to stand the melancholy in her eyes and her half hearted smile?
Love her not only when she talks about the colours of the ocean but the darkness in its depth- when the fears take over.
Love her not only when she talks about the limitless blue sky but the storm that accompanies it- the hurricane of her insecurities.
Love her not only when she talks about sun moon and the stars but when she's a little too literally a black hole herself. A galaxy within a galaxy- a confusing state of complicated mess.
Love her when the stars in her eyes lose their shine, when you see her eyes hazy with fog and dew drops. When she can't see anything else, make her see you. Let her know that you are still here. And that you'll always be no matter what.
Love her like the sunset; you know it will disappear but you admire it nonetheless for as long as it lasts. Love her fiercely like the dying light of the orange sun; warm and burning.
Because it's easy to love a girl that smiles. Anybody can do that for you. She will know your worth when you still keep loving her. Actually love her more, much more than before, especially when her smile has faded among the deathly hollows of her sorrow.
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They're re-doing the entire street level facade of the Milford Plaza, and looks like they're doing some nice restoration work of old details that were hidden away.
They're re-doing the entire street level facade of the Milford Plaza, and looks like they're doing some nice restoration work of old details that were hidden away.
The Milford Plaza building should be landmarked.
I really believe an observation tower/hotel/entertainment use would work well here. There are stellar views of many major landmarks at +1,000 feet, plus the birds-eye view of Times Square would be incredible.
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...Meanwhile, Gary Barnett's Extell Development has taken over a project that was being assembled by Boston Properties and the Related Companies at 750 Eighth Ave. that was to include an office building over a 406-space garage. In this case, the Boston/Related team had already agreed to purchase TDRs from the Shubert Organization's Broadhurst Theatre, and was also buying the small building at the northeast corner of 45th Street housing the Frankie & Johnnie's Steakhouse, which the Shuberts also own. Additionally, the developers had planned to purchase 120,319 square feet of TDRs from the Jacobs, Booth and Broadhurst theaters
In order to complete the project, Barnett is likely now renegotiating the purchase of these TDRs and the finished development could also be changed from an office tower to become a hotel or residential condos....
Maybe even some kind of ride at the top. Maybe a bit more exciting than Canton Tower's though.
And Barnett has expressed interest in observation decks...
Room at the top for observation decks
....Not to be outdone, Gary Barnett, the prolific developer who is building one of the tallest residential skyscrapers in the world, on West 57th Street near Broadway, said that he too has considered getting into the observation-deck business.
Are you suggesting that this tower can be 1,000'? If do, that would be nice.
Any news regarding this site? I can't think of another lot like this in such a high traffic area that has yet to be built on. Almost all buildings that stalled after the 2008 financial collapse have since resumed construction except this one. It's great that an arts alliance has temporarily taken up shop though.
Given everything Extell has on their plate, I'm not surprised this site isn't being developed at this moment. I would guess something very tall and thin will rise at some point. Would not be surprised if we got a supertall or something similar on this site.
Just fyi - the assemblage Of tiny little "temporary" booths selling clothes and handbags and accessories - that have been at the SE corner of 46th and 8th - are finally gone. I wonder if that means ground is about to be broken on this building site? Anybody have any updates RE 740 8th ave?


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Despite a broken ankle, life goes on. Today I am working on the set-up of a new project I have just started at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, in London, UK, with colleagues Prof. Richard Hingley and Dr. Tom Yarrow from the Archaeology and Anthropology Departments at Durham University.
This is a really exciting new adventure, especially in these times of heated debate over what it means to be English, British, European or (as I regard myself) simply (?) a world citizen with roots in all those great and diverse places where you are lucky enough to have family, friends and colleagues.
The project is called 'Iron Age and Roman Heritages: Exploring ancient identities in modern Britain', and is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council for a period of three years. Through this research we are hoping to understand how Iron Age, Roman and Early Medieval pasts live in present-day Britain. How are they researched, variously used, performed and interpreted by different individuals and groups, and why? What are the implications?
The project is divided in two parts which will run in parallel until 2019. One is based at UCL, where I will be focussing on the analysis of digital heritages (Dan Pett, from the British Museum, Andy Bevan and Mark Altaweel, from UCL, are also helping!); the second part, led by Richard and Tom in Durham, is centred on offline ethnography.
During the project, we will also invite whoever might be interested in participating in our research to do so online, through the MicroPasts crowdsourcing website, which is indeed still up, running … and busy! In October, I will visit Daniel Lombrana-Gonzales and his team, in Madrid, and, together, we will create a new crowdsourcing application to aid the analysis of web data. People will be able to login and identify (via tagging) the aspects of Iron Age and Roman pasts that appear in a range of texts that are published online like newspaper or magazine articles, for example.
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Occupy Oakland Morphs From Protest To Strike
Demonstrators continue to march and camp out in cities across the country, inspired by Occupy Wall Street. But yesterday, protesters in Oakland tried something different. Thousands marched through the city in what they called a general strike. They paraded through the streets through much of the day then down to its busy port where they blocked entrances and closed it down. Later, police in riot gear fired teargas as some protesters broke windows and lit fires downtown.
Many downtown businesses shut their doors yesterday. Hundreds of teachers and city workers skipped work to join the march. If there's an Occupy movement where you live, we need you to be our reporter. How is it changing? Give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email, firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also join the conversation at our website. That's at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Los Angeles Times staff writer Lee Romney has been covering Occupy Oakland and joins us now from Youth Radio studios in Oakland. Nice to have you on TALK OF THE NATION today.
LEE ROMNEY: Thank you for having me.
CONAN: And so what's happening in Oakland today?
ROMNEY: Well, today is interesting. There was a small group of protesters who tried to keep port workers from entering again this morning, and they were - they managed to hold a few trucks back, but the response was not as warm as it was yesterday. Yesterday, most of the trucks were honking in support. Today, one of them said - one trucker waved a baseball bat at them and said get a job. So I think there's a bit of frustration. You know, there's this chorus of we're the 99 percent. You're part of the 99 percent.
