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1 1.5 Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton Sings Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ “Saturday Night Live” found a way to pay tribute to singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen in (5.34/6) its cold opening and at the same time make a political statement following Donald Trump’s up… 2016-11-13 00:48 1KB variety.com
2 1.3 S. Korea prosecutors question heads of conglomerates in probe over political scandal: Yonhap South Korean prosecutors have questioned the chairmen of Hyundai Motor and (4.81/6) Korean Air Lines and plan to question the de factor head of Samsung Group and other conglomerate chiefs over a political scandal involving President Park Geun-hye, media reports said Sunday... 2016-11-13 03:22 1022Bytes article.wn.com
3 3.2 Gail MarksJarvis: What will a Trump presidency mean for your wallet? (4.25/6) Look in your wallet. Do you see IOUs signed by Donald Trump, or did you merely imagine that he plopped them there? 2016-11-13 04:00 5KB www.miamiherald.com
4 2.9 Jackie Chan among film industry veterans awarded honorary Oscars (4.12/6) The president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says the recipients of its 2016 honorary Oscars have instilled a love of cinema in future filmmakers.... 2016-11-13 04:41 2KB www.scmp.com
5 0.3 Rights group accuses Iraqi Kurds of destroying Arab homes BAGHDAD (AP) " The security forces of Iraq's regional Kurdish government have (2.12/6) routinely destroyed Arab homes and even some whole villages in areas retaken from the Islamic State group over the past two years, according to a new report issued Sunday by Human Rights Watch... 2016-11-13 03:48 1KB article.wn.com
6 1.7 Trump reportedly looking for way to pull US out of climate agreement President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly looking at ways for the U. S. to back out of (2.10/6) a landmark climate pact, which would defy an agreement to cut carbon emissions across the globe. ... 2016-11-13 03:17 802Bytes article.wn.com 7 1.2 Donald Trump: Uncovered Interview Shows Pro- LGBTQ Views From President-Elect (1.03/6) While rhetoric singling out minorities has catapulted Donald Trump to the presidency, a 16-year old interview questions his current views. 2016-11-13 03:48 3KB www.inquisitr.com
8 0.4 Islamic State group flourishes and recruits in Pakistan ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group is increasing its presence in Pakistan, recruiting Uzbek militants, attracting disgruntled Taliban fighters and partnering with (1.02/6) one of Pakistan's most violent sectarian groups, according to police officers, Taliban officials and analysts. ... 2016-11-13 03:58 909Bytes article.wn.com
9 2.6 Can Trump rip up the Iran deal? Easier said than done As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to tear up the Iran nuclear deal, the signature
(1.02/6) diplomatic breakthrough of Barack Obama's second term. As president-ele... 2016-11-13 02:41 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk
10 2.9 Agriculture victim of and solution to climate change Diplomatic wrangling this week will make the headlines in the fight against climate change, but experts say a bigger but largely unseen battle is set to unfold on the (1.02/6) world's farms. 2016-11-13 02:10 4KB www.digitaljournal.com
11 2.8 A changing middle east: New jobs for women in Saudi Arabia For the first time, women in Saudi Arabia are being allowed to work in pharmacies, (1.02/6) herbal medicine stores and optical stores in malls. The new opportunities are part of a plan, c... 2016-11-13 02:00 723Bytes article.wn.com
12 0.5 Northern California congressman shocked by Confederate flags at Veterans Day parade
(1.00/6) Update on 'Essential Politics: More than 4 million votes left to count in California, Kamala Harris won't leave her day job anytime soo... 2016-11-13 01:42 1KB www.latimes.com
13 9.1 High school students construct 3-bedroom house High school students can accomplish some pretty impressive things. 2016-11-13 03:02 6KB www.washingtontimes.com (0.03/6)
14 0.0 4 rash promises Trump needs to forget President-elect must replace irresponsible campaign rhetoric with responsible leadership 2016-11-13 00:26 11KB rssfeeds.freep.com (0.03/6) 15 3.1 “Westworld” Season 1, Episode 7 Watch Online: What to Expect, Spoilers, & Fan Theories (0.02/6) Westworld season 1, episode 7 is on its way—check out these Westworld spoilers and theories and find out how to watch Westworld online! 2016-11-13 04:00 3KB www.earnthenecklace.com
16 1.6 The Bachelor's Noni Janur shows off her ample curves in a nude bikini and shorts as she joins fellow TV (0.01/6) rejects and couple Megan Marx and Tiffany Scanlon at the beach The Bachelor's Noni Janur joined Megan Marx and new girlfriend Tiffany Scanlon as they enjoyed some time together soaking up the sun at Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach on Saturday. 2016-11-13 02:38 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk
17 1.9 Noon O Kabab restaurant expands in Albany Park After two decades in business, the venerable Noon O Kabab has expanded across the (0.01/6) street. 2016-11-13 01:26 2KB abc7chicago.com
18 0.0 Donât cocoon Zuma, Thuli tells successor Former public protector warns Mkhwebane to protect the public and not the president as ANC calls for probe into âl eakedâ interview. 2016-11-13 00:00 5KB www.news24.com
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19 4.2 To Our Readers, From the Publisher and Executive Editor After such an erratic and unpredictable election there are inevitable questions. 2016-11-13 04:30 1KB www.nytimes.com
20 3.3 Trump wants trial postponement till Donald Trump's attorneys want the upcoming trial on Trump University postponed until after his swearing-in. 2016-11-13 04:27 4KB rss.cnn.com
21 2.4 State of Business Survey Report A survey was conducted on 1102 small businesses located in the U. S. by Wasp Barcode Technology on how businesses think of their government, their economical and revenue growth, the strategies involved to improve the revenue growth, the tools used for marketing and other tech... 2016-11-13 04:05 3KB article.wn.com
22 2.5 Political Road Map: Californians have a long, love- hate relationship with ballot propositions Ballot measures are referred to by some observers as California’s fourth branch of government, a 105-year-old system for citizen approval of laws and constitutional amendments that is baked into the state’s political DNA. 2016-11-13 04:05 4KB www.latimes.com 23 3.0 Nuke plant rehab entails unbearable costs, green group warns Duterte A green group on Sunday warned President Rodrigo Duterte of the “unbearable” monetary and environmental costs of reviving the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. 2016-11-13 00:00 4KB newsinfo.inquirer.net
24 1.6 ‘Brown, Bearded, Son of Immigrants, Voted Trump’ An Atlantic reader preferred to take a gamble with a volatile candidate over one he sees as predictably corrupt. 2016-11-13 04:00 18KB www.theatlantic.com
25 2.3 Ocean Climate Action Making Waves Ocean Climate Action Making Waves Global Climate Action at COP22 http://newsroom.unfccc.int/climate-action/ocean-climate-action-making-waves/ Marrakech, Morocco, 12 Nov, 2016 – A special Oceans Action Event at the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech (COP22) is bringing together over 400 high- level participants ... 2016-11-13 03:58 932Bytes article.wn.com
26 0.0 APEC's Trade Fix Sluggish trade growth and rising scrutiny of globalization have cast these forces into uncertainty. On the eve of the 2016 APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in Lima, APEC Committee on Trade and Investment Chair Marie Sherylyn Aquia discussed the implications...... 2016-11-13 03:58 759Bytes article.wn.com
27 7.1 It takes a village to promote good health A Jerusalem academic workshop on social capital and health produces some interesting conclusions. 2016-11-13 03:48 13KB www.jpost.com
28 0.0 Chinese deliveryman overloads truck with parcels after Singles’ Day shopping frenzy With vast piles of goods needing delivery after China’s Singles’ Day shopping festival, a Chongqing deliveryman filled the passenger’s seat and space beneath his truck with parcels, but was fined for overloading the vehicle.... 2016-11-13 03:38 1KB www.scmp.com
29 2.2 For the Record Billy Strayhorn musical: In the Calendar section elsewhere in this edition, a list of theater openings gives the title of the new musical about jazz pianist and composer Billy Strayhorn at Matrix Theatre as “Lush Life.” The musical was retitled “When Jazz Had the Blues” after the... 2016-11-13 03:35 1KB www.latimes.com
30 4.2 Stone found in sheep’s liver may earn millions of yuan for Chinese farmer Known as sheep’s treasure, the stone is valued by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners 2016-11-13 03:30 1KB www.scmp.com 31 0.0 Demi Lovato holds hands with rumoured MMA fighter beau Luke Rockhold as they arrive to UFC 205 in New York It's been the worst kept celebrity couple secret for a while now. And on Saturday night Demi Lovato finally confirmed her relationship with MMA fighter Luke Rockhold in New York 2016-11-13 03:24 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
32 0.7 Bulgarian government at stake in presidential poll Bulgarians voted Sunday in a high-stakes presidential run-off that could see center- right Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's government fall if his handpicked candidate fails to defeat a Socialist-backed general... 2016-11-13 03:22 731Bytes article.wn.com
33 0.6 Netflix Originals: When Will ‘Glitch’ Season 2 Be Released? Glitch is one of the many Netflix Originals. Season 1 of Glitch was released to Netflix subscribers on October 15. When will Season 2 be released? 2016-11-13 03:15 1KB www.inquisitr.com
34 1.6 New facility to help teens with mental health problems The teen years are tough enough for any kid. School, hormones, parents and adulthood coming like a speeding train. 2016-11-13 03:03 9KB www.miamiherald.com
35 0.0 Tahlequah school to add Wollemi pine to fossil site One local elementary school will soon be home to one of the world’s oldest and rarest trees. 2016-11-13 03:01 2KB www.washingtontimes.com
36 4.5 Zoo saves kangaroo with 25 percent chance of survival Having an active youngster is a game-changer. Amanda Dukart, zookeeper and animal trainer for Chahinkapa Zoo, found that out last spring. 2016-11-13 03:01 4KB www.washingtontimes.com
37 0.9 Bella Thorne is epitome of casual chic in Daisy Dukes and snakeskin boots before slipping into crop top and ripped jeans The 19-year-old star was spotted on the job for her latest project in Los Angeles on Saturday in two different outfits. 2016-11-13 02:03 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
38 0.0 EXCHANGE: Duo seeks students for new music school Nolan Wegner had a sore throat. His voice teacher, Jon McLemore, had a backup plan. 2016-11-13 02:02 4KB www.washingtontimes.com 39 1.7 Marine Le Pen: 'Trump made the impossible possible' National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen said Donald Trump's victory in the US election was "an additional stone in the building of a new world". 2016-11-13 02:00 628Bytes www.bbc.co.uk
40 1.2 Duchess of Cambridge dazzles in black dress at Royal Festival of Remembrance While the subject matter of her visit was somber, Kate Middleton managed to look stylish at the ceremony at Royal Albert Hall. 2016-11-13 01:47 2KB www.aol.com
41 0.9 Lauren Brant and AFL legend Barry Hall share a laugh as former Hi-5 star hints love is in the air after the couple went official recently Lauren Brant shared a photo with new beau Barry Hall as they shared a joke on Sunday, suggesting the pair's relationship is getting serious with the L-word used in the caption. 2016-11-13 01:42 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
42 2.8 Markets set US president's policy, regardless of election promises Whoever won the election would have found clear policy markers, set by asset prices reflecting the current state of economic fundamentals. 2016-11-13 01:33 7KB www.cnbc.com
43 4.9 Mild earthquake rattles southwest Alaska A moderate earthquake was felt by residents in southwest Alaska Saturday afternoon, but there have been no immediate reports of damage. 2016-11-13 01:25 1021Bytes www.foxnews.com
44 2.6 Reddit landlords reveal their tenants from HELL Landlord users of Reddit have taken to the online forum to share their stories of tenants from hell, and the experiences are equal parts surprising, disgusting and bizarre. 2016-11-13 01:17 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
45 4.5 Top 10 Best Electric Guitars for Christmas 2016 If you're looking to give a guitar this year, here's our list of the top ten best electric guitars for… 2016-11-13 01:15 14KB heavy.com
46 1.4 Obituary: Jim Ersher / Sewickley police chief protected, served and smiled To Jim Ersher, there was no reason that police work couldn’t be a blast. “He really did wonders for the morale of the police,” said Thomas DeFazio, a Sewickley councilman, who knew Chief Ersher for nearly all of his two-decade tenure with the borough’s... 2016-11-13 01:00 4KB www.post-gazette.com 47 0.6 Satellite images show Myanmar Rohingya villages torched Hundreds of buildings in Rohingya villages in western Myanmar have been torched, according to new satellite images released on Sunday as fresh fighting flare... 2016-11-13 00:56 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
48 1.9 JDRF hosts annual Type 1 Diabetes Summit to raise awareness, support families SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is trying to spread awareness and provide support for families dealing with diabetes. JDRF held their second annual Type 1 Diabetes Summit Saturday, and it was emceed by Fox 13 News’ very own Danica Lawrence. 2016-11-13 00:37 1KB fox13now.com
49 4.2 Detroit Dog Rescue helps find dogs a home There is an overpopulation of breeding dogs in Detroit and many end up on the streets or in shelters. 2016-11-13 00:36 5KB rssfeeds.freep.com
50 0.0 Mtich Albom: Time to pause, reflect — and stop predicting
Give Trump administration time before rushing to judgment. 2016-11-13 00:33 12KB rssfeeds.freep.com
51 0.0 Turnbull turns towards humanity but refugees' nightmare of fear and scapegoating yet to end The PM’s announcement is welcome but it is unclear whether Donald Trump will honour the terms of the agreement 2016-11-13 00:33 5KB www.theguardian.com
52 1.8 Public can get rare 'look' at museum's vast collection The Natural History Museum of Utah is offering the public a rare chance to look at its vast collection of priceless objects that are normally tucked away, and meet the scientists who conduct an array 2016-11-13 00:31 1KB www.deseretnews.com
53 0.8 Wesleyan Anti-Trump Students Spray-Paint ‘AmeriKKKa’ On U. S. Flag ‘Out Of Respect’ For Veterans Day – WATCH Flag burning was scrapped in favor of spray painting an American flag pic.twitter.com/s7JA3dHhbU— Jake Lahut (@JakeLahut) November 11, 2016 Excerpted From The College Fix: Wesleyan University students honored America’s veterans Friday by defacing the American… 2016-11-13 08:16 1KB www.patdollard.com 54 3.9 Low pressure system expected to form in Caribbean Sea The system has a 50-percent chance of forming over the next five days, according to the National Hurricane Center. 2016-11-13 00:15 1KB www.nola.com
55 0.0 Duane may have a point, but heâs part of the problem When it comes to the lot of a current Springbok, Warren Whiteley said it best this week. 2016-11-13 00:12 711Bytes www.sport24.co.za
56 1.2 Black Friday: Put a fork in it The in-store gala extravaganza that was Black Friday and then, Thanksgiving Day/Black Friday, is pretty much a bust. And there are reasons for that. 2016-11-13 00:09 3KB rssfeeds.freep.com
57 1.9 Holiday movie guide: 15 films to make us feel better after the election Election 2016 left Americans feeling like they were on opposing sides. These movies provide space to reflect. 2016-11-13 00:04 8KB rssfeeds.freep.com
58 0.8 George Soros – 60 Minutes Interview Being Suppressed? Probably Not George Soros - Now there is a crazy theory that Soros is trying to suppress a 60 minutes video from 1998 - I found the greatest 2016-11-13 00:01 7KB www.valuewalk.com
59 2.0 Intelligence candidates grilled by MPs Parliament this week interviewed 10 candidates for the position of inspector general of intelligence, a position it has tried but failed to fill on three occasions over the past 20 months. 2016-11-13 00:00 7KB www.news24.com Articles
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1 /59 1.5 Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton Sings Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ (5.34/6) Awesome Show. Hilarious to boot. Ratings should be through the ceiling.
SNL Sucks and this skit is deplorable. The only people responsible for the Clinton Mafia’s loss is the DNC. They ankled Biden and then Sanders who actually could have won. But no….the DNC wanted to kiss Hillary in because she “deserved it”. A criminal who has consistently lied for 30 years. Trump is a joke but she is far worse.
After a tough battle even the Cleveland Indians knew when the game was over. Time for the losers to let it be.
Post-Election 'SNL' Features ‘SNL': Watch Kate Watch: Humorless SNL 'SNL': Kate McKinnon's Somber Performance by McKinnon Sing Leonard Cold Open Features ‘Hillary’ Clinton delivers tearjerker Kate McKinnon's Hillary Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ as Singing ‘Hallelujah’ 'Hallelujah' performance Clinton Singing 'Hallelujah' Hillary Clinton (Video) feedproxy.google.com rssfeeds.usatoday.com abcnews.go.com sfgate.com
Kate McKinnon plays Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah to open SNL dailymail.co.uk
2016-11-13 00:48 Cynthia Littleton variety.com
2 /59 1.3 S. Korea prosecutors question heads of conglomerates in probe over political scandal: Yonhap (4.81/6) South Korean prosecutors have questioned the chairmen of Hyundai Motor and Korean Air Lines and plan to question the de factor head of Samsung Group and other conglomerate chiefs over a political scandal involving President Park Geun-hye, media reports said Sunday...
Report: South Korea Prosecutors Likely to Question President abcnews.go.com
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Report: South Korea South Korea prosecutors South Korea prosecutors bid South Korean prosecutors to prosecutors likely to likely to question president to question Park over question president over question president dailymail.co.uk scandal political scandal: Report thenewstribune.com dailymail.co.uk article.wn.com
South Korea's Yonhap News South Korean prosecutors to Agency Quotes Prosecutors question president this week as Saying They Will Likely over political scandal - Question the President Over Yonhap Scandal dailymail.co.uk abcnews.go.com
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3 /59 3.2 Gail MarksJarvis: What will a Trump presidency mean for your wallet? (4.25/6) Look in your wallet. Do you see IOUs signed by Donald Trump, or did you merely imagine that he plopped them there?
Most of the Trump promises made during the campaign were big but vague. He promised to help all Americans prosper and to renew the American Dream. But what does that mean for your wallet? Often, ideas that sound good on the campaign trail dissipate or morph once they've made it through Congress.
And though Trump gets to work with a House and Senate controlled by Republicans, the ideas he trumpeted on the campaign trail are a political blend: His tax plan seems to come from the Republican playbook. His student loan relief plan sounds a lot like Obama's, and his pledge to keep Social Security completely intact differs from Republicans itching to make cuts.
Here are some key issues for your wallet:
_Tax cuts. One of the clearest plans described by Trump during the campaign was his tax plan.
Reviews by independent think tanks say his plan would cut taxes for all income levels, but it's bound to be controversial because most savings would go to the highest-income people and 20 percent of moderate-income people would face higher taxes.
In one example, a single parent earning $75,000 would face a tax increase of $2,440.
Trump would reduce the number of tax brackets, increase the standard deduction, hold the maximum rate for dividend and capital gains taxes at 20 percent, and get rid of federal estate taxes and the alternative minimum tax. He would limit deductions other than for charitable contributions and mortgage interest and cut the corporate tax rate to 15 percent.
Making this happen will be a challenge. The Tax Policy Center says the plan would cost the government $6 trillion over a decade as people pay less in taxes. Unless the government makes huge spending cuts, the tax break would end up increasing the national debt by nearly 80 percent of gross domestic product by 2036. Yet, Trump argues that tax cuts will spur businesses and individuals to spend more and spark the economy so more money would flow into the tax coffers.
_Student loans. Trump hasn't spelled out his student loan plan as concretely as his tax plan, but in a speech he said that people with student loans shouldn't have to pay more than 12.5 percent of their income toward student loan payments. And they shouldn't have to make payments for more than 15 years.
Presumably that would mean that after 15 years - even if their loans weren't paid off - the remainder would be forgiven. That sounds a lot like Obama's current program of reducing student loan payments if the regular payments would be too high for the income a person earned. It's called income-based repayment.
Trump also says he's going to put pressure on colleges to reduce costs. Colleges get tax breaks from the government and Trump implied he could use them as a carrot or a stick. A popular study around college costs shows that many colleges could reduce prices for students if the institutions would devote more money from their endowments.
_Obamacare. Trump, like other Republicans, has vowed to repeal the Affordable Care Act, get rid of the requirement that everyone buy health insurance and start to build a new health insurance system. The current system, he said, has led to runaway costs, rationing care, high premiums and few choices. With about 20 million now covered by Obamacare, however, creating an alternative or getting the support needed from Congress won't be immediate or easy.
Ultimately, Trump says he will retain requirements like making insurers cover pre-existing conditions, and he plans to bring health insurance costs down by generating more competition between insurance companies.
_Social Security and Medicare. Even though Trump said he wouldn't make cuts in Social Security or Medicare, he will be pressured by Republicans pushing for change. The pressure could intensify as Trump and Congress try to make tax cuts that, as mentioned earlier, come with a $6 trillion price tag.
While Trump has promised no cuts in entitlements, the position is at odds with his campaign trail comment that government needs to get rid of its $19 trillion in debt.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has suggested reducing benefits for future retirees earning $80,000 or more without Social Security. He also proposed eliminating Social Security for individuals making more than $200,000. House Speaker Paul Ryan wants to raise the retirement age and use vouchers to control Medicare costs.
ABOUT THE WRITER
Gail MarksJarvis is a personal finance columnist for the Chicago Tribune and author of "Saving for Retirement Without Living Like a Pauper or Winning the Lottery. " Readers may send her email at [email protected].
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4 /59 2.9 Jackie Chan among film industry veterans awarded honorary Oscars (4.12/6) The president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says the recipients of its 2016 honorary Oscars have instilled a love of cinema in future filmmakers. President Cheryl Boone Isaacs said on Saturday that actor Jackie Chan, film editor Anne V. Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentarian Frederick Wiseman “inspire the next generation with that same sense of wonder and enchantment that first touched us as kids”. Jeff Bridges and Warren Beatty were among the stars greeting Stalmaster. Honorary Oscars used to be presented during the annual Academy Awards ceremony and to generally recognised talents. Establishing the Governors Awards ceremony has allowed for more comprehensive presentations and more diverse recipients. For example, Stalmaster – whose casting credits include , , and – will become the first to receive an Oscar for casting. No casting category exists at the Academy Awards. “This is exactly what the Governors Awards are meant to do,” said David Rubin, who is producing this year’s ceremony at Hollywood & Highland’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. “It’s a look at entire careers.” Chan has said that as an action star, despite his decades in film, he never expected to win an Oscar. Previous recipients have included stuntman Hal Needham, independent filmmaker Roger Corman and studio chief John Calley, as well as Steve Martin, Spike Lee and Lauren Bacall. The Governors Awards ceremony has also become an early stop on the awards season campaign trail for 2017 Oscar hopefuls. Among the guests expected are stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, writer-director Damien Chazelle and star Emma Stone, and director Barry Jenkins and co-star Naomie Harris.