And some workers are starting to feel, well, we are the 99 percent, so let us go to work. But that - the port is operating normally. They did not have enough people to kind of maintain that. And then at Civic Center Plaza, there's a lot of soul-searching going on right now around the relatively small group of vandals that's been kind of responsible for escalating matters with the police. Seven thousand people turned out yesterday, and it was predominantly nonviolent, almost a jubilant atmosphere. And so there are folks who are very frustrated that what they want portrayed as a peaceful protest keeps getting undermined by a minority.
CONAN: A minority, according to some reports, including yours, there were a few people in black clothes with black masks, anarchists presumably, who were involved in this destruction.
ROMNEY: That's what - police are calling them anarchists. They're sort of a subset, and I think that folks on the plaza today were saying, well, we have other people who identify as anarchists who've been very helpful in building this movement. They've been relatively peaceful. So let's call them vandals. But they are a group that seems to be largely - many of them are from out of the area. They started coming to Oakland when there were protests over the shooting of a young African-American man by BART police.
And I think they sensed there was sort of a vacuum in Oakland where they could sort of do their actions. And so there were about 60 to 70 is what police estimated, and they do tend to cover their faces. And the reaction to them by the rest of the crowd was uncover your face. You're ruining it for all of us. They smashed some bank windows, and then, others later put a sign up saying we're better than this, sorry. And at a Wells Fargo branch, the Occupy movement folks, some of them went and actually scrubbed graffiti off the walls, and they're doing that today downtown.
Some people have started to kind of wipe some of the, you know, more incendiary comments off the wall about capitalists being, you know, hung out to dry and so forth.
CONAN: Yeah. Take us back a little bit. It was just last week, I think, that police evicted the Occupy encampment and then allowed it to resume.
ROMNEY: Yes. Oakland has Mayor Jean Quan, who identifies as a former activist, as a progressive, and so people were quite upset. I think there was a feeling that the camp had gotten a bit out of hand. They were not allowing emergency personnel or police to come in. They were choosing to sort of self-police. And again, it's such a broad movement. There was a lot of debate around that, and not everyone agreed. But it became - the city felt it was untenable. They moved in, and I think their mistake was thinking that was going to be the end of it.
There was a very large protest that night in response. And it was at that protest that about 16 police agencies here for mutual aid fired quite a bit of teargas and other projectiles into the crowd in response to some people throwing rocks and bottles. But a lot of nonviolent protesters were impacted. A young Iraqi veteran was hit in the head and had a skull fracture, Scott Olsen, and there's become this sort of cry around the country: We are all Scott Olsen. So that really emboldened the movement. The mayor then let them re-establish their camp, and it's created, you know, this resentment against her from the protesters. And now, there's a resentment by the business community and the police officers who are saying, hey, what's going on here? These are mix messages, and where does it end?
CONAN: We want callers in on the conversation. Be our reporters today. If there's an Occupy movement in your city or town, how is it changing? Give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com. We have a caller from Oakland, Colin(ph).
COLIN: Good morning.
CONAN: Good morning. Go ahead.
COLIN: My - yes. My office has been shut down yesterday and also on the date that the - Mayor Quan decided to evict the protesters. And this has been causing my employer a lot of money. This isn't really coming out of paycheck, but I think that the coverage by the media of the Occupy Wall Street movement as it's manifested itself in Oakland has been ignoring what the costs have been to the employers and the local economy. And just as a side note, I would interject that I think it will be very serious mistake for President Obama and the Democratic Party to identify themselves with the movement, which seems to be agitating just to shut down the U.S. economy in a fit of spite.
CONAN: What kind of business are you in, Colin?
COLIN: I work for a law firm.
CONAN: A law firm. OK. Thanks very much for the phone call.
COLIN: And we've been entirely, you know, our offices have been closed down for all of yesterday and, you know, we're kind of upset about the potential for, you know, further closures on account of the encampment across the city hall plaza from us.
CONAN: Lee Romney, I wanted to ask you, your piece reported that yesterday, some stores in Oakland - downtown Oakland - closed in - to recognize the general strike. Others closed, you said, out of fear.
ROMNEY: Yeah, I think it was a little hard to tell. Many people put signs in support, others boarded up. There was a camera shot that boarded up its door. And I think some of them just did not know what to expect and didn't want to be caught in the middle of, you know, another big police action. But there is a lot of discussion and sort of legitimate confusion about who is getting hurt by this.
Oakland does not have a lot of resources. We have an understaffed police force. The schools - there are school closures occurring, there have been a large number of foreclosures. Unemployment is 15 percent. And while some people think, you know, just drawing attention to the message is what's most important, there are a lot of people asking, you know, who is this really hurting in the long run?
City Council President Larry Reid has been very vocal about saying, Oakland needs businesses. You know, Oakland needs tax revenue. And the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce here in Oakland also has said that a number of commercial landlords just had some - several deals fall through for tenants who are just concerned about whether it's a good climate. The Chinatown Merchants Association, they said, hey, we can't afford to close down. And so these are some of the people who the movement, you know, quote, unquote, "is speaking for." And it's not that clear, you know, who is getting hurt in the long run.
I think there's a feeling that it's - that people have a lot of pent up frustration over economic inequality and over city and state budget cuts and so forth. And they want to be heard, and this is an opportunity for that. But if it continues to hurt the city and cut into, you know, a dwindling city budget, that's going to cause increasing consternation.
CONAN: The port, for example, is a major economic asset.
ROMNEY: Yeah. The port does an average of $8.5 million in business a day, so it was hard to know exactly what the impact was from being shut down overnight. Night is, you know, a less active time, but, obviously, an impact.
One of the reasons why the port has often been the site of protest, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has a rare contract clause that allows them to honor a community picket line if it meets certain criteria. Most unions have a blanket no-strike clause. And so, sometimes, the port, you know, the port is chosen as a symbol of, you know, the economic engine. But also, I think the demonstrators realized that if they have a presence there, they could, perhaps, persuade the workers coming on to their shifts not to cross that line.
CONAN: Here's an email from Jane(ph) in Portland. During a fairly aimless protest march over two Portland bridges yesterday at rush hour, an Occupy Portland demonstrator, unprovoked, pushed a Portland policeman in front of a moving TriMet bus. The policeman suffered minor injuries, and the protester was arrested after everyone came back to the Occupy camp. Although Portland is the most liberal West Coast city after San Francisco, the bad element among the occupiers will ultimately spoil it for the naive idealists who started that, couple that with the reality that the camp which took over the downtown - two downtown squares holds a majority of homeless, tweakers, street youths and various other social misfits.
And that's another aspect of this, that some Occupy encampments - and I don't know if it's the situation there in Oakland - have to deal with that these are good places if you're homeless to find, well, company and food.
ROMNEY: Yeah. Yes, that's true. And I think that, you know, the encampment here has really tried to also embrace that community to the extent that, you know, if anyone represents the, sort of, the have-nots, it would be someone who is homeless and has no health care and no food and so forth. But it has made for, you know, a complicated negotiations in what is effectively a leaderless movement. There's - everything is done by consensus, and there's a lot of disagreement, you know.
And I think, in San Francisco, there were some folks who asked homeless people who aren't committed to the cause to kind of move over to a different park and, you know, to control it in that sense. But here, I think, there's a feeling that that runs contrary to what they stand for. But it's hard to, you know, it's hard to manage a movement that represents so many different political views and classes and races. And it's particularly true in Oakland, which is a very diverse city and one with a tremendous amount of economic disparity.
CONAN: Lee Romney reports for the Los Angeles Times' San Francisco bureau. She's with us today from Oakland. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
This email from Pensacola, Florida, and Kerry(ph) in Pensacola: We've had an Occupy movement camped out for several weeks. They were in a median between the main thoroughfare downtown. But because there's typically a farmer's market there on Saturdays and sanitation was becoming an issue in that spot, the city government offered them a spot at city hall. They've now relocated into a tent city under the grassed oak-canopied lawn of the city hall. They are very peaceful and seem like a pretty reasonable group.
And I have to say that, Lee Romney, that that's probably true of the vast majority of the Occupy movements around the country. Oakland, because of that history you mentioned going back to the protest over the murder - of the killing in a BART station, is unique. And is it fair to say that had the violence not erupted last night, that the story this morning would not have been violence flares again, it would have been middle class marches joined protest in Oakland?
ROMNEY: Yeah. I think it was, you know, middle class marchers. It was people with kids. It was seniors. It was the disabled. It was union workers. It was the unemployed. It really was everybody. And I think it's important to remember that it still really was a minority. There was damage done.
But I talked to one gentleman at the encampment this morning who actually gave kudos to police for the way they handle it, you know, not everyone feels that way. But they focused more this time on the people who were lighting fires, throwing things. And they sort of just contained the rest of the peaceful crowd. I think, to them, they still felt like, hey, why are we surrounded with riot-geared officers? And there was some teargas. But it was not a repeat of last week, where every time a single individual threw something, there was a teargas around that affected everybody. There were a lot of different agencies firing different types of projectiles, and that is all going to be the topic of a city council meeting this meeting here. That's going to be very heated, I'm sure.
But it was still a fairly small number, but there are businesses vandalized. And it just overtakes the message. I think it's hard for it not to. It's what people see. They say the pictures of people lighting, you know, barricades on fire, and they associate it with the larger movement.
CONAN: Here's an email from Terry(ph) in Kansas City. The situation here has turned from peaceful to prostitution and drugs. And many people fear to stay and have, thus, gone home. I think it's gotten out of control. The main message has been lost.
This is from Alex in Delray Beach in Florida. Here, there is not one, single element of Occupy Wall Street in my neck of the woods. Unlike most of America, I couldn't be happier.
Let's go next to Jesse(ph), Jesse with us from Grand Junction in Colorado.
JESSE: Thank you, Neal. Basically, in Grand Junction, we have a very small population, and the Colorado weather has started to set in. So we've came to the consensus that a permanent occupation isn't going to do us a lot of good. The movement as a whole is in its very early stages, and one of the problems we've already ran into is the polarization of our efforts. We've had an overwhelming amount of support, but still have media sources and individuals out there putting a partisan spin on this, and not only moving away from the movement but actually working to criticize and destroy it.
So our goals for the next several weeks and months is getting the public involved with the movement, whether that's by educations or weekly rallies and marches and on-the-road occupations. One of the first occupations we're planning is on houses that are in foreclosure. Basically, we've sent letters out to the homeowners that are in foreclosure and basically said, we know you're doing the right thing. You've paid your bills on time and you deserve a home, a very basic part of the American dream. So for those folks who are providing informational support to them to help them, and we're offering to vigil on their lawns to make this issue better known.
CONAN: OK, Jesse...
JESSE: We're starting to becoming like a microcosm support for the community...
CONAN: Jesse, I don't...
JESSE: ...and if anybody that has concerns, we're asking to come forward.
CONAN: Jesse, I don't mean to cut you off, but we need to get somebody - wanted to get one more comment in from Lee Romney. And that is - this is - and that cold weather in Colorado, but other places, this has to change. It can't just be what it was.
ROMNEY: Whether it can just continue indefinitely in this?
CONAN: Yeah.
ROMNEY: Yeah. I think that's true. And it's difficult to see how it's going to evolve because I think that, you know, there's a lot of discussion - in San Francisco as well - about supporting free speech and the use of public space. I think, at the encampment here, they have - they're making a greater effort than before they were raised last week to maintain safety and security, to agree to let, you know, police in if there's an issue and so forth. So they're trying. But I still think that it can't, you know, it can't go on for months and months and months.
CONAN: Lee Romney, thanks very much for your time.
ROMNEY: Thank you.
CONAN: Lee Romney, a staff writer with the Los Angeles Times' San Francisco bureau, with us today from Youth Radio in Oakland.