Lily Collins oozes class in Governors Awards: Jackie Industry veterans get Honorary Oscar award a backless satin gown at the Chan Steals Show With honorary Oscars at 'dream', Jackie Chan says Academy's Governors Short, Effusive Speech Governors Awards independent.ie Awards in Hollywood variety.com miamiherald.com dailymail.co.uk
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5 /59 0.3 Rights group accuses Iraqi Kurds of destroying Arab homes (2.12/6) BAGHDAD (AP) " The security forces of Iraq's regional Kurdish government have routinely destroyed Arab homes and even some whole villages in areas retaken from the Islamic State group over the past two years, according to a new report issued Sunday by Human Rights Watch. The report says that between September 2014 and May 2016, Kurdish forces advancing against IS destroyed Arab homes in disputed areas of Kirkuk and Ninevah provinces, while Kurdish homes were left intact. It says the... Rights Group Accuses Iraqi Kurds of Destroying Arab Homes abcnews.go.com
Iraqi Kurdistan: Arab Homes Destroyed After ISIS Battles (HRW - Human Rights Watch) article.wn.com
Iraqi Kurds' destruction of Arab villages could be war crime -HRW dailymail.co.uk
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6 /59 1.7 Trump reportedly looking for way to pull US out of climate agreement (2.10/6) President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly looking at ways for the U. S. to back out of a landmark climate pact, which would defy an agreement to cut carbon emissions across the globe. ...
Donald Trump is looking at fast ways to quit global agreement to limit climate change, source says dailymail.co.uk Trumped: The abyss Donald Trump, climate Kerry tells Trump that between reporters and the finance, and 'catastrophe' Americans want climate reported article.wn.com action article.wn.com digitaljournal.com
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7 /59 1.2 Donald Trump: Uncovered Interview Shows Pro-LGBTQ Views From President-Elect (1.03/6) Donald Trump securing the presidency on Wednesday morning has led to protests all around the country, largely due to his controversial statements about Muslims, Hispanics, African-Americans, women and the LGBTQ community. However, a 2000 interview with Advocate shows a more liberal Trump, accepting of the LGBTQ community, willing to fight for its rights.
“I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples,” Trump said. “It breeds tolerance. In all truth, I don’t care whether or not a person is gay. I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit. Being in the entertainment business — that is, owning casinos and … several large beauty pageants — I’ve worked with many gay people. I have met some tough, talented, capable, terrific people. Their lifestyle is of no interest to me.”
Trump, 70, spoke about a potential run for president as early as 1980. But in 2000, he made his first serious attempt as part of the Reform Party. A lot of his proposed policies from 16 years ago mirror what the former reality television star has vowed to implement upon taking office.
Is Donald Trump already walking away from campaign promises? https://t.co/LRVHL6ILnH pic.twitter.com/b525vbZ6u4
— CNN (@CNN) November 12, 2016
At the Republican National Convention in July, Trump promised to fight for the LGBTQ community and protect them from a “hateful foreign ideology.” In 2000, he proposed amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which ruled discrimination based race, color, religion, sex, or national origin to include sexual orientation.
“We don’t need to rewrite the laws currently on the books, although I do think we need to address hate-crimes legislation,” he said. “But amending the Civil Rights Act would grant the same protection to gay people that we give to other Americans — it’s only fair.”
The real estate mogul did mention that marriage, in his opinion, is an institution “between a man and a woman.”
“I would want the best and brightest. Sexual orientation would be meaningless,” Trump said. “I’m looking for brains and experience. If the best person for the job happens to be gay, I would certainly appoint them. One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government. I’d want to change that.”
All of these comments have merit as Trump, who will be sworn into office on January 20, 2017. It was announced on Friday that openly gay Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel will be a part of Trump’s administration.
JUST IN: Trump names 3 of his children, son-in-law, Bannon & Peter Thiel to transition team lead by Pence & Christie pic.twitter.com/hPMjRN8MWx
— Jackson Proskow (@JProskowGlobal) November 11, 2016
The president-elect has a lot of positions to fill in the coming months and a lot of responsibility coming in the next four years. While he expressed confidence in winning the election this time, in 2000, he admitted he may be “too blunt for politics.”
After a campaign that included rhetoric singling out minorities, that proved to be far from the truth. However, the last part of his interview proved to be 100 percent fact.
“I don’t need the job to feel good about myself. In fact, I feel pretty good right now. But I guarantee you this. If I do run, it won’t be boring.”
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Hundreds gather at White House to protest president- elect Donald Trump rssfeeds.wusa9.com
2016-11-13 03:48 Mark Suleymanov www.inquisitr.com
8 /59 0.4 Islamic State group flourishes and recruits in Pakistan
(1.02/6) ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group is increasing its presence in Pakistan, recruiting Uzbek militants, attracting disgruntled Taliban fighters and partnering with one of Pakistan's most violent sectarian groups, according to police officers, Taliban officials and analysts. ... Islamic State Group Flourishes and Recruits in Pakistan abcnews.go.com
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9 /59 2.6 Can Trump rip up the Iran deal? Easier said than done
(1.02/6) As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to tear up the Iran nuclear deal, the signature diplomatic breakthrough of Barack Obama's second term. As president-elect, Trump has been more circumspect, and the United States would face serious international fallout if he made good on his threat. Signed in Vienna in July 2015 and in force since January, the agreement was made possible by 18 months of back-channel talks between Washington and arch-foe Tehran in 2012 and 2013. But it was also, after the negotiations became public, a two-year joint effort for the so-called P5+1 -- Britain, France, Germany, Russia, the United States and the European Union. And, once these powers and Iran signed it, the United Nations Security Council endorsed it as international law. It was not uncontroversial. US allies Saudi Arabia and Israel in particular feared it would only delay Iran's alleged quest for a bomb while emboldening it in other domains. But neither these naysayers nor the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog, has caught Tehran's Islamist regime undermining it, and it has become a key plank of world counterproliferation efforts. In Washington, however, the deal is still a political football and Obama's Republican opponents -- now led by President-elect Trump -- have been scathing. - 'Worst deal ever' - Trump has called the agreement under which the Iran deal was implemented, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA, the "worst deal ever negotiated. " And he has vowed to review provisions to return to Tehran tens of billions of dollars in funds frozen in Western banks in return for restrictions on its nuclear program. The JCPOA is not a treaty ratified by Congress as US law and -- as American officials confirmed this week after Trump's election -- there is no legal reason he could not abrogate it. But it would offend the other allies with whom the deal was concluded and who trusted the United States to uphold it, and it would almost certainly trigger a Middle East arms race. One of Trump's foreign policy advisers, Walid Phares, told the BBC that "ripping up is maybe a too strong of word" but that the deal would be renegotiated by the incoming administration. Whether this would amount to anything concrete remains to be seen. Supporters of the accord -- those who hoped it would lead to a broader "rebalancing" of US ties in the region in Tehran's favor and Riyadh's cost -- are adamant. "The United States cannot unilaterally void or amend the agreement without violating international law," argued Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council. "Any effort to directly kill the deal -— or even renegotiate it -- will isolate the United States, and not Iran," he wrote in an op-ed for the Foreign Policy website. Even less partisan voices agree. George Perkovich of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said Washington's closest allies would see a unilateral bid by Washington to renegotiate as a "rogue action. " "They would consider the United States to be in violation of the deal and would not feel bound to reimpose or tighten sanctions on Iran, as the United States might wish," he wrote. - Where blame would fall - "Meanwhile, Iran could exploit such a US move and threaten to, or actually stop, observing nuclear restraints," he added. "The rest of the world would blame the resultant global crisis directly on the new US president. This would not be a good bargaining position for the United States. " The European Union's head of international affairs, Federica Mogherini, has already sought to remind Trump that the Iran deal is a "multilateral accord," not a US bargaining chip. But the US electorate has chosen a leader with no foreign policy experience. What he decides to do will only become clear after his inauguration, in January.
Will Trump scrap the Iran deal? If so, this is how he could do it article.wn.com
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10 /59 2.9 Agriculture victim of and solution to climate change
(1.02/6) Diplomatic wrangling this week will make the headlines in the fight against climate change, but experts say a bigger but largely unseen battle is set to unfold on the world's farms.
Agriculture holds the double distinction of being highly vulnerable to climate change but also offering a solution to the problem, they say.
In a report ahead of the November 7- 18 UN climate talks in Marrakesh, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) had a blunt warning about the risks to the food supply from drought, flood, soil depletion, desertification and rising demand. "There is no doubt climate change affects food security," the agency's chief, Jose Graziano da Silva, said.
"What climate change does is to bring back uncertainties from the time we were all hunter gatherers. We cannot assure any more that we will have the harvest we have planted. "
Crop volatility has been felt acutely this year, partly through El Nino -- a weather phenomenon whose impact is seen by many scientists as a reflection of what future climate change may look like.
Harvests fell sharply in the bread baskets of Latin America, North Africa and Europe, hit by exceptional drought or floods.
Over the coming dozen years or so, according to last month's FAO report, farmers in developing countries will be the ones who bear the brunt of rising temperatures.
Beyond 2030, though, "negative pressures on food production will be increasingly felt everywhere".
At the same time, agriculture is a massive contributor of greenhouse gases, helping to stoke the planetary warming that in turn affects the climate system.
Farming accounts for at least a quarter of world greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
By itself, it contributes 17 percent of the warming effect, especially through emissions of methane -- a stronger heat-trapper than carbon dioxide -- which comes from animal farming and rice paddies. Deforestation and conversion of virgin land to the plough are also powerful factors in the emissions total.
- Farming vision -
Ideas abound for fixing the problem, although mustering the finance to do it remains a tricky question.
The compelling vision is of a world where agriculture makes smarter use of less resources, providing more food with less carbon pollution.
Much of the thinking focuses on helping smallholder farmers, especially in Africa, with sustainable techniques.
Crop rotation, drought-resistant seeds and restricted use of water are among the options and low tilling of soil, especially in winter, is favoured.
Agricultural scientists are also big champions of the humble legume -- a plant that includes peas, lentils and captures nitrogen from the air and fixes it in the soil, providing a natural fertiliser.
Sebastien Abis, a researcher at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS), a Paris thinktank, points to a world population that is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050, compared to 3.7 million in 1970. Demand for meat, a big contributor to carbon emissions, is also expected to surge. That makes it "dangerous" for people to think there can be a letup in food production, said Abis.
Hans Herren, an award-winning Swiss development expert who is president of the Millennium Institute, a Washington-based NGO, is a little more sanguine.
He believes the quest should be on providing better calories rather than more of them. Slashing waste and encouraging efficiency are the key.
"Today the planet provides twice as much food than it needs -- 4,600 calories per person per day, whereas we only need 2,300 calories," Herren said in an interview with AFP.
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11 /59 2.8 A changing middle east: New jobs for women in Saudi Arabia (1.02/6) For the first time, women in Saudi Arabia are being allowed to work in pharmacies, herbal medicine stores and optical stores in malls. The new opportunities are part of a plan, c...
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12 /59 0.5 Northern California congressman shocked by Confederate flags at Veterans Day parade (1.00/6) This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now:
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Northern California Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), was riding in a local Veterans Day parade on Friday when he spotted several young men with Confederate-related flags. "More ugliness is coming," he tweeted, along with a couple pictures of the people holding the flags. Huffman was elected this week to his third term representing California's 2nd District.
He told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat he was holding an American flag in his hand, turned to the men and shouted, “This is our flag! "
He later related the incident to the election of President-elect Donald Trump and the reaction that has followed.
“This is not an isolated thing," he told the Press Democrat. "We need to prepare for more of this because the Trump campaign has legitimized and given public space to some shadowy groups that used to hide from public view.”
Essential Politics: More than 4 million votes left to count in California, Kamala Harris won't leave her day job anytime soon latimes.com
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13 /59 9.1 High school students construct 3-bedroom house
(0.03/6) HALFWAY, Ore. (AP) - High school students can accomplish some pretty impressive things.
But it’s not often that they design, build and sell a three-bedroom, two- bathroom house.
That’s what high school students did over a six-year period at Pine-Eagle High School in Halfway.
The house, on a lot the school district owns, sold for $179,000 in September.
Constructing the house was part of the school’s Building Trades Program, reported the Baker City Herald (http://bit.ly/2fw2qUC).
“It was quite an undertaking,” said Joe Denig, the school’s agriculture/building trades instructor. “We were able to allow students to see it from creation to finish.” The single story 1,310-square-foot house with an attached garage was completed this spring.
While the school had general contractors as advisers on site, students did most of the work and gained valuable hands-on skills that will enable them to pursue careers in many construction- related fields ahead of the game.
Students in the Building Trades classes earn credentials through the NCCER (National Center For Construction Education and Research), Denig said. It’s a national program for training individuals in the construction fields.
The industry credentials stay with students throughout their lives, wherever they go in the U. S.
There are two Building Trades classes each afternoon. Since the house’s completion, students have been building fences on campus for the ag program’s organic gardening program as well as building pig sheds and a coop for chickens that will be raised by ag students.
Money to start the Building Trades program at Pine-Eagle came partly from a two-year state grant for $500,000 the school received when it became a charter school. The first year funded the school’s infrastructure and other programs. And the second year award was earmarked for the Building Trades Program.
Denig said the program was actually in peril when the state notified the district it would not be able to award the second part of that grant due to budget constraints. Luckily an anonymous community member hears about the situation and loaned the school $100,000 to keep the program going. Pine-Eagle School District Superintendent Cammie deCastro said the state eventually funded about $80,000 of the second-year allocation of the grant.
The school has received about $200,000 in other grants.
“Without the grants and the support from our community we wouldn’t have been able to do as much as we’ve done,” deCastro said.
Denig said Pine-Eagle officials are considering ways to use revenue from the sale of the house. Options include buying a fixer-upper house to remodel or a lot on which to build another house.
Blake Butler, a 17-year-old senior in the Building Trades class, took a break from roofing one of the pig sheds to talk about helping to finish the house last spring.
“It’s pretty fun,” Butler said. “We get to do a lot of hands-on work. It’s better than sitting in a classroom.”
Butler said he is confident he could build simple structures because of what he learned in the Building Trades classes he has taken. He said he has gained a lot of practical knowledge about construction he can use in the future.
Senior Baylee Bell, 17, who is taking the class for the first time this year, likes that she is learning practical building skills.
“We actually build houses instead of just like little birdhouses,” she said.
Bell said it was no big deal being the only girl in the class. Denig chimed in and said in past classes, the girls were some of the best finish carpenters he had worked with “because they have attention to detail.” Phillip Holland, 17, is taking the class for the second straight year. He enjoyed learning how to do finish work such as installing doors, windows and carpeting.
“I’ve actually learned quite a bit,” he said.
Holland said with a little bit of direction, he is confident he could get a job as a construction worker after high school with the skills he has learned.
Several of the students agreed they liked the hands-on approach much better than sitting in a classroom.
“I really wouldn’t want an office job,” Holland said.
Superintendent deCastro said the hands-on approach is an important part of the program.
“(It) will benefit them in their personal lives and their professional lives if they choose to go down that path,” she said.
Besides preparation and the opportunity for better starting wages for many construction jobs with NCCER certification, the students will gain practical knowledge as potential future homeowners.
“Knowing how a house is built and knowing how to use (building) code and how to go through that process is an important piece,” deCastro said. “We just want to provide our students with every opportunity.”
Rick Kruger, a 69-year-old retired fish and wildlife biologist, bought the house in September.
It’s a nice small compact house,” he said. “It’s the perfect house for me to retire in.”
That was one of the factors Denig had his students take into consideration at the beginning of the project in 2010. Before deciding what kind of house the students would build, one of their first assignments was to research what kind of houses were selling in Halfway by talking to real estate agents in town.
“In this area you’re probably looking at retirement,” Denig said.
They came up with the parameters for a house that would be attractive to buyers who would be looking for a retirement home. The next assignment was to get the students on the internet and have them each come up with the architectural plans for a house that fit those parameters.
“The students each came up with their best plan and we narrowed it down to the one they liked best,” Denig said.
Another factor that made the house perfect for Kruger is its location directly across the street from the school his granddaughter will be attending in a few years.
“She can walk across the street and come to Grandpa’s house,” he said.
Kruger has had conversations with Denig about possibly utilizing the Building Trades program and its students to build a shop on his newly acquired property. ___
Information from: Baker City Herald, http://www.bakercityherald.com/
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14 /59 (0.03/6) 0.0 4 rash promises Trump needs to forget If Donald Trump's presidency is to be more than a war of attrition between his political allies and the majority of American voters who rejected his candidacy, the president-elect and his political opponents are going to have to strike a mutual amnesia agreement:
Trump will have to put aside the most irresponsible (and, in some cases, extra-legal) threats he made in the heat of his scorched-earth presidential campaign.
And his critics will have to forget, or at least dismiss as so much calculated hyperbole, the fevered rhetorical flights in which candidate Trump pledged to jail his Democratic rival or impose a religious test for visitors and would-be immigrants.
►Stephen Henderson: Vote for Trump was a consent, purposeful or not, to bigotry
It is folly to hope that Trump will explicitly renounce even the most outrageous of these threats; apology simply isn't in his skill set.
But in the gracious remarks he read early last Wednesday morning after accepting his opponent's congratulations, a more-restrained Trump signaled a willingness to draw a bright line between the liberties he exploited as a candidate and the responsibilities he faces as commander-in-chief.
This is a critically important adjustment that should be applauded and encouraged by even Trump's most unforgiving critics.
It would be unrealistic to imagine that Trump will jettison the values and policy initiatives on which he campaigned. But we have identified four ill-considered pledges that go past politics or policy to threaten fundamental American principles. This is still a country where certain things, done for certain reasons, contravene who we are, or threaten the basic tenets of equal protection under the rule of law, the very thing that separates us from much of the rest of the world.
The president-elect would be advised to forget, misplace, or dramatically revise these ideas as he completes the transition from the campaign trail to the White House. ►Editorial: Trump must jettison demagogic election rhetoric for healing to begin
Among the lowest points in Trump's campaign was his threat, in the second of the three nationally televised debates, to reopen a federal investigation that has now twice cleared Hillary Clinton of criminal wrongdoing in her reliance on a private computer server when she was secretary of state. His speculation that Clinton would "be in jail" if he became president awakened an almost primal blood lust in Trump's most deranged supporters; whose "Lock her up" chant became a frightening signature of his campaign rallies.
But this is the way Third World t dictators talk after they've seized power in a military coup; it is not the language of a democratically elected president who reached office via an electoral process prescribed by the Constitution.
The question of Clinton's criminal liability has been asked and answered repeatedly, and there is no evidence that the legions of investigators marshaled to scrutinize her conduct pulled their punches. (If anything, the skulduggery surrounding FBI Director James Comey's 11th-hour letter to Congress suggests Comey's hand may have been forced by subordinates seeking to sabotage Clinton's candidacy.)
Exploiting his newly acquired authority to harass Clinton (or to placate the conspiracy theorists egged on by his irresponsible threats) would confirm the direst suspicions about the president- elect's judgment. So, for that matter, would any legal offensive targeting the many women who have accused him of sexual assault.
If he hopes to dispel such suspicions, Trump must leave the witch-hunting rhetoric of the campaign behind, and signal to would-be inquisitors like House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, that Congress has more urgent priorities to pursue.
Of all the chimerical promises dangled before voters about the peril of Mexican immigrants, Trump's pledge to erect a wall the length of the U. S.-Mexican border (and force Mexico to pay for it by conscripting private companies like Western Union to block the money transfers undocumented workers send to their Mexican families) is the least likely to be fulfilled.
Trump doubled-down on the wall as recently as the last week of October, when he listed the request for construction funds among the demands he would present to Congress in his first 100 days as president. But more fiscally responsible Republicans such as House Speaker Paul Ryan have shown little enthusiasm for bankrolling Trump's cockamamie scheme, which would have zero impact on the visa overstays who account for roughly half of the undocumented Mexicans in the U. S.
In the days since his election, however, some of Trump's surrogates have begun suggesting that the proposed wall was always more properly understood as a metaphor for securing America's border with Mexico, and that other security measures being considered by the new administration may prove even more effective in stemming the flow of workers entering this country illegally. (In fact, the net flow has been negative for some time now.)
This is a welcome development. The more metaphorical, the better.
But even the wall metaphor is problematic for a nation that has spent much of its history proving the folly of physical barriers, and whose most popular modern president once challenged his Soviet counterpart to tear down its own, anachronistic wall. It's apparent that Trump's appeal for more robust border security enjoys broad popular support. But there's no evidence his much ballyhooed wall would significantly advance that objective, and a highly publicized construction project would invite international ridicule, not increased respect.
Mr. Trump would serve his presidency best by acknowledging, however tacitly, that the wall was never more than a cheap political stunt.
As fearful as we are of Trump's domestic and foreign policy agenda, all else pales when balanced against the long-term damage Trump will do if he continues to insist that climate change is not real.
There is no question in the scientific community that climate change is occurring, and that human actions have, and are, contributing to the phenomenon. Global leaders are working to constrain the planet-wide temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius — and even if that target is reached, such a temperature increase will result in unmistakable changes to the way we live. If the U. S. scrupulously adheres to the Paris accords agreed to last year by President Barack Obama and other heads of state to reduce carbon emissions, and continues Obama's Clean Energy Action Plan, there is hope.
Trump, in a 2012 tweet, declared climate change a Chinese hoax , and in January called the remark a joke. But the policy agenda Trump has staked for his first 100 days suggests he's all too serious. He has pledged to cancel "billions in payments to United Nations climate change programs" and lift restrictions on shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal production. He has appointed Myron Ebell, a climate change denier, to lead his U. S. Environmental Protection Agency transition team. We fear he'd effectively withdraw from the Paris accords , which would put a halt to domestic efforts, but also erase U. S. authority to call on other world governments to comply with environmental regulations — in fact, he'd be the only global leader who doesn't believe in climate change.
None of these are what we'd call positive signals.
And yet we hope that Trump will reconsider.
Eager to appeal to voters and financial backers with ties to the energy industry — coal miners and pipeline companies — candidate Trump may have set out an agenda President Trump could be reluctant to fulfill.
There's no way to overstate this: Climate change is the ballgame. A global temperature rise threatens our food supply, our national security, global security, our water supply... a planet conducive to sustaining human life is the backdrop for all else, and a failure to act will hold devastating consequences for billions of people. We've got to get this right.
A ban on Muslim immigrants
If you're a Christian, try this exercise out sometime.
Go to Iran, and announce your intent to immigrate and freely practice your religion. See how that works out.
Or try it in some of the countries that have state religions, and restrict the way people of minority faiths can express their beliefs. In much of the world, the very idea of religious tolerance, of equal protection based on religious belief, is nonexistent.
In this country, it's bedrock.
The constitution's very First Amendment restrains government restrictions based on religion. Those restraints echo in the 5th Amendment, and are laid out even more explicitly in the 14th Amendment.
America does not make policy based on religious belief, and especially does not discriminate based on it.
And yet, candidate Donald Trump promised to add a religious test to the nation's immigration policies. He says we should, at least temporarily, cease admitting people to the country if they practice Islam. Why? Because he fears Muslim immigrants are the power behind terrorism. He said last spring he'd halt their immigration to the country until "we get a handle on it. "
It is a direct affront to the very idea of America.
The idea is, first, full of logical fallacy. Saying Muslims are causing terrorism in America is tantamount to saying Christians cause Klan violence.
Yes, many terrorist acts in this country have been perpetrated by people who claim Islam. But so, too, have many violent racist acts been committed by people who claim Christianity.
Many more millions of Muslims live peacefully in this country, having come here for the same reasons as everyone else, fearing the same terrorism — in some cases, having fled that terrorism — that everyone else fears.
Our problem is not with Muslims. It's with terrorists. And treating the entire Islamic community as as a potential threat is a form of scapegoating at odds with this country's most basic values.
There may, constitutionally, be a debate about whether immigrants, who, by definition, aren't yet citizens, may be extended the protections afforded to citizens. Maybe that debate lasts 15 minutes in a federal court. Maybe it lasts years.
But if a Trump administration pursues such a policy, it shatters the spirit of religious liberty and due process that would define that courtroom debate.
Trump and his surrogates have attempted to backtrack this proposal during the campaign. But just suggesting it is crossing a line. It's unprecedented. Some Trump defenders have made much about an immigration ban enacted by Democratic President Jimmy Carter during the Iranian hostage crisis, but the comparison is absurd. Carter acted against a country that had engaged in hostile acts against ours. He didn't single out a religion that includes people from all manner of countries.
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15 /59 3.1 “Westworld” Season 1, Episode 7 Watch Online: What to Expect, Spoilers, & Fan Theories (0.02/6) “The beauty of Westworld is that there are several ways to enjoy it and to talk about it. You can pick apart its mysteries and examine every detail and try to discern the meticulous puzzle that showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have so gleefully assembled. ” That’s the way slashfilm.com describes the HBO series, and it couldn’t be closer to the truth. If you’re searching for “ Westworld season 1, episode 7 watch online,” you’ve come to the right place. Here, you’ll find out what website will host the Westworld season 1, episode 7 full episode, and what you can expect in Westworld s01e07. Also, the episode 7 trailer reveals some Westworld spoilers! Keep reading to find out more.
To watch Sunday’s Westworld streaming, tune into HBO to watch “Trompe L’Oeil” [optical illusion] on November 13 at 9:00 p.m. EST. To watch Westworld online, HBO offers its official streaming service HBO Go. You can also use SlingTV.
Last week’s episode, “The Adversary,” focused on a confrontation between Dr. Ford (Anthony Hopkins) and a mysterious character, who attempted to take the park away from him. Viewers got closer to the maze as Ford observed a journal revealing the design. Maeve (Thandie Newton) woke up and realized that Westworld wasn’t what she believed it to be. She began to understand her abusive reality and demanded alterations to her code. These changes were made to help her cope with this reality—she wanted her “loyalty” and “pain” traits turned down, but her “bulk apperception” dialed all the way up. For those who don’t know, “bulk apperception” is the process of understanding a concept in terms of previous experience—this comes from Dagobert D. Runes’ 1942 Dictionary of Philosophy.
There are at several Westworld theories going around, as almost every element of the series bears symbolic meaning. One of these examples is episode 7’s title, “Trompe L’Oeil” which refers to an optical illusion in visual art, which tricks the eye into seeing an 2D image as 3D. The show synopsis reads, “Dolores and William journey into dangerous terrain; Maeve delivers an ultimatum; Bernard considers his next move.”Watch the episode 7 premiere video below for a sneak peek!
Heat Street listed the top eight Westworld theories about Westworld that are worth looking into. These include the following: 1) The hosts speak to workers through virtual reality, 2) The maze has multiple significances, 3) The Park is another planet, 4) The hosts are living, breathing creatures, 5) Nearly everyone is a host, 6) Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) is a clone of Arnold, 7) The series takes place in two different timelines, and 8) William (Jimmi Simpson) is the Man in Black. Whether these theories are true or not, it’s clear that Westworld is inspiring even more fan theories than shows like Lost ,Game of Thrones and even The Walking Dead. Aside from the entertainment of the show itself, it’s equally as fascinating to wonder what exactly is going on inside the park. Tune into HBO tonight at 9 p.m. EST to see what unfolds next!
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16 /59 1.6 The Bachelor's Noni Janur shows off her ample curves in a nude bikini and shorts as she joins fellow TV rejects and couple Megan Marx and Tiffany Scanlon at the beach
(0.01/6) They formed a strong friendship when they appeared on The Bachelor together, earlier this year. And Noni Janur, Megan Marx and new girlfriend Tiffany Scanlon enjoyed some time together soaking up the sun at Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach. On the Saturday outing, Noni showed off her sun-kissed curves, stunning in a nude bikini and shorts. Scroll down for video Looking incredibly tanned, the brunette beauty appeared to be make-up free as she joined the girls sunbathing on the sand. The swimwear designer and model wore her hair out and over her shoulders in lose tousled curls and added a blue and white playsuit on top. She later changed into high-waisted denim shorts which she teamed with a brown and white body suit. Megan and Tiffany meanwhile matched wearing tiny black bikinis, with Megan wearing a white top and skirt, while Tiffany sporting a loose pink play suit. The girls appeared relaxed on the day and later enjoyed some downtime at the beachside bar, The Bucket List. Noni shared a shot to her Instagram of the trio smiling for the camera, writing: 'Long overdue catch up with these cuties.' Noni - who previously lived on The Gold Coast - earlier this month revealed on Instagram that she had officially relocated to Sydney. 'Today's the day I'm moving to Sydney. All types of emotions going on but it's definitely going to be a great adventure,' Noni wrote online at the time. 'Change is always good plus I get to live with one of my besties. Summer in Bondi, let the good times begin!' Noni is now living with fellow Bachelor reject Kiki Morris. Meanwhile, Perth-based Megan and Tiffany only recently confirmed their romance, having been rumoured to have been dating for months. On Friday, the busty girlfriends officially confirmed their romance at the Maxim Hot 100 party at The Star, Sydney. Speaking to Daily Mail Australia at the event, Tiffany confessed that the pair fell in love during a holiday in Bali, Indonesia in June. 'While we were in the show, it was just a friendship. It probably wasn't until we were in Bali together that it was like ''Oh, this is more'',' said Tiffany. Megan also confessed she wasn't expecting to fall for another woman while filming the TV dating series, starring Richie Strahan. 'We had very different experiences when we were on the show. Obviously I found Tiffany very attractive but I was there to get to know Richie,' she said. 'But instantly we knew there was a very strong connection. I was so excited to meet her in Bali,' Megan added. The couple revealed 'no one seemed to notice' they had become more than friends during that fateful holiday - and it took 'months' for anyone to find out. 'It started in June and it wasn't until October that people noticed! So it was quite a long time,' Tiffany revealed. The pair admitted their fellow contestants had a feeling something was going on between them during filming. 'It's been interesting talking to other girls on the show, because they just knew something was going on,' Megan said. Tiffany added: 'We were on our own wavelengths. We found each other hilarious but other people didn't kind of get us. 'Like we'd do weird things and thought it was funny, but nobody else did.'
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2016-11-13 02:38 Chloe-lee www.dailymail.co.uk
17 /59 1.9 Noon O Kabab restaurant expands in Albany Park
(0.01/6) After two decades in business, the venerable Noon O Kabab has expanded across the street. They've added a large catering kitchen, which also now serves as a fast-casual dining destination. It's the same old menu, but now you don't have to wait for a table. The surroundings are a little less plush, a bit more utilitarian. Gone are the Persian decorations but the menu is fully intact at the new Noon O Kabab in Albany Park, which occupies a spot in the middle of a huge parking lot across the street from the original restaurant. "We had so much long wait - one hour, 45 minutes - so I thought it would be a good addition of fast casual service to customers," said Mir Naghavi, the store's owner. Wonderful, shareable starters include hummus and baba gannoush, but also Persian staples like kasn-kebademjan: roasted eggplant with onion, garlic, mint and dried yogurt, topped with caramelized onions. Chicken tenders are embedded in a thickish pomegranate walnut sauce, called fessenjan, and plenty more chicken exists on the grill, the domain of the kababs. "We have our signature ground beef kabab that we make totally different and healthy than the other, called kubideh, ground sirloin," he said. "We have ground chicken and also we have pieces of both. "Kissed with melted butter, they are always juicy, charred and delicious. But don't forget about rice; shirin polo - or jeweled rice - is a saffron-infused mound, loaded with sweet bits of orange peel marmalade, crunchy pistachios, shredded carrots and plump golden raisins; you can also have the rice crispy, topped with lentils, raisins and onions. Despite the colorful arrangements and spice-laden dishes, Naghavi says the food is all pretty mild. "We are a little bit more moderately spiced and cultured and personalities; that reflects in our food. We don't over spice things," said Naghavi. One of the nice things about combining the fast casual kitchen with the catering operation is they can now cater events anywhere from a couple of people up to 500. And make sure you get the jeweled rice.4701 N. Kedzie Ave., Chicago773-279-8899
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18 /59 (0.01/6) 0.0 Donât cocoon Zuma, Thuli tells successor Thuli Madonsela has warned the new Public Protector not to allow herself to be the president’s protector amid revelations that she (Madonsela) is the subject of an investigation by that office.
Madonsela has been accused of unlawfully “leaking” an audio recording of her interview with President Jacob Zuma – as part of her State of Capture probe – to television broadcaster eNCA.
Zuma and the ANC have called for Madonsela’s successor, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, to investigate the matter. On Friday, Zuma told Madonsela in a statement to back off because her term had expired.
An unfazed Madonsela told City Press earlier in the week: “I must say that the presidency should be careful about what it gets the new Public Protector to do. For her own sake, she mustn’t be put in a position where she is seen as the president’s protector.
"She has a job to do, and I think her job is to protect people. The presidency, and particularly the president, should not make it appear as if she is there to protect the president.”
She said it was well within her powers as the former holder of the position to make the interview public – which was in response to Zuma’s claims that he was not afforded an opportunity to defend himself against the allegations contained in the final state capture report.
“I don’t know about any law that is against what I did, but I will establish that from the new Public Protector. For me, when I was Public Protector, I was free to do whatever I considered proper,” she said.
“I did not want to issue a media statement where I say somebody is lying or this one is telling the truth.
“The idea was; here is the transcript, have the audio, let the people decide. Is the president justified in saying he wasn’t given an opportunity?
"The way I see it, [the released interview] helped both me and the president to state our case[s], because the audio speaks for the both of us. Let the people be the judge,” Madonsela said.
Public Protector spokesperson Kgalalelo Masibi said Mkhwebane had issued a strict directive that no further public comments should be made on the matter.
In terms of the law, only the Public Protector has powers to determine what investigative information goes public.
In the statement issued by the president, Zuma expressed his concern about Madonsela’s release of the audio.
“This conduct has serious implications with regards to ethics, confidentiality and the protection of information gathered during investigations by the office of the Public Protector.
"It is also not clear why Advocate Madonsela decided to leak only the audio recordings of the discussion with the president, despite the fact that she had interviewed several witnesses,” Zuma commented.
The ANC this week accepted Madonsela’s remedial findings for a judicial inquiry into state capture.
However, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe warned that “constitutional prescripts” must be observed.
He was referring to Madonsela’s stipulation that Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng must appoint the judge who will head up the commission of inquiry. Madonsela said the ANC had interpreted the Constitution in a different way than she had.
“The interpretation that I used is informed by an understanding that there is a difference between ‘appoint’ and ‘select’.
"And I was very careful there, [in] that I left the power of the president to appoint a commission; and I controlled the selection part.
"You will know that the Constitution says nothing about how the selection process should be done, meaning it is open to be done in any way whatsoever,” she said.
“The interpretation that I have used, is consistent with the appointment of the Public Protector. The Public Protector is selected by Parliament, but appointed by the president.
"It is therefore not true that if the selection is not done by someone else, then your power to appoint has been taken away.”
While Madonsela stated in her report that the commission of inquiry be set up within 30 days from the release of the report, the process could be delayed by anyone seeking review of the report.
The president is yet to make a pronouncement on whether or not he will seek review.
Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane indicated last week that he would seek a review.
Madonsela said those aggrieved should push for a speedy start to the commission and not have a review.
“If I [were someone who] knew in my heart that I did nothing wrong, I honestly would want a commission of inquiry to clear my name,” she said.
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19 /59 4.2 To Our Readers, From the Publisher and Executive Editor When the biggest political story of the year reached a dramatic and unexpected climax late Tuesday night, our newsroom turned on a dime and did what it has done for nearly two years — cover the 2016 election with agility and creativity.
After such an erratic and unpredictable election there are inevitable questions: Did Donald Trump’s sheer unconventionality lead us and other news outlets to underestimate his support among American voters? What forces and strains in America drove this divisive election and outcome? Most important, how will a president who remains a largely enigmatic figure actually govern when he takes office?
As we reflect on the momentous result, and the months of reporting and polling that preceded it, we aim to rededicate ourselves to the fundamental mission of Times journalism. That is to report America and the world honestly, without fear or favor, striving always to understand and reflect all political perspectives and life experiences in the stories that we bring to you. It is also to hold power to account, impartially and unflinchingly. You can rely on The New York Times to bring the same fairness, the same level of scrutiny, the same independence to our coverage of the new president and his team.
We cannot deliver the independent, original journalism for which we are known without the loyalty of our readers. We want to take this opportunity, on behalf of all Times journalists, to thank you for that loyalty.
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20 /59 3.3 Trump wants trial postponement till Attorneys filed a motion Saturday night in federal court in San Diego asking for the trial date to be continued from November 28 to a date after the Presidential inauguration on January 20.
They argue that such a postponement is most important for the President- elect because he must not be impeded from pursuing the arduous presidential transition. "This is an unprecedented circumstance," the attorneys said in their motion.
Trump University is the defunct, for-profit real estate school accused by former students of fraud. Trump remains at the center of three civil cases filed against his controversial education business venture, including the one scheduled for trial in San Diego on November 28.
"The 69 days until inauguration are critical and all-consuming. President-Elect Trump must receive daily security briefings, make executive appointments (ultimately, thousands), and establish relationships with appointees, members of Congress, governors and foreign leaders. He must also develop important policy priorities," attorneys said.
"Now that the election is over, we submit that the President-Elect should not be required to stand trial during the next two months while he prepares to assume the Presidency. The time and attention to prepare and testify will take him away from imperative transition work at a critical time. "
The motion says the plaintiffs have "a right to trial of their claims, but their rights will not be abridged if trial were continued to a date after the inauguration. "
Trump isn't "seeking to stay this case indefinitely," but requests a "modest continuance" to after the inauguration, the motion said.
The lawyers also offered another recommendation: recorded testimony in January before the inauguration. It could be used for the November 28 trial and another case expected to go to trial while Trump is the sitting president. The attorneys say they want to avoid Trump testifying on two separate occasions.
"In this way, the Court minimizes the intrusion on the President-Elect, preserves his trial testimony, and guarantees plaintiffs their day in court without regard to a sitting President's unpredictable schedule," the attorneys said.
Judge recommended parties settle
Just hours after Trump met with President Obama in the Oval Office on Thursday, l awyers for the President-elect appeared in court to prepare for the upcoming trial on Trump University.
U. S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel took a strong stance Thursday and recommended the parties settle the case to avoid the immense complications of a President-elect facing trial while preparing to take office.
"It would be wise for the plaintiffs, for defendants to look closely at trying to resolve this case given all else that is involved," Curiel said.
But Trump has previously refused to settle the cases and has defended the quality of the real estate program, which enrolled about 10,000 students from 2005 until it closed in 2010.
"This is a case I could have settled very easily, but I don't settle cases very easily when I'm right," Trump said in March.
However, Trump's top lawyer on the case, Daniel Petrocelli, alluded to a possible settlement Thursday, noting the unique responsibilities his client now carries. "We are in uncharted territory," Petrocelli said. Later, he added at a press conference, "There are much more important obligations that President-elect Trump has and he will have to maybe be a little bit more flexible about the resolution of this case. "
Petrocelli said he would "chat" with Trump about the prospect of a settlement, even while referring to Trump's desire to win the case outright.
In court, Petrocelli said he would soon file motions requesting to postpone the trial until after Trump's inauguration. But Judge Curiel recently denied a previous effort by the defense to shift the trial.
A lawyer for the former students, Patrick Coughlin, pushed back against the defense's desires to move the trial date and said Trump's election should not affect the case.
"We don't think it changes anything. He's the President-elect. He's not sitting in office," Coughlin said.
Jury selection is set to begin at the end of November.
2016-11-13 04:27 Joe Sterling rss.cnn.com
21 /59 2.4 State of Business Survey Report (Source: Higher School of Economics ) 9 Nov 2016 One needs statistics to assess current state and possible development trends of the economy, which usually become available ...
Chennai: Despite the media reports painting an adverse picture on lack of security to women travellers in India, the World Travel Market (WTM), London, says India is ...
(Source: ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research ) As part of the survey, around 5,000 young companies founded between 2011 and 2014 were interviewed on the phone. The...
(Source: Gartner Inc ) Press Release Gartner Survey Finds That 30 Percent of CDOs Report to the CEO Analysts Advise CIOs on How to Work With CDOs at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo ...
Gartner Predicts 15 Percent of Successful Chief Data Officers Will Move to CEO, COO, CMO or Other C-Level Positions by 2020 Gartner Survey Finds That 30 Percent of CDOs ...
(Source: Traphaco JSC ) On October 25 Vietnam Report of VietNamNet Newspaper - the Ministry of Information and Communications - officially announced the Top 10 Prestigious Pharmaceutical Companies of Vietnam in 2016. The list was made by Vietnam Report, based on scientific and objective principles. Pharmaceutical companies in Vietnam were rated based on three criteria:... Ericsson unveiled its "5G Readiness Survey," a global report that examines the actions services providers are taking now in anticipation of 5G; the priorities that drive their initiatives and how they can accelerate their 5G network deployments. The survey presents a snapshot of the state of the industry in relation to next-generation mobile technology. The "5G Readiness...
Salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM) is scheduled to report its Q3 results on November 17. The company will likely “outperform its Q3 guidance for billings, making for more reasonable billings in Q4,” Barclays’ Raimo Lenschow said in a report. He reiterated an Overweight rating on the company, with a price target of $89. Analyst Lenschow recommended investors to look at...
Successful business people understand that companies live or die by the relationships built with customers. This month's Business Choice Awards evaluates the best customer relationship management (CRM) services because so many businesses rely on CRM to organize and manage customer interactions. However you use CRM services—keeping track of customer contact info, logging and...
(Source: Grand Valley State University ) Posted on November 10, 2016 The West Michigan economy experienced slow, shallow growth in October, according to a Grand Valley State University economist. Brian G. Long, director of Supply Management Research in the Seidman College of Business, surveyed local business leaders and his findings are based on data collected during the last...
2016-11-13 04:05 jameshopes article.wn.com
22 /59 2.5 Political Road Map: Californians have a long, love-hate relationship with ballot propositions Ballot measures are referred to by some observers as California’s fourth branch of government, a 105-year-old system for citizen approval of laws and constitutional amendments that is baked into the state’s political DNA.
And even though they grumble, voters generally like them. Seventy-nine percent of voters in a USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times post-election poll said voting on one or more of this fall’s propositions was important to them.
The nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California has found six in 10 likely voters think they do a better job at enacting laws than do legislators in Sacramento.
Voters were put to the test last week, on issues from legalizing and taxing marijuana to whether actors must use condoms in pornographic movies. If current tallies hold, two-thirds of the 17 propositions will have passed. And while it wasn’t the longest ballot in history (there were 48 propositions in 1914), this year’s were decidedly more complex and required a record-setting 224-page voter information guide.
Support for the system, though, didn’t stop Californians in groups small and large this election season from wondering why their elected representatives couldn’t have handled all of these issues. And here’s the answer: In many cases, proposition proponents never take their issues to the state Capitol.
Of the seven November ballot measures that could’ve been enacted by the Legislature, backers of all but one went straight to the voters. That includes the condoms initiative, Proposition 60, and the effort to limit state government spending on prescription drugs, Proposition 61. Both were championed by a Los Angeles health activist who opted out of the state legislative process. So, too, did backers of marijuana legalization and those who wrote the two initiatives to change the death penalty.
Eight of this fall’s propositions were constitutional amendments and could be made only by voters. But here, too, lawmakers were skipped. Some of the measures, like Proposition 56’s tobacco tax hike , could’ve been drafted as simple state statutes but included constitutional provisions to tightly control the revenues. That was also true of the extension of current income tax rates on the wealthy, Proposition 55.
And when an interest group loses a statehouse fight, it can appeal to voters to overturn that decision through a referendum. Plastic bag manufacturers tried, and failed , to do that with Proposition 67. They then added a political twist, gathering signatures for Proposition 65 , that would have swiped new fees on paper bags from grocers. They lost that battle, too.
Support for the initiative process notwithstanding, voters have said some improvements would help, like more disclosure of who funds the campaigns that this year set a new record. Polls also show support for helping citizen groups without big bank accounts get their ideas on the ballot.
One recent change, allowing initiatives to be withdrawn at the eleventh hour if supporters strike a deal with lawmakers, helped stave off a blockbuster battle over raising the statewide minimum wage to $15 an hour. Voters may be skeptical of lawmakers tinkering too much with the initiative process, but few would probably object to changes that speed up finding solutions to California’s biggest challenges.
“Widespread consensus exists for making changes,” a PPIC report on ballot measures in 2013 found. “And reforms are likely to pay large dividends.”
President Obama and Donald Trump discuss their visit at the White House
A portion of Hillary Clinton's concession speech.
President Obama talks about the 2016 election and the future
President-elect Donald Trump gives his acceptence speech at a election party at a New York City Hilton hotel with his family and vice president-elect Mike Pence.
Paul Ryan comments on Donald Trump's win
Paul Ryan comments on Donald Trump's win
2016-11-13 04:05 Los Angeles www.latimes.com
23 /59 3.0 Nuke plant rehab entails unbearable costs, green group warns Duterte A green group on Sunday warned President Rodrigo Duterte of the “unbearable” monetary and environmental costs of reviving the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment said the $1 billion rehabilitation cost proposed by the Department of Energy was just the “tip of the iceberg” compared to the state of nuclear waste management technology and various physical and technical risks surrounding the 621-megawatt nuke plant in Morong.
“We rebuke and deplore Pres. Duterte’s approval of the proposed BNPP rehab under the false premise of Sec. Cusi that the safety and security of the BNPP will be ensured. While we recognize Duterte’s consistent concern over the BNPP’s safety risks, the project is replete with proven geological, infrastructural, and environmental risks that will likely entail unbearable costs. It is the Filipino people who will ultimately pay the price of these massive risks with billions in wasted taxpayers’ money, or worse with their lives,” Kalikasan PNE national coordinator Clemente Bautista said in a statement.
READ: Duterte gives nuke plant green light
“When Sec. Cusi promised to Pres. Duterte that the DOE will undertake strict measures to ensure the safety of the BNPP, it is a promise of the burden of billions of dollars in additional costs. In the United Kingdom, the cleanup cost in one nuclear waste dumpsite already runs up to the $155 billion mark. In Germany, four nuke power companies are being made to pay $26.4 billion in additional costs for long-term storage of radioactive nuclear waste. This does not even include the costs that will be entailed by the worsening risks of natural hazards surrounding the BNPP,” Bautista added.
Cusi said Duterte has given the green light to rehabilitate the nuclear plant—a major turnaround from his earlier rejection of using nuclear energy—but noted that the President serious concerns over safety.
The environmental group also called the nuke plant a “Marcosian curse” that “serves to rehabilitate the dark, fascist legacy of the dictatorship.”
“Filipino taxpayers are still paying P27 million annually for the upkeep of this project that only enriched the Marcoses and their crony contractors. We must repudiate this costly historical revisionism and put an end to all attempts to rehabilitate the Marcoses and especially this radioactive legacy of theirs,” Bautista said.