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By Andrew Dewhurst on 16/05/13 at 7:42 am
The World Triathlon Series simply wouldn't be the same without the strong Russian contingency consistently pushing the pace in the men's races. Leading that pack is two-time Olympian Dmitry Polyanskiy. As one of the speedy sets of brothers on the circuit, Dmitry can almost always be found on the front end of the swim and in the top 10 of nearly every race he enters. Last year, his top performances earned him a third-place finish in the overall World Championship rankings. ITU recently caught up with Dmitry in Yokohama to talk triathlon, his future, and the family training dynamics.
What memories do you have of your first ever triathlon?
It was in my home town about ten or more years ago, it was a wonderful experience for me. It was held in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. I can't remember where I finished but it was a most enjoyable experience. My father encouraged me to take part. I was a swimmer but I had a very good run and so my father said for me to go and try triathlon.
What is your favourite ITU race?
My favourite race is in Yokohama in Japan and in Madrid in Spain. I like both races and for me it feels like home because I am not far from my home.
Favourite training destination
Cyprus. It is the best place in winter for training.
Favourite Holiday
I don't have a favourite yet. This season I will travel to Africa and Kilimanjaro.
I listen to some music but I don't really have a favourite, I listen to a lot of different music.
Post training snack
My coach is very good cook, he prepares our meals and always it is healthy and good food for the team after training.
Coffee drinker?
No, I am not a coffee drinker, I love tea. When I come to Asia, I love the green tea but when in Europe or the US my favourite is black tea.
Five years from now, where will Dmitry Polyanskiy be?
In the Russian team, we are very focused on the next Olympics in Rio, this is the important goal for us. We are training and learning new technical skills, all to prepare for the Olympic Games in Rio and of course I will try to be there. In London I had no luck with my wheels but in Rio I will be 29 years, which is I think my peak condition for triathlon. I will try, the whole team will try to win a medal at the Olympic Games.
Favourite and least favourite training activities?
Now of course it is running, this is the most important thing for us and the part of my training I enjoy the most. We are working on new technical parts of the run, we have to try and change things because now it is so high level, so fast. I don't like the swim very much because all my life I have been swimming, since I was about 6 years old and sometimes it is too much swimming so I don't like swim training sometimes.
Biggest influence on your career?
There are many, my father and my mother of course. And my coach too but I think the biggest influence for me is my brother. Because we are training together from a young age to now, we spend so much time together. We are competitors and we try to go to everything together too and help each other. We are very close.


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Recently, I've been encountering the terms "old BI" and "new BI" to refer to the classic DW/BI approach to business intelligence and the newer Big Data Analytics approach, respectively. In fact, I've now started to use similar language in my conversations to differentiate between what I now call "traditional BI" and "Big Data Analytics" to demonstrate a split or inflection point in our industry.
I just found "old BI" too much of a pejorative term which is not the intent. This is because traditional nightly ETL from sources into an EDW with dashboards is still the most valid and effective approach for 90 percent of business intelligence (BI) requirements.
Big Data Analytics Gaining Traction
It's this "new BI", Big Data approach—or simply just "Big Data Analytics" approach to BI—that is gaining more and more traction and interest. However, for most cases, "old BI" techniques will be utilized. Here is a nifty example of my attempt at promoting both the "old BI" approach as well as what I was at the time calling the "new" approach to BI in which the only real difference is that OLAP models become in-memory columnar data stores to more effectively store data for aggregation.
At the time that I wrote that early in 2012, I also felt like Mobile BI and Cloud BI were going to become even more important in most BI enterprise architectures. Anecdotally, I certainly continue to see cloud & mobile as part of both large enterprise hybrid on/off prem implementations as well as more pure cloud and mobile SSAS offerings. But they haven't taken over the industry as much as Big Data has. Big Data seemed to creep into corporate BI solutions to steal the air from the room and this is where many of us have focused pur energies for the past several years now.
Hybrid Approach
So that brings me back to "new BI" or Big Data Analytics, which I see also as a hybrid approach, but hybrid in terms of traditional ETL + DW together with Hadoop and MPP. This also means that as BI professionals, we need to focus more on providing data sandboxes, data discovery capabilities and analytics across big data that requires new technologies and approaches. To me, the differentiators between "old BI" and "new BI" include the movement away from heavily pre-defined waterfall-ish EDWs and dashboards and more toward Agile free-flowing semi-structured data that requires data stores that can support maximum flexibility, agility, in-memory (i.e. break through the IOPS and IO scan barriers), distributaed parallel processing power. The data we are analyzing is only going to get bigger and stanger, as opposed to smaller and easier.
Which now means that I have a "new BI" reference architecture picture below! This demonstrates the more fluid movement of data from semi-structured and streaming sources that are not traditional sweet spots for highly structured ETL and RDBMS schemas: social media, log files, sensor data, etc. I've taken a few best practices from recent implementations where MapReduce is used as an "ETL accelerator" and provide pre-aggregation of complex unstructured big data and then fed into a more traditional database that is an MPP distributed across parallel nodes. The data integration tools must speak natively to more than traditional RDBMS sources. They must understand metadata and optimizations for HDFS, Hive, Impala, NoSQL like MongoDB & Cassandra.
In "new BI", we are going to keep detail data in HDFS clusters with aggregated business-value OLAP layers that must scale to this new data complexity. And finally, the data visualization tools in the presentation layer must enable data discovery, predictions and drill down into the detail grain which will also require native understanding of Big Data & NoSQL data stores.
I'm sure eventually (perhaps soon), we'll reach another inflection point to where hybrid Big Data Analytics or "new BI" techniques become the norm instead of the exception. So it's definitely a good idea for database and BI pros to begin looking at the "new BI" technologies in this reference architecture such as new database in-memory and columnar capabilities, NoSQL, Hadoop and Big Data Analytics visualizations.


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See also Senate rules change and nuclear option.