“We strongly counsel Duterte to focus on building our state’s technical capacities for energy development and management. Duterte should also prioritize the wise utilization of our clean and indigenous energy resources. This will ensure that our energy development pathway leads to national industrialization, self-sufficiency, and environmental sustainability. Duterte should decisively stop perpetuating the Marcosian curse of the BNPP,” Bautista added.
The late dictator Ferdinand Marcos decided to build the $2-billion plant at the height of the 1973 oil crisis. It was completed and ready for operation in 1984, but never opened after a decade of construction due to safety concerns. Former President Corazon Aquino mothballed the nuke plant in 1986 in the wake of a nuclear fore at the Chernobyl power plant in Russia. JE
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24 /59 1.6 ‘Brown, Bearded, Son of Immigrants, Voted Trump’ That’s how reader Ray describes himself in the subject line of the note he sent to hello@. The question he closes with is the most compelling: Should you take a gamble with a volatile candidate or one who’s predictably corrupt?
Here’s Ray:
I grew up on the West Coast, raised by Indian immigrants, went to a liberal university, and voted liberally on most stances until this election. I am currently working on a post-baccalaureate profession al degree, so I am not uneducated. My vote for Trump is a protest vote—a protest that Sanders couldn’t provide.
I’m tired of our country being whored out to the highest bidder.
I’m tired of people coming into this country illegally, taking away the justice due to those who have waited in line for years to get into this great country.
I’m tired of politics as usual. I’m tired of micro-aggressions, safe spaces, and the general retreat on being confronted with opposing views.
I’m tired of the sense of entitlement present in many of my peers.
I’m tired of pretending that the U. S. is hunky-dory while seeing my friends sipping their mochas in LA, SF, and NYC, ignoring the plight of the “flyover” states.
I’m tired of accepting that U. S. politics is an inevitable palace of corruption, with trim made of corporate donations, a carpet of immunity, and a chandelier of complacency.
I’m tired of accepting politics as the broken system we see today. As of very recently, I’m tired of liberal-minded individuals grouping Trump supporters as ignorant, racist, and/or sexist. I was one of those people casting the judgement before the campaigns began. However, after having changed my opinion—contrary to late night shows and other self-congratulatory political comedy—now I’m just uninformed and racist. When I was trying to spread the Wikileaks revelations about the corruption of Clinton, I was wearing a tinfoil hat and was “unrealistic” about the nature of politics. The cognitive dissonance of former Sanders supporters was so strong it just about knocked me off my chair.
So far we’ve heard from two Trump voters in great detail: Alan, who’s most animated by identity politics , and our Southern reader who wants to take a “wrecking ball” to Washington. But both readers also had major qualms with the Trump candidacy. Another reluctant Trump voter, Marco, describes his deep aversion to establishmentarianism and dynastic politics—and doesn’t spare the Republicans one bit:
That’s perhaps understandable The Day After, but, folks, the sky won’t fall. It won’t fall because the U. S. government’s institutions are designed to prevent irrational outcomes to a good degree. Trust the system a little, if you learned anything from history.
I probably do not feel the pain to the same degree as you do, though I am concerned, and on pins and needles. I admit it: I voted for Trump—at the limit of my tolerance for bad taste and unhinged statements. But I did so not because I am an undereducated, violent, intolerant, gun- waving xenophobe—as the press has made habit of defining Trump supporters. I have an MBA. I refuse violence and support gun control. And I’m an immigrant, now a citizen after obtaining green cards twice, all by the legal process.
I voted for Trump only because of the smell of corruption emanating from the Clinton Machine. That smell is well documented by Wikileaks and Podesta’s emails depicting the Clinton Foundation / State Department connections. To that you can add the past four decades of continuous scandals—why only them with so many? You get my picture.
But there is one more reason to fear their corruption: the history of ALL countries around the world, since WWII, where an immediate relative followed a president or PM (see my list below). In all cases, either the “succession” was made possible by endemic corruption, or advanced it as a result, or both. This is to be expected when the vested interests supporting one person get to take advantage of continued control of the government from behind the scenes by electing the relative.
A Trump voter describes his worldview in great detail, and despite his blunt quote above, his note is more nuanced and perhaps more relatable than you think:
I am Southern. I am white. I am a male. I was raised Roman Catholic and now go to a Methodist church regularly with my wife and kids. I value the 2nd Amendment but do not own a gun. Every male in my family, save me, is currently serving or has served in the U. S. military. I stand at the pledge of allegiance, and stand and sing with the anthem. I live near streets named after Stonewall Jackson and Strom Thurmond and know Tillman Hall was named after a racist populist who carried a pitchfork. Until recently, I attended field trips with my kids to our state capitol where the Confederate flag still flew, and I am genuinely glad we finally took it down.
I have a Masters degree. My kids go to public school with kids of all races, colors, and creeds. Our neighborhood has immigrant families, mixed-race families, minorities, and same-sex couples. Our sports teams are multi-cultural, diverse, and play beautifully together, on and off the field. I have neither the time, energy, or room in my heart for hatred, bigotry, or racism.
I work hard and sacrifice for my family. I expect everyone to do the same and believe most do. I am romantic enough to still believe that America was created and intended to be a meritocracy. I am intelligent enough to understand the realty that not every one starts off in life from the same spot and not all of us will reach the attain the same levels of success—however you define it.
I also know that living right now, right here, is the greatest advantage any man, women, or child in the history of humankind has ever had. I understand a ruling class exists in our country and contrary to what many believe, my white skin does not provide me access to it. I started off with advantages others didn’t—many of which were afforded me by my parents sacrifices, judgment, and toil. They stayed away from drugs. The waited until marriage to have children. They moved to chase a better life, took night classes at local community colleges to earn credentials. They passed on new cars for used ones, sewed to repair clothes, declined cable television, ate in, not out—and saved every day and every night. They taught me right from wrong, first impressions matter, there is no substitute for hard work and no limits on achievement.
I love working people who answer the alarm clock. I love parents who make sure their kids will have it better than they do. I respect people too busy paying the light bill to keep up with “the news.”
I do not hate on the basis of race, sexual orientation, gender, or faith in any way shape or form. I like liberals, conservatives, and independents. I do not hate Obama or Hillary; I do not know them. I did not deny Clinton my vote because she lacks a penis.
I appreciate the incredible difficulties that surround an unwanted pregnancy, marvel at foster parents and adoption, but detest even the thought of abortion. But I have read a history book or two, so I get the lessons of prohibition. I know we can’t just “turn the switch off” on abortion and I know a red herring when I see one. Abortion isn’t going away because we elected a Republican. It just isn’t.
I know life has meaning beyond $ and I can be happy with what I have—and most importantly, ok with what I don’t. I can dream big and one day maybe design a better duck call that gets me my own TV show or make a loom for kids to make rubber band bracelets that makes me a fortune. America fosters those dreams.
I voted for the wrecking ball—and I feel better about it now than I did in the booth.
So far we have heard from readers— here and here —who empathize with the grievances of Trump voters but who couldn’t support the demagogue themselves. Now let’s here from a Trump voter, Alan. He was a very reluctant to back the “deplorable” man but ultimately did so because of the following reasons, detailed below: the “bigot” stigma is tossed around too freely by leftist whites; too many liberal commentators are too smug; he fears that cisgender men will exploit trans-inclusive bathrooms; and, perhaps most of all, he’s outraged and worried about the new campus PC.
Here’s Alan (the bracketed notes are mine):
Ben is the first writer to, in my opinion, hit the nail on the head. I started out as a Never Trumper and actually still deplore the man. But on Tuesday I voted for him.
I don’t like the economic policies of Barack Obama, but if I disagree with him and anyone on the left hears me I will immediately be branded a bigot. I also believe that at a time when the economy is soft with little-to-no job growth [latest jobs report here ], it’s a bad time to have high immigration; it drives down wages for all Americans: White, Black, Asian, or Hispanic.
As brilliant and scathing as Alec Baldwin was with his portrayal of Donald Trump this year, SNL’s “Black Jeopardy” sketch was ultimately the real standout—for its humor and its humanity:
At the onset of our dialogue with Clinton votes and Trump votes—or at least voters who understand where some Trump voters are coming from—reader Ben diagnosed what he sees as a shortcoming of the left right now: an over-willingness to stigmatize people as bigots for what may just be misplaced or simply misunderstood views, rather than active hatred. (One of the examples Ben cited was the successful effort to get Brendan Eich fired as CEO of Mozilla because he donated to the admittedly awful Prop 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California for a time.) This reader agrees with Ben:
He has diagnosed a significant reason people voted for Mr. Trump. I’m a conservative who did not end up voting for him, but like Ben, I thought about it a lot. The left has adopted bully tactics through their control of the media and the universities. Rather than deal with the right’s arguments, they use creative name-calling: racist, xenophobic, homophobic, hicks. I can tell you for a fact, neither myself nor any of my conservative friends and family are any of those things, and yet we’re called that frequently. What in the world?
Mrs. Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment and Mr. Podesta’s e-mails that threw Catholics and Evangelicals under the bus are perfect examples of this moral snobbishness. The problem is, we won’t change our minds because you force us to celebrate homosexual unions or call us names in front of the entire nation. If you on the left want to change our minds, you need to understand us, and vice versa. Our country will keep splitting, the less we listen respectfully to each other.
People are angry. Unfortunately, the only Republican candidate who showed anger to match was Mr. Trump.
And unfortunately that anger morphed into a lot of ugly rhetoric and demagogic stances. Was that inevitable, or could such anger be channeled into something more constructive? Hopefully the actual mantle of responsibility in office will temper Trump—though a compromising Trump could actually inflame Trumpism, because his supporters will witness how even Trump won’t be able to enact extreme measures like building a wall across Mexico and deporting 11 million illegal immigrants.
Circling back to Ben’s argument, this next reader has a line that popped out in particular: “We cannot fight systemic issues by punishing individuals.” His closing line is also strong, and his overall argument is really nuanced:
I’ve heard many angry people lamenting that Trump was elected because straight white people could not bear the loss of their privilege. It wasn’t until I read Ben’s email that I realized that the bullying coming from the left is exactly what the erosion of straight white male privilege looks like.
The President-elect just restored his webpage calling for a ban on all Muslims entering the country. https://t.co/RgyKHElqqd
Fallows is traveling again, this time in Wyoming, and he’s also busy working on a new piece for the magazine, so he passed along several “powerful” emails from a reader named Vasav who served in the U. S. military and is the son of Indian immigrants. His first note is from a few weeks ago:
Yes, let’s not demonize Trump voters as a “basket of deplorables.” And no, we shouldn’t give in to their demands that sacrifice our basic, democratic tenets. But a widening income gap and a lack of opportunity, a political class more and more removed from the average voter, and the never-ending wars that seem to be the fate of winning the Cold War and our politicians try to ignore come election time—those are all legitimate gripes that I actually find myself nodding along when Trump talks about them. I would never vote for him or his solutions to these problems. But rather than completely ignore Trumpers, as tempting as it is, they have legitimate gripes that ought to be heard. Their mouthpiece is an oaf and a threat to democracy, women, minorities, and a world order I believe is beneficial to our country and freedom around the world. But their gripes are real, and the price of not listening at all may be more dire than any of us could have imagined.
Yesterday, following the stunning news of Trump’s win, Vasav followed up:
There is one exceptionally annoying narrative that has started to come down, about how rural voters were “making themselves heard” with Trump. The last couple of emails I wrote to you talked about why there is some validity to the claim that middle America is ignored by coastal elites. And to put it in personal perspective, I am a man of color and child of immigrants who was born on one coast, got college degrees, and traveled to work in one of the bougiest parts of the world on the other coast. It is ridiculous for me to tell a poor kid living in a trailer who has no real path to college in today’s America that he’s benefiting from white privilege.
But the flip side is, considering their candidate lost the popular vote, considering in 2012 more votes were cast for Democratic congressmen, and yet despite that the party that has lost raw vote totals controls the totality of two branches of government—well, it’s ridiculous for anyone to say they haven’t been heard. Republicans have disproportionately controlled the government since 2000. The deck is stacked in their favor. And rural Americans have chosen Tea Party candidates and now Donald Trump as their standard bearer.
Everything I said before remains true: There’s a gap that needs to be bridged. I hope Donald Trump can do it. But it should be noted that bridge needs to flow in both directions. It’s not just about listening to the concerns of blue-collar whites; it’s about listening to the concerns of coastal people of color who are now wondering whether middle America will let us stay in this country.
A long-time reader, Ben, tries to understand what drove so many Americans to elect Donald Trump yesterday:
So to get it out of the way: I didn’t vote for Trump. So I don’t like the results any better than you and your magazine do. But I did consider supporting Trump here and there, so I think I probably have a slightly better-than-average answer to “how could this have happened?” And I really think it’s kind of simple: Some people voted for Trump, but way more people voted for “stop calling me names and being a bully.”
I think the left was right on gay marriage, at least in the sense of “it should be legal if the government is going to have their hands in it.” But immediately after it became an inevitability, it also became a club: If your pizza place/cake baking business/photography business doesn’t want to be part of it, you get vilified and threatened. If the fringier parts of the left had its way, Brendan Eich’s ouster would have been duplicated a thousand times.
I think the left is right that black people are still treated like a subclass and don’t get anywhere near a fair shake. But traveling down the right road, there were plenty of pit stops that signaled that free speech was an acceptable sacrifice. There was a more-than-general smattering of clues that private opinions would be dug out at any cost and used to get you fired from your job.
The far left took a gamble that calling half the country racist, backwoods, bigoted hicks wouldn’t unite them under literally any alternate flag. It said, “If you aren’t 100 percent with us, you are 100 percent evil” without considering that inevitably this would result in absolutely no motivation for anyone on the right to shift even a little to the left. Give people the impression that you will hate them the same or nearly so for voting Jeb Bush as compared to voting for Trump, and where is the motivation to be socially acceptable with Jeb?
The far left took the gamble, and the moderate left backed them up with a range of active support and silence. And somebody popped up who said whatever he wanted. People called him a racist bigot idiot who wouldn’t fit in in San Francisco, and it bounced off. So he’s a racist and a bigot for real. You think people wouldn't envy his bulletproof vest?
If the left had been responsible with its dominance of culture, media, and social mores, this would have been an easy win for them—more than that, Trump would have never been possible. I would have liked that. At the same time, it’s hard to feel guilty when I see a lot of people who just got done saying “We will destroy everything you believe in and make it impossible to be anything but us” for years and now finding out it backfired.
A bully can be right and still be a bully. The bullied can be wrong and still fight back. I hope this lesson is understood and remembered.
I’m a San Francisco native (so yea, a bleeding heart liberal) completing a masters program in Kansas, where I’ve encountered plenty of Trump support, and specifically the sorts of embittered White culture Ben describes. While I’ve met plenty of people on the social right-wing who feel bullied as Ben describes, I do disagree that they have any right to their victimhood—specifically on gay rights and the harassment of business owners who refused service to gay customers.
2016-11-13 04:00 Chris Bodenner www.theatlantic.com
25 /59 2.3 Ocean Climate Action Making Waves Ocean Climate Action Making Waves Global Climate Action at COP22 http://newsroom.unfccc.int/climate-action/ocean-climate-action-making-waves/ Marrakech, Morocco, 12 Nov, 2016 – A special Oceans Action Event at the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech (COP22) is bringing together over 400 high-level participants ......
2016-11-13 03:58 system article.wn.com
26 /59 0.0 APEC's Trade Fix Sluggish trade growth and rising scrutiny of globalization have cast these forces into uncertainty. On the eve of the 2016 APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in Lima, APEC Committee on Trade and Investment Chair Marie Sherylyn Aquia discussed the implications...... 2016-11-13 03:58 system article.wn.com
27 /59 7.1 It takes a village to promote good health The idea of “social capital” goes back to the early 19th century, when French diplomat and historian Alexis de Tocqueville – who traveled widely in the US – noted that Americans frequently met to discuss a variety of political, economic and other matters, creating high levels of civic participation and involvement and a healthy democracy. In recent decades, academics in the social sciences have latched onto the term. It has been defined by some as “a form of economic and cultural capital in which social networks are central, transactions are marked by reciprocity, trust and cooperation, and market agents produce goods and services not mainly for themselves but for a common good.”
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Others have called it the “influences of family and community on individuals’ obligations, expectations and information channels, or beneficial characteristics of relationships, groups, networks and social norms by individuals and community, such as trust, honesty, volunteerism, sociability and engagement in community affairs... that can improve the efficiency of society.” High-falutin terms. It could be explained more simply by Hillary Clinton’s book title It Takes a Village... Jerusalem’s Taub Center for Social Studies Policy in Israel held a workshop this month on “The Global Network on Social Capital and Health” at the Menachem Begin Cultural Center. The independent, non-partisan research institute invited 60 experts in the field to speak and listen to studies on social capital in the field of health, and all the seats in the hall were filled. “We place a clear, undistorted mirror before Israel’s policymakers, reflecting the good as well as the bad in Israeli society,” according to Suzanne Patt Benvenisti, managing director of the Taub Center, whose executive director is economics Prof. Avi Weiss. Prof. Dov Chernichovsky, an emeritus professor in health economics and policy at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba and current chairman of Taub’s health policy program, initiated and chaired the workshop. PROF. JONATHAN Halevy, director-general of Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center for the last 29 years, voluntary chairman of the Health Basket Advisory Committee for the fourth time and a fellow in Taub’s health policy program, described how social capital in health played out at his hospital. “President Reuven Rivlin recently described Israel as being comprised of four ‘tribes.’ They are secular Jews; traditional and modern Orthodox Jews; ultra-Orthodox [haredi] Jews; and Arabs. Each of the tribes are in the process of balancing out to a quarter of the population,” Halevy recalled. “Israel is divided among Jews and Arabs. We Israelis want to wipe out inequality, but nevertheless, the Arabs do not enjoy full equality. We must learn to live together. If not, there is danger to the country.” In this aspect of the health community, “Shaare Zedek is no different than other hospitals, except that our [Jewish] founders in Germany said the hospital would be run according to Halacha [Jewish law].” While 38% of Jerusalemites are Arabs and the rest of the population is divided among the three types of Jews, “we have fewer Arabs in our patient population, as there are a number of Arab hospitals in the capital,” Halevy noted. Yet inequality “does not apply to health.” The Hadassah Medical Organization’s two hospitals, with a total of 1,000 beds, and Shaare Zedek and its Bikur Cholim Hospital affiliate, also with 1,000 beds, have “equality between Jews and Arabs. Doctors and other medical professionals at my hospital are chosen for senior positions according to their professional achievements.” He gave the example of Dr. Maher Deeb, a senior cardiothoracic surgeon, who lives in Beit Jala in the Palestinian Authority. “During the last intifada, due to roadblocks, he couldn’t cross the road and spend 15 minutes driving to work. So we rented an apartment for him for a while in west Jerusalem. When a young woman tourist from the US was shot and bled profusely, Deeb resected her lung and saved her life. She invited him to attend her wedding in Chicago. It was surreal.” Halevy asserted that after so many years of running Shaare Zedek, “I say there is no discrimination in Israeli hospitals. They are havens for peace.” His hospital has the largest pediatric dialysis unit in the country; it takes care of children with kidney failure, who come in for five to six hours a day, three times a week. Due to consanguinity (inbreeding or marriage of first cousins due to customs), bad genes – some of them related to kidney diseases – kidney failure is much more prevalent in the Arab population; 70% of the children treated in the unit are Israeli Arabs. As most ultra-Orthodox women do not want to undergo prenatal tests so as not to have an abortion, some suffer from defective genes, including those involving defective kidneys. “So if you go into the unit, you will see two main social groups – Arabs and haredim – sitting together, speaking Hebrew,Yiddish and English or Arabic and English and warmly communicating with each other. This brings people together.” Halevy explained that he had been offered many positions over the years – from other hospitals, a mayoral candidate or a university president, but he never agreed to leave Shaare Zedek because “the social structure of the city is so fascinating. One has to find ways to suit among various customs and approaches of the tribes, and we face ethical dilemmas that didn’t exist in previous generations.” An interesting footnote on social capital and health at his hospital is that by instruction from its founders in 1902, the hospital director must stop by at the beds of all (Jewish) patients, together with the hospital rabbi and department head, on the day or two before Yom Kippur and ask if they intend to fast. If their medical condition makes not eating or drinking for 25 hours risky, they do their utmost to discourage would-be fasters. “This is the highlight of my work, getting to meet every patient and discuss his or her case. There is no religious coercion. We get to know each other. Arabs are exempt from fasting for Yom Kippur, of course, but we do the same before their Ramadan fast.” PROF. LORENZO Rocco, an empirical economist at the University of Padova visiting Israel for the first time, gave various definitions of social capital. Whatever the technical choice, he said that social capital in society can be measured according to generalized trust, the number of friends, the amount of time spent with family and friends, if one is a member of formal or information organizations, voting turnout, voluntary activities and even blood and organ donations. “Social capital generally has a positive effect on individual health, better governance and better political institutions. It makes it possible to deliver health care more efficiently, increasing the political weight of a community. A more cohesive society is attentive to common well-being and avoids opportunistic behaviors leading to pollution, unhealthy waste disposal and unhealthy work environments. So social capital helps shield people against stress and uncertainty and favors cooperation and the formation of social nets,” said Rocco. “It even encourages the enforcement of health-enhancing norms, helps cut smoking and risky sexual behaviors.” UNIVERSITY OF Haifa public health researcher Dr. Maya Simantov looked into the influence of religiosity and living in haredi communities and the rate of home accidents. Religiosity, she stressed, is a “proxy for social capital and predicts childhood injuries in religious and Orthodox families.” She did not differentiate between modern Orthodox and haredim in her presentation of research on 527 children up to age six, but admitted in the question-and-answer session that this was what she had meant. Studying the town of Elad, which is almost totally haredi, she noted that the rate of child injury was higher among residents than that of haredi children living in mostly secular cities and compared to children in secular families. Families living in unsafe outdoor environments was responsible for higher child injury. Even though religiosity creates a strong type of social capital, she concluded, environment may be more important than the actual community in which the family lives. The types and frequency of child accidents differs significantly among secular, modern Orthodox and haredi families and Arab families due to different types of social capital, environments, religious practices, socioeconomic levels and education. WONDERING WHETHER people with more social capital had a lower risk of being overweight or obese, Hebrew University public health epidemiologist and dietitian Dr. Vered Kaufman-Shriqui studied a population in Toronto, looking at variables that included the number of fast-food restaurants in their neighborhoods. She found that while marital status was not significant, gender and racial background (especially in whites vs. Asians) were. Women living in neighborhoods with higher social cohesion did have lower odds of being overweight or obese than those living in neighborhoods with less social cohesion; women living in poor neighborhoods were more likely to be too heavy than those who were socially deprived. However, social cohesion was not significantly associated with body-mass indices of men. THE BABY boom generation, in which tens of millions of post-World War II American children were born between 1946 and 1964, is due to pass away in the next few decades. Prof. Eric Nauenberg, a health policy expert at the University of Toronto, investigated the possibility that the steady rise of elderly in North America would take a downturn when the next generation reaches old age. “Nobody has examined this in detail,” he said, even though the trends will have an important impact on government, budgets and decision-making. But now, as the oldest baby boomers have become septuagenarians, the interest among planners on their dependency on social and health services has grown. It has been suggested that the share of seniors in the North American population will eventually decrease if fertility rates are low and immigration rates are stable. Nauenberg found that after the Baby Boom era, there will be a plateau in the numbers of elderly, not a decline, and it will remain stable for some time. “People are healthier and living longer, and this will continue. Immigrants to the US are today increasingly dominating the American population, and in Canada, too, more of the elderly will be immigrants,” he said. In addition, those with developmental disabilities such as Down syndrome and physical are, due to improvement in medicine, increasingly living into their senior years.” ROCCO also studied the effects on the mental health of grandparents of taking care of their grandchildren because parents are too busy. “Family is a big player in social capital.” Surprisingly to Israeli listeners, he found that European grandparents have a greater tendency to suffer depression as a result of being “drafted” to babysit for grandchildren of a variety of ages. “There are good reasons to think that if you spend time taking care of your children and then grandchildren, you are mentally and physically active. But if you do this every day, many hours a day, it may be stressful and too much, and you might not be able to take care of your own health. “Grandparents naturally love their grandchildren and looking after them can give them additional opportunities for physical activity and to be mentally active. But if it’s too much, grandparents may be paying a price in their health, whether physically or mentally,” Rocco said. He studied grandparents aged 50 to 75 in 12 countries – not including Israel – who were assessed on whether and how often they babysat for grandchildren. There was the problem of self-selection, as not all grandparents provide care, and those that are asked to do so are probably in better mental and physical shape than those who are not asked to babysit. Nevertheless, “we find that childcare does cause some depression in grandparents, especially if they have to do it for many hours,” Rocco concluded. Ten hours of babysitting per month increases the probability of depression in grandparents by 3% for females and 5.5% for males. In any case, if you take care of grandchildren, he pointed out, the elderly can easily expect their grown children to take care of them when they become dependent when aging. As most Israelis would guess, as this tiny country is very child-oriented, with families located close to each other, the results here are very different than in Europe. Prof. Ariela Lowenstein, a senior University of Haifa gerontologist, investigated the question without looking at the number of hours grandparents spent babysitting. “We found that taking care of grandchildren had a positive impact on the grandparents’ mental health. It can be tiring taking care of young children, but that doesn’t make them depressed.” Vive la différence.