A filibuster is the use of speaking privileges to block a vote, typically in the U.S. Senate. The House of Representatives does not allow filibusters or anything equivalent. Several state legislatures, including the Texas House, have a procedure equivalent to a filibuster.[1]
A senator can delay a vote by talking for hours and hours, and 41 senators (less than a majority) can defeat a bill.[2] Filibusters do not occur in the House of Representatives because its rules do not allow it. Prior to 1975, merely one-third of the Senate plus one (34 votes) could successful defeat a bill or nomination with a filibuster. The Senate ended use of the filibuster rule for Supreme Court nominees on April 6, 2017.
In general parliamentary procedure, a filibuster is any tactic to delay and avoid a substantive vote by debating it at length, by offering numerous procedural motions, or by any other delaying or obstructive actions.[3]
Famous filibusters
In practice 19th century filibusters were successful only at the end of a session, when the clock was ticking. The Senate thereby refused to vote on the Wilmot Proviso regarding slavery in 1846.
In 1917 a bipartisan group of liberal isolationists led by Senator Robert LaFollette filibustered a bill to arm American merchant ships that were being attacked by German submarines. War had not been declared and the opponents thought big business was promoting a war with Germany. The filibuster stopped the legislation, but President Woodrow Wilson used his war powers to arm the ships anyway.[4]
In 1941, on the eve of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an effort to integrate minority groups into the war effort, issued an executive order, with no vote in Congress, that created the Fair Employment Practices Committee and enlarged its responsibilities in 1943. It required companies with federal contracts to not discriminate against employees on the base of race, religion or ethnicity. However, only congressional action could extend its life beyond the war years. Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez of New Mexico introduced a bill to establish a permanent FEPC in 1945 which set off a national controversy over how much control the federal government should have in employment practices. Southern Democrats viewed the bill as a step toward social equality of the races. Leading the opposition was Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (1877-1947) of Mississippi who vowed he would beat the 'damnable, unAmerican and unconstitutional' FEPC to death. The bill was withdrawn from consideration after a 24-day filibuster.[5]
After 1917 the most famous filibusters were undertaken by Southern Democrats to block civil rights legislation. The record for the longest filibuster is held by Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours, 18 minutes.[6]
The longest filibuster, forty-three hours, was not even in the U.S. Senate but the Texas State Senate, where Bill Meier of Tarrant County in 1977 filibustered successfully against a worker's compensation bill that he considered "anti-business."[7]
Senate rules
The right of unlimited debate in the Senate was rejected by the Founding Fathers. The Continental Congress adopted Rule 10. It followed the practice of the British Parliament and precedent allowed a simple majority to cut off debate by a motion for "the previous question." This rule was included in sections 8 and 9 of the rules adopted by the first Senate in 1789, was included in Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice, and was part of the Senate's rules until it was removed in 1806. The change in 1806 allowed unlimited debate.
The fundamental issue to those who defend the right to filibuster has been the protection of minority rights. The desire to weaken presidential influence over the upper chamber, not free speech, was instrumental in the decisions of 1826 and 1828 that gave the Senate the ultimate authority to discipline its members. The defeat of the 1856 amendment requiring a Senator to confine himself to the question under debate marked the beginning of over a century of unrestricted debate. The defense of lengthy debate by John C. Calhoun was a matter of senatorial courtesy, but for his successors it became an inalienable, abstract right.[8]
Until 1915, the Senate could end a filibuster by majority vote using a motion to suspend the rules. This motion is now rare in the Senate, but it is still a common means of limiting debate in the House of Representatives. In response to a successful filibuster of a bill to arm American merchant ships in 1917, the Senate adopted Rule 22. This rule requires a two-thirds vote to end a filibuster.
Originally, two-thirds of the senators actually present would be required for cloture. This meant that all senators had to remain present in the chambers, in case a cloture vote was called. This led to situations where senators would stay all night in the chambers, sleeping on cots placed in the lobby. This type of filibuster was dramatically depicted in the Frank Capra film, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), starring Jimmy Stewart as the brave lone hero who filibusters an evil bill.
Acting as president of the Senate, Vice President Richard Nixon ruled in 1957 that the Senate's internal rules could not prevent the body from adopting a measure by majority vote. This became known as the "nuclear," or constitutional, option. This option was used in 1975 to reduce the vote required to close debate from two-thirds to three-fifths.
Current rules
In 1975 Rule 22 was adopted that reduced the number for cloture to 60 (while leaving the two-thirds rule when the Senate rules themselves are at issue.) The effect is that almost all major legislation needs 60 votes to pass the Senate. One exception comes in "reconciliation" bills that deal with the budget. Another is the use of fast track" legislation, as with the North American Free Trade Agreement.
In May 2005, Republican leaders proposed what was called the "nuclear option" whereby filibusters would not be allowed on judicial nominations. Democrats threatened to disrupt all proceedings on all issues if that happened. Senator John McCain led a bipartisan "Gang of 14" which established a compromise that preserved the ability of senators to filibuster judicial nominees, but only in "extraordinary circumstances".
In November 2013, Senate leader Harry Reid used to the nuclear option to revise the Senate's rules and allow presidential nominees to be confirmed by majority vote.
Further reading
- DeNardis, Lawrence Joseph. "The New Senate Filibuster: An Analysis of Filibustering and Gridlock in the U.S. Senate, 1977-1986" PhD dissertation, New York U. 1990 50(9): 3042-A. DA9004195 350p.
- Kearny, Edward N., and Heineman, Robert A. "The Senate Filibuster: a Constitutional Critique." Perspectives on Political Science, 1997 Vol. 26, Issue 1, online at EBSCO
- Wawro, Gregory J., and Eric Schickler. Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the US Senate, (2006) 366pp excerpt and text search
- ↑ http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/texas-house-of-representatives/texplainer-what-is-chubbing/
- ↑ Budget Reconciliation bills cannot be filibustered. Supreme Court nominees could be filibustered until April 6, 2017, when the Republicans invoked the nuclear option to end it in order to confirm Neil Gorsuch.
- ↑ [1] US Senate Reference
- ↑ Thomas W. Ryley, A Little Group of Willful Men: A Study of Congressional-Presidential Authority, (1975)
- ↑ Robert J. Bailey, "Theodore G. Bilbo and the Fair Employment Practices Controversy: a Southern Senator's Reactions to a Changing World," Journal of Mississippi History 1980 42(1): 27-42.