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2016-11-13 03:48 JUDY SIEGEL www.jpost.com
28 /59 0.0 Chinese deliveryman overloads truck with parcels after Singles’ Day shopping frenzy With vast piles of goods needing delivery after China’s Singles’ Day shopping festival, a Chongqing deliveryman filled the passenger’s seat and space beneath his truck with parcels, but was fined for overloading the vehicle. The man, whose overloaded truck was noticed by local authorities at a toll gate on Friday, said he wanted to use all the space available to carry as much as possible, the reported. He piled parcels on the seat beside him and even in the undercarriage beneath the truck to improve his efficiency. The driver was fined 200 yuan (HK$227) and had one point deducted from his driver’s licence, the report said. According to mainland traffic rules, a driver’s licence will be suspended if they lose 12 points within a year. Residents from the municipality spent more than 2.4 billion yuan during the online shopping spree this year, according to e-commerce giant Alibaba, which initiated the festival. Alibaba is the owner of the. Down jackets, woollen coats, boots and smartphones were the most popular items sold to Chongqing buyers during the event, Alibaba said. 2016-11-13 03:38 Mandy Zuo www.scmp.com
29 /59 2.2 For the Record Donald Trump wins the presidency, we show you how your neighbors voted, thousands protest in Los Angeles, Kamala Harris is heading to Washington, FBI director James Comey has a rocky future, California's passed some major bills, and Robert Durst appears in a Los Angeles court on murder charges
President Obama and Donald Trump have their first meeting, what Donald Trump can and can't do with his presidential powers, George Takei donate 70 years of memorabilia to the Japanese American National Museum, and what scientists learned by tickling rats.
President Obama and Donald Trump have their first meeting, what Donald Trump can and can't do with his presidential powers, George Takei donate 70 years of memorabilia to the Japanese American National Museum, and what scientists learned by tickling rats .
President Obama and Donald Trump discuss their visit at the White House
Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske interviews ISIS fighter and speaks with Iraqi military on the east side of Mosul.
Thousands of high school students flooded the streets of L. A. County on Thursday. They marched in protest of Donald Trump’s victory in the U. S. presidential election.
Thousands of high school students flooded the streets of L. A. County on Thursday. They marched in protest of Donald Trump’s victory in the U. S. presidential election.
2016-11-13 03:35 Los Angeles www.latimes.com
30 /59 4.2 Stone found in sheep’s liver may earn millions of yuan for Chinese farmer A Shandong farmer may have earned millions of yuan unexpectedly after a stone found in the liver of one of his sheep was judged to be a rare substance used for traditional Chinese medicine. The grey stone, about the size of a ping-pong ball and spotted with darker patches, develops from food residue in a sheep’s stomach, the Qingdao Evening News reported local animal experts as saying. The farmer, who bought the ewe from a local market several months ago intending to breed lambs from it, learned on the internet that two such stones that added up to the same weight as his could be worth several million yuan. The 66-year-old from Jiaozhou noticed the animal hadn’t eaten much recently and was getting thinner, so decided to kill it and sell the meat. On the advice of neighbours, his family called the newspaper to invite local experts to determine the composition of the stone, which is about 4cm long and weighs 50 grams. An engineer from the municipal wildlife protection station said it was , or sheep’s treasure, valued in traditional Chinese medicine. It is believed to have similar medical values as cow gallstone, which according to traditional medicine is useful for treating sore throats, uraemia and even unconsciousness.
2016-11-13 03:30 Mandy Zuo www.scmp.com
31 /59 0.0 Demi Lovato holds hands with rumoured MMA fighter beau Luke Rockhold as they arrive to UFC 205 in New York It's been the worst kept celebrity couple secret for a while now. And on Saturday night Demi Lovato finally confirmed her her relationship with MMA fighter Luke Rockhold. The duo arrived hand in hand for the historic UFC 205 at Madison Square Garden. The 24-year-old look scintillating in an LBD, which she matched with a pair of high-heel pumps. Over her shoulders she slung a black blazer, almost the exact same one as her towering beau. Luke - who obviously wasn't fighting on the spectacular card - looked razor sharp in his tuxedo jacket over a white button-down shirt. While he opted against a tie or dickie bow, he did pull off an impressive finish with a white napkin in his breast pocket. While there was a tantalisingly stacked card of amazing fights lined up on the night - including three title fights - Luke will have a very close eye on the Middleweight bout between Yoel Romero and Chris Weidman. Weidman was the man Rockhold defeated last December to claim the title, only to go and lose it on his first defence to Britain's Michael Bisping. Demi and Luke were first linked back in August and had reportedly started dating after Demi's split from Wilmer Valderrama back in June. The couple dated on and off for six years. Demi and Luke both sport matching tattoos already, smiley faces on their fingers, which they revealed on their Instagram accounts.
2016-11-13 03:24 Ross Mcdonagh www.dailymail.co.uk
32 /59 0.7 Bulgarian government at stake in presidential poll Bulgarians voted Sunday in a high-stakes presidential run-off that could see center- right Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's government fall if his handpicked candidate fails to defeat a Socialist-backed general...
2016-11-13 03:22 system article.wn.com
33 /59 0.6 Netflix Originals: When Will ‘Glitch’ Season 2 Be Released? Six episodes = your weekend binge sorted. #Glitch pic.twitter.com/dn4mEsjfiq
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) November 12, 2016 https://t.co/t5Jb8FZldl Netflix's 'Glitch' Has Me Hooked… and I've Got Questions pic.twitter.com/E5SdXRvZE2
— GeekDad Ken (@KenDenmead) November 2, 2016
A doctor and a policeman work together to rescue and retrieve the individuals who have risen from the dead. Drama quickly unfolds when the policeman James Hayes recognizes one of the individuals who rose from the dead as someone from his past life.
I'm watching Glitch 1×06 "Episode 6" #Netflix https://t.co/rcbCQUJ2cf #trakt
— Mauro (@MauroRTR) November 1, 2016
Netflix’s ‘Glitch’ Is A Show ‘Stranger Things’ Fans Will Love
‘Stranger Things’ Season 2 Release Date Teased, New Cast Members Announced, Spoilers Leaked ‘Gilmore Girls’, ‘Lovesick’ Season 2, ‘The Crown’, And Other Netflix Originals Hitting Netflix In November 2016
Great Aussie TV series #glitch green lit for second season on #Netflix https://t.co/Em5RxR1etV pic.twitter.com/QYw69CjbJ6
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2016-11-13 03:15 Trisha Faulkner www.inquisitr.com
34 /59 1.6 New facility to help teens with mental health problems The teen years are tough enough for any kid. School, hormones, parents and adulthood coming like a speeding train.
When mental illness is part of the mix, teens, families and their care providers often are outmatched.
"In many cases, their life is at risk," said Chris Ladish, a pediatric- and neuro-psychologist at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital.
The region's first mental health facility solely focused on teens opened at Tacoma General Hospital. Ladish is its medical director.
The 27-bed Mary Bridge Adolescent Behavioral Health at Tacoma General has state-of-the-art safety features and a nontraditional environment for patients ages 13-18. Treatment is geared toward short-term stays, whereas currently many of these patients now seek treatment in the area's emergency rooms, reported The News Tribune (http://bit.ly/2fDapzB).
"What we've really strived to do is make it comfortable, inviting and warm," Ladish said.
Statistics from a Pierce County mental health assessment show that approximately one in five youths ages 13-18 will experience a mental disorder in a given year. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in people ages 10-24 in Washington state.
The new center, administered by MultiCare Behavorial Health and Mary Bridge Children's Hospital, will treat conditions such as major depression, anxiety disorders, psychosis, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
"The child who comes here is generally not able to function in society," Ladish said. "They can't get through a school day. They have probably been in outpatient (treatment). They may have harmed themselves or others. They are not happy with their home life. "
Patients will be admitted voluntarily, involuntarily and if initiated by parents.
"You always try to work with a child to encourage them to come in voluntarily," Ladish said. "I think the bulk of our kids will come in voluntarily and/or parent-initiated. Usually, one or both is really wanting to seek help. " Patients, no matter which category they fall into, all need to meet criteria before being accepted into the facility. They must show evidence of an acute behavioral health condition, and they must present a danger to themselves or others. Alternately, they may have severe psychosocial problems.
The three most frequently seen juvenile psychiatric concerns in MultiCare's emergency departments are suicidal thoughts, acute psychosis and severe behavioral issues.
The center's work will include psychiatric evaluation and treatment, psychosocial assessment, medication management, counseling and family groups. In addition, the child will be prepared to return to their home and school.
The therapies that will be used in the facility are evidence-based, meaning that studies have proved that they have a positive effect on patients.
NEW AND GLEAMING
The floor where the facility was built was left vacant when the Rainier pavilion was built, a common practice when a hospital adds a new building.
Big but private windows look out onto Wright Park. Comfortable furniture and art give the facility a nonclinical look.
A closer inspection reveals special features.
Anti-ligature hardware — door handles, water fixtures, sprinkler heads — are designed to prevent rope, clothing, belts and anything else from hanging on them in a suicide attempt.
"The bulk of the kids we're seeing (have a) suicide risk," Ladish said.
Even the toilet paper rolls are recessed.
"If you take them apart you can unwrap the spring to cut on yourself," Ladish said. "Anything that has a rough edge has padding so a kid can't smack their head on a hard edge. "
Door hinges go from floor to ceiling. The door frames themselves can be taken apart in a matter of seconds by staff with a special key in case a patient barricades himself in a room.
Windows are shatterproof. Walls are indestructible. Furniture can't be thrown.
There is a room with padding, but it reflects the fact that the facility is restraint-free, Ladish said.
"The only time that someone would be laying hands on a child is when they are doing something to themselves physically that is putting themselves at risk," Ladish said.
A calming room is outfitted with colored LED lights and music that patients can adjust themselves.
"That's for kids who have unique sensory needs," Ladish said.
The staff will include psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, social workers and educators.
"Our staff is going to be out on the floor with the kids all the time," she said. FILLING A NEED
Health care providers from top to bottom agree on one thing: The region, state and nation suffer from a lack of facilities to care for people with behavioral health problems.
"People are often languishing, waiting to get the care they need," said Tim Holmes, president of MultiCare's Behavioral Health.
Many of those who could benefit from facilities like MultiCare's end up in emergency departments.
Eight percent to 12 percent of people showing up at MultiCare's emergency departments are behavioral health patients who meet the medical criteria for inpatient services, Holmes said.
Ladish predicts most of the kids treated at the new facility will be brought in from emergency departments.
"We have seen a steady increase over the past several years of children presenting to the (emergency department) in mental health crisis overall," Ladish said.
Often intertwined with mental health issues are substance abuse and addiction problems. "We expect some (patients) are going to have problems with substances," Holmes said.
Holmes oversees a variety of behavioral health outpatient services in south King County and Pierce County, as well as inpatient services in Auburn — a total of about 22,000 patients.
"We're not addressing the issues as they occur early enough," Holmes said. "We tend to be reactive, and we don't have a good, strong inpatient presence. "
THE DIFFERENCE WITH TEENS
Every age group has its needs. But adolescents stand out for the simple fact that they are not yet adults.
"It's the way you approach a teen, regardless of the mental illness," Ladish said. "From a mental health perspective, you add the impulsivity, the sense of indestructiveness, hormones. You kind of fuel a psychopathology (with those). It feeds the flame of mental illness. "
Research has shown that the longer it takes to diagnose a teen's mental illness, the poorer the outcome, she said.
"Early detection is really critical," Ladish said.
Psychosis and other serious mental health conditions usually manifest in the 16-24 age group.
"There are many precursors," to severe mental conditions, Holmes said. "Many times you find these things out from a schoolteacher. "
Warning signs can include social withdrawal, missing assignments or classroom outbursts.
"You can see it start to progress from there," Holmes said. "What we want to do is get ahead of that. " A complicating factor is that teens with mental illness can present with symptoms that mirror typical teen emotions and behavior.
"One of the first things a parent will preface (a concern with is), 'I just don't know if this is just teenage . but, I'm worried about this," Ladish said.
"When in doubt, seek assistance," Ladish said. "You can always get reassurance from a provider. And far better to do that than — God forbid — you thought this is typical teen, and you find out the kid is really struggling and did attempt suicide. "
There is some connection between seasons of the year and mental health disorders in children and teenagers, Ladish said.
Fall is associated with school stress and trouble with peers. Spring can bring academic pressures. Prolonged cloudy weather can affect kids with seasonal mood disorders.
Serious psychosis in juveniles remains very rare — less than 1 percent, Ladish said.
Physical health will be taken into account during treatment. People with mental illness have higher rates of physical health problems.
"Healthy body, healthy mind. And vice versa," Holmes said. "Our treatment plan looks at that and addresses it. "
BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT
The new facility is designed for short-term stays, with an emphasis on five- to nine-day stays.
A typical patient plan will include stabilization, diagnosis and getting through the acute phase of mental illness.
"The question is: Where are they going to go from here? " Ladish asked. Some will go to outpatient care in the community. Others will need longer term care, she said.
Though the need is great, it's hard to tell just how in-demand the facility will be. If beds go empty, the facility will draw from greater distances, Holmes said.
"Our hope is that we can provide more services to a broader population," he said.
The facility will open in a limited capacity and reach full operation by the end of 2017.
"It takes time to build that infrastructure and foundation to attract (providers) to that environment," Holmes said.
MultiCare will look to partners as it expands both its range of services and the populations it serves.
Ladish is optimistic that the new facility and its staff will make a difference in the lives of the kids with just a few days of treatment.
"Something is dramatically going to change in seven to nine days," she said.
2016-11-13 03:03 By CRAIG www.miamiherald.com
35 /59 0.0 Tahlequah school to add Wollemi pine to fossil site TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) - One local elementary school will soon be home to one of the world’s oldest and rarest trees.
Thanks to donations from people and businesses from around the area, Heritage Elementary School students have an outdoor learning experience that continues to grow, the Tahlequah Daily Press (http://bit.ly/2eNoLOD ) reported. Named the Fossil Study Rock, the patch of land next to the school is full of trees, plants and rocks for students to explore. Many species at the Fossil Study Rock pre-date the dinosaurs and give students a chance to see something they otherwise might not.
Tahlequah Rock and Mineral Society Vice President Darryl “Dusty” Rhoades has been a driving forces behind the project, and has plans to keep adding to it. The Wollemi pine is one of the next additions to be added to the site, and the oldest fossil of a Wollemi tree has been dated to 200 million years ago. Fewer than 100 specimens are known to be growing in the wild, and it is classified as critically endangered. The mature trees can be long-lived. Some of the oldest known trees alive today are estimated to be between 500 and 1,000 years old.
“We started it out as just the fossil study rock with the two rocks,” Rhoades said. “At first we were just going to set them down. But we ended up adding this and that, added the walkway. We have a cast of a footprint out here.”
The Wollemi pine was thought to be extinct until it was discovered in 1994. It is considered a significant botanical discovery. There is now an extensive research effort underway to conserve the species, which can be a source of pride for Heritage students and Tahlequah residents. Rhoades said seeds were limited, but he was set on acquiring them.
“About two weeks ago I got a call saying the coundown was on,” Rhodes said. “It was a worldwide thing to order the seeds, and I waited until the clock read zero and I clicked and got them, and when they ran out of seeds that was it.”
The Wollemi pine, which is an evergreen tree, can reach heights between 82 and 131 feet and produces cones. The branching of the tree is unusual in that nearly all side branches never branch further. Rhodes has 12 seeds which Sooner and Park Hill Plant Farms wil help propagate. Rhodes hopes that in four to five years the trees will be doing well at Heritage, but if they struggle they will be kept at plant farms.
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Information from: Tahlequah Daily Press, http://www.tahlequahdaailypress.com
2016-11-13 03:01 By HUNTER www.washingtontimes.com
36 /59 4.5 Zoo saves kangaroo with 25 percent chance of survival WAHPETON, N. D. (AP) - Having an active youngster is a game-changer. Amanda Dukart, zookeeper and animal trainer for Chahinkapa Zoo, found that out last spring. The young joey that initially had a 25 percent chance of surviving is thriving.
Barkly, the kangaroo joey whose nighttime care Dukart was primarily sharing with Zoo Director Kathy Diekman, has matured and developed. She can live outside the pouch zoo staff carried her around in. The pouch replicated what Barkly would have experienced with her mother, who died in February, the Wahpeton Daily News (http://bit.ly/2eBRMJT ) reported.
“Your home life (is different), when you’ve got a ‘roo jumping behind you when you’re cooking and cleaning,” Diekman said. “You’re always cleaning with a ‘roo. He’d box my chihuahua in the spirit of play.”
Dukart agrees, saying Barkly “likes to nibble on everything.”
Over the summer, Dukart, Diekman and the rest of Chahinkapa’s staff worked on acclimating her to living as a zoo animal. Initially, Barkly was hesitant, vocalizing her stress.
“This summer, we started putting her out in the habitat gradually. (We’d spend) 15 minutes with her (in a pattern) . with her. A half-hour with her An hour with her and then, 15 minutes without us, a half-hour without us. It was gradual. All summer we did this,” Diekman said.
According to Dukart and Diekman, weaning Barkly was a team effort.
“She got so attached, mostly to Amanda and then also to me,” Diekman continued. “She sees one of us, she’ll jump up. Or she’d follow us. she’d hear us and go look for us.”
Barkly’s adjustment period overlapped with Chahinkapa Zoo going from summer to fall hours, which concerned Diekman and her staff. In late September, Diekman attended the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ annual conference. When she returned to Chahinkapa, Diekman was prepared to put Barkly in her pouch. Even though Barkly had adjusted to living outside the pouch, for safety reasons, she was still being pouched for car rides.
“She wouldn’t go in the pouch,” Diekman remembered. “She still knew me very well. She wanted to go with me, but she wouldn’t go in the pouch. She started kicking. Instead of being upset, I saw this as a good thing. I said, ‘You’re staying, Barkly.’”
Already familiar with Chahinkapa’s kangaroo habitat, Barkly had also progressed to eating kangaroo feed along with getting her three bottles of milk. From there, it was a matter of observation.
“I didn’t feel comfortable going, ‘There you go,’ so, just about every hour, (I’d) look in the window. And she’d hear us coming and go right for the door. I’d think, ‘Oh, she hasn’t moved from the door. Poor Barkly.’ Well, I watched her from the window and realized she was fine. After four days, we were completely comfortable with her being in there,” Diekman said.
Dukart, who said she couldn’t imagine the process of Barkly’s adjustment having gone better, added that she’s proud it was a team effort. Not only that, but the record of Barkly’s growth and feeding will be available for any zoo that needs it.
“We learn from them, they learn from us,” Diekman said. “Having said that . how do you compensate somebody for taking a kangaroo home every night? It’s a different world, but what an opportunity.”
Among the fellow kangaroos at Chahinkapa is Barkly’s father, Herbert. To prevent inbreeding, she will undergo implanting. Herbert is currently Chahinkapa’s only adult male kangaroo. Most of his offspring will eventually be sent to other animal facilities. According to Dukart, a kangaroo can start breeding at approximately two years.
“We’ll never trade Barkly. She’s here forever,” Diekman said.
From 5:30 p.m.-12 a.m. Friday, Nov. 18, Chahinkapa Zoo will hold its annual “Wild Game Shows” fundraiser at the Wahpeton Community Center. Tickets are $35 each and may be purchased by calling 701-642-8709 or visiting www.chahinkapazoo.org. Guests must be 21 years or older to attend.
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Information from: Wahpeton Daily News, http://www.wahpetondailynews.com
2016-11-13 03:01 By Frank www.washingtontimes.com
37 /59 0.9 Bella Thorne is epitome of casual chic in Daisy Dukes and snakeskin boots before slipping into crop top and ripped jeans She is known for her casual chic style. And Bella Thorne showed that she was fashion forward not just once but twice. The 19-year-old star was spotted on the job for her latest project in Los Angeles on Saturday. It was quite a busy day for the young star as she rocked two outfits including one that had a few retro touches. A black bowler hat perched on her head, she headed to the door of a silver Nissan Rogue whilst showcasing her precipitous legs in a pair of frayed denim shorts. Bella's signature red hair had been pulled messily behind her head and wrapped up into a bun, and she'd slid into a pair of grey snakeskin-patterned high-heeled boots. On top of a grey shirt was a colour-blocked jumper. Its front was off-white, its back and turtleneck black, and its sleeves largely bright red. She'd festooned herself with bags as well: a large black leather purse was slung from her right wrist, a cylindrical purple one from her shoulder. That was not her only look of the day as she flaunted her slim figure in a matching black crop top and ripped jeans combination. Despite being busy on her current job, she's still found room for some family time now and again, as her Snapchat posts from a few days past attest. She and her 23-year-old sister Dani took a gym trip, both of them showing off their enviably toned abs in figure-hugging workout gear. At one point, the younger Thorne flung on a red, black and grey patterned bomber jacket and stuck out her tongue for a photo. 2016-11-13 02:03 Sameer Suri www.dailymail.co.uk
38 /59 0.0 EXCHANGE: Duo seeks students for new music school DIXON, Ill. (AP) - Nolan Wegner had a sore throat. His voice teacher, Jon McLemore, had a backup plan.
Flashcards? Check. Dry-erase board? Check. A tender blend of smarts, humor and sensitivity? Check, check, check.
“If you want to try singing, that’s great,” said Jon, 39. “But we don’t want to push it and damage anything.”
He would know. Before he and his wife, Ashley, 30, opened Rock U School of Music, they recorded an LP and toured March through August as the duo Thistle and Lace - along with their two dogs and two kids, Olivia, 4, and Leola, 2.
“It was a lot of fun the first few weeks, and then it became work,” Jon said.
“By the end, I’d look across at him in the front seat and think, ‘Where could I hide the body?’” Ashley said, cracking both of them up.
Anyone who’s ever toured knows that feeling. Seemed a pretty good idea, then, to settle in and open a music school in the lower floor of their house - especially with the ongoing artistic renaissance in Dixon.
They were watching the Jack Black comedy “School of Rock,” and “I looked over at Jon and said, ‘Why aren’t we doing this?’”
Boom. A foundation was laid. The first semester began Oct. 10.
Tuition at Rock U is $80 a month, which includes a 30-minute voice, piano or guitar lesson each week. There’s a full guitar class of five students Monday nights that costs $50 a month. The current roster consists of two 7-year-old girls, a 7-year-old boy and a mother-son combo, 37 and 11.
The McLemores would like to add another group guitar class, as well as a cappella groups of six to eight singers.
Jon gives the lessons, and Ashley handles public relations and such, although her 15 years of theater experience can prove handy for advanced students who want a coach.
She remembers growing up in Dixon and feeling envious of the sports and academic stars, with all the outlets they had.
“I’m so creatively driven, so it made me sad,” she said. “I felt left out.”
Jon grew up in the South, and they lived in Montana about 3 years before moving back to Ashley’s hometown.
“I felt really fortunate, because it gave me a really good perception of what Dixon is missing,” she said.
They conducted a workshop with Denise Ewers’ middle school and high school choirs last Friday and were blown away.
“There’s so much talent to be unlocked with those kids,” Ashley said.
Similarly, 6-year-old Nolan signed up for piano, then changed to voice.
“I was blown away, because he has a beautiful voice and a great sense of pitch,” Jon said.
He taught, then drilled Nolan on the notes on the staff Thursday evening.
“It’s like a different language,” Jon said when they started the lesson.
“Wow!” Nolan said, wide-eyed.
“Except this alphabet only has seven letters,” Jon said.
“A ha!”
Minutes later, the youngster showed off how quick he learns, rattling off several correct answers. “Rock and roll!” Jon said.
“Nailin’ it!” Nolan responded.
Beyond his immediate likability, Jon’s got a nice resumé.
Before Thistle and Lace’s brief time in the spotlight, he was a professional a cappella singer for about 20 years, even helping Street Corner Symphony finish runner-up in NBC’s “The Sing-Off” in 2010.
So, of course, he had to teach Nolan some vocal percussion last week. Throughout Nolan’s lesson, Jon gave tips to his dad, Ben, to help Nolan practice.
“I can tell you, he’s been doing the vocal percussion at home,” Ben said, laughing.
Jon can play just about any instrument you put in his hands - and boy, did a beloved member of the community do just that. Longtime Dixon piano teacher Dorry Kingry, of late a beloved Jefferson Elementary School teacher, donated two pianos to Rock U.
“I was just about in tears,” Ashley said.
The bills get paid because Jon still composes and arranges music, and Ashley works as an eyebrow artist. They hope, though, to build as big a clientele as possible, and would expand beyond their 4-to-8 p.m., Monday through Thursday restraints. More days, longer hours, as long as the students are there.
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Source: The (Sterling) Daily Gazette, http://bit.ly/2f0O15k
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2016-11-13 02:02 By CHRISTOPHER www.washingtontimes.com
39 /59 1.7 Marine Le Pen: 'Trump made the impossible possible' Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen said Donald Trump's victory in the US election was "an additional stone in the building of a new world".
2016-11-13 02:00 www.bbc.co.uk
40 /59 1.2 Duchess of Cambridge dazzles in black dress at Royal Festival of Remembrance Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, looked every inch the stylish couple despite attending the somber Royal Festival of Remembrance ceremony at Royal Albert Hall in London on Saturday.
As usual, the Duchess looked flawless in a simple black Callas Evening Coat from Temperley London's Prefall 2014 Collection with buttons and a customary poppy pinned to her lapel. She polished off the pretty style with blown out, curled tresses, a black clutch and a set of pumps. Prince William looked dapper in a suit.
The royal couple were joined by several other members of the royal family including, Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and his wife the Countess of Wessex.
This year's Remembrance festival marks the anniversaries of the centenaries of the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Jutland, the 25th anniversary of the Gulf War and the 80th anniversary of the first flight of the Supermarine Spitfire.
Prince Harry was noticeably absent from the evening, but reports that his girlfriend, actress Meghan Markle, being in town may have had to do with that. Markle was spotted outside of Kensington Palace earlier in the week, so perhaps Prince Harry took a night off from his duties to share the city with his new ladylove.
Earlier in the day, Harry was spotted at the Rose and Poppy Gates to pay tribute to those who had lost their lives in WW1.
Talk about a busy day for the royals!
2016-11-13 01:47 AOL Staff www.aol.com
41 /59 0.9 Lauren Brant and AFL legend Barry Hall share a laugh as former Hi-5 star hints love is in the air after the couple went official recently Having confirmed their relationship last month, the pair looked loved up as they shared photos from Flemington Racecourse last week. They both posted Instagram photos of them alongside former footy player Cameron Mooney and his wife Seona. Lauren captioned her post: 'Stakes Day was a blast thanks to @ipevents and this crazy crew!!' Barry opted for a similar theme in his caption, calling the rest of the group 'legends'. The former footy legend has his arm around the 27-year- old in both snaps as Lauren is seen smiling happily. The brunette wore a loose-fitting black silk dress, which featured a sequin collar around her neck. Lauren accessorised with an intricate clutch bag with a metallic feather design and paired the outfit with black stilettos. The most intriguing part of the ensemble, however, was her luxury Studio ANISS headpiece. The laser cut leather crown, featuring two feather formation, completed her flawless race day look. Lauren and the retired sports star first met on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! last year. The couple were then spotted sharing a tender kiss on the Gold Coast in October, The Daily Telegraph reported. 'We have been spending a lot of time together and we have been enjoying each other's company,' Lauren told the publication of her new man, who is 12 years her senior. 'Who knows what the future holds?'
2016-11-13 01:42 Greg Styles www.dailymail.co.uk
42 /59 2.8 Markets set US president's policy, regardless of election promises Whoever won the election would have found clear policy markers, set by asset prices reflecting the best available information about the current state of key economic fundamentals. That is an unyielding policy corset where the vote- grabbing campaign rhetoric will come down crashing. And then we shall see hand-wringing, shoulders shrugging and the usual invocation of that age-old prophecy: "Election promises are made to be broken. "
Whether that should be one of the hallmarks of democratic societies has been a matter of debate ever since Socrates (470/469-399 BC) held court around Athens, trying to educate his fellow citizens in clear thinking and in the virtues of public service. That debate will go on. Reassuringly, Plato's (Socrates disciple) Republic is still at the top of required readings in the most prestigious American colleges.
The incoming class of our leaders will test their political philosophy on the socio-economic issues such as price stability, budget deficits, public debt and the soaring net foreign liabilities.
How they handle these problems will determine the outlook for jobs and incomes, and will seal their fate in the next election cycle, starting with midterm Congressional elections in 2018. That is when all 435 seats in the U. S. House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats in the U. S. Senate will be up for grabs. And that is also when the acting president could become a walking wounded and a one-term player.
So, let's review briefly these immediate policy challenges. I shall start with price inflation, using the consumer price index because that is the most widely known inflation indicator to the general public.
The latest data are not particularly alarming, but they are enough of a warning to prompt a deliberate process of monetary tightening. Those who think that a 1.5 percent annual increase of consumer prices in September is nothing to get excited about probably don't know that the pace of advance of these prices nearly doubled during the third quarter.
Excluding the volatile components of food and energy, consumer prices are now 2.2 percent above their year-earlier levels. Service sector prices are up 3.2 percent, with the costs of housing, transportation and medical care rising in the range of 3.2 percent to 4.8 percent. To round off this inflation picture, one might also add a 2.3 percent annual increase last September of labor compensation costs, and a 2.3 percent annual increase in unit labor costs (hourly compensation minus productivity growth) during the third quarter.
All these cost and price variables are showing steady acceleration. They have also reached the levels where caution requires a monetary response to forestall major slippages in the months ahead. That's what the Fed is doing now.
Fixed-income markets have reacted to Fed's widely publicized policy intentions, but they seem to be reassured (?) by the huge liquidity and tranquilizers that the Fed would do what it has to do gently and without any precipitation. Investors should not be lulled into complacency. The bond market money has been made. The Fed and the bond markets are now facing a distinct possibility of an ex-ante unknowable acceleration of cost and price inflation.
Fiscal policy is also confronted with a binding constraint. Any growth-supporting measures, therefore, must come from new revenue sources and a rearrangement of national priorities.
During the fiscal year ended last September, the budget deficit rose for the first time in five years to $587 billion – showing a 34 percent increase from the previous year. The public debt at this writing stood at $19.8 trillion - 106 percent of GDP, and counting.
These are the most glaring and the most widely publicized fiscal problems. And here is another zinger: The government's unfunded liabilities of $104.1 trillion – where the current deficits of the politically untouchable entitlement programs of Social Security and Medicare account for a total of $43.1 trillion.
The difficulty here is that there is no way to begin a long road to fiscal consolidation without the dreaded redistribution of income – put very, very simply: Take from Peter to pay Paul. We got some hints about "Peters and Pauls" by looking at campaign donations, but we have yet to see how problems of fiscal policy will be tackled by the new legislative and executive authorities.
Structural policies of market deregulation to increase economic efficiency also have income redistribution effects. We surely need some of those. But we also need structural policies to improve infrastructure and to increase the stock and the quality of human capital through education and healthcare, in order to raise labor productivity and the noninflationary growth of the economy.
Foreign trade is another area of public policy that needs attention to (a) level the playing field for our overseas business operations, and (b) significantly improve international policy coordination to reduce global trade imbalances.
Here is how urgent that task is.
At the end of the second quarter, our net foreign liabilities shot up to $8 trillion from $7.6 trillion in the previous quarter. And this is pretty alarming: In the twelve months to the second quarter, America's net foreign debt soared by $1.3 trillion.
No wonder our overseas creditors are balking. The total stock of U. S. government debt currently held by non-residents ($6.2 trillion) has been on a steady decline since last March, with the foreign official holdings falling 5.5 percent in the year to August.
The election winner is inheriting problems of accelerating cost and price inflation, sharply rising budget deficits, debilitating public debt and a worrying increase in America's net foreign liabilities.
These problems must be addressed with (a) tightening monetary policies, (b) income redistribution and rearrangements of national priorities, (c) structural policies to rebuild infrastructure and increase the stock and quality of human capital, and (d) trade policies to reduce excessive global imbalances.
Markets are watching all this. The Fed has to deliver price stability. Congress and the White House will have to come up with fiscal and trade policies to keep down budget and trade deficits.
Failure to do that would lead to dumping of U. S. assets, rising interest rates, declining economic activity, increasing unemployment and …
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2016-11-13 01:33 Dr. www.cnbc.com
43 /59 4.9 Mild earthquake rattles southwest Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A moderate earthquake was felt by residents in southwest Alaska Saturday afternoon, but there have been no immediate reports of damage.
The Alaska Earthquake Center says the temblor had a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 and it was located at a depth of about 7 miles. However, the U. S. Geological Survey put the preliminary magnitude at 5.5. It was recorded just before 1 p.m. AKST.
The quake on the Alaska Peninsula was felt in Dillingham and was centered about 35 miles south of the community of Pilot Point, or 400 miles southwest of Anchorage.
2016-11-13 01:25 Associated Press www.foxnews.com
44 /59 2.6 Reddit landlords reveal their tenants from HELL The narrative of the ridiculous, greedy and totally unfair landlord is a path and a story well trodden in 2016. But what about the out-of-line tenant? Landlord users of Reddit have taken to the online forum to share their stories of tenants from hell, and the experiences are equal parts surprising, disgusting and bizarre. One user said: 'I had a tenant remove the kitchen island and bring it outside by the pool because they needed an outdoor serving area'. Another said they had a tenant who wouldn't pay rent, and even though they followed the protocol to get him evicted, 'he kept getting the judge to agree to an extension. 'He ended up staying rent free for seven months,' the person said. 'When he finally got evicted he left the apartment in a shambles. Holes in the walls, curtains stained with what I can only assume was doo doo, and the rug was littered with cigarette burns.' One particularly humorous post saw a tenant threaten that he or she intended to take the landlord to court over a broken washing machine: 'Had she reported the problem to management? Nope. 'The maintenance man and I entered the unit that afternoon to fix the washing machine. The problem? It was unplugged,' the person concluded. From pet rats to ducks, animals are repeated nightmare for landlords, according to Redditer. But one person took things a little too far when they left a property: 'This happened to my friend's rental. Guy gets evicted. Instead of trashing the place. This f**king guy cut off chunks of drywall, put dead fish in the walls, and sealed it back up. Tenant was a carpenter. 'The owners couldn't figure out the smell for weeks. They repainted, got it professionally cleaned a few times, searched endlessly. 'Eventually, they figured something died in the walls, and started knocking holes in the wall. Turned out to be that piece of sh*t move by the tenant.' Are you a landlord with a tenant from hell? Email [email protected]
2016-11-13 01:17 Sophie Haslett www.dailymail.co.uk
45 /59 4.5 Top 10 Best Electric Guitars for Christmas 2016 There’s no way around it: guitar players want more guitars. Yes, even more than that. It doesn’t matter how many rooms or garages or storage facilities they’ve filled with them. The next guitar is the most interesting one. That doesn’t mean they don’t have a favorite or a Number One, but rest assured, they can always use more.
Even though any sufficiently talented guitarist can make it happen with just one borrowed guitar, getting to know a new guitar is half the fun of playing. It’s almost as addictive as buying pedals. Each one is just a little bit different and can inspire a new way of playing or introduce a slightly different tone.
Aside from that, there are so many configurations of guitars out there. Single coils, humbuckers, hardtails, Bigsby trems, alder bodies, maple necks, the list goes on. Each of those choices makes a big difference to the overall sound and contribute to how the guitar is played. Studio musicians use several guitars to record a single track, layering them on top of each other and choosing the exact guitar that performs the job best. Some are best for shredding solos, while some are better for clear, chiming chords.
While almost every guitarist has played a Fender or a Gibson at some point, there are plenty of other brands to explore, each offering something slightly different, even if they appear the same on the surface. And don’t forget, too, that what a guitarist plays during practice is often very different from what is played on stage, which is again different from what is used in the studio. In short: you can never have too many guitars, so they always make great gifts.
You may wish to do a little bit of research before you buy a guitar for someone else. If you get a look at their current collection, you might be able to identify something missing, or perhaps learn their preferences so you can choose a new variation on something they already love. If you notice they have a bunch of Les Pauls , you might want to steer away from Fenders. But not necessarily — a guitarist might discover they love a guitar they received as a gift even if they’d never have considered buying it themselves.
If you’re looking to give a guitar this year, here’s our list of the top ten best electric guitars for Christmas.
To begin with, the Fender Telecaster is the king of versatility. No matter what genre, someone in the band is (or could be) playing a Tele. They’re surprisingly adept at metal, but provide all the range needed for virtually any style. They’re widely seen in country and “indie” music, of course, with their chiming cut perfect for just-overdriven sounds.
This model adds something unusual to the mix: a Strat pickup in the middle position. This means that in addition to the Tele’s already masterful ability to play anything, you also get the Strat’s legendary strength thrown in for good measure. This means, too, that this Tele has a five-way switch, granting access to those invaluable in-between settings that often provide the perfect voice. Aside from that, it’s the recognizable Tele format and controls, and adds in locking tuners for good measure. If you need a guitar that does everything, this might just be the one.
Need more options? Browse more Fender products here.
Price: $799
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Love him or hate him, you can’t deny that Billy Corgan is obsessed with tone. He’s thought more about tone than you and I have thought about what we’re going to eat or drink during the whole course of our lifetimes. So, when he teamed up with Reverend, a company known for pairing a little bit of useful innovation with consistent reliability, the result was likely to be excellent.
This guitar, like the Tele above, is utterly fixated on extreme versatility. The pickups steal the show in that respect, being designed from the ground up with Corgan’s obsessive guidance by Reverend’s Joe Naylor to pin the exact middle point between a Stratocaster and a Gibson SG. The low strings are dark and heavy, but the high strings have excellent clarity, marrying two tones that are popular but somewhat hard to get in one instrument. The effect is essentially a Strat-voiced P-90 with no hum whatsoever.
Behind the aluminum pickguards on the front horns are hollowed chambers, which in conjunction with the thinned wings cut the weight of the guitar significantly and produce better resonance. Other features include locking tuners and Reverend’s unique bass contour, which is a passive bass roll-off that makes it easier to cut through the mix. The guitar also comes in purple.
Need more options? Browse more Reverend guitars here.
Price: $999
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Eastwood Guitars are doing some pretty interesting things these days. For one thing, when they introduce new guitar designs, they do it in a Kickstarter format, where people pre-order and when they reach enough money to do the production run, they produce the guitar and send them to the backers. They’ve also taken up the mantle of Airline guitars, the funky student guitars of the 60s.
Definitely big on vibe, this guitar updates that 60s classic with an adjustable bridge and truss rod, while keeping in tact all the charming styling. The Vintage Argyle Diamond pickups provide straight twang, which is a little thin sounding for being your main instrument, but makes a fantastic special-use option. It only has 19 frets, but that won’t be a problem because you’ll be too busy having fun to notice.
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To many, the Les Paul is the end-all, be-all. Like Teles, they make their way into just about any style, but are famed the world over for their heavy, hard rock and searing lead presence. Gibson are smart enough to capitalize on their enormous fame by offering a Les Paul in each price level with varying features. In order of increasing cost and feature set, the model levels are: Studio, Classic, Traditional, and Standard.
This, then, is the latest version of Gibson USA’s top-of-the-line Standard Les Paul. If you wanted the definitive modern take on this venerable guitar, you’d go here. Updates on this classic machine include a “Fast-Access” heel, cut away to ensure speedier access to the high frets. New wiring means that you have access to a claimed 150 sonic options via four push-pull knobs and a five-position DIP switch that determines their function. They’ve also extended their efforts to chamber the body, resulting in an even lighter version of this notoriously heavy guitar.
To top it all off, this instrument ships with a stamped aluminum case, leather strap, multi-tool, and polishing cloth. With all the chrome, steel, and titanium appointments and details, this will definitely come across as the ultimate player’s piece. Oh, one last thing: it’s nitro finished, not polyurethane.
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Price: $3,199
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Charvel is something of an underdog. They’ve been around and people have heard of them, but they don’t always get their due. They tend to make guitars aimed at shredders, and as this one indicates, doing so via tried-and-true classic shapes.
This Strat-style guitar is actually pretty straightforward. One knob each for volume and tone, both of which have added functionality. The volume knob is a push-pull coil tap, while the tone knob, when set at 10, is completely removed from the circuit. This lets you dial in a range of sounds even as it preserves the underlying guitar sound when you need it. Obviously the Floyd Rose is invaluable for stable tuning even during bends, while the licensed Seymour Duncan pickups produce high output with plenty of overtones. This guitar comes in a range of colors, including neon pink , white , transparent black and more.
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Price: $869.99
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If something hollowbody is required, you’d almost certainly want to peek at a Gretsch. They’ve been pairing big-box hollowbodies with Filter’Tron-style pickups and slapping a Bigsby on the top for years, so this is an iconic, vibey machine.
Introduced last winter, the Streamliner was meant as an affordable player’s guitar, while offering a full complement of features and retro styling. This one does have the spruce center block to reduce feedback and increase sustain. It tends to be a little on the darker side, as the highs don’t quite sing as they might on a more expensive guitar. The controls are pretty interesting, though, providing a volume knob for each pickup, in addition to a master volume and master tone. If you want, you can save about $100 by foregoing the Bigsby on the G2622 standard model.
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As we discussed previously , Yamaha make a fine instrument. They’re not as well-regarded as the bigger names in the industry, and that’s kind of a shame, because often for the price, they’re making something just a little bit better. All of their guitars are above-average all-arounders good for any playing level.
Consider in particular their newest model, the RevStar. They spent many years developing a new model with a focus on playability and versatility for the working musician. This one, with the “CR” designation, stands for Cafe Racer, styled with pinstirpes, copper pickguard, and aluminum finishes. The pickups took 50 different prototypes before they settled on these vintage-voiced alnico humbuckers, which are controlled with a volume and a tone knob. The tone knob has a further enhancement, called a Dry Switch, which is meant as a coil tap, but works as a passive filter to keep noise and hum from coloring the signal. The body itself is contoured for easy, comfortable playing. This one is the absolute top of the range, but you could also opt for the RS320, which is only $399.99.
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Want to give a more out-there guitar? Sure you do. The Guild T-Bird was originally produced between 1964 and 1968 and was designed to be jet-age cool. They reissued this strange bird in May of this year to bring some interest to their line. Without a doubt, whoever you give this to is very likely to be the only person who owns it on their street, maybe even their town.
The mini humbuckers are designed as remakes of the original pickups that came with it in the 60s. The uniqueness extends beyond the body design to the interesting switching configuration. There’s a switch for rhythm or lead mode, as well as individual on-off switches for each pickup. The unique bridge is from a 60s Hagstrom and offers hardtail stability in tremolo form. For colors, you can choose between black and this antique burst.
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After starting the company that carries his name and completely redefining the guitar market, Leo Fender sold his company to CBS in 1965. In 1979, with friends George Fullerton and Dale Hyatt, he founded G&L (George & Leo) and began producing guitars that looked a lot like Fender models, but included numerous innovations and improvements.
This simple Fallout model recalls a Strat-style guitar, but with some interesting configuration choices. Namely, the pickups more closely resemble a Tele-style, with a P-90 in the neck position and a humbucker in the bridge position. These are controlled with a single volume and tone, which has a push-pull coil tap for the humbucker. Both the body and pickguard design set this apart from other guitars, while the versatile pickup layout offers a good range of sounds, especially for the money. You can also find this guitar in Fullerton Red , Gloss Black , and limited edition Clear Orange.
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To add that signature sparkle or hard chop to your tone, check out our list of the top ten best tremolo guitar effect pedals. If you happen to be guitar shopping for absolute beginners , you might consider this adorable option. Launched this summer, the Loog electric is a follow-up on the original Loog acoustic and focuses all of its attention on learning how to play.
When you first receive this guitar, it comes in a ready-to-assemble kit. No special tools are required, and 15 minutes later, you’ll be playing. There are only three strings, but with real guitar materials including a bone nut, it’s pretty much the real deal. This thing comes in five colors: blue, green, white, yellow, and lucite. If I know guitarists at all (and I do), you could easily get even a professional one of these and they would delight in the limitation and simplicity.