- ↑ https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Filibuster_Cloture.htm
- ↑ Justin Dehn, Aman Batheja, and Alana Rocha (March 14, 2013). At 43 Hours, Texas Senator Set Filibuster Record in '77. The Texas Tribune. Retrieved on August 21, 2020.
- ↑ Richard R. Beeman, "Unlimited Debate in the Senate: the First Phase," Political Science Quarterly 1968 83(3): 419-434


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Emerging Energy-Efficient Technologies for Industry. 2005. LBNL-57572..
Development of Energy Balances for the State of California. 2005. LBNL-54923..
Development of an Energy Conservation Voluntary Agreement: Pilot Project in the Steel Sector in Shandong Province. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; China Energy Conservation Association, 2003. LBNL-51608..
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On the other side of Isla San José from Abras, a righthander sometimes breaks into the bay that is usually full of moored up boats awaiting passengers for island and dive tours. Needs W in the swell and lower tides as the island gets cut off by high water.
Intermediates should handle the punchy walls.


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While anti-Monarchists are unlikely to give a toss, those aspiring queens with an allegiance to Rome will be glad to hear that the 300 year-old law that prevents Catholics from ascending to the British throne (or marrying rulers!) is being challenged by those who claim the archaic legislation flies it the face of the Sex Discrimination Act and the Human Rights Act. The Act of Settlement, obvs cooked up by Puritan types to ensure Protestant government, not only implicitly rules out Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Pagans etc. but, just to cover all its bases, also states that men rank above women. I guess we can conceivably see how they'd want a Protestant to be head of the Church of England, but the spouse thing? Um, those of us who like crowns beg to differ. [The F Word]
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Oh look a pic from when Willie still had all his hairs! Did anyone ever imagine Harry would end up as the hotter prince?! I guess those peeps who don't think he's Charles's son, but seriously?!


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Bethlehem Nomination File "Birthplace of Jesus, Church of the Nativity and the pilgrimage route" was a special project to Palestine in general and Bethlehem in specific. Bethlehem was the first city nominated in the Palestinian territories to the UNESCO world heritage list, and hoping that this process would include more heritage sites including, Ancient Jericho (Tell El Sultan, The religious routes in the holy land, Mount Gerizim and the Samaritans …etc
The process in getting Bethlehem accepted as a world heritage site will take time till next year July 2012, where it will be voted through the world heritage Committee. However, inscribing Bethlehem at the UNESCO list should happen a long time ago, but due to political tensions between Palestinians and Israelis' the inscribing was held backwards several time.
The Nominations file was a big chance for Palestinians to demonstrate their outstanding culture heritage that was damaged during Israeli's occupations, especially the Israeli invasion of Bethlehem in 2002 and surrounding Church of Nativity for 40 days. Israel had bombarded the church more than one time which caused damages to it that could be seen today.
The Nomination file was prepared by Center for Culture Heritage Preservation , Bethlehem (CCHP) in corporation with, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Bethlehem Municipality and UNESCO office in Ramallah. It consists of nine parts; each one of them deals with a specific matter.
They are as follow:
- Identification of Property
- Description
- Justification for Inscription
- State of Conservation and Factors Affecting the property.
- Protection and Management of the Property.
- Monitoring
- Documentation
- Contact Information of Responsible Authorities
- 9. Signature on behalf of the State Party
My job was mainly focused at the second chapter "Description" I've worked as a researcher in (CCHP) in the project helping the team in the historical and archaeological perspective of the nativity church.I would like here to thanks both coordinator of the project, Arch. Nada Al Atrash from CCHP, and my friend Geroge Al Ama (from CCHP) for their fantastic and outstanding work in the project, where it push forward the Nomination file to its final stages.
I hope you have enjoy it
Regards, Haytham Dieck


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
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- Arizona State University
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- 1 Zhang, Junshan
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- Synchronization
- 1 Asynchronous Cooperative Communication
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- Reverse Fountain Cytoplasmic Streaming in Rhizopus Oryzae
- Diné Research Practices and Protocols: An Intersectional Paradigm Incorporating Indigenous Feminism, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Diné Knowledge Systems
- Developing an Augmented Reality Solution for Mapping Underground Infrastructure
- Characterization of 2D Human Ankle Stiffness during Postural Balance and Walking for Robot-aided Ankle Rehabilitation
- Using Molecular, Cellular and Bioengineering Approaches Towards Understanding Muscle Stem Cell Biology
Practical communication systems are subject to errors due to imperfect time alignment among the communicating nodes. Timing errors can occur in different forms depending on the underlying communication scenario. This doctoral study considers two different classes of asynchronous systems; point-to-point (P2P) communication systems with synchronization errors, and asynchronous cooperative systems. In particular, the focus is on an information theoretic analysis for P2P systems with synchronization errors and developing new signaling solutions for several asynchronous cooperative communication systems. The first part of the dissertation presents several bounds on the capacity of the P2P systems with synchronization errors. First, binary insertion and …
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NASCAR: Jeff Gordon starts 700 straight races
DARLINGTON, S.C. >> Jeff Gordon is proud he has reached 700 straight Sprint Cup starts. He's even prouder has accomplished the feat while still near the top of the sport.
The 41-year-old Gordon is third in series history with 87 wins, Gordon's landmark start comes at Darlington Raceway in the Southern 500, a place where he's won seven times.
Gordon trails only Ricky Rudd's 789 straight starts for most in Sprint Cup. Gordon remains a series' force. He's made the Sprint Cup championship chase eight of the nine years it has been run.
And Gordon thinks his success if far from over.
"I know that this team is capable of it and I feel like I am," Gordon said this week. "We won the last race at Homestead (in 2012). So, yeah, I think that means a lot to me."
Gordon took time at Darlington to recall his rookie season 20 years ago when he was feeling his way in sport ruled by rough-and-tumble veterans ready to put you in a wall if you tried to pass. Soon enough, the driver once called "Wonder Boy" rose to the top. He won the first of his four Sprint Cup titles in 1995 and quickly became the favorite target of NASCAR fans who didn't take to his California roots and clean-cut style.