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2016-11-13 01:15 Randall Tompkins heavy.com
46 /59 1.4 Obituary: Jim Ersher / Sewickley police chief protected, served and smiled To Jim Ersher, there was no reason that police work couldn’t be a blast.
“He really did wonders for the morale of the police,” said Thomas DeFazio, a Sewickley councilman, who knew Chief Ersher for nearly all of his two-decade tenure with the borough’s department. “He put a friendly face on them, I think, for the borough, and the residents. He was just a friendly, happy person.”
On Saturday, Chief Ersher was remembered in a Last Call Service at the Sewickley Municipal Building. He died Tuesday from pulmonary hypertension from untreated sleep apnea.
Chief Ersher grew up in Whitehall, and after high school made two of his most important life decisions in quick succession, marrying his high school sweetheart Angela Kohle and joining the army, where he became a military policeman serving in peacetime Germany.
When the couple returned from Germany in 1983, he worked in security and then was hired at Sewickley. They moved to Baden in 1987, where they raised two sons, James Jr. and Anthony. Mrs. Ersher then became a nurse, and continues to work at Heritage Valley Hospital.
Policing peaceful Sewickley, he didn’t make a lot of headlines, and those he did generate were on the lighter side. In 1992, he joined some 20 departments in a high-speed chase of a 15-year- old Ohio boy, then gave up and headed back to Sewickley — only to be rear-ended by the youth. In 1997, he again made the news for picking up an inebriated Sewickley councilman in Emsworth. McKees Rocks police had picked up the councilman, ticketed him and agreed to hand him off at a halfway point. Then-chief John Mook said it’s the kind of service the borough provides for stranded residents.
As chief, he took pride in his work with the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, said his daughter-in-law Jami Ersher, wife of Anthony.
“He loved going into the schools and talking with the kids,” she said. “He would always bring cupcakes.”
After one of her sons was diagnosed with autism, Chief Ersher brought a lot more than cupcakes to the Autistic Support Program at Highland Elementary School in Ambridge.
“Last year, his wife and the family donated a lot of different items for our sensory room, which was really lacking,” said Jamie Wellman, the special education teacher with the program. Kids with autism often need special rocking chairs, balls to bounce on, fidget toys and other tools for stimulating the senses, and Chief Ersher and his wife fully equipped the room. “I was so blown away that, in a time when they needed to think about them, they thought about us.”
Chief Ersher never let go of some of the best things from childhood — model trains, time outdoors and chocolate chip cookies, to name a few. His favorite cookies were those made by his sister-in-law, Barbara Kohle, and he wasn’t above teasing his wife that hers were just a chip less savory.
On Saturday nights, though, no cookie could tempt him away from date night with his wife. And when, on their 30th anniversary, he gave her an iPad and said, “It’s not an anniversary gift, it’s a parting gift,” she knew it was just his oddball sense of humor coming through.
“He was the kind of a guy who was better at taking care of others than taking care of himself,” said Jami Ersher. For instance, he didn’t keep up with his sleep apnea treatments. On Tuesday, he told his wife he wasn’t feeling well, and she insisted on taking him to the hospital. He died on the way.
On Saturday Sewickley hosted “a huge procession through town with all of the different police cars,” said Mr. DeFazio. The service included the traditional bugle call of Taps, a salute, and the playing of bagpipes. At the mournful strains of Danny Boy, according to Jami Ersher, all Angela Ersher “could think of was him telling her, ‘I’m kind of a big deal.’ “
He was preceded by his parents, Bernadette and Rudolph Ersher. In addition to his sons and daughter-in-law, plus three grandchildren, he is survived by his brother David Ersher, and sister Elaine Ersher, both of Whitehall.
2016-11-13 01:00 By Rich www.post-gazette.com
47 /59 0.6 Satellite images show Myanmar Rohingya villages torched Hundreds of buildings in Rohingya villages in western Myanmar have been torched, according to new satellite images released on Sunday as fresh fighting flared in the strife-torn region. Northern Rakhine, which is home to the Muslim Rohingya minority and borders Bangladesh, has been under military lockdown ever since surprise raids on border posts left nine police dead last month. Soldiers have killed several dozen people and arrested scores in their hunt for the attackers, who the government says are radicalised Rohingya militants with links to overseas Islamists. Fresh fighting flared on Saturday with two soldiers and six attackers killed, according to the military who said they brought in helicopter gunships to repel an ambush. The crisis and reports of grave rights abuses being carried out in tandem with the security crackdown have piled international pressure on Myanmar's new civilian government and raised questions about its ability to control its military. Authorities have heavily restricted access to the area, making it difficult to independently verify government reports or accusations of army abuse. New satellite images released by Human Rights Watch show what the group said was evidence of mass arson attacks against Rohingya villages. Their analysis showed more than 400 buildings torched in three Rohingya villages where the fighting has been taking place. The group said active fires and burn scars showed that most of the destruction was caused by arson. The latest images were taken on 10 November. Brad Adams, the group's Asia director, said the new photos showed "widespread destruction" that was "greater than we first thought". "Burmese authorities should promptly establish a UN-assisted investigation as a first step toward ensuring justice and security for the victims," he said in a statement. The resurgence of violence in western Rakhine has deepened and complicated a crisis that already posed a critical challenge to the new administration led by democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. The state has sizzled with religious tension ever since waves of violence between the majority Buddhist population and the Muslim Rohingya left more than 200 dead in 2012. More than 100,000 people, mostly Rohingya, were pushed into displacement camps by the bloodshed and have languished there ever since. Rights groups say they face apartheid-like restrictions on movement and have repeatedly called on Suu Kyi to carve out a solution. But Buddhist nationalists at home viciously oppose any move to grant them citizenship, claiming the Rohingya are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh despite their long roots in the country. The military and government have rejected allegations that troops have burned Rohingya villages, accusing insurgents of lighting the fires.
2016-11-13 00:56 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk
48 /59 1.9 JDRF hosts annual Type 1 Diabetes Summit to raise awareness, support families SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is trying to spread awareness and provide support for families dealing with diabetes.
JDRF held their second annual Type 1 Diabetes Summit Saturday, and it was emceed by Fox 13 News’ very own Danica Lawrence.
The event featured information and speakers to help parents learn more about a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis.
They also had activities and games for kids.
“We want kids to come out and know that there are other kids living with Type 1 diabetes, and they can do anything they want, they just have to manage their diabetes a little bit more than other people do," said Mike Somers, Executive Director at JDRF.
Families who wish to get involved with JDRF can visit them on Facebook or on their website. The group’s ultimate goal is finding a cure for diabetes.
2016-11-13 00:37 FOX 13 fox13now.com
49 /59 4.2 Detroit Dog Rescue helps find dogs a home There is an overpopulation of stray dogs in Detroit, and many end up on the streets or in shelters, destined to be put down.
About 80% of the dogs that are picked up in Detroit are euthanized.
Detroit Dog Rescue wants to change that.
Taking in about 500 animals a year, Detroit Dog Rescue works to match good dogs with suitable homes. This volunteer-based group has also worked in cooperation with Detroit Animal Control and other city shelters to handle dogs that require expensive surgery or care, and “unadoptable” dogs that have been sheltered for a long time.
Kristina Rinaldi has been the executive director of this nonprofit organization since June 2015. She says that she “knows every dog’s name” in the shelter. And her commitment to dogs follows her home, as she houses dogs that are facing end of life.
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Rinaldi's two senior dogs, Smokey and Chester, and her family welcome ailing dogs “so they know what it’s like to have a family.”
DDR volunteer Allison Manzo has seen many dogs come to the shelter and get adopted, including her very own Lucky Mama, a “Detroit special” mixed-breed dog with puppies. “I met Lucky when she came in to DDR, in terrible shape with heartworm and 11 puppies. It’s been a long trip for her," says Manzo. Now Lucky comes to the office with her when she volunteers. She says that she is the “light of her life and she’s in love with my cat.”
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“There’s nothing better than having your dog climb up on your lap and just relax and know that they’re safe,” Manzo says.
Manzo says she can hardly recognize many dogs when they return to DDR after a month or two with a new family. “Their transformation is remarkable and after all they have been through, they still trust,” she says.
In addition to adopting out and caring for stray dogs, DDR hosts bimonthly satellite adoption visits to pet stores and car dealerships, and the “Forever Foster” program, which offers care for dogs with cancer.
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The Speak Up outreach program (Specialized Pet Education for Ages Kindergarten and Up) is another unique effort created by DDR. It offers visits to Detroit Public Schools. Harms Elementary school office secretary Jackie Saucillo admired how students are encouraged to donate dog food, leashes, collars and toys for DDR dogs. She says “children are learning about how to help.”
The children are given information on how to speak up about dogs that may be abused or stray in the neighborhoods and other concerns such as dog safety and bite prevention.
One second-grader in teacher Deb Wechsler’s class was so enthusiastic about the DDR visit that he “wants to work for DDR when he’s older.” Wechsler says she “wants them to meet with every second-grade class that comes through,” because DDR inspires students and makes them more empathetic.
It costs a minimum of $1,200 per dog to rehabilitate and give them necessary medical care. To adopt a dog, applicants need to fill out an application and pass an interview and home check to ensure a good placement. Dogs that don’t work out in their adoptive home may be returned to the shelter.
The adoption fees are $250 for an adult dog, $300 for puppies and $200 for senior dogs. During the month of November, Detroit Dog Rescue and 96.3 WDVD-FM are presenting Forever in November, offering a discounted adoption fee of $9.63 for adult dogs of more than 30 pounds, along with passing their adoption requirements.
For more information on how to help DDR, foster or adopt, see detroitdogrescue.com. Read further for two DDR events:
Pet Expo, Nov. 11-13: The Detroit Dog Rescue will be represented at the annual Novi Pet Expo at the Suburban Collection Showplace on Nov. 11, 12 and 13. as their featured rescue group of 2016. Animal Planet’s Luigi “Shorty” Rossi “The Pit Boss” will be a guest speaker with their group.
Deja Food, Dec. 11: The Detroit Free Press and Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers in cooperation with Chef James Rigato presents "Deja Food," a scrumptious evening of culinary storytelling benefiting Detroit Dog Rescue, on Dec. 11 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Great Lakes Culinary Center, Southfield. The 5-course dinner will feature dishes created by some of metro Detroit finest chefs: Mabel Gray's Rigato, Luciano DelSignore of Bacco Ristorante, Selden Standard's executive chef Andy Hollyday and Doug Hewitt, executive chef of 2016's Free Press Restaurant of the Year Chartreuse. Tickets are $200, and go on sale at noon Friday. Buy tickets here: www.freep.com/dejafood .
2016-11-13 00:36 Martha Thierry rssfeeds.freep.com
50 /59 0.0 Mtich Albom: Time to pause, reflect — and stop predicting There was a moment in the 2008 election when, at a town hall, John McCain heard a supporter tell him, “We’re scared of an Obama presidency.” The man was worried that Obama associated with terrorists.
McCain stopped the supporter and said, while he, McCain, thought he was the better candidate, Obama was “a person you don’t have to be scared of as president of the United States.”
The crowd booed, but McCain held firm. And everyone calmed down.
►Mitch Albom: Only thing worse than this election may be the next one e can learn some things from that. One, this isn’t the first time citizens have been scared of a new presidency. Two, a calming word from the other side can go a long way.
Hillary Clinton tried to do that with her graceful concession speech. President Barack Obama tried to do it, too, meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and saying, before the cameras, “If you succeed, the country succeeds.”
But most everyone else who didn’t want Trump as president — especially in the media — has severely gone in the other direction. Dire predictions. Tears. Declarations that the nation as we know it is over and that we are on the verge of “a covert form of Jim Crow” (the New York Times) and “white supremacy’s last stand” (a CBC commentator).
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Well, first, I sure hope they are wrong. But second, I’d like to pose a question to the “experts” in our business:
Why, after getting this whole election so colossally wrong, after misreading voters, misinterpreting polls, misjudging what people thought and how seriously Americans took certain words and actions — why do we rush right back out and declare, with such certainty, what’s going to happen next?
Are we in the media even listening to ourselves? Are we learning from our mistakes? Or are we so bent on making memorable statements, on being on what we think is the “right side of history,” that we threaten to mold that actual history before it even happens?
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Perhaps you’re nodding in agreement? You’re saying, “Yes, Trump will do that!”
Except the person who said it was Coretta Scott King, in 1980, and the man she was talking about was Ronald Reagan.
History didn’t begin yesterday. And unpopular presidents are not new.
So can we all slow down? Please?
I will state right here that I have no idea what will happen with a Trump presidency. I wrote one column about him 16 months ago, saying when the time came, he would not end up being the president, and I was wrong. Wrong. One column. That’s enough to teach me a lesson.
But after months of stating their opinions as near facts, only to be proven massively incorrect, pundits everywhere — particularly on cable TV news — went right back to their declarations.
The same people who foresaw an inevitable Hillary Clinton victory were, within minutes, explaining the new results as anger, racism, misogyny, or in one case “whitelash.”
My first question would be “How do you know?” It was only minutes after Trump’s win. Without even an interview, these experts determined it must be this, that or the other ugly thing.
And in the two days that followed, I heard an unusual number of respected journalists telling us what the nation thought by saying, “I’ve had phone calls …” and “people have been stopping me and saying …” (something, ironically, Trump does all the time). While a personal anecdote can be powerful, it is not a national sampling.
Shouldn’t the numbers be thoughtfully examined before we resume screaming? Take this suddenly popular theme of “whitelash” or “white supremacy.’’ Maybe people forget that 70% of the voters in this election were white. They voted in huge numbers for both candidates. So to tag the results as a “white’’ way of thinking is not only every bit as insulting as suggesting a black or brown way of thinking, but also it doesn’t make sense. When President Obama won his first election with 96% of the African-American vote, nobody called it a “blacklash.” Yet despite nearly 40% of white voters casting for Clinton, her defeat was a “whitelash?”
Same skepticism goes for the oft-repeated notion that this was uneducated white people lashing out. A comfortable theory, perhaps. But the numbers show that Trump actually won big with college-educated white men, 54% to Clinton’s 39%.
And if the next argument is, “Well, yeah, but that’s men,” Trump also earned 45% of the vote from college-educated white women , who fall in the same demographic as Hillary Clinton.
Now, I’m not smart enough to explain that. But I’m responsible enough to know I can’t ignore it. Any more than I can ignore the fact that, despite the insulting, denigrating way Trump has spoken about women — something that turned my stomach — 42% of American women voters, of all races and ethnicities, chose him. Or that nearly 30% of Latinos did as well, in spite of Trump’s string of insults against Mexicans.
“How could they?” many in our business scream. Well, we need to remind ourselves that just because something is the most important issue for us, it may not be for someone else. And one vote is one vote. It’s no more right to label voters bigots because they didn’t reject Trump then to label voters baby killers because they didn’t reject a pro-choice Clinton. It’s more complicated than that.
There was so much echo chamber in the news media this election, that over time, to many it became white noise. As Paul Simon once sang, “a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”
So some voters heard Trump’s offensive remarks about women and minorities and said, “That’s who he is.” Others heard him say he wants to bring back jobs and cut taxes and said, “That’s who he is.” Just as some heard Clinton say, “We are stronger together” while some heard her reference “a basket of deplorables.”
People are used to lies and exaggerations. They ignore words and make choices for a myriad of reasons. We cannot assume we know what is in someone else’s heart. But after so clumsily bumbling our “expert’ analysis of the 2016 voter, even trying should give us pause, don’t you think?
Now, look. I have ears. I heard the insults Trump leveled over the last 18 months. They repulsed me. Do I believe some Trump voters are racist? Sure. But I imagine some Clinton voters are as well. Are some Trump voters misogynistic? Quite likely. But if they all are, then some roughly 25 million women must hate themselves.
So we can’t claim any sweeping, unassailable knowledge. Yet we do. We declare. We preach. We take the worst things Trump has said and slap them on the foreheads of all those who voted for him.
This is irresponsible journalism. It reflects something an Atlantic Monthly writer penned a few months ago about Trump: “The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.”
Which is why, I guess (guess, but don’t know for sure) that some good, smart, decent people could still somehow vote for Trump, perhaps begrudgingly, over a candidate they disliked even more. For some, it was all relative.
Take the “Access Hollywood” tape, in which Trump suggested his fame gave him sexual power and the leeway to grab women. We went crazy when that came out. Some called it the death knell. Said Trump should just quit. So how did he not only survive that, but win? Because all his voters are equally perverse?
Or is it because, while we publicly claim to be about morals and upstanding behavior, we watch bad behavior every chance we get: reality shows, TV series, movies where people cheat, lie and kill with abandon. Not to mention pornography.
And while Trump’s behavior was disgusting, the other candidate was, undeniably, married to a former president who didn’t just talk about power and sex, but engaged in it in the White House.
Did you know that Bill Clinton’s approval ratings sunk after the Monica Lewinsky affair, but before his term was finished they rose to higher levels than before the scandal broke? And this was for a sitting president who acted shamefully, not a thrice-married private businessman who once posed on Playboy’s cover. So why are we acting so shocked? And why are we acting like we know what’s next for America? People thought Obama was a socialist who would follow the rants of a controversial pastor. They thought John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, would make America subservient to the Vatican. They thought Reagan was a cowboy and a dolt. They were shocked that George W. Bush took the White House (or stole it, as some suggested) claiming he was a frat-boy baseball executive who couldn’t get through a sentence.
Yet nine months into his term, Bush was tested and became a different kind of president. He eventually won a second term — as did Reagan, and as did Obama, in case critics who think we are a Jim Crow nation have forgotten.
The presidency does things to people. We can hope it matures Trump, tempers his offensive edges, makes him think before he casts his crude asides. We have to hope for that, don’t we?
And yes, while Trump has set a new low in offensive, crude and bigoted comments for a president-elect, let’s be honest, we’ve done the same as a country. The comments we post now, the vitriol we spit, the racism we cast back and forth, it’s all meaner than ever before. Why be surprised that a candidate has lowered the bar as well?
I understand why marginalized groups feel slapped in the face by the election outcome. I admit, it almost seems, at times, surreal. But instead of declaring the world is over, we might remember that we didn’t elect a king. Trump will not have the sole power to do the majority of things people so direly predict he will. Rounding up every undocumented immigrant in America or demanding Mexico build a wall across the border, if he even pushed for such things, requires money, manpower and approvals that he is highly unlikely to get.
Nor do 51 Republicans in the Senate assure him a rubber stamp on crazy ideas. Many Republicans repudiated Trump, and if he goes rogue, they will be protecting their seats in upcoming elections more than they will protect him. It’s worth noting our suddenly “intolerant” nation also just elected California’s first African-American/American-Indian female senator, Nevada’s first Latina senator, and an Illinois senator who lost both her legs fighting in Iraq.
Trump will soon be criticized, as most presidents are, by all sides, not just half the country. His power will be more in check than it was as a CEO. And should he still prove to be all the awful things our pundits are predicting, in two years, we can vote in a Congress that will thwart his every move, and in four years, he can be swept out.
So despite the embarrassment, shock and anger that his critics understandably feel, and the pain that some are expressing, we in the media should learn from our still-fresh mistake in generalizing about what America — a wonderfully diverse, 320 million-person nation — is and isn’t.
I understand fear. I understand resentment. I also understand that our job in these pages — and on the airwaves — is not firstly to stoke those fires but to perhaps, if possible, calmly urge patience until we can at least measure the flames. Could we, dare we say it, show President Obama’s “audacity of hope,” and hope things are better — or at least not as bad — as this ugly election cycle has portended?
And then we can do what history demands. Not predict. Wait and see. Because like it or not, we’re going to have to.
Contact Mitch Albom: [email protected]. Check out the latest updates with his charities, books and events at MitchAlbom.com. Catch “The Mitch Albom Show” 5-7 p.m. weekdays on WJR-AM (760). Follow him on Twitter @mitchalbom. Read recent columns at freep.com/sports/mitch-albom.
2016-11-13 00:33 Mitch Albom rssfeeds.freep.com
51 /59 0.0 Turnbull turns towards humanity but refugees' nightmare of fear and scapegoating yet to end When it comes to Australia’s wretched asylum politics, nothing is ever simple, and the new refugee resettlement deal with the United States is no exception.
The good news from Sunday’s announcement is a number of people who have been punished after committing no crime by being subjected to indefinite detention in offshore immigration camps have at least some prospect of starting a new life in the United States.
This is obviously a welcome development, given the abjectly indefensible human rights atrocity Australia has perpetrated with our offshore detention regime.
The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull , is taking a political risk with this shift towards humanity, given the undercurrent of reflexive xenophobia characterising the political climate both here and internationally, and given the absolute premium the Coalition has placed on its swingeing stop the boats rhetoric.
The phalanx of military and border protection personnel arrayed on Sunday to frame the announcement tells you the government is quietly terrified that the resettlement agreement will trigger a flood of new unauthorised boats.
If the boats restart there are two risks: the first is a moral conundrum, the risk of a terrible incident at sea; and then there’s the political risk – a backlash against the resettlement agreement from the Coalition base, from the shock jocks, from the tabloids and from the elements of the government inclined to see short-term political fortune in cosying up to Hansonism.
Sentiment in Australia is divided between people completely appalled at what is going on in Manus and Nauru in our name, and people who are manifestly hostile to the asylum seekers, their inclinations egged on by and validated by the grim zero-sum politics of the past 20 years.
It needs to be acknowledged in that context that Sunday’s resettlement agreement is a step- change, a genuine throw of the dice for Turnbull, and if it doesn’t work enemies within and without will be very quick to pounce. So, that’s the good news – Australia is finally trying to end our own monstrosity and the prime minister is prepared to take a risk to do the right thing.
Unfortunately, though, Sunday’s good news has a bunch of unanswered questions attached to it.
Assuming the US secretary of state, John Kerry, is actually acknowledging the existence of a fully locked down agreement with Australia notwithstanding with his slightly hedged locution on Sunday – that the US had “agreed to consider referrals from UNHCR on refugees now residing in Nauru and in Papua New Guinea” – we can start by noting Washington is currently in a period of transition.
It is entirely unclear whether the president-elect, Donald Trump, will honour the terms of this agreement, particularly given he has just sailed into the White House after an 18-month vociferous (and successful) political campaign scapegoating immigrants.
Turnbull was distinctly non-committal when asked directly about that on Sunday, saying only the government would “deal with one administration at a time”.
Assuming then this is a one-off agreement with the outgoing Obama regime, an agreement that may or may not be honoured by the Trump regime, both the Turnbull government and the asylum seekers on Nauru had better hope processing and US security checks happen rapidly between now and the inauguration on January 20.
In terms of whether the agreement has any ongoing shelf life, Australian officials appear to be hoping two things – that Trump will turn out to be a bluster of cheap talk rather than action , and the simple inertia principle: having locked down the deal, the new president would have to take proactive action to unwind it at a time when he is trying to get his feet under the desk in the White House.
But this is hope, a distance short of certainty.
The next obvious question is how many asylum seekers will the agreement cover? Turnbull didn’t answer when pressed by reporters on Sunday.
“We are not providing any more detail about the arrangements than we have today,” the prime minister said.
“The arrangements with the United States will offer the opportunity for refugees, both on Nauru and Manus, to be resettled but I should stress that the priority is very much on the most vulnerable which are family units and, of course, they are located on Nauru.”