"I always liked it when he got wrecked," Denny Hamlin said of Gordon. "I don't know. I wasn't a huge Jeff Gordon fan growing up."
Gordon persevered, he believes, because of his focus on victory each time the green flag dropped.
"I've been fortunate that along the way my main focus was not getting to 700," he said. "It was going out there to win and be competitive."
A big reason, Gordon says, is car owner Rick Hendrick and the resources at Hendrick Motorsports. Gordon said Hendrick chose to take a chance on a young, untested driver and surrounded him with talented crew chiefs, mechanics and pit staff to make the No. 24 car successful.
Along the way, Gordon set a standard for blending on-track victory with success off the track with sponsors and fans. "He's obviously changed this sport dramatically," Hamlin said.
Gordon said the late Dale Earnhardt helped him look at contracts, licensing agreements and controlling the rights to your images. "It's turned into a big business," Gordon said. "My first contract I signed was more money than I ever thought I could make driving a race car, but it was nothing compared to what the second contract was."
Gordon has kept winning through it all. His last series championship came in 2001 and he was second to Kurt Busch in the first-ever championship chase in 2004. Gordon's not where he wants to be -- the No. 24 team has qualified in the top 10 in seven of 10 races so far, but only finished among the top 10 twice this season -- but thinks he'll be helped by the upcoming schedule which includes some of his most successful tracks.
Gordon last won at Darlington in 2007, part of a run of seven consecutive top five finishes at the track "Too Tough to Tame." He'll start eighth Saturday and hopes to close in on the track's career victory leaders in David Pearson (10 wins) and Earnhardt (nine).
Gordon admits he feels frustrated at times when the wins don't come as quickly as in the past. Still, he believes he's continued competing at a high level. "I'm thrilled with the way things are still continuing to go for me because I do feel like we have opportunities to win races," he said.
Gordon has dealt with back issues through the years and acknowledged he wondered how much longer he could deal with the pain. He's worked with doctors at managing the pain and knows he's not bringing himself long-term damage by racing. "I'm hobbling out of the car, but I'm able to walk and I feel pretty decent inside the car," he said.
Hendrick teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. says Gordon's long-term success comes because he knows what he needs from the car, his team and those around him. "He's just really smart about those things to know how to keep the team jelling well and meshing well with him," Earnhardt said.
Gordon expects that to continue for a while, no matter how many milestones he achieves. "It's been an amazing run of great teams and great cars," Gordon said. "I'm just enjoying the moment right now of those 700 and not thinking too far ahead."


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Meteorologist Chelsea Ingram Has Your Sunday Night Forecast
Meteorologist Chelsea Ingram Has Your Sunday Night Forecast
Meteorologist Chelsea Ingram Has Your Sunday Night Forecast
As the inevitability of President Trump's loss became apparent even to his acolyte Kellyanne Conway in recent days, his supporters increasingly pinned their hopes for a second term on a last-ditch appeal, not to the Supreme Court, but to the one power that can outvote it: God.
Educator says she wants to keep on teaching when Joe Biden becomes president
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has named Tina Flournoy, a veteran Democratic strategist and aide to the Clintons, as her chief of staff, the transition team announced Thursday. Flournoy's appointment as Harris' top staffer adds to a team of advisers led by Black women. Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian heritage, is the nation's first female vice president.
Russia protested on Friday after Latvia charged several journalists from the Rossiya Segodnya news agency with violating European Union sanctions. The journalists were charged because of their association with Dmitry Kiselyov, who heads Rossiya Segodnya, said Sputnik Latvia, a subsidiary of Rossiya Segodnya. The Kremlin media mogul was sanctioned by the EU for his role in Russia's seizure of the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.
U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman, R-Va., told the Yahoo News "Skullduggery" podcast that President Trump's supporters claiming voter fraud share a lot in common with the people searching for Bigfoot.
Young Delaware senator's devastating losses shaped life and career in Washington
"No, I don't think it should be mandatory. I wouldn't demand that it be mandatory, but I will do everything in my power, just like I don't think masks have to be made mandatory nationwide... I will do everything in my power as the President of the United States to encourage people to do the right thing," Biden said. He added that in his inaugural speech he will ask Americans to commit for 100 days to wearing a mask, saying that wearing masks is 'not a political issue, it's become one.'
The European Union's aviation safety agency has extended a ban imposed on Pakistan's state-run airline this year barring it from flying to Europe after a plane crash that killed 97 people in the port city of Karachi, a spokesman said Friday. At the time — and while the probe into the May 22 Airbus A320 crash was still underway — authorities acknowledged that nearly a third of Pakistani pilots, 260 out of 860, had cheated on their pilot's exams. Pakistan International Airlines subsequently grounded 150 of its pilots while a probe by the country's Civil Aviation Authority into the other pilots is still ongoing.
Iran plans to install hundreds more advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges at an underground plant in breach of its deal with major powers, a U.N. nuclear watchdog report showed on Friday, a move that will raise pressure on U.S. President-elect Joe Biden. The confidential International Atomic Energy Agency report obtained by Reuters said Iran plans to install three more cascades, or clusters, of advanced IR-2m centrifuges in the underground plant at Natanz, which was apparently built to withstand aerial bombardment.
There appears to be growing support among Senate Republicans for a bipartisan coronavirus relief bill introduced earlier this week, reports The Washington Post.The $908 billion package — championed by moderate Sens. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Susan Collins (D-Maine), and Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) — is in between what Democratic leadership is pushing for and what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has suggested. The moderates suggested an unemployment boost and money for state governments, but no stimulus checks.While McConnell on Thursday continued to resist the bipartisan bill, pushing instead for his version, which the White House has endorsed, other Republican senators got on board with the package. Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Cornyn (R-Tex.), and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) signaled they were open to the bipartisan bill.Democratic leaders said they believed the $908 billion package should be the basis for negotiations. Several Republicans echoed that, saying it wasn't exactly what they wanted but it made for a good starting point.McConnell didn't comment directly on the bipartisan proposal, but instead urged lawmakers to pull the trigger on his version, which he called "a serious and highly targeted relief proposal including elements which we know the president is ready and willing to sign into law."More stories from theweek.com 5 absurdly funny cartoons about Trump's desperate fraud claims What Trump is doing isn't politics. It's something much worse. The Donald goes down to Georgia
Media reports suggest President Trump is eyeing another bid for the White House in four years. Will Trump 2024 become a reality?