The reason Turnbull can’t answer that question is because that is up to the Americans.
Australia can build the architecture of an agreement and then the rest is up to the country agreeing to take the refugees. So the honest answer to the question is, “I don’t know, but I hope a good many”.
For the refugees on Nauru – the nightmare of their daily existence is not over with the glimmer of opportunity, with a Sunday press conference in Canberra and a Facebook post .
The nightmare is over when it’s over. 2016-11-13 00:33 Katharine Murphy www.theguardian.com
52 /59 1.8 Public can get rare 'look' at museum's vast collection SALT LAKE CITY — The fifth anniversary of the Natural History Museum's move to its mountainside perch is being celebrated this weekend, with the public getting a chance to take a look at what is normally kept behind closed doors.
The "Behind the Scenes" event began Saturday and continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, with visitors who will be able to view the museum's 1.5 million items in its collection — from rare plant specimens, Native American objects and species of bugs.
In addition to accessing normally closed off areas, the public can chat with the museum's staff of scientists, including those who work with dinosaur bones.
The weekend also features the museum's newly redesigned collections wall that spans three stories and sports 600 artifacts.
Its current exhibit is called the "Power of Poison. "
The museum, with its 42,000 square feet, is home to 10 permanent galleries.
More information, including admission prices, is available online at nhmu.edu .
2016-11-13 00:31 Amy Joi www.deseretnews.com
53 /59 0.8 Wesleyan Anti-Trump Students Spray-Paint ‘AmeriKKKa’ On U. S. Flag ‘Out Of Respect’ For Veterans Day – WATCH Excerpted From The College Fix : Wesleyan University students honored America’s veterans Friday by defacing the American flag rather than burning it.
Excerpted From The College Fix: It’s at least the third school this week where students upset over the election of Republican Donald Trump have taken out their frustration on the flag, joining American University and Hampshire College.
A Trump supporter at Wesleyan who was harassed by protesters told The College Fix that she defended their right to deface the flag on Veterans Day, but said it would set back their anti- Trump cause.
Defacement shows ‘the prominence of white supremacy’
As Wesleyan protesters marched from one side of the campus to another on Friday, Yael Horowitz and Abby Cunniff stopped to make a visual protest, The Wesleyan Argus reported.
One held up a large American flag, while the other pulled out a can of spray paint and sprayed “AmeriKKKa” on it.
Cuniff told the Argus they sprayed that message on the flag to “symbolize the prominence of white supremacy in the United States” represented by Trump’s victory. Keep reading
2016-11-13 08:16 Ruby Whiteman www.patdollard.com
54 /59 3.9 Low pressure system expected to form in Caribbean Sea A broad area of low pressure is expected to form over the southwestern Caribbean Sea during the early or middle part of next week, according to the National Hurricane Center. Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for gradual development of this system while it drifts northward or northeastward.
The system has a 50-percent chance of forming over the next five days. No major changes are expected through Monday morning, the center said.
2016-11-13 00:15 Beau Evans www.nola.com
55 /59 0.0 Duane may have a point, but heâs part of the problem AutoTrader is your trusted motoring marketplace for both used cars and new cars, and all vehicles. Itâs your one-stop-shop for all your automotive needs and is the simple way to buy and sell cars.
2016-11-13 00:12 Simnikiwe Xabanisa - www.sport24.co.za
56 /59 1.2 Black Friday: Put a fork in it It used to be the biggest party in town.
But these days, the in-store gala extravaganza that was Black Friday and then, Thanksgiving Day/Black Friday, is pretty much a bust. Shoppers still line up outside stores, waiting for doorbusters, but they don't do so in the numbers they once did. And they don't spend the money they once did, either.
►Black Friday: From boom to bust
And there are reasons for that:
1. Unless it's tradition — or you're trying to escape relatives who have overstayed their welcome — there's no real incentive to leave home to shop. (Even J. C. Penney has stopped its practice of giving out snow globes to early bird shoppers.)
Last year, more shoppers shopped online than in stores over Thanksgiving weekend — 41 million vs. 34.6 million on Thanksgiving and 75.3 million vs. 74.2 million on Black Friday. In- store spending for those days was down 10.4%, according to ShopperTrak. Online spending was up 25% on Thanksgiving Day and 14% on Black Friday, according to Adobe Digital Index, which tracks online consumer spending.
This year there are even fewer reasons to shop in-store. For the first time, Kohl's is offering all of its Thanksgiving Day doorbusters online. Walmart this year is increasing its Thanksgiving Day/Black Friday online inventory by 50% — and including most of its doorbusters. And as is the case with most stores, these sale items will be available online several hours before stores open on Thanksgiving evening.
How's that for being an early bird?
2. Sales aren't special any more. Since the recession, stores have become heavily promotional — especially during the holiday season, which now starts immediately after Halloween. (Makes the idea of considering Black Friday the traditional start of the holiday shopping season seem kind of quaint, no?) For example, Walmart, Target, Kohl's and Best Buy all started Thanksgiving Day/BlackFriday sales super early, offering some Black Friday merchandise to early bird shoppers through apps and online deals. In addition, amazon.com and walmart.com — as they have done since 2011 — began their countdown to Black Friday sales on Nov. 1. The result? Shoppers spread out their spending. Besides, when every day is Black Friday, no day is Black Friday.
3. Stores offer the same thing for Thanksgiving Day/Black Friday every year. You don't need to look at the sale circulars to know that this year's doorbusters are going to include: televisions, phones, computers, Fitbits, Barbie, Legos, slow cookers and vacuum cleaners. "We found a lot of deals are repeated from year to year,'' says Courtney Jespersen, retail expert for NerdWallet.com, a site that tracks and studies sales. "You'll see the exact same product at the exact same price. I think part of it is filling the ad and making it look like they have such an enormous amount of products on sale. At the same time... it also encourages people to impulse buy. "
And honestly, doesn't everyone already have a HDTV? 4. The millennial generation — the largest generation ever — is especially fond of buying experiences, not things. While going to the mall on Thanksgiving or Black Friday can definitely be an experience, people in their 20s and 30s tend to prefer giving experiences in the form of dinners, concerts and other events.
Contact Georgea Kovanis: 313-222-6842 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @georgeakovanis.
2016-11-13 00:09 Georgea Kovanis rssfeeds.freep.com
57 /59 1.9 Holiday movie guide: 15 films to make us feel better after the election Movies were the last thing on most people's minds in the wake of Election Day 2016. But I read a tweet in the wee hours that emphasized their importance in times like this. "Roger Ebert called the movies a machine that generates empathy," messaged film critic Robbie Collin of London's Telegraph newspaper. "So while cinema feels trivial right now, in fact it matters more than ever. "
Ebert's words, heard in the documentary "Life Itself," go on to explain what matters most about the experience of watching a cinematic story: "It lets you understand a little bit more about different hopes, aspirations, dreams and fears. It helps us to identify with the people who are sharing this journey with us. "
Because even if you're the only one home, you're never alone when you're immersed in a movie. You get to step into the shoes of characters from all walks of life with whole other outlooks. You're taking an internal journey that could inspire, motivate and reinforce the idea that “we are all on the same team,” as President Barack Obama said last week to emphasize the common humanity of a politically divided nation.
Americans may be approaching the holiday season with trepidation (all those relatives with differing opinions, all those potential arguments to avoid). Yet it could be a time to unite through the rituals that help sustain us — religious, familial or just pop-cultural habits like taking those near and dear to you to a movie.
Some great films like "Moonlight" and "Arrival" are already in theaters. Here are 15 more on the way that may bring us a little closer together, or at least help us think about the gaps that need to be bridged.
Oscar-winning director Ang Lee's latest has garnered attention for its technological twist, specifically for being shot in 120 frames per second (the standard is 24) for hyper-realism. But like the novel that inspired it, it's essentially a very human story about an Iraq War soldier (newcomer Joe Alwyn) and his military pals that explores the myths, truths and scars of the battlefield, with a cast that includes Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker and Steve Martin. (Nov. 18) It’s a “Harry Potter” spin-off written by J. K. Rowling, who's long used her fantasy franchise to coax young readers to grapple with themes of good vs. evil and acceptance vs. bigotry. Need to know anything else before buying a ticket? Probably not, but even Muggles clueless on the deeper threads of Pottermania are impressed by the dazzling visuals of the previews. It stars Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, a British wizard who arrives in 1926 New York toting a magic suitcase that has some very interesting animals inside. (Nov. 18)
Writer/director Jeff Nichols, who wowed critics with “Take Shelter” and “Mud,” is getting rave reviews for this drama based on the real-life story of Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga). They’re the brave husband and wife who devoted themselves to fighting laws against interracial marriage, eventually taking their case all the way to the Supreme Court. Look for Nichols, Edgerton and Negga to walk many award ceremony red carpets in the months to come. (Nov. 18)
The evolution of the Disney princess continues with this classic in the making. As a girl who’s athletic, courageous and determined, Moana is a royal heroine on a mission to help the people of her island-dotted region in the Pacific and also honor her ancestors. “Hamilton” sensation Lin- Manuel Miranda contributed songs and vocals to this CG-animated adventure for the whole family. Plus, Dwayne Johnson, who is of Samoan descent, plays a demigod, Maui, and sings. (Nov. 23)
Casey Affleck delivers what's being called a heartbreaking performance as a man who has to go home again after his brother (Kyle Chandler) dies, leaving a young son (Lucas Hedges) who needs a guardian. It's directed and written by Kenneth Lonergan, who created one of the best statements ever on the complicated bond of siblings with "You Can Count On Me. " (Dec. 2)
Are we really all bound together by common hopes and dreams? Sometimes it's hard to see, but the universal search for meaningfulness is the connective tissue of this story of a New York advertising man who, after being touched by tragedy, shuts down from the world. Will Smith stars along with Edward Norton, Naomie Harris, Michael Pena, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren and Jacob Latimore, a young actor also in the upcoming Detroit 1967 riot movie. (Dec. 16)
After John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was a balm for the nation's wounds with her dignity and grace in the face of tremendous loss. Director Pablo Larrain goes behind the veil of her mourning to explore the wounded psyche of a young woman whose husband was gunned down inches from her side. Natalie Portman is likely to be an Oscar contender for her performance in the title role. (Dec. 16)
The promise of Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling as aspiring performers in Hollywood is enough to raise anticipation that the power of song and dance isn’t limited these days to Broadway shows, animated films and live TV reboots of stage classics. Damien Chazelle, who wrote and directed the viscerally stunning “Whiplash,” could be just the guy to restore a little Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire joy to contemporary Hollywood. (Dec. 16)
A Rebel Alliance warrior's (Felicity Jones) assignment to steal the plans for the Death Star is the premise for this "Star Wars" series entry also starring Forest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna and Donnie Yen. But the big picture in the careful rebooting of the George Lucas space Western series is about coming together for the good of all (and celebrating the spirit of inclusiveness through its casting). (Dec. 16)
The compelling urge to find a lost personal history drives this globe-hopping family drama led by Dev Patel of "Slumdog Millionaire") as a man searching for the relatives and original home in India that he was separated from at age five. Nicole Kidman is his adoptive mother, who raised him in Australia and must come to terms with his necessary journey. (Dec. 21)
An all-star cast featuring Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Matthew McConaughey, Leslie Jones, Nick Offerman, Jay Pharoah and others provides the voices for this animated musical comedy about a koala (McConaughey) struggling to save his vintage theater with a singing contest. There are lots of cute animals here and an upbeat message about finding the talent that's inside you. (Dec. 21)
As one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation, Martin Scorsese hasn't shied away from exploring religious themes with the same frank, very distinct vision he brings to his crime masterpieces (see "The Last Temptation of Christ"). This drama with Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson about 17th Century Jesuit priests who search for their mentor in Christianity-banning Japan has been among his goals for nearly 30 years. Talk about having faith in a project. (limited release Dec. 23)
Denzel Washington directs and stars in the film adaptation of the great August Wilson play set in racially divided 1950s Pittsburgh. He portrays a garbage collector who must deal with past decisions and dreams never realized from his stint in Negro League baseball. Predictions are underway on how many acting trophies Washington and Viola Davis as his character's wife will be taking home for their efforts. (Dec. 25)
The feel-good movie of the season tells a little-known chapter of the 1960s space race involving three African-American women employed NASA whose mathematical expertise played a key role in astronaut John Glenn’s pivotal orbit of the Earth. The star trio of Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe is on a rocket to box-office gold. (limited release Dec. 25)
There's no one-size-fits-all formula for families, as director Mike Mills ("Beginners") demonstrates with his perceptive character studies. Here, Annette Bening plays a single mother in 1979 Santa Barbara raising a teenage son. Concerned about his lack of male guidance, Bening finds support from two women: a quirky artist (Greta Gerwig) who's renting a room from her and a teenage neighbor (Elle Fanning). (Dec. 30)
Contact Detroit Free Press writer Julie Hinds: 313-222-6427 or [email protected].
2016-11-13 00:04 Julie Hinds rssfeeds.freep.com
58 /59 0.8 George Soros – 60 Minutes Interview Being Suppressed? Probably Not A lot of craziness post election, it goes without saying just read Kurt Eichenwald and Matt Forney to get a sense of what two lunatics are saying. Conspiracy theories continue to spread like wildfire and it seems that there are more on the right than left. Sadly, this is likely at least partially do to the fact that as the election has shown the media demonstrated very little objectivity. That aside, one of the right’s most hated symbols is George Soros.
We noted yesterday, rumors that Soros is encouraging protestors against Trump is hot among the right, as we exclusively reported Soros was willing to go on record that he has no involvement so I would take him at his word. I vocally oppose Soros on many issues and am not shy about it but I believe in the truth.
Now there is a crazy theory that Soros is trying to suppress a 60 minutes video from 1998 – I found the greatest part of the video where Jim Grant expresses his thoughts about Soros but I believe the conspiracy theorists are not speaking about that and focusing on what Soros did when he was 14 in Hungary – when you are 14 do you really think you would give up your life willingly? You probably would not even give up your allowance to save a life. Many grown adults were caught between the USSR and Nazis and ended up collaborating with BOTH ( Timothy Snyder among many others documents this in many of his books on that time period) – so that charge is deeply offensive and just silly.
Anyway, the video and more can be found below and we doubt that Soros is trying to hide something he said voluntarily to millions of people 16 years ago and has discussed openly many times since that occasion.
First the allegation
Published on Nov 12, 2016
This is the video George Soros doesn’t want the world to see.
He and his team have gone to great lengths to get this interview scrubbed from the internet.
Little did they know that it still existed on a old forgotten databse that the autists of the internet dug up.
This is the man behind Hillary Clinton.
In the Podesta-emails leaked through Wikileaks it became clear that the ties between Soros and the Clinton family are so strong that you can suspect that it’s Soros who is calling the shots behind the scenes.
This is the man funding the the anti-Trump riots currently happening in the US.
In this video you will learn that Mr. Soros have strong ties to many countries, doing good deeds. For example funding the rebuilding of the Ukrainian army.
But why is he doing these good things? He wants you to believe it’s because he wants to good things.
Yet we can hear him say that he’s in it to make profit and dont care about the consequences for the societies he operates in.
Really makes you think what he has to gain from all the so called charity he’s doing.
To me it’s clear he’s doing it to buy more influence in the political sphere in these countries.
What do you think? See for yourself and decide.
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George Soros – Excerpt of “60 Minutes” Interview – December 20, 1998 with Steve Kroft
Kroft: You are a Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by posing as a Christian?
Soros: Right.
Kroft: And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps?
Soros: Right, I was 14 years old, and I would say that’s when my character was made.
Kroft: In what way?
Soros: That one should think ahead, that one should understand and anticipate events and one is threatened-it was a tremendous threat of evil, a very personal experience of evil.
Kroft: My understanding is you went out with this protector of yours, who swore you were his adopted godson.
Soros: Yes.
Kroft: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from Jews.
Soros: Yes, that’s right.
Kroft: That sounds like an experience that would send lots of folks to the psychiatric couch for many many years. Was it difficult?
Soros: Not at all, not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t see the connection, but it created no problem at all.
Kroft: No feeling of guilt, for example, that I’m Jewish and here I am watching these people go, I could just as easily be one of them that I could be there for example that I should be there, none of that?
Soros: Well, of course, I could be on the other side, or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense I shouldn’t be there, because that was, well, actually in a funny way it was just like in the markets that if I weren’t there, of course I wasn’t doing it, but someone else would be taking it away anyhow, whether I was there or not I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. I had no role in taking away property. So I had no guilt.
Response to claims that George Soros was a Nazi collaborator
Excerpt from Michael Kaufman’s biography, “ The Messianic Billionaire ”.
The claim that George Soros was a Nazi collaborator is false and deeply offensive. As a 13- year-old child Soros was hidden with an official of the Ministry of Agriculture. Soros’s father helped hide the official’s Jewish wife and the official agreed to let young Soros pose as his Christian godson in return. This is how Soros was able to survive the Nazi occupation. On one occasion the official went to inventory the estate of a Jewish family that had fled Hungary under duress. He brought the child in his charge along rather than leaving him alone in Budapest. To construe this as Soros “collaborating with Nazis” is false, malicious and deeply misleading. Anybody interested in more detail can look at page 37 of the biography of Soros by Michael Kaufman “The Messianic Billionaire”. Anyone interested more broadly in what Soros supports can look at http://www.soros.org
With the help of his barber, Tivadar found a place for George with a man named Baumbach, an employee of the Ministry of Agriculture. Baumbach, who was of German origin, had a Jewish wife and was paying to have her hidden in the countryside. Tivadar paid him to take George into his home, ostensibly as his godson. Tivadar turned over the apartment facing Parliament to his Gentile secretary and moved into the secret room. Within days of arriving at Baumbach’s, George went for a walk into the Buda hills, where lost in a daydream he moved beyond the city limits. When he turned back, he was stopped by Hungarian gendarmes. “I remember it quite clearly,” he recalled. “I had just arrived at Baumbach’s…I had walked too far. I was frightened but nothing happened. It was the first test of
2016-11-13 00:01 Jacob Wolinsky www.valuewalk.com
59 /59 2.0 Intelligence candidates grilled by MPs Parliament this week interviewed 10 candidates for the position of inspector general of intelligence, a position it has tried but failed to fill on three occasions over the past 20 months.
The office has been without an accounting officer since March last year, when Faith Radebe retired, leaving no one to legally sign off on investigations or release documents to the public. Its complaints function is “operational to a certain extent”.
The position is provided for in the Constitution and in terms of the Intelligence Services Oversight Act, and is responsible for monitoring intelligence services and being a watchdog that investigates complaints against the spooks.
Parliament has tried but failed to fill the position as the ANC sought to push its favourite candidate, Cecil Burgess, a former ANC MP, but its attempts were thwarted by opposition MPs who would frustrate a quorum. Because it is a constitutional appointment, the successful candidate requires the support of two-thirds of National Assembly MPs.
The following candidates are being considered:
Bruce Watson , an information science and knowledge dynamics professor at the University of Stellenbosch, was grilled on his three passports – South African, Dutch and Canadian.
He was born in Zimbabwe to South African parents, but studied in Canada and the Netherlands. He vowed that despite holding three citizenships, he was loyal to South Africa and was prepared to relinquish his citizenship of the other two countries if it jeopardised his chances of getting the job.
MPs did not appear convinced.
His areas of expertise include cyber security, data science as well as knowledge dynamics and algorithmics.
Jayashree Govender was the only female candidate to be short-listed and interviewed.
Before her interview, she appeared to be a frontrunner.
She is a legal adviser in the office of the inspector general of intelligence and has worked in that office for 12 years.
She has been interviewed for the position before, but Parliament abandoned those processes without finalising them.
Govender, who showed intense knowledge of the office and the job, appeared rattled as MPs questioned some of the functions she and her co-executive committee members have been performing in the absence of an inspector general.
Mampogoane Nchabeleng is a senior manager in the office of the inspector general.
He previously worked as a manager for employee relations at the National Intelligence Agency and before that he was a legal adviser to the ANC.
Like Govender, Nchabeleng seemed to have vast knowledge of the work of the inspector general. He is, after all, part of the executive committee that has kept the office running in the absence of its accounting officer.
But a DA MP was more interested in why Nchabeleng attached a referral letter from a Limpopo MEC, questioning his political independence.
Victor Ngidi had a breeze of an interview, nothing compared with other candidates’ experience in the hot seat.
This was further evident by how relaxed he appeared after the two-hour interview, even posing for cellphone pictures.
Ngidi is an adviser to KwaZulu-Natal Premier Willies Mchunu, a job he started in June this year. Before that, he was the director-general in the office of the premier between 2010 and May last year.
He was a member of the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature for eight years and has also worked as head of the crime analysis division in the erstwhile Scorpions.
Andile Kilifele’s CV shows that he was deputy chairperson of his high school debating society, but he showed none of it when he appeared for his interview on Wednesday.
From the outset, Kilifele told MPs that he was terrified and had never felt more terrified in his life.
From there, he crumbled and was close to tears as MPs grilled him about how he left a previous job. Kilifele is a stay-at-home father with a bachelor’s in social science from the University of Cape Town. He also holds a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Clinton Davids is a former Umkhonto weSizwe soldier and was the ANC’s intelligence unit commander in the Western Cape between 1991 and 1995.
In his CV, Davids states that he is an acknowledged best practice expert in managing, planning and implementing intelligence operations and investigations for special events.
But his claim that, in 2007, he led “a mock intelligence operation” in the event former president Nelson Mandela died drew several questions from MPs.
Some stated that he should not have bragged about such in his CV; others questioned whether there was any truth to the statement.
Smanga Phillip Jele is an oversight principal officer in the office of the inspector general and a member of the executive committee that has kept that office running in the absence of its accounting officer.
He has a long record in intelligence communities and was a lecturer before that.
Like his two colleagues, who were interviewed before him, MPs gave him a hard time about his work in that office, which they described as falling apart.
He is soft-spoken, but stood his ground.
MPs also seemed to have a problem that he has a certificate as an inspector general investigator from the US.
They repeatedly probed him about perceived ties with that country.
Brightboy Nhlakanipho Nkontwana is the head of the Gauteng’s cooperative governance and traditional affairs department.
Nkontwana has a long history in the public service, having worked in the national departments of cooperative governance and traditional affairs; and public service and administration, where he worked as acting director-general and also served as an adviser to Minister Lindiwe Sisulu.
His only link to intelligence was when he worked as a human resources and remuneration specialist at the Intelligence Services Council between December 2002 and June 2004.
Nyelisani Tshitereke has a PhD in political science from the Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.
Tshitereke has worked at the Institute for Democracy in SA, the Institute for Security Studies, the presidency, University of Cape Town, University of Venda and Old Mutual, among others.
Between July 2004 and December 2007, he worked as a senior analyst for the National Intelligence Agency and National Intelligence Coordinating Committee.
Setlhomamaru Dintwe has a long history in the police. He holds a doctorate in police science with specialisation in forensic investigations, obtained from Unisa. Dintwe has a string of other policing-related qualifications, including a bachelor of criminal justice (North West University), a bachelor of technology in policing (Technikon SA) and a master of technology in forensic investigations.
Dintwe is currently the head of the police practice department in the College of Law at Unisa.
2016-11-13 00:00 www.news24.com
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