The "ambitious" target for 2030 would see the UK move faster than any major economy, the PM says.
Philippine police on Friday threatened to cane people who violate social distancing protocols as the Southeast Asian nation fights the spread of the coronavirus during the festive season. The Philippines celebrates one of the world's longest Christmas seasons, starting as early as September, and crowds have started to flock to sprawling malls and shopping centres despite the pandemic. Police general Cesar Binag, commander of the coronavirus task force, told a news conference that police and soldiers would patrol in public areas in the capital Manila, the hotspot of COVID-19 cases, carrying 1 meter rattan sticks to measure distancing.
The United Nations' human rights chief lamented a deteriorating situation in Belarus and said Friday that reported beatings of protesters by security forces may in some cases amount to torture. Michelle Bachelet, the high commissioner for human rights, told the U.N. Human Rights Council there has been no improvement since a September debate about Belarus and "recent weeks have seen continued deterioration, particularly with respect to the right of peaceful assembly."
President-elect Joe Biden said when it comes to the Department of Justice, he is "not going to be telling them what they have to do and don't have to do."Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were interviewed by CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday, and the discussion turned to reports that President Trump is contemplating preemptively pardoning his adult children, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Biden said this "concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks [at] us as a nation of laws and justice."Biden promised that he is "not going to be saying, 'Go prosecute A, B, or C,' I'm not going to be telling them. That's not the role, it's not my Justice Department, it's the people's Justice Department. So the persons or person I pick to run that department are going to be people who are going to have the independent capacity to decide who gets prosecuted, who doesn't."Harris, who once served as California's attorney general, added that the administration will assume that "any decision coming out of the Justice Department ... should be based on the law, it should not be influence by politics, period."More stories from theweek.com 5 absurdly funny cartoons about Trump's desperate fraud claims What Trump is doing isn't politics. It's something much worse. The Donald goes down to Georgia
The shootings occurred in August in Kenosha, Wisconsin amid civil unrest sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man. Rittenhouse's lawyers have said he was helping protect property and that he acted in self defense. Rittenhouse, 17, was charged with first-degree homicide and five other criminal counts related to the shootings, in which Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber were killed and Gaige Grosskreutz was wounded.
Fire danger remained high Friday amid unpredictable wind gusts and dry conditions in Southern California, as crews made progress against blazes that burned several homes and injured two firefighters. The region's notorious Santa Ana winds decreased slightly but red flag warnings of extreme wildfire risk were in place into the weekend because of low humidity. After the weather calms in the southern part of the state, winds are expected to increase in Northern California starting Sunday, forecasters said.
President Trump reportedly needs no encouragement to start praising the dangerous, baseless QAnon conspiracy theory.The most pressing matter for federal Republicans right now is the upcoming Senate runoffs in Georgia, which will determine control of the body. But in a meeting with advisers and top Senate Republicans about that matter, Trump totally derailed the conversation by bringing up QAnon, people familiar with the discussion tell The Washington Post.Trump is reportedly not thrilled with Georgia and that fact that it flipped for President-elect Joe Biden, and is publicly upset with Republican leaders in the state who haven't somehow overturned the election for him. So even though Republican advisers say Trump's help is "key to convincing his die-hard supporters to vote for Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue" in the January runoff election, the president isn't thrilled about doing so, the Post reports. "Advisers say he has been frustrated at how some GOP senators have criticized him," leading Trump to appear "disinterested" when discussing Senate campaign plans, the Post continues.That was clear in a recent meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. Todd C. Young (R-Ind.), and other aides. As they discussed Georgia's Senate races, Trump brought up the QAnon-supporting soon-to-be congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene. Trump mispronounced the name of the group as "Q-an-uhn," and then said supporters of the theory that purports Democrats are a cannibalistic, pedophilic cabal "basically believe in good government," people familiar tell the Post. Everyone reportedly went silent until White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows mentioned he had "never heard it described that way," the Post reports.Trump has been asked to denounce QAnon several times, but usually gives the theory his tacit approval instead.More stories from theweek.com 5 absurdly funny cartoons about Trump's desperate fraud claims What Trump is doing isn't politics. It's something much worse. The Donald goes down to Georgia
Former Hong Kong politician Ted Hui has announced he has chosen to go into exile as Beijing intensifies its crackdown on high-profile figures of the former British colony's pro-democracy movement. Mr Hui, 38, initially fled to Denmark this week where he was joined by his family, but he said he would make his way to the UK to continue his pro-democratic activities. He joins Nathan Law, a prominent Hong Kong human rights activist now based in London, and a growing diaspora of dissidents who are continuing to advocate for more international pressure on China to allow greater rights and freedoms in the Asian financial hub. "My personal determination is that my exile will not be a migration. My only home is Hong Kong which is why I will not apply for asylum in any country," said Mr Hui, adding that he would make it his "life mission" to fight for the city's freedom. "There is no word to explain my pain and it's hard to hold back tears," he said as he announced his decision via Facebook. Mr Hui also revealed he had resigned from the opposition Democratic Party of Hong Kong. Last month he was one of 15 legislators who quit the city's legislative council in protest at Beijing's decision to oust four colleagues over their political views.
A Chinese official's tweet of an image of an Australian soldier that sparked a furious reaction from Canberra was amplified across social media by unusual accounts, of which half were likely fake, an Israeli cybersecurity firm and Australian experts said. The digitally altered image of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child was tweeted by China's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Monday. Twitter declined Australia's request to remove the tweet.


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